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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
July  21,  .1023 
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. 
April  12,  1922,  I  ordered  from  the 
Bridgman  Nursery  Company,  3,000  Pre¬ 
mier  strawberry  plants,  requesting  them 
not  to  substitute.  'The  plants  arrived 
here  May  12.  There  were  some  plants 
that  looked  like  Premier  in  the  crates, 
but  the  center  was  filled  with  Dunlap  and 
some  other  kinds.  Except  the  outside 
rows  there  were  very  few  live  plants  in 
the  crates.  We  planted  about  600  that 
we  thought  wer<  Premier  and  that  might 
have  a  chance  to  live,  and  heeled  in  some 
others.  Not  enough  lived  to  make  them 
worth  hoeing  We  wrote  the  company 
and  received  an  answer  on  May  22,  say- 
■  ing  it  was  too  late  to  make  any  replace¬ 
ments  that  year,  but  to  return  their  let¬ 
ter  March*  1  and  give  number  and  name 
of  varieties,  and  they  would  replace 
same.  I  wrote  them  March  1,  and  they 
claimed  that  I  had  ordered  Dunlap 
plants,  and  they  would  replace  2,000  of 
them.  As  I  did  not  order  Dunlap,  I  re¬ 
fused  their  offer,  and  they  sent  me  the 
inclosed  letter.  I  did  not  keep  a  copy  of 
my  order,  but  the  money  order  I  sent 
them  was  for  $21.  Premier  plants  are 
listed  at  $7  per  thousand  and  Dunlap  at 
$5.  so  I  paid  for  3,000  Premier.  H.  B.  S. 
Pennsylvania. 
During  the  Spring  of  1923  Bridgman 
Nursery  Company  sent  the  customer  a 
crate  of  Dunlap  plants  in  replacement, 
which  H.  B.  S.  refused  to  accept.  The 
Bridgman  Nursery  Company  is  unable  to 
produce  the  order  showing  what  variety 
was  specified,  and  contend  that  the  cus¬ 
tomer  is  trying  to  take  advantage  of 
them  by  demanding  replacement  in  higher 
priced  plants  than  the  variety  ordered. 
The  subscriber,  on  the  other  hand,  fur¬ 
nished  evidence  from  his  postmaster  that 
the  amount  of  his  money  order  corre¬ 
sponds  with  Bridgman  Nursery  Company 
price  for  3,000  Premier  strawberry 
plants.  We  have  submitted  this  evidence 
to  Bridgman  Nursery  Company,  which 
maintains  an  arbitrary  position  that  the 
case  is  closed.  Strawberry  plant  buyers 
may  draw  their  own  conclusions  from 
this  fair  statement  of  the  controversy. 
I  couldn’t  run  the  old  farm  without  the 
paper.  I  wonder  if  you  realize  the  ex¬ 
tent  of  the  help  you  give  us  plain  every¬ 
day  “dirt  farmers.”  We  come  in  at 
night,  tired,  discouraged,  and  no  matter 
what  the  cause,  the  old  R.  N.-Y.  has 
something  to  offset  it  and  put  new  “pep” 
into  us  for  the  next  job.  Hope  Farm 
Man,  Pastoral  Parson.  H.  S.  K.  W., 
Massey,  Farrington,  and  a  dozen  others, 
including  Mr.  Dillon,  all  contribute  in 
their  several  ways  to  make  the  long  fur¬ 
row  seem  shorter  and  the  hard  knocks  a 
little  softer.  Dong  may  they  wave.  If 
many  of  us  hang  on  to  the  end  of  the 
so-called  reconstruction  era,  The  E. 
N.-Y.  will  deserve  the  praise.  H.  w.  n. 
New  York. 
By  all  means,  hold  on.  The  recon¬ 
struction  waste  and  blunders,  and  selfish¬ 
ness  struck  farmers  first  but  many  other 
industries  are  now  feeling  the  result,  and 
excepting  those  in  favored  places,  the 
farm  will  ultimately  fare  as  well  as  any 
of  them.  New  York  State  farmers,  in 
our  judgment,  are  coming  to  the  best 
years  of  their  history,  and  the  improve¬ 
ment  will  be  continuous  and  accumu¬ 
lative  for  years  to  come.  We  have  no 
expectation  to  escape  troubles  and  trials 
of  the  future,  but  compared  with  the  past 
we  have  every  promise  of  better  things 
for  the  time  to  come. 
Last  May  I  bought  an  Airedale,  fe¬ 
male.  from  W.  F.  Livesey,  Kings  Road, 
Madison,  N.  J.,  for  the  purpose  of  rais¬ 
ing  puppies.  I  already  owned  a  very 
fine  male  dog.  Eventually  “Brownie”  was 
purchased  from  Mr.  Livesey,  who  owns 
a  kennel  in  Madison,  N.  J.  The  owner 
spoken  of  in  the  enclosed  letter  died  so 
he  says,  but  the  pedigree  would  be  sent 
me.  Mr.  Livesey  would  obtain  it  from 
the  widow,  or  the  man’s  close  friend.  I 
have  written  Mr.  Livesey  repeatedly, 
even  enclosing  stamped  envelopes.  He 
ignores  all  communications  from  me. 
Now.  this  dog  was  a  pedigreed  one. 
bought  as  such,  and  paid  for  as  such.  It 
is  a  loss  to  me,  both  in  first  paying  a 
good  price,  and  then  not  being  able  to 
realize  anything  on  my  investment.  This 
man  shows  dogs  at  the  dog  shows,  owns 
winners,  and  trains  them  for  showing.  I 
have  appealed  to  every  sense  of  justice 
and  fairness  a  man  may  have.  s.  e.  m. 
New  York. 
This  transaction  took  place  more  than 
a  year  ago.  During  March  last  we  did 
extract  a  letter  from  Mr,  Livesey  in 
which  he  expressed  great  annoyance  over 
the  purchaser’s  persistence  to  secure 
from  him  the  registry  certificate  for  this 
Airedale  dog.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Livesey 
has  ignored  letters.  The  purchaser  is 
still  waiting  for  the  registry  certificate 
which  would  add  greatly  to  the  maTket 
value  of  the  progeny  of  the  animal.  Mr. 
Livesey  has  no  doubt  suffered  great  an¬ 
noyance  over  the  transaction,  but  the 
purchaser  has  suffered  a  money  loss 
through  Mr.  Livesey’s  failure  to  fulfil 
his  contract. 
D.  B.  Cornell,  a  former  real  estate 
agent  in  this  town,  has  written  to  a 
Berkshire  friend  that  he  has  ^bought 
four  square  miles  of  land  in  Florida,  not 
far  from  a  government  camp  and  also 
near  Palm  Beach  and  is  to  cut  it  up  into 
small  farms,  build  houses  and  start  a 
town  of  his  own.  The  plan  according  to 
his  statement  is  a  big  one,  the  building 
operations  to  be  very  exclusive,  the  farms 
to  be  started  and  the  scheme  is  to  in¬ 
clude  caring  for  the  cottagers  and  work¬ 
ing  the  farms  while  the  wealthy  tourists 
are  in  the  North  during  the  Summer. 
Cornell’s  past  operations  of  swindles 
on  farmers  from  Great  Barrington,  Mass., 
and  Troy,  N.  Y.,  should  fit  him  for  car¬ 
rying  on  such  a  Florida  land  scheme  as 
is  outlined  above.  At  any  rate  the  above 
communities  are  well  rid  of  this  “un¬ 
desirable  citizen.” 
In  your  January  number  you  carried 
the  ad  of  Kerlin’s  Grand  View  Poultry 
Farm.  Center  Hall,  Pa.  I  took  it  from 
that  they  were  honest  and  reliable  and 
sent  them  $20.90  in  •January  for  100 
chicks  to  be  delivered  April  1.  I  kept 
my  stove  going  for  three  weeks  and  no 
word  from  chicks.  After  sending  to  the 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  a  reference  he  gave,  he  shipped 
the  chicks.  They  stayed  over  Sunday  at 
Oneida,  where  the  postman  took  out  five 
dead.  When  they  got  to  me,  June  4,  12 
of  them  were  not  able  to  stand ;  they 
soon  died.  On  June  5,  I  sent  him  a 
statement  with  the  -postman’s  statement 
of  the  poor  condition  of  chicks  and  have 
received  no  answer.  I  do  not  think  this 
just  for  .Tune-hatched  chicks — $20.90  for 
such  poor  ones.  What  can  you  do? 
New  York.  f.  w.  a. 
The  subscriber  is  mistaken  in  saying 
the  advertisement  of  Kerlin’s  Grand  View 
Poultry  Farm  appeared  in  The  R.  N.-Y. 
The  proprietor  of  this  poultry  farm  re¬ 
sented  our  presenting  a  previous  com¬ 
plaint  of  this  kind  from  a  subscriber.  We 
can  therefore  suggest  no  means  of  this 
subscriber  getting  redress. 
I  am  enclosing  a  letter  which  I  re¬ 
ceived  from  the  American  Music  Publish¬ 
ing  Company,  1658  Broadway,  New  York 
City,  and  wish  to  know  if  it  is  a  reliable 
company.  It  seems  to  me  that  it  is  too 
good  an  offer  to  be  reliable.  MRS.  F.  E.  W. 
New  York. 
We  are  having  so  many  inquiries  about 
this  American  Music  Publishing  Com¬ 
pany  fake  that  it  seems  necessary  to  ex-  j 
pose  it  again.  We  therefore  reprint  the 
expose  of  this  •  work-at-home  scheme 
which  appeared  in  February  17,  1923 
issue:  “The  American  Music  Publishing 
Company’s  offer  is  ‘For  every  copy  of 
music  that  you  address  and  mail  we 
allow  you  10  cents  per  copy.’  This  of¬ 
fer  is  a  fake  on  the  face  of  it,  as  no 
house  in  any  line  could  afford  to  pay  10 
cents  for  mailing  circulars.  In  reading 
the  offer  carefully  it  will  be  noted  the 
offer  specifies  ‘mailing  circulars  and 
music,’  which  implies  that  the  ‘music’ 
must  be  sold  before  mailed.  This  is 
where  the  sharp  practice  comes  in.  The 
10  cents  will  be  allowed  on  each  piece 
of  music  sold,  which  is  quite  different 
from  what  one  would  understand  from  a 
casual  reading  of  the  circular.  If  the 
individual  who  so  cunningly  devised  the 
circular  were  to  employ  his  talent  along 
legitimate  lines  he  would  be  more  highly 
rewarded  financially,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  esteem  of  his  fellow  men,  than  to  try 
to  extract  a  few  dollars  by  a  deception 
from  helpless  women.  Those  answering 
the  advertisements  of  this  concern  are 
asked  to  send  $2  for  ‘working  outfit.’ 
Perhaps  the  meanest  sort  of  petty  j 
swindlers  are  the  work-at-home  schemes 
of  this  kind  that  take  money  in  small 
amounts  from  well-meaning  country  peo¬ 
ple  seeking  some  honorable,  profitable 
employment.  We  can  find  no  record  of 
the  American  Music  Publishing  Com¬ 
pany,  and  it  is  probably  just  a  name 
assumed  by  some  sharper  to  promote  an 
easy  money  scheme.” 
Guest  :  “Waiter,  this  steak  is  like 
leather  and  this  knife  is  dull.”  Waiter : 
“You  must  strop  the  knife  on  the  steak.” 
— Michigan  Gargoyle, 
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