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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 23, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
George B. Johnson & Co. are produce 
commission merchants at Auburn, 
Maine. Before consigning goods we 
advise inquiry at this office. 
I have received at last six trees offered 
by Gardner Nursery Co., Osage, la. yty wife 
answered the advertisement last Spring 
and got no reply but a lot of printed mat¬ 
ter. so when you came out and told _ all 
who had failed to get what they promised 
to send to write them we gave them a rap 
that brought our postage back and the 
trees, but they are not worth any man’s 
postage. When you send five cents for 
postage you pay the postage and a good 
price for the trees also. j. a. b. 
Arkansas. 
And yet The R. N.-Y. is practically 
the only farm paper of any account in 
the country which is not running that 
Advertisement right along. But that is 
'equally true of many other advertise¬ 
ments of a similar kind. 
I have been receiving circular letters 
worded as if personal, signed by Julian 
Hawthorne, the author, stating that he has 
given up writing and gone into business, 
and offering me some supposed fancy Cobalt 
mining stocks. I am “on” to such schemes 
generally and have no idea of buying, yet 
would like your opinion of this offer. 
New York. j. w. c. 
What we said about this proposition 
was evidently overlooked by this in¬ 
quirer. We find nothing to justify an 
investment by farmers in this concern. 
We earnestly advise them to keep out 
of it. 
The Consolidated Dairy Company, of 
Newark. 1ST. Y.. have been buying milk here 
this Fall, but have quit now, owing farmers 
hundreds of dollars. They claim to be 
operating several creameries in New York 
and Pennsylvania. Can you give me any in¬ 
formation about this firm, and their re¬ 
sponsibility? w. M. L. 
New York 
The business was moved from East 
Palmyra, N. Y. to Newark in 1907, but 
it was not successful. The plant at 
Newark was recently leased, it is re¬ 
ported, to a Philadelphia concern. The 
business was conducted for Stephen L. 
McCauley and Ray Randall, but it is 
thought that the equipment, together 
with buildings and real estate, belongs 
to McCauley’s father. There is noth¬ 
ing that we can discover to justify an 
extension of credit. 
J. D. Brinkley, Elberton, Ga.. was 
through here the last of September buying 
apples. He bought four or five hundred 
barrels and gave his checks, which were no 
good. I sold him 11 barrels of Winesap 
Apples to be paid for after the apples 
reached him. I wrote him when I shipped 
the apples. I have written to him three 
times since, but can get no reply. If you 
-chd do anything for me I will be real glad. 
I am trying to pay for my land and I need 
the money. J. w. w. 
Virginia. 
Brinkley represents that he is doing 
.a commission business in Elberton, Ga. 
He has no rating that we can find to jus¬ 
tify credit, and has paid no attention to 
•our inquiries on behalf of the above ship¬ 
per. The farmers who have his worth¬ 
less checks should cause his arrest. If 
farmers would take a little pains and 
-trouble to send such rogues to jail where 
they belong, there would be less of this 
kind of transaction to report, 
I inclose you two account sales for sweet 
potatoes by* H. Burlew & Co., 119 Warren 
St., New York. One of them is mine, the 
■other my neighbor’s. The potatoes were 
the fine*st that could be produced. We 
packed them carefully, wiped them with a 
woolen cloth, and sorted so that a potato 
■with the slightest bruise or scratch was 
discarded. My neighbor and myself keep 
our potatoes in one house to save expense. 
We packed them at the same time. They 
were exactly of the same kind and the same 
exactly as the basket we send you. 
Elm, N. J. H. GRI?EN STEIN. 
The sales were both reported for the 
same day—November 24. The sales for 
Mr. Greenstein were as follows: 
14 Sweets ©• 75. $.10.50 
1 No. 2 . -50 
$ 11.00 
Gommission .$1.10 
Freight and cartage. 1.89 2.99 
$8.01 
The neighbor’s bill was: 
0 Baskets Sweets, Red, © 65.$3.90 
4 Baskets No. 2, Red, @ 40 .. 1.60 
'Commission .8 .55 
Freight and cartage. 1.26 1.81 
"$3*.69 
All were bushel hampers. The same 
day, November 24, Samuel Lippman. 
192 Reade street, New York, reported 
sales for same stock to the neighbor 
as follows: 
1 bu. No. 1 Red sweets . © $1.00 
2 bu. No. 2 Red sweets . ©. .75 
5 bu. No. 1 Yellow sweets .© 1.75 
2 bu. No. 2 Yellow sweets .@ .75 
These reports speak for themselves. 
Mr. Lippman returns $1 for No. 1, Bur- 
lew & Co. return 65 cents for the same 
grade. In the case of No. 2, the re¬ 
spective returns are 75 cents and 40 
cents. This is a drop of 35 per cent on 
the No. l’s and of 46 per cent on the 
seconds. So long as producers are sub¬ 
ject to conditions of this kind the 
“uplift commission” will have trouble 
to find attractions to keep the bright 
boys on the farm. 
Your advice in regard to the Globe Asso¬ 
ciation of Chicago is about right I think. 
I asked them if they would accept an order 
for goods such as 500 pounds of sugar at 
$1.75 per hundred, and three or four 
barrels of flour at about $4 per barrel, on 
the C. O. D. plan, subject to examination, 
and in reply they sent some printed matter 
offering me a position as field manager if 
I would send $15 for membership and sam¬ 
ples. But as I had all the fields I could 
manage and did not want any samples, I 
thought I would keep my $15 to help pay 
the taxes and try to buy the goods some¬ 
where else. p. j. b. 
New York. 
There is not a bit of danger that 
the Globe Association will ship goods 
C. O. D., subject to examination. If 
there is any argument afterwards their 
position is going to be secure in the 
fact that they have the cash in ad¬ 
vance. 
Knowing the interest your paper takes 
in the welfare of its subscribers, it seemed 
well for me to report my success in ob¬ 
taining a refund of an overcharge made 
by the Southern Facific R. R. on a ship¬ 
ment of a carload of shrubs which arrived 
at destination in January, 1907. There 
was an overcharge on shipment of $34.50. 
The attention of the agents was called to 
the matter at the time, and assurance was 
given me that the matter would be adjusted 
very soon. One year passed, and still noth¬ 
ing done, and the same thing was repealed 
on another carload which arrived during 
January, 1908, only in this case the over¬ 
charge was $68, which was to be refunded 
immediately, and then no refund made; 
more delay in sight but no refund. About 
February, 1908, despairing of ever getting 
the refund from the railroad and steam¬ 
ship company, I wrote and stated the case 
to the Interstate Commerce Commission of 
Washington, D. C., with the result that 
they immediately called the railroad com¬ 
pany's attention to it, and never let up 
on them until the overcharge was returned. 
In this case no lawyer was employed to 
get satisfaction, and the Commission gave 
the matter as good attention as if I had 
been a wealthy corporation attorney as far 
as I am able to judge. I certainly would 
recommend farmers and others who are 
overcharged on business of an interstate 
nature to seek redress through that channel 
rather than waiting on the tedious delay 
of the railway auditor’s office. t. r. h. 
Washington. 
We are glad to know of this success¬ 
ful appeal by a farmer to the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission. Where 
the service is from one State into an¬ 
other the commission has jurisdiction, 
and it will be well to place such cases 
in their hands. 
Herewith please find small club I got 
among neighbors and at farmers’ institute. 
Keep up your courage fighting frauds; 
your constituents stand by you. 
Michigan. J. w. v. d. 
When a man goes out among his 
neighbors and secures a club of sub¬ 
scriptions for his favorite paper with¬ 
out any reward or material compensation 
to himself, he makes about the strongest 
expression of his appreciation of the 
paper that any man can give, and this 
is what farmers are doing in all parts 
of the country. The above from Mich¬ 
igan is no exception, but an instance of 
many. It is just such devotion that 
makes The R. N.-Y. possible. If the 
“constituents” did not “stand by” it, 
the paper would not last six months 
persuing its present nolicy. There is 
not a !man in the country with a 
crooked deal up his sleeve who would 
not like to scq. it go out of existence, 
and the fakers one and all would lend 
a willing hand. j. j. d. 
MONEY RETURNED 
If any of the following Poultry Remedies fail 
to give the results claimed for them. 
HARDING’S POSITIVE CHOLERA CURE, 25c. By mail, 40c. 
HARDING’S SUCCESSFUL ROUP CURE, By mail, 50c. 
HARDING’S LICE KILLER, 25c. By mail, 40c. 
HARDING’S SCALY LEG CURE, 25c. By mall, 35c. 
HARDING’S SHEEP DIP, $1.25 per gallon 
If your dealer cannot supply you, I will. Take 
no substitute. Catalogue free. 
Geo. L. Harding, 204 Water Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 
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 offer them from 
81.60 up. A few yearling cockerels of the same strain 
from SI.00 up. Also some Yearling White Wyandotte and 
Plymouth Rock Hens, the stay white kind. A good op¬ 
portunity to improve your flock at small cost, imperial 
Pekin Ducks and incubating eggs in any quantity. Sat¬ 
isfaction guaranteed. BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM. New Rochelle, New York. 
pOIt 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. 
P onltrymen—Send 1 Or. foronr 19^9 Catalog, chock full of useful 
information. Describes and illustrates 3S varieties. Yon can’t 
afford to be without it. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
B arred rocks, brown leghorns, cheap 
bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
W. H. TURKEYS 
Address MRS. B. F. WRIGHT. Ransomville, N. Y. 
B RONZE TURKEY breeding stock of merit. Mated 
unrelated. Vigorous. Rearing two poults instead of 
one assured. BERT McCONNELL, Ligonier, Ind. 
I ARfiC Tfllll nilCP GEF.8K, PEKIN DECKS, PEARL 
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Bronze 
36000 lbs. 
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330 17th St., Centerville, Iowa 
i 
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J. V. Rohan, Pres. 
I Ship 
Quirk from 
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Buffalo, 
Kansas City 
or Racine 
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Keep chicks warm and dry and 
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T MORE EGGS 
Larger, more fertile, vigorous chicks, heav¬ 
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Bvefistn 9 BONE CUTTER 
cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 10 days free 
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F. W. Mann Co. a Box 15, Milford. Mass* 
THOROBRED POULTRY PAYS 
(If You Have the Right Kind) 
Our big, vigorous White Leghorns lay more eggs 
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250 acres of fertile land devoted to S.C.W.Leghorns 
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Box R, Havre de Grace, Maryland 
B arred Plymouth Rooks—If you want winners or birds 
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Moyd M. IIallenbeck,Kxpert Poultry Judge,CatskillStation.N.Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Trios, 
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CYPHERS INCUBATOR 
CO., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Boston, Mass.; New York, 
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■as City, Mo.; Oaklsnd, 
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log free. C. H. ZIMJ. 
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V AN ALSTYNK’S S. and R. C. R. I. HKDS, 
April hatched cockerels *2.00 to $5.00. Address 
EDW. VAN ALSl'YNE & SON, Kinderhook, 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. 
A merican pet stock company, Collins, 
Ohio.— All Breeds of Standard Bred Poultry and Dors; 
5,000 Toulouse Geese; Mammoth Bronze Turkeys and Karly 
Hatched Pullets and Cockerels. Stock always for sale. Eggs 
in season. Write your wants. 
BARRED ROCKS—S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS 
100 Barred Rock Pullets. Gowell 200-Egg Strain; 150 S. C. 
Brown Leghorn Pullets, Kulp Strain; For Sale at $1.35 
cocli. G. A. SABINE, Robinson, A. A. Co., Maryland. 
[An oil r —SOO Choice Barred and Buff P. Rooks, 
rUn OnLL also White and Partridge Wyandottes. 
Price Reasonable. Dr. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
is our new 
book f jr the 
use of poultry rais- 
Keep accoixnt of 
your eggs, chicks and 
profits. Our Diary[ 
shows how and also tells about our new 
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so low. The Diary is free. Better write for ] 
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. i 
Hatch Chickens by 
Stahl “Wood- 
on Hon” and 
“ Excelsior” 
Incubators assure big hatches. 
Well-built, reliable, practical- 
thousands in use. Catalogue free. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Box72C Quincy, III. 
Steam 
Winter Eggs and Early Broilers 
Result from feeding your hens 
green bone , properly cut. 
Stearns Bone Cutter 
F n f c rinnn Doesn’t crush or 
LUIo Vlcull splinter or shave. 
It converts large green bones into food fin® 
enough for the youngest chicks. 
SO Days Free Trial 
SEND FOR PRINTED MATTER 
E. C. Stearns & Co., Box U,Syracuse. N.Y. 
