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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 2, 1921 
blisher'sTdesk' 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
natae and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Wle have reports from Cumberland 
County, N. J., of a slick scheme worked 
by an agent of the American Stock Com¬ 
pany of Tiffin, 0., on the merchants in 
that section. The American Stock Com¬ 
pany is a manufacturer of live stock and 
poultry preparations, including tonics, 
remedies, etc. The agent in question, R. 
C. Snell;' induced several storekeepers to 
agree to accept a small amount of goods 
on consignment in order to see if there 
was any demand for the product of this 
company in the vicinity. The merchants 
were asked to sign a paper covering this 
agreement, no copy of which was left with 
the merchants. On the strength of what¬ 
ever contract or order the merchants 
signed, the American Stock Company has 
shipped the merchants in question a con¬ 
siderable quantity of goods, amounting 
to $50 or more, and is demanding settle¬ 
ment and threatening to bring suit in case 
immediate payment is not made. Some of 
the merchants have refused to accept the 
goods". ~ xhe trick was worked on several 
merchants, so that the facts can easily 
be established in court if the American 
Stock Company makes good its threat to 
bring suit against these merchants. 
We are publishing this record for the 
guidance of other storekeepers who may 
be visited by the agent of the American 
Stock Company; furthermore, we would 
not recommend farmers using remedy or 
tonics sold by such questionable methods. 
We have presented these complaints to 
the American Stock Company and our let¬ 
ters remain unanswered. The silence of 
the firm virtually confirms the contentions 
ot the several merchants in question. 
I hu/e a judgement for $35.95, dated 
January 12, 191(5, and' interest to date, 
amounting to $68.55, against James O. 
Pultz, 388 Manhattan avenue, Bronx, 
New York City. Would you help us to 
collect, or advise us what to do to collect 
this account? This man will not pay un¬ 
less he is forced to. w. R. 
New York. 
We have been unable to locate James 
O. Pultz, as he has moved and left no ad- 
drss, and the Postoffice Department can¬ 
not locate him now. The account is so 
old, we had little hope of collecting it, 
but tb" ’’e.sult shows the necessity of look¬ 
ing up tne standing of parties before mak¬ 
ing any shipments to them. 
During my absence an agent for the 
Chicago Portrait Company induced my 
wife to sign the enclosed slip, by a lot of 
misrepresentation, as she later found out. 
In due time the pictures arrived, and one 
was absolutely worthless, looked like col¬ 
ored photos to me. iShe gave the $2, and 
in a few days received notice that a note 
of $13 was due the first of July. Will 
you give me your advice in the matter? 
I am an ex-service man, and the money 
means quite a lot to me right now. 
Ohio. L. A. w. 
The rule seems to be that portrait 
firms do secure their orders by one sort of 
misrepresentation or another. We have 
many times refei’red to the “lucky en¬ 
velope seneme” of the Chicago Portrait 
Company, which was only a device to 
.make the customer believe that he or she 
is getting something for nothing, or, to be 
more specific, $30 portraits for $15. 
There is no mention of the “lucky en¬ 
velope” in this case, but the deception is 
accomplished in another way. The game 
of all these portrait houses is to sell a 
frame with the picture at an exorbitant 
price. 
There is an agent canvassing this sec¬ 
tion for the sale of stock in the Frontier 
Mortgage Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Can you give me any information in re¬ 
gard to the standing of this corporation? 
New York. T. N. s. 
The Frontier Mortgage Corporation is 
a comparatively new concern, organized 
during the past year to engage in the 
business of dealing in first and second 
mortgages which are bought at a dis¬ 
count and therefore sold at a 1 ofit to the 
investing public for use as collateral to 
create more mortgages. In edition to this 
business they are also engaged in discon¬ 
tinuing commercial paper, especially those 
notes arising from the purchase and sale 
of automobiles. The company has an 
(authorized capitalization of $5,009,000 
8 per cent preferred stock, par valu« 
$100, and 75,000 shares of common stock 
of no par value. Samuel Untermyer, 
counsel for the Rockwood Committee, 
which has been investigating building op¬ 
erations in the State, in a published in¬ 
terview makes the following comments on 
the Frontier Mortgage Company : 
I do not regard the practices in which 
the corporation indulges as proper or 
legitimate, although there is nothing dis¬ 
tinctly unlawful about them. At a time 
when the supplying of houses for the 
masses of our people has become the 
most serious problem of the day, it was 
wrong to launch a corporation such as 
this, with a highly respectable board of 
directors, to prey upon the public need by 
exacting exorbitant interest and bonuses. 
Last July, while living at 116 Harrison 
Street, Waterloo, la., I ordered two tires 
from the Eureka Tire & Rubber Com¬ 
pany, 1547 South Michigan Avenue. Chi¬ 
cago. Ill., size 32x414, for which I paid 
$12.75 each, but when I went to put them 
on my car found them too small. I re¬ 
turned them July 26, and I have not 
been able to get any reply from them, 
although I have written them several 
times asking them to return my money or 
another pair of tires. I also had the 
express company look them up, and found 
they were delivered to them the 27th and 
signed for by them. On June 30 I re¬ 
turned one tire to the Morton Tire & 
Rubber Company, Chicago, Ill. This was 
a retreaded tire. I drove it 67 miles, and 
there came a bunch on it nearly twice ns 
large as the tire. The tread was all 
right, but they had not repaired a blow¬ 
out before it was applied. I have not 
been able to get a reply from these peo¬ 
ple, although I have written them several 
times. c. e. n. 
New York. 
The above report is typical of “gyp” 
tire transactions. Chicago is a hotbed of 
this class of dealers. We can do nothing 
for farmers after they send money to 
such houses—(we try to keep them out of 
trouble by warning them before they part 
with their money. 
Your letter enclosing check for $50, in 
settlement of claim against American 
Railroad Express received, and I wish to 
thank you for your prompt attention in 
this matter. I am sending, under sepa¬ 
rate cover, 20 complimentary 10-week 
subscriptions to your valuable paper, and 
hope that each one will be a life reader 
and believer in The R. N.-Y. w. I. B. 
Maryland. 
The subscriber returned tires valued at 
$110 to a firm, but the tires were never 
delivered. Inadvertently the value was 
written on the express receipt as $50, and 
this was all that could be realized, as it 
covered the full extent of liability. This 
shows the necessity of writing in the full 
value of your shipments, and if it involves 
payment of an extra rate it is wise to pay 
it in the case of valuable shipments. We 
appreciate the generosity of the subscrib¬ 
er in sending the trial subscriptions. 
Mail Order House seems to devote its ef¬ 
forts principally to selling stock instead 
of shoes. We make it a rule never to 
carry advertising for any concern working 
a “stock-jobbing” deal on the side. 
THE HENYARD 
John McLaughlin of New York, and 
•Abram Renick of Winchester, directors of 
the McCombs Oil Company, were found 
guilty on 13 counts of using the mails 
in a scheme to defraud by a jury in the 
United States District Court at Louis¬ 
ville, Ky., June 6. 
Motion for a new trial will be heard 
Tuesday, when McLaughlin and Renick 
are scheduled to be sentenced. 
The prosecutor charged that McLaugh¬ 
lin and Renick were the instigators of 
the most stupendous fraud ever perpe¬ 
trated in Kentucky. He also assailed 
Hal Corbett, a New York lawyer, of 
counsel for the defense. 
New York men, freed on peremptory 
instructions this week, but still to face 
indictments for conspiracy to defraud, 
are Paul M. Wade, Rosario Maggio and 
Harry M'oheny.—Daily paper. 
If action of this kind could be taken 
against many of the oil companies that 
are now infesting the country, the gullible 
public would be in many millions of dol¬ 
lars. It is safe to assume that 50 per 
cent of the oil companies going to country 
people to sell their stock are more inter¬ 
ested in the stock sales than in the pro¬ 
motion of the enterprise. A previous in¬ 
vestigation will save money. 
Enclosed you will find letter and state¬ 
ment from the Boston Mail Order House, 
which I received a few days ago. Are 
these people reliable and honest? I am 
not in the market for mail order shares, 
but thought Publisher’s Desk could make 
note of this proposition if it is not an 
honest deal. I think you have carried 
their advertisements. H. T. v. 
Oregon. 
We did for a very short time carry the 
advertising of the Boston Mail Order 
House, but the concern failed to serve our 
subscribers in a satisfactory manner, and 
we promptly cut it out. Now the Boston 
Fatal Disease 
I have lost a number of fowls and 
wish to know cause and remedy. The 
first sign noticed is the feathers on top of 
head roughen or stand up; then fowl 
acts lame, sits most of time, may lose 
balance and topple over on head when it 
tries to walk; sometimes throws head up 
and around, eyes have a vacant, unnat¬ 
ural look. Diarrhoea sometimes present; 
appetite usually holds good. Sometimes 
get better temporarily, but more often 
die in about 10 days. It seems to attack 
pullets only; have had some laying nicely, 
then taken as I describe and die. Fowle 
have an ordinarily good house and reason¬ 
able care. w. w. 
Connecticut. 
, These symptoms resemble those of a 
disease that has been prevalent through¬ 
out the country, and particularly in New 
England States for several years. It is 
characterized by leg weakness, paralysis 
and death within a few days. Losses 
from it have been heavy, but so far as I 
know no cause has yet been found and no 
remedy is known. A very similar dis¬ 
order. and possibly the same one, has 
been known for years. Growing pullets 
and cockerels would suddenly develop 
■weakness of the legs and would get about 
with difficulty for a time. Occasionally 
death would follow, though most cases 
recovered after a short time. The pres¬ 
ent trouble, however, whether the same 
or not, is very fatal. Instead of recover¬ 
ing the use of the legs after a few days, 
the bird dies. It ie evident that the same 
disease in a much more fatal form, or an¬ 
other malady with much the same mani¬ 
festations is now prevalent. The trouble 
has been attributed to worms, but I know 
of no corroboration of this theory from 
competent sources. m. b. d. 
Tinted Eggs 
We have 50 White Leghorn pullets. 
Why are some of the eggs cream colored? 
They will vary; some days we have more 
cream-colored than others. Has the ra¬ 
tion anything to do with it? E. G. 
New York. 
All flocks of Leghorns lay some tinted 
eggs, some strains laying a greater num¬ 
ber than others. I believe that the Eng¬ 
lish strain bred by Tom Barron, now 
widely disseminated in this country, is 
particularly apt to color its eggs. Color 
is influenced by selection ; it may be bred 
out by hatching only pure white eggs. 
This takes time, however, and color will 
reappear in some of the eggs to a certain 
extent. It is probable that crossing 
strains of white egg laying fowls will 
bring out this latent defect to a greater 
degree than would be observed if each 
strain was kept pure. The feeding of 
yellow corn in excessive quantity, by sup¬ 
plying a large quantity of yellow pig¬ 
ment, should also influence color to some 
extent; other foods may, perhaps, do so. 
m. b. n. 
Poultry Questions 
Can you tell me the cause of cream- 
colored eggs from White Leghorn hens 
and pullets? Can it be from feeding too 
much yellow corniheal? Will sour or 
skim-milk cause constipation in quantities 
about 25 quarts to 550 hens per day every 
day? Could the milk cause them to be 
egg-bound? What is the average time 
for introducing new blood, and what is 
gained by it? I have been inbreeding for 
five years, and the egg production is bet¬ 
ter every year ; fertility is running from 
92 to 97 per cent. Is white corn as rich 
in food value as yellow? f. j. e. 
New Jersey. 
White Leghorns naturally lay a pure 
white-shelled egg. There is, however, a 
tendency in certain strains for cream or 
tinted shells to be quite common. This is 
caused by a lack of purity in the- blood 
lines back of the strain, and can be lim- 
inated only by careful selection each year 
to hatch only those eggs which are pure 
white. There seems to be a greater ten¬ 
dency for tinted shells to appear in the 
Spring of the year, when the birds are 
first let out on green pasture. This is 
probably due to the tendency of the 
chlorophyll in the plant to increase the 
production of yellow coloring material in 
the body. The color of the shell is not 
influenced to any great extent by the 
feeding of yellow corn. 
Skim-milk should not and does not 
cause constipation, nor does it cause the 
condition called egg-bound. If layers ap¬ 
pear constipated, the best procedure 
would be to feed epsom salts in the drink¬ 
ing water at the rate of 1 lb. to each 100 
birds, giving it to them every two or three 
weeks, being careful to dilute it in all of 
the. water which they will drink in one 
day. 
There is nothing to be gained by intro¬ 
ducing new blood if a man has good 
foundation stock and is line-breeding 
them, carefully selecting and breeding 
them each year from only the very best. 
There is practically no difference in the 
feeding value of yellow or white corn. 
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