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the; rural neiw-vorker 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
I AM asking m.v advertising agent to 
direct the publisher not to insert our 
advertisement again in any publica¬ 
tion containing the advertisement of the 
Arnold Watch Company. 
New York City, wm, H. ingersoll. 
This refers to the Ingersoll dollar 
watch advertising. It is the kind of work 
that tells. If two dozen large national 
advertisers like Mr. Ingersoll would per¬ 
sistently follow his example fake adver¬ 
tising would disappear from large publi¬ 
cations in three months. The publisher 
has the destiny of fake advertisers in his 
hands, and large responsible advertisers 
should use their influence to urge the pub¬ 
lisher to his plain duty. 
If your station happens to be what is 
called a Non-Agency Station, when or¬ 
dering goods by freight or express re¬ 
quest the shipper to notify you when 
shipment is made, so that you can be 
on the lookout for the goods, as the 
transportation companies assume no re¬ 
sponsibility after goods are placed at the 
station, if there is a station, or beside the 
track if there is no receiving station. 
They claim their liability ceases when the 
goods leave their hands. We have had 
considerable trouble with complaints 
growing out of such circumstances, and 
a little precaution will protect the re¬ 
ceiver of goods at such places. 
I have your letter with voucher for $10 
from the Long Island Railroad Company 
in payment for damages to goods shipped 
over their system. The speedy settle¬ 
ment surprised me. as the company, after 
a “thorough investigation.” decided that 
$3 would pay for all damages. When this 
was refused they ra : sed it to $5. and I 
refused that offer, as my claim was just 
and exactly what it would cost to repair 
damages, I turned it over to you and 
settled down for a long wait. Your let¬ 
ter comes as a surpiise with this voucher 
for the full amount. I thank you for 
your efforts and the satisfactory ending of 
the case. T. p. 
New York. 
When we get all the evidence, and the 
claim is just, we can now get settlements 
in reasonable time. It hardly takes days 
where we used to take months. 
I shipped eggs on April 2S. May 4 and 
July 28, and the express company failed 
to deliver two cases. I have asked them 
to tell me who received them, but they 
have not done so. Will you take it up 
with Adams Express Company and see 
if you can get them to settle? w. w. c. 
New York. 
The above came to us in August. In 
November we received the following: 
It is with great pleasure I am now 
able to inform you that through your 
persistent efforts, payment in full has 
boon received for the two lost shipments 
of eggs. I feel sure it was your interest 
that secured the adjustment of this claim. 
New York. w. w. c. 
On July S I bought a pair of horses 
from William McGeary at the Atlas Sta¬ 
bles at 154 East 27th Street, New York 
City. Mr. McGeary gave me a guar¬ 
antee on the stationery of the Consoli¬ 
dated Ice Company, specifying that the 
horses were good workers in single and 
double harness, and if not as represented 
could be returned within a month and 
the money would be returned in full. 
In driving the horses home both of them 
broke down and showed evidence of hav¬ 
ing been doped a short distance from 
the city, and they were returned to Mr. 
McGeary at the stables from which they 
were bought. Mr. McGeary claims that 
he did not have the ready money and 
gave me a note for the purchase price. 
The note is past due and a lawyer in 
whose hands I placed it for collection 
has returned it as worthless. N. M. 
New York. 
The above experience is a typical ex¬ 
perience of farmers who come to New 
York to buy horses and fall in the hands 
of the horse “gyps.” The rule is. those 
“gyps” purchase the cheapest broken- 
down horses they can find, dope them up 
and feed them up until they make a 
good appearance, and then sell them at 
what appears to be a bargain price. 
These “gyps,” who are typified by Win. 
McGeary, will guarantee money back if 
not satisfactory, or make any other con¬ 
ditions necessary to make the sale. As 
theii guarantee is worth nothing, they 
have nothing to lose in giving a written 
guarantee. Our information is that Mr. 
McGeary lives at 298 Stuyvesant Ave., 
Brooklyn. N. Y., in good style; supports 
an automobile, and lives in apparent 
ease and luxury. These horse jockeys 
are always shrewd enough to avoid crim¬ 
inal responsibility in one way or an¬ 
other. Mr. McGeary seems to have done 
so in this case by offering the note in 
settlement, and the same having been 
accepted by the purchaser of the horses, 
otherwise he would have been subject to 
prosecution by the District Attorney on 
the charge of fraud. The experience is 
valuable only as a warning. 
What do you know about the Cavies 
Distributing Company, Kansas City. Mo.? 
They say they are members of the Na¬ 
tional Pet Stock Association, and sell 
breeding stock of guinea pigs with a guar¬ 
antee to sell all I raise for me at not less 
than one dollar a pair. j. w. b. 
New Jersey. 
We have never known a responsible 
firm to guarantee to buy the entire pro¬ 
ducts of breeding stock either animal or 
vegetable; but we have known many irre¬ 
sponsible and fake concerns that made 
such promises to sell the stock they 
wished to dispose of. One must bear in 
mind that a guarantee is good for nothing 
unless the concern making it is responsi¬ 
ble for his contracts, and even then it 
often happens that it would cost more to 
enforce the contract than it is worth. Our 
advice is to forego all of these sure thing 
profits, where you are obliged to make the 
first remittance. If there is such a sure 
thing in the breeding of guinea pigs, why 
not let the company furnish the breed¬ 
ing stock, and you do the breeding? They 
could then take back the first products 
to pay for the stock and buy the balance. 
We venture to say you could give as good 
assurances of responsibility as the com¬ 
pany can furnish. 
I am enclosing you a card of D. R. Cor- 
nell Company. Great Barrington, Mass. 
Please let me know if this company is re¬ 
liable. They charge a fee of $20 for list¬ 
ing. This leaves me the privilege of sell¬ 
ing the farm by giving them 10 days’ no¬ 
tice. I would like your opinion of this. 
New York. subscriber. 
Farmers who take our advice will sign 
no blank contract whatever with real es¬ 
tate agents. If you want them to handle 
your property write them a letter saying 
what you want to do, and keep an exact 
copy of it. We would also advise never 
to pay an advance fee under any circum¬ 
stances. It is time enough to pay a fee 
when the property has been sold and a 
contract signed with a responsible buyer 
who makes his first payment to you di¬ 
rect. Agents of the above concern have 
given receipts to return the fee if the sale 
was not made within one year; but the 
owner could not get the money back when 
the year expired. We have one such 
claim now. 
I enclose a letter from Mr. Savage or 
his minions. I)o you suppose I shall be 
compelled to pay this demand? Savage 
failed utterly to keep his part of the 
agreement, and pays no attention to my 
letters of explanation. I fed his food ac¬ 
cording to directions and not only re¬ 
ceived no benefit but lost my hogs be¬ 
sides. • c. o. G. 
Iowa. 
The letter inclosed reads as follows: 
We are just about to prepare our next 
publication listing for sale all accounts, 
notes and claims in our hands against de¬ 
linquent debtors. This list is to be pub¬ 
lished in the local papers in the commun¬ 
ity wherein the debtor resides, in addi¬ 
tion to being posted in the public places 
designated for the posting of legal sale 
notices. 
A copy of the list will also be sent to 
the merchants and business concerns in 
your town and all surrounding towns be¬ 
sides those all over the country using our 
service. 
The account you owe the International 
Stock Food Company is listed among 
other claims, and will have to be pub¬ 
lished along with the rest. We warned 
you of this proceeding in a former letter 
to give you a chance to protect yourself. 
We are sure you do not want your neigh¬ 
bors and friends to see your name among 
a list of delinquent debtors, and we are 
writing to give you an opportunity to pay 
this claim before this publication is issued 
and save yourself this notoriety. 
We will wait ten days and we urge that 
you respond promptly and avoid the se¬ 
riousness of tins situation. 
Yours very truly, 
Northwestern Collection & Adjust¬ 
ment Co. 
Accompanying this letter was a list of 
alleged bad debts with the announcement 
that they would be offered for sale at pub¬ 
lic auction. We refrain from expressing 
our opinion of this literature. What our 
feelings might dictate would hardly look 
dignified in cold type. If Mr. Savage 
thinks to build up a trade with farmers 
on this kind of treatment then the future 
only can decide the wisdom of his policy. 
J. J. D. 
Book Agent : Uncle. I’d like to sell 
you a new cyclopedia. Uncle Swa.vback: 
Wa-all. young feller, I’d like ter hev one, 
but I’m afraid I’m too old to ride the 
thing.—Melbourne Lender. 
THANKSGIVING PRICES IN BOSTON 
MARKET. 
B OSTON market was well supplied 
with fruit and vegetables, the de¬ 
mand this year not being much above 
the average demand each week along this 
line. Oranges, however, were short, con¬ 
trary to expectation, as a good supply 
from Florida was expected to be on the 
market on or before this time. This year, 
however, these seem to ripen up slowly 
and most shipments received from there 
so far have been green. It is also be¬ 
tween seasons for California stock to be 
in large supply, what there is of those 
bring about $5 per box. Floridas sold 
at $2.25, $3, $4 and $4.50 per box. Lem¬ 
ons are plenty and cheap for the season; 
California stock brought $4 per box, for¬ 
eign stock $2.50 to $3.50. Grape fruit 
very plenty and cheap at $2 to $2.75 per 
box. Bananas also very reasonable at $3 
for best yellows, others $2.50, $2.25, 
$1.50 and $1.25 per bunch. Iteds $1.50 
to $4.25. Cranberries still in large sup¬ 
ply, and only fair demand keeps the price 
at the former low level. $3.50 to $4.50 
per barrel and $1.50 to $1.75 per box. 
Bears fair both in supply and demand; 
Bose $2.50 to $3.50 per box; Anjou 
$1.50 to $1.75; other kinds $2.50 to $3; 
Native and foreign nuts in good demand 
at reasonable prices. Naples 14 to 18 
per pound; others from 11 to 15, except 
almonds, which bring around 20. Dates 
7 and 8 cents per pound ; figs 15. 
Apple trade better, as demand is good 
and supply on hand of best fruit is not 
heavy and brings good prices. Most of 
the poor stock is now disposed of and 
common stock on hand is not much above 
the demand of same, both these classes 
are helped by good prices in English mar¬ 
kets which are about $2 per barrel above 
this market and only about $1 per bar¬ 
rel is cost of transportation to same. 
Up to Nov. 21st the report says 1,028,- 
412 barrels have been shipped against 
956,095 for last year. In this market 
McIntosh sell at $3 to $4 per barrel; 
Snow, Wolf River and others $2 to $3; 
Baldwins $2 to $2.50; Greenings about 
$2; Native_box fruit 50 for cooking stock 
up to $1.50 for fancy sorts; Western 
box fruit average about $2. 
Potatoes not in heavy demand and 
with a fairly good stock on hand prices 
are dropping slightly; $1.10 per bag be¬ 
ing yard price at this time. Sweets 
in good demand for certain trade and 
price is $3 and better per barrel, or 
$1.35 per basket. Onions doing much 
better for two reasons, some export trade 
is developing, and the common stock is 
now used up. making it necessary to sell 
from the storage stock for which hold¬ 
ers and dealers expect some profit above 
cost. Connecticut Valley up to $1.50 per 
100-lb. bag. Spanish $3.50 per crate; 
Native box stock. 75 to $1; cabbage, 
Savoy and drumhead, bring nearly or 
quite $1 per barrel; red stock 90 per box; 
cauliflower from California $1.50 per 
crate. Cucumbers $5.50, $3.50 and $2.50 
per box. Celery prices did not change 
much, 75 and $1 per dozen is the price 
for white stock with Pascal and Boston 
Market $1.25 to $1.75. Lettuce 75 per 
box. Squash, Boston Marrow, 90 and 
$1 per barrel; turban and Hubbard $1 
and $1.25 per hundred pounds. Hot¬ 
house tomatoes 20c per pound; Florida | 
stock $2.50 per crate. Turnips 75 and 
$1 per box for white egg and purple top. | 
rutabaga going at $1.25 per hag. Beets | 
75 and better per box; carrots 75 to 90; 
parsnips $1.25; radish 30 per dozen 
bunches; spinach 65 per box. 
Very best butter is not plenty, yet the 
supply is expected to increase in a few 
weeks, and as other grades are in rather 
large supply the price is in buyer’s favor, 
on the latter at from 29 to 32. The 
former brings 34% for Western stock 
while nearby Northern stock brings 35 
to 36%. Supply of cheese plenty for 
demand, with prices from 15% to 17 on 
the various grades. Eggs are believed to 
have reached the top figure for the year, 
and sales of strictly fresh are rather 
larger than sales of storage stock at this 
time. Usually it works the other way 
and storage stock lias a heavy sale at 
this season; price for latter is 27 to 36. 
with good grades working off at 40 to 50; 
best nearby fresh stock 55 to 59. 
Turkeys were up in price equal to or 
better than last year’s prices, especially 
at retail; about 35 per pound was a 
general price for not very fancy looking 
birds. Wholesale prices were 24, 25, 26 
and 2S. Sales of chickens were heavy 
this year because of turkey prices; these 
were sold at from 22 down to 15; ducks 
IS; geese 20. Best dressed beef 14% 
per lb.; good 12; others 10 to 11: best 
lamb 15; good 12% and 14; veal 16 and 
17. Dressed hogs around 10. 
Trade in horses is a little dull on all 
grades, especially on second and third 
quality horses, with which the market is 
flooded, and prices rule low in this class, 
$50 to $100 each are about the figure on 
them. Good second-hand stock is snap¬ 
ped up at good prices of $250 or there¬ 
abouts. The few green ones sold are not 
much or any above cost figures, and those 
who can will hold until later, or Spring 
when prices are expected to jump. 
Ilay prices hold at about the same 
level, $23 per ton for best: other grades 
$22. $20, $18 down to $15. Meal $1.57 
per 100-lb. bag: oats 54 to 57 per bushel; 
cottonseed meal $30 per ton; gluten 
$33.50; linseed $35; bran $27.50 per 
ton ; Alfalfa meal $24. a. e. p. 
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