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T'HB; RURAt NEW-YORKER 
January 1, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Happy New Year. 
We always have a pride in our sub¬ 
scription mail for the first business day 
of the New Year. This year it will be 
Monday, January 3, 1910. We have the 
records for years back. We usually find 
in this first day’s record an intimation 
of the growth of the . Rural family 
during the whole year. We would like 
this year’s returns to eclipse all previous 
records. If you would help us in this 
result, mail your renewal on Friday or 
Saturday. We shall appreciate any ef¬ 
fort you make to do this, and will try 
hard to merit your confidence during 
the coming year. The new story “The 
Heron Nest/’ will be sent you by the 
first return mail. 
Will you inform me in regard to the re¬ 
liability of the New York and Chicago 
Electric Air Line Railroad? Is it in your 
opinion a fairly safe investment? 
Massachusetts. l. j. w. 
Some years back stock in this com¬ 
pany was sold to country people under 
promises of great profits and big divi¬ 
dends. We could see nothing in it as 
an investment, and advised our people 
to leave it alone. The next report was 
that the company failed and went into a 
receiver’s hands. Whether the road is 
now built or not, it is too much of a 
speculative proposition for farm sav¬ 
ings. No experienced investor would 
put money into it on the basis of the 
proposition to you. 
I shipped W. G. Cackett, of Utica. N. 
Y., 106 baskets of plums, in two lots, 
August 6, 56 baskets and August 13, 50 
baskets, and have heard nothing from them. 
I wrote him and received no answer. I 
would like your advice. a. c. s. 
New York. 
We are sorry; but you asked our ad¬ 
vice too late to help you this time. We 
have other similar complaints, and have 
not been able to collect for any of them. 
This Cackett made a personal canvass 
of western New York last Summer and 
secured some shipments. We do not 
know how many he paid for, if any. 
We do know that he has not paid for 
some, and seems to have no disposition 
to do so. Put his name in the list to 
avoid in the future. 
I signed an agreement with the Securi¬ 
ties Development Corporation, 335 Fifth 
Ave., New York whereby 1 am to pay 
,$75 for two building lots at Brookhaven, L. 
I., payment to be made monthly in five 
dollar installments. I have paid SI7.50. An¬ 
other payment is now due, and I would 
like to know if they are in position to 
deliver the deed when paid for. H. c. 
Connecticut. 
This is another of the many promo¬ 
tion fakes of Long Island. We can find 
no one at Brookhaven who knows any¬ 
thing about these people, but some wild 
land has been staked out there for lots. 
We have not found anyone willing to 
put a price on the lots. It has been 
claimed that it had been impossible to 
determine the ownership of the lands 
exploited by this company at Asbury 
Park, N. J. 
I enclose circular from Will II. Barrow. 
Putnam, Conn, received by me lately. I 
understand that they are doing a lot of 
business in Connecticut. Is there any pos¬ 
sibility that this would or could be a safe 
investment? no not bite. 
Connecticut. 
The circular is headed Earnest M. 
Arnold, same address. We found no 
rating for either of them, and asked 
Mr. Arnold for a financial statement 
and a list of the bonds he is offering. 
After five months he wrote that he 
gave customers an account folder and 
his note for a year or six months. We 
again requested him to send a financial 
statement, which he has not done. We 
know no more, but we say to you that 
it is not generally safe to invest money 
on any such plan. Some features of 
the proposition make us suspicious of 
it; and we would adopt the above nom 
de plume—“Do Not Bite.” 
Could you give me some information 
in regard to the Chicago-TVxas Land 
& Lumber Co., Chicago, Ill.? About 
live years ago I invested $105 in 
that company, and have never had one 
cent in return. I have written to them 
several times, but never get any satisfac¬ 
tion. They say the property in Texas is 
under litigation and they want each stock¬ 
holder to advance more money to try the 
case. When I invested my hard-earned 
money (I am a working girl), I was prom¬ 
ised sure and large returns in a short time, 
hut now I fear I shall lose all 1 have put 
in. I know a minister, a poor man, who 
also invested $500. I shall be very thank¬ 
ful if you can do anything for me. 
Kansas. B. G. 
It would be a great satisfaction if we 
could do something for this poor girl; 
but we cannot. The money was lost the 
moment she parted with it. These fak¬ 
ers always have some excuse for asking 
for more money. The sad part of it is 
they usually get it. They reason that 
when you put some money in, you will 
put in some more to save the first in¬ 
vestment. Many do. but they simply in¬ 
crease their loss. We hope to see the 
time when promoters will have to show 
a fair value for the stocks they sell 
though the mail or otherwise. 
Can a hired man place his savings more 
securely than in the “Bowery Savings 
Bank" and the “Union Dime Savings Bank” 
New York City? He proposes to buy a 
little farm, but he is one on whom a 
mortgage would not sit lightly, so the 
question is what to do with the money 
until sufficient is accumulated. If a little 
interest can be obtained at the same time, 
so much the better of course. But this is 
secondary to the security. f. e. a. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is a wise hired man. He will 
own his own farm some day all right. 
The fakers will not get his savings in 
exchange for worthless paper certifi¬ 
cates and big promises. His money will 
be all safe in those New York savings 
banks or the Emigrant Industrial Sav¬ 
ings Bank, or German Savings Bank, 
of this city; but these institutions pay 
interest on deposits only from the be¬ 
ginning of each quarter, and no interest 
is paid if the money is withdrawn until 
the end of the quarter or in some 
instances half yearly. They are now 
paying four per cent per annum. They 
are not obliged to pay withdrawals 
without 60 days’ notice, but except in 
rare cases, in time of panic, pay on de¬ 
mand. Even when the 60-day clause is 
adopted, withdrawals are allowed in 
cases of distress or necessity. Business 
men and investors usually deposit funds 
of this kind with a sound trust com¬ 
pany, where it pays three per cent 
interest on certificates of deposit from 
the date of deposit to date of with¬ 
drawal. 
I wish to thank you for your article 
in recent issue in regard to the Howell 
Milk Co., and we trust that it will have 
some effect with them. The producers have 
not all got their checks for October milk 
yet (December 14) : some of them got their 
checks two weeks ago. w. B. w. 
New York. 
Mr. Howell came here in the early part 
of December. He was careful not to make 
any promises, but pleaded for time. He 
said whatever else we do not to bring 
suit, and assured the committee that all 
would get their money in time, producer. 
New York. 
There is no one to object if producers 
wish to extend the time of payment on 
Mr. Howell’s milk bills; but on the 
other hand there is no reason why pro¬ 
ducers should continue to furnish capi¬ 
tal without security or interest for his 
business, if they do not want to do so. 
Mr. Howell said to us in this office that 
he would not sell milk to a local dealer 
who resold it to the consumer at eight 
cents per quart, because the dealer would 
not, he said, be able to pay him for the 
milk. If he wanted to help the monopoly 
in the control of milk prices, he would 
refuse to sell an independent dealer, 
who sold under the trust prices in the 
same way. But taking his own version 
of the case; if he were a producer, he 
would refuse to furnish milk to aqy 
concern, like his own, which does not 
pay within reasonable time as provided 
in his contract. j. j. d. 
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covering Kinds and Habits of Lice—The care of 
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P URE BRED TURKEYS & POULTRY-Select Stock. Price 
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I fiflfl Standard Bred White and Brown Leghorn 
IUUU Hens and Cockerels, Bronze Turkeys, Tou¬ 
louse Geese. AMERICAN PET STOCK CO., 
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S O VAI LEGHORNS of exceptional vigor and 
i U ■ f I ■ quality. 250 acres devoted to the best 
in Leghorns. Send for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
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Indian Runner Ducks, 260 Egg Strain, Drakes, $1.60 to $2. Light 
brahmas, prize stock, $2 and $3 each. C. Gordon, Sprakers, N.Y. 
VAN ALSTYNE'S R. I. REDS—Our past season’s breeding 
stock and March and April hatched cockerels. 
Edw. Van Alstyne & Son, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
S. C. White Leghorn Hens « 
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R. C, Rhode Island Reds, 
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Smith, 002 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S. G. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Trios, $5; Eggs for 
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0. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
PEKIN DUCKS 
pose of at 
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trices to suit. 
We still have some 
Single Comb White 
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old and young, to dis- 
Some promising May 
P . 
kerels and pullets for $1.00 each to close 
out. Some grand early hatched Barred Kook cock¬ 
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W D Hock Cockerels, early hatched from tested 
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S. C. W. LEGHORNS 
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It tells how to 
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late winter & 
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nowfor chicks 
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If you want highest prices, now is the time to start 
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Choice Cockerels $2.00 each. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
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