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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March. 20, 1921 
| PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ment must he 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. 
I ordered from Wards Poultry Farms, 
Stockbridge, N. Y., 50 birds, and on < »<•- 
tober 4 sent cheek for $200 which came 
through O. K., but birds never came. Mr. 
Ward could not send pullets, and offered 
me hens, which I promptly refused, and 
be agreed to semi me some later pullets, 
and after waiting two months and a half 
I wrote him it was too late to make them 
pay for themselves, and asked to have 
my check refunded. But from that day 
to this have heard nothing from them, 
although I have written four times, wired 
twice for my money, and our banker drew 
on them when the interest on my mort¬ 
gage was due, and the draft was re¬ 
turned with notice “no attention paid.” 
I need this money very much and have 
already lost $4 interest, so if you can in 
any way get it for me 1 would appreciate 
it no end. Am enclosing one of their 
pamphlets with an excellent promise in it. 
Illinois. B. 8. b. 
This complaint speaks for itself, and 
previous reports from customers of \\ ards 
Poultry Farms indicate that this is a fair 
sample of the way these gentlemen con¬ 
duct their poultry business. Enough said ! 
In August. 1920. Emil Weber, Port 
Chester. N. Y.. desiring to purchase some 
14 -quart peach baskets, communicated 
with the Farmers’ Supply & Booting Co., 
Bridgeport, Conn, asking them to quote 
him prices. Immediately upon receipt of 
quotations Mr. Weber drew his check to 
the order of the Farmers' Supply & Roof¬ 
ing Co. for $28 50. This check lie trans¬ 
mitted to them and requested them to 
send him 800 14-quart peach baskets. 
Much correspondence ensued, and Mr. 
Weber made a trip to Bridgeport in an 
effort to get the baskets. Repeated 
promises of shipment were made, which 
were never fulfilled. Both Mr. Weber 
and I are subscribers to your paper, and 
in fact. Tub R. N.-Y. has been taken by 
some member of my family for over a 
quarter of a century. A few days ago I 
suggested to Mr. Weber that perhaps you 
would he good enough to assist him in 
recovering his money. You will see from 
the foregoing that it is not a claim of Mr. 
Weber against this concern for goods sold 
and delivered, but that be is simply en¬ 
deavoring to procure the return of 
moneys sent to them for goods which they 
did not ship. Whatever you may do will 
he gratefully appreciated by Mr. Weber. 
New York. c. E. w. 
It always is our ambition to adjust 
transactions of this kind amicably, and 
we wrote the Farmers’ Supply & Roofing 
Co. twice in this spirit. No reply to 
either letter. We fear the name assumed 
by the firm does not fairly re present its 
purposes. How can any business house 
hope to earn or maintain the trade and 
confidence of farmers and treat one of 
their members in this manner? It was 
bad enough to disappoint the customer 
when he was depending upon the baskets 
to take care of his crop; and to ignore 
his demands for adjustment afterward is 
inexcusable. Farmers in the vicinity of 
Bridgeport will do well to .take notice. 
Five years ago we listed our farm for 
sale with 1>. B. Cornell, of Great Barring¬ 
ton. Mass., through the deception and 
misrepresentation of his wily agent. .T. J. 
Hooker. For five years he did nothing. 
We had nothing to indicate that Cornell 
ever made any attempt to sell the farm. 
1 have given possession to another party 
on contract, but have not sold it or given 
title to it, and any time Cornell brings a 
buyer he can have it at the price he prom¬ 
ised to get for it. Recently, however, he 
heard I had sold the farm, and lie has 
been trying to scar** me into paying him 
$200 withdrawal fees. At my age ‘this 
is unpleasant, and I ask your advice in 
reference to it. w. H. M. 
New York. 
Our advice is to pay no attention to 
Cornell. He has no claim in this case 
al all; and even if the sale had been 
made and title transferred lie could not 
collect on this fake scheme, and we do 
not believe he would try in any way ex¬ 
cept in boisterous demands and noisy 
threats. Cornell’s schemes have been 
strictly on the fake order for years, and 
we have not heard of a single case where 
he collected these fees where the owner 
ignored him. But tin* only way to avoid 
annoyance from Cornell is to order him 
out of the house, off the place, when he 
appears with promises to sell the farm 
for more than it is worth. He does not 
expect to sell. What he wants is a fee. 
A dog or a strong cowhide boot would he 
good implements to have around when 
Cornell or Hooker put in an appearance. 
We have lost patience with their petty 
trickery. 
[ received your letter a few days ago, 
enclosing check for $11.25 in settlement 
of my claim against, the railroad. I was 
very glad to get it. for I had given np all 
hopes of it. I had written them several 
letters before I turned it over to you, and 
they would not answer me. I see through , 
reading Publisher’s Desk you will not ac¬ 
cept any pay for your trouble. I am en¬ 
closing a check for $2 to pay my sub¬ 
scription to January. 1928: that makes 
81 years I have taken The R. N.-Y. I 
have given $1 of the claim money to tie* 
Salvation Army, and am going to send 
the remainder of it to the starving chil¬ 
dren in Europe. I would rather they 
would have it than the railroad, .i. M. c. 
Texas. 
A hag of peanuts for planting was 
shipped in May. 191S, and not offered for 
delivery until August, 1918, when the 
nuts were of no use. The claim was 
promptly entered, but absolutely ignored. 
The railroad offered $2.75. the amount 
they realized on the sale of the peanuts. 
We refused it. and finally, after refuting 
several trivial and petty excuses f<u- ignor¬ 
ing the claim, we succeeded in securin': 
voucher fog the full value, two years and 
nine months after .shipment. We appre¬ 
ciate the subscriber’s generosity, and this 
Spirit of passing the help on to others 
more needy hears out the Golden Rub* 
fully. It is a pleasure to us to help in¬ 
directly. and we are glad our people cal! 
upon us for aid in getting justice. 
I received yours of tin* 8th insf.. en¬ 
closing check for $147.59 from the manu¬ 
facturing company. That was certainly 
real service, as I was unable to get any¬ 
thing out of them but argument, and 1 
sincerely thank you. As long as 1 am 
able to take a paper-1 will take The It 
N.-Y. In a small measure to show that. 
I appreciate* it. and also to help in.v fel 
low-man to know about your paper, as 1 
have done. I s"tid you 11 names for otn* 
year They are m.v friends or neighbors: 
also mv renewal for three years. Total 
$14. If you will take any commission 
name it and I will remit. R. a. j. 
Arkansas. 
This is one of the many times that we 
become the recipient of favors instead of 
the dispenser of them. All of our friends 
arc not able to come hack so promptly 
with such a liberal material return for a 
little service through Publisher's Desk, 
but in one way or another they do come 
back every day, if not materially, then in 
other ways, to gladden the heart and to 
encourage the work. A farmer in Arkan¬ 
sas has not much chance in a dispute 
with a concern in another State, and it is 
a real pleasure for Publisher’s Desk to 
he able to speak for the justice of tin* 
farm in such cases. 
Publisher’s Desk may cost you some 
loss of revenue and some criticism. If 
surely involves work and responsibility, 
but it is worth its weight in gold to the 
country man. Keep it up. k. at. 
New York. 
If anyone thinks he can serve the pub¬ 
lic faithfully in a public way without 
criticism and abuse, not to say occasional 
losses, he is simply without experience 
and faces many surprises and some dis¬ 
couragements. Publisher's Desk has <Ivii 1 y 
experiences. The biggest rogues have 
friends. Some of them are in places of 
influence, and sometimes they indirectly 
share the plunder in other ways that 
may or may not be subject to criticism. 
Every crook is at least an enemy of Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk, whether he has come in 
contact with it or not, and every friend 
or business associate he can influence 
will share his sentiments. 
' Nobody cares to be regarded as a 
knocker. No one dislikes more than we 
do the necessity of saving disagreeable 
things of anyone. When crooks leave 
country people alone we try not to bother 
them. We let many shady characters g‘> 
unsea (lied because we either are not sure 
or do not have the proof of their roguery. 
When we must speak it is not to injure 
them or <<> chastise them, but to protect 
people who are not in a position to pro¬ 
tect themselves. Publisher’s Desk lias no 
pride or satisfaction in jumping on any¬ 
one. but it must be confessed we have no 
scruples about the feelings of crooks ami 
no very great concern about their pitiable 
pleas of respectability. 
A repost eh was interviewing Thomas 
A. Edison. “And you. sir.” he said to the 
inventor, “made the first talking-ma¬ 
chine?'' “No.” Edison replied, “the first 
one was made long before my time—out 
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