1905. 
5i3 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 
The promoters of the Spencer Seedless 
apple are not likely to die poor, if the 
plans for promoting their stock go 
through. In the first place, there seems 
to be a parent company organized under 
the laws of the State of Colorado. Then 
subsidiary companies are organized to 
raise and sell the trees in local sections. 
We have before us a prospectus of a com¬ 
pany so organized to develop the trade 
in the States of Maryland, Virginia and 
West Virginia. Here is an extract from 
the prospectus: 
This company is incorporated for 100,000 
shares of par value of $1.00 each, of which 
51,000 shares belong to the parent company, 
who agree to furnish us any number of buds 
we will need free of charge. Of the remain¬ 
ing shares 25,000 belong to the officers of the 
company, representing the cash outlay made 
by them to procure the rights, and good will 
of the company from the parent company, and 
incorporate the Baltimore Company. The re¬ 
maining 24,000 shares are treasury stock, and 
are hereby offered for sale at the par value 
of $1.00 each. Below will be found the pro¬ 
spective earnings of this Company, based on 
seven year's experience of the parent com¬ 
pany, and some of the already existent sub¬ 
sidiary companies : 
Cost of 150,000 yearling apple 
trees, at $2.85 per 1000.... $ 
Freight on same from Iowa to 
Baltimore . 
Rent on 20 acres of land per year 
Irrigation expenses . 
Office rent per year . 
Advertising. 
Labor of three or more men.... 
Printing, stationery. 
Taxes, city and state . 
Commission of 25 cts. a tree sold 
for 100,000.. 
Salaries of officers . 
427.50 
187.50 
250.00 
150.00 
100.00 
10,000.00 
1,500.00 
250.00 
200.00 
25,000.00 
3,000.00 
41,065.00 
Credit 100,000 trees sold in three 
States in one year at $2.00 200,000.00 
Profit $158,935.00 
That is easy enough, to be sure. The 
Colorado company prints and signs 100,- 
000 shares of stock, and keeps 51,000 
shares, which is a controlling interest. 
Then 25,000 shares are given local officers 
and promoters because of their influence 
with the public generally; and then the 
dear farmer is allowed to pay a full dollar 
a share for the remaining 24,000 shares. 
In other words, for every dollar the 
farmer pays for this stock, 51 cents go to 
the Colorado people, 25 cents to the offi¬ 
cers and promotors, and 24 cents remains 
to be used and controlled, not by the 
farmers who invest it, but by the Colo¬ 
rado people who retain a majority of the 
stock. But this is not all. According 
to the prospectus these trees are to cost a 
little less than three cents apiece, while 
the obliging farmer is to buy 100,000 of 
them at $2 apiece. Of course, there are 
some other trifling expenses to come out 
of the sales, principally in commissions 
for sales, officers’ salaries and $10,000 in 
advertising. But why sell apple trees even 
at this liberal profit while paper certifi¬ 
cates of stock can be sold on this liberal 
basis? 
The circulars of the company give the 
names of some prominent bankers of Bal¬ 
timore as backers of the concern. These 
men are very guarded in their statements 
in reference to the enterprise, and do not 
state that they have actually invested any 
money in it. Prof. Brackett of the Agri¬ 
cultural Department at Washington repu¬ 
diates absolutely the endorsement used in 
his name. Just why farmers could be 
relied upon to buy this stock for the priv¬ 
ilege of selling to themselves trees at $2 
apiece while standard varieties can be 
had at 25 cents apiece, is something that 
is not explained in the circulars. But this 
is a detail that seldom interests promoters. 
Why should it? Who ever heard of a 
creamery shark running a creamery? The 
business of promoters is to sell stock. 
A similar subsidiary company has re¬ 
cently been organized to control the trade 
of New York and New England. Its 
headquarters are at Plattsburg, N. Y., and 
the capital stock is $300,000. We have 
not seen the prospectus, but we assume 
the stock will be dealt out in the same 
prudent proportions. Do the farmers of 
New England want to pay $72,000 for the 
privilege of selling three-cent apple trees 
to themselves at $2 apiece and for apples 
that are not considered equal in quality to 
the Ben Davis? We think not. 
This week I print the following letter 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
just to show a New England reader’s 
sentiments for The R. N.-Y. 
I have belonged to The It. N.-Y. family for 
only a few mouths, but want to say to you 
that in the past 40 years I have subscribed 
for nearly every agricultural paper between 
Boston and Chicago and some even beyond, 
but The It. N.-Y. is the first one 1 pick from 
my tableful of papers and magazines and the 
only one I pretend to read through at this 
busy season of the year. c. w. J. 
Vermont. 
By the way, have you yet received your 
copy of The Business Hen? We have 
some copies yet on hand. If yours has 
not reached you, it will go the day your 
renewal is received. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
New Custom House. —Work was begun on 
this building 4% years ago, and it is now 
somewhere near completion so far as the out¬ 
side is concerned. Its location, just north 
of Battery Park. New York, is entirely suit¬ 
able, and the building is intended to be the 
finest of its kind in the world. It is 191 x 
278 feet, 125 feet high and has two stories 
below ground. The lot on which it stands is 
worth $3,000,000 and about $4,500,000 will 
be put in the building. In addition to the 
customs business, it will contain a branch 
post office and internal revenue offices. 
Watek by Dry Measure. —In levying cus¬ 
toms duty of one cent per quart on foxberries 
packed in water, entered at this port, the 
appraiser quite naturally used the liquid 
quart, which is about 10 cubic inches less than 
the dry quart, making a corresponding in¬ 
crease in duty. The importer protested and 
the general appraisers upheld the protest, 
ruling that as fruits and vegetables are ordi¬ 
narily sold by dry measure, the use of water 
as a packing cannot affect the unit of meas¬ 
urement. 
Potatoes. —The situation has been worse 
than last week, large quantities of good po¬ 
tatoes having sold down to 65 cents per bar¬ 
rel and culls at 35 cents. About the middle 
of the week receipts slackened, giving an op¬ 
portunity to make a fair clearance of the 
surplus. It would seem that the potato 
market must surely have struck bottom, and 
that some price improvement might be looked 
for before long. 
Strawberries are plentiful, and the great 
bulk are going low. Ten cents per quart, re¬ 
tail, will buy good berries, though of course 
not the largest or choicest. Large clean ber¬ 
ries are so scarce that they attract attention 
and retail as high as 20 cents. 
Eggs. —'The available storages in this vicin¬ 
ity are said to be nearly full, and speculators 
are not doing much except where they can 
pick up special bargains. As usual after a 
hot wave, considerable heat defect is noted, 
making careful candling necessary in order 
to be at all certain about any lot except from 
very near by. The eggs candled out are 
turned in to the seconds and culls, thus add¬ 
ing to the already heavy supply of low 
grades, which must be disposed of quickly 
in order to bring over 10 cents per dozen. 
Those past the stage of usefulness for even 
cheap bakery work or scrambling, are still of 
service in the tanning of fine leather. A 
wagon load of these leather eggs was recently 
upset in Jersey City, and the surrounding at¬ 
mosphere was tanned a dark brown odor and 
consistency until relief was had from a fire 
company, who turned the hose on the rotten 
eggs, washing them into the sewer. 
A New Excuse. —One of my neighbors, a 
farmer who has a hired man only during 
Summer and hires rather cheap help, has had 
hard luck with men for the past two years. 
Some stay two months, but the majority only 
one. They seem to want to rove and on they 
go. As they are used well and not over¬ 
worked, all sorts of reasons for leaving are 
given. The most unreasonable excuse heard 
thus far was made by the present man who 
threatens to leave if there is another storm 
like the one we had a few days ago. It was 
a rather heavy rain, a small cloudburst in 
which three inches of water fell in half an 
hour, but the farmer does not feel responsible 
for it and is wondering what means his man 
will take to dodge weather eccentricities. 
Boarding House Supplies. —'“I am run¬ 
ning a boarding house and wish information 
regarding buying produce, etc. What is 
meant by the 26-cent zone in your milk quo¬ 
tations? Can I get one 40-quart can of milk 
sent me daily at two cents per quart? What 
is the best way to buy butter, vegetables, 
canned goods, ginger, etc., so as to get lowest 
cash prices?” f. w. 
Long Island. 
The territory supplying New York with 
milk is divided into four freight zones, viz. : 
23, 26, 29 and 32 cents, depending on dis¬ 
tance from New York. The freight rate 
jumps from one zone to the next in the same 
way as standard time changes an hour when 
a certain meridian is reached. These uni¬ 
form rate zones are the result of an agree- 
men between the various milk carrying roads 
to simplify matters for buyers, shippers and 
railroad, by doing away with the hundreds 
of different rates that would otherwise have 
to be figured on. You could not get a single 
can of milk at two cents per quart. It would 
be four to six cents or even more, depending 
on quality. There is a large milk company 
with depots within a few miles of your 
place, and in the long run it will pay you 
to buy from them, as you will get uniform 
quality without watering or doctoring, and 
always be sure of a supply. The N. Y. Ex¬ 
change price at present is $1.11 per 40-quart 
can. This does not mean that every man 
who sells to a member of the Milk Exchange 
gets this as the gross price. The dealers 
have a mutual understanding not to go above 
this sum, but buy as much lower as they can. 
Out of this gross price comes freight, de¬ 
pending on the zone in which the shipper 
lives, station charges, if there are any at his 
shipping point, and five cents per can ferriage 
if the milk arrives at a New Jersey terminal 
and has to be brought across the river. In 
regard to buying other boarding house necessi¬ 
ties I see dozens of people every week who are 
working at this. They are shopping around here 
and there among the commission men, with 
some the main thing being quality, and with 
others bargains, depending on the class of 
boarding house they keep. The bargain hunter 
has the hardest job, sometimes going to a dozen 
places before finding something within his 
price limit. It cannot be that “time is 
money” with some of,these people as the 
time spent would eat up their bargains sev¬ 
eral times over. I see another class who 
have a regular list of people with whom they 
trade. They drop in, give their orders, which 
may bo 10 times as large as those of the class 
first named, and are out in less than five 
minutes. Considerable of this buying is 
done by women. For staple groceries at mod¬ 
erate prices the large department stores can 
be recommended; several of them run 
complete grocery departments and make free 
deliveries within quite a radius of the city. 
They will send price lists and fill mail orders. 
As a protection to the retail trade, wholesale 
grocers ordinarily refuse to sell to private 
customers, even though they would take as 
large quantity of many things as the retailer 
would buy at one time. Here is the local 
grocer’s opportunity. He ought to co-operate 
with the boarding house buyer and sell in 
large quantities at small enough margin to 
hold the trade. I know local grocers who 
are murdering their business by insisting on 
a straight profit of 20 per cent on nearly 
everything sold. Except in cases of very high 
lent, exorbitant freight or goods on which 
there is heavy loss by decay, these local 
grocers ought to sell low enough to have 
practically all of the trade. h. 
Don't put off buying a 
National until Spring. Huy 
it now and get the uho and 
profit in the mean time.The 
Nutionul Separator 
earns its coat faster than 
you need it. Money refunded 
any time if machine fails to 
keep our promises. Remem¬ 
ber that the 
NATIONAL SEPARATOR 
pays for itself the first year—after 
that it pays for other things.The sooner 
you get the National in, the sooner it 
will begin saving for you. 
Write to-day for Book »0 
and details of plan. 
HASTINGS INDUSTRIAL CO. 
(tenoral Sales Agents, 
La Salle Sc Lake Sts. Chicago. 
Manufactured by 
National Dairy Mach. Co., 
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Height 
ONLY 
4 ft. 
4> in. 
Get rid of the worms 
Pratts Vet. Worm Powder. 
Made by Pratt Food Co., Phila, Over 30 years old. 
THE SWINGING STEEL STANCHION 
KEEPS COWS CLEAN. 
Cheapest, Strongest and Best. The 
only Stanchion having guide to protect loose 
arm when open and insure its coming into 
place and locking. Sold at wholesale in 
unoccupied territory. Write to-day. 
E. K. & H. J. Welcher, Newark, N.Y. 
SUMMER’S WORM POWDERS 
For 
Sheep, Horses & Hogs 
Fed to millions of animals 
every year. Powders never 
fail to remove worms and 
prevent further attacks. 
In popular use 25 years. 
Price 8 lb. Pek. 50 cents. 7 lb. Pcb. *1.00. 
gend for FREE catalogue of Stockmen’s Supplies. 
CYRIL FRANCKLYN, 72 Beaver St., New York 
“TRUTH CRUSHED 
to earth shall rise again.” So 
will Page Fence. Heavy trees have 
fallen across Page Fences crushing 
them to the earth, but as soon as the 
weight is removed they spring right 
boot to place. Write for evidence. 
PAGE WOVEN WIBK FENCE CO. 
Box 76* Adrian, Mich. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
‘‘a square deal." See guarantee, page 8. 
Tuttles Elixir 
is a quick and permanent cure 
for distemper, founder, lameness 
of all kinds, pneumonia, thrush, 
cuts, bruises, collar and saddle 
galls, colds, stiffness, etc. It is 
used and endorsed by the Adams 
Express Co. We offer 
$100 Reward 
for any case of Colic, Curb, Con¬ 
tracted or Knotted Cords, Splints, 
recentShoe Boils or Callous that 
it will not cure. 
Tuttle’s Family Elixir 
is the best household remedy that can bo used for 
rheumatism, sprains and all other pains and aches. 
Saves doctor bills and stops pain instantly. Our 100- 
page book, "Veterinary Experience free. Send for it. 
Tuttle’s Elixir Co. 30 Beverly St. Boston. Mass. 
Jicwaro of all WhCalled Elixirs. Get Tuttle's , the only genuine. For 
eale by druggists or sent direct. 
EGGS FOR SALE 
Choice fine laying strains.- 
P. Rocks. R. I. Rods. S. C. W. Leghorns 
at 60 cents per setting. 
Selected, 75 cents. 
W. Wyandottes, Baired 
Var's Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book. 10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BERGEY, Box 8,Telford,Pa, 
R eliable Hatching Eggs, any number. Barred Rocks, 
Brown, W. and B. Leghorns, W. and B. Wyan¬ 
dottes, li.C. Reds. McCain Co, B., Delaware, N.J. 
Orpingtons, Buff, Black, White, 
Why not have the very best obtainable? First cost 
may be a little more, but you get ihe stock and blood 
from the grandest winning strain in America, and 
from the largest Orpington breeder. Send for forty 
page illustrated Orpington catalogue, also Mating 
1,1st describingthirty-two breeding yards and prices 
of eggs. The blood from the largest winners at New 
York the past three years are in these yards. 
Box 78, WILLOW BROOK FARM, Berlin, Com.. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from mature birds. We have been 
breeding “Business Leghorns” for 10 years. Send for 
circular and prices. White & Rice, Yorktown, N. Y. 
ROSE COMB W. LEGHORNS 
Prize Winners at the Rest Shows. Eggs $1 
for 15; $3 for 50: *5 for 100. Half price after June 
first. L. C. HILLS, Delaware, Ohio. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Won two first premiums at New York State Fair, 1904. 
Trios, $5: Eggs, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
ziMlVLER BROS. R. I), 41, Weedsport. N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Yearlings 75 cents. 
HILANDALE FARM, Brooklyn, Ohio, R. F. D. 2. 
S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS feSS: 
ed Hens. Have been breeding Brown Leghorns for 
fourteen years. Eggs, $1 per 15, or $4 per 100. J. A. 
BUSH, R. No. 10, Lockport, Niagara Co., New York. 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK CHICKS 
from good laying strain; one to four weeks old; 15 to 
25 cents each. 
M. C. VAN WINKLE, Stone Ridge, New York. 
A 
ORNAMENTAL FENCE 
J -at an economical price. 
- Handsome designs;strong 
and durable. 
Write for catalogue “D.” 
-R ANCHOR FENCE A 
MANUFACTURING CO., Cleveland, Ohio. 
Union Lock Poultry Fence 
A Fence— Not a Netting. 
Send for our in¬ 
teresting booklet 
D, “A Short 
Story for Poultry 
Raisers.” 
Union Fence Company, 
114 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Mills at New Haven, Conn.; DeKalb, Ill. ;Oakland,Cal. 
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f»OULTf2Y SUFF*LIES- 
*■ The Kind that Make Kggs —All per 100 lbs. 
Recleaned Ground Oyster Shells, 50c; Mico Grit tor 
Poultry. 60c.; MicoGritfor Pigeons,60c ; .VllcoGrlt for 
Chicks. 60c.; Saul’s Poultry Scratching Food. $1.65; 
Saul s Poultry Mash Food $2; Saul’s Pigeon Food. $2, 
Saul’s Chick Food, $2.50; CutClover,$1.60; Clover Meal 
$1.60; Pure Ground Beef Scraps, $2.25: Pure Meat 
Meal, $2.25: Pure Meat and Bone, $2.25; Pure Poultry 
Bone, $2.25; Pure Bone Meal, $2.25; Hemp Seed. $4.00; 
8unfiower Seed, $5.50; Chicken Millet, $2.50. Cata¬ 
logue sent free. 
CHAS. F. SAUL, 220-224 James Street. Syracuse, N.Y. 
^POUILrRY supplies! 
UNION LOCK poultry fence stops small 
chicks,fits uneven gronnd, don’t sag or buckle, 
A and is easily erected. Satisfied customers say 
^ it’s best. We sell at factory prices and pay 
0 freight Orders filled without delay. Write 
\ to-day foi catalo gu e of farm, lawn and poultry 
0 fence*. CASE BROS,, Colchester, Conn, 
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