ing in other farm papers at this time. The 
seed sold by this firm, analyzed by the 
Minnesota Department of Agriculture and 
New York Experiment Station, contained 
many noxious weed seeds, as well as 
foreign seeds, and the balance of low 
germination. The Berry Seed Company 
prices were always lower than the legiti¬ 
mate seed house, but Prof. Munn of the 
New York Experiment Station figures 
out that after eliminating the trash, foul 
seeds, and seeds that would not germi¬ 
nate, Berry's seeds were always higher 
in price than the regular market. In 
May. 1020, the Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion issued a formal order against the 
firm, ordering the company to “cease and 
desist" from the fraudulent and unfair 
methods, bringing 20 separate counts 
against the concern, including pretty 
much every sin known to tho seed trade. 
The American Mutual Seed Company, 
Chicago, is closely allied with the A. A. 
Berry Seed Company and subject to the 
same criticism. The Federal Trade Com¬ 
mission also brought charges against the 
Mutual Seed Company. Another concern 
following the Berry methods, the Dave 
Peck Seed Company, has gone out of 
business. Since all the above criticism 
by the public Officials in charge of their 
duties and the publicity given the same, 
it is difficult to believe that the publica¬ 
tions carrying these firms' advertising at 
tho present time are ignorant of the char¬ 
acter of these seed houses. 
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, lienee unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Can you give us any information about 
the “National Nitro-Baeler Corporation, 
Ltd", whose office they state is in the 
Transportation Building. Chicago'/ They 
are trying to sell $2,500 worth of their 
stock to a young muu in whom wo arc 
interested, and in return are to make him 
thbir agent for the sale of their alleged 
marvelous “soil vaccine." I enclose you 
herewith a circular regarding the vac¬ 
cine, and I would personally appreciate, 
as a subscriber to your paper what¬ 
ever information you can give me. 
New York. J. n. F. 
The theory of bacterial inoculation as 
claimed in the "literature" of this com¬ 
pany has not boon fully demonstrated. 
It is known that seed of clover or Alfalfa 
can be inoculated with the bacteria which 
take nitrogen from the air. That is a 
very different theory from what these 
people claim. They propose to make 
plant food available, even to such forms 
as phosphate rock, by using small quan¬ 
tities of their bacteria. The theory has 
not yet been accepted by tbe best scien¬ 
tific men. There may be practical value 
in it, but at present it must be regarded 
as expensive experiment to bo tried, 
if at all. only in a small way. by those 
who like to take a chance. As for the 
stock-selling feature, we unhesitatingly 
advise the young man not to make the 
proposed investment in order to secure 
the agency for the goods. The financing 
of the company should he divorced from 
the proposition to secure agents to sell 
the products. There is the suspicion at 
least that the sales agency is the bait to 
sell the block of stock. The National 
Nitro-Baeter Corporation has no estab¬ 
lished financial standing that we can 
find, and any value the stock may have 
depends upon the future developments of 
the corporation. A long-shot speculation. 
JAEGER Mixer 
Specially Built for farm Work 
Y OU realize the dozens of places you could use concrete on your 
farm for permanent, everlasting construction-improvements that 
would easily add 15% to the valuation of your place. Btlt 
do you appreciate the profit it would mean to own a concrete mixer 
to do that work-a farm-size outfit that would give you better con¬ 
crete in a third the time and with far less labor? The Jaeger 
is a standard mixer, specially built for chase of an untried mixer when you 
your farm work in one of the largest can buy this standard outfit at such 
mixer plants in the world. It is a a bed-rock price? On trucks complete 
staunch, sturdy machine—the Jaeger with engine $133; on trucks without 
contractor's mixer built in a size for engine $88; on skids $48, The coupon 
your farm needs. Why risk the pur- bringsyou all the facts. Mail it today. 
THE JAEGER MACHINE COMPANY 
. Department 204 4$.^ 
SI? M/ Sls Columbus, Ohio |K^k 1|& 
I wish to add my bit to help in the 
good work you arc doing. I began taking 
The Rural New-Youker a little over 
two years ago with a trial subscription, 
and have taken ii ever since. I secured 
two new subscribers Inst year, and now 
enclose cheek for my renewal, also three 
new ten-week subscriptions. 
I must tell you of my experience with 
Tt. N.-Y. advertisers. East Spring 1 sent 
to one of these for 25 S. Wyandotte 
day-old chicks. T received 2(5 live chick¬ 
ens. afterward lost iwo, but raised 24. 
20 of them beiug pullets. No kick there. 
I sent to another for 10 lbs. of honey. It 
came all right, of finest quality. It is 
worth a good deal to feel safe when you 
send money away to people you do not 
know. 
This letter is typical of many of the 
same sort. Surprise is often expressed 
that we can publish a paper for a dollar 
a year. Here is one of the big reasons. 
It would be impossible without such help. 
IIow well this good friend expresses tbe 
purpose in advertising that we have 
worked so long and persistently to 
realize—safety in sending money to peo¬ 
ple you do not know. 
The Jaeger Ma 
Dept. *04 C 
Gentlemen.- 
Please se 
crete MIXER 
FARM Con- 
complete information 
Name 
Will you look up the National Holding 
Corporation. 51 Exchange Place. New 
York City, and see if the company is 
still in existence? Is there any prospect 
of stockholders getting any of their 
money back? This was the most foolish 
“investment" I ever heard of, and yet I 
put $150 into it. A friend of mine 
dropped considerably more. It was pro¬ 
moted a little more than two years ago. 
The funds were to be invested in stocks 
paying 12 per cent or more, and the 
stocks disposed of on advances; IS or 20 
months ago I was informed they bad 
bought Liberty bonds. I believe they paid 
about $00. As you know. Liberty bonds 
are much higher now, although they did 
go down lower at first. F. D. c. 
New York. 
The National Holding Company is a 
comparatively recent promotion organized 
under stock-jobbing methods through 
sources unfavorably regarded. As far as 
we pan discover it has not become estab¬ 
lished, and the stock, for which no mar¬ 
ket exists, is of problematical value. The 
investment was certainly an unwise one, 
as the subscriber discovers when it is too 
late. Look before you leap is the only 
safe investment policy. 
Address. 
Buy Your Silo Early 
and Secure the Extra 
Discount 
In makiug up a list of farm papers 
for our advertiser recently I was in¬ 
terested to note that The Rural New- 
Yorker was the only paper on the list 
that had subscribers in every State, and 
only one other that went beyond a lim¬ 
ited region. We always find something 
distinctive about The Rural New- 
Yorker. 
The official count of the subscription list 
of The Rural New-Yorker for the last 
issue of the year 15121 was 200,787 paid- 
in-advance subscribers. Of these 04,303 
were in tbe State of New York, averag¬ 
ing practically one subscriber for every 
two farms in tbe State. In New Jersey 
the count was 21.273, or substantially 
three out of every four farms in that 
Stale. The remainder of the list was 
divided in various proportions among all 
the States, ranging from 32,022 in New 
England to 13 in Nevada. On account 
of the zone system of postal rates the 
postage on subscriptions to d : stant States 
is a real hardship, hut we have many 
good friends in these States, and we like 
to serve them. 
The old “Spanish prisoner” swindle is 
active again. Every few years we hear 
of people who receive letters from the 
alleged Spanish prisoner who has a for¬ 
tune hidden in a satchel and asks for 
financial assistance, promising to give his 
benefactor a generous portion of the con¬ 
tents of the satchel. He represents that 
he is imprisoned for debt, and if the 
recipient of his letter will help secure his 
release his reward will be a fortune. We 
have heard of only one ease where anyone 
parted with any money on the scheme, 
but the fact that, the swindle is revived 
from time to time would indicate that the 
Spanish prisoner finds the scheme profit¬ 
able. Such palpable swindles are not so 
dangerous as the American variety, 
effectively sugar-coated as to deceive even 
the elect. 
Strength 
When you build 
- a new silo or rebuild 
_-= = ~ your old one, make it 
a Craine—the strongest 
as well as handsomest silo made. 
Its three-wall construction gives 
perfect silage protection. Outside 
the wall of upright staves is an 
air-tight, water-proot, frost-defying 
inner wall ofSiiafelt. Outside of both 
is the spiral Crainelox covering, of 
giant strength—no hoops, no lugs, no 
weak spots, no repairs, but permanent 
protection for every inch of wall. 
You can rebuild an old stave silo 
into a Craine at half the cost of a new 
silo. Write for beautifully Illustrated 
catalog showing Craine Triple Wall 
Silos. 
CRAINE SILO CO., Inc. 
Box 1 1 O. Norwich. N. Y. 
The extension 
roof idea for silos was 
first introduced by Globe Silo 
Company. The Globe roof is the 
only one with sides so nearly 
straight that silage settles level. 
This permits the owner of a Globe 
to always have full capacity—no 
heaped up silage exposed to the air. 
Globe Silos are back to 1917 
prices. Write today for catalog de¬ 
scribing other Globe features, and 
for special extra discount offered on 
early orders. 
GLOBE SILO COMPANY 
2-12 Willow Street Sidney, N.Y. 
Can you give me any information re¬ 
garding the A. A. Berry Seed Company. 
Clarinda, Iowa? I am in receipt of their 
catalogue, and they offer some very fine 
seed, according to their claims. One 
kind, for instance, is a grade of oats 
called “Canada Grown Regenerated 
Swedish Select.” which they say will 
produce at the rate of from 100 to 140 
bushels per a ere, testing from 44 to 4S 
lbs. per bushel. Some oats. I'll say so! 
According to their catalogue, they have 
been in business some 20 years, and it 
would seem that in order that a business 
continue for that period of time it must 
be satisfying its customers. I (bought 
of giving them an order for grass seed, 
but upon reflection I concluded that, a 
word from your valued corner should 
precede that order. J. N. s. 
New Jersey. 
The Rural New-Yorker threw the 
A. A. Berry Company advertising out of 
its columns some seven or eight years 
ago because of deceptive methods and 
furnishing inferior quality of farm seeds. 
One of the grounds on which we Objected 
to the Berry business was the practice of 
offering clover and Timothy mixed, the 
only purpose of which must he to deceive 
the purchaser as to the amount of clover 
in the mixture. This nefarious practice is 
continued in the firm’s advertising appear¬ 
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