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^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 3, 1918 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Please let me know about the Imp. 
Comsolidated Oil Company and I'etroleum 
Funding Company, 100 Proadway, city, 
also controlling the Overland producing 
vV: Itefining Company, Colorado. Is same 
an investment or a wildcat swindle? 
New Jersey. B. p. 
We cannot keep track of all the oil 
promotion schemes afloat at the present 
time; but our general advice to sub- 
.scribers is to refuse to consider invest¬ 
ment in any but seasoned dividend-paying 
stocks listed on the responsible stock ex¬ 
changes. There is i)lent,v of ojjportunity 
to lose money in the latter class—it is 
almost a certainty with the others. When 
the government is regulating almost 
everything el.se it is surprising that the 
get-rich-quick artists are given a free 
rein to swindle the public on worthless 
oil stocks. 
(►n May 0 I sent check for .$1.S to the 
Sterling Poultry Farms of Sterling, Ill., 
for 50 selected Lt. Prahina chicks, re¬ 
questing them to send as soon as possible, 
as it Avas rather late in our short ,sea- 
•son. After Avaiting some time and fearing 
that the late chicks Avould not mature, I 
wrote the concern again asking them not 
to ship the chicks, but to cancel ni.v order 
and refund the I’emittance. I have Avrit- 
ten the concern again, repeating the de¬ 
mand, but received no response to my 
letters. n. c. b. 
Vermont.- '■ 
On .Inly 'M) the .subscriber re|)orts that 
he has receiAUKl Avord from his express 
station that a box of chicks is there for 
him, and he assumes they have been 
shipped by the Sterling Poultry Farms 
of Sterling, Ill., on his order of May 4. 
It apparently took the Sterling Poultry 
Farms tAvo months and a Inilf to iill this 
order for chicks, and, in the meantime, 
the customer received no responses to his 
letters, and our letters in the subscriber's 
behalf liaA'e also been ignored. The i)ub- 
lic can draAV their own conclusion as to 
the advisabilit.v of further dealings Avith 
this poultry farm. 
Last April a young man canvassed this 
neighborhood for subscidptions to ^Ic- 
Call’s Magazine, to eai-n a scholanshij), 
he claimed. I subscribed more to help 
the boy than for the magazine. lie 
reaped a good harvest of dollars here, but 
as yet no one has received their maga¬ 
zine. I am enclosing a letter one of the 
victims receivwl from the agency issuing 
the receipts for money; also my receii)t 
from the student. Plea.se tell us Avhat 
to do, and Avhether this is a fraud game. 
South Haven, Mich. Mus. j. b. k. 
The receipt given b.v this subscription 
faker Avas on the blank of 1 lanson-lien- 
nett Agency, Chicago, which specified the 
subscriptions would be entered through 
either this agency or Comj)toii Pros., 
Findlay, O. Ilanson-Benut-:t Agency re- 
inidiate the agent Chapman signing the 
receipt, and state that Chapman is listed 
in Pulletin of Periodical Publishers A.ssu. 
as a fraud. It is not explained hoAV this 
fraudulent agent comes to have the blanks 
of the .1. M. Ilanson-Pennett Agency in 
his pos.sessiou. The “Hanson Scholarship 
Plan.” by Avhich country people are hal 
to believe they are helping Avorthy young 
men to get an education, is certainly i)art 
of the agency scheflie. We especially 
Avaru country people against this class of 
subscription agents, alleging to repre.sent 
such subscription agents as Compton 
Bros, and Hanson-Bennett. 
I have been a reader of youi’ paper for 
several years, and I have been saved a 
good many dollars by your Publi.shei-'s 
Desk. I would like to ask your opinion 
concerning the Lee ]\IcDaniel Rubber Co. 
of Cairo, Ill. They advertise a process of 
making one tire out of two old ones. Are 
they reliable, and do they give satisfac¬ 
tion? M. B. A. 
New York. 
Our experience and the reports from 
subscribers indicate that attempts to 
make a serviceable tire out of two old 
ones is a delusion. A number of con¬ 
cerns have advertised tires put together 
in this Avay which resulted in complaint 
and dissatisfaction from customers. 
I sent you my claim for .several crates 
of eggs against the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany, which I shipped from here to A. 
F. Beckmann & Co. in April, 1917. Will 
you advise me what are the prospects of 
getting settlement, and Avhen? j. k. e. 
NeAV .Jersey. 
We do not blame shippers for becoming 
impatient at the delay in adjusting their 
claims. The express companies delay be¬ 
yond reason. We keep after them persist¬ 
ently, but they throw all kinds of techni¬ 
calities around the claims and aim to dis¬ 
courage us. They cannot do this, but it 
is annoying. However, now that the 
American Railways Express are handling 
the express busine.s.s, the old companies 
Avill be able to devote moi’e time to the 
old claims, and Ave trust close them out. 
We can only urge a continuation of your 
patience. It is an outrage to permit a 
claim to .stand three months, but Avhen it 
comes to a year or more, Avords fail. In 
sending in a claim for collection, be .sure 
to include the receipt and all correspond¬ 
ence, with a clear statement of the loss, 
and AA'e Avill take the best possible care 
of it. 
Some months ago I answered an adv. 
of stump pullers by the A. J. Kirstin 
Co., Escanaba, IMich. Upon receiving and 
reading their literature I selected their 
cheapest one man machine, designated as 
the Model No. 8 Clutch Machine, Avhich 
I judged, according to their I’epresenta- 
tions, Avould do the job of clearing I 
Avanted done. They offered four plans of 
payment, without any exception or reser¬ 
vation as applied to any model of their 
make. I chose their 4th proposition as 
meeting my circumstances best, Avhich is 
one-half cash down and balance in month¬ 
ly installments. I sent them my check 
for .$.34 for first payment, requesting them 
to ship me their Model No. 8 machine. 
Instead of doing so they replied that my 
acceptance of their J/th plan of payment 
was entirely all rirjht and ucceptahle to 
them, but that upon consultation among 
themselves and their experts they had de¬ 
cided that I had made a wrong choice of 
machine, and insisting that I ought to 
have their Model No. 15 Drum Machine 
to do my work, thus assuming that they 
uj) there in IMichigan kncAV more ab(»ut 
the conditions and requirements' of m.v 
Avork than I Avho am on the ground and 
engaged in the clearing of the land per¬ 
sonally. They sent me a note to sign, 
AA'hich Avould ])ut me in debt .$111 on this 
higher priced machine, Avith payments of 
$10 per month, Avhich I declined to sign 
in that form, but changed to i)ayments of 
$5 per month and retuimed to the com¬ 
pany, saying that I positively would not 
obligate myself to pay $10 per month, but 
if they Avould accept my note at $5 per 
month they could send on the more costl.v 
model. The reply Avas that they could 
not extend the time of payment over the 
21 months required by the note I sent 
them and inclosed another note like the 
first, at $10 per month. They failed. Iioaa'- 
ever, to return the note I had alread.v 
signed and sent them, but still requested 
me to sign another note at $10 per month 
payment for $111. I replied that the.v 
had my check for $.34 and my note for 
$111, Avithout my liaAdiig anything to 
shoAV for them, and I did not propose to 
sign and send them another note Avithout 
return of the first one. They then re- 
ttirned my note, still insisting that I sign 
for $10 per month. Avhich I had already 
])OsitiA’cly refused to do, but said that if 
I insisted on having the Model No. 8 first 
s«'lected b.v me the.v could only sell it to 
me on a cash basis, thus repudiating their 
oAvn proposition No. 4 of payment by 
monthl.v installments. I replied that the.v 
had gone back on their OAvn proposition, 
and I positivel.A' Avould not obligate m.v- 
self to pay them $10 per month, nor Avas 
I preparcnl to j)a.A'^ .-11 cash down. So the 
oni.v thing to do Avas to call the deal off 
ami the.v return my $34 Avhich they held. 
To this call for the return of my money 
7 yet no reply further, although the.v said 
they Avould return m.v money so long ago 
as May 14. I haA'e three times Avritten 
them, declaring the deal off and request- 
iny the return of my $SJi, Avhich I am uoav 
in need of. but only Avith the result that 
1 hear nothing more from them. I took 
this company to be an honest dealing one, 
but am obliged to change my opinion re¬ 
garding it. What does The It. N.-Y. 
knoAV about the A. .1. Kirstin Co. of 
Escanaba, Mich., and can you help me out 
in this matter? j. E. M. 
Florida. 
Our lettere in the subscriber’s behalf 
bring a respon.se advising us that the 
check has been mailed the subscriber in 
adjustment of the transaction. The tran- 
s.action seems to be surrounded Avith a 
good deal of mystery, and raises the ques¬ 
tion whether this low-priced stump puller 
designated as No. 8 is only a stalking 
horse to get the initial remittance Avith 
vicAV to selling a higher priced machine. 
Any other view would leave unexplained 
wh.v the firm refused to accept the order 
for the No. 8 machine in accordance AA'ith 
their published terms. It will be remem¬ 
bered that A. ,T. Kirstin Co. Avere among 
the adA'ortisers Avhich resorted to the sub¬ 
terfuge “a machine refused by customer 
in your vicinity and in order to save 
L'eight Avill make a si)ecial price” some 
time back before the disapproval of the 
Post Office Department made such sales 
plans unpopular. A concern capable of 
such dece))tion AA'ould only be i-unning true 
to form if the susi)icion aroused by J. E, 
IM.’s trausactiou proved to be a fact. 
^ I 'HERE is one safe way to be sure you are 
buying a satisfactory tractor. Buy from 
a concern that has had years of experience with all 
kinds of tractors and power machines for the farm. 
A tractor can be considered safe only when it has been 
tested and tried, on thousand- of farms, under every combi¬ 
nation of soil and climate conditions, and has given a satis¬ 
factory account of itself everywhere. 
International, Mogul and Titan Kerosene Tractors, 
as sold today, have over 12 years of tractor manufacturing, 
experimental, and field service behind them. These sizes «ind 
types are the ones that have stood every test. 
Beyond question these are safe tractors to buy. They all 
operate successfully* on kerosene and other low-grade fuels. 
T. hey are sold by a concern that has sold for years all kinds 
of satisfactory machines to be operated by tractor power, thus 
assuring good work at both ends of the drawbar and belt. 
We invite investigation and comparisons. See the local 
dealer who sells our tractors, or write us for complete informa¬ 
tion about a safe tractor to buy for the work on your farm. 
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