840 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 31, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Wo have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co,, 
202 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. 
S25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold ou commission. 
I would like your opinion of Pecos Val¬ 
ley Land and Irrigation Company, Barstow, 
Tex. It is so attractive a friend of mine 
thought seriously of making an investment 
in it, but I advised not to until I had your 
opinion of it. C. E. 
Connecticut. 
While satisfied in our own minds that 
this was not a desirable form of invest¬ 
ment for farmers, we' have taken some 
pains to get definite information about 
it. We have found nothing that would 
justify us in recommending it as an in¬ 
vestment. The president is originally 
from Providence, R. I., where it is al¬ 
leged he was involved in some business 
complications. The vice-president was 
formerly in the banking business, the 
bank having been obliged to close its 
doors in the latter part of 1907. The 
company has neglected to respond to a 
request for a statement of its affairs, 
and authorities of the place state that 
it would be difficult to estimate the 
actual value of same. There is cer¬ 
tainly no showing that would justify a 
northern farmer in sending money to 
Texas as an investment. 
Yours of the 12th received with check 
for $0 enclosed to refund me for money 
sent G. G. Shoemaker, York, Pa. Many 
thanks for the same, as I could not very 
well afford to lose the amount, n. e. w. 
New York. 
We received the above letter in reply 
to the check we sent to refund the sub¬ 
scriber because Mr. Shoemaker claimed 
lie could not send the goods and while 
promising to refund the money neg¬ 
lected to do so. We do not enjoy 
getting caught ourselves with such fel¬ 
lows, while we are warning others 
against men of his stamp, but we do not 
propose to let him embarrass and annoy 
anyone else if we can prevent it. Put 
Mr. Shoemaker on the list to leave 
alone. 
Toll me in the paper what you think of 
the company whose circular I enclose. 
There are two very poor people here who 
by rigid economy have saved up a little 
money, who have put their all into these 
worthless schemes, and will not listen to 
me. They will shortly get $500 or per¬ 
haps $600 more iu a fe\Y weeks, and the 
agent is keeping after them like a dog to 
a bone; and I think that maybe you can 
convince them of the folly of investing in 
any such wild-cat scheme. f. f. d. 
Delaware. 
The circular enclosed is from the 
Keystone Securities Company, Kansas 
City, Mo., soliciting subscriptions fc)f 
stock at five cents a share on what is 
called the Quartite Extension Gold 
Mines Company. These offers of $100 
worth of stock on paper for $5 are tempt¬ 
ing to many inexperienced people, while 
to people of experience the offer itself 
is enough to condemn it. There is not 
a word to show how much jstock is to 
be issued, nor how much, if any, prop¬ 
erty is behind the stock. On their 
own showing there is nothing but pros¬ 
pects that they have to sell, and for 
that matter they may as well sell the 
stock for one cent a share as for five 
cents a share. We do not know that 
we can say anything to prevent this 
good man’s worthy neighbors from put¬ 
ting their savings into things of this 
kind. There is a great temptation in 
the way such propositions are presented 
to inexperienced people. Every allure¬ 
ment is offered them, and this par¬ 
ticular scheme seems to be especially 
directed to people of small means. But 
if they would stop to think that the 
agent who is hounding them so per¬ 
sistently has to have his salary and ex¬ 
penses ; that the promoter has to have 
his salary and his office expenses, and 
that both live well and dress well, he 
will realize that but a small portion of 
his five cents will ever get to the actual 
work of developing the mine, even if 
the promoters were acting in good faith. 
Then the humbug of issuing a $100 
paper certificate for $5 in money is 
enough in itself to condemn any propo¬ 
sition. If the people take our advice 
they will have nothing to do with paper 
dollar stocks at five cents a share. 
Another scheme referred to by this 
correspondent is the Taxco Mining As¬ 
sociation, and is, if possible, more chi¬ 
merical than the other. The business 
has not even been incorporated yet, and 
still they ask the people to send them 
money on the empty promise that $25 
is to make a fortune for them. The 
$25 may just as well be burned as far 
as you are concerned. 
These people should be squelched. 
New York. w. s. w. 
The above comment reached us on 
the margin of a letter from the Gard¬ 
ner Nursery Company, Osage, la. It 
has reference to the so-called “ever- 
bearing strawberry, Blizzard King,” 
which was referred to on page 714 of 
September 12. Some time since we looked 
this matter up and found this humbug 
exposed in several issues of The R. 
N.-Y. as far back as 1869, yet the 
Gardner Nursery Company call it a 
new discovery; and want to sell the 
seeds for 25 plants at $1 a packet. It 
is pretty hard to squelch a fake that 
comes to life after nearly 40 years 
of sleep. 
Yours at hand containing report on .T. C. 
Marley, and I thank you for the informa¬ 
tion. I did not ship the birds to him so 
I am ahead $97. e. t. 
Michigan. 
This is a case where a poultryman 
took the wise precaution to inquire 
about a customer before he shipped the 
goods. Too many ship first and in¬ 
quire afterwards. In the above case 
we would have been entirely unable 
to do anything for the shipper if the 
goods had once been assigned. Is not 
information that helps a man save $97 
as valuable to him as the information 
that may assist him in the making of 
that amount? 
You arc the only man I know who has 
nerve enough to adopt subscribers, but you 
have the goods. j. a. s. 
Massachusetts. 
Adopting subscribers is a new way 
of putting it, but this good friend 
seems to appreciate the responsibility 
a paper assumes in taking its subscrib¬ 
ers into the family. When the con¬ 
scientious foster father takes a child 
into his family by adoption he should 
not be influenced by the amount of 
work and service the child is capable 
of rendering him, but rather the good 
he can render the child. If he wants 
to make money alone, he will figure 
on the amount of work the child is 
capable of doing, but if he wants real 
pleasure and satisfaction and true hap¬ 
piness he will think only of his service 
and duty to the child. We think this 
personal service was the thought our 
good friend had in mind when he wrote 
the above lines. And there is an 
analogy in this respect between the home 
that adopts a child and the paper that 
welcomes a new subscriber to its list. 
If the publisher thinks only of the 
value of the subscription to him, and 
puts him down as a dollar asset, dis¬ 
appointment is pretty sure to be the re¬ 
sult to both. If, however, he receives 
each succeeding member in the spirit 
of an enlarged opportunity for personal 
service and greater usefulness then the 
result must be one of mutual benefit. 
This friend credits us with having the 
goods. In the sense of goods there is one 
thing peculiar about the stock we carry. 
It can be distributed to hundreds of 
thousands as well as to a single person, 
and each of the thousands receives ac¬ 
tually greater benefit than if shared by 
only a few. So the table is ample in 
The R. N.-Y. household for all who 
wish to come, or for all you who are 
in wish to invite, and we will in this 
sense adopt your friends for 10 weeks 
or for life, and in either case render 
them the best service that is in us to 
give. j. j. d. 
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Making the 
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Last Longer 
Manufacturers of harvesting machinery figure the average life of binders, 
mowers, reapers, and so forth, at seven years. On this basis they figure 
their factory output. 
Some farmers let their machinery stand exposed to the weather and do 
not paint it. That is why the average is only seven years. 
Other farmers, by painting their machinery from time to time, make 
it last from ten to twelve years. 
If a farmer’s machinery costs him seven hundred dollars, and by using 
a few cents’ worth of Sherwin-Williams paints he can make it last ten 
years instead of seven years, he has saved three hundred dollars. 
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Centerville, Iowa, U. S. A. 
KRES0 DIP CURES 
MANGE & SCAB, 
CUTS, WOUNDS. SORES 
RINGWORM etc. 
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CATTLE HORSES HOGS 
SHEEP POULTRY DOGS 
For sale at all drug stores. 
PARKE, DAVIS & GO. 
Home Offices and Laboratories. 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 
Cf|D CA| farm ’ 2 0° acres, located on 
lUn wnLk trolley line forty minutes from 
Hartford, adapted to dairying, vegetables, fruits, 
and poultry. Stalls for 34 cows, running water iu 
each stall, cement floor. A silo filled with ninety 
tons of ensilage; hay, grain, etc.; four acres of 
alfalfa seeded last August, now looks very promis¬ 
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OTS OF EGGS 
» If you feed raw bone fresh cut. Its egg pro¬ 
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more fertile, chicks more vigorous, broilers 
earlier, fowls heavier, profits larger. 
Mann’s Model Bone Gutter 
Cuts all bone with adhering meat and gristle. 
Never clogs. 10 Days' Free Trial. No 
money in advance. Send today for free catalog. 
F. W. MANN CO., Box 15 MILFORD, MASS. 
Here We Have Them— 
150 S. C. W. LEGHORN YEARLING HENS 
at 60 cents each. 
H. PI8H, Pierrepont Manor, New York. 
50 FARM RAISED, 
AY. WYANDOTTE COCKERELS 
For Sale at $2.00 each. Keduction on 6 or more. 
PIKELAND POULTRY FARM, Phoenixville, Pa. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
200 good breeding and show cockerels at $2 each 
and up. Privilege of return, at my expense. If not 
satisfactory. Sinclair Smith. 602 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y 
S p WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. 
■ Ui Some very promising birds for sale at 
reasonable prices if ordered immediately. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktovvii, New York. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
May hatched cockerels and pullets from my best 
stock $1.00 each. Yearlings, heavy layers, $1.00 each. 
Catalog free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport, N. Y. 
W P. Rock Cockerels, high grade stock, early 
■ hatched, fine vigorous birds: also a few R. C. 
Brown Leghorn Cockerels, a. s. bbian, ml Kisco, Ji. Y. 
THE AMERICAN PET STOCK COMPANY— Breeders, 
I Buyers and Shippers of all Breeds of Thoroughbred Dogs and 
Standard Bred Poultry. Choice Stock always For Sale. 6,000 
Flarly Hatched Pullets and Cockerels. Collins, Ohio. 
A Few Yearling; Hens at 881 apiece, and April 
hatched Cockerels, 183 to #>5. 
Edward Van Alstyue & Son, Kinderbook, N. Y. 
N AKUAGANSETT TURKEYS of exhibition quality for sale. 
ELI.1S FOSTER, Ollvegreen, O. 
F OR SALE —Narragansett, White Holland, Buff and Bronze 
Turkeys, Toulouse Geese, Pekin Ducks, Buff and Black Orping¬ 
tons, £. I. Beds. Excelsior Poultry Farm, Chaudlersville, Ohio. 
noultrymen—Send 10c. for our 1909 Catalog, chock full of useful 
I information. Describes and illustrates S. r » varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without it. East Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa. 
