say 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 18, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
During January we have received 74 
accounts for collection through this de¬ 
partment, amounting to more than 
$2,000. During the month we collected 
50 accounts, aggregating $1,409.60, and 
answered 216 inquiries for ratings on 
houses with which farmers do business. 
Nearly one-half the accounts received 
during January were settled the same 
month. 
Frank Chase, the contractor for the 
Pinellas chapter house of the American 
Woman's League, has stopped work be¬ 
cause of the failure of the St. Louis officers 
to pay according to contract. The con¬ 
tractor was to be paid monthly, but he has 
expended $4,000 and got no payment. The 
independent, St. Petersburg, Fla. 
The intelligent women are getting 
wise to Mr. Lewis. Further reference 
to his schemes on page 211. 
The Metropolitan Live Stock Insur¬ 
ance Company, Syracuse, N. V., is now 
being liquidated by the State Insurance 
Department. The policies issued by the 
company have no value, and those who 
followed our advice have saved their 
money. Persons having any claim 
against the company are- required to file 
a written statement, verified by oath, 
with Frederic G. Dunham, Special Dep¬ 
uty Superintendent of Insurance, No. 25 
Washington Avenue, Albany, N. V., on 
or before the 20th day of February, 
(1911, 
I would suggest that you warn your 
readers against “promoter stocks.” A num¬ 
ber of people in this section have been in¬ 
duced to invest all their savings in the 
trash, and uo one knows what will result 
when they realize the worthlessness of 
their holdings. o. w. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The suggestion is good, and the con¬ 
clusion correct, hut we have been warn¬ 
ing. people right along against -such 
stocks. Our old subscribers are im- 
tmune; but the new people coming along 
from time to time have sad experience 
to relate. Write your local papers and 
others that you take and insist that they 
show up such fakes. If they did so 
generally the “promoters” would have 
lean picking. 
I have had in mind offering a suggestion 
for some time. Would it not be practic¬ 
able and valuable to put the Publisher's 
Desk department in book form? It would 
need editing for that purpose, of course, 
'but tb • point is it contains much valuable 
'information, and has for many years, 
liven when one preserves the files, how¬ 
ever, it is not readily available. One can 
remember some detail, a name or address 
of some transaction, but it is not possible 
to find it readily by going back in the tiles. 
If it were in book form and indexed, there 
is much that would be helpful, especially 
about men and firms whom it is well to 
fight shy of—and remember. It might 
make a worthy premium book for your 
uses. With all good wishes, H. M. 
New Jersey. 
There is a good suggestion in the 
above; we have often thought of it. 
But there are some difficulties in the 
plan. If we can overcome them, we 
may reprint the matter as suggested. 
I am one of your satisfied new sub¬ 
scribers : paper “best ever.” I enclose you 
•a postal of one of our “parasitical" firms 
that are allowed to use our mails. For 
about eight months I have not heard from 
this Globe Association, Chicago, Ill. ; rea¬ 
son: I wrote them a peppery letter. Still 
they will throw oht their bait once more. 
Wisconsin. W. n. 
This concern has been under investi¬ 
gation by the postal authorities, and an 
indictment was issued some time back, 
.'and is probably yet pending. The De¬ 
partment is now doing good work in 
running down shady schemes; but it is 
often liard to convict even when it is 
clear that the scheme is a swindle. For 
a new subscriber, however, this friend 
is on his job all right. These people 
’ try to make you think you get $S0 a 
month ; but what you really get is a 
commission on the privilege of faking 
your neighbors for their benefit. 
I am sending you herewith “dividend 
notice" of the Ware Progress Company of 
Chicago. I have none of its shares, but 
have received quite a number of letters en¬ 
couraging me to buy. Would like to know 
about them. i. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
This concern is located at Dayton, O., 
with apparently a representative at Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., and an acreage at Americas, 
Ga., with some planting of fruit trees, 
an estimate of the value of which we 
have not been able to get with any de¬ 
gree of satisfaction. They also have a 
canning plant. The real estate is re¬ 
ported to be mortgaged at $40,000. The 
report would indicate that the business 
is being well enough conducted, but we 
see nothing in it to justify an invest¬ 
ment in its securities by outsiders. The 
company has an authorized capital of 
$,'100,000 which, of coqrse, represents 
only the equity above the mortgage. 
How much would you give per share for 
$1100,000 worth of stock in your neigh¬ 
bor's farm with a heavy mortgage? A 
Georgia farm is little different. A pe¬ 
culiar thing about the dividend notice is 
the assurances that the next dividend 
date is set for August 1, 1911. At the 
expiration of 30 weeks they promise a 
profit on the 1911 peach crop. It is to 
say the least unusual that a dividend 
should be declared on peaches that are 
yet in the bud. 
A Massachusetts friend recently asked 
our advice about a 10-acre farm garden 
proposition at Houston, Texas. He had 
already made a small payment. We ad¬ 
vised him to forfeit his payment, and 
burn the contract. He evidently sent 
the letter on to the promoters, the 
Allison-Richey Gulf Coast Homes Co., 
and they come back at us with sarcasm 
enough to set fire to a water-soaked 
hemlock log. Their contention is that 
the South has great agricultural possi¬ 
bilities ; that we have not investigated 
their corporation; and finally that we 
do not know as much about orange and 
fig culture as paid Government em¬ 
ployes who make a specialty of the 
subject. All this might be granted with¬ 
out affecting the merit of our advice. 
The land promoting companies may be 
trusted to tell all the good features of 
the country they are promoting—we 
were about to say exploiting—but we 
have yet to find one of them who gave 
a fair and honest statement of the diffi¬ 
culties and drawbacks of the country to 
which they invite attention. In this 
case, without any special information 
on the particular proposition, which was 
clearly stated, our advice was based on 
the general principle. No man can 
afford to buy land in promoting schemes 
until he has personally inspected it and 
is prepared to occupy it. In any of the 
many land schemes that we have inves¬ 
tigated, a proposed purchaser can al¬ 
ways buy land better suited to his pur¬ 
poses outside of the company’s pos¬ 
session for less money than they charge 
per acre. What protection is it to the 
distant purchaser that the company is 
strong financially? His money may help 
make it so. Or that the State as a whole 
is productive and prosperous? A 10- 
acre lot in such a State may not be an 
unmixed blessing. We would say nay 
to no man who wished to establish him¬ 
self in so good an agricultural State 
as Texas; but we will not advise our 
friends to buy a pig in a bag. 
Do vou know anything about the Me- 
Knight Itealty Co., 347 Fifth avenue. New 
York City? Would money invested with 
them he a good investment? It is claimed 
that it will give a large return in a few 
years. They have land at Whitestone, and 
Flushing, and other places on Long Island. 
Pennsylvania. b. F. Mi 
This is rather a small company the 
way real estate companies go, and it 
has the reputation of meeting its obli¬ 
gations, but it does not seem to make 
any definite tabulated statements of its 
financial affairs, so that estimates of its 
worth are all that could be furnished. It 
is said that they have organized sev¬ 
eral other companies on Long Island. 
These companies buy up acreages, divide 
them into lots, and sell the lots. It is 
said that the company has been success¬ 
ful along these lines. That does not 
make the lots necessarily a good in¬ 
vestment for an outsider. If you want 
to build a home on Long Island and 
the location suits you, the location of 
the lots might wisely be looked up and 
the prices compared with other lots 
equally as well located in the same 
neighborhood and in other localities. 
But thousands of lots on Long Island 
have been sold in the same way to in¬ 
experienced investors. The companies 
make money; but the lots are often 
sold afterwards for taxes. Long Island 
is literally covered with these tax-sale 
lots. The companies usually show con¬ 
siderable activity while the sales are be¬ 
ing made. Streets are being laid out 
and sidewalks made in some instances; 
but when the lots are sold, the company 
gets out and repeats the operation in a 
new field. Then grass grows in the 
old streets. There is no market for 
the lots. Purchasers become discour¬ 
aged, and forfeit payments, and the lots 
are sold for mortgage or taxes. This 
is the history of numerous transactions. 
There is absolutely no opportunity for a 
farmer or anyone else living at a dis¬ 
tance to invest in such lots with any 
reasonable hope of profit. Loss is the 
almost invariable rule. j. j. D. 
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R. MacKEI.I.AR’S SONS Col, Peekskill, N. Y. 
HOLLY WOOD FARM 
consisting of seventy-five acres of high class poultry, offers a 
limited number of eggs for hatching from following varieties: 
S. C. Black Orpingtons from first prize pen, Inter¬ 
national Show at Buffalo, 1911 . . SI 0.00 oer 15 Eggs 
S. C. White Orpingtons from first prize pen, Great 
Annual Batavia Show, 1910 .... 510.00 per 15 Eggs 
White Plymouth Rocks from second prize pen at 
(treat International Show, 1910 . . 55.00 per 15 Eggs 
White Wyandottes, pen headed hy champion White 
Wyandotte cockerel Great International Show, 
1910. S5.00 per 15 Eggs 
White Leghorns from liens with records of 220 
eggs per year. 53.00 per 15 Eggs 
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FARM, Darien Center, N. Y., It. !<’. D. 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHKR. 
Single and Bose Comb W. Leghorns, W. P. Bocks 
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 batching eggs and day old chicks 
and ducklings. Sate delivery guaranteed. Satis¬ 
faction. CAUL W. LLOYD, Mgr,, HILLSIDE, 
Westchester County. N. Y. 
BUFF WYANDOTTES £S„Uof 
15. LAWRENCE ESSELSTYN, Clnverack, N. Y. 
q n EGGS $1.00—leading varieties, 52 breeds. Prize Poul- 
L U try. Pigeons, Hares, etc. Booklet free. Large illus¬ 
trated descriptive Catalog 10c. F. G. WILE, Telford, Pa. 
T HE FARMER'S FOWL— Rose Comb P.eds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs,, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
W HITE WYANDOTTES and Indian "Genuine Fawn” Runner 
Ducks. Grand Win a>id Lay Strains. Stock and 
Eggs at honest prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Write 0WNLAND FARM. Bux 497, South Hammond, N. Y. 
G RAY African and Mammoth Buff Geese Eggs from Exhi¬ 
bition stock, $4 for 9, or from utility stock, $3 
for 9. Zella Wilson, 102 S. 7th St., Zanesville, O. 
Van Alstyne’s Rhode Island Reds 
100 S. C. YearlineHens at $2.00 each. 
50 S. O. surplus Pullets at $2.50 each. 
10 Utility Cockerels at $3.00 each. 
JAS. J£. VAN ALSTYNE, Kinderhook, N.Y. 
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Rhode Island Reds, Light Brahmas, Mammoth 
Bronze Turkeys and Pearl Guinea Fowl. Orders 
for early settings and baby chicks now booked. 
Get some prize matings at right prices. BONNIE 
BRAE POULTRY FARM, NEW ROCHELLE, N Y. Largest 
successful plant in New York vicinity. 10,000-egg 
capacity. Agents for Cyphers Incubator Company. 
Correspondence invited. 
R9CHU&NQ FARMS, Frederick, Md. 
Breeders and Exhibitors of 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. 
WINNINGS—Madison Square Garden, K.Y., 1910— 
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We have for sale at. moderate prices the best lot 
of breeding Cockerels that we have ever offered. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM 
A breeding establishment of 250 acres, 
devoted to developing the best 
S. C. W. IiEGIIOnTNTS 
Fine Breeding Cockerels at reasonable prices. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y, HAVRE BE GRACE, Maryland. 
FMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at X. Y. State Fair. Heavy layers; trios, 
$5. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
logue free. C. H. ZIMMER, Wkkdspokt, N. Y. 
Buff, Wh. Leghorns, Mottled Aneonas, S. C.It. I. Red. 
Eggs. 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. $2.75 per 00, $4 per 100. 
Catalogue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
S. C. W. Leghorn Eggs 
perlS, $8 perlOO. Patapsco Farm, R.D.2, Reisterstown.Md. 
OiNGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS-Hatching eggs from 
0 vigorous birds a specialty. Quality kind at 
right prices. Famous Lakewood strain. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Fleiriington, N. J. 
Kirkup s Utility Strain SX. White Leghorns 
Bred for vigor, size and large white market eggs. 
Eggs and Baby Chicks for sale. Custom hatching a 
specialty. Semi for circular. Kirkup Bros., Mattituck, L.l. 
Everything in R. 1. Reds. 
Stock the best, prices tho lowest. CHICKS now- 
ready. Overlook Poultry Farm, Foxboro, Mass. 
S.C. RHODE ISLAND REDS Ml 
At The Horseshoe Road Poultry Farm ^fces.'^Address 
WM. R. BURKHOLDER, Box 152, R. 5, Lancaster, Pa. 
Eggs For Hatching - }?,.;;;, g;;£ 
Indian Itunner Ducks. High-class stock- 
utility. show or export SINCLAIR SMITH, 002 
Fifth Street. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Davis S, G. Reds IS G COCKERELS 
$3 and $5 each. EGGS FOR HATCHING. 
BABY CHICKS—$15 and $20 per 100 after March 1. 
BOOK ORDERS NOW. Davis Poultry Farm, Berlin, Mass. 
COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES-Beauty&utility combined. 
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EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS. Marietta. Pa. 
TA/RIGHT’S WHITE WYANDOTTE WINNERS-Eggs, $4.50 
VV for 100. Baby Chicks. $12.50 for 100; $7.50 for 50. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, StanfordviUe, N. Y. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—Heavy laying strain—$5.00 
1 per trio. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperauce, N. Y. 
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Int fitLtDnAItU PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS 
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 ami ani¬ 
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Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
PARTRIDGE COCHIN Cocks and Cockerels for sale. 
T>. S. Hartwell. (Stamp.) 
HEDGE LAWN FARM, Washington, Conn. 
EGGS—$4 pel- 15, $2 per 40 of Tlmr. Brahmas. Rocl.8, Wyan- 
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2S years’ experience. Catalogue. S. IC. Mohr, Coopersburg, Pa. 
