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THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
February 6, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We shipped Arthur Lee. Riverhead, L. I., 
N. Y., $15 worth of plants nearly two 
years ago and have never been able to get 
a word from him since. We also hear of a 
similar case near us, where he ordered 
goods after'receiving sample and never paid 
for them. Continue to show such fellows 
up. We have sympathy with a man who 
means to pay when he orders, but later 
finds he can't, but deliberate swindlers who 
beat everyone they can catch deserve no 
consideration. w. e. f. 
Connecticut. 
We sold Arthur Leo, Riverhead, L. I., 
N. Y., some fertilizer in 1902 ; in 1905, 
E. W. Tooker, an attorney at Riverhead, 
L. L. collected the money for us, and no 
doubt he would be able to get the claim 
referred to by 0. G. K., New Hampshire, 
on page 38. u. u. 
New York. 
By all means we advise creditors of 
Lee's Greenhouses to send their claims 
to Mr. Tooker. He has had better 
success with Mr. Lee than we have 
had. 
1 will give you m.v experience with the 
Franklin Merchandising Company. Their 
agent sold me two pieces of cloth at $11 
each with the understanding that we were 
to go to Moravia to got measured and 
select lining not to exceed $0.50 per suit, 
after which they were to make the suits 
free of charge. After they left me, they 
refused to take order for four suits for one 
of my neighbors payable on delivery, and 
I at once wrote you as my best source of 
information. You told me what other read¬ 
ers of The R. N.-Y. had reported, and I 
felt blue. I cut out what 1 found in The 
R. N.-Y. about them and took it with me 
to the. tailors. There were about 40 there 
at one time. Some of the others had looked 
it up in The R. N.-Y., and we were a hot 
lot. We selected linings for $5.50, making 
suit cost $16.50. They were a good fit, 
well made, and we are perfectly satisfied. 
Some of my neighbors ordered, and 1 do not 
find anyone who was displeased. I write 
you because I know you try to give people 
•both sides of any question. P. m. 
New York. 
We are glad to give the Franklin 
people the benefit of this friend’s ex¬ 
perience. All we ask is that they give 
people the value of their money, or at 
least satisfactory treatment. We have 
simply given the experience of readers 
who wrote from different parts of the 
country. We have had approval be¬ 
fore of their agents, which we could 
not accept as disinterested; but this 
comes from a customer who speaks his 
disinterested experience. We do not 
wish to assume credit for “hot” lan¬ 
guage where none may be deserved; 
but we rather suspect that 40 “hot” 
customers in the presence of that tailor 
would inspire him to careful fitting 
and good workmanship, if anything 
would. In view of other experiences 
we cannot help wondering if the result 
would have been just as satisfactory 
without the heat. 
Shippers of produce to commission 
merchants will be interested to know 
that a decision of the Court of Appeals 
in the State of New York in the case 
of Armour vs. Gaffey holds that it is 
the duty of the commission merchant 
or broker to keep a record of sales 
showing to whom the goods were sold 
and at what price, and that this record 
should be open to the inspection of the 
shipper. This decision of the highest 
court of the State, of course, makes it 
the law of the State, and the shipper 
should insist on the privilege whenever 
and wherever he feels that his goods 
have not brought him flu returns they 
merit. 
Referring to your marked copy under 
date of November 28. 1908, page 926, 
“Publisher’s Desk," will state we do not 
care to be drawn into this matter of the 
car of onions, shipped we believe by the 
A. A. A. A. Garden Company, of near Boe- 
ville, Texas, 1o parlies on this market, but 
will not go back on what we wrote the 
Texas shippers, namely, that these onions, 
the ones we handled, were good stock, and 
we got a good price for them. We know 
nothing of the rest of the car, which we 
never saw. 
THE COLORADO TEXAS COMMISSION CC. 
It will be remembered that this is the 
house that sold the onions, or at least, 
a part of them, shipped to C. I. Saw- 
dey & Co., Denver, Col., by a Texas 
farmer, and for which he received a 
return showing him $4.47 in debt to 
Sawdey & Co. Before printing any¬ 
thing about it we wrote the above 
house and asked them to explain their 
part in the transactions. We received 
no reply. They now say they did not 
get our letter, and it certainly was not 
returned to us. They now tell us that 
they bought some of the onions at 2 x /> 
cents and sold them at three cents, and 
that the stock was good, but they did 
not have a large lot of them. 
Is the firm of Acker, Merra'l & Condit 
Co. all right? I saw their advertisement 
in The R. N.-Y. last Summer, and have 
shipped some eggs to them. They have 
done well, but some people think we are 
wrong to ship to a firm we know nothing 
about. s. a. w 
Maryland. 
This is one of the largest wholesale 
and retail grocery houses in New York. 
They are entirely responsible. It is 
well to know the houses to whom you 
ship goods, but you arc safe if you 
see their “advt.” in The R.-N. Y., be¬ 
cause it would not be there if the 
house were not responsible, and, be¬ 
sides, you have the guarantee for the 
advertiser by the paper itself. 
On May 10. 1908, I sent chock to Mapel- 
ing Poultry Yards, 1*. F. Daily, Pulaski, 
N. Y., order and $3 check for It. I. Red 
eggs, directing to express to Falls Mills. 
They were shipped to another station four 
miles away. Of the 40 eggs, this is the 
record: 10 infertile; four died in shell (two 
black, two red) 13 black chicks, which 
proved to be P>. P. It., and seven Red 
chicks. With the order I was to have a 
yeaP's subscription to a 50-cent poultry 
paper. I made the selection but never got 
the paper, and my report of hatch was 
favored with no reply. f. c. s. 
New York. 
There have been other complaints 
of Mr. Daily’s treatment of orders, and 
the evidence as a whole convinces us 
that orders to him are accompanied 
with more risk .than it is advisable to 
assume. The sooner the poultry in¬ 
dustry is rid of influences of this style, 
the better it will be for all concerned. 
The above complaints come through an 
advertisement in the Oswego County 
Poultry Association booklet. It is to 
he hoped that future orders will be 
refused by that association. 
I enclose a booklet of the Isle of Pines 
Company which is doing a little business 
around _ here, several people having in¬ 
vested in it already. If it is not all right 
it might help some to know about: it 
through your paper. r. s. b. 
New York. 
This is a land promotion scheme. 
We have not been able to find any¬ 
thing in it that would justify an in¬ 
vestment by farmers. In an experi¬ 
ence of 25 years we have never known 
one of the schemes to result in any¬ 
thing but loss to the small investor. 
The Market Gardeners Association 
gives no street address in New York 
City, but does give a post office box 
number. So they are probably not 
bothered by complaints made in person. 
When we insist on behalf of a cus¬ 
tomer that an order sent them in Sep¬ 
tember with remittance should be filled 
by January or the money refunded, 
they call our interference blackmail. 
We find no rating for them in the 
references at our disposal. On inquiry 
we find it is alleged that one A. C. 
Nellis is about all there is to the asso¬ 
ciation, which is located at West New 
Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. Re¬ 
quests for information as to financial 
standing have been denied, and no in¬ 
formation has been found in other 
quarters that would justify an exten¬ 
sion of credit, or advance remittance 
for orders. A judgment entered 
against them in March last has been 
liquidated. 
I send you circulars of tbe Dr. King 
Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill., 
knowing 1 lint you will want to show them 
up, if swindlers, or that you will be glad 
to approve of their churn if it is a benefit 
to farmers. c. j. k. 
Massachusetts. 
This is the old three-minute churn, 
now called the King separator, and 
similar allurements. They have all been 
referred to here several times before. 
Don’t touch them. 
My account with The R. N.-Y. to date is 
as follows: Received from a seed com¬ 
pany that had been owing me nearly a year 
and paid no attention to mv letters until 
prodded by The It. N.-Y., '$1.80; Alaska 
wheat for sale at Wisconsin State Fair 
that I did not buy, thanks to advice of The 
I t. N.-Y.. 50 cents total, $2.30. 
Cost of The It. N.-Y. for four months, 34 
cents; balance in my favor, $1.96. This is 
the best investment I ever made. 
Wisconsin. r. m. p. 
That is certainly a pretty good show¬ 
ing of profits. We never thought of 
figuring it out on that basis before. 
This friend figures out a profit of 576 
per cent. That really discounts the 
fakers. The highest previous record 
we know of was 500 per cent promised 
by one Miller, who said he was going 
to heat Wall Street. We cautioned 
our people against him at the time, and 
he spent a term in State’s prison after¬ 
wards. We caution them again that 
they need not expect in all cases 500 
per cent on their investment in The 
R- N.-Y., and yet occasionally a sub¬ 
scriber reports results that make this 
look small. Last year a reader reported 
that he was just about to send a check 
for $350 to a Michigan rogue by the 
name of Manly when he read a cau¬ 
tion against him in The R.-N. Y. and 
saved his money. Manly also went to 
prison later. All cannot expect to 
profit in these ways. We are glad that 
there is not the occasion for them to 
do so; but anyone or more may at 
any time find himself in a position to 
profit in a similar way. We simply 
ask those who either profit by it or 
approve it to. send in the 10-weeks 
orders for their neighbors at 10 cents 
each. Now is a good time to do it. 
J. J. a 
Poultry Secrets 
Disclosed 
Every successful poultryman knows important 
facts he never tells. They are peculiar secret meth¬ 
ods and discoveries he has made in his work with 
chickens. As a rule he guards these with extreme 
care for they are the foundation of his success and a 
valuable asset of his business. He is not to be 
blamed for keeping them to himself. 
We Will Tell You These Secrets 
Which have cost poultrymen years of labor and thousands of 
dollars. They will cost YOU only a trifle and a few minutes time 
to write us. 
There is no man in the United States who has more friends 
among poultrymen than Michael K. Boyer. A veteran chick¬ 
en breeder himself, he knows the business from A to Z, and 
through his wide acquaintance and friendship he has learned 
many of their most jealously treasured secrets. This scattered 
material he has collected in book form, and we are offering it 
to the poultry raisers of America 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 honorable way, either by 
permission of the owner or through Mr. 
This heaping bushel of 
winter egg-producing 
green feed cost n cts. 
“Poultry Secrets" ex¬ 
plains fully this secret 
and many others. 
We are Willing to Name Here 
Some of the Secrets 
Burnham’s secret of mating fowls. 
Felch’s method of breeding from an original 
pair, producing thousands of chicks and three 
distinct strains. 
Mendel’s Chart of Heredity. 
Secret of strong fertility by alternating males. 
Secret of knowing what to feed and how to feed 
it. The secret of having green food in winter. 
Secret of sprouting oats and barley for poultry 
feeding. 
Secret recipes for chick feed ; practically the same 
feed is now sold on the market at a high rate. 
Secret of fatting poultry economically so as to 
make the most profit out of the crop. 
Secret of telling the laying hens of the flock. 
Secret of detecting age in stock. 
Secret of knowing how to judge dressed poultry. 
The only safe way of preserving eggs. 
A secret of dressing fowls so as to do the work 
quickly and thoroughly. 
An exposure of the methods employed by some 
fanciers to kill the fertility of the eggs. 
The winter egg crop and how to get it. 
Fatting turkeys for market. 
Hunter’s Secret of Success. 
Secret of the Philo System. 
There are Scores of Others 
Boyer’s own experience. 
I. K. Felch’s Mating Secret 
One of the best-known figures in the poul¬ 
try world is I. K. Felch. 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 given Mr. Boyer permission 
to use this information,’ and it is included 
in this book. 
Secret of Fertile Eggs 
Boyer’s secret or securing fertile eggs by 
alternating males we believe is worth SiOO 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 has, however, long been known to a 
few poultrymen, Mr. Boyer among them, 
'and the method is fully explained in “Poultry 
Secrets ” 
Selecting the Laying Hens. 
Since the production of eggs is the very basis of the poultry industry, the ability to 
tell the laying hens in the nock without the aid of trap nests will put dollars in your pocket 
Do not keep on feeding the robber hens. It is well known that some hens never lay an egg' 
while others often not as good looking produce 
200 Eggs a Year. 
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 we do say that to the great majority of poultrymen 
these secrets are absolutely unknown. 
We Will Pay $10 For Any Secret Not in the Book 
Provided it is practical and valuable. If it is something both good and new, a check for Ten 
Dollars will be sent at once. In submitting' secrets address all communications to the 
Poultry Department of Farm Journal 
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We will send a copy of “Poultry Secrets” and $ri •* 
Farm Journal for five years, both for only 
Or Farm Journal 2 years and “Poultry Secrets” for 50 cts. 
WILMER ATKINSON CO., 844 Race st„ Philadelphia, Pa. 
PEKIN DUCKS and 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
We will sell at a sacri- 
fi ce 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 liens. This is a good opportunity to improve 
your flock at small cost, as our plant is much over¬ 
stocked. Imperial Rekin ducks and the genuine 
Japanese breed of ducks and incubator eggs in any 
quantity. Largest plant in the vicinity of New 
York City. Jncubntors 10,000 eggs capacity. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. 
BONNIE IiRAE POULTRY FARM. 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
To Most Improve Your Flock 
at least cost, get one or more of our splendid 
big Leghorn males. They will make your 
UffcRil£R<t~ A ^ ew pa ' r nla ted homers, 
flUilldln# breeding nine pound squab and a 
few pair of young ones not mated—Cheap. W. G. 
DUNHAM, Box 84, Spring Valley, New York. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
Good breeders (male and female) from $2,00 up. 
Privilege of return at my expense, if not satist'ac. 
tory. Sinclair Smith, C02 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y- 
A MERICAN RET STOCK COMPANY, Collins. 
Ohio. —All Breeds of Standard Bred Poultry and Dogs; 
f»,000 Toulouse Geese; Mammoth Bronze Turkeys and Karly 
Hatched Pullets and Cockerels. Stock always for sale. Eggs 
In season. Write your wunts. ' 
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. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
CHOICE BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
Eggs More Fertile, and Hatch Better, 
faster growing chicks. Your pullets next 
year will be larger and lay better. 
A postal brings our circular. 
MT, PLEASANT FARM, 
Box N, Havre de Grace, Maryland. 
UARRAGANSETTTURKEYS- African and Toulouse Geese,R.I. 
II Red, Butt and Black Orpington, Buff and White Leghorns; 
Choice Stock. Miss ZELLA WILSON, Chandlerfiville, Ohio. 
C OOK’S Strain Blaelc Orpington Eggs, $8.00 
per 100; Seaman's Rhode Island Reds, $7.00 per 
100. Few Elegant Orpingtons For Sale. DORO 
POULTRY YARD, 1001 E. 40th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
I/AN'AISTYNE S S. & R.C.R.I. REDS- Eggs for hatching 
Y Stand $8 per 100: $1.00 and $2 per setting. Breeding 
ckls. §2 to $5. Edw.van Alstyne & Son.Kinderhook.N. Y. 
EAR C AI C—Fine large White Wyandotte cockerels 
lull «HL E. at $ 2.00 each. For further descriptions, 
write E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, New York. 
AO BREEDS BEST POULTRY— Eggs or stock. 
t rU Write your wants. I will save you money. Big cata¬ 
log 10c. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Box A, Harrisonburg, Va. 
75 WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS - Two 
■ v flocks, no akin, satisfaction guaranteed. 
WALNUT HILL STOCK FARM, Nathaniel 
Bacon, Mgr., Talcott, W. Va. 
BRONZE TURKEY TOMS 
good ones. Also beautiful pea fowls. Satisfaction 
given, W. C. DUCKWALL, Hillsboro, O. 
For Sale ; Stamp. 
MRS. H. CHUMBLEY. Draper, Va. 
enp P A | C— 800 Choice Barred and Buff P. Rocks, 
lUn OHLC also White and Partridge Wyandottes. 
Price Reasonable. Du. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
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. WENZ & maike.nsen, 
Dept. 10, Plteasaulry Sc (,'unie Park, Yardley, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY—Best 20 varieties. 
I Good stock, Eggs 15. $1.00; 40, $2.00. Catalogue. 
H. K. MOHR, Route 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
B arked rocks, brown leghorns, cheap 
bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
P oultrymen—Send 10c. for our 1909 Catalog, chock full of useful 
Information. Denerlhea ami illustrates 3t» varieties. You can't 
afford to be without It. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
G iantstrain bronze turkeyeggs 
—$3.00 per 10. K. C. It. I. lied Eggs. $1.00 per 15. 
Choice Shropshire Sheep. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, 
Gettysburg, Fa. 
Woodlands Farm 
Breeding Stock. Eggs for Hatching from our famous 
trap-nested stock. Circular free. Box D, Iona. N. J 
L arge Toulouse Geese, J’earl Guineas, and 
White Rock Ckls. For Sale; Best Stock; C’ir. 
Free. E. SCHIEBER, Route 2, Bueyrus, oliio. 
