99S 
‘U/>e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 18, 191T. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
June 13 we shipped two cases eggs to 
the New Jersey Produce Co., 76 Com¬ 
merce St., Newark, N. J. They have 
failed to remit for same, and w'e have 
w'ritten twice but fail to get any reply. 
Will you look the firm up, and if they are 
swindlers advertise them so they cannot 
beat anyone else? J. H. 
We have written the New Jersey Pro¬ 
duce Co. in behalf of the subscriber, but 
we fail to receive response to our letter. 
The shipper, however, receives a letter 
from Theodore Cohn, Mgr., asking for 
further time to make settlement. It is 
apparent that shippers should find some 
other market for their produce and not 
ship to this concern. 
I have read in your columns that you 
collect for your subscribers. Enclosed 
you will find express receipts for two 
cases of eggs I sent to United Egg Case 
Co., Max Cherna, Prop., 75 Bast 119th 
St., New York, but I have been unable 
to get the pay for them. I have written a 
number of times, but it did not do any 
good. Will you please see what you can 
do about it? F. u. 
This would seem to be a case of a de¬ 
liberate plan on the part of the concern 
to beat the shipper out of the value of 
the twm cases of eggs. The firm has no 
financial responsibility that we are able 
to discover, and the unwisdom of ship¬ 
ping eggs or other produce to sharks of 
this kind has often been pointed out. 
Indictments charging Nichols Field 
Wilson and several of his associates with 
intent to defraud through the mails were 
found yesterday by the Grand Jury of 
the Federal District Court. Besides Wil¬ 
son those w’hose names figure in yester¬ 
day’s proceedings are Willis George Em¬ 
erson, Robert P. Matches, M’illiam Baer 
Ew’ing, Theodore A. Campbell, George N. 
Campbell, the Emerson Truck and Trac¬ 
tor Company, the Ford Tractor Com¬ 
pany of South Dakota, the Ford Tractor 
Company, Inc., of Delaware and Robert 
P. Matches & Co. All the defendants, 
w'ith the exception of the corporations 
and William Baer Ewing are among those 
indicted some weeks ago for their activity 
in connection with the sale of the stock 
of the Emerson Motors Corporation.— 
Daily paper. 
We have referred to these get-rich- 
quick stock-selling schemes repeatedly, so 
that the only interest the fresh indict¬ 
ments may have for R. N.-Y. readers is 
the lesson to beware of all similar swin¬ 
dlers who roam about the country al¬ 
leging they will make people rich by sell¬ 
ing them stock in automobiles, traction or 
tire concerns. It is reported that 80,000 
shares of the Ford Tractor stock were 
sold at $3 per share in a period of 6 
months. This means $240,000 lost to the 
investors in this proposition alone. Wil¬ 
liam Baer Ewing, the promoter of the 
Ford Tractor scheme, is said by the Fed¬ 
eral authorities to have served a sen¬ 
tence in San Quentin penitentiary for a 
similar offense as the pi’esent indictment. 
I write this as a warning, if you think 
best, for “Publisher’s Desk,” also for in¬ 
formation. Four years ago I bought a 
Sandow engine from the Detroit Motor 
Car Supply Co. The Wadsworth Mfg. 
Co. is the successor. May 26 I sent this 
company for a broken part of my engine, 
$1.75. The part wanted was listed at 
$1.50, but I sent the extra 25c to cover 
postage and as a hurry inducenrient. June 
8th the company sent me a part listed at 
40e and a receipted bill for $1.75. I did 
not use this part, so at once sent it back, 
insuring the same. Since then until now, 
more than tw'o months, I have written 
them about twice a week. I get occa¬ 
sionally duplicate receipted bills for 
$1.75, but I do not get the needed part 
to my engine nor my money back. Four 
times I have earnestly requested one A. 
M. Ratigan, sales manager, to inform me 
from what firm I can buy the parts of my 
engine as needed, if he can’t or won’t 
supply me. No response. I should very 
much appreciate the information from 
any reader where I can buy parts for a 
2% H. P. Sandow kerosene engine. It 
is now out of commission, and I cannot 
get repairs. C. E. 
New York. 
The above illustrates the danger of 
buying machinery from concerns that do 
not show the right disposition with regard 
to furnishing their customers with parts 
which may break. Our subscribers W’ho 
have purchased engines from the Detroit 
Motor Car Supply Co. and its successor, 
the AVadsworth Mfg. Co., have reported 
all sorts of trouble, but this is the first 
case where parts could not be obtained. 
“C. R.’s” experience illustrates clearly 
the indifference of the firm to the inter¬ 
ests of their customers. Perhaps some 
farmer who has abandoned one of the 2^4 
H. P. Sandow engines may be willing to 
supply the part for “C. R.” AVe shall be 
glad to hear from any such subscriber. 
I bought an automobile a year ago, 
the man I bought it from told me that 
I should join the Federal Auto Supply 
Ass’n, Buffalo, N. Y., and have the pri¬ 
vilege of buying my supplies at wholesale, 
and I did so, paying him $5 for same. 
Last Summer I did not order any sup¬ 
plies. I then sent an order March 10 
with check for $33.66 which got back to 
bank very promptly and was paid. The 
company did not acknowledge receipt of 
same, in fact I heard from them in no 
shape for six weeks. I wrote them a 
number of times without any reply but 
finally they sent some goods, not quite a 
third in value that I had sent for. For 
instance I ordered two extra seats and 
one came. I ordered three chamois, two 
were sent and no bill sent and no letter 
from them to explain. I have written 
several times since receiving what they 
sent but not a word from them. I re¬ 
ceived in goods ordered March 10, 1917, 
$9.38 worth, leaving $23.28 not sent. 
If you can do anything to straighten 
these people out I shall be very thank¬ 
ful. F. T. AV. 
New York. 
AA’le fear this association is a first cou¬ 
sin to the old International Automobile 
League, Buffalo, N. T. More than a 
month ago the concern wrote us: “The 
person who had charge of Mr. AA^'agner’s 
order is out of town at present and will 
be back the first of next week and will 
have the same adjusted at that time.” 
AVe know the customer has not been able 
to get any response to letters in the 
meantime. Small satisfaction for the 
member who cannot get supplies after 
he has ordered and paid for them. This 
is the usual result of joining “member¬ 
ship” schemes. 
I enclose you herewith a rather fine 
“get-ricW-quick” bit of literature that 
reached me a few days ago. I am rath¬ 
er too old a bird for this kind of chaff, 
but a good many I fear will bite. I con¬ 
sider it a rather clever piece of work. 
He surely hits the nail square w^hen he 
says “you should clear from $100 to $500 
per acre off your vegetables, owing to 
w'hat you raised and how, when and 
where you find your market!” Farther 
on is another fine little bit, “Hence a 
lO-acre grove should net its owner from 
$600 to $1,000 annually?” How very 
cleverly the bait covers the book. Again, 
who valuese that land at $75 per acre, 
for on that hangs the value of those gold 
bonds? I am not a farmer, but have 
been among them all my life. All my 
schoolboy holidays were spent on farms 
in the Cheshire cheese district at home, 
many a long year ago. I enjoy most thor¬ 
oughly reading your paper for it is clean 
and hits straight from the shoulder at 
“sin, the world and the devil.” Thank 
you for doing as you are and every 
prosperity go with you in the Great 
Fight. H. H. w. 
Virginia. 
The above remarks are applied in par¬ 
ticular to Dr. Geo. F. Hall, founder, 
owner and general manager of “Chris¬ 
tian Colony,” Boyce Bldg., Chicago. The 
alleged “Christian Colony” is supposed 
to be located in De Soto County, Fla. 
The only comments we feel that it is 
necessary to make in the case is to refer 
the public to the Green Ridge A’’alley 
Orchards Co., Green Ridge Valley, Md., 
the Dupont Railway & Land Co., Du¬ 
pont, Fla., and Mills Farms, Fruitland, 
Miss. The experience of people who were 
deceived by the land sharks operating 
the above named concerns ought to be 
sufficient guidance for the public in sim¬ 
ilar schemes, such as this “Christian 
Colony.” 
Crude Carbolic Spray 
1. Once a week I am spraying with 
crude carbolic acid the perches in my 
chicken-houses to keep out mites and 
eventually kill disease germs. Every 
time I do this the chickens on the nests 
blink their eyes, just as if the acid irri¬ 
tated their eyes. Has this a tendency 
to cause sore eyes as some of my hens 
are affected^ that way? AA^ould you ad¬ 
vise continuing the spraying wfith carbolic 
acid or would you prefer carbolineum? 
2. How many AVhite Leghorn pens on 
free range would you advise to keep in a 
house 20x30 feet? 0. E. K. 
New York. 
1. I would not spray perches with 
substances the fumes of which irritated 
the eyes of the fowls using them: it is 
unnecessary and hardly humane. Neith¬ 
er is it necessary to treat the perches 
w'eekly. An application of carbolineum 
or of some hard grease, like beef tallow, 
melted and applied with a brush, per¬ 
haps twice or three times during the 
season is sufficient. 
About 200. M. B. D. 
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A Papec soon pays for itself, for this reason: Suppose your silo 
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reaches you 2 weeks too early or 2 weeks too late. The food value 
of the corn is reduced about $1 a ton. You have lost $75 to $100. 
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