American Agriculturist, March 31,1923 
297 
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(Advertisers 
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William M. Mehring 
Tauber Brothers 
Talloid Music Service 
Farmers’ Exchange 
Keystone Hide Company 
United Tobacco Growers 
W, R. Hart, Farmers’ Plant Co. 
R. M. Hanna 
Havana Smoke House 
The Hough Hatchery 
Canfield Hatchery 
K. Hi Spooner 
Authorized Breeders’ Assn. 
IF YOU SAY: 
‘I saw your ad in the ./American 
Agriculturi§iJjflllljien ordering from 
will benefit 
refund the 
by any 
advertiser who 
the article pur- 
be as advertised, 
you insure 
Beware The Check Raiser! 
Recent Matters Handled by the Service Bureau 
M ore and more it is the custom to 
pay bills by checks, and this is a 
custom which may well be encouraged, 
because the very fact that a man has a 
bank account shows that he is a reliable 
person to trade with._ In addition, the 
return of the check is sufficient proof 
that the bill has been paid. This method 
of handling money is usually satisfac¬ 
tory on both ends of the transaction. 
However there are opportunities for 
mistakes and misunderstanding which 
do not occur in other methods of trans- 
fering money. Thousands of dollars are 
lost each year because of the prevalence 
of clever swindlers. The time has 
passed when men carelessly made out 
checks in pencil. Naturally the entire 
legend could then be erased and a larger 
number of dollars written in. Legibility 
however is sometimes sacrificed. On 
the check shown here, it was chosen at 
random from several thousands re¬ 
established the fact that Mr. Johnson 
had made this payment and brought to 
the attention of the company the date 
and the circumstances. Although they 
claim that they had not been able to 
trace the matter and had stopped an¬ 
swering Mr. Johnson’s letters, they im¬ 
mediately settled up when the magazine 
took a hand. Mr. Johnson has written 
us that a check for the full amount 
reached him and that the delay of the 
last four years has finally been ended. 
Are Hog Producers Over¬ 
doing It? 
{Continued from page 292) 
are not quite high enough to pay for 
tbe average amount of corn, tbe bog 
grower should consider which way the 
ratio line will go in the next twelve 
difficult for a clever penman, to raise this check 
990 . 35 . The word “twenty” would also be easy to manipulate 
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The Reyburn-Hunter Foy Co. 
825 Broadway Cincinnati, Ohio 
Reduce \our 
ceived in this office, the words 25c might 
easily be interpreted as 75c and the 
numerals also could be altered. In this 
case, the signer of the check would be 
out only 50c, but it might have been 
dollars and he would not have escaped 
so easily. 
In making out checks therefore al¬ 
ways be sure that no room is left be¬ 
fore the dollar sign and the numerals 
for the insertion of another figure, 
(in the picture for instance you will 
see that a one could easily have been 
put after the dollar sign making the 
check read $100.25). Also be careful 
that the words when written out, com¬ 
pletely fill the space or are preceded 
and followed by dashes, or some other 
method of filling in the blank space. 
It pays to take a little trouble, for 
the check raiser appears where he is 
least expected and there is seldom any 
way of bringing him to justice. Re¬ 
cently a prominent bank official stated 
that at least a million dollars was 
annually lost by the small depositors 
of the country through this method of 
trickery. 
$28 FOR PASTURAGE 
“Just received check for $28. Thank 
you for your trouble.” Mrs. F. L. of 
New York State_ pastured four cows 
for a man who failed to make payment. 
Although this was a legal collection 
claim, we were able to aid Mrs. L. in 
pressing the matter through her at¬ 
torney, and, as a result of our joint 
efforts, she received the money. 
A DEPOSIT REFUNDED 
A New York department store ac¬ 
cepted a $10 deposit from Mrs. J. A. 
of New York, and, after some time, 
sent word that because she had not 
sent the balance she would have to 
forfeit the money. 
Mrs. A. wrote asking that the cur¬ 
tains be sent balance collect, but noth¬ 
ing further was heard from the store, 
So she referred the matter to us. On 
the suggestion of the Service Bureau, 
the store immediately refunded the de¬ 
posit and apologized for the delay and 
inconvenience. 
AFTER FOUR YEARS OF EFFORT 
It took a long time for an Ohio Manu¬ 
facturing firm to refund $10.83 which 
had been paid them in 1919 by our sub¬ 
scriber, Mr. D. E. Johnson, of Reynolds- 
ville. Pa., However, the Service Bureau 
or eighteen months. Will it rise above 
the average again or stay near its pres¬ 
ent level or drop considerably below 
the average as it did in 1912 and 1915 
after the previous high points? 
Taking the probable trend of com 
and hog prices in the next six months 
into consideration, the evidence sug¬ 
gests that the ratio will show but little 
change of position for a while, but is 
more likely to go lower than to rise 
above the average. By the end of 1923 
when the increased spring pig crop be¬ 
gins to come on the market, it might 
drop considerably below the average 
unless there is an unusually large corn 
crop or hog production fails to show 
the increase indicated. 
If this expectation is correct, what 
does it mean to the hog grower? Are 
the following conclusions justified? 
f* This is not the time foi’ general 
and indiscriminate expansion of hog 
production. 
2. Since the cost of producing pork 
varies greatly in different localities or 
on different farms in the same locality, 
it IS advisable for all to keep their cost 
marks as low as possible by the use of 
improved blood, scientific feeding, sani¬ 
tation to prevent losses by disease and 
similar means. 
3. Those hog growers whose produc¬ 
tion costs are low, and who can make 
money with hogs when the average 
breeder is losing, have nothing to fear. 
They can go ahead sawing wood as 
usual and avoid the loss from liquidat¬ 
ing breeding stock, leaving equipment 
unused or altering the type of farming. 
4. "Those whose costs are relatively 
high had better “watch a little out” 
and perhaps breed fewer sows for fall 
litters. This is the class that must de¬ 
crease production if it develops that 
overexpansion has taken place. 
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N iagara County, N. Y. 
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