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THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Please collect a bill of $22.20 for me 
from Mr. Philip Davison, 48 Leverett Street, 
Boston, Mass. It is for two cases of eggs 
Bent him in June last. p. w. 
Maine. 
We can do nothing with Mr. Davison. 
He does not even reply to a letter. His 
card says he is an interpreter in five 
languages. He evidently knows the lan¬ 
guage of getting goods that he refuses 
to pay for. Keep a list of dead beats. 
Kant Brothers, McKeesport, Pa., Whole¬ 
sale and retail pure food market. 
A subscriber complains that he sent 
them 29 baskets of peaches on October 
21, 1909. He sends an affidavit that the 
peaches were sound, and in first-class 
condition when shipped; but they charge 
off 4^4 baskets as specked and rotten. 
We have asked them for an explanation, 
and bill so that we could make claim 
against the express company, but they re¬ 
fuse any consideration. As a matter of 
fact the peaches were sold at 75 cents 
per basket at the shipper’s station, and if 
any damage occurred in shipment, it was 
Kant Brothers’ business to look to the 
express company for redress. We have 
not the slightest doubt that the account 
is collectible in the courts. We have 
no evidence of damage. 
Florida shippers of pineapples have 
been having a hard time with Chicago 
consignments. On January 27, Schrader 
& Williams, Jacksonville, Fla., wrote 
shippers that they were selling at $3 per 
crate with strong market. They are for¬ 
warding agents of the Florida Shippers 
Despatch with which C. H. Weaver S' 
Co., are connected. This house writes 
about the same time in answer to com¬ 
plaint of a shipper that the market is 
overstocked and that they are hauling 
the fruit to the dumps. They returned 
one shipper about 50 cents net. The 
Florida Shippers Despatch Co. would 
need a censor for its members who 
quote advance prices, or an auditor for 
the members who receive the shipments. 
I have a bill of $50.25 for lumber and 
boarding of mule against Majestic Coal 
Co. ,T. Chester Stauffer was superin¬ 
tendent. J. L. Mitchell, Arcade Building, 
Philadelphia, Pa., was interested, and also 
W. A. Guthrie of Indiana. 
Leechburg, Pa. Jonathan stoop. 
We sent this bill nearly a year ago to 
Mr. Mitchell of Philadelphia, Pa. We 
had a reply from Mr. W. B. Courtright, 
promising to look it up. To our next let¬ 
ter he referred to J. Chester Stauffer, 
who was, he said, in the South. To the 
following letter he referred us to W. A*. 
Guthrie, who was, he said, in Indiana. 
To our next reminder, he said the men 
familiar with it were on vacation, but he 
would attend to it personally in 10 days. 
Two months later, he referred us to both 
J. Chester Stauffer in the South, and 
W. A. Guthrie, Indiana, Pa. We heard 
nothing more for six weeks, when we 
wrote them again and got no reply what¬ 
ever. We don’t know whether the Ma¬ 
jestic Coal Co. is responsible or not. We 
do know that it is not satisfactory to this 
creditor, however successful it may be in 
jollying us along and avoiding the pay¬ 
ment of this account. If Messrs. Mit¬ 
chell. Courtright and Stauffer of Phila¬ 
delphia, the South, and Indiana, Pa., 
would pay this bill or give some reason 
for not. doing, so, we would be under 
everlasting obligation to them. We would 
thank their friends to remind them of 
their obligation to this farmer. 
In November we thought of ordering 
three cows from Stillwater. N. Y., and 
telephoned our local freight office for rates; 
they said they would get them from New 
Haven, and after ’phoning back and forth 
for a week, they told us $12 or $15 for 
the three. On that we ordered. When the 
three cows came there was no bill with 
them and a clerk told me to take the cows, 
which I did and a few days after re¬ 
ceived the enclosed cards. I called the 
agent on ’phone and he now claims that if 
they made a rate of $12 or $15 it was for 
one cow. (If so, the cows ought to have 
come in a Wagner sleeper.) Now we can’t 
afford to pay $23.55. a. s. d. 
Connecticut. 
We have thrashed this out with the 
Boston & Maine Railroad. They claim 
that the rates charged were the regular 
schedule of rates, and that it would be 
unlawful for them to make any other 
charge or any rebate. The local agent 
claims he never made the erroneous 
rates. Small chance a farmer has be¬ 
tween the agent, the railroad company 
and the Interstate Commerce regulations 
as now fixed. Railroads are going into 
the farming business to show farmers 
how to grow more to the acre. Every¬ 
body is willing to educate the farmer to 
grow more to the acre. This will double 
the returns to the railroads; but how 
much will it increase the returns to the 
farmer? We would like to see some edu¬ 
cation that will help the farmers to a 
square deal in some of these transac¬ 
tions. Perhaps the railroad farms will 
give us a few demonstrations on this line. 
If so, we will make them a standing offer 
of $10 a column for the story. 
The Pinar Del Rio Co., Cuba. Land 
scheme. 
This is no better than the Florida land 
schemes. Leave them all alone. 
James P. Marley, butter, eggs, etc., 410 
Tremont avenue, New York City. 
He has recently given a chattel mort¬ 
gage covering the fixtures and goods in 
his store to secure $400 indebtedness. 
Cash with order is advised. 
I would like to find out about the Em¬ 
pire Automobile Institute, Rochester, N. Y. 
They are teaching the automobile business 
by mail.* I asked for information and 
sample lesson. I have received four let¬ 
ters and they charge $20 a course. To-day 
I got another I letter saying I could get 
the whole course for half the cost. Is it 
reliable? m. e. 
New York. 
No one can learn to run an automo¬ 
bile by mail. The concern has no rating 
and the proposition sounds faky. 
I received a check from the Egg Pro¬ 
ducers Co., of Brooklyn. N. Y. to-day. I 
thank you for the interest that you have 
taken in the matter, for I do not think 
that I would have heard from them. 
New York. w. w. M. 
We are receiving a great many com¬ 
plaints from shippers to this concern, 
about failure to get returns, but we have 
made several collections. Last year every 
shipment to them seemed to have re¬ 
turns for broken eggs, but since we re¬ 
ported it, the eggs seem to carry better. 
I received your letter with check of $25.01 
from the commission merchant for cran¬ 
berries shipped three months ago. I would 
gladly pay you for collecting this for me. 
New Jersey. g. g. s. 
This was a peculiar case. It seems a 
third party claimed an interest in some 
of the berries, as part of them were 
picked on his grounds, and he got the 
returns for all of them, though the 
shipment had been made by G. G. S. in 
his own name, and a part of the ship¬ 
ment had no connection with the man 
who got the returns. We insisted that 
the returns to the third party were no 
.concern of ours; but that the merchant 
owed the shipper for the berries. This 
was admitted finally, and the account 
was adjusted to the satisfaction of all 
concerned. But the shipper seemed un¬ 
able to get any adjustment through his 
correspondence. 
I scud you the letter that S. J. Connelly 
has sent mo with the returned money due 
me. It is with thanks to you for helping 
me to get this money back. s. w. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
This was for the return of remittance 
where the goods could not be sent. 
Later information is that this party is 
honest but temporarily embarrassed fi¬ 
nancially. and The R. N.-Y. has no dis¬ 
position to be severe in such a case. 
But, of course, there is no excuse for 
not returning remittances when orders 
cannot be filled. 
Last Fall I sent three gallons of evapo¬ 
rated sweet corn from Cadiz. Ohio, to Seat¬ 
tle, Wash. We sell (he corn f. o. b. cars 
here at $1.20 per gallon, making the cost 
$3.60. The three gallons of corn, with a 
light box weighed not over 20 pounds, and 
the express charges were $3.75, or 15 cents 
more than we get for Ihe corn. No wonder 
the express companies fight parcels post. 
Ohio. h. c. 
It is no wonder at all that express 
companies fight parcels post. The won¬ 
der is that farmers should go on year 
after year electing representatives of 
the express companies to positions which 
enable. them to defeat any effort for par¬ 
cels post. It was the farmers of New 
York State who put Thomas Collier 
Platt and Chauncey M. Depew in the 
United States Senate, where they repre¬ 
sented the express companies to the 
best of their ability. 
I was induced to buy stock of the Thomp¬ 
son Seed Company, Scranton, Pa., under 
promises that I could get my money back 
if not satisfied. They promised big divi¬ 
dends. but I never got any dividends, and 
cannot get my money back. I sent them 
$30 in all. I wish you would get it, and 
pay for 30 years for The Rural New-York¬ 
er. f. a. s. 
Massachusetts. 
W. A. Tillinghast is or was vice-presi¬ 
dent* of this company. His name has been 
in this column before—years ago. But 
he came here and promised to keep out 
of fake schemes, and under that promise 
we told him we would try to forget his 
old tricks. But this confirms our previous 
experience; that once a faker always a 
faker. Of course, selling such stock is 
nothing but legalized robbery. But you 
might as well try to grow turnips on. a 
3arn floor as to try to collect money from 
schemers of this class. 
If T had known your paper six months 
ago. it would have saved myself and a 
neighbor about $20 that we sent Leonard 
Darbyshire, of Rochester, N. Y. a. t. m. 
Georgia. 
The amount of money that people are 
throwing away on fake schemes is really 
astonishing. We are doing what we can 
to stop it; but each reader could help 
greatly by telling neighbors and friends 
to leave such schemes alone. Help us 
stop this robbery of comparatively poor 
people who can ill afford to suffer the 
loss. j. j. d. 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or line granulated, also 
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R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N.Y. 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from vigorous, mature birds. 
Our stock is the result of 15 years of selection and 
breeding for egg production. Write for prices. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
S.C. W. LEGHORNS, Wyckoff and Van Dresser strain. 
Celebrated for heavy egg production. Eggs $1 per 
15, $5 per 100. Geo. Lundgreen, Wyoming, Del. 
0 D WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY.-HatchingEggs 
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offered by the PICKERING VALLEY POULTRY 
FARM, Chester Springs, Chester Co., Pa. $0 per 100. 
V AN ALSTYNE’S RHODE ISLAND REDS-Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing in any number, bred from stock that are 
vigorous egg producers. A few breeding Cockerels 
at $3 and $5. Baby Chicks hatched at $20 per 100. 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N.Y. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I. REDS. 
200 egg strains. Greatest Winter Layers known. 
Large Brown Eggs, utility, $5 per 100: Special 
Matings, $1.50 and $2 per 13; $10 and $12 per 100. 
Winners at Worcester, Springfield shows, etc. 
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DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass 
U. S. DEPT, of AGRICULTURE 
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March 12, 
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$6.00 per 100, $1.50 per 13. Pekin duck eggs, $8.00 per 
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Comb White Leghorns, Barred and White Hocks, 
White Wyandottes, Light Brahmas and Single 
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Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
of pure bred poultry, for 1910, 200 pages, 
handsomely illustrated, 150 engravings, 
photos, 30 flue colored plates, describes 
65 leading varieties of land and water- 
fowls. gives low prices of stock, eggs, in¬ 
cubators, poultry supplies, etc. Calendar 
foreacli month. How to care for poultry 
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B. H. CREIDER, Box 58, Rheems, Pa. 
BLACK ORPINGTON EGGS 
FROM PRIZE WINNERS 
$1.50, $3.00 and $5.00 per 15; 1st and 3d on cockerel: 
2d and 3d on pen; 2d on pullet. Imperial Pekin 
duck eggs, $3.00 per 15; 1st on drake, 1st on duck. 
At Huntington Poultry Association, 1910. 
_ W. W. HAWXHURST, Hu ntington, L. I. 
WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS. 
(Kellarstrasse Strain.) Pen contains 1st Cockerel 
and 1st Hen at Huntington Show- $3 00 per 15. 
Black and Buff Orpingtons, $2.00 per 15 eggs. 
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EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Tiios, $5; Eggs for 
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0. H. ZIMMEll, Weedsport. N. Y. 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks K t-and de 
Reds, Partridge Wyandottes, Indian Runner 
; Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, 602 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Eggs From Prize-Winning Stock. 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS—S2 per 15, S3.75 per 30 S5 
per 45, S10 per 100. 
ROUEN DUCKS—Big ones, great laying strain—SI.50 per 15 
S3 per 30, $5 per BO, $7 per 100. 
CLARK FARM, BOONTON, N. J. 
—Eggs from our 
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P RIZE WINNING STRAINS —Rhode Island Reds, both 
combs: Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, single 
comb White and Brown Leghorns; eggs, 15, $1.50; 
100, $7.00. Light and Dark Brahmas, eggs, 35, $2 00- 
100, $10.00. F. M. PRESCOTT. R iverdale, N. J.' 
B ARRED Plymouth Rocks and Buff Orpingtons. Exhibition 
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R flflfl —Standard Bred for Eggs-White and 
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i 
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