1126 
September 2S, 1918 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
When sending in a claim against a 
transportation company be sure to include 
the following: 
Express receipt with express station 
I)lainly marked on same. 
P.ill for the loss or damage. 
Any account sales or correspondence 
from consignee or transportation com¬ 
pany, and any file number if you have 
one. 
Full particulars regarding the ship¬ 
ment. 
We need all this information in order 
to get the claim started right, and if in¬ 
cluded in your original letter it will save 
postage. 
Vouchers are coming in .slowly for the 
old claims from the Itailway Express 
Company, and, while we have to exercise 
further patience, they will all be paid in 
time, 
I am enclosing prospectus of the Sea 
Products Co., who have two men trying 
to sell stock in this section. What do 
you know about it, and the men who are 
at the head of the company? The same 
agent that represented the Haynes Co. of 
Camden is agent for this company. Is 
what they state true, or is it another 
scheme to get the farmer’s money? 
New Jersey. .i. i’. a. 
The prospectus shows the Sea Products 
Co. of Philadelphia is capitalized at 
$5,000,000. Secretary Redfield, Edward 
N. Hurley, chairman Shipping Board, and 
11. M. Smith, U. S. Commissioner of 
Fisheries, are quoted to show the im¬ 
portance of sea food, all of which is very 
true. But what these eminent gentlemen 
say of the importance of fish as an article 
of food must not be construed into an en¬ 
dorsement or recommendation that anyone 
should buy Sea Products Co. stock. If 
the prospects of the company were very 
flattering it should not be necessary to 
peddle the stock out in this way. These 
agents, at any rate, have an unenviable 
record—the Haynes Co. stock, of which 
the agents previously sold, proved worth¬ 
less and a total loss to those putting their 
money into it. 
In connection with the arrest of the 
public and his record both as a seedsman 
and promoter of stock selling, land and 
mining schemes confirms this view. 
On .Tune 12 I .sent to a Paul Leshke, 
2472 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx. New 
York, a pail containing 5% pounds of 
butter; have written him several times 
but do not get any answer from him. I 
had same insured, and have made in¬ 
quiry at my po.stoffice. and they had it 
traced and said that he received it. 
Would you see what yon can do for me 
in regards to collecting for same. 
New Y'ork. f. l. w. 
Mr. Leshke makes not attempt to pay 
this bill. 
There are so many people of this class 
ordering goods from country shippers and 
neglecting to pay for them that we must 
again advise our readers to be cautious 
about sending goods in this way. If city 
people want the benefit of farm produce 
they should be willing to pay in advance 
or give adequate security for the i»ayment. 
The amounts are not large as a rule, but 
it does not take many such amounts to 
eat up the profit. If parties will not 
give references or protest against it, keep 
your goods. 
Do you know anything about the .Tohn- 
ston Tire & Rubber Co. of La I’orte. 
Ind.? They are offering stock for sale 
and showing samiiles of tires which if 
you are a stockholder you can buy at a 
much lower figure. ii. ir. w. 
New York. 
These arguments are alluring—the bait 
of offering stockholders goods at reduced 
prices is as old as the stock-selling game 
itself. Stock that has real value behind 
it does not need such Inducements to find 
buyers. In the present condition of the 
rubber trade, when the strong, established 
concerns are unable to get raw material 
to fill their orders, there is little chance 
for a struggling company to get a foot¬ 
hold. That the .Tohnston Tire Co. is 
struggling is evident from having adopted 
this method of selling stock. Those hav¬ 
ing money to invest would serve their 
own interests as well as those of the Gov¬ 
ernment to turn a deaf ear to all the en¬ 
treaties of these stock-selling salesmen 
and prepare to put every cent they can 
scrape together into the forthcoming Lib¬ 
erty Loan bonds. 
The Plow for Your Tractor 
Oliver is the standard tractor plow. 
Whether it is at a plowing demonstration or out on the 
farm fields where the tractors are in actual use—you’ll find 
an Oliver plow behind the majority of the tractors. 
Why? Because this use has proven that Oliver does the 
best job of plowing and the best plowing and preparation 
of the seed bed means the best crops. 
Every Oliver tractor plow is equipped with combined 
rolling coulters and jointers which bury the trash at the 
bottom of the furrow, leaving a clean field surface. 
Oliver No. 78 is a one-man outfit—capable of standing 
up to the hardest usage. Its stop device maintains an even 
depth of plowing. The plow points enter and leave the 
ground first, enabling the operator to plow at an even depth 
clear to the ends of the field. A pull on the trip rope right 
at the operator’s hand raises or lowers the bottoms in a 
half turn of the furrow wheel. 
notorious promoter of worthless stock, 
George Graham Rice, it comes to light 
that Trumbull White, who has been con¬ 
ducting an investors’ service in Wall 
Street, was on the pay-roll of Rice, draw¬ 
ing $250 a week for services. Presumably 
the service rendered was boosting the 
stocks in which Rice wms interested. This 
incident illustrates the danger of follow¬ 
ing the advice of such self-styled experts 
in investment matters. We do not mean 
to infer that all “service bureaus” are 
conducted on a selfish or dishonest basis; 
but it isn’t safe to rely upon the informa¬ 
tion given out by these concerns unless 
the investor knows that the management 
is on the square. Another trick of get- 
rich-quick promoters is to buy a write-up 
of their proposition in some paper with 
a name indicating that the publication is 
an authority on banking and investment 
problems. These are what are known as 
“write-up sheets" and their opinions are 
for sale to all comers. Disinterested ad¬ 
vice serves as a guide to experienced in¬ 
vestors ; but each individual must in the 
end assume the responsibility for his in¬ 
vestments. 
General creditors of the F. B. Mills 
Company, a seed concern of Rose Hill, 
which failed about a year ago, will receive 
4.3 per cent of their claims. The bank¬ 
rupt’s affairs finally have been wound up 
by Charles H. Stone, referee in bank¬ 
ruptcy. Originally the liabilities of the 
company were $100,000, but approximate¬ 
ly $75,000 of that sum was represented 
by a mortgage on real estate. After the 
mortgage has been adjusted all that the 
general creditors get is what can be re¬ 
alized from the sale of seeds. That 
amounts to $998.03.—Syracuse Post- 
Standard. 
We hope there were no farmers on the 
list of Mr. Mills’ creditors. Certainly if 
any reader of The R. N.-Y. was among 
the victims it was his or her own fault— 
we warned the public sufficiently regard¬ 
ing Mills’ various schemes. Last season 
while the F. B. Mills Company was in the 
hands of the referee in bankruptcy Mr. 
Mills advertised in a number of publica¬ 
tions over the name “F. B. Mills, Seed 
Grower,” at the old address. In our 
opinion Mr. Mills at no time in his career 
merited the confidence of the seed-buying 
In the case of the genuine tiller of the 
soil he is fitted by his vocation to be, com¬ 
paratively, an easy prey for the slick 
trickster who is learned in the arts of 
intrigue. There is something about the 
man who tills the soil that opens his heart 
to Nature, gives him faith in his fellow- 
men and trust in the potency of an 
ubiquitous and inscrutable Providence. 
The gentling influence of the .soil is in 
his spirit and the forces of nature coming 
to him daily have rendered his being com¬ 
paratively free from the suspicion and 
distrust that other occupations engender. 
A farmer is seldom cheated on his own 
ground, for there he is “monarch of all 
he surveys,” and he is no more easily 
beaten at his own game than the ordinary 
mortal. The farmer is cheated and beaten 
when he essays the realm of the financial 
investor in wildcat oil and mining stocks, 
new’ and wonderful promotions, or when 
he bites with perfectly human fallibility 
at the alluring bait so skilfully spread by 
those who assure him of fabulous returns. 
Maryland. ri. c. 8. 
There is a very good thought in the 
above extract from a subscriber’s letter 
discussing the psychology of crooks in 
general. The plain, hard-working, honest 
farmer, who has no wiles himself, can 
hardly conceive that any fellow being 
could bring him.Self to deliberately con¬ 
coct a scheme intended to cheat another 
out of his hard-earned savings. This ac¬ 
counts in many cases for farmers being 
imposed upon. The farmer cannot be 
fooled at his own business; and it is 
w’hen he goes to dabbling in other things 
that he does not know about that he is 
taken in. “Investigate” is one word more 
than all others that would save country 
people from unfortunate investments and 
other disastrous transactions. If all 
would take this precaution an investiga¬ 
tion would reveal the dangerous pitfalls 
and many heartaches as well as money 
losses. 
Bessie is a bright one. The other day 
her Teacher set her and her schoolmates to 
drawing, letting them choose their own 
subjects. After the teacher had examined 
what the other chilren had drawn, she 
took up Be.ssie’s sheet. “Why. wdiat’s 
this?” she said. “You haven’t drawm any¬ 
thing at all, child.” “Please, teacher, yes 
I .have.” returned Bessie. “It's a war 
picture—a long line of ammunition wag¬ 
ons at the front. You can’t see ’em be¬ 
cause they’re camouflaged.” — Boston 
Transcript. 
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plow—one that will penetrate and stay in when the plowing is hard. 
Insist upon the Oliver with the tractor you buy. Write and ask 
an Oliver dealer for detailed information. 
There is an Oliver dealer close to you. 
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