June 20, 1013. 
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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On April 1st I sent a crate of eggs to 
the National Egg & Poultry Company, 
So. Market Street, Boston, Mass. 
1 have never heard from them, although 
1 have written them several times. My 
letters have not been returned to me. 
New Hampshire. w. N. G. 
This concern was evidently endeavor¬ 
ing to make a little easy money at the 
expense of the farmers. The concern 
has moved from Market Street and left 
no address. It has been impossible to 
trace them, and the subscriber will have 
to credit this loss to experience. Do not 
make shipments to unknown parties. 
Take time to look up their ratings. You 
will save in the end. 
I believe I am too late to be a charter 
member of the Anti-Fake Club. Please 
add my name to the list. I have been 
contemplating sending it for a long time. 
I tolerate no paper in my house that car¬ 
ries deceptive advertisements if I can 
detect them. a. .J. k. 
Washington. 
We have 150 charter members on our 
list, but all subscribers are welcome and 
we are glad to see the list grow. The 
best way to curtail deceptive advertis¬ 
ing is to refuse to have the papers come 
into your home, and when they do appear, 
write the publishers in vigorous protest. 
Stamps used in this way will have an 
effect. The Anti-Fake Club can furnish 
stamps at 5 cents per 100. 
Chas. Lowerhaak, or Romer, of Ro¬ 
chester, and Elizabeth Romer of Port 
Jervis, were arrested in Scranton, Penn., 
charged with having defrauded 157 wom¬ 
en through an advertisement for seam¬ 
stresses in a shirt factory which did not 
exist. 
I wrote you concerning a bill which I 
had against Leo Svandrlik, 13 Franklin 
St.. Winfield, L. I., N. Y., amounting to 
$7.75 for apples and potatoes. You an¬ 
swered me stating that you would take 
the matter up with Svandrlik and if un¬ 
successful you would turn it over to your 
attorney, and I replied that that proce¬ 
dure would be satisfactory to me. Since 
then I have not heard from you so I 
would like to ask if the matter has been 
overlooked. I trust you will pardon the 
bother I am causing you but I believe 
Svandrlik deliberately intends to cheat 
me out of that money and that is why I 
am so persistent. 
This is no bother. When a complaint 
reaches us we immediately set our ma¬ 
chinery at work. We have a vast amount 
of correspondence and do not write of 
each development until we have some¬ 
thing definite to report. This does not 
indicate indifference, but the complaints 
run well into the hundreds, and it can be 
readily realized that it would entail vol¬ 
uminous correspondence to write the 
subscriber as frequently as we would like 
to do. We appreciate the anxiety he 
feels as in this case and are glad of the 
opportunity to explain the matter. If 
you become anxious, do not hesitate to 
write us. We are here to give you help 
and information, and the more you use 
our services, the better pleased we will 
be. but our failure to write you indicates 
no lack of interest nor any let-up in our 
attention to your particular complaint. 
In this particular complaint we have not. 
been successful as yet, and advise putting 
Mr. Svandrlik on the list of those to be 
avoided. 
Enclosed you will find more corres¬ 
pondence from A. Seckendorf of Bath 
Beach, N. Y r . I am unable to get pay 
from him for one case of eggs shipped 
April 29th, $6.90. If you can get any¬ 
thing from him I wish you would. 
Pennsylvania. o. L. r. 
Correspondence seems to be the medi¬ 
um used by Mr. Seckendorf to settle his 
accounts. lie claims to be financially 
embarrassed, but continues to solicit egg 
shipments and neglects payment. Read¬ 
ers will not want to send their goods to 
him. Complaints should be entered with 
the district attorney of his county. 
The National League of Commission 
Merchants has just secured a particu¬ 
larly satisfactory adjustment from the 
Pennsylvania Railroad for recovery for 
cartage on peach shipments in 1912. Un¬ 
der an order from the Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission the Pennsylvania 
Railroad paid $14,275.87 for these cart¬ 
age charges which were made necessary 
by the 1912 strike on the Pennsylvania 
piers. The railroad sought a refund on 
the ground that the cars were not the 
same on which the strike prevented de¬ 
livery. The Interstate Commerce Coin¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
mission denied the application of the 
railroad and the ruling in favor of the 
League stands. This is excellent work, 
and the League is to be congratulated for 
its farsightedness in establishing a de¬ 
partment to protect its members and 
shippers. A number of publications and 
organizations are taking up the cudgels 
for honest and fair dealing, and we pre¬ 
dict that in time voluntary adjustments 
will be made for losses by the transporta¬ 
tion companies. At least concerted ac¬ 
tion of this kind has the effect of inducing 
more care on tin* part of carriers. 
David Essacson, head of Kalos Mfg. 
Co., 45 W. 34th St., New York and Bos¬ 
ton, was put on trial today on the charge 
of using the mails to defraud. The con¬ 
cern used help wanted advertisements in 
newspapers and magazines to get men 
and women to paste colored photographs 
on concave glass. 
According to the indictment, the con¬ 
cern, by promising to buy the articles, 
induced applicants to pay $1 for a lesson 
and then to invest from $12 to $18 in a 
manufacturing outfit, promising that they 
would earn from $15 to $50 weekly. It 
is alleged that when the workers tried 
to sell their product they were told they 
had not yet acquired sufficient skill.— 
Daily Paper. 
The above report gives the key to all 
“work at home” fake schemes. No mat¬ 
ter what the pretenses of the advertiser 
may be the real object is to sell some 
worthless goods or outfit at a fabulous 
price. The only safe policy is to refuse 
to allow papers carrying such advertise¬ 
ments into the home. 
As a reader and admirer of The R. 
N.-Y. I am seeking a little light. I en¬ 
close literature from the Advertisers’ Co¬ 
operative Association. 323 S. LaSalle St., 
Chicago, Ill. Do you know anything 
about this? It sounds to me something 
like the Ostrander method of Illinois. 
j. c. H. 
I enclose this paper for your opinion 
regarding the Advertisers’ Cooperative 
Association. It looks to me as if when 
I parted with my $5 that I do so for 
“keeps.” as the boys say. What do you 
think? r. c. P. 
Connecticut. 
Similar inquiries are reaching us from 
time to time and while we have referred 
to it previously, it seems necessary to re¬ 
peat the caution. This concern asks for 
an advance fee from those having farms 
for sale. In other words, you pay the 
fee in advance for allowing them the 
privilege of selling your farm. The farm 
may never be sold and you lose your 
money. Ostrander advertised his facili¬ 
ties for selling farms and induced people 
to send him a good-sized listing fee—$15 
to $50. Through the publicity we gave 
him he dropped this particular form of 
advertising. The plan, however, has been 
adopted by many others, and the Adver¬ 
tiser’s Cooperative Association scheme is 
modelled on similar lines. We have not 
heard of any serious attempt having been 
made to sell farms on this basis. 
March 22nd last I sent Chas. Cluthe 
& Sons of Bloomfield, N. ,T., $12 in full 
payment, as a deposit, for a truss on 60 
days’ trial. I have tried the truss in 
every way that they suggested, but I 
could not wear it. The truss is a steel 
frame and it is too harsh for me. I am 
76 years old and past. May 27 I sent 
the truss back to them and made demand 
for my money. They evade and haggle 
and talk all for themselves, and said 
they would keep the truss for 15 days at 
my risk and offered to send me a different 
truss. In answer I called their attention 
to their guarantee and asked them if it 
was a fraud, and made another demand 
for a refund. Since then I have heard 
nothing more from them. Can you help 
me to get my money? I enclose guaran¬ 
tee. They also sent me a little book 
“Advice to the Ruptured,” in which they 
say, “If the trial fails to prove that the 
Cluthe truss will keep your rupture from 
coining out. or from bothering you, then 
you will get your money back and the 
truss will not cost you a single cent.” 
New York. J. T. c. 
We are sorry that we are unable to get 
a refund of the money which this old 
gentleman sent the Cluthe Company for 
the truss under their “Sixty Day Trial 
Guarantee.” We have had similar re¬ 
ports from other subscribers, and our ef¬ 
forts in their behalf have all been in vain. 
The sole purpose of the “Money Refund 
Guarantee” appears to be to make a 
sale to those afflicted. One of the many 
ways employed by this class of adver¬ 
tisers to avoid responsibility under the 
guarantee is to continue making sugges¬ 
tions for changes and adjustments, until 
after the 60-day limit has expired. Truss 
concerns doing business on this basis and 
the publications carrying their advertis¬ 
ing ought to have the attention of the 
Anti-Fake Club. 
Advantages of a Riding Plow. 
A farmer gives his reasons for using a 
riding plow : 
“I am not tired at night. I can do a 
much better job with less effort. I can 
finish a land better and easier than with 
the walking plow. The riding plow does 
more efficient service in dry hard ground. 
It is more efficient in plowing under 
green manure than the walking plow. It 
works at a greater depth than the walk¬ 
ing plow. It holds to the ground when 
it strikes a stone beneath the surface, 
while the walker jumps out. My plow¬ 
ing experience has been in a compara¬ 
tively level country with very few stones. 
I cannot say what the results would be 
in a hilly and stony country. The plow 
I use is a single bottom, low down rid¬ 
ing plow with tongue. One wheel fol¬ 
lows the previous furrow, while the other 
follows behind the bottom in the furrow 
just plowed, while the third is a land 
wheel. This type plow to my notion is 
superior to a high wheeled sulky plow. 
The plow which I use has foot lift and 
the depth is regulated by levers one to 
the right which handles the right fur¬ 
row wheel, and one to the left the land 
wheel. It is more simple to adjust than 
the walking plow, and the depth may be 
regulated without stopping the horses. 
■'The pull of the horses draws the bot¬ 
tom in the ground, and at the end of the 
land a heavy spring in connection with 
application of foot power lifts the bottom 
from the soil. In an hour after starting 
the plow it was possible to do as nice 
work as with a walking plow. The sec¬ 
ond day the hired man, who is a young 
Polish fellow, took the seat while the 
team was waiting. He handled the walk¬ 
ing plow badly, and perhaps had not 
plowed a half dozen days in his life. I 
was thoroughly surprised at the work he 
did. I use three horses on sod, while 
two horses will do nicely on stubble. 
The plow pulls perhaps 10 per cent, 
harder than a walking plow, but no 
more than that and I am convinced three 
horses should be attached to a walking 
plow in stiff sod. The plow rides much 
easier than a mowing machine, and is so 
efficient that it is my intention to secure 
a two-bottom riding plow and use four 
and five horses. This will solve the help 
problem to a considerable extent. In fact 
I was so well pleased with the results 
of the plow that I told a neighbor that 
it was as superior to the old plow as the 
mower beats the scythe.” 
Little Gladys accompanied her grand¬ 
mother to church one morning and when 
the contribution plate came around she 
dropped in a couple of pennies her fath¬ 
er had given her. The old lady was 
about to contribute, also, when Gladys 
murmured audibly, “Never mind, Grand¬ 
ma ; I paid for two.”—Harper’s Maga¬ 
zine. 
This odd shaped wheel 
will start your Ford car, 
Maxwell 25. Saxon, Hupp 20,' ^ 
Metz—everytime—summer or winter 
—and is sold on a positive guarantee so to 
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The only starter that starts your motor in the 
logical way—that la by spinning it. One pull on the 
neat handle on the dash turns your motor over— 
Past Two Compressions 
Past Two Ignition Points 
faster th»n you can turn It by hand. Tha cmtino mu»t start if 
it's startablo. Thousands haro boon sold. New price $14. De¬ 
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160 Acre Homesteads are Actually Free to Settlers and 
Other Land at From $15 to $20 per Acre 
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