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Jshe RURAL N E W-YO R K E R 
December 15, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
toward claims in general. Let us press 
our Albany legislators for a bill to remedy 
thia delay in adjustment. 
Do you know anything about the reli¬ 
ability of Gunson & Co. of Rochester, N. 
Y., dealers in farm seeds? There is an 
agent traveling around here selling their 
seeds at tremendous prices, claiming them 
to be strains of extra merit. I don’t buy 
from those traveling salesmen, but some 
of my neighbors do. J. w. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
I enclose catalogue of Geo. K. Higbie 
& Co., Rochester, N. Y. Do you know 
anything about the firm? Are they reli¬ 
able or not? Also, the seeds they adver¬ 
tise? J. K. L. 
New York. 
There are two firms bearing the name 
“Gunson” at Rochester, N. Y. The meth¬ 
ods of both the Gunsons and Geo. K. 
IKgbie & Co. are identical. Big produc¬ 
tion claims for their “wonderful new va¬ 
rieties” are the stock in trade of all the 
seed concerns selling farm seeds through 
agents. The king of the nursery agents, 
Whiting, is conservative in his state¬ 
ments as compared with these seed agents 
when they get a farmer’s ear. The same 
ridiculous claims are made year after 
year, but always a new variety is of¬ 
fered. The “wonderful variety” of last 
year has served its purpose, so new bait 
is prepared. Farmers who have reported 
to us have found the seeds sold by this 
class of houses inferior and less produc¬ 
tive than the kinds grown in the neigh¬ 
borhood for years. The roads will be 
lined with these hot-air artists during the 
coming months, and we want no reader 
of The R. N.-Y. to !be taken in by them. 
Fnclosed please find letter from In¬ 
ternational Correspondence 'Schools of 
Scranton, Pa. I have a nephew who 
took out a course and paid $20 on it. 
I would send you the receipt, but he has 
gone to war, and I can’t just put my 
hand on it at this time. He told them 
before he went he could not take the 
course, as he was going to the war, 
blit he paid the $20. Now they want 
to collect the balance and keep the $20, 
and he has not taken a lesson, and they 
are bothering his mother sending letters 
of which the enclosed is a sample. Will 
you please see what you can do with 
them, and whether they can keep the 
$20 he has paid when he was called on 
to serve his country and his mother 
needs this money? p. g. 
< )hio. 
We have taken the above case up 
with the International Correspondence 
Schools and we rather assumed that in 
view of the fact that the young man 
had gone to fight in the defense of his 
country !the contract w'ould be auto¬ 
matically cancelled and his money re¬ 
funded. On the contrary, the Inter¬ 
national Coi’respondence Schools try to 
convince us that he should take up this 
course while in the army. Not only 
do the International Correspondence 
Schools refuse to cancel the order and 
refund the money already paid on it, 
but show a disposition to follow him 
into camp to extract money from this 
boy on the contract. If it were possible, 
it would seem that correspondenoe 
schools would follow a young man or 
young woman into their graves to col¬ 
lect on their correspondence course con¬ 
tracts. This applies to aU correspond¬ 
ence schools that we know pnything 
about, as well as the International Cor¬ 
respondence (Schools fo'f Sdranton, Pa. 
On November 15 Adams Express Con 
pany sent us twelve vouchers. The re< 
ord makes interesting reading: 
Shipment not delivered— 
Value $10..S5; adjusted in 
“ 5.80; 
10 . 10 ; 
11 . 01 ; 
8..50; 
10.8,S; 
40.00; “ 
Breakage in shipment— 
Value $4.49; adjusted in 15 month 
“ G.ll; “ " 13 “ 
“ .65; “ “4 “ 
“ 1.33; “ “7 “ 
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44 
44 
44 
44 
44 
tt 
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“ 14 
“ 7 
44 
7 months 
7 “ 
7 
5 
44 
44 
44 
11 
From this it will be seen that the aver¬ 
age time taken to investigate and adjust 
a claim is seven months. This is al¬ 
together too long. Two months is more 
than sufficient in the majority of cases, 
and 30 days should serve to establish the 
facts. In many cases the claim has been 
filed with the agent at shipping station, 
who has been unable to get any report 
on it. One agent advised a shipper that 
the company seldom paid a claim. He 
was wrong in this statement, but it em¬ 
phasized the attitude of the company 
I shipped two tubs of btitter to Steisel & 
Kleinman, commission merchants, at 332 
Greenwich St., New Y'ork. I have writ¬ 
ten twice, but have had no response. I 
have shipped Mr. Steisel hundreds of dol¬ 
lars w’orth of eggs before he took Mr. 
ICleinman as partner and he always paid 
me a good price and was fairly prompt. 
Could you do something for me in this 
case? c. w. n. 
New York. 
From our investigation we find the 
partnership Avas dissolved, Mr. Steisel con¬ 
tinuing the business, but he cannot be 
located, and Mr. Kleinman claims he is 
out of busine.ss. If either party .solicits 
further shipments it will be Avell to refer 
to this record. 
Having been a subscriber to your paper 
for a long time, and noticed the good wmrk 
your Publisher’s Desk is doing, we wish 
to avail oMselves of your good seiwices. 
Enclosed find bill against Geo. C. Ben¬ 
nett, Asbury Park, N. .1. I sent him a 
case of eggs. He did not pay as he prom¬ 
ised. This is the first case where we ever 
made shipment without substantial refer¬ 
ences, and, believe me. It is the last. 
New' Jer.sey. o. D. P. 
Our attorney reports this claim is un¬ 
collectible, as there are no assets on 
which to make collection, even if a judg¬ 
ment were obtained. The .subscriber’s con¬ 
clusion is justified and we publish his ex¬ 
perience for the benefit of others. 
I enclose some stock literatui’c Avhich 
has just been sent me by the Pan Motor 
Co., 8t. Cloud, Minn. They do not inter¬ 
est me in the least, but thought it might 
be Avell to bring them to your attention. 
Vermont. J. B. B. 
The first paragraph of the printed let¬ 
ter. Avith AUCAV to securing an investment 
from this subscriber, reads like this: 
You are a Avell-to-do and representative 
farmer. Y'ou are the backbone of this 
GoA'ernment. Y'ou haA'e made a success 
in life and we Avant you Avith us; because 
nothing succeeds quite so Avell as success 
itself, and a large number of successful 
people united in a common cause. 
The promoter of this company is eid- 
dently a student of human nature. He 
figures that the fii’st step toward getting 
the farmer to part Avith his money is to 
impress him with the importance of his 
position in the community, flatter him ! 
But evidently J. R. B. can see the barb 
on the hook, and recognize the earmarks 
of an investment scheme with nothing 
tangible behind it. 
.John Dunn, 72 South TTnion Street, 
Rochester, N. Y., advertised farm produce 
in city papers, but parties sending him 
money failed to receive the goods. Com¬ 
plaint was made to the Post Office De¬ 
partment and it W'as learned that after 
collecting seA'eral hundred letters, each 
containing from $1 to $2, he had departed 
Avithout leaving any further address. The 
postmaster had seA'eral hundred letters 
for him, and these parties Avere fortunate 
enough to haA^e their money returned, 
but the first victims paid rather dearly 
for their experience. If ilr. Dunn ad¬ 
vertises again to supplj' you AA'ith farm 
produce at reasonable rates, do not get 
caught and repeat the experience. 
Enclosed you will find the express re¬ 
ceipts for two cases of eggs I sent to 
Mr. Cherna, United Egg Case Co.. 75 E. 
119th St., New York, but have been un¬ 
able to get the pay for them. I have 
written a number of times, but it did not 
do any good. f. TJ. 
New York. 
Mr. Cherna pays no attention to de¬ 
mands for payment. .Judgment was se¬ 
cured, but it is practically worthless, as 
our attorney is unable to realize anything 
on it. Mr. Cherna had the eggs and the 
money he sold them for. The farmer has 
the experience. An investigation of his 
credit standing would have saved the loss. 
Your letter of NoA'ember 5, in reply to 
mine of November 1, received, and alloAV 
me to giA'e vent to my feelings. Though 
I ahvays kneAV The R. N.-Y. had its 
heart in the right place, yet I never had 
an example of personal benefit, and I am 
now convinced of j'our being a real far¬ 
mers’ friend in every sense of the w'ord. 
New York. E. B. 
M’te cannot resist publishing this sub¬ 
scribers’ comment in connection with a 
little service we rendered him. We refer 
to it because it emphasizes just the posi¬ 
tion w’e want to occupy w'ith our subscrib¬ 
ers—their friend at court. 
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