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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
New York National Mail Order Co., 226 
"Wooster Street, New York City. 
This concern has failed, and a receiver 
was appointed, but he now refuses to re¬ 
ceive mail directed to the company. In 
this way he probably, escapes many com¬ 
plaints. 
I received my $8.42 from the Jones 
Brothers, Kansas City, Mo., that you looked 
up for me, and thank you for your trouble. 
Maine. B. M. 
These goods seem to have gone 
astray in transportation. The house has 
a strong rating and the disposition of 
the case leads us to regard them highly. 
I shipped April 6 , 190ti, to Thomas Bing¬ 
ham & Co., t\ est Washington Market, New 
York, via U. S. Express Co., one dressed 
calf, which they say they never received. 
1 sent them the express receipt at their 
request, but they claim they never have 
been able to get anything out of the ex¬ 
press company. Will you take it up? 
Pennsylvania. d. p. 
We have been after this for nearly a 
year. The agent of the express company 
brought us a copy of the receipt alleged 
to have been signed by Thomas Bingham 
& Co., for the delivery of -the calf to 
them, but Mr. Bingham yet denies having 
received it, and refuses to do anything 
about it. He even says .that he will pay 
no more attention to correspondence 
about it from anyone. We now propose 
to get an assignment of the claim from 
the shipper and will 'sue the claim. 
We are going to find some one responsi¬ 
ble for that calf. 
I signed a contract with the Silverton 
Pub. Co., of Chicago, Ill., for two months 
on a salary of $3.00 per day and $1 for 
expenses. 1 worked 12 days and sent in 
an order, and worked right along till llie 
books came. I delivered the books and took 
orders and reported every day as required, 
for I was to do anything the company 
wanted me to. I was to cut off 40 per 
cent to apply on my salary, which 1 did, 
and sent the balance to the company and 
called for the balance of my salary for the 
12 days which I spent taking the orders 
for books delivered and paid for. I fail to 
get any satisfaction out of their letters con¬ 
cerning my salary, so thought I would not 
work any more till I knew whether they 
were going to pay or not. Could you give 
me any information as to their financial 
standing? F. a. l. 
New York. 
This is another of the familiar fakes. 
They promise you a salary, but fix the 
contract so that you are obliged to 
work on commission. Some of them 
require you to make a deposit, which 
they never intend to return. Nothing 
can be done in such cases except to ab¬ 
sorb the lesson taught by the experience. 
Don’t get caught again. 
Berkley, Norfolk, Va.. Jan. 6 , 1910. 
The Moore Seed Co.: I have received The 
ItraAi, New Yorker for over 40 years. I 
have just read the issue of January 1, 1910, 
page 2. “A Deal in Alfalfa Seed.” I 
think it will pay you to send that farmer 
$8.80. JOHN G. DE BACK. 
The reply follows: 
We are in receipt of yours of 6 th inst. 
and assure you there is not a word of truth 
in the article you refer to. 
THE MOORE SEED COMPANY. 
We vary our usual custom to give Mr. 
De Baun’s full name and address, be¬ 
cause we want to emphasize that style of 
letter. We do not know how to improve 
on it. It is short, complete, courteous, 
dignified and chuck full of latent energy. 
Somehow you realize that there was a 
man behind that pen. In the article re¬ 
ferred to there were exact quotations 
from three letters written by the Moore 
Seed Co. We are willing to accept their 
assurances as to these three letters. We 
candidly admit that there was not a word 
of truth or sincerity in any of them; 
but we did not expect the Moore Seed 
Co. to admit it. The balance of the ar¬ 
ticle was taken from the correspondence, 
and from reports from Washington and 
Ithaca, and every word of it was true, 
and they know it to be true. They yet 
have the farmer’s $8.80 . 
James T. Mulhall, who conducted the 
Cambridge Grocery Co., Boston, Mass., 
some years ago, has been arrested in Bal¬ 
timore and held on charges of swindling 
farmers out of agricultural products. The 
Post Office Department is getting after 
these fellows with commendable energy. 
Mulhall’s trick was to order goods and 
send check; and then make a second or¬ 
der before the check went to protest. 
I notice under date of February 12th 
you have a “Wonderberr.v” farm paper list. 
Please include the Farm & Home (February 
loth). The “Orange Judd Farmer” is 
carrying II. W. Buckbee’s advertisement, 
who is booming the fake also. I have got 
so that I do not buy from any advertiser 
unless I have seen the advertisement in 
The Rural New-Yorker. b. f. 
Michigan. 
The lines are forming. The Wonder- 
berrv and the papers that are willing to 
help fakers sell weed seeds to their sub¬ 
scribers as new fruits are forming on 
one side. The friends of honest seeds; 
reliable seed houses, and decent publica¬ 
tions are on the other line. “Herbert 
Myrick, President and Editor,” ought to 
be ashamed of himself—to help Mr. 
THIS RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
March 5, 
Childs sell common weed seeds to the 
poor and uninformed readers of his 
cheap paper. These are just the people 
whom he ought to instruct and protect. 
He does not seem to think it safe or 
wise to run the fake advertisement in 
some of his other papers, the readers of 
which are presumed to be better in¬ 
formed and likely to protest. But we are 
glad to see the fakers and their accom¬ 
plices stand up and be counted together. 
According to reports that reach us 
from Orleans County, New York, fruit 
growers of that section who gave orders 
for trees to agents of the Whiting Nurs¬ 
ery Company have agreed among them¬ 
selves to cancel the orders and refuse the 
goods if offered for delivery. They also 
pledge themselves to contribute to the 
expense of any suit that may be brought 
as a result of this action. The reason 
given for this action is alleged misrepre¬ 
sentation and fraud. It is said that or¬ 
ders aggregating $20,000 will be cancelled 
in Orleans County alone. The reasons 
alleged, if true, are sufficient justification 
for the cancellation of an order; and the 
complaints sent us seem to us fully to 
justify the allegations. The Japan plums 
and Banana apples said to be represented 
as distinctly new varieties, and sold at 
about $1 each, are well-known and have 
been on the market some years, and are 
no great favorites at that. Prime trees 
of the varieties.may be had from respon¬ 
sible nursery houses for 15 to 20 cents 
each. We are glad to see farmers take 
such vigorous measures to protect them¬ 
selves. Those who file The R. N.-Y. 
may refer to page 594, July 18, 1908. 
There it was shown that this company 
took an order for $27 and the highest 
estimate made us for an exact duplicate 
of the order by three of the best nurser¬ 
ies in the country was$7.32. Some day or 
other these growers will wake up and 
realize the value of the information we 
are trying to give them. Then they will 
keep an index of these things for refer¬ 
ence. 
W. W. Thomas, Anna, Ill., has sent 
us check for $9.62 to refund payment for 
an order of plants to a Canada sub¬ 
scriber whose complaint was published 
on page 186. We wrote Mr. Thomas 
about the complaint on December 17, 
and again on January 3, and got no re¬ 
ply to either letter. He thinks he was 
not entirely to blame, and it is due to 
him to say that some letters speak highly 
of him. The R. N.-Y. does not want to 
do any honest man an injustice, and we 
regret the necessity of the reference. He 
. held the money for two years and neg¬ 
lected to return it or reply to letters of 
inquiry about it. He now acknowledges 
this to be an error. It all confirms what 
we have often said. Houses of good re¬ 
pute have assumed the right to treat a 
farmer with contempt, where in similar 
transactions with business houses they 
would make prompt reply and willing re¬ 
dress. The R. N.-Y. believes the farmer 
is as much entitled to fair treatment as 
any other business man, and it proposes 
to do what it can to get consideration 
for his just complaints. j. j. d. 
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