1907. 
THE RUR-A-L NEW-YORKER 
92 0 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Merry Christmas! 
The votes of confidence are coming in 
all right. The increase this week over 
the corresponding days last year has 
been from 25 to 60 per cent. Thanks. 
The old saying that a new broom 
sweeps clean does not apply to new 
presses. It always takes two or three 
weeks to get them working just right— 
sometimes longer. This is our first com¬ 
plete edition on our new press. As soon 
as the bearings are worn down a bit and 
the men get familiar with it we shall 
be able to turn out the highest quality 
of printing. While making the change 
we have been necessarily a little ir¬ 
regular in days of mailing. We do not 
think this will be necessary for more 
than another week or so at most, and 
then we shall be able to resume the 
from. This farmer paid $1,210 to this 
concern for 605 barrels of potatoes 
which were to be delivered guaranteed 
free from frost and disease. When they 
arrived 25 barrels were frozen potatoes, 
and the whole was two barrels short be¬ 
sides. Some months ago they promised 
us to adjust the complaint, but they 
have never done so, and now refuse to 
reply to letters. Their rating would not 
justify a suit, even if a Long Island 
farmer could afford to go to Maine to 
prosecute it, which, of course, he could 
not. We hope farmers who buy seed 
potatoes will avoid this concern in the 
future. 
Would it bo safe to invest with the Shultz 
Patent Office. Cincinnati, O., or to entrust 
them with patents? b. m. c. 
Ohio. 
This business has been going only about 
three months. It is owned by his wife, 
and Mr. Shultz is manager. The busi¬ 
ness that Mr. Shultz recently managed 
is now in the hands of a receiver. There 
is no information that would justify 
any considerable credit. 
WATERING TROUGHS IN WINTER. 
I)o you know of any method whereby 
watering troughs can be kept open for the 
use of horses in our northern Winter? Men 
hard at work require almost as much 
water as in Summer, and hard-worked horses 
must often suffer terribly for the lack of it, 
after it has been cut off from the public 
drinking troughs early in Winter. Has 
any attempt been made to keep the troughs 
open by the use of electricity, or of waste 
steam from nearby mills? I have seen a 
warm spring tapped for the purpose, and in 
the West artesian water used so warm that 
ice never formed, and all animals which 
could get to it showed their appreciation 
of it. When the streams are closed by ice 
and covered often with deep snow it is often 
quite an undertaking to get water for the 
horse, and the farmers’ horses on long drives 
must get less than they need. c. S. P. 
Maine 
R. N.-Y.—We have not seen any practical 
device. Can any reader help? 
Power Stomp Pullers.—I have a tract 
of land of several thousand acres covered 
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accustomed promptness. 
I enclose a check for $2 for a renewal 
of my subscription for two years from its 
expiration, which will, I observe from the 
mark upon the papers, be on February 29, 
1908. We appreciate your right and left- 
handed blows upon the infamous Jersey 
cattle deal in Livingston County, and often 
wonder if the farmers’ institutes can he 
expected to retain the respect and confi¬ 
dence of the people when managed by con¬ 
ductors appointed or approved "under such 
circumstances as they are acting under. 
New York. c. w. S. 
The above note from western New 
York is typical of many letters which we 
receive now daily. Farmers make no 
academic distinctions between the man 
and the official. They do not relish in¬ 
struction from men whose ethics do not 
forbid the sale of grade cows for regis¬ 
tered, purebred heifers. 
As a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. I enclose 
an advertisement of the California Wave 
Motor Co., which seems to me to he the 
greatest graft I ever heard of, and on which 
I wish you to pass your opinion for the 
benefit of your readers who may chance to' 
see this advertisement somewhere and be 
tempted to invest, before learning anything 
about tin? standing of the company. 
Oklahoma. w." b. a. 
These people certainly go the whole 
limit. They are going to do away with 
the necessity of heat, power and light. 
They get it all from the ocean, as easy 
as the brook at the foot of the hill 
turned the old mill. You must hurry up 
quick to get the stock at 25 cents on 
the dollar, but you will have time 
enough to wait afterwards for the heat 
or power or profits. 
Look out for the old fake “$500 
Yearly Profit from 12 Hens,” by Prof. 
A. Corbett. We think it was nearly 20 
years ago that this was first sprung on a 
confiding public and exposed in the The 
R. N.-Y. A Philadelphia concern is now 
reviving it and will initiate you into the 
secrets of the fake for 50 cents. 
Received your letter with check enclosed, 
for which accept thanks. I am sorry you 
had to stand the expense, but will reim¬ 
burse you in a different way. w. v. b. 
New Jersey. 
The Columbia Manufacturing and 
Supply Company, of Cincinnati, O., is 
one of the firms who think it pays to 
take advantage of a customer. They 
ran a little advertisement with us last 
year, hut they will not he permitted to 
do so again. A New Jersey reader 
bought a buggy wagon from them last 
Spring. Before they got the order the 
president promised to look after it per¬ 
sonally and see that a good job went out, 
perfect in every particular. The pur¬ 
chaser was to have 30 days’ trial, and 
if it was not in every way satisfactory 
he could return it at their expense and 
get his money hack. When the wagon 
was received the shafts did not fit it 
and the wheels were not right. At the 
instruction of the company the shafts 
and wheels were returned and others 
were sent in their place after a delay 
of nearly three months. The freight was 
$3.85, and this the company refused to 
pay. We considered the demand a just 
one. No house that cared anything for 
its reputation would refuse to pay it, 
and we sent a check for it to the sub¬ 
scriber ourselves. The concern could 
The Ontario Veterinary College. London, 
Canada, teaches veterinary surgery by mail 
and offered me a 840 scholarship for $25. 
They say that they are not familiar with 
the laws of New York State, but one of 
their graduates has been in practice in the 
State for three years, and had no trouble. 
Could I practice in the State on their 
diploma? 
New York. c. j. xr. 
The diploma of this concern has no 
standing in New York or any other 
State, as far as we know, nor in Can¬ 
ada, either, for that matter. Their ig¬ 
norance of the State law is convenient, 
to say the least. The best they can do 
by mail is to direct your course of read¬ 
ing; but mastery of veterinary science is 
something more than that. These peo¬ 
ple worked a fake scheme in this State 
some years ago; and we refused their 
advertising at the time and since. 
I have a very serious case of life insur¬ 
ance left with me bv a friend. The poiicv 
was insured by the Mutual Reserve Life In¬ 
surance Company of New York on December 
8, 1893. All dues and premiums were paid 
on time except one. which was paid 28 
days after time, until the death of the in¬ 
sured. The company claimed that the pol¬ 
icy lapsed on account of this one payment 
not having been paid on time, and there¬ 
fore refused to pay anything. These peo¬ 
ple have paid between $700 and $800 on 
this policy, and have made slaves of them¬ 
selves for years to keep it up. As they 
were owing a mortgage on their farm of 
$1,000, the amount of the policy, they 
thought tliis insurance would pay said mort¬ 
gage. The insurance has failed and they 
will lose their farm and home. The drink 
case is terrible, but the insurance case is 
robbing the people far more. j. r. d. 
New York. 
This seemed to be a worthy case, and 
we took a great deal of pains to look 
it _up in the hope that we could do some¬ 
thing for the people concerned. We 
found that the contract was for an as¬ 
sessment insurance, and provided that 
the policy expired when premiums were 
not paid tyithin 30 days. Because of 
sickness and want of funds this ran 
over 28 days beyond the 30-day. limit, 
when the premium was paid. The 
company held the premium, hut insisted 
that the insured must make a formal 
application for reinstatement. Before 
this was done the insured died; and 
the payment was returned. The com¬ 
pany simply kept within legal techni¬ 
calities. The party insured did not, 
and the result is that there is no redress. 
In the old line companies which issue 
legal reserve policies an insured person 
may neglect to pay the premium within 
the days of grace, and the reserve oc- 
cumulation is applied to the payment 
and protects the policy. The facts in 
this case speak for themselves against 
assessment insurance. It is really on 
lapses of this kind that the companies 
make the money that affords luxuriant 
offices and fat salaries for officials. 
Here was a family which had struggled 
for 14 years to keep up payments on a 
policy, until they had paid in nearly the 
full amount of the policy. If they had 
placed their savings in a savings bank 
at four per cent interest it would have 
amounted to much more than the face 
of the policy, and the amount would 
have been at their disposal at any time, 
and would now be available for the 
payment of that mortgage. It would he 
interesting to have the arguments of 
the agent who secured this contract for 
insurance, to compare with the other 
facts < in the history of the case. The 
insurance company is within the law; 
but we would call the case one of legal¬ 
ized robbery. 
with scrub oak and stunted pines, and would 
like to clear this land, pull out the stumps 
and improve the land. Is there anyone 
among your readers who has the experience 
of pulling out stumps, and if there exists 
such a device for pulling stumps by gasoline 
or traction engine power? H. w. G. 
New Jersey. 
R. N.-Y.—We have seen traction engines 
used for uprooting fruit trees. Such trees 
were cut off at the crotch and a chain 
fastened there. This chain is hitched to a 
traction engine, and the body of the tree 
acts like a lever to pull out the roots. We 
have never seen this plan used with low 
stumps. 
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RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. 
Begins January 2, 1908 and ends March 26, 1908. 
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HOWARD EDWARDS, President, Kingston, R. I. 
A PliniPC | flT of Single Comb Buff Orping- 
UnUlUC Ll> i ton and Rose Oomb Black 
Minorca Cockerels for sale. Write t'or prices. 
J. K. LOSEE, Elnora, Saratoga Co., New York. 
FOR RA| C —Wliite Wyandotte Cockerels. Pull 
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Write for price. Harvey M. Freed,Richlandtown.Pa. 
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Cockerels and Pearl Guineas for sale. 
VERNON H. TIGER, Gladstone, New Jersey, 
RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
1100 Selected Cockerels. Pine show birds and breed¬ 
ers. All stock sold on approval, $2 to $50 each. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 5th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Van Alstyne’s It. I. REDS—A few cocks and 
' cockerels from laying strain to dispose of*tt$2 to 
$5. Edw. Van Alstynk & Sox, Kiuderhook, N. Y. 
DADRCn RflP1/Q Brown Leghorns, R. I. Reds, 
DHituLU nUulsO) Toulouse Geese; bred to lay 
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REST TOULOUSE GEESE, PEKIN DUCKS, White 
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Pine large cockerels at $2.00 each, three for $5,00. 
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not get another line of advertising in 
The R. N.-Y. for the proceeds of all 
the wagons it ever manufactured. Its 
performances do not come up to its 
promises. 
Judging from the experience of a 
Long Island fanner last year, Carter- 
Corey Company, of Bangor, Me., is a 
good concern not to buy seed potatoes 
Do not forget the 10-week subscrip¬ 
tions when you send in your renewal 
this month. So far they have come 
along very nicely. If the record is kept 
up for the month the new press will 
not be entirely idle. We expect our best 
records in December. We look with 
entire confidence for a prompt renewal 
from all the expirations of this month. 
j. j. D. 
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