1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
58i 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. separator. They do not give satisfaction. 
This dispatch comes from St. Louis, 
Mo.: 
Two indictments were returned in the Fed¬ 
eral court, St. Louis, Mo., July 8, against 
E. G. Lewis, president of the Lewis Publish¬ 
ing Company, and Frank V. Putnam, formerly 
cashier of the defunct People's United Slates 
Bank, now treasurer of the Lewis Publishing 
Company. It is charged (hat Lewis and 
Putnam induced the stockholders of the bank 
to trade $1,500,000 worth of stock in the 
bank for stock of the Lewis Publishing Com¬ 
pany which had been inflated. These new 
indictments are more serious in that they 
charge $1,500,000 of the stockholders’ money 
was put into the Lewis Pub’ish’ng Company, 
and that the stockholders practically receive 
nothing from it Four indictments have been 
returned against Lewis, charging that he con¬ 
ducted a scheme to defraud when the bank 
was staried by means of literature sent 
through the mails Another indictment 
charges Lewis et al. with mailing more copies 
of the Lewis publications than they were en¬ 
titled to. 
The information may be of timely ser¬ 
vice to farmers to whom constant and 
frantic appeals are being made to invest 
in inflated paper values of publishing con¬ 
cerns. After the failures there are al¬ 
ways abundant and plausible explanations, 
but the cold, hard fact always remains 
that the investor has lost part or all of 
his money. The appeals are always made 
in your interest and usually on the plan 
of co-operative advantages, but from the 
520 per cent Miller syndicate, down or 
up, just as you wish to call it, the object 
is to get the real value of your money for 
selfish purposes through paper securities 
that would not be accepted in financial 
transactions generally, and to return you 
as little of it as possible—the rule being 
that you never get any of it returned. 
I am troubled quite seriously with heart 
disease: have sick dizzy spells most of the 
time : frequently fall and am unconscious for 
a short time, but gradually revive. Every¬ 
thing seems to be rushing around me in a 
circle with wonderful rapidity, gradually 
slower and slower until the spell leaves me. 
Usually I fall without a moment's warning; 
T feel half sick practically all the time. 
Find circular inclosed: this Dr. Milos proposes 
to treat me and says he can cure me in a 
few weeks; charges about $5 per week. My 
home physicians are giving me but little if 
any relief. I do not feel safe to go outside 
of the house, especially in warm or hot 
weather. My hearing is bad and gradually 
growing worse; terrible roaring, ringing 
sound. Dr. Miles does not propose to treat 
my hearing, but for the other trouble, heart 
disease and dizziness. Can you inform me is - 
this Dr. Miles responsible or a quack? My 
home doctors say don’t: trust him, but they 
are getting my money and don't give any per¬ 
manent relief.. g. w. it. 
About every advertising doctor has 
turned out to be a fraud claiming more 
than he can possibly perform. Testimo¬ 
nials even with weighty and apparently 
reputable names are easily procured. Pa¬ 
tients may be encouraged and deluded by 
apparent good results in early treatment 
that is not borne out by after results. 
At the best these advertising doctors only 
exploit the chance successes that come 
to all. They never advertise their nu¬ 
merous failures and discouragements and 
are keen to get money from their custom¬ 
ers, practically in advance. It is not easy 
to make them disgorge if a cure is not 
made. This man will likely do just as 
you claim your home physicians do— 
take your money and let you take the 
chances. You would better seek out the 
nearest reputable doctor who will take 
your case and treat it according to the 
symptoms that come under his personal 
observation. He may not cure you per¬ 
manently but he will probably do all that 
medical skill can do. We are prone to 
try quacks because they promise more 
than an honest doctor will. They do not 
expect to make good. Usually they know 
they cannot but the promises bring the 
remittances and that is what they are 
after. 
Would you inform me whether you know 
anything of the People’s Supply Company of 
Kansas City, Mo.; also if their cream sepa¬ 
rator will do good work? f. h. 
Canada. 
These people do not make a separator. 
They make a tin can in which to hold 
milk until the cream rises. If the can 
be surrounded with cold running water 
or ice water practically all of the cream 
will be separated from the milk, but not 
so completely as by a centrifugal sepa¬ 
rator. It is no doubt the perfect separa¬ 
tion of the centrifugal separator that in¬ 
duced these people to call their tin can a 
It is more difficult to surround them 
with ice than the ordinary narrow can 
used in creamery vats, which cost much 
less and arc easier to handle. It would 
be folly to use them without ice or cold 
running water. This form of implement 
is usually misrepresented by the makers. 
I want to add my experience to yours in 
regard to Ferd Sudow of Poughkeepsie, N, Y. 
Last Winter I sent him a dollar for his book, 
'‘Pheasant’s Standard.” I got a lot of loose 
leaves and a sort of a catalogue, bill no book. 
I wrote several times about the book, lie 
finally said it had been sent and lost in the 
mail, hut if I would send 20 cents he would 
seed another. This I refused to do and have 
my experience for my dollar and my postage 
on letters. l. w. d. 
Indiana. 
The above is another experience re¬ 
peated. We never call attention to the 
conduct of one of these concerns without 
learning later that others have had similar 
experiences. 
You will remember that a young farmer 
who had saved up a few hundred dollars 
wrote us last year asking if he could 
safely invest his money in Uncle Sam 
Oil Company stock at 10 cents on the 
dollar. Wo told him no, which made the 
secretary of the company very angry, but 
lie neglected to answer the questions we 
asked him about the business of his com¬ 
pany. Later the company went into the 
hands of a receiver. Now we get the fol¬ 
lowing dispatch: 
At a meeting of the stockholders of the 
Uncle Sam Oil Company in Kansas City, 
Kan., July 10, the receiver, Mr. Morse, an¬ 
nounced in his report that the poor system 
of bookkeeping used makes it difficult to ob¬ 
tain an actual statement of the company’s 
conditon and $74,000 is still “unacounted 
for.” The report said that $245,000 was 
spent in advertising stock, $18,000 having 
been spent in postage alone. 
You will see it is all the same old 
stories. Big promises, liberal expenditure 
of other people’s money and finally the 
inevitable failure and inability to account 
for the money. 
Enclosed please find $2 for renewal of my 
subscription. It will settle for two years 
from date. I cannot keep house without 
The It. N.-Y. Its genuine truth to the farm¬ 
ers of the country has saved us from being an 
easy mark for such men as Ostrander. I 
could give you a sketch of some of his doings 
in this section had I time, for he has tried 
his telegraph game here. We always have 
confidence in the advertisers of The It. N.-Y. 
for we feel you are our friend, j. r. e. 
Pennsylvania. 
It pleases us that our friends are able 
to say The R. N.-Y. saved their money, 
and every mail brings letters saying this 
very thing. The farmers of this country 
have have paid out millions of dollars in 
the nast for which they never got a farth¬ 
ing in return. They have been swindled, 
pure and simple. That city people are 
swindled in the same way and in even 
greater degree does not make it any dif¬ 
ferent. We propose to do what we can 
to stop it as far as our readers are 
concerned. As for our advertisers, we 
can only say that they justify the confi¬ 
dence placed in them. We are not going 
to importune any one to patronize them, 
as some publishers do every week. Use 
your own judgment about that. The 
more you patronize them, of course, the 
more credit the paper gets, and probably 
that will help increase the advertising or 
maintain what is now being carried, but 
the paper is for your personal interest. 
They are all responsible and all straight, 
honest, reliable houses. We believe they 
fully merit the confidence this and other 
friends place in them. We are obliged to 
take the precaution to know them all, 
otherwise our guarantee to stand behind 
them would cost us much more than their 
patronage. _ j. j. d. 
Eggs in Water Glass. 
Reader (No Address ).—Will you tell me 
what change has taken place in the silicate 
of soda in which I preserved about 20 dozen 
eggs a few weeks ago? The water glass has 
turned to a white, ropy, gelatinous substance 
on top. Will the eggs spoil? What has 
caused "such a change, totally unlike my ex¬ 
perience of last year, when I used water glass 
for the first time according to directions given 
in The R. N.-Y. Please tell me what to do 
as I do not want to lose the eggs. 
Ans.— 'There is nothing the matter with 
the water glass. Soluble silicate of soda 
will decompose when the solution is open 
to the air, forming a bulky precipitate of 
silica, and carbonate of soda which re¬ 
mains in solution. The eggs will keep 
just the same. When some of my neigh¬ 
bors use a milk can c that seals hermet¬ 
ically the water glass remains clear, but 
in open vessels the soft gelatinous precip¬ 
itate always occurs and without detriment. 
_s. R. DIVINE. 
GAS-HEATED INCUBATORS. 
I furnish incubators which are heated 
by gas, either acetylene, natural or ordi¬ 
nary illuminating gas. I also furnish 
them with electric heaters. In the gas- 
heated machines the same heaters and reg¬ 
ulators are used as where kerosene or coal 
oil is used; the only changes made are 
substituting the gas burner attachment to 
be used instead of the oil lamp. The 
temperature of the machine is operated 
and regulated by the opening and clos¬ 
ing of the valve over the heater, allowing 
all surplus heat to escape. With the electric 
heater the current is cut off when the tem¬ 
perature in the machine rises to a certain 
point, and is again automatically turned 
on when below a certain temperature. 
Illinois. GEO. H. STAHL. 
Mistress: “Your cold’s very bad, 
Jane. Are you doing anything for it?” 
Jane: “Oh, yes, m’m. The chemist ’ave 
giv’ me some cremoniated stincture of 
Queen Anne.”—Punch. 
Baron R. (who has been explaining the 
mechanism of his new motor car to one 
of his tenants for over an hour) : “I hope 
you understand it now.” Tenant: “Per¬ 
fectly, all except one thing.” Baron R.: 
“And what is that?” Tenant: “How it 
goes without a horse.”—Bon Vivant. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee, page 8. 
Cooper s Tablets 
A Sure Remedy for 
Intestinal 
Worms 
IO 
TABLETS 
Postpaid 
20 Cents 
Mica 
Axle 
Grease 
Helps the Wagon up 
theHffl < 
The load seems lighter—Wagon 
and team wear longer—You make 
more money, and have more time 
to make money, when wheels are 
greased with 
Mica Axle Grease 
—The longest wearing and most 
satisfactory lubricant in the world. 
STANDARD OIL CO. 
Incorporated 
in Horses, 
, Sheep, 
Cattle, 
Hogs. 
DOSE—One tablet for lamb or shoat; two for 
sheep orTiogs; three for horses and cattle. 
Box of ISO Tablets, $1.50 Postpaid. 
Wm. Cooper & Nephews, 177 Illinois St., Chicago 
Make Money With Fowls 
Beginners, Broiler Raisers, Egg Farmers, 
and Experiment Stations Use and Rec¬ 
ommend 
CYPHERS INCUBATORS 
Send for F R E E 260- Page Book—“ H ow to 
Make Money with Poultry & Incubators.” 
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N.Y. 
BRANCHES: New York, Boston, Chicago, 
Kansas Citj, Oakland, Cal., and London, Eng. 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue C. 
MAPLELINQ POULTRY YARDS, Pulaski, N.Y. 
SQUAB 
BREEDING HOMERS £T BARCAI " PR1CES 
. No.1 Mated Homers, 
in large or small lots: birds in prime working con¬ 
dition; write us for prices. Send 100 in stamps for 
our book, it tells how to raise and market Squabs. 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM Morton, Pa. 
BANNER 
VERMIN 
LICE AND 
POWDER 
W" A cheap, effective dis- 
infectantand remedy, 
win powder form to be 
' dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
31bs.50c. 6H lbs. $1.00. (f.o.b. N.Y. City) 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co.. 
[ Dept. HG 26-28 Vesey St., New York City. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
tor hatching, $1 for 15; $5 per 100. Cataloguu free. 
_ C. H. ZIMMER, R. I). 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
VV.Plymouth Rocks and XV. Holland Turkey s. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poul try Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
NO BETTER STOCK. NO BETTER EGGS. 
February chicks for early shows. All stock sold on 
approval. Sinclair Smith, Itox 158, Houthiilil, Suffolk Co., N.Y. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, KI,, ™ ,,W * 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
B0NNIE BRAE 
POULTRY FARM 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Breeders of strictly high 
class Single and Rose Comb 
White Leghorns, White 
Wyandottes, White and 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
and Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
five 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, 
Females and brood bitches. NEL¬ 
SON BKOS., Grove City, Pa. 
COLLIE PUPS 
10,000 FERRETS from selected breeders. Per- 
* f«ct workers. They exterminate rats, 
drive out rabbits. 4 8 p. illus’d book and price 
list free. y. KA1IX8W0KTH, lllddletonn, Ohio- 
QUAKER CITY 
GRINDING MILLS. 
For Corn and Cobs, Feed and Table Meal. 
Send for all mills advertised, keep the best and return 
all others. We pay the freight and send mills ou 
10 days’ free trial. 39th Annual Catalogue FREE. 
THE A. W. STRAUB CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 
OSCOODSCALES 
All kinds: Portable, Pit, Piticss; Steel 
and Cement Construction. Guaran¬ 
teed accurate, reliable and dura¬ 
ble. Let us send you a scale 
_ on trial. Fre© catalogue. 
OSGOOD SCALE CO., 157 Centrul St., Bingham ton, N. Y. 
HUSTT HAVENS 
Two Profit Earners for Poultr/men 
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-record free. Win. 
Rust <& Sons, Est. 1854. Dept. P, New Brunswick, N.J. 
VIST’S 
WOODLANDS FARM 
* 
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We will hold our Third Annual Sale 
Rocks, beginning May 1st. Woodlands Farm, 
5 * 
of 8. C. W. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes and B. Plymouth 
the largest Poultry Plant in America, now has on hand 
6,000 LAYERS 
One half of these, largely Leghorns, will be offered in this Sale, at about one-half their actual 
LEE T. HALLOCK. 
Sknd for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
Proprietor, ... 
IONA, New Jersey 
