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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Don’t! Don’t! Don’t ship eggs or 
other produce to any commission house 
or other receiver without first looking up 
the responsibility of the individual or 
house. 
What is wrong with the Nabob Hatch¬ 
eries and Poultry Co., of Gambler, Ohio? 
On April 23 we sent them a check for $20 
for chicks, which, according to their cat¬ 
alogue would take from 10 days to two 
weeks to fill orders. They acknowledged 
check and said chicks would be shipped 
about May 8th. I did not hear from 
them again. After waiting several weeks 
I wrote them asking what was wrong. 
They sent back word the chicks would be 
shipped about June 5th. On the 8th of 
June I received a card saying: “You 
will get chicks or money bapk week of 
June 12th.’’ Since that time we have 
not heard from them. I can’t under.stand 
their situation, but no business firm has 
any moral right to hold back orders in 
that way without writing, so that I 
might place an order with some other 
firm. M. J. B. 
New Jersey. 
We quite agree with “M. J. B.’’ that no 
poultryman has a right to put the cus¬ 
tomer off from time to time in this way 
and finally refuse to fill his order. Even 
when orders are filled a month or six 
W’ceks late, it means a great disappoint¬ 
ment and loss to the customer. We have 
had many complaints of this kind from 
customers of Nabob Hatcheries this sea¬ 
son, while eventually adjustments of 
some kind have been made. Other ad¬ 
vertisers who have treated the'r custom¬ 
ers in a similar manner this season are: 
Smith Standard Co., Cleveland, O.; 
Black and White Poultry Farm, Canis- 
teo, N. Y.; H. W. Cobb, Eastein Shore 
Nurseries, Denton, Md. None of the 
above poultrymen will be permitted to 
adertise in The R. N.-Y. again. 
S. F. Everitt, of the O. K. Seed Store, 
Indianapolis, Indiana, writes that my 
name has been handed him by a member 
of the faculty of Purdue University, 
where I was just graduated, and asks 
me to consider a proposition which is 
hinted at in the following paragraphs 
from his letter: 
-“Our proposition is not quite ready 
yet, but will be in a couple of weeks. We 
will have excellent varieties of wheat. 
We can give you such proof as will show 
farmers that the wheat is of good grade, 
heavy yielding, etc., and will make them 
money to grow it. 
“One of our agents made ns high as 
$500 some weeks last Summer, iuany 
agents made $100 weekly. It requires 
good work and hard work in order to 
make big money. If you will be inter¬ 
ested kindly take the matter up with us 
and (we will give yoii full particulare.” 
' I was once a hook agent and I know 
what it is to make $100 weekly. This 
proposition sounds just a little too big^ to 
he legitimate. Do you know anything 
about this man’s reputation? It occurred 
to me that he might be related to some 
men of the same name who are now get¬ 
ting free board for trying to defraud 
farmers. P. B. H. 
Indiana. 
S. F. Everitt is the son of J. A. Ever¬ 
itt, who formerly conducted the O. K. 
Seed Store at Indianapolis, and “Up-to- 
Date Farming’’ of the same place. Both 
father and son were sentenced last De¬ 
cember to 18 months in the Atlanta pen¬ 
itentiary for fraudulent use of the mails. 
We have previously exposed Everitt’s 
ridiculous claims for his wheat. The 
■wheat exploited, as far as we can learn, 
appears to be the old “Miracle’’ wheat 
which he re-named as “Marvelous.” The 
past record of the Everitts will be suffi¬ 
cient to prevent any of The R. N.-Y. 
readers from being induced to take up 
the work of deceiving other farmers, even 
with the prospect of $100 per week 
dangling before their eyes. 
This Spring I ordered some chicks 
from H. W. Cobb, manager. Eastern 
Shore Nurseries, Denton, Md. The agree¬ 
ment was that the chicks were to be sent 
May 4, 500 at $60. One-half of the 
money was deposited when chicks were 
ordered; the other half was to be sent 
upon being notified by the shipper that 
chicks were ready for shipment. Owing 
to the fact that I was not notified I did 
not send the I'cmain.ng $30, and waited 
for a letter from them for about six or 
seven days; after receiving no letter I 
wrote to them. They did not answer for 
about 10 days longer, and then requested 
that I send balance or they also agreed 
to send chicks for amount which I had 
deposited, till the 23d of May, to which I 
agreed if they could be sent at that time. 
As I did not hear from them and also 
did not receive the chicks I wrote to them 
JTAc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 14, 1917. 
about May 27, stating that if chicks 
could not be sent till the first of June 
they would be assuming aU responsibility 
if they sent them at all, I requested that 
they return check for $.30. On .Tune 4 
they shipped part of the chicks and on 
the 9th the remaining number without 
notifying me of shipment. As I was not 
at home the chicks were lifted by my peo¬ 
ple, and owing to the weak condition of 
the chicks, and the lateness of the season 
I have lost every one of them. I wrote 
to them requesting their consideration in 
losing half, but they rejected, claiming 
no responsibility. The fact is that they 
were holding me to their convenience re¬ 
gardless of the disadvantages to which 
they were putting me. 
I have never been able to raise chicks 
successfully that were hatched after the 
first of June, on account of the heat at 
that time, and I would not have ordered 
them at all if I had known that they 
would not be able to supply them at the 
time agreed upon. They wrote to me 
stating that they were unable to ship the 
chicks at the right time on account of 
poor hatches. I requested that they 
cancel my order if they were unable to 
ship them early, but as they had some 
late hatches coming off, they rejected, 
thereby making me the loser. N. B. - 
Delaware. 
The above letter from our subscriber 
is a fair illustration of the treatment cus¬ 
tomers have received at the hand of Mr. 
n. W. Cobb, of the Eastern Shore Nur¬ 
series & Fruit Farm, Denton, Md., this 
season. IVe have a number of such com¬ 
plaints on file. Mr. Cobb takes the posi¬ 
tion that he is justified in holding orders 
of customers this way and refusing to ac¬ 
cept cancellation and refunding the 
money. Ilis attitude does not correspond 
with our idea of a “square deal,” and Mr. 
Cobb will not be permitted to advertise 
baby chicks or anything else in The R. 
N.-Y. in the future. “Poor hatches” may 
have been responsible for his failure to 
fill the order as promised, but the un¬ 
usual demand for baby chicks may also 
have in a measure been re.spon.sible. 
At any rate, when chicks are ordered to 
be delivered the first of May, the poultry- 
man has no more legal or moral right to 
delay the customer for a whole month, 
refuse to I'eturn the money after the order 
has been cancelled, and insist upon ship¬ 
ping chicks whether the customer wanted 
them at the later date or not. 
The Foote Mfg. Co. shipped me a 
lamp for which I first paid them $4.75 
(25c extra for mantles). They guaran¬ 
tee all their goods. When the lamp came 
it failed to work, though I got an expe¬ 
rienced man to try to light it for me, and 
after failing to burn I expressed it back 
to Dayton, Ohio “collect” and wrote the 
company explaining why I shipped “col¬ 
lect” for in shipping to me the shade got 
broken and the railroad company gave me 
a “B” order receipt for same. Instead of 
putting in claim at my end of the line, I 
mailed the receipt to the conip~any in order 
to let them handle the case for me. I 
told them they could keep this claim when 
collected and apply it to expressage on 
the lamp. This they refused to do, de¬ 
manding I pay charges, and in the mean¬ 
time I I'eceived a card from the express 
agent stating goods were refused. I then 
mailed the express agent the charges, 62c, 
instructing him to deliver the lamp to 
the company. 
I guess they have settled with the rail¬ 
road company long ago, and now they 
have the lamp, money . nd all. Though 
I have written them sevei'al times about 
the lamp they refuse to repair same or 
give me a new one, and won’t even let 
me have the old one back. I ordered this 
lamp in December, and it came about the 
1st of January. I shipped it back the 
same month, and the check I mailed to 
the express agent was cashed March 8. 
The company failed to write me at all. 
North Carolina. w. A. S. 
We have also written the Foote Mfg. 
Co. several letters in behalf of the sub¬ 
scriber with view to bringing about some 
sort of adjustment. Our letters have been 
ignored. Regardless of whether the com¬ 
plaint of W. A. S. is justified or not we 
cannot recommend to the confidence ol 
the public any house that ignores com¬ 
plaints of this kind, and refuses, or faili 
to answer letters. 
I received the enclosed letter from H. 
& S. Samuels, 192 Bi-oome Street, New¬ 
ark, N. J., which I thought seemed right, 
and I sent them a case of eggs (.30 doz.) 
for which they sent me check for $12.60, 
which was satisfactory to both parties, 
and they wanted more like them. I sent 
a second case, which they will not reply 
about, and in the meantime the first 
check went to protest. Now I am two 
cases out and $1.44 cost. Is there any 
way to collect anything from them? 
Pennsylvania. c. w. F. 
H. & S. Samuels are just the class of 
receivers that we have repeatedly warned 
our subscribers against shipping their 
produce to. The letter soliciting the ship¬ 
ment promised 2c more than top market 
quotation. This is just the sort of bait 
that all these irresponsible receivers em¬ 
ploy to secure shipments. The poultry- 
man or farmer who ships produce to any 
receiver or house without first looking up 
their standing and financial rating is sim¬ 
ply gambling that he will get pay for it. 
Too frequently he does not. 
Inheritance Tax 
I have had some argument about in¬ 
heritance tax, and would like to know 
whether it makes any difference where 
a person leaves a will or not. How large 
an amount must one inherit before he is 
liable to this tax? A. M. 
Otisville, N. Y. 
Unless this law was changed by the 
Legislature recently adjourned property 
up to the value of $5,000 to each of 
father, mother, husband, •wife, child or 
adopted child, is not taxable. Above this 
sum and up to $25,0(X), the tax is 1 per 
cent.; the next $75,000 is at the i*ate of 
2 per cent, and so on. To a brother, 
sister, •wife or widow of a son or the hus¬ 
band of a daughter, $500 to each is ex¬ 
empt from taxation, above this and up to 
$25,000, the tax is 2 per cent, and the 
next $75,000 at 3 per cent., and more as 
the estate increases in value. Upon all 
other inheritances $500 is exempt from 
taxation, and the rate of tax is 5 per 
cent, on any amount above this up to 
$25,000 ; 6 per cent, on the next $75,000, 
and so on. So you see it makes a differ¬ 
ence to whom the property is left. Leav¬ 
ing a will does not make any difference 
in the amount of the tax. 
Right of Way 
In an old deed bearing date of 1852 
there was a “right of way” given to my 
father from the land this deed conveyed to 
him to the public highways, a distance of 
say one-half mile, over other laud, at that 
time owned by the grantor of said deed. 
The land through which this right of way 
was given was later sold, and this right of 
way included in later deeds up to about 
1875, •when it was left out. About five 
years ago a city man bought this land 
through which this right of way run, had 
a “search” made back 20 years, and as 
he found no record of this right of way 
from that 20-year search, he claims this 
right of way coming dowm to me by in¬ 
heritance, is outlawed. I have used it very 
little for the past 25 years, as the laud 
father’s deed covered has been at “com¬ 
mon” (being wood land) for the past 30 
years. Does t is right of ■way hold? Or is 
it no good? I am about selling this land and 
giving a deed. Can I convey this right of 
way by deed legally to another? 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. o. M. D. 
This right of way, by being left out of 
the later deeds, and by not being exercised 
W you, is probably outlawed. On the 
other hand, you could not compel him to 
put your right of way in his deeds, but as 
long as it is in your own, that ought to 
be enough.- Take this position with your 
neighbor, that the grant of the right of 
way is in your deed and that it cannot 
be lost by you just because he or subse¬ 
quent owners did not reserve the right out 
of their deeds. 
You can use the same description, as 
was contained in your deed, you cannot 
grant what you do not own merely by 
including it in a deed. Y'ou should ex¬ 
plain fully to your purchaser just how 
matters stand in regard to* this right of 
way for if you include it in a full cove¬ 
nant and warranty deed he may call on 
you to make good. Your purchaser should 
continue to use it, claiming the right un¬ 
der his and your deeds, until legally 
stopped by an injunction or a lawsui.t. 
If you stop when he tells you to he is 
really getting what he desires. 
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