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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2. 1921 
Digs Deep-Works the Soil Well 
• Malles a Qood Seed Bed • 
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of plant food is secured, and the young and tender plant i9 
supplied proper nourishment for a good start. Get the right 
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•JOSH BF.ERE 
SYRACUSE 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ment must be signed with writer’s full 
naime and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Perhaps it might interest you to know 
that I think your number of March 5 was 
great in more ways than one—-a com¬ 
plete reference book in itself. I believe 
that it was the best that I have yet re¬ 
ceived in the 14 yearn I have been a sub¬ 
scriber to your paper. w. c. B. 
Illinois. 
I agree with you about March 5 issue : 
I would not throw it away for a $5 bill. 
I told my wife, after reading it: “That 
is the best yet.” They are all good, but 
last week’s paper beat them all. I am 
74. retired once, went at it again ; want 
to stay in the traces until I am called. 
Long iive The R. N.-Y. 
New York. J. H. G. 
Our friends confirm our own judgment 
of the March 5 issue, many of them writ¬ 
ing before they received our comment on 
it the following week. We think The 
R. N.-Y. has the most critical and intelli¬ 
gent audience in the world. They tell us 
encouragingly what they like and help¬ 
fully what they don’t like. We like the 
grit of the friend who stays in the traces 
at 74. and looks confidently and hopefully 
for a promotion at the end. 
One Carl E. Davison lias come to our 
territory, claiming to represent the Tri- 
States Dairy Company of New York. 
He has won the confidence of neighboring 
dairymen, and they are selling him milk 
on the promise that he will build a cream¬ 
ery. He has held two meetings here, and 
promises everything fair, but we would 
like to know more about him. c. w. E. 
New York. 
You do well to learn more about Mr. 
Davison before giving him credit for 
milk. At Prattsville he went into bank¬ 
ruptcy, and failed to pay farmers for milk, 
lie repeated the experience in the west¬ 
ern part of the State. Some dealers put 
in at least a little of their own money as 
a start. Davison seems to be able to 
dispense with even this little preliminary. 
Dairyme.. who would sell him a quart of 
milk without cash in advance have simply 
failed to look up his record. 
of Henry Hoffman, Houston, Tex. Hoff¬ 
man caJIs himself president of Union 
Trust Company. The object of this is. 
of course, to give the impression that he 
has a big financial institution behind 
him. This is the sucker bait to sell 
the stock in his oil promotion. It is 
not a “trust company” in the sense of 
a financial institution, but merely to serve 
Mr. Hoffman's interests to sell oil stock. 
Don't be lured into fake oil investments 
by any such high-sounding names. Hous¬ 
ton, Tex., seems to be a “hotbed” of 
“wildcat” oil investments. 
I come to you for assistance to recover 
$575 which a farm agency got from me 
through their lawyer by threats and in¬ 
timidation. The agent brought a custom¬ 
er one day who offered $5,000 and then 
$5,500. I offered to accept. $5,750. He 
refused to pay this, and left, saying I 
could keep the farm. Later another cus¬ 
tomer came and bought the farm. Then 
the agent came back, and said his buyer 
was willing to take it at my price. I told 
him it was sold, but he made a fuss and 
threatened to make trouble in giving title 
to my buyer, and by threatened litigation 
and trouble forced me to pay the $575 he 
demanded as commission. T had listed 
the farm with him at $5,750; but he did 
not have an exclusive contract, and I had 
the right of selling to another. I come to 
you to get my money back for me. I am 
02 years old, and it means much to me. 
New Jersey. h. f. b. 
This case appealed to us. The com¬ 
plainant is an old man, and while intel¬ 
ligent was forced to pay the commission 
to avoid difficulty in transferring title 
and possession to the buyer. The agent 
claimed that he was entitled to the com¬ 
mission because the owner had agreed to 
accept the price and that he, the agent, 
had entered an agreement to sell it for 
the owner. The agent had no such au¬ 
thority, and we saw he had no right to 
the commission. The agent finally saw 
it our way and has just refunded the $575 
to the seller. There is no reason in the 
world why a farmer should sign any con¬ 
tract or agreement with a farm agency 
for the sale of a farm. The farmer never 
should do so. On the contrary, he should 
require that the agent write the farmer 
a brief letter saying that no sale would 
be considered until contract was duly 
signed by both parties, and that no com¬ 
mission would be due or demanded until 
title passed and payments are made. 
• 
This profitable instrument has a 
reputation among its thousands of 
users as a producer of bigger crops. 
Its sharp teeth have special penetrat¬ 
ing ability, and by shifting con¬ 
veniently-placed levers the teeth 
can be made to operate at any 
desired depth. This feature, to¬ 
gether with the peculiar shape of 
the teeth, is what makes the John 
Deere-Syracuse Spring Tooth Har¬ 
row do such good work. It digs 
deep, works the soil well, and make3 
a good seed bed. 
The harrow illustrated is the genu¬ 
ine wheel type. The wheels, turn¬ 
ing on oiled, dirt-proof bearings, 
carry practically all of the weight of 
the harrow. It does the same good 
work, with light draft. 
Your John Deere dealer will be glad to show you this Harrow on hi9 
sample floor. Be sure to inspect it. Write today for a descriptive 
folder. And also ask for Better Farm Implements, a 114-page illus¬ 
trated book with description of the full line of John Deere tools. 
It costs you nothing. Address John Deere, Moline, Illinois, and ask 
for Package SH-9 37. 
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My wife’s sister subscribed for a course 
of piano lessons for her boy. who is 11 
years of age. She paid $10.50 down for 
the first course of lessons as described 
under plan No. 2. She did not ask them 
to send the second term of lessons, but 
they began sending them, and after send¬ 
ing a few lessons they stopped and began 
sending dunning letters. The boy did 
not take much interest in the first term 
of lessons, and his mother decided not 
to take any more. Now they have given 
their claim to a collecting agency, and 
ask $30, although their letter distinctly 
shows that $9 was their price for the sec¬ 
ond term of lessons. F. F. 
Pennsylvania. 
The U. S. School of Music advertises 
“special -free -tuition offer,” so at first 
sight the casual reader of the literature 
might wonder where the $30 claim or any 
other amount comes in. But reading fur¬ 
ther on one discovers that while the 
tuition is “free,” you are to pay a cer¬ 
tain amount for sheet music, clerical 
work, postage, etc. Such a pretense and 
sham ought to put any grown-up person 
wise to the insincerity of the proposition. 
Here is plan No. 2 from the concern’s 
circular letter sent to the mother of the 
boy when trying to get the order: 
Under Plan No. 2. by paying $10.50 
in one payment you would be entitled to 
the first term of 48 lessons at no further 
expense. Under this plan the second 
term of lessons will cost you only $9. 
It doesn’t specify that the second year's 
course is a part of the agreement, and 
the price of the second year is only $9 
anyhow. Yet the alleged collection 
agency makes demand for $30. We pre¬ 
sume the amount of money country people 
are buncoed out of by collection agency 
threats would aggregate millions of dol¬ 
lars yearly. We advise the mother to 
ignore the threats of the collection agency 
in question. Musical authorities agree 
the object cannot be successfully taught 
by mail anyhow. 
Find enclosed some literature tfrom 
Houston. Tex. It seems like “sucker 
bait.” I have no money to risk, so will 
remain poor. w. J. E. 
Maine. 
The literature is “wildcat” oil dope 
Do you know the Magnolia Conserva¬ 
tories, Tuscaloosa. Ala.? They owe me 
$4.04, and fail to remit. The amount is 
small, but it is a pretty easy way to get 
goods. I sent them Galax leaves 0. O. D.. 
on their promise to pay this and a small 
balance due me. I will not trust them 
again. E. c. R. 
Any concern that is willing to impair 
its standing for so small a sum. deserves 
no consideration, and shippers of florists’ 
stock will do well to put this name on the 
list of undesirable houses. 
Your letter of the 21st to hand with 
check for $34 enclosed for which you 
have my heartfelt thanks. I should like 
to pay you. but know from what you 
have stated in the paper you won’t accept 
it. and I can only say if at any time von 
need my services at this point just let me 
know. J. b. 
Long Island. 
This man shipped 5 crates of live 
chickens weighing 371 lbs. net. The 
buyer returned 136 lbs. short. The price 
was 25 cents a pound. The buyer re¬ 
ceipted for five crates but reported short¬ 
age to delivery agent and had receipt 
marked 136 lbs. short. The gross weight 
was also noted on the original express 
receipt. First the express company re¬ 
fused redress on the plea of neglect 
on the part of the shipper. Then be¬ 
cause the complaint had not been filed 
within four months. Every technical re¬ 
quirement was insisted on by the express 
company as to proof, hut all records had 
been kept, and the buyer took great pains 
to help make the case. With it all it took 
two years, four months and 20 days to 
collect the $34 check. 
The telephone rang and the bookkeeper 
answered it. “Yes, madam, this is Wilk¬ 
ins’s market.” “This is Mrs. Blank. I 
■want you to kuow that the liver you sent 
me is most unsatisfactory. It is not 
calf’s liver at all; calf’s liver is tender 
and-” “Just a moment, madam, and 
I’ll call the proprietor.” “What is it?” 
Wilkins asked. The bookkeeper surren¬ 
dered the ’phone. “Mrs. Blank,” she said. 
“Liver complaint.”—New York Globe. 
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