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The More You Tell, The Quicker You Sell 
E VERY week the American Agriculturist reaches over 120,000 farmers In New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and adjacent States. Advertising orders must 
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ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO HIM WHO WAITS _ BUT 
THE CHAP WHO DOESN’T ADVERTISE WAITS LONGEST 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCKS 
SO MANY ELEMENTS enter into the ship¬ 
ping of day-old chicks and eggs by our ad¬ 
vertisers, and the hatching of same by our 
subscribers that the publishers of this paper 
cannot guarantee the safe arrival of day-old 
chicks, or that eggs shipped shall reach the 
buyer unbroken, nor can they guarantee the 
hatching of eggs. We shall continue to exer¬ 
cise the greatest care in allowing poultry and 
egg advertisers to use this paper, but our re¬ 
sponsibility must end with that. 
CHICKS—S. C. Buff White and Brown Leg¬ 
horns, $9— 100 ; Barred Rocks, $10—100 ; W. 
Rocks, $12—LOO; Reds, $n_i 0 0; Mixed 
light breeds, $8 — 100 ; Mixed heavy breeds, 
§9— 100. All Number One chicks. Circular 
free. JACOB NIEMOND, Box A, McAlister- 
ville, Pa. 
300 LEGHORN CHICKS for sale this week 
from vigorous, production-bred stock, 250-egg 
strain, large fowls, 95% chalk-white eggs. 
Quick growing hustlers. Lay at 4% months. 
Cut price. 100% live delivery guaranteed, 
prepaid. E. COYLE, Branchport, N. Y. 
THREE HUNDRED Large Yearling White 
Leghorn hens sired by males from 288-egg 
dams, $2 each. HOWARD VAN SYCKLE 
Lebanon, N. J. 
■o BULLETS, ALL AGES—White, Brown and 
Buff Leghorns, Anconas, Minorcas ; also year¬ 
ling hens. FRANK’S POULTRY FARM, Box 
A, Tiffin, Ohio. 
CHICKS—White Leghorn “Barron” strain, 
$8—100 ; Reds, $10. EMPIRE HATCHERY 
Seward, N. Y. 
A,F I r'P VE m R — $ 4 - 50 bus hel; (Unhulled Sweet) 
fa, $7.00; Red Clover, $12.00; Grimm 
Alfalfa, $22.50 ; satisfaction or money back; 
we ship from several warehouses and save you 
freight. NOW is the time to buy your seeds 
for next planting. MEIER SEED CO., Dept. 
AA., Salina, Kansas. 
CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS—Strom 
plants ready for field, of all leading varieties 
$1.25 per 1,000. Parcel post, 5 cents per 10( 
extra. Cauliflower plants, early Snowball- 
strong, $3 per 1,000. Send for list J C 
SCHMIDT, Bristol, Pa. 
PLANTS—Celery, $2.50 per 1,000; $11 
per 5,000 ; Cabbage, $2.50 per 1,000 ; $10 
5,000. Strong selected plants. WM 
YEAGLE, Bristol, Pa. 
HELP WANTED 
ALL men, women, boys, girls, 17 to 60, will¬ 
ing to accept Government positions, $117-$190, 
traveling or stationary, write MR. OZMENT 1 ’ 
258 St. Louis, Mo., immediately. 
EXPERT DAIRYMAN—Experienced in cer¬ 
tified milk. Also farm mechanic able drive 
motor truck and tractor. MOHEGAN FARM 
CORP., Mohegan Lake, N. Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
ALL-WOOL HAND AND MACHINE Knitting 
Yarns for sale. We are also doing custom- 
work at the same old prices. Write for sam¬ 
ples and particulars. H. A BARTLETT 
Harmony, Maine. ’ 
REAL ESTATE 
FARM AND EQUIPMENT AT AUCTION— 
200-acre farm located near Fort Plain, Mont¬ 
gomery County, New York, overlooking the 
famous Mohawk Valley will be sold at auction 
on Tuesday, August 7, beginning at 10:00 
a. m. Farm and equipment consisting of 30 
head of cattle, 5 horses, $10,000 worth of 
farm machinery, will be sold individually or 
collectively at purchasers’ option. One of the 
finest farms in the State. Roger Babson 
says : “the Mohawk Valley offers the finest 
inducements in the world.” Buildings all 
modern, fine $15,000 L. barn; artesian well 
in milk house. 15-acre wood lot. Machinery 
of all kinds, stationary engine, ton truck, two 
tractors; everything needed on first-class 
farm. Owner has other interests and will 
sacrifice. Take N. Y. C. or West Shore to 
Fort Plain, N. Y., taxi 2y 2 miles to sale. 
Full particulars and terms; address owner. 
A. W. SNELL, 127 South Avenue, Syracuse, 
FARM M ANTED—Wanted to hear from 
owner of farm or good land for sale, for fall 
delivery. L. JONES, Box 387, Olney, Ill. 
SWINE 
LARGE BERKSHIRES — All ages, herd 
headed by Real Type 10th, first prize junior 
yearling boar at Chicago International. C. A. 
ELDREDGE, Marion, N. Y. 
FEMALE HELP WANTED 
WANTED WOMEN, GIRLS — Learn gown¬ 
making at home ; $35.00 week. Sample lessons 
free. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, Dept. A542 
Rochester, N. Y. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
SMART “HOMEMAID” VOILE FROCKS 
$1.98. Send measurements, bust, from ne 
to hem in back. BENNETTS “HOMEMAI1 
GARMENTS, Schuylerville, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED 
AGENTS WANTED—Agents make a dol¬ 
lar an hour. Sell Mendets, a patent patch 
for instant mending leaks in all utensils. 
Sample package free. COLLETTE MFG. CO. 
Dept. 210, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Centour garden 
disk, cultivator, $225 complete ; 
dition. RAY HOLLIS, Brighton 
Phone Webster 147F-3. 
tractor, plow, 
excellent con- 
Station, N. Y. 
EXTENSION LADDERS- 
leg fruit ladders, 30c foot. 
L. FERRIS, Interlaken, N. 
-27c foot; three- 
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FERRETS—Prices free. Book on Ferrets, 
10 cents. Muzzles, 25 cents. BERT EWELL 
Wellington, Ohio. ’ 
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American Agriculturist, August 4,1923 
The Service Bureau 
Don’t Be Fooled By Cling Cutlery 
S CISSORS are useful—but the Cling 
Cutlery Corporation was better at 
selling stock than scissors. 
After several stock-selling drives, 
which have resulted in taking $800,000 
from the public and giving nothing in 
return, the company is now endeavoring 
to raise more money on a glittering 
offer of 8 per cent. 
The history of how the securities 
were marketed is a sad commentary on 
the methods used to unload stock on a 
trustful public. One “reloading” outfit 
after another would take the stock at 
a payment of from $1.66 to $12 a share 
and re-sell it to the public at $10 to $50. 
Meanwhile, more than two years after 
the stock began to be sold, a small 
factory was started to produce scissors. 
The company now has no factory and 
its machinery is in storage. During its 
career, it manufactured approximately 
47,000 pairs of scissors and sold 30,430 
at a gross loss of $15,086.14. The Cling 
Cutlery Corporation with this record, 
claims as assets, $317,080.69, for or¬ 
ganization, development and experience. 
Its current assets are but $23,917.05, 
and it apparently costs more to sell the 
scissors than if none were made. 
The Better Business Bureau sends a 
widespread warning of this concern, 
which now wants $100,000 from the 
public. Keep your money—you can use 
it better than the Cling Cutlery Com¬ 
pany. 
WE HIT THE DOG DAYS 
After exhausting every possible 
method by which we might induce Mr. 
Harry Trask of the Edgewood Farm, 
Plantsville, Conn., to refund $15 to a 
subscriber, we made good our guaran¬ 
tee and sent Mr. F. P. of New York a 
check to cover his loss. 
Mr. P. had answered an advertise¬ 
ment of collie pups, inserted some time 
ago in the American Agriculturist by 
Mr. Trask, who we believed to be re¬ 
sponsible. But he never shipped the 
dog, nor.would he answer repeated let¬ 
ters asking him to return the money. 
Our lawyers could get only a promise 
to pay “some time.” Not satisfied with 
that, we sent our own check to Mr. P. 
Mr. Trask has never answered any let¬ 
ter but the. one our lawyers sent and 
that not with any satisfactory result. 
His advertisement has not appeared in 
the American Agriculturist under its 
new management nor will it in the 
future. 
A Guarantee Disregarded—and 
Another One Kept 
Another unsatisfactory transaction 
on which the American Agriculturist 
made good also, concerned the purchase 
of a dog. Mrs. I. R. of New York sent 
$8 to I. R. Tanger of York Springs, 
Pa. The dog reached Mrs. R., but was 
sick when it came and soon died. She 
notified Mr. Tanger at once of its con¬ 
dition, but he made no reply, although 
in a previous letter he had guaranteed 
;hat the dog, if not satisfactory, would 
be taken back. 
We sent Mrs. R. a check for $9.32, 
which included her expenses in the 
matter. 
PROMPT ACTION ON A REFUND 
“I think your service is v/onderful 
and will never be able to say enough 
for you. Your paper is always looked 
forward to.” 
Mr. H. B. C. of New York had 
ordered a sewing machine from a mail¬ 
order house and upon returning it, 
failed to receive a refund. The Service 
Bureau secured a check for $39.37, in¬ 
cluding express charges, within ten 
days after the matter had been referred 
to them. Mr. C. renewed his own sub¬ 
scription and sent us a new subscriber. 
THE FASHION EDITOR HORNS IN 
“I think there must be some magic 
about your department.” 
We’d like to claim to have second 
sight or mystic powers, but we had to 
assure Mrs. F. S. C., who flattered us 
thus, that it was just hard work and 
stick-at-it-iveness. 
At any rate, she got a long lost $5 
after ktters had availed nothing. Mrs. 
C. bought a purse by mail—she frankly 
said it was “terrible.” Our fashion 
editor, being hurriedly called into con¬ 
sultation, said even ruder things about 
it, and offered to take anybody’s $5 and 
buy a “really decent purse” from any 
smart New York store. 
With this expert testimony to 
strengthen our case, we went after the 
firm which sold the article to Mrs. C., 
and her letter was the result. 
She added a subscription renewal 
and another, to get those 18 rose bushes, 
(see our circulation department’s ad¬ 
vertisement.) 
A BELATED PAYMENT 
“You certainly can make them come 
across!” 
(This seems to be our day for re¬ 
ceiving bouquets! Not from the 18 
rosebushes, either, but the verbal kind). 
A check for $16.96 from a mid-western 
mail-order house, which made good its 
guarantee when we took a hand in a 
four-months old claim, brought this 
enthusiastic comment from Mr. W. S.. 
of New York. 
SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS 
“We praise your company very much 
to our neighbors and friends.” 
That’s the way to talk! We hope the 
neighbors and friends of Mr. D. W. of 
N. Y., to whom we recently sent a $6.10 
check in payment of an account he had 
been trying to settle will refer their 
troubles to us as he did. 
Mr. W’s difficulty was with a firm 
which buys rabbits, and he had not re¬ 
ceived his money in spite of several 
letters. When the American Agricul¬ 
turist took a hand, the check was im¬ 
mediately forthcoming. 
SOME LETTERS DON’T WORK 
It is bad enough to lose money, but 
there is something especially exasper¬ 
ating about writing; letter after letter 
without even receiving an answer. 
At least so Mrs. M. G. D., of Pa., felt 
when a hatchery cashed her check for 
$14, and.then apparently lost all inter¬ 
est in her. She wrote five letters to 
the firm. Then wrote one to the Am¬ 
erican Agriculturist. 
That was the letter which did the 
work. A check came to us by return 
mail; our letter, enclosing the check, 
went to Mrs. D, and she wrote to say 
that if she hadn’t asked the Service 
Bureau to intervene, she would probably 
still be writing the hatchery, with her 
$14 as far away as ever. 
NEARLY FIVE YEARS OLD 
A claim which dated back to 1918 
was recently adjusted in favor of a 
subscriber. His claim was against a 
Massachusetts drug company, and as 
soon as the matter was presented to 
them, the New York representative 
called to go over the matter with us. 
The firm claimed that the subscriber 
had not sent invoices with his ship¬ 
ments, which made it hard to trace old 
orders. However, they immediately 
made out a check for $24.70 in our 
subscriber’s favor, and promised that 
future shipments, properly invoiced, 
would be paid for on a ten day basis! 
EXPENSIVE TURKEYS GO 
ASTRAY 
How would you like to receive a 
check for $203.36? Mr. E. T. Babcock 
of New York State shipped some tur¬ 
keys of that value shortly before 
Thanksgiving last year. They were 
lost in transit. Mr. Babcock held them 
at a higher valuation than the express 
company was willing to accept and the 
case dragged along for some time. 
Finally the Service Bureau suggested 
a compromise. Both sides of the argu¬ 
ment agreed to accept it. As a result 
Mr. Babcock got his check. He offered 
to pay a collection fee, but as usual 
we refused it, for the Service Bureau 
is not a business scheme but a depart¬ 
ment which simply tries to help sub¬ 
scribers out of similar difficulties. 
