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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
793 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
I am a breeder of registered cattle and 
take great interest in your helping an unfor¬ 
tunate buyer of cattle, and am glad to see you 
have the moral courage to do "an unpleasant 
duty. I enclose a three-years’ subscription 
in advance to show my appreciation. 
Pennsylvania. w. h. r. 
this in the paper he edits and publishes, 
simply because his experience and sym¬ 
pathy do not qualify him for it. The 
farmer feels this as soon as he reads the 
paper for a few weeks, and we simply ask 
vou to help make the connection with 
them. If you can use some of the little 
envelopes we will gladly send them. 
I send $2 as you are in trouble with 
Dawley. A. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
I just glory in the way you are making 
Frank Dawley face the music. Your paper 
is worth the price you ask—just for the 
stand you take against frauds and quacks. 
If I can be of anv service to you in increas¬ 
ing the subscription list for your paper, I 
shall be very glad to. w. j. b. 
New York. 
We cannot afford to give much space 
to the Jersey cattle case in this depart¬ 
ment, but we give the above three letters 
just as samples to show the way people 
feel about it. The first of these is from 
a prominent veterinary surgeon. Every 
man who has followed the subject wants 
to know whether or not grade cows have 
been registered and sold as purebred Jer¬ 
seys. Wouldn’t you, if you had paid your 
money for the pedigreees? 
This letter is from a prominent attor¬ 
ney : 
As a subscriber of your valuable paper 
will you give me privately what informa¬ 
tion you can of the financial standing of the 
American Real Estate Company of New 
York City, whose place of business is in the 
Night and Day bank building, Fifth avenue 
and 44th street? Two years ago 1 purchased 
some of its six per cent gold bonds for some 
of my children. The coupons on these bonds 
have been promptly paid up to this time. As 
I have some money to invest for two of my 
daughters I would be glad to have your opin¬ 
ion as to the solvency of the company and 
the character and standing of its officers for 
honesty and business capacity as real estate 
men. l. j. w. 
Kentucky. 
This company has investments in real 
estate in outlying sections of New York 
City and in suburbs. Its real estate and 
mortgages are estimated at about $9,000,- 
000. The mortgages on their real estate 
run a little over $1,300,000, and they seem 
to owe on these bonds and certificates 
nearly $7,000,000. The difficulty in ad¬ 
vising on an investment of this kind 
comes largely from the difficulty of put¬ 
ting a fair estimate on the holdings of the 
company. For example, if the company 
holds a piece of real estate and estimates 
its value at double what any informed in¬ 
vestor would pay for it, the ordinary in¬ 
quirer would have no means of finding 
this out. So that you have to depend 
largely on the estimates of the officers of 
the company for the value of its assets. 
Then bonds of this kind must not be 
confused with the idea we all have of 
bonds in connection with real estate. 
_ J- J- d. 
W hen you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page S. 
THE rain will damage 
*■ the contents of the 
building and ruin the build¬ 
ing itself. 
A leak in the roof, no 
matter how small, is a leak 
in your purse. 
The best way to make 
repairs is to cover the old 
roof with a new roof of 
Congo. 
Congo is easily laid over 
shingles, or tin, or other 
ready roofings. 
Figure up the cost end you will be aston¬ 
ished how cheaply and easily you can get a 
tight, durable, weatherproof Congo roof. 
Nails and cement furnished free. 
Send lo us for Free Sample. 
BUCHANAN-FOSTER CO., 
532 West End Trust Bldg., PHILADELPHIA. 
CHICAGO & SAN FRANCISCO. 
Such bonds are given in connection with 
a mortgage on real estate; but the gold 
bonds of this company are not mortgage 
bonds. They form no lien on any of the 
real estate. In fact, the real estate may 
he covered with mortgages three deep, 
and bought and sold and transferred 
without consideration of these gold bonds. 
The bonds are simple evidence of the in¬ 
debtedness of the company to you just as 
a simple promissory note would be. Every 
dollar’s worth of real estate the company 
has could be sold under the hammer to 
satisfy any mortgage that may be against 
it. and you would have no hold on it 
whatever. There are opportunities for a 
company handling cash in this- way to 
make good profits if honestly and wisely 
managed, but you have to put the trust 
entirely in the men who do it. and you 
must not get the idea that you hold a 
bond or mortgage on real estate when 
you invest in the gold bonds of a corpo¬ 
ration. 
Enclosed find $1 to renew m.v subscription 
and ten cents for a trial subscription. By 
the way, that trial subscription is a fine ad¬ 
vertising plan. I have sent in a few, but 
those have brought you many more. The 
first I sent you was for an intimate friend, 
he showed and recommended it to his friend, 
and from this friend you have received many 
trial subscriptions, and probably all of them 
have become permanent subscribers, for that 
is the way it has resulted from those sent 
by me. B. L. H. 
Massachusetts. 
We give the above letter because it tells 
the effect of those ten-week subscriptions 
better than we could do it ourselves. Pub¬ 
lishers generally say these short time sub¬ 
scriptions do not pay them, and after a 
trial of the plan they abandon it, saying 
it does not pay. The ten-week subscrip¬ 
tion is frankly a loss in itself to any pub¬ 
lisher. Unless there is a large percen¬ 
tage of renewals it does not pay. If we 
did not get a large percentage of yearly 
renewals we would abandon the plan too, 
but we do get them. It is through them 
largely and the interest taken by old read¬ 
ers in sending them that has resulted in 
more than doubling The R. N.-Y. list in 
the last five or six years. We are simply 
trying to give readers the service which 
our own experience on the farm leads us 
to believe every farmer wants in a farm 
paper. The city bred man cannot give 
RUFF and White Holland Turkeys, Elephant Strain, *5 pair- 
Toulouse Geese $1 pair; Mammoth Pekin Ducks t" pair’ 
B. I. Beds *1 up; trio of It. I. Whites order direct! ’ 
FLORENCE WILSON, Chandlcrsville, Ohio. 
HEN'S TEETH AND EGGS ARE SCARCE.— Feed 
Mikashel-Silira Poultry Grit, Nature’s ess producer 
Send 30c. for 100 pound bag, or ask your teed dealer 
Edge Hill Silica Rock Co., New Brunswick, N. j! 
fie mISd ss HOMER PIGEONS ™ 
Consult your interest before purchasing breed 
stock by writing Win. O. Smith for prices and otl 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUABS 
are largest and most prolific. We were first: 
our birds and methods revolutionized th< 
industry and are widely copied. Firs: 
send for our FREE BOOK, 
“How to Make Money 
with Squabs.” 
I’LYMOLTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Unwind St. Melrose. Mass. 
Cp D pCTC - R alse 1 m small lots; are strong and 
■ UIllll. I W healthy; warranted good rat and 
rabbit hunters. Also, a few choice Fox Terrier Pups 
For descriptive circular and price list, write 
SHADY’ LAWN FERRET FARM, New London,Ohio 
10,000 ™ets from selected breeders. Pe 
1 feet workers. They exterminate rat: 
drive out rabbits. 4S p. Mus’d book and prii 
list free. 8 FAKNSWOKTII, Sllddletonu, Obh 
BANNER LICE AND 
VERMIN POWDER 
, ^/r /YU' % A cheap, effective dis- 
t /'/- e, -m\ 1 u\W infectaut and remedy, 
l— >1 V min powder form to be 
’ dusted on. Perfectly 
, .....-„ 1 lb. 40c (postpaid) 
31bs. 50e. 6<4 lbs.$i.00. (f.o.b.N. Y. City) 
Excelsior-Wire and Poultry Supply Co.. 
| Dept. HO 26-28 Vesey St„ New York City. 
HEHS WILL LAV 
twice the eggs, more fertile, produce better- 
hatches, heavier fowls, earlier broilers and 
bigger profits if fed green cut bone, ricli in 
protein and all other egg elements. 
ftlANN’S latest model 
ilinilll w BONE CUTTER 
Sent on 1 0 Days Freo Trial. No money 
in advance. Never clogs. Cuts fast, easy and 
fine. Cat’lg free. 
►. W. Mann Co., Box 15 Millard, Mas*. 
ORE EGGS 
I v, ^ us /’ s • Producer —keep! 
I .steadily all winter 
T> I J ‘'t'LrtUJI ,„» v . 
I rices lie to toe per lb. at dealers 
I l’ Efl!/ Record and valuable 
booklet /rre. Write today, 
WILIAM ROST & SONS, 
LDept, p, Mew Brunawick. M. J 
INCUBATOR WHYS 
Our new book telling “Wliys” 
of poultry profits and why 
our incubator uniformly 
successful, will be sent you 
free on request. We pay freight 
QUINCY, ILL “ an< ^ euarantee our machines. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, 
No. 39, Ridgefield, Conn. 
BLACK ORPINGTONS, 
_ t4 . „ WHITE LEGHORNS. 
With utility and fancy demand increasing we are 
still beyond our Winter quarters capacity, and will 
sell at last year’s prices to reduce stock. 
We GUARANTEE SATISFA CTION on any accepted order. 
WHITE WYANpOTTES“KS"IS™I: 
good ones. FOREST HILLFAR.M, Burnwood, N. Y. 
Thoroughbred S.C. W. Minorca Cockerels 
For Sale. Verv best strain. 
A. C. OSTRANDER, - Pine Bush, N. Y. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, STOCK l EGGS 
East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta, Penn. 
HOICE R. C. Brown Leghorn cockerels farm 
raised. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, New York. 
■ARRED Rocks, Brown Leghorns, Toulouse Geese, 
at half price. Write NELSON’S, Grove City, Pa. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
300 Selected Cockerels. Fine show birds and breed¬ 
ers. All stock sold on approval, $2 to $50 each. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 5th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y’. 
PULLETS WANTED. 
Any number, any variety, anywhere. 
Write for Prices. 
THE PARK & POLLARD CO., 
123 Friend Street, Boston, Mass. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
winners at N. Y. State Fair. Cockerels and pullets 
5 mos. old, from heavy layers, $1.00 each. Catalog 
free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport, New York. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Cockerels 
_ for sale. Very best Strain. 
HAWKINS, Bullville, New York. 
Special Bargains in Pekin 
Ducks for October and No¬ 
vember. Mated pens of five 
ducks and drake $8.00, two 
pens $15.00, selected breed- 
,, „ ers or matured young ones. 
Also Single and Rose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Rocks and White Wyandottes. 1,000 
pullets for sale. Cockerels in any number. Sixty-five 
ribbons and two silver cups at tile last Poughkeepsie, 
Danbury, Walden and Madison Square Garden 
Shows Largest plant in vicinity of New York City 
Catalogue Free. 
BONNIE BRAE 
POULTRY FARM 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
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 
Cne 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 
I Ins is an opportunity never before offered the public to secure strictly high class foundation stock 
Sf 2}, pri r es i,iT ed f< 0 ,r eKgsbytrap nest system, 835 trap nests being in use. Prices: Females! 
$l.o0 to $2,00 each; Males. $3.00 to $o.00. r* r is. Por ,oo. Per i.ooo. 
Sn,‘Rle Comb White Leghorns, $2.GO $ 8.00 $60.00 
White Wyandottes, 3.50 10.00 80.GO 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, 2.00 8.00 60.00 
Send for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 
LEE T. HALLOCK, Proprietor. _-_ IONA, New Jersey 
EGGS FOR 
HATCHING 
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I N order to make money these days, a 
farmer must be up-to-date. 
Land is higher priced than it used to 
be and farm help costs more. Therefore, the 
farmer must produce more and must do it 
with less expenditure of time and labor. 
The difference between the up-to-date 
farmer and the other kind can easily be seen 
in the way the manure is handled. 
Manure is in every way the best fertilizer 
a farmer can get, and the only one that costs 
him nothing. 
The up-to-date fanner appreciates this and 
handles his manure so as to get the most 
out of it. 
f4e does not, like the old style farmer, 
haul out the manure and throw it on the 
ground in piles. In great forkfuls and hard 
lumps and allow it to wash away, dry up and 
waste over half its value. 
He knows there’s a better way and he 
uses it He employs a modern manure 
spreader and spreads his manure in just 
about one-halt the time with just about half 
the labor, and he makes the manure go twice 
as far as when spread by hand. 
All waste is thus avoided. The manure is 
torn apart and made fine and spread evenly 
and thinly over the ground, so that the first 
shower washes every particle into the soil. 
The manure Is in the right condition for the 
plant roots to lay hold of it, and the soil is 
permanently enriched. 
The Kemp 20th Century manure spreader, 
the Corn King spreader and the Cloverleaf 
spreader are machines which enable farm¬ 
ers to apply the new methods. Either of 
them will give you more than double the 
value out of the manure that you are getting 
by hand spreading. 
The Kemp 20th Century spreader is a high 
grade machine of return apron type. It 
has exceptionally strong wooden wheels 
with broad tires, is easily controlled and 
handles manure in all conditions, spreading 
from a few to many loads per acre. 
The Cloverleaf endless apron spreader 
and the Corn King return apron spreader 
differ from each other chiefly in the style of 
apron. Both have broad tired steel wheels 
and numerous features such as a vibrating 
leveling rake which enable them to handle all 
kinds of manure perfectly. They have every 
appliance for easy handling and spread all 
kinds of manure, in the quantity desired. 
All these spreaders have front wheels 
which cut under so they can be turned in 
their own length. All are of superb strength 
and yet are of light draft. All operations are 
controlled by the driver from his seat, there 
being no occasion to dismount from starting 
until the return for reloading. 
If you want to break away from old 
methods, save time and labor, and get more 
than twice as much fertilizing value out of 
your manure as you are getting now, it will 
pay you to buy one of these machines. 
Call on the International local agent for 
catalogs and particulars or write the Home 
Office. 
International Harvester Company of America* Chicago 
(Incorporated) ** 
