1907 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
693 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
We have previously referred to several 
inquiries received from officers of local 
Granges in reference to the Patrons Co¬ 
operative Company, 169 Chambers street, 
New York City, and advised delay in 
pending contracts until we were called on 
more fully to inform ourselves in regard 
to them. We now learn through a verbal 
interview with the secretary that the com¬ 
pany has decided to go out of business. 
Is the De King Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill., a 
good and reliable firm, and will they do as 
they agree about their separator and aerator? 
New York. c. c. w. 
We have referred to this concern sev¬ 
eral times. We cannot recommend the 
goods. They do not make a separator. 
They had a so-called three-minute churn, 
which did not give satisfaction. Better 
leave it alone. 
Times are hard with me, and when I had 
to choose between The R. N. Y. and the 
— it didn’t take me long to drop the lat¬ 
ter. They never opened tneir mouths about 
Ostrander, and he got my $15 with his little 
telegram through his advertisement which 
they carried. You are surely making friends 
by 'getting after the frauds and dirty poli- 
iticians. Keep it up. G. a. i* 
New Jersey. 
The policy of some publishers is never 
to say a word about fraudulent adverti¬ 
sers, because they fear it may deter their 
readers from the patronage of other ad¬ 
vertisers. We believe this would be the 
effect where the paper accepts and runs 
objectionable advertising. In our own 
case, however, we have found the opposite 
effect. The closer we draw the line on 
the class of advertising we accept, and 
the more we show up the fakes and 
frauds, the more our people patronize the 
advertisers we accept. It is simply a 
matter of confidence, and confidence is 
not a mushroom growth. It does not 
Spring up spontaneously over night. It is 
a plant of slow growth. To enjoy it 
generally you must merit it. There is no 
other way. The guarantee of advertisers 
by publishers really means nothing any 
more. Many of the fake papers guarantee 
their advertisers, and run the most trans¬ 
parent frauds. Even papers with some 
pretence of decency squirm out of the 
responsibility on one pretext or another. 
In all such cases the guarantee is valuable 
only to the advertiser, and to his accom¬ 
plice the publisher, in giving the farmer 
a false security and in that way making 
him a more ready victim of the fraud. 
In an editorial on fraudulent advertising 
and a recent Massachusetts law restricting 
it, Farm Poultry includes the subjoined 
paragraph: 
The Rural New Yorker, a high-class agri¬ 
cultural weekly, has recently been going far¬ 
ther than most of the publications of its 
class, and exposing some of the frauds. This 
i§ a good thing when a paper is sure of your 
case, and the fraud has put himself under its 
jurisdiction by advertising in it and defraud¬ 
ing its subscribers; but the exposure busi¬ 
ness may easily be carried too far, and the 
paper which undertakes in good faith to spe¬ 
cialize in the exposure of advertising frauds 
is likely to find its efforts somewhnt under 
suspicion, because, as The R. N. Y. correctly 
observes, some of the publishers who guar¬ 
antee their advertisers are the most trans¬ 
parent frauds, and are notorious fakers them¬ 
selves. 
For our own part we are not worrying 
much over any suspicion that we may 
invite through our exposures of frauds 
wherever we find them. Honest adverti¬ 
sers are glad to be relieved of association 
with them, and readers seem pleased to 
have them pointed out, that knowing them 
they may leave them alone. 
A subscriber in Michigan sends us a 
burden of literature from the National 
Art and Crayon Company of Chicago. It 
seems the farmer is an old man, 56 years 
of age and engaged to work for the Chi¬ 
cago house at $80 per month, and a new 
suit of clothes every two months. It 
seemed like a good thing for a poor man, 
and lie seemed inclined to take it up, but 
he found the $50 they sent him for ex¬ 
penses and advance on salary was not 
payable until he had sent in a definite 
number of orders. In other words, the 
talk of salary and expenses had a string 
to it. It is the old dodge of pretending 
to engage canvassers on salary; but in¬ 
sisting that they actually work on a com¬ 
mission, after paying in advance for a 
lot of the goods or for some sort of an 
outfit, which in this case seemed to be 
a suit of clothes. There are perfectly 
good and responsible houses which employ 
men to sell goods on a commission of the 
sales, but houses that offer a salary and 
insist on a commission basis of payment 
do not inspire one with any too much 
confidence. 
The Bicycle Trust failed some years 
ago. It was bought in for $3,500,000 and 
$500,000 in certificates, making $4,000,000 
in all. That was probably its approx¬ 
imate value. The business was then cap¬ 
italized for $22,000,000. That is to say, 
$18,000,000 of water was pumped into ft. 
In other words, for every dollar’s worth 
of stock represented by an actual asset 
there was four dollars’ worth of stock, 
represented only by the hope that the 
bicycle craze prevalent at the time should 
continue and increase in frenzy. This 
didn’t happen, and the company is again 
in the hands of receivers. We do not 
think that any attempt was ever made to 
sell this stock to the public. We have 
had no complaints from anyone, and in 
this particular case as far as we know no 
one has been hurt. We refer to it sim¬ 
ply because it illustrates the methods of 
capitalizing these large concerns; but it 
must be remembered that this one had 
really more substantial assets back of it 
than many that we have examined. The 
incident serves merely to illustrate the 
tendency of financiers to capitalize a per¬ 
manent demand or a passing craze. 
I see that Mr. Dawlev has begun three 
suits against you. I will be glad to give 
$3 for the defense, and guess that I am 
not the only one. a. l. ii. 
New York. 
When we received the above letter we 
wrote in reply simply to thank this good 
friend for his interest and sentiment 
which we prized far in excess of any 
material contribution to the cause. In 
prompt reply we received the following: 
Yours of August 7th received. I enclose 
check for $3 for these three suits, and hope 
you will be able to give Mr. Dawley some 
more medicine that he won’t like, but which 
wili do him good. a. l. h. 
New York. 
The Three Dollars we placed to this 
man’s subscription account, which ad¬ 
vances his subscription for three years 
beyond the time for which he had al¬ 
ready paid. We had several letters from 
readers who were willing to contribute 
to a fund to enable Mr. Rogers to bring 
suit against Mr. Dawley, but this good 
friend goes a little further, and actually 
puts up the cash to help in our defense. 
We appreciate his good intentions and 
friendship more than we can well ex¬ 
press, but the expense we must bear our¬ 
selves. The business is by no means rich 
as wealth is reckoned these days; but it 
is abundantly able to meet all the ex¬ 
pense which it is likely to incur in this 
case. Other friends have been of great 
help to us in sending in information, and 
all can do us great service by sending in 
new subscribers. This will increase the 
efficiency of the paper, and at the same 
time help in a way that we will appre¬ 
ciate in providing for the expense in 
these and similar cases that may at any 
time arise. This is a good time of year to 
interest your friends in the 10 weeks for 
10 cents subscriptions. We have all the 
facts now in the Jersey cattle case, and 
the whole matter will be fully explained 
and responsibility placed where it be¬ 
longs. 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. 
FOR SALE-ANGORA RABBITS. 
Long, Silky White Hair. Reasonable. 
B. S. DAYTON, 380 Prospect St., Torrington, Conn. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 50 prize winning Cockerels, 
* $2 each; 25 Pullets, $1.50 apiece. 
K. K. WOODIN, Mechanlcsville, New York. 
30 BUFF ROCK HENS 
and two Roosters for sale at $1.25 apiece, if taken at 
once. HOWARD SUTTON, Fairmount, New Jersey. 
Golden Rod Poultry Y'ards. 
PULLETS WANTED. 
Any number, any variety, anywhere. 
Write for Prices. 
THE PARK & POLLARD CO., 
123 Friend Street, Boston, Mass. 
GS FROri DONE 
Green cut bone doubles egg yield. More fertile 
eggs, vigorous chicks, early broilers, heavyfowls. 
MAMN’C LATEST MODEL 
ITIfiraH O BONE CUTTER 
10 days free trial. No money In advance. Send It 
back at our expensed you don’t likeit. Cat’lgfree. 
F.W.MANN CO. | BOX 15.Milford, Mua. 
POULTRY COMFORT 
means poultry profit. Keep 
your fowls healthy and free 
from lice with 
Rust’s Rice-Killing Powder 
Prices: 10c, 25c, 50c, and $1.00 
at dealers. Valuable booklet and 
egg-record free. 
Wm. Rust & Sons, (Established 1&54) 
Dept, p, New Brunswick, N. j. 
FEED GREEN BONE 
— - ■ Mako your poultry profitable. Hens' 
lay moro eggs. Chicks grow fkt faster. Cut ityoureelf. 
This guaranteed $8.80 Standard Bone Cutter is just the 
thing. W rite for catalog of larger sizes and free trialplan. 
Standard Bone Cutter 0o„ Milford, Maas, 
BANNER 
VERMIN 
LICE AND 
POWDER 
Vr cNw** A cheap, effective dis- 
i///yyb\\\YvNM infectant and remedy, 
in powder form to be i 
dusted on. Perfectly 
harmless. 5 oz,15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
Mbs.50c. 6Mlbs.»1.00. (f.o.b.N. Y.Oity) 
Kicelsior'Wire and Poultry Supply Co„ i 
I Dept. HG 26-38 Vesey St,, New York City, I 
28 Years of 
DE LAVAL 
CREAM 
SEPARATORS 
This is the record of the DE LAVAL machines which is of 
itself a mountain of strength beside which the records of all 
would be attempting cream separators are but mole-hills. 
It means a feeling of confidence in the purchase of a cream 
separator to know that you are putting your money into the 
machine which was FIRST and which has LED in every 
single step cf cream separator IMPROVEMENT, all imitating 
machines simply taking up such old features as expiring 
patents leave open to them. 
It means something in putting your money into a cream 
separator to know that you are not only getting the machine 
which will DAILY give you the best results, but one of which 
there are already many thousands an average of TWENTY 
YEARS in us Q , while the average life of imitating machines 
is not over five years and most of the so-called “ cheap ” 
machines of to-day are not likely to last two years. 
A De Laval catalogue, to be had for the asking, must con¬ 
vince you that De Laval machines are not only the best but 
actually the cheapest, 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph & Canal Sts. 
CHICAGO 
1213 & 12 15 Filbert St. 
PHILADELPHIA 
Drumm & Sacramento Sts. 
SAN FRANCISCO 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET, 
NEW YORK. 
173-177 William Street 
MONTREAL 
14 & 16 Princess Street 
WINNIPEG 
107 First Street 
PORTLAND, OREG. 
KRESO'DIP 
AND 
Hand Dressing All Stock. 
PUTS AN END TO 
LICE, TICKS, MITES, 
FLEAS, MANGE, SCAB, 
RINGWORM, ALL 
SKIN DISEASES. 
Don’t waste time and money on inferior dips, 
-USE- 
NON-CARBOLIC. STANDARDIZED. 
Prepared in our own laboratories. Ask your 
druggist for Kreso Dip. Write us for free 
booklets telling how to use on all live stock. 
PARKE, DAVIS & CO. 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 
Branches: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Balti¬ 
more, New Orleans, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Minneap¬ 
olis, Memphis: London, Eng.; Montreal, Que.: Sydney, 
N.S.W.jSt. Petersburg, Russia; Bombay, India; 
Tokio, Japan; Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK & EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, Rlu ^m u ’’ 
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 Co., fi.Y. 
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. 
0. H. ZIMMER. 11. 1). 41. Weedsport, N. V. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Cockerels 
for sale. Very best Strain. 
I. C. HAWKINS, Bullville, New York. 
FFRRFTQ- Rnise ' ‘ n smaR ' ots: aro Strong and 
rE.nilC.IO healthy; warranted good rat and 
rabbit hunters. Also, a few choice Fox Terrier Pups. 
For descriptive circular and price list, write 
SHADY LAWN FERRET FARM, New London,Ohio 
10 000 EERRET S from selected breeders. Per- 
1 feet workers. '1 bey exterminate rets, 
drive out rabbits. -18 p. illus’d buok and price 
list freo. S- IVUNSWOKTII, Middletons, Ohio. 
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 HOOK, 
“How to Make Money 
with Squabs.” 
PLYMOUTH KOCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
CLOSING OUT SALE—White Holland and Huff Turkeys, White 
— Kmbden and Toulouse Geese,Mammoth Pekin Ducks, N.C. and 
11. C. It. I. lieds. LOZKL1.A WILSON, Cliamllersville, Ohio. 
DARMERS, 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 tolls how. Address 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM, Morton, Pa. 
* ''mated SS HOMER PIGEONS SALE. 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Wm. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
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 Snows. 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, 
** 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 
0,000 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 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 modorate 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 . 
irr-na nnu f Single Comb White Leghorns, $2.00 
haithinu 5 White Wyandottes, 2.50 
naiuiiJNi, ^ Barred Plymouth Rocks, 2.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
LEE T. HALLOCK, Proprietor, - - - 
I‘r 100. 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
Per 1,000. 
$ 00.00 
80.00 
00.00 
IONA, New Jersey 
