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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
December 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
E G. LEWIS of St. Louis, and Cali- 
• fornia, has a new scheme, or to be 
more exact, an old scheme in a new 
dress. If you subscribe for his paper and 
pay for it, or induce your neighbors to 
subscribe for it and pay for it, he will 
give you shares in a California oil com¬ 
pany. That is not so startling in itself; 
but if you read the Lewis inducements 
you must conclude that he is conferring 
an unusual favor on you, and that sud¬ 
den riches are to be showered upon you. 
It is nearly 20 years since Lewis start¬ 
ed in the cheap publishing business with 
an endless chain scheme that was sup¬ 
pressed by the post office authorities. 
Since then he has launched probably 
as many as 100 schemes, large and small. 
His collection on them we would esti¬ 
mate at not less than twelve million dol¬ 
lars, and every cent of it has been a loss 
to the people who furnished the money. 
In the past, Lewis’ strong pull has been 
from women; but he has also made some 
rich hauls from men, and some of them 
hard-headed men at that. Any man who 
looks broadly on the Lewis schemes will 
discover the fake in them, but if he con¬ 
fine himself to one and give Lewis a 
chance to make explanations, he is in 
danger. Lewis does not invent new 
schemes; but he has a wonderful genius 
for new applications of old ones, and he 
is plausible enough to discover anyone 
who is unfamiliar with his record and 
susceptible to suave mannerisms. 
I have just received Lehigh Valley Rail¬ 
road voucher for .$11.03 for the seven bar¬ 
rels of apples shipped to Baltimore Sep¬ 
tember 12. 1912. These apples were 10 
days on the road and reported by the 
commission house as in bad shape, and 
sold for $1.00 per barrel, when the price 
for good apples was $2.75. I made 
claim promptly for the difference, and 
received reply two years ago that there 
was no unusual delay and they were not 
responsible for freight getting to its des¬ 
tination any special time, but it seems 
you persuaded them different. Many 
thanks. It seems almost like a dream 
to be able to follow up an account of 
that kind and I believe the anti-fake 
movement is one of the best things that 
has been started. But we are not to 
look at big transportation companies as 
fakes and dead beats, although perhaps 
they have too much of the “public to be 
Vanderbilted” attitude, and try to wear 
farmers out with red tape. I am send¬ 
ing check for renewal and ten weeks trial 
for a friend. H. A. s. 
New York. 
IVe were obliged to unroll considerable 
red tape before we could get this claim 
under way for adjustment, and there was 
no reason why it could not have been 
paid at any time during the last two 
years, for the facts were clear and veri¬ 
fied all along the line. 
I am not going to bite myself, but the 
inclosed letter may help you protect 
some of the credible who wolud latei 
come to you with complaints because 
thev get nothing out of something. 
New York. F. w. r. 
The letter is from an alleged wheat 
specialist of New York City. lie says 
it is the opportunity of a lifetime for the 
small investor to get rich through send¬ 
ing money to him to speculate in wheat. 
He says he is not infallible, and has some 
losses which he can limit. lie says pro¬ 
fits are larger than limited losses. He 
must be a wise man sure; but why lim¬ 
ited losses? Why not profits all the 
time? If he can limit losses, he should 
prevent them entirely. But why does 
he want to speculate on a sure thing for 
you? One would think that he would 
get rich himself and have done with it. 
The truth is he can bet that wheat will 
gc higher or lower, and take his chances 
like anyone else. Flagg went to jail 
last month for receiving money for 
alleged speculative purposes, and for 
using the mails to defraud. He prom¬ 
ised one per cent, profit a week, but the 
investors have not been able to see the 
profits. 
About the first of August I ordered 
from William Iv. Ilesser of Pottsville, 
Pa., 36 White Leghorn pullets, 11 weeks 
old, which he assured me were pullets 
of quality, and for which I paid 55 
cents each, $19.80 for the lot. I received 
the birds August 5, and a poorer, more 
stunted, under-sized lot of birds I never 
saw—not only were they all this, but at 
least two-thirds'of them w r ere cockerels. 
I wrote him at once about them. In re¬ 
ply to my first letter he said he did not 
guarantee satisfaction and would do noth¬ 
ing. Since then I can get no reply to 
my letters. The cockerels after feeding 
them up for four weeks. I was able to 
sell for 25 cents each. The pullets were 
so small I could not sell them at any 
price, so gave them away to get rid of 
them. I am out in cash $12.55, to say 
nothing of feed and express and dray- 
age, which I think Mr. Hesser ought to 
make good. I may not get anything out 
of this, but it may be the means of sav¬ 
ing some others. R. L. H. 
Virginia. 
We have exhausted every effort to in¬ 
duce the poultryman, Mr. W. Iv. Hesser 
of Pottsville, Pa., to make a fair ad¬ 
justment with the Virginia subscriber, 
but our letters have been entirely ignored. 
The experience of R. L. II. would indi¬ 
cate that Mr. Hesser is a very good 
poultryman for farmers generally to 
avoid when looking for breeding stock. 
An interesting feature of the creditors 
meeting was Mr. Haines’ proposition to 
the stockholders. He proposed that each 
of the 1.500 stockholders secure at least 
five customers, each to purchase $25 
worth of merchandise. This would net 
them over $1,000,000. He also planned 
that the present stockholders agree and 
pay for $100 worth of merchandise to be 
delivered at some future time. This 
would give the concern a now start. 
Cards were passed around for this agree¬ 
ment but few signed. 
To the attorney of the creditors Mr. 
Haines admitted that he could not ac¬ 
count for the sum of $50,000 paid in by 
the stockholders; that he always had 
absolute control of the company ; that he 
never invested a single penny of his 
own money in the concern; that he se¬ 
lected his own board of directors from 
employes and fixed their salaries, and 
in return they fixed his salary ; that the 
secretary of the company had disap¬ 
peared ; that the concern was in debt 
$30,000 and that the assets would not be¬ 
gin to reach that deficit. 
The concern was promptly put into 
the hands of a receiver.—Camden, N. Y., 
Dispatch. 
It is time we had some plain talk 
about transactions of this kind. Three 
and a half years ago we looked up this 
concern and published a warning in 
which we said in issue of June 28, 1911: 
“There’s Millions in the Haines Sys¬ 
tem” is one of the characteristic expres¬ 
sions of their letters; but not a word or 
figures as to the actual assets of the con¬ 
cern, or the volume of business done. 
This proposition has all the earmarks 
of the promoter’s stock selling scheme 
rather than a legitimate mail order en¬ 
terprise, and we feel it is hardly neces¬ 
sary to advise our old subscribers to 
make some better use of their hard- 
earned savings. 
Yet right down to a few weeks ago, 
farm papers that are now making hys¬ 
terical denunciations of petty concerns that 
never advertise, have published illustrated 
advertising of the Haines’ concern. This 
would be bad enough for papers that 
made no pretense of clean advertising 
columns, but some of these actually guar¬ 
antee the character of the scheme. In 
this way they induce innocent victims 
of the scheme, who might be cautious 
if it were not for their pretended pro¬ 
tection. Our advice to the victims now 
is to put in claims against the publish¬ 
ers who carried this advertising, and if 
they cannot get redress as we believe 
they cannot, then we • ill handle the 
claim for them without cost. It is about 
time something were done to stop this 
pretense of protecting the public by pub¬ 
lishers who have no intention or purpose 
to do so. No publisher could claim he 
was ignorant of the nature of this con¬ 
cern without admitting that he ought to 
have a guardian. Haines’ record was 
open to them, and the concern had on its 
face all the marks of a purely stock- 
jobbing scheme. What business and ad¬ 
vertising was done, served only to pacify 
the papers and make a showing to at¬ 
tract investments in the stock, as The 
It. N.-Y. publicly stated more than three 
years ago. 
Haines’ plan of reorganization is 
characteristic. It is on the old theory 
that men will send good money after bad 
in a vain effort to recover what is al¬ 
ready lost. 
One of the discouraging features of 
this failure is that the stockholders may 
not only lose their $144,423, but they 
may be obliged to make up any loss that 
creditors would otherwise suffer. The 
preferred stockholders got a bonus of 
common stock and attorneys think they 
may be assessed on this bonus stock to 
pay the debts of the concern. j. or. d. 
Miss Blithely (interested in science) : 
“Can one get a shock from a telephone?” 
Top Spiffkins (intent on ethics) : “That 
depends, my dear young lady, on who is 
talking at the other end.”—Harper’s Ba¬ 
zar. 
Delcware County, N. Y., Farm Bureau. 
D ELAWARE COUNTY is making an 
advancement since the establishment 
of the Farm Bureau. AVe have just 
formed two cow-testing associations with 
a total of 52 dairies, and have three in 
operation, making a total of five cow¬ 
testing associations that are working in 
the county at the present time, with a 
total of 3,200 cows. We also have at the 
present time three more associations that 
will start working by January 1, with a 
total of 2,000 cow r s, making a grand total 
of cows under test of 5,200. There seems 
to be a general awakening among dairy¬ 
men in regard to this kind of work, and 
its value is not doubted. F. M. AVERY. 
Minnesota as a Dairy State. 
ROM grain farming to dairying is the 
gauntlet run by many States. AVest- 
Ohio is passing from the second 
stock production into that of 
Minnesota is distinguishing 
a dairy State. Some interest- 
facts regarding this State are 
ern 
stage, fat 
dairying, 
herself as 
ing dairy 
evidenced in that over 900 creameries are 
in operation in the State. That young 
women of the State might become inter¬ 
ested in the industry, a department of 
farm butter making was inauguarated in 
connection with the dairy department of 
the State University, a decade ago. Dur¬ 
ing the 10 years the attendance of young 
women enrolled has grown to 300. Min¬ 
nesota has won for her high scoring but¬ 
ter 12 out of 14 banners. The State 
has a unique institution in the way of a 
State creamery at Albert Lea. This is 
owned and operated by the State. There 
is a cow-testing association only five 
years old, and it has over 5,000 cows un¬ 
der its surveillance. The headquarters 
of this association are at the University 
farm at St. Paul, and are under the 
direction of Professor McKerrow. The 
efficient training which is afforded by the 
State dairy school is the foundation of 
Minnesota’s stand as one of the leading 
commonw’ealths in producing quality 
dairy products. Of the 14 banners of¬ 
fered by the National Creamery Butter 
Maker’s Association, with the exception 
of one having been awarded New York 
State and another Illinois, the remain¬ 
der were given Minnesota butter makers. 
In compiling annual records of dairy 
cows, Minnesota records the following: 
AA'eekly weighing of the cow', weight and 
butterfat test in milk each milking, 
pounds and composition of feed at each 
feed. w. J. 
F AKE health certificates have frequent¬ 
ly been issued, causing innocent pur¬ 
chasers of diseased cattle in other 
States financial loss, so that a conference 
of representatives from Kentucky, Michi¬ 
gan, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio 
met at Columbus with the view' of adopt¬ 
ing a uniform policy in tuberculin test¬ 
ing of cattle. It w'as agreed that each 
State prepare a list of approved veterin¬ 
arians, and these shall be authorized to 
issue health certificates to cattle they 
have tested. Such health certificates 
shall pass cattle in other States without 
approval of the State Veterinarian 
copy of health certificate of local ap 
proved veterinarian be filed with State 
veterinarian. Veterinarians of good 
character and properly licensed on appli¬ 
cation will be placed on approved list, 
and in case of violation of trust or 
“sharp” practice, name shall be removed 
from approved list. 
In regard to prices of farm products 
let me commend you for your statement 
to that South Carolina correspondent in 
recent date of R. N.-Y. in which you said 
there w'as a great difference between es¬ 
timated values and cash values. As a 
rule, I believe farmers in making esti¬ 
mate values place them far above cash 
values. Cash values are what really 
count. As to prices of farm products 
around Charlotte, which has a population 
of some 50,000. prices are usually very 
staple except for vegetables and small 
fruits which vary with supply and de¬ 
mand. The following prices paid to far¬ 
mers are approximately correct: Irish 
potatoes, $2 per bushel; sweet potatoes, 
$1; hens, 11 to 12 cents per pound ; tur¬ 
keys, 15 to 17; butter, 20 to 25; eggs, 30 
to 32 per dozen ; oats, 65; corn, $1. There 
are no commercial orchard of any size in 
the vicinity of Charlotte, though both 
peaches and apples of fine quality bring 
fancy prices. Fall pears sell readily 
from 75 cents to $1 per bushel. One town- 
ship in the county, Berryhill. has become 
famous for growing watermelons; a few 
fine specimens weighing from 85 to 95 
pounds, bringing the fancy price of from 
$4 to $5 apiece. These were bought and 
shipped to friends North, perhaps to your 
own city. There is good money in good 
melons around Charlotte. Most of the 
cattle kept around Charlotte are dairy 
cows, the product of which furnishes the 
Charlotte milk supply; one plant hand¬ 
ling 700 to 800 gallons per day. Most of 
the beef supply comes from East Ten¬ 
nessee and western part of this State, 
there being only two or three small herds 
of the beef type, Ilerefords, in the coun¬ 
ty. The local offering are mostly culls 
from the dairy herds which the farmers 
get from $4 to $5 per hundred live weight 
owing to the quality and condition. 
Charlotte, N. C. J. N. B. 
All Over 
America 
Men Look 
for the 
Red Ball 
Wherever rubber footwear Is worn 
you will see ‘‘Ball-Band” Rubber Foot¬ 
wear, with the Red Ball trade mark. 
Men look for the Red Ball in Alaska, they 
look for it in Massachusetts, in Minnesota 
and in Oregon. In Colorado you see sports¬ 
men with the Red Ball on the knee of their 
boots. “Ball-Band” Footwear is worn down 
in the mines of Pennsylvania, up in the 
woods of Maine and on every farm where 
dry .comfortable feet make hard work easier. 
BALL® BAND 
high. ... 
“Ball-Band” Rubber Footwear. 50,000 stores 
sell it. And the reason is that figuring the 
cost of rubber footwear on the cost per 
day’s wear proves “Ball-Band” the cheapest. 
Look for the Red Ball and if you see it you 
are safe, for you are getting “Ball-Band.” 
Free Booklet 
“More Days Wear" 
This book tells how to treat your footwear 
so as to get the most out of it. AVrite for it. 
If your footwear merchant doesn’t sell 
“Ball-Band” tell us 
his name and we 
will see that you 
are supplied. 
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Mfg. Co. 
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Mishawaka, Ind. 
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333 W. 30th St., N. Y. City. 
