826 
June 22, 1918 
G>ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Pittsburg, June 7.—One of the most 
bitter and long-drawn-out trials seen in 
the local United States District Court 
for some time was brought to a close this 
morning, when a jury returned a verdict 
of guilty against the officials of the Na¬ 
tional Hog Company, with branches at 
Finleyville, Washington County; Ashtola, 
Somerset County, and Miesse, New 
Mexico. Justin Ashton, president of the 
company, was found guilty under four 
counts, and Perry A. Shanor. secretary 
and treasurer, was found guilty under 
one count. The men were charged with 
using the United States mail to defraud, 
and with conspiracy.—Washington, Pa., 
Ohscrver. 
The above item is perhaps the last we 
shall hear of the National Hog Company 
scheme. The RxtraIj New-Yorker 
warned the public against investment in 
the scheme from its inception. Ashton 
has had several imitators since this com¬ 
pany Avas launched. All of them are 
palpable swindles unless one is so charit¬ 
able as to believe this class of i)romoters 
ai’e dreamers or crazy. There is no evi¬ 
dence of either symptom Avheu it comes 
to taking in the ca.sh of their victims and 
holding on to it. 
The Chadwin Tire & Rubber Co.. 1777 
Rroadwav, New York; the Overoad Tire 
Co N. Y. Citv; the New Jersey Tire A 
Rubber Co., 20 Clinton Street, Newark, 
N. J., are the same crowd of sharks, I 
am confident, as run the Hercules Tire 
Co., 1777 Broadway, Ner York CR.v. 
They can start under a new name as fast 
as you can expose them in your paper. 
The Chadwin Tire Co. has discontinued 
their advertising in the Hartford Vomant 
Sunday edition. F. H.'". 
Connecticut. 
It is very true that the “gyp" tire con¬ 
cerns can change the name under which 
they do business faster than The R. N.-Y. 
can expose them, as the subscriber states. 
We are trying to make our readers so 
familiar with the methods of the tire 
“gyps” ‘•hat they will recognize the ear¬ 
marks on sight. Any house making ex¬ 
travagant claims, such as “save 50</r on 
tires” or quoting ridiculously low prices, 
can safely be put down as a “gyp” con¬ 
cern. The bigger the apparent bargain 
offered the more the concern is to be 
avoided. 
On Nov. 27, I chipped to P. J. Keenan. 
Orange. N. J., eggs valued at 5R15.12. I 
received a letter stating eggs were re- 
coived iu bad condition; case looked as if 
it had been opened, and nine dozen were 
missing. Several letters wei’e written, 
but lately I received a check for $15.12, 
stating a claim had been presented to the 
express company for the lost eggs. An 
order for more eggs was enclosed. I 
shipped him a case valued at $18. I de¬ 
posited the $15.12 check, but it was pro¬ 
tested. I wrote P. J. Keenan at once, 
sending him the check and requested the 
return of the eggs or the_ payment at 
once. Have written him twice since. No 
replv to date. There is $34.84 due. Youi* 
efforts to collect this bill will be appre¬ 
ciated. S. F. 
New Jersey. 
Mr. Keenan replied to one of our let¬ 
ters, stating he was trying to get adjust¬ 
ment from the express company, and 
would pay the bill at the first opportunity. 
The bill has not been paid and we get no 
further reply from him. Make a note of 
the address and see that Mr. Keenan has 
no opportunity to repeat the experience 
with other readers. 
I take The R. N.-Y. for Publisher’s 
Desk as much as any part of the paper. 
T am sending you some stock certificates 
I got taken iii by, and they are down 
vour way. If you can collect anything on 
them do so. Take out your pay and I 
will buy War Stamps for balance. I have 
never heard anything since parting Avith 
my cash. A. J. F. 
Indiana. 
The certificates enclosed were of Leon¬ 
ard Darbeyshire, Inc., Rochester, N. Y'., 
and the Spar Products Co., Baltimore, 
Md. Mr. Darbyshire’s career as a pub¬ 
lisher iu Rochester some years ago was 
very much of the “sky-rocket” A’ariety. 
The shell collapsed and those Avho had 
invested iu the enterprise have a nicely 
eugraA’ed certificate to show for their 
money. Our records sIioav Spar Products 
Co. AA-eut into the hands of a receiver in 
1911, and nothing has been heard of the 
concern since. Fortunately, A. F. did 
not invest heavily enough iu either of 
these concerns to embarrass him; but the 
experience once more sIioaa'S Iioav unwise 
it is to put money iu the stock of any 
concern on the strength of promises of 
big profit.s- of the promoter. Darbyshire 
led his victims to believe his business 
AA’Ould rival that of the Curtis Publishing 
Company. Stock promoters are always 
alluring. The investor should insist on 
being “shoA\'n” the' records of the past 
before parting AA’ith his money. 
I see on the Publisher’s Desk page of 
4 Tie R. N.-Y. that you collect bills for 
those Avho cannot collect for themseh’es. 
On April 8. 1917, I sent to Martin & Co., 
U. Broad Btreet, Richmond, Va., $26 for 
tAvo men. About one Aveek after I re¬ 
ceived one man and a letter .saying men 
AA'ere scarce. I wrote saying if the;^ could 
not get the other man for me to send the 
money back to me, which Avas $13, but 
I’eceiA’ed no reply. Last Winter I Avrote 
not later than March 15. He Avrote me say¬ 
ing they had men, and AAould have them, 
not lat('r than March 15. He AA’rote me 
saying he had men, and AA’ould haA*e them. 
On Feb. 2.3 I sent $13 more, making a 
total of .$26 Martin & Co. had of my 
money for two men to be at my place 
March 15. I never heard fi’om them till 
about the 22d of March, saying they had 
tAvo men for me. I got iny men elseAvhere. 
I A\rote Martin & Co. tA\'o weeks ago. 
telling them as long as I did not get the 
men 1 would like to haA’e the .$26 Avhich 
they oAved me. but as yet have not re¬ 
ceived any rejily, and Avould like you to 
try to collect it. I. T. 
New Jersey. 
We have had many complaints from 
farmers AA'ho sent money to Martin & Co. 
for help, and could get no satisfaction. 
Our letters in I. T.’s behalf have been 
ignored. His experience is published as 
ii Avarning to others. 
I should like very much to get your 
judgment on the matter described in the 
enclosed correspondence with Whitney 
I’oultry Farm of Marlboro, N. Y. From 
this man’s catalogue' I Avas led to believe 
he had a fine big strain, but the eggs 
Avere smaller than any others Ave got, and 
Ave hatched some 6,000 this Spring. Aside 
from the inferior egg.s, I call your atten¬ 
tion to the tone of his answer. I shall 
be' much obliged to you for your advice 
on this. A. w. 
District of Columbia. 
The correspondence referred to shows 
that this subscriber Avrote the Whitney 
Poultry Farm a A’ery polite letter calling 
attention to the fact that the eggs Avere 
Aindersized and stating the number of 
eggs which Avere infertile, etc. ]\Ir. Whit¬ 
ney, in his reply, AA'as inclined to be fa¬ 
cetious and insulting. Re'gardless of the 
merits of the complaint, Ave consider that 
the customer Avas entitled to a polite let¬ 
ter in reply to his complaint. In pre¬ 
vious comjdaiiits which aa'c have submit¬ 
ted in behalf of subscribers Ave have' found 
Air. Whitney extremely erratic and in¬ 
sulting in his correspondence. This state¬ 
ment is made for the guidance of our sub¬ 
scribers Avho may Avish to avoid such un- 
pleasantnesse's. 
In response to several inquiries from 
prospective iiiA’estors iu the stock of Com¬ 
monwealth Finance Corporation, the fol- 
loAviug from a recent issue of Financial 
World will prove interesting and instruc¬ 
tive : 
CommonAA’ealth Finance Corporation 
stock that AA'as sold to investors by Sar¬ 
gent & Co., the former fiscal agents for the 
company, for $12.5 a share, is iioaa’ quoted 
under the fifties, with but a small market 
OA’en at that Ioav price, for it requires a 
man of considerable nerve at this junc¬ 
ture to regard the stock as AA’orth its open- 
market price. There is but one explana¬ 
tion for this drop in the price of the se¬ 
curity, AA'hich iu the opinion of The Finan¬ 
cial World Avas placed originally at a too 
high valuation considering that the busi¬ 
ness Avas more or less experimental, and 
consequently could not be considered a 
seasoned investment, or at least one for 
Avhich a premium of tAventy-five per cent 
over par could be asked. The explana¬ 
tion is found in the quarrel that has 
broken out among the officers of the cor¬ 
poration and Sargent & Co. 
The fight has become a bitter one, and 
the fact that .Tohii B. Stanchfield is the 
.•ittorney for Sargent is an indication that 
it is to be fought to a finish, for this 
prominent attorney is noted for his stub¬ 
born and successful prosecution of cases 
entrusted to him. HoAvever, whichever 
side emerges from this contest successfully 
counts for little, for it is the stockholders 
Avho must foot the bill, if not directly, 
surely indirectly, for there is nothing 
Avhich so distracts a management from a 
proper iierforinance of its duty than to be 
beset by bitter legal controversies. The 
blight already has made its heavy hand 
felt iu the open-market price for the Com- 
mouAA’ealth stock. One of the men AA'ho 
has had considerable to do AA’ith the com¬ 
pany has stated to a representative of 
The Finan(tal World that Sargent & Co. 
feel they are the aggrieved party and have 
CA’ery confidence that they AA'ill recover 
substantial damages. 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
In general, the price tendency has been 
upAA-ard lately. Reports from various 
parts of the truck and produce sections 
indicate a rcdviced acreage as compared 
AA’ith last year. Prices of farm produce 
tended upAA’ard the greater part of June. 
They started doAvnAvard in Alay. although 
in average years they have tended to rise 
during that month. The upAA-ard move 
ment of this month seems OAving chiefly 
to the increased demand for some lines, 
especially for potatoes, and to the scarcity 
of fruit supplies. Under present market 
conditions, vegetables are about the only 
abundant and fairly low-priced food, and 
they are being used more and more freely. 
The trucking season has been from one to 
two weeks earlier in the North and South 
and also on the Pacific Coast, and accord¬ 
ingly. some lines have pas.sed their season 
of abundance considerably earlier than 
last year, thus reducing the total supply. 
About three-fourths of the potato sup¬ 
ply is the new crop. The old stock has 
been cleaned out better than it .seemed 
likely at one time. The “Fat Alore Pota¬ 
toes” publicity campaign helped some- 
Avhat. so did the use of 20.6CH) tons a 
month by the army camps likewise, and 
the purchase of old stock for evaporation 
at the eight or nine leading dehydrating 
plants. The dried stock goes largely to 
feed the soldiers in Europe._ "Wholesale 
bulk prices jumped 10 to 25 cents_ last 
Aveek, ranging noAv generally at $1.50 to 
$2 per hundred. Ncav potatoes also have 
been advancing, reaching a general range 
of $4 to $6 per barrel, compared Avith the 
bottom price of $3 in early May. South¬ 
ern groAvers are getting about .$4 per bar¬ 
rel, AA’hich should at least pay their ex¬ 
pense bills. Shipments of neAV stock Avill 
increase still further Avith the opening of 
the Virginia, Eastern Shore and Alary- 
land sections and the Arkansas and Ten¬ 
nessee shipping districts. 
Southern onions are doing a little bet¬ 
ter, now that the supply is much lighter, 
but the sea.son has been A’ory disappoint¬ 
ing to shippers, OAving to the light yields 
combined Avith low prices. An “Eat Alore 
Onions” campaign might have helped, hut 
nobody started one, and the market has 
dragged continuously from October to 
.Tune. .Tust noAV the prices have improved 
about 25 cents to a general range of $1 
to $1.50 per crate for Southern Y^elloAV 
stock. Southern onions are another cause 
of the “20-cent dollar.” The Texas pro¬ 
ducers net a little OA’er one cent per pound 
after paying for the crate; the consumers 
pay 5 to 6 cents per pound at many 
stores. 
StraAvberry shipments tapered doAvii a 
Aveek or tAVO earlier than they did last 
year. The volume has been lighter, and 
the prices of good stock often tAvo or three 
times as high as in either last year or the 
year before, Avholesale. 15 to ,30 cents, as 
compared Avith 6 to 9 cents in the tAA’o 
preceding years. The light output Avas 
owing not only to reduced acreage, but 
also to Aveather conditions and to scarcity 
of labor. 
No other fruits are coming along in 
sufficient quantity to x’estore the general 
supply. A feAV neAV apples are coming 
from the SouthAvest. but the old apples 
are about gone. EaiTy crop reports from 
the A’arious Northern apple sections sug¬ 
gest a fair crop outlook. Avith the June 
drop and other possibilities still to be 
taken into account. 
Georgia peaches seem to be doing Avell 
and they net the growers about $‘2 per 
basket. Tomatoes from Alississippi are 
the main supply and the Avholesale price 
has ranged around $2 per four-basket car¬ 
rier, of Avhich the groAAVrs get about $1 
after paying for the crate and baskets, 
but last year they Avere getting only about 
half as much for tomatoes. 
The tomato canning area is somcAvliat 
more extended this year, the West in¬ 
creasing the acreage. Avhile the East is 
planting a little less than last year. Alost 
canning crops are being increased this 
year and the contracts for the crops 
placed at higher prices. This is true also 
of cabbage for sauerkraut. FolloAving are 
prices per ton on contracts in leading 
crop cabbage States : V’isconsin. .$12 to 
$15 (last year $6 to $7) ; Alichigan, $10; 
Illinois. $8 to .$10; Ohio, $8 to .$12; NeAV 
York, $8 to $15. At present Virginia 
early cabbage is selling much better than 
a few AA’ceks ago, Avhole.sale, $2 to $.3 iier 
crate, as compared Avith $1 to .$1..50 
earlier iu the season. Southern growers 
complain that much of their cabbage crop 
has not netted the cost of production. 
Bean planters appear someAvhat dis¬ 
couraged over the dragging conditions of 
the markets lately. Apparently a great 
deal of stock is still unsold iu eastern pro¬ 
ducing sections, AA’hile many of the large 
markets have been filled un Avith cheaper 
stock from Colorado and adjoining States. 
It is likely that the total beau acreage 
planted this year Avill be lai’ge. Reports 
suggest that considerable of the land 
planted to potatoes iu the NortliAvest last 
year is being used for beaus this season. 
G. B. F. 
Don’t Own or Use^ 
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We have prospects for the largest ap¬ 
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for years. Peach crop is a failure on 
account of the seA’ere Winter. Pears, nor¬ 
mal ; good prospects for corn, oats and 
wheat. Hay is short; pasture good; 
stock is looking fine. Farmers here do 
not seem to take up sheep raising as much 
as they used. This is a healthy country 
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