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the rural w tc w-YORK liK 
March 27 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
A little idea of the waste going on in 
the distribution of foods in New York 
Citv may be had from the amount of food 
products consumed and destroyed by the 
city Board of Health. Their statement of 
this loss for the year 1914 is as follows: 
Pounds. 
Meat . 4.409,453 
Fruit . 8,122,083 
Vegetables . 2,798,121 
Canned goods. 2,787.515 
Confectionery. 174,171 
< Jroceries . 872,171 
Eggs . 42,848 
Fish. 2.585,324 
Miscellaneous. 077,305 
Milk, quarts. 43,270 
This is a small part, of the actual 
waste, and probably a much larger 
amount unfit for food escapes the inspec¬ 
tors and is consumed, and does its work 
in creating sickness and in causing death. 
Incidentally the loss finally falls on the 
producer and consumer. Even if the im¬ 
mediate loss comes out of the dealer, he 
finds ways to shift it on to others. A 
proper system of grading and packing at 
the farms and an enlightened and honest 
system of city distribution would avoid 
all this loss and waste. 
We enclose you clipping from the 
American Agriculturist of March 6 of a 
slanderous and disgusting editorial. _ It 
would seem that if the American 
Agriculturist had the welfare of the far¬ 
mer in mind it would help defeat this pro¬ 
posed legislation instead of indulging in 
personalities obviously inspired by Mr. 
Myrick’s jealousy of a farm paper that 
actually accomplishes something. We 
have cancelled our subscription to the 
Agriculturist on account of this article, 
and have let their editor know the reason. 
New York. c. E. b. 
Since he received the above letter and 
many others of like tenor, Mr. Myrick 
has experienced a change of heart. In a 
later issue of his paper he says this: 
The excellent New York State food and 
market law has been made subject to crit¬ 
icisms and legislative destruction because 
Commissioner Dillon has not always 
given his full time to the work as the law 
contemplates. 
Mr. Myrick would have us believe that 
the commission men arc anxious to have 
their business regulated in the interest of 
the farmer, and that they sought to de¬ 
stroy the Department because I did not 
put in hours enough daily in an attempt 
t<> regulate them and change their meth¬ 
ods of business. It will be news to farm¬ 
ers that New York commission men have 
become altruistic, and now want their 
profits cut down in the interest of pro¬ 
ducers! This is the argument Myrick 
gives us to justify his attempt to defeat 
the work of the Department. 
Of course, Myrick does not know a 
single thing about the time I devote to 
the Department work. He does not know 
whether or not I devote any time to pri¬ 
vate business; and no one but himself has 
ever referred to the subject. He will de¬ 
ceive no one. When he found his attack 
un the Department was unpopular with 
farmers Myrick simply changed his tac¬ 
tics. But I am used to Myrick’s oppo¬ 
sition. When the creamery sharks were 
playing their game, Myrick supported 
them. When we were trying to protect 
farmers from the American Farm Co.’s 
schemes Myrick encouraged them. When 
we showed up the fake in the Seedless 
apple Myrick accepted their advertising 
and published illustrated write-ups to 
boom it. When we refused the advertis¬ 
ing of the Temple Pump Co., because they 
.lid not keep faith with farmers and ex¬ 
posed them. Myrick tried to help them 
overcome the result by printing full-page 
advertisements for them. When we 
showed up Dawley’s crooked cattle deals, 
Myrick editorially praised him. The 
Land Bank does not suit him because it 
does not bear the Myrick brand, and now 
he has joined hands with the men who 
hold producers by the throat to embarrass 
and defeat the work attempted by the De¬ 
partment of Food and Markets to help the 
producer in his marketing problems. 
Of course, everyone familiar with the 
situation knows the reason for Myrick’s 
exhibition of temper. lie tried to sell 
stock in a western company for a dollar 
that cost him eight cents, and I told the 
people the truth, and farmers did not buy 
the stock. lie tried to sell stock in 
flood Housekeeping Company for six or 
seven times what I thought it worth, and 
what I said about *it did not increase his 
sales. He sold building certificates under 
the representation that the purchaser 
would become partners with him in the 
business and made other fake and more 
deceptive allurements. He made false 
statements under oath respecting the cir¬ 
culation of his paper to the Post Office 
Department and sold space to advertisers 
under the same representations. He was 
convicted in a Federal court on the post 
office indictment, and he was obliged to re¬ 
fund money paid him by the advertisers. 
I showed up the fake and the deception 
and the fraud in his schemes; and when 
his own subscribers ere unable to get 
back the money sent him for fake certifi¬ 
cates, I collected it for them, because 
Myrick did not dare refuse to return it 
on my demand. 
I do not expect to make exposures of 
this kind without creating enemies, and 
Mr. Myrick has embraced his first op¬ 
portunity to show his resentment as I 
knew in advance that he would. I never 
attacked Myrick and never would. I 
know little of him personally. I knew 
his schemes were on the fake order, and I 
told the truth' about them in this depart¬ 
ment just as I did of other schemes and 
fakes. I knew Myrick would not like it, 
and I had no doubt that some one would 
assume that I had a personal motive. The 
truth is I avoided it as long as I felt I 
could do so in justice to the people who 
look to this department for information 
on such subjects, and who were daily in¬ 
quiring about the Myrick schemes. Mr. 
Myrick is not the only man who does not 
like this department. No man can make 
friends of fakers by exposing crooks. 
I enclose a card of Waller Bros. Pot¬ 
ter & Engle Horse Co., Inc., of your city. 
What do you know about these people? 
My father purchased on December 5, 
1914, a team of horses from A. M. Dyers, 
of Utica, N. Y„ whose advertisement I 
also enclose. It was clipped from the 
Utica Herald-Dispatch, dated December 
23, 1914. Mr. Dyer represents himself 
as selling horses for the Waller Bros. 
Potter & Engle Dorse Co. on a 10 per 
cent commission. E. M. 
New York. 
We took the matter of this horse deal 
up with both Waller Bros. Potter & 
Engle Horse Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
also with Mr. A. M. Dyer, of Utica, 
N. Y., who sold the horses. The Brook¬ 
lyn horse company ignored our letters en¬ 
tirely, and Mr. Dyer wrote us a very long 
letter protesting his innocence in the 
transaction. He admits that one of the 
horses at least was defective in the mat¬ 
ter of wind. However, he expressed no 
intention of making any adjustment in 
the case. The whole case might be 
summed up in the few words, “Another 
horse gyp deal.” As usual, the guarantee 
given by a horse dealer in the gyp class 
isn’t worth the paper it is written on. 
Several cases of this kind have already 
been reported to us this Spring, and we 
are making reference to this case for the 
sole purpose of saving as many as pos¬ 
sible from falling into the hands of these 
horse gyp dealers. This case indicates 
that all of this class of dealers are not 
located in New York City. 
T am tormented by an agent for 
“Oxypathor,” which I have known to be 
a fraud for over 25 years. on. c. 
New Jersey. 
The doctor will not be tormented any 
longer. A fraud order has been issued 
by the Postmaster General denying the 
use of the mails to the “Oxypathor Com¬ 
pany” of Buffalo and allied companies 
with offices at Columbus, Ohio, and Wil¬ 
mington, Del., on the ground that these 
concerns have been defrauding the public 
on an enormous scale for the last six 
years. An appliance was offered by the 
company which it was claimed trans¬ 
mitted oxygen into the human body and 
was advertised to be a cure for prac¬ 
tically all forms of disease. The pro¬ 
moters were held to be “conducting a 
scheme for obtaining money through the 
mails by means of false and fraudulent 
pretences.” Post office inspectors find 
that in six years, from 1909 to 1914, in¬ 
clusive. 45,451 such machines were sold 
at $35 each, aggregating $1,590,785. We 
have frequently advised against the use 
of this and similar appliances. Some 
three years ago the Oxypathor Company 
gave us the privilege of accepting oxy- 
pathy. “if you like, otherwise it will wipe 
its feet on you.” It seems the Post Office 
Department has made better use of it 
and the Oxypathor has become the door¬ 
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