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a/ie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February IT, 191T, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have a claim against Herbert My- 
lick for stock in the Orange Judd Com- 
paiiy for .$(>00. We have anotlier claim 
against Mr. Myrick on account of stock 
for wliic-h our subscriber i)aid him per¬ 
sonally .$.‘100 a share. 
One of these claims has been stand¬ 
ing for seven months, and the other for 
eight weeks, aixl we have been unable 
so far to get any response whatever from 
•Mr. Myrick. The circumstances are that 
''Ir. Myrick set himself up as an expex't 
. dviser to his subscribers in the matter 
of investments. These parties, one of 
whom was a woman, and botli being 
readers of his paper.s, gave Mr. Myrick 
tlieir confidence and on his advice 
l)ought the stock in his company, sent 
him the money for it and actually paid 
20% above the face vahie of the stock 
under the assurance by Mr. Myrick that 
they were making a good investment. If 
this advice had been disinterested, and 
even as disastrous as it now is to the 
investor, there might be some excuse on 
Mr. Myrick’s part for refusing redress, 
but he was not di.sinterestcd. He got 
the money. He knew that the stock had 
no public value; that the buyers could 
not sell it in the jn.nrkets of the world 
and get their money back, nor any fair 
jxortion of it. Under these circumstances 
we hold him responsible to these in¬ 
vestors for the return of their money. 
Tran.sactions involving the same prin¬ 
ciples have ere this been before criminal 
courts, and it may be possible that these 
transactions may yet be subject to such 
a review, but in any event Mr. Myrick 
has this money, and decent regard for 
public opinion ought to induce him to 
pay it back. 
care of them. I have pulled up 08 trees 
in .Tune and will take \ip some more this 
Spring. I), r.. 
Ohio. 
Much of the complaint over fruit trees 
proving untrue to name seems to be due 
to the fact that the nursery house soiling 
'the trees purchases them from some other 
grower and relies upon the grower’s repre¬ 
sentations as to the variety. On this ac¬ 
count some nursery houses have adofxted 
the policy to offer for sale only the stock 
grown in their own nursery and under 
their own supervision. We commend this 
practice. So much depends upon the va¬ 
riety that nurserymen ought to take every 
precaution to insure that the trees are as 
represented. Fruit growers in our esti¬ 
mation will do well to patronize houses 
that sell only stock of their own growing, 
especially in such cases where the variety 
cannot be discerned until the trees come 
into bearing. 
We shipped to Hyde, Wheeler Co., 
Boston, Mass., three bbls. No. 1 Spy, 
graded in size 2% to three inches; one 
bbl. unclassified Spys, ditto; six bbls. 
No. 1 Baldwin ; seven bbls. No. 2 ditto; 
one bbl. unclassified Baldwin; one bbl. 
No. 2 Greening. The apple buyer here 
was paying $1.75 right through for all 
grades at the time we packed these ap¬ 
ples. Our receipt would have been 19 
bbls., at .$1.75, $.3.3.25, had we sold to 
the buyer. Two years ago we packed 
our own and shipped to Hyde, Wheeler 
Co., as we did this year and got more 
than the 'buyer paid. F. M. s. 
Maine 
The commission house claims the ap¬ 
ples were not graded and therefore sold 
the fclpys, B.aldwins and Greenings as 
one lot. The grower’s statement to us 
shows the apples were graded and we 
regard it as unusual, to say the least, 
to sell several varieties as a job lot as 
was done in this case. 
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Your Foot 
All work is mean work if the 
weather is bad and your foot¬ 
wear poor—but mud and slop 
and cold are just inci- 
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the men and boys 
who work in 
Beforring to the complaint of E. H. 
AV., Massachusetts, Peb. .3rd issue, re¬ 
garding a transaction with AVilbur Stock 
Food Co., Milwaukee, M^is., we learn 
that the following esteemed contempora¬ 
ries also refuse the advertising of this 
concern: Farmers’ Guide, Huntington, 
Ind.; Farm, Stock and Home, Minneap¬ 
olis, Minn.; Progressive Farmer, Raleigh, 
N. C. We are glad to give the above pub¬ 
lications due credit. 
As a reader of your paper I would 
a.sk you for advice. Last April I sent 
for eggs for hatching to ^Vayne Poultry 
Farm, Stony Point, N. Y. I arranged 
with the proprietor two weeks before¬ 
hand, that when he got my check he was 
to send the eggs right away, as I ex¬ 
pected to set the incubator on the sixth 
of April, as I ordered eggs at the same 
time. I have waited a few davs, and 
wrote him again telling him that I did 
not receive the eggs, but got no reply. 
On the tenth I sent him a telegram and 
also received no reply, so I set my in¬ 
cubator the 12th of 'April. On the fif¬ 
teenth I received a letter from him, stat¬ 
ing that he shipped the eggs. I imme¬ 
diately wrote back and told him that 
the eggs were of no use to me, and or¬ 
dered the express company to return 
same. Now he never returned my money, 
amounting to $7.50. Could you collect 
the same for me? T. B. Q. 
New York. 
The proprietor of M^ayne Poultry 
rarm, Mr. F. W. Christie, justifies him¬ 
self in this transaction on the grounds 
that he states in his catalog that he will 
hold up shipment on orders until he de- 
l)osits the check and has word from the 
bank that the check has been paid. 
Poultrymen who are in the habit of 
sending personal checks with orders we 
fear will not find Mr. Christie a highly 
satisfactory man to deal with. 
In the Spring of 1011 Dr.and 
I bought a lot of peach trees from Chas. 
Ernst of Easton, Ohio. Dr,.got 
100 j)each trees. They are not true to 
name. I bt>ught 10,5 Lemon hVee, 17 
Bronson, five Greensboro, five Banner, 
five Yellow St. John, five Niagara, five 
Beers Smock, five ('Champion, five Ilill’s 
Chili, and there is not one true to name, 
and are very shy bearers. I haven’t had 
10 bushels of peaches from the trees. I 
wrote to Ernst in .July, and he said that 
he bought the trees from another firm, and 
he thought they were all right, and of¬ 
fered to replace the trees free of cost. I 
wrote back and told him that I would not 
plant any more of his junk, if he would 
give them to me. One dose was enough. 
In the Spring of 101.3 I bought a bill of 
trees, some for myself and some for my 
neighboi*. They were also not true to 
name. There was another one of my 
neighbors who sent to INIr. Ernst and got 
a small bill of trees, and they had a few 
peaches on. last season; they are cling 
peaches and not true to name. My trees 
have done well in growth and I took good 
I am sending a list of some fur I 
shipped to Polar Trading Tanning Co., 
Omaha, Neb., and their price list also. 
They give me a very poor grade and I 
would like you to try to collect $9 from 
them for balance due me, M. p. n. 
Tennessee. 
M. D. B. complained to this house di¬ 
rect that they did not give him a fair 
grading on the skins. In reply he gets 
a printed letter which would indicate that 
the firm have so many complaints from 
shippers it made it necessary to have a 
form printed in imitation of typewriting 
to reply to them. We wrote Polar Trad¬ 
ing & Tanning Co. in the subscriber’s be¬ 
half and our letter has been ignored en¬ 
tirely. Shippers may draw their own 
conclusions from the above facts. 
RUBBER FOOTWEAR 
The Red Ball is the “Ball-Band” trade mark. It’s your 
guide to Rubber Footwear that stands up under severe 
strains, that wears well in good weather and bad, that 
fortifies your feet. 
When you wear “Ball-Band” Rubber Footwear note how 
many extra days wear it gives. “Ball-Band” is really the 
cheapest in the end. That’s why nine million people buy 
‘‘Ball-Band” Footwear. That’s why 55,000 dealers are 
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be satisfied with the comfort, the fit and the wear. 
Under date of .Tan. 20, 1910, I received 
from Clarence Cooper, 210 Edgmont Ave., 
Chester, Pa., a circular letter soliciting 
consignments of country produce. In this 
circular letter he quoted turnips at $1 to 
$1.25 per bu. In reply to this letter I 
shipped him on Nov. 27, seven bags, each 
bag containing 3% baskets of turnips. 
Not receiving any returns for same in 
about one week from date of shipment, I 
wrote him asking for returns; received no 
reply, then again, on Dec. 12, 1916, I 
wrote him asking for returns—no reply. 
Again on Dee. 28 I wrote him asking for 
returns, and stated to him that I knew he 
was violating some laws by not making 
any returns for goods received on con¬ 
signment. To this letter he replied, but 
no satisfaction or adjustment has been 
made. v. k. a. 
Delaware. 
The complaints against Mr. Clarence 
Cooper are continuous. lYe have collected 
some of the accounts, but in two c.ases 
were obliged to seek the assistance of our 
attorney. The Chief of Police of Pitts¬ 
burgh advises sending the account to an 
attorney. IVe think our people will do 
well to send their shipments to other 
dealers. 
Washington, ,Tan. 22.—So-called blue 
sky laws of Ohio. Michigan and South 
Dakota, regulating the sale of securities 
and designed to bar get-rich-quick 
schemes, were upheld as constitutional by 
the Supreme Court to-day in far-reaching 
decisions affecting similar laws in twenty- 
six other States.—Daily Press. 
We are glad to see the court of last re¬ 
sort upholds the blue sky laws of the va¬ 
rious States. Every State should have 
adequate laws to curb the operations of 
get-rich-quick promoters, and protect the 
public. Legitimate investment houses 
should also profit by such regulations. 
The aim of these laws is to prevent the 
sale within the State of such securities 
as would amount to a fraud upon the 
investors. 
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