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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 22, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The Auto Press Co., of New York, 
about which we have received much 
inquiry, is now proposing an increase of 
its capital stock by $2,000,000. As long 
as raw paper and ink hold out there is 
no good reason why they should not 
issue all the stock people will buy. Do 
we recommend the purchase of the 
stock? Oh, yes. At 40 cents a hundred 
pounds for junk. 
The names of the women labeled the 
American Woman’s League is now the 
“sucker list’’ of the Lewis enterprises-, 
and it is being peddled around as the 
only vital asset of the bankrupt outfit, 
after a chattel mortgage has been is¬ 
sued against a few cups, its sole pos¬ 
session. Lewis has'given his noble, con¬ 
fiding, loving women one distinction: 
He has made them independent emanci¬ 
pated members of the first exclusive 
female “sucker list” on record. Is there 
no shame in the would-be respectable 
publishers who treat the confiding gulli¬ 
bility of these deluded women as a cash 
asset? 
Gardner’s Nursery Co.. Osage, Iowa, have 
a proposition to pay 12 per cent for money 
in any amount from .$10 to $500. What do 
you think of it. E. J. A. 
New York. 
This concern is making a fake propo¬ 
sition for the sale of nursery stock. 
They call it an advertising orchard, and 
try to make you believe that you are 
getting the stock cheap because of the 
advertising. We have had many com¬ 
plaints in the past about stock sent on 
these orders, and we have refused their 
advertising. Our advice to you is not to 
loan any money to any concern that 
promises 12 per cent interest. If the 
credit of a house is such that it has to 
pay 12 per cent interest, the security for 
the loan is not all that could be desired. 
The Southern Express has paid my claim 
of $12.13 for one case of eggs lost October 
26 during strike period in New York. Please 
accept my thanks for your efforts in my be¬ 
half. J. E. w. 
Virginia. 
This claim was for a shipment of eggs 
to a commission house in New York, 
which the Adams Express Company 
failed to deliver. They offered the ship¬ 
per $5.98, which was less than half the 
value of the eggs. We refused settle¬ 
ment on that basis. The above letter 
shows the result. The express com¬ 
panies refuse adjustment in cases where 
shipments were delayed during the 
strike period and in many cases sold 
them for what they could get out of 
them, and the shipper is obliged to take 
this amount or get nothing at all for his 
goods. In this case the shipment was 
lost, and we were able to insist on the 
full value. 
While attending a show at Watertown, 
N. Y., a ticket was given to me which I 
was to sign and put into a box with others 
of the same kind. To-day I received a let¬ 
ter saying I was one of the lucky ones and 
had drawn a building lot. Their agent is 
to call. It will cost $6 to execute deed and 
pass title. It looks like a fraud. Please 
advise. a. w. h. 
New York. 
Of course it is a fake. Everyone is 
one of the lucky ones. This scheme has 
been worked over and over for years. 
Land over a hundred miles out on Long 
Island is usually selected. Some of it 
is under water, more of it is scrub oak 
land worth possibly $3 per acre, and 
sometimes the companies have no title, 
nothing but an option of some doubtful 
value. At best the lots cost them about 
30 cents, so that they can well afford to 
give them away for $6. Sometimes they 
get $20 or more. A number of these 
promoters have been sent to prison by 
the Post Office Department on such 
schemes. Don’t let them work the trick 
on you. 
Last week William George Motley 
was lyrrested at 32 Broadway, New 
York, by Post Office inspectors under a 
charge of alleged misuse of the mails in 
the sale of stock in the Alleghany 
Quartz and Channel Mining Co., of 
which he is president. The company is 
said to own the Gold Star mine and 
the Cold Spring quartz mine in Nevada 
county, California. During recent years 
he has promoted several other mining 
companies. It is alleged that he paid 
dividends that were not earned on one 
of his mining companies for the pur¬ 
pose of effecting sales of the stock. 
Of course, Mr. Motley was indignant 
at his arrest. His opinion of the In¬ 
spector and the Post Office officials gen¬ 
erally no doubt coincided with the 
sentiments expressed by E. G. Lewis 
and many others whose traffic has been 
interrupted. Did you ever know a 
rogue with high opinion of the law? 
The “sucker list” was one of his big as¬ 
sets. It is said that this one is the most 
complete of any yet discovered. 
About two years ago I commenced treat¬ 
ment for a complication of diseases with a 
doctor. J. L. Winslow, Pittsburg, Pa. He 
guaranteed to cure me in five or six 
months. I paid him $100 for professional 
services, and he sent me medicine every 
month, and cost me about $7 each ship¬ 
ment. He said he would cure me in five 
or six months or return the full amount 
of the professional fee. I used his medicine 
for about 18 months. I quit using the 
medicine about four months ago. I could 
not see that I was any better at the end 
of the treatment than when I started. The 
doctor refused to return the one hundred 
dollars, and when I write to him he tells 
me to continue the treatment. I send you 
the guarantee which he gave me when I 
was at his office about two years ago. 
Pennsylvania. a subscriber. 
The written agreement in above case 
provides that the patient was to pay 
$100, and follow the directions of Dr. 
Winslow. The doctor agrees to furnish 
professional services until the patient is 
cured, provided the patient takes the 
treatment as prescribed regularly and 
without any interruption to the course, 
and abides by all instructions given by 
Dr. Winslow or his assistants. He 
agrees to return the full amount of the 
fee for services in case of failure to 
cure or render satisfaction. The adver¬ 
tisements published by Dr. Winslow 
state “no cure no pay,” and “I never ac¬ 
cept pay for my services until I make a 
cure.” You will note that the agree¬ 
ment is that the patient use the treat¬ 
ment until cured without interruption 
and strictly according to instructions. 
There is no limit of time, so that un¬ 
der the contract the patient may be 
obliged to continue the treatment as 
long as he lives, and as Dr. Winslow 
gets about $7 a month for the medicine 
the process does not seem to be an un¬ 
bearable burden to him. Dr. Winslow 
insists that he is under no obligation to 
return the money as promised, since the 
patient has not lived up to the letter of 
his agreement. The promise to cure in 
five or six months, if made, must have 
been verbal, as no limit of time is made 
in the contract. To say the least, the 
ethics of the medical profession would 
hardly sanction the issue of such a con¬ 
tract to a patient. Notwithstanding the 
technical terms of the agreement we be¬ 
lieve the courts would give the patient a 
judgment for the fee, if the case went 
to trial. 
What can you tell us about the stock of 
the Columbian Magazine as an investment7 
They claim to pay 16 per cent dividends. 
They are selling quite large blocks in this 
neighborhood. • D. D. 
New York. 
In the name of common sense why 
should farmers risk their savings in 
publishing ventures? This is a new 
publication. .There is nothing about its 
appearance to indicate that it has met 
with, any special public favor, or that it 
deserves anything unusual. We think it 
would be an agreeable and encouraging 
surprise to other publishers to ex¬ 
amine the earnings and expenses of the 
company and discover an earning to jus¬ 
tify a 16 per cent dividend. Any claim 
by any publisher that a stock is paying 
a dividend of 16 per cent and that the 
stock is actually worth double the price 
at which you can buy it, should be 
carefully investigated before you part 
with the cash. Periodical publishing is 
a precarious business at best. While the 
publication is new, the best anyone can 
say is that it is being tried out; and 
experience shows the total failures out¬ 
number the conspicuous successes many 
times over. When publishers want to 
speculate on their ability to run a paper 
with your money and point to the few 
concerns which have been successful, ask 
them if they are not familiar with the 
ventures that were complete failures, 
and lost every cent that was put into 
them by outsiders like yourself. Pub¬ 
lishers who go into these ventures with 
their own money have our best wishes 
for their success, but when they attempt 
to allure country people to put their sav¬ 
ings into such ventures, our sympathies 
are with the investor, and it becomes 
our plain duty to express a word of 
caution. 
You are certainly on the job when you 
get after the crooks and dead beats. You 
are like a hard-boiled egg, hard to heat. 
New York. a. j. g. 
We are glad to have a little encour¬ 
agement of this sort. Sometimes we 
feel that we are not making much 
headway. The interests that are inter¬ 
fered with are more prompt to protest 
than those indirectly benefited are to 
approve. This is but natural. We ex¬ 
pect that it would be so, but it makes 
the approval of decent people all the 
more welcome when it does come. The 
R. N.-Y. people are always prompt, how¬ 
ever, to respond to any request for co¬ 
operation, and that is the secret of any 
results actually attained. j. j. d. 
Gasoline Engines 
214 and 3'A Horsepower 
I>eyo Engines are always reliable. They 
will run properly at any temperature 
and at all times. Best material and 
workmanship assure the Deyo owner 
of a good engine. We can and will 
prove it if you write for booklet 1-B. 
DEY0-MACEY ENGINE CO., Binghamton, N. Y. 
Manufacturer* of I>eyo I’ower Sprayers 
! 
UDMC’C ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND T||D|fCVQ 
nunc 0 REDS AND MAMMOTH BRONZE I UllfvL I 0 
Eggs and baby chicks from high class matings 
at reasonable prices, quality considered. Safe ar¬ 
rival and satisfaction guaranteed on all orders. 
D. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
W ILD AND BRONZE TURKEY EGGS-Chicken Eggs. Hand- 
— ■ ... some Catalog 2 ct- 
stamp, showing pure wild gobbler from the moun¬ 
tain. VALLEY VIEW POULTRY FARM, Belleville, Pa. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES 
SPECIAL OFFER— White Rock Eggs. $1 $ 15; $5 100. 
Partridge Cochin Eggs, $1.25 ^ 15: $6.00 ^ 100. 
Partridge Wyandotte Eggs. $1.00 $ 15; $5.00 11100. 
Barred Rock Eggs. $1.25 ^ 15; $7.00 14 100. 
Fresh eggs from good stock, free range and healthy. 
Circular prices hold on your choice of matings. 
MINCII BROS., IL-2, Bridgeton, N. J. 
W HITE EGG STRAIN INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS— Thor¬ 
oughbred, vigorous birds. Wonderful layers 
of large white eggs; mated with imported drakes, 
well marked, fawn and white; $2.00 for 15; Buff 
Orpingtons, $1.50 for 15. Liberal discount for incu¬ 
bator eggs. Cherry Hill Farms, Pittstown. N. J. 
LIFE PRODUCERS 
SUCCESSFUL INCUBATORS 
LIFE PRESERVERS 
SUCCESSFUL BROODERS 
The only machines that rival the mothei 
hen. Sold on a Direct-to-You Fac¬ 
tory Price. Get our Big FREE Incubator Book and save 
40%. Send postal now. Booklet,“Proper Care and Feeding 
of small Chicks. Ducks and Turkeys" sent for l(»c. 
DES MOINES INCUBATOR CO , 90 Second Si.. Der. Mo'nes, In, 
Everything for the ponltryman at low prices; Auto 
matic Feeders, Hall Mammoth and Model Incuba 
tors. Feed, Remedies, Hen-e-ta, Rat Corn, Liverine 
LegBands.etc. Prompt shipments. W rite forcatalog 
HARRIES & BENEDICT CO. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est. 1811 
R. MacKELLAR’.S SONS CO.. Peekskill, N. Y 
CfiffO—Guaranteed fertile; from range-grown 
Lu uO stock that pav large piofits at the egg basket 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY FARM . . R. D. 24, Athens, Pa. 
Dfllll TPYMCW _Sen<l 10 cents for our One 60 
lUUL I II I III L ll page Illustrated Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, Marietta, Pa 
T HOROUGH-BRED POULTRY— Best twenty varieties 
Good stock. Eggs, 15, $1: 40, $2. Catalogue 
H. Ii. MOHR, Quakertown, Pa., Route 3. 
S p WHITE LEGHORNS, Barred Plymouth Bocks, 
■ Ua if Mammoth White Pekin Ducks. Stock 
hatching eggs, chicks, ducklings. Circular. Est. 1904 
Abovo Poultry Farm. Chatham, Morris Co. N. J. 
Bonnie Brae White Leg¬ 
horns and Pekin Ducks 
ARE BETTER 
t h a n ever. 
Eggs from our 
heavy laying 
strains now 
ready; also some choice matings of Barred and 
White Plymouth Rocks, Rose Comb White Leg¬ 
horns, White Wyandottes, Single and Rose Comb 
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. 
RICHLAND FARMS. 
Breeders and Exhibitors 
S. C. WHITE LEGHOKNS, 
WHITE PLYMOUTH HOCKS, 
S. C. BLACK ORPINGTONS. 
HATCHING EGGS 
Half Price After May 1st. 
S. C. White Leghorns. 
fine Setting. 15 eggs .$1.00 
Two Settings, 30 eggs.. 1.75 
One hundred eggs. 4.00 
One thousand eggs.35.00 
White Plymouth Rocks 
& S. C. Black Orpingtons 
1 Setting, 15eggs,$1.25&$2.50 
100 eggs . .$7.00&$14.00 
Fertility Guaranteed. . 
RICHLAND FARMS, 
BABY CHICKS. 
100 or less, each....15c 
500 or more, each 12J-^c 
White Plymouth 
Rocks & S. C. Black 
Orpingtons. 
100 or less, each....25c 
We guarantee safe 
arrival of chicks in 
first-class condition. 
Frederick, M<1. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair. Heavy layers; trios. 
$5. Eggs for hatching, $1 for 15, $5 for 100. Cata¬ 
logue free. C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport, N. Y. 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHER. 
Single and Rose Comb W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks 
anti 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 and satisfaction 
guaranteed. CARL W. LLOYD, Mgr., 
Hillside. Westchester County, N. Y. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM 
A b reeding establishment of 250 acres, 
devoted to developing the best 
Si. O. W. LEGHORNS 
Fine Breeding Cockerels at reasonable prices. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM. Bo* Y, HAVRE DE GRACE. Maryland. 
S, G, White Leghorn BABY CHICKS 
$10 per 100 in any quantity. Breeders are vigorous 
yearlings and 2-year-olds. Circular. VANCKEST 
POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., X.Y. 
CHICKS Bab) CHICKS 
S C. WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS of Standard Quality. 
We guarantee chicks to he hatched from eggs laid 
by our own breeders and shipped only when day-old. 
We Can Please You. We Will Please You. 
Mammoth Hot Water Incubator having a capa¬ 
city of 10,200 eggs. 
Have Your Orders Booked. Circular Free. 
SPRING WATER POULTRY FARM, Stockton, New Jerse y . 
Pill I FT^ — S - C - w LEGHORNS— Booking orders 
■ HLLt I O future delivery. Hatching eggs from 
vigorous birds for prompt shipment. Limited 
number choice breeders. Lakewood and Youngs 
strains. SUNNY HILL FARM, Fiemington, N. J. 
SINGLE CGMB WHITE ORPINGTONS 
Kellerstrass strain. Eggs for hatching. $3.00 per 
15; from prize winning stock. W. A. KAISER, 
2703 Jamaica Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I. 
F INE QUALITY ORPINGTONS, black and white. Owens’ 
and Cook’s strains. $2 and $3 pec sitting. $1U 
per 100. Rev. J. D. GRAHAM Lyonsville, Mass. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS-Blaek Langshan Eggs for 
I sale. J. GORDON DRAKE, Port Huron, Mich. 
Indian Runner Ducks, S. C. White Leghorns 
Eggs for Hatching. Send for Circular. 
F. J. FULLER, Waterport, Orleans County, New York 
W RIGHT’S WHITE WYAN00HE WINNERS-Eggs, $4.50 
for 100. Baby Chix, $12.50 for 100; $7.00 for 50. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
S NOW WHITE WYANDOnE EGGS for hatching, $1 per 15, 
$5 per 100. A few good Cockerels. Circular free. 
GOLDENROD FARM, Dept. R, Stewartstown, Pa. 
WHITE WYANDOTTES-SrSb'rS'b", 
me for 12 years. Large, fine birds, splendid layers. 
Have been winning for 5 years. Eggs, high fertility, 
100,$5.00. Sitting,$1.00. WILLIAM 0. BURR, Fairfield, Conn. 
DUFF WYANDOTTES, heavy laying strain, 
$1.25 and $2.00 per set of 15; also Single Comb 
White Leghorns at $1.00 per set of 15. Also for ex¬ 
change. SUNNY HILL FARM, Nursery Ave..Woonsocket, R. I. 
“THREE COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES 
— jy Combine more of beauty and utility than 
UA Ko any breed today. Right there with the 
eggs every time. Stock and Hatching Eggs. Free illus¬ 
trated Mating List of winners. Address 
RALPH WOODWARD, Box 28, Grafton, Mass. 
White Wyandottes 
range. Eggs: $5.00 per 100, $1.00 for 15. 
C. H. FOGG, R. F. D. No. 3, Bridgeton, N. J. 
S.C.RHODE ISLAND REDS EGGS for 1 latch- 
At The Horseshoe Road Poultry Farm pj.f^ es ^Address 
WM. R. BURKHOLDER, Box 152, R. 5, Lancaster, Pa. 
Van Alstyne’s Rhode Island Reds 
10 Utility Cockerels at $3.00 each; 100 S. C. Year¬ 
ling Hens at $2.00 each; 50 S. C. surplus Pullets at 
$2.50 each. Eggs for hatching in any number. 
JAS. E. VAN ALSTYNE. Kinderliook, N.Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
THE BEST S. C. REDS 
. . . ARE . . . 
DAVIS’ 200 EGG STRAIN 
Utility.$1 per 13; $6 per 100 
Special Matings . . . $2 per 13; $10 per 100 
_ Prize Matings .... $5 per 13; Mammoth 
Hot Water Incubator Baby Chicks .... $15 per 100 
Book Orders Now Circular Free 
DAVIS POULTRY HARM, Berlin. Mass. 
Eggs For Hatchinrtami 
Indian Runner Ducks. High-class stock— 
utility, show or export SINCLAIii SMITH, 602 
Fifth-Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
REDS EXCLUSIVELY 
Eggs from Single Comb Handsome Dark Matings, 
$2.00 for 13; $8.00 per 100. From Utility Heavy 
Layers. $100 for 13; $4.50 per 100. 
O V E R I. O O K P O U L T R Y FARM 
Teh 59-4 Foxboro, Mass. 
A ..otln’o S. C. R. I. REDS—Bi 
AUStlll S {j 0 ] a y Eggs $1.50 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, C( 
Bred to lay and they 
50 per 15, $6.00 per 100. 
Centre Harbor, N. H. 
Barred Plymouth Rock-.’K-'.T SKS 
raised birds. Great laying strain, $1.25 per 16; 
$4.50 per 100. CHAS. T. DOWNING, West Chester, Pa. 
EGGS _ SI per 15, $2 per 40 of Thor. Brahma*. Rocks, Wyan¬ 
dottes, lied*, Minorcas, Houdans, Leghorns, Hamburgs; 19 var., 
28 years’ experience. Catalogue. S. K. Mohr, Coopersborg, l*a. 
‘PC— BARRED ROCKS; S. C. REDS; large, 
IUO vigorous layers; $1.00 for 15, $5.00 per 100, 
R. ELLIS ; ; : : Pulaski, N. Y. 
i EGGS si 00—Leading varieties, 52 breeds. Prize Poul- 
I trv. Pigeons, Hares, etc. Booklet free. Large ll lus¬ 
ted descriptive Catalog 10c. F. G. WILE, Telford, la. 
I- Wh: Leol..rns. Mottled Anconas, S. C-.1 I. lied 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Cockerel*, $1.50; old hen*, $2.00, 
chicks, 8c. each. If m:>re than lour 
chicUs are dead 
to each 100 you 
buy, when 
reaching your 
express office, I 
will make good 
the loss. Cata¬ 
log about chick 
feeding and diseases free. 
C. M. Lauver, Box 73, Richfield.Pa. 
KEAN’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Bred for large size, heavy laying and fancy pur¬ 
poses. Eggs, $1.00 per setting; $5.00perl00, for re¬ 
mainder of season. Address 
E. FRANKLIN KEAN .... Stanley, N. Y. 
