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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEE 
January 16, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
D. L. Marshall Milling Co., Buffalo, 
N. Y., made a general assignment to 
Frederick O. Bissell on December 24. 
This is the concern that started out to 
organize local branches and sell the 
stock to farmers. The assignment sim¬ 
ply confirms the advice given at the 
time by The R. N.-Y. to leave them 
alone. 
I have always been in the hay business, 
but this year I went into potatoes. The 
people who handled my hay recommended 
J. .1. Pitts, Cleveland, O., to handle my 
potatoes. I sent them four carloads. The 
potatoes were worth here 50 to 55 cents 
per bushel. After repeated requests for 
settlement, they sent me 42 cents per bushel 
for one carload, and I have been unable 
to get anything out of them for the other 
three carloads. A neighbor told me to 
write you about it to see if you could do 
anything to help me. I hear now. when 
it is too late, that they usually pay just 
what they like. j. u. 
Michigan. 
On or about November 1. 1907, we sold 
J. .T. Pitts & Co., Cleveland, O., through 
their agent. Charles Wing, 24 barrels of 
apples at $3 per barrel. We have been 
unable to collect to date. We have written 
several times, hut they do not take the 
trouble to answer my letter. It has run 
over a year. Will you try to collect for 
me ? p. b. 
New York. 
Both above complaints reached us 
some time ago. At first they promised 
to settle for the apples, but have failed 
to do so, after a year. They make no 
reply whatever to the complaint about 
the potatoes. Their rating w juld not 
justify extended credit, and the 
sooner farmers stop shipping to such 
concerns the better it will be for them. 
I have a bill against E. T. L. Berlinger, 
agent, Lewiston, l’a., for $18.65. lie prom¬ 
ised to pay on the arrival of the goods, but 
I have not been able to collect it, and 
have not been able to get a word from him 
direct about it. w. h. j. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have made demands for the pay¬ 
ment of this bill, but get no reply. 
Mr. Berlinger’s rating would not jus¬ 
tify an extension of credit, and a rec¬ 
ord of this kind makes it absolutely 
necessary to insist on cash in advance. 
We have two protested checks which 
A. J. Melson & Co., 188 Reade street, 
New York, sent a shipper for produce, 
sold on commission. A. J. Melson 
seems to be all there is of the 
company, and he simply has desk room 
at the address given. It is needless to 
say that shipments to him are attended 
with great risk. 
Is the Sheerin Wholesale Nursery, of 
Dansville, N. Y., a reliable firm? e. d. b. 
Montana. 
We believe them to be financially re¬ 
sponsible, but Mr. Sheerin claims it to 
be his privilege to ship orders at his 
own convenience irrespective of the in¬ 
structions and interests of the cus- 
timer. He also refuses to adjust com¬ 
plaints which to us seem fully justi¬ 
fied ; and we have refused to carry his 
advertising. 
Edward D. Norblett, treasurer of the 
Sterling Debenture Co., of New York, 
which has been promoting the “Telepost” 
stock and Oxford Linen Mills proposi¬ 
tion, was arrested recently on the al¬ 
leged charge of stealing two bank books. 
When arraigned it came out that the 
complainant was an employee who had 
been required to assign his deposits in 
the two banks to Norblett as security 
for his honesty, but when the employee 
requested their return, it was refused. 
The books were found in* his posses¬ 
sion; but the judge held that no intent 
to steal had been proven. Norblett ad¬ 
mitted, however, that his picture is in 
the rogues’ gallery, and while he re¬ 
fused to discuss his alleged former 
prison record, the authorities say they 
remember him in connection with similar 
experiences. This will be interesting 
reading for the hundreds of readers 
who have been asking about the wisdom 
of investments in the Telepost and Ox¬ 
ford Mills securities. We have yet seen 
no reason for changing our advice to 
leave them alone. 
What do you know about the Great Dane 
oat sold by R. J. Ghnson & Co., Rochester, 
N. Y. ? c. l. p. 
Ohio. 
About its merits we know nothing. 
We know this firm sold an oat under 
this name in 16-pound lots last sea¬ 
son at high prices. We have asked 
them to tell us where their supply for 
this year was grown so that we might 
confirm their claims for it, but they 
deny us the information. They also 
refuse to tell us the name of any farm¬ 
er who grew it last year. It will be 
remembered that two years ago they 
put out what they called a Mammoth 
Cluster oat at $2.50 a bushtel, and re¬ 
quired farmers to sign a contract not 
to sell the first year’s product for less 
than $1 a bushel. If they had such a 
wonderful oat in 1907 it seems that the 
next year was a bit soon to come out 
with another new kind. Besides every¬ 
body knows that new oats are a pro¬ 
duct of mind rather than of the field. 
There may be different strains of the 
existing varieties, but we know of no 
brand new kinds. If Gunson & Co. 
will prove that they have a new and 
valuable variety of oats we will gladly 
investigate it and give them all the 
benefits. Until they do this we look at 
it with a feeling of something more 
than suspicion. 
That old swindle, the enlarging of pictures, 
is being worked by W. W. Marlon Portrait 
Company and one Burlingame, an agent, 
of Binghamton. N. Y. They caught my 
family while I was away. lie said we 
could have the picture for $1, and we 
need not buy any frame unless we wanted 
to. Now he will not deliver the picture 
until we buy a frame at two or three times 
the price at a local dealer’s. He left a 
printed slip which says we must buy a 
frame; but we have proof that the agent 
said we need buy no frame. Is there any 
way to get our dollar or the picture? 
New York. c. u. s. 
This is an old game that was worked 
persistently some 15 or 20 years ago. 
They get the dollar and the old pic¬ 
ture and refuse to deliver, the old or 
the new picture until you buy a frame, 
of course at an exorbitant price. 
Twenty years ago they used to adver¬ 
tise in farm papers to make the en¬ 
larged picture free, and then caught 
you by shipping the frame collect on 
delivery. I remember well how utterly 
disgusted the agent looked when I re¬ 
fused the money offered in advance to 
pay for the advertising in The R. 
N.-Y.. He ngver heard of such stupid¬ 
ness before; and as I was fresh from 
the farm at the time, I assume he pre¬ 
dicted a brief newspaper career for the 
greenhorn in the advertising business. 
We doubt if this correspondent will be 
able to recover either his picture or his 
dollar. Legally he is entitled to both; 
but he cannot afford to enforce his 
rights in the courts. 
I sent you a trial ,10-eent order two years 
ago, as Elbert Hubbard says, “on suspicion.” 
I continued because you gave me useful 
information in building up an abandoned 
farm in Connecticut. I shall continue to 
subscribe “on principle” because of your 
exposing fraud, giving sound advice and 
valuable information. j. s. b. 
New York. 
When a man starts with a suspicion 
and ends with a conviction, based on 
principle, he is on pretty safe footing. 
Many of those friends, who come 
doubting for 10 weeks, develop into 
the most enthusiastic permanent mem¬ 
bers of the family. The reason for it 
is, we think, that they are picked men. 
When an old reader of The R. N.-Y. 
picks out a neighbor for a seat at the 
Rural table, he is pretty sure to get 
the best material available in the place. 
You cannot fool such men ith empty 
promises or pretences. Like this man, 
they come “on suspicion.” You must 
make good. They want to be shown, 
and seeing they acknowledge. Now if 
you have any friends with a suspicion, 
send along their 10 cents for a 10- 
weeks’ trial. We’ll take care of the 
principle after they once get their feet 
crossed under the table. j. J. D. 
THE $7,500 FOWLS 
Bought by Madame Padere wski 
* Were hatched in the World's Best X 
Hatcher—a Standard Cyphers Incu¬ 
bator. and raised in a Cyphers Brooder. 
The breeder of these five fowls, like scores 
of others who get remarkable prices, says, he 
' will use nothing hut Cyphers machines. See his 
' letter among many others in our 1909 catalogue. 
CYPHERS FIRE-PROOFED, 
INSURABLE INCUBATORS 
AND BROODERS 
■ The first Fire Insurance Inspection Label ever issued 
ion Incubators and Brooders has just been granted to I 
ICyphers Incubator Company by the National Board ofj 
, Fire Underwriters. NoW you can insure your incu- 
, bator, brooder and buildings only If your machines 
\ bear the Insurance Label. Our 1909 Catalogue, 212 
i pages, fully illustrated, tells all about it, and contains i 
|five valuable chapters on the poultry business. It is j 
Free. Write for it Cypher* 
Incubator Co., 
STANDARD 
"'CYPHERS INCUBATOR, 
fire Proofed.-Insurob] 
Buffalo, N. Y. ;New i 
York, N.Y.; Bos-i 
, ton. Mass. ;Kan-^ 
sas City, Mo.; 
Chicago, Ill., 
Oakland, 
Cal. 
Hatch With the Least -v 
Cost Per Chick 
That is what we guarantee you 
can do with the 
Invincible Hatcher 
Try It and If it don’t produce more strong, healthy 
chicks than anyother incubator, regardless of price, 
send it back. SO-Egg Size Only $4.00. Same low 
prices on larger Hatchers, Brooders and Supplies. 
Write for 176-page FREE catalogue. 
The United Factories Co., Dept,X31, Cleveland, O. 
LARGE TOULOUSE 
GEESE, PEKIN PICKS, PEARL 
GUINEAS,VVhiteRoek Ckls, For Sale: 
Circular free. E. SCHIKBER, K.2, Bucyrus, Ohio. 
Good Natured Tools 
It is not necessary to force Keen Kutter Tools. Keen 
Kutter bits, for example, work quickly and easily in 
any kind of wood. Lips are long, strong and perfectly 
tempered, adding years to the life of the tool. 
Keen Kutter Tools like hard work. The edged 
tools never lose their temper—handled tools never 
work loose or fly off—hammering tools keep their 
faces straight. 
mn mm 
QUALITY TOOLS 
include tools of all kinds—Saws, Chisels, Bits, Drills, 
Gimlets, Awls, Planes, Hammers, Hatchets, Axes, 
Draving-knives, Pocket-knives, Screw¬ 
drivers, Files, Pliers, Glass-cutters, Ice¬ 
picks, and a full line of F arm and Garden 
Tools, Scissors, Shears, and Cutlery. 
If not at your dealer’s, write us. 
SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY (Inc.), 
St. Louis and New York, U. S. A 
Is our new 
book fir the 
of poultry rais¬ 
ers. Keep account of 
your eggs, chicks and 
profits. Our D i a r y 
shows how and also tells about ou,r new 
Incubators. It tells why our prices are* 
so low. The Diary is free. Better write for j 
it today. Tell us if you are thinking of buy¬ 
ing an Incubator and what size you want. 
( We pay freight. Geo. Ertel Co., Quincy, Ill. 
WE WILL SELL AT A SACRIFICE, 
some of our Single Comb White Leghorn Cockerels, birds 
that have been bred from prolific layers and high scoring 
exhibition stock. To make room, we olTer them from 
$1.60 up. A few yearling cockerels of the same strain 
from $1.00 up. Also some Yearling White Wyandotte and 
Plymouth Rock Hens, the stay white kind. A good op¬ 
portunity to improve your ilock at small cost. Imperial 
Pekin Ducks and incubating eggs in any quautity. Sat¬ 
isfaction guaranteed. BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM. New Rochelle, New York. 
Greider’s 
Book 
On Poultry 
World’s Best Incubator 
Has stood all tests in all climates 
for 16 years. Don’t experiment, 
get certainty. Get a 
SUCCESSFUL 
Incubator and Brooder. Anybody 
can operate them and make money. 
Let us prove it to you. Booklet, 
“Proper Care and Feeding of 
Chicks, Ducks and Turkeys,” 10c.' _ 
Poultry paper, 1 year, 10c. Write for free catalog. 
Des Moines Incubator Co., 189 2nd St., Deg Moines, la. | 
Concise, practical. How , 
to make money with poul- 
try: information as to, 
buildings, treat¬ 
ment of diseases, 
etc. Fifteen at-1 
tractive chromos; 
sixty prominent varieties. 10c postpaid. 
Fine, pure-bred stock and eggs at low 
prices. GREIDEK’S GERMICIDE—a 
sure preventive and an excellent disin-i 
fee tan t. B. H. CREIDER, Rheema, Pa. 
Hatch Chickens by 
MWM Stahl "Wood. 
ateam •» H * n ” and 
W •• Excelsior*" 
Incubators assure big hatches. 
Well-built, reliable, practical- 
thousands in use. Catalogue free. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Box72C Quincy, III. 
125 Egg Incubator SIO 
and Brooder 
If ordered together we 
I send both for #10 
Jand pay freight. Well 
made, hot water, copper tanks, 
double walls, double glass doors. 
Free catalog describes them. 
Wisconsin Incubator Co., 
Box 80, Racine, Wis. 
El nORE EGGS 
Larger, more fertile, vigorous chicks, heav¬ 
ier fowls, larger profits by feeding cut bone. 
MANN^C LATEST MODEL 
snAnn o bone cutter 
cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 10 days free 
trial. No money in advance. Cat’lg free. 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mas* 
KEYSTONE FOODS FOR POULTRY 
Nourishing, clean; fowls and chicks! 
thrive on them. We carry a big line of I 
all poultry and pigeon supplies. Book-1 
let and unique souvenir FREE. Write] 
now before they’re all gone. 
Taylor ItroK., I»ept.M,Cnm<len,N. J. | 
AKA-SHEL SOLUBLE GRIT 
Bright, sharp, shining. Increase digestion. 
Makes bone and egg-shell. Ask dealer or 
send $1.00 for two 100 lb. bags f.o.b. cars. 
Order today. Booklet “Hen Dyspepsia” 
and sample of Maka-siiei. FREE on request. 
edge hill silica ROCK CO., 
Box J, New Brunswick. N. J. 
T he Celebrated Hungarian and English Partridges and 
Pheasants, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, 
quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stocking purposes. 
Fancy pheasants, peafowl, cranes, storks,ornament¬ 
al geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and 
all kinds of birds and animals, WEN/, & mackensen, 
Dept. 10, Pheasantry tc Game Park, Yard ley, Pa. 
BOOK FREE 
k Plymouth 7ioek Squabs are largest, most 
^prolific. We were FIRST ; our birds and 
Methods revolutionized the industry. 
Send for our 1909 Free 
Book, telling “How to Make 
_ Money Breeding Squabs.” 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
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 
I faster than others (cost less to raise). 
904 FERTILITY GUARANTEED 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to S.C.W. Leghorns 
MT. PLEASANT FARM 
Box R, Havre de Grace, Maryland 
POULTRY SCHOOL 
The Eleventh Annual Poultry Course Will Begin 
JANUARY <J, 1009, 
and continue twelve consecutive weeks. The cur¬ 
riculum includes every branch of poultry culture. 
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 
limited. Apply at once to 
HOWARD EDWARDS, President, 
Rhode Island College, Kingston, R. I. 
B arked rocks, brown leghorns, cheap 
bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
P onltrymen —Send 10c. for our 19"9 Catalog, chock full of useful 
lnforuiHtlou. Describes and Illustrates 35 varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without it. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
V AN AI.STYNE’S S. and R. C. R. I. REDS, 
April hatched cockerels $2.00 to $5.00. Address 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
W P. Rock Cockerels, high grade stock, early 
■ hatched, fine vigorous birds; also a few K. C 
Brown Leghorn Cockerels, a. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. y 
A MERICAN PET STOCK CO„ Collin*, O.— AH Breeds of 
Pet and Hunting Dogs. Coon Dogs aud Standard Bred 
Poultry. Hundreds of Pullets and Cockerels. 2000 Yearling 
Hens, *1.00 each. Coon Dogs. Write your wants. 
EMPIRE STATE S. G. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Pair; heavy layers; Trios, 
$5. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
log free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
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, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
[An oil r—800 Choice Barred and Buff P. Rocks, 
TUI) oALl also White and Partridge Wyandottes. 
Price Reasonable. Dr. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
B RONZE TURKEY breeding stock of merit. Mated 
unrelated. Vigorous. Rearing two poults instead of 
one assured. BERT McCONNELL, Ligonier, lnd. 
B ronze Turkeys, Chester W.Shoats, Shrop¬ 
shire Ewes, Ram Lambs. Fine recorded 
stock. Spr ague Farm, R. D. 71, Falconer, N. Y. 
W ILD and BRONZE TURKEYS For Sale. 
Eggs for Hatching. Pure bred chickens and 
I eggs Prices low. Handsome catalog free. Satis¬ 
faction. Valley View Poultry Farm, K. 1, Belleville, Pa. 
FOR SALE-Mam. Bronze Turkeys with some 
wild blood. Toms weighing from 20 to 25 lbs; 
Hens weighing from 12 to 15 lbs. Toms, $6; hens, $4. 
JOHN H. JANNEY, Brookeville, Maryland. 
Bourbon Red Turkeys 
. .. ..- - - 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, Catlin, Ill. 
I Have Them Now! 
