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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
February 15, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Our good friends will be glad to know 
that January, 1908, was the most suc¬ 
cessful January in the whole history of 
the paper. The subscriptions received 
for the month were nearly 2,000 more 
than for the same month last year, and 
the advertising showed an increase of 19 
per cent for the month over January of 
last year. The paper is now being print¬ 
ed on our new perfecting rotary press, 
which was designed especially for this 
paper. It is now turning out 100,000 
copies weekly, and is capable of printing 
200,000 or more. 
The Cook Book received, and the ladies 
think it worth more than the price of sub¬ 
scription. G. d. c. 
Connecticut 
Inclosed find $2, for which please renew 
my subscription for two years We take 
and read a dozen papers and periodicals, 
most of them first-class, but The Rural 
New-Yorker gives me more courage than 
all the rest put together. It advocates the 
square deal. It is square. j. b. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
It does not seem to make much 
difference in what part of the 
country a farmer lives, he appre¬ 
ciates a square deal and stands by the 
paper that advocates it. We run in that 
note about the Cook Book to suggest to 
our good women friends to show it to 
their neighbors, and when they stay to 
dinner tell them that the pudding was 
made from the Rural Cook Book. This 
kind of help from our old friends is 
bringing us many new names, and it all 
helps make work for the new press. 
Can you give mo any information in re¬ 
gard to the enclosed clipping from a New 
England farm paper. Is it a reliable firm? 
Massachusetts. j. e. b. 
Here is the advertisement: 
LADIES to copy letters at home; spare 
time; good pay; cash weekly; reliable; 
send stamp. 
We have often referred to this class 
of advertisements as the most contemp¬ 
tible deceptions we know of, because 
they get money out of a class of people 
who are the least able to lose it. The 
one object of all of them is to sell you 
something on the pretence of employ¬ 
ment that you would not otherwise buy. 
Ask them to send the goods and take 
pay out of the first “cash weekly.” 
Kindly inform me as to the reliability 
of the Oaxaca Mining Co., as stated in the 
enclosed clipping. I take it Mr. J. Marston 
is one of the company just puffing their 
scheme up. a. d. c. 
New Y 7 ork. 
This man sent a reading notice clipped 
from a cheap farm paper signed by J. 
Marston. Of course the clipping was a 
paid advertisement disguised as a con¬ 
tribution from a disinterested reader. 
It is one of the meanest deceptions a 
publisher can impose on his subscribers. 
No one will have anything to regret 
because he avoids both the paper and 
the advertiser who resort to tricks of 
this kind. 
Irving W. Street, of Dtica, N. Y., is of¬ 
fering some shares on real estate in Long 
Island City, at $100 a share, under the 
name of the “Skillman Ave. Co.” lie 
claims that this tract of land they have 
got hold of is going to double in value in 
two years. Any information that you can 
give me will be thankfully received. 
New York. j. s. d. 
'One man’s opinion may be worth just 
as much as that of another in estimating 
the future value of land, but the man 
who is selling any particular piece of 
land does not believe himself in his 
heart that it will double in value in two 
years. If he did, he would not sell it. 
We do not think that any new lots or 
old ones either on Long Island will 
double in value in the next two years. 
But suppose the land held by any com¬ 
pany did actually double in value, what 
then ? The chances are that the stock 
represents ten times the price actually 
paid for the land originally. It is prob¬ 
ably mortgaged besides. Then there 
are* the contracts for laying out streets, 
putting in sewers and other numerous 
improvements to be let to some con¬ 
tracting firm at big prices, the promoters 
being the silent partners of the improve¬ 
ment companies. Besides the promoters’ 
salaries, commissions on sales, etc., there 
are hundreds of similar schemes for 
which your money is needed, and to 
which it will be devoted. In many of 
these Long Island schemes the pro¬ 
moters stayed by the scheme as long as 
there was any ready money to be made 
out of it, and then left the half-finished 
improvements for other sections where 
the same thing could be repeated. We 
are not now talking about the particular 
company referred to above. We have 
not looked it up yet, and know nothing 
about it particularly as yet, but this ap¬ 
plies to such schemes generally. You 
can buy holdings from some of those 
who have gone into these things for 50 
cents on the dollar; but if you take our 
advice you will avoid them as you 
would a plague. 
We have many inquiries about the 
responsibility and reliability of corre¬ 
spondence schools. It is difficult to be 
definite, because some of them have de¬ 
veloped into quite large institutions and 
give some helpful directions to study, 
while others are pure fakes. They prob¬ 
ably all promise a little more than they 
can deliver. You cannot hope to do as 
well by correspondence as in a school 
where you are directly under the eye of 
the teacher, yet when one is situated so 
that he cannot attend a school, but has 
some time that he can devote to study, 
a carefully conducted correspondence 
school may and should be of service in 
directing the study. 
Will you tell a self-dependent woman 
whether in your judgment the Security 
Building Co., of Rochester, N. Y., is safe? 
If it is a building and loan association of 
this kind is a godsend to indigent women 
who desire to own homes. If it is not a 
reliable firm please let us know it. 
District of Columbia. h. m. s. 
This is not a building and loan asso¬ 
ciation. It is simply a corporation 
authorized to buy and sell and own 
real estate, just as any individual 
may do. The building and loan 
associations are under State supervision. 
This and similar companies are not. This 
company simply enters into a contract 
with you by which you pay in a given 
sum of money everv month, and when 
your turn comes they buy a home for 
you, if you want it. At the present time 
we believe there are about 400 on the list 
and new applicants would have to wait 
until these were provided for. As far 
as we have been able to learn the busi¬ 
ness is managed so far conservativelyj 
and if honest and conservative manage¬ 
ment is maintained there is no reason 
why it should not serve local customers, 
but we do not see how it could serve 
people at a distance from Rochester 
economically. We have had many in¬ 
quiries about it, but we fail to find suf¬ 
ficient merit to the plan to recommend 
it generally. A local mutual building 
and loan association is quite another 
thing. 
To all of the various inquiries about 
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com¬ 
pany of Canada or other places, we 
would say that in our judgment this 
does not afford an attractive means of 
investment for farmers, or anybody else 
for that matter. 
Will you toll me if the Lake Erie Seed 
Co. is a reputable firm? A neighbor has 
taken the agency for their seeds and wants 
to sell to me, but their circular reads like 
our old friend Spaulding, and I told him 
that I would ask you. e. a. c. 
New York. 
Your suspicions are fully justified. 
This is the relic of the old American 
Farm Company with Spaulding at the 
steerage wheel. We do not know where 
this concern gets its seeds. We know 
that the American Farm Company used 
to buy them in the grain elevators, and 
sell them to farmers as a special new 
variety. Like Dawley, they sued The 
R. N.-Y. for over $100,000, but like him 
never brought the suit to trial. We 
would like our readers to get the benefit 
of what the suit cost us. The way to 
get it is to save it as this inquirer did. 
J- J- «• 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y T . and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
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A man who has devoted 26 years to 
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It tells all that he learned by hun¬ 
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PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO. 
335 Howard St. Melrose, Mass. 
W right’s White Wyandottes-Prize winners, 
(Boston's). Eggs $4.00 per 100. Baby chicks 
$10 per 100. Grandview Farm, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
BLACK ORPINGTONS, 
WHITE LEGHORNS. 
GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. 
ENTERPRISE POULTRY YARDS 
No. 30, Ridgefield, Conn. 
DUFF, Wh. Leghorns, Eggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30 ; S. C. R. I. 
D Red Eggs 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30: Mottled Ancona Eggs,$1.00 
per 15, $1.75 per 30; cat. tree. JOHN A. KOTH, (Juakertown,Pa. 
R0NNIF R R A F For Sale-Lot of May 
2 Jr... 0,L5v B.Ji. hatched Single Comb 
POULTRY FARM. White Leghorn pullets 
ruubiiii ■ Mil in, and cockerels at $1.00 
rJPW Rnnnp P N Y each. Also Madison Sq, 
lien nUWIClie, n, I. ribbon winners in Single 
and Ruse Comb White Leghorns, Ban-ed and White 
Rocks, White Wyandottes, American breed Pekin 
ducks and pure breed Pekin ducks from Japan. 
Write your wants. 
Uammotli Bronze Toms, $4 and $5. Indian 
m Runner Ducks, trio $3: pair $2.25; drakes, 
SI.50. W. T. EASTON, Rt. 5, Delaware, O. 
Van Alstyne’s R. 1. REDS-A few cocks and 
~ cockerels from laying strain to dispose of at $2 to 
$5. Edw. Van Alstyne & Son, Ivinderhook, N. Y. 
Crt Fine Brown Leghorn Ckls. at hz price. 
Collie Pups: females cheap. Address 
NELSON BROS., Box E, Grove City, Pa. 
LARGE TOULOUSE GEESE, 
W. Wyandotte Cockerels, $1.50, $2 and $3. Eggs 15, 
$1; Pearl Guineas, 75c. E. Schieber, Bucyrus, Ohio 
onn PUniPF Bar and Buff 1 ’. ROCKS; 
<3UU UnUlML also White and Partridge Wyan¬ 
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“THE BREED THAT LAYS IS THE BREED THAT PAYS.” 
Pure Bred Single Comb White Leghorns. Best 
layers. Eggs for Hatching and Stock for sale. 
Write us before placing your order elsewhere. 
White Leghorn Poultry Yards Co., Route 14, Waterville, N. Y* 
F,E £S£ ss HOMER PIGEONSik 
Consult your interest before purchasing breeding 
stock by writing Wm. O. Smith for prices and other 
particulars. WM. O. SMITH, Germantown, N. Y. 
BUSINESS BARRED 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
The breed that lays. Eggs for Hatching. 
(5 for $1.75 
Breeding stock $3.50 per head 
FANCIERS STOCK FARMS, 
P. O. Box 171, Long' Branch, N. J. 
PRIZE ORPINGTONS 
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTONS, S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS, 
S. C. WHITE ORPINGTONS. 
From the test blood that could be had regardless of cost. 
Eggs from Yard No. 1, $5.00 per 15, $9.00 per 30. 
Eggs from Yard No. 2, 3.00 ‘‘ 5.00 “ 
Eggs from Yard No. 3, 3.00 “ 3.1.0 “ 
Special prices in large quantities. Have also a 
few choice birds for sale at reasonable prices. 
ORPINGTON FOCI,TRY YARDS, Mt. Washington, Haiti. Co., Md 
J. EDWIN GRIFFITH, Prop. 
CP PC CflP U A TP U IMP White Wyandottes, Barred Ply- 
LUUO run llnlUnilvU mouth Rocks, Buff Wyandottes, 
S. C. White and Brown Leghorns, White Plymouth Rocks Single 
Comb Rhode Island Reds,$l per setting. 75$ fertility guaran teed 
Day old chicks, 15c each. A. A. VAN WIE, Schenectady, N. Y 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
Matinglist, giving description of all pens.senton re¬ 
quest. SINCLAIR SMITH,6025th St.,Brooklyn,N.Y 
1 IftUT HR A MM A Q—Three firsts, two seconds 
Llun 1 OnAnmAO and best display, at Phila¬ 
delphia, 1907. Some fine birds for sale. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
HOLLYROOI) POULTRY FAltM-Eggs and 
11 Stock. Write for catalogue. Baby chicks and 
ducklings. F. T. Herbert, prop., Wyoming, Del. 
I IGHT BRAHMAS, prize stock. PEKIN 
^ DUCKS. O. Gordon, R.F.D. 1, Sprakers, N.Y. 
Pmil TRYMPN - Send for our new36-page illus- 
rUULini lYILli trated poultry catalogue. Abso¬ 
lutely free. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa 
Yearling' Barred Rock Hens, 
dotte Pullets and Cockerels. Priced for quick sale. 
Write H. J. VANDYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
THOROUGHBRED POCLTRY-Best 20 varie- 
1 ties. Good stock. Fresh eggs, 15, $1; 40, $2. 
Catalogue. Henry K. Mohr, Rt. 3, Quakertown, Pa. 
EMPIRE STATES. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
winners at N. Y. State Fair; Trios, $5.00. Eggs for 
hatching from heavy layers, $1.00 for 15, $5.00 for 
100. Catalog free. C. H. Zimmer, Weedsport, N.Y. 
BONNIE BRAE P e ki n Ducks, Madison Sq. blue 
rw-v>T. r-, r» »« ribbon winners, American 
POULTRY FARM breed; also pure breed Japan- 
.. „ l. ti m ese Ducks and their eggs for 
New Rochelle, N.Y. sale. Write your wants. 
RARV PUinifC and eggs after Feb.lSth. Order 
DAD I ufllu Ad 8 to 6 weeks ahead. Can ship 
1500 miles. R. I. Reds,Orpingtons,Minorcas, Rocks, 
Leghorns. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit,Toledo 
winners. CORNISH FARMS, Edwardsburg.Mich. 
Rhode Island Reds 
from best laying strain, $3 to $5. A few trios,$5,sold 
on approval only. O. S. THWAITE, Keyport.N.J. 
High Clnss Bronze Turkeys, Toulouse Geese, 
PekinDucks.W.Wy’d’s, S. C. Buff Orp’g’n chickens. 
Price reasonable. J.H. Orandell & Sons, Albion.Ind. 
Pure Bred Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
bred from the most noted winning strains; extra 
heavy boned, large frame and beautiful plumage; 
some good specimens for show birds. Address 
ELKTON STOCK FARM. Forest Depot,Va. 
WOODLANDS FARM. 
Record Laying' Strains of White Wyandottes, 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leg'horns - 835 Trap Nests. 
Bred for large, symmetrical size, vigorous consti¬ 
tution and prolific laying, combined with all the 
standard requirements. Address 
L. T. HALLOCK, Proprietor, Iona, New Jersey. 
HATCHER AGENTS WANTED 
in every township, to operate and sell the 
Humo Incubator; only perfect hatcher made. 
90 days free trial and 20 years guarantee. 
(latches every fertile egg; no experience need¬ 
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120 Egg Defiance Incubator $6 
Humo Incubator Works, Dept. A. B. t 131 ff. 24th St., N. Y. City. 
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CLIMAX INCUBATOR & BROODER CO. 
Box 210 _Castorland, N. Y. 
Catalogue. 
Hatch Chickens by 
Steam with the 
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Or WOODEN HEN 
Simple, perfect, self-regulating. 
Hatch every fertile egg. Lowest 
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«EO. U. STAHL, Quincy, 111. 
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If ordered together we 
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_ and pay freight. Hot 
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Wisconsin Incnbator Co., 
Box 15, Racine, Wis. 
REIDER’S FINE 
Poultry Catalogue 
for 1908 is larger and better than ever. 
Tells all about pure-bred poultry and 
Illustrates 60 varieties. Contains 10 
beautiful chromos of leading breeds— 
pretty enough to frame. Tells of best Louse 
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ties wide, 14 inches high. Triple 
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To points west of Rockies, incu¬ 
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$A- OO 
UP 
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Every Fertile Egg 
The Globe Incubator does this all the time— has 
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Our Globe Incubator Book with) 
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to make more money out of poultry. 
Sent for 4c In stamps. Write today. 
C. C. SHOEMAKER, Box 842, Freeport, III. 
Buys the Best 
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Incubator 
ever made 
Freight Prepaid East of Rockies 
Double cases all over;best 
copper tank; nursery; self¬ 
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Both ordered together, $11.00. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
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Belle City Incubator Co., Box 48, Racine, Wis. 
You Haven’t Got The 
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J. W. MILLER COMPANY. Box 97 FREEPORT. ILL 
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Bright, shining, sharp. Increases diges¬ 
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Booklet “Hen-Dyspepsia” and big sam¬ 
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Box J , New Brunswick, N. J. 
45 BREEDS BEST POULTRY 
Fine book illustrates and tells all about poultry, 
feeding-, care, diseases, our big- premium offer. 
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