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tJhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 29, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Happy New Year 
For three years the founder of this de¬ 
partment has been in another service for 
the jiroducers of the country, and inci¬ 
dentally for the consumers of farm food 
products. In the meantime his contri¬ 
butions hcfe have been only occasional; 
but the interest in it and the concern for 
it has never lagged. The food problem 
has not been solved. The problems un¬ 
dertaken here are not solved. Neither of 
them ever will be solved in the sen.se 
that we can drop them. Human nature 
must be reckoned wdth in all things tem- 
jioral. and human nature is ever involved 
in the food problems and the things we 
treat here. "We can only hope to maintain 
the gains made in the past and improve 
on the conditions of the present by vigil¬ 
ance. good example and worthy ideals. In 
view of the things yet to be done, we make 
no boasts of things accomplished, nor 
promises of things to be done. In the 
past we have simply done our best. We 
will do no less in the future. We are 
proud of the friends who help in every 
forward step taken. Without such co- 
ope -ation we could do little in ourselves. 
AWth the continued help of such staunch 
friends we hoi)e to do our part in the 
future. Never before in the history of 
this paper did subscription renewals and 
new sub.scriptions pour into the office in 
such large numbers as they did during 
this December. That is the vote of con¬ 
fidence and expression of continued friend¬ 
ship that w'e look forward to at this time 
every year. It is the assurance that 
gives courage and purpose for the tasks 
of the New Year. 
We would like to feel that each year 
The R. N.-Y. has contributed in some 
me.-isure to the comforts, the pleasures 
and the happiness of the farm home. We 
do not hope to accomplish this so much 
through anything we ourselves can alone 
contribute, but through the working to¬ 
gether with the men and women and 
children who make up the great Rural 
family, and so as the old year fades, :iiid 
the dawn of a new year approaches, we 
wish you and yours a happy and pros¬ 
perous New Year. 
A wild stock-selling venture came to an 
end yesterdav evening when .Toseph N. 
Pugh’ and Charles R. G.-aj;, youthful pro¬ 
moters, were convicted in the Itnited 
States Coui’t of fraudulent use of the 
mails in connection with the sale of stock 
of the Granlund Motors Corporation. Ac¬ 
cording to Howard B. Mayhew, postoffiee 
inspector, who was the principal witness 
for the Government, the partners sold 
onlv about ,$8,000 wordi of the Granlund 
Motors stock, although the company was 
incorporated for $1,000,000. Their plans 
were nipped by quick action of Ihe postal 
authorities.'—Daily Papers. 
It is well that this swindle was sup¬ 
pressed before a larger amount of money 
was lost to innocent investors. The $S;000 
taken in by these parties probably repre¬ 
sents the savings through self-denial and 
privation by a dozen or more individuals. 
The lesson for country people in the con¬ 
viction of these young swindlers is to be 
suspicious of all the investment propo¬ 
sitions seeking their savings. In the first 
place, legitimate enterprises with good as¬ 
sets or prospects do not seek country cap¬ 
ital—and do not need to. The promoters 
in this case appropriated the prospectus 
of another concern, changing only the firm 
name, and faked a picture of a cotton 
storage, representing that it was the pho- 
togr.aph of the Granlund Motors factory. 
There has never been a time when safe 
and sound investments were so plentiful. 
Besides the Liberty Bonds, than which 
there can be no greater safety, the bonds 
and preferred stock of the most substan¬ 
tial and prosperous railroads and other 
enterprises beai'ing good interest rates can 
be purchased at bargain prices. Those 
who part with their money on the strength 
of a glowing prospectus or the representa¬ 
tion of slick-tongued stock salesmen are 
ju-etty sure never to see it again. 
October 27 I ordered a pair of steel 
shoes. I sent the cash, a money order for 
$() the price of the shoes, to N. M. Ruth- 
stein. the Steel Shoe Man, Racme, Wis. 
I have not heard from him yet. I wrote 
him weeks ago either to send me the 
money or the shoes by return mail, but no 
word’from him yet. Seeing the ad.ertise- 
ment in your paper I thought it safe to 
send him the cash. I need the shoes very 
badly. I hope you will help me to get the 
shoes or the money back. n. A. C. 
Washington. 
The Washington subscriber is mistaken 
in saying he saw this advertisement in 
The R. N.-Y. We receive a good many 
complaints of this sort, but we think “B. 
A. C.” will eventually get the shoes. 
Enclosed you will find correspondence 
from Dellmer (’randall. 218 East 20th St.. 
New York City; also gives adddress at 
White Plains. N. Y. I hear of several 
other farmers who allege Crandall has 
swindled them out of shipments of pro¬ 
duce. II. v. 
New A'ork. 
Our readers have been warned previous¬ 
ly about the methods of Mr. Crandall. 
His plan is to advertise, giving the im- 
I)ression he wants to buy a farm. After 
the correspondence is opened he asks the 
farm owner to ship him some apples, eggs, 
etc. He then forgets to pay for them 
and claims against him are uncollectable. 
In H. y.’s ca.se Mr. Crandall got a ship¬ 
ment of apples on credit and then wanted 
eggs, sending .a note to cover both the 
apple shipment and the anticipat<'d egg 
shipment. When the apples were not 
paid for as agreed 11. V. became sus¬ 
picious, and wisely refused to ship the 
eggs. Farmers cannot be too careful 
about .shipping ])roduce to unknown par¬ 
ties. There is no knowing when one of 
these sharpers may appear in disguise. 
The only safety is to know the reliability 
of the individual or house before parting 
with the produce! 
My daughter, who was teaching a small 
district school last year at the time, was 
approached by an agent of “The Athe- 
nmum” of Ft. Wayne, Ind.. who induced 
her to sign a contract for instruction in 
typewriting. The girl was not and is not 
now of legal age, but the agent pointed 
out to her that she was "old enough to 
know her own mind," and refused to give 
her time to consult anyone, so her con¬ 
tract was signed and involved something 
like $112, a sum she could not afford to 
pay. Having collected $15 cash from her 
he retired. On learning of the transaction 
I instructed her to write these people re¬ 
questing a release from her contract; in 
the meantime they sent her a set of in¬ 
struction books on bookkeeping, but the 
typewriter wdiich the agent promised did 
not, nor has not. arrived. I have “The 
Athen.'cum” reply, refusing release, I 
then wrote them myself, stating my 
daughter was a minor and requested them 
to address all later communications to me. 
They replied to my letter, insisting the 
girl would be held legally responsible and 
have continued annoying her with letters. 
Now, I was willing to di’op the $15 ca.sh 
which their smooth agent wheedled out of 
her, and as she had made no use of books 
or received any instructions I claimed she, 
if of age, would be entitled.to withdraw. 
However, in view of their action, I insist 
on the return of that $15 which they ille¬ 
gally secured. I claim they did not live 
up to the promises made by their agent 
and as her parent and legal guardian I 
demand that they desist from annoying 
her further. w. D. s. 
New York. 
“The Atheuseum" of Ft. Wayne, Ind., 
seems to be a correspondence course fac¬ 
tory, selling their product on the “book 
agent" plan or system. The agents of 
this house seem to solicit the teaching 
profession principally—at b ast it is from 
teachers that we have heard of the "Athe- 
nseum" schemes. In this case the victim 
is a minor and the parent is entirely 
within his rights in demanding the return 
of the $15 which this young girl was per¬ 
suaded to part with without her parents’ 
advice or consent. We have written “The 
Athenaeum" in behalf of W. D. 8., but t>ur 
letters are ignored. Threats of suit are 
still being mailed to this young girl in 
order to frighten her into paying the bal¬ 
ance of the money on the contract. We 
predict “The Athenaeum” will not make 
good their bluff by coming into court. W. 
D. S. shows the right spirit by fighting 
the imposition and refusing to be meekly 
held up as so many farmers allow them¬ 
selves to be. 
Another victory in the .shape of a court 
decision has been won. this time against 
the Southprn Railway C'ompany. They 
refused to pay a shipper in full for eggs 
broken, stained, cracked in transit. There 
was also a shortage of one dozen eggs. 
The damage was so great the entire ship¬ 
ment had to be repacked, causing a loss 
of $24.38. and ,$0.18 for the actual labor. 
The shipper took the case to court and 
the judge decided in his favor, so that 
the Southern Railway was compelled to 
pay the full amount of loss and labor, as 
well as the costs. This confirms the be¬ 
lief that the railroads are responsible for 
such damage, and we believe it will apply 
to the express companies, irrespective of 
their arbitrary rulings. The pity of it is 
that so many of the claims are for 
amounts that do not justify the expense 
of a suit, but if there are a number of 
complaints from any one section a joint 
.suit could be brought with less expense. 
However, with this decision and the re¬ 
cent decision relative to the 5% breakage 
insisted upon by the express companies, 
we believe they will be more inclined to 
adjust claims. 
When making shipments have an under¬ 
standing with the consignee that all dam¬ 
age must be filed with the transportation 
company and verified by them, so that the 
record will be complete. When sending 
claims to us for adjustment, send all the 
papers in connection with them—express 
receipts, account sales and whatever cor¬ 
respondence has been received. 
Records of Black Leghorns 
The result of the egg-laying contests, 
written by Mr. Cosgrove on page 1361, 
was interesting. IMr. Cosgrove thinks it’s 
quite unexplainable why the Stores con¬ 
test beat the Vineland contest after the 
Vineland contest gained such a large lead. 
I’ossibly IMr. Cosgrove did not learn that 
every bird at Vineland was attacked by 
chickenpox during August and September, 
which caused a fall off of at least 1,000 
eggs i)er week for six weeks. My own 
pen of Black Leghorns was knocked off 
from 40 to 15 eggs in two weeks, thereby 
causing me to lose the high score of my 
breed. 
I have been a breeder of Black Leg¬ 
horns for over 12 years. Before we had 
the Black Leghorns we had the Rock.s, 
Reds and White Leghorns, and I can 
truthfully say the Black Leghorn beats 
them all and then some. I have never 
heard of a Black I.eghorn breeder giving 
them up for some other breed. Formerly 
nothing but a Red or Wyandotte was sup¬ 
posed to lay in the Winter time, but the 
Vineland egg-laying contest reports show 
the following monthly average standing 
for the Black Leghorns: November 5, 
December 2. .Tanuary 1, February 1, 
March 1, April 2, May 1, .lune 2, .Inly 2, 
August 2, September .3, October 7, with 
total average for the year of 48 per cent. 
I happen to know the three pens of Black 
Leghorns were simply good average farm 
stock, nothing trap-ne.sted. and yet they 
beat some of the widely advertised trap- 
nested stock, with a record of 175 eggs 
per bird for the 30 pullets entered. 
The hen that lays is the hen that pays, 
and I. claim the Black l.cghorn is the 
greatest Winter layer on earth, as scores 
of reports I have from people who have 
them will show. Of my own .stock I know 
one of my Black Leghorn hens was worth 
three of any of my neighbors’ White I.ieg- 
horn.s last .Tanuary. February and March. 
At least they outlaid them three to one. 
Many people ask me what is the differ¬ 
ence between a Minorca and a Black Leg¬ 
horn. Only about as much difference as 
day and night. A Minorca is a very large 
fowl, while a Black Leghorn is a dainty 
little miss, having the same shape, weight 
and size as any other standard Leghorn, 
although some of the White Leghorns I 
now see look more like a White Rock than 
a Leghorn. Imagine a Leghorn with a 
plossy black plumage with a greenish 
sheen, bright red wattles, almond-shaped 
and pure white ear lobes, red eyes, yellow 
legs and carriage as proud as a peafowl, 
and you have a picture of the Black Leg¬ 
horn. They lay a large pure white egg, 
and they are, I believe, the only black 
plumaged bird whose flesh dresses yellow 
for market purposes. Their flesh i.s as 
yellow as a White Leghorn’s for market 
purposes. Their feathers being black they 
do not soil or show the dust and dirt as 
does a light-feathered fowl. A white- 
feathered fowl, when either closely con¬ 
fined or out in the wet. is one of the dirt- 
iest-looking things imaginable, w’hile the 
Black Leghorn still shines on. A Black 
I.eghorn chick is the easiest chick in the 
world to raise, seldom attacked by diar¬ 
rhoea. While my neighbors are burying 
their White Leghorn chicks, claiming all 
manner of trouble, I keep right on smiling 
and ask them to come and see how I raise 
my Black Leghorns. A. E. hamptox. 
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