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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 9, 1921 
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. 
Subscription errors occur in every 
publishing office. They occur with us; 
but like every responsible publishing 
house, we are constantly on the alert to 
avoid them. The keeping of subscription 
records so that every subscriber will get 
his paper every week and be promptly 
and correctly credited with renewal is a 
very technical and particular work. It 
involves endless detail, and the chances 
for error are always present. Each name 
must go through several hands, and if any 
one of them make even a slight error the 
subscriber may not get his paper, or he 
may get a notice that his subscription has 
expired when he is paid some time or a 
year in advance. The clerk may simply 
put a name for Vernon. N. Y., in the 
Vernon, N. .1.. list. Then the New York 
farmer would miss his paper, and the 
New Jersey postmaster would have u 
paper that he could not deliver. We have 
fully 250,000 changes to make a year. 
Considering the size of the list we have 
few errors, but we have never been able 
to find clerks who never make mistakes, 
and occasional annoyances from this cause 
seem unavoidable. Our friends are 
usually good-natured and indulgent when 
errors occur ; and we want them to know 
the difficulties and that we are only too 
glad to have an opportunity to correct 
them. 
The conspiracy charge against Charles 
II. Keefer of 420 Richmond avenue and 
Harry I’. Pollay of 255 East Jewett ave¬ 
nue, officials of the Poll-Eells Airplane 
& Motor Corporation, practically fell 
through in city court yesterday after the 
case bad been presented to Judge Clif¬ 
ford McLaughlin. Attorney George W. 
Wheeler moved for the discharge of his 
clients on the ground that the people had 
failed to prove that a conspiracy had 
been entered info, and Judge McLaughlin 
was inclined to agree with him. 
“If the charge was one of larceny it 
would be another question.” commented 
the court “I will reserve my decision on 
your motion until tomorrow morning.”— 
Buffalo paper. 
These parties had a very pretty scheme 
to lure money from would-be aviators, 
proposing to teach aviation, and they 
were to give the student a machine when 
the course was completed. The report 
states that 27 students had paid the com¬ 
pany on this scheme amounts ranging 
from $50 to $2,000. Readers were warned 
of the scheme in these columns several 
months ago. 
Do you think tin 1 inclosed proposition 
of Quisenberry Feed Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Kansas City, Mo., a safe invest¬ 
ment? w. c. w. 
New York. 
In addition to his correspondence 
school. Prof. Quisenberry now proposes 
establishing a feed factory to manufac¬ 
ture and sell a full line of poultry feeds. 
The prospectus speaks of the project in 
the future tense—“the company is to be 
organized with a capital of $250,000.” 
A picture of the factory and elevation 
“as it will look when completed.” appears 
in the prospectus. Prof. Quisenberry is 
apparently capitalizing his reputation as 
a poultry expert in connection with this 
project. The prospectus shows nothing 
more tangible back of the enterprise than 
his reputation, lie seems to be appeal¬ 
ing to poultrymen for funds on this 
basis, plus the prospect for cheap feed 
and easy riches as a result of the invest¬ 
ment. Our advice to poultrymen is to al¬ 
low Prof. Quisenberry to finance his own 
undertakings, and we shall be glad to 
see the enterprise succeed, if it does ful¬ 
fill all the alluring prospects set. forth by 
the promoter. 
You published a statement some time 
ago of the money you had gotten refunded 
for your subscribers. I wish there was 
some way of knowing how many hundreds 
of thousands of dollars you kept in their 
pockets. There have been some agents 
through our county selling stock in a coal 
mine in West Virginia, and I know of 
about $50,000 they got. 1 know of about 
$15,000 spent for lots on Long Island, 
and I know of some Texas oil stock being 
sold. but. not one dollar to a subscriber 
of Tiie R. N.-Y. who reads the Publish¬ 
er’s Desk department. I repeat what I 
told you several years ago, that I am go¬ 
ing to subscribe as long a* you keep two 
pages. “Publisher's Desk” and "Hope 
Farm Notes.” None of the stock-selling 
agents has ever approached me. I be¬ 
lieve the protection that your department 
gives beats a life insurance policy. 
The coal-mine fellow's just left our sec¬ 
tion, and I am going to find out more 
about it and report to you, so that they 
may be exposed so others may be warned. 
One widow took $5,000, saying (hat she 
felt that a« the Lord knew her circum¬ 
stances. and that she always tried to do 
what was honest and right. lie would 
protect her from being defrauded. She 
lias a farm and teaches school to try to 
keep her out of debt: had good credit and 
borrowed the $5,000. They took notes 
where they could not get cash, telling the 
parties that they would be left at the 
bank for collection, but they were dis¬ 
counted from 10 to 50 per cent. wlv'’ 
shows that they wanted to clean up and 
get away. s. w. s. 
There is much food for reflection in 
the above report on the get-rich-quick 
promotions in the district where the sub¬ 
scriber resides. The figures are appalling 
to be taken out of one farm community, 
and it is a safe bet that none of the in¬ 
vestors will ever see a cent of it again. 
The thing we have been trying to im¬ 
press upon the minds of country people 
is that stocks sold in this way rarely, if 
ever, have any real value. The salesmen 
can spin plausible yarns by the hour as 
to the easy riches which will flow from 
the investment; but the experience of 
thousands of cases is that those who part 
with their money in exchange for stock on 
the strength of salesmen's guff, lose it! 
The case of the woman who borrowed the 
money to invest it with those stock-selling 
pirates is pitiable. 
I have a claim against Stuart P. Mc¬ 
Lean of 806 Michigan avenue. Youngs¬ 
town, <>hio. for $54.48 for flowers and 
Spring chickens bought in 1010. and it 
seems I cannot get settlement. I am 
sending you card which shows lie prom¬ 
ised to pay. Would you try to collect- 
this for me? if. f. 
Ohio. 
We could get no response from Mr. Me- 
Ivean, and as a last resort gave the ac¬ 
count to our attorney for collection, lie 
now reports that it is impossible to make 
the collection, ae the debtor is no longer 
in business. Our oft-repeated advice to 
get the financial standing of houses and 
individuals before making shipments still 
holds good, and the necessity for this pre¬ 
caution is very evident. 
D John .T. Black of Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., a reliable man to deal with? I have 
received some of his literature, in answer 
to my inquiry about real estate, but I 
want your opinion before. I list my farm 
with him. w. J. T. 
Ohio. 
John J. Black, Chippewa Falls, Wis.. 
advertises “Farms Wanted.” This brings 
inquiries from those having farms for sale. 
Then he works the farm owner for an 
“advance fee" under one prextent or an¬ 
other—the old Ostrander scheme. If any 
of these “advance fee” real estate individ¬ 
uals ever made any effort to sell farms 
we have no evidence of it. Getting ad¬ 
vance fees is an easier game. The many 
inquiries about these real estate pirates 
suggests the necessity of continuous warn 
ing to the farming public. 
Isn't this an appropriate time to state 
your opinion again in Publisher’s Desk of 
such instruments as the “Sexotester.” of 
which 1 enclose the company’s advertise¬ 
ment? It appeared in the American I’onl- 
iry Advocate. If the instrument is a hoax 
I dread to see the innocent ^‘bite.” 
New York. E. 8. w. 
We have expressed our opinion of the 
“Sexotester” a number of times. It is 
claimed for this device that it will tell 
what sex a fertile egg will hatch, and indi¬ 
cate infertile eggs. In our opinion it is a 
first-class humbug. If anyone can “show 
us” to the contrary we are open to con¬ 
viction. Every practical poultryman we 
have spoken to about these devices con¬ 
siders the claim too preposterous to be 
given a moment's serious consideration. 
Perhaps the publication in question can 
find a reason to justify publishing the ad¬ 
vertisement? Will the publisher speak 
up? 
Returning from the dentist’s, where 
he had gone to have a tooth extracted, 
little Henry reported as follows: “The 
doctor told me ’fore he began that if I 
cried or screamed it would cost me 75 
cents, but if I was a good boy it would be 
only half a dollar." “Did you scream?” 
his mother asked. “How could I?” ans¬ 
wered Henry. “You only gave me half a 
dollar.”—New York Globe. 
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