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December 22, 1017 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Merry Cl. -ma» 
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its religious significance, it is the blessed 
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find expression in gift and good wdll. In 
spite of this hateful and horrible war 
which has forced us all to walk in the 
shadow, the world will turn at Christmas 
time to the oldtime joy and good will. 
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farm ; no matter what your condition of 
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be the best and brightest you have ever 
known. We have stood in battle, and we 
h:ive walked along the paths of peace. 
Together we have chased many a rogue in 
an effort to put him out of business, and 
we have followed good men in their 
efforts to make the world better. We 
have had our trials and our triumphs, and 
through it all we may well feel that we 
have, by working together, made country 
life a little better and brighter. 
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the finest and ir.o.st loyal support ever 
given to a farm paper. “Old friends are 
the best,” especially in times like the.se 
when so many of us must walk thought¬ 
fully and softly through the days. Our 
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you. and fight for you, and play as well as 
we can the pai’t of an honest friend. If, 
like the little children at home, W’e were 
permitted to suggest our own gift, we 
should name the best one w’e know, that 
is the prompt renewal of your own sub¬ 
scription and induce others who would 
be benefited by the service to subscribe as 
solid evidence of your true friendship 
for another year. 
Merry Christmas, and God Bless you. 
After some correspondence with Pride 
Home Farm. Howard, Penn., I ordered 
a trio of pigs May 29th, but when they 
arrived the boar pig was not satisfactory, 
owing to a very poorly shaped head, but 
got no answer to my letter. They also 
neglected to send register and transfer 
papers until I wrote three letters request¬ 
ing them to do so, and then neglected to 
send pedigree other than the sire and dam, 
which is given in register papers. I have 
made several attempts to have this matter 
ad.iusted, but up to the present have not 
been able to get any satisfactory adjusC 
ment—my last letter of October 10th is 
still unanswered. I am sending yoti let¬ 
ters from the Pride Home Farm, .also 
such copies of my letters as I have at 
this time that you may inspect them. 
Would you take this matter up with the 
shipper and endeavor to get some satis¬ 
factory adjustment of this deal? The 
register and transfer papers sent me for 
this pig show that a boar known as 
.Tewell’s Rival (5th 241T57 was sold May 
7 to J. Will Mayes, Howard, Pa., by E. 
M. Archey, Mill Hall, Pa., also that tMs 
same pig was sold on May 26 by J. Will 
Rlayes to me, which would indicate that 
Mr. Mayes bought this pig to fill my 
order, and took anything that be could 
get at that time. C. B. F. 
New York. 
With reference to the above transac¬ 
tion we had always regarded the propri¬ 
etor of Pride Home Farm as a reliable 
breeder. He has, however, entirely ig¬ 
nored our letters in the subscriber’s be¬ 
half. and regardless of the merits of the 
subscriber’s complaint, we decline to en¬ 
dorse or recommend* any breeder who 
either refuses or neglects to reply to let¬ 
ters regarding a complaint of this kind. 
The advertising of Pride Home Farm 
and the proprietor, J. Will Mayes, are 
barred from the columns of The Rukai. 
New-Yorker for the future. 
What do you think of the Frontier 
Preparatory School at Buffalo, N. Y., as 
advertised in the pamphlet enclosed? 
West Virginia. A. J. T, 
The following letter from a Vermont 
.subscriber will serve as a guide to the 
West Virginia inquirer, and others who 
are lured towards parting with money on 
this corresponding school scheme; 
The enclosed advertisement of the 
Frontier Preparatory, School, Buffalo, 
N. Y.. has been going the rounds of papers 
and magazines, and is evidently a fraud. 
CAc RURAL. N 
My son sent them $.'55 for 10 lessons, and 
they guaranteed to secure him a i)osition 
if he ranked above a certain percentage, 
or his money back. After he had taken 
four or five lessons he could not hear from 
them. Can you help me to get his money 
back? w. V. F. 
Vermont. 
Some time ago I sent Mr. M. Stone, 93 
Attorney St,, New York, 222 lbs, live 
ducks. He sent me $.‘50 on account. 
Since then I have not heard anything 
from him. Will you kindly look this up 
for me? K. I. B. 
•New York. 
Mr. Stone is not at the address given 
and our letters are returned with the in¬ 
formation that he is “Out of business; 
present address unknown.” If he appears 
at another address soliciting shipments, 
bear this experience in mind. 
I am a reader of The R. N.-Y. and 
thought I would write you of a little 
experience I have had. About three 
months ago an agent for the Household 
.Tournal came to my door and encouraged 
me to take the journal for one year free 
with the under.standing that I pay the 
postage which would'be two cents or 24 
cents for the 12 months. I paid the 
postage and up to the present date have 
not received it. I Avrote them to that 
effect but do not get any answer. It is 
not the amount that I care about, but the 
idea. I take notice of your magazine 
advertising these fake concerns I would 
surely appreciate if you would look this 
concern over as if they really are fakes. 
I think they should be advertised. 
New .Ters-'y. MRS. ii. n. 
The ,Sub.scriptiou Clearing House of 
America, 15.515 Lincoln Ave., Chicago, 
Ill., made no reply to our inquiries, and 
while the amount involved is not large, 
their indifference to the order is un- 
Avai-ranted. “.lust enough to pay the post¬ 
age” is the slogan of fake subscription 
agents. Beware of all agents soliciting 
subscriptions on this basis—the character 
■of papers, sold in this way, is such that 
they are a menace to any decent family. 
I put my property over eight years ago 
in the hands of I). B. Cornell Co., CJreat 
Barrington, Mass.; had heard nothing 
from them in a long time until this Fall 
I received a very innocent looking blank 
asking whether I would care to keep my 
list of farm on their books. I wrote them 
if it would be better for them to do so, I 
would drop it. Then they ordered me to 
pay dismissal fee in five days or get sued. 
I begged to have them replace my name 
and they refused. I finally paid bill, as 
I was sick and poor, begging them to 
judge whether it was right to take my last 
cent. c. E. 
Connecticut. 
The Cornell scheme as outlined above 
is the most alluring and pernicious that 
has ever come to our attention in real es¬ 
tate transactions. Ostrander originated 
the “advance fee” plan. Strout followed 
with the “withdrawal fee.” Ostrander is 
out of the real estate business, and Strout 
has dropped the withdrawal fee scheme. 
But Cornell has adopted the combination 
of both “ listing fee” and “ withdrawal 
fee.” He gets his victims coming and go¬ 
ing. Many fanners prefer to pay tribute 
of this kind rather than go to the trouble 
and expense of defending a lawsuit, but 
where a farmer shows fight and puts his 
case in the hands of a competent lawyer, 
Cornell or his attorney fails to appear in 
court. This happened in the case of C. 
E. N., report of which appeared in this 
column, issue of September 1, 1917, page 
1016. 
The Grant Lands Locating Company 
and C. Ferguson Smith, its sole promoter, 
have come under the ban of the Post Of¬ 
fice Department in the form of a fraud 
order just issued against the concern, 
which has had its headquarters at Port¬ 
land, Ore. Smith advertised that the 
United States Government was opening 
certain Oregon lands for entry and agreed 
to sell maps of the same to prospective 
locators for one dollar each. He repre¬ 
sented that immediate action was neces¬ 
sary in order to secure the pick of the 
area open to entry. As a matter of fact 
the lands ■were not open to homeseekeri 
and had not even be-n classified, a neces¬ 
sary preliminary step. In addition to 
that the maps were practically worthless 
for the selection of desirable tracts of 
land in that they did not show the com¬ 
parative advantages of one section over 
another. General descriptions on the 
back of the map had been taken bodily 
from an Oregon almanac.— associated 
ADVERTISING CLUBS, NATIONAL VIGILANCB 
COMMITTEE. 
The above is a fair sample of the way 
the land sharks deceive the public. The 
Post Office Department has put a stop 
to the scheme now after the promoter 
has reaped a harvest of dollars from the 
public. By giving publicity to these 
E W-YO R K E R 
frauds we hope to familiarize our readers 
with the practices of sharpers, so that 
the “earmarks” will be detected when 
deceptive schem®" of any kind are pre¬ 
sented. ’ 
Received the two checks of Adams Ex¬ 
press Co. from you, with thanks; did not 
expect them so soon. It always takes 
them about 10 months before I can get 
any pay. and I neA’er could get the full 
amount from them before. s. A. w. 
New York. 
We were also agreeably surprised to 
receive payment so promptly from the 
express company. We are not always so 
successful. Why claims should be per¬ 
mitted to drag anywhere from six months 
to a year is incomprehensible. A good 
business house ■would have a system of 
payment that would do away with need¬ 
less delays in investigation and adjust¬ 
ment. This is why your representatives 
at Albany should enact some legislation 
that would compel settlements within 60 
days J- J- 
A Chapter on Sugar 
(Continued from page 1445) 
made up of five members—^two friun Eng¬ 
land and three from this country, the 
cliairman. being George M. Rolph, under 
the appointment of the United States 
Food Admini.strator. He is general man¬ 
ager of the California-llawaiian Sugar Re¬ 
fining Company, which is owned and con¬ 
trolled by the Hawaiian sugar planters. 
Earl D. Babst of the American sugar 
trust is a member of the sugar control 
committee. This committee fixed a price 
of .$$..‘55 per hundred for granulated sugar 
at whole.sale. They sell to jobbers, job¬ 
bers sell to retailers, and retailers to 
consumers. No price has been fixed for 
Domino sugar, which is a siiecial brand 
put up by the sugar trust and .sold at 
IGc a pound. No price was made for the 
old-fashioned brown sugar, which pre- 
A'iously sold three-quarters of a cent below 
refined sugar. During the short supply 
of sugar the trust has insisted that pur¬ 
chases of granulated sugar at the fixed 
price must also buy quantitie.s of Domino 
sugar at 16c a pound, or of the old- 
fashioned brown sugar at half a cent a 
pound above the price fixed for granu¬ 
lated. This is a sample of the jugglery 
of prices and distribution by men who 
are clothed Avith Government authority 
to regulate prices of necessary articles 
of food. The American Sugar Refining 
Company, of Avhich Mr. Babst is presi¬ 
dent, by the Avay. has been accused by 
the Government of organizing a trust, 
and has been a long time awaiting trial 
on the charges. The i.ssue is yet unde¬ 
termined. It will be remembered that 
this concern Avas accused some time ago 
of having tapped the city Avater mains to 
.secure Avater Avithout paying for it, and 
it Avas also discovered to have tricked the 
scales _in measuring sugar on Avhich the 
Government fixed import duties. Of 
course people without sugar Avill not 
quibble about the price when it is a ques¬ 
tion of paying or not getting it, but such 
men in such positions ai-e not intended 
to inspire the public Avith complete con¬ 
fidence in distribution or control methods. 
Dry Mash 
What is you opinion of the followinsr 
ingredients for a dry mash for Tx‘ghorns? 
Four bushels barley, two bushels buck¬ 
wheat, four bushels oats; all ground to¬ 
gether ; to each 100 pounds of this mix¬ 
ture add 25 pounds bran, 25 pounds glu¬ 
ten and 25 pounds of the best grade of 
beef scrap. G. P. P. 
New Jersey. 
Since you Avill feed the barley, wheat 
and oats, or their equivalent, as scratch 
grain, I should prefer to make the basis 
of the dry mash from the higher protedu 
milling by-products, Avheat bran and mid¬ 
dlings. The grains you mention run about 
12 per cent protein, Avhile the bran and 
middlings contain from 15 to 16 per cent. 
The dry mash used in the fifth contest of 
the Storrs Agricultural .Station* is a_good 
example of a laying mash for Winter, 
though Avith the present high price of 
meat scrap comparatively^ few will prob¬ 
ably use it in. this proportion. This mash 
consists of equal parts by AA'eight of 
wheat bran, flour middlings, cornmeal, 
ground oats and meat scrap. Another 
mash that has been much used and Avith 
satisfaction contains equal parts by 
AA’eight of Avheat bran, standard mid¬ 
dlings, cornmeal. gluten feed, and meat 
scrap. Ground oats might be substituted 
for cornmeal in this formula if corn made 
a part of the whole grain fed. m. b. n. 
Dividing a Herd of Cattle 
What is the fairest way to divide cat¬ 
tle on a rented farm Avhere the tenant is 
to have “half the increa.se”? Should 
owner and tenant toss up for first choice, 
or should the cattle be. sold and the pro¬ 
ceeds diA'ided between the tAvo? 
RelatlA-e to dividing the live stock in¬ 
crease on a tenant farm, I should think 
the fairest Avay Avould be to set the stock 
up at auction and split the proceeds. Un¬ 
less the records of production were kept 
On the dams, the matter of tossing up for 
first choice, etc., Avould be a gamble for 
both OAA'ner and tenant, with the tenant, 
who had been Avorkiug with the stock, 
haA’ing a .shade the better of the argu¬ 
ment, I should say. n. F. J. 
We would consider the proposition to 
sell all the stock, each to buy in what he 
Avants, or take half the proceeds, fair to 
both parties; however, in case the parties 
Avish to divide the stock Avitbout the ex¬ 
pense of a sale, we suggest that as the 
one making fii'St choice undoubtedly has 
some advantage, he then allow the other 
to select tAA'O, and after that each take 
turns in choosing. F. P. Saunders & son. 
New Y'ork. 
I hardly belie\’e that either party can 
force the sale of the cattle to make a di¬ 
vision. If the matter Avere brought into 
court. I think that the judge Avould hold 
that a sale Avould mean an unnecessary 
expense Avhich neither party would have 
a right to impose iH)on the other, and 
then the judge would proceed* to order a 
division of the cattle to be made by such 
parties as he might select. Of course, the 
expense of taking the matter into court 
Avould probably be greater than that of a 
sale, and the party trying to force the 
sale Avould fail in his purpose in-the end. 
Under most circumstauc s, it would be 
all right to toss up for first choice. But. 
in case of purebred animals, one, because 
of superior breeding, might be worth .sev¬ 
eral of the others. In such a case, it 
Avould be proper for each to choose a man 
to divide the cattle, and in case of their 
failure to agree, they should chcose a 
third man. There should be no trouble 
in making the division if both parties 
Avant to be hone.st, but I remember one 
case in which the owner of the farm 
tried to take an advantage of the renter. 
In this instance, the animals Avere part 
purebred and part grades. The renter did 
not knoAV which Avere registered animals, 
and the OAvner refused to tell him. This 
of course gave the OAvner a big advantage 
over the other felloAA', but strong threats 
of a laAVSuit brought him to time. As an 
excuse for his action, the oAvner claimed 
that he had repeatedly told the man 
which the registered coavs were, but 
through his indifference, he failed to fix 
them in his mind, and the owner took 
this way to make him see the error of his 
carelessness. 
On the other hand, if the renter attends 
to his business as he should, he ought to 
know more about the cattle than the 
OAvner, for he sees them CA’ery day and 
should be intimately acquainted Avith their 
state of health and all peculiarities. If 
the oAvner is not a good judge of cattle, 
or is able to see them at long intervals 
only, it Avould pndjably be to his advan¬ 
tage to leaA’e the division to disinterested 
parties. It Avould be very hard to make 
a rule that Avould work to the e<iual ad¬ 
vantage of both parties in all cases. The 
parties should knoAV if they are com¬ 
petent to judge, and if one knoAvs that he 
is not, lie Avould be very unAvise to let the 
other felloAV bluff him into a transaction 
where he Avill be pretty ce>.-tain to get the 
AA'Orst of it. J. GRANT MORSE. 
NeAV Y'ork. 
The custom in this locality is for the 
man on the farm that raised the cattle to 
divide them as near as he possibly can, 
one lot on one side of the stable and the 
other lot on the other side. His having 
milked the coavs and raised the stock and 
knowing all about them would qualifv 
him for doing this better than the man 
who OAvned the farm. Then let the man 
•who OAvned the farm take first choice. 
This compels the tenant to be fair, as he 
does not knoAV which side the OAA'ner Avill 
take. As for tossing un for first choice, 
that is not fair, for if the coavs are even 
in number it compels second choice to 
take the scrub of the lot, as he gets the 
last cow or heifer, so it virtually makes 
a difference of the price of the poorest 
animal in ■the flock, and the best, which 
is sometimes bid on here, the one giving 
most for first choice to take it. If un¬ 
even number of cows, they auction bid for 
the odd animal. JOHN C. reagan. 
NeAV Y'ork. 
The tenant and I decide it by carrying 
to a stated age and then selling, either 
side having the privilege of buying at the 
market. The age picked is the most prof¬ 
itable age for us. so that the animal need 
not be carried over needlessly. We pri¬ 
marily raise stock for sale, and the in¬ 
come is steadier that AA'ay. together Avith¬ 
out the danger of outstandii.o' breeders go¬ 
ing off the farm. The method of each 
taking an animal in turn is pernicious in 
that the occasional exceptional animal 
goes entirely to one party without the 
other’s sharing, and in that it gives an 
opportunity for the frailer side of human 
nature, scamiung the other man’s stock, 
jealousy, etc. 'The toss of a coin might 
have to decide argumertt over an occas¬ 
sional animal. j. P. l. 
New York. 
