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April 8, 1910. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The State Department of Foods and 
Markets is at the disposal of shippers of 
farm produce. Tf you wish to know any¬ 
thing about the markets, the Department 
w'll try to get the information for you. 
If you have shipped goods or are about 
to do so, the Department will look after 
them for you. Tf you have any complaint 
from delay in delivery or other cause, the 
D partment will look it up—in short the 
Department will try to do for you what 
you would do yourself, if you were on 
the ground. 
In a short time the Department hopes 
tu 1 m> in position to sell some produce for 
shippers, and ultimately to be in a posi- 
tinii to sell or supervise the sale of all 
farm produce reaching the New York 
market. The work is developing, but it 
will take time to develop a complete and 
satisfactory system. But you may as 
well begin to make use of the Depart¬ 
ment at once, if there is anything it can 
do for you. Send your requests to State 
Department of Foods and Markets, 71 
West 23 rd Street. New York. 
Senator Mills, of New York, has 
introduced a bill at Albany making 
it a misdemeanor to circulate untrue, de¬ 
ceptive and misleading advertisements to 
induce the public to buy. The measure 
also aims to curtail the advertisements 
of real estate offers by means of prizes, 
rewards, distinctions or puzzle methods. 
We hope this bill will go through and be 
enforced. A law was passed in 1913 
making it. a misdemeanor intentionally to 
publish false or misleading advertise¬ 
ments. but it has not been rigidly en¬ 
forced. We think our Anti-Fake Club 
leaven is working. 
City Suburban Delivery Co., 157 E. 
ith St. 
Bellevue Express Co., 319 E. 26th St. 
East Side Trucking A Express Stables, 
332 E. 27th St. 
Palmer’s Storage & Warehouse Stables, 
159 W. 40th St. 
N. Y. Express Stables, 100 W. 15th St. 
Yorkvilie Trucking Stables, 50S E. 
72nd St. 
The above list of advertisers is taken 
from a morning paper which assumes the 
attitude “Let the reader beware” regard¬ 
ing its advertising patrons. These ad¬ 
vertisers are not engaged in the line of 
business which the names indicate, but 
are simply ‘‘horse gyps” who have as¬ 
sumed these names to allay suspicion. A 
subscriber just reports his experience of 
coming to the city to buy a horse and 
falling into the hands of one of the above- 
rained “gyps,” who agreed to ship the 
horse on trial on a $25 deposit. The 
money was paid but the horse was not 
shipped as agreed. It is one of the 
tricks of these gyps to promise anything 
in order to get some money paid—then 
rather than lose the amount the buyer 
will be obliged to meet whatever terms 
tiie gyp chooses to make. We say “one 
of the tricks” advisedly because the horse 
gyps have more tricks than there are 
hairs on a dog's back. A time there was 
when farmers could come to New York 
and buy horses slightly sore and unfitted 
fur use on city streets at bargain prices; 
but that day is past. Sound horses can 
be bought from a few reliable houses in 
the city but the price is from 15 to 25 
per cent, higher than the same grade of 
horses can bo purchased in country 
places. The class of horses dealt in by 
these horse jockeys are worthless for 
any purpose. We cannot repeat the ad¬ 
vice too often or too emphatically: Don’t 
go to the city to buy horses! If you 
do the “horse gyp" will get you. 
THE RURAL 
and has been unable to either get the 
corn or a refund of his money. In both 
cases Mr. Mason makes very plausible 
excuses and sends a 60-day note, which 
both subscribers refused to accept. It is 
an old trick of those getting money by 
means that leave them liable to criminal 
prosecution to offer notes in settlement, 
and if these notes are accepted, the origin¬ 
al transaction is transferred to the note 
and criminal responsibility is escaped in 
this way. We are issuing this warning 
for the guidance of our subscribers gen- 
cra’ly, and both cases are being submitted 
to the Chief Postoffice Inspector for such 
action as the Department may consider 
warranted. 
I am sending you under separate cover 
a booklet from the Virginia Association ; 
office 811 Magee Bldg., Pittsburgh. Pa. 
Is this a case of “send me your $50 and 
I have a good time at your expense,” or 
is it a straight business, and a straight 
proposition? h. v. k. 
lVni sylvania. 
Evidently there are styles in promo¬ 
tion schemes as in everything else. Just 
now it seems to be hog ranches. There 
is money in hogs, but with your $50 buy 
your own hog outright, feed him and 
own him yourself. The profit made will 
bo your own. In these other ventures the 
profit is problematic and elusive to the 
small investors. It figures out well on 
paper, but there is many a slip between 
figures and results when the dear public 
is requested to finance the propositions. 
I guess the I). B. Cornell Company, 
Croat Barrington. Mass., do not intend to 
pay back my money. We shall have to 
put them in the Fake Club. It is a 
breach of contract. They promised me if 
my place was not sold within one year to 
return my $15. Mv receipt reads: 
“Aug 12, 1913. The farm of. 
is taken for 12 months from date and if 
farm is not sold by the above date the 
fee for listing and advertising is then 
returnable to the said owner. 
J. J. LOOKER.” 
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Since last October we have been ask¬ 
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INTERNATIONAL MILL & TIMBER CO. 
Dept. J-4 B a y City, Michigan 
I am in trouble, and know of no bet¬ 
ter place to go than to you. I am out 
$26, and thought The It. N.-Y. could help 
me in getting it back. I received the 
enclosed circular and foolishly sent $26 
by money order on Jan. 21, 1915, for 
one ton of Kaffir corn to be shipped from 
Pittsburg. After waiting two weeks I 
wrote them and the enclosed letter is my 
reply. It looks to me now as though I 
am up against a regular beat. Isn’t this 
using the mails for fraudulent purposes? 
If you could help me in this matter I 
would appreciate it. G. w. m. 
1 ’ennsylvania. 
The circular referred to is that of the 
Squab Feed Co., of Kansas City, Mo., 
which seems to be a name assumed by Mr. 
II. II. Mason of that place. We have 
complaint from another subscriber who 
sent money for Kaffir corn to this party 
T am glad to note what you stated re¬ 
cently in regard to the Thwing Com¬ 
pany and Thwing, as I am somewhat ac¬ 
quainted with real estate in Bergen 
County, New Jersey, and I am also on 
his list of suckers, through the failure 
of Success Magazine, which list lie owns. 
T. l. p. 
We flatter ourselves that a majority of 
The It. N.-Y. subscribers are wise to 
most of these schemes, and can recognize 
the earmarks of the “fake” as readily as 
ourselves. After anyone has read the 
literature of a few of the “get-rich-quick” 
schemes the same plausible argument 
runs through all of them, and the one 
principle common in every one of them 
is that the investor is pretty sure to be¬ 
come rich if he will only send on the 
money requested. Apply this acid test to 
every piece of literature received and 
every story told you by a smooth-tongued 
agent and you will save yourself and 
your money from falling into the hands 
of rascals and humbugs. 
If you think this worth investigating, 
tell ns about it in “Publisher’s Desk” 
sometime. It is a new one to me, but no 
doubt you have come across it before now. 
Pennsylvania. p. w. h. 
This reft rs to an advertisement of Ray 
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12 Hens.” This sounds like our old friend, 
E. II. Philo, who some years back adorned 
the pages of the poultry press with sim¬ 
ilar extravagant advertisements. Of 
course anyone with the least experience 
will recognize that the advertisement is 
a fraud at once. It may catch some in¬ 
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