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THE RURAL NRW-YORRER 
June 12, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Deering Mercantile Co., GO Wabash Ave¬ 
nue, Chicago, Ill. 
We could not endorse this house nor 
its methods. 
Franklin Merchandise Co., Chicago, III. 
Clothing. 
This plan has been referred to sev¬ 
eral times. Complaints are many and 
frequent. 
Do you think the L. C. Carron Co., oil 
manufacturers, Cleveland, Ohio, are respon¬ 
sible for their advertisements? s. e. 
Pennsylvania. 
They have no established rating and 
decline to furnish report or reference. 
The L. C. McLane Ortlioepedic Sanitar¬ 
ium, 3100 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. 
They have no established rating and 
decline to furnish statement or refer¬ 
ences. We advise consultation with a 
local physician. 
The Great American Herb Co., Washing¬ 
ton, D. C'. Proprietors of Indian herbs. 
Do not patronize quack doctors of 
any sort. Some of these things may 
be harmless. Others are positively in¬ 
jurious. It is never entirely safe to 
use them. 
Clark Wireless Telegraph and Telephone 
Co., Cleveland, O., also Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Wireless telegraph companies have 
sold a lot of worthless stock. They 
can afford to sell it cheap because it 
costs only the printing. You might as 
well buy stock issued against an equity 
in the moon. 
I have iust received a check for $20 from 
the National Railroad Training Association, 
Kansas City, Mo. I heartily thank you for 
the interest you took in my behalf. 
Ohio. *’• B - 
The complaint was that they promised 
to get him a position after graduation 
or refund the money. He got no posi¬ 
tion and no replies to his letters. It is 
due to them to say that they gave our 
request prompt attention and sent back 
the money. 
Florida Fruit Land Company. Sale of 
small farms. Selling agents, Kansas City, 
Mo. 
Some of these southern lands are all 
right; but everyone with experience will 
tell you not to buy them by mail on the 
statements of the promoters, nor at alb 
unless you wish to settle on them. Be¬ 
fore you buy land in any section, visit 
it, and see it for yourself. You can 
probably save five times the cost of 
the trip by learning the value of other 
land in the neighborhod. 
Morris A. Miller, 110 Henry street, New 
York City. Asking consignments of eggs. 
We have a claim for a shipment of eggs 
made him by a New York State farmer 
about a year ago. He claimed he did 
not get it, but would pay if we would 
show him the receipts. Accordingly 
we got the shipping receipt, and also 
his receipt given when the eggs were 
delivered to him; but we cannot get 
the money. He has a cheap place in a 
basement, and the place is generally 
closed during the day. Paste his name 
and address up in the shipping room, 
and don’t use it to ship to him. 
Whiting Nursery Co., Boston, Mass., and 
Geneva, N. Y. 
We have many inquiries about them, 
and considerable complaint that when 
taking the order representations are 
made which are not justified when the 
stock is delivered. It will be remem¬ 
bered that we compared the prices on 
some of their orders last year with quo¬ 
tations from three of the best nursery 
houses of the country and found them 
six to seven times the prices of these 
houses. At least some of their stock 
is bought from other nurserymen. It 
can be no different from theirs. 
The account assigned to you for the case 
of eggs sent to William Kauffmanu has been 
paid by the express company (May 15), 
thanks to your efforts in my behalf. I 
would be very glad to pay you for what you 
have done. I am very grateful to you. 
New York. leland b. smith. 
This case grew out of a shipment of 
eggs last July. Complaint was made to 
us in November. Mr. Kauffmanu 
claimed that he never received the eggs. 
The express company claimed he did, 
and actually showed us alleged copies 
of the receipt Kauffmanu signed on the 
delivery of them. He refused to go to 
the express office to identify the orig¬ 
inal receipt and they refused to take it 
to his place, and there we were for a 
time between the two. We then had 
Mr. Smith make an assignment of the 
claim to us; and we then told them 
both that unless the matter were settled 
we would sue them jointly for the 
claim, and they could prove in court 
which one was really responsible for the 
shipment. We then got prompt advice 
that the matter would be investigated 
further. The result is that Mr. Smith 
has the money for his case of eggs. 
We have been working on it for seven 
months. Of course, the amount involved 
would hardly pay for the postage 
stamps, to say nothing of the time; but 
the principle that a shipper has rights 
that a commission merchant and an ex¬ 
press company are bound to respect is 
worth ten times the time and the ex¬ 
pense. 
Compressed Air Power Co., Boston, Mass. 
Capital stock sales. 
This company was organized under 
laws of Arizona, where promoters like 
to go for corporate certificates, for. 
$5,000,000, to handle patents invented by 
the president of the company. He was 
certainly not over modest in his own 
estimate of his patents, but as he could 
just as well have made them $100,- 
000,000, he shows some sense of limita- 
tations. Our friend who invested in 
the stock wants to know if he could not 
hold the agent criminally responsible 
for selling him a worthless stock. 
Hardly. He might, if he had good 
proof of fraud and misrepresentation. 
But if anyone else wants a share of 
that $5,000,000 patent, the privilege is 
open to him. But we do not advise 
haste. 
I bought three lots from W. M. Ostrander, 
now of New York City, hut formerly of 
Philadelphia, Pa. These lots are at Lincoln, 
N. J. I was to pay $1,055 in monthly pay¬ 
ments. 1 have already paid $480. I think 
I paid rather high for them. I have $575 
yet to pay. If he would make a discount I 
might pay it all now. Would you see about 
getting the deed for me? I am afraid to 
trust Ostrander. I will trust you to do 
whatever you think. What would you do? 
Connecticut. a woman. 
We have made inquiry as to the value 
of those lots. Our information is that 
they are worth about $375, and that a 
sale at this price would be considered 
a good one for the seller. So you see 
on this information this good woman 
has already paid $105 more than the lots 
are worth, and she yet has $575 to pay 
before she could get a deed of the lots 
from Ostrander. In another case we 
looked up, a farmer had agreed to pay 
$135 for a lot and had paid in $90. He 
had $45 yet to pay. We found that the 
lot was estimated to be worth no more 
than $15; and no one to buy it even at 
that. A temporary receiver was re¬ 
cently appointed to take charge of the 
W. M. Ostrander, Inc., pending result 
of a suit; but the Appellate Division 
has now discharged the receiver. Os¬ 
trander’s operations are probably legal. 
There seems to be no law against a 
man getting any price for property that 
others are willing to pay; but it is quite 
as irritating to be done up legally as 
to be robbed in any other way. 
I nm sending you some circulars of land 
that a friend of mine is selling and wants 
me to invest in it also. Would it be asking 
too much of you to look the Dean Alvord 
Co. up and tell me what you think of 
them and the investment? j. h. c. 
Connecticut. 
The lots referred to are at Port 
Jefferson, some 60 miles out on Long 
Island, near the Sound. If anyone 
wishes to live there it might be well 
enough to buy a lot and build a house 
on it; provided he could not get a 
cheaper lot outside of the limits of this 
reservation, and we suspect he could. 
As an investment for a person living 
at a distance, however, it has no at¬ 
tractions that we can discover. We 
most earnestly advise against it. The 
most alluring proposition in this devel¬ 
opment scheme, however, and to our 
mind the most dangerous for small and 
inexperienced investors, is the “Deben¬ 
ture Bonds” with 50 per cent stock 
bonus. This means that if you buy 
$2,000 of bonds, you get free $1,000 of 
stock. It is evident That the (Stock 
has little value or that the bonds are 
not worth face value. It is well to 
know just what these bonds are. They 
are not bonds to secure the payment of 
a mortgage on the lots as you might 
suppose. The lots are undoubtedly 
mortgaged, and could be sold under 
foreclosure without consideration of the 
debenture bonds. These bonds are 
simply an indebtedness of the company 
and have something of the nature of 
a receipt for money or a promissory 
note of the company. As the bonds 
have fixed dates of payment extending 
for some years, in case the company 
became embarrassed, a creditor could 
sue on a matured note or open ac¬ 
count, and collect his claim, while 
the holder of a bond would be power¬ 
less to do anything, so that in such 
an event the debenture bond holder 
would be at the end of the line of 
creditors. For such reasons we con¬ 
sider debenture bonds in any com¬ 
pany about the poorest form of secur¬ 
ity one could get for his money, if 
we except the inflated stocks of the 
corporation itself. j. j. d. 
-99 %, % Pure- 
American Ingot Iron Roofing 
Guaranteed For 30 Years 
Without Painting 
The Only Guaranteed Metal Roofing ever put on the 
market. Samples free. Write for a free book showing 
remarkable tests. A way out of your roof troubles. 
THE AMERICAN IRON ROOFING C0. f Dept. D, ELYRIA, OHIO 
When you write advertisers mention Tub 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 8. 
MONTROSS METAL SHINGLES 
Have been made for ovur 20 years, all users satis¬ 
fied. No experiment,Durable,Fireproof,Inexpen¬ 
sive. Catalog. Montross M. S. Co., Camden, Ji. J. 
For Best EXTENSION LADDER at ’ rices 
JOHN J. HOTTER, 11 Mill St., Binghamton, N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS and Hose Comb White 
and PEKIN DUCKS. White Kocks, 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. $8.00 per 100; and 
Japanese breed, $2.50 for 10, $15.00 per 10a. 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 Roclielle, N. Y. 
B CKK, Wh. Leghorns, Eggs 75c. per 18, $1.25per 30 :8.C. R. I. 
Red, Mottled Ancona Eggs, 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
FflR CAI C—200 Buff and B.P. Rocks; also White 
lUn OHLL and Partridge Wyandotte; good 
breeders. Prices reasonable. 
DU. S. C. MOYER, Lansdale, Pa. 
W T. ROCKS exclusively, trap-nested, bred to 
i lay. Eggs for hatching, balance of season $1 
for 15; $5 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
ABS 
will reduce inflamed, swollen Joinf9, 
Bruises, Soft Bunches. Cure Boils, Fis¬ 
tula or any unhealthy sore quickly; 
pleasant to use; does not blister 
nnder bandage or remove the hair, 
and you can work the horse. $2 per 
bottle at dealers or delivered. 
Horse Book 7 D free. 
ABSORBINE, JR , for mankind, 
$1.00 per bottle. Reduces Varicose 
Veins, Varicocele, Hydrocele, 
Goitre, Wens, Strains, Bruises, 
stops Pain and inflammation. 
F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
MINERAL 
HEAVE 
REMEDY 
BREEDING STOCK-EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
We have made a marked reduction in 
our prices, for balance of season. 
WOODLANDS FARM, Inc., Box D, Iona, N. J. 
S t. Lawrence Strain White and Columbian Wyandottes, 
Northroup Strain R. C. B. Minorcas, bred for their extra 
laying quail t ies. Satisfaction. A.NXowell,Brasher Falls,N.Y. 
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. 
B ABY CHICKS IOc. EACH. Single comb 
White and Brown Leghorns from free range, 
selected, healthy stock. Can furnish in any number. 
Circular free. Address CHAS. R. STONE, 
Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
R. C, Rhode Island Reds, 
ner Ducks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding,-show or export. Sinclair 
Smith, Soutliold, Suffolk Co., N.Y., Box 153. 
MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKSr<LU^itc ; . 
Reds and S. C. White Leghorns, 15, Si ; loo, $5. 
GEO. W. DeRIDDEK, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
S C. W. LEGHORNS of exceptional 
Oi Ui Hi Lcununno Vigor ami quality 
250 acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
of an 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. 
P miltrymen—Send 10c. for our 19fi9 Catalog, clioelt full of useful 
information. Describee ami illustrates 35 varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without it. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa 
W P RflPtfQ— Bre ‘I for Beauty mid Utility. 
• I • ilUuixO Pullets, §2.00 to $3.00; Eggs $ 1.00 per 
13 and $3.00 per 15. Bred to lay S. C. R. I. Reds. Eggs 
$1.00 per 13. M. L. RICE, Ashburnliam, Mass. 
NEGLECT 
Will Ruin 
Your Horse' 
Send today for 
only 
PERMANENT 
SAFE 
CERTAIN 
$3 PACKAGE w 
will cure any case or 
money refunded. jpfW'j 
SI PACKAGE Hli 
cures ordinary cases. 
Postpaid on receipt of 
price. Agents Wanted. 
WrJ te for descriptive booklet. 
Mineral Heave Remedy Co., 461 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa, 
50 
Galloway 
200 
to 900 
lbs. 
capac¬ 
ity. 
“BATH IN OSL” 
High Grade Separator—Direct 
Save $25 to $50 direct at my factory 
price—freight prepaid. Get the only 
Separator that runs in “Bath of Oil,” 
like a $5,000 automobile. This 
alone is worth $50 extra, but 
costs you nothing extra. 
Take 
90 Days’ 
Farm Test—Freight Prepaid 
Why pay $85 to $110 to dealers or agents 
who cannot sell you a separator equal 
‘ to the Galloway—closest skimmer— 
easiest run—easiest cleaned--10-yr. 
guarantee. Send for BOOK FREE 
WM. CALLOWAY CO. 
CG3 Galloway 8ta., Waterloo, la. 
75 
For this 
Low 
Down 
AMERICAN 
SEPARATOR 
Get better value. Save money. 
Deal with the actual manu¬ 
facturers. Our catalog tells 
all about the Low Down American 
Separator, our liberal proposition, 
low prices, generous terms of pur¬ 
chase,long time of trial and efficient 
guarantee. Western orders filled 
from Western points. Address, 
AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO., 
BOX 1075, BAINBRIDGE, N. Y. 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. & S. COMB R. I. REDS— Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing from stock bred for vigor and egg production. 
Edw. Van Alstyne & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
T he Farmer’s Fowl-ROSE COMB REDS. 
Best winter layers on earth. Eggs $1 per 15; $5 
per 100. THOS. WILDER. Richland. K. No. 1, N. Y. 
100 Brown Leghorn & Barred Rock hens. 
cheap. 
N BROS., Grove City, Pa. 
TURKEY EGGS—B. Red; Narragansett; yd.l, $1 
I peril; yd.2, $3 peril: M. B.&W. H.,yd. 1, $3per Id; 
yd. 2. $2 per 11. S. l)urigg& Son.Armstrongs Mills, O, 
PflNPRFTF C|| nQ-H°w to make cheap 
UUIlUnLIL 01 LUO absolutely tight. Strong 
and lasting—ensilage keeps perfectly in them— 
we sell forms for casting concrete, door frames 
and doors, reinforcing rods and rights to construct 
to individuals, clubs or agents. Write, 
The Drumlin Silo Go,, "bSSMA?-’ 
SILOS 
The inventors of the Modern 
Continuous Opening Silo, in this, 
their semi-centennial year, offer 
to the public the best and most 
economical silo on the market. 
Experience, antedating that of 
any other firm manufacturing 
these goods, has enabled us to 
produce the highest quality at a 
-- most reasonable price. _____ 
Send for our Silo Catalogue and 
tell us the size of the silo you want. 
We also make Silo Filling Machin¬ 
ery and Manure Spreaders. 
HARDER MFC. COMPANY, 
Box I 1, Cobleskill, N. Y. 
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GREENS MOUNTAIN 
SILOS 
The best in design, material and 
results obtained. 
Double the profit of the farm. 
Silage superior in every way. 
Construction unacproached. 
Fully guaranteed. 
Write now for Zterature. 
Creamery Package Mfg. Co. 
322-324 Broadway, Albany, W. Y. 
FACTORY AT RUTLAND, VT. 
Improved Champion 
Milk Cooler-Aerator 
Simplest and best milk cooler 
made. Not only rapidly cools tbe 
milk, but aerates it thoroughly as it 
flows through the cooler. Prolongs the 
sweetness of milk 24 to L8 hours longer 
than other cooling methods. Cools the 
milk to within two degrees of the 
temperature of the medium used, is 
years on the market. Sent on 
trial. Write for catalogue. 
Champion Milk Cooler Co. 
11th Street, Cortland, N. Y. 
BLIZZARD 
| i\ \1 Sold on merit backed by 88 years* success, 
ll ll ^ rove ^ strongest, most durable, smoothest 
Write® ll runn iog. Cuts green or dry feed and ele- 
W vates any height. Knives adjustable at 
f ° r ® 14 anytime. Perfected construction through- 
New 1\ ol, k Mounted or unmounted. Ask 
Cuta* J r free book, “Why Silage Pay*** 
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Jos. Dick Mfg. Co. 
1426W.Tnscarawas St. 
Canton, Ohio 
OUR 
RECORD 
59 YEARS 
Our catalog shows 
the most com pletel 
line of Silo Filling Machin 
ery on the market. WE GUARANTEE BOSS 
GOODS to be the best. We prove it by the ma¬ 
chines themselves. Give us a trial. 
T1IE E. W. ROSS CO., Box 13 Springfield, O. 
Largest manufacturers of Ensilage Machinery in the 
world. We make ROSS SILOS and MANURE SPREADERS. 
A 
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strongest built, simplest to put up and easiest operated 
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International Silo Co., Box 13 , Linesville, Fa* 
