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77* 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. 
I purchased 1,000 chicks from William 
Bartels Co., 44 Cordandt St., New York 
City, on May 25. The chicks were a 
week or more old, and I questioned 
whether they Avould stand shipping, but 
the salesman guaranteed safe delivery, and 
on this basis I took them. Upon arrival 
at my home there were 172 chickens dead, 
and I hav 
in the meantime 
chickens were packed contained filthy lit 
tre that smelled badly, and there were 
bodies of chicks of some previous ship¬ 
ment in the litter. I can prove these 
statements by disinterested people who 
saw the box when opened. w. tv. 
New Jersey. 
lecting against American Express Co. I 
have a few names of new subscribers in 
my possession, but not enough; will send 
them in in a short time. Here’s wishing 
you the best of success in The R. N.-Y. 
line, for we could not do without you or 
your paper. j. h. m. 
New York. 
The subscriber had eight claims, all 
over 16 months old when paid. The 
amounts were small, but such losses take 
away much of the profit, and the long 
delay is an added annoyance. Claims 
should be paid promptly or interest added 
for delay. 
August 6, 1921 
Yours of June 9 received. I beg to 
:u: u„. re were x.* cmuuaw ueuu, ^ank JOU for same and for what you 
ve lost practically all of them ^ i e g aic l to Ward s farm, 
antime. The box in which the ktockbndge, N. Y. I shall be glad if you 
will put the matter into the hands of your 
attorney, and I hereby give'you power to 
collect the money. I am writing to the 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, and I have got my brother 
here, Avho is postmaster, to write to post¬ 
master in New York about it. If you 
could get the money, I would like it given 
some _ S. C. White Leghorn dealer, and 
get him to send me some fowls for it. 
Basseterre, St. Kitts, B. W. I. b. k. 
The above refers to an order sent 
Ward’s Poultry Farm last February. We 
have written the poultry farm twice and 
received no reply to our letters. Other 
complaints of the same sort indicate that 
Ward’s Poultry Farm is a good one to 
avoid when in the market for stock. 
We submitted the above complaint to 
William Bartels Co., and the firm replied 
that they never under any circumstance 
guarantee safe delivery of live stock of 
any kind, and refuse to make any adjust¬ 
ment with the customer. This seems to 
be the case where the salesman guaran¬ 
teed the delivery in order to make the 
sale, and the firm refuses to make good 
the representations. It is, of course, a 
case of the purchaser’s word against that 
of the salesman. At any rate, W. W.’s 
experience does not offer much encourage¬ 
ment for the purchase of chickens from 
this firm. 
I enclose a circular of H. W. Dubiskie 
& Co.. Chicago, and every other place. 
Theii salesmen are making a systematic 
canvass of everybody whom they think 
has any money. We just had one of them 
here, and we had a time ; they have some 
gushers on the road. Their cry is against 
Wall Street, etc. Dubiskie & Co. want to 
deliver or save the race from the bankers. 
We would like to have your opinion on 
the bunch, as they are taking them in in 
great numbers. H. h. 
Missouri. 
We hold no brief for Wall Street or 
the bankers, but Dubiskie & Co. or their 
agents would seem to be crying “wolf” 
to detract attention from the merits of 
the securities being promoted by the firm. 
Some of the stocks sold by Dubiskie & 
Co. are highly speculative, while we 
have no complete list of the securities 
sold. If the stocks had merit as an in¬ 
vestment they should be sold without ap¬ 
pealing to prejudice against Wall Street. 
What do you know about Black’s Real 
Estate Agency, Chippewa Falls, Wis.? 
They have been writing me, and offered 
to list my farm for $10. I paid no at¬ 
tention to them, and you will see by en¬ 
closed that they have dropped. Looks 
fishy to me. H. G. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is another of the fake “listing fee” 
real estate agencies similar to Jones, of 
Onley, Ill., referred to last week. If 
they cannot get $10 they will take $5, be¬ 
cause any amount they get is “velvet.” 
I am enclosing a letter from the Whole 
Grain Wheat. Co., Chicago, which I think 
requires no explanation. I have used 
their product, and it appears to be all 
right, but I shall buy no more of it if 
they are making the profit on it claimed 
by this circular. They are either pro¬ 
fiteers or swindlers—perhaps both. It is 
to be regretted that there is not money 
enough in Chicago to finance so profitable 
an enterprise. Of course, I don’t bite, 
but I am afraid there are those who will. 
Maine. w. F. 
The enclosure is an appeal for invest¬ 
ment in the stock of the company, holding 
out as an inducement the big profits of 
the company and correspondingly large 
returns to investors. The recipient of the 
letter is urged to go out and borrow 
$1,000 if he has not the money otherwise. 
That would certainly be a reckless thing 
to do with a view to investing the money 
in a company without an established 
financial standing. This stock promotion 
letter has at least made one less customer 
for the products of the company. 
My claims against American Express 
Co. now are all settled, some of the 
cheeks coming from you and others from 
the company. If we only had more men 
to help each other this would be a dif¬ 
ferent world. I am doing the same work 
in helping the poultrymen in this vicinity 
of 40 miles around, getting them on sound 
ground in regard to feeding, housing and 
markets. The latter is a problem. 
Words cannot express the appreciation 
for what you have done for me in col- 
Last November, 1920, a neighbor’s son 
got subscriptions for the Household 
Journal Co., Batavia, Ill., amounting to 
$10. They gave prizes, and 1,000 notes 
for each subscription. The one that got 
the most notes would receive an automo¬ 
bile ; one way to lure the young boys on. 
Only a very few received the paper only 
once. The boy has written three letters 
to the firm, but has not had any reply. 
Do you know anything about this paper? 
Is it a fake monthly paper, and must the 
boys return the subscription price back 
to those who sign with them for it? 
Vermont. H. N. T. 
Publications resorting to such contests 
are as a rule of the cheapest sort and 
carry only misleading and a degrading 
class of advertising. We consider the 
parties who gave the money for subscrip¬ 
tions better off without the publication. 
The money was given the boy no doubt to 
help him, and not because the publication 
was desired or valued. Our influence is 
always against children taking part in 
such contests. 
A friend of mine holds four shares of 
the capital stock of the Telegraphone, 
incorporated under the laws of South 
Dakota. The said shares were issued to 
him in 1908 at $10 per share. Will you 
give me some. information, in reference to 
said corporation? My friend would like 
to realize on these shares if he possibly 
can and I am trying to help him out. 
New Jersey. J. J. 
The stock was promoted by the notorious 
Sterling Debenture Corporation, officers 
of which were since convicted of fraud 
and sentenced to the Atlanta Penitentiary 
for seven years. The stock has no defin¬ 
ite value that we can find. It is said 
that S59c of the money received for the 
sale of stock went into the pocket of a 
man by the name of Sehumaker, who was 
at the head of the Sterling Debenture 
Corporation. The invention of the tele¬ 
graphone is regarded by some as having a 
great deal of merit, but, of course, any 
company exploited in this way could not 
hope to become successfully established. 
Legal Limits for Bee-Keeping 
What is the law in regard to bees? 
How far from the road must they be 
placed? Or is there a law regulating 
this? a. b. c. 
New Hartford, N. Y. 
There ws not, to my knowledge, any law 
specifying the distance from a public 
highway at which bees may be kept. This, 
I think, would vary with conditions. It 
is obvious that no one could legally main¬ 
tain a nuisance upon his premises, and 1 
believe that it would be left to the discre¬ 
tion of a jury in any suit for damages as 
to whether bees in any certain locality 
were a public nuisance. Natural con¬ 
ditions, such as elevation above the hi"’ - 
way. screens of shrubs or trees, etc., 
might make a location close to the high¬ 
way safe for passers-by, while other con¬ 
ditions might permit a much greater dis¬ 
tance to become hazardous. The safe 
plan is a location for an apiary that com¬ 
mon observation would determine to ) 
reasonably free, from danger to the pub¬ 
lic. If there is any law specifying a 
minimum distance from the highway at 
which such an apiary may be maintained, 
I do not know of it. M, b, d. 
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To provide over twelve million subscribers with 
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It is the aim of the Bell Telephone System, witK 
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