1907. 
549 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
A GOOD PROPOSITION. 
I have a beautiful, fast trotter, lon^ inane 
and tail; sound, safe, reliable; drives without 
blinds; cost $930; also Stillings Harness. 
Brewster Runabout, Robes, Whip, etc.; all 
cost over $1,400; I want to borrow $350 until 
October 1 ; will turn over above as security 
and the use of same until that time for use 
of the money, but understand, do not desire 
to sell. 
I read the above advertisement in one 
of the Sunday city papers, and went 
around to the address given to satisfy 
myself that it afforded an opportunity to 
buy an outfit at a high price. The trotter 
was a broken-down, generally stove-up 
and lame road horse, a cheap factory run¬ 
about, with harness, etc., to match. 1 lie 
whole outfit would hardly bring $125. No 
man could get such an advertisement in 
The R. N.-Y. at any price. The paper 
in which it appeared is generally credited 
with making a net profit of a million dol¬ 
lars a year. 
Can you tell me anything about the New 
Jersey Mineral Company, Suit 24-5-0-7, Mills 
Building, 35 Wall street. New York? They 
are sending out a book “How Fortunes Are 
Made.” which shows how $12.50 invested now 
should be worth $200 in three years. I en¬ 
close book called “Evidence.” J. R. D. 
Louisiana. 
The booklet has all the earmarks of 
the Ostrander products, but it does not 
bear his name. There is not a word in 
it to show the assets and liabilities of the 
company. The best evidence that these 
people do not believe what they want you 
to believe is that they are willing to sell 
you the stock. If they had any good rea¬ 
son to believe that a $12.50 investment 
would be worth $200 in three years, or in 
10 years, they would keep it themselves. 
The book called “Evidence” contains all 
the evidence we want to advise you to 
leave it alone. 
I have been faking note of the good caro 
you are taking of vour subscribers and wish 
to know about the Bioplasm Company, 100 
William street, New York City. I am suffer¬ 
ing from locomotor ataxia; they have a 
remedy. I would like to know if they are 
reliable and if you can tell me anything in 
regard to their medicines. c. a. e. 
New York. 
These people can do nothing for this 
man’s trouble. Firms that put up stock 
prescriptions for chronic and incurable 
diseases have no magic power- Any phy¬ 
sician will probably give you practically 
the same thing, except that being an ob¬ 
server of the symptoms he is in a posi¬ 
tion to serve you better and in the long 
run he is sure to be cheaper. 
Our city friends would have us believe 
that the “come-ons” from the farms are 
the only really good things for city sharp¬ 
ers. In common with others I used to 
think this was true, but it did not take me 
long in a big city to find my mistake. Oc¬ 
casionally a countryman is swindled by one 
trick or another. In rare cases this coun¬ 
tryman happens to be a farmer. We hear 
all about it, but these swindlers and bunco 
games arc going on every day in the large 
cities and no one hears anything about it. 
In the country such experiences are 
spread for miles around and usually get 
into the papers. In the city the news of 
a swindle would hardly get to the flat 
across the hall. It is only the great big 
cases that attract city attention. We have 
a recent case in point. D. C. Davis, a 
millionaire and bank director of 1’itts- 
burg. Pa., learned through a couple of 
chance acquaintances that an employee in 
a New York gambling house had a griev¬ 
ance against the proprietor of the house, 
and through this employee Mr. Davis 
could satisfy this grievance and win $100,- 
000 for himself. All that was wanted 
was $25,000 to start the game. Mr. Davis 
put up the cash and lost, through a mis¬ 
take of the employee, it was explained. So 
Mr. Davis went in with $25,000 to get 
back the first and the extra $200,000 which 
was promised this time, but another error 
occurred, and Mr. Davis found it neces¬ 
sary to hire a special train to go to his 
bank in Ohio to get $20,000 and hurry 
back to recover his losses and capture 
the bonus. When this was staked and 
lost without a suspicion on the part of 
Mx. Davis that lie was being swindled, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
one of his gentlemanly chance acquaint¬ 
ances felt that the game had been worked 
far enough, and told him the cards were 
fixed. His total loss was $70,000. These 
“bracers” would not catch the average 
hard-headed farmer in a game of this 
kind; he is too conservative and too hon¬ 
est. The farmer is not used to making 
strikes. He works for what he gets. He 
is not looking for snaps as a rule. It is 
the desire to get something for nothing 
that enable these rogues to work their 
game. They stimulate the instincts of cu¬ 
pidity and avarice, and then con-.-ert them 
to their own purposes. When a man in¬ 
vites you into a game to “do” the other 
fellow, you may feel pretty certain he 
only wants the opportunity to "do” you. 
The Bensonizer Sanitarium Co., St. Louis, 
Mo., claims to cure catarrh by a method of 
inhalation, termed the Bensonizer. I have 
had catarrh for a number of years, and 
would like to get well. I have tried a great 
many remedies, but all have failed. Their 
system looks reasonable. If this company is 
reliable and can cure Catarrh I would be glad 
for you to inform me so. c. w. H. 
Indiana. 
This is a new concern to us. We do 
not find any financial rating for it. The 
treatment is one of spraying with an ato¬ 
mizer and would -probably relieve the 
symptoms of catarrh somewhat; but it is 
dangerous to attempt the treatment of 
the delicate organs of the inside of the 
head except at the advice of a competent 
physician. These foreign treatments usu¬ 
ally prove expensive and seldom if ever 
give the promised relief. Our advice 
would be to let them alone. For the most 
part they are designed to make money out 
of the misfortunes of the people. 
Enclosed you will find a money order for 
$2, for which please give me credit and 
apply same on payment of your new press. 
I appreciate the honest and straightforward 
way you conduct your paper, and especially 
your advertising department. I think there 
should he a Federal censorship on the adver¬ 
tising that is being circulated, especially in 
farm papers. K - A - L - 
West Virginia. 
This is the way many of our people are 
showing their interest in the new press. 
It is the best evidence in the world of the 
indorsement of the paper. In theory we 
now have a sort of Federal censorship of 
the press. The postal authorities have the 
right to deny the use of the mails to any 
paper or other mail matter which carry 
dishonest or swindling propositions. The 
only trouble is that the right is not exer¬ 
cised. In fact, it is difficult at times to 
detect many of these swindles until after 
the damage is done. After all, farmers 
have the matter in their own hands. Re¬ 
fuse to take a paper or to allow one to 
come into the house gratis, if it carries 
dishonest advertisements or publishes fake 
schemes of any kind, and you will soon 
cure the evil as far as the farm papers 
go. As it is now, few of the legitimate 
farm papers accept fake advertising; but 
some papers published by city-bred men 
under farm titles are themselves, if pos¬ 
sible, bigger fakes than the worst adver¬ 
tisement they carry, and this is saying a 
great deal. These are the publishers, too, 
who are loudest in their protestations of 
friendship for the farmer and who ad¬ 
dress their readers in terms of affection 
planation in April last. He acknowledged 
having received the money, but refused to 
return it, alleging he did not know who 
was authorized to receive it. It apparent¬ 
ly never' occurred to him to return it to 
the man who sent it. But to relieve him 
of the embarrassment we requested him 
to return it through us, and we guaran¬ 
teed to protect him fully. We repeated 
this request, but he now neglects to reply 
to our letters. He has the $1.50 on his 
own admission and it seems to be his pur¬ 
pose to keep it. In our search of records, 
we find that we refused an order to run 
his advertising some time back, but we 
had no positive records against him at 
that time—only a suspicion. We occa¬ 
sionally run across a faker, a dead beat 
or a sordid rogue. Mr. Rutland may not 
belong to any of these classes. We hope 
he does not, but he has money in his 
possession which belongs to Mr. Palmer, 
and he seems to insist on keeping it. 
Some time ago I saw an “ad.” in your 
paper of wire for sale by Case Bros., Col¬ 
chester, Conn. I sent them an order on 
February 21, 1907, for ten dollars, and have 
not heard from them. I don’t see their 
“ad.” in the paper any more. I would like 
to know the reason why you quit advertising 
them. r. j. f. 
Indiana. 
We ran this advertising about two 
years ago. They were representing good 
houses, and their standing and references 
were satisfactory. That was about two ; 
years ago, and we had no occasion to 
look them up since until we began to 
get complaints during the last couple of 
months; we then asked them to explain 
why they took people’s money and neg¬ 
lected to send the goods. At first they 
made no reply but when we insisted they 
explained that they had met with recent 
losses which embarrassed them financial¬ 
ly, also that they had had trouble to get 
orders filled at the mills. They showed 
us receipts for orders that they had filled 
out and assured us they would fill all 
orders. That was all well enough in a 
way, but our subscribers had sent their 
moncy, they were waiting for the wire 
to build their fences, and we insisted that 
the wire must be shipped at once or the 
money promptly refunded. They have 
done neither of these things, and after 
repeated warnings we can only in justice 
to other readers express this word of 
caution._j. j. p. 
The Counsel for the Defense: “I 
uphold that a tomato, however well aimed, 
could not have caused such a black eye.” 
The Plaintiff: ‘But it were in a tin, yer 
honor.”—London Sketch. 
When you write advertisers mention Tiie 
R. N.-Y. and ‘you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page S. 
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One gallon used on a dairy of cows in Fly 
time will go farther than one ton of feed in 
producing milk or flesh. Rough-on-Flies 
kills Flies or any other Vermin. 
Its equal has never been known. 
EUREKA MOWER COMPANY 
Utica, N. Y. 
HATCH CHICKSTHATLIVE 
Quality in Incubators makes the difler- 
ence between Profit and Loss. Begin¬ 
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CYPHERS INCUBATORS 
They write their experiences in our 200- 
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Poultry & Incubators.” It's free. Write. 
Cyphers incubator Co. Buffalo, New York, 
Boston, Chicago, Kansas City and Oakland, Cal. 
SQUAB BREEDING HOMERS 
No.1 Mated Homers, 
in large or small lots: birds in prime working con¬ 
dition: write ns for prices. Send 100 in stamps for 
our book, it tells how to raise and market Squabs. 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM Morton, Pa. 
FIRST-CLASS 
MATED 
HOMER PIGEONS S 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Win. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
NO BETTER STOCK. NO BETTER EGGS. 
February chicks for early shows. All stock sold on 
approval. Sinclair Smith, Box 153, Soutkold, Suffolk Co., N. Y, 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM «»«.*• 
W. Plymouth Rocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
WHITF WYANDOTTE BABY CHICKS, 10 
If 11! I L cents each. Eggs for Hatching. $4 per 
100. FOREST HILL FARM, Burnwood, New York. 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue C. 
MAPLEL1NG POULTRY YARDS, Pulaski, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
for hatching, $1 for 15: $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. H. ZIMMER. U. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
BANNER LICE AND 
VERMIN POWDER 
A cheap, effective dis¬ 
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i in powder form to bo 
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harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
3lbs. 50c. 6 '4 lbs.$1.00. (f. o. b.N. Y. City) 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., 
Dept. HG 26-28 Vesey St., New York City. 
BONNIE BRAE Breeders of strictly high 
rxyN.,. ClHSS klUglO ailll K(>S6 COIRD 
POULTRY FARM White Leghorns, White 
.. ,, Wyandottes, White and 
NfiW Rochelle, N. Y. Barred Plymouth Rocks 
and Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
live ribbons and two silver cups won at the last 
Poughkeepsie, Danbury, Walden and Madison Square 
Garden Shows. Mated pens of five matureu pullets 
and one line bred cockerel, $15, Leghorns, Yearling 
breeders in pens of ten selected hens and one line 
bred cockerel, $15. Choice Pekin Ducks, $12 per pen 
of six. Largest plant in the vicinity of New York City. 
Incubators, 10,000 eggs, capacity. Agents, Cyphers’ 
Incubators and Brooders, 
and endearment. The sentiment seems 
really overpowering whenever they have 
a specially hot chestnut for the beloved 
farmer to pick out of the fire. If a man 
is born a faker it is hard to suppress him, 
but one can leave his schemes alone. 
Mr. E. F. Rutland, proprietor of the 
Crystal Spring Farm, Westboro, Mass., 
seems to belong to that class of proprie¬ 
tors who believes he owes no responsi¬ 
bility to a customer after he has that cus¬ 
tomers money in his pocket. Mr. Wm. R. 
Palmer, Jewett City, Conn., sent him 
$1.50 for a Muscovy drake months ago, 
but has never been able to get either the 
drake or the money returned. After ap¬ 
parently exhausting every other means, 
Mr. Palmer wrote The R. N.-Y. about it 
and we asked Mr. Rutland for an ex¬ 
Profit Earners for Poultrymen 
Only Healthy fowls Pay; Sick fowls mean Loss. 
RUST’S Havens Climax Powder 
cures sick fowls and keeps well fowls healthy. The only 
reliable cure for chicken-cholera, turkey-cholera, gapes 
etc. Five sizes, 25c. 50c, $1.00 etc. at dealers. 
RUST’S Lice-Killing Powder 
destroys and keeps away vermin. Does not affect eggs. 
Prices: 5 oz. box 10c; 16 oz. box 25c; 48 oz. box 50c; 112 oz. 
box $1.00 at dealers. Booklet and egg-reconl free. Wm. 
Rust <& Sons, Est. 1854. Dept. P.New Brunswick, N. J. 
Awntft 
WOODLANDS FARM 
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We will hold our Third Annual Sale of S. C. W. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes and B 
Hocks, beginning May 1st. Woodlands Farm, the largest Poultry Plant in America, now lias on 
6,000 LAYERS 
Oue Half of those, largely Leghorns, will be offered in this Sale, at about one-half their actual 
value, as we hatched an unusually large number of chicks this season and must make room for them. 
This is an opportunity never before offered the public to secure strictly high class foundation stock] 
at moderate prices: bred for eggs by trap nest system, 835 trap .nests being in uso. Prices: Females, 
$1.50 to $2,00 each; Males, $23.00 to $5.00. 
EGGS FOR 
HATCHING 
LEE T. HALLOCK, 
I*or 13. 
orns, $2.00 
2.50 
2.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
Proprietor, - 
:> f Single Comb White Eeghc 
> 1 White Wyandottes, 
J l Barred Plymouth Rocks, 
Per 100. 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
IV r 1,000. 
$ 00.00 
80.00 
00.00 
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