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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
January 15 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Thanks. We would like to express 
our appreciation in some stronger way, 
but words fail us. The subscription re¬ 
turns for the first business day of 1910, 
were 51.2 per cent above the records of 
any corresponding day in the history of 
the paper. An increase of more than 
one-half for the first business day of 
the year is a good beginning, and we 
want everyone who contributed to it to 
accept our sincere thanks. It was a 
generous response to our request, and 
we hope to keep it in mind every day 
of the year as an inspiration for daily 
service to you. 
Again we repeat that anonymous in¬ 
quiries cannot be answered in this de¬ 
partment. If not signed the inquiry 
simply goes into the waste basket. We 
can make no other use of it. 
The People’s Mutual Life Insurance 
Association and League of Syracuse, N. 
Y., are under investigation by the State 
Insurance Department. We have had 
some criticism of this company in the 
past, but definite information of irregu¬ 
larities was difficult to obtain. The De¬ 
partment inquiry will probably develop 
something definite now. 
The Howell Condensed Milk & Cream Co. 
sent the balance of the checks for October 
milk on the 23d of December. November 
milk not yet settled for January 1st. 
New York. pkoducer. 
We should think the Howell Com¬ 
pany would have trouble to renew con¬ 
tracts with producers another season un¬ 
less they are willing to put up security 
for prompt payment. It is just a bit too 
much to expect producers to furnish 
capital for dealers under present con* 
ditions. 
I am paying for subscriptions in recogni¬ 
tion for the valuable services rendered me 
in securing payment from a firm in Newark, 
which would not reply to my repeated let¬ 
ters. I received a check recently in full, 
for which 1 am more than thankful to you 
for the trouble taken to induce the firm to 
pay up. I fully expected to be compelled 
to resort to law in order to convince them 
I really meant business. Now you have 
saved me all the trouble. s. b. k. 
New Jersey. 
We are glad to save our people 
trouble; and we are pleased to know 
that some concerns will pay up rather 
than go on the snide roster. 
Add my name to your long list of pleased 
friends. The hill of $39.25 which I placed 
in your hands to collect, resulted in a 
check for that amount being sent me by the 
party to whom I had previously sent the 
bill and several letters with no results 
whatever. Although I have no further evi¬ 
dence of your interference in the matter, 
the check is a decidedly strong point in 
“circumstantial evidence" that you were 
the means of bringing about such a desir¬ 
able termination of the affair. Please ac¬ 
cept my sincere thanks and let me know 
what will repay you. e. B. 
Connect ieut. 
This was a bill for milk and cream 
delivered t® a Summer boarding house. 
When the season was over the keeper 
disappeared suddenly, and was located 
in the city. One letter was all our part 
in it, and we are already overpaid for 
that. We do not always meet the same 
success. 
An Ohio patron received a seed cata¬ 
logue from the Moore Seed Company 
of Philadelphia, Pa., and made them the 
following reply: 
Enclosed please find the outside of your 
“glowing” wholesale price list; the balance 
of it is in the fire. The whole thing is a 
fake of the first water. After seeing the 
statement in this week's issue of that re¬ 
liable paper, Tub Rural New-Yorker, I 
was not at all surprised at the flashy ad¬ 
vertising matter you send out, for in most 
cases such concerns send out the poorest 
goods. c. M. D. 
Ohio. 
Ill letter to us this correspondent 
says he thinks the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment ought to stop the mailing of the 
catalogue, and suggests that we get 
after them that way. We doubt if the 
Department would act on a single com¬ 
plaint, but if farmers generally, would 
enter complaint and tell the Moore Seed 
Co. plainly what they think of such 
transactions, they would soon change 
their methods or go out of business. 
Here is another: 
I have read your expose of the Moore 
Seed Company with very great interest and 
profit. I have been a patron of this com¬ 
pany for several years, but should I remain 
a farmer in South Jersey for the next one 
hundred years I would never buy another 
ounce of seed from them unless they make a 
very much better showing in regard to their 
Alfalfa seed transaction than they have yet 
done. The written agreement which these 
people entered into to take back the seed 
and return the money was either.made in 
good faith or it was not. The fact that they 
now refuse to return the money after two 
competent authorities have declared the seed 
to be unfit for use shows conclusively that 
the agreement was not made in good faith. 
The agreement was simply a snare to catch 
a customer In a man who knew just what 
he wanted and went to work in an intel¬ 
ligent way to get it. The whole thing re¬ 
solves Itself into a simple effort on the 
part of the Moore Seed Company to get a 
little money under false pretenses. The 
place to go for redress in a matter of this 
kind is to the postal authorities at Wash- 
ingt'ui. Uncle Sam does not permit the use 
of his post offices for skulduggery of this 
kind, not if he knows it.- It has very often 
happened that the doors of all the post 
offices in the land have been slammed shut 
in the face of people like those who evi¬ 
dently compose the Moore Seed Company. 
Shut out of I he United States mails these 
people would have ample time to sit down 
and figure out just where they are at. 
l.et every seed buyer boycott them at least. 
New Jersey. J. a. v. 
A general diffusion of the spirit of 
the above two writers, would soon dis¬ 
pose of seedsmen of the Moore Seed 
Co. type. 
Mr. E. G. Lewis’s check for $25 was re¬ 
ceived this morning. I am sure you de¬ 
serve pay for your trouble, so please let 
mo know the amount. I will take pleasure 
in mailing a dozen of the little envelopes 
to farmers in this State and Georgia whose 
addresses I know. mrs. c. c. 
So. Carolina. 
Mr. Lewis now says that the only 
reason these people have not had their 
money before is that they have not 
asked for it. Of course he knows that 
this is not true, and he ought to know 
that we know it is not true. We have 
numerous letters before us written to 
his victims who had demanded a return 
of their money. These letters are very 
plausible, and full of excuses, but they 
avoid the return of the money. In his 
paper he reports that a single day brings 
him $20,000. In his private letter before 
us written to a poor woman he says he 
is not able to refund $25 which he has 
held for several years without interest 
or return. The truth of the matter as 
we see it is that he pays up the cases 
that we follow up, and puts the others 
off with promises, which he has been 
repeating in one form or another for 
several years. Those who take our ad¬ 
vice will demand their money now, and 
insist on getting it while money is 
reaching him on new schemes, if it 
does not come let us know. 
I notice in a recent issue a tribute to 
the greae seed oats distributor of Rochester. 
As the oat distributor is a product of this 
country, you might be interested to know 
the development of this agricultural 
prodigy. While traveling through Ontario 
four years ago, I ran into the home nest 
of this migratory bird, and learned from a 
former neighbor of his the inception of his 
great seed oats industry. ITe was raised on 
a farm in. Zorra Township in Oxford 
County, Out., just six miles north of In- 
gersoll town, at a place called Rayslde, 
where his father kept a local post office 
while running the farm. This scion of the 
family was always averse to toiling with 
his hands, and as he expanded in stature 
he used his wits to expand his present 
scheme of farming the farmers. lie visited 
the grain thrashings in the neighborhood 
and contracted for supply of oats where he 
found any of particularly good color and 
well matured and well cured (oats then 
used to sell for 25 cents per bushel), took 
the oats to the home farm and spent the 
Winter months cleaning and dressing it up 
while he had agents traveling all over tie' 
Province taking orders from farmers for 
this great new brand of oats, which he 
decked out in a fancy new name such as 
would sure captivate the sucker farmers 
who were willing to pay 10 cents per pound 
for five-pound and 10-pound parcels of same 
and around $2.50 per bushel in one or two- 
busliel lots. These agents got 20 to 25 
per cent commission on sales and he ar¬ 
ranged with the leading feed store mer¬ 
chants in the different towns to deliver the 
parcels to the farmers around who ordered, 
and were notified by post card where to 
call and pay for their parcels (he paid 15 
per cent for this service). This field was 
not productive enough of the sucker class to 
suit the greed of this great seed oats phil¬ 
anthropist, so lie hied him over to your side 
of the line to Rochester, where no doubt he 
has developed a wider field for his usefulness. 
This, in brief, is the history of this enter¬ 
prise as I learned at his early home. You 
can draw your own conclusions, and if you 
can put these facts in shape to save any 
over-confiding sons of toil from listening to 
such fairy oats tales and keep their hard- 
earned dollars down in their boots so it 
won't be carried away or the hot-aired 
wings of eloquent seed oats orators you will 
be doing some more valuable missionary 
work of which you seem never to tire. 
Wishing The R. N.-Y. and its large family 
the best of everything this earth can pro¬ 
duce ; there will be sure then no Wonder- 
berries or fake oats in the crop. 
Canada. w. J. 
There is not much to add to the above. 
The story is both qlear and concise. 
It is evident that the early Canadian 
plan has been worked with some success 
in New York State. The story carries 
its own lesson. j. j. d. 
Choice Bred Bronze Turkeys 
mated, unrelated. 
Stamp. Mrs. Harriet Chumbley, Draper, Va. 
P URE BRED TURKEYS S POULTRY-Select Stock. Price 
Right. Oir. Free. Fairview Farm, Shrewsbury, Pa. 
B RONX10 T O M S .bred for vigor: young hens mat ed 
positively unrelated. Bert McConnell, I.igonler, I ml. 
BOUrbOn Red ^ arraKans ® tta,ld ^ - Bronze Toma 
at maturity. 
I Will make standard weight birds 
W. K. Carle, K. F. 1). No. 1, Jncolndmrg, Ohio - 
AGNIFICENT Narragansett Turkeys and Buff Rock 
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of the Lamp for a Hatch with the 
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The new incubator way saves oil because 
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X-RAY INCUBATOR COMPANY, 47th Street, Wayne, Neb. 
$ 10.15 
FOR THIS 
100-Egg, Fireproof, Automatic 
BROODER - 
INCURATOR 
or Two for $19-80, with all fixtures 
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Hatches and Hovers like a Live Hen. One 
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Now is the time to 
plan your poultry 
work lor this season. 
If you need anew in¬ 
cubator or brooder 
please write us. We 
will save you money. 
Tho materials in our 
machines this season 
we bought before the 
present high prices. 
Wo do by machinery 
what others do by 
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from tho Cyphers—In every country and cli¬ 
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and Brooders aro non-moisture; eelf-reeu- 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or flue granulated, also 
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TAYLOR BROS., 10 Market Street. CAMDEN. N. J. 
We still have some 
Single Comb White 
Leghorn stock, both 
old and young, to dis- 
Some promising May 
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pose of at prices to suit, 
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65 leading varieties of land and water- 
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B. H. CREIDER, Box 68, Rheomm, Pa. 
HONE’S “BRED TO LAY” ROSE 
COMB RHODE ISLAND REDS 
lots bred from best selected layers; also choice year¬ 
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S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
MAKE GOOD BROILERS; SO DO 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
If you want highest prices, now is tho time to start 
your incubators. We have the fertile Eggs. 
WOODLANDS FARM (Inc.), IONA, N. J. 
S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
Cockerels $1.25 Hens $1 
Catalog- free. 
It tells how to 
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and other dis¬ 
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many die in 
late winter & 
early spring. 
Send in orders 
liowfor chicks 
next spring, 
O. M. Lauver, 
Richfield, Fa. 
Box 73 . 
W D Hock Cockerels, early hatched from tested 
fT 1 1 1 heavy layers. $3 to $3 each. Trap nests 
used exclusively. A. 8. BRIAN, Ml. Kisco, N. Y. 
R. C. Rhode Island Reds, 
her Ducks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding, show or export. SINCLAIR 
Smith, 602 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Tiios, $5; Eggs for 
Hatching, $1 for 15; $5 for 100. Catalog free. 
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information. Describes and Illustrates 3!. varieties. You can’t 
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S P \KI I-EGHORNS of exceptional vigor and 
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FARM, Box Y, llavre de Grace, Md. 
m Standard Bred White and Brown Leghorn 
Hens and Cockerels, Bronze Turkeys, Tou¬ 
louse Geese. AMERICAN PET STOCK CO., 
Collins, Ohio. 
PUKE BRED POULTRY. 
To reduce stock will sell Lt. Brahmas, Barred 
and White P. Rocks at $6 trio this month, nice ones. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
KEAN’S WHITE WYANDOTTES 
Bred for large size, heavy laying. Some fine cockerels 
for sale at $2 cacti. E. FRANKLIN KEAN, Stanley. N. Y. 
AlUiH PEKIN DUCKS, Wh.Wyandotts and W. Rock, Cockerels 
• and Toulouse Geese for sale. E* Sehieber, Huey mu, O. 
MAKE HENS LAY“I 
more eggs; larger, more vigorous chicks; 
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H 
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matter and prices at once- Address 
Racine Hatcher Company 
Bos Racine, Wis. 
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