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April 17, 1 !>•_“(! 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer's full 
home and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
The enclosed circulars are the first I 
ever saw that admit the scheme is a 
gamble. No wells drilled yet, but they 
“guarantee a fair deal.” H. w. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
No one should be deceived by this ap¬ 
parent frankness of the Northeast Oil & 
Gas Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Most, if 
not all the oil promotions are nothing 
more than a gamble with the chances 
of winning about one in one thousand. 
These promoters can “paint rainbows” 
when they talk about the probabilities of 
striking “gushers” which will result in 
fortunes for all. And the stock in trade 
of all get-rich-quick promoters is to quote 
the big profits made by some other con¬ 
cern in the same line. By these “ear¬ 
marks” the wildcat schemes can be de¬ 
tected on sight. 
I am enclosing bill of .T. .T. Siso. Water- 
vliet, N. Y., for eggs shipped April lb, 
11)10. This man kept a wholesale fish 
and oyster market, but is now out of it. 
The bill is $25. I went there to see him. 
but he was not at home, llis wife told 
me she would have him send check last 
week, but he has not sent it. As near as 
1 can find out this man is able to pay 
if he wants to. He wrote to the presi¬ 
dent of the bank at Salem to give his 
letter to some egg shipper, and as I ship 
eggs and poultry the year round, he gave 
the letter to me. It- S. 
New York. 
We are unable to make this collection. 
The company claimed a check had been 
sent, but it was not received, and then- 
refusal to issue a duplicate or reply to 
correspondence indicates they are willing 
to impair their credit for a very small 
transaction. If they solicit shipments 
again, our readers will want to profit by 
the above experience and keep their goods. 
Do not ship produce to uuknown parties. 
Enclosed you will find circular of Al- 
goma Hog Farms. Detroit. Mich, which 
will explain itself. Will you look the 
matter up? A. s. H. 
Michigan. 
If we kept account of the various hog- 
ranch propositions that have come to us 
the last few years we would need a full 
page for the list alone. The name is dif¬ 
ferent, but the literature has the same 
features. The ultimate result will also 
be the same, and that is a loss to the in¬ 
vestor. Keep your money, or if you 
must invest, buy Liberty bonds or Treas¬ 
ury notes. Your security for these will 
be good, but for the others you merely 
gamble your money away. 
What do you think of the “Simplex 
Plan” for selliug real estate in New 
York? Is it a help to one wishing to 
make sales, or is it merely a plan to get 
our money, and with no results? 
New York. A. E. B. 
The “Simplex Plan” simply means to 
advertise your property yourself instead 
of employing the services of a real estate 
agent. Of course, no one would pay $5 
or any other amount for the plan if it 
could be examined before parting with 
the money. No doubt, a good many do 
send the price, expeoting the plan to re¬ 
veal some wonderful secret. This is the 
invention of W. M. Ostrander, who 
swindled farm owners as a real estate 
agent for a good many years. That is, 
lie pretended to be a real estate agent, 
but we never could learn that he sold any 
property. Ostrander originated the “list¬ 
ing-fee” swindle which many fakers have 
imitated ever since. 
I am enclosing a letter which I have 
received from Progress Paint Co.. Cleve¬ 
land. I would like, to know whether you 
think it advisable to buy their pain*? 
Pennsylvania. n. E. S. 
The letter offers to send a barrel or 
half-barrel of paint on trial—use 5 gals, 
and if not satisfied return the balance 
and no charge for the amount used. This 
offer seems perfectly fair, but let us see 
liow others have fared who have “bit.” 
In the first place, this class of paint con¬ 
cerns ship anywhere from 80 to 35 gals, 
as a half-barrel, and around 00 gals, for 
a barrel. Farmers regard a barrel as 
31 !{■ gals., while the paint trade gen¬ 
erally recognizes a barrel as about 50 gals. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
If these houses wanted to be fair, they 
would state iu their literature what 
amount of goods would be shipped as a 
barrel or half-barrel. It is a cheap qual¬ 
ity of paint that is sold iu this way. and 
when the buyer tries to return the ship¬ 
ment as provided for in the offer, his 
troubles begin. Instead of instructions 
for returniug the shipment, he receives 
dunning letters from collection agencies, 
and threats of suit if settlement isn’t 
made at once. There are a number of 
concerns doing business in this way in 
Cleveland. There are, however, legiti¬ 
mate paint houses in Cleveland sell¬ 
ing high-grade products through the 
regular trade channels; these paint man¬ 
ufacturers should not be confused with 
the class of concerns sending out extrava¬ 
gantly worded circular matter and 
smooth-tongued agents securing orders 
from farmers on the strength of repre¬ 
sentations which are repudiated after¬ 
ward. 
Would you please look up the Beckman 
Metal Product Co.. 284 Halsey Street. 
Newark. N. .T.. also Cleveland. Ohio? 
I demonstrated their shock absorbers, or 
tried to; got about a mile and ruined a 
pair of wire wheels, as it is a hard job 
to fit shock absorbers to a Ford equipped 
with wire wheels. Their letter that I 
enclose says that they can be used with 
wire wheels. These double action springs 
are no good’anyway; they have no merit 
at all. Sent them back and they were 
to refund my money but my second letter 
came back. T returned springs to Cleve¬ 
land. ().. as they came from that place. 
I also addressed both letters to Cleveland, 
< >. They owe me $14. I saw their adver¬ 
tisement in Fordoiniers. w. i.. c;. 
New York. 
Our letters are also returned and the 
Post Office Department advises us that 
the concern moved and left no address. 
We have been unable to trace them in 
any way. The experience reported 
speaks for itself, and will have to be 
credited to profit and loss. The woods 
are full of people looking for easy money, 
and it behooves our readers to be wary 
about sending good money for untried 
appliances. 
Digs Deep- 
Works All the Soil 
Write Today 
for a folder describing 
the line of John Deere 
SyracuseSpring Tooth 
Harrows. Address 
John Deere, Moline, 
Illinois, Ask for Book¬ 
let SH-i 840. 
/"pHE John Deere—Syracuse Spring Tooth Harrow 
1 is a necessary implement in making the deep, 
roomy, thoroughly-mixed and pulverized seed beds 
that are most profitable. Its teeth penetrate deeper 
than those of any other style of harrow, mixing and 
oulverizing the soil throughout the seed bed. 
JOHN DEERE 
imiAcos&'TSKsr 
are built extra strong. Frames, tooth bars and teeth 
are made of high carbon steel. 
Teeth are clipped strongly to the bar—no bolt holes 
to weaken them—teeth can be separately adjusted 
to take up wear or vary the penetration. 
Non-Clogging—the frame has small opening at front, 
growing wider toward rear—no loading or choking at 
this point. Trash works toward center and out 
through opening. 
Teeth can be instantly adjusted by means of con¬ 
venient lever to meet different soil conditions. 
Any number of sections can be combined. Can be 
furnished equipped with tractor hitch. 
JOHNDEERE 
THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY MmDE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS 
I bavc been receiving telegrams, special 
delivery letters and literature two or 
three times a week from General Oil Com¬ 
pany of Houston. Tex., X. E. .T. Cox, 
president. I bad about decided to invest 
$100 when my R. N.-Y. came last week. 
The first tiling 1 saw iu Publisher’s Desk 
was the item about this man Cox. I shall 
certainly take your advice and not invest. 
I figure that the little notice about Cox 
has saved me just $100. Please accept 
m.v sincere thanks. 
I think The R. N.-Y. is the best, most 
sensible and practical farm paper iu the 
United States today. I wish I bad time 
to go out in the country and get you about 
100 subscriptions, for I feel greatly in¬ 
debted to you. Wishing The R. N.-Y. all 
the success in the world. n. k. s. 
Ohio. 
We are always pleased to bear that 
“Publisher’s Desk” has saved a farmer 
from being taken in by sharpers of any 
sort. That is just the purpose of the de¬ 
partment. The trouble is too many leap 
before they look. 
In June we took out a loan for $2,500 
with Home Builders’ Union, Pittsburgh, 
Pa., at 8 per cent interest. Before one 
gets the money the investor must belong 
to a kind of union for 10 months and pay 
*12.50 a month until $100 was paid. We 
built a house and got our money some 
place else. We have $50 paid into this 
loan, and I wrote them that I would like 
to drop it and get my money back. I 
went to the office in Warren, but they 
have gone; do not know where they went, 
but found an address for Pittsburgh. Is 
there any hope of getting my money back 
or not? MRS. C. h. 
Ohio. 
The Home Builders’ Union has been 
taken over by the Banking Department of 
the State of Pennsylvania for investiga¬ 
tion. This is the usual result of these 
schemes for loaning money where the bor¬ 
rower is required to make payments for a 
definite period and then is “eligible” to a 
loan. This doesn’t mean that the person 
desiring the loan will get it; he only be¬ 
comes eligible. We have many times ad¬ 
vised our readers to beware of all these 
plausible plans for borrowing money. The 
advice still stands. 
Patient Parents : “Well, child, what 
on earth’s the matter now?” Young Hope¬ 
ful (who lias been bathing with his big¬ 
ger brother) : “Willie dropped the towel 
in the water, and lie’s dried me wetter 
than I was before.”—London Sketch. 
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200 acres clear; level, fertile land; loo acres In pine tim¬ 
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Order early and have it shipped early—be sure 
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Syracuse, N. Y. 
