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THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
July 1, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
It would seem that almost every paper 
in the country except Mr. Lewis’s Na¬ 
tional weekly heard of the suits filed 
against his concerns on Tuesday of last 
week. Other St. Louis papers were full 
of it, but not a word of it appeared in 
the weekly. Perhaps it was thought the 
women would not be interested in a suit 
that tied up every one of the Lewis en¬ 
terprises and made it impossible for 
Lewis or any of his agents to dispose 
of the property. 
William R. Hearst, editor and pub¬ 
lisher of a New York City paper, has 
sued Collier’s Weekly for libel. Some¬ 
time back Collier’s sued Post of the 
Postum Company of Michigan for libel. 
The damage claimed in each case was 
about a half million. The Lewis suits 
against The R. N.-Y. aggregate more 
than six hundred thousand dollars. 
Colonel Harvey, editor of Harper’s 
Weekly, laments such suit of one pub¬ 
lisher against another. The Censor, a 
bright and coming literary publication of 
St. Louis, characterizes the publishers’ 
resort to the libel courts as a “baby act,” 
and tells the editors they are lacking in 
the elements that make “sports.” In our 
experience the libel suit has always been 
the last resort of a frightened faker. 
The citizens of Post City, Texas, seem 
to have a positive way of doing things. 
The “Appeal to Reason,” a paper which 
has had trouble with the Post Office 
Department, was being delivered by 
agents to the homes of the city. The 
people, however, protested. They did 
not want the paper, but the agent per¬ 
sisted in delivering it. So the people 
got up a petition among themselves to 
the grand jury, and signed their names 
to it. In this petition they complained 
that the paper contained vile and ob¬ 
scene literature and that the publisher 
persisted in forcing it into their homes 
in spite of protests and warning. They 
asked the jury to take such steps as may 
be necessary to stop the abuse. The pe¬ 
tition bore the signature, according to 
the local papers, of the best citizens of 
the place. It is to be hoped that the 
grand jury will find means to stop the 
abuse complained of. If so, perhaps the 
Hon. Jeff Davis will want a Congress¬ 
ional investigation of the grand jury. 
Some farmers In St. Lawrence County, 
near Gouverneur, N. Y., seem to be friends 
of A. .T. Bennett & Sons, and side with 
them. You criticised them recently in the 
paper. G. J. L. 
New York. 
We are sorry to offend any farmers in 
St. Lawrence County or elsewhere; but 
farmers ought to know that a concern 
that does an injustice to one farmer in 
any section is the concern of every 
farmer no matter where located. Some 
concerns which seem to stand very well 
at home, do not hesitate to ignore 
plain obligations to farm customers 
at a distance. Messrs. Bennett may 
be very good neighbors for all we 
know, but they have repeatedly received 
orders and remittances from farmers in 
other sections and then neglected to send 
the goods or to make any explanations 
for failure to do so. If there are any 
farmers in St. Lawrence County or 
elsewhere who sympathize with that 
sort of thing, Messrs. Bennett & Sons 
are welcome to their friendship. We 
doubt, however, if many farmers, know¬ 
ing the record which we can furnish, 
would encourage Messrs. Bennett in 
their neglect of other farmers who do 
not happen to be in a position to en¬ 
force just claims. 
We have In this community at this time 
two persons promoting a $6,000 creamery. 
They style themselves Jones & Bancroft, 
manufacturers of creamery supplies, Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. Nearly or quite all of the stock 
of this company has been subscribed by 
farmers. We would like to have your ad¬ 
vice about the investment. dairyman. 
Maryland. 
Cooperative creameries organized in 
this way are usually too expensive. In 
our experience promoters charge alto¬ 
gether too much for the material, and 
for the building and for the work of 
organization. They usually put up a 
creamery altogether too expensive and 
too large for the neighborhood and the 
number of cows to supply it. They 
complete their building, collect their 
money and disappear. Farmers are then 
thrown upon their own resources, and 
without experience in handling a propo¬ 
sition of the kind, usually find them¬ 
selves too heavily capitalized to make a 
success of the investment. There may 
be cases where this rule has not pre¬ 
vailed, but if so we have not found them. 
If the farmers would take up the work 
of organization themselves they could 
secure a plan for probably one-third of 
what it costs through these promoting 
agencies. They would profit by the ex¬ 
perience of the organizers, and when 
completed they would be in a better 
position to go on with the work, and 
having but a small capitalization would 
find it less expensive and easier to 
make profits. We have no record of 
experiences with this particular house, 
but the above is the observation of some 
25 years’ experience. 
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll, the large horse 
dealers on East 24th street, New York 
City, have announced that they have em¬ 
ployed an attorney and will hereafter 
prosecute at their own expense all 
swindling games in the horse line that 
come to their attention, with a view to 
rid the horse trade and the city of the 
“gyps” [evil. The advertisements of 
these “gyps” or horse crooks are easily 
distinguished by anyone who is familiar 
with the game; but they readily appeal 
to others. In the old days a “widow re¬ 
cently bereaved wanted to sell her late 
husband’s celebrated trotter” to anyone 
who would treat it kindly, and accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Carroll they often succeeded 
in disposing of $80 horses at prices 
ranging from $700^ Jo $2,000. Later it is 
“the family who Fought an automobile” 
that is looking for kind hands to treat 
a pet pair, or single favorite. Now 
you read of men of department stores, 
express companies and contracting firms 
going out of business or changing to 
auto trucks, and consequently having 
work horses at your own price. We 
have before referred to the tricks of 
these petty swindlers, and it would be a 
wholesome job if the above tffim would 
use its influence as promised So put the 
whole bunch of swindlers in the peni¬ 
tentiary. 
On August 18 I skipped Archdeacon & 
Company, New York, 80 bushel baskets of 
peaches. I made out my invoice card and 
gave it to the railroad agent at Kenton 
on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash¬ 
ington Railroad, but did not insist on a re¬ 
ceipt from him. Later Archdeacon & Co., 
replying to my complaint, said that they 
had not received the goods, and I applied 
to the agent for the receipt. He said lie 
could give me no receipt, because the goods 
had been shipped by Lewis Ililyard, a ship¬ 
ping agent here, direct to his commission 
merchant, Jacob Lippmann. Ililyard says 
he sent instructions to have them turned 
over to Archdeacon & Co. Lippmann did 
not do this, but sold the peaches at a 
sacriiice. Hilyard claims that this ship¬ 
ment was made in a chartered car. This 
was the first I heard of his hand in the 
transaction. I was shipping Archdeacon 
& Co. and not to Jacob Lippmann. Jacob 
Lippmann returned me $5.70 for peaches 
which should have netted me at least 
$13.35. Can you do anything to help me? 
Delaware. R. m. 
The contention of the railroad com¬ 
pany in this case is that their agent at 
Kenton had nothing whatever to do 
with the shipment; that the shipper 
placed the peaches in a car chartered by 
Hilyard and the agent had nothing to 
do with it. On the other hand the 
agent admits to Mr. McDowell that the 
invoice was made out and handed to 
him and that the agent knew Mr. Mc¬ 
Dowell was not shipping through Hil¬ 
yard. On the other hand Lippman says 
he had no information whatever as to 
the McDowell peaches being in his car, 
and he sold them all out in truck loads 
without any knowledge whatever of the 
McDowell peaches. Under such circum¬ 
stances there seems to be no redress 
for the shipper short of a lawsuit, and 
the amount does not justify a resort to 
the court. It looks very much as if 
a trick had been played upon the ship¬ 
per. In any event Hilyard had the ad¬ 
vantage of an extra shipment to fill 
his car, and Jacob Lippmann had the 
advantage of the sale, and the shipper 
stood a probable loss of $8 on the trans¬ 
action. We emphasize the circum¬ 
stances in order to bring home to ship¬ 
pers the importance of handling their 
shipments in a regular business way. 
Take time to get your invoice and re¬ 
ceipts and preserve them until the trans¬ 
action is closed. When there is a just 
reason for claim and we have all the 
papers we can get redress, but the ad¬ 
vantage every time is in favor of the 
shipping company and the receiver when 
the proper records are not to be had. 
Another oil company has fallen foul of 
Uncle Sam. The particular company is 
the Ilaiwea Pacific Oil Co., of Oakland, 
Cal., and it has been branded a fraud by 
the Postoffice Department. Postoffice in¬ 
spectors claim the concern has sold over 
$400,000 worth of stock. Once the com¬ 
pany was called the Roosevelt Oil Co., but 
was compelled by the former President to 
change its name.—Financial World. 
People persist in making inquiries 
about these oil companies. We have 
only one advice that we care to give— 
leave them alone. J. j. 0. 
NEWTON’S HEAVE 
COUCH, DISTEMPER /\| I D ET 
AND INDIGESTION V/UlVL 
The flrsipr second $1.00 can cures Heaves. The third 
can is guaranteed to cure 
_ The Standard Veterinary Remedy. 
Make) the llorse Strong and Willing to Work. 
CURES HEAVES BY CORRECTING THE CAUSE 
which Is Indigestion. Send for booklet “Horse Troub¬ 
les.'’ Explains fully about the Wind, Throat, Stomach 
and Blood. Newton’sissafeforcolt, adultor marein foal 
A GRAND CONDITIONER AND WORM EXPELLER 
91 .00 a con at dealers, or express prepaid 
THE JSEWTOH BEMEDY CO., Toledo, Ohio 
Seldom.See 
a big knee like this, bnt your horse may 
have a bunch or bruise on his Ankle, 
Hock, Stifle, Knee or Throat. 
will clean them off without laying the 
U»ror* After ij orso up . No Blister, no hair gone. 
12.00 per bottle delivered. Describe your case for 
special instructions and Hook 8 E free. 
ABSORBINE, JR., liniment for mankind. Re¬ 
moves Painful Swellings, Enlarged Glands, 
Goitre, Wens. Bruises, Varicose Veins, Varicosities, 
Old Sores. Allays Pain. Price $1 and $2 a bottle at 
druggists or delivered* Manufactured only by 
W.F.YOUNG, P.D.F.,88 Temple St., Springfield,Mau. 
rDllMD’C IMPROVED 
UKUmBd WARRINER 
STANCHION 
H. A. Moyer, Syracuse, 
N. Y., says “ they 
SAVE COST 
in feed in one winter.” 
Send address for speci¬ 
fications of inexpensive 
yet sanitary cow stable to 
WALLACE 1$. CRCMII, Box M2, Fore.trllle, Conn. 
ROBERTSON’S CHAT N 
HANGING STANCHIONS 
“I have used them for more 
than TWENTY YEARS, and they 
have given the very best of satis¬ 
faction in every way,” writes 
•T list us H. Cooley, M.D., Plainfield 
Sanitarium, Plainfield, N. J. 
Thirty days* trial on application 
O. n. ROBERTSON 
Wash. St., Forestville, Conn. 
COW COMFORT 
Means additional profit. Simple 
durable, easily locked. Poster 
Steel Stun e li Ion. cannot be 
opened by the cattle. Top and bot¬ 
tom chains permit free head move¬ 
ment, standing or lying down, yet 
keep cattle lined up and clean. 
Write for new booklet showing 
model stables. 
Foster Steel Stanchion Co., 
906 Ins. Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
EXCELSIOR SWING STANCHION 
Warranted The Best. 30 Days’ Trial 
Unlike all others. Stationary when open 
Noiseless Simple Sanitary Durable 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60, Cuba, N. Y. 
ROWN FENCE 
, Strongest, most durable fence 
I made. Heaviest, closest wires. Double 
galvanized. Practically indestructible. Stock 
mg Chicken tight. 14 to 35c per rod. Sample free. Wepayfrt. . 
leBrownFenc^^Wir^o^Dept^^CIeveland^Ohi^l 
Farmers Now 
aking Cheese 
Invention of Wonderful Com¬ 
plete Cheese-Making Outfit 
Enables Every Farm Home to 
Make Cheese at a big Profit. 
It is no longer necessary for Farmers to buy 
store cheese at a high price, or sell their milk to 
the Cheese Trust at a low price. A clever inven¬ 
tor has perfected a Complete Cheese-Making 
Outfit which enables every Farmer to make either 
a soft, rich, granular, or American Cheddar 
cheese right at home either for his own con¬ 
sumption or for sale to Dealers. 
Outfit consists of the following: One Cheese 
Press, One Horizontal Curd Knife, One Perpen¬ 
dicular Curd Knife, One Dairy Thermometer, 
One Bottle Rennett Extract, One Bottle Col¬ 
oring Matter and One Mold. This Complete 
Cheese-Making Outfit is sold direct from factory 
to farm at one small profit over actual cost to 
manufacture. It is simple, inexpensive, easily 
operated and pays for itself in a very short time. 
Capacity of this Outfit is from 25 to 40 quarts, 
making a cheese weighing from eight to ten 
pounds. With milk selling around 80 and 90 cents 
per hundred, any Farmer can save about one- 
third-of the price he pays for store cheese, and 
at the same time have an outlet for either his 
whole or skimmed milk. This excellent home¬ 
made cheese sells readily to the Dealer at a big 
profit, either for cash or in exchange for goods. 
This wonderful Complete Cheese-Making Outfit 
is manufactured by the Holland Sporting Goods 
Mfg. Co., Dept.E Holland, Mich. Every Farmer 
should write them for full description of the Out¬ 
fit, prices, etc., and exact directions telling how 
to make cheese at a profit right on the farm. 
•.THE 
ANIMALS 
--FRIEND 
„ Keeps flies and all 
insects and pests off 
animals — in barn or pas- 
tore—loneer than any imi¬ 
tation. Used and endorsed 
since 1885 by leading dairy¬ 
men and farmers. 
$1 worth saves 
-,...- in milk and flesh on each 
cow in a single season. Cures sores, stops itch inn 
and prevents infection. Nothing better for galls. 
Kills lice and mites in poultry houses. 
QFNh if your dealer can’t supply you. for 
iJLilVIS .pij enough Shoo-Fly to protect 200 
cows, nnd our 8 - tube gravity sprayer without 
extra charge. Money back if not satisfactory. Write 
for Booklet, free. Special terms to agents. 
Shoo-Fly Mfg. Co., Dept. P, 1301 N. 10th St., Philada. 
DAVIS S. C. REDS 
BABY CHIX 
$12.50 PER lOO BALANCE OF SEASON 
Full count and safe delivery guaranteed. 
DAVIS I’OUI-TKY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
Rose Comb Reds-Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class breeders and young stock for show, 
utility and export. May return at my expense if not 
satisfactory. Sinclair Smith, Southold, Suffolk Co., 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. 
Hunn Lake Poultry Farm K'hKS: 
White Wyandotte Chicks, $12 per 100. Eggs,lOper 100. 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHHK. 
Single and Rose Comb W. Leghorns, W. P. Itocks 
and Imp. Pekin Ducks. Cockerels and Ducks of 
both sexes for sale in any quantity from 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. 
5000 
Single-Combed White Leghorns, Barred 
Plymouth Rocks, Imperial Pekin Ducks, 
Bronze Turkeys and Guinea Hens at 
right prices. Yearlings, pullets, cocks or cockerels. 
Order at once for best selections. Largest success¬ 
ful poultry plant in the vicinity of New York City. 
Agents Cyphers’ Incubators. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Buff, Wli. Leghorns, Mottled Anconas, S. C. R. I. Red. 
Eggs, 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. $2.75 per 60, $4 per 100. 
Catalogue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
Choice lot Yearling Hens, Early Pullets and Cock¬ 
erels: any quantity at attractive prices: bred-to-lay 
kind. SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J 
|X)R SALE-After July 1st, 100 S. C. WHITE 
r LEGHORN YEARLING HENS, good layers and 
in a healthy condition, $1.00 each. Address 
15. 15. CHASE, Wyoming, Delaware. 
RARV rmri^Q Qi_ Each. Fromfree- 
I 0 2 C. range selected S. 
C. White Leghorns in any quantity. Safo arrival 
guaranteed. Circulars free. CHAS. R. STONE, Baby 
Chicken Farm, StaatsburD-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
T>ABY CHICKS—Single Comb White Leghorns, 
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 9c and 12c each. 
Strong and livable. From vigorous free range stock 
bred for utility and standard qualities. Safe delivery 
guaranteed. WESLEY GRIN.NELL, Sodus, N. Y. 
BABY CHICKS 
-SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS ; 
in the world; 2,000 Breeders; Chicks. $9.00 per 100 
during July; from free range stock; chicks that do 
nothingbut live and grow. Safe arrival guaranteed 
My book, “Profits in Poultry Keeping Solved," free 
with every 100 chick order. Circular free. 
BRIGGS' BABY CHICK FARM, Pleasant Valley, New York 
PRIZE WINNING STRAINS ! ^?, a . 
dottes, Rhode Island Reds, both combs, Singlo 
Comb White and Brown Leghorns, eggs $1.50, 15; 
$7.00, 100. Light and Dark Brahmas, $2.00, 15. Cat¬ 
alog gratis. F. M. PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
Ufa Will Qall —for$2.00 for liens amt $2.00to$5.00 
IIC Hill 3CII f or one-year-old cockerels—our 
surplus breeding stock of Partridge Cochins. Barred 
Rocks, White Rocks, Partridge Wyandottes. 
MINCH BROS. . R-2 . Bridgeton, N. J. 
nn EflOS $1.00—leading varieties, 62 breeds. Prize Poul- 
L U try, Pigeons, Hares, etc. Booklet free. Dirge illus¬ 
trated descriptive Catalog 10c. F. G. WILE, Telford, Pa. 
DPI 111 TDYM CW— Don't fall to secure Stock and 
rUULI n I STILll Eggs at our reduced prices. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS. Marietta, l’a, 
