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'THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 14. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The horticultural societies, the trade 
papers and the daily press all over the 
country have now told the story of the 
Wonderberry; but the farm papers 
which guaranteed it as one of their ad¬ 
vertisers during the past Winter, are 
singularly silent on the subject. Must 
the readers of these papers be con¬ 
tent to get their information second¬ 
hand through the daily newspapers, 01 - 
go without it? Perhaps some of the 
publishers have heard of that $20,000 
appropriation for next year’s advertising 
of the Wonderberry, and hesitate to 
prejudice their chances for a share of it 
in advance. Whatever may be the rea¬ 
son for silence, it seems to us that their 
readers are entitled to the information 
about this late imposition on the horti¬ 
cultural producers of the country. We 
call upon those papers, especially, which 
guaranteed the fake, to rise to 'the oc¬ 
casion and tell their readers the truth. 
I would like your opinion of the fol¬ 
lowing concerns: 1. The Veterinary Science 
Association, London, Canada. I must send 
$3 for a hook before I get. (he job. Can 
you recommend them? 2. Franklin Insti¬ 
tute, Rochester, X. Y.. teaches civil service 
courses by mail. Their advertisements ap¬ 
pear in nearly all papers hut The It. X.-Y. 
Can you recommend them? 3. The .Tantha 
Plantation Company. Block .310, Pittsburg, 
Pa. An article enclosed will give you 
an idea of their offer, taken from ‘'The 
Toledo Blade.” published at Toledo, Ohio. 
4. Century Correspondence School. 4414 
Eighth street. X. W., Washington. D. C. 5. 
Phicag# School of Elocution, 148 Grand 
Opera House, Chicago. Can you advise 
studying with any correspondence school, 
and especially those above for civil service? 
Xew Y'ork. H. j. d. 
This correspondent has certainly 
picked up a bunch of things to let 
alone. The Veterinary Science Asso¬ 
ciation wants to sell you a book for $3. 
To induce you to do so they promise 
you a job at big pay, but the $3 comes 
first—and last, too, for that matter. 
The promoters of one civil service 
school were recently arrested by the 
Federal inspectors, and they are now 
doing time in a penitentiary. The only 
recommendation we can offer for the 
Franklin Institute is to recommend you 
to leave it alone. We extend the same 
advice in reference to the other cor¬ 
respondence schools referred to. 
The advertisement of the Jantha 
Plantation is a fake. If you apply a 
little horse sense to the proposition you 
will see this for yourself. The proposi¬ 
tion is to give you land in Mexico free. 
You only pay $600 for planting of ba¬ 
nana trees. For this the company is to 
do all the work, and return you $1,000 
a year clear profit. If we could 
do what this company promises we 
would go out of the publishing busi¬ 
ness, put all our money into banana 
plantations, and would not let you or 
anyone else share in a single tree that 
we could control. Do you think these 
fakers have interest enough in you to 
take your $600, invest it for you. and 
return you $1,000 every year, or in 10 
years, for that matter? If you have any 
such notion, you would better get rid of 
of it. The Toledo Blade ought to be 
in better business than publishing such 
an evident fake as a news article. 
I am glad to see you expose Glimm & 
Sons. 315 Washington street, Xew York. 
My brother lost two crates of eggs by them. 
Go on with the good work. c. s. 
Xew York. 
We always find another victim of 
such concerns when we refer to one. 
That is why every farmer is concerned 
in the abuse of the confidence of one. 
Yes, we will go on with the work just 
so long as the fakers and rogues go 
on with theirs. 
The II. X.-Y. is the best farm paper pub¬ 
lished to-day, because back of it are men 
who are working for the interest of the 
people, not the rogues and swindlers. T'n- 
1 ike most other farm papers, it does not 
take in a whole lot of fake advertising to 
fake the people. We take three other farm 
papers, but The R. X.-Y. is worth more 
than all three combined. You can always' 
look to me as a friend. I shall get some 
new subscribers in the near future. 
Xew York. H. ,T. d. 
There is no better way to show your 
interest in the paper that serves you 
faithfully than by getting new subscrib¬ 
ers for it. In that way you strengthen 
it and help it to do more for you, and 
if it is not doing things for you, of 
what purpose is it? It is this work of 
increasing the list by readers themselves 
that has more than doubled the circula¬ 
tion of The R. N.-Y. in a few years, 
and makes it an influence that no faker 
or rogue cares to increase. They would 
feel very happy to be able to drive it 
out of existence. 
Perhaps you may bo able lo help me as 
you have others. On May 2, 1908, I 
shipped by express one 30-dozen case of 
fertile eggs to Diamond Poultry Farm, 
Bloomfield, X. .1.. their nearest express 
office, ns directed by letter. The address 
at head of letter is O. W. Roper, Brook- 
dale, X. ,T., post office address. For these 
eggs he agreed to pay 10 cents per dozen 
office, as directed by letter. The address 
that time was 29 cents per dozen, or $8.70 
for the 30 dozen. At the time I shipped 
eggs I wrote Mr. Roper notifying him, but 
did not then or since receive any reply 
whatever. I answered his advertisement 
in Xew York Tribune Farmer. Writing to 
them they stated that they believed ad¬ 
vertisement was reliable, but assume no 
responsibility whatever. I would be pleased 
to have you try to collect this bill. Any 
information that you can give me will be 
greatly appreciated. c. g. a- 
Xew York. 
1 his shipper evidently overlooked 
what we have before said about Mr. 
Roper. We have already tried to col¬ 
lect accounts for other shippers against 
him, but he pays no attention to de¬ 
mands for payment, and our attorney 
returns the account as uncollectable. We 
wish we could get our people to keep 
a list of dead beats, and refer to it 
when they are about to ship to con¬ 
cerns unknown to them. You could 
not be sure that names not on the list 
were reliable, but it would save some 
bad accounts. 
Relative to your reference to Currier 
Publishing Co., of Chicago, I enclose an¬ 
other solicitation of July 21 for people to 
buy their 9 per cent preferred stock, face- 
value $100, price $55, and as an additional 
inducement they give you free one-half as 
much common stock, which value they do 
not estimate. Apparently there is a big 
crop of suckers this season, and the money 
is rolling into Geo. II. Currier's pocket so 
fast that it oppresses him. for by reference 
io the "want section" of Xew-York World. 
Sunday. July 25, 1909. Geo. II. Currier 
wants to buy a farm: G. II. Currier wants 
to buy an up-to-date house within 15 miles 
of Xew York : and G. Currier wants to in¬ 
vest in mining stock or industrial proposi¬ 
tions. That these three Curriers all have 
the same address. 46 Monroe street, which 
is the address of the publishing company 
that is selling 9 per cent stock through its 
president, Geo. II. Currier, should prompt 
tlie Post Office Department to investigate 
before too late. Brooklyn subscriber. 
Of course all of the Curriers are one 
and the same. The advertisements are 
all fake's. He does not want to buy 
a farm or house near New York, and 
he knows too much about mining stocks 
and industrial propositions to put any of 
his own money into them. Such ad¬ 
vertisements, of course, call out every 
kind of fake and worthless stock. If 
you answer the advertisement Mr. Cur¬ 
rier will ignore the fact that he said he 
wanted to buy, but he will tell you he 
can sell the farih, or the house or the 
stock, or worthless patents, through his 
wonderful papers. He will, in fact, 
guarantee to sell them; but you must 
first send $5 or some other amount, and 
this includes a year’s subscription to 
his paper. One result of this is that he 
can show the Post Office Department 
subscription remittances, and in that 
way get around the postal regulations. 
He says that the receipts from the 
small advertisements alone amounted 
to over $20,000 for July in one of his 
papers. You become one of the sub¬ 
scribers and, of course, you patronize 
the fake mining stock or bogus patents. 
Somebody does, or Mr. Currier could 
not guarantee to sell them, so that at 
best you become a subscriber to a paper 
which makes money by selling any old 
thing you have to sell to other sub¬ 
scribers who know no better than to 
buy them <at Mr. Currier’s recom¬ 
mendation. As we have before pointed 
out. the scheme is simply Ostrander’s 
tricks brought up to date. Leonard 
Darbyshire is working it from Roches¬ 
ter, X. Y.: C. E. Eliis has been push¬ 
ing it from New York, and the Herbert 
Myrick Syndicate has a form of it in 
full blast at Springfield, Mass. Essen¬ 
tially the schemes are all the same. 
You pay your money for big promises, 
and become a subscriber to the paper 
that is expected to sell your junk to 
some one else. Of course, you have the 
privilege of co-operation by patroniz¬ 
ing the advertisers yourself, and pulling 
the other fellow’s chestnuts out of the 
fire. j. j. d. 
Rape and Turnips for Corn. 
H. C., Cadiz, o .—1 am chiefly engaged 
in evaporating sweet corn. My farm is 
small and some of it too steep for profit¬ 
able farming, and there is no chance for a 
complete rotation, so I am compelled to 
raise my corn in limited quarters, and 
keeping up the fertility "of the soil becomes 
an important problem. I cannot keep 
enough live stock to make manure for all 
the land I like to plant each year to supply 
the growing demand for our com. At a 
farmers’ institute last year a lecturer from 
Pennsylvania told how he had built up an 
abandoned farm by growing and plowing 
under Cow-horn turnips. I think he said 
to plow them under in November, This 
Spring, having a small field that needed 
more humus, it was plowed in May and 
worked frequently until about July 1 it 
was sown in rape and Cow-horn turnips. 
At this writing the growth is fine, and it 
looks like there would be a tremendous 
mass of green stuff by frost. My thought 
was to plow under the turnips and rape in 
the Fall, and seed to rye for a Winter 
cover crop, to be turned down in the Spring 
for corn. What do you think of that plan, 
or would it be just as well to let the tur¬ 
nips and rape rot on the ground this 
Winter? Crimson clover has not been a 
success in this section of Ohio. 
Axs.—\\ ith us it would be a ques¬ 
tion of labor and time. If we had both 
to ■spare we would plow under the rape 
and turnips and sow rye This will 
give a good growth to be plowed under 
next Spring for the corn. If clover had 
been seeded with the turnips we would 
let it stand through the Winter. This 
kind of farming will prove successful, 
provided you use lime every few years, 
and also use fertilizers with the corn 
crop. These heavy crops of green mat¬ 
ter will be likely to sour the land, and 
the chemicals, especially potash and 
phosphoric acid, will help the corn. 
Sweet Clover for Green Manuring. 
IT. M. P., Grand Isle, VI .—in answer to 
the many queries about catch crops and 
leguminous crops for green manuring, why 
do you not mention Sweet clover? If it 
is fearfed that it will spread where not 
wanted, sow only where the plow can be 
used to turn all under. It will grow on 
poor soil—wet or dry. It will live through 
our Winter and give'the largest growth of 
any legume. It is easily plowed, as it is 
not tap-rooted. The following clipping is 
from D. 1’. Norton in “The Breeder's Ga¬ 
zette" : “I have sown Sweet clover on 
the poorest kind of gumbo land in Kansas, 
not wortli cropping, and made it grow 00 
bushels of corn to the acre, and whereas 
it was difficult to get the plow more than 
'two inches deep in that tough gumbo soil, 
after several years of Sweet clover grow¬ 
ing the plow would go down to the beam 
in it, as it was as mellow as an ash heap. 
There is nothing equal to Sweet clover as 
a renovator of soils. Alfalfa is nowhere 
in comparison.” 
Axs.—While the statements in the 
above are true, yet it ?s well to remem¬ 
ber that a poor soil that grows Sweet 
clover well is poor in nitrogen only, 
and is well supplied with potash, phos¬ 
phorus and lime, and will produce 
good Alfalfa or Red clover. It is all 
right to advise the use of Sweet clover 
as a renovating crop, as there need be 
no fear of it spreading or being dif¬ 
ficult to plow, but the fact that no seed 
is on the market, makes it in most cases 
impossible to follow such advice. Sweet 
clover makes a very rank growth, it is 
true, and is therefore a great soil im¬ 
prover, but unless it be desired to fit a 
particular field for Alfalfa, Mammoth 
clover. Alsike and Crimson clover in 
their proper places will answer the pur¬ 
pose as well or better. Some of the ex¬ 
periment stations should try Sweet 
clover alongside some of the other soil 
improvers. \v. E. D. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 
Police Captain : “You said that an 
automobile containing several persons 
sped along the street and struck down 
an old man?” New officer: “Yis, sor.” 
“And that after chasing this auto for 
several blocks you finally succeeded in 
getting the number?” “Yis, sor.” 
“Good! What was the number?” 
“There wor just foive persons in th’ 
car, sor!”—Morristown Society Bulle¬ 
tin. 
When you write advertisers mention Tua 
R. X.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
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nots 
Then write us for 
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Catalogue Xo. 15 g 
we will do the rest. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE COMPANY 
Bellows Falls, Vermont 
For Sale 
An Acetylene Gas Machine 
125 Light Capacity, Price $100, 
F.O.B., Rochester, New York. 
Chase Brothers Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
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We will send you 100 lbs. of DR. 
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The HOLLAND STOCK REMEDY 
COMPANY, Wellington, Ohio 
WHEELS,' FREIGHTS PAID '$8.75 
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mfg. wheel* K to 4 in. tread. Buggy Top* |6.60, Sh*ft*|2.00. T*f 
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WHITE LEGHORNS X * ““ 
P FI7TM n 11 UU C ihg chicks and 1000 
LlYlA DULlVb ducklings, we arc 
... forced to offer at a 
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pens, consequently you will be able to get bargains 
in Single and Hose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Plymouth ltocks, White Wyandottes, 
also Imperial Pekin Ducks. Our birds have been 
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better results this year than ever. Have some 
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and nine pound drakes hatched this season. Let 
us know what you want and we will make prices 
right. No order too large. Big discount In large 
numbers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Largest plant 
in vicinity of New York City. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM,' New Rochelle, New York. 
Sunny Slope Farm S, C. W, Leghorns 
“WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED.” 
yearling mothers whose pullets’ records In Hooks, aver¬ 
aged 143 eggs in ten months. 
We offer a limited number of Grand Yearling Hens, 
selected for size,shape and great laying qualities, at Two 
Dollars each. We will sell our 1908 Breeding Hens at 
One Dollar each. These have produced wonderful 
youngsters. Reference First National Bank. 
SUNNY SLOPE FARM, 
Bound Brook, New Jersey 
FOR ^Al F ~ 500 PU r E.BRE0 S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
I Ull OnLL Hens, Yearlings. They are good 
size and a most excellent laying strain. Address 
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hatched Spring 1908. Farm raised strain 
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. Rhode Island Reds 
1 Gowell Barred Rocks 
..... _ ,_ straight bred utility 
WILSON FARM POULTRY CO., Morristown, N. j. 
S C. W. LEGHORNS of exceptional 
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250 acres ot fertile land devoted to the production 
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Mt. Pleasant l>’arm. Box Y, Havre de Grace.Md. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds, Mft&R*.':,: 
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SO BAKUKD KOCK HKNS.olieap. Rred-to- 
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VAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS— Our past season’s breeding 
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W. P. ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
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Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Trios, 
$5. Eggs for hatching. $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
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