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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The receipt of several letters to this 
department without the signature of the 
writers causes us to notify subscribers 
again that such communications will not 
be printed. The full name and address of 
the writer must accompany every inquiry 
to secure attention. The name of the 
writer will not be printed, but no atten¬ 
tion can be given to letters signed only 
by initials, “a subscriber,” etc. 
How will the enclosed do for your Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk? This is one of about a 
dozen received. Why I should be one of 
the selected for this killing I do not know. 
Maybe you can save some of your sub¬ 
scribers from this. It looks like a fake. 
New York. j. w. c. 
The literature enclosed is an offer of 
the Thwing Co. of this city, offering what 
is represented to be a $000 lot in Garden 
Hill for $202.50. We do not know where 
Garden Hill is located, but we think our 
subscribers have had sufficient warning 
already regarding the Thwing Co. 
schemes that none of them will be tempt¬ 
ed to jump at this piece of alluring bait. 
We hope that no one will be deceived by 
the seductive offers of the Thwing Co., 
which are requested to be kept strictly 
confidential. 
Add my name to your list of fraud ex¬ 
posers. This duty of every honest citizen 
must not fail for lack of energy. The 
press is our business and social platform. 
Fraudulent advertisements represent 
holes in the platform and we can find a 
solid foundation or platform only in the 
papers that reject that kind of advertis¬ 
ing. M. E. 
The Anti-Fake Club is steadily grow¬ 
ing in numbers and importance. The 
formal organization will be made early 
in the Fall. In the meantime those who 
want to register as charter members may 
send in their names. The purposes of 
the club will be fully outlined when the 
organization is perfected, but in a general 
way its functions will be to keep its mem¬ 
bers advised of fake advertisements and 
the papers that publish them ; and to re¬ 
fuse to receive the papers that persist in 
carrying fraudulent or deceptive adver¬ 
tising. 
I am renewing for another year. I 
hardly know my reason, as most of The 
R. N.-Y.’s contents are foreign to my 
business, yet I have found much of gen¬ 
eral interest to my family and myself, 
and nothing to condemn. J. B. P. 
Connecticut. 
Unconsciously this letter expresses the 
success of an ideal we have had in mind 
for Tns R. N.-Y. We refer to a breadth 
of information and discussion combined 
with a broad human int rest that would 
be of benefit and value to all classes of 
people, and particularly suited to the bus¬ 
iness requirements of the farmer, and the 
social and intellectual net Is of himself 
and family. Perhaps this ideal of the 
paper has not been well sustained. We 
know that for many reasons which 
have been as yet beyond our control, it 
has fallen short of our ambition ; but it 
is an encouragement to know that our 
purpose has met with some success; and 
we hope to make this feature more con¬ 
spicuous as the years multiply on us and 
the means enable us to do so. 
Mr. II. D. Braeutigam, who represents 
himself as a breeder of Barred Rocks, at 
Greenwood Lake, N. Y., but who wrote 
me from Newark, N. J., ordered 110 eggs 
for hatching during the month of Feb¬ 
ruary, enclosing check in payment of the 
eggs, with instructions to ship promptly. 
I wrote Mr. Braeutigam of the danger 
of shipping eggs at that season of the 
year, and as the weather was cold at that 
time I held the shipment for two days, 
when the weather moderated. The wea¬ 
ther again turned suddenly cold after 
shipment was made, and Mr. Braeuti¬ 
gam claims that the eggs arrived at New¬ 
ark in zero weather. He stopped pay¬ 
ment on his check and has never re¬ 
ported on the fertility of eggs, which I 
guaranteed 75 per cent., and I have been 
unable to get any settlement in the mean¬ 
time. Can you help me in the matter? 
Virginia. mrs. w. d. jd. 
We took this complaint up with Mr. 
Braeutigam promptly and he makes an 
indefinite statement in reply to our let¬ 
ter that the effects of the cold weather 
destroyed or so weakened the fertility of 
the eggs that most of the chicks died in 
the shell. Mr. Braeutigam does not state 
how many chicks actually hatched from 
the eggs, but he goes on to say that the 
chicks had white diarrhoea and commun¬ 
icated the disease to his other chicks, 
causing him serious loss. Our reports 
show that Mr. Braeutigam is a minor, so 
that regardless of any other considera¬ 
tion no legal redress can be obtained. We 
have a great many complaints for one 
cause or another regarding transactions 
over eggs for hatching, and this case il¬ 
lustrates that all the cause for complaint 
is not on the side of the purchaser. Mrs. 
W. D. D.’s experience in this case also il¬ 
lustrates that it is not always safe for 
the seller to assume that he has his pay 
for the goods ordered when a check ac¬ 
companies it; certified check or post office 
money order is better security. 
In 1912 I purchased 10 shares of stock 
in the Union Motor Tales Co. of Dayton, 
Ohio, with the understanding that I was 
to take the agency for my territory, and 
receive 7 per cent, annual dividend from 
my investment, also that I was to get 
supplies for my individual use, at dealers’ 
prices, and the goods to be delivered 
within a reasonable length of time: Soon 
after my investment in the company I 
gave them a small order for some repair's 
that I knew I would need from time to 
time. I had to write them a number of 
times before I got them to send them out, 
and when they did come they were mark¬ 
ed C. O. I)., notwithstanding that I sent 
them cash with the order. However, I 
got them to right this, and just supposed 
that it‘was the fault of some careless 
clerk. But, during the early part of this 
year (1913) I decided that I could get 
my repairs from a local dealer just as 
cheap and get them just when I needed 
them, so wrote the Union Motor Sales 
( o. and asked if they would buy my 
stock and give me in exchange for it some 
repairs that I was going to have, and 
they would not make me any reply, not¬ 
withstanding I wrote them several let¬ 
ters, registering some of them. After 
this I decided to try them with another 
order, so ordered a couple of tires from 
them ; these they sent, . -iter some delay, 
but on their arrival only one tire was ac¬ 
cording to order. The other, while I 
could not use it just then. I knew I could 
use later, so on June 27, 1913, I sent 
them another for two other tires. They 
wrote me that the make I ordered had ad¬ 
vanced in price, and I would have to re¬ 
mit a certain amount more, or they could 
furnish me with other standard makes 
the price I remitted (naming the 
makes), so I advised them to send either 
of the makes they had named, but to get 
them to me within a certain time or re¬ 
fund money. Thus I waited for nearly a 
month expecting every day that the tires 
would show up; finally I wrote them 
about it. but no reply came. This letter 
I followed with others, several of them 
being registered, but no reply came until 
I threatened to take legal steps; then 
they said they would look into the mat- 
ter. but as yet I have gotten nothing out 
of them. I have, as best I can, explained 
the situation to you. so please advise me 
whether or not you can do anything with 
this matter. R s 
Georgia. 
After considerable correspondence with 
the Union Motor Sales Co., above re¬ 
ferred to, we secured for the subscriber a 
check refunding the remittance he sent 
the firm for the tires, which, it was 
claimed, had been lost in transit. The 
check, however, was only signed by a rub¬ 
ber stamp. IVe returned it to the com¬ 
pany for a proper signature, but have 
never been able to secure the proper sig¬ 
nature of the company to the check. In 
the meantime the Motor Sales Co., which 
it is alleged was a Maine corporation, is 
in liquidation, and the Union Motor Co. 
of Dayton, Ohio, has been organized un¬ 
der the Ohio State laws to take over and 
carry out all contracts with the members 
and dealers of the Union Motor Sales Co. 
The new company proposes selling mem¬ 
bership certificates, instead of stock cer¬ 
tificates which were sold by the old con¬ 
cern. The experience of the above sub¬ 
scriber only bears out our experience 
with these stock selling and membership 
selling schemes generally. The stocks 
and memberships are sold with the idea 
that the investor can then buy goods 
from the company cheaper than else¬ 
where, but as this subscriber eventually 
found to be true, goods of an equal grade 
can easily be purchased in the open mar¬ 
ket at the same or a lower price. Event¬ 
ually the money paid for the stock, or 
certificate, is usually lost, as in this case. 
It will be well for the readers of The 
R. N.-Y. to remember this subscriber’s 
experience when approached by a slick- 
tongued agent on a stock or membership 
scheme of this sort or when in receipt of 
literature of the promoters. 
Small Pens; Beef Scrap. 
I IIAYE a henhouse 20xG feet. I wish 
to make it into separate pens for 30 
fowls each. I think usually houses 
are made wider, but if I make the house 
wider it leaves too much floor space, more 
than I wish to pay for, or make it too 
narrow on the front. Will my fowls get 
along just as well to divide the house up 
into four pens five feet wide and six 
deep? 2. I feed dry mash, but find that 
with beef scrap in it the fowls spoon out 
a lot and waste it looking for scrap, so 
I am feeding dry mash in hoppers and 
beef scrap separate. How much beef 
scrap should I allow for 100 hens per 
day? e. R. s. 
Virginia. 
Unless you have some reason for wish¬ 
ing to keep your fowls in small flocks, it 
would be better not to divide your little 
house into pens. With four pens, each 
fowl would have but 30 square feet of 
floor space to use, while with no parti¬ 
tions each one would have the liberty of 
120 square feet. If they have the use of 
a good sized yard, the amount of floor 
space in their house is of less import¬ 
ance, but if they are confined, their 
quarters are pretty small. 
2. A dry mash hopper should be so 
made that the fowls cannot spoon the 
feed from it. The opening through which 
the fowls feed should have an inwardly 
projecting lip to catch and hold the mash, 
or it should be guarded by slats or wire 
mesh in such a way that the fowls can¬ 
not flirt their beaks while eating. If the 
scraps are fed alone, there is nothing to 
prevent the fowls from eating too much 
scrap to the exclusion of other food. 
M. B. D. 
Chicks With Foreign Markings. 
1 RECENTTA T bought 100 baby chicks. 
These chicks were advertised as pure¬ 
bred S. C. White Leghorns, Barron- 
Young cross. I notice these chicks have 
dark spots on them or black feathers. 
Is this possible with purebred White Leg¬ 
horns? j. c. c. 
Ohio. 
Yes, it is possible for purebred animals 
of any kind to show markings foreign to 
their Freed. At some more or less re¬ 
mote period in their ancestry they were 
all mixtures and with some breeds this 
period is not very remote. As a conse¬ 
quence, this ancestral blood will at times 
crop out, like an inherited taint, and 
those not acquainted with this possibility 
are sometimes led to accuse a breeder un¬ 
justly. The crossing of two separate 
strains of the same breed sometimes 
seems to intensify this liability to “throw 
back” to ancestral traits. m. B. D. 
E gg-eating hens.—i have noticed 
articles of late about a cure for egg¬ 
eating by hens. My remedy, which 
never failed me, is to make an opeu- 
carefully in large end of egg and 
in as much red pepper as possible, 
shell back carefully. If taken at 
the start there is usually just one guilty 
hen. Watch for her and when found put 
her in small coop with the treated egg. 
She will take just one taste and will 
never try to eat another egg. 
New York. e. r. watson. 
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