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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.Tune 27, 
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. 
Can you give address of a place where 
they send out music lessons by mail? I 
have heard that anybody can learn much 
easier by mail. j. s. 
We know no such place. Look out 
for- those instructions by mail. Some 
of them may be helpful, but the major¬ 
ity of them are fakes. 
Please give us your opinion on this stuff 
for bait for suckers. Find the letter at¬ 
tached. I like your style of holding fak¬ 
ers out for the sun to shine on. 
Kansas. w. a. s. 
This refers to» the Segno Success 
Club, whatever that may mean. We 
only know it hails from Los Angeles, 
Cal., and wants $5 from you as fees, 
but a dollar would be accepted. If you 
should get the letter and feel flattered 
by the first paragraph recounting your 
ability and virtues, it may serve you to 
observe that the letter is all printed ex¬ 
cept your name, which is put in with 
typewriter. The self-same letter goes 
to everyone supposed to be gullible 
enough to reward flattery with a remit¬ 
tance. 
I bought some dogs from Mount Penn 
Kennels. Reading, Pa., changed to Key¬ 
stone State Kennels. My order got there 
on December 19, for I have my regiser re¬ 
ceipt signed by them, and I have not re¬ 
ceived my dogs yet. They notified me two 
or three times they would ship on certain 
dates, but never did. I wish you would 
please see into this matter, as I got the 
advertisement out of your paper. I have 
not heard from them in about three months. 
Florida. e. a. c. 
This boy is mistaken. He did not 
see. the advertisement in this paper. We 
have repeatedly refused the advertising, 
and have cautioned against the concern 
several times during the last year. We 
are unable to get any satisfaction for 
customers out of these people. The 
Duly remedy is to avoid them. 
I enclose a letter my father-in-law re¬ 
ceived from Ostrander offering real estate 
. for Dunlap stock. What can be the mean¬ 
ing of it? Is the Dunlap stock worth any¬ 
thing, or is there a catch in it? I own 
stock, but I have not. heard from Ostrander 
in that way. If you can throw any light 
on it I would feel obliged. j. g. h. 
Ohio. 
This is simply one of Ostrander’s 
tricks to induce you to buy a lot and 
pay more cash than it is worth. He will 
allow you the face of the stock, but he 
will insist that you also pay cash, and 
the cash alone will be more than the 
actual value of the lot. We have a rec¬ 
ord of one transaction where Ostrander 
sold a man a lot at Lincoln, N. J., for 
$ 130 . We could not find anyone at 
the place who would agree to give $15 
for it. You see the margin Ostrander 
has to trade on. Do we need to say 
more ? 
About a month ago I saw an advertise¬ 
ment in a cheap paper about a churn that 
would make butter in three minutes. I 
wrote to the company to get the price of 
the churn and got a letter from them about 
every mail till at last I sent for the churn. 
The price was $4.25 and freight 97 cents, 
and the churn is not any good. What 
should I do? I have not written to the 
company yet. j. a. d. 
Maine. 
The only thing you can do is to burn 
the churn and spread the ashes in the 
field. It is not worth while to write the 
manufacturers. They will only laugh. 
Save your postage, burn the cheap 
papers with such advertisements, and 
keep a list of the frauds published in 
this column. We have cautioned you 
against this very concern at least a half 
dozen times within the past two years. 
Please note the attached circular of 
Adrian Irrigation Company, Spokane, Wash¬ 
ington, and say what is your opinion of it 
as an investment. f. n. c. 
District of Columbia 
We have not had time to look up the 
conditions of irrigated lands at Adrian, 
but this company seems to be depending 
on small investors for the development 
of the irrigation plant, and it does not 
appear that the promoters have put any 
considerable amount of their own 
money into it. It seems to be a case 
where the small investors put up the 
money to create the plant and if the 
money is wasted in bad contracts, 
faulty work, or in promotion schemes, 
then the money is gone, the company is 
a failure, and a receiver follows. In 
short, it is the form of investment that 
we are constantly advising our people 
to leave alone. 
So many of our people have lost their 
savings by investment in fake schemes, 
and so many others seem to be consid¬ 
ering investments in mining stocks and 
other worthless securities, that I have 
been trying to think of some form of 
investment that I could recommend to 
them in place of the schemes that I 
have been obliged to denounce. So far 
I have only been able to advise farm¬ 
ers to leave this or that scheme alone 
wtihout being able to recommend 
something that is really safe and con¬ 
venient. 
I want something first of all that 
is absolutely safe; second, something 
that may be turned into cash at short 
notice, and, third, something that will 
yield about five per cent interest. 
Mortgages on New York City real es¬ 
tate, when placed intelligently, are as 
safe as anything in this world can be, 
and they will pay five per cent all right. 
They are convertible into cash, too, on 
reasonable time, but there is usually 
some expense in getting the money on 
them before due. The only trouble 
remaining is that people with small 
amounts to invest cannot take these 
mortgages because they require larger 
amounts of cash. We are not con¬ 
cerned about the larger investors, be¬ 
cause they can take care of themselves. 
The only plan that has suggested itself 
is to pool the small amounts, invest the 
whole in real estate mortgages, and 
issue certificates to each one for the 
share lie contributes. This could be 
done in a perfectly legal and safe busi¬ 
ness way; and the investment would be 
gilt-edged. Interest is paid every six 
months on these mortgages. Acting in 
the capacity of agent, we could prob¬ 
ably collect the cost of doing the busi¬ 
ness out of the borrower, who usually 
pays the disbursements; but we have 
hesitated to undertake it because of the 
extra work and responsibility. And 
yet we would feel amply repaid if the 
service should prove to be a benefit to 
our people of small means by putting 
them in the way of safe and profitable 
investments. If we undertook it at 
all, we could at first, at least, handle 
only a few small amounts. We would 
not undertake too much at a time, and 
applicants would have to await their 
turn. 
First we would like to hear from 
those who are interested. Have you 
any funds that you would like to have 
invested in New York City real estate 
mortgages at five per cent; and, if so, in 
what amounts? Would you be able to 
make the investment for a year or 
longer, or would it be necessary for you 
to place it so you could withdraw it on 
short notice? If there seems to be a 
demand for the departure, we will un¬ 
dertake it in a small way to start, and 
will take it up in the order of the in¬ 
quiries. Of course, nothing could be 
done until we have developed a plan. 
We simply want to find out at this time 
how much need there is for a service 
of this kind. 
We are sending by this mail five of the 
little envelopes. l r ou will please take care 
of them. The names are those of good 
citizens, and may become permanent sub¬ 
scribers. We are much pleased with the 
tone of your paper, the most fearless and 
aggressive farm paper we know of, and 
the only one actually helping to collect 
debts of others. I wish you unlimited and 
continued success, and believe you will have 
it as long as you continue faithful to the 
interests of the farming communities. 
Pennsylvania. c. b. 
This man adds five names to The 
Rural family at one stroke. We gladly 
send him more of the little envelopes, 
and will find a seat for all who come 
through him or otherwise. On the rule 
of averages four out of the five new 
names will renew their subscriptions 
for the next year. We have a supply 
of the little envelopes always ready, 
and will be glad to mail them to any¬ 
one who can use them. How many can 
you distribute? One can be slipped into 
a letter when you write other farmers, or 
handed to them when opportunity is 
offered. _ j. j. d. 
POULTRY PROSPECTS. 
We have the largest trade in both stock 
and eggs that we have had since we 
started in business in 1878. This is not, 
however, the general report, which places 
trade at below the volume of last year. 
We deal in fancy stock, and do not sell 
baby chicks. I believe, however, that the 
demand for them is increasing slightly from 
what I have been able to learn from other 
sources, but at the same time I do not 
consider it a good business proposition 
for the buyer or seller. The most vital 
things that I can think of at the present 
time to tell poultrymcn, would be to watch 
their old fowls for body lice, look out 
for nits in the henhouse, put their breeding 
females all together on a large grassy run 
if possible, see that the chickens have no 
head lice and are not crowded, and also 
see that they do not get out in the wet 
grass. I should also advise them strongly 
against confining their males too closely. 
GROVE HILL POULTRY YARDS. 
Massachusetts. 
The stock trade was good all season but 
the sale of eggs has not been as good as in 
former years. The most important thing 
for the poultry men at this time is to keep 
the chicks free from lice and keep them 
growing, and raise all the good specimens 
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THE TRESPASSING HEN. 
I have just been reading on page 470 
several accounts of how liens have been 
prevented from trespassing on neighbors’ 
property. I happen to know a case quite 
different from any related, and perhaps it 
is good enough to tell. A Mr. A. lived in 
a country village very near his neighbor, 
Mr. B., who kept a small flock of hens, 
and as lions were troublesome to Mr. A. he 
requested B. to keep his hens shut up, so 
they would not trouble him. Compliance 
was promised, but performance was not 
realized, so Mr. A., who very much dis¬ 
liked trouble with B., built a small coop 
on his land and made it inviting to B.’s 
biddies, and they soon moved in and 
made it their home. A. fed and nested 
them, keeping the hens shut up. After a 
few days he took the eggs that had been 
laid over to B., and told him the eggs 
belonged to him, as they were laid by his 
hens, and he said he would continue to 
bring the eggs as they were laid. He said 
he found it less trouble to feed and care 
for the hens when he had them confined 
than it was to drive them out of his yard. 
It was not many days before B. had a 
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was not troubled with biddies in his yard 
any more. M. morse. 
Massachusetts. 
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