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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I have just received the ?4 for the truss. 
I want to thank you very much for your 
trouble, as I had given up ever getting it 
back. Wishing you success with your 
paper. m. f. 
New York. 
If you have a clear understanding 
with any responsible house when plac¬ 
ing your order, and live up to your 
part of the contract, The R. N.-Y. can 
usually effect an adjustment of any dif¬ 
ferences that may arise for you. 
T sent a case of eggs to Ephron Quat, 
1604 Park avenue, Now York, April 6, 
1909, for which I have not received pay. 
I sent him the express receipt at his re¬ 
quest, and have not heard from him since. 
Will you kindly look the matter up? 
New York. j. D. c. 
We have been after Mr. Quat since 
July for this account, but have been un¬ 
able to collect it. The only way is to 
refuse to ship goods until you know 
that they are going to a responsible 
house. The advice is late for this ship¬ 
per in this instance, but it may be ap¬ 
plied to other shipments. If not sure, 
inquire here and we will tell you. 
The Boston Sunday Post contains one 
full-page advertisement of Tonasopo Orange 
Grove Co.. Chicago, Ill.; also one full-page 
advertisement of Providence Coal Mining 
Company, Hancock & Co., Inc., fiscal agents, 
92 .State street, Boston. IIow about these 
as investments? E. L. s. 
Massachusetts. 
We cannot endorse propositions of 
this kind as investments for our people. 
We earnestly advise them to leave such 
things alone. The bigger the promises 
of profit, the rrtore they are to be avoid¬ 
ed. The paper that admits fake finan¬ 
cial or other deceptive advertisements 
into its columns, is an accessory in the 
robbery of its readers, and ought to be 
avoided just as you would shun the 
principal rogue of the scheme. 
What do you know about the Keystone 
View Company, Meadville, Pa? 
These people have been selling views 
or photographs through canvassing 
agents for $12 per set of six dozen, or 
about three times the price charged by 
other houses for similar pictures. J he 
agent takes $2 down and the balance to 
be paid later. 
In one case reported to us, the person 
who placed the order and paid the $2, 
afterwards returned all the views, and 
requested the order cancelled. This 
they refused to do, and attempted to 
collect the balance, through a collection 
agency. The R. N.-Y. advised the farm¬ 
er not to pay under the circumstances, 
but to avoid annoyance it is best to 
decline the order. 
In March of last Spring there appeared 
In one of our Omaha papers an advertise¬ 
ment of W. O. Coffee, of lies Moines, la., 
offering to send two weeks’ treatment for 
catarrh absolutely free. I answered it. and 
he sent me the medicine. After using it 
a while I did not consider it of any bene¬ 
fit to me, so left off using it. In about 
five weeks I received a letter from Coffee 
inclosing bill for .$5 for medicine for one 
month’s treatment. I paid no attention to 
his letters, which have been coming every 
two weeks since then. I am inclosing them 
to you. Can he collect this $2.50 which 
he now claims is due him? g. h. p. 
Nebraska. 
No; he cannot collect the $2.50 or 
any other amount. He first offered to 
send the treatment free. Then he asked 
$5. Afterwards he was willing to ac¬ 
cept $2.50 and send another treatment. 
Now he will accept $2.50, if he can get 
it. It is, of course, a fake. Don’t send 
him a cent; and get his letters into the 
fire a-s soon as you can unopened. 
In 1900 a friend of mine got mo to take 
10(1 shares in the Paradox Copper & Gold 
Mining Co. In 1902 this company went 
in with the San Juan Smelling & Refining 
Co., Denver, Colo. 1 sent m,v old shares 
and got 40 shares of the new company’s 
stock, but 1 never have received any divi¬ 
dend from either company. Now they are 
forming a new company and went to change 
tin* shares again. Every few months they 
send out letters begging for more money 
*o improve this or build something. I do 
not think it right for tills company to 
continue taking money from the people 
and not make any return. d. l. g. 
Massachusetts. 
Why should not the promoters con¬ 
tinue to ask more money? They go on 
the theory and experience that it is 
easier to get a second remittance from 
one who has already put up cash than 
to get the first installment from a new 
man. When you put in some money 
and you are told you will lose it unless 
you put in some more to save the first, 
you are quite likely to send the second 
check. The appeals are strong, plausi¬ 
ble and often convincing. But the soon¬ 
er you realize that the first remittance 
is lost and gone forever, the better off 
you will be. Keep out of these schemes. 
The bigger the inducements offered 
you. usually the surer you may be that 
the scheme is a fraudulent one. Thou¬ 
sands of promoters are living in luxury 
on the hard-earned savings of poor 
people. 
For the past few seasons we have pur¬ 
chased small quantities of new varieties of 
potatoes from L. I’. Gunson & (to., Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., and were always satisfied. Last 
Spring we purchased 2% bushels of Great 
Dane oats from same firm, and about that 
time there appeared in your columns an 
expressed idea that this was not advisable. 
We immediately wrote them for an explana¬ 
tion, which we promptly received in very 
satisfactory form, as they referred us to 
the party who grew the seed under con¬ 
tract for them—an unusual thing for a 
seed firm to tell. The seed was accepted 
and planted, feeling our past experience in 
dealing with this firm, and having their 
explanation, justified us in doing so, with 
the result that the old varieties were left 
behind at least 20 bushels per acre. Re¬ 
cently I have had the pleasure of visiting 
the farm where the Great Dane wore grown 
on the contract for L. P. Gunson & Go. 
and was told they yielded about double the 
varieties grown there before and at same 
time by neighbors. Personally we have 
much regard for your good work in at¬ 
tempting to warn your readers through 
your paper, and only call your attention to 
this particular case because we feel you 
would be glad to correct fhe impression your 
former article may have made, for our ex¬ 
perience has taught us the Great Dane 
was truly a groat oat and sincerely believe 
it is what the public is needing. n. a. g. 
Ohio. 
When we first received the above let¬ 
ter we did not think we would be justi¬ 
fied in publishing it because it was the 
only voluntary letter we received in de¬ 
fense of these seeds, while we have re¬ 
ceived many unpublished letters re¬ 
porting failure with them and dissatis¬ 
faction with the methods used in sell¬ 
ing them. The above writer, however, 
seemed to be in good faith, and was 
inclined to think that we were varying 
our general rule to give All sides a fair 
show, so we have reconsidered our first 
conclusion, and print his letter in full. 
Two years ago this firm was selling 
“Mammoth Cluster Oats” at $2.50 a 
bushel. They required the purchaser to 
sign a contract that he would not sell 
the first year’s crop for less than $1.00 
a bushel. Last year they were selling 
the “Great Dane” on the same terms. 
They claimed both were entirely new 
varieties. Inquiries began to come to 
us about them. We tried to find out 
who originated the new varieties; but 
were unable to get the information. 
We then stated frankly that we knew 
nothing about the alleged new oats; 
but that everyone already knew that the 
new varieties of oats usually put out 
were more a product of the mind than of 
the fields. Besides, the contract requir¬ 
ing the farmer not to sell for less than 
$1 a bushel seemed to us like a clever 
ruse to impress the farmer with the great 
value of the seed, and intended merely 
as an inducement for him to put up his 
$2.50 per bushel. As supplemental to 
this conclusion, we give below a letter 
from the United States Department of 
Agriculture in reply to an inquiry: 
We have no information in this office 
regarding the firm of Gunson & Co., Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y. The Great Dane oat, advertised 
by them, is also sold by a number of other 
seedsmen, but has not been included in 
any of our tests. The words “Dane’’ and 
“Danish’’ seem to be favorites in the nam¬ 
ing of oat varieties, as we have Danish, 
Danish Island and Great Dane. 1 am not 
certain, but it is probable, that the three 
are names for one variety. Danish has been 
grown in some sections of this country for 
a number of years, and in the Northern 
States is an excellent variety, though not 
better than a number of others which might 
he mentioned. The plan advertised by the 
firm is one usually connected with frauds. 
C. W. WARBUBTON, 
Agronomist in Charge of Oat Investiga¬ 
tions. 
Washington, D. C. 
This seems to harmonize with our 
conclusions of about two years ago, and 
also with the reports of farmers who 
report to us that the seed was bought 
from agents who claimed that it would 
produce 90 bushels to the acre, but actu¬ 
ally made no better yield than the other 
oats grown in the neighborhood and on 
the same farm. 
As to the alleged new varieties of 
potatoes we have been no more success¬ 
ful in tracing them to their originator. 
We had reports from farmers who 
bought them from agents who guaran¬ 
teed them free from blight and scab; 
but when received they showed much 
evidence of scab, and the seeds were 
refused. The company, however, in¬ 
sisted on collecting for them, and final¬ 
ly put the claim with a sort of collection 
agency, which wrote threatening letters. 
We advised the farmers under the cir¬ 
cumstances to pay no attention to such 
demands, as the order was secured under 
alleged fraud, and the matter was, we 
believe, fiifally dropped. We have no 
interest in the matter one way or an¬ 
other except to give our people the 
facts as we know them. Whether the 
oats in question are new varieties or 
simply strains of old varieties, as we 
suspect, we give the company the bene¬ 
fit of the Ohio man’s experience; but at 
the same time we want to give our 
readers the benefit of the other experi¬ 
ences. j. j. D. 
November 0, 
OPT MV nninr This Ad. Saves Dealer, 
lit I III I | lilut Jo b 5e r , Cat a logHouse 
Profits. 
I Buy. direct from the biggest 
spreader factory in the world. 
—My price has made it—No such 
price as I make on this high 
grade spreader has ever been 
made before in all manure 
spreader history. I save you 
S50. Here’s the secret and reason: 
I make you a price on one based 
on a 25,000 quantity and pay the 
freight right to your station. You 
only pay for actual material, labor and 
one small profit, based on this enor¬ 
mous quantity on a 
GALLOWAY 
Get my bran new proposition 
with proof—lowest price ever 
made on a first class spreader, 
with my agreement to pay you 
back your money after you try 
It 12 months if it’s not a paying investment How’s that for a proposition? If I did not 
have best spreader I would not dare make such an offer. 20,000 farmers have stamped 
their O. K. on it. They all tried it 30days free just like I ask you to try it—30 DAYS FREE. 
Drop mo ■ postal, and say—"Calloway, .end me your new propo.ltlon and Big Spreader BOOK FREE 
with low prices direct from your factory.” I also make a new complete steal gear Spreader—70-bu also. 
II. Guthberson, Gladbrook, Iowa. “Works fine. Spreads T. F. Sttce, Oswego, Kans. “Often pull it with my 
all kinds ol manure better than any spreader I ever saw. small buggy team. Does good work. Have always used 
So simple, nothing to get out ol repair as compared with the-before. Galloway much the best. II going to 
other spreaders." buy a dozen more they would all be Galloways." ^ 
WM. GALLOWAY COMPANY. 669Calloway Station. WATERLOO, IOWA 
Shoe Boils, Capped 
Hock, Bursitis 
&re hard to cure, yet 
/U3S0RBI 
NE 
willromovo them and leave no blem-1 
lsh: Does not blister or remove 1 
the hair. Cnros any puff or swelling. Horse enn 
bo workod, $2.00 per bottle,delivered.Book 6 D freo. 
AIJSORIilNE, Jit., (mankind, $1.00 bottle.) 
For Bolls, Bruises, Old Sores. Swollings. Goitro, 
Varicose Voins, VarlcositiOB. Allays Pain. 
;W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 88 Temple St., Springfield, Mass. 
Tire Best ol All 
Bone Cutters 
Best, because it’s fhe only cutter made that 
cuts bone across flic grain. And the most 
successful poultrymcn know that bone cut in 
this way is easily assimilated by the hens and 
produces the best results. The 
Standard Bone Cutter 
is easy to 
run and 
- easy to 
buy. Sent 
- on 10 days 
free trial. Cut 
shows No. 9, $8.80. It 
has many improve¬ 
ments. II other sizes 
from $6.75 to *195. 
Write tor catalogue. 
Standard * 
Hone Cutter Co. 
Milford, UtaMH. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By foedlng raw bone. Its egg-producing value Is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fortllo, chicks more 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier .- 
profits larger. 
MANN’S mod!I Bone Gutter 
Cuts all hone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogH. 10 Days’ Free Trial. 
No money in advance. 
Send Today lor Frao Book. 
P. W. Mann «o.. Box is, Milford, Maaa 
“BULLETIN No. 26” 
SENT FREE “HOWTO KEEP AWAY 
CHICKEN-LICE &. MITES,” by only 
ONE APPLICATION A YEAR 
Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co. 
351 W. Broadway New York. N. Y. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. IOst.1814. 
R. MacK ELLA It’S SONS CO.. IVckskill, N. Y. 
W. P, ROCKS Bred for Beauty and Utility. 
Stock and Eggs in season. Also Bred to Lay S. C. R. I. 
M. I,. RICE, Asliburnham, Mass. 
W D Rock Cockerels, early hatched from testod 
" *, * ' heavy layers, $:! t<> $5 each. Trap nests 
used exclusively. A, 8. BRIAN, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
VAN ALSTYNE'S R. I. REDS —Our past season's breeding 
stork ami March and April hatched cockerels. 
Edw. Van Ai.sty nk & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
puiiltryninn—Send 10c. forour 19n9 Catalog, clinrk full nfimefiil 
I inroi'iiiHlIon. Describes slid illustrates SI, varieties. You can’t 
Iiiluid to be without it. Knat Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa 
S. C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
A number of choice April hatched cockerels for sale. 
Write for puces to W HITE 8 RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
S fl W l'^®HOBNS of exceptional vigor and 
i Ui If i quality. 260 acres devoted to the best 
i n Leghorns. Bend for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md, 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Cock- 
orels and Pullets 5 mos. old, $1 each. Catalog free 
C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
R C RhodP Island Rpds Partridge Wyan- 
n. u. niiuuc imciiiu neui>, dotte8iImHanRun . 
tier I lucks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding, show or export. Sinclair 
Smith, 002 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Hone’s “Bred to Lay” Rose Lar ko. vigorous, rich 
Comb Rhode island Reds. KSijg'iSS* 
best selected layers; also choice yearling hens. 
Satisfaction guaranteed on every order. 
D. R. HONK, CRESCENT HILL FARM. 
Sharon Springs, Box 24, New York. 
I , £ HT £ Rfl . HM * S ’ BflRRED flND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
L fine Inos for sale. Address 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
URE-BRED TURKEYS 8 POULTRY-Select Stock. Price 
Right. Cir. Free. Fairview Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
P 
M ammoth bronze turkeys—B red 
from our noted Prize Winning Birds. Address 
ELKTON STOCK FARM, Forest Depot, Va. 
The 
MOST 
MONEY 
for One Doll&F 
Invested la Food 
<Ihe GUERNSEY COW 
Her Dairy Products have Scored the Highest Quality and Best Color 
(Tb« Monthly Guenuejr Bulletin and Information regarding the breed free by addressing 
GUERNSEY CLUB, BOX R„ PETERBORO, N. H. 
GUERNSEY BULL CALVES. 
One month to one yoar old. Quality, breeding and 
prices the best. W. A. ALEXANDER, Union Springs, N. Y. 
Kalorama Farm 
Has a Splendid Crop of Young 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
ready for shipment at reasonable prices. They 
were sired by imported hoars and are out of large, 
mature, prolific dams. Would he pleased to price 
them to you. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
CHESTER WHITE AND LARGE YORKSHIRE 
YOUNG BOARS AND SOW PIGS FOR SALE 
SIX MONTHS OLD 
Only tho best animals of these two breeds sold for 
breeding purposes. Yoiksliire ami Chester White 
Boars old enough for service. Prices Reasonable. 
Our Motto is : To Please Our Customers At Any Cost. 
HEART’S DELIGHT FARM. -;- CHAZY. NEW YORK 
BROOKSIDE BERKSHIRES 
Have a choice lot of young stock ready for ship¬ 
ment, sired by Hopeful Masterpiece the 2nd and 
also a grandson of Lord Premier, and out of 
Daughters of Lord Premier and Premier Long¬ 
fellow. Also have a few yearling sows sired by 
Hopeful Masterpioco the 2nd. 
J. I’. O’HAltA, Moravia, Now York. 
SPRINGBANK HERD OF BIG 
BERKSHIRES. 
Am sold out of sows to farrow earlier than June 
10th. All stock registered and bred In fashlonublo 
lines. My hogs are the correct type of present day 
Berkshires, combining size, symmetry, grand feed¬ 
ing quality and prolificacy, bend for booklet. 
J. 10. WATSON, Proprietor, Marbledale, Conn. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES mSsioc” 
also Service Boars and two 2-yenr-old Sows. All 
rich in blood of best American and imported stock. 
ROSfiDALE FARM, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Large Berkshires 
Premier Longfellow .Lord Premier and Masterpiece 
breeding. Matings not akin. Catalog on applica¬ 
tion. WII.LOUGIIHY FAKIYI.Gettynbiug,Fa. 
WHITE, BACON HOG, 
uriLOninLO Long-bodied, Square-built, good 
grazers, good mothers, gentle, profitable. 
MORNING SI I)K FARM. Syivania, Pa. 
L A it UK B U It K Ml I It US AT II14111 W 0014 —Short, 
broad heads. Mature animals welsh from 100 to 900 Iba. 
Special offering of bred sows. Sows averaged eleven to the 
litter this spring. Write for booklet. 
II. C. A II. II. HAItl’KNDINO, Dundee, N. V. 
World’s Best °- *• c * ,,i s 8 * 
ITUIIU o Dcol nUg September farrow. Gilts 
will 1 io bred for March farrowing. 
CEDAR LAWN FARM, Ludlowville, N. Y. 
IMPORTATION °f the best; large improved 
imrUniAIIUn English Yorkshires for sale. 
A. A. BRADLEY, Frewsburg, N. Y. 
DUROCS 
TIIIC BIG I)KK1* FELLOWS, 
—-— — that grow and mature quickly. 
Pigs and Gilts for sale at all times. Address 
8HENANGO HIV Ell FAltMS, Transfer, Pa. 
4000 
FKKitKTS For Sale, Write for price lint hikI circular; 
il’H freo, DisKLKlNK II It OS., Box l2, JuiueHtown.Micb. 
B ronze turkeys, 1909 hatch. $ 2.00 a bird; choice 
PEKIN DUCKS. &.00 A PAIR. Address 
W. JiUItGESS, Shelter I gland, N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
In order to mako 
room for 2000 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 and ltose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Plymouth Bocks, White Wyandottes, 
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 In largo 
numbers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Largest plant 
in vicinity of New York City- 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM. New Rochelle. New York. 
