1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
677 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The Standard Oil Company has re¬ 
cently been fined $29,240,000 in a Chicago 
court for violation of the rebate law. 
Other companies and railroads have been 
fined in other courts for the same of¬ 
fense. Suits are pending in still other 
courts against these and other companies 
and roads for similar offenses. Recent 
investigations have shown that the amount 
of stock and bonds issued by railroads 
and other companies bear no relation 
whatever to the actual value of the prop¬ 
erties, Mr. Harriman in one case taking 
a property represented by $33,000,000 of 
securities and in one year increasing the 
paper securities to something like $135,- 
000,000. Examples of this kind could be 
multiplied indefinitely. There has been 
no check, hindrance or limit to the false 
representations made to sell these watered 
securities, and no hesitation to resort to 
trickery in forcing many of them on the 
public. One of these tricks is the “wash 
sales,” which simply means reports of 
bogus sales to the promoters themselves 
to make it appear that the stocks were 
in demand. As a result of the reports 
of these fines, trials and investigations, 
investors are not buying these securities, 
and some people who hold them have be¬ 
gun to sell them. The result is a decline 
in stocks, or as it is generally expressed 
a slump in Wall Street. The lambs have 
scented the blood of other victims, and 
for the present at least decline to walk 
into the shambles. As a result of all this 
the trust magnates and promoters of 
frenzied finance are disturbed. They issue 
protests against the suits and the fines. 
They call it an attack on industry, and 
declare it will result in chaos and finan¬ 
cial ruin to the country. If these suits 
are continued—attacks they call them— 
the claim is that Standard Oil and other 
companies will be ruined. President 
Roosevelt and his administration are held 
responsible for all the evil which is pre¬ 
dicted to follow unless the suits—attacks 
—are abandoned. It never seems to oc¬ 
cur to these people that their corporations 
could avoid all this disaster by obeying 
the law. In imposing sentence in the 
Standard Oil case Judge Landis said 
these people, by the offense of which they 
were convicted, offended society more 
than the counterfeiter or the mail 
robber. But suppose mail robbers, pick¬ 
pockets, housebreakers and forgers organ¬ 
ized large companies and sold stock to 
innocent investors, who knew nothing 
about how the business was conducted, 
and who had no part in it. Would we 
be obliged to let the lawless business 
flourish because, if interfered with, the 
widows and orphans who held the stocks 
would suffer? The President’s sworn 
duty is to enforce the law. Let the cor¬ 
porations obey the law and there will be 
no occasion to attack them. Their fran¬ 
tic abuse of the President and of the 
courts remind one of the old saw: 
No rogue ’ere felt the halter draw, 
With good opinion of the law. 
Every honest man wants the laws en¬ 
forced, and though the offenders are skill¬ 
fully trying to attract attention away from 
the main point, they will find difficulty in 
working up an opposition to the President 
among the plain people, because of the 
performance of his plain duty in com¬ 
pelling them to obey the law of the 
country. 
ETere are some cold facts that will be 
useful to farmers who are itching to in¬ 
vest or speculate in Wall Street secur¬ 
ities. In 1899 the Metropolitan Railway 
stock, which is one of the street railway 
properties of New York City, sold on the 
market at $2(59 per share. The stock had 
been liberally watered then; but last year 
a merger of all the city lines was effect¬ 
ed, and something like $115,000,000 of 
water injected into the combination. Last 
week the Metropolitan stock sold at $47 
a share. The loss was $222 per share. 
I was induced to subscribe to The R. N.-Y. 
by a millionaire farmer who said the de¬ 
partment called “Hope Farm Notes” was 
every week worth more than the price of the 
paper for a whole year. That department is. 
all right, and so is the whole paper. It’s 
the only farmer’s paper I ever have taken, 
notwithstanding that I have taken, and do 
now, several farm papers, but a farm paper 
is not always a farmer’s paper, f. e. n. 
Maine. 
This New England farmer has the sit¬ 
uation pretty well in mind, and he ex¬ 
presses it with considerable clearness and 
force. Many papers with farm titles 
are not and never have been farmers’ 
papers. Their chief function has been 
to farm the farmer. Sometimes cultiva¬ 
tion is done by the publisher himself, but 
oftener by some fake advertiser who pays 
him for the privilege. Publishing a 
paper exclusively for the interest and ben¬ 
efit of the farmer is such a novel enter¬ 
prise that many are not ready to accept 
it. They think there must yet be some¬ 
thing back of it that will show up later. 
Well, they are right. There is a whole 
lot back of it, and it will all show up 
later, true enough. The faker as a farm 
publisher has had his day. His days of 
success are numbered. We do not be¬ 
lieve he will ever publish a real farmers’ 
paper because his heart is not in sympa¬ 
thy with the men and women who people 
the farms; but his partnership with the 
rogues who exploit the farms must be 
dissolved. Every true farmer, from the 
millionaire to the hired man ambitious to 
own a farm of his own some day, has a 
personal interest at stake in the success 
of a real farmers’ paper. 
Postmaster General Meyer has an¬ 
nounced that he will advise the establish¬ 
ment of a parcels post and postal savings 
banks in his next message to Congress. 
These are two measures that would greatly 
benefit farmers. The parcels post would 
be a great saving and convenience in both 
sending and receiving small parcels 
through the mail at reasonable rates. The 
postal savings bank would afford a con¬ 
venient and safe deposit for savings. 
With their use the temptation to invest 
in fake schemes and watered stocks 
would no doubt be somewhat abated. 
Enclosed find check. I consider the “Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk” the most valuable portion of 
your paper. In fact, I can’t afford to do 
without your paper, having neither the time 
or facilities to keep posted on all the fraudu¬ 
lent schemes advertised in many of the farm 
papers. I am an ardent advocate of the 
“square deal.” whether it relates to Jersey 
cattle, politics, or articles advertised. I 
wish you the success you so well deserve. 
Pennsylvania. w. p. K. 
The above note is from an advertiser 
as well as a subscriber. We are not pub¬ 
lishing these letters for personal lauda¬ 
tion or glorification in any sense, but to 
show that the great majority of business 
men as well as farmers are tired of 
frauds and disgusted with fakers. Every 
honest man, no matter what his calling, is 
an advocate of the “square deal.” 
J. J- d- 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
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Quality in Incubators makes the difler- 
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10 000 FERRETS from selected breeders. Per- 
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DOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN rnokorelH and pullets IV,r sale, 
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THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
WHITE WYANIIOTTKS—Choice yearling liens 
” reasonable: baby chicks 10c each; eggs for hatch¬ 
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PULLETS WANTED. 
Any number, any variety, anywhere. 
Write for Prices. 
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PRESTON PIGEON FARM, Morton, Pa. 
EMPIRE STATE S. G. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. V. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5: Eggs 
for hatching, $1 for 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. II. ZIMMER, R. 1). 41. Weedsport N.Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
NO RETTER STOCK. NO BETTER EGGS. 
February chicks for early shows. All stock sold on 
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ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
BLACK ORPINGTON 
WHITE LEGHORN 
WHITE LEGHORN AND WHITE 
WYANDOTTE EGGS. 
GUARANTEED TO HATCH. Send for Catalogue C. 
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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 
ami Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
five ribbons and two silver cups won at the last 
Poughkeepsie, Danbury, Walden and Madison Square 
Garden Snows. Mated pens of five matnreu pullets 
and one lino 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, 
BANNER 
VERMIN 
LICE AND 
POWDER 
A cheap, effective dis¬ 
infectant and remedy, 
in powder form to be 
dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
3lbs.50o. 6 X lba.$1.00. (f.o.b.N. Y.City) 
Excelsior" Wire and Poultry Supply Co., < 
Dept.HG 20-28 Vesey St., New York City. I 
Paint 
Baths 
are given to farming 
implements nowadays 
instead of good coats 
of genuine paint. 
it occur to you that 
harrow or wagon was 
ctive if it were merely 
washed with an alleged 
factory, for the sake 
of coloring it nicely ? 
The kind of paint on a wagon or implement is important in 
the same way that the strength of its bolts or springs or frame 
is important. 
Paint is a great deal more serious thing on the farm than mere 
ornament—something to make implements and buildings look 
gay when new. Good paint is the very life of things. A few 
dollars’ worth makes expensive things last and paint is therefore 
another word for economy. 
Does the paint scale off your implements rapidly nowadays ? 
It was not so when manufacturers universally used Pure White 
Lead Paint. You can remedy matters by repainting, not only 
wagons and implements, but all buildings, with Pure White 
Lead and Linseed Oil; and repairs and maintenance will be a 
constant expense if care is not taken to see that the lead and 
oil are pure. 
Look for the Dutch Boy Painter on the side of the white 
lead keg. It is a guarantee of purity, and a protection against 
getting, against your will, the same kind of imitations which 
the implement makers so frequently use. 
Send for Book 
“A Talk on Paint,” gives valuable informa¬ 
tion on the paint subject. Sent free upon request. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
in whichever of the following cities is nearest you: 
Now York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, 
Chicago, 8t. Louis, Philadelphia [John T. Lowis & 
Bros. Co.]; Pittsburg [National Loud 4 Oil Co.] 
M/SDhavehs 
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. Wm. 
Rust & Sons, Eat. 1854. Dept. P,New Brunswick, N.J. 
W OULDN'T you like to get all the 
value out of the manure—the 
only fertilizer produced on the 
farm? 
There's an alarming waste in the way 
manure is ordinarily handled. It is an 
easy matter to get double the value that 
most farmers are now getting from it. 
Don't let it lie in piles in the barnyard 
indefinitely, to ferment and burn up 
from a third to a half of its fertilizing 
content. 
Don’t allow the rains to drain and 
wash away into the streams the rich 
liquids that are so valuable for plant 
food. 
Don't haul it out and throw it in piles 
in the fields to waste. 
Haul it out as it is produced, when it 
is fresh, while it is in its most valuable 
form, while it contains all its fertilizing 
elements, and distribute it evenly and 
thinly so that the land will receive every 
particle of its fertilizing content. 
The Corn King return apron spreader 
and the Cloverleaf endless apron 
spreader are both made exceptionally 
strong and durable. The operation of 
each machine is controlled by a single 
lever. The quantity of manure to be 
spread is regulated by means of this 
lever, the range of adjustment being 
from 3 to 30 loads. 
Certain features are peculiar to these 
two spreaders and not found on other 
spreaders, such as the vibrating leveling 
rake which brings the manure up square 
and level to the beater, and the driving 
of the aprons by applying power to both 
sides, thus avoiding binding, friction 
and twisting, with consequent breakage. 
The wheels are made of steel with 
broad tires, and the front wheels cut 
under to permit short turning. The 
draft is as light as can be secured in any 
spreader which provides the necessary 
strength to sustain the proper working 
apparatus. 
The Corn King and Cloverleaf spread¬ 
ers are made in sizes to meet the needs 
of the users, and can be secured by call¬ 
ing upon the local dealer. 
Call for catalogs and colored hangers 
illustrating and describing these ma¬ 
chines, or write us for little booklet on 
wasteful practices on the farm, which 
you will be thoroughly interested in 
reading. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA 
(Incorporated) 
