930 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 27, 1918 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On April 23, 1917, I shipped a 30-dozen 
case of eggs to Evan S. Booth, 122 Hill¬ 
side Ave., Holyoke, Mass., and up to date 
have not been able to get pay for same. 
Will yon take tbe matter in hand and see 
if you can collect? I have written sev¬ 
eral times but cannot get an answer even. 
Others in this vicinity have had the same 
experience and had to put their case in 
other hands for collection. He was very 
prompt i)ay at first, but finally got very 
slack, and customers around here were 
afraid of him. n. w. ii, 
Massachusetts. 
Mr. Booth promised to pay this account 
iti April, but did not keep the promise. 
We have been unable to get any response 
from him since. Farmers are not able to 
lose even such a small amount as $11 and 
the only way to avoid it is to ship to 
houses with established financial ratings. 
It is more needful than ever to exercise 
every precaution in this way. 
As a B. N.-Y. subscriber in trouble I 
am writing to ask if you will have a try 
at collecting for a shipment of poultr.y. 
About Feb. 1. 1918, I wrote the Farleton 
Clark Co. of Boston (to whom I had sold 
jiullets for several years), asking quota¬ 
tions for pullets and received a reply from 
Putnam’s l*et Stock and Seed Store, 4ti 
Canal and 139 Friend Sts., signed suc¬ 
cessor to Putnam Clark Co., saying that 
they would like to have the pullets and 
quoting a price for them. On Feb. 12 I 
shipped .10 i)ullets in four crates to them. 
this farmer when established should be 
sufficient to cause its withdrawal. One 
of Woodruff’s specialties when operating 
the American Farm Co. at Buffalo was 
to buy ordinary feeding corn by the car¬ 
load from the West and sell it to farmers 
in the East as selected seed. Later he 
went to Ohio, and the Attorney General 
of that State shut off his scheme.s. 
I am sending enclosed what I believe 
is some very fine sucker bait. You may 
look it over and pass judgment on it 
through the I’ublisher’s Desk, as it may 
save some of our folks from loss. 
Pennsylvania, F. E. K. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Obstructed Teat 
I have a very valuable heifer which has 
developed a bunch in the end of one teat. 
It started with a small sore, which seemed 
to spread and got to be about as big as a 
five-cent piece. It kept getting harder to 
milk, until I could get no milk; now I use 
a milking tube. The sore has healed up, 
but the bunch is there. It does not seem 
to be hard; the stoppage is about three- 
eighths of an inch from tip. The sore was 
not right at end, but a little to one side. 
I have used iodine on it, but it is still 
choked up. Will you tell me what to do? 
New York. f. w. T. 
The milking tube has already intro¬ 
duced infective matter and its continued 
u.se will be likely to cause ruinous garget. 
Have the growth reamed out by a skilled 
surgeon, or he may prefer to slit down 
through it in four different directions by 
means of a teat bistoury. Treatment other 
, IT,. . than this will not be likely to succeed, 
have analyzed these investment proposi- Meanwhile immerse the teat for a minute 
tions so often that we feel that few read- or two twice daily in a hot saturated solu- 
The literature enclosed with the sub¬ 
scriber’s letter is from tbe Boedicker 
Photo-Litho . Machine Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn., the purpose of which is to sell 
stock in this conijiany. The literature 
bears the unmistakable earmarks of 
sucker bait, as the subscriber states. We 
ers of Publisher’s Desk are likely to part 
with their money on such propositions. 
Will you advise what you think of any¬ 
one taking a course through the Franklin 
Institute, Rochester, N. Y'., to prepare 
oue.self for civil .service examination? 
New York. k. S. 
IVe do not recommend investment in 
correspondence courses in general, and we 
pai'ticularly advise against jiarting with 
tion of.boric acid. 
s* 
Pin Worms 
The crates were returned, getting back to any money to these institutions promis- 
Bowdoinham Feb. 39, but I heard noth¬ 
ing from the company. After waiting 
four weeks I wrote them and received no 
reply to my letter. Somewhere about 
April 1 I wrote again and received a re¬ 
ply, promisimr to look the matter up at 
once, but heard nothing further from 
them. I have written them once since 
then, reeiving no reply to m.v letter, and 
it seems very plain to me that they are 
delaying payment, which I can ill afford 
to lose. So I am coming to you for help 
in the matter. n. C. 
Maine. 
This is the second complaint we have 
had against this company. The first one 
was adjusted, but they pay no attention 
to our inquiries concerning this one. The 
record is not good, and we would advise 
other shi]ipers to find another outlet for 
their poultry. 
I sent Harris Brothers, Mt. Pleasant. 
IMich.. a check for .$10 for its value in 
Soy beans, for planting Avith silage corn. 
They have kept the money and shipped 
no beans, nor can I get any written reply 
to my letters. These people must have 
received mafty remittaiu'es with orders 
for seed corn, so scarce this yciir. I won¬ 
der if others have had the same sort of 
treatment accorded me? They used the 
Tk S. mails to deliver their alluring cata¬ 
logue and literature, and are. I think, 
liable for using the mails to defraud. I 
feel like spending any amount of money 
necessary to show uj) any conceim guilty 
of such littleness. How may I best do it? 
Ohio. C. E. B. 
We have written Harris Bros., Mt. 
Pleasant, Mich., three times in the sub¬ 
scriber’s behalf, but receive no reply to 
our letters. While we have not approved 
of the style of advertising employed b.v 
this firm, we had no suspicion that orders 
of customers were being ignored in this 
way. Complaint to the Post Office Be¬ 
ing to prepare young men and young 
women to pass civil smwlce examina¬ 
tions. Usually the “bait” of a lucra¬ 
tive position is held out to catch the 
prosiiect. Those desiring to take civil 
sei’vice examinations will do Avell to write 
the (^ivil Service Commission, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., for information as to the 
course of study to pur.sue. 
Oil August 14, 3910, I shipped Baum 
hlancharsh. New York, one case of eggs 
which the American Express Company 
lost for me. I filed my claim with the 
agent here at Sidney, and it went on for 
four or five months; I did not get any 
returns, so I put it in the hands of The 
R. N.-Y.. who collected the claim, which 
was ,$10.45. It took just one year and 11 
months to adjust the claim. I had given 
it up, but The R. N.-Y'. did not. That 
was just like finding the .$10.45, which I 
never expected to get. Permit me to ex¬ 
press my sincere thanks and apprecia¬ 
tion of your efforts to collect the claim for 
the case of eggs which the American 
Express Compnay had failed to settle. I 
owe my luck to The R. N.-Y. c. P. 
Dhio.- 
We are glad to have this report. We 
put in some work on the claim and are 
glad it was successful. These delays are 
serious in these days, and the money is 
more than acceptable to the shippers. The 
profit is small, at best, and delays take 
that away. 
I have received from the ABC Bag 
Co. the enclosed check. It has been 
through your service that I received this, 
which I am enclosing you. I will leave 
this to you. If you think these people 
are reliable will you hold this check and 
ask them to return my bags, or give me 
the price which they agreed to pay me? 
I will enclose you their prices, and I 
M'y horse shows all symptoms of having 
worms, and is constantly passing the 
small pin worms. He Ticks the walls of 
the stable, yawns frequently and often 
has slight colicky pains, when he will lie 
down and get up, stretch his head out 
and roll up his upper lip. These spasms 
are of uncertain duration, sometimes 
lasting an hour or two, and others only 
a few minutes. He has an abnormal ap¬ 
petite, eating anything in reach and, if 
allowed, even his feces. His bowels al¬ 
ways moved very frequently and espe¬ 
cially at road work, when at times they 
became quite loose. Have been treating 
him for worms according to your direc¬ 
tions in The R. N.-Y.; copperas, salt 
and sulphur; have given him the •treat¬ 
ment two weeks with the interval of 10 
days. I have not seen any large worms, 
but lots of the pin worms. Now two or 
three miles of road work make him scour 
so it is impossible to drive him. Should 
one keep on repeating the medicine, or is 
one repetition enough, and if it is effect¬ 
ive, should one be able to see the worms 
when they pass? I am feeding him whole 
oats, corn stalks and oat straw. B. T. 
The worms you see are pin worms and 
inhabit the rectum and are not killed by 
the medicine you have been giving. De¬ 
stroy them by injecting into the rectum 
on three alternate nights a week three 
or four quarts of soapy warm water and 
a cupful of tobacco tea made by placing 
tobacco stems or leaves in boiling water 
and allowing to stand covered for 12 
hours. The salt-sulphur-copperas combi¬ 
nation destroys large worms in the in¬ 
testines, whereupon they are digested and 
so do not appear in the feces. If the 
horse is to do well you should feed good 
hay instead of cornstalks and straw and 
add wheat bran and ear corn to the ra¬ 
tion. A. s. A. 
liartment. Washington, D. C., might bring shipped the following week. For most of 
these bags I paid the farmer 30c each, 
and you can see for yourself b.v the check 
these people are not reliable. AYill also 
enclose .vou numlxu- of bags, all graded. 
Will you look into this and see if you 
cannot get me the market price or have 
them return my bags? I Avrote them 
several letters, which they did not an 
SAver. E. E. B. 
Ne\v Yoi-k. 
the concern to realize its obligations in 
the case. * 
On Feb. 21 I sent check for 50 bu. 
seed corn to Central Cereal Co.. Lacka¬ 
wanna, N. Y. Same Avas shippi'd to me, 
but on testing it proved no good; in fact, 
to look at it you could tell it Avould not 
groAv. It is only fair hog feed. I wrote 
this firm several letters in regard' to it. 
They have never ansAvered me. Is there 
any way for me to get even? I Avould 
be willing to pay them Avhat the corn is 
Avorth as feed, but they charged me $3.55 
per bu. of 70 lbs. Corn Avas on cob. You 
probably kimAA”^ all about this company, 
5)1' I think the way they used me they are 
unjust. I haAm done business Avith them 
before. Avith no fault to find, but how 
they can hold a U. S. food license and 
luit out the kind of seed corn they have 
this year is more than I can see. Please 
advise me in regard to this matter. 
Ncav Y'ork. j. E. B. 
In sjiite of all our Avarning it appears 
this subscriber has fallen victim to the 
allurements of J. W. Woodruff of Amer¬ 
ican Farm Co. fame. About 35 years 
ago Mr. Woodruff sued The R. N.-Y’’. for 
libel on account of the exposure of his 
schemes. Recently he has been operating 
from LackaAvanna, N. Y.. under various 
names—a ncAV one every time we hear of 
him. If Mr. Woodruff is operating under 
a Federal license the facts as stated by 
The returns were not in accordance 
with the quotation of the A B C Bag 
Co., before shipment was made. When 
we requested that the bags be returned 
to the shipiier demand was made for 
freight and drayage, no mention of Avdiich 
Avas made in letter soliciting the shiji- 
ment. These demands have been complied 
AA'ith and the ABC Bag Co advise us 
they have returned the bags. The only 
explanation or excuse for the low price 
returned for the bags is that the “bags 
did not come up to our standard.” No 
statement aa^us sent Avith the offered re¬ 
mittance shoAving the grade or kind of 
bags—Avhich is not a businesslike manner 
of handling the transaction. The A B C 
liag Co. advertising Avill not be accepted 
in the columns of The R. N.-Y. in the 
future and Ave trust no more shipments 
Avill be made the house on account of the 
advertisement Avhich Avas inadvertently | 
admitted some time ago. I 
Henves 
I have a mare eight years old this 
Spring that has recently got the heaves. 
Can the heaves be cured, and hoAV’? Is it 
advisable to breed a mare Avith the 
heaA'es? B. ii. w. 
New York. 
Heaves is incurable when confirmed, as 
the small air chambers or cells of the 
lungs break doAvn into large caAuties, the 
Avails of which cannot contract sufficiently 
to perfectly expel air. The abdominal 
muscles are brought into play to help ex¬ 
pel the air, and this causes the double, 
belloAv.s-like action of the flanks Avhich is 
characteristic of the disease. A mare 
should not be bred Avhen affected Avith 
heaves, as the tendency to the disease is 
considered hereditary. A heaving mare 
often proves barren. Distress of the dis¬ 
ease usually may be relieved by use of a 
proprietary heave remedy, or by giving 
. FoAvler’s solution of arsenic twice daily, 
starting with one-half ounce as a dose 
and increasing to three such doses dail.v 
until no longer required, when the medi¬ 
cine gradually should be discontinued. 
Feed grass in Summer and wet oat straAV 
in Winter in preference to hay. Do not 
work the mare soon after a meal, and do 
not give any bulky feed at noon Avhen 
she has to work. a. s. a. 
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