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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
February 20, 
Please accept my hearty thanks for the 
way you got at the express company. I 
received my pay in full yesterday. I am 
distributing your envelopes and am more 
than glad to return you this small service. 
Again thanking you for the interest you 
have taken in the affair, I am sincerely. 
New York. c. a. a. ' 
This was a case of eggs shipped in 
September to a Brooklyn, N. Y., firm 
and valued at $0.90. The complaint 
reached us January 3, and the settle¬ 
ment was made the first week in Feb¬ 
ruary. The policy of the express com¬ 
panies seems to be to tire shippers out 
by delays, but they usually respond to 
persistent proddings from the publish¬ 
er’s steel point. 
Please inquire into the honesty and re¬ 
liability of The Koval Register, Metropoli¬ 
tan Life Insurance Company Building, 
Madison Square, New York City. They get 
old estates for people in other lands. 
Iowa. h. c. c. 
Do not put faith in any promises to 
get you a legacy from foreign estates 
that you know nothing about. If you 
do. you will be expected to put up 
some cash in advance for disburse¬ 
ments, and that is probably the last 
you will hear of it unless it be thought 
that you will advance some more 
money. Those who have honest claims 
will do best to put them in the hands 
of a reliable local attorney. 
If seed orders could be distributed over a 
reasonable space of time, there would he no 
such trouble with faulty shipments. You 
don't realize how many of the farmers wait 
until the last minute to order, and then 
come piling in on us here all at once. 
If they would only do more of their order¬ 
ing in February and March, there would 
be far less mistakes. Right now at the 
middle of January we carry full organiza¬ 
tion. and get possibly 50 orders a day. \Ye 
could easily take care of three or four hun¬ 
dred. But the rush does not begin until 
the last of March and in April. \Ye gener¬ 
ally get more orders in a day in the rush 
than we do now in two weeks. It is no 
uncommon thing in April to get as high as 
700 orders a day. No organization can 
stand the strain of meeting such conditions. 
The above paragraph from a careful 
seedsman’s letter is timely just now. 
Other reliable seedsmen report much 
the same experience.. When orders are 
delayed until nearly the last thing, and 
then rushed in to the seed houses by 
the hundreds of thousands, it is a phy¬ 
sical impossibility to get them out 
promptly and delays must be expected. 
Besides, in an effort to fill the orders 
as soon as possible, the seedsmen are 
forced to put on extra and inexperi¬ 
enced help, and errors are more likely 
to result than when the orders -are filled 
leisurely by the regular experienced 
force. Again, in the busiest season the 
experienced clerks are worked over¬ 
time. and in their hurry and fatigue 
they are more likely to make errors 
than at a time in which they are doing 
their regular work. Then, again, be¬ 
cause of this rush of orders at the 
end of the season, when orders have 
accumulated for several days, com¬ 
plaints begin to come in and time is 
consumed in making explanations. In 
such cases the customer becomes im¬ 
patient and often unreasonable. One 
frequent demand of the general com¬ 
plaint is to send back the order and 
remittance unless the order can be filled 
at once. That probably seems a very 
reasonable demand on the part of the 
customer, but you must remember that 
your order is only one of several thou¬ 
sand that are waiting to be filled. It 
would almost be a practical impossi¬ 
bility in most cases to find your par¬ 
ticular order, and the time consumed 
in doing so would cost probably more 
than the value of the whole order. In 
the meantime, several others would be 
waiting for seeds that the clerk might 
have shipped while he was trying to 
pick out your order from a bunch of 
many thousand others. The lesson of 
it all is that seed orders should be 
made out and forwarded as early in 
the season as possible. You will then 
avoid the errors that may occur later, 
and you will have your seeds on hand 
when wanted. Besides these desirable 
results, you will lighten the burden of 
seedsmen and their overworked help, who 
are really as anxious to please you as 
you can be to have good results. If 
the people who order seeds by mail 
could spend one hour in a seedhouse 
during a busy day’s shipping, and fol¬ 
low the details required o fill a single 
order of various kinds of seeds, orders 
would be sent in earlier in the season 
afterwards. We know it is annoying 
to be waiting for seed when the ground 
is ready for it. It is aggravating to 
order one thing and get something else, 
but in view of the bulk of the busi¬ 
ness and the short time in which it is 
handled, the wonder to us is, not that 
mistakes occasionally occur, but that 
as a whole there are so few errors of 
any kind. Send the seed orders early. 
The R. N.-Y. has no ax to grind and 
no theories to support in opposition to 
facts. It wants only truth, and is will¬ 
ing to give unbiased testimony on any 
side of any question in which the farm 
may be interested. Here is a case in 
point: 
Referring to the recent criticism of the 
Shoerln Nursery Company of Dansville, 
N. Y., allow me to say this in their favor. 
I have bought from them for six or eight 
years ami have always found them quite 
honorable and satisfactory in their dealings 
with me. I would continue to patronize 
them without hesitation. j. r. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
We have no wish to induce anyone 
to withhold patronage from any house 
that gives him satisfactory treatment. 
We simply had complaints against Mr. 
Sheerin which we thought justified. He 
refused to adjust the complaint. We 
next sent our own check in settlement 
of the complaint and would not be re¬ 
sponsible for any more of his transac¬ 
tions. Other subscribers are entitled to 
this information, but no one is under 
any obligation to be controlled by it. 
Some time ago I wrote you from my 
late home in Kentucky in regard to a hill 
for .$25 against the Jackson County Nur¬ 
series of Bosky Dell. Illinois. I asked you 
to write them in regard to this matter, as 
they had refused to answer me. which you 
did. The company 1ms made full restitu¬ 
tion by paying the account in full. Shortly 
after you published my letter I received a 
cheek for $15, which they said they thought 
I ought to be satisfied with and call the 
paper off. However, I enclose their last 
letter with which they sent the balance 
and I hope yoy will do as they request. 
Texas. o. c. it. 
In the letter accompanying the remit¬ 
tance the Jackson County Nurseries re¬ 
quests that The R. N.-Y. be informed 
that everything has been made right. 
We are glad to make the acknowledg¬ 
ment. We have had many complaints 
against them, and this is the first in¬ 
timation we have received of any dis¬ 
position to consider them seriously or 
to make adjustments of them. 
We want to express a word of cau¬ 
tion to manufacturers, agents and deal¬ 
ers, as well as to producers of farm 
products in the matter of shipments to 
one F. A. Booth, Stanley, New York. 
Our information is that Mr. Booth 
seems ready to buy anything from a 
garden rake to a thrashing machine that 
he can get on credit. As he never 
pays for anything shipped on credit, he 
has something of an advantage in meet¬ 
ing competition when it comes to mak¬ 
ing sales. He had some experience 
with the law some time ago which took 
him out of the field of active operations, 
but he is now in position to order again 
on credit account. 
Can you give mo information in regard 
to (he following question through the Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk department of your paper? In 
ease bonds or stocks are lost or destroyed, 
can their value be recovered? I suppose 
there must be some method of recovering 
their value, for if not. they would have at 
least one distinct drawback as an invest¬ 
ment. I find The R. N.-Y. the most satis¬ 
factory farming paper that I take. 
Vermont. f. p. w. 
The usual course in such a case is to 
furnish the transfer agent of the com¬ 
pany a sworn statement to the effect 
that the original certificate has been 
destroyed or lost, and an indemnity 
bond to protect him and the company in 
case the old certificate should turn up. 
A new certificate is then issued, 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 16. 
5 
Trios Mammoth Bronze Turkevs and 
100 bushels Improved Golden Dent Gourd Seed 
Corn. KDWARD WALTER, West Chester, Pa. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
Mating List will be Sent on Request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 Fifth St.. Brooklyn, N.Y. 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
Standard of Merit Barred Hocks. Eggs $1.25 
and $3.00 per 15 eggs. Standard of Merit Mammoth 
White Pekin Ducks. Eggs $1.25 per 10 eggs. 
FAIR AVON 
Lock Box 248. 
POULTRY YARDS 
Easton, MARYLAND. 
A REMARKABLE INVENTION 
A machine that both hatches and 
broods on the ground like a live hen. 
THE WIZARD BROODER-INCUBATOR 
In reality an Artificial Hen. All Metal and 
Eire Proof to the Limit. 
Hatches and Hovers its young like a Mother 
Hen. Stops guesswork of supplied moisture by 
Automatically Drawing Its Supply 
From tlie Ground. 
Positively the greatest 
machine of the century. 
Every Farm or Poultry 
Plant should own one 
or more of these Dou- 
ble Duty Machines. 
Three Months’ Trial Free. 100-egg size under 
$10.00. Don’t make a move towards bnying 
an incubator or brooder until you drop us a postal 
for Circular and Special Introductory Prices 
of this Greatest of New Discoveries. Address 
WIZARD MFG CO. 
Lock BOX 212, MORROW, O., U. S. A. 
BUYERS OF 
INCUBATORS 
This Great Free Book has Five Long Chapters on Feeding 1 
Chickens; Laying Records; Incubating; Brooding, and “What 
the Poultry Business Is.” It is full of pictures of Standard! 
Bred Farm Fowls and Prize Winners; Photographs of the 
Highest Priced Birds Ever Sold (five fowls for 57,500), and 
letters from their owners: over seventy pictures of the Big¬ 
gest Poultry and Duck Farms and Experiment Stations; 
over fifty photographs of Leading Breeders and Experts 
you have read about but perhaps have never seen; also 
pictures of some nice flocks of fowls raised by women on 
the farm. It explains fully the New Rules of Fire Insurance 
Companies; tells about our Newly Invented Electric 
Hatchers, and our Mammoth Incubator holding 40,000 eggs; also our New 1909 Pattern 
Insurable Incubators and Brooders. We pay postage on this great book of 212 pages 
and give it to you Free if you mention the name of this paper when you write. Address 
CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Boston, Mass.; Ntw York City; Chicago, IlL; Kansas City, Mo.; Oakland, Cal, or London, Eng, 
LET US SEND YOU 
THIS GREAT 
FREE BOOK 
! 
MONEY RETURNED 
If any of the following Poultry Remedies fail 
to give the results claimed for them. 
HARDING’S POSITIVE CHOLERA CURE, 25c. By mall, 40c. 
HARDING’S SUCCESSFUL ROUP CURE, By mail, 50c. 
HARDING’S LICE KILLER, 25c. By mall, 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. 
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 
batch strong chicks that live and grow faster 
than others. (Cost less to raise.) 
90 Per Cent. Fertility Guaranteed. 
MOUNT PLEASANT FARM 
Box Y. Havre de Grace, Md. 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to S.C.W.Leghorns. 
Cornell University 
(EXPERIMENT STATION) 
GASOLINE 
BROODER HEATER 
Does the work of four 
kerosene lamD heated 
brooders, with less cost 
for fuel and one-quarter 
the labor. Raises bet- 
ter, healthier chicks 
because the air in the house and hover is 
always pure. Heater is simple—runs for 
days without attention—no soot, no lamps 
to trim. With the heater we furnish free 
complete set of plans for building the fa¬ 
mous “A” type brooder house as above, and 
tell how to attach heater to it and how to 
operate. Trap Nests. Dry Feed Hoppers, 
etc., a specialty. Write for free catalog. 
TREMAN, KING & CO., 
Dept. A. Ithaca, N, Y,§ U. 8. A. 
MORE; EGGS 
Larger, more fertile, vigorous chicks, heav¬ 
ier fowls, larger profits by feeding cut bone. 
MANN’S latest mods. 
mHIIII o BONE CUTTER 
cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 10 days freo 
trial. No money In advance. Cat’lg free. 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mass, 
Send Us a Postal foiL a Price 
Just your name and address on 
a postal brings prices on all sizes 
of celebrated 
Racine Incubators 
and Brooders — guaranteed to 
hatch highest percentage of eggs. 
Liberal Free Trial Plan. Best 
Incubator Proposition on the mar¬ 
ket. Postal brings all printed 
matter and prices at once. Address 
Racine Hatcher Company, Box 87% Racine,Wis. 
Hatch Chickens by 
r* - A* _ _ Stahl "Wood- 
alea m en Hon" and 
W "Excelsior” 
Incubators assure big hatches. 
Well-built, reliable, practical- 
thousands in use. Catalogue free. 
GEO. H. STAHL, Box720 Quincy,III. 
125 Egg Incubator $10 
Buffalo, 
City or Racine ; 
and Brooder 
If ordered together we 
' send both for HO 
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. 
POULTRY 
our new 
book f jr the 
use of poultry rais¬ 
ers. Keep account of 
your eggs, chicks and 
profits. Our Diary, 
shows how and also tells about our new 
Incubators. It tells wliy our prices are 
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., 
CHUBBY CHICKS- 
hatch big profits. The Reliable 
Incubator hatches chubby chicks. 
Write today for our Free, interest¬ 
ing, illustrated Poultry Book, which 
will instruct you in every branch of 
poultry raising and tell you how the 
.Reliable hns smashed World’s hatching 
records continuously for the last 12 years 
RELIABLE INCUBATOR & BROODER CO. 
Box O 1 1 Quincy, III, | 
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 anil du'eks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and 
all kinds of birds and animals. wi \z & mackensen, 
Dept. 10, Plicasantry A (iame Park, Tardley, Pn. 
Greider’s 
Book 
On Poultry 
I 
Concise, practical. How 
to make money with poul¬ 
try: information as to 
buildings, treat¬ 
ment of diseases, 
etc. Fifteen at-| 
tractive chromos: 
sixty prominent varieties. 10c post paid. 
Fine, pure-bred stock and eggs at low 
prices. GREIDER’S GERMICIDE—a 
sure preventive and an excellent disin¬ 
fectant. B. H. CREIDER, Rhooms, Pa. 
Woodlands Farm 
Breeding Stock. Eggs forHatchlng from onr famons 
trap-nested stock. Circular free. Box D, Iona, N J 
CHOICE BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
For Sale ; Stamp. 
MRS. II. CHUMHLKV. _Draper, Va. 
A MERICAN PET STOCK CO.. Collins, Ohio. Stnndard- 
Kred Golden, Silver and White WyandottesJIamburgs 
Leghorn8, Bronze Turkeys, Scotch Collie. Scotch Terrier 
and Irish Terrier Dogs. Choice Stock and Eggs. 
E GGS #1.00 per 1ft, $2.00 per 40. From Thoroughbred 
Brahmas, Rocks, Wyaudottes, Reds, Leghorns, S. Ham. 
burgs. 14 varieties. Catalogue* S. K. MOIIR, I'oopersburg, I’a- 
C OOK’S Strain TJlack Orpington Eggs, $8.00 
per 100; Seaman’s Rhode Island Reds, $7.00 per 
Elegant Orpingtons For Sale. DORO 
POULIRY YARD, 1691 E. 48th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
UAH ALSTYNE S S. & R.C.R.I. REDS.— F.ggs for hatching 
1 $6 and $« per 100: $1.50 and $2 per setting. Breeding 
ckls. $2 to $5. Edw.Van Alstyne & Son,Kinderhook,N. Y, 
P oultry-men—Send lor. for our 19<'9 Catalog, chock full of useful 
information. Describes and illustrates 3r. varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without It. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
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. II. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
B ARRED ROCKS, BROWN LEGHORNS. Cheap 
bred to lay strains. NELSON BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY— Best 20 varieties. 
I Good stock, Eggs 15, $ 1 ."" -- 
--, 00; 40, $ 2 . 00 . Catalogue. 
K. MOIIR, Route 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
W ATSON’S STRAIN OF K. C RHODE 
ISLAND REI), the greatest of all winter 
layers. Cockerels and eggs for hatching from this 
great strain. R. and S. C. White Orpington Cock¬ 
erels. Circular free. Send ten cents for sure cure 
for roup. IRA WATSON, Eredonla, N. Y. 
40 BEST POULTR Y —Eggs or stock. 
"rite your wants. I will save you money. Big cata¬ 
log 10c. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Box A, Harrisonburg, Va. 
G iant strain bronze turkey eggs 
—$3.00 per 10. R. C. li.I. Red Eggs. $1.00 per 15. 
Choice Shropshire Sheep. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, 
Gettysburg, Pa. 
FDR ^ A I F—White Wyandotte cockerels and eggs 
I Wll vnbL to hatch. For descriptions and prices 
write E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, New York. 
J ronze Turkey*— Vigorous breeding stock for farmers 
and breeders. O. Quigley,Box 266,Goshen, Orange Co.,N.Y. 
W HITE PLYMOUTHS-exelusively trap-nested, 
bred to lay. Eggs from best pens $2 for 15; incu¬ 
bator eggs $6 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Alt. Kisco, N. Y. 
L arge Toulouse Geese, Pearl Guineas, and 
White Rock Ckls. For Sale; Best Stock; Cir. 
Free. E. SCHIEBER, Route 2, Bueyrus, Ohio. 
RFD RARY chiel{s l">c each. $15 per 100. Book 
IlkU UHU I orders now. World’s Best R. I. 
Reds. Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit winners. 
Stock, eggs. Cobni.su Farms, Edwardsbnrg, Alich. 
DDnW7P TUP YPYQ— from 47-lb. toms. 25-lb. 
DnUllLL lUfmLIO hens. Winners the 
world over. White turkeys. Stamp. GEO. WOLF, 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
PEKIN DUCKS and 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
We will sell at a sacri- 
fi c, e some of onr 
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. Wo have a few 
yearling cocks of the same strain at $1.00 each. 
Also some yearling White Wyandotte and Barred 
Roek liens. 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. 
DONNIE IJRAE POULTRY FARM,’ 
.New Rochelle, N. Y. , 
