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October 13» 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The f?mall advertisement to sell peaches 
inserted in your “Subscribers’ Exchange” 
department has been a wonderful success. 
I have received fully 500 letters, from 
Maine to Michigan and Illinois; have 
over 300 orders to fill, ranging from one 
bushel to 100. Some of the orders were 
too far away, and I have returned the 
checks, as I was afraid the peaches could 
not be delivered in good condition. ^ We 
are filling the orders in rotation, and if we 
cannot get enough peaches to fill them all, 
the checks will be returned. d. n. p. 
New York. 
The “Subscribers’ Exchange” depart¬ 
ment of The R. N.-T. was started entire¬ 
ly with the idea of making the paper of 
greater service to those farmers in one 
section having produce or other things to 
sell desired by their fellow farmers in 
other localities. The charge for advertise¬ 
ments in this department is so low as to 
preclude the possibility of any profit, and 
merely covers the cost of paper and print¬ 
ing. Advertising in the other columns is 
charged at more than double the “Sub¬ 
scribers’ Exchange” rate. The cost of 
the advertisement inserted by D. N. P., 
which resulted in orders which must ag¬ 
gregate more than a thousand dollars at 
lea.st, was only ,$2.50. There is a good 
suggestion in this experience to those hav¬ 
ing produce for sale which is desired or 
can be used by farmers in other localities. 
We do not solicit advertising for this 
department, but we want it to be of the 
greatest service possible to our people. 
Through a subscriber of your paper I 
learned of your work in exposing the 
Ever Ready Sad Iron, made by the Pitts¬ 
burgh Sad Iron Works Company, Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa. I am one of the victims. I 
took this in good faith, and after two 
days’ selling discovered the iron w’as a 
fake, so returned the money to the pur¬ 
chasers, and as a consequence have 15 
dozen and 10 irons, costing me _.$3S0. I 
am not in a position to lose this money 
and will appreciate very much any infor¬ 
mation you can give that will help me 
recover it. M. G. 
New York. 
It’s the same old story on these self- 
heating irons. Usually the victim loses 
only the price of one iron, but M. G. took 
the agency for these irons and stands to 
lose the sum of $3S0. A man less honest 
would palm the w'orthless things off on 
the public instead of shouldering the loss 
himself. The Pittsburgh Sad Iron AYorks 
Company merely stand on the terms of 
their contract and refuse to take the irons 
back. 
Could you collect .$5.76, due me on 
chicks which the Sunnymede Poultry 
Farm, Princeton, N. J., failed to deliver’? 
At least, that is what I figure is coming 
to me. I ordered and paid in advance 
for 300 White AVyandotte chicks at 18 
cents each. On April 27 I received 150 
chicks, of which two wore dead. On May 
3 I received 129, of which six chicks wei-e 
dead and three so weak that they died 
over the first night. This makes the total 
live chicks received 268. a shortage of 32 
chicks. On May 4 I wrote to Mr. Swent- 
zel, telling him the number dead and send¬ 
ing the local express agent’s verification. 
I also suggested that I would rather that 
he refund me the money than send the 32 
lacking chicks. I again wrote him, re¬ 
minding him of my previous letter, and 
requesting a remittance for the balance. 
Having as yet received no reply. I would 
like you to see if you can collect the $5.76 
for me. My relations wdth Mr. Swentzel 
have ’been, on the whole, very unsatisfac¬ 
tory, and his‘business methods seem to me 
to be very lax. The second lot of chicks, 
too, seem «to be of a much poorer strain. 
New Y'ork. A. L. F. 
Our letters in the subscriber’s behalf 
have been ignored. Our information is 
that the Sunnymede Poultry Farm is 
owned by a Brooklyn clergyman and man¬ 
aged by his son. Charity impels us to 
suggest that the father is unaware of the 
methods of the son ; but, at any rate, the 
Sunnymede Poultry Farm is, as at pres¬ 
ent conducted, unworthy of the confidence 
and trade of our subscribers. 
Enclosed find a bundle of papers for 
your humbug column. It does not seem 
possible anyone could be duped by such a 
transparent fraud. E. j. B. 
Michigan. 
The literature enclosed is from an indi¬ 
vidual who styles himself as “American 
In.stitute of Mentalism,” Los Angeles, 
Cal. The burden of the appeal in the 
literature is that if you will send $1, he, 
or the “American Institute of Mental- 
ism.” wall show you the road to success. 
It does seem incredible, as E. J. B. sug¬ 
gests, that anyone could be deceived by 
such a palpable fake, but the promoter 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
of this so-called institute is not sending 
out the literature for his health, and he 
would not continue to do so unless there 
were many people foolish enough to send 
him a dollar or other amounts. . 
I received the Adams Express Company 
check on .Tune 20. The bank said I 
would have to have it endorsed by S. 
Betman & Son. as it was made payable to 
them. I sent the check to S. Betman & 
Son, 185 Duane St., New York, and asked 
them to endorse it and return. I waited 
two or three weeks, and did not hear 
from them. I wrote them again, but I 
haven’t heard from them yet. Would you 
see what is the matter with them? I am 
glad it was only $1; it won’t make them 
rich or me poor, but it belongs to me. I 
have not shipped them any more eggs 
since, for I thought that if they were 
mean enough to keep that dollar they 
would let me down worse. J. c. 
New York. 
This was a claim for egg breakage 
which W'as adjusted by the Adams Ex¬ 
press Co., wdio inadvertently made out the 
check to Betman. Betman & Son neglect 
to reply to our letters, and have not sent 
the one dollar to the shipper. Ilis de¬ 
cision to refrain from shipping to Betman 
is wise, and others will do well to profit 
by this experience. It is a small amount, 
but the man who will neglect to endorse a 
money order and return it, is not entitled 
to much consideration. 
Can you do anything for me with this 
account? As you wdll see the produce 
was shipped by expi-ess to Dr. W. C. 
.Sparks, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Sparks 
claimed the cherries M^ere bad and I 
offered to deduct the cost from the bill. I 
have written them many times without 
getting any reply. It looks as if Dr. 
Sparks might be in the habit of ordering 
fresh vegetables, etc., by parcel post and 
never paying for them, which means that 
he is probably living on the fat_ of the 
land at no expense to himself. It is queer 
the cherries were so bad ‘when two bas¬ 
kets picked and shipped at the same time 
and delivered to East Orange the .same 
day he received his were in good condition 
and promptly paid for. M. c. 
New Jersey. 
According to his letter, Dr. Sparks is 
a druggist. Letters to his home address 
are returned undelivered. One addressed 
to his pharmacy has not been returned, 
but he makes no response. The sub¬ 
scriber is evidently right. Dr. Sparks is 
willing to live on the fat of the land at the 
expense of anyone who is willing to send 
him produce. This warning should be 
sufficient for our people. 
I am enclosing my correspondence with 
IT. S. Pheasantry, Fred Sudow, prop., of 
I’oughkeepsie, N. Y., asking you to make 
him deal squarely and settle up. I first 
wrote for quotations on two bred Belgian 
does and one buck, receiving card 
marked No. 1. Sent check for $11.75 and 
received card No. 2. On receipt of stock 
I found two bucks and one doe. Stwk 
arrived August 7 or 8. I said nothing 
until I had kept the stock long enough 
to prove the doe not bred, then wrote Mr. 
Sudow what I had received, and asked 
him to return my money and I would 
return the stock. I then wrote him none 
of the stock was as represented nor satis¬ 
factory ; mentioned that one ’buck 
weighed but three pounds on arrival, 
stated that I wanted no exchange for 
similar stockj and did not wish any stock 
of this class for breeding. You will no¬ 
tice he claims all stock w’eighed over five 
pounds each, while one weighed three, 
one four and one pounds. Y’^ou will 
also notice the claim that I did not order 
bred does. I then wrote Mr. Sudow that 
I saw further correspondence with him 
was useless, and that if I did not receive 
check and shipping directions by Septem¬ 
ber 20 I should place the matter in your 
hands. I hope you may collect the amount 
I claim, $12.68, the original cost and ex¬ 
press. R. B. F. 
New York. 
The above experience of R. B. P. cor¬ 
responds with the experience of others 
who have reported transactions with Mr. 
Fred Sudow some eight or 10 years ago. 
As we have received no complaints from 
Mr. Sudow’s customers of recent years we 
rather hoped that he had changed his 
methods and policies. The above trans¬ 
action rather indicates that it is a diffi¬ 
cult process for a leopard to change his 
spots. We wrote Mr. Sudow and the 
U. S. Pheasantry in behalf of this sub¬ 
scriber, and his refusal to treat the cus¬ 
tomer in a fair and equitable manner is 
accompanied by offensive language. In 
his rep’y Mr. Sudow makes this char¬ 
acteristic remark : “We may be the big¬ 
gest rogues in the country, only they can¬ 
not catch us.” This sounds like a con¬ 
fession. 
“What a tall man Mamie married.” 
“Yes, but after they went to housekeep¬ 
ing she found he wms always short.”— 
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