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The spectacular career of Eugene Pur- 
telle, the . Chicago broker who promoted 
traction lines as a side issue and his fail¬ 
ure for $707-,938.11, as shown in the Illi¬ 
nois bankruptcy courts, lias struck dismay 
to hundreds of farmers all along the line 
from Hammond to Remington, where he 
did tiling's that would turn Colonel J. Rufus 
Wallingford green with envy. Purtelle ap¬ 
peared in Indiana a year ago and organ¬ 
ized a $5,000,000 company, known as the 
Northwestern Indiana Traction Company. 
The interurban line was to enter a virgin 
field and link together a score of farming 
communities. Purtelle’s stock in trade was 
a gold tipped walking stick and kid gloves. 
Purtelle wore the gloves the hottest day 
in Summer and it is declared that the farm¬ 
er’s bought more shares on the strength 
of the gloves and walking cane than any¬ 
thing else. Purtelle’s entrance into the 
bankruptcy courts followed a meeting of 
the Indiana stockholders of the traction 
company in Hammond recently, after the 
banks had received a quantity of protested 
paper issued by him. —Exchange. 
Just as long as farmers continue to 
be an easy mark for romantic promoters 
and get-rich-quick schemes, so long will 
we have experiences like the above to 
record. A wise use of the money in 
improvements of your home and farm 
would pay good dividends, and the prin¬ 
cipal would always be safe. Don’t 
throw away your savings on these fren¬ 
zied financial schemes. 
Here is some advice from Idaho re¬ 
garding a recent inquiry: 
On page 54 “Reader" asks about the 
advisability of investing in Arcadia Or¬ 
chard lands near Spokane, Wash. I live 
in the foot hills just off the land in ques¬ 
tion, and will say that in my opinion 
such an investment would be extremely 
risky unless the investor could be on the 
ground to look after things. One must re¬ 
member that in this kind of thing men 
must be hired to tend the orchard, and out 
here hired hands seem rather short on 
conscience. And there are other things 
that might be said without "knocking" the 
company promoting the scheme. We have 
an ideal climate -here for apple growing, 
and there are miles of as line orchard as a 
man ever saw, but the owners are on the 
spot with both feet, and have to be, for 
while the soil is fairly good the growers 
have just about the same list of drawbacks 
as •in the East and a few extra. Nor are 
the apples any better—what they gain in 
color they lose in flavor. Moreover, labor 
costs about twice as much out here ($2 to 
$2.50 per day,!, teams something more than 
that, and labor is on the whole unreliable, 
seeming Jo hold a grudge against you for 
owning anything. Supplies cost consider¬ 
ably more, and we have a merchants’ com¬ 
bine that makes the high cost of living a 
dead •certainty. Aside from this the land 
prices are inflated to the breaking point, 
and the water systems leave much to be 
desired, although I am told that good 
water may be obtained in unlimited quan¬ 
tities by drilling from 100 to 200 feet al¬ 
most anywhere in the Spokane Valley. 
Take note that short water spells failure 
in tliis country as a general thing. The 
grading laws are very strict and the large 
amount of inferior fruit culled out must 
usually be unloaded on an overstocked 
market. 
As ’to trucking, the local season is just 
right to catch tiro low prices, and com¬ 
petition has in the past been very keen. 
The early market is supplied by the Co¬ 
lumbia River gardens. In the Winter prac¬ 
tically everything is “dead,” with plenty 
of rough characters roaming about, and I 
might say that the parents who bring up 
a daughter or sou to maturity in un¬ 
tarnished purity are to be congratulated, 
to say the least. On the other hand we 
have a glorious country, a line city, good 
loads, fair railroad facilities, a healthy 
circulation of money and plenty of room 
for the man who knows and hustles and 
hangs on. Any one interested may learn 
the good side by corresponding with the 
Chamber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash., 
but take it from me, it’s no Garden of 
Eden, though the old snake is in evidence 
and the forbidden fruit plentiful. I might 
add that the merchants here are combin¬ 
ing to light parcels post, saying that it 
benefits no one but the mail order houses. 
God help their poor little souls—but it’s 
parcels post for us just the same, and on 
a 26-pound basis I think it would be easy 
to lix that consumer’s dollar business. 
Idaho. o. F. h. 
Charged with using the mails in a scheme 
to defraud William W. Wheatley, formerly 
of Manchester, N. II., arrested in Lawrence 
following a number of complaints that had 
been made of him to Chief Letherman of 
the Boston staff of postofiice inspectors, 
was held in $3,000 bail for a hearing Janu¬ 
ary 10. XVheatly, when placed under ar¬ 
rest, was doing a commission business with 
headquarters in a blacksmith shop at No. 
(540 Essex street, Lawrence. It is charged 
that he defrauded farmers in various parts 
of New England and Canada out of thou¬ 
sands of dollars worth of goods that had 
been shipped to him by them. Dealing only 
in sample car lots of hay, grain, lumber, 
coal and potatoes, Wheatley, it is alleged, 
would defer payment until the shippers 
were weary of his complaints concerning 
the quality of tbe goods. Then lie would 
offer about one-third of the value of the 
shipment, but in hardly any ease made pay¬ 
ment. Inspector Robinson, who was de¬ 
tailed on the case, received about 70 com¬ 
plaints against Wheatley, who has been liv¬ 
ing with his family in Winchester. Wheat- 
ley. at one time, did business at No. 185 
Summer street, Boston, as the Wheatley 
Hay, Grain and Lumber Company. Re¬ 
cently he filed a bankruptcy petition in 
New Hampshire with liabilities of nearly 
$17,000 and lawyers there for creditors 
have gone into the details of his transac¬ 
tions in an attempt to show fraud. While 
in Manchester, Wheatley’s family lived at 
the North End, the wealthy residential sec¬ 
tion of. the city, and moved in the best 
society.—Exchange. 
Our people will remember that as 
usual we got ahead of the post office 
on this case.- In issue of April 2 last 
we gave the experience we had with 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 4, 
Mr. Wheatley in trying to collect a bill 
for a shipment of wood. From the 
nature of such cases, we can often learn 
the tricks long before the inspectors can 
get evidence to make arrests.- \\ e can 
caution our own people, but after all it 
takes the Government to put them out 
of business, and the inspectors never 
did better work than now. Every de¬ 
cent citizen ought to feel it a personal 
obligation to give them every assist¬ 
ance possible. 
I have some small savings on which the 
local bank pays three per cent., but it takes 
most of that to pay the taxes—and banks do 
“burst”—according to the papers. Please 
tell me if a person who has only small sav¬ 
ings—several hundred dollars to a thousand 
—can invest in government bonds. What 
per cent, they pay and if registered ones 
mav be had iii the small amounts? Would 
aot such bonds be about sure of bringing 
their face value at any time? 
How and where can one procure such 
bonds? c. M. L. 
Indiana. 
Government bonds may be bought 
through any local bank or any respon¬ 
sible stock brokerage firm, like Henry 
Clews, of New York; but such small 
investments are well and safely deposited 
with savings banks, which pay four per 
cent interest and are not subject to 
taxes. These strong savings banks are 
as safe as anything human can be. The 
best place for investing savings is of 
course in your own neighborhood where 
you know the people and the security, 
and you get paid for your own super¬ 
vision in placing the loan and watching 
it afterwards. This ought to return 
five to six per cent. Next to this we 
would recommend the strong savings 
banks where the banks do the super¬ 
vision and you get the value of the 
money only, about four per cent. 
Demands will be made upon Congress, it 
is said, for an investigation of the wireless 
telegraph situation throughout the United 
States. Letters are being sent to members 
asking that the matter be taken up. These 
letters charge that a conspiracy was set on 
foot to destroy the United Wireless Tele¬ 
graph Company because its present officers 
would not surrender $5;000,000 worth of 
stock. 
If that was really the object of destroy¬ 
ing the company—a proposition which 
we question—then this is one instance 
when a good result followed a bad pur¬ 
pose. It is becoming a habit with finan¬ 
cial crooks to put up a bluff to Congress 
in an effort to attract attention from their 
misdeeds and win a show of sincerity for 
their feigned indignation. The Federal 
Grand Jury has already found indict¬ 
ments against tbe wireless promoters, and 
from recent experience with the Federal 
courts, we judge it will take more than 
a bluff to overcome tbe cold fact to be 
established-when tbe accused promoters 
stand before the bar in criminal proceed¬ 
ings. J- J- il 
Don’t Put Off Painting— 
It Will Prove Costly 
The longer you put off painting 
the more oil and lead the job 
will take. 
While you wait your buildings 
rot, exposed to the weather. 
The cost of paint made of 
“ Dutch Boy Painter’’ 
white lead and pure linseed oil is not 
so high as you may think. 
For an average house, the cost now 
of this genuine old-fashioned, mixed- 
’ - to-order pure white lead paint is not 
more than $4 or$5 greater than it 
used to be. Much cheaper than 
repair bills. 
Write for our free 
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If it is a Barred Rock, Ask 
if it is Pittsfield Strain 
“Money Ataking Poultry” was 
prepared by F. W. Briggs. 
America's leading poultryman, 
whose breed in Maine Barred 
Rocks are known everywhere. 
It tells how he cares for his 
flocks on the Pittsfield farm 
and how he produceswinners, 
Breeding and utility stock, 
day old chicks, and eggs 
for hatching. Write to¬ 
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Pittsfield Poultry 
Farm Co. 
416 Main St., 
Pittsfield, 
Maine. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb P.eds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOis. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
INGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS—Quality 
S 
BUGS $1.00— Leading varieties, 52 breeds. Prize Poul- 
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20 
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Written by 200 of the most successful 
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each person asking for it. It gives 
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INDIANA SILO COMPANY . 
BIS Union Building, Anderson, Indiana 
RfiHfi BROWN and White Leghorn Hens; Giant Bronze 
OUUU and White Holland Turkeys. Bred for heavy 
winter lovers. Numbers to suit.' Prices reasonable. 
THE AMERICAN POL'LTKY PLANT, Collins, Ohio. 
COLUMBIAN WYANDOHES— Beauty & ut ility combined. 
Splendid, vigorous Cockerels and Pens mated. Ad¬ 
dress RALPH Woodward, Box 28, Grafton, Mass. 
| Cock- 
i erels, 
pure white, up to standard weight, April hatched; 
full of vitality and vigor; ready for spring work. 
Your choice for $2. R. R. TURNER, The Plains, Virginia. 
T HURUUGH-BREU POULTRY— Best twenty varieties. 
Good stock. Eggs, 15, $1; 40, $2. Catalogue. 
II. K. MOHR, Quakertown, Pa., Route 3. 
p/^p'iT'C'p'CT Q—Prize-Winning Breeding 
LU dVdA-EL Stock—Black Orpingtons 
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DflIII TDYMEM -Send 10 cents for our tine 60- 
rUUL I II I IllLll page Illustrated Catalogue. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, Marietta,Pa. 
Eggs For Hatching” Island Reds— 
Indian Runner Ducks. Higb-class stock- 
utility, sfiow or export SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 
FifthSt reet. Brooklyn, N. Y. _ 
BUFF WYANDOTTES setting of 
15. LAWRENCE KSSELSTYN, Clnverack, N. Y. 
Everything in R. I. Reds. 
Stock the best, prices the lowest. CHICKS now 
ready. Overlook PooltryFAHM, Foxboro, Mass. 
Kean’s White Wyandottes. 
Bred for large size, heavy laying, vigor and fancy 
purposes. Eggs, $10 per 100, $5 per 45, $2 per 16. 
A few choice Pullets yet to sell. 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley, N. Y. 
e f Whito Tfl(nuirnQ~ 0rders taken f° rChicks 
u« v. it 111 It LLj-jllUlllj and Pullets. Eggs for 
hatching ready. All from one of best flocks in ex¬ 
istence. My 50-hen pens averaged all winter 200 
eggs weekly. A. J. Rosemund, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. 
Pure Bred Bronze Turkeys 
From Prize-winning Strains. Stamp.’ 
MRS. HARRIET CHUMBLEY, Draper, Ya. 
Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
of pure bred poultry, for 1911, over 200 
pages. 57 colored pictures of fowls, calen¬ 
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all details concerning the business, where 
and how to buy fine poultry, eggs for 
hatching, supplies, etc., at lowest cost. 
Send 15c. B. H. Greider, Box 58 .Rheems.Pa 
RICHLAND FARMS, Frederick, Md. 
Breeders and Exhibitors of 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. 
WINNINGS—Madison Square Garden, N.Y., 1910— 
4th Pen-S. C. BLACK URPINGTUNS. 
5th Pen—WHITE PLYMUUTH RUCKS. 
Baltimore, Md., 1911— 
1st Pen—2d PULLET and 5th CUCKEREL 
S. C. WHITE LEGHURNS (three entries). 
We are now booking orders for 
HATCHING EGGS and DAY-OLD CHICKS. 
We have for sale at moderate prices the best lot 
of breeding Cockerels tluft we have ever offered. 
UIUITC I cnunRNQ Wo will have some 
If HI It LtUnUnllO promising April 
_ ' a N n _ hatched Single Comb 
M u White Leghorn Cock- 
PEKIN DUCKS 
hatched Barred Rock Cockerels sired by 10 pound 
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Garden Blue Ribbon Winners, is second to none. 
Have 1,000 now to select from. Orders booked for 
early delivery of batching eggs in any quantity or 
day-old chicks and ducklings. Also Bronze Turkeys 
and their eggs for sale. Incubators 10,000 eggs ca¬ 
pacity. Cyphers agents. Correspondence invited. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. The only large successful 
plant in the vicinity of New York City. Donnie 
Drae Poultry Farm, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
IVIT. PLEASANT FARM 
A breeding establishment of 250 acres, 
devoted to developing the best 
IS. O. W. LiEGHOmM IS 
Fine Breeding Cockerels at reasonable prices. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y, HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland. 
Kirkup’s Utility Strain SX. White Leghorns 
Bred for vigor, size and large white market eggs. 
Eggs and Baby Chicks for sale. Custom batching a 
specialty. Semi for circular. Kirkug Bros., Mattituck.L.I. 
Baby 
Chicks 10c EachTsTugr t -’ :ee ?ele - cted 
- 1 ---^.ngle iComb White Leg¬ 
horn. Can furnish in any number I ain booking 
orders for early deliveries. Circular free. CHAS. R. 
STUNE, Baby Chicken Farm, Staatsburg-on-Hudson, N. V. 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHUlt. 
Single and Rose Comb W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks 
and Imp. Pekin Ducks. Cockerels and Ducks of 
both sexes for sale in any quantity from $2 up. 
Chicks, $15 per 100. Ducklings, $25 per 100. Write 
for special prices in large lots. Orders booked for 
early delivery of hatching eggs and day old chicks 
and ducklings. Safe delivery guaranteed. Satis¬ 
faction. CAUL W. LLOYD, Mgr., HILLSIDE, 
Westchester County. N. Y. 
Davis S. G. Reds i?K COCKERELS 
$3 and S5 each. EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
BABY CHICKS— $15 and $20 per 100 after March 1. 
BUUK URUERS NGW. Uavis Poultry Farm, Berlin, Mass 
PDIII TRY - 35 Best Breeds. Bred for Laying. 
rUULI n I Large circular illustrated in colors 
Free. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg,Va. 
Indian Runner Ducks _ S",i,XS“: 
Eggs, $1.50 per 13; $8.00 per 100. F. J. FULLER, 
Waterport, Orleans County. New York. 
L ARGE TUULUUSE GEESE, White Wyandotte Cockerels 
and White P. Rock Hens and Cockerels for sale. 
Prices low for quality. E. Schieber, R.2, Bucyrus, Uhio, 
T HUROUGHBREU Mammoth Bronze Turkeys— heavy bone 
and fine plumage. Mrs. Floyd Kirby, Draper, Va 
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Wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc., for stock¬ 
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swans, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, 
squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and ani¬ 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or tine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. "Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1814 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peekskill, X. V. 
