v roget a oener price 
at your creamery 
never sold any moths, so sent the $2 
which he asked for it. After some time 
1 received a small paper-covered boob, of 
the cheapest paper and poor, small print. 
The illustrations were poor and indis¬ 
tinct, the descriptions were vague (to me, 
at any rate), and given in Latin terms 
that a naturalist might understand. I 
studied mj book diligently, and as nearly 
as I could tell, any butterflies he even 
paid seven cents for were generally found 
in the Rockies, South America, Mexico or 
Canada. I gave it up, kept the book as a 
warning, and charged the $2 up to ex¬ 
perience. I could not use it at school at 
all. MRS. L. c. E. 
New York. 
We have referred to James Sinclair 
previously, and advised against going 
into his propositions. The above report 
will confirm the wisdom of the advice. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Will you please inform me as to the 
standing of the Auto Knitting Machine 
Company of Buffalo, N. Y.? The Ladies 
IIawe -Journal and McCall's Magazine 
and many others advertised their machine 
to be a wonderful thing to make money 
at home. I wrote them and they made 
great promises of what one could do 
with their machine. I bought their du¬ 
plex machine, hoping to do all kinds of 
knitting. I have tried in every way and 
had many others to help me, and cannot 
work the machine at all. One of these 
machines was used here in the Red Cross 
work, and they said that perfect work 
could not be done on the machine. I 
wrote the company all about my failure 
to work it, and they wrote me to sell it; 
they wouldn't do anything for me. I 
advertised same, but as I could not teach 
one how to tise it, no one cared to buy. 
I am not able to lose the $75 paid, and 
will greatly appreciate your advice in the 
matter. MRS. W. B. J. 
Virginia. 
There is nothing The R. N.-Y. can do to 
hedp this woman out of her difficulties; 
we have persistently published the ex¬ 
perience of subscribers with the machine 
and the company, in order to save readers 
from just such a loss as 'this. 
I had an advertisement in The R. 
N.-Y. and am coming to you for help. I 
enclose a letter received in regard to this 
advertisement, which I answered promptly 
sending in written references which I 
prize highly, as some of them cannot be 
duplicated again. I have written five or 
six times, sent a telegram and a regis¬ 
tered letter, with no reply. Will you see 
what you can do for me? If you fail, I 
know no one can do anything. Perhaps 
this man does not know whit these 
papers mean to me. M. K. 
New York. 
Many readers answering advertise¬ 
ments have trouble over sending original 
letters of recommendation to advertisers. 
And the advertiser may not be to blame 
or realize that the letters are of impor¬ 
tance. The original letter of recom¬ 
mendation should never be sent—a copy 
will serve the same purpose. In many 
instances an advertiser will receive hun¬ 
dreds of applications to an advertisement 
for help, and after making a selection 
not even open belated applications. Those 
seeking positions should bear this in 
mind, and forward only copies of recom¬ 
mendations. 
Don’t take anyone’s word for it that 
KOW KARE definitely increases the 
milk yield. Adtual proof is too easy 
to secure. 
Make a simple test — and make it 
now, so that you may benefit all winter 
and spring by what it proves. Seledt a 
part of your herd — even one cow — 
and place in her feed morning and 
evening, for just one week out of the 
month, a tablespoonful of KOW-KARE. 
If you keep accurate produdion re¬ 
cords, you will be surprised at the 
increased yield, and at the surprising¬ 
ly low cost of the treatment. 
The reason is simple. The vigor of the cow’s 
—» digestive and milk-making organs‘‘runs down” 
Vf during the winter months when green pastur¬ 
age is not available. KOW KaRE has the medi¬ 
cinal properties to keep these organs toned up 
and working at summer capacity. 
It is just this building-up of the genital and 
digestive functions that makes KOW KARE so 
valuable in treating the diseases which orig¬ 
inate in these very organs, such as Abor¬ 
tion, Retained Afterbirth , Barrenness, Scours, 
Bunches, Milk Fever, etc. No medicine shelf 
is complete without this nationally-used cow 
remedy 
KOW KARE is sold by feed dealers, druggists, 
general Mores; large sue $1.25; medium size 65c. 
If your dealer is not supplied, vie will send post¬ 
paid Our valuable book, ’ The Home Coio 
Doctor,"' free. 
Dairy Association Co., Inc, Lyndonville, VL 
Will you tell me what you know about 
H. M. Whiting of the Whiting Nursery 
Company. Geneva? He is working in my 
neighborhood this week, and about a 
dozen people I know have given him large 
orders. This morning my wife gave him 
a $12 order for six plum trees, which I 
consider an exorbitant price. Can I can¬ 
cel this order? a. b. t. 
New Y'ork. 
There is no question about the price 
being exorbitant, but agents selling trees 
do not cancel orders when once signed. 
Whiting is a salesman for trees, not a 
nursery grower. He has been expelled 
from the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen. 
Small investors numbering into the 
thousands living throughout Central and 
Northern New Y'ork bid fair to lose the 
savings of years through the latest de¬ 
velopment in the financial difficulties of 
the Syracuse Rubber Company, manu¬ 
facturers of the “Syra-Cord” tire, which, 
following costly original financing, had 
management in its early months, trade 
reverses and inability to procure work¬ 
ing capital, has reached the point where 
appointment of a receiver was necessary. 
William F. Rafferty was named receiver. 
The company was financed four years ago 
by popular subscription during a whirl¬ 
wind stock-selling campaign, handled 
largely through salesmen, taking in every 
town and hamlet of any account between 
Syracuse and Rochester and which cov¬ 
ered thoroughly the territory extending 
as far north as St. Lawrence County.— 
Syracuse Daily. 
Just three years ago Publisher’s Desk 
cautioned its readers against putting 
their savings into this enterprise. The 
result was inevitable from the manner 
in which the company was financed, 
which is outlined in the above newspaper 
item. Dozens if uot hundreds of other 
attempts to establish automobile tire 
manufacturing concerns by similar 
methods have resulted in the same loss 
to investors. 
We have just subscribed for your 
paper, and your agent outlined to us your 
collection of bad debts. We have a mat¬ 
ter to which we are calling your atten¬ 
tion. but \ye do not expect you can col¬ 
lect this for us. though we do fool that 
you can do your subscribers in Genesee 
County. N. Y.. a favor possibly in some 
way. The party’s name is Bert Stevens, 
and he deals in all kinds of live stock 
and fruit, such as farmers have to sell, 
fat cattle, sheep, lambs, bogs, fruit, etc. 
He drives a new Reo speed wagon, and 
will move with his family into a new 
locality and rent a place. Then he pro¬ 
ceeds to buy and truck all kinds of meats 
and produce to nearby city markets. 
Gradually he will get acquainted, and 
begin after a while to pay with checks 
which will be taken care of at first, and 
things will run along smoothly enough 
for perhaps a year or longer. Then he 
will sell out everything in a hurry and 
move to a new locality miles away, no¬ 
body knows where. After he is gone he 
leaves unpaid checks and other debts and 
obligation; which he knows just how to 
get trusted, for. Last Spring he left here, 
and nobody knew till the writer traced 
him several months later, where he was 
located. I?> is now in the town of 
Pavilion. Genesee County. Our local at¬ 
torney has several judgments against 
him. Tie has been in Michigan, and 
came from there here with plenty of 
money. He owes me $200, which is in a 
judgment, and I could give you the de¬ 
tails of my deal with him if such martprs 
come within your line of collections. If 
you have any way of warning the farmers 
of the section in which he lives you of 
course will do so. F. L. 
New Y’ork. 
Following our usual custom, we wrote 
to Mr. Bert Stevens, Pavilion, N. Y., 
giving him an opportunity to present his 
side and refute the charges. Our letter 
was returned by the postmaster at 
Pavilion with the notation: “Removed; 
left no address.” This would seem to 
confirm our correspondent. We think it 
will be difficult for this party to remain 
in New York State and escape the effect 
of his record in The R. N.-l r . We do 
not want any of our readers to suffer a 
loss through dealing with such unreliable 
parties. 
Ml** AMOC-l/ino* OO-UK 
^n»»wiu.w.uit ... 
Save 5 775 m-Ton Kissel Truck 
MARK 
'C. brand 
U- S . Pat . Pending 
This truck is new—nevur been used. We also have a 
new’JH-tou KISSEL truck that we will sell fur 
82,000, Retails for #2,875. Should you need a 
truck, it will pay you to write us for full details 
about these two bargains. M. L. BASHOKE, 
Aisistant Treasurer, The Syracuse Trust Co.. Syracuse. N.Y. 
Will you Ml me if the Home Supply 
Company, 131-135 Duane Street. New 
York City, is a reliable firm? They are 
sending out letters to children for them 
to sell 40 boxes of candy, for which they 
will send a seven-jewel bracelet watch. 
New Y’ork. A. R. 
We do not hdvise parents to allow 
children to act as agents to sell goods in 
order to get premiums of this sort. The 
goods sold by such methods are invariably 
of inferior quality ami the premiums turn 
out to be rubbish. Most of us would pur¬ 
chase an article to please the child, even 
though haring no use for it, but the prac¬ 
tice is not intended to develop the char¬ 
acter of the child in the right direction. 
As one farmer recently expressed his 
opinion. “It tends to make beggars of 
children.” 
Here’s a way to make more money each month on your milk with 
practically no extra work. Farmers with three cows, dairymen 
with hundreds—all have proved that it pays. 
Butter fat is what you get paid for and butter fat runs highest in the milk of 
healthy, clean skinned cows. There is no easier and better way to keep 
your cows in good health, giving more and 
richer milk, than by clipping. 
Clipping Improves Health 
The general health of your cows depends upon 
the condition of their skin. Unhealthy skin—un- 
Ir healthy system. Clipping keeps the skin in perfect 
condition. Cows like it. Clipped cows give more 
i Ti milk. Richer milk. To get clean milk it’s no trick 
U ; ; at all to clip the flanks, udders and underline 
Ay with the Stewart No. 1 Cow Clipping Machine, 
I; Complete, ready for a lifetime of service, only 
$10.75 at your dealer's, or send $2 and pay bal¬ 
ance on arrival. Fully guaranteed or your money 
back. World's standard 
CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY 
A L. j 5502 Roosevelt Road. Chicago 
One of our newspaper exchanges re¬ 
ports that F. M. Neal is. Hillsboro, Ky.. 
orders fruits and vegetables and neglects 
to pay for same. Payment before goods 
are shipped is recommended. 
I noticed some time ago in Publisher’s 
Desk an inquiry concerning James Sin¬ 
clair of California, who advertises, stat¬ 
ing he will pay large prices for insects. 
AbouI six or eight years ago i had 
some spare time, and, being interested iu 
moths, etc., answered his advertisement 
and received a folder giving a few prices 
and advising me lo send for his illustrat¬ 
ed book on mollis, butterflies and other 
insects, as it also described the proper 
method of catching and preserving the 
insects for sale purposes, being also a 
complete price list. The volume was very 
highly praised, and being a school teacher 
at the time. I concluded that the book 
would be useful in school work if I 
“Mummy.” said little Harry, “what 
are those little crinkly things’ in your 
hair?” “Oh, those are called waves, 
dear.” said mother, rather proudly. 
Marry turned around and regarded father 
solemnly. Then he ’vent over to him and 
patted his bald head. “Mummy’s got the 
waves.” he said to him, “and you’ve got 
the beach.”—New York Globe. 
Largest Makers of Clipping and Shearing Machines 
in the World and Makers of a Full Line of Electrical 
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