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January 27- iDn. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
When I was local asent for one of his 
papers. Herbert Myrick invited me to 
visit him in his private office in Spring- 
field. He held out flattering inducements 
to me to buy his stock of the Orange Judd 
Company. I paid Mr. ,Myrick personally 
$.‘K)0 a share for .several shares of the 
Phelps Publishing ('ompany stock. 1 
have received no dividends since July 1. 
11)14. I would be very glad to find a 
customer for that stock at a heavy dis¬ 
count from the cost. i- A. G. 
Massachusetts. 
My mother has five shares of Orange 
Judd romi)any stock, on which 7io divi¬ 
dends have been paid since the l'hiroi)ean 
war began. She paid $120 per share for 
this stock, a total of $000. She would 
like to disjmse of it at '.he be.st advantage 
possible. Can you advise me what the 
stock is worth, and what is be.st to do 
about it? I have one building certificate 
(Myiick's) w’hich T paid $ir> for; have 
received no dividends for several years; 
all T get on it is New England Home¬ 
stead .subscriptions. Can you get this for 
me? C- A. c. 
Khode Island. 
Few publishers have ever stooped so 
low as to abuse the confidence of the sub¬ 
scribers to their papers by selling them 
gold bricks in the form of paper certifi¬ 
cates. No successful publisher has ever 
done it, and probably none ever will. It 
is the last re.sort of a doomed enterprise. 
E. G. Lewis, of St. Louis; Success Mag¬ 
azine and the C'ircle Magazine, of New 
York ; Woman’s World, of Chicago ; Geo. 
Ji. Richards, of the Richards I’ublishing 
Company, Boston, and the IMyrick publi¬ 
cations, are the conspicuous examples of 
green goods traffic in their newspaper se¬ 
curities. Myrick is the only survivor. 
Like the others he met the first demands 
for payment in the evident hope that the 
calls would not be numerous, and it was 
cheaper to pay them than endure the ])ub- 
licity. Like the others, too, the time 
has come with him when he brazenly at¬ 
tempts to ignore the demands of his vic¬ 
tims. None of thes stocks ever had any 
known public value. There was no mar¬ 
ket for them, and yet by personal per¬ 
suasion and false representations. Myrick 
induced the very people whom he was 
bound to serve to pay 20 per cent, above 
the face value for these stocks. The price 
was probably made on the theory that to 
represent the stocks worth above par 
would emphasize their value more than to 
sell them at their face. Few experienced 
investors would buy them at any price as 
an investment, and no man familiar with 
the situation would pay anything ap¬ 
proaching par for them. Myrick has 
been helped in his fake schemes by the 
fact that he came into possession of an 
agidcultui-al paper that was associated in 
the minds of the people with an honored 
name. It was hard to conceive how he 
could use the situation of a once respon¬ 
sible publication for a baser purpose. For 
the present he seems to have succeeded 
in his defiance of decency and honesty 
and justice. The others of his class did 
the same in their time, but there was an 
end to it. Unless Myrick breaks the rec¬ 
ord of fakers and redeems the gold bricks 
that he sold to the subscribers whom he 
was bound to warn against fake invest¬ 
ments, his days are as surely numbered 
as the other members of his class who 
have gone before him. 
I have been a reader of your paper 
for a number of years. I would like to 
know if the adverti.sement of the_ Ford 
Tractor Co., Minneapolis, Minn., in the 
Sunday edition of the New York Ameri¬ 
can will not be mi.sleadiug to a great 
many of the public. My attention is 
called to it by a neighbor (as I am not 
a I’eader of that paper), and after read¬ 
ing it I told him I did not see that it 
was the tractor Mr. Henry Ford had 
been trying to put on the market for the 
American farmer, and it also has the ear¬ 
marks of a proposition to sell stock only. 
New York. M. s. ii. 
The above advertisement I'eferred to 
plainly states that the Ford Tractor 
Company has no connection with the 
Ford Motor Co. of Detroit. This is com¬ 
mendable frankne.ss on the part of the 
Ford Tractor Company or the fiscal 
agents promoting the stock. Our advices 
from Minneapolis are in effect that the 
Ford Tractor Co. has been financially 
embarrassed. The company is not in 
Minneapolis considered a successful one, 
and it is the conviction and experience 
of tractor manufacturers that the light, 
cheap tractors, on the order of this Ford, 
CAc RURAL NEW-yORiiEK 
have not given satisfaction in the hands | 
of farmers. We have no reports indi¬ 
cating that this Ford tractor is any more 
satisfactory than the others of the same 
order. One concern maiuifacturing a 
light, cheap tractor has abandoned the 
pi'oject entirely, and others have sub¬ 
stituted a more substantial tractor for 
the light ones originally m.'ide. M'e coiild 
jieither advise our people to invest money 
in the above stock nor to purch.-ise the 
jiroduct of the Ford Tractor Company. 
I understand that you look up the re¬ 
liability of concerns for sub.scribers. I 
wish to know about the London Veterin¬ 
ary Correspondence School, of I>ondon, 
Ontario, Canada. As a stockman I have 
felt the need of such tr.aining as they 
offer, and then if a man could also prac¬ 
tice it would be a help. G. P. b. 
Maine. 
We have been warning the public 
against this fake school for 15 years back, 
but further advice may benefit new read¬ 
ers. M'e know of no State where diplomas 
issued by this correspondence course 
schoed are recognized. Neither can such 
a course qualify anyone to pr.actice as a 
veterinarian. There is a larger element 
of “fake” in this projiosition than other 
correspondence course schools—that is all. 
Will you tell me whether the Times 
Square Automobile Co., of New York. 
Kansas City and Chicago are a reliable 
firm. K. J. w. 
N(‘w York. 
The firm is financially responsible, but 
we could not recommend the company for 
the confidence or trade of our subscribers. 
I wish to thank you very much for 
your letter of December 21. and the full 
information concerning the D. B. Cornell 
Co., of Great Barrington, Ma.ss. The 
agent you mention. J. J. Looker, wms the 
man who tried to get me to sign up and 
pay $.20 as a retaining fee. Farmers can¬ 
not be too grateful to you for the fine 
work you are doing in expo.sing just this 
sort of ra.scal. T'^nfortunately I think in 
this instance Looker has got some victims 
who Avill probably never see their money 
again. .T. u. s. 
Penn.sylvania. 
We publish this letter as a warning to 
Pennsylvania farmers to Look out for 
Looker! 
In reg.-ird to a case of eggs I sent to 
Loui.s Scheurer & Son, .260 Greenwich 
St.. N. Y., have not heard from you 
.since. Find enclosed card asking for 
more eggs. A. l. 
New York. 
Louis Scheurer & Son promised in a 
letter, and verbally to our representative, 
to adju.st these accounts. He has not 
done so, and as he is soliciting further 
shipments, our people are entitled to 
know what they may expect. The profit 
on eggs or produce is soon eaten up if 
payment is delayed five or six month.s, 
and no assurance giA’cn that promises to 
pay will be made good. 
I am enclosing claim for eggs that I 
have been unable to get. and wish you 
would collect the same; if you cannot get 
it any other way sue them. E. c. L. 
New York. 
This is a claim against F. Ehrenkranz, 
proprietor of the Orange Butter and Egg 
Co., 555 Orange St.. Newark. N. J. We 
are unable to collect it, and the amount 
is not large enough for suit, but as we 
have had similar complaint against 
Ehrenkranz from time to time, W'e would 
advise puting him on the list to be aA’oided 
when making shipments. 
Do you know R. .1. Gunson & Co., 
Rochester, N. Y.? They wrote me and 
wanted me to sell grain and garden seed 
for them, but some of my neighbors 
thought they were not a good firm, 
Michigan. E. G. R. 
We could not advise our people either 
to act as agents for the above named 
concern, or to place orders with agents 
of the firm for seeds. Our experience 
has been that the claims made by this 
concern for their seeds both, through 
their catalog and travelling agents, are 
exaggerated and unwarranted. Many of 
our people have complained about the 
quality of the seeds received from this 
house, and that they were not as pro¬ 
ductive as the old varieties grown. An¬ 
other objection to the methods of this 
and the other Rochester seed houses sell¬ 
ing seeds through agents is, that Avhen 
farmers once sign an order it is uncan- 
cellable and regardless of the manner in 
which the order is filled, the farmer is 
threatened with a lawsuit if he refuses 
to accede to the demands made for set¬ 
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