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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We 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 produee shipped and 
sold on commission. Repeated demands have been 
made for payment, which has been refused. We will 
accept the face of these notes with interest at any 
time on behalf of Mr. Wells, and this notice will be 
repeated in this position weekly until payment is 
made, and so long as Stevens & Simpson & Co. 
continue to solicit consignments of farmers. 
Last Spring I wanted a sprayer, and see¬ 
ing their advertisement in Farm Journal, 
I ordered one from D. B. Smith & Co., 
Utica, N. Y. The sprayer was to be all 
brass. The pump is mere tin. It was 
shipped in a box loo big for it, and it was 
dented when received. It would not hold 
water either at top or bottom. It had to 
be repaired. The company paid for the re¬ 
pairs, hut I also had to get a new plunger, 
and new washers for every valve. It is 
such a cheap thing if I had seen it before 
buying I would not have given a dollar for 
it. The advertisement said express paid, 
but I had to pay 70 cents expressage. It 
cost me over .$5 and I have learned a les¬ 
son not to buy anything more from paper 
advertisements. I hope you will not think 
me a crank, but it is hard enough to get 
a dollar nowadays, and one does not like 
to part with them for such things, r. 
Looking it up we find the advertise¬ 
ment did say “all brass,” and that the 
pump is made of tin. It is made to 
work with compressed air, but aside 
from the material used we doubt if a 
sprayer on this construction would 
prove satisfactory. Simpler and cheaper 
sprayers will do all you can expect of 
this one; and larger and still more ex¬ 
pensive ones would be required to work 
satisfactorily on compressed air prin¬ 
ciples. 
I would like to have a little information 
about the ftfehring cow milker. Has the 
machine any real merit? s. h. 
Maryland. 
We have never used one of these 
milkers. It is a machine to milk two 
cows at one operation, the attendant 
working the machine with foot power. 
We made inquiry of dairymen whose 
names were sent us by the maker, and 
the reports were satisfactory. If any 
of our people use them, we would like 
to hear from them. A satisfactory 
milking machine of moderate cost would 
be a blessing to many a dairyman. 
About four years ago we were persuaded 
by a friend to buy 300 shares in the Wal¬ 
den Oil and Gas Company of Elkhorn, Ken¬ 
tucky, at $1 per share. In fact a large 
amount of money from good men in this 
town was invested in this company. Since 
investing our money in this company we 
have heard nothing from them, although 
we have written them once or twice. Any¬ 
thing you can do for us will be thank¬ 
fully received. This money represents hard- 
earned savings. r. e. o. 
Massachusetts. 
We are sorry for frugal people who 
put their money into things of this 
kind, but absolutely nothing can be done 
for them after they have once parted 
with their money. These mining com¬ 
panies for the most part are organized 
for the purpose of selling the worthless 
stock or bonds to people of small sav¬ 
ings who have not had experience in 
making investments. They get lots of 
it from city people as well as from those 
in the country. The result is always the 
same—disappointment and loss. Of; 
course, this man did not hear from 
them after they got the money. 
The object was accomplished. There 
was nothing further to say. They 
wanted the money. They got it. None 
of it was ever to be returned or any 
revenue from it possible. Why write 
to the victims? We or no one else can 
do anything for those who put their 
money into these schemes. We hope 
simply to save others from similar 
losses. 
Can you tell me anything of the Na¬ 
tional Publishing Company, also known as 
the Rogers Silver Co. of New York? My 
little girl got their letter saying her an¬ 
swer to a puzzle was correct. Sh-e sent 
,$1.13 for packing, but the prize dishes did 
not come. H. c. n. 
Utah. 
The last we heard of them the postal 
authorities were after them for im¬ 
proper use of the mails. One would 
think that people would refuse to pa¬ 
tronize such fakes after awhile. These 
people have worked the old fake over 
and over again under different names 
and always seem to get a lot of money 
out of it. The letters from which these 
names and addresses are taken have 
been used over and over again for the 
last 10 or 15 years, and yet people keep 
on sending the money because they 
think they are going to get something 
for nothing. They don’t get the value 
of the expressage they have to pay on 
what is sent them when anything is sent 
at all. We believe our people recognize 
the game now. This inquiry comes 
from one who does not read The R. 
N.-Y. regularly. 
Is the Wilcox Chemical Company of your 
city reliable or not? Can you recommend 
them as being worthy the confidence of 
those who by reason of the advertisements 
of the above company might be induced to 
buy medicine or treatment from them, or 
are they merely quacks and sharks? 
Ohio. a. w. v. 
These people claim to have discovered 
a miracle in medicine. Quacks gener¬ 
ally discover miracles. Their letters 
and circulars ought to convince anyone 
that it would be safer to depend on the 
hope of a miracle alone than to mix 
faith with a nostrum and expect a cure 
of disease. Don’t touch the stuff. 
Walter Mills, who describes himself as a 
salesman, was arrested last week in New 
York city charged with using the mails to 
defraud. Inspector McLeod, who got 
United States Commissioner Shields to is¬ 
sue a warrant for Mill's arrest said that 
farmers in the New England States, espe¬ 
cially in Maine and New Hampshire, had 
lost between $50,000 and $100,000 through 
Mills. Inspector McLeod said that Mills 
advertised himself as a commission mer¬ 
chant who shipped fruit to European mar¬ 
kets and wrote to small orchard owners 
throughout New England offering them a 
little above the market price for their 
apples. In some cases, the Inspector said, 
Mills paid influential farmers for their 
apples and got them to act as his agent, 
promising them $15 a week salary for in¬ 
ducing their friends to ship to him. The 
Boston post office authorities received hun¬ 
dreds of complaints from farmers who had 
shipped apples to Mills and had got no pay. 
Mills told them, the Inspector said, that 
he was merely a commission merchant and 
the reason the money hadn’t been paid 
was because the firms he shipped to in 
Europe hadn't settled up. Inspector Mc¬ 
Leod said he had letters from firms 
that Mills shipped to saying they had made 
payments for all the apples he sent them. 
Before coming here Mills was in business 
at 46 Center street, Boston, and at 54 
Webster street, East Boston. George C. 
.Tilson. a lawyer, of 42 Court street, Bos¬ 
ton, got a warrant for him on behalf of a 
number of shippers and Mills fled. 
The above item again suggests the 
wisdom of carefully looking tin the rat¬ 
ings of buyers and commission men be¬ 
fore shipping produce to them. 
Inclosed find $2, one dollar to renew my 
subscription for one year, the other for 
Mr. L. C. T—, a 10-weeks’ trial man, who 
promised me if Dawley was found guilty 
to sign for The R. N.-Y. for a year. 
New York. w. m. k. 
We can make little comment to 
strengthen a letter of that kind. Jt 
tells its own story of interest, devotion 
and work, with the inevitable result. 
First the telling of a neighbor of the 
work the paper is doing. Then the 
10-weeks trial, after that the yearly 
renewal. That is the work that makes 
a paper strong, and that binds it firmly 
to the interests of the subscribers. It 
is with a paper as with anything else. 
It is run in the interest of the people 
who support it and make it possible. 
Leave it to fakers and politicians to 
June 13, 
support and no matter what the pre¬ 
tense it will be run for their benefit. 
They will not support a paper they can¬ 
not control, hence if the farmers have 
a real paper of their own, they alone 
must do just this kind of work. How 
much of it are you doing? j. j. d. 
A VETERAN HEN. 
Mr. Clarence P. Dorrance, of Michi¬ 
gan, sends us the photograph of the hen 
shown at Fig. 230. We have also an 
affidavit made by Alonzo Bacon and 
Mrs. M. O. Dorrance, who certify that 
this hen, known as “Creeper,” was to 
their certain knowledge alive in the 
year 1891, and that she was then five 
years old. This would make her 22 
IIEN OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. Fig. 230. 
years old now. Mr. Dorrance says she 
is still active and lays a few eggs. She 
has some of the marks of a Brown 
Leghorn but is called a “Creeper,” being 
a member of that short-legged breed. 
It is said that this hen at times crows. 
Well, she might, for any hen that will 
live an industrious life of 23 years and 
still lay eggs has something to crow 
about. _ 
Poultry Notes. —I feed my chickens 
cornmeal and wheat bran mixed and dry; 
did last year all Summer from first to last. 
There was no trouble, no souring; can 
give enough to last all day if desirable. I 
keep sand and water in the coops and they 
will feed themselves. Mine pick raw apples 
or turnips, but will have grass cut fine 
when it grows, as I made a machine to cut 
it as short as desired. Dry feed is the 
stuff, and is all right for young or old. I 
fed my hens last Winter with the mix¬ 
ture use at the Maine Station; after a 
while left out some of the beef scrap. My 
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