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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
September 26, 
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I AM enclosing you some papers from 
the International Stock Food Company 
of Minneapolis, Minn. I purchased 
some stock food from the above named 
company some three years ago, and we 
were to be the judge of it whether it was 
a benefit or not. We wrote them about 
it, saying we could see no benefit 
to the stock. We had on hand 
one pail of their stock food, and we of¬ 
fered to return it to them. They said for 
us to continue using it, and did so, and 
they extended our time. Ever since we 
used it they have sent us dunning let¬ 
ters, and there are several others here 
who are in the same boat as I. t. e. 
The papers referred to by this sub¬ 
scriber included the blank contract which 
he signed when ordering the feed. The 
order blank signed by T. E. which con¬ 
stituted the contract read as follows: 
Please ship me at once by freight. 100 
pounds of International Stock Food 
Tonic, in four 25-pound pails, on your 
four months' free trial offer —with one 
25-pound pail extra and absolutely free. 
Also send me absolutely free, Premium 
No.I am to have the privilege of 
using the entire shipment for my stock. 
If I am perfectly satisfied with my four 
months’ free trial results, then I am to 
remit the regular price, of $14, for the 
100,pounds, in four months, or write you, 
asking an extension of time. You are 
also to send me extra and free, enough 
International Poultry Food Tonic—your 
remarkable preparation to double egg 
production, and International Pheno, the 
dependable disinfectant and germicide 
that helps save hogs from the terrible 
hog cholera—to pay all freight charges 
on my entire shipment. 
A SPECIAL AGREEMENT IN MY 
ACCEPTANCE, is that if I am satisfied 
and it is not convenient for me to remit 
in FOUR MONTHS, that I am to have 
an EXTENSION OF TIME, beyond this 
if I write you and request it. If I am 
not satisfied, it will NOT cost me a cent 
for the entire 125 pounds or for the valu¬ 
able free premium. ALL WILL BE 
FREE. 
It is a part of my order that if I have 
not received paying results, after my four 
months’ usings test, ON MY OWN 
STOCK, I am NOT to pay you a cent 
for the four 25-pound pails of Inter¬ 
national Stock Food Tonic or for the 
premium I select, and you are to accept 
my own personal written letter, which I 
agree to write you in specified details as 
to results I obtained in my four months’ 
free using test. In my written letter I 
hereby agree to tell you how I used it 
and for how long a time, how many 
times per day, what size amounts I used 
for each animal, for what kind of stock, 
for how many head of stock, for what 
purpose and what results I obtained, and 
you are to accept mv written statement 
as final and CREDIT ME IN FULL. 
Now the above contract appears on the 
face of it so fair and liberal that it is in¬ 
conceivable that any business concern 
would attempt to force collection for the 
goods after the customer had reported un¬ 
favorably from the use of the stock food 
as T. E. alleges he did. Notwithstanding 
the contract, however, and the unfavor¬ 
able report from the use of the stock 
food, the International Stock Food Com¬ 
pany has written the subscriber several 
letters demanding payment, and finally 
placed the claim in the hands of collec¬ 
tion agencies, who are threatening to 
bring suit to recover the price of the 
goods and to report the farmer as un¬ 
worthy of credit. The International 
Stock Food Company and their attorneys 
realize well enough that no court would 
x'ender a verdict in their favor under the 
terms of the above contract, provided the 
customer complied with the conditions as 
T. E. claims to have done. 
During the month of September. 1913, 
I shipped the Richmond Produce Com¬ 
pany of Richmond, Va., two consignments 
of apples. They sent return for the first 
lot, but have not returned for the sec¬ 
ond lot. Will you try to get a settlement 
from this firm? r. d. c. 
Virginia. 
In response to our first request the 
Richmond Produce Company promised to 
adjust the matter in a few days, claim¬ 
ing delay was due to the fact that the 
fruit was green and they held it, hut it 
began to decay very rapidly; at the same 
time they hoped to allow the shipper a 
fair price. The returns were then four 
or five months overdue. Green apples are 
hardly held so long. But no returns of 
any kind have as yet been received. 
Your check in payment of my Cana¬ 
dian Express Company claim received and 
I wish to express my thanks for the in¬ 
terest you took in looking after it. I had 
tried for a long time to get the claim 
adjusted but could do nothing with them. 
It is a good thing that some one will 
champion the cause of those who are help¬ 
less in such matters as this. I have been 
a reader of Tiie R. N.-Y. for a good many 
yeax-s and think I shall continue. 
Michigan. e. p. 
This refers to a tub of butter, valued 
at $4.95, which was lost in transit March 
13, 1912. We received the remittance for 
the claim on August 12, 1914. 
William H. Cooper, a former vice-pres¬ 
ident of the Siegel-Cooper Company and 
head of the bankrupt New York Central 
Realty Company, convicted after a long 
trial of using the mails to defraud in¬ 
vestors to the amount of $400,000 in the 
stock of the realty company, was sen¬ 
tenced yesterday by Judge Grubb, in the 
Federal Distinct Courr, to serve three 
years in the penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. 
After passing judgment Judge Grubb, on 
motion of Cooper’s lawyer, stayed the 
sentence pending an appeal. Cooper was 
released on a bond of $25,000.—Daily 
Press. 
Penitentiary sentences to a few more 
real estate operators of this sort ought to 
have a discouraging effect on their kind. 
The publicity given the trial and convic¬ 
tion will undoubtedly act as a warning to 
those who may be tempted to put their 
savings into such schemes in the future. 
I am putting out the samples sent me 
wherever there might be a chanc for a 
new subscriber. I have done this before, 
and am ready at any time to 
testify to the worth of The R. N.-Y., and 
the service it has done me in advice, and 
the collection of the Old Dominion Steam¬ 
ship Co. claim. If this has resulted, or 
eventually results, in now subscribers, I 
do not wish any premium or other reward. 
That incentive is not needed. I give out 
the subscription envelopes wherever there 
might be a chance for results. Please 
understand that while I am not working 
for any premium and will not accept any, 
I overlook no occasion to give you a 
hearty boost, and this with the idea of 
helping other farmers to a good friend. 
Virginia. E. r. L. 
If the above were an isolated sentiment 
it would not be significant or important. 
But it is not an isolated expression. It 
is the expression of a very general senti¬ 
ment among our friends. He instances 
one service. The Old Dominion Steam¬ 
ship Company, received his perishable 
products when it was not in position to 
handle them because of an accident to a 
boat. The shipper lost his goods. The 
company refused him any adjustment. 
They first refused us; but we finally in¬ 
duced them to adjust the claim. At that 
the shipper did not get more than 50 per 
cent, of the loss. This incident alone 
would not influence a man of this type 
to canvass his neighbors for subscriptions 
any more than his influence in his neigh¬ 
borhood could induce the paper to attempt 
the collection of his claim. The men who 
do this work are impelled by a sense of 
cooperation, and an impulse to support 
a service to agricultural interests without 
regard of personal benefits. Without such 
a spirit, a paper like The R. N.-Y. could 
not exist. That spirit has doubled the 
circulation of the paper three times in 
less than 20 years. The publishers and 
editors direct its forces; but it is the 
farmers themselves who furnish the en¬ 
ergy t' at makes it powerful to champion 
their cause. 
My wife gave a photograph of her de¬ 
ceased mother to an agent of the Colonial 
Art Company, Utica. N. Y.. who called 
here with the understanding that he 
would make an enlarged picture for $1.15 
and return the original photograph. She 
gave him 50 cents, and the balance was 
to be paid when the picture was delivered. 
Now they refuse to deliver the picture ox- 
return the photograph, until we pay $2 
or more for a frame, which we refuse to 
do. lie has worked the same scheme on 
many others around here, and some have 
paid as high as $14 before they could get 
the pictures. Can you get the original 
photogi’apli back for us? t. w. 
Greene County, N. Y. 
It is doubtful if we can get the photo¬ 
graph returned, or anything else; but we 
will try. Twenty-five years ago fake pic¬ 
ture concerns were numerous, and com¬ 
plaints were frequent. We ai’e having a 
renewal of the complaints from various 
sources now. The gene’ 1 .1 plan is to get 
the photograph of some deceased relative, 
usually the only one in existence, and 
with it an order for the enlarged picture 
at a trifling cost. They then refuse to 
deliver picture or return the photograph 
until you buy a cheap frame and pay a 
big price for it. The sentimental value 
attached to the photograph often induces 
relatives to pay what is demanded rather 
than lose it. This the concerns well know 
and they make the most of it. The only 
protection is to refuse to have anything 
to do with them. 
Tenant’s Right to Crop. 
I HAVE received notice to vacate the 
premises that I now occupy by the 
first of next month. I have lived here 
13 months, and my rent is paid monthly 
in advance. I have gone to some expense 
and considerable hard labor to get in a 
fair-sized garden, which is just now be¬ 
ginning to yield. It will be all of two 
months before I can clean it all up. 
Must I go and leave the garden (and I 
would hate to destroy it), or can I still 
claim the produce from it, or transfer the 
same to some other party not a tenant 
of the premises, should I move? How 
soon must I leave the place? Have I 
a certain length of time to vacate, or must 
I take the landlord’s stated time? I have 
not spoken with the landlord as yet. He 
is not the owner of the property, only 
the agent. Has he all the power to evict 
of the owner? j. t. s. 
Massachusetts. 
Your rights would depend upon the 
terms of a written lease, if thei’e is one; 
failing that, the landlord should give you 
at least one month’s notice to quit. The 
general proposition is that the tenant 
should be, and is, entitled to emblements 
(the growth out of the earth produced 
annually by labor and industry, such as 
beans, corn, potatoes, etc.) when, with¬ 
out any fault or concurrence on his part, 
it is unexpectedly ended. Thus, if the 
lease for a designated number of years 
pi’ovides that either party may terminate 
it on giving notice and after the tenant 
lias a crop growing, the lessors serve the 
notice which will expire before the crop 
can mature, the lessee will he entitled to 
emblements. In some States there is a 
custom which retains for a tenant the 
ownership of the annual crops which he 
has growing on the land at the time of 
the termination of his estate. So it would 
seem, in your case, that if you did not 
know when your landlord would termin¬ 
ate the lease, you would be entitled to the 
garden crop and may transfer your in- 
terest in it to some other party. You 
should have an understanding with the 
landlord or his agent immediately and 
he will probably recognize your right to 
the garden crop. The agent usually has 
all the power to evict possessed by the 
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8 H-P, 139.65 
11 H-P, 208.90 
20 H-P, 389.50 
Other Sizes up to 40 H-P, 
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