1907. 
597 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
One year with another, and, for that 
matter, every day, we receive pleasing 
letters, but we are frank to say that we 
seldom receive a letter that affords more 
general satisfaction than the following: 
Now York State Veterinary College, Cor¬ 
nel! University, Ithaca, N. Y„ July 15, 1907. 
To the Editor: I cannot too highly com¬ 
mend your purpose of purging your paper of 
every swindling or unworthy advertisement. 
Too'many papers speak freely of honor and 
honesty in dealing with their readers, and 
yet wink at the paid advertisements which 
are known to he false, criminal or otherwise 
immoral; or which even bear on their faces 
clear Indications of an unworthy purpose. 
The simple-minded, seeing these too often go 
on and are fleeced, but the paper that has 
allowed the well-paid advertisement to blind 
its eyes to the character of the offer, is usual¬ 
ly no less criminal than the advertiser, though 
it may not have rendered itself amenable to 
legal penalties. james law. 
Dr. James Law is one of the best 
known veterinarians in this country and 
has not only a national, but an interna¬ 
tional, reputation. It is not because of 
this that we appreciate his letter, but in 
the fact that such a man in such a posi- 
tition is giving his attention to the wel¬ 
fare of the farm and takes the pains vol¬ 
untarily to express his approval of our 
honest and sincere effort to protect farm 
interests. His analysis of the situation 
with papers that make a boast of their 
devotion to their readers in editorial col¬ 
umns, and at the same time become ac¬ 
complices of the frauds worked on them 
by paid advertisers, shows that he is 
something of a student of farm papers. 
We have in our time printed a great 
many letters of value to the thoughtful 
reader. We doubt if we ever gave space 
to a thought of greater value to the 
farm community than this brief letter 
from Dr. Law. Coming from a veteri¬ 
nary surgeon of such well-known ability 
after the lengthy discussion of the Jersey 
cattle case, it has in that connection alsb 
a special significance. 
I have been a reader of The It. N.-Y. for 
some years, and shall continue to be a sub¬ 
scriber as long as the paper holds “high” the 
farmer of “common honesty.” I want your 
help in the matter of enclosed circular of the 
Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company. Are 
those stocks worthy of investment or are they 
frauds? C. T. H. 
New York. 
This is a $5,000,000 company organized 
to promote wireless telegraphy. The cir¬ 
cular gives no statement that would jus¬ 
tify the payment of two cents a share for 
the stocks. The officers may increase the 
issue of stock as they please and do with 
the money as they please when they get 
it. They certainly give no statement that 
would justify an investment in their 
stocks. We advise letting it alone. 
I write to ask you about L. T. Leach of 
Indianapolis, Ind., who claims to have a sani¬ 
tarium at that address. A friend of mine 
has been doctoring with him for a cancer for 
some time, and he now wants her to come to 
his sanitarium. I have not believed in him, 
but write to you, for he may he O. K. 
New York. G. d. b. 
We have no greater contempt for any 
class of people than we hold for the 
quacks who claim to cure cancer. The 
highest medical and scientific authorities 
of the world are baffled by this dreadful 
disease. No cure has ever been discov¬ 
ered. Yet quacks advertise ability to 
cure it. I have had some experience with 
this disease myself and I can sympathize 
with the man who becomes a victim of 
their persuasions, as I can with no one 
else who patronizes other fakes. The 
patient’s suffering is beyond description. 
The regular physicians can give no en¬ 
couragement or hope at certain stages of 
development of the disease, but the 
quacks promise both relief and cure. The 
situation is an agonizing one and you 
say to yourself: “There Ss no other 
hope; why not try this?” It is only a 
matter of expense, and under the cir¬ 
cumstances no one will hesitate to spend 
the last cent provided there be even a 
faint hope of arresting the progress of 
the disease. The quacks understand 
these conditions and bank on them and 
make the most of them. It is their cap¬ 
ital in trade. They may occasionally get 
a case of simple tumor that disappears 
and on this they make much capital, but 
such cases yield to ordinary treatment. 
Malignant cancer once fully developed is 
incurable and the best use one can make 
of his means is to make the patient as 
comfortable as possible at home. Avoid 
the cancer quacks. 
Would you inform me of the reputation of 
A. D. Fuller & Co.. 94 Park Place, as to 
financial standing? Is it safe to do business 
with them? J. K. H. 
New York. 
This is a commission man with consid¬ 
erable experience and a very good repu¬ 
tation, but with little means. He has 
room with a strong and reliable commis¬ 
sion house, which gives him additional 
strength, as the house in question would 
,not encourage anything of a shady na¬ 
ture. 
Do you consider the preferred stock of the 
American Woolen Company a conservative 
investment? The stock is now selling for 
about $90 per share (par $100), and pays 
a dividend of $1.75 per share quarterly. Do 
you think the company well managed, and 
what do you think of its future? I think 
the company is incorporated under the laws 
of New Jersey. There are quite a few about 
here who have bought stock in this company. 
Do you think the stock is “watered,” and if 
so, about how much actual capital does a 
share represent? l. t. c. 
New Hampshire. 
This good friend gives us a bigger 
proposition than he imagines. The com¬ 
pany was organized in 18S9 with an au¬ 
thorized capital stock of $65,000,000, of 
which $25,000,000 was seven per cent pre¬ 
ferred cumulative, the balance common. 
In 1905 it issued $5,000,000 additional 
preferred stock and it has recently again 
issued another increase of 10,000,000 
preferred, making in all a capitalization 
of $80,000,000. The company owns and 
controls some 26 mills. To say just 
what this stock is worth would be to put 
a valuation on all these mills and the 
material on hand, as well as to make an 
appraisal. An inventory of all the assets 
and liab.lities of the company would re¬ 
quire months of time and the services of 
experts. The fact that the common stock 
sold last year at 43 cents on its face 
value and at 29 cents this year would in¬ 
dicate that there is considerable water in 
the stock. The preferred stock is also 
selling this year about 10 per cent lower 
than last year. That is, if you bought 
preferred last year at the price at which 
it was quoted and were obliged to sell it 
this year you would lose 10 per cent. 
Of course, it may advance again, but a 
seven per cent preferred stock selling 
about 90 cannot be called a conservative 
investment. A stable stock with good as¬ 
sets back of it would command a pre¬ 
mium of 40 to 50 per cent at least. One 
time with another farmers had better 
keep away from stocks which are issued 
by the tens of millions and the intrinsic 
value of which are not known, and from 
the nature of the thing cannot be definite¬ 
ly ascertained. 
I notice vour item on page 549 in reference 
to E. F. Rutland of the Crystal Spring Farm, 
Westboro, Mass. I might add my experience, 
as I think it well for all such frauds to he 
fully exposed to keep people from being 
swindled, and I think your paper is helping 
in that line. Last Fall I answered Mr. Rut¬ 
land’s advertisement saying lie was selling 
out all breeds of purebred poultry at 90 cents 
each. I asked him if he had any Rose Comb 
Buff Orpingtons. He wrote back saying he 
had three pullets and a cockerel, which lie had 
reserved for himself, hut as he was selling out 
he would let me have them at same price. I 
wrote again asking positively if they were 
Rose Comb; he replied that they were. I 
sent $3.60 and received four mongrel late 
Fall stunted chicks; the two largest weighed 
about two pounds each, and the two small 
ones one pound each. The latter two both 
died in a few days. None of them was pure¬ 
bred or rose comb. They were single comb, 
and just mongrel birds that happened to be 
mostly buff or yellow. I would not give 50 
cents for another lot of the same. He adver¬ 
tises satisfaction guaranteed. I wrote him 
and got no reply. I should have taken pro¬ 
ceedings at once only I thought the trouble 
would be too much. Everybody ought to 
know of such frauds so they could be let 
alone. E. a. beowx. 
Vermont. 
No comment is necessary on the above 
letter. It is the old experience; the 
hope that it may in time goad the paper 
in question either to do as it agrees or 
take down the guarantee, which serves 
only to give its readers a false security 
and make them the more ready victims 
of its partners in crime. J. J. D. 
Chicks “Off” In Color. — I have no posi¬ 
tive experience to give on this subject, ex¬ 
cept as pertains to Barred Rock, having 
raised no other pure breeds. I have never 
had any complaint about chick not being cor¬ 
rectly marked, and I think that the pure 
strains of this breed give chicks of uniform 
marking. As with many other breeds, the 
chicks are of different color from the adult 
birds when feathered out. Barred Rock 
chicks are black with white spot on head and 
beneath the rump. A defect of some Barred 
Rock chicks is black legs, and indicates that 
the bird will he too dark, and not have the 
bright yellow legs which is so desirable. I 
heard of a case where one party sold White 
Wyandotte eggs for hatching, and some of the 
chicks were quite dark. Complaint was made, 
but it was said in explanation that this 
variety was quite apt to give chicks more or 
less dark. While the marking of the chick 
may be quite different from the parent bird, 
one should look for a fair amount of uni¬ 
formity if the strain is up to standard and 
purebred A double comb appearing on a 
chicks of a single comb variety ought to be, 
I think, a just cause for an emphatic re¬ 
monstrance. GRANT DAVIS. 
Seldom See 
a big knee like this, but your horse 
may have a bunch or bruise on his 
Ankle, Hock, Stifle, Knee or Throat. 
will clean them off without laying the 
horse up. No blister, no liair gone. 
$2.00 per bottle, delivered. Book 8-0 
free. ABSORBINB, JR., for mankind, 
$1.00. Removes Soft Bunches, Cures 
Varicose Veins, Varicocele, Hydrocele, 
Ruptured Muscles or Ligaments, Enlarged 
Glands. Allays Pain. Mfd. only by 
W, F.YOUNG, P.D.F. 88 Monmouth St, Springfield, Mass. 
VIST'S 
OWQt' 
POULTRY COMFORT 
means poultry profit. Keep 
your fowls healthy and free 
from lice with 
Rust’s Lice-Killing Powder 
Prices: 10c, 25c, 50c, and $1.00 
at dealers. Valuable booklet and 
egg-record free. 
Wm. Rust & Sons, (Established 1854) 
Dept. P, New Brunswick, N.j. 
EMPIRE STATE S. G. 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, R. 1). 41. Weedsport, N. Y. 
COR SALE CHEAP— 400 cockerels from selected 
* matings. Barred and White Rocks, Brown and 
White Leghorns. Also 100 S. C. White Leghorns 2 
year hens from special matings. Must sell to make 
room. G. A. SABINE, Robinson, A. A. County, Md. 
10 000 FERRETS from Rolcctcfi br«eder«. Por- 
uu feet workers. They exterminate nits, 
drive out rabbits. 48 p. illus’d book and price 
list free. s> FARNSWORTH, Middletown, Ohio* 
FIVE MINUTE TALK 
SENT FREE “HOW TO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE AND IVllTES,”by only 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
CAKMERS, it pays to raise squabs; get high prices 
* for your grain by feeding it to homer squab 
breeders; write us for prices; send us 10 cents in 
stamps for our book; it tells bow. Address 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM, Morton, Pa. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS 
are largest and most prolific. We were first; 
our birds and methods revolutionized the 
industry and are widely copied. First 
send for our FREE BOOK, 
“How to Make Money 
with Squabs.” 
IMAMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
BONNIE 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, 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, KI,, “ n ’ 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
FIRST-CLASS U nil CD DlftCHIK F(m 
mated nUInCn rlULUHo sale. 
Consult yonr interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Wm. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
R0CK-H0LLAND FARM 
W. Plymouth Rocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry 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, IIox 153, Sonthold, Suffolk Co., N.Y* 
BANNER 
VERMIN 
LICE AND 
POWDER 
</'/• W"" A cheap, effective dis- I 
I ///^aIYaXX infectantand remedy,, 
j n powder form to be I 
dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
3lbs. 50c. 6Xlbs.$1.00. (f.o.b.N. Y. City) 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., 
i Dept. HG 26-28 Vesey St„ New York City! 
* WOODLANDS FARM 
* 
* 
Wo will hold our Third Annual Sale of S. C. W. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes and B. Plymouth 
Rocks, beginning May 1st. Woodlands Farm, the largest Poultry Plant in America, now has ou hand 
0,000 LAYERS 
One half of these, largely Leghorns, will be offered in this Sale, at about one-half their actual 
value, as wo hatched an unusually Targe 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 use. Prices: Females, 
$1.50 to $2,00 each; Males, $3.00 to $5.00. Per 13. Per loo. Per i,ooo. 
EGGS FOR 
HATCHING 
eghorns. 
LEE T. 
$3.00 
3.50 
3.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
HALLOCK, Proprietor, - 
f Single Comb White Begin 
■< White Wyandottes. 
(. Barred Plymouth Rocks, 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
$ 00.00 
80.00 
60.00 
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The Old 
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Proved the Claim 
that a Carey Hoof lasts 
as Ions as the Buildins Stands. 
'T'HAT ONE ROOF is enough, providing it is Carey’s, has been demon- 
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man who plays a sharp game on one 
fanner will, and generally does, cheat 
another. But how about the paper which 
claims to guarantee its advertisers, yet 
runs this advertisement? The R. N.-Y. 
never ran it, but refused to do so. Yet 
it is to it that the victims of the fraud 
must appeal for the scant redress we can 
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