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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Please inform me about the Lincoln 
Telephone and Telegraph Co., Do you think 
it a safe investment? r. a. j. 
Ohio. 
No. Leave such investments alone. 
Jacksonville Development Co., Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla. 
This is the company which has been 
selling 20-acre farms and building lots 
in different parts of Florida. We have 
had many inquiries about them. The 
lands were cheap tracts costing from 
$2 to $5 per acre, and sold for $20 per 
acre and upwards. The latest report 
is that a final judgment has been filed 
against the company for a bill for 
$252.50. 
I started to work for the Globe Associa¬ 
tion of Chicago. Ill., with the understanding 
that they were to do just as I represented 
for them, hut they would not do it after¬ 
wards. They beat every agent they can, 
and do nothing for the members. Look out 
for them. If anyone would like to have my 
full experience, let him address 
Tillman, Florida. george h. morse. 
It is not necessary for anyone to 
write Mr. Morse. The whole scheme 
is a fake from beginning to end and 
agents soon find it out. 
Two months ago the American Ex¬ 
press Company handled some goods for 
us. They charged double rate because, 
as they said, the goods were not crated. 
Then they tacked on 47 cents extra, and 
damaged the goods besides. We got the 
47 cents in six weeks, and the*cost of 
repairing the goods in a little more than 
two months. We just thought that some 
of the express companies’ victims might 
be interested to know that they do some¬ 
times acknowledge an overcharge—if 
you happen to know—and actually some¬ 
times settle a claim within a year of 
filing the complaint. 
Do you know anything about the National 
Press Association. Indianapolis, Ind. ? Are 
they reliable and can they really teach 
story-writing and practical journalism by 
correspondence, granting the student has 
t:\Jent? s. c. 
Ohio. 
If you want to save yourself expense 
and disappointment, leave press and au¬ 
thors’ associations severely alone. They 
are run for one purpose—to make money 
out of you. The ways this is effected 
are numerous and alluring. You are 
buoyed on by flattery and hope, while 
your money holds out. When it is all 
gone, you begin to realize how cleverly 
it was all done. 
On January 2 I sent Dr. Raymond C. 
Morris. Keeler, Mich., a check of $4 for 
two gallons of Knox-All. which he claimed 
would kill rose bugs. The check was paid, 
but the Knox-All never came, and my three 
letters of inquiry are unanswered. Can you 
get the money or the goods, or at least' an 
answer to my letters? j. h. s. 
New York. 
He does not answer our letters either. 
He has no rating, that we can find. He 
will no doubt keep the $4, but we will 
•try to see that he gets no more from 
our people. We propose to keep an eye 
on him; and if his advertisement ap¬ 
pears in any paper we see, complaint 
will be made to the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment. We are going to stop this kind 
of robbery when we can. 
About two months ago or more 10 cents 
were sent to the Woman’s Magazine, pub¬ 
lished by E. G. Lewis, St. Louis. Mo., 
for Pattern No. 2966, bust 34, illustrated in 
the September issue. No reply has been 
received, and 1 have written four or five 
times with no result. What can be done? 
It is the principle of the thing rather than 
the time and money spent. ^ d. m. g. 
Maine. 
We regret to say we seem unable to 
get anything more out of Mr. Lewis 
for people who have sent him money. 
We did get two remittances for small 
amounts for two subscribers; but we 
have several similar complaints for 
which we can get nothing but promises, 
which we regard as poor substitutes for 
cash. This good woman may congratu¬ 
late herself that her contribution is 
small. 
Dispatches from Pittsburg. Pa., to 
the New York daily papers last week 
reported the arrest of A. B. McCarthy, 
of the Metropolitan and Suburban Real 
Estate Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., for al¬ 
leged fraud in the sale of lots at South¬ 
ampton, Long Island, N. Y. It is charged 
that they sold lots at from $25 to $130 
each, and collected on monthly install¬ 
ments. It is also charged that the lots 
are under 40 feet of water at low tide. 
It is said that they sold lots to more 
than 1,000 people in western Pennsyl¬ 
vania. McCarthy was arrested while in 
the act of collecting money from a wom¬ 
an in Pittsburg. There are probably a 
dozen or more concerns operating in 
the sale of lots on Long Island, all of 
which ought to be let alone. Fraud or¬ 
ders have been issued against one or 
more of them by the Post Office De¬ 
partment. These lots have practically 
no value, and the money invested in 
them is lost the moment it leaves your 
‘THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
hands. You need not take the trouble 
to ask about any particular one. You 
cannot afford to put money into any of 
them. 
I suppose I contribute to the large army 
of fools. Six weeks ago I shipped nine 
barrels select Bartlett pears to Brown, Lusk 
& Co., commission merchants, 1029 Washing¬ 
ton avenue, Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, 
N- Y. I had them tagged to a reliable firm, 
but the agent at the station asked me to lot 
them go to these people. The pears were 
worth better than $50. Can you help? 
New York. t. p. h. 
We are sorry, but we cannot do a 
thing in this case. They never had any 
credit or standing, and have now dis¬ 
appeared altogether. A railroad agent 
ought to look up the concern he repre¬ 
sents, or be responsible for the loss his 
influence causes shippers. 
A fraud order was issued against the 
Deering Mercantile Company, dealing in 
general merchandise at 216 Lake street, 
Chicago. Postoffice Inspector Stuart claims 
to have received more than 200 complaints 
against the concern. The latter first at¬ 
tracted the notice of the postal authorities 
by spreading the name “Deering Mercantile 
Company” across tlie cut of the Deering 
Harvester Company building, which adorned 
all its stationery. The catalogue promised 
prices far below those offered by the coun¬ 
try stores, but nearly all orders, it is 
claimed, were tilled “short,’’ or goods of 
an inferior grade were substituted, it being 
explained thajt “the market had advanced.” 
The above is from the Mail Order 
Journal, Chicago. We have been telling 
our people to leave them alone for the 
past year. There are other concerns in 
Chicago that deserve similar treatment 
by the Washington authorities. Look 
out for the bargain offers. Don’t bite 
on their sucker bait. 
I am in receipt of yours of November 5, 
containing check for $20. which you so 
kindly took the time, bother and expense to 
collect from F. B. Mills. I am deeply 
thankful to you for your interference in 
this matter and the check came at a time 
when it was much needed. I will gladly pay 
you if you set your amount and consider it 
only a pleasure to do so. but if not permitted 
to show my appreciation in this way, count 
me as a lifelong friend and supporter of 
The R. N.-Y. and its clean, manly and ag¬ 
gressive methods. The longer I get it the 
better I like it; as one of my neighbors says, 
I look forward with expectancy to its com¬ 
ing every week. 
Connecticut. c. a. m. 
It is due Mr. Mills to say that this 
refund was optional with him. No one 
could compel him to make it. He sold 
this farmer stock in the Consolidated 
Ginseng Company, and delivered the 
stock. Of course the stock had no value, 
and did not afford the profits nor pay the 
dividends that Mr. Mills told him it 
would when the sale was made. The 
transaction was closed, however, and we 
want Mr. Mills to have credit for the 
return of the money at this time. 
I am a city man, and not a farmer, still 
1 am much interested in your valuable 
paper. A friend of mine paid for a 10- 
weeks’ subscription for me. but as I take 
so many other papers and magazines I paid 
little attention to yours for several weeks. 
One day while waiting jfbr dinner. I casual¬ 
ly' picked it up, and to my surprise became 
intensely interested in it. The fearless way 
you handle the ‘‘fakers" is a revelation to 
most people. I now look for The R. N.-Y. 
eagerly each week, and speak to my friends 
about it. I enclose you $1, for which you 
may. extend my subscription as far as it 
will take it. I am also sending you the 
name of a friend, to whom 1 want it sent 
for 10 weeks. 
Rhode Island. w. m. 
What better reward do you want 
than that for sending in a neighbor’s 
or a friend’s subscription for 10 weeks? 
If this were a single or even an occa¬ 
sional experience, it would not be sig¬ 
nificant, but it is typical of thousands. 
We probably have 50,000 to 60,000,regular 
subscribers who began in this way, and 
were actually surprised to find that a 
farm paper had not only interest but 
value for them. We have" no doubt that 
you sometimes hesitate* to mention The 
R. N.-Y., because you do not wish eVen 
to appear to importune your friends. 
But you could hardly fail to feel a thrill 
of pride to have in a report like the 
above from a friend to whom you in¬ 
troduced the paper. The time is right 
for this kind of work, now. We would 
like to have each reader now, who be¬ 
lieves in the paper, and its service, make 
up his mind to send just one 10-weeks 
order some time this month. Will you, 
for one, do it? If you do, it will greatly 
increase our power to be of help to you. 
J. J. d. 
-tiER&lTIS — 
IMPROVED CLARK’S DOUBLE ACTION 
CUTAWAY HARROW 
The most wonderful farm tool ever Invented. 
Two harrows In one. Throws the dirt out, then 
- t in, leaving the land level and true. 
Q | I A labor saver, a time saver. _Per- 
feet center draft. Jointed Pole. 
Beware of imitations and in¬ 
fringements. Send today for 
FREE Booklet. 
, CUTAWAY HARROW CO. 
839 Main St., 
Hlgganum, Conn. 
FARMERS SHOULD SEE THIS HEATER. 
THE NELSON TANK 
HEAT | WASTED' 1 
SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES. 
JuaU feeds for fowls. 
Get our fall prices on Poultry 
Foods, Beef Scraps (55 p. c. 
protein). Milk Albumen, Grit, 
Shell, Charcoal, Meat Meal, 
Scratch Food, Pigeon Food. 
The Batchelor Seed Store 
36 Lafayette Street, Utica. 
SQUAB 
Mated pair 
kissing.— 
Eggs to 
Squabsi.l| 
4 weeks, 
squabs. Cloth-bound 
BOOK FREE 
Write for our hand¬ 
some 191O Free 
Book, how to make 
money breeding 
book now 303 pages, 114 
illustrations. IT’S GREAT. We take subscrip 
tions for the new splendid National Squab Maga¬ 
zine (monthly). Specimen copy lo cts. 
PLYMOUTH HOCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard Street, : : Melrose, Mass. 
P cnltrymen—Send 10c. for our 1909 Cntftlofr, cliock full of imefnl 
information. Describes anti illustrates 35 varieties. You can’t 
alftml to 1 be witliiiut it. East Donegal Poultry Yanis,Marietta,Fa 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; heavy layers; Cock¬ 
erels and Pallets 5 mos. old, $1 each. Catalog free. 
C. 11. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
We still have some 
Single Comb White 
Leghorn stock, both 
old and young, to dis¬ 
pose of at prices to suit. Some promising May 
hatched cockerels and pullets for $1.00 each to close 
out. Some grand early hatched Barred Kock cock¬ 
erels, sired by ten pound cocks, for $”.00, $3.00 and 
$5.00 each. Can spare a few more White Wyandotte 
yearling liens and cocks. Remember our strain of 
Pekin ducks is second to none, that we have both 
old and young and over 1000 to select from. Prices 
of exhibition stock on application. Correspondence 
invited. Satisfaction guaranteed. The only large 
successful plant in the vicinity of New York City. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
November 27, 
When you write advertisers mention Tiib 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” Sec guarantee page 10. 
MAKA SHELL SOLUBLE GRIT 
Bright, sharp, shiping. Makes bone and 
Increases Egg-Production When Eggs Are High. 
Send $1.00 for two 100-lb. bags f. o. b, 
cars. Order to-day. Booklet “ Hen 
Dyspepsia ” and sample Free. 
EDCE HILL SILICA ROCK CO., 
Box J, New Brunswick, N. J. 
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. Est.1844. 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, N.Y. 
MAKE HENS LAY 
By feeding raw bone. Its egg-producing value is four 
times that of grain. Eggs more fertile, chicks moro 
vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier . 
profits larger. 
MANN’S Bone Cutter 
Cuts all hone with adhering meat and 
gristle. Never clogs. 10 Day*' Free Trial. 
No money In advance. 
Send Today for Free Book. 
F. W. Mann Co., Box 15 , Milford, Mass 
TIME TO BUY 
CREAM 
Separators 
now 
There never wag a better time to boy the best 6f 
Cream Separators than right now. 
The advantages derived from the use of the good 
Cream Separator are greater in the fall and winter than 
at any other time,—when the cows are old in lactation, 
the loss of butter-fat is otherwise greatest, and butter 
prices are highest. . 
Likewise are the advantages of the snperior DE LAVAL 
separator greatest over imitating separators when the 
milk is hard to separate and the weather cold and variable. 
In every case a DE LAVAL separator, of suitable size, 
will surely at least save its cost between now and July 1st 
next, and go on returning 100 per year on the invest* 
ment for twenty years to come. . v 
The agricultural and particularly the dairying oatlook 
was never brighter and more promising. 
WHY NOT BUY NOW? 
Send for Catalogue of 1910 Latest Improved Machines. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
4 Igii.ivro St*. 
U0*« WirrtM 
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SEND YOUR 
ADDRESS TO US 
on a postcard and get our "Free Trial 
Proposition.” Don’t buy until you see 
our definite guarantee for greater 
capacity than any other horse power 
hay press. Yourunno risk. Write fornew 
catalog F . Please mention this paper. 
J. A. SPENCER, DWIGHT, ILL. 
SPENCER 
HAY PRESS 
A n n fl FERRETS For Sale. Write for price list and circular; 
i UUU it’s free, DkKLEINE BROS., Box 42, Jamestown,Mich. 
CEDDCTC-Here I am again, dealing in ruff 
rcnncid Oil rats: THE FERRET. Enclose 
stamp for prices. CALVIN JEWELL, Spencer, O. 
URE-BRED TURKEYS & POULTRY-Select Stock. Price 
Right. Oil-. Free. Fairview Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
P 
T OULOUSE, AFRICAN AND BUFF GEESE. Bronze, Buff. 
Narragansett. and White Holland Turkeys. R. I. Red 
Chickens. Willis Wilson, 163 So. 7th St., Zanesville, O. 
AMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS— Bred 
from our noted Brize Winning Birds. Address 
ELKTON STOCK FARM, Forest Depot, Va. 
WHITE-HOLLAND TURKEYS 
HARRIETTE FLEETHAM, Depeyster, N. Y. 
GIANT STRAIN BRONZE TURKEYS 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND BEDS and SHROP- 
SH1KE SHEEP. Bargain prices to reduce 
stock. H. J. VAN DYKE, Route 6, Gettysburg, Ba. 
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, AsHbuinliam, Mass. 
VAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS-0 ur past season's breeding 
stock and March and April hatched cockerels. 
Edw. Van Alstyne & SON, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
L 
IGHT BRAHMAS, BARRED AND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 
fine Trios for sale. Address 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
A number of choice April hatched ooekereisfor sale. 
Write for prices to WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
S O IA/ I.EGHOllNS of exceptional vigor and 
■ U i Vi i quality. 250 acres devoted to the best 
in Leghorns. Send for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
R, C. Rhode Island Reds, 
dottes, Indian Run¬ 
ner Ducks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding, show or export. Sinclair 
Smith. 602 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
“NEW MODERN” ENSILAGE CARRIER 1 
A very desirable outfit for handling feed. Capacity 25 
bushels. Special sizes made to order. Box made of galvan¬ 
ized iron, bound at the corners with 1 ]/i in. angle iron, mak¬ 
ing it strong and durable. 
Drop, sliding end board which slides under the box when 
released, Double Trolleys. 
All parts extra heavy material and carrier will last a lifetime. 
Saves Time, Money and Labor. 
“ New Modern ” Swing Stanchions 
are having the call. 
Write for circulars. 
GLOR BROS. & WILLIS MFG. CO., 
19 Main Street, Attica, N. Y. 
Everything for the Barn 
SELF ADJUSTING OTAUrU 
STEEL LATCH lANV^ll 
Open or Shut—It’s Always Locked 
Stays where you put it—and easily “put” without taking off your 
gloves or mittens. Only smooth, polished hardwood touches the ani¬ 
mal—no metal.no splinters—yet the steel latch, the blind bolts and 
the solid construction make it the STRONGEST, SAFEST and MOST 
DURABLE Stanchion at any price. The most convenient fastening for 
you —the most comfortable for your cows. Keeps your stable clean, 
saves feed, saves your time and means SOLID SATISFACTION all 
year round —summer and winter. Money back if you say so. 
WRITE TODAY for catalog and factory price to you. 
WILDER STRONG IMPLEMENT CO. 
80x33, Monroe Mich. 
