1907. 
437 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Some of our good friends delayed the 
renewal of their subscriptions until the 
last moment. We were- anxious that every 
subscriber have one of the new grapes. 
1 lie cold weather favored late shipping, 
and we kept promising to ship the plants. 
But your waiting and our promising went 
on a little bit too far. All at once che 
nursery advised us the plants were too 
much advanced to ship, and we had to 
stop then and there. There would be no 
good in sending out plants that would lot 
live. As a result, we have promised a 
couple of thousand plants that we could 
not ?nd this month. We are obliged 
to ci re for these now during the Sum¬ 
mer, and will send them in the Fall as 
soon as the leaves are dormant. We are 
sorry to disappoint these people who were 
looking for the plants this month, but the 
disappointment aside, there will be no dif¬ 
ference to them except the pleasure of 
seeing them develop this season. It will 
make some extra work and expense for 
us, but under the circumstances we could 
do nothing else. We will care for these 
plants during the Summer and mail them 
in time for Fall planting. 
A wrong done one farmer is the con¬ 
cern of all farmers. The swindler and 
dead beat makes no choice of victims. He 
may catch any of us unless we are on the 
lookout for him. We have had several 
letters on the lines of the following: 
I saw wliat you said about A. J. Anderson, 
Richmond, Va. I have known him for 20 
years. It is said every Jack has a Gill; 
and his reference must be a Gill. He has no 
place of business except the street. 11 is 
home is deeded to his wife. I recently heard 
him tell a neighbor he had 25 boxes'of fine 
oranges and asked the neighbor what he ex¬ 
pected Anderson would make out of them. 
“You will make all you get,” was the reply, 
“because you will never pay anything for 
them.” h. w. g. 
Virginia. 
Some time ago I sold F. L. Edwards, West- 
ville, Conn., 25 White I^eghom hens. He 
wrote me making an offer saying he must 
have them at once and check was ready. I 
shipped them, but can get no reply since. 
The express company delivered the hens. 
Perhaps warning would save some other 
Rural reader. c. E. peaslee. 
Gonic, N. H. 
This seems to be a good man to let 
alone. We asked him for an explanation 
of the above transaction, but got no reply. 
Add his name to the list to leave alone. 
By the way, every farmer ought to keep 
a list of these fellows. It will not cost 
much time and it may save some money. 
We print this letter from the far South 
without so much as a change in the dot¬ 
ting of an i or the crossing of a t: 
I am often asked why do you take that 
paper down here where everything is so dif¬ 
ferent in the line of farming from those 
northern truck patches. I say first it is a 
clean paper, young or old can read it all: no 
filth there. Second, it stands for the farmer 
and the right. I point to the article about 
the voters supporting Governor Hughes: that 
is worth more than my entire subscription. 
Then I watched the fight on the oleo sup¬ 
porters and when the farmers won 1 felt 
like clapping each on the shoulder and say¬ 
ing : thank you, now I have a chance to get 
real butter to eat instead of lard from chol¬ 
era hogs and cottonseed oil and other filth. 
Then your stand about those recorded Jerseys 
was my thought in print. I have owned 
purebred stock recorded. I firsl see if the 
animal is a good specimen of the breed. If 
not, I don’t want it at anv price. Then 1 
want the pedigree to show the purity of the 
blood. Roth must agree if I buy. Now if 
pedigrees are not to lie relied on. why pay 
such high price to improve your stock? Let 
the farmers stand together: support their 
friends, and they will get their rights. The 
grape is eight inches high, new growth. 
Wishing you every success. j. m. m. 
Louisiana. 
Honesty and courage and decency are 
the same the world over. Think of a 
farmer near the mouth of the great Mis¬ 
sissippi cheering on and lending his en¬ 
couragement and moral support to the 
man on the upper waters of the Hudson 
for decent government and honest service 
to the people. It is a happy augury 
for the Republic that the farmers in all 
parts of the country have taken a hand 
in the purification of public affairs. 
We have' referred several times to the 
failure of the Cash Buyers’ Union First 
National Co-operative Society. For the 
benefit of fhose who are invited to invest 
in these co-operative propositions we re¬ 
fer to it once more. The company was 
organized with $5,000,000 authorized cap¬ 
ital stock. The man who organized it had 
no means to start with. He claimed that 
the business was solvent and highly prof¬ 
itable, which was not true. During the 
time he was selling stock he paid divi¬ 
dends on the stock. It is evident now that 
these dividends were not legitimate earn¬ 
ings, but evidently paid out of the sales of 
stock for the purpose of inducing further 
sales. By this kind of trickery and ma¬ 
nipulation he. sold the stock, put the pro¬ 
ceeds into his pocket and the company 
then went all to smash. The promoter 
had. made his pile out of the stock, and had 
no interest in developing the business. Tt 
is said that the farmers bought and paid 
for about $4,000,000 worth of the stock. 
The promoter was arrested and dis¬ 
charged by the court because, as the judge 
put it, the Government had not established 
his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. 
How technicalities jnultiply and magnify 
in favor of the man who has stolen four 
or five million. Please remember this les¬ 
son when invited to invest in other get- 
rich-quick schemes. 
Could you inform me if the Queen Fire 
Insurance Co. of New York, is all right. 
They have an agent in this section, but the 
premiums are so low that I thought perhaps 
they were not a responsible firm. t. r. 
Virginia. 
The correct title of this company seems 
to be The Queen Insurance Company of 
America, now at 84 William street, New 
York, formerly 43 Cedar street. It is 
owned or controlled by the Royal of Liv¬ 
erpool ; it is a strong company and one 
of the best in the country. If they are 
giving this farmer a rate that seems low, 
they deserve this free advertisement. 
We have received a letter from the 
underwriters of the American Telegra- 
phone Company stock, from which we 
take the following item: 
One of the subscribers to the stock of the 
American Telegrahpone Company (who, after 
having satisfied himself as to its merits made 
the maximum subscription) encloses us a 
clipping from your issue of April 20th, in 
which you say to an inquirer who asks if the 
Telegraphone Company is a bona fide one, 
“The best we can say is to leave the stock 
alone.” He says, “I have taken The Rural 
over twenty years. Know its sterling char¬ 
acter for equity to all. It would not inten¬ 
tionally do an injustice to anyone. The ad¬ 
vice given is good on general principles. In 
the interests of the company you represent 
and the subscribers to its stock, I would be 
glad to have you put such facts before The 
Rural New-Yorker as to satisfy them of the 
merits of the proposition.” 
The sugestion is in the spirit of the letter 
we sent you a few days ago inviting you to 
make a personal investigation of the Telegra¬ 
phone and the character and bon tides of 
the Telegraphone Co. In justice to yourself 
as well as in fairness to others, you should 
do this before again writing in disparage¬ 
ment of an enterprise the excellence of which 
a competent investigation would make plain. 
We cannot understand why so reputable a 
publication as The Rural New-Yorker 
should so unqualifiedly condemn an invention 
and an enterprise that it has not taken the 
trouble to investigate. «. 
We wrote these good people and asked 
them to give us facts and data that would 
justify us in recommending the stock. No 
one has the facts to justify this but the 
promoters themselves, and all the investi¬ 
gation anyone can make of such affairs is 
practically the data they are willing to 
give. To this request we received the 
following: 
If the facts in the enclosed booklet, es¬ 
pecially in the financial prospectus part 
thereof, do not justify your recommending 
the stock of the American Telegraphone Com¬ 
pany to your enquirers and subscribers, we 
do not see just how we can further qualify 
you to serve them. If you will ask us any 
specific questions that you do not think are 
fully answered in the printed matter, we will 
be very glad to answer them. 
To this we replied: 
If you have nothing more convincing than 
the booklet you enclosed we certainly are in 
no position or frame of mind to change the 
advice already given. However, we accept 
your offer for more specific information. 
For the benefit of these investors, we should 
like to have a detailed statement of the 
assets and liabilities of your company. A 
statement of just how much stock is issued— 
how much issued for cash and how much for 
other considerations, and what those other 
considerations are. We would also like to 
know just how much has been paid out for 
development and for the manufacturing plant, 
and in a general way what the expenses of 
the company have been and how long its 
plant has been in operation. Also how much 
stock is held by the directors of the company, 
and whether or not they have paid its face 
value in cash. With this information in 
hand, we may be in a position to revise our 
conclusons with reference to the stock as a 
desirable investment. 
This is the pith of their reply for the 
detailed information: 
Inasmuch as we have sold all of the stock 
that was placed with us, we have no interest 
in a useless discussion of the merits of this 
investment, and have referred your letter to 
the Telegraphone Company. 
We don’t know who the subscriber is 
who put his money into this company rep¬ 
resenting $5,000,000 qf stock, 35 per cent 
of which has been issued for patents, 
which is practically all the useful informa¬ 
tion we have been able to get in reference 
to it; but we hope for his sake that he 
will realize his expectations. We still ad¬ 
vise to let it alone. 
This is rather a busy time to talk about 
subscriptions, but it is just the time of year 
you need the best service. We could 
fix up a very readable paper just as others 
are doing without costing us very much. 
But these busy days the farmer wants re¬ 
liable information. We intend that he is 
going to have it in the fewest possible 
words. It does not cost so much to get 
stuff to print, but it costs a great deal to 
maintain an organization capable of de¬ 
tecting the reliable and practical from the 
mere plausible smooth writing from a 
man who has only a theoretic knowledge 
of his subject, and who could not make 
a success of the subject himself. Some¬ 
times it costs more to run down a fraud 
well entrenched in a fake business than to 
provide matter for a whole issue of many 
of the farm papers. When his game is 
all out, and he has his victim’s money, any 
one can see that he is a rogue, but we 
want to get at him while he is developing 
his schemes, and before he has the money 
of our people. We usually get it, but it 
costs time of good trusty men and money. 
No publisher of a small paper could af¬ 
ford the necessary expense of these 
features of The R. N.-Y. Just as no 
paper with a free distribution or nominal 
subscription price can afford to exclude 
fraudulent or deceptive advertisements. 
It must be plain to you, therefore, that it 
is to your interest not only to renew your 
own subscription, but also always to help 
at every opportunity to increase the num¬ 
ber of readers of the paper that is really 
serving your interests. These consider¬ 
ations seem to justify us in asking you 
to interest your neighbors in a 10-weeks 
for 10 cents subscription, even in these 
busy weeks, and also to send in your own 
renewal promptly. j. j. d. 
I Warranted to Give Satisfaction. 
Gomhauli’s 
Caustic Balsam 
Has Imitators But No Competitors. 
A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for 
Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hock, 
Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind 
Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, 
Ringbone and other bony tumors. 
Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, 
Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all 
Bunches from Horses or Cattle. 
As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, 
Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., it is invaluable. 
Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is 
Warranted to give satisfaction. Price $1 50 
per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex¬ 
press, charges paid, with full directions for 
its use. LWSend for descriptive circulars, 
testimonials, etc. Address 
The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0. 
E stablished 1888. — 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 setting; Trap-nested Lay¬ 
ing Bred, $2 per setting, J8 per 100; or little chicks, 
$15 per 100. F.LM POULTRY YARDS, liox T, Hartford, Conn. 
MDNFY IN < sflllAftt _Try it- Pure Homers, guar- 
muiin in OyuflDO anteed, mated and ready to 
work. $1.50 per pair. Write us. 
MARYLAND SQUAB COMPANY, TOWSON, MD 
Q U ABS 
Our Drive Mated 
and Tested I 
Squab Breeders will not dis-1 
appoint either the experienced 
breeder or the beginner. Each pair 
banded and every pair guaranteed 
mated. The merits, of our stock 
can be proved by a three months’ 
trial. Write today for our special trial offer. 
BAY STATE SQUAB CO., Wakefield, Mass. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS 
— largest and most prolific. We were first; 
our birds and methods revolutionized the 
industry and are widely copied. First 
send for our FREE BOOK, 
“How to Make Money 
with Squabs.” 
PLYMOUTH KOOK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
PI mISd ss HOMER PIGEONS S 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Win. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
SQUAB BREEDING HOMERS &TSBSSK; 
in large or small lots: birds in prime working con¬ 
dition; write us for prices. Send 100 in stamps for 
our book, it tells bow to raise and market Squabs. 
PRESTON PIGEON FARM Morton. Pa. 
1,000 CHOICE FEKRETS for the 
Sl>rhiK trade. Perfect workers. They clear out 
rats, hunt rabbits. *18 p. illus’d book,6c. Cir. price 
list free. 
S. FARNSWORTH, Middletown, Ohio. 
UfHITE COCHIN I5ANTAM— Eggs from winners 
11 at Danbury and New York, $2.00 per 11. 
AWEE BANTAM YARD, Ridgefield, Conn. 
On CIJPC P er * ieu f rom my Barred Rocks in 1906. My 
■ I LUUO REDS are equally pood layers. Cash with order. 
Eggs, 75c. per 13 ; $2.25 per 50. W. A. BUCK, Naples, N. Y. 
jyiAPfJS VILLA POULTRY YARDS can fill orders from all varl- 
1 1 etios, Andalusians, Rocks, Wyandottes, Minorcas, Leghorns, 
Hainburgs, Spanish, Anconas, Javas. W. G. Mosher,Sylvauia,Pa. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Greatest layers on earth. Hardy, 
Prolific, Farm-bred Birds from the 
original Tripp-Macoinber stock for J 
sale at modorate prices. 
WALTER SHERMAN, 
25 Boulevard, Newport, It. I. 
I have also Buff, Golden, White 
and Silver Wyandottes; White, 
Barred, Buff and Black Rocks; 
Brown, White and Buff Leghorns; 
Black Minorcas and Javas, Light Brahmas. “Eggs 
to Hatch” from all above kinds, at 10c. each. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds. 
Eggs. $1.50 to $5 per 15; $0 to $15 per 100. Mating List 
sent on request. A few flue Cockerels left. *2 up. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Van Alstyne’s R. I. Reds. 
Eggs for hatching from selected pens. $1.50 to $3.00 
per setting. $0.00 per hundred. 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
S. G. White & Brown Leghorns 
MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 
Prize winners wherever shown. Unexcelled for 
introducing new blood or as foundation stock. Eggs 
from my special matings, $1.50 per 15; $2.50 per 30; 
$6 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. 
IRA L. LETTS, Moravia, N. Y. 
BLACK ORPINGTONS 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
STOCK AND EGGS. 
June hatched Leghorns will develop before winter. 
July Orpingtons will develop in spite of winter. 
Our eggs are from strong, healthy, standard stock, 
hatching well, and a majority of pullets. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, Ridgefield. Conn. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS, I, r« b S 
cel lent layers; $1.00 per 15 eggs, $1.00 per 100. 
_PETER C. LITTLE. Home, Pa., R. D. No. 1. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5; Eggs 
tor hatching, $1 for 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
C. H. ZIMMER, R. I). 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from 500 mature hens, selected 
from over 1,500 birds bred for egg production. Write 
for prices. WHITE & RICE, Yorktown. N. Y. 
DOSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN layers for sale; 
I, e £f?s for hatching ; $1.00 per 15, $4.00 per 100. 
Very best strain. I, C, HAWKINS, Bullville, N. Y. 
S n WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY. 
i Ui Healthy stock bred for heavy laying. Free 
range. Eggs for hatching, $1 per 15; $4 per hundred. 
D. F. ARNOLD, Burlington Flats, N. Y. 
BONNIE BRAE Breeders of strictly high 
nAiu rnu class Single and Rose Comb 
POULTRY FARM White Leghorns, White 
M_at \r Wyandottes, White and 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 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. Eggs for hatching in any quantity 
at $0.00 per 100; $1.50 per sitting. Eighty per cent, 
fertility guaranteed. Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs. 
$8.00 per 100. 
Largest Plant in the Vicinity of New York City 
Incubators 10,000 Eggs Capacity. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING ^. 
Best quality, properly mated, satisfaction guar¬ 
anteed, from Buff Cochins, White Langshans,Barred, 
Buff and White Plymouth Rocks, White, Buff and 
Blk. Wyandottes, R. O. R. 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, Smnatras. 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,P rop.,Whitney’sPoint.N.Y 
D vit¥ CHM’KS—Choice White Leghorns reasonable, cir- 
u cular free, FRANK EPSON, Le Roy, New York. 
E GGS $1 per I5 ; $2 per 40; from thoroughbred Brah¬ 
mas. Rocks. Wyandottes. Reds and Leghorns, 
12 varieties. Catalogue. S. K Mohr, Coopersburg, Pa. 
U/HITE AND PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTE EGGS 
y from Prize Winners, $2.00 and $3.00 per 15. White 
wyandottes only $0.00 and $10.00 per 100. LAUDER¬ 
DALE POULTRY FARM, Loudonville, Albany Co., 
N. Y. Walter MoEwan, Prop. W. H. Seik, 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 
per 15; $4.00 per 100. Mammoth Pekin Duck Eggs, $1.00 
per 11. GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
DAHRED, BUFF AND WHITE PLYMOUTH 
ROCKS, White Wyandottes, White Minorcas, 
White Leghorns, Mammoth Pekin Ducks: $3.00 each, 
$7.50 for trio, $12.00 for breeding pen. Catalogue free, 
EDWARD G. NOONAN, Proprietor East Donegal 
Poultry Yards, Marietta. Pennsylvania. 
ROCK-HOLLAND FARM s ^\ j ork e 
IV. Plymouth Bocks and W. Holland Turkeys. 
B UFF* "’h. Leghorns, Eggs 75c. per 15, $ 1 .25 per 30; S. C. It. I 
Red Eggs 90c. per 15, $ 1.50 per SO; Mottled Ancona Eggs $1 "l 
per 15, $2.00 per 30; Cir. free. JOHN A. ROTH, (pmkei town, Pa 
BARRED Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale. Special 
“ mating $1.00 per sitting. Colony mating 
$3.00 per 100. L. A. HERSHEY, R.D.5, Gettysburg,Pa 
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WOODLANDS FARM 
We will hold our Third Annual Sale of S. 0. 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 large number of chicks this soason and must make room for them 
This is an opportunity never before offered the public to secure strictly high class foundation stocK, 
at inoderate 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. 
EGGS FOB f Q. ,lnh White Leghorns, 
LEE T. 
Per 13. 
__ _ $ 2.00 
White Wyandottes, ” ’ 2.50 
Barred Plymouth Boeks, 2.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
HALLOCK, Proprietor, ... 
HATCHING 
I 
Per 100. 
$ 8.00 
10.00 
8.00 
Per 1,000. 
$60.00 
80.00 
60.00 
IONA, New Jersey 
