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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 29. 1920 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ters receive no consideration. 
We have seen your article on Swiss 
Farms, on page 966, and would inform 
you that we have received a number of 
telegrams from the Swiss Farm. 1339 Bel¬ 
mont St., Washington, I). CL asking us 
for price quotations on 200 head of Jer¬ 
seys. to be shipped to Brazil. Several Jer¬ 
sey breeders have also received telegrams 
to the same effect, all of them being sent 
collect. We have, had people look up the 
address in Washington, and they have 
found this to be a vacant lot. 
THE AMERICAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB. 
As pointed out in May 15 issue, the 
“Swiss Farm” correspondence has all the 
earmarks of a swindle. Further reports 
show the party operating under the name 
of Swiss Farm is Douglas Demmon. It 
is reported that he swindled several 
farmers in the vicinity of Narberth. Pa., 
a year ago by having worthless checks 
cashed. Demmon has recently been heard 
of at Montclair, New Jersey. 
The Manhattan Butter & Egg Com¬ 
pany. 134 Columbia street. New York 
City, claim we shipped them a case of 
pullet eggs, for which they sent us a 
check amounting to .$11.48. The enclosed 
data will enable you to understand the 
transaction. These eggs were large, 
white and practically free from pullets. 
H. Lewis & Co. gave us 54c net for 
April .1 and the case shipped the 28tli of 
March 60c. Please collect $4.20. which 
we believe is our due. w. n. 
New York. 
This case resolves itself into one of the 
accuracy of the shipper or receiver. The 
eggs are disposed of and cannot speak 
for themselves. The Manhattan Butter & 
Egg Company is one of the many houses 
in the trade operating as “receivers and 
distributors.” We have previously ex¬ 
plained that these houses are in this way 
avoiding the requirements of the com¬ 
mission merchants’ law, and on general 
principles we would not advise shipments 
of produce to them. 
I butchered a very nice beef December 
22. and it had the finest hide I ever 
took off a beef. After the hide was 
thoroughly cooled I salted it and folded 
it up. On the 23d I shipped it by express 
to Edelen Bros., Baltimore. Md. Here is 
a copy of the account of sales: 
1 G. S. hide, 86 lbs.. 17c lb.$14.62 
I was so disappointed in the price they 
sent me for this hide I .iust enclosed the 
account of sales and check by return 
mail and asked them if they would not 
correct the mistake. As yet I have not 
received any reply. Can you take this 
matter up and straighten it out for me? 
Maryland. J. N. 
We took the complaint up with Edelen 
Brothers, and they reply with an insult¬ 
ing letter to the effect that the transaction 
is none of our affairs. Their attitude is 
sufficient to indicate that farmers will be 
better off to have nothing to do with them 
in the future. 
Why complain of II. C. of L. when you 
can get sugar at 4i/> cents per pound and 
other groceries at corresponding low 
prices? What do you think of the 
enclosed advertisement of Big 4 Grocery 
Co., Chicago, taken from The Young 
People a Wcel-1 g . a Sunday school paper 
published by David C. Cook Pub. Co., 
Elgin. Ill.? It looks to me like a swindle. 
New York. C. H. E. 
Of course the advertisement is a fake 
on the face of it—if it does not warrant 
the term applied by C. H. R. The offer 
fe a trick to sell a lot of unknown brands 
of groceries of inferior quality at the 
price of standard goods. We have reports 
indicating that the concern has no inten¬ 
tion of shipping any sugar. The excuse 
is made that they are entirely out of 
sugar and will refund money for that 
portion of the order. The offer of the 
sugar at 4% cents a pound is the “sucker 
bait” used to sell the other goods. Even 
in cases where the sugar is shipped the 
price received for the other “junk ' covers 
the market price of the sugar and all plus 
a liberal profit. This dishonest scheme 
merits the attention of the Vigilance Com¬ 
mittee of Advertising Clubs of the World. 
In a farm paper T recently saw the 
advertisement of a Birch motor car. T 
answered the advertisement and received 
the enclosed reply. The car does not 
seem to be universally known, and I am 
wondering about the reliability of the 
firm. Can you be of any assistance in 
ascertaining their standing? F. s. B. 
Now York. 
This is just a scheme of Ralph Birchard, 
Chicago, to sell a correspondence course 
iu automobile salesmanship at $12.50. 
We have not seen the so-called “course” 
and canuot. pass upon the merits of it. 
From our experience with such “dope” 
we should say it might be worth t ho 50 
cents. The appeal to sell Birch auto¬ 
mobiles is merely the bait to get the 
$12.50 for the course. There is no such 
thing as a Birch car, except, in the sense 
that Ralph Birchard may buy one or more 
cars from some obscure assembler of auto¬ 
mobiles and call it a “Birch.” Without 
saying so, this circular letter conveys the 
idea that Ralph Birchard is a large man¬ 
ufacturer of automobiles. His manufac¬ 
turing plant is under his hat, where he 
manufactures plausible schemes to get 
easy money from the gullible public. We 
will refrain from expressing our opinion 
of the farm papers (?) which carry this 
class of advertising! 
I am enclosing a communication from 
Borah & Borah, Champaign, Ill., the re¬ 
sult of reply to enclosed clipping from the 
Connersville Netcs-I'xam hi er. Will you 
investigate the soundness of this firm and 
let me hear, not only to save myself, but 
perhaps many others? Your decision 
upon a thing is not only law with us. 
but to thousands of others. My family 
never fails to read this department each 
week. When answering the clipping I 
thought it a private party who was want¬ 
ing land in our section, as several Illinois 
people have located in this section, some 
through private communication and others 
through our local real estate promoters. 
I am sending by this mail a reply to them, 
stating that they would hear nothing fur¬ 
ther until a reply from you, as I had re¬ 
ferred their whole communicatiou to you, 
and would await your decision. I also 
added that it would be one of the greatest 
advertisements they ever had, lot it be 
good or bad. unless, of course, you have 
had to deal with their concern before. 
Indiana. e. l. .t. 
The classified advertisement asked to 
hear from those having farms for sale. 
It is very innocently worded, as though 
the individual whose name appears de¬ 
sired to purchase a farm. We have many 
times exposed this fake. The object is to 
get an advance fee from the farm owner 
under one pretext or another. Borah & 
Borah ask for $5. for which they promise 
to perform a service in the way of print¬ 
ing 500 circulars describing the farm, etc. 
Of course, any real estate agent must send 
out circular matter if he expects to do any 
business, but this expense is covered by 
the commission on the sale of property. 
This scheme of getting an advance fee 
was inaugurated by W. M. Ostrander a 
good many years ago. lie relied upon 
the advance fee for his principal income, 
and we have since his time failed to find 
any evidence that any of his imitators 
make a serious effort to sell property. 
There is too much “easy money” in the 
“advance-fee" end of the game. 
Charles II. Rowan was arrested Tues¬ 
day afternoon under an indictment by the 
Federal Grand Jury, charged with using 
the mails to defraud. 
As head of the National Food and Fur 
Association. 3517 North avenue; the Ani¬ 
mal Research and Culture Bureau. 799 
Thirty-sixth street, Milwaukee. Wis., and 
the Guinea Pig Advancement Association. 
557 Twelfth street, Rowan is alleged to 
have promised prospective customers the 
opportunity of making huge returns on 
rabbits, white mice and guinea pigs, with 
stock bought from bis companies. 
The indictment charges that after 
Rowan had sold rabbits with the promise 
of buying back their offspring at $3 each, 
his company went out of business. 
Schemes were also worked with white 
mice and guinea pigs, according to the 
indictment. 
The Government officials are rounding 
up the pet-stock fakers fast. The pro- 
motors of a similar scheme were fined 
$1,000 in New York City only two weeks 
ago. The R. N.-Y. exposed Rowan's 
scheme just two years ago. and pointed 
out that lie had been expelled from the 
National Breeders’ and Fanciers’ Asso¬ 
ciation of America. 
Tlis fellow clerks gathered round Jones 
when the news of bis engagement became 
public property, and expressed their 
hearty congratulations. “But,” said one 
man, “I understand the girl you are en¬ 
gaged to is a twin; how do you tell the 
difference between her and her sister?” 
“Well, it's a nice family.” said the lucky 
man, “and I don’t bother very much.”— 
New York Globe. 
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