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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 19, 1924 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letter.: 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 canvassed my school district and find 
all in the district that a paper would 
help are now your subscribers. Then a 
press of business sidetracked my purpose 
to renew, I now enclose check for my 
subscription for year 1924. j. E. D. 
New York. 
The R. N.-Y. seems to be 100 per cent 
strong in that school district, but the 
effort is appreciated all the same. 
The old offender, B. Kalmanson, is 
again out of jail and has opened up busi¬ 
ness at 185 Duane St., New York City. 
He is .soliciting shipments of eggs and 
carries a bank and commercial agency ref¬ 
erence on his stationery. Kalmanson’s 
record in beating shippers is well known 
to most of our readers. He is the most 
persistent crooked dealer we have run 
across in the egg trade in the past 30 
years. 
Some time ago I wrote you concerning 
the Riverside Plant Co., Franklin, Va., 
asking for adjustment. You and they 
have given varied correspondence, and I 
find their position now as follows: They 
say they have now destroyed their last 
year’s records. They offer me other 
plants in like amount at cost. They re¬ 
fused any other adjustment. I am not 
satisfied with this position, and if there 
is anything more that can be done it 
might as well be settled at once. If 
there is nothing more to do. we will just 
charge the loss up to experience and let 
it go. I thank you very much for your 
effort, and if anything more can be done 
it will be left to you. G. L. s. 
Ohio. 
We had many complaints from cus¬ 
tomers of Riverside Plant Co., Franklin, 
Va., last season. This subscriber reports 
at least four varieties of plants in 6,000 
cabbage plants ordered to be Copenhagen. 
For their own protection we want our 
readers to be aware of the record of this 
plant concern. 
We placed an order for fruit trees with 
Rice Bros, of Geneva, N. Y., early in the 
Winter. Since then conditions have 
changed and it is impossible for us to use 
the trees, and we wrote them, asking that 
they cancel They wrote back and said 
they cannot cancel the order. We would 
be glad to take them if we could. Can 
they compel us to take the trees? Please 
answer this as quickly as possible. 
New York. H. H - 
AVe cannot help farmers who sign or¬ 
ders with nursery agents. If you send 
your order to any nursery house selling 
by mail and conditions change so that 
you do not desire the stock, your cancel¬ 
lation, any time before shipment is made, 
will be accepted. Not so with any of 
the houses selling by the agency system. 
When you sign an order with the latter 
class you are held up with a threat of a 
lawsuit on your hands to force you to 
take the stock and pay for it. Perhaps 
there are a few exceptions of the better 
class of houses that do not employ the 
law threat to force stock on unwilling 
customers, but it is the rule. Where 
the grower can show some sound .reason 
for not accepting the stock, we doubt that 
a judgment could be secured against him. 
I would like your opinion on these, two 
concerns: The Newswriters’ Training 
Bureau, 819 Amherst St., Buffalo. N. Y., 
William A. Ileacoek, managing director, 
and the West-Angus Show Card Service, 
•Colbour Bldg.. Toronto, Can. In case a 
person should want to take this course, 
and then discover on seeing what it is, 
that he really does not want it, can they 
recover the initial cost of outfit? 
West Virginia. d. M. 
William A. Ileacoek is an “easy-money” 
artist who has been working one fake or 
another for the past 25 years. The 
“show card” proposition is another trap 
to catch suckers. 
Do you think Windswept Farms. Hen¬ 
derson, Jefferson Co., N. Y., silver foxes 
are a good investment, or are they reliable 
to work for? w - A - 
New York. 
The fox farming business is very allur¬ 
ing. Few people know much about it, 
and therefore it is difficult to refute the 
big stories of easy money to be made from 
breeding the animals. The business is 
precarious at best. Breeding stock comes 
high and the chances of failure for those 
having no experience in the business are 
stronger than those of success. The latter 
inclosed by the subscriber, the primary 
purpose of which is to secure salesmen, 
is as “breezy” as the name of the farm 
itself. There may be a good opportunity 
in this work for a salesman who has suf¬ 
ficient persuasive powers to induce others 
to sign this concern’s contract for the 
purchase of foxes. 
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy 
was filed Saturday afternoon in the 
United States Court in Buffalo against 
the Paul De Daney Company of Broc- 
ton, the largest industrial institution in 
that village, engaged in the manufacture 
of fruit juice products. 
In their petition the creditors alleged 
that the defunct concern removed assets 
valued at more than $33,000. Robert E. 
Powers and Theodore Schwengel of Buf¬ 
falo have been appointed receivers for the 
company by Judge John R. Hazel. — 
Local Paper. 
Western New York farmers have re¬ 
ported trouble for some time back in get¬ 
ting paid for fruit delivered to this con¬ 
cern during the past season, and we are 
therefore not surprised to learn of the 
receivership. The only thing for such 
farmers to do now is to certify to their 
claim before a notary public and forward 
same to the receivers mentioned above. 
Sam Pass, a mail order tire dealer, 
operating under the name of the Gem 
Rubber Company at 1311 South Oakley 
Avenue, Chicago, Ill., was recently in¬ 
dicted by the grand jury there as the 
result of investigations by Post Office In¬ 
spectors Aldrich, Lyons and Mundell, 
upon information furnished in part by 
the National Vigilance Committee. 
The indictment of Pass, on charges of 
using the mails to defraud, follows close¬ 
ly the issuance of fraud orders by the 
Post Office Department against the fol¬ 
lowing tire concerns, all engaged like 
Pass, in advertising substantially worth¬ 
less second-hand tires as new, or rebuilt 
goods: Rose Tire Company, Low Price 
Tire Company, Mail Order Tire Com¬ 
pany, Rose Tire Corporation. United 
Financing 'Syndicate, Dealers Tire Com¬ 
pany, all of 1526 South Wabash Avenue, 
Chicago, Ill.—Bulletin of the Advertis¬ 
ing Clubs of the World. 
The above are just the class of “tire 
gyps” that The R. N.-Y. has been warn¬ 
ing the public against for many years. 
All the farm papers with any pretense of 
decency have now discovered this fraudu¬ 
lent advertising, and the gyp concerns 
must rely on the mail order papers to 
reach their dupes. These bargain tires 
invariably prove an entire loss of money 
when the trouble and annoyance are 
taken into consideration. 
A young man claiming to be Robert 
Ford,' 19 years of age, called on me 
March 17, claiming to represent a sub¬ 
scription agency having every journal or 
magazine imaginable on his list. He 
claimed to be just graduating from high 
school and wanted >to take up the study 
of medicine, and by getting 1,000 points 
it would entitle him to one year in Penn¬ 
sylvania University to study medicine. 
No journal could be renewed for less 
than three years, and one new or renewal 
for three years of such journals as The 
R. N.-Y. would count three points. AVhile 
working in this neighborhood he was 
from Phoenixville; north of us lie was 
from Pottstown. and further south he 
was from Malvern. This looks to me as 
though crooked, but he was getting near¬ 
ly everyone as he went along; some re¬ 
newing for several journals, all for three- 
year periods. I gave him $2.25 for the 
'Stockman and Farmer , as it was nearly 
run out. If this is crooked these reliable 
farm papers should make some effort to 
round up this gentleman and expose the 
scheme. H - D> 
Pennsylvania. 
No agent of The R. N.-Y. ever solicits 
subscriptions to other publications. 
Neither does any agent for this paper 
resort to “sympathy game” to secure sub¬ 
scriptions. Any agent making the plea 
that he is working his way through col¬ 
iege. can safely be put down as a fake 
and a fraud. The agent in question has 
no authority to accept or solicit subscrip¬ 
tions for The R. N.-Y. We cannot speak 
for the other publications. 
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