1302 
^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 10, lols 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
^ye have a large number of claims 
against the various express companies for 
shipments prior to July 1, 1918, when the 
consolidation was made. The present 
company, the American Railway Express 
Company, advise us that many of these 
claims have heen paid by them to the 
claimant direct. Please advise ue now 
promptly if you have received remittance 
direct from the express company for any 
claim filed with us. We want our records 
straight before pressing these old claims 
further. 
A few days after I sent the account 
against J. Stern, 175 Chambers St., New 
York, to you, I received a check for the 
two cases of eggs, and they allowed me 50 
cents per dozen for one case and 55 cents 
for the other, saying they were very poor, 
and they could not sell them. The next 
case I sent to Jelliffe, Wright & Co. and 
received 70 cents per dozen, and the same 
kind of eggs. These eggs were only one 
week old. A. D. 
New York. 
The above report speaks for itself. J. 
Stern is another of the “wholesale deal- 
ors” who charge no commission, and 
thereby avoids the requirements of the 
Commission Merchants’ law. 
Here is a sample of literature that I 
am receiving every day or so from II. L. 
Barber & Co., Chicago. Is there no way 
that this man can be given a square deal? 
[ would love to be vested with power to 
handle such cases. I am sending you this 
that you may look over it and make any 
comments you see fit through Publisher’s 
Desk. A. G. F. 
Virginia. 
Mr. Barber has been handing out 
‘opportunities” for other people to get 
rich as long as we can remember. Per¬ 
haps he has become wealthy himself, but 
if so his customers have become cor¬ 
respondingly poorer. This time it is the 
Marbohm Motors Co. that affords the 
“opportunity” for riches and the small 
sum of $27 is all that is required to make 
the investor independent the rest of his 
life. He proves it by showing what this 
amount invested in the automobile in¬ 
dustry has done in the past! It is to be 
regretted that there seems to be no prac- 
cical means, discovered as yet, to prevent 
these easy-money artists from filching 
money from the public in this way. Un¬ 
til the great mass of the people become 
better educated on investment matters 
Barber and his kind will continue to ply 
cheir trade with profit to themselves. 
Enclosed find an offer of Geo. K. Hig- 
bie Si. Co. of Rochester, N. Y. Will you 
let me know what there is to his claims 
of 150 bushels per acre of oats. 480 
bushels for potatoes, etc. If it is a fraud, 
you know what to do with it. I never 
have had anyone give me gold dollars as 
yet. G. E. G. 
New York. 
The circular matter enclosed describes 
Higbie’s Improved Mammoth Cluster 
oats, and the Hustler potato, which, it is 
claimed, was produced from a seed ball, 
and offered to growers for the first time. 
As stated in the subscriber’s letter, it is 
claimed that the oats produce 150 bushels 
per acre, and the potatoes 480 bushels per 
acre. Geo. K. Iligbie & Company also 
do business under the name Rochester 
Seed Company and rarmei;g’ Seed Com¬ 
pany. 
The circular matter urging G. E. G. to 
become an agent for the seeds offers him 
a commission of 25 per cent, so that 
farmers who pay $3 per bushel for the 
seed oats and an equally extravagant 
price for the seed potatoes are contribut¬ 
ing one-quarter of the amount paid for 
the seeds for the sendees of the salesman. 
Both the oats and potatoes are supposed 
to be entirely new varieties, and naturally 
we and no one else except Geo. K. Iligbie 
& Company can give any information 
about the value of the seeds. Our files, 
however, show’ that in a season past this 
same firm made similar claims for the 
“Lincoln” potato, the “Rapid Transit” 
potato, the “Speedwell,” the “Roxbury,” 
etc. If any of these varieties for which 
equally extravagant claims were made 
have proved their worth, it is not shown 
by their being gi’own at all generally. 
The rule is seed of exceptional merit is 
catalogued and sold by seedsmen gener¬ 
ally after the first season or tw’o. Similar 
claims made for the Mammoth Cluster 
oats were made for the “Great Dane” 
oats, Higbie’s “Granary Pilier” oats, etc. 
We shall be glad to have reports from 
any farmers w'ho have found any of the 
varieties named superior to standard va¬ 
rieties. Our reports thus far have been 
to the contrary. 
We see no more reason for crediting the 
claims made by this firm for the present 
seeds than for the claims made for all the 
other seeds in past seasons, w’hich have 
now ai)parently been discarded. It is a 
significant fact that none of these Roch¬ 
ester seed houses selling seeds through 
agents in this way are members of the 
American Seed Trade Association. We 
doubt if the association w’ould approve of 
the methods and extravagant claims em¬ 
ployed by this and other firms selling 
seeds to farmers. 
My son in France has sent the enclosed 
advertisement of Alexander Hamilton In¬ 
stitute, New York City, to me to get my 
advice on taking up the course. On gen¬ 
eral principles I should say no, but I 
would like to have your opinion, g. Ii. L. 
I’ennsylvania. 
The purpose of the advertisement is to 
sell a business course by mail. It is very 
effectively presented how 70,000 men have 
improved their positions through the cor¬ 
respondence course put out by this insti¬ 
tute. The adverti.sing of these schools is 
always alluring, and leads the reader to 
feel that all that is necessary to insure 
his future success is to invest in the cor¬ 
respondence course and study it. This is 
accomplished by suggestion rather than by 
direct claims. The desire of everyone to 
better his or her condition in life is very 
adroitly capitalized in the advertising and 
literature. We grant this course and most 
correspondence courses contain some valu¬ 
able information, and it is dealt out to the 
student in more digestible form than it 
can be obtained in other ways. This is 
the chief advantage of a correspondence 
course over securing the information 
through other sources at a fraction of the 
cost. In our estimation, six months expe¬ 
rience in business when the young man re¬ 
turns from France will be worth more to 
him than all the correspondence courses 
he can take. The value of any course of 
study depends largely upon the individual 
taking it; but we feel money is better in¬ 
vested by tho«e seeking knowledge in an 
institution where personal instruction is 
given. Another feature of the correspond¬ 
ence school course that we wmnt all our 
readers to under.stand is: When a con¬ 
tract for the course is signed the signer 
will have to pay for the full course 
w’hether disappointed with it or otherwise. 
I am enclosing you claim against G. R. 
Clark, florist, Scranton, Pa., for $11 on 
account of Galax leaves shipped him Jan. 
23 last, as per his order, which I wish 
you would try to collect for me. 
North Carolina. E. c. B. 
Mr. Clark persists in ignoring our let¬ 
ters in the subscriber’s behalf. Any man 
who deliberately ignores a just claim of 
this kind is unworthy of the confidence 
of the trade or the public generally. Mr. 
Clark’s orders in the future should be 
honored only when accompanied by cash. 
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