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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Denton Produce Co.. Wallabout Market, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; commission merchants. 
We have not been able to find any 
financial responsibility, but they are re¬ 
ported as fair pay. 
The J. W. Kidd Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., 
patent medicine treatment. 
Trials reported; but no cures. If sick* 
consult your local physician. Don’t trust 
any quack who claims he can cure any 
disease. 
Agnes M. Noble, M. D., White Plains, 
N. Y. 
This party has some kind of a fake 
proposition for addressing envelopes, 
but wants a remittance in advance for a 
small sum. Wise people will leave it 
alone. 
Will you let me know whether the Rengo 
Company. Detroit, Mich., nature's remedy 
for obesity, is reliable and will do as they 
claim for it, or is it a fake? subscriber. 
New Jersey. 
All obesity cures by drugs are slow 
poisons, as wc explained some weeks 
back. Leave them alone. 
Some of the people who were tempt¬ 
ed last Winter by big promises to in¬ 
vest in “wireless” stocks will probably 
be glad, if they took our advice to leave 
them alone, when they learn that one of 
the companies is now in the hands of a 
receiver, and other companies are in¬ 
volved in its affairs. 
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy 
was recently filed against the Kornit 
Mfg. Co., (503 West 43d street, New 
York City. The liabilities are said to 
be $50,000, with assets of about $10,000 
estimated, consisting of equipment and 
plant, which has a mortgage of $3,500. 
The stock of this concern was sold 
largely to country people. 
I shipped 12 sacks of turnips to W. 
II. Gearhart & Co., 330 North Front street, 
Philadelphia, three months ago, and re¬ 
ceived no returns. I wrote them a letter 
asking if they had received the turnips, 
they never answered. Can you help me out 
in this matter? l. id 
Delaware. 
. Wc have tried our best to get the re¬ 
turns for this shipper, but can get no 
response from Gearhart & Co. Put 
their name and address where you can’t 
lose it, and ship to some one else. 
Do you consider the American Apron 
Company, Chicago, Ill., reliable, and do you 
think anyone could earn anything through 
it? SUBSCRIBER. 
Vermont. 
This is one of the work-at-home 
fakes. You are promised pay for work 
at home, but the real motive is to get 
you to make an advance remittance for 
something that you would not buy on 
its merits. Leave the work-at-home 
fakes alone. 
There is a company in Buffalo, N. Y., 
styled International Malt Machine Com¬ 
pany, selling certificates of stock at .$1 
per share, and in their printed literature 
I hey represent that in less than a year the 
stock will be worth $1,000 a share. Is this 
company any good or not? ii. x. p. 
Oklahoma. 
Do you think for a single moment 
that anyone would sell stock for $1 
which he expects would, in a short time, 
advance to be $1,000, or $100, or even 
$10? It is a fake on the face of it, and 
it seems to us that it is about time our 
people began to recognize the fakes on 
sight. Some of them do. 
In your issue of June 26 I note what 
you say concerning E. G. Lewis and the 
U. S. Fibre Stopper Co. I was induced to 
buy 50 shares, and can get nothing for 
them now—never could. r. c. b. 
Indiana. 
In our issue of June 20 we printed 
the complaint of a subscriber who had 
bought 15 shares of the U. S. Fibre 
Stopper Co. stock of Mr. Lewis under 
the assurance of big dividends and prof¬ 
its. Mr. Lewis has since sent us a 
check for the amount originally paid 
for the stock, so that this purchaser is 
out only the use of his money, and the 
experience is probably worth that. We 
have now asked Mr. Lewis to redeem 
these 50 shares for our Indiana friend, 
and we look for him to do so. 
You have been recommended as a firm 
who will give me reliable information on 
any subject pertaining to agriculture, I 
would like to learn if the people who are 
promoting the St. John’s Park, and Jack¬ 
sonville Heights Improvement Co. (who are 
selling land for .$20 per acre) are reliable 
people and if the land is good. I did not 
buy any of their land but they are going 
to place another tract on sale soon and I 
am thinking of buying a tract. w. e. s. 
New York. 
Several times we have expressed our 
opinion of this Florida land proposi¬ 
tion. There is good and valuable 
land in Florida, but this is none of 
it. Land in the neighborhood can be 
had for about $3 to $5 per acre. Don’t 
buy any land in Florida, or for that 
matter anywhere else unless after in- 
THE RURAL). NEW-YORKER 
September 11, 
spection by yourself or some one in 
whom you have confidence. Do not de¬ 
pend on the promoter or agent, who is 
to profit by the sale. 
On the 10th of last March I sent through 
a friend who was agent for the Central 
City Suit and Skirt Co., of 120 So. Salina 
street, Syracuse, N. Y., an order for a suit 
(coat and skirt), to be made from my 
measurements; and a check for .$26 was 
sent with the order in payment for the 
same. It was stated at the time the order 
was sent that it must lie ready by April 
1, as I was going on a journey and needed 
it for that occasion. The suit came April 
2, but it was a hopeless misfit and I was 
obliged to return it. I started on my 
journey April 6 and did not return until 
June 23, and of course, was obliged to pur¬ 
chase a suit elsewhere. I wrote them 
when returning the suit, explaining the 
circumstances, and requesting a return of 
my remittance. They however, sent the 
suit on again ; but my husband refused to 
accept it, and wrote them a demand for the 
return of the money, but they refuse to 
send it. Being in another State makes it 
difficult for us to do anything and it oc¬ 
curred to me that you might be able to 
help us out. It seemed to me if I, with 
my lawyer-husband to advise me, was 
caught in such a way there might be a 
good many other women less able than i 
to stand the loss, who would get into 
similar difficulties with that firm or others 
like it; and if necessary I could stand a 
little publicity myself in order to make 
them “play fair" all around. m. c. m* 
Vermont. 
We wrote the firm several times about 
this matter, but failed to get so much 
as an acknowledgement of our letters. 
The amount is too small to justify the 
expense of a suit, but the facts in the 
case will interest other people who are 
approached by agents for similar or¬ 
ders. The complainant in this case is 
a member of one of the most prominent 
and cultured families in the State of 
Vermont. When such people get 
“caught,” rwe can easily realize how 
readily poorer people fall victims of 
crafty ways. As stated in the letter of 
complaint, the case was reported more 
with the purpose of a protection to 
others than with a purpose to get* re¬ 
dress in this instance, and it is in har¬ 
mony with this commendable spirit that 
we give space to the facts. 
After what was said on page 650 
about the Farmers’ Nursery Company, 
Tippecanoe City and Tioga, Ohio, it is 
only fair to say that they have since 
written us explaining the cause of de¬ 
lay. Following is the pertinent para¬ 
graph of their letter. 
\Ye think they (the agents) have been 
pressing their business stronger than we 
had intended, and some of their customers 
may have been led to expect more than 
would be reasonable. Salesmen generally 
present their wares in such a way as to 
show only the attractive side. In regard to 
the collar-budded stock, we believe we are 
justified in saying that it is better than 
grafted stock, such as is used by many 
nurserymen, especially in apple, and in 
some parts of the country with plum and 
cherry. \Ye think strong, well-grown stock 
will resist any kind of disease better than 
the stock with a weaker constitution. Our 
man says he has agreed in certain cases 
that he will trim the trees. This he will 
do in the following season when covering 
the territory. In regard to replacing our 
custom is to replace at half the purchase 
price, but in this case we will agree to re¬ 
place free when the contract is made in 
that way. We do not, approve of the men 
using these methods, and have written them 
very decidedly on this subject. We shall 
lie glad when the nursery salesman can 
be convinced that extravagant promises are 
not needed to effect sales, and we feel that 
you are doing right in investigating cases' of 
this kind, and wish to thank you for writ¬ 
ing direct, and we will endeavor to merit 
your confidence. 
This of course shows that the agent 
has used his own arguments and made 
his own guarantees for the stock. No 
one disputes that good thrifty stock will 
resist disease better than weak stock; 
but that does not justify the representa¬ 
tion that this stock is disease proof. 
The care and trimming and replacement 
of trees turns out to be an invention of 
the ageut. If he is to do this work in 
the following season, when he covers 
the territory, he will not have much 
time to relate any more big stories. 
What would happen to the care, prun¬ 
ing and replacement if the agent failed 
to come around the next year, or if he 
left the employment of the company? 
We do not know whether the price is 
made by the agent also. We should 
assume that it is. At any event, it would 
not be much of a hardship to replace 
stock at half price, when the original 
sales are made at 40 cents each for ap¬ 
ple and peach trees and $1 for plums, 
pears and cherries. We are, however, 
pleased with the frank treatment of the 
complaint by this company, and we ex¬ 
pect from the tone of their letter that 
the cause of complaint will be removed. 
Every honest house has an interest in 
discouraging these extravagant stories 
to induce the sale of stock. The house 
that encourages it will get the order, 
but all will suffer in the future disap¬ 
pointment and chagrin. It is not well 
that the sale of goods should depend 
on the romantic imagination of the 
agent, instead of the stable reputation 
of the house. * j. j. d. 
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You ought to he ashamed to make the boys haul 
hay, fodder, etc., with an ordinary HIGH farm 
wagon, when we can furnish you a LOW-MOWN truck 
for much less money. We can fit your farm wagon 
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Send for circulars, stating your wants. 
<Ihe RANDLE MACHINERY CO., 
1826 Powers St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
yle’s Steel Stanchion 
THE ORICINAL t. 
Lined with wood,with Thumb Port Latch 
DURABILITY Bert Material and 
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STANCHION 
“ My bam that was 
BURNED 
was fitted with Crumb’s 
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had not been for the ease with 
which these fasteners were 
opened I should have lost my 
cows,” writes Mr. Everett 
Gains, Bernardstown, Mass. 
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i’ll Save You $50 
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Just a postal addressed to Gal¬ 
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bring you everything postpaid. 
Will You Pay a Penny For 
The Postal and Save $50.00? 
Address Wm. Galloway, Pres. 
' WM. CALLOWAY CO. 
669 Calloway Sta. Waterloo, la. 
“BULLETIN No. 26” 
SENT FREE “HOWTO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE & MITES,” by only 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbollneum Wood Preserving Co. 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N.Y. 
will reduce inflamed, swollen Joints, 
Bruises, Soft Bunches. Cure Soils, Fis¬ 
tula or any unhealthy sore quickly: 
pleasant to nso; does not blister 
under bandage or remove the hair, 
and you can work the horse. $2 per 
bottle at dealers or delivered. 
Home Book 7 D free. 
ABSORBINE, JR , for mankind, 
$1.00 per bottlo. Reduces Varicose 
Veins, Varicocele, Hydrocele, 
Goitre, Wens, Strains, Bruises, 
stops Pain and inflammation. 
YOUNG. P.O.F., E9 Monmouth St., Sprinofield, Mass. 
Death the Stomach 
Worms Guaranteed 
"Wo will send you 100 lbs. of DU. 
HOLLAND’S MEDICATED STOCK 
SALT on 60 days’ trial freight 
prepaid. If you derive no benefit, 
It costs you nothing; If you do, It 
costs you $5.00. Give us your or¬ 
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The HOLLAND STOCK REMEDY 
COMPANY. Wellington, Ohio. 
i-©' Let Us Send You v ®*i 
Our Book. 
about good wheels and good wagons that wtll save 
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ELECTRIC STEEL WHEELS 
-and the- 
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By every test, 1 hey are the best. More than one and 
a quarter millions sold. Bpokes united to the 
hub. Can’t work loose. A set of our wheels will 
make your old wagon new. Catalogue free. 
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.,Box 88 . Quincy, Ills. 
STATE OF NEW YORK 
Department¥Agriculture 
RAYMOND A. PEARSON, Commissioner. 
NOTICE v 
TUBERCULOUS CATTLE 
Examination Required for Tuberculosis of 
Neat Cattle Entering New York State 
for Breeding or Dairy Purposes. 
By virtue of the authority given and the duty 
imposed upon me as Commissioner of Agriculture 
of the State of New York, by the Agricultural Law, 
I hereby give notice to all persons concerned, that 
for the purpose of preventing the shipment of 
tuberculous animals from other States into dairy 
herds of this State: 
1. All cattle hereafter entering the State 
of New York, and used or intended to be 
used for breeding or dairy purposes within 
this State, shall be kept in quarantine until 
duly released by the Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture. 
2. Such cattle will not be released from quaran¬ 
tine until shown to be free from tuberculosis by 
both physical examination and tuberculin test 
made by a veterinary practitioner satisfactory to 
the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
3. Such cattle in quarantine shall not ho 
allowed to mingle or come in contact with 
other cattle and they shall not be trans¬ 
ported nor allowed to go from one farm or 
property to another without written per¬ 
mit from the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
4. The detention of such cattle shall be at the 
owner’s expense and risk. 
5. The above, however, does not apply to any 
cattle which have crossed the State line in a rail¬ 
road car or other conveyance so long as they re¬ 
main continuously in or on such conveyance. 
6. The State does not allow indemnity for tuber¬ 
culous animals which have not been in the Stato 
at least six months. 
7. Statements relative to requests for permits 
for moving such cattle should be sent to the Bu¬ 
reau of Veterinary Service, Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Albany, N. Y., and should state number of 
cattle, place where procured, origin of shipment 
and proposed destination and proposed route of 
shipment, also time of arrival at point of destina¬ 
tion . 
8. Article V. The above requirements are pub¬ 
lished under the provisions of the Agricultural 
Law. Chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws. 
9. Section 97 of the same article of the Agricul¬ 
tural Law provides as follows: 
“ Penalties.— Any person violating, disobeying 
or disregarding the terms of any notice, order or 
regulation, issued or prescribed by the Commis¬ 
sioner of Agriculture, under this article, shall for¬ 
feit to the people of the State of New York the 
sum of one hundred dollars for every such vio¬ 
lation.” 
10. Requests for further information should bo 
addressed to the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Albany, N. Y. R- A. PEARSON, 
Commissioner of Agriculture 
TIT ORE-? EGGS 
Larger, more fertile, vigorous chicks, heav* 
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MANN^ LATEST MODEL 
IM 0 BONE CUTTER 
cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 10 days free 
trial. No money in advance. Cat’lg free. 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 16, Milford, Mato 
SUNNY SLOPE FARM 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
“WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED” 
We offer a limited number only 
YEARLING HENS 1909 COCKERELS 
This season's breeding liens and a very few magnif¬ 
icent cocks. Our strain has a record, in flocks of 
1,500 layers of 144 eggs in first 10 laying months. 
Prices on application. Reference: First Nat. Bank. 
SUNNY SLOPE FARM, BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
In order to make 
room for 3000 grow 
ing chicks and 1000 
ducklings, we are 
forced to offer at a 
sacrifice nearly all of our this season’s breeding 
pens, consequently you will be able to get bargains 
in Single und Itose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, 
also Imperial Pekin Ducks. Our birds have been 
carefully selected and bred for superior egg*pro- 
duetion and exhibition purposes and have given us 
better results this year than ever. Have some 
early hatched cockerels, grand in every respect, 
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 ir> large 
numbers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Largest plant 
in vicinity of New York City. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, New Rochelle, New York. 
P oultry-men—Send 10c. for our 1909 Catalog, chock full of useful 
information. Describes and illustrates 3f. varieties. You can’t 
afford to bo without it. Knot Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa 
Yearling White LeghornsindGoweruiaS-dHocks 
hatched Spring 190S. Farm raised straight bred utility 
stock. WILSON FARM POULTRY CO., Morristown, N. J. 
FDR QAI E - 500 PURE BRED s - c - WHITE leghorns, 
lUn OHLl Hens, Yearlings. They are good 
size and a most excellent laying strain. Address 
G. MONROE WOOD, Woodville, Jeff. Co., N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair: heavy layers; Cock¬ 
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0. H. ZIMMER. Weedsport. N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds, dottes, Indian Run¬ 
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class birds for breeding, show or export. Sinclair 
Smith, Southold, Suffolk Co., N.Y., Box 153. 
W, P. ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
Stock and Eggs in season. Also Bred to Lay S. C. R. I. 
Reds. M. L. RICE, Ashburnliam, Mass. 
VAN ALSTYNE'S R. I. REDS— Our past season’s breeding 
stock and March and April hatched cockerels. 
Edw. Van Alstynk & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
S p Uf I CfilinRUQ of exceptional 
■ u• IIi LCUnUnllO vigor and 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. 
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