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THE RUHAl 
NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Some inquiries received during the 
last week: 
Money and Stamp Brokerage Co., New 
York City; old coins. Not rated, and de¬ 
cline to make statement or give reference. 
Trelease & Underhill, 103 Duane St., 
New York City; butter and eggs. Limited 
credit. 
Oakwood Butter and Egg Company, 172 
Chambers street, New York City; commis¬ 
sion merchants. No commercial rating. 
United Egg Farms Co., No. 8 Ninth ave¬ 
nue, New York city. Business recently 
started. No commercial rating. Keference 
submit ted. 
Canada Mills Co., Greenville, Mich.; 
clothing. Tliis is a cheap clothing iiouso 
run by one F. O. Linquist. Credit is 
limited. Have complaint yet not satisfied. 
Order of the Golden Seal, Roxbury, 
N. Y.; fraternal insurance. This is a small 
fraternal and benefit insurance. Its affairs 
are apparently in satisfactory condition, 
but expenses run high as compared with 
benefits paid. 
Morris A. Miller, 110 Henry street, New 
York City; eggs. No rating. Shipper’s com¬ 
plaint of more than a year’s standing not 
adjusted. 
George Zanderer. .18 Avenue D, New 
York City; butter and eggs. Complaint on 
file. No rating. 
Globe Association, Chicago, III. Many 
complaints. The scheme an evident fake. 
Ontario Veterinary College, London, 
Ont., Can. They have been making fake 
propositions for years. Advertising refused 
years ago. 
American Home Supply Co., Chicago, Ill. 
The same proposition as the Globe Asso¬ 
ciation above. 
William S. Sweet & Sous, Inc., Provi¬ 
dence, It. I. ; seeds. Satisfactory statement 
of small capitalization, and good record. 
.7. If. Downs, New York; fence posts. 
Frequent complaints about delays in ship¬ 
ment, and utter indifference to complaints. 
. American Investment Association, Minne¬ 
apolis. Minn. These people are working 
tlie Ostrander real estate scheme. They 
want a listing fee in advance. R. N.-Y. 
readers will hardly give it a second 
thought. , 
Planters’ Pride Nursery Co.. Winchester, 
Teun. No financial rating, and no response 
to requests for financial statement. 
Williams Mfg. Co., Washington, Mass., 
offices New York City; crates. Offering 
stock for sale. Have no established finan¬ 
cial rating. Not a desirable investment for 
farmers. 
Chase Brother’s Nursery, Rochester, New 
York. Both financial rating and credit 
high. 
The above indicates just a few of 
the opportunities farmers have of 
parting with cash and produce without 
any satisfactory assurances that they 
will get a fair equivalent for them. 
Many houses seeking farmers’ trade 
rather resent the idea, of being asked 
for rating or reference; hut would not 
expect to get credit from other houses 
without it, and would not extend 
credit themselves without satisfactory 
assurances from the house seeking 
their credit. They have simply got to 
get used to treating the producer as 
a business man. 
We wish every farmer would get a 
file, and preserve all letters and papers 
of every kind. A very good one is 
the Eureka file, which costs about 25 
cents. It has compartments marked 
by letters of the alphabet, and papers 
may be filed in the compartment marked 
by the first letter of the name of the pa¬ 
per. Get one the next time you are in 
town. Receipts may also be filed with 
the letters and other papers. 
W. M. Ostrander, incorporated, is 
at last in the hands of a receiver. It 
will be remembered that Ostrander in¬ 
corporated himself for $2,000,000, and 
sold stock at par. It is alleged that he 
sold more than a million dollars worth 
of stock. One of the stockholders 
sued him for the recovery of her 
money, and the court appointed a re¬ 
ceiver to hold the property pending 
the result of the suit. When The R. 
N.-Y. began to show him up he was 
advertising in all the farm papers of 
any importance except The R. N.-Y. 
itself, which had refused his adver¬ 
tising for some time previous. The 
exposures drove him out of the farm 
papers, and finally out of the best 
magazines. He operated originally 
from Philadelphia, but has been in 
New York now for some years. The 
success of his fake schemes has pro¬ 
duced several feeble imitators, some of 
whom are yet considered legitimate 
and respectable. 
Do you consider stock in Christian’s Nat¬ 
ural Food Company and the Kornit Manu¬ 
facturing Company safe? If not, do you 
know anything that is? Banks pay so 
little interest. c. w. 
Staten Island. N. Y. 
The Kornit Mfg. Co. is in the hands 
of a receiver, and the stock, of course, 
is without value. In short, the of¬ 
ficers have recently been trying to col¬ 
lect an assessment from old stock¬ 
holders to start the business. As to 
the Christian Company, we showed in 
November last that for every $100, you 
get $66 worth of paper representing 
patents and only $2 of estimated as¬ 
sets. The estimates may be high at 
that. Savings banks pay four per cent. 
It is all the use of the money is worth, 
and it is a good thing for people with 
small savings that it is worth no more. 
It is well for people with large capi¬ 
tal to want interest rates high; but 
those who work for a living are fav¬ 
ored in low rates. Place your savings 
where they are safe at a low rate of 
interest until you are able to use them 
in investments for yourself. Never 
send money to schemers and fakers 
who make big promises. If they be¬ 
lieved what they tell you you could 
not get the bargains offered. You need 
never expect to see the money again 
if you send it to them. 
L. P. Gunson & Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
write a farmer that they have one 
agent, who has been selling oats for 
them for 20 years, and offer this as an 
argument for the sale of their oats at 
$2.50 a bushel. If they have been sell¬ 
ing different new varieties of oats for 
20 years? what has become of some of 
these*wonderful new varieties ? Is it not 
about time that some one else besides 
this seed house knew something about 
new varieties that have been sold for 
20 years? By the way, only two years 
ago they were selling what they called 
the Mammoth Cluster oats on the same 
conditions and on practically the same 
representations as they are now selling 
the Great Dane. What has become of 
the Mammoth Cluster that farmers 
were required not to sell for less than 
$1 a bushel for first crop? 
Is tlie company that soils the Home Com-* 
fort range, made in St. Louis, Mo., a re¬ 
sponsible dealer? They have teams in this 
section selling their goods at high prices, 
.$79. or whatever they can get (lie farmer 
to sign up for, and then agreeing to take 
their old stove at a named price. Another 
man comes along and delivers the stove 
and.refuses to take tlie old stove. On the 
back of the notes signed, it states no old 
stoves taken. They are doing a rushing 
business here. j. h. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is an old trouble. The house 
which manufactures and sells this 
range is responsible, and will, we be¬ 
lieve, do all it promises itself, but it 
does not bold itself responsible for its 
agents. The agent is obliged to turn 
in the note and contract just as it is 
printed, with the purchaser’s signature. 
The company gives him no authority to 
change it in any respect. But the agent 
usually tells any story and makes any 
representation that will help him make 
the sale. He then depends on his abil¬ 
ity to keep the farmer’s attention away 
from the details of the note and con¬ 
tract which the farmer signs. The note 
is sent complete, and plainly states 
that the company will not be responsible 
for any verbal agreement. We knew a 
case where an unusually shrewd farmer 
bargained for a stove with the agent 
at a cut price. The agent, however, 
drew up the note at the regular price 
—$79—and succeeded in getting the 
farmer to sign it without reading it, so 
that when the note came due he was 
obliged to pay the full amount. The 
agent will resort to any trick or persua¬ 
sion to get the order; but he must man¬ 
age finally to get the note signed at full 
amount and without conditions, and if 
you so sign it, you have no redress. 
The R. N.-Y. showed up the agent’s 
scheme of working these notes some 
years ago. 
The Metropolitan Florists Supply 
Co. (who or what it may be is no 
matter) of New York City want to 
sell some seeds for $2. They want 
to sell instruction for growing flow¬ 
ers for $2 more. But there is such 
a demand for flowers (so they tell you) 
and so little land on which to grow 
them, the products of your seeds are 
to be most valuable, and they insist 
that you .give them the option of re¬ 
buying the flowers’ product from' the 
seeds as a result of their $2 worth of 
instructions. The similarity /of this 
proposition with tlie sale of oats at 
$2.50 a bushel, with the agreement not 
to sell the product for less than $1 a 
bushel will occur to thoughtful readers. 
If you are properly impressed with the 
assurance of future profits, of course, 
you will buy the seeds. We simply fail 
to be impressed. 
I received a check from Berean & Co. 
yesterday for the calf shipped them, so 
please let me know what your commission 
is. 
New York. 
D. M. 
There is no commission for us. We 
are always pleased when The R. 
N.-Y. can help its friends get what is 
due them. Commission merchants, 
railroads and express companies have 
been getting a lot of money that be¬ 
longs by right to the farmer, and it 
is a satisfaction to be able to make 
one of them disgorge occasionally. 
j. j.'d. 
CAST IRON HOG AND POULTRY TROUGHS 
from factory to Stockman and Farmer; no profit to 
divy up; capacity about 2 gallons per foot, in lengths of 
2. 4. 5, 6. 7, and 8 feet, any length at 33 cents per foot. 
Write for general Stock and Ilog Trough Circular. 
HERTZLER & ZOOK CO., - Belleville, Pa. 
SQUAB BOOK FREE 
Plymouth Rock Squabs are largest, most 
We were FIRST ; our birds and 
lods revolutionized the industry. 
Send for our 1909 Free 
Book, telling “How to Make 
Money Breeding Squabs.” 
PI.TMOI1TH KOCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose,Mass. 
CHARCOAL FOR POOLTRY^SMS^^ 
get better results from your poultry by feeding Indian 
Brand Charcoal. Very valuable.’ Write to-day. 
THOMAS BROS. CO., *25 Allen Street, I'll II, A DELPHI A 
fiAPCP Can Be Cured! Use a HEX GAPE 
UMlLO WORM EXTRACTOR and Save all 
your chicks this year. Safe, Quick, Thorough, 
Sure. Guaranteed to do it satisfactorily or 
money refunded. Write for booklet. Address 
J. S. KLOCK, Box 17, Urban, Pa. 
P oultrymen—Send 10c. for our 19n9 Catalog, chock full of useful 
Information. Describes and illustrates 3f> varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without It. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
BARRED P. ROCK EGGS WHICH HATCH, 
from 125 pullets of Gowell’s 200-Egg Strain and (15 
of Sherman's Large Strain. $1.50 for 15, $3 for 45, 
$5 for 100, shipped from Washington, I). C. 
W. A. SHERMAN, -:- Vienna, Va. 
KEAN'S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Are Bred for Large Size,Heavy Egg Production and Vigor. 
Eggs 15, $1.25; 50, $2.50; 500, $22.50. Breeding stock 
$5.00 per trio, $7.50 for 5 liens and cockerel. A 
"Square Deal’’ to all guaranteed. Address 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
DARY Chicks 15c each, $15 per 100. Book 
if mu i orders now. World's Best R. I. 
Reds. Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit winners. 
Stock, eggs. Cornish Farms, Edwardsburg, Mich. 
E GGS—Barred Rocks, Brown Leghorns, 15 for $1. 
Bred to lay strains. Nelson Bros., Grove City,Pa. 
W u Hlli kx — ,>,tw aiiu a limy. 
* I i nUUfxO Pullets, $2.00 to $3.00; Eggs SI .00 per 
13 and $3.00 per 15. Bred to lay S. C. K. I. Reds. Eggs 
$1.00 per 13. M. L. RICE, Ash burn ham, Mass. 
Best Quality White Leghorn 
Baby Chicks, $10 per 100. Eggs for hatching. WARE- 
HILL POULTRY FARM, Fulton, N.Y. R. I). 7. 
R0LDEN ROD POULTRY YARD Pure Buff Rock Eggs 
V ( or hatching. 75c. per setting. $4.00 per hundred. 
Stock (arm raised. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Address 
HOWARD SUTTON, Fail-mount, N. J. 
40 
Og 
BREEDS BEST POULTRY—Eggs or stock. 
I Write your wants. 1 will save you money. Big eata- 
10c. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Box A, Harrisonburg, Viu 
B uff Wyandotte eggs-si per i5: choice. 
KAV H. ALEXANDER, Union Springs, N. Y. 
R hode Island Whites—Excellent layers, $1.00 
for 15. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperance, N. Y. 
R I. REDS and W. LEGHORNS. Special 
« circular. Patterson Bros., Pattersonville.N.Y. 
W HITE PUYMOUTHS- exclusively trap-nested, 
bred to lay. Eggs from best pens$2 for 15; incu¬ 
bator eggs $0 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt.Kisco, N. Y. 
T he Farmer's Fowl-ROSE COMB REDS. , 
Best winter layers on earth. Eggs $1 per 15; $5 I 
per 100. THOS. WILDER. Richland, R. No. 1, N. Y. 
W A NT ED, Pheasants.a 11 varieties,Peafowl, Wild 
Ducks, Geese, Homers, Squirrels. Angora eats. 
Bantams, Quail. All kinds of eggs for hatching, Ban¬ 
tam eggs. A. Mackenzie,Woodcliff.Poughk’psie,N.Y. 
B RONZE TURKEY EGGS, nine for $3. L. o. 
QUIGLEY, Goshen, Orange Co., N. T. Box 266, 
G iantstrain bronze turkeyeggs 
—$3.60 per 10. R. C. R. I. lied Eggs. $1.00 per 15. 
Choice Shropshire Sheep. Write H. J. VAN DYKE, 
Gettysburg, Pa. 
W 1I.D and BRONZE TURKEY EGGS For 
Sale. Eggs for Hatching. Pure bred chickens 
and eggs. Prices low. Handsome catalog free. Sat¬ 
isfaction. Valley View Poultry Kami, II. 1, Belleville, Pa, 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORHS. 
Eggs forHatching from 700 mature birds. Bred for 
vigor ana egg production. Write for prices. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
rnn CAI C— A few choice Buff Wyandotte 
lUn OH Lt. eggs for sale. 75 cents for 15; $4.00 for 
100 eggs. Chas. I. Miller, R.F.D. No. 1, Hudson,N.Y. 
B URK, Wh. Leghorns, Eggs 76c. per 15, $1.25 per 30 ;S. C. K. I. 
Heel, Mottled Aucona Eggs, 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
Protect Your Chicks 
They have the snug, 
warm, dry quarters in 
this Sanitary Brood Coop 
that keeps off the dreaded 
roup and makes them 
Safe from Rats, 
Mink, Weasel, Lice 
■ and Mites 
All galvanized Iron and steel. No other brooder 
anything like it. Exclusive pattern made and sold 
only by us. Adds 100 per cent to protlts, keeps 
down cost and expense f poultry raising. Shipped 
knock-down. Easily stored. 
Write for free booklet today fully describing this 
coop; also our M tal Feed Coops, Combination 
’Trap, Laying and Sitting Nests, Non-Freezing Drink¬ 
ing Fountain, Egg Carrier and Medicated Charcoal. 
Dcs Moines Incubator Co., 260 Third St., Des Moines, la. 
April 24, 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
[ We ship 
quick 
from St. 
. Paul.Buf- 
• falo, Kansas 
| City or ltaeine 
the Best 
140-Egg 
Ir\c\jb;vtor ever Ma.de 
Freight Prepaid 
Double cases all over; best 
copper tank: nursery,self-regu- 
... lating. Best 140-chlck hot-water 
Brooder, $4.50. Ordered together *11.50. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. No machines at any price are better. 
Write for book today or send price and save waiting. 
^sU^jCUjMncubatoi^Oj^Boi^^^^^RacIno^WI*^ 
S We are breeders of Single 
and Rose Comb White 
Leghorns, Barred and 
, White Rocks, White Wy 
andottes; also Imperial 
and genuine Japanese breed of Pekin Ducks and 
Bronze Turkeys. We offer eggs of the above kinds 
of chickens from superior prize matings for $3 00 
per setting, $15.00 per 100. Eggs from good utility 
stock, $1.50 per setting, $6.00 and $8.00 per 100. Eggs 
from Imperial Pekins. $1.50 for 10. $3.00 per 100; and 
Japanese breed, $2.50 for 10, $15.00 per 100. Largest 
plant in vicinity of New York City. Incubators, 
10,000 eggs capacity: 2,000 layers. Stock for sale. 
Send for circular. Correspondence invited. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, 
New Rochelle, 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.) 
00 Per Cent. Fertility Guaranteed. 
MOUNT PLEASANT FARM 
Box Y. Havre de Grace, Md. 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to S.C.W. Leghorns. 
VAN ALSTYNE'S S. AND R. C, R. I. REDS. 
Eggs for hatching. Breeding Cockerels. Baby 
chicks 15c? each. Bred for vigor and egg production 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, 
Box 178, Kitiderhook, N. Y. 
Raise Rhode 
Island Reds 
If you want to make money out of chick¬ 
ens. They'll please you in everyway. 
My book tells you all about them ; con¬ 
tains handsome, life-like pictures. Book 
costs only so cents, which 1 deduct on 
your first order for two settings of eggs. 
WALTER SHERMAN 
25 Boulevard Newport, R. I 
W RIGHT’S White Wyandotte Winners— 
Eggs $4.00 per 100; Baby Chicks $10.00 per 100. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
T URKEY EGGS—B. Red; Narragausett; yd.l,$4 
peril; yd.2, $3 peril; M. B.&W. H,,yd. 1, $3per 11; 
yd. 2. $2 peril. S. Durigg&Son, Armstrongs Mills,O, 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
Mating List will lie Sent on Request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 
—$5.00 per 100 R. C. Brown Leghorn. 
Large, up to date stock; exclusive 
farm range. Extra choice matings, $2.00 for 15. 
F. K. BUsHNELL. Chatham, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATES. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Trios, 
$5. Eggs* for hatciting, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
log free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
A merican Pet Stoek Company, Collins, O. 
All varieties Standard Bred Poultry and Dogs. 
Stock always for sale. Eggs for Hatching a Spec¬ 
ialty. Bronze Turkeys. Cockerels of all Varieties. 
P RIZE WINNING STRAINS—Barred Rocks, White 
Wyandottes, Rhode Island Keds, both combs; White 
and Brown Leghorns, single combs; Light and Dark 
Brahmas; eggs, $1.00, 15, $5.00, 100. Address 
F. M.PRESCOTT, Kiverdale, N. J. 
S t. Lawrence Strain White and Columbian Wyandottes, 
North roup Strain R. C. B. Minorcas, bred for their extra 
laying qualities. Satisfaction. A.Ji.C'owell.Ilrasher Kalla,N.Y. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES. 
Living Pictures. Unexcelled Utility Strain. 
A. F. WENNINGHOFE, Fort Wayne, Ind, 
WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS p sSS 
per 100. L. MACBETH, Hudson. N. Y. 
S INGLE COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS- 
Blue ribbon winners. Eggs 10 and 15 cents each, 
Dr. W. R. FISHER, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. 
Guaranteed 80 Per Cent Fertile. 
S. C. White Leghorn Eggs, 15 for $2.00. 
W OODLANDS FARM. Box D, IONA, N. J. 
E GGS $1.00 per ir>, $2.00 per -10. From Thoroughbred 
Krahmas, lloi/lcs, Wyandottes, Iteds, Leghorns, S. Ham- 
burgs. 14 varieties. Catalogue. 8. K. 91 011 It, Coopersburg, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED POULTRY—Best 20 varieties. 
I Good stock, Eggs 15 $1.00; 40, $2.00. Catalogue. 
H. K. MOHR, Route 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS-WJ^KS: 
CHAS. J. LISK. West Coxsackie, N. Y. 
B arred Plymouth rocks-E ggs for 
hatching, $5.00 per 10(1. Best pens, $2.00 per 
setting. CLARK FARM, Boonton, N. J. 
B arred Rocks and Reds, both combs. Selected 
eggs $1.00 per 15. Curwin Maurer, Dublin, Pa. 
If You Keep Poultry For Profit 
KEEP THE BEST 
Buy your stock of 
S. B. & E. W. TWINING, Box 2 B, Yardley, Pa. 
THEY HAVE BRED UTILITY BIRDS FOR THIRTY YEARS 
Their efforts have crowned them, with 
SUCCESS 
Write for their 1909 Booklet. It is sent free. 
