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All letters to Publisher’s I>es • 
ment must be signed with wifi 
name and address given. Many ; 
are answered by mail instead o. , 
inquiry and answer, lienee unsi.' 
ters receive no consideration. 
The demand for space by O’ 
tisiug customers reduces the 
voted to reading matter more < n, 
would like. It is hard to disa 
customers, but. our press faeil 
us to 64 pag^s, even though it - 
sible to secure sufficient paper 
a larger edition. As it is. we ai 
out some five or six pages of a< i 
because of lack of room. Perhap 
publication in the field is favored with so 
large a volume of strictly high-class ad¬ 
vertising as appears in this number. It 
exceeds by far the amount published in 
any previous issue of Tiie R. N.-Y. in its 
entire history of 70 years. This patron¬ 
age by the very best houses in the various 
lines of trade is a recognition of the high 
standards maintained by the paper and 
the buying power of our readers as well. 
The advertising pages contain many 
new suggestions and valuable information 
regarding new practices, machinery and 
equipment, and we know a large propor¬ 
tion of our people study them with profit 
to themselves. Our people have learned, 
too. by long experience that every house 
represented is worthy of patronage or the 
advertising would not be admitted. 
Knight & Bostwick. Newark. X. Y., 
have an agent now in Bergen Co.. N. J.. 
selling their fruit trees, etc. I had deal¬ 
ings with them some years ago. and it 
was anything but satisfactory. At that 
time they agreed to replace any trees 
that would not grow. When a claim was 
sent in for those that did not grow they 
called attention to a clause in their con¬ 
tract. that it. was on the ”next delivery” 
but there was no more delivery in that 
part, therefore no more to be supplied. I 
hope, if they have not changed their 
method, you will try to keep your sub¬ 
scribers. around here from getting beaten, 
as you have already been doing from time 
to time through Publisher’s Desk. J. H. 
New Jersey. 
It is usually the ease that these nursery 
agents make false representations for the 
stock or promises that are never fulfilled. 
When a grower puts his signature to 
an order blank for one of these nursery 
agents he is held strictly to the conditions 
under pain of a lawsuit regardless of 
whether the kind or quality of stock 
agreed is delivered. The stock may be 
all dead, but you have to pay under 
threat of lawsuit anyhow. This is why 
we so repeatedly advise placing orders 
with reliable nursery houses selling direct. 
We have never heard of a case where a 
nursery house selling direct refused to 
cancel an order where there were any 
good reasons advanced by the purchaser 
for doing so. Knight & Bostwick are one 
of many operating by the agency system 
from Newark, N. Y. We understand 
these so-called nursery houses are really 
anly sales agencies, the stock being sup¬ 
plied by another house which is a large 
grower of stock. 
I have often thought I would write and 
ask a question. Then someone else pro¬ 
posed the same problem and my question 
was always answered in his. w. ir. N. 
Connecticut. 
This is quite a frequent experience. It 
has been said over and over again in dif¬ 
ferent ways by different subscribers. It 
is a full justification of the policy of go¬ 
ing to the farmer for suggestions of the 
things he wants, instead of trying to force 
upon him the things other people think 
he ought to have. This paper is here to 
serve and not to boss. 
In 10 years we have collected claims for 
our people to the amount of $199,521. 
Last year the amount collected was $44.- 
6S4.29. If this* service were evenly divi¬ 
ded between all subscribers it would mean 
that in three to four years the subscribers 
woud get back cash dividends to pay for 
the paper for another year. This would 
be direct returns. How much the indirect 
returns are no one can know. Men often 
write that they were saved large sums by 
timely information of this department. 
How many near rogues have been de¬ 
terred from an evil purpose by the fear 
of exposure no one knows. 
We are not given to boasting in this 
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years ago, February 20. 1910^ to 
be exact, you looked up for me the New 
York Realty Company, which went into 
the hands of receivers. I hold consider¬ 
able stock which my poor mother worked 
hard to get, and wonder if there will be 
any payment made, however small, bn 
their .stock. This company and another 
like it were considered safe investments a 
number of years ago. and in the case of 
my mother every dollar was got together, 
one at a time, picking berries, selling but¬ 
ter. and some eggs were sold from a small 
flock of hens. This stock represents a 
life’s savings, a life of strict economy 
and thrift, with a good many finger aches 
and tired muscles thrown in. Yet millions 
are lost year after year, mostly all of it 
savings and hopes of someone’s life for 
old age. h. A. G. 
Connecticut. 
At the time referred to these real estate 
schemes were very popular. These real 
estate companies were formed to speculate 
iu improved or unimproved property in 
and about New York City. The property 
was mortgaged and debenture bonds or 
notes were issued against the equity 
above the mortgages. Sometimes the 
equity existed only in the mind of the 
operators, but an imaginary equity served 
the purpose of selling the security as well 
as a real one. Publisher’s Desk warned 
its readers in advance that the proposi¬ 
tions were not sound. The operators were 
merely gambling with other people’s 
money, and eventually every one of these 
concerns went to the wall. The American 
Real Estate Company was the last to go. 
Dow many millions of hard-earned sav¬ 
ings. such as referred to by II. A. G . went 
into these ventures is hard to say. but our 
records show that in most cases nothing 
was left when the mortgages and expenses 
of the receivership were satisfied. 
Enclosed you will find a pamphlet of 
Otero Oil & Leasing Co.. Tularosa, N. M. 
I would like your candid opinion on the 
report. I have bad some business trans¬ 
actions with the advertising manager. W. 
F. Ziegler, but on a different matter, and 
everything was satisfactory. N. M. 
New York. 
As nearly as we can make out from the 
literature, this company is boring for oil 
in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. 
There is no definite statement that oil has 
been found. It is alleged that a geologist 
has reported that there are “good indica¬ 
tions” for oil. There are thousands of 
such “prospects” appealing to country 
people for money—we cannot call such 
propositions an investment. They are only 
a gamble, and a losing shot at that. W . 
F. Zeigler, who makes this appeal to 
farmers, is connected with an implement 
manufacturing concern, but this should 
not influence any farmer to part with his 
money on such a rank speculation as 
Otero Oil & Leasing Co. appears to be 
by the literature sent out over Mr. Zeig- 
ler’s signature. 
I am enclosing herewith two-page ad¬ 
vertisement of Edgar "NY. Philo. This ad¬ 
vertisement so stinks of crookedness that 
I am cutting, out immediately all maga¬ 
zines carrying his advertisement to which 
I subscribe. Why, if his brooder and in¬ 
cubator scheme was any good, should lie 
have to give away Florida land as a bait? 
And 10 chances to one the laud is swamp. 
’Nuff sed ! H. H. C. 
Canada. 
For ourselves,.we think the above sub¬ 
scriber is indulging in a “figure of 
speech,” but perhaps H. H. C. has devel¬ 
oped a seventh sense with regard to fake 
advertising. There is no mistaking his 
language, and we believe it is fully jus¬ 
tified in this instance. We referred to 
Mr. Philo’s “new method” of hatching a 
few weeks ago in this department. There 
is no surer way to prevent the publishi 
of fraudulent and deceptive advertisi 
than the one proposed by this subscrib 
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