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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July SO, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Suits aggregating $500,000 have been 
brought against this publisher l of The 
I tLUAL New-Youker], and it is our inten¬ 
tion to promptly accommodate any others 
who are looking for a fight if they seek it 
by the same methods of misrepresentation. 
E. O. LEWIS. 
The above threat does not seem to be 
deserved by a large body of publishers, 
who seem to have been willing to let 
Mr. Lewis go right on collecting money 
from poor people after the Post Office 
Department had accused Mr. Lewis of 
getting the money by misrepresentation 
and fraud. Perhaps some of the larger 
ones will muster up courage enough to 
accept the challenge now. Numerous 
local publishers have not been frightened 
by the threat, and have told the truth 
about Lewis. It would seem that a man 
with so much money to fight the press 
of the whole country, ought to be able 
to scrape up enough to pay back bor¬ 
rowed money, years after it is due. We 
yet have those 40-odd claims' for collect¬ 
ing against him, amounting to about 
$20,000. Pay these, Mr. Lewis, and your 
mighty threats will then sound less like 
buncombe. 
Will you look up the financial rating of 
the Levy Dairy Co., 45 Forsyth Street, New 
York? They are starting ii shipping sta¬ 
tion for milk at Cato, and 1 wish to know 
something about their reliability before pa¬ 
tronizing them. producer. 
New York. 
We find no established rating for 
them, and they have not responded to 
our request for a statement of their 
financial standing. Under the circum¬ 
stances we think producers should insist 
on satisfactory statement or security for 
the payment of their milk bills. If they 
were asking credit of business houses 
they would have to do this; and the 
sooner farmers get to doing business 
like other business men the better it will 
be for them. 
.T. I*. McKenna of Blacksburg, Ya., con¬ 
tracted a Dill of $6 with me two years ago, 
and paid $3 on it. Now lie will not answer 
my letters. Can you collect it? 
New Jersey. d. c. 
We have not yet been successful with 
this little account. The papers show 
that the indebtedness was contracted in 
April, 1908. In the following August 
Mr. McKenna wrote a letter of apology 
and inclosed $3, and promised the bal¬ 
ance in the near future. Now after two 
years he writes us that the goods do 
not suit as an excuse. If he made the 
issue that he was unable to pay, we 
would go no further, provided it seemed 
true; but his present position seems to 
us simply an excuse for evasion of the 
little account. 
I wish to thunk you for collecting $1.25 
from New York and Boston Dispatch Ex¬ 
po ss Co. I consider The It. N.-Y. the best 
farm paper I know. To my personal knowl¬ 
edge it has been in the family for more 
than 30 years and think it grows better 
every year. MBS. e. w. 
Massachusetts. 
We really had a long, hard fight for 
tlfis little $1.25. A basket of peaches 
was expressed to a fair for exhibition. 
The package was broken into and part of 
the fruit removed. The company wanted 
to pay 40 cents for the part removed. 
We insisted that they should at least 
pay for the whole package, as the ship¬ 
per at that lost the chances of a prize 
award at the fair. We finally gave the 
company an option to pay for the fruit 
or stand a suit. They finally settled. 
I am enclosing you an account of $15 
for 10 pounds of onion seed sold to Mr. J. 
Earns, Carey, Ohio. A draft for it was re¬ 
tained “no attention.” 1 am mailing you 
an account of $45 against tire same man 
in favor of another grower for 30 pounds 
of onion seed. E. v. a. 
Ohio. 
Mr. Karns has a letter head which 
states that he is a grower and shipper of 
onions, potatoes and apples in mixed or 
car lots. He acknowledged that at least 
one of the above shipment of seeds to 
him was first class, but he has not paid 
for it, though he received it more than a 
year and a half ago. We have appealed 
to him several times for a settlement of 
the account but get no reply whatever. 
If Mr. Karns has any neighbors or cus¬ 
tomers who have an interest in his repu- 
t-ition they could do him a service by re¬ 
minding him of these obligations. 
Referring to my claim against the New 
York Central Railroad. No. 1-12756, for 
damage to car of cabbage to Cleveland, 
O'lio. I have received payment from the 
railroad company for this claim. Thanking 
you for your interest in this matter and 
with best wishes for your success. 
New York. F. N. G. 
This claim was sent us in April last, 
but the shipment was made in Decem¬ 
ber, and claim entered by the shipper. 
The car of cabbage had been properly 
billed to the shipper’s own order at 
Cleveland, O., and a draft on Wm. Hoff¬ 
man & Co. forwarded through the bank 
with bill of lading. This is the most ap¬ 
proved form of shipment when goods 
are sold c. o. d. or where an advance is 
promised on consignment. In this case 
the railroad allowed Hoffman & Co. to 
take possession of the car without paying 
the draft and releasing the bill of lad¬ 
ing. In this way they left themselves 
clearly liable, and there was no question 
of recovery, if properly followed up and 
insisted upon. The amount of the claim 
was $186.90. 
scheme is a money making proposition 
of the promoters, by the promoters, 
for the promoters. 
I have received a chock from Mr. Lewis 
in full payment for my U. S. Fibre Cork 
Co. stock. I have been at him now every 
week for a long time, so I suppose he got 
tired of me. Please let me know what I 
owe you ; I am willing to pay you for taking 
up my case. v. m. 
Connecticut. 
I wish to call your attention to the so- 
called Salvage Security Company of Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa. This company sends out very 
tonguey and unscrupulous agents who call 
upon business and professional men, asking 
the privilege of collecting the most difficult 
and outlawed accounts, taking your list of 
said accounts and after deliberating over 
them guaranteeing to collect and return to 
tin* owner of said accounts a certain 
amount of cash within a period of three 
years, but on the condition that the owner 
of said accounts pays tin* Salvage Security 
Company a certain amount of cash in ad¬ 
vance to secure the service of Salvage Se¬ 
curity Company, which they claim is of 
superior value on account of their knowl¬ 
edge and experience in making difficult col¬ 
lections, and if they fail in collecting they 
not only return to the owner of the ac¬ 
counts the money lie had paid the company, 
but also the amount guaranteed. They 
have party sign a very specious contract 
embodying the above statements, pocket the 
money paid them by the contractor, but do 
not make good in any way. I am told that 
several thousand dollars were taken from 
tliis town in this way, besides nearly $2.00 
from me. This is a vile swindle that ought 
to lie stopped and I think you are the party 
to do it. e. e. s. 
New York. 
There it is again. Big promises of 
future gain in exchange for present cash. 
The faker never runs out of the prom¬ 
ises ; and as long as the cash of his vic¬ 
tims holds out, the scheme works lovely 
—for him. 
Last November I sold C. J. Kane, who 
had a market in Springfield, Mass., live 
barrels fancy cranberries at $7.50, $37.50, 
on 30 days’ time. Shortly after he wrote 
me that the cranberries were not what he 
ordered and he did not want them. I wrote 
him to put them in a room without heat 
and 1 wou'd dispose of them the next time 
1 came i , Springfield. On going to Spring- 
field 1 went to see the berries and found 
he had put them in an empty store next to 
the one he occupied. The store was very 
warm from steam heat and windows closed, 
but he said they had been open all the 
time, and had only been closed that morn¬ 
ing. On opening the barrels I found 
that the berries were the kind I sold him. 
but were in rather poor condition, as if 
they had been barreled up a long time. 1 
asked him if he could use them at some 
price, and he offered to take them at $5.75 
per barrel, which 1 agreed to. I was in 
Springfield again December 11, and went 
to see Kane. As it had not been 30 days 
I did not ask for payment, but lie. said ho 
would send me a check the next week; 
Kane bought two barrel more of another 
kind of .cranberries at $5.50 per barrel, and 
said lie would send check for both at the 
same time in a week or so. He did not 
se«d check, and after waiting a short time 
I sent a statement requesting payment. This 
was later returned to me by the postmaster 
stating they could not find party addressed. 
1 went to 'Springfield soon after, but could 
get no trace of him. Not long ago a person 
1 had sold berries to wrote me that he 
heard that Kane had gone to Albany or 
Troy, N. Y. I addressed a return envelope 
to C. .T. Kane, Market, Albany, N. Y. It 
has not come back, so I presume he has a 
market there. Can you assist me in any 
way to locate him in Albany and to col¬ 
lect the bill? At the time he bought tin- 
second lot In- must have had his plans all 
made to leave, for lie was only there about 
. week after. The total bill is $39.75. 
Hollister, Mass. E. a. t. 
We have not located Mr. Kane in 
Albany; but we have written him there 
several times and the letters have been 
delivered as they were not returned, but 
be makes no reply. The information may 
be useful to shippers to that market, and 
if any of The R. N.-Y. readers know 
his street address we would like to have 
it. We think that we could then con¬ 
vince Mr. Kane that it would be good 
business for him to pay this account. 
We want to give Mr. Lewis credit 
for every payment made our people at 
our insistence. He had this money over 
six years. The amount was $22. We 
have been trying to get it since Septem¬ 
ber last, over six months. It comes slow. 
We yet have several thousand dollars 
to collect from Lewis for our subscrib¬ 
ers, and we do not propose to let him 
forget it. 
About 10 weeks ago I sent 10 cents for 
a trial subscription to The R. N.-Y. It 
turned out to be the best all ’round farm 
paper I have seen. The farm tonics are 
instructive and I find the advertisements 
reliable, also the market reports. I like 
your style- in the editorials; the Publisher's 
Desk is worth many times the subscriptioi 
price to any man. r. d. j. 
Pennsylvania. 
At times it would seem that the new 
members of the Rural family are the 
most appreciative. This conies from the 
fact that they have suddenly found what 
they wanted but did not previously 
known tliat it existed. It is the enthus¬ 
iasm of a new discovery. The old friends 
have passed the stage of surprise, but are 
always ready when the time comes to do 
their share of the work. The way they 
put it up to Congressmen and Senators 
at Washington on the parcels post, on 
March 12, started things going pretty 
lively. Some of the new members took 
a hand in this work, too. Editors and 
publishers may brag and bluster to their 
heart's content, but they are powerless 
to do anything except speak for and di¬ 
rect the force of a large body of men— 
subscribers. The R. N.-Y. is able to 
show results simply because more than 
100 thousand farmers express their sen¬ 
timents through it and back up its de¬ 
mands whenever occasion requires. 
_ J. J- d. 
Wireworms.—W e never had them in any 
ground except sod. I plow in Fall and in 
Spring harrow early; then I do not plant 
until late, so that the ground is very 
warm, and t lie corn comes up in five or 
six days. Then I plant thick and use 100 
pounds high-grade fertilizer to acre. The 
time to plant corn here is from 1st of May 
until 20th, and I do not plant until the 
18th, and it was May 22nd before I had 
done.. Before I had possession of this land 
there were places that the wireworms took 
every plant. They have done no damage 
to me. They kill a few plants, but bv 
planting thick I always have enough, anil 
by late planting the corn grows much 
faster and is not so easily killed. 
II. It. B. 
When you write advertisers mention The j 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and ; 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 8. 
RICHLAND FARMS 
FREDERICK, MARYLAND 
A few - 
WHITE LEGHORN. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK. 
BLACK ORPINGTON. 
- Cockerels. 
UK EH ILL FARM I 
W, H. 'I’M ACM EH 
For real bargains in voting stock and yearlings in 
S. C. W. Leghorns and Imperial Pekin Ducks write 
tous. Stock bred from the lincst, under the best of j 
conditions: large, vigorous and pure while. Some 
promising March hatched cockcreis now *1.00 each. 
Prices of other stock on application. Address all 
communications to 
JOHN H. WEED, Mar., Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
In regard to St. Cloud Colony and lands, 
I came here about the middle of November 
last. The land in St. Cloud Colony is just 
as good as any land in Florida, 1 believe, 
and I have been over the State some since 
I came here. You may go where you will 
and you will find some that are never satis¬ 
fied with the situation or surroundings. 
We have people here from every State and 
Territory in the Union, and some from Can¬ 
ada, and thev will all nearly to a man say 
this is the finest climate they ever lived in. 
As to tilling the soil, the old soldiers did 
not come here for that. You ought to know 
that we are beyond doing a very great 
amount of hard work, and if a man wants 
to farm and work he would better not enter 
the Southern States at all. J. h. d. 
Florida. 
We willingly give this old soldier his 
say. But it seems to us that the 
boomers of the St. Cloud colony will 
get little comfort from it. No one denies 
that the climate in that section of Flor¬ 
ida is delightful in the winter; but the 
claim is that it is not so in the Summer 
and that during the Summer season 
malaria ensues and heat drives every one 
out of it, who can get away. The old 
soldier who lias means enough to go 
there for the Winter and live without 
work, and go somewhere else in the 
Summer may not mind the cash con¬ 
tribution to the promoters of this land 
scheme; but the poor veteran who is 
induced to go there under the repre¬ 
sentation that the soil and the climate 
makes the purchase a good and wise 
investment, is doomed to disappointment. 
From all we can learn the St. Cloud 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
AND 
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YOUNG STOCK ANI) 
YEARLINGS 
AT BARGAIN PRICES 
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BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS July hatched Shi cents 
- - - T —— - each. Single Comb 
White Leghorns. Flee range selected stock. Can 
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s, c. w, leghorn 
breeding stock for sale. Also yearling 8. C. R. I. 
Reds. Low prices to make room for growingpullets 
8T. MORITZ FARM, RAMSEY, N. J. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS and INDIAN 
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SINCLAIR SMITH, Box 153, Southold Suffolk Co., New York 
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W. P, ROCK YEARLINGSWrW 
stock. 
A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, New York 
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EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS. MARIETTA, PA. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS 
250 acres devoted to the best in S. C. W. Leghorns. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Maryland. 
Van Alstyne’s R. I. Reds^“f,S'„' , re , i; 
bred for vigor and egg production. EDW. VAN 
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THfiRnilGHRRFn SINGLE comb white leghorn 
inunuuunDncu yearling hens for sale, sloo. 
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