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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., 
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. 
$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. 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. 
The Gardner Nursery Company, 
Osage, Iowa, advertise to send six fine 
spruce two-year-old evergreens free. 
Mailing expense five cents, which you 
may send or not. The advertisement 
says a postal will bring them anyway. 
Here is what one farmer says: 
The evergreens (so-called) are at hand. 
One could carry the six in a watch pocket 
and not feel them, nothing but one-year 
seedlings, long since packed and dry. Post¬ 
age one cent. I sent five cents for postage. 
The transaction is not only a deception, but 
a fraud as well. c. f. b. 
New York. 
We have had occasion before to crit¬ 
icise some of the circulars and methods 
of this house, but we have given them 
credit for sending out satisfactory stock 
on the strength of reports from growers 
to us. These allurements or deceptions 
to attract intending purchasers are about 
the poorest business a house can in¬ 
dulge in. 
Will you tell me what there is about the 
Lennox sprayer, good or bad? It is adver¬ 
tised in National Nurseryman, American 
Fruit and Nut Journal, etc. One must send 
to New York, cash with order. I do not 
understand where the power comes from. 
Directions say, “Compress the bulb, you get 
your spray.” I want a good knapsack 
sprayer and whitewaslier, but I am afraTd 
there is deception in the Lennox. Some 
things are exaggerated to an apparent thin¬ 
ness that means an exposure of falsity. I 
feel that way about the Lennox Sprayer. I 
note Tixe It. N.-Y. does not carry the ad¬ 
vertisement. e. J. H. 
Kansas. 
No, we do not carry the advertising 
of the Lennox sprayer. What is more, 
we will not carry it. Those who leave 
it, and the people who make it alone 
will have less to regret than growers 
who send their money for it and suffer 
the annoyances that are sure to follow. 
I have a circular from the Franklin 
Chemical Works of Philadelphia, Pa., ad¬ 
vertising a “fire fighter,” to be kept in 
one’s home. Do you know if this is worth 
anything for the purpose, and would you 
advise the purchase of them? e. t. 
New York. 
This is a metal cylinder filled with a 
powder to hang on the wall or have 
handy at time of fire. The basis for the 
powder is usually common salt and bi¬ 
carbonate of soda, with possibly an acid 
to start chemical action. The object is 
to form chlorine and carbon dioxide, 
both of which will extinguish fire if you 
can use sufficient quantities of them to 
prevent the oxygen of the air from 
reaching the burning materials. No fire 
can exist without oxygen, and if these 
gases envelop the burning material the 
oxygen is excluded and the fire must 
die out. A quart of salt thrown into 
the fire of a stove when the chimney is 
on fire will form chlorine gas and ex¬ 
tinguish the fire. If the powder is put 
on the fire before it has made much 
headway it will undoubtedly be effective, 
but when the flames have made much 
progress it is not possible entirely to 
envelope them with the heavy gases, and 
for that reason the fire extinguisher is 
not effective in big fires. But they have 
their uses, especially indoors, when the 
fire is discovered before it has made 
much progress. The instrument re¬ 
ferred to is made by a very responsible 
house, and we would expect it to fill the 
claims made for it by them. 
To-day a man representing the “Frank¬ 
lin Co. of Chicago,” called and was very 
persistent to sell me a suit and my hus¬ 
band an overcoat. My husband didn’t 
care for an overcoat, but be said we would 
regret we didn’t buy of him. We would 
have to go to another town, 16 miles away 
to have our measures taken, where their 
tailor is for a short time. It seemed to me 
a queer way, and I felt that all was not 
Tight. When my son came to dinner, and 
we told him of it, he said: “That is the 
firm my paper tells of.” He got The R. 
N.-Y. (which he takes and we all enjoy), 
of May 16 and read aloud what Mrs. A. 
W. B. of Illinois wrote. My husband 
said : “As soon as he saw he had to sign 
a contract that ended it for him, if he had 
really wanted a coat or suit.” The agent 
told us of a number whom we knew who 
got goods. Some we knew couldn’t afford 
it. and if the amount is yet larger when 
they come to pay, so much the worse. 
New York. E. it. g. 
Agents used to have it all their own 
way when they got into the country. 
They told their own story, and there 
was no one to gainsay them. Think of 
one of these plausible fellows standing 
by after feeling that he had made a sale 
while a young man just in from the 
field read that story of the Illinois read¬ 
er’s experience from The R. N.-Y. If 
readers would preserve these papers and 
get a little index memorandum book the 
information could be made very useful. 
All you would need to do would be to 
write the name of the concern referred 
to on the page of the index book, under 
the first letter of the name, together with 
the page of The R. N.-Y. and year. For 
example, to make a record of this item, 
you would open the index book at F., 
write Franklin Co., page —, 1908. Then 
when a stranger came along you could 
look over the index and see if his name 
appeared there. If it did, turn to the 
paper and see what has been said of him 
or his house. Some readers do this. 
Others who neglect it keep writing about 
concerns that we have already exposed, 
and some readers actually send money 
to concerns that we have cautioned them 
against. One is in danger of doing this 
unless he have some system of keeping 
track of them. 
Is this a safe investment? f. n. c. 
The above accompanies a circular 
from the Sacramento Valley Improve¬ 
ment Company, from St. Louis, Mo. We 
have given our opinion of this propo¬ 
sition before. Ve certainly do not con¬ 
sider the proposition a good investment. 
Our advice is to leave it alone. 
Please inform the readers of your most 
valuable paper of the standing of Utah 
Gold Mountain Mining Co.. No. 615 Penn¬ 
sylvania Building, Philadelphia. Pa. Would 
it be safe to own stock in this company? 
Michigan. M. G. 
Don’t put any money into these min¬ 
ing company stocks. They are prac¬ 
tically all on the same basis. Disap¬ 
pointment and loss are the only results. 
Keep away from them. 
Kindly toll me through your valuable 
paper what is the standing of the Alta 
Vista Association? I have received two 
communications from them. 
Massachusetts. sirs. a. e. b. 
This is like all the rest of the min¬ 
ing schemes, in effect, though the argu¬ 
ments are a bit different. It affords one 
of the many opportunities for you to 
throw away your savings. 
Please let me know your opinion of the 
“Automatic Transportation Company.” I 
have been told that they are incorporated 
under the laws of the Western States. Why 
not under the laws of the State of New 
York, when their home office is in Buffalo, 
N. Y.? a. e. s. 
New York. 
The sole assets of this company seems 
to be patents. These are capitalized at 
$2,000,000. It is typical of the class of 
stocks that should be left severely alone. 
Such concerns are usually organized in 
States that give the companies the most 
privileges and the stockholders or in¬ 
vestors the least protection. Never in¬ 
vest a cent in things of this kind. 
Do you know anything about the Globe 
Association of Chicago. Ill., and do you 
know if they are reliable? p. s. 
Arkansas. 
We have so many inquiries about the 
Globe Association it seems necessary to 
repeat that we do not consider their 
proposition a safe one for our people. 
Our advice in this case is “don’t.” 
What do you know of the National Sales¬ 
man’s Training Association, 442-3 Monad- 
nock Block, Chicago, Ill.? Are they all 
right, and would you advise taking their 
course? w. d. e. 
New York. 
Pretty soon some enterprising fellow 
will open a correspondence school to 
teach people by circular letters how to 
milk cows and hoe corn. And there 
will be just as much sense in it as in 
many of the schemes already attempted. 
We certainly would not advise taking 
any such courses. j. j. d. 
CLOVER IN THE SILO. 
J. II. R., Portland, Me .—Last Summer we 
found in our clover fields a lot of straw on 
the ground left over from last year. Not 
wishing to rake this in with the hay, we 
cut the grass and hauled it direct to the 
silo without any making. If any of your 
readers have done the same thing we would 
like to know whether they consider this 
plan so successful that they would recom¬ 
mend it. What could we do to avoid a 
stronger and more undesirable odor than is 
given off by corn silage? In feeding the 
clover silage, would it require different 
grain to make a balanced ration? Our 
stock have preferred this to any other feed 
in the barn. 
While clover can be silaged with perfect 
success, yet we do not consider this the 
most valuable material to use for this pur¬ 
pose. It does not produce a silage with 
the pleasant odor that good corn silage 
should have, but should the season be ex¬ 
tremely wet, clover can often be taken care 
of in the silo when it would otherwise spoil. 
Where clover is put in the silo it should be 
fed out during the Winter, as it will usually 
not keep as well for the next Summer’s 
feeding as will corn. As clover is much 
richer in protein than corn it is best to re¬ 
duce somewhat the amount of protein fed 
in the corn ration where clover silage is 
used. l. a. CLIXTON. 
I have had no direct experience in put¬ 
ting Red clover into the silo. I have seen 
it done, however, and the odor was so pro¬ 
nounced that it seemed to me it was less 
satisfactory than the same clover made into 
hay. One great advantage of the silo for 
handling corn lies in the fact that it not 
only preserves the whole corn plant in good 
condition for feeding, but that it is hard to 
handle large quantities of stalks in any 
other way. For some years we have run 
the last crop of Alfalfa into the silo, alter¬ 
nating it with loads of corn, and the prod¬ 
uct has seemed entirely satisfactory. It 
may be said, however, that nitrogenous ma¬ 
terial preserved in the silo is more apt to 
develop disagreeable odors than is the case 
with corn. Then, too, plants with hollow 
stems carry so much air into the silo that 
fermentation changes are more pronounced 
than with solid-stemmed plants. 
JARED VAX WAGENEN, JR. 
I have filled with clover a number of 
times, but with what we call second-growth. 
I have put in the silo both cut and uncut, 
and liud it the cheaper to put it in uncut, 
provided it is in any way handy to get it 
in the silo. The first I put in was run 
through the cutter, as it was necessary to 
elevate to get the clover in the silo. It 
made the best silage I ever saw; the New 
York Experiment Station anaylzed some 
and pronounced it superior to good corn 
silage, but the expense was a barrier to 
putting it in that way. We had a silo built 
next to a bank that we could drive up to, 
and by building a scaffold we could pitch it 
direct to the silo, and we found it a very 
cheap method of filling a silo. We have 
practiced this since, except last year; we 
had such a large growth of corn that it 
took all the silo capacity to dispose of it. 
In our experience we find that the clover 
makes the best silage. Cut when the dew is 
on, rake immediately and draw directly to 
the silo. We do not put any in in the 
afternoon, unless it is showery. I have ex¬ 
perimented by letting some partly dry, and 
we always found those bunches moldy. Our 
best whole clover silage was made by work¬ 
ing only in the forenoon, cutting as early 
as possible and following immediately with 
the rake ; the clover would not dry out by 
noon, and the last two or three loads put 
in the water run right through, as it was 
a rainy morning. There was but little loss 
on top. The secret of putting clover in the 
silo is to cut green and do not let it dry; 
tramp as hard around the sides and wet 
down if possible the last two or three loads. 
I do not know of any way to avoid the 
strong odor, as clover gives a stronger odor 
than corn, but not so strong as pea vines. 
As regards the grain ration one must be 
controlled by his own situation. We think 
clover equal to the best corn silage, but I 
would not use the first crop unless it was 
soiling my stock. My intention is to use 
the first cutting of Alfalfa, as when it is 
time to cut first the weather is bad. and 
by utilizing the silo it would help to dispose 
of the first cutting in time for the second 
cutting to develop. a. d. baker. 
June 20, 
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