1034 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Au"ust ol, I'.'is 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Will you inform whether the I. Hollis 
'I’ructor CJo.’s stock is all right or not? 
'J hey are of Pittsburg, Pa. h. d. n. 
West Virginia. 
Wo do not know the Hollis tractor; 
never heard of it; but we do know that 
a tractor manufacturer who is obliged to 
finance his operations by .selling stock to 
farmers has very little prospect for suc¬ 
cess. Remember the Ford tractor stock¬ 
selling scheme of Minneapolis, when asked 
to inve.st in unknown tractor stocks. 
I would like to know if you can do 
anything for us in this case of insurance. 
W'e hud a fine hor.se for which we paid 
five years ago, having had him in¬ 
sured with three others in an insurance 
company for .“iSlOO. Within the last year 
he became a orii>j>le, the cords of his front 
legs becoming so sore, also his feet, we 
had to have him killed by order of our 
veterinarian, one of the best in the St.ate. 
He said the horse was incurable, and if 
we worked him be woidd have to complain 
to the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to ATiimals. Wo informed the 
insurance company and kept him some 
three weeks before we lia'd him killed. 
Now they claim we are not entitled to 
any insurance tm him. I do not know 
why W'e should have paid them almost 
and now cannot get a cent because 
they claim it is not agreed by the rulo.s 
<ir the policy, and still they have the nerve 
t<» ask u.s to continue paying on the pre¬ 
mium. WTmt assurance have we that w'c 
will ever get .‘inything out of it? Can 
you do something for vis? C. u. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
The wording of the policy is so in¬ 
definite as to just what protection is given 
the owner of the animal that he might 
well have concluded that the insurance 
covered loss of animal under those coiidi- 
tion.s and circumstances. The I'armer.s’ 
and Bi-eeders' I-lve Stock Insurance Co., 
AVilliamsport, Pa., in which company the 
policy is writteu. w’lites us as follows: 
This is not ,a health insuiiiucc com¬ 
pany. It indemnifies against property 
loss by death and death only, but doi>« 
not insure against decline in health or 
depreciation in value from that or any 
other cause, and doe.s m>t collect auy Tate 
whatever for that kiud or clas.s of in- 
■surance. lates are low, and fixed 
only to meet actual proi)erty loss hy 
dentil wdiile animals are possessed of some 
pecuniary value, as you Avill note by re¬ 
ferring to condition No. 4, which provides 
for liability not exceeding three-fourths 
of the actual cash or market value at time 
of death. In this case there was no 
property or money value at time horse 
was put to death, and condition No. H 
also contains the agi’oement tliat the 
company must he notified at once and 
voterliiary procured W'heu hor.se goes 
wrong, and failure to forward such notice 
for 24 hours will invalidate auy claim. 
Condition No. 1 of the insurance contract 
provide.s for non-liability when animals 
are killed or di^stroyed by order of any 
person or society acting in any capacity 
whatever, same being an excepted risk 
and one for whicli no premium rate is 
charged. k. f. pkan. 
No doubt the comiiauy is entirely 
within its rights in the above contentions; 
and it behooves farmer.s taking out in¬ 
surance on live stock to Icaru definitely 
in advance just what protection they are 
getting for their money. Don’t take the 
word of the insurance agent either, hut 
have a clear understanding in writing 
o\ or the signature of the company issuing 
flu- policy. 
1 know nothing about the “Woman’s 
National League,” Wasliiiigton. D. C., 
nor the magazine they are about to 
launeh, but it is evidently arranged to be 
misleading. “The executive office” w'ill he 
coustruisl b.v iiuiiiy ignorant Avomen to 
mean the National lOxocuthe Office of 
the U. S. Government, csiiecially as the 
beautiful view of the future “Clubhouse” 
ineludes the IT. S. Capitol, and Auirious 
F. S. buildings. Resides, this “Founder” 
idea will appeal to many Avomen wliosc 
ambition is to belong to some woman’s 
club, and the idea of their being a 
“founder and president” and having them¬ 
selves so advertLsed in a National maga¬ 
zine will be an iudnceineiit for many of 
them to sujtply the .$1 for the first four 
names. No address is given for the execu¬ 
tive office, ami no .nldres.s of any of the 
“staff,” which is sufficient of itself to ad¬ 
vertise fraudulent intentions, as the place 
of printiug n magazine is not usually a 
secret. Knowing the widespread influence 
of Tuk R. N.-Y.. I am asking you to look 
up this wonderful new magazine and pub- 
Hsh the facts in your useful columu. 
Fennsylvania. mhs. f. s. m. 
We have previously referred to the 
similarity of this Woman’s National 
V.e.ague scheme to that comlncted hy F. G. 
•^iewis some years .ago under the name 
American Woman’.s League. The pro¬ 
moter of the present enterprise ( ?) seems 
to 1)0 A. V. Hitchcock, and the incorpo¬ 
rated name under which be operates is 
Woman’s National INIagazine, Inc., 400-2 
Sixth St. N. W., Washington, DV C. Mr. 
Hitchcock is reported to have been editor 
of Cosmos Magazine and previously to 
that Avas connected Avith the Eastern Pub¬ 
lishing Co., Washington 1‘ress Bureau, 
etc., none of wliich proved successful. 
The proposed magazine has not yet ap¬ 
peared and in view of the efforts of the 
Government to saA'e paper by limiting the 
size and number of papers of legitimate 
c.stiiblished ijublicatious, it does not seem 
likely that the Federal Trade Board Avill 
alloAv a new A'enturo of this questionable 
character to secure paper at this time or 
in the near future. At any rate, none of 
the alluring features of the Woman’.s 
National liOaguo deserve serious consider¬ 
ation—I^ewis promised members of the 
American Woman’s Tjoaguc all that Hitch¬ 
cock is promising—and more. Hitch¬ 
cock’s promises cau no more he realized 
than those of Lcaa'Is, 
I have been reading the ruhliaher’.s 
Desk, and am very much interested in it. 
I Avould like a little information. Do 
you know anything about the Woman's 
Exchange, 40 E. State Street. Trenton, 
N. ,T., Mrs. E. .T. llowel, general inana- 
gei'V August, 1017. I sent her twm 
haiul-painted i)ictures, one sofa pillow 
cover and one holster cover. Slie acknoAA’l- 
edged the receipt of them, and .said the 
j)riee Avas very reasonable, felt .sure .she 
could sell them, but Avould return if she 
did not. Have written to her several 
times asking her to return them, hut I do 
not hear from her. If you cau help me 
in any Avay to get my paintings or the 
l)a.v for them I would appreciate it very 
inuch. The price Avas .^27. M. A. G. 
North Carolina. 
After considerable prodding Mrs. 
llowel has returned all except one ar¬ 
ticle. This .she promised to return on a 
certain date, but it has not yet reached 
the subscriber. It ha.s been held one 
year. There are exchanges that are very 
heljjful in disposing of hand work, but it 
is well to do a little investigating before 
sending goods to them. With an ex¬ 
perience such as this wc coul.'l not en¬ 
courage dealing with the Woman’s Ex¬ 
change at Treutou, N. J. 
i\ly father is .a siihscriher to Thk R. 
N.-Y.. and as it is all in the same family. 
1 f<‘el as though I had the privilege of 
your I’ublisher’s Desk. I am enclosing 
a list of damage claims against the Amer¬ 
ican Express Co. that I Avish you would 
collect for me, or at least huri y them up, 
for at the present prices of feed I ne»'d 
the money. l’. B. M. 
Michigan. 
The list of claims in this letter com¬ 
prises claims on 0 difi'eront shipments 
stretching over a pei-iod from October 4, 
1017, to August S, 1018. No express re¬ 
ceipts accompanic'd the letter, and no 
correspondence from (he cxiu’oss company 
shoAviug the file number. We are reeeh’- 
iug a great nmuy letters of this kind from 
shippers, asking us for help in securing 
adjustment of .such claiims. This is to 
advise shippers that Ave are “db.solutely 
helpless to do anything for them on claims 
that have already been entered, unless 
they can send us the file numbers on the 
claims, or send us copies of the express 
receipts for the individual shipments. In 
the latter case it would be necessary to 
cuter ncA\' claims, and then we could fol¬ 
low them up intelligently and persist¬ 
ently. "We AA'ant to make it clear to all 
shippers that Ave cuTinot help them with 
claims that are already entered unless Ave 
have the express company file uumhor.s, 
and in order to enter neAv claims Ave must 
have the express receipts. 
Find post office money order enclosed 
for $.5 to pay you for collecting my d.-im- 
age claim Avith the railroad. If you do 
not have auy charge you can put same 
on i)aid in sidvance subscriiition to The 
R. N.-Y. This claim I had tried to col¬ 
lect .since Detober, 101(1. T know I Avouhl 
nevc'v Lave receiA'od anything from them 
if I had not put it in your bauds. 
Delaware. E, J. C. 
We appi-eciate the generous spirit of 
the Delaware subscriber. We Avould not 
undertake this line of Avork for money or 
pecuniary gain to ourselves. It is a serv¬ 
ice Ave gladly perform for farmers, and 
we prefei' to keep the service entirely 
gratuitous. Tl'Le ^5 enclosed is applied to 
E. J. C.’b subscriptiou account. 
Country-wide Produce Conditions 
The general supply of produce appears 
lighter than it was last year, about 20 
per cent less, judging by records of c.arlot 
shipments. A great deal of this stuff is 
not loaded in cars, but the light supply 
of home-grown truck, as well as of the 
supj)ly from distant sections, is suggested 
by tile commonly reported scarcity of 
produci* jicddlers this year. In some 
lines it is rejiorted consumers actually 
find difficulty in getting desirable supplies 
even at the higher prices ruling this year. 
Not onlj' is the supply moderate, but de¬ 
mand has been greater- in some sectioms 
Avherc the pre.scnce of army camps or of 
highly paid Avorkers on war supplies Inns 
caiKsed unusually acth-e buying. In other 
sections Avbere money i.s not so abundant, 
the higher prices have tended to reduce 
cousumiition, especially after the frequent 
sharp advances in price. Markets like 
Now York have been quite irregular the 
past mouth, highest of all markets some 
Aveeks and perhaiis the lowest on the list 
the following week. 
WILL rOTATO V^VLUES HOLD? 
Potatoes haA'O held up in price remark¬ 
ably Avell this season, hut seem to he mov¬ 
ing dowjiAvard with the increased sliip- 
meiits from the groat lakes region. Vol¬ 
ume of movement should gradually iii- 
crease throughout September, and ’i)i-ice 
may decline if the croi> approaclies 4(10,- 
000,()0041nishels as predicted. Those Avho 
had early potatoes and sold them early 
seem to have taken a safer course. I’riccs 
have eased off .“j!! per bbl., or so, iu most 
Eastern markets. Southern Avhite stock 
rauges .$4 to $,7.7)0 per hhl. Eastern stock 
sells around .$”► ])er 100 lbs., and Minne¬ 
sota stock, which has been arriving lil)- 
erally, sells at about ,$2.2.1 iu Middle- 
Western markets. Prices in jjroducing 
.sections from Noav .Tersey to California 
have ranged mostly $2 to .$2.70 per 100 
lbs. at station. 
GOOD OXIOX I’iJOSPECT. 
Onions promise a bigger yield than last 
year, and thuH f.-ir prices look well. East¬ 
ern yellow stock sells for $2.50 per 100 
lbs., wild California arouud $,” in leading 
city maikets. Heavy buying for army 
use is helping tli<‘ situation. The crop 
ought to sell at fair i)rice.s if moved stead¬ 
ily to market and if storage people do 
not try to rep(‘at their expensive experi¬ 
ment of last year by holding the crop 
for higher prices. 
CAlil!AGB, J’.EAA.S A.\P FltUITS. 
Cabbage Jilso is starting off at rather 
high prices, ranging .-iround $.‘5 per KM) 
lbs., or per bhi., in various markets. Field 
beans iiromise a big yield, especially iu 
(('outiuued on page 1055) 
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Way 
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ask 
for price 
list. 
Have your dVuler sliow you 
tlie 
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line. 
If lio can’t suppl.v ,vou, Ave 
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