TOO 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 5, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
2011 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. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
Will you advise me as to your opinion 
of the reliability of P. II. Keeler & Co., 
104 Murray street, New York, for a farmer 
to ship produce to? g. w. w. 
New Jersey. 
This concern has been in bad repute 
for some time. We have cautioned 
our people against them several times. 
We believe the business lias now been 
discontinued under this name, but the 
old influences are at the game under 
a new name, and no doubt get all the 
goods shipped to the above name and 
address. Don’t ship them any goods 
for which you expect a fair return. 
A. O. Brown & Co., the largest firm 
of speculative Wall Street brokers, 
failed last week for something over 
five million dollars. It is by courtesy 
and common usage that they are de¬ 
scribed as brokers. Wall Street gam¬ 
blers would better describe them. And 
yet people write and ask us from time 
to time what we think of an invest¬ 
ment in one stock or another! Might 
as well ask what we think of throwing 
dice or playing cards for money when 
the professional against you has the 
dice loaded and the cards marked. The 
Louisiana lottery of ill fame, which was 
by law suppressed some time since, was 
a respectable business compared with 
the open and apparently approved gam¬ 
bling game of Wall Street as now con¬ 
ducted by men of eminence in the com¬ 
munity. The vice of gambling at horse 
races is no more to he compared with 
this colossal game, than picking an 
apple from a neighbor’s tree is to be 
compared with breaking into his house 
and taking bis valuables and then firing 
the buildings. Don’t expect us to en¬ 
courage a confidence game of this kind, 
no matter in what illusive form it is 
presented. 
A representative of O. Pressprich & Co., 
of New York, called upon me recently in 
regard to establishing a co-operative 
creamery here according to about tbe fol¬ 
lowing plan: He would organize a stock 
company of 40 shares at $100 each, mostly 
of farmers, with no person holding over 
two shares of stock. For the $4,000 so 
raised Pressprich & Co. would build and 
equft) a creamery ready for use. They 
claim such a creamery could he run success¬ 
fully on 3,000 pounds of milk daily. The 
skim-milk would he returned 1o farmers 
and the butter sold In a lump, the pro¬ 
ceeds being divided according to Hie 
amount of milk furnished and its quality 
according to the Babcock test. To out¬ 
siders a certain price per pound would be 
charged for making butter. Will you in¬ 
form me what you know of Pressprich & 
Co. and their scheme, also as to the suc¬ 
cess of creameries organized under such a 
co-operative stock company plan? 
New York. G. a. n. 
We advise this farmer and others 
similarly situated to leave this scheme 
alone. In the first place, you can put 
up a creamery for less than one-half 
the money, if you do it yourself. Then 
3,000 pounds of milk will not enable 
you to run a creamery costing $4,000 
on the plan outlined. These promoters 
work on the plan of others who have 
gone before them, and which had 
proved so expensive to dairymen. Their 
plan is to build the most expensive 
creamery that the farmers of the place 
can he induced to pay for, without re¬ 
gard to the number of cows to sup¬ 
port it. The promoters get their money 
and get away. Then the farmers’ trou¬ 
bles begin. They have an expensive 
plant on their hands, with heavy run¬ 
ning expenses and not enough income 
to make it pay. As a result the busi¬ 
ness runs behind, and the company fails. 
This particular firm has no rating in 
the commercial hooks at our disposal. 
We know where they have built cream¬ 
eries on this plan, which were failures 
for the reasons quoted above. Occa¬ 
sionally co-operative creameries have 
been a success, hut when successful 
farmers organize their own companies, 
and let contracts to build the creamery 
to a responsible and reliable dairy sup¬ 
ply house, which has nothing to do 
with the organization of the company. 
In this way the creamery is suited to 
the place; the first expense is compara¬ 
tively light, and the management is 
likely to be more efficient afterwards. 
G. W. S., in your issue of August 22, 
asks about the Wheeling Roofing a’nd Cor¬ 
nice Company, of Steelton, and asks about 
the bonds of this company. Steelton is 
three miles north of this city, and the 
Wheeling Roofing and Cornice Company 
was started by a man named Janson, with 
some other men, about three in number. 
It was a skin game from Hie beginning, 
and what little properly there was lias 
been sold. It was an absolute fraud from 
the beginning, and easy people have been 
duped to the amount of $150,000 or more. 
The concern was exposed about two years 
ago, and Janson was indicted in Harrison 
County, tills State. There is no way for 
(I. W. S. to get his money. His bonds were 
never worth more than the blank paper. 
West Virginia. n. V. M. 
We give the above for the informa 
tion of G. W. S. and others interested 
in this particular case. It will also 
serve as a warning for others who are 
tempted to invest in similar schemes. 
On the 25th of last March I sent the 
Jackson County Nurseries, located at 
Bosky Dell, Ill., an order for some berry 
plants, trees, etc., which amounted to $30, 
which I sent them (and they acknowledged 
receipt of same) with the request that they 
ship not later than April 10. On the 27th 
of April (after writing them several limes) 
I received a card saying they had 
shipped them. After wailing several days 
I wrote them that I had heard nothing 
from the -plants. So on Hie 10th of May 
I received a card saying they had shipped 
them that day, hut still none came. So 
I sent to another nursery and got my 
plants and wrote them to send my money 
back. About the last of May they sent nte 
some trees, which were very inferior in 
quality, and not true to name; also they 
wrote me they would send the balance of 
my order this Fall. I have written them 
several times that I could not use the 
plants this Fltll, and to send the balance 
of my money back to me, there being $25 
due me. But they insist that they will 
send the plants this Fall. I wrote them a 
few days ago that I could not use the 
plants this Fall as I had no place to set 
them, and if they sent them I would not 
lake them from the express office, with 
the usual answer that they would ship 
them now in a few days. Can you do any¬ 
thing for mo in this matter? 
Kentucky. o. c. H. 
We are sorry, hut we cannot do a 
thing for this friend. If he had not 
already suffered enough we would feel 
like scolding him. It is fully three 
years ago that we first exposed the 
methods of the Jackson Co. Nurseries, 
of Bosky Dell, Ill., and we have repeated 
the warning at least a half dozen times 
since. The only object we have in 
those exposures is to protect our 
friends. We take no pleasure other¬ 
wise in pounding rogues. When these 
people get a farmer’s money they send 
what they like or nothing at all. They 
pay no attention to The R. N.-Y., be¬ 
cause they know we are on to their 
game, and they have no reputation to 
lose with us. Every man who buys a 
tree should mark them as a concern to 
let alone. 
At the New York State Fair in Syra¬ 
cuse this year The R. N.-Y. tent as 
usual will he opposite Horticultural 
Hall. The editor and publisher will be 
at the tent, and will he glad to meet 
their friends there. If you have lunch 
baskets or other bundles bring them 
along, and make yourselves at home 
with us. This invitation is especially 
addressed to the wives and daughters 
of The R. N.-Y. folks. 
I am one of your JO-cent men, and I like 
it well enough to join the larger class. 
Please find the fee, $1, enclosed, and send 
me the paper for a year. c. a. f. 
Massachusetts. 
“The larger class!” This man puts it 
well. These 10-cent subscribers find that 
they will receive the same treatment as 
a $100 life subscriber would. When they 
renew for a year, as most of them do, 
they go to a “larger class”—not to any 
higher one. We have room for all of 
them. The larger the class the larger 
the influence for good. 
Tub R. N.-Y. is a prize, and is one of the 
family in our home. m. p. 
New York. 
We like to be called a member of the 
family, for that means confidence and 
ability to help. We speak of the great 
R. N.-Y. family, but there is another 
side to it when you think that the paper 
has made itself a fixture in 100,000 sep¬ 
arate families. Here is a man from 
Vermont: 
Please to believe me in my saying I lake 
a number of good farm papers, yet for the 
short time your paper has come to my house 
1 do not feci as though I could dispense 
with it. It is surely all O. K., is the most 
concise way I can express my sentiments. 
Vermont. c. t. g. 
O. K. stands for “all correct” and 
there is no more concise or sensible way 
of expressing such a statement. 
I am glad to say that I find fewer things 
to criticise and more to admire in your 
paper than in any that reaches me. With 
best wishes for your future success, I am. 
North Carolina. c. L. nkwman. 
An honest critic is a good friend. Our 
ambition is to keep right close to the 
people, for in that way we can learn 
what they want and what they object 
to. There is no safer guide for running 
a paper. You can all see how it helps 
to enlarge the family. 1 hose 10-cent 
subscriptions do it. We can send you 
any number of these little envelopes. 
On page 052 an inquiry is made what to 
do for cabbage worms. Persian insect pow¬ 
der is (he best thing I ever used, and 
is considered safe (o use; one application 
generally does the business. I use u pepper¬ 
box and dust it on. j. ij. w. 
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Don’t build a barn to protect your stock and ex¬ 
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A barn costs money and is too valuable to be left 
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given surface; the other is painting at the right 
time. 
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