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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
August 14, Hi 
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. 
What do you know about the Western 
Sales Agency, Minneapolis, Minn.? Are 
they reliable or not? B. Y. B. 
New Ybrk. 
This is the same sort of a petty swindle 
as the J. J. Black Real Estate Company, 
Chippewa Falls, Wis., scheme exposed in 
last week’s issue. Western Sales Agency 
asks for only $5 advance fee, while the 
Wisconsin imitation of the notorious Os¬ 
trander seeks .$10. 
I have received from the express com¬ 
pany a check for $28.50 for claim of No¬ 
vember 14. 1918. The agent at High Falls 
was surprised I received it; and in having 
so good result in this we might be able to 
collect the others. I want to thank you 
and The R. N.-Y. for the efforts you have 
made: and whatever charges there are 
please send them to me. w. M. A. 
New York. 
The express company is urging claim¬ 
ants to enter their claims with their own 
agent, and yet when they do the result is 
delay, if not actual failure to pay a just 
claim on some technicality. We are glad 
our efforts were successful. 
In sending claims to us make sure all 
necessary papers are included. We must 
have express receipt; consignee’s letter 
telling of failure to receive goods, or de¬ 
tailing the damage; bill for the loss or 
damage, itemized in full ; account sales, if 
any was received for goods or part of 
same. 
The express company is declining many 
claims because the consignee signed for 
shipments in good order. It will be wise 
to instruct the parties to whom you make 
shipments to examine same on delivery 
and note actual damage on the delivery 
receipt. If this is not done an inspector 
should be called in to verify the damage. 
Otherwise a claim will not be allowed. 
This is especially necessary in egg ship¬ 
ments. 
Can you give me information regarding 
the Farmers’ Standard Carbide Co., 
Incorp.. Plattsburg, N. Y.? They have 
an agent selling stock in our locality. 
Pennsylvania. F. w. d. 
We have reports from many sections 
that agents are scouring the country sell¬ 
ing stock of this company at $10 per 
share. We have before us advertisements 
in a Plattsburg, N. Y., paper offering the 
stock at $7 per share, and no takers; an¬ 
other advertisement offering the stock to 
the highest bidder. The people at home 
are evidently not anxious to part with 
their money for the stock at any price. 
The stories told by the stock-selling 
pirates hundreds of miles from home 
sound good to those unfamiliar with the 
tricks of the get-rich-quick trade. We 
have warned our readers repeatedly 
against parting with their money on the 
Farmers’ Standard Carbide Company 
scheme ever since the proposition was 
launched from C'anastota, N. Y., more 
than a year ago. If anyone questions our 
judgment we will gladly put such in 
touch with the advertiser who is anxious 
to part with his holdings at $7 per share 
or less. No need to pay the agents $10 
unless the guff emitted by the salesman 
ds considered worth the difference in 
price. 
We have signed a contract for lighting 
system on our farm. We signed through 
an agent with Night Commander Lighting 
Company. Are we safe in dealing with 
them? Is the system all right? The sys¬ 
tem includes a 100-lb. Michigan pit Model 
D., generator and appliances. We signed 
up for $327. The agent tells us private 
concerns are getting the plants from 
headquarters at Jackson, Mich., and sell¬ 
ing them as “Keystone Lighting Sys¬ 
tems.” etc., under a different name but the 
same except for a higher price. We do 
not expect the outfit to reach us for two 
months. Please, write us what you think 
of this as a company and as a system on a 
farm too far from electric light wire. 
Pennsylvania. M. w. F. 
When the Night Commander Lighting 
Company was active in Js’ew York State 
about four yearn ago the agents of the 
concern practiced the meanest sort of de¬ 
ceptions and tricks to secure the signature 
of farmers to orders. Thou the company 
resorted to the usual bluffs and threats of 
lawsuits to force farmers to accept the 
plants and pay for them. We therefore 
have no faith in the representations of 
the agents of this company. We have 
many complaints about the unfair and de¬ 
ceptive methods of acetylene lighting 
agents in securing the signatures of farm¬ 
ers to orders. The sales of electric light¬ 
ing outfits seem to be handled ou a higher 
and entirely satisfactory plane as far as 
our reports go. 
Will you look over the enclosed letter 
of Frank P. Cleveland. Chicago, Ill., that 
is being sent to the farmers all over these 
parts? Let me know what you think of 
it. and also point out where the weak 
points are. - L. E. I*. 
New York. 
Frank P. Cleveland is notorious for 
fake schemes in connection with real es¬ 
tate transactions. We have referred to 
his methods a number of times in connec¬ 
tion with the old Ostrander scheme of an 
advance fee for the sale of farm property 
which he employed. Now, he claims to 
be selling lots in the Oklahoma oil fields. 
We do not know where the lots are locat¬ 
ed, or whether Cleveland can give a good 
title to any lots in Oklahoma or not. The 
circular letter enclosed by the above sub¬ 
scriber offers to give him a warranty deed 
to a $00 lot if he will send a list of names 
of people to whom he may send his sucker 
bait literature, and $4.05. which he repre¬ 
sents merely covers the charge for prepar¬ 
ing the legal papers necessary to convey 
the title of the lot. This is a scheme that 
has been used by many real estate fakers 
before. It was employed by many to sell 
worthless lots on Long Island, and even 
the small remittance was many times 
more than the lots were worth. We ex¬ 
pect the same is true of the Oklahoma 
lots, provided he is in a position to de¬ 
liver titles to any bits at all. The small 
amounts received in this way are for the 
most part “velvet” to this class of opera¬ 
tors. 
On .Tanuarv 2 this year we purchased 
on conrtact from the Candee Incubator & 
Brooder Co., Eastwood, N. ^ 6.0<M>- 
egg incubator, and have paid $500 on it, 
a balance due of $389. The machine has 
not been satisfactory. No hatch lias been 
over 45 per cent, and the quality of chicks 
is poor. Not 10 feet from it in another 
incubator house we are operating a •>•900- 
egg incubator that has averaged a fraction 
better than 08 per cent hatch of all eggs 
set for the past two months. Eggs in 
both machines came from the same nock. 
We had no written money-back guaran¬ 
tee, onlv verbal with two of their agents. 
We have on file a letter from them telling 
us to write our own money-back guaran¬ 
tee. and that same guarantee is published 
broadcast in their literature. Me have 
called at their office and asked them to 
send a man here. He came one evening 
about seven o’clock. He found the ma¬ 
chine housed in a model cement-block 
incubator house, and that we were doing 
about evervthing an experienced operator 
could do. 'We suggested they send a man 
here to operate the machine, and we 
would board him. but they paid no atten¬ 
tion to that. We have phoned them, 
and lastlv wrote them June 10. Me did 
not want to keep their machine, and were 
not going to make our final payment or 
8389. but they ignore us. The contract 
reads that if we fail to make the pay¬ 
ments. they may take tin* incubator and 
retain amount paid. M T e have operated 
other machines for the past 12 years, 
and our 3,000-egg incubator for the past 
seven vears. and feel fairly competent as 
an operator. If the Candee is a good 
machine, we can’t understand why it 
won’t hatch for us. J * E - Y - 
The above statement of an experienced 
poultry man is not surprising, in view of 
our past experience with the Candee In¬ 
cubator & Brooder Company. 1 he ex¬ 
perience does not condemn the incubator. 
Many poultrymen are using these hatch¬ 
ers with very satisfactory results, but 
we have found the management of the 
company unfair and unreasonable in its 
treatment of customers, and on 'this ac¬ 
count a large order for the advertising 
of the incubator was refused a year ago. 
"We have had a number of complaints 
from customers that the manager disre¬ 
gards all guarantees and representations 
made before the sale, and appears to be 
indifferent as to the results which his cus¬ 
tomers are able to secure from the ma¬ 
chines. M r e have endeavored to adjust 
the controversy between the Candee In¬ 
cubator & Brooder Company and this 
customer in as amicable and fair a man¬ 
ner as possible, but our letters have been 
ignored. We therefore feel that we owe 
it to our readers to place the records of 
the transaction before them for their fu¬ 
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