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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1019 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I have a bill against .T. W. Shipley, 
McKeesport, Pa., of $x8 for a case of 
honey, and he will pay no attention to let¬ 
ters from me. A card from postmaster 
April 29, 1918, says he is doing business 
at same address. 423 Fifth Ave„ Mc¬ 
Keesport, Pa. Will you see if he will no¬ 
tice yon a little? it. w. B. 
Virginia. 
We are unable to make any collection 
of this account. It had been standing 
i ince 1915, and in the meantime Mr. Ship- 
ley has gone into bankruptcy. The ac¬ 
count is worthless, and tin 1 shipper has to 
charge $18 to profit and loss account. 
What do you know about the Erie 
Tire and Rubber Company? Their agent 
has been to see me and wants me to invest 
in some stock. For each $100. 7 pen cent 
preferred stock, they allow a bonus of 
$40 common stock. I am enclosing their 
literature. Would you advise investing 
with them? H. a. f. 
Ohio. 
The woods are filled with propositions 
of this kind to sell stock in automobile 
tire concerns. The principal stock in 
trade of these investment propositions is 
the big money which investors in such a 
concern as Goodyear, Goodrich, Fire¬ 
stone, etc., have made. The situation 
was very different at the time these other 
concerns started in business. The field 
is now well filled, and we consider it very 
doubtful if any new concern can meet the 
competition of those houses that are well 
established, and certainly those cannot 
that must depend upon selling stock to 
the public to finance their operations. In¬ 
vestment propositions of this kind are the 
wildest sort of a gamble, even if the pro¬ 
moters are sincere in their endeavors to 
establish a manufacturing business. Too 
often, the only idea in the promoters’ 
minds is to sell stock. 
Was it not stated that this ruling on 
the part of the express company was not 
legal? In our effort to lessen breakage. I 
ship only 24 doz. in a crate, leaving the 
top layer empty, but in spite of that there 
are probably 30 or 40 doz. broken in the 
course of a year. The consignee tells us 
that the expressmen slam the crates 
around in unloading them from the wagon 
and have even kicked them across the side¬ 
walk to the store entrance. C. M. A. 
New York. 
The express company had filed a sched¬ 
ule with the Public Service Commission 
providing that they would not pay for 
egg breakage that was less than 5 per 
cent of the contents. A suit was brought 
on this basis, and the Public Service Com¬ 
mission determined that the schedule filed 
was unreasonable, and ordered the express 
companies to withdraw it and file another 
within 10 days, which was done. Since 
November 25, 1917. settlement is to be 
made on the basis of actual loss, but the 
express companies still insist on declining 
adjustment for a dozen or less. Within 
the last month this old 5 per cent provis¬ 
ion has been revived, but no such deduc¬ 
tion will be permitted in the claims we 
are handling. One of the agents writes 
to a shipper: “If you are not fair enough 
to withdraw claim where the breakage is 
5 per cent or less, we will not be as small 
as lie, but go ahead and pay.” This is 
not the right attitude. If a shipment is 
accepted as in proper order and breakage 
occurs, settlement should be made, and 
made promptly. 
* 
I finally got a settlement from the New 
London County Mutual Fire Insurance 
Co.. Norwich, Conn., through Attorney 
Samuel It. Harvey of Willimantic. Conn., 
by accepting $400 less than amount of 
policy. I still have the attorney to pay. 
I do not want any more insurance in 
that company, and my advice to any 
policy-holder having a loss would be to 
nave an expert to present their claims 
against the company. \v. A. t. 
Connecticut. 
We endeavored to adjust this contro¬ 
versy between the farm owner and the 
insurance company without success. It 
seems to be a clear case where the loss 
by fire was greatly in excess of the policy 
covering the farm buildings. The case 
is of particular interest to the public be¬ 
cause of the grounds taken by the insur¬ 
ance company for a reduction of their 
responsibility. The insurance company 
contended that the farm with buildings 
was purchased at a price slightly above 
the amount of the insurance policy, and 
part of the land had also been disposed 
of in the meantime and therefore the in¬ 
sured was not entitled to the full amount 
of the policy. It didn’t seem to us 
that this had any bearing upon the policy 
as written. That he bought the place at 
a bargain or if someone gave it to him 
would not be good grounds for disputing 
the policy, provided the building destroyed 
was not insured for more than its actual 
worth, in which case the insurance com¬ 
pany had the option of replacing the 
burned building. Through the aid of an 
attorney the farm owner receives $400 
less than the face of the policy. In our 
correspondence the offer was $700 less 
than the policy. The New London County 
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. claims an hon¬ 
orable record for nearly SO years of its 
existence, which we do not call into ques¬ 
tion. The record in this case as briefly 
outlined above speaks for itself. 
I have certificates for five shares of 
preferred and 214 shares of common stock 
of the Currier Publishing Co., and 
shares capital stock of the Western Mag¬ 
azine Co. of Chicago, registered by the 
Colonial Trust & Savings Bank of Chi¬ 
cago. On the preferred one dividend was 
paid in 1909, and none since. Will you 
advise whether I can realize anything on 
these, and how to go about it? G. H. F. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have spent our lives iu the pub¬ 
lishing business and it is to be assumed 
we know something about it; but we 
have yet to know of a case where a pub¬ 
lishing company offered stock to the pub¬ 
lic that had any real value. The Currier 
scheme was branded a swindle in this de¬ 
partment at. the time the stock was being 
sold to the public. It was a simon-pure 
get-rich-quick scheme, and of course there 
is no possibility of the subscriber recover¬ 
ing any part of his investment. The one 
dividend paid was “sucker bait” to catch 
more fish. 
I am sending you, at the request of 
Henry 11. Eddy, a trapper and hunter, 
correspondence regarding his deal in get¬ 
ting a foxhound from tin* Violet Ilill Ken¬ 
nels. York, Pa. I have seen both dogs 
he got, and there was scarcely a sem¬ 
blance of a foxhound in either one of 
them. Will you 4ake up the matter for 
him and see if you can get it adjusted? 
He is willing to pay if you will get the 
dog he ordered, or his money back. 
New York. J. D. S. 
We have taken the matter of this com¬ 
plaint up with L. W. Brown, proprietor 
of the Violet Ilill Kennels, without def¬ 
inite results. The purchaser is naturally 
tired of paying express charges on worth¬ 
less dogs that were not as represented. 
Tin* experience of this subscriber would 
seem to suggest the wisdom of others who 
may be in the market for a dog avoiding 
the Violet Hill Kennels. 
The .Iron Clad Company. Inc.. Queen 
Rubber < Inc,, Worth More Tire Co., 
Inc., and Overroad Tire Company, Inc., 
the New York City distributors of re¬ 
built automobile tires, have been requested 
by the Federal Trade Commission to 
cease circulating certain forms of adver¬ 
tising. The forms involved are those 
“calculated and designed to create the 
belief and impression among consumers 
of automobile tires that rebuilt and re¬ 
constructed tires, restamped with new 
names and brands, are new tires manu¬ 
factured from new and unused material, 
unless the advertising clearly, definitely, 
distinctly and unmistakably shows that 
such tires are not composed of new and 
unused material and not manufactured 
in accordance with the methods and pro¬ 
cesses employed generally by manufac¬ 
turers of standard automobile tires.”— 
Printers' Ink. 
The above are the class of “tire gyps” 
that this department has repeatedly 
warned our subscribers against. Each 
of the above concerns has been exposed 
from time to time in these columns. 
Besides these “made-over” tires, the ven¬ 
ders of what are known as “seconds” are 
to be avoided. The seconds are sold with¬ 
out the manufacturer’s guarantee, and the 
dealer’s guarantee is as a rule of no 
account. 
I was hypnotized into shipping a coop 
of fowls to Philadelphia Produce Co., 302 
South Second St.. Philadelphia, last year. 
They claimed two fowls stolen from coop, 
charged for f*eturn of empty and kept it. 
sent me a check for balance, after a sharp 
reprimand, and that went to protest. This 
is the first price list I have received from 
them since. G. W. li. 
Delaware. 
The above experience may put other 
shippers on theii guard. The responsibil¬ 
ity of the concern should be looked up in 
all cases before shipping to an unknown 
house. This practice would save shippers 
many thousands of dollars iu the aggie- 
gale in the course of a year, perhaps mil¬ 
lions. 
Waste No Butter Fat! 
I F YOU are still setting your milk and skim¬ 
ming by hand, you are losing anywhere 
from one-fourth to one-third of your cream. If you 
are using an old separator or one that is not reliable, 
you are still losing an 
amount of cream that 
would surprise you if you 
knew it. Butter fat is 
worth too much this year 
to be wasted. Buy a Prim¬ 
rose or Lily cream separa¬ 
tor and stop the waste. 
Don’t imagine that 
cream left in the skim 
milk will fatten pigs and 
calves faster. It has been I 
proved scores of times 
that stock thrives as fast 
on warm separator skim 
milk, when a little meal 
or flax replaces the fat. 
Cream in the skim milk 
is dead-loss cream! 
Primrose and Lily sepa¬ 
rators get that cream. We 
can prove to you that they get it all, except about 
one drop in each gallon. 
Besides that, they are well-known as simple, easy- 
running, easily-cleaned machines, that last and do 
the same good work year after year. Buy a Primrose or Lily 
and know the satisfaction of using a close-skimming machine. 
See the local dealers, or, write us for catalogues of these 
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