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February 3, 1917. 
Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Last Spring an agent came to n y home 
selling trees and I bought a flowering 
tree to plant on my husband's grave, 
which was to be delivered from Septem¬ 
ber 15tb to October 1st. Unfortunately 
I have lost the little slip which the agent 
left me, but he lives in Oneida and is the 
regular selling agent for Knight & I-iost- 
wick. and he agreed when be took the or¬ 
der for the tree that it would be delivered 
not later than October 1st. We had a 
severe snow storm about the time of No¬ 
vember 15, and that was tin* dal<* that an¬ 
other agent delivered the tree. With the 
snow about six inches deep and the ground 
frozen solid, I refused to accept the tree, 
telling the man that they had not lived 
up to their agreement which was that it 
was to have been delivered September lo 
to October 1st. The man would not take 
the tree away and left it in the front hall, 
where it stili is ;.s he brought it. I wrote 
them that it was not accepted by me and 
am enclosing herewith several letters re¬ 
ceived from them, also carbon of the last 
letter I wrote them. E. M. C. 
New York. 
This is a tj’pical case of the way the 
nursery agents do busine.ss—promise 
everything and anything in order to get a 
signature to an order and then delivery is 
made how and when the nursery itself 
sees fit to do so. The customer is then 
bulldozed into paying for the stock by 
letters from a nursery house threatening 
to bring suit; then a collection agency, 
and finally a lawyer. The nursery house 
universally upholds the agents and con¬ 
tends that no representations were made 
except what appear on the order blank. 
Can there safely be any confidence 
placed in the claims made by Kdward J. 
Woods. Inc., for the cure of the tobacco 
habitV Ileadfiuarters are in New York 
City. It is widely advertised, and if it is 
efficient in eradicating the appetite could 
it be safely taken? G. w. s. 
I’ennsylvania. 
We would not advise the use of nos¬ 
trums to destroy the appetite for tobacco 
or other stimulants. Any drug to ac-corn- 
plish any such purpo.sp would undoubt¬ 
edly prove harmful. Jlany of the so- 
called “tobacco and alcohol cures” do 
contain habit-forming drugs which work 
a greater injury to the individual than 
the habit that is sought to correct. No 
paper with any regard for the character 
of its advertising would carry this class 
of business. The- -mail order papers 
and some daily pai)ers that still cling to 
the principle, “Let the buyer beware” 
are the principal avenues open by which 
this class of charlatans can reach the 
public. 
Do vou know anything about Dr. F. 
W. Willard, of .37 South Wabash avenue, 
Chicago? He claims to be able to cure 
diseases of the teeth and gums. My 
wife’s gums are just as he describes in 
his pamphlet, and she is anxious to try 
his treatment, but wishes to be sure he is 
not a quack before sending the $5, the 
price of the treatment. ii. s. 
Massachusetts. 
Our information is that a fraud order 
has been issued against F. W. Willard 
Co., which is about the result we would 
expect from his general proposition. We 
always advise consulting a reliable phy¬ 
sician in all cases, and dropping the liter¬ 
ature of these advertising quacks in the 
fire. Sooner or later they are closed out 
by the Government 
I sent for and received a shipment of 
the Wilbur stock tonic, -which I was to 
try six days, as advertised in a number 
of supposedly reliable farm papers, and 
if not perfectly satisfactory it was to 
cost me nothing. They were also to send 
me a watch (stockman’s). The watch 
came some time after the stock tonic. I 
gave it to my boy. It ran less than 24 
hours and stopi^d. lie paid out .$1.50 
on it and then it would not run. I fed 
the stock tonic 60 days, and after a little 
while I wrote them that it was entirely 
unsatisfactory, and that I held the re¬ 
mainder of it subject to their order. They 
were much surpidsed at the result, and, 
as you will see, at first they were coax¬ 
ing me for a payment, and last were 
threatening me. I saw what an Ohio 
subscriber wrote you about it some time 
ago. and you printed it in The R. N.-Y. 
Ilis experience was just the same as 
mine. I tried the tonic on cows, also 
on a horse. It was guaranteed to de¬ 
stroy worms in horses. I lost a valuable 
horse soon after using the tonic. Avhich 
post-mortem examination showed to be 
affected with worms. I knew he was 
so troubled, -Rdiich was one thing that 
induced me to try the tonic. E. ll. W. 
Massachusetts. 
The above is a plain statement of a 
JIassachusetts farmer relating his experi¬ 
ence as a result of having answered the 
advertisement of the Wilbur Stock Food 
Co. of Milwaukee, Wis.. which appeared 
in a farm paper last Winter. It is only 
fair to ray that the death of E. IL W.’s 
horse shoald not be attributed to the use 
of this stock tonic. Rerhaps it was not 
used for - sufficient length of time before 
the horse died to have any effect one way 
or the other. After our exposure of the 
methods pursued by this concern in 
the case of the Ohio subscriber he re¬ 
ceived a letter saying in effect that 
the demands made on him for settle¬ 
ment were due to a “mistake.” This 
Avas the explanation ,T. A. Everitt made 
of his fake free seed offer last Spring. 
"We hope Wilbur Stock Food Co. may yet 
be convinced that to attempt to fool the 
public is .always a mistake in the broadest 
sc'use. When Ax-e published the complaint 
of the Ohio sub.scriber Ave assumed that the 
pai)ers accepting this advertising did not 
know the nature of the scheme. The 
plan of the IVilbur Stock Food Co. was 
fully exposed in The R. N.-Y. of August 
26, 1016. NotAvithstanding this, hoAv- 
ever, a large number of the farm papers 
printed a flaring advertisement of this 
company last month. lYe hnnAA"^ of no 
farm publication except The R. N.-Y’’. 
that has CA’cr refused the "Wilbur 
Stock Food Co. advertising. If any 
other farm paper has done so we should 
be glad to make public announcement of 
the fact in these columns and give the 
publication full credit. 
Can you tell me if you haA C any knowl¬ 
edge of a coinpiuiy noAV soliciting for 
shareholders. called Universal Glass 
Casket Company, Room 2040. Bank 
Building. Pittsburgh, Pa.? M. M. B. 
New "York, 
This is a business venture in which 
the promoter has nothing to lose and 
CA’ery thing to giiin if the dear public will 
put up the money to finance the proj»o- 
sition. In our opinion the company has 
about one chiince in a thousand for suc¬ 
cess. If tlie odds were even men familiar 
AA-ith the undertaking business would be 
willing to finance the concern. Experi-- 
enced investors would not for a moment 
consider putting their money in schemes 
of this kind—others should not. 
Reading the ca.se of that poor crippled 
woman in Baltimore who Avas SAvindled 
by the so-called orthopedic company, re- 
I)orted in Jan. 1.3 issue, I am struck by 
one thing. She lives in Baltimore. In 
the same city is the Johns Hopkins Medi¬ 
cal College, one of the most famous in 
the world, which is A’isited by the lame, 
the halt and the Mind from all parts of 
the United States and foreign countries. 
Its research to help cripples is so famous 
that .Tohns Hopkins men are in special 
demand among those working for war- 
wounded. It has a great dispensary. 
AAffiere help is given to the poor. Y'et 
this poor woman gives .$50 to a faker 
from another city, Avhen the best au¬ 
thority in the AA’orld Avas right in her 
OAvn city. Why go to strangers? One’s 
local doctor might not have knoAvledge 
for some complicated cast*, but the 
chances are tb.at he is honest and AA'ould 
at least giAm square advice. E. T, R. 
Ncav Jersey. 
• 
It very often happens that the best 
sort of assistance is right at one’s very 
door, while the afflicted listen to the siren 
voice of some quack at a distance. We 
are all inclined to chase rainbows, or, in 
other words, give ear to the slick stranger 
instead of going to our time-tested friends. 
Y'our letter of Dee. 22 enclosing 
check refunding money I sent to Walter 
Bros., Powhatan Point, Ohio, received to¬ 
day. I ordered Bronze turkey eggs from 
them, first having written to them en¬ 
quiring as to their Bronze turkeys and 
explaining th.at I Avas breeding this sort 
and hoped to be able to introduce new 
blood into my foAvls in that Avay. The 
eggs came, but Avhen hatched proved to 
be "White (that is, all that hatched), 
Avhich, of course, Avere of no benefit to 
me. At no time did they dispute my 
claim, but promised to do the right thing, 
but ended in promises. E. M. ir. 
Massachusetts. 
The record in this case is clear. After 
long correspondence Walter Bros, allege 
they sent check, making refund, but the 
.subscriber failed to receive it. When 
asked to send duplicate of the alleged 
lost check "Walter Bros, insisted on the 
privilege of replacing the eggs next sea¬ 
son. The R. N.-Y. has now refunded 
the subscriber’s remittance under our 
“square deal” guarantee of advertisers and 
Walter Bros. Avill not be permitted to 
ad\'ertise in our columns again. 
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