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THE RU KAb NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The “Publisher's Desk" is worth the 
price of the paper. I pigeon-holed all m.v 
circulars and watch for the firms in Tun 
It. N.-Y. They are sure to appear sooner 
or later. No reason why any farmer should 
be victimized. p. m. m. 
New York. 
That is true, but if you do not see 
what you look for, write and ask about 
it. Follow this practice and we will 
try to see that you are not victimized. 
Please tell me about the Mexican Itubhcr 
Culture Co.. 1123-25 Board of Trade Bldg., 
Portland, Oregon, and Conservative Rubber 
Production Co., 971-977 Monadnock Bldg., 
San Francisco, Cal. w. d. g- 
Maine. 
The money that has been lost by in¬ 
vestment in rubber companies would 
pay the cost of the Civil War. Yoi 
can lose your money in them any time 
but we have not yet heard of anyone 
who got anything in return. 
Sclieutze & Company, 150 Michigan St., 
Buffalo, N. Y., commission merchants. 
We have had a bill for collection 
against them for an Ohio farmer for 
poultry shipped them last September. 
The amount of the bill is $30.84. For 
several months we tried to collect it. 
They made us many promises, but we 
got no cash. Finally, we placed it with 
our attorneys for collection. If they 
are unable to pay a bill of $30.84, which 
is not disputed, on what basis may they 
solicit shipments from other farmers? 
We certainly advise no more credit ship¬ 
ments to Schcutze & Company. 
Brownell Book Co., 11 East 59th Street, 
New York City. 
A subscriber in Watertown, S. D., 
sent them a shipment of books valued 
at $10 more than a year, but he has 
never been able to get his money. We 
have made repeated attempts to get it 
for him, but so far have failed. Com¬ 
plaint has been made to the post office 
authorities and our attorneys have re¬ 
turned the claim as uncollectible. We 
would advise cash transactions in the 
future, and make sure that you have 
the cash in your fingers before you 
part with the goods. « 
Ashman & Burkliardt, commission mer¬ 
chant in fruit and produce, 110 Warren 
street, New York City. 
During the Winter we had a complaint 
from a fruit shipper who sent them 70 
crates of Concord grapes, September 
13 and 14, and was unable to get any 
return. In December he called on them 
and gave them express receipts. They 
promised to look it up. but he heard 
nothing from them or from subsequent 
letters. They replied to our inquiry in 
February last, and were greatly sur¬ 
prised that the shipper should expect 
them to look up his shipment after five 
months waiting. On March 19, they 
made him out returns for the Septem¬ 
ber shipment at 20 cents and 25 cents a 
crate. The shipper had received 50 
cents and 55 cents from other houses 
about the same time. But, worst of all. 
they coolly tell him they were short on 
the shipment, and as it was then too 
late to put in a complaint, they aver¬ 
aged them up. The net returns were 
$8.26 for 70 crates. The more we 
study this distribution business, the 
more serious it becomes. The aggregate 
losses by our subscribers alone must 
run into millions a year. One thing is 
certain, scolding about it will do little 
good. We can help steer a shipper clear 
of one fraud only to allow him to drop 
into the clutches of another rogue. We 
want our people to get into the way of 
looking up the standing and reputation 
of every house before making ship¬ 
ments. 
Tho United States Gold Dredging & Rub¬ 
ber Go.. 95 Liberty street, New York, offer¬ 
ing $109 shares for $50. 
The rubber and gold dredging com¬ 
panies or the people who promote them, 
have made a great deal of money in 
the past selling stock, but we have yet 
to find one where the small stockholders 
got their money back. 
Referring to your item in regard to the 
financial failure of Mr. E. C. Stone, Arm¬ 
strong, Ill., the writer is surprised at the 
cruelty and want of fairness shown in both 
Mr. Goodwine’s letter and your editorial 
comment. Many a good man has failed in 
business without a suspicion of dishonesty 
or disgrace attaching to his name. The 
writer has had business dealings with Mr. 
Stone and visited at his home several years 
since, and lie considers Mr. Stone upright 
and thoroughly honest. Mr. Stone has sim¬ 
ply overreached himself in business, as 
thousands of others have done before him. 
And I should say it is due him and the 
good name of your paper to correct the 
false impression Mr. Goodwine’s letter and 
your comment is sure to occasion. 
Indiana. robeiit i.. dorsey. 
We certainly have no wish to add to 
Mr. Stone’s misfortunes. For our own 
comments we expressed them more as a 
general principle than as any intention 
to criticise him personally. We cheer¬ 
fully give him the benefit of his friend’s 
ardent defense. Without regard to the 
July 10, 
circumstances there is something about 
a friend who stands by you in time of 
trial and need, that we all admire and 
applaud. 
1 shipped Wm. Stoltze. 989 l’ark avenue, 
New York, two cases of eggs, worth $18. in 
September last. I have written him several 
times, but he does not pay. l would like 
to have you see what you can do. 
New York. j. w. g. 
We received the above in May, and 
kept sharply after Mr. Stoltze for a 
month. He promised a payment on 
June 23 and the balance July 1. But 
June 20 he wrote that his lawyer had 
his bankruptcy papers since November 
15, and that the papers would be filed 
this week. We seldom get such a 
frank admission of trickery. Of 
course, he simply made promises to save 
time. He never had any notion of 
paying the account, with his bankruptcy 
papers all ready to be filed and delayed 
as he confesses only because he had 
been held for contempt of court. It 
is really discouraging to see the amount 
of money farmers are losing constantly 
through rogues in the commission busi¬ 
ness, and other enterprises. We hope 
through more care and business ratings 
to save our own subscribers some of 
these losses in the future. Even then 
there will be some losses, but working 
together we ought to be able to avoid 
most of them. 
Robert E. Walker. Paterson, N. J.; vio¬ 
lin playing taught by mail. 
One of our subscribers writes that he 
sent Mr. Walker $2 for his secret sys¬ 
tem of violin instruction and got a lit¬ 
tle 25-cent pamphlet which contained 
some little instruction that is already of 
common usage. You might learn to be¬ 
come a burden to everyone in hearing 
with bow and strings and mail instruc¬ 
tion, but unless you are a prodigy, we 
would look for no other accomplish¬ 
ment. 
Enclosed find my check for Tiie Rural 
New-Yorker and “Nell Beverly." A man 
told me a story the other day about a 
political speaker trying to defend himself 
by saying not only politicians were crooked, 
but everybody in the business world. Ilis 
story was that a man was seen in a large 
city every day from morning until dark 
with a large torch lighted, looking behind 
buildings, fences, every alley and side 
street; in fact, every hiding place that 
was to be found. lie kept this up for a 
number of days, until one man could not 
stand watching him any longer. So he 
went to him and said : “Friend, why do 
you walk the streets this way in daylight 
with a lighted torch?" He looked up and 
said : "I am looking for an honest man." 
If I had have been there, I would have 
walked up to the speaker's stand and 
given that politician this address: “Editor 
of The Rural New-Yorker. New York. 
N. Y." Now this is no 'Ted tape" but 
facts, for after reading some of your pa¬ 
pers, where you had spent time, paper and 
stamps to collect money for a poor farmer 
friend who had let some of Mark Anthony's 
honorable commission men “work" him so 
lie could neither get his goods nor money, 
and 1 hen would not let the farmer pay you 
for the stamps that you had used to col¬ 
lect his money, I put the paper down and 
called my wife, and said : “Wife, I have 
found not only an honest man but a good 
man." So I want the paper to come on. 
as I feel it will make me not only a better 
farmer but a better man to read it. 
I write this because I believe you should 
know what your readers think of you and 
vour paper. e. s. b. 
Mississippi. 
Perhaps it is a bit vain of us to 
publish the above letter. Well, we are 
human, and it has pleased to get it 
from a man so far away. Tt is prob¬ 
ably the tone of earnest sincerity that 
has impressed us more than anything 
else. We do not think that The R. N.- 
Y.. is doing a thing more than its duty 
in the cases referred to. Tt is prob¬ 
ably the fact that papers have neglected 
this duty so much and so long that the 
work now seems so acceptable. We 
get many kindly words from friends all 
around us, for which we are grateful, 
but they must rest as treasures in our 
memories. This tribute from Missis¬ 
sippi has especially touched us, and we 
puny, and this preyed heavily upon his 
mind and no doubt caused him to take 
bis own life. 
Ehrman traded bis hotel in Seneca for 
stock in the company and claims he was 
offered a good position and other consid¬ 
erations which were not fulfilled. 
It will be remembered that we ad¬ 
vertised against the investment at the 
time. _ j. j. D . 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK. 
Will you inform me what breeds are 
used to produce tin- White Plymouth Rock? 
I understand that this breed is not so hardy 
as the Barred Rock. R . 
The White Plymouth Rock was developed 
from a sport of the Barred variety. Until 
quite recently the White was not considered 
so strong as the Barred Plymouth Rock, 
but by careful breeding for vigor this va¬ 
riety has become practically as strong as 
the Barred. The tendency now is to breed 
for a creamy plumage rather than a chalky 
white, as the chalky white plumage with 
yellow legs is difficult to obtain except at 
the expense of strength and vigor. 
Ithaca, N. Y. c. r b. 
YOUNG CHICKS WITH PIP. 
in a flock of 13 White Plymouth Rocks 
I have had two cases of pip. The chicks 
are three weeks old and this is the first 
time I have been troubled with pip in 
chicks so young. I have removed the 
cause, but I would like to know whether 
there is anything in the feeding or climate 
that causes it. Our next door neighbors 
have lost five with pip lately (full grown 
chickens). g 
Olney, Ill. 
Pip i* the drying of the tongue, due to 
breathing through the mouth when the 
fowl is diseased and of abnormal tempera- 
lure. It accompanies several diseases, such 
as roup, catarrh, bronchitis and pneumonia. 
It is the result of disease, rather than a 
disease itself. Treat the real disease. Paint 
the tongm- with glycerine, but do not re¬ 
move the hard coatiug. Lewis Wright, au- 
Ihor of the “Book of Poultry," says that 
"there are occasional cases of a real epi¬ 
demic of pij*. which causes death unless 
relieved, of which this is the distinguish¬ 
ing symptom, with no dry mouth at all. 
Three outbreaks in different yards have 
come to our notice, and in two of them the 
scale at tin- top of the tongue was nearly 
as thick and quite as hard as the nib of 
a quill pen, while the edges were almost 
as sharp as a knife. The fatal results we 
believe to he due to the soreness produced 
by these keen edges quite preventing the 
fowl from swallowing. ... If such a 
hard and sharp scale he found it should he 
removed by the thumbnail, and the spot 
dressed a few times with honey and borax. 
Give soft food for a day or two, and a 
couple of morning doses of 20 grains Epsom 
salts, and tin- bird will speedily hi- well.” 
Ithaca, N. Y. c. i-\ b. 
FORMALDEHYDE AS A DISINFECTANT. 
I would like information regarding for¬ 
maldehyde as a disinfectant for brooders 
and incubators. I used one tablespoonful 
in 12 quarts water and scrubbed out the 
brooders for the last hatch, which were 
pul into two outdoor colony brooders, a ! 
week ago. We have lost nearly the whole 
lot and probably will not save any. As 
this is (lie first hatch in our three seasons’ 
experience to die out completely, except¬ 
ing two hatches a year ago chilled in an 
experiment with 7x12 brooder houses, it 
occurred to me that possibly formaldehyde 
is not a proper disinfectant for use around 
chickens. u. o. b. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
If your brooders were aired thoroughly j 
for a few days after disinfecting, then' the ! 
death of the chicks was probably due to 1 
some other cause than the formaldehyde. ! 
Formaldehyde has been proven by experi- j 
nients not to be an insecticide, though it ' 
is a germicide. The most effective method 
of combating insects in brooder houses is 
to fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas. 
Bulletin No. 252, Cornel! Experiment Sta- | 
tion. deals with this fully. Hydrocyanic 
acid gas is a deadly poison, and great’care 
should he taken not to breathe it. Always 
use 98-100 per cent pure potassium cyanide ! 
and a good grade of commercial sulphuric 
acid. Combine the chemicals in the fol¬ 
lowing proportions: Potassium cyanide, 
one ounce; sulphuric acid, two fluid ounces: 
water, four fluid ounces. Always use an 
earthen dish. Pour in the water first, then 
add tlic sulphuric acid. Put the required 
amount of cyanide in a thin paper hag, and 
when all is ready, drop this in the liquid 
and leave the place immediately, closing all 
openings. II is host to do this at night, j 
then in the morning air out thoroughly. 
Air out for a couple of days before placing 
chicks in again. Another good insecticide 
and germicide is crude carbolic acid one 
part, kerosene. 8-10 parts, mixed, c. f. b. 
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BONNIE BRAK POULTRY FARM. 
New Rochelle, N. Y. 
must give this public expression of our 
appreciation. A sense of responsibility 
comes over us when we reflect that we 
have before us the task of justifying 
such a confidence. 
For the benefit of those farmers who 
were inquiring recently about the wis¬ 
dom of investing in the stocks of the 
Independent Harvester Company, 
Plano, Ill., we quote the following from 
a local exchange: 
Ai Government inquiry has been started 
regarding certain methods of the Independ¬ 
ent Harvester Company at Plano, the con¬ 
cern which has had extensive operations in 
Morris and vicinity. Charges have been 
preferred against the corporation for the 
alleged fraudulent use of the mails, and 
John Mahin, of Evanston, a postal in¬ 
spect or. was in Morris last night in con¬ 
nection with the affair, stopping over night 
at 1 He Commercial Hotel. 
Mr. Mahin arrived in Seneca yesterday 
to see Fred Ehrman. only to be told that 
Ehrman had committed suicide tho previous 
night. 
Whether Mr. Ehrman had preferred 
charges with the Government or not is un¬ 
known, but he claimed to have lost about 
$5,000 in a deal with the Harvester com- 
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