1814 
November 27, 1920 
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. 
As a subscriber and constant reader 
of your valuable Rural New-Yorker I 
am forwarding the inclosed papers for 
your perusal and advice as to the rating 
etc., of Western Sulphur Company. The 
agent of Chas. E. Glosser & Co, Inc., 
has been canvassing our vicinity for 
some days and claims the Western Sul¬ 
phur Co. is to build a $250,000 plaant 
near New Brunswick, N. J., for the man¬ 
ufacture of the product as a result of 
Dr. J. G. Lipman’s discovery. I am 
sending all the papers in my possession 
about this, knowing that after they have 
served your purpose you will return same 
tot me with the results of your investi¬ 
gation. G. E. P. 
The basia of the appeal to farmers to 
invest in this proposition >is the connec¬ 
tion of Dr. Lipnran of the New Jersey 
Agricultural Experiment Station. We 
hnve asked Dr. Lipmau for a statement 
of his relations with the Western Sulphur 
Co., and his response will serve as a 
guide to all who may be approached to 
purchase stock in the company. His 
statement follows: 
In February, 1920, I entered into an 
agreement with the Western Sulphur 
Company whereby they were given ex- 
clus ve license to manufacture inoculated 
sulphur as well as mixtures of inoculated 
sulphui and phosphate rock, in accord¬ 
ance with processes patented by me in 
this country and abroad. I understood 
at that time that the Western Sulphur 
Company, because of its ownership of 
deposits of sulphur in Wyoming, was in 
a oosition to proceed at once wHh the 
manufacture and sale of inoculated sul¬ 
phur. commercially designated as “Bac- 
sd". and of mixture® of inoculated sul¬ 
phur and ground phosphate rock, com¬ 
mercially known as “Baesul Phosphate.” 
The fact that the Western Sulphur 
Company has found it necessary to sell 
stock in order to increase its capitaliza¬ 
tion, the further fact that stock is being 
sold or attempt® are. made to sell stock 
among farmers in New Jersey and New 
York State, but particularly the fact 
that my name has been used in connection 
with the matter in a manner not war¬ 
ranted, have made it necessary for me to 
cancel the agreement with tiio Western 
Sulphur Co. The agreement provided 
that the company pay me a royalty for 
each ton of material manufactured and 
sold in accordance with my process. I 
am not a stockholder in the company, 
and am not in any other way interested 
in the commercial activities of the West¬ 
ern Sulphur Co. Under the terms of the 
agreement. I have the legal right to can¬ 
cel it at three months’ notice. Such no¬ 
tice of cancellation is being sent to the 
company. jaoob g. lipman. 
We have no interest in any controversy 
between Dr. Lipman and the Western 
Sulphur Co., but we feel that our readers 
who are approached to buy stock should 
know the situation as it exists. 
We will ask that you do not write us 
any more regarding complaints of any 
nature. We are quite capable of taking 
care of our business, and our reputation 
is possibly as good as yours. If any 
shipper has anise for complaint, he has 
a course of action to follow. We stand 
ready to defend ourselves at all time®. 
But we admit that we do not care to have 
any more letters or inquiries from you. 
Newark, N. J. l. menkes & son. 
Commissi on Merch a n ts. 
The above in a paragraph of a letter 
from the commission house in response 
to a complaint presented in behalf of an 
egg shipper. The account sales rendered 
October 1G was at 75c per dozen. The 
shipper claims he was receiving 90c at 
homo at the time. Menkes & Son con¬ 
tend that the eggs were mixed and small. 
The eggs are no. longer able to speak for 
themselves, so that the size or quality 
can never be determined beyond dispute 
by either the shipper or commission 
house. 
Another poultryman complains over a 
shipment of hens on a definite nuotation 
of 40c per lb. for “medium weight Leg¬ 
horn fowls.” The poultrymau’s records 
show he shipped 210 fowls, net weight 
788 lbs., or about 2% lbs. per bird. The 
returns were for G50 lbs. at 86c. The 
difference is too great to be accounted for 
by shrinkage, and there arises the ques¬ 
tion of whether the express company de¬ 
livered all the fowls shipped. Again, 
there does not seem to be any definite 
standard of a “medium-weight Leghorn 
fowl,” but poultrymen seem to regard that 
a 3%-lb. hen comes under that classifica¬ 
Vh* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
tion. In this case after complaint was 
made, an adjustment of 2c per lb. was 
made by Menkes & Son, but the shipper 
contends he should have received 40c per 
lb. on the entire shipment, less a reason¬ 
able shrinkage. The hens are no longer 
in evidence, either—and there you are! 
We shall obey the commission firm’s edict 
and present no more complaints, but we 
shall give the public the benefit of such 
complaints as seem to be well founded. 
There is a man canvassing in this sec¬ 
tion representing the C. L. Gunsoh Co., 
Rochester, N. l r . He is selling improved 
Siberian oats at $2.75 per bushel, which 
he guarantees to yield at least 20 bushels 
per acre more than any other variety. 
The guarantee is not put in writing. Is 
this is the Gunson-Higbie Company, who 
are now operating under a slightly 
changed name? w. G. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have records of only R. J. Gunson 
Co. and L. P. Gunson Co. of Rochester, 
and whether the three concerns are re¬ 
lated or otherwise the newcomer to the 
field is playing the same game as the 
original Gunson companies. “The guar¬ 
antee is not put in waiting.” Certainly 
not — glib-tongued agents never put in 
writing anything that may turn up later 
to plague them or the concerns they rep¬ 
resent. If farmers would insist that all 
verbal claims he put in writing the “jig 
would be up” with the seed and nursery 
agents. 
Enclosed find check for $2, for which 
send us The R. N.-Y. for one year. These 
subscriptions are inspired by your edi¬ 
torial in a recent issue advocating pro¬ 
gressive measures along political lines, in 
which we are deeply interested. 
Connecticut. R. H. I and A. L. 
Farmers are coming to realize that thev 
are affected every hour of the day by poli¬ 
tics. There is no way they can escape 
it; and full and accurate information is 
essential to good judgment and sound pol¬ 
icy. They may yet be partisans, but 
with right information they will make the 
parties respond to their needs. 
The following reply to a mysterious 
business proposition, asking the subscriber 
to send $2 in order to learn the plan, is 
a model for others to follow when ap¬ 
proached through the mails or by < "u- 
vassers for such schemes: 
In reply to your circular recently re¬ 
ceived, I have no desire to know anything 
about your business if it is a secret with 
you. I certainly would not pay $5, or 
even $2, for any such secret, or any cat- 
in-the-bag plan to make money. I cannot 
conceive that there are enough suckers of 
the intelligent class to depend upon to 
build up a thoroughly good and honorable 
business, or to increase materially your 
net gains by their responses to your ap¬ 
parently unholy scheme to get something 
for nothing. Certain it is that I will 
keep out of that kind of company and 
that kind of business. F. E. A. 
Pennsylvania. 
What do you know of E. J. Reefer, self- 
styled “poultry expert,” of Kansas City, 
Mo . and his “More Eggs” tonic? As my 
hens dropped off more than half their pre¬ 
vious egg production soon after beginning 
use of the stuff, and are still on strike, I 
naturally think the tonic a fake and E. J. 
a fraud. I am at loss to know how he 
broke into the advertising columns of rep¬ 
utable papers like The R. N.-Y., Farm 
Journal. Sunday School Times, etc. 
New York. A. E. M. 
The other publications must speak for 
themselves; but Reefer or the other ad¬ 
vertisers of similar products have not 
broken into the columns of The R. N.-Y. 
We have refused this class of advertising 
offered, representing several thousand dol¬ 
lars. 
Leroy Jones of Danbury, Conn., alias 
Robert Marshall of Forestville, Conn., 
was arrested last week by Post Office de¬ 
tectives on the charge of embezzlement. 
Jones, or Marshall, or whatever his name 
may be, has been operating in the vicinity 
for some time, and the public is to be 
congratulated that he is in the custody of 
the United States authorities. His 
scheme was to advertise poultry and pur¬ 
chase stock to fill orders wherever he 
could find it. This class of crooks change 
their names and take on a new one with 
as much facility as they do a worn-out 
coat. 
“Do you ever go hunting?” asked a 
friend. “No, but my wife does.” was the 
reply. “Your wife?” “Yes." “What 
for?” “Oh, for burglars, or fire, or pare¬ 
goric, or trouble, or my salary; it’s al¬ 
ways hard to tell in advance.”—New 
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