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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 9, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co. 
202 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 98 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
We received your story of farm life— 
“Nell Beverly, Farmer,” and have read it 
through. To say we were pleased is to 
express it mildly. ire were delighted. 
Each chapter seemed to increase in inter¬ 
est. We came to the last chapter quite 
bravely. But I must confess, that before 
I could read the last verse I had to stop 
and wipe away a tear. Tell all the Rubai, 
readers for me they must read “Nell 
Beverly, Farmer.” l. a. w. 
New York. 
This letter is a fair sample of many 
that we now get daily in acknowl¬ 
edgment of the story. Xo one 
compares it with Dickens or Thackeray, 
nor with any of the works of the great 
novelists. “There is no other ,story 
like it” is a sentence that is repeated 
more than any other. Its great charm 
is that it is a story true to farm life. 
We give herewith a cut of the book. 
It is sent entirely free and post paid 
every night to the subscriptions re¬ 
ceived during the day, and from the 
stacks of books going out each night 
it would seem that the Rural folks are 
all pretty sure to have it within a short 
time. It is sent in paper covers. If 
you want a cloth cover, send 25 cents 
extra. We have had some copies 
bound in cloth for this purpose. We 
wish to request those who receive the 
book and like it to mention it to their 
neighbors and tell them that it is sent 
with The R. N.-Y. to yearly subscrib¬ 
ers. If you loan it to them, see that 
they send a 10-weeks’ order anyway. 
We also want to suggest that subscrib¬ 
ers carefully preserve these books. In 
time they form quite a little library in 
themselves. 
There has been considerable inquiry 
and some scepticism about the Philo 
system of poultry keeping. This has 
no doubt arisen from the rather ex¬ 
aggerated form of advertising adopted 
by some of the advertisers of the book 
which describes the system advocated 
by Mr. Philo. Because of the form of 
advertising adopted we were inclined 
to refuse it, but on examination we find 
the book deals with many points of the 
business in a practical way that com¬ 
mands the consideration of poultrymen, 
and we have accepted the advertisement 
of it. We would not have our people 
expect that they would be able to do 
all that Mr. Philo reports he succeeded 
in doing after a reading of the book. 
The big profits must have come from 
selling fancy birds at fancy prices, 
which the average farmer cannot hope 
to do. We yet think the matter is 
exaggerated. To some the book will 
undoubtedly be a disappointment, but 
those who read it and apply the sys¬ 
tem with intelligence, will we think, 
make a satisfactory investment. 
Will you please investigate the Auto¬ 
matic Transportation Co., 7-9 Lewis Block, 
Buffalo. N. Y. ? Wm. C. Carr, president; 
Joel IT. Prescott, secretary and treasurer. 
They only hold their offer open until Janu¬ 
ary To at $40 per share. Several are wait¬ 
ing your investigation and reply before 
investing. Several farmers have taken many 
shares. b. v. v. 
New York. 
We have already expressed our 
opinion on this subject. As bearing on 
the investment we know little about 
the merits of the device and care less. 
We understand they have a model in 
operation in an office. It may work 
just as well in actual practice out in the 
open fields and woods and again it may 
not. That is not the question. The 
company controls some patents, which 
may and may not be of practical value. 
If the device is practical, they have 
some prospects, but as it now stands 
they have nothing that you can put 
your money into and call it an invest¬ 
ment. The authorized capital is $2,000,- 
000. It might just as well have been 
20 million. There is not one company 
in a thousand organized on these lines 
that ever succeeds. When they do the 
small stockholders are usually frozen 
out. before the business is fully devel¬ 
oped. The farmers who take our ad¬ 
vice will leave stocks which are based 
on patents and prospects severely 
alone. If the promoters had half the 
faith in them that the circulars aim to 
inspire in you, you would never get a 
chance to buy them at 40 cents on the 
dollar or for double that amount, either 
before or after the 15th of January. 
Last January I sent Mr. Arthur Lee, 
Lee's Greenhouses, Riverliead, I,. I., N..*Y., 
100 rhubarb roots in response to an order 
from him, and sent him a bill for same, 
but cannot get a reply from him at all. 
If you can help me I should like it. 
New Hampshire. o. g. k. 
We have written these people twice 
about this account, but got no reply. 
They evidently are not anxious to main¬ 
tain a record for credit. 
I would like to know if the Richards 
Mfg. Co[, of Pori land, Me., is a reliable 
company, and if their separators are made 
in Portland. b. s. 
Maine. 
This is simply a name used by Mrs. 
C. Varney Richards, who bought the 
effects of the International Red Cross 
Cream Separator Co., which failed some 
time ago. Mrs. Richards was treasurer 
of the old company; and Mr. Richards 
filed a petition in bankruptcy last year. 
There is at present absolutely no basis 
tain a record for credit. 
The inquiry in Doc. 12 issue regarding 
E. F. McAvoy. Jr., was an eye opener 
to me, as I have been corresponding with 
him and becoming interested In his stock, 
but “never again.” b, z. b. 
Michigan. 
We print the above extract just to 
show that tricking one of the Rural 
family is not an indorsement that is 
intended to bring trade to the breeder. 
j. j. D. 
To Get Right Down To A Workable, MONEY 
Basis in your Poultry 
Work—to stop your loss 
in spoiled eggs and dead 
chicks—to get you such 
chicks as will reach the 
MONEY line—this is 
the mission of 
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Let us prove it to you. Booklet,^ 
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OTS Of EGGS 
If you feed raw bone fresh cut. Its egg pro¬ 
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more fertile, chicks more vigorous, broilers 
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Mann’s Model Bone Cutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and gristle. 
Never clogs. 10 Days* Free Trial. No 
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HATCHED chicks should be that you ever saw 
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Such is tile NEW METHOD— 
the Incubator that is “Different.” 
I have a Special Trial Proposition for every 
reader of Thh Rural .New-Yorker. I want to 
send you this Proposition, also our Free Catalogue 
which explains one of the greatest causes of chicks 
dying in the shells, and why incubator chicks have 
always been more or less WEAKLY. This Book 
is free if you mention Tue Rural New-Yorker 
when writing. 
Drop me a postal TO-DAY, for the BOOK, and 
let’s get acquainted. It might do us BOTH good. 
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Adds 100% to profits. Knocks off 
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Easily taken apart and stored. 
Send for Free Circular and prices. 
World’s Best Incubator 
Poultry Secrets 
Made Public 
Every successful poultryman knows important 
facts he never tells. They are peculiar secret meth¬ 
ods and records of discoveries he has made in his 
work with chickens. Some of these he does not re¬ 
gard of sufficient importance to tell, and others he 
guards with extreme care. They are the foundation 
of his success and a valuable asset of his business. 
We Will Tell You These Secrets 
Is this cock properly held? 
“Poultry Secrets" tells 
you how to carry fowls, 
and scores of secrets far 
more important and 
hitherto unrevealed. 
honorable way, either 
Mr. Boyer himself. 
There is no man in the United States who has more 
friends among poultrymen than Michael K. Boyer. A 
veteran chicken breeder himself, he knows the business 
from A to Z, and through his great acquaintance and 
friendship among poultrymen he has learned many of 
their most jealously-treasured secrets. This scattered ma¬ 
terial he has collected in book form, and we are offering 
it to the poultry raisers of America in order that they may 
share in the knowledge which these successful men have 
acquired by long years of study and bitter experience. 
Every secret printed in this book has been obtained in an 
by permission of the owner or through the experience of 
I. K. Felch’s Mating Secret 
One of the best-known figures in the poul¬ 
try world is I. K. Felch. Certainly success 
has crowned his efforts as a breeder of 
blooded stock. Many years ago Mr. Felch 
published his breeding chart, but later, 
realizing its value, he withdrew it and kept 
the information for himself. He has now 
f :iven Mr. Boyer permission to use this in- 
ormation, and it is included in this book. 
Secret of Fertile Eggs 
Boyer’s secret of securing fertile eggs by 
... . ciar 
alternating males we believe is worth $100 to 
any big producer of setting eggs. It is some¬ 
thing new, and the diagrammatic illustration 
furnished by Mr. Boyer makes the matter so 
plain that the novice can easily understand it. 
The Secret of Feed at 15 Cents a 
Bushel 
An enterprising poultryman has been ad¬ 
vertising this secret for S5.00 and pledging 
those who buy it not to disclose it to any one 
else; it lias, however, long been known to a 
few poultrymen, Mr. Boyer among them, 
and the method has been fully explained in 
“Poultry Secrets.” 
Of course we cannot go to the length of 
saying that all the information in the book is 
new to every one. It is said there is nothing 
new under the sun, and the Egyptians were 
hatching eggs by artificial heat centuries 
ago; but wedo say that to the great majority 
of Poultrymen these secrets will be abso¬ 
lutely new. 
We are Willing to Name Here 
Some of the Secrets 
1 Burnham’s secret of mating fowls. 
2 Felch’s method of breeding from an original 
pair, producing thousands of chicks and three 
distinct strains. 
3 Mendel's Chart of Heredity. 
4 Secret of strong fertility by alternating males. 
5 Secret of knowing what to feed and how to feed 
it. The secret of having green food in winter. 
6 Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 
feeding. 
7 Secret recipes for chick feed ; practically the same 
as is now sold on the market at a high rate. 
8 Secret of fatting poultry economically so as to 
make the most profit out of the crop. 
9 Secret of having healthy fowls without the use of 
drugs. 
10 Secret of telling the laying hens of the flock. 
11 Secret of detecting age in stock. 
12 Secret of knowing how to judge dressed poultry. 
13 The only safe way of preserving eggs. 
14 A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 
quickly and with little trouble. 
15 The fancier’s secret of preparing fowls for exhi¬ 
bition. 
16 An exposure of the methods employed by some 
fanciers to kill the fertility of the eggs. 
17 The secret of celery-feeding to flavor the carcass 
in imitation of the canvas-back duck. 
18 Scaly-leg treatment—a remedy that really cures. 
19 The winter egg crop and how to get it. 
20 How to create the ideal roasting fowls. 
21 Fatting turkeys fo- market. 
22 Hunter’s Secret of Success. 
There are Scores of Others 
We Will Pay $10 For Any Secret Not in the Book 
Provided it is practical and valuable. If it is something: good and new, a check for Ten Dol¬ 
lars will be sent at once. Address all communications to the 
Poultry Department of Farm Journal 
Farm Journal for thirty years has conducted a poultry department known the country 
over for the ability of its editors and the value of its contents. It is the standard farm and 
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boiled-down; cream, not skim-milk. Its contributors know what they are talking about, and 
.can quit when they have said it. Besides its unusually strong poultry sec- 
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ilk 
gardener, fruit man, stockman, trucker, farmer, villager, suburbanite, the 
women folks, the boys and girls. It is worth far more than the price asked 
for it and “Poultry Secrets” together. Its more than half million sub- 
. scribers pay five and ten years ahead—a remarkable tribute. 
Our Offer 
Wo will send a copy of 
“Poultry Secrets’ and 
Farm Journal lor 6 years, 
both for only 
$ 1.00 
And to every one who takes advantage of this advertisement before 
or'" 
February 1st, we will send also a cony of the Lincoln Farm Alumnae, 
filled with Lincoln stories and valuable information for everybody for 1909. 
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our new 
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B 
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bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
POULTRY SCHOOL 
The Eleventh Annual Poultry Course Will Begin 
JANUARY 6, 11)09, 
and continue twelve consecutive weeks. The cur¬ 
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We try to teach every student how to make a 
success in the business. Both sexes. Any age over 
17. No examination required. Number necessarily 
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HOWARD liDWARDS, President, 
Rhode Island College, Kingston. R. I. 
'lioiee Rose Comb Black Minorca Cockerels, $1.25 
* each. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperance, N. Y. 
FOR SALE— SWW - Clloice barred and Buff P. Rocks, 
also White and Partridge Wyandottes. 
Price Reasonable. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Good breeders (male and female) from $2,00 up. 
Privilege of return at my expense, if not satisfac¬ 
tory. Sinclair Smith, 002 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
W P. Rock Cockerels, high grade stock, early 
i hatched, fine vigorous birds: also a few K. C 
Brown Leghorn Cockerels. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kiseo, N. T. 
P oultrymen—Send 10c. for our 19-9 Catalog, cliock full ofnneful 
information. Describes and illustrates 8a varieties. You can’t 
afford to lie without it. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,l'a. 
A MERICAN PET STOCK CO„ Collins, O.—AH Breeds of 
Pet and Hunting Dogs. Coon Dogs and Standard lived 
Poultry. Hundreds of Pullets and Cockerels. 2000 Yearling 
Hens, $1.00 each. Coon Dogs. Write your wants. 
V AN AI.STVNE’S S. and R. C. II. I. REDS, 
April hatched cockerels $2.00 to $5.00. Address 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderkook, N. \ r . 
THOROBRED POULTRY PAYS 
(If You Have the Right Kind) 
Our big, vigorous White Leghorns lay more eggs 
at less cost for feed and care. 
Our eggs hatch strong chicks that live, and grow 
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90^ FERTILITY GUARANTEED 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to S.C.W. Leghorns 
MT. PLEASANT FARM 
Box It, Havre de Grace, Maryland 
I ARflE mill nilQF 0EE8E - FEKIN dPCKS, WHITE 
LAnUU I UULUUoL WYANDOTTE Cockerels, For Snle; 
Circular free. E. SCHIEBER, R.2, Bucyrus, Ohio. 
CHOICE BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
For Sale. Stamp. Mrs. Harriet Chuinbley, Draper, Va. 
B RONZE TURKEY breeding stock of merit. Mated 
unrelated. Vigorous. Rearing two poults instead of 
one assured. BERT McCONNELL, Ligonier, Ind. 
B ronze Turkeys, Chester W.Shoats, Shrop¬ 
shire Ewes, Kam Lambs. Fine recorded 
stock. Sprague Farm, R. D. 71, Falconer, N. Y. 
W ILD and BRONZE TURKEYS For Sale. 
Eggs for Hatching. Pure bred chickens and 
eggs Prices low. Handsome catalog free. Satis- 
faction. Valley View Poultry Farm, 1L 1, Ilellevillc, Pa. 
poll SALE—Mam. Bronze Turkeys with some 
wild blood. Toms weighing from 20 to 25 lbs; 
Hens weighing from 12 to 12 lbs. Toms,$0; liens, $4. 
JOHN R. JANNEY, Brookeville, Maryland. 
I HaV0 Thom Wnw! Bourbon Bed Turkeys 
I nuiB I 11C III liuiii Young Toms weighing 16 to 
18 lbs.,$5; pullets, 10 to 15 lbs.,$3; trio.unrelated, $10. 
Good color; Big bone; Eggs in season, 25 cts. each. 
MRS. F. W. SANFORD, C’atlin, Ill. 
