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the: rural, new-yorkrr 
October 24, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Wo have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
262 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. V., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
We must again remind readers that 
we cannot give attention to anonymous 
inquirers. If you desire attention to your 
inquiries, please sign name and address 
plainly. 
B. Presby & Co., St. Paul, Minn., pro¬ 
duce commission merchants, and apple 
buyers, make a record that farmers will 
do well to study. In March, 1905, a 
southern farmer shipped them four 
cases of berries to sell on commission. 
The berries were received and sold, 
and the returns, according to B. 
Presby & Co., sent to some one else 
by mistake, but the real shipper never 
got his return or his money, and B. 
Presby & Co. refused to do anything 
about it. The shipper was a poor 
man in the State of Louisiana, and 
not able to go to law in Minnesota 
for the price of a few crates of berries, 
so lost it. 
In the hall of 1907, this same firm 
sent an agent into Wayne County, New 
York, to buy apples to be shipped to 
St. Paul. He bought a lot from Mr. 
Burton B. Ford of Red Creek, N. Y., 
and paid down $100. When the apples 
were accepted and loaded on cars the 
agent wanted Mr. Ford to ship them 
on to St. Paul with bill of lading and 
sight draft. This Mr. Ford refused to 
do, and he was obliged to care for the 
apples, and sell them later at a loss. 
A neighbor who sold to the same agent 
finally consented, after the apples were 
loaded on cars to send them on with 
bill of lading and draft. This neighbor 
had trouble in getting his money, and 
it is said that he was obliged to employ 
an attorney to get it, and that the apples 
netted him finally only about one-half 
of the returns he expected from the 
original sale. This is simply the history 
of the transactions as we find them. It 
is submitted for the benefit of those 
produce growers who think it quite as 
important to get their money for pro¬ 
duce after it is harvested as to produce 
a good crop before the harvest. 
Last Spring I sent the Jackson Co. Nur 
series. Bosky Dell, Ill., an order for 11 00< 
strawberry plants, and other things amount 
ing to $32. All I ever received was 40< 
strawberry plants. These came too late ir 
the season to set, and they were not wortl 
setting anyway. I am unable to get am 
satisfaction out of them. They are alway: 
making promises to do right, but never d< 
it- I had my ground all ready and wait 
ing from day to day for the plants unti 
it got too late, and I lost my whole season 
As I grow strawberries for a living the los; 
to me was considerable. I sent to then 
two years ago for raspberries and asparagus 
They agreed to make good .$10 on that orde) 
by replacing the trees with the preseni 
order, but have not sent this nor the nev 
order. I can get no settlement out of them 
Can you do anything with them? j. m. 
Illinois. 
It is rather dov.btful if we can do 
anything for this grower. He is a new 
subscriber to The R. N.-Y. If he had 
been reading the paper for the last two 
or three years he would have known 
better than to send orders or money to 
this concern. Complaints of this kind 
have come frequently from growers 
and these complaints have been pub¬ 
lished in these columns. The only 
satisfaction we have ever succeeded in 
getting was the case reported recently 
where, after long controversy, they re¬ 
turned $1.25 to a customer, who never 
got the goods. Even this was not«done 
until after we had published the facts. 
If they return this man his remittance 
we will gladly give them credit for it. 
Other growers must govern themselves 
by the facts. 
In enclosing my check for the renewal of 
my subscription to The It. N.-Y. I wish to 
thank you for all your courtesies during 
the previous year. I originally took the 
paper on one of your 10 weeks’ subscrip¬ 
tions. and do not hesitate to say that it 
has been worth, in every way, a great deal 
to me. You have in several cases in the 
past given advice that has been of great 
value in running my farm, and you have 
also been the means of securing a return 
to me of money from a firm that had tried 
to defraud me and others througli unfair 
means. Please accept my best wishes for 
your success. R. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The above letter is printed because 
it acknowledges the kind of service that 
we try to render each and every sub¬ 
scriber. We do not assume to be wiser 
than the men who are running the 
farms, nor to know more about the run¬ 
ning of a particular farm than they do; 
but our business is to get information 
on these subjects and to supply it to sub¬ 
scribers. We spare no labor and no ex¬ 
pense to get the information, and to 
make it reliable. Sometimes it costs us 
more in time and money to discover and 
reject the error than to present the 
truth. Yet the reader can know nothing 
about the matter discarded. You will 
notice that this subscriber came to the 
Rural family as a 10-weeks’ visitor, and 
remains a permanent member of the 
household. That is the experience of 
thousands of others. It will probably 
be the experience of some of your 
friends, provided you induce them to 
send their dime for a 10-weeks’ visit. 
_ J- J- D. 
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Enlarged or inflamed liver in chickens 
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debility due to disease. First, find out 
the cause and rectify it. Feed only 
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mash and not much corn. Scatter the 
grain so that the chickens will have to 
exercise for it. Feed some green food. 
These measures will prevent the disease 
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Could you give me a remedy for' ailing 
young chicks? I am losing some every 
week; they get full of phlegm in the neck, 
and their beads swell, showing matter in 
the eyes. p. F. 
Amityville, L. I. 
Your chickens are suffering from 
either roup or colds, due to damp, cold 
or filthy quarters, or improper ventila¬ 
tion. See that these conditions are right 
in the first place. Mix cayenne pepper 
in the feed, or give the chicks chopped 
onions. Make a solution of one tea¬ 
spoonful of potassium permanganate 
to one pint of water, and dip the heads 
of the affected birds in it, holding them 
there as long as they will stand it. If 
canker is present, cut this out with a 
knife or sharp stick, paint with iodine 
and then dip into the solution. 
Incubators and Moisture. 
I take a special interest in the article on 
page 726, entitled “Experience with an In¬ 
cubator.” I have “non-moisture’ incuba¬ 
tors, but could easily introduce means for 
moisture. I understand that during first 
period of hatching evaporation should take 
place, and that later on it should he sub¬ 
dued by supplying the moisture within egg 
chamber. I also understand in a general 
way that size of air cell in egg is indicative 
of the proper supply of moisture, and de¬ 
sire to be accurately informed as to these 
matters, about what day and by what means 
to supply moisture, etc. One incubator I 
have has four inches between bottom Si egg 
tray inside and bottom of incubator, the 
other 1% inches. To what extent would a 
hygrometer be of use to assist in regulation 
of moisture supply? r. 
Ulster, Pa. 
There is some dispute as to which 
method of hatching chicks is best, with 
or without moisture. Each method has 
its advocates. The most important time 
to have moisture present is during the 
hatching period, so that the chicks will 
not stick in the shells. However, moist¬ 
ure may be introduced at any time, from 
the first day; a small pan filled with 
sand and kept moist, or a moist sponge, 
may be -placed in the bottom of the in¬ 
cubator. The. sand prevents the chicks 
from getting into the water. 
S. C. 
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