478 
March 24, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
After a <-onversati()n several weeks ago 
with a Mr. Dennison of the Agricnltural 
Contracting Co. of Newark, N. .T., on the 
subject of extensive and scientific fann¬ 
ing, he told me of the scheme the com- 
I)any is to work on which is: St(K;k cer¬ 
tificates are to be sold to consumers at a 
small amount, the money to be jtaid to a 
(rust company, the trust comi»an.v to buy 
(he land (5,000 acres to a unit), the 
American Cultivating Co. to lease it for 
a period of five years, and the Agricul¬ 
tural Contracting Co. to contract to faian 
it. The produce to be sold to the hold¬ 
ers of the stock certificates at cost, the 
remainder of the produce to be sold in 
the open market. Later Mr. Dennison, 
through a Mr. AV. A. Gardner of Succ'a- 
sunna, informed me that he could give me 
a j)osition paying $5 per day above ex- 
pense.s with every opportunity fjtr jiro- 
motion, as a clerk. This was provided I 
would take out ?2(X) in company stock to 
bear interest at 7 i)er cent., to be paid 
quarterly. This I thought I could take 
a chance on, provided I landed the jmsi- 
tion, but just recently he informed me 
that I had better take out my stock to 
hold my position when the company is 
ready to go to work. I then asked when 
the company woiild be in a i)ositiou to 
work, but he said it was an uncertainty, 
but the scarcity of food would hurry 
things along. lie also said the company 
would have been started but all the money 
was tied up in war stocks. F. C. :m. 
New Jersey. 
We can only conclude tliat this is a 
pretty nice scheme to get i>ossessi(m of 
the .$200. "We are always suspicious of 
any projinsilion offering a i)osition with a 
string tied to it in the shape of an in¬ 
vestment in the stock of the company. 
If these promoters have any idea of car¬ 
rying out the project of farm operatifins, 
such as described, the i)roject is doomed to 
failure before it is born. 
I want to express my aiipreciation for 
the good work you did in collecting that 
money for me. The man slill ow('S others 
about here, and I feel sure he has no m- 
tention of paying. The check for .$5-1.71, 
which you sent, is perfectly satisfactory, 
I agree with you that the rest is too sinall 
a sum to spend more time on. I am sing¬ 
ing your praises to everyone who will 
listen. C* 
(Connecticut. 
Thi.s was a claim for milk shipped 
Douglas II. Cooke, White Plains, N. Y. 
The experience of C. S. would indicate 
the advisability of farmers insisting upon 
some security before delivering milk to 
this dealer. 
You will see by the euclosod ^ letters 
from the Guarantee Fond (’o.. of 
Pennsylvania, that I liave given th<*m my 
notes for 60 and 00 days of $()S.75 each. 
I (hink I have been “stung,” as the next 
day after giving the notes I wrote them 
asking them to return the notes, and I 
would pay whatever expense they had 
been to, and would i)ay them a bonus be¬ 
sides, but nothing doing. Their iigent, 
Jo.seph Peck, is a very slick one. 1 
wrote the firm asking them to give me the 
names of any persf)n whom they Inul paid 
indemnity, but that they did not_ answer. 
<’an you give me a line on this firm, and 
do they pay the indemnity? s. ('. .m. 
New York. 
When S. C. M. signed the notes there 
v.as no way out of the deal but to accept 
the goods and settle when the no(es came 
due—this he did. He has 75 2.5-lb. .sacks 
<'f this stock tonic on hand, which cost 
him .$141. B. C. M. writes there is no de¬ 
mand for it in his neighborhood, and will 
K(dl the lot for $50. In its literature Guar¬ 
antee Food Co. represent that local sales 
agents make 50 per cent, profit on the 
goods. On this basis the selling i)riee of 
the 70 bags would be $211.50—so here is 
a chance to make over 200 per cent, by 
buying this lot for .$50. An alluring fea¬ 
ture of the sales plan of this company is 
to lead the stock owner to believe that by 
the continuous use of the Guarantee Con¬ 
ditions the company will indemnify the 
owner for any stock that might die. This 
plan is intended to induce stock owners 
t(> use the conditioner as a sort of live 
stock insurance; but so far as we can 
learn the Guarantee Food Co. has no 
financial responsibility that would make 
such an agreement—even though definite 
■—worth the paper it is written on. The 
moving spirit in this company is reported 
to h'' .1. P. B. Rtrickler. Our report shows 
■Ghe RURAL N 
he was engaged in the manufacturing of 
harness grease prior to April, 1609. The 
business was forced into bankruptcy and 
creditors received about 25 per cent, of 
these claims. The experience of B. C. M. 
in this transaction should be a warning 
to all farmers to be cautious about .sign¬ 
ing notes or contracts of any kind with 
slick-tongued agents. 
Wishing to as.si.st yon in your cam¬ 
paign to k(!ep 'J’hk R. N.-Y. family .ad¬ 
vised as to “sharpers,” I am writing you 
ef)ueerning the (’hieago Portrait (Com¬ 
pany, of Chicago, Ill. Their game is to 
send an agent around with a bunch of so- 
called coupons with a number on one 
side and blank on the other. The victims 
looking at the blank side draw one; and 
if the coupon had a lucky number on it, 
it was worth five dollars to be ai)plied on 
the price of an enlarged picture. Re¬ 
sides this the victim must pay $4 on the 
delivery of the picture. Nearly all the 
coupons were lucky and fiilb” half of the 
women in our neighborhood “bit,” but 
none was shrewd enough to notice the 
offending clause in the little contract. 
They were beaten out of anywhere from 
$5 to $10. Borne refused to buy the 
frame in these ca.ses. The agent cheer¬ 
fully took their .$4 and gave them just 
the picture itself, but they found out 
later that the picture without the special 
frame they made to go with it was ahm- 
lutcly worthless. My wife’s picture cost 
$10.!'0 when she could have gotten a bet¬ 
ter one from a reliable company in Cin¬ 
cinnati for $6 or $7. ii, i.. c. 
Kentucky. 
This fake scheme has been resorted to 
by a number of the portrait houses send¬ 
ing agents through country districts. 
’I’liere may be houses in this line doing 
business in a legitimate and fair way; 
but we have not he.ard of any of the 
agents who do not rt'.sort to misrepre¬ 
sentation and fraud in securing orders. 
A recent incident has reminded me to 
ask if you have given over the redoubta¬ 
ble E. G. Lewis to the error of his wmys— 
or rather, have given ever the credulous 
.and (rusting public to his rapaciousness? 
I knew that the arch promoter was 
working in the Bouthern part of this 
State, but having understood that he 
<aime here with little cash, supposed it 
was on a small scale. The other day my 
particular friend, -- -, who has 
a private school of stenography in San 
Francisco, was visiting,me at the camp, 
and casually mentioned that she had re¬ 
ceived a call from the big enterprise at 
Atascadero to bring two stenographers 
and come down there to take cliarge of 
that work for the company—that it 
seemed to be a going concern with repu¬ 
table men of the Btate on its staff, among 
them Prof. Wickson. When she got to 
the name of its originator, E. G. Lewis, 
I woke up. “Heavens!” I cried, “that 
faker!” Then I talked some more, and 
ended by telling her that even if she was 
sure of a big salary it would be blood 
money, for to take the savings of a life¬ 
time was worse than taking life in a 
world where the golden calf was god. 
Well, he didn’t get my friend as his head 
stenographer. 
I had her send me some of his litera¬ 
ture, and it is certainly on a large scale— 
he is working over all his old St. Louis 
schemes and then some. In the financial 
statement of the “Colony Holding Corpor¬ 
ation” its net sales amount to almost/oar 
mUlio7i (loUarx! Last Bummer he enter¬ 
tained the entire Bouthern Press Associa¬ 
tion for a week—took them around in 27 
autos and treated them royally—and each 
one of those little country editors went 
home to give him a write-up and throw 
his poisoned bait broadcast over the 
State—their editorials are all ] ut down 
in a book gotten out for the purpose and 
used as advertising matter. Oh dear, and 
oh dear, are the powers of darkness 
stronger than truth? M. K 
('alifornia. 
T'ublisher.s’ Desk has warned its read¬ 
ers previously regarding Lewis’ latest 
.scheme at Atascadero, Cal. In fact, Ave 
have advised the public so thoroughly of 
the methods of E. G. Lewis that Ave 
con.sider subscribers have only themseKes 
to hl.ame is they lose their savings through 
him. The letter of M. R. would indi¬ 
cate that while he has succeeded in fool¬ 
ing most of the residents of California, 
there are a feAV individuals in the State 
who see through his schemes. 
P>y reading the columns of your pa- 
I)er I .see what you are doing for others, 
and .so I would like to know if I can 
h.Mve the same privilege and help from 
you, as I cannot get satisfaction myself? 
(). L. Raldwin, 79 Greenville Ave., 
Providence, R. I.. owes me $25.07 for 
milk delivered during September and Oc¬ 
tober. r,. M. 
Connecticut. 
Mr. Baldwin is not given any rating 
in reference books and our letters are 
returned with advice that he cannot be 
located. We must add him to the list 
of jiarties Avilling to take your products 
without paying for same. 
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