868 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
August 15. 
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 : 
$17.81, 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. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
On page 610 we referred to the 
“Acousticon” and inadvertently did an 
injustice to it. This is an electric device 
for enlarging sound. It might be called 
a personal telephone—containing a small 
battery, a sound receiver and an ear 
piece. These are connected by cords 
and are so small that they are all easily 
carried in the pockets. There is no hum¬ 
bug about it and the company is fully 
reliable. So far as we can judge this 
method of sound magnifying is the best 
help in cases of deafness that has yet 
been devised. The instrument is not de¬ 
signed to cure deafness, though its use 
is said to improve the hearing, but it 
serves the purpose of an ear trumpet 
without the annoyance to those who 
must do the talking. We regret to have 
classed this instrument with “eardrums” 
and other useless pontrivances. 
I would be pleased to know if the Vera 
Cruz Mining Company is reliable. Will it 
be safe to take stock in it. a. b. 
Virginia. 
The following letter is such a complete 
answer to this subscriber as well as all 
inquiries as to stock investments that 
we print it for the benefit and guidance 
of all who may be tempted to invest 
their hard-earned savings in worthless 
stocks: 
These linen people are after me once a 
week or so, and if their stock is so val¬ 
uable and in such demand by financiers I 
don’t see why they want to do me such a 
favor, especially as I am not related to 
them by marriage or otherwise. Perhaps 
you would like fo inform your readers of 
such a “good thing’’ as this, or may want 
to hoist the danger signal. I am not in¬ 
formed as to its value. h. e. m. 
Illinois. 
I sent a coop of chickens December 11, 
1907, to -, of Newark, N. J. 
I have written a number of times to him. 
lie said at first that he had no record of 
getting any chickens from me and wanted 
the date that they were shipped on. I 
sent it and I send you his last letter. He 
claims that he sent a check but I have not 
seen one. I answered this letter right, 
away when I got it but have not heard 
from him yet. If you get this amount 
I am willing that you take any part of it 
or all of it. j. g. 
New York. 
We wrote the commission house, stat¬ 
ing plainly the facts in the case and a 
few days later received the second let¬ 
ter from the shipper as follows: 
T got a check from Mr. - two 
days ago. He said that he sent a check 
December 19, 1907, and I must have got 
it. But I did not. I wrote to him three 
or four weeks after I sent the chickens and 
he said then that he had no record of 
getting any chickens from me. I thank 
you very much for your trouble and I am 
willing to pay you if you will let me know 
how much your bill is. I like your paper 
for the good work it is doing along all 
lines. I like to see any man stand up for 
right and honesty. j. g. 
New York. 
This farmer’s letters were ignored but 
a letter from The R. N.-Y., representing 
100,000 farmers received prompt atten¬ 
tion and satisfactory settlement was 
made. 
Because we are often able to help our 
subscribers collect just bills due them, 
some farmers consider us sort of a col¬ 
lecting agency and want to pay us for 
our trouble and any expense incurred. 
We never accept any pay for service of 
this kind—we are only glad to use the 
influence of The R. N.-Y. in the cause 
of justice. 
I hope you did not think I am green 
enough to take any stock in such fakes. I 
have read The It. N.-Y. too long to be 
taken in by such schemes. Still it is 
quite refreshing these hot days to see with 
what brazen assurances these frauds work 
their schemes. Yet I have no doubt that 
they rake in thousands of dollars. I will 
very willingly distribute among my neigh¬ 
bors your little envelopes. Send along a 
dozen. I was much amused at the per¬ 
sistence with which you hung to the Daw- 
ley case (also some others) until the mat¬ 
ter was settled. o. d. h. 
Nebraska. 
This man sent us one of these fake 
circulars about killing scale by boring a 
hole in a tree. He has received his edu¬ 
cation by taking The R. N.-Y. There is 
no reason on earth why any of our 
readers should lose money on these 
fakes. This man, like thousands of 
others, will distribute those little enve¬ 
lopes among his neighbors. A good 
word will go along with each one and 
that is what counts. 
I have a new neighbor, and wishing to 
help him along I can think of nothing 
more useful or of more benefit to him 
than a 10- weeks’ subscription to The R. 
N.-Y. I think that each and every sub¬ 
scriber of The It. N.-Y. should send you 
at least one new subscriber in return for 
the good you do them by exposing frauds. 
I don’t think they would hesitate a minute, 
did they fully realize what a benefit it 
would be to themselves, as well as an en¬ 
dorsement. of The It. N.-Y.’s principle for 
a square deal. w. h. kobinson. 
New Jersey. 
That is what you may call greeting a 
newcomer with a neighborly spirit. You 
could hardly do a better thing for him, 
for without doubt he will become a reg¬ 
ular subscriber. Mr. Robinson makes a 
fine suggestion and backs it right up by 
doing the very thing he advises others 
to do. We would like to hear his propo- 
going out on little foraging expeditions. 
Now they are all pretty well feathered and 
the mother hen has left them, but the 
first 11 are only about one-half the size 
of the others; I can pick out every one of 
them. Moral—Keep the little chicks dry 
the first two or three weeks or more, with 
plenty of sun, fresh air, and good food. 
West Orange, N. J. c. b. w. 
Germeess Eggs. —You had much to say 
about “germless’’ eggs in a recent number. 
Why, that is nothing new ! We never have 
fertile eggs except in the breeding season, 
and then only in the breeding pens. We 
ship only “germless eggs.” c. p. l. 
Setauket, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—The “new” thing about it is 
that buyers are willing to pay more for 
such eggs. 
Cement Sii.o.—T ell your correspondent, 
T. J. D., page 568, that woven fence wire 
is the best possible reinforcement for cement 
silo. I have just built one, 11x23 feet high, 
six-inch walls, reinforced from ground up 
(with wire), plastered inside, one part 
cement to two sand, and given a coat of 
tar. Walls one part cement, nine sand 
and gravel. Total cost, $48. w. b. 
Missouri. 
sition carried unanimously. He has the 
right idea. As the power of The R. 
N.-Y. comes from the influence of its 
family the larger the family the larger 
the power and the greater good all 
around. 
RAISING FALL CHICKS. 
I noticed some time ago, on page 229, 
an article written by Henry D. Smith, “One 
Man’s Poultry Job.” I would like to ask 
him some questions. He says he started 
the incubators September 1. Why at that 
season instead of March 1 or April ? What 
did he do with the chicks, and what age 
did he sell them? Can a chick be raised 
as cheaply in Fall and early Winter as in 
Spring and Summer? l. e. b. 
Vermont. 
In reply to the question why I be¬ 
gin to hatch September 1 instead of 
March or April, would say that I am 
raising roasters for the money that 
there is in it, and not for fun. If I 
began to hatch in March and continued 
until I got my 5,000 chicks they would 
be ready for market in the Fall, when 
the price is in the vicinity of 15 cents 
per pound alive. Instead, I begin to 
sell in the last part of March at 20 cents 
per pound, and the price keeps going up 
until the first part of June I get 30 
cents per pound, which price holds until 
into August. While my coal bill is 
less than .05 per pound the difference 
in the cost of raising is as nothing com¬ 
pared with the above selling prices. If 
I could, I would hatch them all in 
November and December excepting 
those for my pullets, but with my facil¬ 
ities I have to begin a little early and 
hatch a little late in order to get my 
5,000, and would say right here that 
those first ones that are sold for the 20 
cents are pullets only, which have begun 
to lay, and the capons of the same age 
are kept until the price has advanced 
quite a little. henry d. smith. 
WEAK LEGS AND BIG WINGS. 
I have been reading with interest, sev¬ 
eral articles in The It. N.-Y. regarding 
chickens with “weak legs” and “drooping 
wings,” and it makes me feel that I would 
like to give my experience this season, 
which convinces me that this trouble is 
due to conditions, rather than to the breed, 
or kind, of fowl. My first brood of seven 
were confined in small annex between barn 
and chicken house, and allowed to run out 
in screened yard whenever the mother saw 
fit to take them, which was sometimes in 
the rain and mud. Four of these chicks 
soon had weak legs and drooping wings, 
followed by enlarged joints and crooked 
toes, which I put down as a plain case of 
rheumatism. One died. These were ex¬ 
pected to be R. I. Reds, but proved to 
be a mixed lot. Now comes the convincing 
part of the experience. When I set two 
more hens three days apart, all White Leg¬ 
horn eggs from our own flock, the first 
came off with 11, and was kept in the 
above-mentioned annex. The second came 
off with 13 and was kept in barn stable, 
with screen at door to admit sun and light. 
These did not run out at all until they 
were two weeks old or more. By this time 
the 11 showed signs of weakness and 
drooping wings, while those in the stable 
were all healthy and strong and larger 
than those which were three days older, so 
I put them all together with one mother 
hen in the stable, where they grew together 
on the same feed and conditions. They 
soon began to leave the mother when 
pleasant, and crawl through the screen, 
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