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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
On January 16, we referred to an ar¬ 
rest of Edward D. Norblett on an alleged 
charge of stealing two bank books, and 
his discharge in court. Mr. Norblett was 
credited at the time as the treasurer of 
the Standard Debenture Company, of 225 
Fifth Avenue, New York, but through an 
error we credited him as treasurer of 
the Sterling Debenture Corporation, of 
the same address. The president of the 
latter firm assures us that Edward D. 
Norblett has never directly nor indirectly 
been connected with the Sterling Deben¬ 
ture Corporation, Telepost Company, or 
Oxford Linen Mills, nor has be bad any 
relations whatever with them or any of 
them. Our inquiries confirm this assur¬ 
ance. It is the ambition of The R.-N. 
Y. to be always correct and reliable. We 
exercise the utmost care and concern to 
avoid error of every kind, and, especially, 
while protecting our own people, to do 
no one an injustice. But whenever an 
error has been made we believe that we 
cannot too soon nor too fully correct it. 
We do not think such stocks as the Tele- 
post Company or the Oxford Mills Com¬ 
pany a wise form of investment for farm¬ 
ers, but we know nothing against the per¬ 
sons connected with them, nor with the 
Sterling Debenture Corporation, and we 
regret the error which connected Mr. 
Norblett with them. In simple justice, 
if any of our exchanges have copied the 
error, the earliest possible correction 
should be made. 
T hold an account of $10 against Philip 
Frantz. Geneva. O., R. F. i>. No. 2. Box 114. 
11ds is for a ton of hay delivered to him 
over a year ago. He was drawing lumber 
for Theodore Kuntz, of Cleveland. O. He 
kept several teams, and got all the feed he 
could on credit from farmers here. He 
left this neighborhood since he got the 
hay. o. J. g. 
Ohio. 
We do not know that the danger to 
farmers from trusting Mr. Frantz is gen¬ 
eral enough to justify space in The R. 
N.-Y. We assume it is of a local na¬ 
ture, but we give space to it in the inter¬ 
est of the farmer who suffered, and as a 
warning in cases of the kind. No good 
business man would give such men 
credit. Farmers will be considered better 
business men when they refuse to do so. 
Mr. Frantz pays no attention to requests 
for remittances. Mr. Kuntz says that 
Frantz was working under contract for 
him in 1907, but since then discontinued 
relations, and he, of course, has no con¬ 
trol of the matter. 
1 notice that some very uncompli¬ 
mentary terms are used regarding the ITou- 
dan Club and its officers, and in behalf of 
11s honorable members kindly permit me to 
make the following explanation to your read¬ 
ers : The American Ifoudan Club was or¬ 
ganized at Chicago some 12 years ago, and 
its present president is Edwin Smith, 
Springfield. Mass., and its secretary Daniel 
P. Shove, of Fall River, Mass., and the club 
has absolutely no connection with another 
body named the National Iloudan Club, 
which was started by the same indi¬ 
vidual against whom the complaints are 
made. As past president of the American 
Iloudan Club I feel it incumbent on myself 
to make the above statement and at the 
same time thank The It. N.-Y. for their 
efforts in putting out of business commer¬ 
cial sharks and pirates, operating through 
the columns of any journal in which they 
can find advertising 'space. 
West Pembroke, Me. c. e. petersen. 
Wc are glad to have this explanation 
of the Houdan situation from so reliable 
an authority. People interested in the 
Floudans should keep the distinction in 
mind. If there are any honest breeders 
in the National Houdan Club, as there 
probably are, it behooves them to expel 
the dishonest members or officers if there 
be any, or to get out themselves. 
Please permit me to tell you my ex¬ 
perience last year with the Itatekin Seed 
House of Shenandoah, Iowa. Their cata¬ 
logue was a very elaborate affair. I sent 
nry order and money about the first of Feb¬ 
ruary for some oats, buckwheat, Timothy 
seed, watermelon, etc. I received prompt 
acknowledgement from them, but that was 
all. When seeding time came I wrote three 
or four times before an answer came, 
finally four weeks after oat seeding time 
here the shipment came. The sacks marked 
“.Seed Oats” contained fully one-third 
wheat screenings, and balance oat hulls. 
The Timothy seed was so polluted I would 
'not use it. but their specially mixed water- 
jmelon I planted and great was my chagrin 
byppn I discovered I had a crop of citrons. 
Of 23 years experience, three on the farm 
arid 20 with a large contracting and manu¬ 
facturing company, where I handled hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of dollars. I never 
bumped up against so mean a proposition, 
f.et me ask you will their advertisement 
again appear in your valuable paper. 
. Indiana. geo. y. hepler. 
j 
j No ; the Ratekin Seed House will not 
advertise in The R. N.-Y. again. Pre¬ 
vious complaints convinced us that 
farmers could not afford to send their 
Orders and the advertising order for 
next season was refused and returned 
some time ago. Local papers credit 
jVIr. Hepler with success in growing 
Alfalfa and corn. He won first .prize 
in a local corn test this last season and 
evidently knows what he is is talking 
about when he discusses farm seeds. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Please accept thanks for important serv¬ 
ices rendered in collecting bill from W. II. 
Thatcher. In less than seven days from 
time I first wrote you his check reached 
me. Some time ago I sent him letter re¬ 
questing prompt remittance, to which I 
never had a reply. Only too well do deal¬ 
ers know the expense and trouble of dis¬ 
tant farmers whom they may try to beat. 
Inclosed please find check for one year’s 
subscription to your paper. Will cheerfully 
recommend your paper to my friends. 
J. c. w. 
This was a collection for 45 dozen 
of eggs, shipped to a New York house. 
The check was sent promptly on our 
request, but not hearing from the ship¬ 
per, we wrote again after it had been 
paid, hence the necessity of advising 
us promptly of such cases. 
Thanks for your advice in regard to 
the American Home Supply Co., Chicago, 
III. I sent for particulars, just to see 
what kind of game they were running, 
and found that their plan is as follows: 
I am to send them -SI 5 for .$75 worth 
of membership certificates in Hie Globe 
Association, also of Chicago, Ill., which 
I am to sell and keep the proceeds for 
my month’s expense allowance. 1 must 
devote the first month to securing five-year 
memberships to the Globe Association at 
$2.50 each, and appointing six agents 
(who must become members also), for 
which I get $5 each. Each month’s ex¬ 
pense allowance will be paid in free goods 
which I am to sell and keep the proceeds. 
Needless to say, I am not planning to take 
advantage of their offer. If you will send 
me 25 of the ten-weeks-for-ten-cents en¬ 
velopes, I will try to distribute them among 
those who do not receive The R. N.-Y. 
now. s. A. T. 
New York. 
The above is published for the bene¬ 
fit of hundreds of subscribers who 
have sent us alluring circulars of the 
above concerns with inquiry as to their 
responsibility. The $90 a month and 
expenses they offer on first attempt to 
interest you finally resolves itself into 
a proposition for you to send them $15 
for the privilege of faking your neigh¬ 
bors to the tune of $2.50 each as a 
starter, and giving the concerns an op¬ 
portunity to continue the process inde¬ 
finitely and to any amount possible 
afterwards. You will always find one 
unvarying condition as the* essential 
feature of all these fake schemes. Don’t 
fail to look for it, and you will have the 
solution of the riddle. It is this: You 
are to make a remittance for one thing 
or another on one pretense or another 
in advance, or put yourself under obli¬ 
gation to do so. This remittance or ob¬ 
ligation is more than you would pay 
for the things offered you on a straight 
business proposition. 
Received the $3.60 which you collected 
for me. It should have been $3.80; but 
let that go. I would like to furnish a 
statement for publication to protect oth¬ 
ers. Inclosed find $1 for The R. N.-Y. 
West Virginia. g. e. l. 
As this was our first complaint against 
the manufacturer we hardly feel like pub" 
fishing his name. Besides the order was 
not quite as definite as it might be. At 
the same time the machine had been re¬ 
turned, and the farmer kept out of his 
money for more than a year, and was un¬ 
able to get it. A neighbor told him what 
The R. N.-Y. does in such cases, and 
he sent us a remittance for subscription 
ordering the paper, provided we agreed 
to get the money for him. We, of course, 
returned his remittance as we could ac¬ 
cept no subscriptions on such conditions. 
He was a farmer, however, and helpless 
in the case. That was enough for us and 
we took the matter up and got his money 
for him, though we usually do such 
things for subscribers only. He, how¬ 
ever, has a permanent seat at the table 
now. j. j. d. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y - . and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
Orange Culture 
in California 
Is especially profitable. The soil of 
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That is what we guarantee you 
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Try it and if it don’t produce more strong, healthy 
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I If ordered together we 
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KEYSTONE FOODS FOR-POULTRY 
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Taylor Bros., llept.M,Camden.N..T, 
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EDGE HIDE SILICA BOCK CO., 
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El MORE EGGS 
Larger, more fertile, vigorous chicks, heav¬ 
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MANNIC LATEST MODEL 
illrtnn 9 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, Man* 
January 30, 
SAVE HALF Your 
Paint Bills 
By using INGERSOLL PAINT — proved 
best by 66 years’ use. It will please y ou 
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How to avoid trouble and expense caused bv 
fading, chalking and peeling. Valuable informal 
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0. W. Ingersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
STUMP PULLERS 
Warranted the most practical machine made. One man 
can lift 20 tons. Made in 3 styles, 10 sizes. Screw, Cable 
and Hand Power. We manufacture a Tile Ditcher and 1 „ - 
CORN HARVESTER 
H. L. BENNETT & CO., Box 16, Westerville, O. 
is our new 
book f >r the 
use of poultry rais- 
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We pay freight. Geo. Ertel Co., Quincy, III. 
Hatch Chickens by 
Cl!. _ ___ Stahl "Wood- 
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W W “Excelsior” 
Incubators assure big hatches. 
Well-built, reliable, practical- 
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GEO. H. STAHL, Box72C Quihcy.Ill. 
World’s Best Incubator 
Has stood all tests in all climates 
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“Proper Care and Feeding ofB 
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Poultry paper, 1 year, 10c. Write for free catalog. 
Des Moines Incubator Co., 110 2nd St,, Des Moines, la. 
NO MOKE BLISTERED HANDS 
tired backs, picks, spades or shov< 
This Clow - priced implement hor s 
through wet or dry clay, snnd, gravel 
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IWAN BROS. Dept. 6 South Bend, Ind. 
WITH 
IWAN PATENT POST HOLE AUGER 
PEKIN DUCKS and 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
We will sell at a sacri- 
fice some of our 
Single Comb White 
Leghorn cockerels, 
birds that have been 
bred from prolific layers and high scoring exhibi¬ 
tion stock at $1.50 each and up. We have a few 
yearling cockerels of the same strain at $1.00 each. 
Also some yearling White Wyandotte and Barred 
Rock hens. This is a good opportunity to improve 
your flock at small cost, as our plant is much over¬ 
stocked. Imperial Pekin ducks and the genuine 
Japanese breed of ducks and incubator eggs in any 
quantity. Largest plant in the vicinity of New 
York City. Incubators 10,000 eggs capacity. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY I-'ARM, 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
For Sale:—200 Extra Large Pekin Ducks 
j both’males and females. These ducks have been 
! selected for size and quality and it is a rare oppor- 
I trinity for anyone desiring a choice breeding flock 
: Price $2.00 each. 
W, H. MINER, Oliazy, Clinton County,N.Y. 
— - . .i . —.. . — -. 
7 5 WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS — Two 
* u flocks, no akin, satisfaction guaranteed 
1 WALNUT HILL STOCK FARM, Nathaniel 
Bacon, Mgr., Talcott, W. Va. 
BRONZE TURKEY TOMS 
good ones. Also beautiful poa fowls. Satisfaction 
given. W. C. DUCKWALL, Hillsboro, O. 
B ronze Turkeys—Choice breeding stock for sale. Toulouse geese, 
pair $8. O. Quigley, Box 266, Goshen, Orange Co., New York. 
CHOICE BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
For Sale ; Stamp. 
.MRS. H, CHUM It LEY. Draper, Va. 
B RONZE TURKEY breeding stock of merit. Mated 
unrelated. Vigorous. Bearing two poults instead of 
one assured. BERT McCONNELL, Ligonier, Ind. 
125 Egg Incubator $10 
MARRAGANSETTTURKEYS —African i 
ll Red, Huff and Iilack Orpington, Buff 
Choice Stock 
i and Toulouse Geese.R.I. 
Buff and White Leghorn 
MISS ZELLA WILSON, Chandlersviile, Ohio. 
BOOK FREE 
To Most Improve Your Flock 
iit least cost, get one or more of our splendid 
big Leghorn males. They will make your 
Eggs More Fertile, and Hatch Better, 
faster growing chicks. Your puliots next 
year will be larger and lay better. 
A postal brings ourlcircular. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, 
Box N, Havre de Grace, Maryland. 
C OOK’S Strain Black Orpington Eggs, $8.01) 
per 100; Seaman’s Rhode Island Reds, $7.00 per 
100. Pew Elegant Orpingtons For Sale. DORO 
POULTRY YARD, 1G91 E. 48th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
A merican pet stock company, Collins, 
Ohio.—All Breeds of Standard Bred Poultry and Dogs, 
5,000 Toulouse Geese; Mammoth Bronze Turkeys and Early 
Hatched Pullets and Cockerels. Stock always for sale. Eggs 
in season. Write your wants. 
WAN ALSTYNE S S. & R..C.R.I. REDS.—I Iggs for hatching 
I $6 an<i $8 per 100: $1.50 and $2 per setting. Breeding 
ckls. $2 to $5. Edw.Van Alstyne & Son,Kinderhook.N. V 
COR C AI C—Fine large White Wyandotte cockerels 
■ Un «HLC at $2.00 each. For further descriptions, 
write E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, New York. 
P oiiltrymen—Send 10c. for our 1909 Cdtalog, ebook full of useful 
information. Describes ami illustrates 8f* varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without it. Bast Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
W P. Rock Cockerels, high grade stock, early 
■ hatched, fine vigorous birds: also a few K. (J 
Brown Leghorn Cockerels, a. s. lilt I an, m t. Kisco, b. Y. 
AKKEll ROCKS, BROWN LEGHORNS. Cheap 
bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, l’a. 
B 
Plymouth Rock Squabs are largest, most 
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Send for our 1909 Free 
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PLYMOUTH KOOK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y\ State Fair; heavy layers; Trios, 
$5. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
log free. O. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
BARRED ROCKS-S.C, BROWN LEGHORNS 
100 Barred Rock Pullets. Gowell 200-Egg Strain; 150 S. < ’ 
Brown Leghorn Pullets, Kulp Strain; For Sale at $1.35 
each. G. A. SABINE, Robinson, A. A. Co., Maryland. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
flood breeders (male and female) from $2,00 up. 
Privilege of return at my expense, if not. satisf.v. 
tory. Sinclair Smith, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, X. V 
BJnRXEDQ—A P a * r mated homer- 
nUlliEallV breeding nine pound squall and a 
few pair of young ones not mated—Cheap. W. (>. 
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