1426 
Iht RURAL NEW.YORKER 
September 4, l!i” i 
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. 
May I ask you for an opinion of the 
Griswold Oil Co., Wichita Falls. Tex.? 
Mr. Christian’s reputation is so good and 
so well' known that it seems improbable 
he could lend his name and influence to 
an enterprise designed to defraud. 
Virginia. B. K. 
It is not unusual to find names of men 
who stand for respectability and honesty 
connected with very questionable enter¬ 
prises. Sometimes these men of high 
reputation in the business world are very 
gullible and often the lure of gold induces 
them to become connected with unsound 
• of a help. The eggs these birds laid were 
small, and would not bring tops prices for 
some time. Mr. Wiegand claims that he 
still thinks they are worth $2.10 each; 
but what I want to make clear is that 
Mr. Wiegand sold me G-lb. hens and de¬ 
livered 4-lb. I bought breeders and got 
culls. f. G. B. 
Vermont. 
The only satisfactory way we have ever 
found to adjust such cases is to return 
the bird and money. We asked Mr. 
Wiegand to do this, and he refused. He 
finally agreed to refund $25 of the pur¬ 
chase price, but he squeals on this agree¬ 
ment, and secured the services of an at¬ 
torney to protect him in violating a writ¬ 
ten agreement. We have affidavit on file 
from a disinterested party confirming 
what F. G. B. says about the birds, which 
leaves no room for doubt that Mr. Wie¬ 
gand sold them under misrepresentation. 
Charles Wiegand will never be permitted 
to advertise in The R. N.-Y. again. 
Bates Steel Mule Plows Faster 
R EGARDLESS of soil or weather condi¬ 
tions the BATES STEEL MULE will TJ „ . 
plow the ground deeper and faster than is *■ rnos ^ efficient 
usual with Tractors. Tractor in America 
projects. Again, promoters sometimes 
use the names of influential individuals 
without their knowledge or consent. The 
Griswold Oil Co. has all the earmarks of 
a wildcat oil scheme. It is not a pro¬ 
ducing company and therefore at best is 
only a prospect. Putting money into oil 
concerns of this kind is only a gamble— 
it cannot be considered an investment. 
The United Markets, Inc., Mentor. 
Ohu, have men here selling stock in what 
they claim is a line of chain stores. 
They are selling stock at $10 per share 
for both preferred and common. They 
claim they have 18 stores in operation, 
and their goal is 100. Scores of farmers 
around here are buying stock as they 
guarantee eight per cent interest. They 
also claim they sell from 30 to 40 per 
cent cheaper than the general stores now 
in operation, and will sell stockholders 
at a discount of four per cent from the 
selling price. What do you know about 
the proposition? H. D. o. 
Ohio. 
The woods are filled with “chain store” 
schemes just now, selling stock to far¬ 
mers through plausible salesmen. The 
promise to sell goods to stockholders at a 
discount is the standard form of sucker 
bait. If anyone has ever invested in the 
stock of any enterprise on the strength 
of such inducements and did not lose his 
money we should like to have a record 
of the case. 
We had a hail loss on our 65 acres of 
Winter wheat between the hours of four 
and five, July 5, 1019. It was insured in 
the Union Fire Insurance Company of 
Lincoln, Neb. I could not get a settle¬ 
ment. About 20 per cent of the grain 
was down, some due to wind and about 
10 per cent to hail. We are tenants, and 
our landlord claims he was given an 
eight per cent loss on his share. We had 
other companies carrying the same in¬ 
surance on the same 65 acres of wheat, 
and they came across with a loss settle¬ 
ment immediately. We have written sev¬ 
eral letters, and the last three or four 
have not been answered. We are enclos¬ 
ing policy with letter, and desire that you 
will make a collection, which is justified, 
or expose their way of transacting busi¬ 
ness F. B. L. 
Nebraska. 
We have on file an affidavit from the 
owner of the farm confirming F. B. L.’s 
contention that the insurance company in 
which the owner was insured allowed him 
damages on the basis of eight per cent 
of the value of the crop. It is rarely if 
ever that an insurance company will 
allow more than the actual damage. It 
is usually something less than the full 
damage. In face of this evidence the 
Union Fire Insurance Company arbi¬ 
trarily refuses to allow any claims under 
their policy on the grounds that their 
adjuster estimated the damage at less than 
five per cent. The policy does not cover 
less than five per cent damages. We have 
also appealed to Governor McKelvie of 
Nebraska in order to secure justice for 
this obscure renter, who finds it imprac¬ 
tical to interfere in the farmer’s behalf. 
Farmers seeking hail insurance will not 
find it difficult to decide which insurance 
company figuring in the case is the most 
desirable in which to have a policy writ¬ 
ten. 
I am enclosing correspondence relating 
to some pullets which I bought for breed¬ 
ers from Charles Weigand, Cooperstown. 
N. Y. They were represented to weigh 
average 5 x /a' to 6 lbs., which is standard 
size for Rhode Island Reds. The 40 
weighed 156 lbs., about 4 lbs. each, and 
are of no use to me as breeders. I have 
a 2.400-egg incubator, had orders for 
baby chicks, and was not getting enough 
from my own flock to keep the incubator 
filled. To get a bunch of culls at a busy 
time of the year was a hindrance instead 
May I take this opportunity to tell you 
that I think The R. N.-Y. the best farm 
paper published? I have already ex¬ 
pressed my appreciation in a more con¬ 
crete form by renewing my subscription 
for five years. b. s. 
New York. 
The R. N.-Y. is just as helpful to 
farmers as our experience and ability are 
able to make it, and we are naturally 
pleased when friends tell us that we have 
succeeded. It would be hard for anyone 
to dispute the sincerity of a farmer who 
backs up his opinion with a five-dollar 
bill. 
I am enclosing a leaflet from the Per¬ 
fect Voice Institute, Chicago, Ill. I 
found the advertisement of the school in 
the Physical Culture magazine. Is this 
combination reliable? Can they do as 
they say ? r. e. b. 
Michigan. 
We feel safe in saying any musical 
authority will agree with us that music, 
either vocal or instrumental, cannot be 
successfully taught by mail. But cor¬ 
respondence school fakers stop at noth¬ 
ing—one of them promises to teach avia¬ 
tion by mail! Our advice to this young 
woman is to invest the $80 which this 
so-called “institute” asks for mail dope 
with some competent instructor. 
I am enclosing some literature of Gard¬ 
ner. Green & Co., Chicago, Ill., for your 
advice. It savors very strongly of the 
Ostrander dope. Perhaps you have already 
paid your compliments to those worthies, 
but I don’t recall it now. I think Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk is the most valuable thing 
to your readers that I see in any farm 
paper, and I take five different ones. If the 
readers will only take advice from The 
R. N.-Y.’s Publisher’s Desk they will not 
be caught on sucker bait, and if each 
reader would just keep a note book and 
write down the parties you have exposed 
they could refer to the same, and often 
save being bitten; also save you and 
themselves the trouble of a repetition of 
the exposure. Might this not be a good 
suggestion to make to your readers, to 
keep a note book of the exposed frauds? 
Pennsylvania. b. a. m. 
The Gardner, Green & Co. contract 
asks this farm owner to advance $22 for 
“advertising, listing, etc.” It’s the same 
old Ostrander scheme that has been ex¬ 
posed in The R. N.-Y. at least a hundred 
times since Ostrander originated it about 
15 years ago. Each agent using it varies 
the scheme to suit his own object, but 
the principle remains the same in all 
cases. Farmers who pay money to real 
estate agents in advance in the hope that 
a customer will be produced receive no 
equivalent for their money. And the 
agents have no intention of rendering any 
service—just an easy-money scheme. 
Canker in Eye 
Can you tell me whether a canker in a 
White Leghorn’s eye can be cured? 
New Jersey. a. e. m. 
I don’t know just what you mean by 
“canker,” as that term is rather loosely 
applied to a variety of affections of dif¬ 
ferent natures. Sometimes the mem¬ 
branous patches found in the mouths of 
roupy birds are called cankers, and, again 
small ulcers or small, localized abscesses 
from infected wounds are given the same 
name. Others speak of any eruption 
upon the skin as canker. You will be 
safe, however, in treating any form of 
“canker” within the eyelids by washing 
it frequently the more frequently the bet¬ 
ter. with a strong solution of boric acid 
in soft water, say, 15 grains to the ounce. 
This solution is antiseptic, mildly germi¬ 
cidal, cleansing, healing and harmless. 
It is sufficiently mild, also, to be used 
upon such sensitive tissues as those about 
the eyeball. m. b. d. 
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The front wheels make comfortable riding and 
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