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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 29, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I will give you my dealings with the 
Globe Association, Chicago, Ill. I first sent 
them $12.50 under their contract and re¬ 
ceived 40 three-year membership certifi¬ 
cates, and 40 small catalogues. I was to 
sell the memberships at $1.50 each and 
give the small catalogue. I sold 35 
of the three-year certificates and took 
orders for 10 more, and three five-year 
memberships at $2.50 each. As I traveled 
in my buggy and had to pay my board and 
horse feed out of the amount collected. I 
collected $52.50; expenses $39. Balance 
left $13.50. I then sent them an order 
for memberships as follows: 
3 five years at agent’s price—$1.50... $4.50 
10 three-year at agent's price—50c... 5.00 
Total amount of cash sent.$9.50 
I have never received the above order 
sent March 1, but I have their letter to 
show that they received it. 
Statement. 
Amount sent with contract.$12.50 
Amount expense in traveling. 39.00 
Amount sent with order for member¬ 
ship. 9.50 
Total..$61.00 
Amount received from sale of three- 
year membership —the free goods 
sent to pay expenses . 52.50 
Amount lost in cash. $8.50 
Amount of lime, 30 days, with horse 
and buggy at $2 per day.$60.00 
Total amount lost by my dealing 
with the Globe Association. .$68.50 
You see where they get out is on the local 
agents. You have to get six of them, and 
they have to pay the $12.50 each and then 
each of these have to get six more agents 
to put up $12 each before they get any 
pay. _ c. j. it. 
North Carolina. 
After all we have said about the 
Globe Association almost every mail 
brings an inquiry from some one ask¬ 
ing if their promise to pay $90 a month 
and expenses is a safe thing to accept, 
and if their goods are all right. The 
above experience is a conclusive an¬ 
swer. The agent is first obliged to 
send them $12.50 cash. Their promise 
to send $60 worth of goods to pay ex¬ 
penses turns out to be 40 membership 
contracts, which the agent is expected 
to sell at $1.50 each, or $60 for all. In 
addition to this he is obliged to appoint 
six local agents who pay $12.50 each, 
and this $75 must all be sent to Chi¬ 
cago, in addition to the $12.50 originally 
sent, amounting in all to $87.50, for all 
of which the Globe Association has 
simply furnished a small catalogue and 
some membership certifirtites. This is 
the task that each agent has to per¬ 
form before he can hope to get any 
pay at all for his work. We do not 
know what other conditions they 
would raise if the agent succeeded in 
complying with all of these conditions. 
They may have paid some one $90 for 
a month’s work, but we have never 
heard of it. At all events the $12.50 
proposition is an endless chain with a 
dump in the Chicago end, and if broken 
at all, you lose the money paid in and 
salary besides. As a'whole it is rather 
poor compensation for your success in 
faking your neighbors. Another fake 
is their promise of 100 pounds of sugar 
for $1.75, but before you get it you 
must send money for other things, too, 
and you can be pretty sure that you pay 
full prices for everything you get, be¬ 
sides ordering some things you do no,t 
want at all. One man reported that 
about one-half his sugar was broken 
rice. We hope this will be sufficient 
answer to all inquiries about the fake 
schemes of the Globe Association 
American Home Supply Co., No. 121 
Plymouth Place, Chicago. Ill. 
They are selling memberships in the 
Globe. Association. Leave them alone. 
Samuel Lippman. 192 Reach* Street, New 
York City. Commission merchants. 
We find no basis on which to rec¬ 
ommend shipments. 
II. M. Levy & Co., 58 Commerce St., New¬ 
ark. N. .T. 
Xo rating to justify shipments. 
De King Mfg. Co., Chicago, Ill. Cream 
aerators and separator. 
Leave these things alone. 
Kgg Producers Co., 1249 Bedford Ave., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
This is the concern which made the 
record of deductions for broken eggs. 
During the Winter we received com¬ 
plaints from shippers, every one of 
whom had been charged for broken 
eggs to about 10 to 15 per cent of the 
shipments. 
V. S. School of Music, Fifth Avenue, New 
York City. 
We find no rating for this concern, 
and from experience with others, we 
would advise you to employ a local 
teacher. 
I am interested in selling milk to the 
Beakes Dairy Co., New York. Is there any¬ 
thing to warrant the patrons of this com¬ 
pany trusting it at all for their pay, let 
alone two or three months? 
New York. producer. 
We have no information that would 
justify a large or a long line of credit 
to this concern. They decline formal 
statements of their financial condition, 
and are reported slow in settlements. 
They ought to be thankful to get 30 
days’ credit, and then pay promptly. 
We know no reason why a producer 
should wait longer for his money, even 
with stronger houses than this one. 
Correspondence Institute of America, 
Scranton. Pa. Art and other instruction 
by mail. 
If you receive a typewritten letter 
praising your talents and expressing a 
personal interest in you, do not be flat¬ 
tered. It is a printed letter with only 
your name and address put in by the 
typewriter, and the same talent is dis¬ 
covered* in every one who applies, and 
the same personal interest is expressed 
for all. 
E. P. Williams Co., Albany, N. Y., com¬ 
mission merchants. 
We collected some claims for sub¬ 
scribers against this concern during the 
Winter ; but a recent one we have not 
been able to get. and we understand now 
that they have made plans to go out of 
business. 
The Ideal Sight Restorer Co., Fifth Ave., 
New York. They have an instrument for 
restoring eyesight. 
Medical authorities advise us that 
such instruments are extremely danger¬ 
ous. 
Thanks to you, I am to-day the grateful 
recipient of the cash—$25.50. 1 am cer¬ 
tain that gentleman never would have re¬ 
funded the money were it not for your ef¬ 
forts. He simply ignored my letters when 
I asked for-it. though lie had promised to 
return it any time for the asking. 1 would 
he glad to hear of The Rural New-Yorker 
being a weekly visitor to the home of all 
respectable people. In many cases the 
“Publisher's Desk” no doubt would be worth 
far more than the price of subscription. 
When 1 wrote about my case I fully ex¬ 
pected to pay for your efforts in my behalf 
whether they were successful or not. As 
my pocketbook is very light, it is a great 
relief to me to get this money, although the 
amount is small, and to hear that your ser¬ 
vices are free. mrs. m. c. 
Ohio. 
We hardlv feel like giving the 
source of the above $25.50, since the 
money was returned, but we know that 
thousands of dollars have been lost by 
people all over the country in the same 
stock jobbing scheme. The promoter 
was probably legally protected, techni¬ 
cal!)’, anyway, though we believe a 
suit against him on the evidence of his 
own letters would be successful; but 
publicity was force that induced the 
settlement. 
Mills Seed House, Rose Hill, N. Y. 
This is one of the houses that 
boomed the old Alpine strawberry this 
last season as a wonderful everbearing 
strawberry. We get a great many 
complaints of one kind or another. 
We would not accept its advertise¬ 
ments. 
I liave bad my experience with the 
Temple Pump Company, Chicago, Ill.—more 
than $400 worth of it. I will give you 
the details. I wrote them in 1905 about a 
gasoline engine to run a thrashing outfit 
and separator. They answered all my 
questions satisfactorily and guaranteed the 
engine in every respect to do all promised 
for it or money would be refunded. I asked 
them how the power would range with 
steam power engines. Their answer was: 
“We guarantee our engine to give as much 
power as any steam engine, and much more 
than many of them at the same rated horse 
power.” I had a six-horse-power Peerless 
engine and five horse-power thrasher engine 
at two previous years hitched to my separa¬ 
tor. antj both gave all the power necessary. 
So to be sure of plenty of power I bought 
an eight horse-power from them and at¬ 
tached it to the same separator and it was 
an entire failure. If did not give near as 
much power as the five horse-power previ¬ 
ously used. I wired them the situation and 
asked them to send a man to see what was 
wrong. They wired me back that they could 
not send a man then. I wrote them a letter 
giving fuller details. After some days they 
replied by letter to make some changes. I 
did so. according to their instructions, with 
no better results. I then wired them again 
and asked for a man. Some days later re¬ 
ceived reply : “We will send you a man if 
you will agree to pay him and all His 
traveling and other expenses.” I did not 
agree to do that; I was already bitten badly 
enough. This is the way they got my cash 
in advance: They priced t he engine for 
$300 on 30 days’ time, or 10 per cent dis¬ 
count if paid in advance. That $30 looked 
big. so I borrowed the money and sent them 
a check, so they had my money and I a 
worthless engine. If I had not paid in 
advance, of course I should have refused 
payment until they made it perform as 
guaranteed. I had a trade worth from 
$200 to $300 a year. I lost that through 
the failure of this engine to work. With 
tlie original cost of the engine, freight, 
expenses of setting up. and efforts to run 
it. I am out in actual money at least $400, 
besides the lost customers. I am an 
old man with a peg leg. and eannot afford 
tlie loss. Other papers ought to copy these 
experiences, and make such firms keep their 
promises or quit business. 
Thornton, W. Va. john j. t. iceenan. 
We have given the above and sev¬ 
eral similar experiences to show that 
Mr. Leonard was not alone in his com¬ 
plaint, as the Temple Pump Company 
would have us believe. The similarity 
of these complaints is apparent. The 
guarantee before sale is the same in all. 
After the sale the engine would not 
work, and nothing would be done to 
make the guarantee good. 
The Kuyahora Press, Inc.. New York. Co¬ 
operative publishers and printers. 
The inducement is held out that they 
will sell your music or books on roy¬ 
alty, but you must pay for the printing 
in advance. The scheme is an old one, 
but we have never heard of any roy¬ 
alties that materialized. 
Diamond Dairy Co.. Carlton Ave. and 
Pacific St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
They have no established rating and 
decline to give information or refer¬ 
ence, both of which should be insisted 
on before extending credit on ship¬ 
ments. 
Leonard Darbysliirc, Inc., Rochester, N. Y. 
Real estate agent. 
We have referred to this before. 
This firm is not a real estate agent. It 
is a publisher of a cheap paper, with 
ma'ny Take • and deceptive advertise¬ 
ments. Stripped of fiction you simply 
get a little advertisement in this paper 
for your advance fee of $10 or $15. It 
is a slight modification of the Ostrander 
scheme of a listing fee. 
Compressed Air Power Company, Boston, 
Mass. Selling company stock. 
The authorized capital stock is 
$5,000,000. Practically the only Assets 
are patents based on the inventions of 
the president of the company. In 1908 
the treasurer failed under the style of 
The Commonwealth Publishing Com¬ 
pany, with liabilities of $8,120 and as¬ 
sets' $2,935. Of course no one knowing 
the situation would buy the Compressed 
Air Power stock. 
Walsh Bros., 53 West 24th Street, New 
York. Patent attorneys. 
We had several inquiries about these 
people during the past Winter. Last 
week they pleaded guilty to the charge 
of using the United States mail to de¬ 
fraud. John L. Sherlock, alias^ John 
Walsh, got two years in the Federal 
prison at Atlanta and a fine of $500. 
Frederick J. Walsh, his clerk and al¬ 
leged partner got an eight months’ 
sentence in the penitentiary, with a 
fine of $100. It appeared that the firm 
had been taking in from $500 to $1,000 
a week from inventors in all parts of 
the country. They pretended that they 
could sell patents, and charged a fee 
of $4, payable in advance. The scheme 
is an old one. Ostrander worked it in 
his real estate schemes, and other fak¬ 
ers with a little less courage, and if 
anything, with less honesty, are work¬ 
ing the game now in connection with 
any old thing you have to sell. The 
one provision peculiar to all of them is 
that you send a remittance in advance. 
What of Dr. II. C. Bradford, 20 East 
22nd Street, New York City, N. Y. ? lie 
claims to reduce surplus fat without any in¬ 
jury to a person if lie will follow bis direc¬ 
tions. For the first week’s treatment be 
charges $10, and then wants $5 cash for 
each following treatment of five weeks. I 
have taken the treatment for 10 weeks, but 
am not satisfied with it and I would like 
to know if he can do what he claims to, 
before I take any more of his remedies. 
New York. obesity-. 
All internal treatments for obesity 
are simply slow processes of poison¬ 
ing. The newer treatments by chemi¬ 
cals are especially dangerous and 
should be avoided as you would any 
other poison. The old treatment, and 
the less dangerous, is the extract of 
poke berries in small doses. Both rem¬ 
edies disturb the process of assimila¬ 
tion, and cause stomach disorders and 
resulting troubles, and if the old treat¬ 
ment is resorted to at all, it should be 
done only under the direction and ad¬ 
vice of a skilled physician. If you had 
a high-priced watch you would not let 
every tinker who came along experi¬ 
ment with it. The human machine is 
more delicate than any watch; don’t 
let the quacks monkey with it. 
R. C. Thompkius Produce Co., St. Louis, 
Mo. 
No rating to justify shipment. 
In March I bought a carload of hay from 
John Fangboucr. rn iuont, Oaio, which was 
to he No. 1 clover delivered in Suucook, 
N. II., for $14 a toil.' The first lead at the 
door was fair, but t,.e greater part of the 
balance was musty and dusty. ,Soule bales 
were entirely worthless, siu.ied with chaff, 
corncobs and corn 1 usks. l 1ave sent him 
sworn statements of the condition of the 
hay from two of our most respected citizens, 
and have offered to leave the adjustment 
to any good respectable man here*, but I can 
get no satisfaction out of him. T. e tar 
contained six tons more titan I needed. 
This I expected to sell here, but no one 
wants hay of such quality. This leaves 
me cramped for funds, and my cows are 
not producing their usual flow on account 
of the poor hay. Can you help me out in 
any way ? c. d. F. 
New Hampshire. 
We do not seem to be able to do 
much for this farmer, but his experi¬ 
ence may help some one else. John 
Fangboner pays no attention to our re¬ 
quests for adjustment of the complaint. 
The farmer could no doubt recover 
judgment on suit, but it would cost 
him more than it would ome to. All 
we can do is to express a word of cau¬ 
tion to others. j. j. d. 
YViten you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
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 
Alt .galvanized Iron and steel. No other brooder 
anything like it. Exclusive pattern made and sold 
only by us. Adds 100 per cent to proiits. keeps 
down cost and expense of poultry raising. Shipped 
knock-down. Easily stored. 
Write for free booklet today fully describing this 
coop; also our Metal Feed Coops, Combination 
’Trap, having and Sitting Nests, Non-Freezing Drink¬ 
ing Fountain, Egg Carrier and Medicated Charcoal. 
Dot Moines Incubator Co., 260 Third St., Des Moines, la. 
| We ship 
quick 
from St. 
Paul,Buf¬ 
falo, Kansas 
] City or Racine 
,55 Buys 
the Best 
140-Egg 
Incvibwtor ever Ma.de 
Freight Prepaid 
Double cases all over; best 
copper tank: nursery.sell'-regu- 
lating. Best 110-chick hot-water 
Brooder.84.50. Ordered together $11.50. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. No machines at any price are better. 
Write for book today or send price and save waiting. 
Belle City Incubator Co., Box 48 Racine, Wis. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
and PEKIN DUCKS,' 
We are breeders of Single 
and Hose Comb White 
Leghorns, llarred 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 1’ekins, $1.50 for 10. $8.00 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. 
B ABY CHICKS lOe. EACH. Single comb 
White and Brown Leghorns from free range, 
selected, healthy stock. Gan furnish in any number. 
Circular free. Address CH'AS. R. STONE, 
Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
S i. Lawrence Strain White and Columbian Wyandottes, 
Northroup Strain R. C. B. Minorcas. bred for their extra 
laying qualities. Satisfaction. A.N.Oowcll,Brasher Falls,N.Y. 
Best Quality White Leghorn 
Baby Chicks, $10porl00. Eggs for batching. WARE- 
11 ILL POULTRY FARM, Fulton. N. Y. R. 1>. 7. 
EMPIRE STATES. G. 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. 
BREEDING STOCK^EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
We have made a marked reduction in 
our prices, for balance of season. 
WOODLANDS FARSI, Inc., Box ]>, Iona, N. J. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
Mating List will be Sent on Request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn. N.Y. 
DAVIS S. C. R. 5 . REDS 
200 egg strains. Greatest Winter Layers known. 
Large Brown Eggs, $5.00 per 100; Special 
Matings, $1.50 per 13; $10 per 100. Circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Eggs for Hatching from 700 mature birds. Bred for 
vigor ana egg production. Write for prices. 
WHITE & lllCE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
RfiBV Chicles 15c each, $15 per 100. Book 
1 orders now. World's Best R. I. 
Reds. Chicago, Indianapolis. Detroit winners. 
Stock,eggs. Cornish Farms, Edwardsburg, Mich. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS-«e for fo^^:.^: 
CHAS. J. DISK. West Co.vsackie. N. Y. 
W P. ROCKS exclusively, trap-nested, bred to 
• lay. Eggs for hatching, balance of season $1 
for 15; $5 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
W RIGHT’S White Wyandotte Winners— 
Eggs $-1.00 per 100; Baby Chicks $10.00 per 100. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
E GGS—Barred Rocks, Brown Leghorns, 15 for $1. 
Bred to lay strains. Nelson Bros., Grove City,Pa. 
S.C.W. LEGHORNS 
of exceptional 
vigor and quality 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
of ail unequalled strain of this greatest egg-breed. 
Eggs, young and old stock, at reduced summer 
prices. Send for circular. 
Mt. Pleasant Farm, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
GOLDEN ROD POULTRY YARD Pure Buff Rock Eggs 
0 for hatching. 75c. per setting. $100 per hundred. 
Stock farm raised. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Address 
HOWARD SUTTON, Fail-mount, N. J. 
P en I try me ii— Soml 10c. forcin’ 19"9 f'ntnloj;, chock full of useful 
information. Dcscriliea and iIImd rates 3:« varieties. You can't 
afford to be* without it. ICnst Donegal Poultry YurdsjMariet la,Pa* 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. & S. COMB R. I. REDS—Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing from stock bred for vigor and egg production. 
Edw. Van Ai.stvnic & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
B UFF, tVli. Leghorns, Eggs 7.'c. per 15, $1,25 per 30 :S. C. It I. 
lied, Mottled Ancona Eggs, 90c. per IB, $1.60 per 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
W. P. ROCKSiteUd 
2.00 to $3.00; Eggs $1.00 per 
13 and $3.00 per 15. Bred to lay S. C. It. 1 Reds. Eggs 
$1.00 per 13. M. L. RICE, Ashburnham, Mass. 
E GOS $1.00 per lii, $3.00 per 40. From Thoroughbred 
Brahmas, Rocks, Wyandottes. Reds, Leghorns, 8. Ham- 
burgs. 14 varieties. Catalogue. S. It. MOlIlt, L'oopersburg, Fa. 
T URKEY EGGS-B. Red; Narrngansett: yd.l,$4 
peril; yd.2. $3 peril; M. B.&W. H.,yd. 1, $3per 11; 
yd. 2. $2per 11. S. Purigg& Son,Armstrongs Mills,O. 
NDIAN RUNNER DUCK EGGS-I’'™ 260 Egg Strain Eggs $2.00 
lor 12. Light Brahmas l'l i/.e Slock Eggs $1.00 for 1... 
C. GORDON, Spraksrs, New York. 
