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May 14, 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, lienee unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
It lias been reported by the police of 
f.os Angeles that a man named Wilson 
opened an office for the sale of four-leaf 
clover seed. lie advertised extensively 
and informed Ins prospective customers 
that there was a great demand for four- 
leaf clovers, because it was considered 
lucky to possess them. He regretted hav¬ 
ing to charge so high a price for the seed, 
but agreed to buy back at 75c each and 
every plant that the people were willing 
to sell. About the time that the plants 
were creeping out of tin 1 ground Wilson 
disappeared. When the landlord entered 
the empty office he found several boxes 
of four-leaf clovers, but an investigation 
showed that they were the ordinary three- 
leaf clovers with the fourth leaf cleverly 
attached by the use of green court plaster. 
The police say Wilson got away with 
something like .$2,000. 
I have had trouble with .Jacob Ilempf. 
174-170 Noll street. Brooklyn. N. Y.. fur 
skin dresser and dyer. 1 sent him three 
coon skins; two of them were extra fine. 
They substituted two poor ones instead 
of the good ones. T have two witnesses 
that are willing to give their affidavits 
that they were not the two skins that I 
sent. F. S. Shafer, a subseriber of The 
I t. N.-Y.. saw the skins before they were 
shipped, and when they returned said 
they were nothing compared with the 
ones T sent. Two of the coon skins 1 
sent were worth considerable to me. as 
they were extra fine, and I intended to 
have a set of furs made for my wife, and 
it was a great disappointment. 1 have 
not sent the two- coon skins back. Would 
yon inform me what to do with them? 
New York. M. B. 
The only consideration we are able to 
get from Jacob Kcmpf is the statement 
that the subscriber’s “claim is ridiculous.” 
It doesn't seem reasonable that this sub¬ 
scriber and his neighbors are mistaken 
about the skins. M. B. points out there 
were bullet holes in the skins where the 
coons were shot, and the skins returned 
had no such holes in them. The public 
may draw their own conclusions from the 
record of the transaction. 
I have a claim that I cannot collect 
without costing me more through an at¬ 
torney than the amount involved, and 
therefore will ask you to see what you 
can do in the case for me. On July 20 I 
received the enclosed telegram from A. 11. 
Ballbach & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., on 
the strength of which 1 made shipment of 
15 crates of black currants. The tele¬ 
gram. as you see. quoted me 25 cents per 
quart, but the firm has refused to live up 
to the quotation, and the account sales 
rendered on a commission basis shows the 
net return to be a little more than 22 
cents per quart. The total loss amounts 
to only $17.50. but I don’t like to be 
taken advantage of : n this manner. 
New York. C. J. H. 
The telegram referred to is dated July 
20. 1020, and reads as follows: “Guar¬ 
antee quarter or more. 15 crates, today’s 
shipment. A. G. Ballbach Co.” Air. 
Ballbach disputes the date, on this tele¬ 
gram, and insists that lie wrote and sent 
it on July 2$ instead of July 29. and on 
this basis refuses to live up to the quota¬ 
tion for the currants. We have taken the 
pains to have the original telegram sub¬ 
mitted to us from the Western Union 
office in Philadelphia, and il shows that 
the date on the telegram was originally 
July 28. hut the date July 20 was writ¬ 
ten over the original date; The Western 
Union Telegraph Company state that the 
date was uot changed after the telegram 
came into their possession. From the cor¬ 
respondence in the case it would seem 
that the telegram could not in the natural 
course of events have been sent on July 
28. On that date the commission house 
wrote the fruit grower and refused to 
buy or make any offer for currants. July 
20 was Friday, and the express company 
failed to make delivery of the currants 
until the first of the week, which is no 
doubt responsible for the loss in price. 
The offer in the telegram was based on 
shiinnevl of that date, and not condi¬ 
tional upon the delivery. From any angle 
that one can view the transaction after 
a thorough study of all the evidence, it 
would seem to he a clear case of “welsh¬ 
ing" on the part of the commission bouse. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The shipper is one of the best known fruit 
growers in the Hudson River Valley, 
whose reputation and standing is unques¬ 
tioned. The amount involved is not im¬ 
portant. hut shippers are made to he tin 
“goat" under such circumstances in their 
transactions with produce houses entirely 
too often. As a rule, they take their 
•medicine without making any noise about 
it. 
I received check today which settles 
tlu> account sent you for collection. Mr. 
T. states in his letter that he would have 
paid it sooner if I had not started my 
funny work. I guess he means putting 
the case in your hands. 1 am satisfied 
that your influence and tire pressure you 
brought to hear on him were the direct 
cause of his paying now. I thank you 
ever so much for your effort and interest 
in my behalf. If you will let me know 
how much I owe you. I wilj gladly pay 
you. You have collected two hills total¬ 
ing over .$100 for me. and I appreciate it. 
New York. c. w. F. 
This is to inform you that I have re¬ 
ceived check for $020. and the matter is 
considered settled. I know you do not 
accept any pay for such services as this, 
but if you will send me the bill I will be 
willing to pay for any expenses which 
you may have had in this matter. I con¬ 
sider Publisher’s Desk department alone 
is worth more than the price of your 
valuable paper. J. tt. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
Some houses resent our efforts to col¬ 
lect an overdue account on a subscriber’s 
behalf. Responsible houses welcome the 
opportunity to co-operate in order to have 
a satisfied customer. We have no hill 
to render. The fact that we have been 
of service is sufficient, payment. 
They have sent me 
wonders twice since, 
but no seed. Today I got another of 
early plants, 
catalogue of 
I sent that Stamford, Conn., concern, 
the Krieter-Murphy Co., a month ago, 10 
cents for a package of their Burbank to¬ 
mato seed, which they claimed would 
give ripe fruit from seed sown sooner 
than 
their 
"\>day 
their catalogues enclosing the lot of fake 
circulars which I send. 1 have twice 
urged them to send the packet of seed, hut 
only get another copy of their fake cat¬ 
alogue. T think this firm needs looking 
after by the Postoffice people. W. F. m. 
Maryland. 
A year ago 1 sent to the Kreiter-Mur- 
phy Co. of Stamford. Conn., for garden 
seeds. T never got the seeds. I bit the 
same hook again this year and sent again. 
1 cannot get my seeds or even a. reply 
from them, though I have written them 
several times. If they are playing that 
game right along it seems to me that peo¬ 
ple should be warned. Do you know any¬ 
thing about them? J. J. 
Connecticut. 
The only means of securing redress 
from concerns of this class is to make 
complaint to the Chief Post Office Inspec¬ 
tor. Washington. D. C. The advertising 
of this class of seed houses is never ac¬ 
cepted for The R. N.-Y.. and we feel that 
those sending orders are perhaps better 
off to lose the remittance than to waste 
their time on the character of seeds sold 
by this concern. 
I saw an advertisement in Form Life of 
the National Chick Company, New York 
Life Building. Kansas City, Mo., offering 
bahv chicks at 12 1 / 4 c apiece. I sent for 
350 in the latter part of January, with a 
check for $47.50. They promised to send 
my chicks April 10. but did not do so. I 
wrote to them and got no answer. What 
can be done? C. Z, 
Delaware. 
We warned readers twice during the 
early part of the season against sending 
orders for baby chicks to this concern. 
The purpose of Publisher’s Desk is to save 
our people from just such loss and annoy-; 
ancc. The only suggestion we can make* 
in such cases is to make complain < » 
Chief Postoffice Inspector. Washington. 
D. charging fraudulent use of the 
mails. We believe the department has a 
case against the proprietor of this Na 
tional Chick Company on account of 
similar operations and complaints last 
year. 
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little Muriel came in from the garden and 
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