1906 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
841 
PUBLISHERS DESK. 
This letter comes from a New England 
reader: 
Reeeullv I received au offer from tlie 
(lardeu Nursery, Osage, la., a concern 
utterly unknown to me, and unsolicited, 
.in offer of 305 plants to be grown by me 
for advertising purposes, i to send them 
the small sum of $10 for expenses. Later 
[ received a “hurry tip’’ card promising to 
throw in an extra chestnut tree. I don’t 
know how they got my name, nor how 
they learned I had the best possible place 
to show up their goods. Can you tell me 
about them? 
We only know that other subscribers 
in other parts of the country have sent 
similar inquiries about the same propo¬ 
sition from this house. Whatever the 
plants may be, good or bad, they evidently 
are willing to sell the lot for $10. The 
advertising feature is not a very tangible 
consideration, and no firm could or would 
send out stock for such a purpose unless 
the remittance for them would cover the 
value of the goods. We would never 
think the second time of such a propo¬ 
sition. By all means, buy nursery stock 
from houses that you know to be reliable. 
Here is another inquiry: 
Please allow mo to ask your opinion of 
the Kansas City Co-operative Refining 
Company. I enclose advertisement cut 
from - Magazine, the editor of which 
claims that no fraudulent ads. appear 
In its columns, and promises to make good 
any loss sustained by persons dealing with 
his advertisers. 1 know there is more money 
made in refining oil than in producing it. 
and I was tempted to take some stock in 
It. 1 admire your way of showing up frauds, 
and feel safe in asking your opinion of this 
Investment. w. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The advertisement referred to is an 
offer to sell stock in a proposed oil re¬ 
fining concern. The par value of the 
stock is $1; you can buy it for 10 cents 
a share, if you do it quick, and pay for tt 
in installments if you cannot pay all down 
at once. It does not tell how much stock 
there is ready to be sold at 10 cents on 
the dollar, but as printing is cheap no. 
doubt there is enough to go around. 
There is no business yet, no plant run¬ 
ning. but one is promised, and the profit 
of 600 per cent is carefully figured out. 
Our modest opinion is that you would 
better buy a rubber ball for the baby with 
your 10 cents rather than invest it in any 
co-operative stock at 10 cents on the dol¬ 
lar. 
The biggest fake advertiser that we 
have yet known, however, seems to us 
respectable in comparison with the editor 
or publisher that induces readers to invest 
in shady schemes, under the promise of 
making good loss to the reader. Such 
papers of course have no intention of do¬ 
ing anything of the kind. Not one reader 
in a hundred is a subscriber of such 
papers. They are sent out free. They 
care nothing for the reader. They get 
their revenue from the advertiser, and 
simply co-operate with him to humbug 
the reader. The papers guarantee is sim¬ 
ply a part of the scheme to allay sus¬ 
picion, and is on that account the meanest 
part of the whole trick. 
Here is another inquiry: 
I had $200 invested in Cash Buyers’ Union 
of Chicago. The company which has bought 
it out offers to give a $10 share in the ' 
new organization for each old $10 share, 
and $2.50 in cash. Will you kindly tell me 
what you think of the new company? It 
will cost me $50 more to try to save what 
I put in before, and I may lose this too. 
As I am poor it means a good deal to me. 
I would like your advice. I find you are 
generally right. n. e. 
New York. 
It will be remembered that the Cash 
Buyers’ Union got more than a million 
dollars from farmers for their paper stock 
and then failed. The receiver has now 
sold part of the goods. What is left is 
practically unmarketable. There really is 
no new organization. But the old scheme 
of selling stock to farmers worked so 
well it seems the plan is to be repeated 
with the extra leverage of holding out an 
inducement to save part of what is already 
in by putting in some more. The old 
stock is worthless. No one would give 
anything for it, so that the old share¬ 
holders may as well consider their money 
lost. The question then is whether or not 
they want to try the same thing over 
again with more money. Some one seems 
willing to print a million shares of stock 
provided farmers will pay $2,500,000 for 
them. Who wouldn’t ? 
The Thanksgiving number of The R. 
N.-Y. will appear the week after next. If 
you send any 10 weeks for 10 cents trial 
orders before November 17 they will get 
this handsome number. Can’t you send 
one or more? 
We yet have places for a few steady, 
reliable men to represent The R. N.-Y. 
Application should be made promptly to 
this office. 
Unpolished Rice. —We recently gave some 
facts about polished rice. Readers ask where 
the unpolished grain can be obtained. The 
Gueydan Rice Mills write us: “There is uo 
regular demand for rice in the unpolished 
state. The American public have been edu¬ 
cated to a very high style finish on their 
rice, and as a result, whenever a mill makes 
an offering of any rice which is not hand¬ 
somely finished, it is difficult to place it 
among the jobbing trade. We occasionally 
receive inquiries in relation to unpolished 
rice, but it would not pay us to keep any 
supply of the article on hand." 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
'HE AWL- 
FOR ALL, 
GROOVED NEEDLE 
DIAMOND POINT 
MYERS LOCK STITCH 
SEWING AWL 
Always ready for action. Sews with lock 
stiten same as sewing machine. Repairs 
shoes, fur coats, harness, carpets, canvas, 
gloves, saddles or mittens. Everybody 
needs it, everybody buys it; costs only $1.50 
prepaid. Grand inducement for agents 
East of Mississippi River. One Agent sold 
$200 worth in 4 days. Write for booklet A 4 
C. A. Myers Co., 4941 Vincennes Ave., Chicago 
WE ARE BUILDERS 
OF A 
“LOW- 
DOWN” 
MILK 
WAGON 
i which has a 
“HIGH UP” REPUTATION 
for strength and durability. Write for our Catalogue. 
PARSONS “LOW-DOWN" W AGON WORKS, Earlville, N.Y. 
rest Main St., 
» Rurhcllt-, V ¥. 
Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm, S 
hSt”,? Single and Rose Comb White Leg- 
hnm L’hickens and Mammoth Pekin Ducks, winners 
IIUIII of 38 ribbons at Madison Square < tarden, Pough¬ 
keepsie and Danbury Shows season 190*5. offer special 
bargain prices of mated pens. 10 yearling hens and 
ono selected cockerel of a tine strain, Single or Rose 
Comb White Leghorns. $15. fine thousand laying 
pullets now ready. $1.50 to $3 each. • Five hundred 
totiriach 5 Two Thousand Choice Pekin Ducks 
for breeding. $1 to$2 each. Largest plant in the vicinity 
of New York City. Incubators, 10,000 eggs capacity. 
EMPIRE STATE S. G. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Cockerels and 
Pullets, five months old, $1.00 each. Catalogue free. 
O. H. ZIMMER. R. I). 41. Weedsport, N.Y. 
Four Years of Agony. 
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh-Had 
to Use Crutches— “ Cuticura Remedies 
Best on Barth.” 
"In the year 1899 the side of my right 
foot was cut off from the little toe down 
to the heel, and the physician who had 
charge of me was trying to sew up the 
side of my foot, but with no success. At 
last my whole foot and way up above my 
calf was nothing but proud flesh. I suf¬ 
fered untold agonies for four years, and 
tried different physicians and all kinds of 
ointments. I could walk only with 
crutches. In two weeks afterwards I saw 
a change in my limb. Then I began using 
Cuticura Soap and Ointment often during 
the day, and kept it up for seven months, 
when my limb was healed up just the 
same as if I never had trouble. It is 
eight months now since I stopped using 
Cuticura Remedies, the best on God’s 
earth. I am working at the present day, 
after five years of suffering. The cost of 
Cuticura Ointment and Soap was only $6, 
but the doctors’ bills were more like $600. 
John M. Lloyd, 718 S. Arch Ave., Alli¬ 
ance, Ohio, June 27, 1905." 
B ARRED ROCKS and S. C. Brown Leghorns, 
our Famous Egg-producing strains; Pullets lay 
at 131 days. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
jyi API.K VIl.I.A POl l,TRY YARDS . nn till or.lers from all vari- 
etles, .Andalusian*, Rocks. Wyandotte*, Minorca*, I*>Khnrns, 
Hamburg*, Spanish, Ancona*, Java*. AV. G. Mosher,Sylvania,Pa. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
W. Plymouth Rocks and W. Holland Turkeys 
* 1 i ■ — . - ■ 
OSK COMB Brown Leghorn Cockerels. Beststrain. 
Price reasonable. I. C. Hawkins, Bullville, N. Y. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS. Partridge and 
White Wyandottes. Fine stock from best strains. 
Return privilege. Cockerels and Pullets $2 to $25 
each. SIX'*3LAIR SMITH. 0025th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
NEW LAID EGGS 
Wanted for retail trade. Top cash price for strict!/ 
fresh stock. , C. H. SPENCER, Phenix, R. I. 
DC If 111 nilPKS Now is the time to get your Fall 
r L. IV 111 UUAllAd show birds from yards contain¬ 
ing First Prize pair at N. Y. State Fair. 1905, also 
many other winners. Let us know vour wants, $1.00 
to $3.00 each. WALTER McBWAN, Lauder¬ 
dale Farm, Loudonville, Albany Co., N. Y, 
SINGLE COMB BUFF ORPINGTON, 
Rose Comb R. I. Red, Buff Wyandotte, Barred Rock 
Cockerels and a feAV pullets for sale. Illustrated 
descriptive circular free. A. H. KANAGY. Milroy. Pa. 
WRIGHT’S WHITE WYANDOTTE 
Cockerels, Duston strain direct, $1.50 each. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
For Sale, VERY FINE W. HOLLAND TURKEYS 
Holstein Bull Calf from finely bred A. R. O. stock. 
MARY H. SPINK, Rodman, N. Y. 
EARLY CHICKS PAY BIG 
Hatched in January, Feb¬ 
ruary and March, they make 
big profits. Hatch them In a 
BANTA INCUBATOR 
Heat uniform, case tight, 
ventilation gives strong 
chicks, regulator reliable. Ten 
minutes work daily. Neweata- 
log free. Banta-Bendcr llllfg. Co Oept. 46.Llgonler.lnd. 
Guarantee 
Protects you 
R 
’ Send for free I 
Catalogue- 
Hatch Chickens by 
Steam with the 
EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR 
Or WOODEN HEN 
Simple, perfect, self-regulating. 
Hatch every fertile egg. Lowest 
priced firet-class hatchers made. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Quincy, III. 
Poultry Supplies 
_ L We keep everything 
<X/,W' \VASr~% in the Poultry Line 
1 —Fencing, Feed, In- 
1 “ ^ * cubators, Live Stock, 
. . Brooders—anything— 
it’s our business. Call or let us send 
you our Illustrated Catalog it’s free. 
Excelsior Wire & Poultry Supply Co.. 
Dept. HG, 28-23 Vesey Stf, New York. 
R YBRED, BUFF AND WHITE PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS, White Wyandottes, White Minorcas, 
White Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks; $3.00 each, 
tT.$12.00 f or breeding pen. Catalogue free, 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, Proprietor East Donegal 
Poultry Yards, Marietta. Pennsylvania. 
90 
Jars Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs. Cats, 
Ferrets, etc Eggs a specialty. 60p. book. 10e. 
Rates free. J.A.BERGEY, Box 8, Telford. Pa. 
• COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
“eight mos. Circ. .SILAS DECKER. Montrose. Pa. 
15,000 FERRETS. Perfect woi.kers. 
These animals exterminate rats, hunt 
rabbits. 48-page illus. hook 6c. Cir. price 
list free. 8. Farnsworth, Middktoen, Ohio. 
CCRDCTC Raised in small lots are strong an.: 
I tnilklO healthy. Warranted good rat and 
rabbit limiters. Descriptive circular and price list 
free. Shady Lawn Ferret Farm, New London, Ohio. 
For Sale, Fox and Rabbit Hounds 
Choice Puppies, now ready to ship, $5.00 each. 
Melvin Thomas, R.F. D.,Wayville, Saratoga Co, N.Y. 
ffiSV" FERRET S FOR SALE. Rat Hunters. 
Prices Right. Send for free book. 
C. M. SACKETT, New London, Ohio. 
©PORTING DOGS. Cattle, Sheep’ 
** Swine, Pigeons, Ferrets and 
Rabbits. Ten cents Fifty-six page 
illustrated catalogue. C, G. Uoydt, 
Dept. K, Sayre, Pa. 
Large English Berkshire Pigs. Female Collie 
Puppies. B. Rock and Buff Orpington Chickens. Prices 
right, stock as represented, w, a. father*, Peru Lack, Pa. 
Registered Angora Goats, Ramhouillet sheep 
Holstein cattle. .1. EVVanGelder, Hammopdsport.N.Y 
“EN VA RI FTIES. Chickens, Ducks and Turkeys 
sat. guar.: cat. fr. W. Raby & Son. Millersburg, O 
You Can Get More Eggs 
And Save Feed Bills. 
Q.REEN BONE fed raw gives fowls value of grain: is rich in protein and 
the food they need to take the other elements that make more eggs, 
place of bugs and worms It has fertile eggs, livelier chicks, earlier 
more than four times the egg making broilers, heavier fowls. Cut it with 
MANN’S 
Latest 
Model 
Bone Cutter 
Turns easily; cuts rapidly; never clogs: automatically adjusts itself to any one’s 
strength. Cuts all bone with all adhering meat and gristle. 
Ten Davs Free Trial Weas,c no money until yon try the machine. Knot satis- 
J ficd, return at our expense. Write for catalogue. 
F. W. MANN CO„ Box 15. Mlllord, Mass. 
Beef Making As a Business 
Beef is made very much like any manufactured article. The internal organs of 
the steer represent the machine and the feed is the raw material. To grow beef the 
raw material or feed must contain every element of the animal body—but by com¬ 
bining the different grains, fodders, etc. commonly raised on the farm, a perfect 
ration can be formed—after obtaining the proper ration your ingenuity should be 
exerted to see that this ration is properly digested and converted into profit. 
D B HESS STOCK F®&D 
the prescription of Dr. Hess (M.D., D.V.S.) was designed for this particular purpose. 
Dr. Hess being a doctor of medicine and also veterinary surgery learned from his 
experience in the practice as well as from such authorities as Professors Winslow, 
Dun, Quitman and all the most noted writers that bitter tonics would increase 
digestion, iron would make rich, red blood, and that nitrates of soda and 
potassium would assist nature in throwing off' the poisonous waste material 
from the system. These ingredients he combined with nature’s roots, 
herbs, barks, seeds, etc. and this formula has become so successfully famous 
that every pound is Sold on a Written Quarantee. 
100 lbs. $5.00 \ 
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Except In Canada 
and extreme 
Test and South. 
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25 lb. pail $1.60 
Smaller quantities at a slight advance. 
Where Dr. Hess Stock Food differs in particular is in the dose—it’s small and fed but 
twice a day, which proves it has the most digestive strength to the pound. Our 
'’overnment recognizes Dr. Hess Stock Food as a medicinal tonic and this paper is back 
‘ the Guarantee. 
Free from thelst to 10th of each month.—Dr. Hess (M. D., P. V. S.) will pre¬ 
scribe for your ailing animals. You can have his 96 page 
- Veterinary Book free any time for the asking. Mention 
this paper. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, 
Ashland, Ohio. 
Also manufacturers of Dr. Hess Poultry 
Pan-a-ce-a and Instant Louse Killer. 
Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. 
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