1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
897 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
This week we begin a new business 
year. Our books are closed each year on 
the last day of November, and we begin 
all over again the first day of December. 
This brings the beginning of our sub¬ 
scription at the same time as the new 
business year. 
This year we have gone to greater ex¬ 
travagance than ever before in our sub¬ 
scription • souvenir. We have always 
known that the good women of 
the farm home are good friends of 
The R. N.-Y.; and this year we wanted 
to do something in acknowledgment of 
their interest and friendship. So we con¬ 
cluded to publish a Cook Book that 
would be particularly adapted to the farm 
kitchen. We proposed a book the size of 
“The Business Hen”; but when the edi¬ 
tors got to work on it, they had so much 
good matter, we yielded to their entreaty 
for more space; and made The Rural 
Cook Book one and a half times the size 
of the other. Heretofore cook books 
have been written for the town and city. 
This one is for the farm. Canning and 
preserving of fruits, pickles, jellies and 
similar subjects have received special at¬ 
tention and, of course, the desirable 
recipes for handling apples outnumber 
any other book on the subject. Before 
preparing this book, we made a study of 
the cook books now on the market that 
sell for $ 1.50 to $ 2 . 50 , and we aimed to 
make this book more valuable to the farm 
home than any of these. We think we 
have succeeded. We will leave you to 
tell. This book will allow the husband 
to pay a graceful compliment to his good 
wife. We need not suggest to the young 
bachelor the proper disposition to make 
of his copy. The book will be sent on 
receipt of your renewal free and postpaid 
to any address to which you direct us to 
send it. It is printed on high quality of 
book paper from brand-new type; and 
bound in a handsome, strong and dur¬ 
able imported paper. We have also bound 
some copies in cloth for those who wish 
the stronger binding, for which you 
would need to send 25 cents extra. 
Now, good friends, this book is a great 
extravagance for this year. The price 
of paper and other expenses of getting 
out The R. N.-Y. have advanced so much 
in the last year we could not afford to do 
this on the last year’s results; but we 
have every confidence that the good 
women of the Rural family will show 
the book to neighbors and in the new 
subscriptions which result, we hope to 
make up for the expense. In the last 
year we have received many words of 
encouragement and approval from read¬ 
ers. Many others, we think, have felt in 
sympathy with the work being done; but 
have not expressed just what they felt. 
We ask them to do it now in a prompt re¬ 
newal of their subscription. 
Can you recommend the Gold Ronds of 
the Underwriters’ Realty & Title Company, 
No. 1 Madison Avenue, New York, or any 
other in your city, where money would be 
safe with good interest? The R. N.-Y. is 
improving. N. p. j. 
Illinois. 
We would like to make plain, if we 
can, just what these gold bonds are. 
These companies are simply incorporated 
companies with authority to issue, say, 
1,000 shares of capital stock at $100 a 
share. The authorized capital stock 
would then be $100,000. Now, one or 
more of the organizers of the company 
may own real estate to the value of $100,- 
000; but this may be mortgaged in first 
and second and third mortgages to the 
amount, say, of $ 95 , 000 . That would 
leave a real equity of $ 5,000 in the prop¬ 
erty. Now the company is organized 
ready for business; a directors’ meeting is 
being held, and one of the men gets up 
and says they have a proposition to buy 
this real estate for $100,000 with the un¬ 
derstanding that it is to be paid for in 
stock of the company at par. He moves 
that the offer be accepted, the motion is 
seconded, and the property now belongs 
to the company, and the capital stock is 
divided among the organizers. The prop¬ 
erty is inventoried on the books for $ 195 ,- 
000. So far so good; but there is no 
money in the treasury to buy more real 
estate, so gold bonds are issued, which, 
while elaborately printed, are nothing 
more or less than evidence of indebted¬ 
ness like a note of the company. Of 
course, principal and interest are guar¬ 
anteed in gold; but the guarantee has no 
value. It adds no new obligation to the 
so-called bond or note. If one of your 
neighbors had his farm mortgaged for 
about all it is worth, and you kno\v Tic is 
borrowing money on his notes (gold 
bonds) wherever lie can get it; and liv¬ 
ing in good style himself, you would not 
be in a hurry to loan him money on these 
notes. Yet that is just what yqji are 
asked to do in the great majority of the 
cases we are considering. The securities 
offered farmers by these companies are 
raised on equities that have no borrowing 
value in the money markets here. Need 
we say more? 
Last January I ordered $.10 worth of 
products of the Auburn Extract Co., Auburn, 
N. Y. I was to have a leather couch. The 
Roods were sent, but the company claimed 
the demand bad used up the supply of that 
particular premium, but they would send it 
later. In April they said it would be sent 
in a short time. I have since written them 
several times, but they make no reply. Wl'l 
you please investigate the case for me? 
Vermont. g. j. 
We wrote these people, but they have 
not replied. We find no rating for them 
that would justify credit, and since they 
refuse to reply to a complaint the only 
redress is to deal with some other house. 
Some time ago, when our readers be¬ 
gan to ask us about the American So¬ 
ciety of Equity, and its president and 
founder, J. A. Evcritt, of Indianapolis, 
Ind., we were confronted with the un¬ 
pleasant duty of telling what we knew of 
Mr. Everitt. We were obliged to tell 
of the different fake schemes he had 
worked on farmers since he began a fake 
seed business in a little town in Pennsyl¬ 
vania, up to the present time, when he 
was inducing them to pay for his paper 
under the pretense of a National organi¬ 
zation that would dictate the price of all 
farm products, and which he claimed had 
already advanced prices in certain prod¬ 
ucts. His scheme seemed to be to claim 
credit for every advance, no matter what 
the real cause of the increased price 
might be. As we said at the time, Mr. 
Everitt called attention to many evils, 
which everyone admitted, and which we 
are all anxious to correct; but Mr. Ever¬ 
itt was willing to promise the cure, if 
you would only put up the money for 
his paper and pay the canvasser besides. 
He succeeded in enlisting the interest of 
a good many good people; and some of 
these had grown so enthusiastic that they 
took exception to anything that was said 
about Mr. Everitt’s past and present 
schemes. It was inevitable, however, that 
these intelligent farmers should sooner 
or later wake up to Mr. Everitt’s purpose 
in forming them into a society. They 
made the discovery that Mr. Everitt was 
working them for his own personal 
profit, and they promptly turned him 
down and elected Mr. C. M. Barnett, 
Hartford, Ky., president of the society at 
the last annual meeting. At this meeting 
it developed that Mr. Everitt, as editor, 
had contracted with Mr. Everitt, as presi¬ 
dent, to make his paper the official organ 
of the society for 50 years. He induced 
the society last year to pay him $20,000 
as subscriptions to his paper, and put in 
a bill of $2,000 extra for job printing. 
When the members finally got their eyes 
open and saw that Everitt’s one and only 
use for the society was to build up his 
personal paper without regard to the in¬ 
terests of the society or the wishes of its 
members they disposed of him in short 
order, and while they were at it they also 
repudiated his contract with himself and 
voted that his paper should no longer be 
the organ of the society. Thus ends 
a faker’s attempt to capitalize the 
hardships and misfortunes of farmers 
for his own personal profit. If farmers 
take hold of the society themselves and 
use it for their own interest, we wish it 
and its new organ the fullest measure of 
success. 
Do you know the New York Merchandise 
Co., Troy, N. Y„ successors to the N. J. 
Wells Mfg. Co., Boston and New York? 
The last of August their agent came through 
this place selling boxes of soap for $2.50 
(cash). The purchaser was to select a “pre¬ 
mium.” which he was to deliver September 7. 
and at that time he was to take more orders 
for soaps, but would let no premium go for 
less than a $10 order. lie also agreed upon 
delivering the premium to exchange anything 
in this $2.50 box, for any other article of 
their make. Neither man nor premium has 
been heard of since, although efforts have 
been made to locate the company in Troy, but 
without success. g. h.' p. 
New York. 
We have had no better success in lo¬ 
cating them. We publish it simply as a 
caution against similar schemes when pre¬ 
sented by firms or agents about whom you 
know nothing. j. j. p. 
Is Your Horse 
Worth $1.!!! ? 
That is what it will 
cost to cure his curb, 
splint, spavin, wind- 
_ puffs or bunches. 
Trade utrk. ^ We have thousands 
of testimonials covering 30 years’ use. 
W. B. F asig, Presid’t Ohio Breeders Ass’n, writes: 
Quinn’s Ointment 
is the most valuable remedy before the public.” 
At your druggist or by mail, prepaid, for $ 1 , with 
our guarantee to refund the money if you are 
dissatisfied. Samplefree. Write for our booklet. 
Wm. B. Eddy & Co., High St., Whitehall, N.Y.j 
BONNIE BRAE 
POULTRY FARM 
New Rochelle, N. X, 
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 the last Poughkeepsie, 
Danbury, Walden and Madison Square Garden 
Shows. Largest plant in vicinity of New York City. 
Catalogue Free. 
DON’T READ THIS 
unless you want an extra fine Mammoth Pekin or 
White Muscovy Drake, pair or trio. My birds are 
State Fair Winners; second to none. I have a limited 
number of these selected birds that I will sell at$2.00 
per single bird, $3.50 per pair or $5 per trio. Absolute 
satisfaction guaranteed or your money back in full. 
IRA L. LETTS, Moravia, New York. 
C HOICE R. C. Brown Leghorn cockerels farm 
raised. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, New York. 
STURTEVANT ROUP CUREi&.«»e 
free. Write THE E. V. 8TUBTEVANT CO., Hartford, Conn. 
HEN’S TEETH AND EGGS ARE SCARCE.— Feed 
Mikashel-Silica Poultry Grit, Nature’s egg producer. 
Send 50c. for 100 pound bag, or ask yonr feed dealer. 
Edge Hill Silica Rock Co., New Brunswick, N. ,T. 
VAN ALSTVNE’S R. I. HMDS—A few cocks and 
T cockerels from laying strain to dispose of at $2 to 
$5. Edw. Van Alstyne & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
RARRFn Rnm Brown Leghorns, R. I. Reds, 
DMRnCU nubbo, Toulouse Geese; bred to lay 
strains'; at one-half price. Collie Pups the intelligent 
kind, females cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
DUr. LISTS—50 Buff Wyandotte Pullets for sale for 
* $1 each. Charles I. Miller, R. F, D. 1, Hudson,N. Y. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Cockerels 
for sale. Very best Strain. 
I. C. HAWKINS, Bullville, New York. 
RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
300 Selected Cockerels. Fine show birds and breed¬ 
ers. All stock sold on approval, $2 to $50 each. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 5th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
PDIU TRVMF A|—Send for our new 36-page illus- 
lUULini III LII trated poultry catalogue. Abso¬ 
lutely free. East Donegal Poultry Yards, Marietta,Pa. 
CHOICE LIGHT BRAHMAS, White Wyandottes. 
All pure stock. For sale. J. A. Roberts, Malvern, Pa. 
A pun PC I HT of Single Comb Buff Orping 
UnUIUC. LU I ton and Rose Comb Black 
Minorca Cockerels for sale. Write for prices. 
J. K. LOSEE, Elnora, Saratoga Co., New York. 
Lakewood Strain— S. C. White Leghorns. 
None better. A few cockerels; June hatch $1.00 
each. Guaranteed. Address 
PULLIN’S POULTRY PLANT, Barnegat, N. J. 
BROWN LEGHORNS-^XfcJtt! 
B. Orpington, W. Wyandotte and B. P. Rock hens 
and cockerels. Slay maker & Son, Dover. Del. 
REST TOULOUSE GEESE, PEKIN DUCKS, White 
** Holland Turkeys, Pearl Guineas ami White Wyandotte 
Cockerels for sale. E. SCHIEBKlt, Bucyrus. Ohio. 
’ MAMMOTH lU'KF, White Holland and Bourbon Red Turkeys; 
)r: Toulouse and Buff Geese; Mammoth Pekin Ducks; K. I. Reds, 
. both combs. Florence Blackford, Route 3, Chandlersville,Ohio. 
FIRST-CLASS 
MATED 
HOMER PIGEONS^;!; 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Wm. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH. Germantown, N. V. 
’08 SQUAB BOOK FREE 
Plymouth Rock Squabs are largest, most 
fic. We were FIRST ; our birds and 
Methods revolutionized the industry. 
Send for our 1908 Free 
Rook, tel ling “How to Make 
Money Breeding Squabs.” 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
325 Howard St. Melrose.Mass. 
COD CAI C~ uhea P- SCOTCH COLLIES, 
rUH OflLaEa finest of breeding. 
J. H. VANDEN BOSCH, Jr., R. I). 7, Auburn. N. Y. 
S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Circ. SILAS DECKER, Montrose, Pa. 
10 000 FERRETS from Helocteil breeder*. Per- 
’ u feet workers. They exterminate rats, 
drive out rabbits. 48 p. illus’d book and price 
list free. s . FARNSWORTH, Middletown, Ohio. 
CCBpp'TQ—Raised in small lots: are strong and 
I LllnL I O 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 
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS-First class 
stock at moderate prices. Extra size, weight and 
plumage. CHAS. BROCKWAY, Moravia, N. Y. 
rf|D C A | C— White Wyandotte Cockerels. Full 
rUn uHLL bred, pure white, heavy laying strain 
Write for price. Harvey M. Freed, Richlandtown, Pa. 
rnn CAI E— ^ few Stood S. C. White Leghorn 
run OALU and White Wyandotte Cockerels at 
reasonable prices, according to quality. Write me 
your wants. B. B. CHASE, Route 3, Wyoming, Del. 
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. 
FINE-QUARTER WILD BLOOD BRONZE 
LI TOMS make vigorous poults. At prices you will 
never regret paying. Toulouse Geese, Pekin Ducks. 
Catalogue. BERT MCCONNELL, Ligonier, Ind. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS, 
No. 39, Ridgefield, Conn. 
BLACK ORPINGTONS, 
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. 
Wo GUARANTEE SATISFACTION on any accepted order. 
WOODLANDS FARM. 
Record Laying' Strains of White Wyandottes, 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorns - 835 Trap Nests. 
Bred for lar^e, symmetrical size, vigorous constitu¬ 
tion and prolific laying, combined with all the stand¬ 
ard requirements. Address 
L. T. HALLOCK, Proprietor, Iona, Now Jersey. 
is the one which contributes 150 eggs or more in a year, toward 
the family grocery bill. The sure way to have such hens, eggs 
in abundance, and a lot of ready cash, is to give a little of 
DR UPQQ 
POULTRY PAN-A-CE-A 
with the morning feed every day in the year. Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a 
is a tonic, the sole purpose and action of which, is to aasist nature in the per¬ 
formance of necessary functions. It aids digestion, prevents disease, and 
sends the proper proportion of each food element to the organ most in need. 
It also contains germicides which destroy bacteria, the usual cause of poultry 
disease. Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is the prescription of Dr. Hess (M. D., D.V.S.), 
and is a guaranteed egg-producer. Endorsed by leading poultry associations 
in United States and Canada. Sold on a writtenGuarantee, and 
costs but a penny a day lor 30 fowls. 
1 1-2 lbs. 25c, mail or express 40c. 
5 lbs. 60c. 
12 lbs. $1.25 
25 lb. pail $2.50 
Send 2 cents for Dr. Hess 48-page Poultry Book, free. 
Except in Canada 
> and extreme 
West and South. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. 
