848 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & (Jo., 
2(12 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. ¥., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
Farmers are receiving a series of let¬ 
ters signed by one Julian Hawthorne, 
of New York, soliciting sales of stock 
in a concern called the Temagami- 
Cobalt Mines, Limited. If you buy 
quick you can get the stock for 50 
cents per share, and if you pay all cash 
you can get three per cent off this. Pos¬ 
sibly you could do better on a dicker 
for large blocks. Do we advise you to 
go into it? Well, no. Mr. Hawthorne 
says he is best known in literature. One 
farmer who sends his printed matter 
thinks he had better continue in “litera¬ 
ture.” We do not know how the advice 
will suit Mr. Hawthorne, but our stand¬ 
ing advice is to leave mining stock 
about which you know nothing alone, no 
matter what the reputation of the men 
who promote it may be. Last year a 
minister in Brooklyn helped promote a 
great big fraud, and many of his parish¬ 
ioners lost their money. This Cobalt 
company was organized about three 
months ago for $3,000,000. Of this $2,- 
000,000 of the stock was issued to the 
men interested, and you can buy some of 
the remaining million. They decline to 
furnish a financial statement, and for all 
we can discover to the contrary, you 
may as well subscribe to a mining stock 
in the moon. 
What is your opinion of the Home Apron 
& Dress Co., Los Angeles, Cal.? 
I have a friend who would like to earn 
money at home, but could not afford a loss. 
I’loase advise. c. N. s. 
New York. 
Please advise me of the responsibility of 
the apron maker, Mine. Richards, Detroit, 
Mich. The letter inclosed came to me 
without my knowing anything about the 
party, although I am a dressmaker by 
trade. M. D. 
Connecticut. 
Both the above are of the same type. 
To our mind the “work at home” fakers 
are the meanest and most contemptible 
petty grafters we know' anything about. 
They get only small sums of money to 
be sure; but they deliberately set out 
to swindle the weak, the sick, the needy, 
and often make their appeals directly 
to the crippled. Of course they do not 
want any aprons made and returned to 
them. They w'ant to get a remittance 
from you, and they know it will come 
easier if they promise some easy work 
at home for good pay. They all want 
the remittance first, and you are to get 
the pay afterwards. The pretense is that 
they must have some guarantee of your 
good faith, but how about your guar¬ 
antee of their good faith? Sometimes 
they send some little supplies or mate¬ 
rial as a sort of bait; but when they do 
so they usually want you next to send a 
still larger remittance for something 
else. Often you never hear from the 
first remittance, but rarely, if ever, from 
the second. We have never known any¬ 
one to get a cent for the “work at 
home.” This Detroit concern is modest; 
only 25 cents is required on the start, 
while the California people want one 
dollar. Never expect any satisfactory 
results from a correspondence with the 
“work at home” fakers. 
Recently a man claiming to bo an agent 
tried to induce my wife to take 96 bars 
of soap on the inducement that she would 
also get a 56-piece set of dishes, the price 
of all to be $4, to be delivered in 10 days, 
lie wanted her .to pay part down. On my 
advice she concluded to keep her money 
until the goods were delivered. Several in 
the neighborhood paid from $2 to $3 and 
.$4, and we have not seen him since. Can 
you do anything to help those who paid 
their money? Not one reader of The R. 
N.-Y. here gave him any money. I inclose 
the receipt. t. h. 
Michigan. 
The receipt is headed by The Wil¬ 
liams Soap Co., Chicago, St. Louis, 
Gladsbery, and acknowledges receipt of 
$4, and agrees to give a premium of a 
56-piece dinner set with 96 bars of soap. 
It is stated that delivery is to be made 
September 16, but the agent did not sign 
his name and no street number is given 
for the company. It is evidently a 
swindle, and we gladly express the word 
of caution requested by our Michigan 
friend, who acted so wisely in the mat¬ 
ter himself. 
Can you tell us anything about the South 
Mountain Oil & Development Co., Gettys¬ 
burg, Pa.? Two years ago the people here 
took stock in the company, and we cannot 
get anything definite from the officers. 
Pennsylvania. a. h. k. 
This is a Delaware corporation with 
headquarters at Bridgeport, Conn. It is 
promoted by a Fred Lewis, whose wife 
is secretary and treasurer. They secured 
an option on some land, and started to 
dig an oil well, but the contractor dis¬ 
continued work at 200 feet. It is said 
he was not paid for his work. The con¬ 
cern is not known to have any available 
assets, get no local credit, and it was 
probably organized for the purpose of 
disposing of stock and for no other 
purpose. 
I l’eceived to-day a post office money or¬ 
der for $8.50, from ,J. A. Adams, of New 
York. I wish to thank you for your part 
in this matter. I don’t believe I ever would 
have got it but for your disinterested kind¬ 
ness. Y’ou will hear from me again. 
New York. c. b. l. 
This remittance was for a shipment 
of eggs made in the early part of March, 
some eight months ago, and the shipper 
could get no reply to letters. It took a 
second letter from us to get the money, 
but the first was promptly answered. It 
does one more good to bring such fel¬ 
lows to time than to eat. 
I sent my broker $100 as a margin, with 
orders to buy $150 worth of stock, he to 
bold the stock as security. Later he sells 
the stock without my consent for $10, the 
market price then. Shall I have to make 
good to the broker the $40 lost? 
New York. w. v. D. 
If the $100 was sent simply with an 
order to purchase $150 worth of stock, 
and without any further conditions, the 
broker should not sell without an 
authorization. If he sold without an 
authorization and without having noti¬ 
fied his customer, the customer would 
not only not be responsible for the $40 
difference, but the broker would be re¬ 
sponsible to the customer for the highest 
market price of the stock between the 
date of the sale and the commencement 
of an action by the customer. While this 
is the legal aspect of the case, our ear¬ 
nest advice to our people is to keep out 
of stock speculation, which is a polite 
term for gambling. 
A friend in the State of Texas sends 
us a circular from the Iron Producing 
Lands Co., Minneapolis, Minn., and 
asks if we would recommend stock in 
the company as a good investment. We 
could do nothing of the kind. We in¬ 
variably advise farmers to leave such 
stocks alone. 
In a recent issue you asked why nursery 
agents got up such improbable stories in 
order to sell trees. When I was a very 
young man I was a nursery agent. I was 
conscientious enough to try to get my cus¬ 
tomers the best trees' of the best varieties, 
and to get them delivered in good condition 
and true to name. I so gained the con¬ 
fidence of the farmers that I was enabled to 
build up a trade which I thought I could 
hold indefinitely. 1 knew every farmer for 
miles around my delivery points, and was 
always glad to meet them, and they seemed 
glad (o see me. But. one Spring a number 
of canvassers from Troy, Ohio, got in a 
part of my territory and sold a lot of 
stock. They could not sell to many of my 
best customers, but to some they made 
sales, much to my surprise and mortification. 
I reproached one of them for not waiting 
for me; his answer was that he wanted 
some fine plums, and I had always advised 
him not to buy unless he was willing to 
fight curculio, and that these Troy men 
had plum trees that were curculio proof. 
Indiana. a. a. m. 
This incident explains the motive no 
doubt for the big stories told by many 
a tree agent. The extravagant stories 
sell trees where an honest statement of 
the facts would lose an order. It is 
just like the faker who writes you that 
you have won a prize in a contest you 
never heard of, and all you need do is 
to send $1.37 for packing, etc., and a 
solid gold watch will be mailed you. 
If you get anything, it will be a tfn 
clock that cost about 40 cents each 
wholesale. If he told you the truth 
that he had a cheap watch to sell you 
at $1.37 you would not buy; so he 
works up a fake story about a prize, 
and thousands bite. We are simply 
trying to put you wise to these fake 
schemes. 
Can you tell us wbat to do in the fol¬ 
lowing case: An agent of M. M. Fenner 
Co., Fredonia. N. Y., proprietors of family 
remedies, called at farmhouses here, and 
after praising the remedies, asked permis¬ 
sion to ldave some bottles of the remedies 
with the understanding that a certain share 
might be used as trial if occasion offered, 
and promised to call again and take away 
the goods or collect for them if it was 
decided to keep them after trial. The agent 
has not reappeared, hut instead a letter 
came from the company saying that their 
agent has been withdrawn and asking a 
remittance for the remedies left with us. 
Failing to get reply to their first letter, 
they now write a second, threatening to 
place the bill for collection. In case the 
bottles have not been opened, can they col¬ 
lect? It will be of great interest to a num¬ 
ber of your readers here, who have great 
confidence in The R. N.-Y., if you will tell 
us about this. w. R. p. 
New York 
No; the company cannot collect under 
the circumstances, not even if some of 
the bottles were used as the agent di¬ 
rected. We do not think they will try 
to collect by suit, but will keep up the 
bluff as long as they see any chance of 
getting the money. Write them briefly 
to come and get the goods or give direc¬ 
tions for shipping them, and then pay 
no more attention to them. j. j. d. 
HOW LONG TO KEEP HENS. 
The average hen produces best in her 
second year, after which she declines 
more or less rapidly. The more coming- 
two-year-olds that are kept in propor¬ 
tion to the others then the better will 
be the average of production. It is 
obviously best then to plan to keep the 
birds through their second producing 
season, and to get rid of them as soon 
thereafter as is possible, in order to 
make way for younger stock. 
How to Know the Age of Fowls.—. 
When fowls of different ages run to¬ 
gether it is often difficult to tell the age 
of those more than a year old, and the 
consequence is that many old unprofit¬ 
able hens are kept years after their 
alloted time, while many are killed pre¬ 
maturely. It is necessary then, for best 
results, to employ some means whereby 
the exact age of fowls can be told. The 
best method of determining the age of 
fowls is by use of leg bands. They are 
simple, cheap and certain. Any one of 
many many systems of marking can be 
used with success. An excellent system 
is by the use of letters and figures, the 
letters standing for the year, and the 
figures for the individual birds, dims 
Al, A2, A3, etc., may stand for the 
1908- hatched chicks, Bl, B2, B3, etc., for 
1909- hatched chicks and so on. Even in 
small flocks this system would pay, as 
there is no guesswork connected with 
it, and all old hens can be weeded out 
instead of being left to eat the profits 
from the younger ones. 
The Winter Quarters. —Now is the 
time to see that the quarters for the 
Winter are warm, dry and well venti¬ 
lated. Roup and other diseases prevail 
in damp houses. Dampness and poor 
ventilation go hand in hand, and in or¬ 
der to remedy the former we must cor¬ 
rect the latter. The method of secur¬ 
ing good ventilation depends on the 
house to a large extent. It is important 
in all cases, however, to have at least 
two separate openings so that a circula¬ 
tion of air is set up. Often a cold house 
can be made very comfortable by nailing 
roofing paper on the outside, by double 
boarding, or even by nailing boards 
loosely over the framework on the in¬ 
side and stuffing the space with straw. 
Winter Feeding. —Much of the secret 
of success in poultry depends on proper 
feeding. Laying hens need a variety of 
food, including grains, meat, vegetables, 
mineral matter, which is included in 
shells, and grit. Grains should be fed in 
variety. If the fowls are fed three times 
per day, the morning and evening feed¬ 
ings should be of whole grain, while the 
noon feeding should be a mash, pre¬ 
ferably wet. If only two feedings are 
given the whole grain should be fed at 
night and the mash in the morning. The 
whole grain takes longer for digestion 
and develops more heat than the soft 
mash, and on this account is preferable 
for the evening feeding, for the fowls 
need the extra heat to withstand the 
cold of the night. Many different ra¬ 
tions are good so long as they- are 
palatable and satisfy the requirements 
before mentioned. An excellent ration 
follows: Wheat, 10 parts; corn, 10 
parts, oats, five parts whole grain. For 
the wet mash wheat bran, four parts; 
ground buckwheat, four parts; wheat 
middlings, two parts; meat scraps, two 
parts; or green cut bone, four parts. 
Skim-milk, oyster shell, grit, turnips, 
cabbage, mangels, etc., to be kept be¬ 
fore the fowls at all times. c. F. b. 
JKft-SHEL SOLUBLE GRIT 
Bright, sharp, shining. Increase digestion. 
Makes bone and egg-shell. Ask dealer or 
send $1.00 for two 100 lb. bags f.o.b. cars. 
Order today. Booklet “‘Den Dyspepsia” 
and sample of MAKA-81IEI. FREE on request. 
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Box J, New Brunswick, N. J. 
Keystone Poultry Foods. 
Nourishing, clean; fowls and chicks 
thrive on them. We carry a big line 
of poultry and pigeon supplies Be^t 
quality; lowest prices. Send today 
for Booklet and FREE Souvenir. 
TAYLOR BROS., 
Dept. M, Camden, N. J. 
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