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THE RURAL NEW-VORKbK 
Juno 20, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
The attitude of The R. N.-Y. towards 
fake ads. is only one of its commendable 
features. But that alone gives it a place 
in the very front rank of agricultural 
papers. By so doing it doubtless safe¬ 
guards the pocketbooks of thousands who 
might otherwise be easily caught in the 
scheming nets of hosts of unprincipled 
rascals. For usually the most successful 
of those nets are set in newspapers. 
Most often it is the seductive advertise¬ 
ments in so-called respectable journals 
that enable these facile jugglers of other 
people's money to succeed in getting 
their hands in the pockets of the unwary. 
In many cases the most transparent de¬ 
vices for separating people from their 
cold cash would utterly fail if it was 
not for the apparent sanction given them 
by publications. Is there no newspaper 
standard of ethics? How long will the 
people support papers that underpin hon¬ 
esty? The fly is the carrier of disease 
and the cry is “Swat the fly.” The mos¬ 
quito spreads the deadly germ of yellow 
fever, and we are told to kill or screen 
him out. And when the newspaper be- 
eomes the medium of fraud, the clironi- 
i'le of dishonesty, the vehicle of deception, 
the condemnation of the public conscience 
should fall upon it with frost-killing pow¬ 
er. E. P. 
Massachusetts. 
This correspondent has found the re¬ 
sponsible source of deceptive advertising 
—the publisher. We have pointed this 
out in print and in speech in public and 
in private, and no one has ever attempted 
to deny it, or to excuse the publisher 
who conspires with crooks to swindle his 
own customers and friends. I preached 
this gospel 25 years ago, when no one 
cared to listen. Everyone listens now, 
and responsible advertisers are coming to 
see that they cannot afford to associate 
with charlatans in the same paper. But 
the key to the whole situation is in the 
hands of the people. Refuse to let a 
paper into your home with an indecent 
or dishonest advertisement, and you will 
find the publisher will soon come to your 
way of thinking. If he does not he will 
have an early successor who will. 
I do not know why I should be special¬ 
ly singled out by foreign lottery people, 
as I seem to get a copy of literature 
about once a month from the other side 
opening up to me an almost certain 
method of getting hold of any amount of 
wealth by simply sending from $1 to $5, 
as the case may be. I am enclosing here¬ 
with the latest chance in this line, which 
you will notice hails from Geneva, 
Switzerland. If you wish to do so you 
may give it a passing notice in your 
column of frauds and swindles. J. B. B. 
Michigan. 
People x-eceiving these propositions 
through the mail should carefully pre¬ 
serve the envelope in which the litera¬ 
ture is mailed and send it all to the Post 
Master General, Washington, D. G. This 
is the simplest way to dispose of it, as 
the matter is not legally mailable in the 
United States. 
I wish you to help me out on one of 
the Good Housekeeping Building certifi- 
orates. In June, 1913, they offered me 
$13 for it. but since that time they have 
discontinued to send me the magazine and 
now they write me they have nothing to 
do with the certificate, but to show good 
will offer me five years’ subscription for 
the certificate. I will be satisfied with 
whatever you think is due on the certi¬ 
ficate. If you are unable to adjust it, 
send the certificate and letters back to 
me. J. D. 
Massachusetts. 
This certificate was issued in May, 
1908, by Herbert Myrick of Springfield, 
Mass., through the Phelps Publishing 
Company. In September of that year 
Mr. Myrick wrote J. D. telling him that 
he was then a co-owner in the magnificent 
building. This statement was untrue. 
Good Housekeeping Company did not 
own a single brick in the building re¬ 
ferred to or an inch of the ground on 
which it stood. It never owned any 
ground or any ‘building. Later on Mr. 
Myrick sold the magazine, and we un¬ 
derstood the Good Housekeeping Com¬ 
pany has no assets unless it be some 
contract or proceeds from the new own¬ 
ers of the magazine. It appai'ently has 
no business. It never was anything but 
a cloak to cover Herbert Myrick’s 
schemes in connection with it and the 
magazine. As we figured it up there was 
due on the certificate $18.81. We made 
a demand on Mr. Myrick for this amount, 
and it has now been paid. The exper- 
ience emphasizes again.the danger of put¬ 
ting money into schemes pi'omotod by 
publishers. This certificate was nothing 
but an acknowledgment for the remit¬ 
tance. As long as a promoter has other 
schemes to promote settlements may be 
effected; otherwise the chance of recov- 
ery is a matter of speculation with a high 
probable percentage of loss. 
A full blood Guernsey cow—coming 
seven years; this cow is full blood, but 
not registered, good, size, splendid udder 
and teats, easy milker. Fresh last May 
and bred in July to “Langwater Puri¬ 
tan”, the world’s record Guernsey bull 
who is half brother to “Dotty Dimple”, 
the world’s record Guernsey cow, with 
a record under four years of age. of 
nearly 19000 pounds of milk, or to be 
exact, 1S45S.8 pounds milk; 906.S9 
pounds of butterfat at 3*4 years of 
age. This cow will milk 55 pounds per 
day when fresh. Notwithstanding the 
exti’eme drought and dried up pastures 
she is milking 3G pounds per day now. 
She is very persistent milkei\ Has 
milked since May 15tli; May, 700 
pounds; June 1300 pounds; July 1175. 
pounds; August, 1090 pounds; or 4240* 
pounds in 3% months. She will milk 
from 10000 pounds to 12000 pounds per 
year with an average fat test of 5.4%. 
Were this cow registered, I could get 
from $400 to $500 for her, carrying a calf 
as she does, of such breeding. If the 
calf was eligible to registry, it would 
be worth a great deal. I would like to 
buy this calf back from you whether it 
is a bull or a heifer, in case you buy the 
cow, and will give you $30 for the calf 
if a heifer, or $20 for it if a bull, to be 
shipped when two or three weeks old. 
Price for this cow, crated, f. o. b. $100, 
or I will sell you this cow for $75 crated 
f. o. b. but reserve the calf; calf to be 
shipped back to me by express at my ex¬ 
pense when three weeks old. This cow 
will fill your requirements I am sure. I 
don’t care about selling her, as I think 
a great deal of her and propose giving 
her an official test at next freshening. 
Of the_ two cows this one is the cheapest 
by $25. I will take her back off your 
hands after she freshens next Spring, 
and if she does not fill your expectations 
and my x-ecommcndations at $100. provid¬ 
ing that she must be tuberculin tested 
before being shipped back. New York 
does not allow any animal over six 
months to enter State without an official 
tuberculin test. Next week is our State 
Fair week but have a crate on hand and 
can make prompt shipment. 
Memphis, N. Y. g. s. baggett. 
The above is description of a cow 
made by the above named party at the 
time of the sale of her to Mr. J. R. Trot¬ 
ter of Morgantown, West Virginia. The 
following April the purchaser, Mr. Trot- 
ter, writes to The II. N.-Y. as follows: 
The cow arrived on the 28th of Oc¬ 
tober. She never gave more than 12 
pounds in a day and a test made by the 
Agricultural College of the University 
about the third day of November showed 
only 3.5% butterfat. The cow was fresh 
on March 15th and another test about the 
first of April showed 2.2% fat in the 
evening milk and 3% in the morning 
milk. I then asked Mr. Baggett for ship¬ 
ping directions to return the cow as per 
agreement. 
In the meantime we have had a very 
unsatisfactory correspondence with Mr. 
Baggett over the transaction; he was 
always slow in making reply to our let¬ 
ters and sometimes we were obliged to 
write him three or four times befoi'e he 
would make reply at all. lie finally con¬ 
sented to accept the return of the cow, 
and Mr. Trotter reshipped her by ex¬ 
press. At first Mr. Baggett l'efused to 
accept the cow from the express com¬ 
pany, because of delay in getting the cer- 
tifieate of the tuberculin test from the 
State Department. Mr. Baggett finally 
offered to refund $G0 of the purchase 
price and let Mr. Trotter keep the calf, 
while it will be noted tha’t in his letter 
describing the cow to the purchaser he 
only valued the calf at $20 to $30 at 
most. For obvious reasons, however, we 
finally consented to accept the $60, but 
we have been unable to get the remit¬ 
tance even for .this amount. As the case 
now stands, Mr. Baggett has the cow and 
Mr. Trotter’s $100; besides the purchas¬ 
er went to the expense of $46.80 for 
freight charges, etc., to say nothing of 
the care and feed of the cow, which 
utterly failed to live up to the represen¬ 
tations made for her. Mr. Baggett does 
not seem to be a member of any breeders’ 
association, or we would be able to ask 
for an investigation of his methods. We, 
however, ai’e not through with the case 
yet. We have placed the matter in the 
hands of our attorney, and if there is ! 
any way to compel Mr. Baggett to live 
up to his agreements, we propose to 
compel him to do so. He never adver¬ 
tised in The R. N.-Y. and never could. 
Our only interest is particularly to pro¬ 
tect this subscriber, and generally to pro¬ 
tect the cattle industry. j. j. p. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Unless there are still frosts there will 
be a big strawberry crop in the North. 
The Florida berries are now gone and 
they are coming from Tennessee. The 
supply will no doubt increase as soon as 
they come from Southern Ohio. There 
has as yet been no low-priced day in 
the strawberry trade, as is commonly the 
case. Consumers pay 15 to -8 cents a 
quart for good fruit, which is considered 
high. Egg prices have ranged from 3 
to 18 cents at wholesale and not going 
above 23 cents to the consumer. There 
has been a limited supply of duck eggs 
offered, their semi-transparent appear¬ 
ance recommending them. They sell at a 
fourth to a third higher than other eggs. 
Live turkeys are down to 1G cents and 
dressed to 23, with fowls 17 to 18 cents 
on account of much demand for laying 
hens by non-raising fanciers. Few broil¬ 
ers bring 32 to 35 cents wholesale. But¬ 
ter and cheese are firm, but there has 
been no late change in quotations. Best 
creamery print butter is from 29 cents 
down wholesale, fair to good crock, 20 
to 21 cents. Cheese commands 18 cents 
for best domestic old and 13 to 14 for 
new. The consumer gets little that is 
really good for less than 20 cents. Ap- j 
pies are no longer plenty, but are going 
out of season and do not command moi’e 
than $4.50 a barrel for fancy reds. There 
are still some fine-appearing western ap¬ 
ples going at moderate prices, retailing at 
15 cents a small measure. Lemon and 
oranges are a fourth higher than in early 
Spring. Oranges $2.50 to $3.75 per box'; 
lemons $3 to $6 a box and grapefruit $2 
to $3.75. Potatoes will be late, as often 
they were not planted till .Tune. State 
grown do not go up, being 85 cents whole¬ 
sale. There is a good supply of new Ber¬ 
mudas and some Floridas, at $5.25 per 
barrel, retailing at $2 a bushel. Cabbage 
is still high, but is in better quality, at 
$1.25 per arrel. Texas onions are $2.40 
per crate; asparagus $1.75 per basket; 
string beans $1 to $1.75; per hamper; 
cucumbers 40 cents to $1.25 per dozen ; 
rhubarb 15 cents per dozen bunches; 
spinach $1.25 per barrel; yellow turnips 
$2 per barrel; tomatoes $2.25 per carrier. 
Hay is weak and has declined lately, on 
account of flush pastures and the pros¬ 
pect of a big crop, best Timothy $15 per 
ton; No. 2 $13; No. 3 $10. Ilye straw 
$9 a ton ; wheat and oat straw $S. All 
sorts of millfeed are going down, wheat 
bran being $23.50, having been $25 a 
month ago. j. w. c. 
May 30. The month of May has been 
unprecedented for the many days that 
land could not be -worked, on account of 
the many showers and lack of sunshine. 
The ground has fitted very hard by being 
packed by the heavy rains. Oats were 
sown very late and some are not in yet. 
Corn just planted this week, which is 
unusual for this section. Late potatoes 
will follow as fast as work will allow. 
The prospects for apples are good, being 
a very good bloom. Bartlett pears are 
scarce. Sweet cherries are light; sour 
cherries bloomed heavily. Plums are 
good while peaches are an entire failure. 
Spraying is being very thoroughly done this 
season ; some have sprayed three times al¬ 
ready. Wheat and Alfalfa are making 
a very rank growth. Alfalfa will soon 
do to cut. Wheat $1: oats 40; corn 70; 
barley 70; potatoes 75 to 80. Wool lias 
advanced since farmers have sold it. 
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