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XIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
It will be remembered that the American 
Farm Company brought suit against The 
R. N.-Y. some time ago for more than 
$ 100 , 000 . The complaint was that farmers 
of Greene County, N. Y., and others re¬ 
fused to pay for stock of the company for 
which they had subscribed after reading 
certain articles in criticism of the company 
which appeared in The R. N.-Y. Later 
the American Farm Company was rein¬ 
corporated under the laws of the State of 
Arizona under the name of the Farmers’ 
Marketing Company. Our readers have 
been advised from time to time of the do¬ 
ings of this company for several years 
back. Not long since we told of the sale 
of the Uncsville, Pa., plant by the sheriff; 
later of the indictment of the representa¬ 
tives of the company by a Grand Jury in 
the State of Illinois; again of the dismissal 
by the courts of actions brought by the 
officers of the company for libel, and fin¬ 
ally of the decision of a Pennsylvania 
court, in which it was held that an agree¬ 
ment for the purchase of stock was se¬ 
cured through misrepresentation and 
fraud, and consequently not binding. \\ e 
also reported some time ago that the com¬ 
pany was still selling its stock to farmers 
in certain sections of New York State, 
and had filed a blanket mortgage on all its 
property. John W. Woodruff, president 
of the company, has now brought suit 
against Lester J. Bander, of Mohawk, 
Montgomery County, N. Y., to recover 
$:2<)0 which it is claimed Mr. Bander owes 
for shares for which he subscribed. The 
suit was brought in Buffalo, but Attorney 
J. S. Sitterly, of Fonda, N. Y„ made a mo¬ 
tion before Justice White on September 30 
to have the case transferred to Montgom¬ 
ery County for trial. Allegations of Mr. 
Bander imputing fraud and unfair deal¬ 
ings on the part of the company were de¬ 
nied by Woodruff. A Buffalo daily paper 
gives the following report of the court 
hearing: 
Bander admits he subscribed for the 
stock sued on, but claims that the Farmers’ 
Marketing Company, which assigned the 
contract for stock sued on in this action, 
has not complied with the terms and con¬ 
ditions of the agreement on which the 
stock was sold and further charges that 
the company at the time of the sale of the 
st?>ck made certain false and fraudulent 
statements to the defendant to induce him 
to purchase or subscribe for the stock. 
One of the promises, as alleged by the de¬ 
fendant. was that the company should lo¬ 
cate a branch at Fonda or Fultonville. An¬ 
other condition of the contract, as alleged 
by the defendant, was that the subscrip¬ 
tion was made wholly upon the plans as 
set forth in the prospectus of the com¬ 
pany. those plans, in part, relating to a gi¬ 
gantic plant to be established at West Sen¬ 
eca, to be known as the central headquar¬ 
ters of the company. The defendant claims 
that none of the promises of the company 
has been carried out. The defendant fur¬ 
ther claims that as an inducement to get 
him to sign for the stock it was repre¬ 
sented that the company had a flouring 
mill constructed at West Seneca with a 
capacity of 800 barrels a day, and also had 
a large elevator constructed at West Sen¬ 
eca, and that a picture of the Hour mill and 
elevator was shown to the defendant, and 
that the agent of the company said the pic¬ 
ture was a correct photo of the company’s 
flouring mill and elevator. The defendant 
further alleges that it was represented by 
an agent that the company then had large 
flouring mills and elevators in different 
States in the West and owned the largest 
floating dock in the world at Liverpool, 
England. It is alleged that the only prop¬ 
erty owned bv the company at Fultonville 
or Fonda is an old hay barn. An affidavit 
made by Earle V. Ausman, a law student 
in the office of the defendant’s attorney, 
was to the ettect that he visited West Sen¬ 
eca on September 17 and talked with 
Woodruff: that Woodruff said that the 
buildings and property he then saw at 
West Seneca was the plant of the Farmers’ 
Marketing Company; that one of them 
was of wood, in which there was no boiler, 
engine or other machinery except a grind¬ 
stone. a fanning mill and an iron vise; 
that there was no grain or flour in the 
building or anything to indicate that a 
flouring business was being carried on. 
The scheme of the company is that the 
farmers are to make consignments of pro¬ 
duce to the company, which would market 
the same, the company to supply the farm¬ 
ers with farm and other necessary sup¬ 
plies. The motto held out to the farmers 
was “Sell hign and buy low.” The mo¬ 
tion for the change of venue was granted, 
the case to be tried in Montgomery 
County. 
This practically disposes of the case, as 
it has not been the policy of the company 
as yet revealed to follow up such suits 
when referred for trial to the county in 
which defendant resides. 
After the suit was brought against The 
R. N.-Y. we received many letters from 
readers commending our course. One of 
them will do to reprint at this time. Here 
it is: 
I want to commend your pluck in expos¬ 
ing the Buffalo people. There is not an¬ 
other farm paper in existence that has the 
“sand” to do likewise. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Please do not forget to send a trial sub¬ 
scription from one of your neighbors this 
month for the 
Remainder of this Year for 10 cents 
All of those little envelopes have not 
yet returned. What did you do with 
yours? The R. N.-Y. has probably saved 
its readers enough actual cash by exposing 
frauds and advising against bogus schemes 
to pay for 100.000 subscriptions for a gen¬ 
eration. It is an influence you believe to 
be beneficial to every farmer. Just this 
time we want to ask you to help extend the 
influence. Send a 10-cent trial. If your 
friend is not satisfied with his bargain 
New Year’s day we will return the 10 
cents. 
We yet need some good steady repre¬ 
sentatives in certain locations. We pay 
good 'salaries to competent men and give 
them charge of prescribed territory. Have 
you a good man in mind for the work? 
WHEN TO PICK KIEFFER PEARS. 
One of our readers In Kentucky asks the 
following questions about Kieffer pears: “I 
have a line lot of Kieffer pears, and would 
like to have some information in regard to 
gathering them. When is the right time, and 
hew manage them after gathered?" 
The method of handling Kieffer pears 
to “best advantage” is yet to be de¬ 
termined. The practice here is to pick 
and sell at once, whenever shippers are 
ready to buy. Some few growers pick 
the best fruit as soon as well matured, 
and ship to Philadelphia for cold storage 
until the holiday market, e. a. Packard. 
Delaware. 
All our Kieffer pear growers pick in 
five-eighth bushel baskets and sell direct, 
to canners or to buyers. The latter load in 
bulk and ship in car lots as a rule. Some¬ 
times they pack in half-barrel baskets 
holding 2 x /z peach baskets. They are often 
put in cold storage and sold during the 
Winter. Pick when fairly well colored 
and some begin to drop. We are ready to 
pick now in this section. Thousands of 
baskets have recently been blown off. 
Delaware. chas. wright. 
With Kieffer pears we begin picking 
or thinning early in September for the 
Philadelphia market, which requires them 
colored, and place them in a cellar or 
building for 10 to 20 days and if care¬ 
fully handled will then be ripened in con¬ 
dition for market. We generally go over 
our trees two or three times and have a 
succession for market from the middle of 
September until middle of December. If 
people having one or more trees of this 
variety will follow the above plan, pick 
a few every few days and for small lots 
put in cool dark room or drawer and let 
remain until mellow, they will have nice 
juicy fruit for three months. We handle 
in five-eighths bushel baskets, and the 
pears will ripen if packed away in cellar 
or building in the baskets as carted from 
the orchards as well as any other plan. 
Those picked in September will be finer 
grained, less coarse than those allowed to 
remain on trees until late in Autumn. 
If intended for long shipment it will be 
necessary to ship a short time after picked 
from the trees. If intended for cold 
storage they should be so placed promptly 
after picking. j. s. collins. 
New Jersey. 
I can tell you just how we are going to 
handle our pears. They show quite 
green, a great many of them, although the 
wind storm took off about two-thirds of 
the crop, and those that are on the trees 
will be picked in a week or two; most of 
them we have sold to our cannery here 
to be canned. The remainder we expect 
to keep and realize something from, and 
also for our own use. We shall pick 
carefully and put them in the attic or 
in the barn loft in some dark place, with 
straw under them, and leave them until 
they are mellow. I have seen this method 
used in West Virginia by large growers 
very successfully, and we hope to have the 
same success in gathering our crop this 
time. I think there can be some money 
got out of Kieffer pears by keeping them 
on the farm in a cool dark place, care¬ 
fully handled until they are ripe, rather 
than to force them into the market. 
GONE LAME!! 
Those words strike terror to the heart of every 
horseman. Don’t worry. If it is Spavin, Ring Bone, 
Splints, Curb or any form of Lameness, Kendall's 
Spavin Cure will cure it quickly ami permanently. 
Cambridge Springs, Pa., Dec. 4, 1902. 
American Houbo Livery, 
Dr. B J. Kendall Co., 
Gentlemen:—! have been using your Ken¬ 
dall’s Spavin Cure for fifteen years and find 
It a success, I have one of your old “Treatise 
on the Horse and his Diseases,” the leaves 
are some of them lost; if you have any new 
ones please send me one, and oblige. 
Very truly yours, 
CHAS. KELLY. 
Price S1; 6 for S5. Asa liniment for family use It has 
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also “A Treatise on the Horse, ” the book free, or address 
Or. B.l. KENDALL C0„ EN0SBURG FALLS, VT. 
When I returned home 10 days ago from 
the St. Louis Fair my brother had de¬ 
termined that it would be better to clean 
the orchard and get what he could for 
the pears that had been blown off, and 
our gross receipts show that we did not 
get enough for the green pears that went 
A Lady can hold him. 
of the BEERY BIT 
FOUR O ITS IN ONE 
Curm Kicker., Itunawnys, Puller., 
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Pays’ 
and circular showing 
the four distinct ways of using it. 
Prof. .r.q. Itccry, Pleasant Hill, Ohio. 
to market in Philadelphia, New York and 
Norfolk to pay for the barrels which they 
were shipped in; therefore, the pigs have 
been robbed of their share of the crop. 
Maryland. orlando harrtson. 
When you write advertisers meutiou The 
I t. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
BLOOD CELLS. 
IN HEALTH. 
IN DISEASE. 
Man is a millionaire many times over in 
the possession of blood cells. Woman is 
not quite so rRli, for scientists have proven 
that the normal number of red blood cells 
in adult men is five million; in women four 
and a half million, to the square millimeter. 
The normal cell is not absolutely round 
in health, but, in disease, becomes ex¬ 
tremely irregular in shape. Every one can 
be in perfect health and possess the mil¬ 
lions of rich red blood corpuscles if they 
only know how to go about it. Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, consulting physician to the Inva¬ 
lids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., advises every man and woman 
to prepare for a long life by observing na¬ 
ture’s laws. In the first place, if your 
digestion is faulty, and the food you 
eat is not taken up by the blood and assim¬ 
ilated properly, you need a tonic and diges¬ 
tive corrector, something that will increase 
the red blood corpuscles; he believes in 
going about this in nature’s own way. 
Years ago, in his active practice, he found 
that an alterative extract of certain herbs 
and roots, put up without the use of alco¬ 
hol, would put the liver, lungs and heart 
into fuller and more complete action. This 
medicine he called Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. By assimilating the 
food eaten, it nourishes the blood, and, in¬ 
stead of the ill-shaped corpuscles, the per¬ 
son’s blood takes on a rich red color and 
the corpuscles are more nearly round. 
Nervousness is only the cry of the starved 
nerves for food, and when the nerves are 
fed on rich red blood the person loses 
those irritable feelings, sleeps well at night 
and feels refreshed in the morning. 
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. 
If you want to know about your body 
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