1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
645 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
We cannot give space to all of the let¬ 
ters received from responsible advertis¬ 
ing firms on the subject of refusing fake 
advertisers and showing up frauds; but 
we append just a few more expressions. 
I am glad to know that the agricultural 
press is taking up its share in exposing hum¬ 
bugs, in sympathy with the grand work done 
by Collier along the line of medical quackery, 
and success in its exposing of mining and 
kindred frauds. It is the intent that marks 
the rascal, though a blunderer may do a 
measure of harm. j. J. h. Gregory. 
Marblehead, Mass. 
We highly commend your exposures of fak¬ 
ers and frauds. We, ourselves, are victims 
of one of the firms whose methods you dis¬ 
close, and had we read such an article as this 
before investing we might have saved our 
fee, which however was a small one. We 
believe you are doing an excellent work in 
warning the public of these sharks, who are 
trying to get hard-earned cash without giv¬ 
ing full value for the same. If more of the 
publications would follow the fearless course 
The R. N.-Y. seems to be pursuing the 
schemers would have fewer victims than they 
appear to have. We have full faith in the 
fearless policy of your publication. 
Morrisville, Pa. the wji. h. moon co. 
The writer has read with a good deal of 
interest your article of July 6 editorially ex¬ 
posing various advertising frauds. I know 
nothing personally of the advertisers men¬ 
tioned in this article, but the principle upon 
which you are proceeding, namely, guarding 
your readers carefully from imposition, is 
one which must always appeal to the bones! 
advertiser of honest goods. The increased 
strength of your hold upon your readers will 
be a sufficient reward. You evidently have 
a strong bold upon them, for they have been 
satisfactorily responsive to the advertising we 
have been running in The R. N.-Y. this sea¬ 
son. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY. 
New York. 
You are doing good work at your Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk. It is one of the things that 
make The R. N.-Y. stand high up on our ad¬ 
vertising list. S. L. ALLEN & CO. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
We have an inquiry about the Patrons 
Co-operative Company, Incorporated, by 
a subscriber who asks the information 
for his Grange. As yet we have been 
unable to learn anything of value in re¬ 
gard to the house. We find no rating for 
them in the sources of information on 
such subjects. Our representative found 
no one in the office except a little girl, 
who said she was the stenographer. They 
seemed to be occupying a part of an 
office with another tenant. We hope to 
have a statement from some one in au¬ 
thority in the near future, and in the 
meantime it would be wise for Grangers 
to let pending propositions await details. 
What can you tell your readers about 
Tyrrell’s Hygienic Institute? Things have 
been getting worse with me for a long time, 
and they strike me at so many points that I 
am inclined to investigate. I have long 
ceased to depend much on medicines. As to 
dieting, it seems to me that so much remains 
to be learned that what is known is useful 
only in a general way. e. l. s. 
Massachusetts. 
This is evidently a variation of the old 
hydropathic or water treatment, which 
has been known to relieve some maladies 
and greatly aggravate others. The prac¬ 
tice of medicine is not, and probably 
never will be, an exact science. There is 
no sure and certain treatment for any 
disease. Many factors must be taken in 
consideration when treating the most 
simple case, and the most hopeful doctor, 
in 99 out of every 100 cases, is the family 
physician of good judgment and honest 
intention. Medical “institutes” founded 
to exploit an especial mode of treatment 
usually run to extremes. The patients 
enter buoyed with expectation of rapid 
cures, which too often end in disappoint¬ 
ment and ill afforded expense. The Hy¬ 
gienic Institute inquired about appears to 
be regularly incorporated under the laws 
of the State of New York, and their 
treatment may be skilfully administered, 
but it is safe to say that not all the hopes 
called forth by their advertising literature 
will be realized. 
It has been my custom when I sell a farm 
(especially to a city man without the needed 
experience) to give him a year’s subscrip¬ 
tion to one of the best papers (I consider 
The R. N.-Y. by far the best of several others 
I take). I am' now enclosing you .$2 in pay¬ 
ment for two that I have sold lately. I 
hope to keep adding to your list from time to 
time. j. v. h. 
New Jersey. 
Real estate agents are seldom accused 
of too much consideration or sentiment 
for their customers. It is often felt that 
they are more interested in their commis¬ 
sions than in the welfare of their clients. 
Yet here is an agent so anxious for the 
welfare of his client that he voluntarily 
gives up a part of his commission to 
start the new farmer right by fur¬ 
nishing him for a year with the best 
information to be had on farm subjects. 
That kind of a man is not only pretty 
sure to succeed, but is sure to ornament 
any line of business in which he is en¬ 
gaged. 
The following letter comes from a 
friend of long standing: 
On page 597 I notice the inquiry of G. D. B. 
concerning L. T. Leach of Indianapolis, Ind., 
with reference to curing cancer. You have 
evidently answered this question on general 
principles. This man referred to is a son-in- 
law of Dr. D. M. Bye, and probably his suc¬ 
cessor. Dr. D. M. Bye some six years ago 
sent my mother his medicine for curing a 
cancer. It was effective, and for such a seri¬ 
ous condition neither painful or disagreeable 
to use. In her inexperience the treatment 
was not continued long enough completely to 
eradicate it, so she went on to Indianapolis 
for bis treatment. By a slip she went to 
the office of a son of Dr. D. M. Bye, who ef¬ 
fected a cure inside of two weeks. She has 
had no trouble with it since, and has no 
prospect of having. I would certainly advise 
your correspondent to go on to Indianapolis. 
If the cancer is not in a vital position, so 
no one could operate successfully, I am con¬ 
fident he can effect a cure for her. More¬ 
over, the charges are very moderate. Your 
statement that cancers are Incurable is not 
correct. Of course it may be located in a 
vital part where safe treatment is impossi¬ 
ble, or it may have gone so far that it is 
past help, but that may be the case with any 
malady. It is a remarkable fact, hut never¬ 
theless a true one, that ordinary physicians 
are no use for cancer, and will usually do 
harm rather than good. My mother tried it 
years ago, only to her damage. T have kept 
posted along these lines, and consider the Bye 
treatment the nicest and best I have ever 
known anything about. E. R. T. 
New York. 
Accompanying the above is a private 
note in which the writer says his moth¬ 
er’s father and her grandmother from 
the other side died of cancer. His mother 
is now 85 years of age, and apparently 
free from trouble that affected her six 
years ago. Skin cancer and cancer of the 
face and nose are frequently cured or 
arrested in progress of development, 
when taken in time, but the general ex¬ 
perience is that this is best effected by a 
surgical operation than by caustics and 
absorbent medicines. The operation brings 
quicker relief, saves the patient long suf¬ 
fering, and leaves only a scar instead of 
the disfigurement of the burning treat¬ 
ment. When I was a boy I saw a neigh¬ 
bor, then ’a young man, suffer untold 
agony by the salves treatment for a 
cancer of the under lip. He afterwards 
had the diseased part removed by a sur¬ 
geon and the trouble did not develop 
again until he was an old man when it 
undoubtedly hastened his death. But 
these are to be distinguished from the 
malignant cancer which we said is at the 
present time believed to be incurable, 
and which the cancer doctors usually 
claim they can cure. The Rural New 
Yorker is not a medical, journal, and the 
subject really should not be treated at 
so much length here, but we do not want 
to be unfair to anyone, and are always 
willing to give every side a hearing. To 
resume, the best authorities concede that 
malignant cancerous growths are incur¬ 
able, and that the milder growths which 
yield to caustics can be arrested with less 
suffering and more effectively by remov¬ 
ing the diseased parts with a knife. More¬ 
over, the doctor who advertises to cure 
all forms of cancer, exposes his own bad 
faith by his willingness to take fees for 
malignant cases which he must know are 
beyond his help. 
I am sending you $1 to pay one year’s sub¬ 
scription to the best farm paper there is. 
I subscribed for 10 weeks, but am so well 
pleased with it you can epunt on me for life. 
Michigan. ' ' m. c. b. 
The above letter is another sample of 
the thousands received to show that you 
do a permanent service when you influ¬ 
ence a neighbor to send in one of those 
ten weeks’ subscriptions for 10 cents. 
Most publishers tell us the short term 
subscriptions do not pay them. It costs 
more to handle the subscription and fill 
the order than the publisher gets for it. 
That is all true enough, no publisher 
could afford to do it unless there was a 
large percentage of renewals from the 
short-time orders. More than 80 per cent 
of these renew regularly for The Rural 
New Yorker. This is probably partly 
due to the fact that the names are largely 
sent in by old readers, who select only 
the best class of farmers. From now on 
we want each old reader to take it upon 
himself to send these orders whenever 
opportunity is offered. j. j. d. 
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 matured 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, 
WANTED PULLETS. 
50 White Plymouth Rocks; hatched 
not later than March 20th. Address 
LEDGEM0NT TERRACE, 
Box 61 : : : Centreville, R. I. 
BANNER 
VERMIN 
LICE AND 
POWDER 
A cheap, effective dis¬ 
infectant and remedy, 
lin powder form to be 
> dusted on. Perfectly 
, harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
3lbs, 50c. 6R lbs.$1.00. (f.o.b.N. Y.City) | 
Excelsior'Wire and Poultry Supply Co., i 
| Dept.HG 26-28 Vesey St., New York City. < 
Make Money With Fowls 
Beginners, Broiler Raisers, Egg Farmers, 
and Experiment Stations Use and Rec¬ 
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YPHERS INCUBATORS 
FREE 260-Page Book—“Howto 
Make Money with Poultry & Incubators.'* 
Cyphers Incubator Co., Buffalo, N.Y. 
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Kansas City, Oakland, Cal., and London, Eng. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, K,I, S U ’’ 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get ,-f quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
MONEY SAVED 
BY USING THIS BEST 
Swing Cattle Stanchion 
made. Thousands in use. Made to fit any stable. 
Durable, convenient and cheap. Price and circular 
on application. Write us to-day. Manufactured by 
ROY BROTHERS, East Barnet, Vt. 
CAEMERS, 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; it tells how. Address 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM, Morton, Pa. 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue C. 
MAPLELING POULTRY YARDS, Pulaski, N. Y. 
'OSK COMB BROWN LEGHORN cockerels and pullets for sale, 
“ very best strain. I. C. HA WKIN8, Bullvllle. Now York. 
WHITE WYANDOTTKS— Choice yearling hens 
‘ ’ reasonable; baby chicks 10c each; eggs for hatch¬ 
ing reduced to $3 per 100. Forest llill Farm, Burn,rood, Ji. t. 
R0CK-H0LLAND FARM s newvork. E ' 
W. Plymouth Hocks and \V. Holland Turkeys. 
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. 
0. H. ZIMMER. R. D. 41. Weedsport, N. Y. 
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, Box 153, Southold, Snftolk Co., 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. 
■T WOODLANDS FARM 
* 
We 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 on hand 
3,000 LAYERS 
One half of these, 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 use. Prices: Females, 
$1.50 to $2,00 each; Males, $3.00 to $5.00. Per 13. 
xj-r-r-e f Single Comb White Leghorns, $2.00 
HATcnivr -! White Wyandottes. 2.50 
HAltHlNG ^ Barred Plymouth Rocks, 2.00 
Send fob Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
LEE T. HALLOCK, Proprietor, _-_-_- 
Per 100. 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
Per 1,000. 
$ 00.00 
80.00 
60.00 
IONA, New Jersey 
ItlBnwvm 
cumParn . 
Two 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, gapea 
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. Wm. 
Rust & Sons, Est. 1854. Dept. P, New Brunswick, N.J. 
Big interest on gour investment. 
A Farmer who knew said that if a man did 
not have the money to buy a manure 
spreader, he could afford to borrow it, 
pay 50 per cent interest, and still mako 
money. 
This shows how extremely profitable the 
use of a manure spreader is. 
It will make more than 50 per cent per year 
on the investment. 
It increases the fertilizing value of barn¬ 
yard manure, the only fertilizer produced on 
the farm, fully 100 per cent, and when you 
remember that this barnyard manure is 
worth about $2.00 per ton, you know how 
much money a spreader makes for you on 
every ton of manure hauled into the field. 
Of course, you must be sure and buy a good 
spreader. We mean a strong, dependable, 
practical machine—one that you can load up 
day after day and drive into the field with 
absolute certainty that it will spread as many 
loads per acre as you desire. 
The I. H. C spreaders. Corn King and 
Cloverleaf, will do this. They can be regu¬ 
lated to spread any number from 3 to 30 loads 
per acre. The principal point of difference 
is in the apron. The Corn King is a return 
apron machine and the Cloverleaf an endless 
apron machine. Both spreaders are replete 
with valuable features, not found on other 
spreaders. 
For instance, the single lever on the I. H. C. 
allows the driver to make every adjustment— 
change the rate of feed, return the apron, 
start the machine, or stop it. 
Then again there is the vibrating rake, a 
feature not found on any other spreader. You 
know that when first starting the machine, if 
not properly loaded, the manure is apt to pile 
up against the cylinder and clog it. Perhaps 
great chunks will be thrown out until the load 
is properly fed. The vibrating rake on the 
Cloverleaf and Corn King spreaders prevents 
this irregular feeding. It levels the load 
before it reaches the cylinder and insures 
an even and uniform distribution of the con¬ 
tents. You won’t find a whole lot coming out 
directly over the center and none at all at the 
sides, but instead an even distribution the 
full width of the cylinder. 
There are many other excellent features 
about these spreaders—both wheels are drive 
wheels, the steel wheels cut under the box, 
the apron never binds nor buckles, the front 
axle is well trussed, the frame is staunch and 
absolutely rigid. 
We suggest that you look into this question 
of a profitable manure spreader very care¬ 
fully. The local agent in your town will 
gladly demonstrate the line he handles. Or 
write the general office for catalogues, colored 
hangers, or other information desired. 
Send for copy of ‘‘Farm Science” or 
“Wasteful Farm Practices" which contain 
very valuable information on agricultural 
subjects of special interest to you. 
International Harvester Company of America 
(Incorporated) 
Chicago, U. S. A. 
