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‘Pre RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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. 
'Would you tell me whether Mayer’s 
Hatchery is reliable? The address is 
600-003 Washington Avenue, N. Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn. They have published a 
picture containing a number of objcts be¬ 
ginning with C. They are offering three 
sets of prizes, some of them as high as 
$1,000. If $5 worth of “Laymore” is 
ordered the one having the largest list of 
words will receive $1,000 as first prize, 
$500 for second prize, etc. If $2 worth 
of “Laymore” is ordered the first prize 
is $300, second prize $150, etc. If no 
“Laymore” is ordered $20 is first prize, 
$10 second prize, etc. There are 16 
prizes in each list. Is there anything jn 
“Laymore,” and is there anything in this 
advertisement? E. L. 
Indiana. 
“Laymore” is a “hen dope” which is 
claimed to cause hens to lay more eggs. 
We have had similar products tested and 
found that they had no real merit. If 
“Laymore,” when fed to hens, could show 
an increased egg production there would 
be no need of resorting to a prize puzzle 
to sell it. The conclusion is that there is 
no demand for the product itself, and 
therefore the Mayer’s Hatchery is en¬ 
deavoring to get egg producers to buy it 
in the hope of winning a prize by nam¬ 
ing the largest number of articles in the 
picture beginning with the letter “C.” 
And a condition of entering the contest 
is that a quantity of the “dope” be pur¬ 
chased by the contestant. We do not 
know whether the perpetration of such 
schemes or the publishers printing them 
are deserving of the severer condemnation. 
Both should be avoided. 
Last February a Miss Joyce came 
through this place taking subscriptions 
for periodicals through A. L. Fulton, Los 
Angeles, Cal. My boy took Physical 
Culture Mayazine, paying one dollar by 
check given through City National Bank. 
This check was cashed by Miss Joyce in 
town here. When she saw me I took 
St. Nicholas, paying in full $3. After 
the boy told me of the Physical Culture 
Maya zinc he subscribed for I sent Fulton 
the balance, $2, on it. lie mailed card 
to the boy saying that he would start the 
Physical Culture Mayazine in June. It 
was started in September, but I cannot 
get the St. Nicholas Magazine at all. I 
have written various letters to him about 
it, and under one pretext and another it 
has gone on, until I don’t suppose I can 
ever get it. See if you can stir him up 
on it and get me a year’s subscription to 
St. Nicholas, for which I will be thank¬ 
ful. I did not want to subscribe this 
way. but the lady had the usual “hard 
luck” story and I allowed her simply to 
“work” me. n. k. 
Texas. 
always prepared their shipments in good 
order, and only have occasional breakage, 
the burden of the responsibility is on the 
express company, although they do not 
admit it. 
My daughter saw the advertisement of 
the Bond Shoemakers, Cincinnati, O., 
and sent for a pair of shoes, wore them 
a few days and had to send them to the 
shop to be mended. The shoemaker said 
that he hardly knew what to do with 
them, as he doubted if the leather would 
hold stitches. After they were mended 
my daughter wore them a few days, and 
they needed mending again, so she sent 
them by parcel post to the Bond Shoe¬ 
makers and told them they were of no 
use to her. She sent them June 20. Has 
not heard from them. f. F. 
New York. 
We have had previous reports on 
“Bond 'Shoemakers” to the same effect. 
On this account the advertising has been 
refused for our columns. 
I want to thank you for your trouble 
and assistance in bringing about the re¬ 
fund due me from the Little Wonder 
Stove Co., Detroit, Mich. I know if it 
had not been for you I would not have 
got it, as I had written them several 
times. Again I thank you, and remain a 
reader of your paper. i. w. I. 
New York. 
We desire to give the company credit 
for making the refund of the purchase 
price of the stove less 10 per cent “hand¬ 
ling charges” on the stove returned last 
November. 
I sent the Bare Poultry Company of 
Hampton, la., $30 for 12 White Runner 
ducks in February. Along in March I 
received a dozen of starved Pekin culls 
instead of Runners. I kept six which I 
thought I could nurse into ducks, al¬ 
though they were not what I wanted, and 
returned the other six. Besides the $30, 
I paid $2.75 expressage, $32.75. I ought 
to have $16.38 returned to' me. Recently, 
about three weeks ago, I received a letter 
saying “Enclosed find check for $15,” 
but there w T as no check enclosed, and al¬ 
though I wrote several times have not 
received an answer. Can you do anything 
for me in this case? e. a. g. 
New Jersey. 
We have exhausted our efforts on the 
Bare Poultry Company of Hampton, la., 
'but have been unable up to this time to 
secure any adjustment for the subscriber 
in question. There is always an addi¬ 
tional risk in sending orders for poultry 
to so great a distance, and the poultry 
concerns advertising from Iowa seem to 
be a particularly unreliable class. It is 
always risky to send orders and remit¬ 
tances to concerns the reliability of which 
is unknown. We hope E. A. G.’s experi¬ 
ence with this poultryman may not be re¬ 
peated with any of our other subscribers, 
and it is with this purpose we are pub¬ 
lishing the item. 
July 23, 1921 
A. L. Fulton does not respond to let¬ 
ters, nor has he made good for the sub¬ 
scription. We are told he is on record as 
an agent for St. Nicholas magazine, but 
they have not received the subscriber’s 
order. It will be well to send orders 
direct to the magazines and not trust 
“agents” with hard luck stories, nor 
agencies that ignore their customers. 
It was reported to us that two well- 
dressed young ladies were soliciting sub¬ 
scriptions for The R. N.-Y. under the 
name of the Publishers’ Service Associa¬ 
tion, 1400 Broadway. We have not au¬ 
thorized such solicitation and warn 
readers against paying money to them. 
Will you see where the trouble is in 
the following case? I have been express¬ 
ing eggs for the last seven years. IJp to 
the time of the war I never had a com¬ 
plaint, but during and since then there 
is a continual breakage, usually a few in 
a case, which amounts to but little in a 
single case, but in the aggregate is con¬ 
siderable.. I know that I am taking even 
more pains in packing than formerly. 
Where is the trouble? j. M. A. 
New York. 
The express company emphatically re¬ 
fuses to allow payment for breakage 
where shippers have not complied with 
their classification requirements. They 
insist that newspaper was placed on the 
top of this crate and second-hand flats 
and fillers used, so that they will not 
admit liability. It is therefore necessary 
to comply with their requirements, and 
then when breakage occurs enter your 
claims promptly and insist upon pay¬ 
ment. 'We believe in the campaign for 
better packing, but where shippers have 
The invitation extended by W. C. Jen¬ 
kins & Co. of Philadelphia, I’a., to the 
stockholders of the National Rubber 
Products Corporation to exchange their 
shares plus some additional cash for the 
shares of the Hydro-United Tire Com¬ 
pany, recalls to the Iconoclast his ex¬ 
tended efforts of some years ago to show 
this get-rich-quick schemer up in his true 
light. Many were the articles published 
about Jacob J. Feist and his National 
Rubber Company, and in them it was 
shown that the statements he made about 
his company were the purest of false¬ 
hoods. His company is now almost de¬ 
funct so far as the security of the stock¬ 
holders is concerned. The twelfth hour 
attempt to save it from inevitable failure 
was when a contract was made with the 
Keystone Tire Company to handle its 
output on a contract, turned out to be 
as much a frost as was a similar con¬ 
tract entered also with the Perfection 
Tire & Rubber Company. The National 
Rubber . Company stockholders should 
not seriously entertain the proposition 
made to them by the Hydro concern, 
which to the Iconoclast is running true 
to its watery form .—Financial World. 
Publisher’s Desk also has expressed 
similar opinion as to the promotions of 
Mr. Feist. The advertising of Hydro- 
United Tire Company appearing in other 
farm papers has been refused by The 
Rurai, New-Yorker when it was dis¬ 
covered to be a promotion of Jacob J. 
Feist. 
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