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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 12, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Wo liuve tho following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission Jinn, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
UUU Washington Stroet, New York, for collection : 
$■17.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July I. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
Tho notes woro issued to Allen 13. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
I hold u one-tenth share of common stock 
of the I). I,. Marshall Milling Co., of 345 
Ganson street, Buffalo, N. Y. As one of 
your subscribers, can you tell if there is 
such a firm and what, is their standing? 
Their plan was to sell one-tenth share of 
stock (share is $100), and sell feed whole¬ 
sale to the farmers; they have sold quite 
a good many one-tenth shares In this sec¬ 
tion. JTAKMKR. 
Frankfort, N. Y. 
Following is another letter on the 
same subject. These two will serve as 
samples of many received on this propo¬ 
sition : 
I am an enthusiastic admirer of your 
paper and Its methods. II would he hard 
to overestimate the amount of good that 
a dozen newspapers with your ideals could 
do in this country. Depending on your un¬ 
varying patience I wish to ask another 
favor of you. The D. W. Marshall Milling 
Company of Buffalo, N. Y., has had agents 
in this locality with the following pro¬ 
position: They show samples of unumialli/ 
flue bran and other feeds, and agree to 
deliver such goods (equal to sample), in 
earload lots for a price slightly below the 
dealers’ retail price. They say their ob¬ 
ject is to do away with the middleman. They 
will sell only to dubs of 20 or more, and 
each purchaser must buy ten dollars’ worth 
of stock in their company in order to 
have the privilege of purchasing their goods 
and as an evidence of good fath in the 
Marshall Milling Co. They wish to use 
Ibis money to enlarge their manufacturing 
plant. I cannot see anything attractive 
about such an offer, and have worked 
against (lie idea among my neighbors, hut 
In spite of this (lie dub of 20 has been 
raised and the work is going on. I do not: 
wish to work against these people if they 
are a reputable concern, hut if they are 
frauds 1 would like* to dear them out as 
soon as possible. Could you kindly take 
the trouble to look the concern up? 
Clinton, N. Y. reader. 
In 1902 this company was organized 
in Boston, under New Jersey laws, witli 
an authorized capital stock of $150,000, 
par value $100, equally divided between 
common and preferred stock. *The 
company took over the business and in¬ 
debtedness of the 1). L. Marshall Co., 
which was capitalized for $10,000. Mr. 
Marshall, the president, has gone 
through two business failures. It is 
alleged that he proposes to pay the 
creditors of the last venture in stock of 
this new company. In January of the 
present year the treasurer of the com¬ 
pany claimed assets of about $48,500 ex¬ 
clusive of trade marks, patents, etc., and 
liabilities of over $30,500, including an 
indebtedness of $28,000 for merchandise. 
On their own showing they would have 
available assets of only about $1.8,000; 
and conservative estimates place it at 
less than one half this figure. Let us 
allow that their net assets arc $10,000. 
We know the stock authorized is $150,- 
000, so that a farmer paying par for the 
stock would put up just $15 in cash for 
every dollar of value in the plant. If 
any farmer wishes to make the invest¬ 
ment on this basis, knowing the Condi¬ 
tions, we make no objections. We sim¬ 
ply want them to know what they arc 
getting for their money. Admitting 1 lie 
best intentions in the world for the pro¬ 
moters, it must be conceded that the 
farmers, through purchase of the stock, 
are expected to put up the cash to 
finance the business. Of course, rent 
and salaries, and expense of promoting 
the scheme, must come out of this farm 
money. This money is put up by the 
farmer, and all lie has in return is the 
promise of these promoters that they 
will sell feed at wholesale, and for at 
least part of the time cheaper than the 
farmer can buy from his local dealer. 
In a recent letter to one of the farmers 
who subscribed for the stock, they make 
an appeal for him to “stick to us.” That 
is, to do all his buying from them, even 
if he could buy cheaper elsewhere, so 
that they do not seem so confident of 
competing with other houses after they 
have sold the stock as they seem to be 
before the sale has been made. 
One of the inducements to farmers to 
invest in this stock is the picture of a 
building that they propose to build in 
Buffalo, and very rosy prospects are held 
out; but it is admitted that this picture 
is taken from a drawing, and no build¬ 
ing yet exists except in the minds of ihe 
promoters. If built at all, it is evident 
that it must be paid for by money of 
farmers who subscribe for the stock. 
Our information is that they have put 
up not a grinding mill, but a mixing 
mijl for the mixing and blending of 
feed. The building is erected on leased 
ground, and is really inserted in the 
middle of the Keystone Warehouse 
property, which in turn was leased from 
a Buffalo capitalist, so that they have at 
best only a sub-lease. It is alleged that 
the owner reserves the right to sell the 
property on a year’s notice, and the 
lease carries no provisions for compen¬ 
sation for any building that may be 
erected in the meantime. A farmer 
visiting ibis plant may assume that the 
whole thing, ground and all, belongs to 
the company, and taking the Keystone 
Warehouse all together, it may make 
quite an appearance, and easily give the 
observer an exaggerated notion of the 
plant really held by the D. L. Marshall 
Milling Company, and without any di¬ 
rect misrepresentation on the part of 
the officers of the company. 
Another feature of the proposition to 
be considered is that the ‘claim is made 
when selling stock that they are to sell 
at wholesale prices to farmers; but we 
have before us a letter to a dealer in 
which they offer to sell him some of 
their preferred stock and in which they 
say; 
tVo Bhall, however, supply 250 or 300 of 
the best dealers In New England and Now 
York Stale, and wo are going to protect 
them fully, sell to no one else in the town, 
and give them a chance to make a dollar 
on the feed we ship them. All these 250 or 
300 dealers will own a 111 tie of our pre¬ 
ferred stock. 
Here is an admission that they will 
not sell at wholesale price to farmers, 
where they can get a dealer to subscribe 
for the stock. Then again in this same 
letter to the dealer they say: 
We might say, however, that the primary 
object in building this ‘plant is to make a 
rich, heavy, uniform wheat mixed feed ; one 
that has all the evidence of containing a 
large percentage of Bed Dog Hour, while 
in reality it may not contain an ounce. It: 
may, however, contain Bed Dog flour when 
the price of that (lour is within our reach; 
otherwise It will not. 
There you are. This statement, recol¬ 
lect, is to the dealer. He is to he fur¬ 
nished with a feed that looks to be what 
it really is not. This is an inducement 
to the dealer because be will be able to 
sell the farmer a feed which on the face 
of it looks to be something that it really 
is not. 
We do not know personally the pro¬ 
moters of this scheme. Their motive 
may be the best. We have analyzed the 
proposition as we find it, and as it ap-> 
peals to ns. At best it is a case where 
the farmer is expected to put up prac¬ 
tically all the money, and furnish all 
the trade, pay all the expenses of get¬ 
ting himself into the scheme, including 
salaries and hotel bills of the men who 
promote it, and lastly takes all the 
chances. In a smaller way it is a great 
deal like what the American Farm 
Company of Buffalo proposed to do 
some years ago. That company got a 
good many thousand dollars out of 
farmers in several States, including New 
York, but the farmers never got any¬ 
thing in return except experience and 
loss. We regret that farmers in New 
York State are investing in this stock. 
There is no reason in ihe world why 
they should pay for the privilege of buy¬ 
ing feed from this concern. We doubt 
if many readers of The R. N.-Y. will 
do so. 
The Locator Company, of Chicago, 
Ill., seems (o be another of the Os¬ 
trander pupils. They can sell your 
farm. Indeed, they have customers now 
for farms in your neighborhood—“ex¬ 
ceptional opportunities if listed at once,” 
but the listing costs $15, to be paid in 
advance. Of course, if you do not write 
at once, other propositions will follow, 
but money in advance—more or less— r 
is the basis of the whole scheme. If you 
have any money to burn, better make 
your wife an anniversary present rather 
than send it to such plausible schemers. 
Enclosed please find $1 currency for my 
thirty-eighth renewal, 1 am 83 years of 
age. Please send Cook Book to me; here 
are three 10-wceks’ subscriptions. 
Ohio. G. M. H. 
When a farmer sends his thirty-eighth 
annual renewal and at the same time 
takes the trouble to send 10-weeks or¬ 
ders for three of his neighbors, there is 
really little that he can add in way of 
expressing his approval of the paper. 
We sincerely hope this good friend of 
83 may round out a complete century, 
and that each of his succeeding days 
may increase in happiness. 
I send these four subscribers because 
the things you are working for are' my 
sentiments to the letter. As a graduate of 
a New England agricultural college I wish 
to lend my support to a paper that believes 
In “delivering ihe goods.” n. s. 
Massachusetts. 
It is to be assumed that the graduate 
of an agricultural college, who returns 
to the farm, must know about the kind 
of help to expect from the right kind 
of a farm paper. We are especially 
anxious at this time to have a large list 
of those 10-wceks new subscriptions. 
Without being insistant personally, we 
would like each friend who can do so to 
interest himself to some extent. Just 
one name from each would make the 
subscription record for the next year the 
biggest in the history of this or any 
other farm paper. Can vou help it a 
little? We would gladly send the little 
envelopes. _ j. j. D. 
EXPERIENCE WITH AN INCUBATOR. 
I note what is said on page 405 tinder 
the heading “Incubator Troubles.” Last 
Spring eggs were placed in one of the most 
popular and widely advertised of "non- 
moisture" incubators. At the beginning of 
the eighteenth day a fair samp/, of 49 
eggs were transferred to a “moisture ma¬ 
chine.” This machine lias a tray llllod 
with wet sand placed a few inches beneath 
the egg tray, and covering the enlire bot¬ 
tom surface of the incubator.. The re¬ 
sult as here given speaks for itself: Non- 
moisture incubator: Fertile eggs in ma¬ 
chine eighteenth day, 117; per cent 
hatched, 45; dead in shell, fully developed, 
30 per cent; dead germs, 25 per cent. Sand 
tray machine: Fertile eggs, eighteenth day, 
49; per cent hatched, 73; dead, fully de¬ 
veloped, two per cent; dead germs, 25 per 
cent. To express ourselves by a slang 
phrase, “This did jar us some.” Later 
tests proved approximately the same thing, 
and we know of other instances where 
nearly tho same results were secured. In 
justice to the manufacturer of the non¬ 
moisture machine I must say that the first 
season the machine was used I was fairly 
successful, but for the past three seasons 
it never gave the results of the first 
season, neither in percentage of eggs 
hatched nor in “livable” chicks. 
Does the continued use of a non-moisture 
incubator have a tendency to deteriorate 
the quality of our stock; T mean, of 
course from a point, of health. Well do I 
know that It: Is a case of “taking the bull 
by the horns." so to speak, when one 
makes this statement. There are many 
cases to prove the case for and against. 
The best I can say to Interested renders is 
to reserve judgment until you have followed 
up the hatching results with different 
makes of incubators, with eggs from 
various breeds and incubators In a variety 
of locations, from a wet cellar to a dry 
garret, and this not merely for one season 
but several. One more point would I offer 
for consideration. Our experience before 
using our snml tray incubator has been 
that hen-hatched chicks were always strong 
on their legs and neither crippled nor de¬ 
formed, while the non-moisture incubators 
gave us several that were deformed, 
twisted legs or beak or hump-hacked. I 
have yet to find that person who will deny 
the generality of this statement. We never 
get a deformed chick from our sand tray in¬ 
cubator. Others may for aught 1 know, 
but thnt. has been our experience thus far. 
Why is this result? The only explanation 
that presents 'itself is that *a.n undue 
amount of evaporation of Ihe liquid egg 
content causes in some instances a slight 
adhesion of the growing embryo to the 
shell. When the egg is turned this adhe¬ 
sion causes a twisting of some portion of 
tho embryo which results In a deformity 
of the chick when hatched. 
Bepealed experiments have proved that 
there is more evaporation of the contents 
of the eggs in Ihe average Incubator than 
under a hen. A hen that steals her nest 
In the wet grass will evaporate from nine 
to 14 per cent, while the incubator will 
evaporate from 18 to 22 per cent, much de¬ 
pending upon the location of the machine. 
Of course some one will say, “How about: 
the hep that hatches every egg in the nest, 
in the hay loft?” Again I reiterate that 
we must deal with generalities and not: 
specific instances. Most, of us can also 
call to mind instances where the hen has 
stolen her nest in either place mentioned 
and failed 1<> hatch (‘■veil one egg. But then 
that, like the poor Incubator hatch, is 
what we never mention to our neighbors. 
I merely cite the nest in the grass be¬ 
cause it is the natural nesting place *>f the 
hen In her native stale. The subject of 
artificial incubation Is one which admits 
unlimited investigation mid discussion. We 
are like many others, seeking for knowledge 
of the truth, and any comments will ho 
appreciated. grin a. wheeler. 
St. Lawrence f’o., N. Y. 
“Big Wings.” —We have come to the con¬ 
clusion that the “big wings” trouble In our 
Leghorn chicks was not: caused by food or 
care. We think it is the breed, as Ply¬ 
mouth Bock and Wyandotte chicks given 
same care and hatched same, in fact right 
with tho Leghorns, lived and grew and 
are pretty. I think as G. W. B. says, clip¬ 
ping the wings as soon as they start, 
might help, and I am going to try it. Floyd 
<4. White says it is not really big wings 
but sick chicks, hut I think the growing 
of the wings and feathers so fast is one 
reason they are sick. They begin to feather 
out almost as soon as hatched, and if not 
from extra strong, vigorous stock, are in¬ 
clined to be weakly and die. What do 
olliers think about it? c. n. 
Elko, Va. 
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409 Pearl Street, 
New York. 
