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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
December 12, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co. 
202 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$17.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July I. 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. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
I clipped the portion of the Publisher’s 
Desk of November 12 that related to the 
Gardner Nursery Co., of Osage, Iowa, and 
sent it to that firm, stating that 1 had 
sent the $10 for their stock to be used as 
an advertising station for their plants, 
trees, etc., and told them $3 would be 
an enormous price for the stuff that I re¬ 
ceived, but was willing to allow that much. 
I received their check for $7 November 2'. 
One of your readers has had his hard- 
earned cash restored to him through your 
exposure of their methods. I think so 
much of your valuable paper, 1 am send¬ 
ing you one of those seven dollars to ex¬ 
tend my subscription which expires Feb¬ 
ruary, 1909, to February, 1910. We be¬ 
gan by sending for a ten-cent trial sub¬ 
scription. t. c. w. 
Delaware 
It is gratifying to know that the 
Gardner Nursery Company has made 
good in this case. We hope they will 
do the same in each and every case 
where demand is made on them. It is 
not our intention or wish to stir up any 
discontent with this company’s goods or 
methods where they have given satis¬ 
faction, but simply to get redrefs for 
those who suffered a loss. If stock re¬ 
ceived from them is satisfactory, well 
and good. If not, they invite you to 
make complaint and promise redress. If 
they do this in good faith it will be 
vastly to their credit, and if they then 
take a lesson from the past, and elimin¬ 
ate objectionable methods, and send out 
good stock, The R. N.-Y. will be glad 
to give them full credit. 
I notice in your issue of November 28 
reference to the American Farm Co., which 
was exposed about six years ago in your 
paper. They came to New Ilaven, Pa., and 
in January. 1902, sold stock in American 
Farm Co. for a branch warehouse at this 
place. They bought a site on P. R. R.. 
built foundation for a warehouse and made 
one payment on the site. The agreement 
with those buying stock was that as soon 
as foundation was complete they were to 
pay one-half of their subscriptions; then 
when the building was complete they were 
to pay the balance. It happened that just 
at the time the foundation was finished The 
R. N.-Y\ came out and exposed their scheme 
and the sheriff closed their warehouse at 
Linesville, Pa. Then they sent C. H. 
Spaulding here to collect and compel the 
farmers to pay for stock subscribed, which 
they refused to do. They employed a law¬ 
yer' who made Spaulding look like 80 cents, 
and the men who had subscribed for stock 
voted to give Spaulding two hours to get 
out of town. The man who was manager 
here for them levied on a car of feed and 
a car lot of lumber for wages, and they 
were sold to satisfy his claim. Now there 
is still a balance of $130 in the New 
Haven. Pa., National Bank, and about $300 
in the hands of the sheriff of Fayette Co. 
Is there not some way that Hie stockhold¬ 
ers who held stock in the company could 
get this money ? M. w. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
After all that has been said about the 
American Farm Company we remember 
nothing that illustrates their operations 
more clearly or more forcibly than the 
above letter. We are glad if the 
Rural’s exposure at the time saved 
these farmers loss. In some sections 
they cost the farmers as much as $15,- 
000 to $20,000, and some of the farm 
papers helped on the swindle by carry¬ 
ing their advertising after The R, 
N.-Y. had refused it, and exposed them, 
and had been sued for over $100,000 
alleged libel. The affairs of the com¬ 
pany were so complicated that we would 
not like to advise as to the disposition 
of the balance of the money. To over¬ 
come legal technicalities would prob¬ 
ably cost all it would come to. We 
would suggest that the lawyer referred 
to be requested to look into it. But 
like Spaulding, it will probably look like 
30 cents before the stockholders get 
hold of it. 
Here is a little information for peo¬ 
ple who are tempted by big prospects to 
invest their savings in mining stock of 
either this country or Mexico. Last year 
the stock of the Green Gold-Silver Com¬ 
pany was selling on the curb in Wall 
Street at par. The authorized capital 
stock wa's $50,000,000, and two semi¬ 
annual dividends of four per cent each 
were declared and paid. Last week in 
the suit of a broker to recover his com¬ 
mission for sales of the stock, it de¬ 
veloped that the only asset of the com¬ 
pany left is some office furniture and a 
bank balance of $1.48. It also develops 
that the dividends were paid, not out of 
the earnings of the company, which 
really never earned anything, but out of 
the money paid for the stock as a means 
of inducing more sales. It appears that 
nearly $5,000,000 was realized from the 
sale of stock. This money was used to 
pay salaries and the two dividends, and 
the balance is unaccounted for and no 
one is able to tell what became of it ex¬ 
cept tbe president and treasurer of tbe 
company, both of whom are in Mexico, 
and decline to come within the jurisdic¬ 
tion of New York State courts. No one 
could write more glowing prospects for 
profit in a company than was presented 
a year ago for this concern. When other 
tempting prospects are held out to you 
for great profits, just ask yourself 
what actual proof you have that it may 
not be another Green Gold-Silver Com¬ 
pany. 
Can you help me get justice from E. F. 
MeAvoy, Jr., a big breeder of Iloudans and 
Jersey cattle? On .Tune 2 I sent him 
$13.50 for a cock and two settings of eggs. 
It required repeated letters to finally get 
the cock on July 14. The eggs proved 
worthless, only one fertile egg in the lot. 
lie promised to allow me the remittance 
for them on fowls. I accepted this propo¬ 
sition, hut have been unable to get a 
tiling out of him. I saw his “ad.” in a 
poultry paper, but can get no satisfaction 
out of it either. J. u. davis. 
Chester, Neb . 
We have the correspondence in this 
transaction to justify the above com¬ 
plaint, and have made repeated demands 
on Mr. MeAvoy for an adjustment or 
explanation, but got no satisfaction. 
We have had other complaints which 
were adjusted, but if Mr. MeAvoy is 
doing business on this line generally his 
customers must be having a jolly time 
of it. 
I send you correspondence with the Na¬ 
tional Protective Legion, Waverly, N. Y. 
They cut down the dividends so that a 
policyholder can draw out only $113.58 at 
the end of five years after paying in $.131 
during that time. a subscriber. 
New York. 
This good friend asked our opinion 
some time ago, but he either went in 
against our advice, or it is possible that 
he had invested before making the in¬ 
quiry. The scheme as originally organ¬ 
ized was sure to fail ultimately. It was 
only a question of how long new mem¬ 
bers would continue to come in so as to 
cover the payments to old members. The 
company has been under observation 
from the authorities, and it is intimated 
that the Government is responsible for 
some of their change of methods. We 
could never recommend taking member¬ 
ship in any scheme in the hope of getting 
unusual profits out of it at the sure loss 
of other members who were to come in 
later. We have no sympathy for those 
who do so with a full understanding of 
the scheme; but those who are tempted 
into such schemes without understand¬ 
ing the nature of them are entitled to 
advice and caution. We are sorry for 
those among them who can ill afford 
the disappointment. 
I bar! only to mention The R. N.-Y. to 
a neighbor when he said: “Here is the* 
money, send it in my name.” Enclosed 
find money and name. We think another 
paper like The R. N.-Y. never went to press. 
You certainly do show up the rascals to 
the public if ever a paper did. Give it to 
the Gardner City Nurseries. They got us 
for $18 with a promise to replace, which 
thev never did. We lost one-half of the 
hill'. o. H. 
Indiana. 
We are glad to acknowledge this serv¬ 
ice from our friend of the Middle 
West, and no less pleased that he ap¬ 
proves the little we are able to do to 
warn him against the rogues. Others 
would find it quite as easy to interest 
their neighbors if they would make 
the effort by referring to those features 
of the paper that interest them. At 
this season of the year there would be 
little difficulty in securing many 10 
weeks’ orders for 10 cents. We get 
a great many, but tbe number could 
easily be increased. Won’t you for one 
try to send one or two this week? 
J- J- d. 
MARKING POULTRY. 
Referring to page 844, on “Marking 
Poultry,” after reading that article an 
idea came to me, and I submit it to you 
for publication if it will do any poultry 
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tification of their birds. Web on right 
side of right foot is web No. 1, web on 
left side of right foot is No. 2, the cut 
showing manner of marking. T. j. B. 
Guilford, Conn. 
BROODER HOUSE VS. OUTDOOR 
BROODER. 
I would like the opinion of those who 
have had experience of the desirability of 
a brooder house compared with outdoor 
brooders to raise 1,000 chickens. 
Ashfield, Mass. w. H. G. 
After you have said that the large 
brooder house is easier to care for than 
the small brooders, you have said all 
there is in its favor. They are not 
a success, as chicks must have new 
ground for their runs, and after the 
runs of the large house are foul, its 
usefulness is over. The little outside 
brooder is all right for a few chicks, but 
when you wish to raise a thousand you 
will have to care for 20 brooders, fill¬ 
ing lamps, cleaning, feeding, watering 
and fencing these little flocks. The ex¬ 
pense of this work is no small item, 
and while preferable to the big brood¬ 
ers, is a serious handicap in these days 
of close figuring and small profits. 
The .colony house brooder is the solu¬ 
tion of the brooder question. It is 
really the result of crossing the small 
outside brooder on the large brooder 
house. With it we have room to work 
inside, the same as in the large brooder 
house, in caring for the chicks. It will 
care for 200 chicks which is as large a 
flock as is profitable to let run together, 
and we have cut the labor down to one- 
fourth of what it was with the small 
outside brooders, for although the mak¬ 
ers claim their brooders will care for 
100 we have found 50 nearer right. The 
one great objection to the brooder 
house is overcome, as we can move these 
colony houses anywhere with a team, 
and have new ground as often as we 
wish to change the wire runs. So in 
the choice of these two evils choose 
neither, but write to Cornell University 
for plans for their colony house brood¬ 
er and you will have the best method 
of brooding there is. 
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