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Jihe RURAi. NEW-YORKER 
January 5, 191S 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I iim a subscriber, and see where you 
helped hundreds of your subscribers out 
of trouble. I 'am in the worst trouble 
that I ever was. I had an oil engine 
shii)ped from the-Co., Oct. 12. I have 
ihe 'bill of lading. I think the railroad 
is in f.Hult the most. The-Co. has 
my money, and they claim they have a 
t racer after it for the last mouth, but 
it does not arrive. J. G. 
I )elaware. 
Since the manufacturer of the engine 
has forwarded Ihe bill of lading to the 
^■ustomer, the delay in delivery is clearly 
uj) to the railroad. Fi-eight conditions 
!U-e deplorable at the pre.sent time. The 
condition is largely due to the war, and 
undei’ these circumstances all must be 
patient even though subjected to incon¬ 
veniences and loss. 1V(‘ hope conditions 
may improve with the Coveniment control 
of the railroads. Under lu-esent condi¬ 
tions it behooves farmers to order all 
goods, machinery, seeds, etc., they may 
need during the Spring as early as po.s- 
sible. Ilesides the probability of delay, 
there will be .a shortage in many lines, 
and the early orders will get the available 
suj'pty. Order early! 
lanclosed is some literature from 
Wlu'eler & Co., ('hicago. Ill. The firm is 
distributing knitting machines and yarn 
on dej)osit of $2.0 or more. I have written 
these jteople iind laapiested them either to 
si'nd the machine and yarn or refund the 
money which I sent in postal money order. 
They acknowledged rec«>iving the money. 
Since then they are not j'aying any atten¬ 
tion. 1 Imve sent them S.'IO in all, .$2.1 
for knitting nuudiine and .$o for tin- yarn. 
Please get the money. I gave up that 
business of knitting. .1. A. I.. 
Pennsylvania. 
The i)i‘oposition of Wlu'eler & C<i.. Chi¬ 
cago. is )-ather alluring to those wlm arc* 
not familiar with woi-k-at-homc scbeim's. 
Our letters in behalf of .T. A. L. have been 
ignored. 'I'liis does not surprise us. The 
record in the transaction will serve as a 
guid<‘ for others. 
Can you give me an idea of the out¬ 
come of the American U<\al Pstate Co.’s 
bankrujitcy jirocewlings V Is tlier! any 
A'alue to their bonds or preferr<“d stock? 
Khode Island. a. a. S. 
The merits of the American Real Us- 
t.ate Co. investments were so fiaaiuently 
discussed durijig th(“ ]).ast It) year.s in 
this column that none of oiii- old-tiim^ 
readers had any excuse for getting '-aught. 
The j)roperty of -the company is in the 
hands of receivers foi- li'iuid.-ition .-iial no 
definite statement has yet been given (.I’t. 
'I'he estimate of those in 'j>o.sition to judge 
of the matter is tln-it .sufficient will not be 
realized from the assets of the company 
to sittisfy the bondhol(b*rs. in which event 
tin- stockhold(‘rs of tin* company will real¬ 
ize nothing. 
Could you tell me what I should do 
with regard to the enclos<'d letter ami cir¬ 
cular of II. L. Rarla-r Co., Chieag iV 
'I’liis comi)any has sent a l(*tter of th’s 
kind every week. Will you try to fin i 
out if the coinijany is a fraud, or will it 
jiay to inv('st a small sum? A. l’. 
New York. 
The best jidvice we can give the rc-.-ider 
is to put all such literatun- in the fire 
as fast as it is received. The letter and 
pi’ospectus is an ai)i)eal for inv(-stment 
in the stock of (Commonwealth Picture 
Cori)oration, ('hi<-ago, of which II. 1.. 
P.arber I'c ('>. apiiear to be fiscal agents, 
AVe have iirosi)ectuses on file of various 
conc<‘rns for which Rarber & Co. have 
acted in a similar capacity. If any of 
these enterprises have j)aid dividends reg- 
ul:irly after the stock-selling ))eriod we 
hiive never heard of it. The big profits 
estim.-ited to be inadt- by this concern are 
artfully pictui-ed by the wily promot('r. 
Rarber. There is no pretense that any 
l)rofits have been eariu'd up to this time, 
as we learn from the prosj)e<-tus that the 
€nter])rise is not yet launched. AAdiy any¬ 
one .should invest a penny in an enterprise 
the sticcess or failure of which lies in the 
future is more than we can comprehend. 
There is no basis to warrant :i moment's 
consideration aside from the glowing 
I'icture of future profits si'un by this pro¬ 
fessional promoter. At the pre.sent time 
the stocks of substantial business houses, 
and i)ublic .service corporations. Avith 
iimple assets, earning more than the legal 
rate of interest, can be purchased below 
l)ar. AA'e are not advocating the purchase 
of (‘ither class of stock; but for tho.se who 
art' booking for investments the latter class 
offers substantial value, while the former 
only “promises" and “jtroSpects.” 
I shipped a crate of sprouts to C. .T. 
I’eters, Washington Market, New York, 
and one to M. Rurkhard, at the same ad- 
dre.ss. The amount is not large, but I 
have never received payment. Can you 
help me? s. L. P. 
New York. 
Roth these parties have left Washing¬ 
ton Market and no trace of them can be 
found. Another ca.se of the advisability of 
looking up records before parting with 
your goods. 
1 noticed in Dec. 15 issue an inquiry 
by ,1. K. \j. regarding Geo. K. Iligbie A 
('o., Roche.ster. N. Y. Last .Summer an 
agent in the employ of Iligbie A Co. can¬ 
vassed Northern Pennsylvania selling 
sj)eltz or emmer, claiming it would yield 
from S5 to 12.1 bu.shels per acre. About 
7.1 i)er cent of the farmers bit. Ilis price 
was .$.‘>.r)0 per bu.; his orders ran from 
five to 20 bu. to nearly all the farmers. 
A short time before this agent (I think 
his name was Dillenbeck) came through 
another agent was around selling Iligbie's 
Golden Unsilage s*‘ed corn; that was •$•>.10 
per bu. He claimed great things for that, 
but those who bought found that only 
.-ibout 70 i)er cent of the seed grew; that 
Wits from a test in the house, and instead 
of its being two weeks earlier than Ream¬ 
ing, as he claimed, it was about that much 
later. The farmers around here have 
learned a dear lesson, and will buy from 
local dealers in the future. ^ .1. K. I,, or 
.-niyone else will regr<‘t it if they don’t 
follow the advice of Tin-: R. N.-Y. E. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
No Comment on the exiJ'erience relatt'd 
in the above letter seems lu'cessary. 
I want to thank you for the trouble I 
have put you to in collecting my claims 
for me, but the fact is that they will pay 
more attention to you than they will to 
us farmers. I want to thank you, too, 
not only for myself but all of the egg pro- 
ducer.s. for the ruling that you got through 
in regard to the five per cent breakage of 
eggs. It is a shame the way the express 
companies handle eggs, especially at this 
time, when the country is so badly in need 
of provisions. D. B. II. 
New York. 
The subscriber is right. It is a shame 
the way egg .shipments are handled. If 
the express companies would do their bit 
they w’ould see that messengers were 
handling shipments in a proper manner. 
Possibly if the handlers of these eggs 
were docked as persistently as the farm¬ 
ers have been, they w’ould learn to regard 
the rights of the shipper."!. 
There is « firm at Rloomfield, N. .7., 
manufacturei-s of trusses for rupture. The 
name is Chas. Cluthe & Sons. They claim 
a heap for their trusses and ofl'er tlu-m on 
00 days’ test, but have to have tlu' pay 
when they send them, and if not satisfac¬ 
tory at the end of 00 days they say they 
will return the money. Are they a re¬ 
sponsible firm and will they do as they 
sayV IS. s. 
A’irginia. 
AA''e could not recfunmend Chas. Cluthe 
& Rons because we have found in other 
cases where subscribers have order<‘d a 
truss when they once get the money for 
the truss the firm refiises to n'fund the 
money under one pretext or another. 
Do you know anything about the H. M. 
AVhiting Nurs<'ry Co., at Geneva. N. A'., in 
regard to what Air. AA'hiting tells one. or 
can 1 di'pi'iul on wb.-it he s.-iysV v. w. 
Ohio. 
Air. AA'hiting may ha\e sold tre-es with¬ 
out misrepresenting th<‘in. but we have 
yet to hear of it. AA1' have rei)orts of 
many cases wlier.- he has misrepresented 
the trees in order to secure signatures of 
farnu'rs to an ord<'r for th(*m. In fact, 
we (hi not see how it would 1 m' possible 
for Air. AA’hiting to sell trees at the prices 
he gets and tell th<‘ truth about them. It 
is a.scribing to his trees qualities they do 
not jK'ssess that enables him to secure 
orders at fabulous prices. 
Hay, .$1^1 and ,$1(5 in barns. Aliddlings 
cost .$.‘1 to $3.‘!0 ijer cwt.; corumeal 
(new), .$.3.40; potatoes, .$1..10 bu.; oats, 
00c. AA’heat is looking weak. The cold, 
wet Fall did not give it a chiinc«' to grow, 
and then very hard freezing with the 
ground bare has been very hard on it. 
Crawford Co., Pa. G. u. c. 
At auction sale for cash cows cost $.10 
to .$(50; ,3.1 Iambs sold. $442; pair of 
matched mares. $425; one mare. $21.1; 
two brood sows, 300 lbs. weight. $132; 
one $(50, the other $(5.3; AA'hite Leghorn 
pullets, each. $1.55; potatoes in cellar, 
per bu., 05c; api)les. $1.2.1. Farm tools 
sold for more than they cost last .Spring. 
Potatoes retail in Ringhamton, .$1.60; 
cabbage. 2c per lb.; chickens, 25c per lb., 
live ; i)ork. drc'ssed. 20c per lb. it. o. A. 
Rroome Co., N. Y. 
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You should find Lambertville Footwear for sale at the best store in your locality. Not 
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