1013. 
1107 
“ FINGERMARKS OF FAKES.” 
No. I. 
I shall expect yon to send your reply 
to this letter on or before Saturday, the 
30th of August, because I am sending 
this offer to a limited number of per¬ 
sons, and you may congratulate yourself 
that you have been selected as one. If 
you do not accept, I want to make the 
offer to another person in your stead. In 
the foregoing letter I neglected to state 
that the postage or expressage on the 
box will be fully prepaid by me. The 
remedies and apparatus will come under 
plain cover, no advertising on the out¬ 
side. 
We are reminded to print a few notes 
on “fingermarks of fakes,” in the hope 
that all our people may come to recog¬ 
nize them. This extract is from the 
“letter” of a deafness cure “specialist,” 
who for some years has been after some 
of our readers. Now this is not a letter 
at all. It is a printed circular, well de¬ 
signed to deceive the average man. It 
was printed and sent out to thousands 
of names obtained in all sorts of ways. 
The object is to make you believe that 
this benevolent person has sent you a 
personal letter, and that he has a personal 
interest in your case. That is all non¬ 
sense. This man has an interest in your 
money. lie thinks no more of you than 
he does of thousands of other strangers. 
This suggestion that you “may congratu¬ 
late yourself” is another of the earmarks. 
Me will take your money any time, and 
the “offer” is free to any one of 90,000.000 
Americans. Any man who expresses all 
this loving kindness for a “limited num¬ 
ber”—including yourself—is a fraud. 
You may safely class any doctor who ad¬ 
vertises, and makes claims as this man 
does, as a fake. It is possible that hon¬ 
est and reliable physicians might" resort 
to such methods, but we never knew 
them to do so, and we would stamp such 
circulars and appeals with the earmarks 
of a fake. 
CABBAGE RUNNING TO STALKS. 
What is the trouble with my cabbage? 
July 15 I put out 1,200 Danish Ball 
Head cabbage; they were fine-looking 
plants. They are now 15 to IS inches 
high. There is a little coil of leaves at 
the top. but they continue to go on up 
like a mullein stalk. Will they ever 
head? Can I do anything to make them 
head? If it fails it will be a loss to me 
of at least $40. l>. c v 
Oxford, N. J. 
So far as I know there are but two 
reasons why your cabbage is in the con¬ 
dition you describe. The one is the run¬ 
ning out of the strain; the other, lack of 
proper cultivation. In most cases the 
latter reasons is responsible for Sum¬ 
mer-raised cabbage running to stalk. 
Cabbage must have rich soil and receive 
good cultivation or it will not make good 
marketable heads. Some of our most 
successful market gardeners think as 
heavy an application as 75 to SO tons 
of good manure to the acre is not too 
much, and find it profitable to apply it 
in such large quantities. 
As soon as the plants become well 
established, cultivation must begin, first 
by carefully loosening the soil around 
the plants, to be followed by the culti¬ 
vator between the rows. The best results 
cannot be obtained unless the crop is 
cultivated frequently and deeply. This 
should be done at least once every 10 
days, and oftener if heavy rains occur, 
until the spreading of the leaves across 
the rows will not longer leave room for 
the cultivator without danger of perma¬ 
nent injury from breakage of leaves, etc. 
Hoe cultivation may be continued for 
some time thereafter with benefit. It is 
no uncommon sight in some gardens to 
see cabbage with stems 18 inches or more 
high, with oidj r a small bunch of worm- 
eaten leaves at the top. Upon examina- 
lion of the conditions surrounding them, 
>t is almost invariably found that the 
soil is in a hard compact condition, as 
d it had been frequently trodden upon, 
and the plants left to grow as best they 
can, while in the fields where good cul¬ 
tivation has been given the plants, the 
stems will be thick and short, bearing 
large solid heads. I am of the opinion 
}our crop is a total loss, and know of 
nothing that can be done at this late 
date to nvoid it. k 
The rain falls alike on the just and 
the unjust/ a clergyman once said. “ ‘Not 
a bit of it/ a parishioner retorted. ‘The 
unjust have all the closed motor cars and 
umbrellas/ “—Washington Star. 
THE i_rKAL 
CROPS 
The present season has been one of 
many trials for farmers in this section; a 
cold, late Spring, hot, extremely dry Sum¬ 
mer, winding up with a killing frost on 
September 10. Hay was generally a fair 
crop; some new seeding was killed by 
frost, but second year meadows were ex¬ 
cellent. Wheat was above the average 
yield. Oats made a great growth of 
straw, but owing to the hot dry weather 
filled poorly. Corn is generally late, 
of small growth, and was all killed by 
the frost. Potatoes looked like a bumper 
crop, if they could have had two weeks 
more without frost. As it is, the yield 
will be only fair. Apples very scarce. 
The pastures have been brown' for two 
months, and the milk flow is shortened. 
Cheese factories have paid good prices 
for milk this season. Cows very high, in 
spite of the high prices of hay and grain. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. c. e. m. 
September 22. While on a wagon ride 
yesterday in an adjoining town, not very 
celebrated for its agricultural advantages, 
I found two German families about five 
miles apart who had tried Dakota farm¬ 
ing. sold out, moved Hast, and bought 
again. Western conditions didn’t appeal 
to them. While some conditions in Con¬ 
necticut are not the best, it has an ad¬ 
vantage in the way of markets that other 
States do not possess, and there is no 
need of anyone taking a 35-cent dollar 
here if he has any business at all in him. 
Milk prices at present, retail, eight and 
nine cents a quart; wholesale, 4y 2 -5y 2 ; 
butter, 38-40; veal, nine alive, 14-16 
dressed. Hay, $20-$25; potatoes, $1 to 
$1.20 per bushel. Apples a good crop, 
price unsettled. Pears and plums a drug. 
IOggs, 40-45; fowls, 16 cents live; chick¬ 
ens. 20 cents live, 28 cents dressed. 
Connecticut. g. l. g. 
September 18. The very hot and dry 
spell the last of August and the first part 
of September is at last broken by the 
good rains of the past few 7 days. The 
ground had become so dry and hard that 
much plowing is yet to be done. Some 
wheat was sown the first of this week. 
Corn is being cut; it was drying up so 
the stalks look as though there had been 
a frost on it. Everything was showing 
the effects of the dry weather. Corn is 
too far gone to be revived by the present 
rains. Pastures and meadows are pick¬ 
ing up, and promise fine Fall pasture. 
Thrashing is nearly all done. Wheat 
and oats were a fair crop; new wheat 
90 cents per bushel; oats, new, 45 to 48. 
Some_have dug their potatoes; crop is 
poor in yield and tubers small in size. 
Old wheat $1 per bushel. Fresh cows 
scarce, $60 to $90. Beef cattle and Stock¬ 
ers scarce and prices going up. Fat and 
stock hogs doing well, and sell from 
seven to nine cents live weight. Much 
inquiry for new hay, $15 to $17 per ton. 
Good country butter, 35; fresh eggs. 28 
to 30; young chickens, 18 to 20 cents per 
pound live weight. j. g. h. 
Uniontown, Pa. 
It has rained all day (September 15) 
and good prospect of a rainy night, the 
first general rain since May 16. A few 
local showers have kept things alive. 
Garden beans and potatoes a total fail- 
ure. Hay, corn, oats and strawberries 
one-half a crop. Pastures have been 
poor all of the season and some farmers 
have had to feed dry feed since first of 
July. Kieffer pears and Winter apples 
are small and wormy and have dropped 
badly. Peaches a fair crop where there 
are trees, but most of the trees were 
killed in the Winter of 1911-12. No 
commercial orchards are being set and 
a good many are taking out their orchards 
as fruit has not been a paying proposi¬ 
tion for a few years. Hogs and cows 
are bringing good prices at sales, but 
sheep, horses and mules sell low. Stock 
has been shipped out and farmers have 
received fair prices for it. A good deal 
of Timothy seed has been sown and about 
the usual amount of wheat will be sown 
now. Baled hay. $12 to $17 per ton; 
wheat, 85; corn. 80; oats. 45; potatoes, 
$1.10; butter, 25; eggs, 21. b. d. c. 
Farina, Ill._ 
FROM CENTRAL NEW YORK. 
We have had three full inches of rain 
in 24 hours, and the thirsty ground took 
it all in, and could stand more. We have 
had only one rain to speak of since the 
first of June, and that did not last long 
with the heavy north winds following. 
I do not believe 1 ever knew as severe a 
dry spell. One of my neighbors said he 
did not believe he had corn enough on 
three acres to fatten his two pigs; an¬ 
other that he dug a row of potatoes 24 
rods long and only got one bushel. An¬ 
other, who keeps bees, said they were 
walking around on the ground gathering 
honey from the buckwheat. I had a com¬ 
mission man to whom I ship peaches, 
write the other day saying he was having 
a mighty hard time selling the No. 3, 4. 
.) and 6 I sent him. I think we are 
going to live through it all right; had a 
good hay, wheat and oat crop, and the 
people are good neighbors. The parson¬ 
age burned up at a little church at Covert 
the other night. The minister and his 
wife and child, who had only been there 
for a short time, just got out with their 
night clothes on. The community around 
have contributed about $600 beside a lot 
of furniture, etc. This is a good country 
to live in yet. The frost on the 14tli 
killed all the garden truck and other 
things in proportion. a. k. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
NEW-YORKER 
GEO . A. BOTTGER, 
President of The United 
Factories Company and 
originator of the plan to 
let you SEE and TRY 
the goods 
BEFORE YOU PA Y. 
m This Booh 
mmcToms 
PRODUCTS 
FREE 
and Postpaid 
I want you to see for your¬ 
self how you can save a lot of 
money on Paint, Roofing', Fencing, 
Gasoline Engines, Buggies, Harness, Imple¬ 
ments, Stoves, Sewing Machines, etc., by 
buying direct from The United Factories. I 
, ... want to prove to you that no one factory 
operating alone can possibly compete with our 20 United Factories—that no single 
dealer can possibly meet our direct-to-you prices. I also want to tell you all about 
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<>ee the Goods Before You Roy 
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nothing to do but order the goods, take them home—examine them at your leisure, 
til? “ 30 -* a ? s before you pay anyone a penny. It is a plan that no other house in 
America offers it pleases everybody—it is far better than seeing the goods in any store. If 
nonoo. r Qr^°T'fi a * ;IS ^t? a r teI ; 30 days actual use on your farm, send back the goods at my ex¬ 
pense and 111 pay the freight both ways. You wont be out one cent. Let me send your 
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SPECIAL 
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Just now I am making a special 90-Day Sale at 
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covers prices from all our factories on all grades o'f knito Prepared 
Roofing. Excell Metal Roofing-galvanized or painted. Also Wall 
board and Asphalt Shingles. 
I’ll Ship Your Roofing Before You Pay 
Send No Money. My new way of letting my customers 
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to buy anything. Just tell me what kind of a building you want 
to cover and 111 ship tho roofing, let you take it home—examine it 
— test it put it on your buildings—give you 30 day’s trial before 
you pay. If for any reason when goods arrive you are not satisfied 
—send them back, 1 II stand all freight charges. You won't be out 
a cent. My factories stand back of mo—I stand back of my goods. 
\\ rite for samples. GEO. A. BOTTGER. Pres. 
Read I Vhat Users Say About 
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Incubator, brooder, 90 rods of fencing, gate and plow on 
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gooda. Am speaking a good word for your firm whenever 
1 can. C. S. Allen, Ksperance, N. Y. 
I have been using the Unito Paint for the last six or 6even 
years and I will say that it is tho best paint that I ever 
UNITED FACTORIES Products 
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Yours truly, M. D. Duguid, Painter. 
Stafford, N. Y. 
The 20 rolls of Galvanized Roofing I bought of you a year 
ago made a good roof. I buy no more of wrecked goods, too 
thin. I have your Galvanized Rooting on my house and 
some noighbors want the same. J. T. Jknney, 
Wiiliamstown, N. Y. 
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and up buys a 
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GEO. A. BOTTGER, Pres, 
The "nlted Factories Co., 
_ m 924 United Factories Bldg., 
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