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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
The Financial World reports Federal 
indictments having been found against 
TV. M. Sheridan. Sr., TYm. M. Sheridan. 
Jr., and Redmond F. Sheridan, in Louis¬ 
ville, Ivy. These indictments are in con¬ 
nection with the promotion of several oil 
schemes, among which .were High Gravity 
Oil Company, Mammoth Oil Company and 
others. We have many times referred to 
the get-rich-quick schemes promoted by 
Sheridan, Sr., from Chicago, as well as 
the recent fake oil stocks. Of late father 
and sons have been operating from Louis¬ 
ville, Ivy., presumably to avoid the “blue 
sky” laws of Illinois, but the Federal au¬ 
thorities have finally rounded up this fam¬ 
ily of easy-money artists. How many 
people have been defrauded, and how 
much money has been lost can only be 
determined when the prosecuting officials 
get possession of the records and get in 
touch with Sheridan's victims. In addi¬ 
tion to the family of Sheridans, indict¬ 
ments have been found against several 
officials of the various oil concerns which 
the Sheridans promoted. 
I am inclosing circulars and papers re¬ 
garding a promoting company named 
Southern Motor Manufacturing Associa¬ 
tion, Ltd., Houston, Tex. These people 
have begun operations in my State, and 
are about to begin in my county. Please 
advise me as to what you think of this 
scheme. Do you consider it sound busi¬ 
ness for our farmers to invest their 
money in? M. v. R. 
Tennessee. 
The circular matter forwarded by the 
subscriber has the familiar ring of the 
Emerson Motor and Pan Motor Company 
promotion schemes. We should regard it 
as the most reckless form of gambling for 
any farmer to part with his savings on 
the strength of the rosy prospects so 
breezily presented in the literature of this 
company. The history of all automobile 
and other enterprises promoted in this 
way spells that those who put their sav¬ 
ings into them invariably lose every cent 
of it. Those who are wise enough to 
profit by the experience of others will 
pass the alluring bait without a nibble. 
You have had in your care a claim for 
three cases of eggs shipped more than 
two years ago. I have written you at 
intervals concerning the claim, and in 
your last reply you expressed hope that 
you might have something for me soon. 
If the express company is ready to settle 
I knotf where I can use the money. At 
the same time I do not want to weary 
you in this particular case, of an excel¬ 
lent work that you are doing for your 
subscribers. If collection is impossible. 
I hope the blame can be fixed on the 
guilty party and proper credit given. 
New Jersey. ,t. e. s. 
We feel convicted of neglect when we 
get a letter like this, and the closing 
paragraph is consoling only because our 
readers realize we are laboring under 
difficulties. We cannot write subscribers 
as frequently as we would like. The 
claims have come in too fast for that. 
We fear some claims will never be ad¬ 
justed. but they will be followed up to 
the last analysis, and we will try, as this 
writer suggests, to put the blame where 
it belongs. To refuse adjustment of 
honest claims for technical reasons, to 
offer a GO per cent adjustment at this 
time, may save the old Adams Express 
Company much expense and possible 
bankruptcy, but the injustice will live 
in the memory of shippers, and they will 
lose in the end. They have refused to 
pay any claim that is two years and one 
day old. We have declined their decision 
and are awaiting the result of action and 
investigation through other sources. The 
old American Express Company is not 
hiding behind such technicalities, but 
pays claims where they establish respon¬ 
sibility. Adams should do likewise. 
I am enclosing a circular which was 
sent me from Laboratory Supply Com¬ 
pany of Philadelphia. The claims seem 
to me to stamp the concern as a fraud. 
Jf it were possible to realize $15,000 
annually in such a business it seems a 
great many farmers who are busy pro¬ 
ducing $20 per cwt. pork would better 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 9, 1919 
get into the mouse game. My wife thinks 
it more profitable to destroy the pests. 
If my opinion is correct and the company 
is fishing for easy money from boys and 
girls and those whose greed for gain 
causes them to part with good coin of the 
U. S., I’d be glad to see a word of warn¬ 
ing in the column of The R. N.-Y. 
Would also like to know whether the 
serum for treatment of pneumonia, spoken 
of, is a reality and accepted remedy by 
the medical profession. p. a. 
Michigan. 
The serum treatment of pneumonia, 
while promising, has not yet reached the 
stage of accepted worth now held by 
such serums as diphtheria antitoxin. To 
my mind, the serum, vaccine, etc., treat¬ 
ment of disease is the greatest develop¬ 
ment of modern therapy and holds out 
the greatest promise for the future, but 
except, perhaps, for diphtheria and 
tetanus, these remedies are still too much 
in the experimental and undeveloped 
stage to be depended upon. The bunk 
in this pamphlet in regard to white mice 
is the implied statement that pneumonia 
can be cured if only there are enough of 
the mice to go around and furnish the 
necessary amount of pneumonia serum. 
As a matter of fact, these mice are used 
only for experimental and checking pur¬ 
poses and are not directly concerned in 
the production of the serums. In this 
role, however, they are very important 
and very many are used. During the 
war supplies became scarce and prices 
rose to great heights. These exceptional 
prices and the exceptional demand of 
those years will, of course, long be quoted 
by such concerns as this to show the 
handsome profits that can be made in 
mice and guinea pig raising. We know of 
no reason why some money cannot be made 
in raising mice and pigs for laboratory 
uses. The demand is constant and usually 
at fair prices, but such statements as 
“1.000 mice in a year should earn 
$15,000” carry, of course, their own ear¬ 
marks of silly bunk. Perhaps, however, 
this is merely a case of a misplaced 
decimal point and does Bro. Michales an 
injustice. 
A man representing S. Mailman, cor¬ 
ner First and Rleeker Streets, Ftiea, 
N. Y., came along here May 21, selling 
tires he guaranteed for 4.000 miles. I 
bought two. and one blew out at 500 
miles. I paid $35 for them, $17.50 each, 
31x4. I have written him twice, and do 
not hear from him. He said if I did not 
like tires or needed adjustment on them 
to write him, and he would come and fix 
things up. Will you see what you can 
do about this? I think I should have 
money back or adjustment on the one 
tire pro rata at what I paid for it. 
New York. R. G. R. 
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TT pays to feed silage, and the less silage 
costs the more it pays. Filling" the silo is 
the biggest cost. By the use of International ensi-* 
lage cutters farmers get the most otd of men, power,\ 
horses'and time. There are five sizes — one of which, 
you can use with profit. On every size there is] 
every adjustment and convenience needed for quick,) 
economical filling. 
Internationals feed easily and do not choke; they elevate 
ensilage into the highest silos smoothly and safely. The fans) 
on the flywheel throw the cut fodder 15 or 20 feet and then! 
blow it the rest of the way. The different parts of ttie| 
mechanism are perfectly timed, insuring an even flow of the 
fodder provided the feeders keep the table full. Tnere is no, 
choking, jolting or chopping. > 
Every silo owner needs a silo filler of his own just the same 
as he needs a plow, planter, tnower, or binder of his own. 
It pays. 
The service that goes with every International implement 
contributes no little toward the prestige and popularity of the 
line. It is always alert and prompt, resultful and intelligent. 
Fill your silo cheaply— fill it well. To do so buy an Inter¬ 
national ensilage-cutter. There is an International dealer> 
nearby who will show you the various types. Or, write the 
address below and full information will be sent. 
The Full Line of International Harvester Quality Machines 
Grain Harvesting Machines 
Binders Push Binders 
Headers Rice Binders 
Harvester-Threshers 
Reapers Shockers 
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Tillage Implements 
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Spring-Tooth Harrows 
Peg-Tooth Harrows 
Orchard Harrows 
Soil Pulverizers 
Cultivators 
Power Machines 
Kerosene Engines 
Gasoline Engines 
Kerosene Tractors 
Motor Trucks 
Motor Cultivators 
Haying Machine* 
Mowers Tedders 
Side Delivery Rakes 
Loaders (All Types) 
Rakes Bunchers 
Combination Side 
Rakes and Tedders 
Sweep Rakes Stackers 
Combination Sweep 
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Baling Presses 
Planting & Seeding Machines 
Corn Planters 
Corn Drills 
Grain Drills 
Broadcast Seeders 
Alfalfa & Grass Seed 
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Fertilizer & Lime 
Sowers 
Corn Machines 
Planters Drills*) 
Cultivators 
Motor Cultivators 
Binders Pickers, 
Ensilage Cutters 
Shellers - 
Huskers & Shredders*; 
Other Farm Equipment 
Cream Separators 
Feed Grinders 
Manure Spreaders 
Straw Spreader 
Attachments 
Farm Wagons 
Farm Trucks 
Stalk Cutters 
Knife Grinders 
Tractor Hitches 
Binder Twine 
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Chicago 
USA 
This seems to be just another case of 
dealing with a “tire gyp.” The receipt 
contained a written guarantee of 4.000 
miles service for the tires; but what does 
the guarantee of a “gyp” amount to? 
We can only repeat our oft-printed ad¬ 
vice to have nothing to do with bargain 
tire houses. The “bargains” invariably 
build trouble and disappointment. 
Referring to the letter signed L. F. T., 
in July 12 issue, complaining because of 
an order and remittance of $3 sent to 
North Woods Farms, Johnsonburg, N. Y.. 
which poultry firm advertised in Ameri¬ 
can Poultry Advocate. Syracuse, N. Y., 
the publisher of this paper protests that 
he did write the advertiser in question 
repeatedly in behalf of L. F. T., but re¬ 
ceived no reply to bis letters. Because 
of the publisher’s failure to acknowledge 
the subscriber’s letters and our letter, the 
subscriber and we erroneously assumed 
that the publisher paid no attention to 
the complaint. The publisher of the 
Americau Poultry Advocate explains that 
while he does not guarantee or promise 
to settle complaints between subscribers 
and advertisers he exercises a strict cen¬ 
sorship of the advertisements accepted, 
and would not knowingly admit the ad¬ 
vertising of any one of questionable in¬ 
tegrity or of any individual who does not 
deal fairly with the public. The pub¬ 
lisher of the American Poultry Advocate 
was apparently deceived by the North 
Woods Farms and we are glad to straight¬ 
en the record in the case. 
“Do you think these alienists are any 
good at a trial?” “Some, I take it. An 
alienist is the only person I ever saw who 
could bluff a lawyer.”—Louisville Courier- 
Journal. 
NEW m 
GAMBRELTOP ^ 
increases 1 
Capacity. 
F OR 20 years the Harder 
has been the pioneer in 
Silo improvements. Used 
by the United States Gov¬ 
ernment and leading State 
institutions because of its 
easy operation, long lasting 
qualities and perfect preser¬ 
vation of silage. 
Saves all the corn crop 
and has built up the profits 
of thousands of dairymen. 
HARDER MFG. CORP. 
Box 11, Cobleskill, New York 
Write for free book— 
all about silage and 
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Produce your own cheap feed— 
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Writs (or Catalog 
Silver Mfg. Co. 
Box 364 
Sxlom, Ohio 
“Modern Hi 1 ago 
Method*,” 2M 
page*, 2b could." 
% OFF SILOS 
I now have my third con¬ 
signment of silos, the last 
for this season, which I 
will sell by mail at my 
usual low prices. High- 
grade silos of well-known 
make, best material, and 
strictly first-class in every 
way. Order before this 
lot is exhausted and save 
precisely one-half. 
M. L. SMITH, Manufacturer's Agent 
113 Flood Building 
Meadville Pennsylvania 
SILOS 
BUY NOW AND GET EARLY 
SHIPPING AND CASH DISCOUNTS 
AN EXTENSION ROOF 
that is really practical for full 
Silo. Adjustable door ft-a inn 
with ladder combined. Many 
other features in Catalogue. 
AGENTS WANTED who Can Sell 
and can devote aonie time to the 
business. We guarantee satis 
faction. Write 
GLOBE SILO CO. 
2-12 Willow St., SIDNEY, N V 
Before You Buy Your Silo. 
investigate the reliable Green Mountain. Send 
' for circulars describing long-life, tight 
‘ construction, new Anchorage System, etc. 
Crumini Packagi Mfg. Cl., 338 Hut Si., Rutland, VI. 
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