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June 2(3, 1020 
Ofte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher's Desk depart¬ 
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. 
Owing to your kindness in tracing the 
deal we got from the Food & Fur Asso¬ 
ciation, w’e received from Mr. Booth this 
last week a check for .$7 in settlement 
for the rabbits we paid $14 for. and «we 
to keep the rabbits. We thank you very 
much indeed, and trust you will secure 
many new subscribers from the list made 
out and enclosed. l. h. 
New York. 
This is the same George C. Booth, of 
the United Food & Fur Association, 329 
West 48th street, New York, who was 
fined $1,000 for fraudulent use of the 
mails. We are glad the postoffice forced 
him to make settlement with the sub¬ 
scriber. We are informed that Mr. 
Booth is now located at) 20 Gladstone 
Street, Rochester, N. Y. Look out for 
him! 
On May 18 I shipped the Manhattan 
Butter and Egg Company, 134 Columbia 
St.. New York City, a case of eggs. They 
were all nice fresh eggs, not any over 
three days old, and when I got the pay 
the statement said: “W. secouds”*sold for 
35c per dozen. I am sending you the let¬ 
ter they wrote me and their statement. 
The same day I sent the Keystone Dairy 
Company two cases, and they sold for 51c, 
as you will see, and I am sending the R. 
B. Baker estate eggs every week, and 
they sell for 52e. F. w. A. 
New York. 
Manhattan Butter and Egg Company 
is another of the “Receivers and Dis¬ 
tributers” which we have repeatedly 
warned shippers against trusting with 
their produce. ‘This class of houses is 
not subject to supervision of the State 
Department, and F. W. A. has no redress 
but to accept whatever the dealer chooses 
to send. Manhattan Butter and Egg 
Company has no established financial re¬ 
sponsibility besides. 
Here is $5 for five years. I think this 
the best way to stop expense to you and 
bother to me. It is the greatest worth 
in the United States—$260 worth for five 
dollars. Every copy is worth a dollar 
to me. I can’t afford to lose any copies 
by neglect or oversight. T. M. J. 
Connecticut. 
At this rate, if The R. N.-Y. were pay¬ 
ing dividends in cash instead of dividends 
in service, every member of every farm 
family would be subscribers. In many 
cases the value of the service is intangible, 
and may be variously appraised from a 
dollar a copy to zero. Once after recov¬ 
ering from a case of pneumonia in the 
Alps, we asked the attendant European 
physician for the amount of his charges. 
He replied by asking if we thought it 
worth 2,000 francs to save our life. If 
left to ourselves, human nature may in¬ 
duce any of us to overlook other agencies 
in the case, and to claim too much for our 
own services. And so, to avoid the exag¬ 
gerations of conceit, we keep our annual 
fee at a dollar, and make the 52 weekly 
dividends as large and as real as we can. 
Why does the Government allow Mills 
from Rose Hill, N. Y., to use the mails? 
The people have a right to be protected. 
Ohio. N. E. B. 
It is sometimes a difficult matter to 
make rules and laws to curb dishonesty 
without interfering unjustly with the 
business of honest people. No matter how 
sure we may be of a crook the Govern¬ 
ment must go into court and prove a 
definite complaint against him to the sat¬ 
isfaction of a jury before he can be de¬ 
nied the use of the mails. This is right. 
Otherwise a bureaucrat in the Post Office 
could lord it over legitimate business, pro¬ 
tect his favorites and destroy anyone who 
incurred his displeasure. We have no 
sympathy for crooks, but it is better that 
a dozen of them go free than that one 
honest man suffer unjustly. 
Ats for Mills, we have refused his adver¬ 
tising and exposed his methods for twenty- 
oda years, and at a time when all other 
farm papers published his fake seed and 
land advertisements without limit. 
On account of sickness and other mis¬ 
fortunes, a good woman has appealed to 
Publisher’s Desk to help her find a buyer 
for her farm. It is located in Washing¬ 
ton County, New York; milk station and ' 
market l 1 /* miles; 233 acres. Rolling 
slate loam; adapted to dairying and gen¬ 
eral farm crops; can be worked by all 
kinds of farm machinery. Well watered 
by spi’ings and streams; about 30 acres 
of wood lot). There are four barns, gran¬ 
ary, carriage house, cornhouse and hen¬ 
house. The family residence is a large 
two-story house, the best farmhouse in 
the neighborhood, and very pleasant; 
well shaded, lawn and piazza in front. 
The tenant house has been used for two 
families. This is also pleasantly situated. 
We have not seen the farm, but we be¬ 
lieve the description is correct, and we 
should be glad to forward the letter of 
anyone interested in the farm to the pres¬ 
ent owner. Our only interest is to help 
out in an unusual way in an unusual case. 
It seems like an opportunity for a ready 
buyer. 
The express check was a complete sur¬ 
prise to me. I had ceased to hope for a 
settlement. , w. A. L. 
New York. 
Sometimes these claims drag so long it 
is no wonder complainants give up hope 
of settlement; but we never let up on a 
claim once filed until we get a check or 
fail definitely. Whether you hear from 
us or not, we are after it regularly and 
persistently. The system is a tax on farm 
products, and we propose to keep up the 
fight for reform. 
FOR SALE—Cleveland tractor. Model R; bought 
new late in 10X8; in perfect running order: 
reason for selling—help question; price one-half 
what cost new. L. F. GOULD, Framingham, 
Mass. 
The above advertisement appeared in 
“Subscribers’ Exchange” Department Feb. 
7, 1920, and as a result of which Mr. 
John A. Conklin of Pennsylvania pur¬ 
chased the tractor. After getting the 
tractor home a Cleveland tractor service 
man examined it and makes affidavit to its 
condition as follows: “Not in usable 
condition, requires two new main axle 
shafts and two main drive wheels. That 
the tractor is minus two lower (middle) 
track wheels and needs two drive pinions.” 
Besides the misrepresentation of the 
tractor the advertisement is deceptive, and 
intentionally so, as correspondence devel¬ 
ops that Mr. Gould purchased this tractor 
from a dealer and it had not been used by 
himself and sold on account of “help ques¬ 
tion” as stated in the advertisement. The 
firm from which Mr. Gould purchased the 
tractor admits “there were some worn 
parts.” And yet Mr. Gould refuses to 
take the tractor back or make any reason¬ 
able adjustment with the purchaser. It 
is difficult to prevent deception in classi¬ 
fied advertisements in “Subscribers’ Ex¬ 
change” department. The department is 
conducted without profit for the accom¬ 
modation of subscribers. Our charge for 
advertisements in this department doesn’t 
covpr the cost of the white paper on which 
it is printed and the advertisements are 
usually inserted only once; the charge is 
so small that it is impractical to investi¬ 
gate the individual advertisers as we do 
those using display advertising columns. 
We depend upon the good .faith of the sub¬ 
scribers in whose interests this depart¬ 
ment is conducted, and it is rarely that 
our confidence has been imposed upon. 
We feel that Mr. Gould deliberately de¬ 
ceived us in this case, and that he has 
sacrificed the right as a subscriber to use 
the department in the future. 
Many of the above could well afford to 
spend a dollar for your paper, as they 
paid several times the price of the paper 
this Spring for some famous Higbie seed 
oats, which proved to be anything but 
seed oats. u. B. F. 
New York. 
This comment comes with names of 
farmers whom H. R. F. feels could read 
The R. N.-Y. to their advantage and 
profit. Testimony as to the Iligbie seed 
oat fraud multiplies. The Higbie-Gunson 
schemes have been exposed so many times 
that further comment on their methods 
would seem to be superfluous. These 
firms are located in Rochester, N. Y. 
Visitor: “Of what were you accused?” 
Convict: “Stealing a watch. I made a 
good fight for it. I had two lawyers and 
sixteen witnesses came to prove an alibi. 
But all was in vain; I was sentenced to 
four years’ hard laboi\” Visitor: “I 
don’t see why you were not acquitted.” 
Convict: “Well, there was just one weak 
point in my defense—they found the 
watch in my pocket.”—Credit Lost. 
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