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August 15, 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
1 SHIPPED' four cases of eggs and four 
coops of broilers to F. Ehrenkranz, 
565 Orange Street, Newark, N. J., 
for which he agreed to pay 30 cents per 
pound for broilers and top New York 
price for eggs. This was three weeks 
ago, and at that time broilers were 28 
cents. By the time he received them 
they had dropped to 25 cents. He re¬ 
ceived them the 7th of July and wrote 
me they were too small and had no 
feathers, and wanted to know what to 
do with them. He dated his letter the 
8th; it was postmarked in Newark on 
the 10th and delivered out here on the 
13th. I wired him at once to ship them 
to Hance Brothers, New York. He 
stated in his letter that the eggs were 
O. K. Saturday, July 18, he sent me a 
check and letter stating a lot of the 
broilers were dead and Hance Bros, re¬ 
fused them, and that he got $12 for them. 
He gave me 28 cents for two cases of 
eggs and 23% cents for the other two 
cases, saying they were very poor. It is 
very evident to me that the man is trying 
to cheat me. I am just getting started 
here and I feel the loss. The goods were 
all of my own production and I know 
they were first-class. R. w. H. 
New York. 
During the past Winter we have had 
considerable complaint from our subscrib¬ 
ers about Mr. Ehrenkranz of the Orange 
Butter & Egg Co. When we took the 
matters up with him he disputed each 
and every item, and it was only by the 
most persistent dunning we were able to 
get some of the accounts adjusted. Others 
are still open. He made various offers 
for settlement some time in the future, 
which were not kept. There is little en¬ 
couragement in this record that future 
shippers to this party can look for satis¬ 
factory settlements if payment is secured 
at all. 
From time to time I have noticed ar¬ 
ticles referring to a Dr. Ulman’s society 
for suppressing dishonesty and frauds. 
As I subscribed for your paper since the 
article appeared first, I must have missed 
the editorial, but have gathered from the 
little articles that have been published 
enough to convince me that I should be¬ 
come a member. Will you explain what 
is necessary to become such? I take no 
paper or magazine that prints liquor, pat¬ 
ent medicine or what I believe to be 
fraudulent advertisements. All publish¬ 
ers should be compelled to stand back of 
their advertisers, and the subscribers are 
the ones to compel such an act. You are 
right; where are the women? A large 
per cent, of the women’s magazines of to¬ 
day are full of patent medicine advertise¬ 
ments. There is going to be some hair¬ 
pulling before long, and a chance to give 
that “editor” w 7 ho allowed one to be 
swindled, something he won’t forget in a 
minute. N. s. 
Maine. 
This friend already qualifies as a char¬ 
ter member of the Anti-Fake Club. All 
that is necessary for anyone to become 
a member is to send in name and ad¬ 
dress, and signify intention to report to 
the club objectionable or deceptive adver¬ 
tising, and the papers in which it ap¬ 
pears. The plan will bo to first protest 
to the publisher; and if he persists to re¬ 
fuse to receive the paper. The above 
correspondent is correct. The subscrib¬ 
ers of such papers are the sufferers, and 
they should compel the publisher to re¬ 
spect their interests. Now that they have 
an opportunity, we believe they will do it. 
Three women have asked to see the 
next woman’s number; we pass ours on 
anyway, so please may I have three sam¬ 
ples of the Woman’s Magazine? At least 
one wants to see it with a view to sub¬ 
scribing. E. s. K. 
We shall be pleased to send all the 
sample copies any of our friends want for 
themselves, their neighbors and friends 
anywhere. They may be sent in a bundle 
to the old subscriber or separately direct 
to the persons for whom they are intend¬ 
ed, if the names and addresses are sent 
us. We propose to make this woman’s 
number the best magazine in this coun¬ 
try for country women. We just want to 
learn direct from these women what they 
want, and they shall have it without re¬ 
gard to the work or cost. In other words, 
we propose to make it equal to the other 
features of the paper. 
Last September, my father bought of 
the Wauchula Development Co., Wau- 
chula, Fla., 20 acres of land, sending 
them .$20 for the first payment, the price 
being $40 per acre, one dollar per acre 
to be paid per month until paid for. A 
few days later the president of the com¬ 
pany wrote us that they were just open¬ 
ing up a new tract of land (the finest in 
Florida), and why not change our hold¬ 
ings to it. My father then sent $20 
more for 20 additional acres of land— 
10 acres for myself and 10 for my mother, 
all the land to be in a body if practical 
to do so. They wrote us that they had 
selected an ideal tract of combination 
land suitable for both truck and oranges. 
In November my father went to Florida, 
(we were living at Culpeper, Va.,) to 
inspect the land and to locate permanent¬ 
ly, as we had sold our holdings in Vir¬ 
ginia. My father arrived in Wauchula 
about 10 a. in., was taken out to Vando- 
lah (which is eight miles west of Wau¬ 
chula) to inspect the property allotted 
to him. He did not like the looks of it, 
as there were about five acres of water 
on it, (in several ponds) but their agent, 
Mr. Vandolah, assured him that “it was 
fine truck land and that truck land was 
more valuable than orange land.” 
My father was rushed back to Wau¬ 
chula in an auto and up into their of¬ 
fice. He was there presented with a card 
to sign; a card of acceptance for the 
land, which he signed upon the assurance 
of Mr. Vandolah that it was fine land. 
My father stayed for several days around 
Wauchula, and asked the farmers about 
the land around Vandolah, and they all 
said it was no good, being what is called 
“flat woods pine.” He also walked out 
to Vandolah to inspect it more closely, 
and he decided he did not want it, so he 
did not pay any more money out for it. 
I then wrote the company in December 
that my father had inspected the land 
and found it unsatisfactory and asked 
that they return our money per their 
guarantee of July 21, 1913/ The terms 
provided that any time within a year 
we have the right to demand our money 
back, together with six per cent, inter¬ 
est, if we were not thoroughly satisfied 
with the investment. 
This is the dry season in Florida and 
I have been told by the natives that this 
land is covered three and four feet deep 
with water in the Summer. Mother and I 
have tried to get our money ($40) back 
but they refused on the ground that, father 
signed a card of acceptance for it. He 
did sign the card for his 20 acres but not 
for ours. They also claim that not hav¬ 
ing paid up we have also forfeited our 
rights. They were willing to give us 
credit for what we had paid if we would 
take other land, but not to give money 
back. Now I wish you would see if we 
could get any of our money back from 
them—$80 is what we have paid them. 
The people who are buyers of this land 
are mostly poor people from all over the 
country. The company advertises very 
extensively, but not in Tiie It. N.-Y. 
They make much of their bankers’ guar¬ 
antee. R. F. II. 
Florida. 
We let this young man tell his story 
for the benefit of people who go to Flor¬ 
ida or other places to buy lands promoted 
by companies and agents. As he says it 
is poor people who take up such proposi¬ 
tions. They have no money and no in¬ 
formation to go to law to recover their 
money. It would cost them more to get 
it back than the face of it. The pro¬ 
moters know this, and the investors are 
helpless. No man should buy land any¬ 
where until after he has inspected it, and 
spent time enough in the neighbor¬ 
hood to become familiar with the 
condition of the land and the character 
of the neighborhood. No man should 
ever sign a contract of purchase while 
under the influence of one of these 
land promoters. Spend several days or 
weeks in the vicinity, interview the na¬ 
tives and the business men, then if you 
are satisfied, go back to the agent and 
make your purchase; but you will usual¬ 
ly find that you can buy better land from 
others for less money, and in 99 cases out 
of a hundred you will keep your money 
in your pocket and go home satisfied with 
your prudence and your providence. 
Your work of securing, when possible, 
payment of delinquent accounts for your 
subscribers and fearlessly exposing fakes 
is a matter which cannot be passed with¬ 
out special commendation. Surely it is 
“worth while.” 
Will you, sometime when you can 
spare the space, kindly set forth, briefly, 
in your paper, the purposes and aims of 
the Anti-Fake Club, what constitutes 
membership, etc? Wishing you every suc¬ 
cess, I remain, w. K. 
Wisconsin. 
The purpose of the Anti-Fake Club 
is simply to discourage fake and fraud¬ 
ulent advertising; and to protect one 
another from their illusive schemes and 
deceptive advertisements. The idea is sim¬ 
ply that the members report any decep¬ 
tive or misleading advertisements that 
they find in papers or in circulars through 
the mail. They will protest to publishers 
who print such advertisements in their 
papers, and if any publisher persists in 
carying the objectionable advertisements, 
then the members of the club would all 
refuse to receive the paper into their 
homes. 
<< ^ hat a polished talker Jobson is.” 
“Isn’t he? I suppose that’s the reason 
he slips up on so many of his arguments.” 
—Boston Evening Transcript. 
Abscess. 
W HAT is the matter with my horse? 
He is a gelding, nine years old, 
and is troubled with a swelling on 
the point and side of his right shoulder. 
It does not seem to bother him while 
working, but if he rests a few days it 
gets larger, and finally comes to a head 
and bursts. Even after it bursts a hard 
lump remains. It has done this three 
times within the last six months. The 
man I got him of used a very poorly 
fitting collar. Just before it bursts it 
seems to affect his muscles for several 
inches each way. Makes him drag his 
right foot in walking. w. B. 
Greenacres, Wash. 
Clip off the hair and then open the ab¬ 
scess freely. Evacuate pus or serum, in¬ 
ject a little tincture of iodine, and then 
pack the cavity once daily with oakum 
saturated in a mixture of equal parts of 
turpentine and raw linseed oil. 
A. S. A. 
Indigestion, 
M Y driving mare, seven years old has 
always been a g and roadster, a 
very free driver and never tires. 
This Spring she had little pimples over 
her body in several places. Our doctor 
said he thought she had been stung with 
bees some time and it would last in her 
system for years. He told me to feed her 
a teaspoonful of sulphur each day for six 
days and wash her with disinfected 
water. When driven she is all right till 
she gets warm, then she becomes nervous 
and drives badly. I have changed differ¬ 
ent parts of the harness and used her 
very easily with no result. I am going 
to breed her, but I do not want to turn 
her into pasture. t. h. 
New York. 
Clip the mare and wash the affected 
parts twice a week with a 1-100 solu- 
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