1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4o5 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The grapevine just received. It look* 
healthy and strong, with an abundance of 
roots. Please accept my thanks. I have 
never enjoyed The It. N.-Y. as I have the 
last year past; it is growing belter and 
stronger all the time, and its good works 
have been quite noticeable; Mr. Wadsworth 
and Dryden and also the A. J. C. C. for 
example. The right, of way is yours. Keep 
right at them and gain the laurels. 
Pennsylvania. a. c. u. 
The above letter reminds us that this 
is the last call we can make for the 
grape. In another week it will be too 
late. We have the plant all ready for 
you. Send your renewal right along to¬ 
day, and the grape will be on its way 
to you the day after we receive your 
letter. 
We hope you have enjoyed The R. 
N.-Y. for the last year as much as our 
Pennsylvania friend quoted above. We 
certainly expect the paper to grow 
stronger and better every year. We are 
not done yet with some of the old sub¬ 
jects, and there are always new ones 
coming up. We expect to give you a full 
dollar’s worth next year. If any man 
feels at the end of the year that we have 
not done so, we will cheerfully return his 
dollar. 
We take this from a recent letter from 
a New Jersey farmer printed in a recent 
issue: 
Mr. Spaulding claims to have studied 
eight years in the University of Michigan, 
and four years in the best universities of 
Germany, and making a specialty of agri¬ 
cultural chemistry. He also claims to have 
had 27 years practical experience in breed¬ 
ing seeds, in addition to his 12 years of 
technical studies. He also claims to be the 
son of a family having a plantation of about 
six thousands acres near Petersburg, Va. 
After reading the above Mr. J. S. 
Woodward, of Lockport, N. Y., writes us 
in part as follows: 
When I was a young man, and lived in 
(he town of Newfane, Niagara Couutv. Mr. 
William Spaulding moved into the town from 
Onondaga Co., and brought his family and 
bought about 100 acres. Among them was 
(’has. II. Spaulding, the oldest son, then a 
boy abot t 10 or 12 years old. To my cer¬ 
tain knowledge he never attended any school 
higher than the common school in District 
No. 3, Newfane. From his youth up he has 
always managed to be in some scheme where 
he could get money without work. While 
he lived on the Hess Road in Newfane he 
married his brother's widow, and was 
arrested and sent to jail for cruelty to his 
step-daughter and niece, his brother's child. 
Recently we had tfome complaints that 
remittances and orders sent a Saratoga 
County, New York, advertiser had never 
been acknowledged. On inquiry we were 
advised that the remittances had never 
reached the advertiser. Now comes ad¬ 
vice that the rural carrier for that sec¬ 
tion has been arrested, and among the 
letters found in his barn were about a 
dozen for the advertiser referred to; and 
some of them the letters about which 
complaint was made. This, of course, 
confirms the advertiser’s explanation, 
and also emphasizes the wisdom of mak¬ 
ing remittances by check or money order. 
Millions of letters carry money safely 
by mail. The service is generally honest, 
but it is the exception that must be 
guarded against. 
We cannot give attention to anony¬ 
mous correspondence. We frequently 
have letters asking for special informa¬ 
tion, not bearing the name of the writer. 
Often we cannot spare the space in the 
paper for these inquiries and answers, 
because they are of such a nature that 
few people would be interested or bene¬ 
fited. If we had the name of the in¬ 
quirer we would cheerfully reply by 
letter. Then sometimes there is a com¬ 
plaint entered against some person or 
system, and no name signed. We can 
pay no attention to this kind of corre¬ 
spondence. Those who want special in¬ 
formation or who have special grievances 
should do us the courtesy and show us 
the confidence of signing their full name 
and address, not necessarily for publica¬ 
tion, but for our information. 
Never write an uncourteous or threat¬ 
ening letter. The Knights of the Postage 
Stamp League should print that sentence 
with golden letters in their constitution, 
the plainer, and simpler, and pleasanter 
you write a request or a demand, the 
stronger and more effective it will be. 
To make a threat is simply to expose 
the weakness of your cause. It offends 
honest men, and it convinces rogues that 
they have nothing to fear from you. Last 
week somebody thought he did not get 
the quality of goods he ordered from an 
advertiser. If he had written a po’ite 
letter to the house and called its atten¬ 
tion to the mistake it would have been 
corrected. It is a perfectly responsible 
and reliable house. But he did nothing 
of the kind. He did not write the house 
at all. He wrote us saying we could stop 
the advertising for that house or stop 
his subscription. They were rogues, and 
while he did not say it in so many words, 
the inference was that he would con¬ 
sider us in the same class if we neglected 
promptly to comply with his demands. 
Now our conclusion is that when a man 
is unreasonable in his demands on us, 
he is equally liable to be unjust and un¬ 
reasonable with others. There is not a 
safer lot of men to deal with in the 
woild than those advertising in The R. 
N.-Y. We know this, because we know 
them, and we know the business world 
generally. They are not all angels by 
any means, and occasionally one fails in 
business or goes wrong, as the saying 
is—but there are fewer failures and less 
deception in their dealings than with the 
average class of tradesmen, because they 
have been selected with greater care, 
and are a picked class of business men. 
Some of them are very large houses, the 
heads of which cannot attend to details. 
This must be left to subordinates. Usually 
orders are filled promptly and correctly. 
Occasionally an order is delayed or an 
error has been made in filling it, but it 
is no more reasonable to call them a 
rogue or a fraud on that account than 
it would be to call a man a suicide be¬ 
cause he fell off a load of hay and broke 
his arm. These large houses are a real 
service to the country. If they were not 
they could not endure. They are com¬ 
petitors with the merchants of home 
towns. This competition means lower 
prices to the people. True, they are not 
making the low prices entirely for your 
benefit. They know they must make an 
inducement in price to attract your trade. 
It is business with them, but the people 
of the country districts get the benefit. 
What right has any one man to say that 
others shall not share this benefit be¬ 
cause he has a little grievance? Every 
week we are refusing advertising that is 
appearing in other farm papers; and so 
exacting are we about this, that some of 
the most careful of the other papers, accept 
orders that we refuse, but on the other 
hand we do not carry a single line that 
would be refused by any other paper of 
any class or description. We do not 
think that The R. N.-Y. will be accused 
of lending encouragement to rogues or 
fakers. We have done what we could to 
make their game unprofitable, without 
regard as to whether they were adver¬ 
tisers in other papers or not, but we 
shall take up no private disputes or per¬ 
sonal spites against legitimate and re¬ 
sponsible business houses. A plain court¬ 
eous letter is ipretty sure to receive 
prompt and considerate attention from a 
business house. 
Last Fall an Ohio farmer shipped tur¬ 
keys and veal to the value of about $150 
to Hartman & Carson Co., West Wash¬ 
ington Market, New York City. Up to 
April 15 he was unable to get any re¬ 
turns.. The R. N.-Y. was then asked to 
look it up. To our inquiry they said 
they would write the shipper They did. 
They were righteously surprised that the 
matter had been referred to us. Part of 
the turkeys were yet in the freezer, and 
they would not advise trying to sell 
them now. We again took the matter 
up and tried to find out what portion of 
the shipment remained unsold. On thi.s 
they were evasive. We asked them to 
settle for the portion sold, and this they 
bluntly and positively refused to do, un¬ 
til the whole lot was closed out. They 
admit having the money for the portion 
sold, but refuse to say how much. In 
other words, they propose to use the 
farmer’s, money as long as they hold a 
single bird unsold. The company is in¬ 
corporated. Parsells Cole, the president, 
was formerly employed by Hartman & 
Carson. Samuel L. Terhoun, the secre¬ 
tary and treasurer, was formerly a small 
caterer. The company succeeded to the 
Hartman & Carson business; but the 
president has refused to give details that 
would justify definite financial rating, 
also declined to give references, claim¬ 
ing. that they are not looking for credit. 
It is. reported, however, that they carry 
a fair bank account and that local bills 
arc being met promptly. We fail to see 
why a farmer in Ohio is not as much 
entitled to prompt settlement as a local 
creditor. The only difference is that the 
city creditor is in a position to insist, 
while the farmer in a distant State is at 
a disadvantage. Of course, the farmer 
is legally entitled to his money, now 
nearly six months after shipment was 
made, but he cannot well afford to go 
to law alxmt it, and will probably con¬ 
tinue to furnish capital for the prompt 
payment of city bills. 
As you have been disclosing the truth 
about some unreliable firms. I wish to ask 
ns to responsibility of the Hopkins Publish¬ 
ing Company of New York City. The firm 
offers puzzles to contestants to work out, to 
receive presents and cash prizes. I sent in 
a solution and received an answer to-dav 
stating I would receive a 14-karat gold 
finished watch for m.v answer, but must 
send $1.(10 for five years subscription to the 
Home Monthly and 60 cents for packing 
and shipping watch. I thought. I might send 
the money and that would be the last I 
would hoar from it. They offer to send a 
14-karat gold-plate chain for 50 cents also. 
l)o you think it would be a paying proposi¬ 
tion to send the money or not? l. g. 
Illinois. 
Don’t send the money. You would 
probably get a small cheap clock move¬ 
ment in a cheap watch-shaped case. They 
cost about 40 cents apiece wholesale. 
This is the watch usually used by fake 
concerns. They are sent by express and 
if you got one you would have to pay 
expressage, which is more than the trinket 
is worth. The solution of the puzzle is, 
of course, a trick to make you think you 
are going to get something valuable. It 
is an old trick; but it has brought lots 
of money to promoters of the scheme in 
the past. If you want to pay $1.60 for 
a 40-cent watch, go ahead, but remember 
the expressage charge is extra. 
Is there such a company doing business as 
the Consolidated Ginseng Co., at Rose Hill, 
New York? If so will the shareholders in 
Maryland get anything from the aforesaid 
company. One of your subscribers took a 
share in the company several years ago, but 
has not got-any income yet. r. s. s. 
Maryland. 
Yes, the company exists all right. It 
was organized under the laws of the 
State of South Dakota, with an author¬ 
ized capital of $2,000,000. It is stated 
that all the stock has been issued, and 
that. about eight acres of land is under 
cultivation for growing ginseng roots. At 
last reports it owed something over 
$5,000. No dividends have been paid. 
This is the class of investments that we 
have repeatedly advised our people to 
leave alone. j. j. d. 
FIVE MINUTE TALK 
SENT FREE “HOW TO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE AND MITES,”by only 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co., 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
An Incubator 
So 
Perfect 
No Thermometer 
is needed In its operation. 
OUR NEW AUTOMATIC 
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Byears and sold on installments. 
Don’t buy without investigating. Catalogue FREE. 
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W" rNNsT-M A cheap, effective dia- 
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harmless. 5 oz. 15c. 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
31bs.50c. 6Xlbs.$1.00. (f.o.b.N. Y.City) 
Excelsior Wire and Poultry Supply Co., 
I Dept. HG 26-28 Vesey St., New Yo?k City! 
‘ ‘UACKETT’S CAPE CURE." Tt’s a powder; the chicks 
" inhale it. Kills the worm as well as the germ, 
guaranteed. Large 20 oz. pack., postpaid, 500 (money 
order). Address, T. 0. Haekett, Hillsboro, Md., Box a 
D I I IT C ORPINGTONS-Eggs, $1 per 13. 
D U r r V. R. WOOSTER, Lysander, N. Y. 
B UFF ORPINGTON EGGS—15, $l : 45, $2.50; 100, 
$5. Pekin Ducks Eggs, 11, $1. Collie Puppies, 
males, $5; females, $4. W. A. Lothers, Peru Lack, Pa. 
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS 
First prize winners at Westchester County Fair. 
Kggs, $2.00 per setting. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
WOODSTOCK POULTRY FARM. Elmsford, N. Y 
rOLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE EGGS-$2.00 per 
^ setting. White Wyandotte, $4.00 per 100 . 
C. A. HALL, Oak Hill, N. Y. 
EGGS—Buff Turkey, Toulouse Geese, Pekin Ducks 
and S. C. Buff Leghorns exclusively from stock 
scoring 90 to 96 points. Chas. Cain, Chandlersville, 0. 
E GGS $1 per 15; $2 per 40; from thoroughbred Brah¬ 
mas, Rocks. Wyandoltes, Reds and Leghorns, 
12 varieties. Catalogue. S. K. Mohr, Coopersburg, Pa. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
S. C. W. Legh’s; selected birds from fine laying strain. 
Kggs. $1.09 per 15; $5.00 per 100. C. E. SL1TKR, 
Brookside Poultry Farm, Union, N. Y. 
I" A A O— Barred Plymouth Rocks, bi’ed 
ll IIA for 10 years trom selected Prize Win- 
ning Stock; tested layers; 240 eggs 
per hen. Eggs 650 per 13; $4 per 100. 
JAS. SINSABAUGH, Pine Bush, Orange Co.,N.Y. 
EGGS FOR 
Best quality, properly mated, satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed, from Buff Cochins, White Langshans,Barred, 
Buff and White Plymouth Rocks, White, Buff and 
Blk. Wyandottes, R. C. It. I. Reds, Rose and Single 
Comb Brown Leghorns, Rose and Single Comb White 
Leghorns, Black Leghorns, Buff Leghorns, Silver 
Duckwing Leghorns, Anconas, White and Black 
Minorcas, Houdans, Sumntras. Golden Seabrights 
and Light Brahma Bantams; Pheasants, Pea Fowl, 
Swans, Quail, Water Fowl, Pigeons, Pet Stock, &c. 
My large Illustrated Catalogue free. 
OTSELIC FARMS,W.A. Smith, Prop.,Whitney’sPoint.N.Y 
OR <fc| —Beds, K'-cks, Wyandottes. Leg- 
LULJO 0 1 1 horns, Minorcas. Also, Pigeons 
and Hares. Thirty varieties of Kggs. List Free. 
A. L. BERGEY, Telford, Penn. 
OIT ClSfiC P Pr ,len flnm my Barred Rocks in 1906. My 
I CUUO REDS are equally guod layers. Cash with order, 
Ksgs, 75c. per 13 ; $2.25 per 50. W. A. BUCK, Naples, N. Y. 
OR 000 FcBl" White Wyandotte Kggs, $4.00 per 
100 : baby chicks, safe arrival guaranteed. 
FOREST HILL FARM, Burnwood, New York. 
WHITE COCHIN BANTAM— Kggs f mm winners 
** at Danbury and New York, $2.00 per 11. 
A WEE BANTAM YARD, Ridgefield, Conn. 
Partridge Wyandotte Eggs (Doolittlo) $3.00 per 15. 
High Class. Sinclair Smith, 602 5th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS-Duston direct; Satisfaction 
•■guaranteed; $3.50 per 100. Baby chicks. Pekin Duck 
Eggs, 750 per 11. M. McMULLEN, Stanfordville.N.Y. 
W HITE AND PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTE KGGS 
from Prize Winners, $ 2.00 and $3.00 per 15. White 
Wyandottes only $6.00 and $10.00 per 100. LAUDER¬ 
DALE POULTRY FARM, Loudonville, Albany Go., 
N. Y. Walter Me EWAN, Prop. W. LI. Skik, Mgr. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES— Eggs, $1.25 per 15; $2.50 
’• per 50; $40 per 1 , 000 . Also fine breeding stock at 
$ 6.00 per trio; choice pens of ten hens and cock, 
properly mated, $15.00. Guaranteed to please. Also 
PEKIN DUCK eggs, $1.00 per 11. Send for descrip¬ 
tive catalogue. E. FRANKLIN KEAN,Stanley,N.Y. 
Wright’s White Wyandotte Eggs.-^vi^ 
per 15; $4.00 per 100 . Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs. $ 1.00 
per 11 . GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
RAKRED and WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK 
Eggs for hatching,from fancier’s matings at far¬ 
mers'prices; 15 for $ 1 . 00 ; 100 for $5.00. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Sam’l C. Jayne, R. D. 37, Laceyville, Pa. 
DA TIRED PLYMOUTH ROCK, R. I. RED AND 
“WHITE LEGHORN EGGS, from the best strains 
>n the country. $1 per sitting; $5 per hundred. 
GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., South Bound Brook, N..J 
E nterprise poultry yards, Ridgefield, 
Conn. Eggs for hatching 1907. Black Orpington. 
$6 per 16. S. C. White Leghorn, $1.50 per 16. Special, 
$3 per 15, $6 per 100. Fertility guaranteed. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS EXCLUSIVELY. 
Eggs, $1.10 per 13. Fine Cockerels, 11 months old 
S2.50. Also choice young ANGORA RABBITS 
(white), $2.50 perpair. 
mg ANGORA RABBITS 
W. FRY, Wading River, L. 1. 
B 
HiY CHK’KS—Choice White Leghorns reasonable, cir¬ 
cular free, FRANK EDSON, Le Roy, New York. 
B UFF, Wh. Leghorns, Kggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30: S. C. K. I. 
Keil Kggs 90c. per 15, $1.50 per SO; Mottled Ancona Kggs. $1.25 
per 15, $2.00 per 30; Clr. free. JOHN A. ROTH, qnakei'tonn. Pn. 
PARKED, BUFF AND WHITE PLYMOUTH 
u ROCKS, White Wyandottes, White Minorcas, 
White Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks; $3.00 each, 
$7.50 for trio, $12.90 for breeding pen. Catalogue free, 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, Proprietor East Donegai 
Poultry Yards, Marietta, Pennsylvania. 
BONNIE BRAE 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Breeders of strictly high 
Class Single and Rose Comb 
White Leghorns. White 
Wyandottes, White and 
and Pekin Ducks. Sixty- 
cups won at the last 
Barred Plymouth Rocks 
five ribbons and two silver 
Poughkeepsie, Danbury Walden and Madison Square 
Garden Shows. Eggs for hatching now reaoy in any 
quantity at $6 to $8 per 100, $1.50 and $2.00 per sitting. 
Eighty per cent, fertility guaranteed. Send for free 
circular. Choice breeding cockerels and PekinDucks 
still on hand in any quantity. Largest plant in vicin- 
ty of NewYork City. Incubators 10,OGO eggs capacity 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
for hatching, $i for 15: $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. ii. ZIMMER, R. i’. 41 . Weedsport, N. Y. 
E stablished isss. — bred for pleasure and profit. 
Barred, White, Buff Rocks; White, Buff Wyan¬ 
dottes; White, Brown Leghorns, Rhode Island 
Reds, Minorcas, Brahmas, Orpingtons. Eggs, high 
quality exhibition, $5 per sotting; Trap-nested Lay¬ 
ing Bred, $2 per setting, $8 per 100 . Catalogue. 
ELM FOULTHY YARDS, Box Y, Hartford, Conn. 
jyVAPLK VILLA POI LTHY YARDS can fill orders from all vari- 
1 * eties, Andalusians, Hocks, Wyandottes, Minorcas, Leghorns, 
Hamburg, Spanish, Anconas, Javas. W. G. Mosher,Sylvania,I’a. 
R 
HODE ISLAND RED EGGS from choice matings, 
$4.75 per 100. Mapleside Farm, Skaneateles, N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
Eggs, $1.50 to $5 per 15; $6 to $15 per 100. Mating List 
sent on request. A few fine Cockerels left, $2 up. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Van Alstyne’s R. I. Reds. 
Eggs for hatching from selected pens. $1.50 to $3.00 
per setting, $ 6.00 per hundred. 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds^vi^^;. sf L ^s n 
Try a few settings and be convinced and raise some 
prize winners besides. Eggs from prize winning stock 
and satisfaction guaranteed. Eggs, $1.00 per setting 
of 15. J. F. KELLOGG, Avon, N. Y. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Greatest layers on earth. Hardy, 
Prolific, Farm-bred Birds from the 
original Tripp-Macomber stock for 
sale at moderate prices. 
WALTER SHERMAN, 
25 Boulevard, Newport, K. I. 
I have also Buff, Golden, White 
and Silver Wyandottes; White, 
Barred, Bnff and Black Rocks; 
Brown, White and Buff Leghorns: 
Black Minorcas and Javas, Light Brahmas, 
to Hatch” from all above kinds, at 10 c. each. 
STONE RIDGE, 
__ NEW YORK. 
W. Plymouth Bocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
"Eggs 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN layers for sale; 
eggs for hatching ; $1.00 per 15, $4.00 per 100. 
Very best strain. I. C. HAWKINS, Bullville, N. Y. 
Standard-bred Poultry —Highest quality: lowest 
prices; catalog free. Fairvtew Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
S ft WHITE I.EGHOKNS EXCLUSIVELY. 
■ 0 1 Healthy stock bred for heavy laying. Free 
range. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; $4 per hundred. 
D. F. ARNOLD, Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS, p ” eb "* 1 
cellent layers; $ 1.00 per 16 eggs, $4.00 per 100 . 
. C. LIT”—--- 
and ex- 
PETER 
i'TLE, Home, Pa., R. D. No. 1. 
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WOODLANDS FARM 1 
t, ,' vil ! hold our Third Annual Sale of S. C. W. Leghorns, W. Wyandottes and B. Plymouth 
Kocks, beginning May 1st. Woodlands Farm, the largest Poultry Plaut in America, now has on hand 
6,000 _ 
One half of these, largely Leghorns, will he 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 
1 his 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, 
$l.o 0 to $2,00 each; Males, $3.00 to $5.00. - -- - — - - 
Per 13. 
tomb White Leghorns, $2.00 
"yandottes, 2.50 
Tymouth Rocks, 2.00 
Send for Fkke Illustrated Catalogue. 
LEE T. HALLOCK, Proprietor. ... 
EGGS FOR 
HATCHING 
f Single Coi 
< White Wj 
l Barred PI 
Per 100. 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
Per 1,000. 
$ 00.00 
80.00 
60.00 
IONA, New Jersey 
