122 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I have at last received the .$5.58 from the 
15. Presley Co., commission merchants, St. 
Paul, Minn., for the four cases of berries 
sent them in April, l!i07. I inclose two of 
their letters. If it had not been for The 
I t. N.-Y., I feel sure I would never have re¬ 
ceived a cent from them. Thanks once more 
for your kindness. c. a. NORSTON. 
Louisiana. 
We have a degree of satisfaction in 
.the above settlement. Mr. Norston 
shipped them four crates of berries in 
April, 1907. They wrote him later that 
through an error the returns for $5.53 
were sent one Thompson of his place, 
but no such man could be found. We 
tried to collect it but failed. We re¬ 
ported the case. We also had a com¬ 
plaint from a New York State apple 
shipper which we reported. We then 
heard from the company’s attorneys, but 
we were not able to get this settlement. 
We then discovered that B. Presley Co. 
are members of the National League of 
Commission Merchants, and we pre¬ 
sented the claim to their representative 
at St. Paul, and finally to the executive 
committee of the League. We have 
been after that $5.53 now for about two 
years and six months, and we are glad 
to be able finally to convince the Presley 
Company that a poor farmer in Louis¬ 
iana has some rights that a commission 
merchant in Minnesota is obliged to re¬ 
spect. 
A few days ago the Denver papers con¬ 
tained a dispatch from New York which 
slated that a ton of mining stock was sold 
to a junk dealer for .$50 ! It gave the name 
of the company and a few minor details. 
Now, if a ton of it remained in the treas¬ 
ury (V), how much was foisted upon the 
gullible people who imagine that they can 
get something for nothing? I have spent 
1(5 years in the mining business, and know 
the facts about stocks so villainously put 
out by speciously worded advertisements. 
Take tlie State of Colorado for example. 
There are not 500 paying mines in tlie en¬ 
tire State. This means both small and 
great producers; those that barely make 
operating charges, and the loudly heralded 
bonanzas. The latter can be enumerated on 
the lingers. If this is the case, and it can 
be easily proven by oflicial reports, there is 
absolutely no chance on earth for the poor 
men and women who so trustingly buy non- 
assessible full paid shares in the Golden 
Skin Mining and Milling Company, par 
value .$1 per share, for eight cents per 
share. Colorado and other mining States 
have a large number of wealthy men who 
made their money in legitimate mining. 
These men keep in their employ a small 
army of highly-paid thoroughly trained ex¬ 
perts, qualified to pass judgment on any 
question of mining, milling or smelting prac¬ 
tice. These men are constantly on the alert 
for opporlunities to invest their employer’s 
money. There is no prospect too small, or 
mine too large for their prompt intelligent 
investigation. If the showing is favorable, 
money in any quantity needed can be found 
ready and anxious to take hold and develop 
the property along modern lines. Another 
point: there is no haphazard “take your 
word for it” investment of good money by 
these men. They go and see the property ; 
they spend days, weeks and often months 
measuring, weighing (you can weigh ore in 
a vein almost as easily as sugar in a sack), 
sampling and testing the ores. Then, if 
they say it is good, ninety-nine times out of 
a hundred it in good, but no full paid non- 
assessible stock, stock that has substantial 
value, is put on the market for a song 
(siren’s). There are several reliable journals 
published here in Colorado and in other 
mining States that will give a truthful 
statement about any mine or company any¬ 
where in this country free to a subscriber; 
to others a small charge is made. If any 
It. N.-Y. subscriber is tempted, lot him take 
out his scrap book and read this statement 
written by one of those experts. 
Colorado. 
There is so much good sense in the 
above letter, we give it in full. The 
same argument applies with equal force 
to propositions other than mining. You 
can get lots of opportunities to risk 
your money in doubtful enterprises or 
practically to give it away to scheming 
rogues; but no one is going to give you 
a share in a legitimate proposition un¬ 
less you pay full value for it. Get 
out of the notion of getting something 
of value for nothing. 
Three bogus commission men, Joseph 
Schossman, Martin Green and Morris 
Green, were convicted at York. Pa., re¬ 
cently of swindling farmers of the sec¬ 
tion out of $20,000 through the United 
Butter & Egg Company of New York. 
They had no money to pay protested 
checks, but seemed to have any amount 
for defense of the suits. It was said 
that attempts had been made to influence 
the jury. The conviction was effected 
through the work of Detective Charles 
S. White of York. 
Geo. G. Close, Philadelphia, Pa., success¬ 
or to the Minock Book Co., and the Ameri¬ 
can Home Supply Co., have a general 
agent in North Carolina by the name of 
Geo. C. Wvland. I took an agency from him 
and paid ‘$“0 deposit with the understand¬ 
ing that this was to be returned to me, if I 
was not satisfied with the work, or when¬ 
ever I quit. I since learned that they offer 
the contract direct for $11 deposit, the 
general agent keeps $10 towards his salary. 
1 was to appoint local selling agents and 
collect $5, half of which was to go to my 
salary, but their postal cards show they 
send ‘outfits free to other selling agents. I 
had to pay 00 cents expressage on outfit, 
though tiie'v promised to send it prepaid. I 
appointed three agents and collected $5 
from each. The first girl got sick, so she 
could not complete her work in specified 
time so they would not pay her salary. They ] 
never sent the outfit to the third agent 1 
appointed, so I returned the $5 to both of 
them. The other agent I never heard from. 
I, of course, became disgusted and refused 
to appoint any more agents. I am out my 
deposit, $20; returned to agents $10; ex¬ 
press (50 cents, $30.00, and they refuse even 
to return my deposit. They will not answer 
my letters. Can you get it for me? 
Virginia. m. d. 
In our judgment this is one of the 
most contemptible swindles we have yet 
struck. We believe that men who will 
conceive and carry out such a scheme 
are capable of anything that is low, 
vile and mean. They pretend to employ j 
agents on salary; but under the pre¬ 
tense of becoming familiar with the 
work require them to appoint six sell¬ 
ing agents first. They are required to 
collect $5 from each or $30 in all, and 
their compensation is one-half this 
amount. This route agent is obliged to 
put up $20 as evidence of good faith, 
and this is to be returned when con¬ 
tract is completed. The contract is so 
drawn that it is simply impossible for 
any agent to live up to the letter of it, 
and they claim they arc entitled to the 
deposit for breach of contract. As far 
as we can see the only privileges given 
an agent is the opportunity to fake her 
neighbors. If she did that successfully 
and sent them half the plunder, they 
would no doubt permit her to continue; 
but we have never heard of anyone who i 
ever got to the salary basis. It is j 
worked on practically the same lines as 
the Globe Association fake scheme of 
Chicago, and is particularly offensive 
because it extracts money from poor 
people under the pretense of profitable 
employment. 
Your check from F. B. Mills for eight 
dollars just received. It surely was a sur¬ 
prise, and came at a time when the money 
was more than acceptable. Only you could 
have gotten it, I believe, for I had tried 
without success. I know that the only way 
I can show my appreciation is by sending 
in a few trial subscriptions, and speaking 
a good word for your paper. 1 wish more 
periodicals were of the same high stand¬ 
ard that yours is. t. h. 
Connecticut. 
This was for a refund of money put 
into Mr. Mills’s Ginseng Farm stock 
some years ago with guarantee to return 
within a limited time. The limit had 
run out, but as the demand had been 
previously made, the guarantee was yet 
good. 
What about the Lakewood Farm Prod¬ 
ucts Co., 517-523 West 34th street, New 
York City, who are soliciting subscriptions 
to their stock at $10 per share? I have 
not subscribed yet, but the guarantee of 
seven per cent is alluring. Kindly answer 
through Publisher’s Desk. ii. w. i. 
Connecticut. 
No company can legally guarantee 
seven per cent dividend on its stock. 
If it pays in dividends more than it 
earns, its directors are liable to criminal 
as well as civil prosecution. A Buffalo 
concern tried this scheme two years ago 
and failed. The stock is now worthless. 
It was said in that case that it cost 
60 per cent of the money paid in for 
stock to get it. We cannot advise the 
investment. 
Inclosed $1 for my subscription renewal. 
Thanks for your offer of commission on the 
new subscriptions sent you, but I cannot 
accept it. A commission for such work 
would spoil the pleasure I felt in adding to 
The It. N.-Y. list of subscribers. o. b. 
Kentucky. 
We appreciate that sentiment fully. 
Men take the trouble to interest their 
neighbors in The R. N.-Y. and send 
their subscriptions for the satisfaction 
of doing a good turn both for the paper 
and the friend. Such men would not 
do the work for pay, and we could not 
afford to pay for their time if they 
would. But the above note expresses 
the case better than we can and in 
fewer words. j. j. d. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee page 12. 
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.1844. 
It. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO.. Peekskill, N.Y. 
U.S.DEPT. of AGRICULTURE 
acknowledges that, gallon for gallon, AVENARIUS 
CARBOLINKUM is by far the most concentrated 
wood preserving paint known. A heavy nut brown 
paint stain applied with a brush, spray or by im¬ 
mersion of the timber. It is also the 
MOST RADICAL REMEDY ACAINST ALL VERMIN 
BULLETIN 33 SENT FREE UPON REQUEST. 
CARB0LINEUM WOOD PRESERVING COMPANY, 
1B1 FRANKLIN STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. 
Farmers’ Favorite 
Use u 
a 
Feed Cooker and Boiler 
for cheaper and better feeding 
and bigger profits on your stock 
and poultry. A Iso best for sugar¬ 
making, rendering lard, canning 
fruit, sterilizing milk cans, and 
many other purposes. Cheap in 
cost and in use. Wears for years. 
Illustrated circular freo. 
LEWIS MFG. CO., Bo* C, Cortland, N. Y. 
What.one 
Woman did 
Chicaflro.Tll. Ausr.20,1909. 
Jan.1st 1 had 27 hens. Sinco then 
I have hatched over f>()0 chicks. 
Sold $108.00 worth of broilern and 
eKKs and hav« at least 350 chick¬ 
ens left. I havo tried three other 
Incubator** blit I consider the 
Sure Hatch best and easiest to 
run." MISS L. A. POPE. 
Miss Pope did this on a city lot. You can have as 
great success if you use a Sure Hatch Incu¬ 
bator. We give a positive guarantee, backed by 
the Bankers’ Surety Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, 
with its $1,000,000 capital. Suro 
Match Incubators are shipped 
freight prepaid on GO days’ Free 
trial. Order one to-day. You tako 
absolutely no risk. 
Sure Hatch Incubator Co. 
Box 44 Fremont, Neb. 
C E O. EHTEL CO. 
■ ir.tk Kentucky 5t QUINCY, ILUJ 
Now is the time to 
plan your poultry 
work for this season. 
If you need anew in¬ 
cubator or brooder 
Pi case write us. Wcl 
will save you money. 
The materials in our 
machines tin s season 
wo bought before the 
present high prices. 
Wo do hy machinery 
what others do by 
hand. Result—Lower 
price to you. Drop us 
a postal forour catalog. 
90% Hatches 
from th© Cyphers—in ©very country and 
xnat©—for old-timera and beginners. For you. 
CYPHERS INCUBATORS 
and Brooders are non-moisture; self-regu¬ 
lating; golf-ventilating. Write for 160-pago 
Catalog. Address Nearest City. 
Cyphers Incubator Co., Department 
Buffalo, N.Y.; New York City; Chicago, Ill.; 
Boston, Mass.;Kansas City, Mo.; Oakland, CaL 
Hatch With the Leas! 
Cost Per Chick 
That is what we guarantee you 
can do with the 
_ _ _ _ Invincible Hatcher 
Try It and If it don’t produce more strong, healthy 
chicks than anyother incubator, regardless of price, 
send it back. 50-Egg Size Only 54.50. Same low 
prices on larger Hatchers, Brooders and Supplies. 
Write for 176-page FREE catalogue. 
The United Faclorla. Co., Dop1.X3l,Cleveland, O. 
Send Us a Postal for a Price 
Just your name and address on a postal 
brings prices on all sizes of celebrated 
Racine Incubators and 
Brooders-—guaranteed to hatch 
highest percentage of eggs. Liberal 
Trial Plan. Best Incubator Proposition 
on the market. Postal brings all printed 
matter and prices at once. Address 
Racine Hatcher Company 
Box & 7 9 Racine, Wit. 
ON TRIAL 16 YEARS 
Never found wanting. Don't ex¬ 
periment. Countless thousands 
of other poultry-raisers have 
made a success with 
THE SUCCESSFUL 
Incubator and Brooder. Anybody 
can operate them and make money. 
Let us prove it to you. Booklet, 
“Proper Care and Feeding of Chicks, 
Ducks, Turkeys," ,10c. Poultry paper, 1 year, 25c. Free I 
Catalog. I)esMoinen IneubatorUo., ISO 2nd St., Dcs M olncfi, I a- 
SEND FOR 
OUR FREE 
CATALOGUE 
We Will Save You Money 
Grit, Eggs for hatching. Butty chicks, etc. Writo 
today. THE UNITED CO.. 26-B Vesey St., New York City. 
100-Egg, Fireproof, Automatic 
BROODER - 
INCURATOR 
or Two for $ 19 . 80 , with all fixtures 
complete. Freight paid east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi. Special prices further west. 
A Twentieth-Century Wonder. 
Hatches and Hovers like a Live Hen. One 
Regulator. One Lamp. Saves One-IIalf 
operating expense. Fireless Brooder At¬ 
tachment. Practically four machines in 
one. Porous ventilating system. Eighty 
per cent, hatches guaranteed. Forty or 
sixty days’ trial. A gold mine on any farm. 
Order direct and save time, or send for Fkkk 
Book “E," fully describing this remarkable 
Invention. Address— 
NEW METHOD INCUBATOR CO., 
1 36 West Main St., Morrow, O 
MAKE HENS LAY! 
, more eggs; larger, more vigorous chicks; 
' heavier fowls, by feeding cut bone. 
If AIIU’C LATEST MODEL 
RIAIM O . , BONE CUTTER 
1 cuts fast, easy, fine; never clogs. 
10 Days Free Trial. No money in advance. Book free. 
■F. W. MANN CO., Box 16, MILFORD, MASS. 
EYSTONE FOODS 
K l 
are demanded and used by suecessfu 
poultrymen everywhere because our 
goods are reliable. Every ounce of grain is 
clean and nourishing. Lowest prices. Full 
weight. Prompt shipments. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. Send today for Booklet and 
FREE Souvenir. Don’t delay. 
TAYLOR BROS.. 10 Market Street. CAMDEN, N. J. 
January 29, 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
AND Leghorns both old 
a J? d y° un .e t0 dispose 
PEKIN D U C K S 2 f , at prices to . s, . m - 
Also some promising 
Mav hatched coekerels at $2.00 and $3.00 each. 
Grand early hatched Barred Rock cockerels sired 
by ten pound cocks for $3.00 and $5.00 each. A few 
more White Wyandotte yearling hens and cocks. 
Kemomber our strain of Pekin ducks is second to 
none, that we have both old and young and over 
1,000 to select from. Prices of exhibition stock on 
application. Incubator eggs in any quantity. Cor¬ 
respondence invited. .Satisfaction guaranteed. The 
only large successful plant in the vicinity of Now 
York City. Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm. New Rochelle, N. Y. 
LAKEHILL FARM- 
The home of S. C. W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks and 
Imperial Pekin Ducks. We offor good Leghorn 
Cockerels for $1.00 each, and Pekin drakes for $2.00 
and $3.00 each. Leghorn eggs for hatching, $1.50 
por 15; $0.00 per 100 ; Ninety per cent, fertility 
guaranteed. W. Rock eggs, $2.00 per 15, $10.00 per 
100, and Duck eggs, $1.50 por 10. $8.00 por 100; 
Eighty per cent, fertility guaranteed. A trial order 
will convince you. Correspondence invited. Ad¬ 
dress all communications to 
JOHN H. WEED, Mor., Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
R, C. Rhode Island Reds, aitBS,: 
ner Ducks. Vigorous, heavy-laying strains. High- 
class birds for breeding, show or oxport. SINCLAIR 
Smith. (502 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Greider’s Fine Catalogue 
of pure bred poultry, for 1910, 200 pages,$ 
handsomely illustrated, 150 engravings, 
photos, 30 fine colored plates, describes 
65 leading varieties of land and water- 
fowls, gives low prices of stock, eggs, in¬ 
cubators, poultry supplies, etc. Calendar 
foreaeh month. How to care for poultry 
and all details. Only 10 cents. Send to-day. 
B. H. CREIDER, Box 68, Rheems, Pa. 
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. Wo have the fertile Eggs. 
WOODLANDS FARM (Inc.), IONA, N. J. 
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. 
C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
S O \kl LEGHORNS of exceptional vigor and 
■ U i VV ■ quality. 250 acres devoted to tho best 
in Leghorns. Send for circular. MT. PLEASANT 
FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
P oll I try men —Send 10c. for on r 19»>9 CaUIor, choclc full of URoftil 
Information. Describes and llluatrates86 varlotlcfl. You can’t 
afford to be without it. Kast Donegal Poultry Yards,Marietta,Pa 
W ILD and BRONZE TURKEYS and EGGS-Pure brod chick¬ 
ens. Handsome catalogue free showing Wild 
Gobbler right from tho mountain. Satisfaction. 
Valley View Poultry Farm, - Belleville, Pa. 
W HITE HOLLAND TURKEYS, Duston's Wliito Wvamlottei, 
White African Guineas and Reg. Holstein Bull Calves, 
Satisfaction guaranteed. WALNUT IIILL STOCK FARM, 
Nathanikl Bacon, Mgr,, Tulcott, W. Va. 
M. B. TURKEYS 
Healthy Farm Raised Breeding Stock. 
TOMS $ti HKNS $4 
JOHN H. JANNEY, Brookeville, Maryland. 
W D Bock Cockerels, early hatched from tested 
• r i heavy layers, $3 to $5 each. Trap nests 
used exclusively. A. 8. BRIAN, Ml. Kisco, N. Y 
PARTRIDGE COCHINS 
Cockerels $2.00 to $3.00. Pullets $1.50 each. 
Selected Breeding Pen. 10 Pullets and I Cockerel, 
$25.00. MINCH IfKOS, Hridgeton, N. J. 
ran CAI C—Barred and HtilT Rock Pullets, yearling 
■ Un wHLC lions aud cocka from my 176-egg strain, and 
blue ribbon winners. Address—FOUR ACRES, Nutley, N. J. 
UAN ALSTYNE’S R. I. REDS, bred for vigor and egg pro- 
> duction. Broedingcockerels and eggs for hatching. 
Edw. Yu,i Alstyneft Son, Siiniiytldo Farm, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
B RONZK TOMS,bred for vigor; younghensmat ed 
positively unrelated. Bert McConnell, I.igonter, Ind; 
L AIltiE PEKIN DUCKS. Wli. Wyandotte and W. Rock, Cockerels 
and Toulouse Oeese for sule. E* Selileber, Bueyrus, O. 
Choice Bred Bronze Turkeys 
mat 
ree Flocks ; 
ated, unrelated. 
Stamp. MRS. HARRIET CHUMBLEY, Draper, Va. 
THE CELEBRATED PARTRIDGES 
AND ENGLISH 
PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS. 
Wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc., for stock¬ 
ing purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, cranes, 
swans, storks, ornamental geose and ducks, foxes, 
squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and ani¬ 
mals. WENZ & MAOKENSEN, Dept. TO, Phoas- 
antry & Game Park, Yardley, Pa. 
W. H. TURKEYS, PURE BRED. 
MRS. II. F. WltlGHT, Itansomville, N. Y. 
S HFPHFKI) PUPPIES, not Collies, black 
with white ami yellow points, $3.00 each. SINGLE 
COMB WHITE LEGHORNS-Eggs for hatching from 
yearling hens, $4.00 per hundred. 
E. D. FOUMAN, it.F.D. 1, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
C olumbian Wyandottes— The grandest and most useful 
fowl on earth; wonderful layers. Fora short 
time wo will sell males at $3 each and females at 
$2 each. All matured birds. Order direct from this 
adv. orwrlteAug. IT. Arnold, Box 111, Dillsburg,Pa. 
Lyon’s Rhode Island Reds. 
Choice Pure-Blooded Cockerels. Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing in season. L. 8. LYON, West Bomors, N.Y. 
innn STANDARD-BRED White and Brown 
IUUU Leghorn Hens and Cockerels. Great 
bred to lav strains. 
AMERICAN PET STOCK CO., Collins, Ohio. 
Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
Young Toms weighing from 20 to 28 lbs. 
HICKORY ISLAND FARM, Clayton, N. Y. 
COOK YOUR FEED and SAVE 
Half the Cost—with the 
PROFIT FARM BOILER 
With Dumping Caldron. Empties 
its kettloin one minute. The simplest 
and best arrangement for cooking 
food for stock. Also make Dairy amt 
Laundry Stoves, Water and 
Steam Jacket Kettles, Hog 
Scalders, Caldrons.etc..B3Y“Send 
for particulars and ask for circular J. 
D. It. SPEltltY & OO.b Ratavia, Ul. 
