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■Uhe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  20,  1910. 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
Again  we  caution  our  readers.  Don't 
pay  your  subscription  to  The  Rural 
New-Yorker  to  any  representative  of 
the  Iliggins  Circulation  Bureau,  Colum¬ 
bus,  Ohio. 
Tough  as  Rawhide 
Comfortable  as  an 
Old  .Shoe 
Man,  here  are  rubber  boots 
and  shoes  that  will  stand  up  un¬ 
der  severe  strain  and  hard  usage. 
v  They  will  continue  to 
wear  long  after  ordi¬ 
nary  goods  have  gone 
the  way  of  the  scrap 
heap.  It’s  because 
I  AMBertvillF 
RUBBER  FOOTWEAR 
is  made  of  the  very  finest  rub¬ 
ber  that  money  can  buy.  The 
forty  years’  reputation  back  of 
these  boots  is  founded  on  quality 
— quality  in  materials,  quality 
in  manufacture. 
Note  the  heavy  red  soles  of  the 
styles  shown  here,  the  reinforced 
toes  and  heels  and  the  solid  rubber 
ribs  that  add  greater  strength  and 
sturdiness.  If  you  want  to  know 
real  wear  and  comfort  in  rubber  foot¬ 
wear,  ask  your  dealer  for  Lambert- 
ville.  If  he  doesn’t  sell  this  famous 
line,  send  us  his  name  and  we’ll 
quickly  see  that  you  are  supplied  at 
regular  prices. 
LAMBERTVILLE  RUBBER  ^ 
COMPANY  -7L 
Lambertville,  New  Jersey 
I  shipped  one  case  eggs  to  B.  Cold- 
stein,  113  West  114th  Street,  New  York, 
and  received  payment ;  shipped  another 
and  cannot  get  pay  for  it.  He  says,  as 
you  will  see  by  enclosed  letter,  that  lie  is 
unable  to  pay,  but  be  continued  to  solicit 
shipments.  I  do  not  expect  you  to  try  to 
Collect  it.  Tt  was  rny  own  fault  that  I 
shipped  to  him.  But  please  warn  others, 
as  T  consider  him  a  beat.  u.  R.  T. 
New  York. 
If  Mr.  Goldstein,  or  anyone,  solicits 
your  shipments,  take  the  time  to  look  up 
the  financial  rating  and  save  these  losses. 
Mr.  Goldstein  claimed  to  be  in  no  posi¬ 
tion  to  pay,  but  would  settle  next  Sum¬ 
mer.  Iu  the  meantime  he  has  had  the 
goods  and  the  use  of  the  money.  All  the 
farmer  gets  is  promises  and  experience, 
and  this  does  not  pay  his  bills. 
In  a  letter  of  a  subscriber  published 
in  this  department  some  time  ago  the 
statement  was  made  that  no  automobile 
manufacturer  had  built  any  cars  for  .T. 
II.  Bush  of  Chicago.  This  was  true  as 
far  as  the  subscriber’s  information  went 
and  ns  far  all  we  knew  at  the  time;  but 
in  the  meantime  we  learn  that  Mr.  Bush 
has  an  arrangement  with  a  manufacturer 
in  an  Eastern  State  to  supply  him  with 
cars.  The  Rural  New-Yorker  desires 
to  be  absolutely  fair  to  everyone,  and  we 
are  glad  to  make  this  unimportant  cor¬ 
rection  of  the  subscriber’s  statement.  It 
must  uot  be  interpreted,  however,  as  in 
any  sense  a  retraction  of  our  general 
criticism  of  Mr.  Bush’s  methods  and  his 
deceptive  advertising. 
I  am  sending  you  herewith  a  circular 
of  the  Ford  Tractor  Co.,  of  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  and  wish  you  would  let  me  know 
if  they  are  all  right  or  not,  and  whether 
this  is  a  branch  of  the  Henry  Ford  Co., 
an  independent  company,  or  whether  they 
are  using  the  name  Ford  to  mislead  and 
catch  suckers,  Is  this  company  perfect¬ 
ly  reliable  and  safe  to  do  business  with? 
Are  their  tractors  dependable  and  built 
on  honor?  This  circular  was  handed  to 
me  with  the  offer  of  the  agency,  which  I 
would  like  if  everything  about  it  is  O.  K. 
If  I  were  only  buying  one  for  myself  it 
would  not  matter  nearly  so  much  to  me; 
but  I  do  not  want  to  offer  anything  to 
my  farmer  friends  until  I  am  satisfied  it 
is  what  it  should  be.  G.  e.  a. 
Pennsylvania. 
The  Ford  Tractor  Co.,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  has  no  connection  whatever  with 
the  Ford  Motor  Co.  of  Detroit,  of  which 
Mr.  Henry  Ford  is  president.  The  fact 
that  it  has  been  reported  in  the  press 
that  Mr.  Henry  Ford  had  plans  under 
way  for  the  building  of  farm  tractors 
leads  many  to  assume  that  he  is  pro¬ 
moting  the  Minneapolis  enterprise.  The 
reputation  of  Mr.  Ford  would  be  a  val¬ 
uable  asset  to  any  concern  manufactur¬ 
ing  self-propelling  machinery,  and  ap¬ 
parently  this  concern  is  willing,  by  their 
silence,  to  let  the  public  believe  the  wiz¬ 
ard  of  Detroit  is  behind  the  concern. 
The  name  of  no  individual  appears  on 
the  literature  before  us;  but  we  learn 
from  reliable  sources  that  W.  Bull  Ewing 
is  the  moving  spirit  in  the  concern.  It  is 
reported  that  Mr.  Ewing  was  previously 
connected  with  a  Nicaragua  banana  plan¬ 
tation  promotion  and  other  investment 
schemes.  Some  effort  has  been  made  to 
sell  stock  iu  the  Ford  Tractor  Co.,  but 
as  far  as  we  have  been  able  to  learn  no 
satisfactory  farm  demonstration  of  the 
tractor  bus  been  given. 
The  tractor  is  subject  to  a  severe  and 
constant  strain  in  plowing  or  doing  other 
farm  work,  and  it  behooves  farmers  to  in¬ 
vestigate  carefully  the  ability  of  these 
cheap  tractors  to  do  what  is  claimed  for 
them  and  stand  up  under  the  work.  A 
number  of  farmers  have  expressed  their 
dissapointmetit  after  purchasing  a  trac¬ 
tor  because  it  would  not  do  what  they  had 
been  led  to  believe  it  would.  The  great 
trouble  lias  been  with  cheap  tractors  go¬ 
ing  to  pieces  under  the  strain  and  occa¬ 
sionally  some  farmer  has  bought  a  tractor 
under  the  enthusiasm  of  the  moment, 
whose  farm  is  entirely  unsuited  for  trac¬ 
tor  power.  Every  farmer  cannot  hope  to 
make  use  of  a  tractor,  but  where  the  con¬ 
ditions  on  the  farm  are  right  and  the 
acreage  large  enough  to  afford  it  a  good 
tractor  will  prove  a  thing  of  joy  forever. 
Some  time  ago  I  saw  an  advertise¬ 
ment  in  a  daily  paper  which  read  about 
as  follows:  “Wanted,  information  in  re¬ 
gard  to  farms  that  are  for  sale,’’  giving 
a  western  address.  In  response  to  the 
advertisement  I  sent  them  a  description 
of  my  farm,  and  received  a  letter  from 
the  Northwestern  Business  Agency,  Ko- 
sota  Building,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  The 
letter  contained  printed  testimonials, 
blanks,  etc.  Their  plan  was  for  me  to 
send  them  a  fee  of  $5.  which  they  pro¬ 
posed  to  use  for  advertising,  and  to  pay 
postage  in  notifying  their  500  agencies. 
Their  commission  was  to  be  2%  and 
when  the  farm  was  sold  they  would  re¬ 
turn  the  $5.  Eater  I  received  another 
letter  urging  me  to  list  my  farm  with 
them  and  at  the  same  time  cutting  the 
foe  down  to  $2.f>0  and  guaranteeing  to 
sell  the  farm  in  six  weeks  or  take  no 
commission.  At  first  I  was  disposed  to 
take  up  with  their  offer,  but  it  seemed 
as  though  they  were  more  anxious  for  the 
advance  fee  than  anything  else  and  also 
their  500  agency  story  seemed  pretty 
big.  W.  c. 
New  York. 
What  do  you  think  of  the  enclosed  Ad¬ 
vertisers,  Cooperative  Association.  Chi¬ 
cago,  for  selling  farms?  Are  they  all 
right?  It  seems  as  though  it  was  too 
cheap  to  be  good.  I  think  they  are  get¬ 
ting  a  good  many  hard-earned  $5  from 
fanners,  and  they  are  using  the  mails. 
Pennsylvania.  p.  s. 
Both  the  Advertisers'  Cooperative  As¬ 
sociation  and  the  North  Western  Busi¬ 
ness  Agency  schemes  have  been  shown 
up  in  this  department.  The  principle  on 
which  both  are  based  is  the  old  Ostran¬ 
der  swindle  in  securing  a  fee  in  advance 
from  those  having  farms  or  other  prop¬ 
erty  for  sale.  No  matter  what  the  pre¬ 
text  for  asking  money  in  advance  of  the 
sale,  put  it  down  as  a  fake  and  a  fraud, 
and  have  nothing  to  do  with  it. 
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built.  A  poorly-built  house  means  illness  and  discomfort.  A  poorly-built  barn 
and  stables  mean  unhealthy  stock.  Poorly-built  silos  and  sheds  mean  spoiled 
silage  and  rusted  machinery.  All  three  mean  constant  repair  work — an  endless 
outlay  of  money  which  ought  to  have  been  clear  profit.  You  save  many  dollars 
and  much  future  trouble  if  you  build  with 
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An  attempt  to  obtain  a  fraudulent 
American  passport  for  another  party  re¬ 
sulted  in  the  arrest  of  Andrew  D.  Meloy, 
a  real  estate  operator  and  promoter  in 
Mexican  enterprises.  Meloy  was  asso¬ 
ciated  with  Dr.  R.  0.  Flower,  the  al¬ 
leged  stock  swindler,  whom  lie  testified 
against.  Meloy  is  known  to  have  ex¬ 
tensive  business  interests  in  Mexico,  and 
also  in  development  propositions  in  New 
Jersey  land.  One  enterprise,  the  Omiu- 
acevi  Tunnel  Company  of  Mexico,  of 
which  he  was  president,  was  declared 
bankrupt.  In  an  application  to  set  aside 
this  order,  it  was  alleged  that  the  public 
had  been  deceived  by  a  false  prospectus. 
“The  Wood  Universal ” 
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