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TL'HfcC RURAL NEW-VORKKK 
April 24, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
My mother has fallen heir to some 
mining stock in the Denver Northwestern 
Mining and Leasing Company of Colo¬ 
rado. Has the stock any real value? 
Pennsylvania. J. n. s. 
We have never heard of this company, 
and our investigation fails to locate any 
record of it. It is not listed in the brok¬ 
erage manuals. T. F. Weiskotten claims 
to have a judgment against the property, 
and is presenting a reorganization propo¬ 
sition to the stockholders. There is no 
intimation of the present condition of 
the mining property, nor statement of as¬ 
sets and liabilities, and with our knowl¬ 
edge of reorganization propositions for 
other mining companies, we would con¬ 
sider it unwise to invest further with 
them. 
I am especially interested in the Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk department, as I am one 
of the victims of the commission men of 
Newark, N. J., or I should have heard 
from them before this. Our express 
agent recommended George A. Reynolds 
& Co., 95 Mulberry Street, Newark, N. J., 
for my poultry shipments. I sent him 
140 pounds and expected at least 10 cents 
a pound. After I got the recommenda¬ 
tion from the agent I wrote Reynolds, 
and he wanted me to get some apples for 
him. but I did not send him any. Please 
try to get something for me. n. M. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Complaints against George A. Reynolds 
& Co. have been frequent, and we have 
been advising against shipments to him 
for two or three years. He has solicited 
shipments of eggs, poultry and produce, 
but made no returns for them. Some of 
our letters have recently been returned 
with the information that he had moved 
and left no address, but from the com¬ 
plaint of this subscriber, it appears he 
has some way of getting the shipments 
sent to the address, although we can get 
no information from him. Some other 
investigations are under way, which we 
hope will prevent further loss of the kind. 
Evidently the express agents do not look 
into the standing of commission houses. 
From enclosed papers concerning .T. 
W. Martin & Bro., “The Piano 
House,” Rochester, N. Y.. you will 
see I am entitled to a second-hand piano 
which I naturally expected to be no 
further oil’ than Rochester. I want the 
piano but will not send $20 knowing so 
little as I do about the firm. By the 
agent here we were asked to wait 10 
days or two weeks, that all the pianos 
might be sent together. I can't see that 
their written agreement has been broken, 
but to send $20 for delivery from Boston 
seems unreasonable. Do you know of the 
reliability of the firm? MRS. J. P. 
New York. 
The literature enclosed reveals that 
this subscriber had won a piano in an 
alleged educational writing contest which 
is only another variation of the old 
scheme to make it appear that the per¬ 
son can get something of value for noth¬ 
ing. The subscriber is asked to send $20 
to cover cost of boxing, packing, cartage 
and freight from Boston. We suspect 
from the description the firm gives of 
the piano to be sent that it is of very 
little value and that ultimately the 
scheme is to induce the person getting 
it to trade for a new one at what appears 
to be a liberal allowance for the old one. 
At any rate when any house offers any¬ 
thing of value for nothing it is safe to 
set it down as practising a deception and 
to be avoided. We should not place much 
value on a piano that requires fake prize 
contests to sell it. 
As a subscriber to your paper I would 
like to ask your advice in regard to a 
Sandow engine I bought from the Detroit 
Motor Car Supply Co., Detroit, Mich., 
through the DeLoach Manufacturing Co. 
of Atlanta. Gn. In their advertisement 
they guarantee th" r engine to give satis¬ 
faction or money refunded. I have had 
the engine about 11 months, and have 
never been able to make it run. I wrote 
to them in about two weeks after I got 
the engine, and told them I could not 
make the engine run. I have called in 
men that were used to oil engines, and 
they failed to make it run. I have been 
corresponding with them ever since. They 
would write suggesting something, and I 
have followed their instructions to a let¬ 
ter. and cannot make the engine run. I 
asked them to refund the money, but they 
fail to respond. What would you advise 
in this case? s. F. s. 
Virginia, 
We have had more complaints from 
subscribers about the Sandow engine 
and the engines put out under other 
names by the Detroit Motor Car Sup¬ 
ply Company and the Detroit Engine 
Works than all other makes of engines 
combined, and in only a few cases has the 
farmer been able to get any satisfaction 
or adjustment under the guarantee of the 
manufacturer. It is suggested by one of 
our readers who is friendly to the manu¬ 
facturer that the reason for the unusual 
amount of trouble with this engine is due 
to the fact that they are a two-cycle en¬ 
gine, while most of the engines manufac¬ 
tured and sold for farm work are four¬ 
cycle engines, and that more mechanical 
skill and more attention is required to get 
satisfactory service from the two-cycle 
engines. The experience of our people 
generally confirms this suggestion, be¬ 
cause practically all the complaints we 
have had from subscribers about other 
makes of engines have been of the two- 
cycle type. It would therefore seem the 
part of wisdom for farmers when buying 
a gasoline engine to make sure that they 
are getting a four-cycle type of engine in¬ 
stead of the two-cycle. 
I am a farmer, getting too old to farm 
and want to sell. Buyers seem scarce, 
but this morning a man stopped in an 
auto and said he was told I want to sell 
my place. I told him that was correct. 
He then warmed up and said he was look¬ 
ing for just such property as mine, as I 
had the place and location that moneyed 
men wanted, and he could sell it for me 
in a short time at a fair price if I would 
let him have the chance, and I was to put 
the price at a correct figure for such a 
property. When I told him I must have 
$4,700 ‘for it. and I thought it a just 
price, he laughed right out and said I was 
away off. that the property was worth 
twice what I asked for it, and he would 
list it at $7,700 and send me a buyer in a 
short time, and would only charge me $20 
now, and after the sale was made and I 
had my money I was to pay him 10 per 
cent, commission on sale less the $20. I 
enclose his card—Mr. .T. L. Looker, of the 
1). B. Cornell Company, Great Barring¬ 
ton, Mass. This sounds good, but those 
who read The R. N.-Y. look at it as a 
“fake” of the worst kind. To think of 
him listing it for $3,000 more than I 
want or would sell for would make any¬ 
one suspicious, and when I then told him 
I would tell him my conditions for him to 
sell on. he said they had but one way of 
doing business—put on his hat., grabbed 
his grip and left suddenly and said lie had 
no time to talk to me. I would like to 
have your opinion of this firm, if they 
are reliable or not. I still have my $20 
and that will pay for The R. N.-Y. 20 
years. H. u . 
Pennsylvania. 
The above letter hardly needs comment 
—except that Pennsylvania farmers 
should beware of Looker. 
We sent J. II. Pease & Son, Tliomp- 
sonville. Conn., seven bushels of onion 
sets last .Tilly. The price was $1.50 per 
bushel a total of $10.50. We have never 
received settlement and no reply to our 
letters. Can you help us? M. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
No attention was paid to our requests 
for adjustment and we were only able to 
get the settlement through the service of 
our attorney. This treatment is not con¬ 
ducive to further trade from our people. 
All profit is lost when a farmer waits 
eight months for payment of a just bill. 
We have reports from subscribers that 
they sent egg shipments to >S. Jackson, 40 
Convent Avenue, New York, for which 
they failed to receive returns. Our in¬ 
vestigation shows that Mr. Jackson has 
moved and left no address. We mention 
this simply to again emphasize the ne¬ 
cessity of using great care in making 
shipments to irresponsible parties. We 
get many complaints of this kind and 
again urge shippers to use caution. 
Cow Pox. 
What is the proper thing to do for a 
cow’s udder that is covered with small 
sores or pimples that are filled with a 
white matter? I just bought the cow. a 
nurebred Jersey, and found after getting 
her home that she had a scab on one 
teat that was about the size of a nickel. 
It was hard and I used witch hazel salve. 
In milking, the scab came off, and new 
ones would form, only to be rubbed off. 
at next milking. I also found some of 
the white pimples that had dried up and 
scabbed over. Lately several new ones 
have come and it is hard to get the milk 
to come in this sore teat. I have washed 
her udder and teats with peroxide of hy¬ 
drogen and water, and also applied the 
peroxide clear to the sore teat and pim¬ 
ples. Am I doing right, and what could 
cause the sores? Could this be cowpox? 
New York. a. p. w. 
Cow pox apparently is present. Use a 
mixture of equal parts of bay rum and 
glycerine twice daily upon the affected 
parts and if any sore proves obstinate in 
healing swab it with tincture of iodine 
every other day. Isolate the cow and milk 
her last, as cowpox spreads from cow to 
cow by the milker’s hands. a. s. a. 
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