1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
629 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Here are some more letters from prom¬ 
inent advertising houses to show how they 
feel on the question of fake and fraud¬ 
ulent advertisements. They leave no 
doubt as to their sentiments on the sub¬ 
ject : 
We think your course in exposing dis¬ 
honest advertising schemers is to be com¬ 
mended in the strongest terms, and vve think 
that all legitimate advertisers will appreciate 
your courage and your action in this re¬ 
spect. Papers like your own, that speak out 
fearlessly and hit abuses of this character 
whenever they crop up. are doing every legi¬ 
timate advertiser a service which cannot help 
hut he appreciated. t. w. wood & sons. 
Richmond, Va. 
We fully agree with you that it is to the 
interests of legitimate publishers and honest 
advertisers that undesirable advertising be 
declined and those placing such advertising 
driven out of the advertising field. We, 
ourselves, would like to see the time when 
advertisers would refuse to use a paper which 
carried such advertisements. We shall do 
what we can during # the coming year to cut 
them off. in a large measure at least. We 
honor you for the stand which you take in 
this matter. We know that it cannot help 
but prove in the end the very best of policy. 
We wish you success in your fight, and we 
will be glad to help in any reasonable way 
you may indicate. 
THE JOHNSON HARVESTER CO. 
Batavia, N. Y. 
The stand your publication has taken in 
regard to questionable advertising schemes 
is of value to every man who has a legitimate 
proposition to exploit through the farm press. 
Nothing so weakens the effect of good adver¬ 
tising as fake schemes which shake the 
faith of farmers in all advertising proposi¬ 
tions. We are heartily in accord with your 
work along the line, of not only excluding 
questionable advertising from your paper, but 
of exposing fraudulent schemes for the bene¬ 
fit of your readers. deere & company. 
Moline, Ill. 
We wish to commend most sincerely your 
course in regard to refusing to accept ad¬ 
vertisements from fake schemes, which should 
be thoroughly appreciated by every patron 
of your paper, whether a subscriber or an 
advertiser. This moral stand that you have 
taken will doubtless cost you considerable 
patronage at first, as such advances in moral 
lines generally do; however, it will inspire con¬ 
fidence and respect, and bring to you a better 
class of clientage that will stay with you, so 
that it will prove a paying investment in the 
long run, and you will “sleep better o’ 
nights.’’ MILNE MANUFACTURING CO. 
Monmouth, Ill. 
The victims of another real estate 
scheme are looking for the man who got 
their money. He is an alleged bigamist 
by the name of Captain Frederick F. 
Stoll, with two wives in New York and 
one in Chicago. Stoll announced that he 
was about to finance a couple of real es¬ 
tate deals on Long Island, and that he 
had organized a strong syndicate for the 
purpose. He was connected with the Chi¬ 
cago post office during the Cleveland ad¬ 
ministration, and he succeeded in getting 
considerable money from people who 
wanted to get rich quick. They are now 
trying to find out whether or not their 
money went to finance one or all of 
Stoll's domestic establishments. 
This despatch comes from Washington, 
D. C.: 
A fraud order has been issued by the Post 
Office Department against the 'California 
in Los Angeles, Rialto, Denver, Detroit, Buf¬ 
falo and New York. The association claimed to 
have a paid capitalization of $1,000,000. It 
operated a colonization scheme which was 
regarded as fraudulent by post office inspec¬ 
tors who investigated its business. The prin¬ 
cipal officers of the association were on duly 
8 last indicted for using the mails to de¬ 
fraud. 
We have referred to this concern be¬ 
fore. The trouble with the Post Office 
Department is that it always acts after 
the people lose their money, and not be¬ 
fore. We make no criticism of the postal 
officials on this account. Information is 
hard to get, and officials must go care¬ 
fully. What we need is a law regulating 
corporations so that stock can be issued 
only when there is real value back of 
every dollar represented by stock, but un¬ 
til we get such a regulation we can leave 
the stocks alone. 1 
Four years ago the Elkhorn Mining and 
Milling Company of Arizona was organ¬ 
ized by wealthy and influential Brook¬ 
lyn (N. Y.) citizens. The capital stock 
was fixed at a million and a quarter of 
dollars. A glittering prospectus was is¬ 
sued, and beautiful certificates were 
printed for the issue of stock to anxious 
investors. Handsome offices were fitted 
up in Brooklyn, and the prospective in¬ 
vestors were dazzled with samples of glit¬ 
tering lumps of gold which were on exhi¬ 
bition. They were told the ore assayed 
$150 3 ton, and frequent reports from 
the mines were received telling of the 
progress of the work and the wonderful 
prospects in the way of profits. The high 
standing of the men in the company lent 
assurance to the investors, who were 
promised that the stock would soon pay 
a dividend and be worth $8 a share. The 
investors were mostly poor people, many 
of whom invested their life savings. Not 
one cent of dividend has been paid, and 
the stock is now said to be worthless. 
A suit has been entered against the mem¬ 
bers of the board of directors in the hope 
of recovering something for the deluded 
investors. Fraud is charged in the com¬ 
plaint. There is little new in this ex¬ 
perience. The same thing is occurring 
almost daily. A scheme is worked up by 
one or more men. Great prospects are 
promised. A company is organized, and 
stock issued to anyone who is foolish 
enough to believe the representations of 
the promoters. By first issuing the whole 
or a large part of the stock in payment 
of patents, grants, lands, good will or any 
other pretext to the individual promoters 
or their dummies, a legal technicality is 
complied with, and then the money for the 
stock may go into the pockets of the indi¬ 
vidual promoters. We tell this story not 
for the information in this particula 1 ' 
case. There is no longer danger from 
this case, but as a warning against sim¬ 
ilar cases about which we receive inqui¬ 
ries daily. Some of them we cannot con¬ 
demn as frauds, simply because we can¬ 
not get the inside information. It is only 
after the trick is worked out and some 
one realizes the fraud and goes to court 
that information can be secured, but the 
one advice applies to all—leave them 
alone. 
A tree agent by the name of Sheekleform, 
and said to be representing R. G. Chase Co., 
Geneva, N. Y., has been operating in this 
section. He says his trees are French seed¬ 
lings and that the apple trees will last 60 
and Ills peach trees 25 years, and the fruit 
of his French seedlings 'will not rot. The 
trees are not subject to scale of any kind, 
or to root gall, yellows or any other dis¬ 
eases to which home-grown stock is subject, 
lie claims that lie lias been through here and 
analyzed the soil, and knows that his trees 
are especiallly suited for this soil. Some 
neighbors have invested as much as $100 in 
his stock. He claims he has thousands of the 
trees planted and that they are immune to all 
that is bad. A few tree's planted in an or¬ 
chard will keep scale out of the entire or¬ 
chard. His trees are very expensive, but 
he says the peach trees will bear $2 worth 
of fruit the second year. c. h. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
The nursery house referred to is a re¬ 
sponsible house, and if the agent is sell¬ 
ing their stock we believe he is making 
the representations without their knowl¬ 
edge or consent. It would seem impos¬ 
sible that an agent would sell any num¬ 
ber of orders in an intelligent neighbor¬ 
hood on such representations. Certain¬ 
ly no experienced grower would give 
him an order after hearing such a story 
from him. The trouble with these fel¬ 
lows is that they know pretty well whom 
to spring such a story on, and it is those 
who are least able to protect themselves 
that will suffer. While a house cannot 
always know just what its selling agents 
are saying, it would not be justified in re¬ 
taining a man capable of making such 
representations in its employ after having 
once learned of his conduct, no matter 
how successful he may be in booking 
orders. These repeated experiences, how¬ 
ever, emphasize the wisdom of ordering 
nursery stock direct from responsible 
houses, instead of from agents whom you 
know nothing about. 
Enclosed find one dollar for The R. N.-Y. 
for one year: it is the greatest fraud buster in 
America. Long live The R. N.-Y. Put me 
down as a subscriber as long as I can raise 
a dollar membership. s. L. f. 
West Virginia. 
It is really refreshing to note the 
rugged honesty and stirring enthusiasm 
that comes from the South and West, es¬ 
pecially from sections most removed from 
centers of large population. There is no 
other class of people in the world that 
so readily grasp the truth and justice 
of a proposition, and it really seems that 
they take a broader and a sounder view 
of their duties and responsibilities than 
many who pride themselves on a higher 
state of civilization and culture. We 
seldom) discuss. a question with moral 
features without hearing in the most 
positive and edifying terms from some 
of the sparsely settled farming districts. 
We are glad and proud to have such men 
as life members of The R. N.-Y. family. 
If there are more like them in their 
neighborhoods and we feel there are, we 
would like to have them too. If you 
know any of them just tell them to send 
their dime for a ten-weeks’ membership; f 
or better yet, get the dime from them and 
send it on yourself with their names. 
We will send you some convenient envel¬ 
opes for the purpose if you want them. 
Do you? _ j. j. d. 
REMEMBER WADSWORTH. 
The following members of the New 
York Senate voted against Governor 
Hughes in his efforts to remove the Su¬ 
perintendent of Insurance. They repre¬ 
sent agricultural counties, where farmers 
are in a majority. Every one of them 
merits defeat, and should be plowed un¬ 
der by the votes of farmers. Send them 
to the political graveyard at the first op¬ 
portunity : 
J0THAM P. ALLDS, . 
ALBERT T. FANCHER, 
S. P. FRANCH0T, . . 
S. PERCY HOOKER, . 
JOHN RAINES, . . . 
SANFORD W. SMITH, 
WM. J. TULLY, 
HORACE WHITE, . . 
BENJ. M. WILCOX, . 
JOSEPH ACKR0YD . . 
FRANK M. BOYCE, . . 
. . Norwich, N. Y. 
. Salamanca, N. Y. 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
. . . LeRoy, N. Y. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
. . Chatham, N. Y. 
. . Corning, N. Y. 
. Syracuse, N. Y. 
. . Auburn, N. Y. 
. . . Utica, N. Y. 
East Schodack, N. Y. 
“Tompkins is having an awful time 
with his new auto.” “In what way?” 
“Every time he repairs it he has a lot of 
parts left over that he can’t find a place 
for.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. 
“What’s your dog’s name? I’ll call 
him.” “His right name is Towser Leo 
Fernandez Bernard Roosevelt Fitzhugh 
Lee, but all you’ve got to do is to 
whistle.”—Harper’s Bazar. 
A traveler in the dining car of a 
Georgia railroad had ordered fried eggs 
for breakfast. “Can’t give yo’ fried aigs, 
boss,” the negro waiter informed him, 
“lessen yo’ want to wait till we stops.” 
“Why, how is that?” “Well, de cook he 
says de road’s so rough dat ebery time 
he tries to fry aigs dey scrambles.”— 
Life. 
FIVE MINUTE TALK 
SENT FREE “HOW TO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE AND MITES,”byonly 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll set ;* quick reply and 
“a square deal." See guarantee, page 8. 
CAUMERS, it pays to raise squabs; get high prices 
1 for your grain by feeding it to homer squab 
breeders; write us for prices; send us 10 cents in 
stamps for our book; >t tells how. Address 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM. Morton, Pa. 
IRST-OLASS 
.MATED 
HOMER PIGEONS 
FOR 
SALE. 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Win. O. Smith for prices and othor 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS 
are largest and most prolific. Wo were first.; 
our birds and methods revolutionized the 
industry and are widoly copied. First 
send for our FREE BOOK, 
“How to Make Money 
with Squabs.’’ r^-7 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, RID SK™? I,D * 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
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, Southold, Suffolk € 0 ., Si. Y. 
DOSK COMB BROWN LEGHORN cockerels And pullets for sale, 
lv very beHt strain. I. C. HAWKIN8, Bullville. New York. 
Wanted-PULLETS. 
25 Black Minorcas, 50 Buff Wyandottes, 25 B. Leg¬ 
horns, 25 Barred Plymouth Rocks. 25 Golden Wyan¬ 
dottes. CHESTER CREST. Mount Vernon. N. Y. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
w. 
STONE RIDGE, 
NEW YORK. 
Plymouth Rocks and VV. Holland Turkeys. 
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. II. ZIMMER. R. D. 41. Weedsport. N. Y. 
pOB SALE CHEAP— 400 cockerels from selected 
1 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. 
VUHITE WYANDOTTES-Choice yearling hens 
TT reasonable; baby chicks 10c each; eggs for hatch 
jng reduced to $3 per 100. forest Hill Farm, Iturnwood, N. V 
BANNER LICE AND 
VERMIN POWDER 
VT" A cheap, effective dis- 
l lYtYSl infectant and remedy, 
t ™ n " ^ win powder form to be 
' dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz,15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
31bs.50o. 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. 
POULTRY COMFORT 
means poultry profit. Keep 
your fowls healthy and free 
from lice with 
PaaaaB* 
Rnst*s Lice-Killing Powder 
■ - m 
Prices: 10c, 25c, 50c, and $1.00 
at dealers. Valuable booklet and 
egg-record free. 
Wm. Rust & Sons, (Established 1K54) 
Dept, p, New Brunswick, N.J. 
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 
Carden 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, 10,0(10 eggs capacity. Agents, Cyphers' 
Incubators and Brooders, 
& 
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WOODLANDS FARM 
* 
* 
We wil| 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 on hand 
0,000 LAYE 
One half of these, largely Leghorns, will he offered in this Sale, at about one-half their actual 
$1.50 to $2,00 each; Males, $3.00 to $5.00. p cr I3 . 
EGGS FOR f Comb White Leghorns, $2.‘ O 
H ITCHING 1 White Wyandottes, £.50 
l Barred Plymouth Rocks, 3.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
LEE T. HALLOCK, Proprietor. ... 
Per too. 
$ 8 . 01 ) 
10.00 
8.00 
Per 1,000. 
$60.0!) 
80.00 
60.00 
IONA, New Jersey 
NEW YORK STATE FAIR, 
SYRACUSE, S EPTEMB ER 9-14, 1907. 
$65,000 IN PURSES AN D PREMIUMS. 
Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Additional Prizes offered in the Cattle and Poultry 
Departments; improved classification in the Sheep 
and Swine Departments, 
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. 
The classification has been revised and brought up 
to date. The rules have been changed. Exhibitors 
who are unable to be present at the Fair can have 
their exhibit placed for them and returned at the 
close of the Fair. 
Send, for 
8. C. SHAVER, - 
LIBERAL PRIZES 
Offered in the Dairy, Farm Produce, Fruit and 
Flower Departments. 
IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINES. 
The increased demand for space indicates one of 
the largest displays of Farm Implements and 
Machines in the history of the Fair. 
ENTRIES CLOSE, 
Cattle, Sheep and Swine, August 22. Poultry, August 
12. Implements and Machines, September 9 All 
other Departments, September 2, 
Prize-IJist. 
Syrftouso, New Yorlx. 
