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THE EUKA.E NKVY-YORKEK 
October 16, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Glenn L. Wheeler, of Penn Yan, one 
of the largest apple growers in this sec¬ 
tion, has just completed the sale of his 
fine orchard, consisting of over 3,000 bar¬ 
rels, mostly Greenings to .1. Taylor 
Hunt, of Interlaken, N. Y., at .$3.25 per 
barrel. Mr. Wheeler’s orchard was 
among those offered at the auction sale 
held in Penn Yan on Wednesday of this 
week, by the State Department of Foods 
and Markets, and while no bids were re¬ 
ceived at that time, Mi'. Wheeler states 
that the credit for the sale just made be¬ 
longs to the Department, as its efforts 
have kept the price up.—Rochester Times. 
The orchard auction sales were an in¬ 
spiration. On August IS they were first 
proposed. On September 1 the first sale 
was held, and with the two sales follow¬ 
ing the next week, the prices of apples 
for the season were established. The 
work was hasty and might easily be im¬ 
proved. We believe with the experience 
gained these orchard sales can be organ¬ 
ized another year with great success for 
the whole State. 
You cannot make any improvement in 
this world without overriding the satis¬ 
faction that men have in the things as 
they are, and of which they are a con¬ 
tented and successful part.—Elihu Root. 
Mr. Root was not talking about our 
system of food distribution, but he made 
his principle broad enough to cover com¬ 
mission merchant and produce dealer. If 
he were talking about them directly he 
could not more forcibly explain their 
tendency to oppose, and their determina¬ 
tion to defeat any attempt to improve our 
system of food distribution. Clearly we 
must override the satisfaction they feel 
in things as they are. 
Can you tell if the Colonial Art Com¬ 
pany, 211 Elizabeth Street. Utica, N. Y., 
mentioned on the enclosed coupon is a 
fake or genuine? The agent came to this 
town getting photos to enlarge. They 
were to show the picture in 30 days, but 
the time is up and no sign of the man. 
lie has valuable pictures that I do not 
care to lose. J. v. L. 
Massachusetts. 
The company advised us that unfavor¬ 
able weather and a larger volume of busi¬ 
ness delayed them, but they were pre¬ 
pared to submit sketches of portraits. 
The visit was made and this is the re¬ 
port : 
The Colonial Art Company came to 
show pictures in July and seemed very 
angry that we would not order frames 
from them. We did not, but in Septem¬ 
ber they came and brought original 
photos and picture framed. I offered 
them a fair amount for the frames, and 
rather than carry them back they took 
the price I offered. I am done with 
them. 
We think it is unnecessary to point out 
that selling frames is the chief aim, not¬ 
withstanding their coupon states “No 
one is obliged to buy frames from us.” 
Our experience is that the prices asked 
for the frames are excessive. This con¬ 
cern has returned the original photos, 
but this is not done by the majority of 
these companies. Many of them seldom 
do any work beyond getting the advance 
payment. 
Do you know anything of the Inter¬ 
state Business Men’s Accident Associa¬ 
tion of Des Moines, Iowa? I have car¬ 
ried a policy with them for several years, 
and now when I get hurt they refuse to 
pay my claim, although they took my as¬ 
sessment after I was injured. c. A. 
New York. 
We took the matter of this subscriber’s 
claim up with the Interstate Business 
Men’s Accident Association with view to 
bringing about an adjustment. Our first 
letter was responded to, clearly refusing 
the claims on the grounds that the sub¬ 
scriber had changed his occupation after 
the policy was written. The policy shows 
that the insured gave his occupation as 
“keeping the business end of farms.” 
The insured was injured in a cold storage 
plant, which was erected subsequently to 
his having taken out the policy, and for 
the purpose of caring for farm products. 
The superintending of a plant of this 
kind would seem to us to come under 
the heading of “keeping the business end 
of farms,” and thus the insured is clearly 
entitled to recover under the policy. Our 
information is, however, that the Inter¬ 
state Business Men’s Association of Des 
Moines, Iowa, is not legally authorized 
to operate in New York State by the In¬ 
surance Department and for this reason 
the insured is unable to recover on the 
policy through court proceedings. The 
record in the case, however, does not of¬ 
fer much encouragement for farmers in 
New York or elsewhere taking out poli¬ 
cies in this association. 
You will find papers enclosed in con¬ 
nection with a transaction with .lull 
Brothers, 82 Woodbridge Street, Detroit, 
Mich. A company shipped them a car 
of potatoes for me. By the report Mich¬ 
igan potatoes were worth about 70 cents 
a bushel. Before shipment they advised 
potatoes were selling at $1.75 to $1.85 
per sack. I made draft on them at a low 
amount, but it was returned with the 
statement that the concern had “Moved; 
out of business.” However, I have re¬ 
ceived a check at 10 cents a bushel net. 
Can you straighten this out for me? 
Michigan. S. S. 
.Tull Brothers have moved to 512 18th 
Street, Detroit, but explain to us that 
they returned the best price obtainable, 
but do not explain why they held the po¬ 
tatoes a month without acknowledging 
their receipt, nor why remittance was 
not made until after draft was sent some 
two months later, and returns made at a 
low rate. The company doing the ship¬ 
ping is an experienced house, and they 
report that the deal was not a fair one. 
We give the history for the protection 
of other shippers. Advice reaches us that 
there have been complaints of a similar 
nature against Jull Brothers. 
Your Publisher’s Desk column has 
been of much value and interest to me 
for years, and I am going to ask you to 
advise me on the following difficulty into 
which my daughter, a girl of 18, just out 
of school, finds herself. While attending 
Summer School, a smooth young man, 
agent of Geo. L. Shuman & Co., Chicago, 
called at my home, and asked for her, 
having books to sell. He was one of 
those rapid-fire talkers who can get 
around almost anyone not up to their 
games. These books were in 10 volumes, 
all to be delivered, and payment made 
at the rate of $2 per month, total price 
for set $34. This chap went immediate¬ 
ly from here to the school and waited 
for the girls to come out of school, and 
by representing that I had approved of 
the books induced my daughter and a 
number of other girls to sign orders. 
New Jersey. H. w. 8. 
The above illustrates fairly well the 
usual methods of many of these book 
agents. In another case it is reported 
that this same agent represented to some 
of the girls that he had been sent by the 
principal of the high school that the girls 
attended, giving the impression that the 
principal had recommended these books 
to the girls in question. On behalf of 
the subscriber, we have informed the 
Geo. L. Shuman Co. of Chicago, that 
IT. W. S. would not allow his daughter 
either to accept or pay for these books, 
and invited them to bring action at once 
in any court in the State of New Jersey 
to settle the issue. When signatures to or¬ 
ders have been secured through misrep¬ 
resentation, as it is alleged in this case, 
we do not feel that the party signing the 
order is under either legal or moral ob¬ 
ligations on account of the signature, and 
the courts have so ruled as to the legal 
aspect of the case in any number of cases 
where orders were signed through fraudu¬ 
lent misrepresentations. 
James Dorsey of Gilberts, Ill., million¬ 
aire cattle king of Kane County, and 
president of the Elgin Road Race Asso¬ 
ciation, yesterday was indicted by the 
Federal grand jury. He is charged with 
using the mails in a scheme to defraud 
farmers by selling them cattle infected 
with tuberculosis under guarantee that 
the animals had been subjected to the tu¬ 
berculin test and were free from disease. 
It was returned before Judge Carpenter 
and contains three counts. 
The inquiry into Dorsey’s cattle oper¬ 
ations was one of the speediest ever con¬ 
ducted by a Federal grand jury. All wit¬ 
nesses were heard, the indictment drafted, 
voted, and returned in court in less than 
six hours. Assistant District Attorney 
Michael L. Igo examined the witnesses. 
The three counts in the indictment are 
based on three cattle transactions with 
farmers between October, 1912, and May, 
1913. The three farmers who charge Dor¬ 
sey with selling them tubercular cattle 
were witnesses before the grand jury. 
They are John T. Milek of Sturgis, S. D.; 
Norman F. Alderman of Brook Park, 
Minn., and William Spath of Lewistown, 
Mo. 
Other witnesses were Dr. O. E. Dyson, 
State veterinarian, and Dr. A. Tyler of 
Elgin, a veterinarian who examined and 
passed Dorsey’s cattle, and whose license 
to practice subsequently was revoked.— 
Chicago Tribune. 
The national authorities are doing good 
work in bringing “cattle jockeys” of the 
Dorsey type to bay. A Western sub¬ 
scriber complained to us about a year ago 
of having suffered through a transaction 
with Dorsey similar to the ones under 
which the above indictment was brought. 
The report of the indictment and the 
story of how other farmers claim to have 
been swindled shows that the case of our 
subscriber was no exception. Operations 
seem to have conducted on a larger 
scale than those of a similar character con¬ 
ducted by F. E. Dawley some years ago. 
We shall await the result of the trial, 
which will prove interesting to all hon¬ 
est breeders. A conviction and long sen¬ 
tence will go a long way towards striking 
terror into the hearts of professional cat¬ 
tle jockeys of the Dorsey type from one 
end of the country to the other. 
Preserving Meat for Poultry. 
Could you give me some information 
as how to cure wild meat, such as wood¬ 
chuck and rabbit for poultry for Winter 
use? it* W. s. 
Mt. Jewett, Pa. 
Various plans are suggested for keep¬ 
ing this meat, such as smoking and dry¬ 
ing, packing down in charcoal, or bury¬ 
ing it in the ground. The most prac¬ 
tical way, however, is to can the meat 
about as recommended recently for hand¬ 
ling beef, mutton and pork for future 
use. The meat is cut from the bone, 
packed solidly in jars or cans, and then 
thoroughly cooked for three or four hours 
and sealed. Put up in this way it will 
keep for several months or until Winter, 
and can then be opened and fed to the 
stock as desired. 
Chick Ration Including Beans. 
Would you give a ration for growing 
chicks that would contain the common 
garden string bean? Would it be nec¬ 
essary to cook the beans, or grind them? 
Redlands, Cal. F. A. F. 
Beans are rich in protein and,' if 
cooked or ground, would help to balance 
such foods as cornmeal. They might be 
mixed in the mash and fed either wet 
or dry. It is possible that the chicks 
might eat them if simply cracked, though 
I cannot say from trial. In such small 
quantities as one would be apt to have 
garden string beans, cooking and mixing 
with cornmeal as a moist mash would 
probably be the most practicable way of 
feeding them. As beans are not often 
utilized for feeding poultry, I know of no 
standard methods of preparing them ; you 
will have to do a little personal experi¬ 
menting. M. B. D. 
“ Taxation Without Representation.” 
I own some real estate in a town. The 
water main is three-fourths of a mile 
from my property, and I have been pay¬ 
ing water tax for over 20 years. Is there 
any sense to this and by law can they 
make me come across any longer? I 
would think this taxation and no repre¬ 
sentation. J. L. B. 
New York. 
The majority rules and if a majority 
voted in favor of a municipally owned 
water plant everyone must contribute 
toward its support, otherwise one by one 
the property owners could discontinue 
its use and defeat the effect of the former 
vote. You can use the water by com¬ 
plying with the requirements. Many peo¬ 
ple do not live on State roads but they 
have to help contribute to their support. 
They are there to be used. In the long 
run this seems to be the most equitable 
to all concerned. 
\»'iii:x you write advertisers mention 
The It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick 
reply and a “square deal." See guaran¬ 
tee editorial page. : : : : 
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