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TH13 RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 25, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
I am pleased to notice your exposure 
of the Cloverdale Farm Co., Ransomville, 
N. Y. They are the ones who deceived 
me last Winter and Spring and from 
whom I had so much difficulty in getting 
the clover ordered. G. P. 
Massachusetts. 
The above reference to the experience 
of another subscriber in Publisher’s Desk 
of July 11 issue only emphasizes the 
necessity for the word of warning to our 
people. Anyone who contemplates any 
business transactions with the Cloverdale 
Farm Co. will do well to look up the 
record of Mr. E. E. Cooley, whom we un¬ 
derstand to be the active member of this 
company, at Frenchtown, N. J., where he 
was engaged in the poultry business for a 
number of years. 
In September, 1908, I took an install¬ 
ment contract from Wood, Harmon & 
Company, 261 Broadway, New York 
City, for a lot in Mid wood Manor (a new 
subdivision in Brooklyn) at $1,635. I 
understood that in case of any emergency 
that I could not continue my payments, 
the money actually paid in without in¬ 
terest would be returned. After paying 
on my contract about $483 I was unable 
to continue on account of financial diffi¬ 
culties, and upon asking for a return of 
part of my money, I was put off from 
time to time, saying that they would 
carry my account and I need not be un¬ 
easy, or words to that effect. Finally 
last year they wanted all back payments 
at once or I would lose all. I was un¬ 
able to pay same and petitioned the head 
of the firm for the return of some of my 
hard-earned money (if only half of what 
I paid them) but could get nothing from 
them. I would be very very thankful if 
you could get any return for me from said 
real estate firm if only half of what I 
paid them. p. c. H. 
We took this complaint up with Wood, 
Harmon & Company; but they refuse to 
make any adjustment. They say the ex¬ 
pense of selling the lot, and city taxes 
equal the amount paid on the contract. 
As to the purchaser’s understanding that 
the money would be returned in case of 
his inability to keep up the payments, 
there seems to be nothing in writing to 
this effect and no claims on the part of 
the buyer that there was, hut he quotes 
conversation with the agent to show de¬ 
finite verbal agreement to this effect. 
The company, however, prefers to accept 
the assurances of their agent to the ef¬ 
fect that no such promise was made. So 
there you are. The buyer loses his $483. 
We know nothing of the verbal repre¬ 
sentations made to induce .this man to 
agree to purchase this lot, but we are 
satisfied that he did not enter the con¬ 
tract with a proper understanding of the 
situation or with a prudent estimate of 
the value of the property. We believe he 
was deceived by some influence. Some 
years ago, a Virginia subscriber asked our 
ua ice about the purchase of a Brooklyn 
loi promoted by Wood, Harmon & 
Company. We told him that such prop¬ 
erty is bought up in acreage plots, that 
streets are then laid out, and the lots 
are sold on the installment plan to small 
investors at prices very much in advance 
of our estimate of their value. Fre¬ 
quently such lots are abandoned after a 
few payments have been made, and the 
investor loses his money. Acres of such 
lots are sold every year on Long Island 
for taxes. Finally we told our Virginia 
subscriber to send $10 to a reliable real 
estate appraiser, if he wanted to know 
in advance how much he would be stuck 
on the purchase. The company felt very 
much grieved at the time that we should 
refer to the transaction in that language. 
For our part we consider the language 
mild. A candid expression of our opin¬ 
ion of these real estate transactions 
would probably include some words that 
ought not to appear in print. 
Referring to Dr. Ulman’s article on 
page 246 of your issue of February 14, 
1914, and your comment on same, I 
would very much like to become a charter 
member of the Society for Suppressing 
Dishonesty and Frauds. This society 
will have a greater work before it than 
can be realized at first glance. In this 
connection I am reminded of that splen¬ 
did editorial which appeared in your pa¬ 
per a few months ago, in which you gave 
your views and reasons for refusing ad¬ 
vertisements for tobacco and cigars, even 
from reliable firms, for ethical reasons. 
When the greater part of reliable pub¬ 
lications get to the point where you are 
in this respect the world will see a radi¬ 
cal change in physical, mental and moral 
state if our lives. What an almost 
unbelievable gulf there exists between 
your position and the general run of 
literature. In the Y. M. C. A. club houses 
here on the Isthmus, and everywhere else 
for that matter, the library tables are 
covered with daily papers, weekly and 
monthly magazines, nearly every one of 
them with their full quota of tobacco, 
whiskey and patent medicine advertise¬ 
ments. This is one of the worst influ¬ 
ences in existence today that helps to¬ 
wards making the use of tobacco and 
strong drinks popular, and leads young 
men, and I may as well include women, to 
drink and consequent ruin. The work 
before this society will not be accom¬ 
plished in a day or a year. We are in 
for a prolonged siege, a campaign that 
must be planned and stuck to with the 
determination that characterized the siege 
of Troy. 
Largely because my eyes have been 
opened by reading The R. N.-Y. I have 
discontinued subscriptions to other pub¬ 
lications I used to take. At present I 
have a monthly magazine for which I 
subscribed for a period of 10 years, and 
I am positively ashamed to have it in 
the house. It carries no whiskey ads, 
but such frauds as Sanatogen occupy 
whole pages, and by my paying for my 
subscription and patronizing that maga¬ 
zine I am made a partner in charging the 
credulous $2 for five cents worth of cot¬ 
tage cheese. 
Now a final word about the Society 
for the Suppression of Dishonesty and 
Fraud. The R. N.-Y. is entirely too 
modest. One hundred members!! What? 
If this society can’t show a membership 
of ten thousand within three months I 
will lose faith in humanity. I hereby 
cast my vote for Dr. Ulmaii as the first 
president of the Society for the Suppres¬ 
sion of Dishonesty and Frauds. If Dr. 
Ulman is a practicing physician, I am 
afraid he will, in course of time, have to 
give up his practice, because there will 
be so much work in his new position that 
he will not have time for anything else. 
Canal Zone. j. j. 
It was not our intention to limit the 
society to 100 members. We promised 
that we would help organize the society 
when 100 readers signified a purpose to 
become charter members. It will be a 
distinction to be one of the first hundred 
to found a society which ultimately in 
some form will include SO per cent, of 
the people of the Western Hemisphere. 
We made the suggestion on the impulse 
of the moment. The responses have been 
prompt and enthusiastic. The list is 
growing, but the 100 are not yet filed. 
Where are the women? The membership 
so far are men. We believe the women 
are even more interested in this than the 
men. 
I had the same experience as F. F. H. 
and J. D. S.. I sent the Cluthes nine 
dollars for a truss on trial. When I 
wrote them that I could not wear it and 
asked for my money back they wrote me 
a curt letter and refused to pay *the 
money. t. c. 
Ohio. 
ItT is quite likely that many others had 
the same experience. From the language 
of the advertisements, we would expect 
that a purchaser could return the 
Cluthe’s truss and get the money re¬ 
turned ; but such seems not to be the case. 
We do not know whether the money 
could be recovered on suit or not. It 
does not matter. Anyone would rather 
lose the money than attempt to recover 
it through a suit at law. If everyone 
who had this experience complained to 
the Post Office Department, the abuse 
would probably be corrected. 
Nearly a year ago I sent White Cross 
Anti Liquor Society, Kansas City, Mo., 
$7.50 for anti-liquor treatment. They 
advertised to guarantee a cure or refund 
the money. The medicine did no good 
and I have been unable to get my money 
back as promised. l. g. 
New York. 
We wrote the alleged society in the 
subscriber’s behalf and it admitted that 
the remedy was sold on conditions that 
if it did not effect a cure the money 
would be refunded. Instead of refunding 
the money as agreed the society sent two 
more treatments as an offset to the re¬ 
fund guarantee, claiming they did so with 
consent of the customer, and therefore 
consider all obligation cancelled. The 
subscriber denies having agreed to the 
arrangement. However, this may be; we 
know that this plan is resorted to by 
many medicine advertisers to avoid mak¬ 
ing the refund as agreed at the time of 
sale and a few advertisers in other lines 
seem to be following the lead of the pat¬ 
ent medicine men. It is important to un¬ 
derstand that the apparently liberal pro¬ 
positions made by this class of advertisers 
in cheap publications have a string to 
them, and that the advertisers have no 
real intention of ever returning the money 
under any circumstances. j. j. p. 
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T HE southeastern part of Ohio is the 
section that we gather cream from 
and there is a growing interest 
towards the dairy business in this section. 
The hilly country throughout this section 
is more adapted to dairying than to the 
tilling of the soil. Is there as good an 
opportunity in the future as in years gone 
by? I would say yes, better. In regard 
to the proportion of the cows in our lo¬ 
cality that are well bred, or of the im¬ 
proved breed, it would be hard to say, but 
I judge that not one farmer in 20 has 
the improved breed. There is where I 
base the above answer to your question 
and where I see a greater chance for im¬ 
provement. In regard to advising young 
men and women to take up the business 
of dairying as it stands today, with a 
fair hope of being successful, I would 
say yes, I think there are great oppor¬ 
tunities in the dairy business. L. D. c. 
Ohio. 
I N regard to dairying, there is all kinds 
of stock except purebred. Very few 
of these are kept. Pastures are very 
poor and run out and burned out through 
the dry hot seasons we have had. As to 
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very good. Butter 30 cents; cheese 16 
to 18. Bought a small farm of 80 acres 
in fair cultivation; keep 10 cows, grade 
Jersey, Guernsey and black and white. 
Ant hoping to improve them if I get able. 
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