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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 2, 1924 
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 took a course in Detroit Show Card 
School by correspondence in April, 1923. 
They have sent me leseons and corrected 
them till last month, when my letter was 
returned by the Post Office Department, 
“Moved, left no address.” Do you think 
I could get my money back, as they guar¬ 
anteed to supply me with work? E. p. 
New Yoi'k. 
It would seem that we cannot warn 
readers too often about these show card 
and other “easy money” schemes. Our 
mails average a half dozen inquiries a 
day about one (form of work-at-home 
scheme or another. Any of them looking 
for money in advance on any pretext is 
subject to suspicion. 
Some time ago I answered an adver¬ 
tisement in a magazine about a knitting 
machine from the Home Profit Hosiery 
Company, Rochester, N. Y. They sent 
me a booklet telling all about the nice 
work it did, and later I received a special 
offer from them to get one by paying $30 
down and $5 a month until $70 was paid. 
I sent them a money order for $30 and 
signed a work contract. They sent me 
back a duplicate of it and I expected the 
machine any day. This was May 3. I 
wrote the company after waiting three or 
four weeks, and they paid no attention to 
the letter. The third letter I wrote them 
they answered May 26, and said I would 
receive the machine within a few days. 
I wrote them two weeks ago asking them 
to refund the money, and I have not 
heard a word from them. I hope other 
people did not have the same luck I have 
had, and I want the company to be ex¬ 
posed. Will you look into this matter for 
me, and see what could be done with 
diem? Their address is Credit Depart¬ 
ment, Home Profit Hosiery Company, 
Inc., Rochester, N. 1 T . c. c. 
New York. 
The subscriber will have to charge this 
up to experience. Our letters to the 
Home Profit Hosiery Company are re¬ 
returned by the Post Office Department 
with the statement that the concern is 
in bankruptcy, and there will be no pos¬ 
sibility of getting any refund, as it is 
doubtful whether there will be any assets 
that would make it worth while to file a 
claim with the receiver. 
I was fortunate in obtaining the money 
on the check from E. G. Lewis, and noth¬ 
ing was said against it, as I feared there 
might be, but as for sending him the pro¬ 
duction contract, as he requests, I cannot 
seed what I never had. I am very thank¬ 
ful to you for what you have done for me, 
and I shall always feel indebted to you 
for being the means of obtaining the 
money from him, for I doubt if he would 
ever have paid it of his own free will. I 
again thank you. MRS. V. s. W. 
Vermont. 
This is one case where Mr. Lewis has 
paid a claim. The record is identical 
with others that we have received. Prom¬ 
ises are many, and the breaking of prom¬ 
ises invariably follows, and money is 
safer in a bank than with Mr. Lewis. 
For the past three years I have been a 
constant reader of your paper. The Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk has helped me in several 
matters before, which I assure you I ap¬ 
preciate. Would you inform me whether 
the Equitable Music Corporation. 165S 
Broadway, New York City, is reliable, 
and will give the small song writers a 
chance? T. F. D. 
New York. 
The Music Industries Chamber of 
Commerce reports the recent indictment 
of two “song sharks” for fraudulent use 
of the mails. A warning to song writers, 
issued by this organization, contains the 
following good advice: 
1. Anything can be set to music of 
some sort, from the cheapest jingle up to 
the most wonderful poem. 
2. Music written to order is, as a rule, 
valueless, and is rarely, if ever, actually 
published. 
3. “Professional copies,” so-called, are 
worthless to the legitimate music pub¬ 
lisher, and promptly go into his waste¬ 
basket. 
4. Printing is not publishing. 
5. No high-class, genuine music pub¬ 
lisher takes orders for publishing or 
charges a composer for publishing. They 
only accept music they are willing to in¬ 
vest in. they themselves assuming all the 
risks and expense of publishing, besides 
paying the composer for his work, either 
in cash or royalties. 
0. Genuine publishers copyright their 
publications at their own expense in their 
own firm names, and it is not only un¬ 
necessary to copyright manuscripts when 
dealing with honorable concerns, but bet¬ 
ter not to do so. 
7. What are termed “hits” are rare and 
the statements regarding their earnings 
are greatly exaggerated. 
All this class of publishing houses are 
likely to do for song writers is to relieve 
them of a specified sum of money. The 
musical associations have warned the 
public against this class of schemes. The 
fact is there is no market for the produc¬ 
tion of amateur song writers. These 
musical pirates lead writers to believe to 
the contrary only to get money from 
them. 
I am sending you a letter I received 
from the American Security Transfer 
Company, I being a stockholder in the 
Peace River Petroleum Company for 
about five years, so would like to know 
if you could give me any advice about the 
matter. s. it. 
New York. 
The proposition to holders of stock in 
Peace River Petroleum Company is to ex¬ 
change their holdings for an equal amount 
of stock in the Consolidated Realization 
Company. The exchange of one worth¬ 
less stock for another equally so is inno¬ 
cent enough. But the “joker” in the 
transaction is that a fee of $1 per share 
is charged in the transfer. This of course 
is the whole object of the transaction. 
A man is running over the country 
here, buying farms and giving checks 
which go to protest. This man recently 
called on me and fooled me out of a day’s 
time, bought a farm, gave a check for 
$1,000, and the check was no good. This 
man appeared in Conneaut, O., June 12. 
The name he gave me was J. F. Par- 
rent. and the address he gave me was 
Charlevoix, Mich. He is rather a stout 
built man, medium height, about 50 to 55 
years old, fairly well educated and has 
two or three fingers off one hand. He 
stated that he wanted to buy a farm of 
about 80 acres and would pay $12,000. 
I spent one day with him, sold him a 
farm for $10,000, on which contract he 
gave me a check for $1,000 on a bank in 
his home town, and being hard up for 
money to get back. I cashed his check for 
$20. so he got the $20 out of me and 
fooled me as well as the farmer he pur¬ 
chased the farm from. I. J. M. 
The above report from a local real es¬ 
tate operator tells its own story. We are 
publishing the above letter so that other 
communities will be on the lookout for 
the sharper. 
We bought a 125-egg incubator from 
the X-ray Incubator Company of Des 
Moines, la., about Feb. 2. 1923. and set 
it twice that Spring. First hatch got no 
chickens at all, and the second hatch got 
a few which were so weak they died. We 
wrote to the company in regard to it, and 
they wanted us to try it again this 
Spring, which we did, and did not get 
one chicken. We v r rote to the company 
and asked them to take the machine back 
and refund our money. All we can get 
from them in reply is a new wafer and 
instructions how to run the machine. 
We have tried this incubator three times, 
running it beside another make and un¬ 
der the same conditions. The eggs were 
taken from the same flock, about the 
same time, and handled in the same way. 
and the other we have had good luck 
with. We have run this for nine years, 
and ought to know how to run an incu¬ 
bator. I am inclosing you their guaran¬ 
tee. I wish you would write them and 
see if you can get them to refund my 
money. I paid them $21 for the ma¬ 
chine and it is worthless to us. The 
trouble with the machine is it does not 
keep an even temperature. C. w. E. 
New York. 
In response to our letters in behalf of 
the above subscriber the president of the 
X-Ray Incubator Company writes as fol¬ 
lows : “We will not refund the price 
paid for our machine, and are very care¬ 
ful in writing our guarantee as well as 
our catalog, so that it will not be under¬ 
stood so.” The essential sentence in the 
guarantee referred to reads as follows: 
“The X-Ray machines, each and every 
one, will do these things or we will rem¬ 
edy or replace the machine.” Leading 
up to the guarantee in the catalog, how¬ 
ever, we find the expressions as follows: 
“It means safe buying, with no chance 
of loss.” “We don’t argue and split hairs 
when a customer feels that he’s fairly en¬ 
titled to something under the terms of 
this ‘Agreement.’ ” It didn’t means “safe 
buying” to this party ; and the one thing 
we wish to make clear is that those or¬ 
dering X-Ray incubators must not expect 
their money back on the strength of the 
firm's so-called guarantee if the machine 
fails to hatch. 
Larro Produces Winners 
In Notable County Tests 
Larro-fed winners, in Holstein and Jersey herds alike, 
are conspicuous in recent reports of Cow Testing Associa¬ 
tions in many parts of the country. In the Fairfax County 
(Va.) Cow Testing Association No. 1 the average pro¬ 
duction of Larro-fed herds was 9,923 pounds. 
Holstein Champions 
Sadie, champion grade cow of the 
South, and second high grade cow 
in the world, was high cow of the 
Fairfax County Association in 
1923, producing on Larro, 23,157 
pounds of milk. 
In this same test, the five high 
cows, the first three high herds 
and four of the first five high 
herds were 100% Larro-fed. 
In Michigan, Lilith Segis Inka 
DeKol Johan (Shiawassee Coun¬ 
ty, C. T. A.) owned by J. E. Post, 
Durand, made on Larro a world’s 
record for her class, 862.6 pounds 
of milk in seven days and 3,435 
pounds in thirty days. 
Jersey Records 
Seven Jerseys from the Carroll 
County (Ohio) Cow Testing Asso¬ 
ciation made in thirty-one days 
on Larro a low of fifty-five and a 
high of seventy-five pounds of 
butter fat. Raleigh’s Adelaide 
Addie of this association made 
an average of 1057.2 pounds of 
milk and 55.16 pounds of fat per 
month for eight months. 
Pennsylvania provided a state 
champion Jersey, 3-year old 
Prince’s Rose of M. B., who made 
on Larro 14,292 pounds of milk 
and 639.5 pounds of fat. 
These official records prove the value of Larro in main¬ 
taining condition and sustaining production. 
Such results can be obtained only from a ration that 
is uniform, perfectly balanced, of high nutritive value 
and absolutely free of foreign and harmful materials. 
arro 
THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY 
12 Larrowe Bldg. Detroit, Michigan 
See the nearest Larro dealer, 
or write us direct (5 i 2 ) 
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