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June 23, 1917. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I received a letter from Watson & 
Sons the other day. They want thirty 
dollars for their trouble, which I think 
is too much, as I think they made enough 
out of the car of apples. N. E. n. 
Maryland. 
The above letter is written us in con¬ 
nection with a shipment of a carload of 
apples to C. A. Watson & Sons, 55 So. 
Water St., Chicago, in the Fall of 1914. 
The R. & O. Railroad Co. neglected to 
notify the consignee that the car arrived, 
and it was held on (heir tracks nearly 
two weeks before delivery was offered, 
^’lie apples became damaged thereby, and 
C. A. Watson & Sons entered claim 
against the railroad company in behalf of 
the shipper, for ,$124.80. The claim was 
finally compromised, and 'the railroad 
company paid the consignee .$80 on ac¬ 
count of the damage to the apples due to 
the railroad’s neglect. C. A. Watson & 
Sons make charge for their services in 
connection with the claim for $.80, offer¬ 
ing the shipper $50 on account of the $80 
paid by the railroad. After some corre¬ 
spondence in the subscriber’s behalf, C. 
A. Watson & Sons sent us check in the 
shipper’s favor for $.51.80. This is the 
(ir.st instance that has come to our atten¬ 
tion where the consignee selling farm 
produce of any kind on commission has 
charged the shipper a fee for services in 
connection with a claim against the 
transportation company. Other houses 
have assisted their shippers in this way 
without charging a fee for it. If other 
apple growers want to ship a house that 
has so little consideration as this for their 
shippers’ interest, all well and good, but 
we want R. N.-Y, readers at any rate to 
know the sort of treatment they may ex¬ 
pect from C. A. Watson & Sons, 
The Emerson motors bubble burst yes¬ 
terday when a Federal Grand .11117 in¬ 
dicted all the executive officers of the com¬ 
pany, several of its directors and a nup- 
ber of other persons who have been in- 
strument.al in smoothing the way between 
the pockets of careless or ignorant in¬ 
vestors and the pockets of the promoters. 
The Emerson bubble is one of the 
largest ever pricked by the Post Office 
Department. Nearly $1,,500,000 of 
“sucker money’’ is said to have found its 
way into the Emerson company coffers 
since its organization a little over a year 
ago. Never did Western oil lands or 
gold mining ventures prove such alluring 
bait as the jirospective profits of the con¬ 
cern which set out, according to its broad¬ 
cast advertising campaign in many 
States, with the intention of outfording 
Ford. 
Men and women in every city in the 
land had read of the profits Ford had 
made and of the other millionaires creat¬ 
ed almost over night by the rise of the 
motor industry. On every street" they 
dodged the seemingly endless lines of mo¬ 
tor cars. There must be millions in the 
making of autopiobiles, they reasoned—if 
such mental processes 'can be called_ rea¬ 
soning—and then they bought Emerson 
Motors stock.—Daily Paper. 
The automobile stock-selling bubbles 
are. bursting as rapidly and accurately as 
the bombs over the European ti-enches. 
Taist week we referred to two more of 
these get-rich-quick investment schemes 
that went to the wall. It is safe to esti¬ 
mate that the amount of money the pub¬ 
lic has lost thi’ough these wild-cat invest¬ 
ments in the stock of automobile, tractor, 
and motor truck concerns would well 
nigh float the Government Liberty Loan. 
This Emerson Motor Company was or¬ 
ganized only about a year ago. We 
warned our people in this department 
against the nature of the proposition as 
early as .Tuly 29, 1910, so that we have 
reasons to believe that no subscribers of 
The R. N.-Y. lost money in this swindle. 
If they did, they have only themselves to 
blame. The R. N.-Y. certainly did its 
part in warning them. 
I have had a little trouble of my own, 
and would deem it a great favor if you 
would kindly give me some advice. Y^ou 
may have seen in some of the magazines, 
advertisements for young men to learn 
tree surgery by the Davey Tree Export 
Company, Kent, Ohio. I went out there 
and took the resident course, signed the 
contract which I have enclosed, and paid 
them the $.300 tuition. I worked there 
two weeks and came home because the 
work v/as too dangerous, and the com¬ 
pany avoids I’esponsibility in case a stu¬ 
dent meets with accident and is disabled. 
I wrote to them twice and said I knew I 
had cost them a little expense, but would 
be perfectly satisfied if they deducted the 
amount I cost them, and refund the differ¬ 
ence. You can see what they say by the 
•Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
enclo.sed letters. I would like to know if 
there is any possible way to get a re¬ 
fund, if so, would be pleased to have your 
advice. S. L. 
Connecticut. 
The advertising of the Davey Insti¬ 
tute of Tree Surgery, Kent, Ohio, is in 
the class that is not accepted by The R. 
N.-Y. We could not advise young men 
to make the investment for whatever 
knowledge might be gained through this 
so-called institute. We are publishing 
the subscriber’s letter, becau.se w’e want 
all our ptiople to understand that when 
they pay tuition fees to concerns of this 
kind, there is no possibility of getting it 
back .short of an annoying and expen¬ 
sive lawsuit, even if the money could be 
recovered by legal process. The loss of 
.$.300 to a boy starting in life means a 
great deal to him ; but no doubt the so- 
called high-class magazines carrying the 
Davey advertising will find arguments to 
justify the liolding of this boy’s money. 
Last Summer I made shipments to 
.Tohn F. Elders, commission merchant of 
800 Washington St., New York City, 
and was short on shipments, as noted be¬ 
low. We have sent Mr. Elders papers in 
regard to these shipments. He doesn’t 
deny the shipments, but we can’t seem to 
be able to collect the shortage. Will you 
kindly see if j’ou can collect it? 
Aug. 2nd—Short .3 hafhpers at .$2 
per hamper . .$0.00 
Aug. 21st—Short five hampers at 
$1.50 jier hamper . 7..50 
Sept. 12th—Short 1 hamper at $1 
per hamper . 1.00 
Total amount of shortage.$14.50 
New .Ter.sey. C. N. T. 
We have been corre.sponding with Mr. 
.Tohn F. Elders of 800 Washington St., 
New Y'ork City, on this complaint since 
March last, but have been unable to get 
any satisfaction. At first Mr. Elders lead 
us to the conclusion that he had filed a 
claim with the railroad company on ac¬ 
count of the shortage, but now when the 
claim has been outlawed, he advises the 
shipper to take the matter of the shortage 
up with the railroad company and offers 
his as.sistance. Mr. Elders knows well 
enough that the transportation company 
will not recognize claims that are not 
entered within four • months after ship¬ 
ments are made. The experience of C. 
N. T. may be of sendee to other shippers 
of produce during the season. 
. Being in the market for two registered 
'ITolsteiris'in March,' 1915, and reading an 
advertisement of^. F,'■■’A.', Lawrence, Ver¬ 
non, N.'Yr/ in the Hol.steiri-Friesian^Reg- 
ister of heifers for sale. I began corre- 
'spondehce with him about March 1st, 1910, 
in regard to two; heifers, sent the mo'ney 
for them March 31st. He acknowledged the 
receipt of it April 2, but after „that he 
would not answer any of my letters ad¬ 
dressed to him or.^ send the’' heiffrsj uhril 
September 1st.* They arrived at my ex¬ 
press station, two heifers, the worst look¬ 
ing runts I ever saw for Holsteins. Those 
had been ' de.scribed ,to me ^ were . “very 
large and well grown’for. their ages.’’ . I 
took the heifers, as at the time of shiprfient 
Mr. Lawrence'had his property _out of 
my reach, and at present is doing busi¬ 
ness, I understand, in Sadie Lawrence’s 
name. 
. I ' received certificate for one of the 
heifers ten months after buying ana this 
heifer does not correspond with the certi¬ 
ficate or the description he gave, and the 
certificate >. was ' returned to vKSeretary 
Houghton several months ago. The other 
heifer’s certificate was received one year 
and five months after buying her. I 
asked the officials to come here and 
see the heifer and verify the certifi¬ 
cates. They refinsed. I asked them to 
eliminate F. A. Lawrence of Vernon, N. 
Y’., as a member cf the Association; they 
refused to. What are the association’s 
■liy-laws for, or what do they amount to? 
Connecticut. CHESTER hart. 
The above appears to be a fair state¬ 
ment of a cattle transaction wherein the 
purchaser unquestionably got a raw deal. 
I’erhaps the by-laws of the registry asso¬ 
ciation and precedents established do not 
permit the officials to take action in a 
case of this kind which would result in 
justice to the purchaser. Mr. Lawrence 
is a member of the Holstein-Friesian As¬ 
sociation, and the transaction is the re¬ 
sult of an advertisement published in the 
official organ of the Association, and we 
do feel that the case warrants a thorough 
investigation by the Association, and if 
the facts are found to be as stated by Mr. 
Hart some action taken that would at 
least protect others from meeting with 
a similar experience. It is with a view to 
saving other possible customers with Mr. 
Lawrence that we ‘publish Mr, Hart’s 
statement. 
Crippled Chicks 
Could you tell me why chicks hatched 
in incubator.s are sometimes crippled, 
also a preventive if there is any? 
Ohio. B. M. B. 
Like all animals, chicks are subject to 
deformities and there is no known way 
of preventing them. Such deformities 
appear to be more numerous in the ca.se 
of incubator hatched chicks, probably be¬ 
cause we see more of them together, but 
cliicks hatched under hens are often 
crippled also and the artificial method of 
hatching does not seem to be responsible 
for the trouble. M. B. D. 
Turkeys Lay Soft-shelled Eggs 
Can you tell m4 why my turkeys lay 
soft shelled e, gs? At the beginning of 
the trouble one hen only was affected; 
now another has the same trouble. I am 
feeding oats in the morning, and corn at 
night, all they will clean up; oyster shells 
before them all t’.ie time; they have fri'e 
range through the day, and I shut them 
in an open-front hou.se at night. The 
first clutch of eggs was all right, only 
started to lay soft shelled eggs with the 
second clutch. s. A. s. 
New Jersey. 
Being over-fat is the commonly be¬ 
lieved cause of soft-shelled eggs, and it 
is quite possible that you are giving these 
turkeys more corn and oats than they 
need, both these grains being of a decid¬ 
edly fattening n.ature. I would suggest 
that you allow them to pick up more of 
their food on range, when I think your 
trouble with the eggs will disajipear. 
M. B. D. 
Hypertrophy of the Liver 
My rooster had an “enlarged liver’’ and 
died. It was so large it filled the entire 
body space .so the other organs could not 
operate, about 10 times normal size. All 
other organs were natural. The rooster 
was a prize beauty, Plymouth Rock; 
well fed, open range, henhou.se neat and 
cleaned each week. Hens laying excellent¬ 
ly and in good order. No foul food any¬ 
where, running spring water, etc. AVhat 
do you call the disease? c. G. R. 
We call this disease hypertrophy of 
the liver; an impressive term which 
silences all doubt of our wisdom, while, 
at the same time, it effectually conceals 
our ignorance. An hypertrophied, or en¬ 
larged, liver may be the result of conges¬ 
tion, of fatty degeneration or of any one 
of several other diseases, none of which 
can be diagnosed from the mere fact of 
an immensely distended bile secreting 
organ. Perhaps all that need be said fur¬ 
ther is that an enlarged liver frequently 
accompanies disturbances of the digestive 
tract in fowls and is often found upon 
post mortem. Permitting fowls to live 
“next to nature’’ would doubtless pre¬ 
vent many of these disturbances which 
come from heavy feeding and restricted 
exei-cise. M. b. d. 
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