1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
465 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
We would advise readers to keep a list 
of the concerns unfavorably mentioned in 
this column for reference. It could be 
done by making a list or by cutting out 
the names and pasting them in a scrap 
book. We frequently have complaints 
about concerns that have been previously 
shown up. We have one this week. A 
subscriber complains of the Jackson Coun¬ 
ty Nurseries, Bosky Dell. Ill. We have 
cautioned readers against this concern 
several times, yet they seem to get occa¬ 
sional orders from our people. They arc 
unsatisfactory apparently in every detail. 
Trees are small, scrubby, crooked, dried 
up, badly packed and diseased. Some¬ 
times part of the order is shipped, and 
others complain that they can get no 
goods and no reply to letters. They may 
quote you low prices, but from the expe¬ 
rience of others you would better let them 
alone. 
Co-operation is a commendable prin¬ 
ciple, but of late the word has got into 
disrepute by the use made of it by fakers. 
Every rogue who wants to put up a big 
scheme to delude and defraud the people 
organizes some sort of a co-operative 
scheme, so much so that we have begun 
to look with suspicion on any concern that 
uses the term. The National Supply Com¬ 
pany of Lansing, Mich., is the latest to 
cause embarrrassment to its customers 
and members. This concern filed a trust 
mortgage last week to the Michigan Trust 
Company of Grand Rapids covering claims 
of nearly 500 creditors aggregating an 
amount of over $85,000. This company 
was organized 18 months ago. It sold 
stock throughout the State at $10 a share, 
and purchasers were to receive a five per 
cent reduction on all goods bought from 
the company’s store in Lansing. Every¬ 
thing went well, it is said, so long as peo¬ 
ple bought stock at $10 a share. This 
again demonstrates the follv of investing 
money in stocks of these concerns of 
which you can have no control after the 
money passes out of your hands. It was 
for these reasons that The R. N.-Y. per¬ 
sistently refused the advertising of this 
concern. It appeared in large space in 
practically all the other farm papers. 
These companies represent nothing but 
paper and every $10 contributed by a 
farmer is so much clear gain to the pro¬ 
moters. Sometimes they pay back a divi¬ 
dend in order to make a good impression 
and sell more stock. This dividend is not 
paid out of earnings of the company, but 
out of the money paid in by the stock¬ 
holders. Of course, when found out and 
prosecuted this is a criminal offense, but 
there is not much satisfaction in sending 
a rogue to prison after he has squandered 
your money. Besides, they are often 
smart enough to play the trick and avoid 
the law. The following item from Chi¬ 
cago refers to a case in point: 
.Tillius Kahn, president of the Cash Buy¬ 
ers’ Union, which failed several weeks ago, 
was indicted yesterday by the federal grand 
jury for using the mails to defraud. It is 
charged that he mailed checks purporting to 
he dividends to stockholders, when in reality 
the concern was losing money, and the “div¬ 
idends" wero paid out of the capital stock. 
Kahn was released on bonds of $5,000. 
We referred to this failure last week. 
The local companies of the Spencer 
Seedless Apple Company were organized 
in a way to permit the sale of part of the 
stock to farmers in small lots. In the 
case of the Maryland branch, the farmers 
were to be permitted to buy about one- 
fourth of the stock, amounting to $24,000. 
Perhaps the farm papers that are advertis¬ 
ing the company can show its farmer 
readers where they get the value of their 
money. We confess we have not been 
able to discover it. We make no predic¬ 
tions about the future of such companies. 
Experiences of the past can be the only 
guide. Of the past the records of the 
courts all over the country tell their own 
story of collapse and failure. 
The following note comes from an expe¬ 
rienced and successful gardener: 
I received The Farmer’s Garden. I have 
been a gardener for 18 years and must say 
the hook is full of good, sound, practical ad¬ 
vice to the beginner. The experienced garden¬ 
er can also find much valuable information 
for himself In it. w. s. c. 
Maryland. 
We could offer no stronger evidence of 
the merits of this little book. This is the 
evidence of a man who knows. There is 
yet time to get a copy. Send your re¬ 
newal to-day and the book will go back to 
you by next mail. The postage will be 
paid. __ 
TALK ABOUT POULTRY. 
Why Eggs Do Not Hatch. 
I have just finished my first hatch of eggs 
with an incubator. Result, six deformed 
chickens from more than 100 fertile eggs. 
After having given them up I broke 53 eggs, 
and more thau half, perhaps two-thirds of 
them, showed chick development ranging 
from a few days till hatching time, all dead 
but two. Only 13 of the 53 were fully de¬ 
veloped. The first! egg was pipped on time, 
but about 24 hours ahead of any other. In 
only one or two cases did the dead chick 
seem to be dried fast to the shell. Would 
severe chilling cause them to act as these 
did? We did some painting in adjoining 
rooms, but the odor of paint and turpentine 
became quite strong in the room where the 
incubator sat. What effect might this prob¬ 
ably have had? Was the trouble in the in¬ 
cubator, the eggs or the operator? e. F. H. 
Indiana. 
Why chicks die in the shell after developing 
clear up to full size and sometimes even pip¬ 
ping the shell, and why they stop growing 
and die in the shell when a half or two-thirds 
grown, very many poultrymen would like 
much to know. Exactly the same thing oc¬ 
curs under hens, though not to so great an ex¬ 
tent as in incubators. I do not profess to 
know the reason of it, but my opinion is 
that the condition of the laying stock that 
produced the eggs is the most important 
factor: and the life principle that we call 
“vitality,” is what is lacking. One doesn’t 
find the nests of quail or partridges in the 
woods with a half or more of the eggs un¬ 
hatched : usually they hatch every egg, and 
if hens did not lay more eggs than the wild 
birds do, probably every egg would hatch. 
Take a pullet that begins to lay in November 
and is fed every dainty and coaxed to lay by 
daily exercise, warm housing, abundant food, 
etc., until by the time eggs are wanted for 
hatching she has already produced more 
life germs than a wild bird would in 10 
years. Isn’t it reasonable to suppose that the 
vitality of the germs she then produces will 
be low, and many of the chicks “die in the 
shells?” In the case mentioned by C. F. H., 
I think the paint odor was very undesirable, 
but not likely to be the cause of his poor 
hatch, as the latter has happened very often 
this Spring where there was no paint odor 
to assign for a cause. Possibly eggs, incu¬ 
bator, and operator, all hadl a hand in the 
poor hatch. 
Color on White Wyandotfes. 
Are White Wyandotte chicks ever slate- 
colored around the head and on the back when 
hatched, and is it a sign of impure blood? 
D. J. H. 
Pure bred White Wyandottes are sometimes 
slate colored when first hatched, and one of 
the best known breeders of that variety as¬ 
sured me that “the slate colored chicks would 
make my whitest males.” I). .1. H. needn’t 
be disturbed or agitated about it; he will 
find as soon as the feathers begin to grow 
that they will be white enough. I remember 
getting a “dressing down” once from a cus¬ 
tomer to whom I bad sent some Rlaek Leg¬ 
horn eggs, because the chicks were half white 
when first hatched. lie thought he had been 
swindled until I wrote that, the chicks of all 
black fowls of every variety, were half white 
when first hatched. 
Balded-Headed Hens. 
I have a curiosity to know what makes 
some of my hens bald-headed? There are 29 
pullets, and half a dozen of them are bald on 
the head or nearly so. and on each wing a 
few feathers are either gone or broken off. 
There are others that have a few broken 
feathers. I see them peck each other on the 
head some, and the rooster seems to annoy 
them that way a good deal: but I never have 
seen any of them pull any feathers. Last 
Summer I borrowed some setting hens and 
raised 29 Rarred Plymouth Rock pullets. 
The eggs came from a flock where a full 
blood rooster has been kept for several years. 
They were hatched June 10 and July 1. 
They began laying November 15. The follow¬ 
ing is their record so far: November 25, 
25 eggs; December, 157 ; January, 395 ; Febru¬ 
ary. 400; 25 days in March. 430. Total 
1407. or 117 dozen. Average for February. 
14; March, 17. They have had charcoal 
grit, oyster shells and fresh water by them 
all the time. Steamed clover and milk to 
drink most of the time. Roth morning and 
noon I feed them three pints of grain in litter 
and at night three pints of ground feed in 
hot mash. Grain feed consists of cracked 
corn and oats, half and half by measure. 
Mash consists by measure of four parts corn- 
meal and two parts gluten, two parts oil 
meal, six parts bran. I do not think there is 
a sign of a mite or louse in the henhouse. 
w. R. R. 
I have four or five of my White Wyandottes 
that are bare on top of the head, and have 
read that it was a skin insect that caused 
it. and that an application of lard and kero 
sene well rubbed in would effect a cure. 
I have never cared enough about it to try the 
remedy. I have hens too who are bare more 
or less on the posterior parts, and I have 
known men who had a hare spot on their 
heads Fact is. I am getting that way quite 
perceptibly myself. geo. a. cosgrove. 
WORST CASE OF ECZEMA. 
Spread Rapidly Over Body—Limbs and 
Arms Had to Be Bandaged—Mar¬ 
velous Cure by Cnticura. 
“My son, who is now twenty-two years 
of age, when he was four months old be¬ 
gan to have eczema on his face, spreading 
quite rapidly until he was nearly covered. 
We had all the doctors around us, and 
some from larger places, but no one 
helped him a particle. The eczema was 
something terrible, and the doctors said it 
was the worst case they ever saw. At 
times his whole body and face were cov¬ 
ered, all but his feet. I had to bandage 
his limbs and arms; his scalp was just 
dreadful. A friend teased me to try Cuti- 
cura, and I began to use all three of the 
Cuticura Remedies. He was better in two 
months, and in six months he was well. 
Mrs. R. L. Risley, Piermont, N. H., Oct. 
24, 1905.” 
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need not Interfere in the i 
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$750 COCK 
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AMERICAN FANCIER 
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Box D.D., Jamesburg, N. J., U. S. A. 
SQUAB RAISING PAYS. 
New York City is the Best Market. 
We keep Squab breeders and poultry in same houses, 
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PINELAND 
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A printed five minute* talk sent 
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saving monthly expenses for 
whitewash, kerosening, insect 
powder, lico killers. 
Carbollncum Wood 
Preservlna Co., 
351 W. B’way, New York. 
POULTRY PROFITS 
Make money raising poultry with the 
Standard Cyphers Incubator. 
Guaranteed to hatch More and Healthier Chicks than 
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mention this journal and send name of two 
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THIS IS A FACT. 
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100# profit in eight months. Agents Wanted. 
WRIGHT EGG PRESERVATIVE 
16 Main Street Canandaigua, N. Y. 
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A BREAKFAST SET. 
This is a premium we have secured espe 
daily for the good women of The R. N.-Y. 
family. It is a Beauty, and we are able to 
give a great bargain in it 
It is a 31-piece breakfast set in Prince 
decoration, which is a beautiful pure gold bor¬ 
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of each piece. The flower is fixed perma¬ 
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pretty and popular. The set consists of six 
plates, six cups, six saucers, six butters, six 
oatmeal and one meat plate. 
\Ve will send this set by express safely 
packed to every woman reader who will send 
us a club of five new yearly subscribers, 
at $1 each. The new subscribers will get the 
remaining issues of this year free and a copy 
of “The Farmer’s Garden,” described above. 
Now, ladies, this is your opportunity. Get 
after your friends; you ought to have a set 
by Christmas. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NEW YORK. 
R egistered angora goats.—P airs or 
trios. REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAMS. 
Write for prices and information. 
MELROSE STOCK FARM, Cineinnatus, N. Y. 
fORNlSII INDIAN GAMES, N. Y. Prize Wln- 
^ ners. Eggs from prize winners, $1.50 per 15; Cat. 
w. c. VALENTINE, Huntington, R. F. D. 1, N. Y. 
L IGHT BRAHMAS— Prize stock. EGGS $1.00 
for 15. 0. GORDON, R. F. D. 1. Sprakers, N. Y. 
R HODE ISLAND REDS, White and Barred 
Rocks, Light Brahmas, White Wyandottes and 
Leghorns, hardy, prolific, farm bred, pure stock. 
For Birds (moderate prices) or “Eggs to Hatch” 
at 8c. each. Write WALTER SHERMAN, No. 
25 Boulevard, Newport, R. I. 
E GGS $1 per 15: $2 per 40, from thoroughbred Brah¬ 
mas, Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds, Leghorns; 12 va¬ 
rieties; catalogue. S. K. MOHR. Coopersburg, Pa. 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, m ^ i n e n t a ta ’ 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Prices reasonable. 
R ose comb brown leghorn eggs 
for hatching that will produce beauties and layers 
$1 per 15; $4 per 100. I. C. Hawkins, Chester, N. Y. 
S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS 
Hens. Have been breeding Brown Leghorns for 
fourteen years. Eggs, $1 per 15, or $-1 per 100. .J. A. 
BUSH, R. F. D, No. 10, Lockport, Niagara Co. N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5. Eggs 
for hatching, $1.00 per 15; $5.00 per 100. Catalogue 
free. C. H. ZIMMER, R. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Eggs for hatching from 500 choice mature birds, bred 
and selected for vigor and egg production. Send for 
our circularandprices. White &Rice, Yorktown,N.Y. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
STONE RIDGE, 
NEW YORK. 
W. Plymouth Rocksl^Lr™^ 0 /.^: 
White Holland TURKEYS 
EGGS from 
Pens headed 
by 1st Prize 
WINNERS. 
Improved Early Canada (90 day) Seed Corn, 50 ears $1. 
Maple Villa Poultry Yards—Eggs and stock guaran¬ 
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Wyandottes, Rocks, Anconas. W.u.MOSHEH, Sylvauin, Pa. 
BUFF, White Leghorns, Eggs75c per 15: $1.25 per 30. 
$2 per 60. Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm Hyenas 
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 
White Leghorns, White, Barred Rocks, White Wyan¬ 
dottes and Pekin Ducks. Eggs from all varieties chick¬ 
ens balance of hatching season at $1 per 13 or $5 per 
100. Mated pens of Single Comb White Leghorns, 
9 hens 1 cockerel, $15 up to October 1st. Hundreds 
laying pullets ready in July. Strictly high class stock. 
Winners of four ribbons last Madison Square Garden 
Show, and 21 ribbons last Poughkeepsie Show. 
Exhibition and fine breeding stock for sale at all 
times. White Pekin Duck Eggs $7 per 100, $1 25 for 12. 
SPECIAL 
L. 
R. C. W. LEGHORNS. W. 
P. ROCKS. EGGS 5c. EACH. 
STOCK FOR SALE. 
C. HILLS, Delaware, O. 
UTILITY! 
ring ability flrst.standard require- 
nts second. LARGEST POULTRY 
ANT IN AMERICA. S.C. White 
-horns. White Wyandottes, Barred 
mouth Rocks. Free Booklet. 
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