808 
October 9 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
San Luis Valley Land and Irrigation 
Company, Kansas City, Mo. They have 
been denied the use of the mails on the 
alleged grounds that they conducted a 
scheme to get money through false and 
fraudulent pretences. 
Will you inform me whether Dr. Ed. 
Gardner, 38 to 40 West Thirty-third 
street. New York, is a reliable man or not. 
New York. SUBSCRIBER. 
We have had some complaint to the 
effect that the treatment was not effec¬ 
tive; and money not returned, as prom¬ 
ised. In one case, Dr. 'Gardner re¬ 
turned the money at our request in 
monthly installments, but the payments 
were not prompt. Better consult a local 
physician. 
Fraud orders have recently been is¬ 
sued by the Postoffice Department 
against the following concerns: J. A. 
McNulty and H. Van Vleet, president 
and secretary, respectively of the Ameri¬ 
can Civil Service Institute, Washington, 
D. C. They advertise for district super¬ 
intendents, at a salary of $3,200 per 
year, but the applicant was obliged to 
subscribe and pay for $500 worth of 
stock in the concern. 
Dr. Benjamin F. Bye, Indianapolis, 
Ind. He has been denied the use of the 
mails to advertise cancer cure, and his 
so-called sanitarium. The Department 
claims he has no sanitarium, and that 
an ordinary boarding house has been 
used for the few patients who apply 
personally. According to the depart¬ 
ment a chemical analysis of Dr. Bye's 
combination of vegetable oils that “cures 
cancers and tumors to stay cured” for 
the modest sum of $25, and which actual¬ 
ly costs 50 cents, shows that combination 
consists of cotton seed oil and some or¬ 
dinary tonics. It may be remembered 
that we advised our people to leave Dr. 
Bye alone a year or more ago. 
The It. N.-Y. is in a class by itself, and 
becoming more so, ns by driving the rogues 
to other publications It is showing them 
up for just what they are worth and 
shows that the papers accepting them 
are “partners in the game.” t>. w. p. 
New .lersey. 
We cannot state the situation in any 
clearer or stronger language. The peo¬ 
ple are getting on to the game all right, 
and that means discomfort and loss to 
those who help the rogues play the 
game. 
We doqtored our daughter for deaf¬ 
ness with tlie Cleveland Institute of Medi¬ 
cine and Surgery in Spring of 1907. They 
claimed at the time they could cure lo r, 
but slie used their treatment for three 
months and it: did her no good whatever. 
Nebraska. • c. t. 
We would advise our people to leave 
quack doctors entirely alone. If you 
are sick, consult your local physician. 
He may not promise you as much as 
the quacks, hut he will at least do you 
more good than they will. 
What do you know in regard to 1 lie Han¬ 
cock Copper Mining Co., Limited, of Idaho? 
Agent is in town at tlie present time offer¬ 
ing shares at $1 each, no stock sold after 
March 1. Would it be a good investment, 
in your opinion? E. J. w. 
Massachusetts. 
Why be tempted by these mining 
stock schemes? You do not know a 
thing about them? Usually the stocks 
are not worth the paper they are print¬ 
ed on. If the investment were a wise 
one, no agent would be around selling 
it at $L a share. The only safe plan is 
to leave them all alone. 
At an auction sale recently 409 shares 
of t be Multiphone Operating Company 
brought $10 for tlie lot. Two years ago 
the stock was exploited by large adver¬ 
tisements in tlie newspapers as an invest¬ 
ment certain to bring great riches, and 
was offered at $10 a share. So that what 
was claimed to be worth $4,000 lias dwin¬ 
dled in a short time to only $10. Yet 
in the face of such striking object lessons 
tlie public still continue to bite at invest¬ 
ment propositions which have no more 
behind them than the grossly exaggerated 
claims of reputeless promotors.—New York 
Financial World. 
Lots of people can report failures 
after they happen, and take no risk in 
doing so. They can record the fact 
that your money is lost. To anticipate 
the result, and tell you in advance so 
as to save your money for you is the 
responsible and often expensive service 
that The R. N.-Y. is trying to give you. 
Mr. F. O. Grosbeck, Secretary of the 
Hartford-Miow Association, of Hart¬ 
ford, Connecticut, whatever that mav- 
he, is one of the most impudent and 
contemptible defaulters that has yet 
come to our attention. One of our sub¬ 
scribers accepted his notes in payment 
of accounts that should have been paid 
in cash. When the notes came due they 
were protested for non-pavment at the 
bank, and protest fees added to the ac¬ 
count. After exhausting every other 
peaceable means to collect on them the 
notes were sent us. Mr. Grosbeck 
THIS RURAh NEW-YORKER 
first attempted to discredit bis creditor; 
but when finally confronted with the 
facts fatly refused to meet his obliga¬ 
tions. He did not even have the decency 
to do it in respectable language. We 
believe him utterly unworthy of confi¬ 
dence or credit. 
A correspondent of The Financial World 
recently made an automobile tour through 
Staten Island and ran across Grant’s Ter¬ 
race, the wonderful suburb in which Os¬ 
trander was sidling lots from $300 to 
$1,000. A place could not look more dis¬ 
mal. There are a few houses there, but 
they appeared unoccupied. The only liv¬ 
ing’ creature to be found anywhere was a 
tliree-foot garter snake which ran under 
tlie wheels of the machine and was killed. 
It seemed that that reptile deliberately 
committed suicide in a desperate attempt 
to escape from its loneliness. 
Just compare the above with Os¬ 
trander’s glowing descriptions of the 
place. 
Just received a chock for $21.52 from tlie 
State Mutual Building and Loan Associa¬ 
tion of Camden N. .1.. as dividend on my 
stock. I want to thank you for taking this 
up for me, and if you will send your bill 
I will pay you for all your trouble. I do 
not want you to do this work for nothing. 
I am sending you two ten-weeks subscrip¬ 
tions: will -try to send your more soon. 
New Jersey. J. t. M. 
This association is being liquidated. 
We simply- got the information in re¬ 
gard to the concern, and secured a 
proper accounting for this member. We 
have no charges to make for it; but we 
fully appreciate the service of sending 
the new subscriptions. We want this 
paper to grow and be strong through 
the voluntary interest of its patrons, 
because of the real service it does for 
them. As it is now lie gets back only 
37 cents on each dollar paid in. 
It is said (hat a suit was recently filed 
in tlie Federal Court at El Paso, Tex., 
by T. tV. Crouch, Edward Hidden, E. 1*. 
Melson, of St. Louis, and A. N. Edwards, 
of Kirkwood, Mo., against Geo. I,. Bar- 
stow, president of tlie Pecos Valley Land 
& Irrigation Company, asking (hat in- he 
restrained from bringing suits against 
them, and that a receiver lie appointed for 
tlie property of the plaintiff and defendant, 
viz., ihe Barstow Irrigation Company, the 
Hillside Land & Irrigation Company and 
the Pecos Valley Land & Irrigation Com¬ 
pany. Recently a receiver for the Barstow 
Irrigation Company was appointed upon 
tlie petition of Mr. Barstow. 
The above is our last report on the 
Pecos Valley land schemes referred to. 
Many of our people inquired about this 
proposition last year, and some were 
quite enthusiastic over it. When we 
advised to leave it alone, Mr. Barstow 
protested and threatened libel suit. Bear 
this in mind when you are tempted by 
other land schemes. 
Henry M. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., 
is the latest genius of modern finance. 
He is or was the National Trust Com¬ 
pany, Wilmington, Del., capital $1,000,- 
000; also the National Trust Company, 
Washington, D. C., capital $1,000,000; 
and also Enterprise Trust Company, 
Arizona, $5,000,000. The stock of tlie 
former he advertised as paid in; but 
explained to the post-office inspectors 
that it was paid in stock of one of the 
other companies. It was a great scheme. 
He could manufacture paid-up trust 
company securities indefinitely by simply 
printing and signing stock certificates 
and then passing them from one hand to 
another. It is alleged that he made a 
business of guaranteeing stock and bonds 
of other concerns, for which lie charged 
one per cent. It brought him an in¬ 
come, it is said, of $10,000. He was 
recently charged with using the mails 
with intent to defraud, and held in 
$1,000 bail. Some day the people of 
this country will demand that a cor¬ 
poration organized with a $1,000,000 
capital will have something more be¬ 
hind it than the bluster and cunning of 
an unscrupulous promoter. 
Wo note what you say about us in your 
issue of 11 Hi instant. You will lintl dupli¬ 
cate account sales rendered Louis Ryder, 
Milford. Del.; he not only received an 
original, hut duplicate also. The stock 
was worthless, as they wore overlarge and 
not salable to good trade. We would 
advise you 1o make a retraction of your 
advice io shippers in your next issue, if 
it is not done, we shall he compelled to 
place this in tlie hands of our attorneys, 
as if is not a very nice tiling to come 
before die eyes of our shippers through¬ 
out tlie country. w. H. gearhart & co. 
Philadelphia. 
The account sales ( mar ked duplicate) 
state that 12 hags of turnips were sold 
for $1.80. The express, cartage and 
commission amounted to $1.98, leaving 
18 cents due W. H. Gearhart & Co. 
from Mr. Ryder for the privilege of 
sending them his turnips. The turnips 
were shipped March 10. On July G 
Mr. Ryder had received no returns, 
and no reply to letters of inquiry. On 
receipt of the complaint, we wrote 
Gearhart & Co. a courteous inquiry, 
and followed this with three -other let¬ 
ters. We received no reply to any of 
them. We then published the complaint. 
Needless to say, we have no apologies 
to make to Gearhart & Co., and no 
retraction to make. They have no rat¬ 
ing that we have been able to find; 
and refuse to give references, and we 
simply recommend a consideration oi 
Mr. Ryder’s experience before making 
any shipments to them. 
I thank you for your services in the 
Katzenstein Co. matter, and although this 
amount is small, I consider it a clear 
demonstration of the valuable service of 
this department of your paper, which 1 
appreciate to the extent of never letting 
an opportunity to praise your paper go 
by. I consider it superior in every respect, 
both as to advertising and contents, to any 
of the other agricultural papers with which 
I am familiar. s. N. d. 
Connecticut. 
This was a case where a subscriber 
sent an order for. goods with a remit¬ 
tance. A part of the goods he never 
received, and he was never able to get 
either the goods or the balance re¬ 
turned. We were able to adjust it for 
him, and the above is in acknowledge¬ 
ment of the remittance we sent him for 
his balance. In this case we do not 
think that the house intended to beat 
the farmer out of his 'goods or his 
money, hut there was evident careless¬ 
ness, not to say indifference, in the case. 
The amount was small, but the principle 
is as big as the earth. The farmer has 
some rights to decent consideration 
even after the other fellow has got his 
money. _ j. j. d. 
Cow Eating Dirt. 
T have a cow that eats quantities of dirt. 
Can you give me a prescription for her? 
Norlh i arolina. a. w. v. 
We have some 50 questions like this every 
year. When cows eat dirt, crave filth or 
gnaw old bones or fence rails, tlie system is 
out of order. Usually they crave phosphate 
or bone-forming material. They have not 
had enough minerals' in their food, and file 
body suffers. The remedy is to supply what 
the body»craves—bone-forming food. Wheat 
bran, clover or Alfalfa are good. If you can 
get it, put a handful of fine hone meal in 
tlie other feed each day and see that the 
cow gets enough salt. 
Cow With a Cough. 
My Jersey cow contracted a cough last 
Fall, a year ago. during Hie drought when 
it was so very dusty. Her cough seems to 
lie in the upper pari of her throat. The 
cough has kept about the same, no better 
and no worse. She is a very valuable cow, 
and I hope it is not tuberculosis; other¬ 
wise sh<> is in a good healthy condition. 
Please toll me if such a cough is evidence 
of tuberculosis. h. f. l. 
West Virginia. 
Cough is simply an indication of irrita¬ 
tion, which may proceed from any one of 
a large number of different causes. Tuber¬ 
culosis affecting the throat or lungs may 
cause cough, hut it is impossible to toil 
whether tuberculosis is present by mere 
physical examination. To determine the 
matter, have her tested with tuberculin, 
which cannot possibly do any harm, but 
will settle the matter one way or Hie oilier 
inside of 48 hours. A. s. a. 
An Obstinate Wound. 
How shall I treat my horse, which lias 
injured his right front leg on the inside of 
the ankle joint? The accident occurred 
by making a runaway with Hie plow, and 
the share cut it. His log is swollen and 
he lias been badly lame for almost three 
months. I had the veterinarian twice, and 
lie gave me some medicine, and told me 
to blister. However, it did not do any 
good. IIow should I treat him? When I 
blister the foot it seems io get thicker. 
There is a lot of matter there. What will 
draw the matter out? L. R. 
Clip off the hair and thoroughly cleanse 
the wound and adjacent parts with a two 
per cent solution of coal tar disinfectant or 
carbolic acid. Twice daily inject into the 
discharging orifice a little of a mixture of 
one dram of iodoform in an ounce of sul¬ 
phuric ether. After this treatment spread 
a mixture of equal parts of powdered alum 
and boric acid on cotton batting; place this 
on tlie wound and keep it in place by means 
of bandages. Renew tlie dressing twice a 
day and use clean bandage and cotton each 
time. After the wound heals and no pus 
Is discharging blister the swollen parts with 
cerate of eantharides. It really is a ease 
that should have tlie personal attention of 
the local graduate veterinarian, as we can 
only guess at the condition present from 
tlie incomplete description furnished. 
a. s. A. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 10. 
Boyle’s Steel Stanchion 
THE ORIGINAL 
Lined with wood,with Thumb Poit Latch 
DURABILITY Beat Material ar<<J 
Workmanship. Built to laat a lifetime.' 
COMFORT Hnntf on chiallow* 
ing full freedom of neck. No weight 14 
carry. ., 
CLEANLINESS K»ep« the cow in 
place. Forward when lying down. Bach 
when (landing. 
JitfUrl iWi»i Kin.lt! /)Wm n*mr— 
lilut print wWI* 4ria>tt to, trttllng 
/'m itCKkni Promt i - Print 
SOLE MAKERS 
^JjfAS. BOYLE & SON 
SALEM, OHIO. U.S. A. 
Dairymens Supply Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
/The Burr Starkweather Co.Rochester,N.Y. 
r ni | M qi C IMPROVED 
VKUnflDd WARRINER 
STANCHION 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, 
N. Y., says “ they 
SAVE COST 
in feed in one winter.” 
Send ad dress for spec¬ 
ifications of inexpensive 
_ - . . . - -.yet sanitary cow stable to 
WALLACE It. CRUMB, Box Mi, Foreatvllle, Conn, 
I 
Lit 
Warranted the Best. 
30 Days Trial. 
Unlike all others. Stationary when 
Open. Noiseless. 
’IIK WASSON STANCHION CO. 
Box GO, Cuba, New York. 
C CHAIN HANGING 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
CATTLE FASTENER 
ever invented. 
Manufactured and for 
sale by 
O. H. ROBERTSON, 
Forestville, Conn. 
■Will reduce inflamed, strained, 
swollen Tendons, Ligaments, 
Muscles or Bruises, Cure the 
J.nmciicRH and Stop pain from a 
Splint,Side Hone or Hone Spavin 
No blister, no hair gone. Ilorso cun b( 
used. Horse Book 2 L) free-. $ 2.00 a 
boitleat dealers or dellvored. 
ABSOltBINK.JR.,for mankind,$1. 
Reduces Strained Torn Ligaments,Kn. 
larged glands, veins or muHeles —houll 
ulcere—allays pain. Book Free. 
W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mas* 
OIS or EGGS 
If you feed fjreen hone fresh cut. Its «££ 
producing value is four times that of grain. 
Hgus more fertile, chicks more vigorous, 
broilers earlier, fowls heavier, profits larger. 
Mann’s Modi! Bone Cutter 
makes bone cutting simple, easy and rapid. 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and gristle. Never clogs# 
10 Daye Freo Trial. No money in advance. Don’t buy a 
cutter without first trying it. Cat’lg free. 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15, Milford, Mats. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
In order to make 
room for MOOD grow¬ 
ing <: tiicks and 1000 
ducklings, we are 
forced to oiler at a 
sacrifice nearly all of our this season’s breeding 
pens, consequently you will be able to get bargains 
in Single and Itose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Plymouth Bocks, White Wyanoottes, 
also Imperial Pekin Ducks. Our birds have been 
carefully selected and bred for superior egg pro¬ 
duction 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. largo 
numbers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Largest plant 
in vicinity of New York City- 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM. New Rochelle. New York. 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS— Our past season’s breeding 
stock and March and April hatched cockerels. 
Epw. Van Ai.stynk & Won, Kindorhook, N. Y. 
f except.ionnl 
or mid quality 
C. W. LEGHORNS v ,“J„ r .. 
acres of fertile land devoted to the production 
til unequalled strain of this greatest egg-breed. 
— .. .’ 11 stock, at reduced summer 
I an . - 
ggs, young and 
old 
at 
EMPIRE STATES. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Cock¬ 
erels and L’ullets 5 mos. old, $1 each. < atalog free. 
C. II. ZIMMER. Weed sport. N. V. 
$50 TO $300 SAVED 
GALLOWAY 
Wc are manufacturers, not merchants. Save dealers, 
jobbers and catalog house profit. I’ll save you from 
S50 to 8300 on my High Grade Standard Gasoline 
Engines from 2 to 22-H.-P.—Price direct to you 
lower than dealers or jobbers have to pay for 
similar engines in carload lots for spot cash. Slojf D| rcct 
From 
Fac- 
on 30 
Days' Free 
Trial. Satisiac- 
tion or money 
ick. Write forspec-* 
iat proposition. All 
is for raw 
t> o r and 
Send for 
FREE. 
Price and quality speak for themselves 
and you are to be the sole judge. 
Sell your poorest liorse and buy a 
5-H.-P. only $119.50 
Win. Galloway, Pres, 
Win. Galloway Co. 
GG&Ualloway Station 
Waterloo, lowu 
SILOS 
GET OUR FREE BOOK ON SILAGE 
Oldest Firm in the Business 
MAKERS OK 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SILOS 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CQ-, ALBANY, N. Y. 
W, P. ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
Stock and Eggs In season. Also Bred to Lay S. ('. It. X. 
Beds. M. I,. BICE, Ashbiiriihnm, Mass. 
P oultrymen—Send 10c. forour 19(19 Catalog, cheek full ofnsefol 
Information. Describes mid illustrates 3.'. varieties. You can't 
afford to bo without it. Hast Donegal Poultry Yi.nla,Marietta, l'» 
W D Rock Cockerels, early hatched from tested 
• l • heavy layers, $3 tn $.1 each. Trap nests 
used exclusively. A. 8. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, K. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds, doktes, Indian Run¬ 
ner Ducks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding, show or export. SINCLAIR 
Smith, (i02 Fifth Streot, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
B AKU AIN SALE—Toulouse and White Chinn Geese; White 
Holland, Narrsgausett and liuff Turkey*; Huff and Ulack Or¬ 
pington, It. I. Reds. Miss Zells Wilson, Chandlersvllle, Ohio, 
P R SALE —Toulouse Geese from Imported stock. Bronze 
Turbo,.*. K. A. BROWN, Chester, Vermont. 
F OR SALE— !«)0 X’ure Bred 8. C. W. Leghorn Pullets. 
Some of them laying. No room for them. 
GLCO. LUNDGKHEN, Wyoming, Del. 
ylfinn FERRETS P"r Sale. Wrltoforprlcc list and circular; 
T-UUU it's free, DkKLKINK BROS,, box 12, Jamestown.Mich. 
CCDQCTC—Warranted good rat and rabbit 
rtnnE I # hunters. A few choice Fox Terrier 
Pitps. Circular and price list free. Address 
SHADY LAWN FERRET FARM, Now London, O. 
S COTCH CO 1.1,IKS, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Cire. SILAS DECKER, Montrose i’a. 
