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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
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When you write advertisers mention The 
It. >'.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply ami 
“a square deal.” See guarantee 
Cli p Farm Horses 
In the S prin g 
Do it before putting- them at 
the heavy spring work. Take 
off the thick wintet coat that 
holds the sweat and dirt. You 
would notcareto stand at night 
with a wctsuiton. Neither do 
your horses. Clipthem. and if 
required, blanket them when 
standing, 
Clipped, horses dry off 
fast, rest well, and do 
more and better work. 
The Stewart No. 1 
Ball Bearing 
Horse Clipping 
Machine 
.50 
Every gear n this splendid y made macnine is cut 
from the solid steel bar and is file hard so that it out¬ 
wears anything else of the kind ever made. Gears 
are allenclosed and protected f rom d ust and dirt and 
run in oil. It turns easy and clips fast. 
Machine is guarauteed for 25 years. Clips a horse 
InSO minutes. 
Get one from your dealer, now or send $2 to us 
and we will ship C. O. D. foi the balance. Write for 
big new catalogue showing world’s largest line of 
horse clipping and sheep shearing machines. 
Now is the t’me. 
Chicago Flexible Shaft Company 
143 La Salle Avenue, ■ Chicago 
$50 n$300 SAVED 
‘ ON A GASOLINE ENGINE BKBA 
Buy from a real engine factory. Save dealer, jobber and 
catalogue house profit. No such offer as I make on the class 
of engine I sell has ever been made before in all Gasoline 
Engine history. Here is the secret and reason: I turn 
them out all alike by the thousands in my enormous mod¬ 
ern factory, equipped with automatic machinery. I sell 
them direct to you for less money than some factories can 
make them at actual shop cost. All you pay me for is 
actual raw material, labor and one small profit. 
My engine is made so good in the factory that I will send 
it out anywhere in the U. S. without an expert to any inex¬ 
perienced user, on 30 days’ free trial, to test against any en¬ 
gine made, of similar horsepower, that sells for twice as 
much, and let him be the judge. 
Write today for my new 50-page Engine Book, full of 
valuable information, showing how I make them and how 
you can make more money with a Galloway on the farm. 
Sell your poorest horso and buy a 5-H-P. Gallo 
way—Only 9119.50. 
WM. GALLOWAY CO. 
Information About Corn 
Planters. 
Recently there appeared an article in 
this paper under the heading, “Improve¬ 
ments in Corn Planters.'’ Since then it 
has been thought advisable to give a 
clearer description of the Superior Corn 
Planter. This machine is both edge drop 
and round-hole drop, both kinds of 
plates being furnished without extra 
cost. The user can put an edge drop 
plate in one hopper and a round-hole 
plate in the other, and thus demonstrate 
to his entire satisfaction which does the 
best work. Right here let us say that 
seed corn should be graded, and 1 en 
plates of the size holes best adapted to 
the work selected. The more uniform 
the size of kernel the more accurate 
the work. This Superior Corn Planter 
has what is termed a “start and ston” 
motion, which gives the cells in the 
plates ample time to “fill” properly. 
The planter stands high enough from 
the axle to the ground to enable it to 
pass over stumps or stones. The run¬ 
ner heels can be adjusted one independ¬ 
ent of the other, thus insuring the corn 
being kept in perfect check. The seed 
spout is of solid, smooth steel, insuring 
an immediate drop of the seed without 
scattering the kernels unduly. When 
the furrow openers are lifted out of the 
ground the marker is automatically lift¬ 
ed up to enable the user to turn around. 
1 he planters short coupled and so ar¬ 
ranged that it can be “backed up” at 
will without danger of springing the 
frame. The corn hoppers, as well as 
the'fertilizer hoppers tip over complete¬ 
ly, thus providing a means of instant 
examination or change of plates with¬ 
out emptying the hoppers. Our readers 
should write the manufacturers. The 
American Seeding-Machine Co., Incor¬ 
porated, Springfield, Ohio, for their 
Superior Corn Planter booklet, because 
we cannot tell about it here. After get¬ 
ting the information wanted, go to your 
local dealer and insist on seeing the 
Superior Corn Planter.— Adv. 
TRICKS OF THE OLEO TRADE. 
It is a favorite statement of the oleo 
men that they are trying hard to benefit 
the poor man by selling him “poor 
man’s butter” at a low figure. As 
for trying to cheat the Government or 
the people—oh no ! 
Well, the internal revenue inspectors 
have heard of this very thing for years. 
They know that millions of tons of 
white oleo are bought at a low price, 
colored illegally and sold as butter. 
There is no doubt about this fraudulent 
traffic. The rascals have been caught at 
it again and again, but owing to various 
interpretations of the law which the 
courts have made the authorities cannot 
convict the criminals. The cases are 
absolutely clear, and if the Internal 
Revenue Commission could apply to 
this illicit traffic in oleo the same 
revenue laws which apply to whisky dis¬ 
tilling the bogus trade would be soon 
killed off. Now and then they catch 
a rogue right in the act, and under such 
conditions that the facts come out. A 
few weeks since they got such a man 
in Milwaukee. Wis., who gave his name 
as Edward Klimis. They got a con¬ 
fession out of him, and he owned up 
to buying carload lots of white oleo 
and selling it as butter after illegally 
coloring it. He also said that it is a 
part of the oleo men’s game to “corner” 
butter and put up the price to a high 
figure. Having thus made a high rate 
they color oleo and sell it a little under 
the inflated butter price. A part of 
this confession by Klimis is as follows: 
Klimis’ confession reveals a number of 
interesting facts. It recites that Klimis 
and Graham came to Milwaukee direct 
from the Pacific coast, where they had suc¬ 
cessfully operated in the same game for 
Some little time, being attracted to the 
Wisconsin metropolis because of the butter 
corner created by Chicago and Milwaukee 
packers and oleomargarine manufacturers of 
Chicago for the purpose of making a better 
demand for oleomargarine and forcing 
down the government tax. Klimis, who is 
but 1*8 years of age, says in his confession, 
according to Marshal Weil and Inspector | 
Sterne, that he has been in the oleo swind¬ 
ling business for seven years. He says ho j 
was in Chicago when he first began, and 
was out of work. An agent for an oleo 
manufacturer approached him one day with 
a proposition to enter the business and of¬ 
fered to give him a start. The agent 
told him there was big money in it, ex¬ 
plained how to work the game and exactly 
what to do in emergencies. From that 
time to the time of his arrest in Mil¬ 
waukee, acording to the federal officials, 
Klimis had been steadily engaged in color¬ 
ing and selling oleo, representing it to he 
pure butter. 
How would you like to be in a btts- 
ness where you could corner a desir¬ 
able article and force it to a high price 
—then color a cheap counterfeit and 
sell that at the price to which you had 
inflated the genuine goods? If you did 
you ought at least in decency to stop 
there and not go on to shed tears over 
the privations of the needy who cannot 
buy “poor man’s butter.” The oleo 
men practice their fraud upon the public, 
and then have the face to argue as if 
they were the most honorable people 
on earth. 
Regelating Commission Men. —If a hill 
regarding produce commission abuses, now 
before the New York Legislature, becomes 
a law. it will doubtless weed out some of 
the worst offenders. The reputable element 
of the trade would scarcely object to the 
bonding feature. In fact this has been 
voluntarily practiced for some time by 
produce dealers in various parts of the 
country. Hut whether this hill passes or 
not the only safe way in the future, as in 
the past, will he to ship to men who do not 
need to he regulated, and whose “word is 
as good as their bond.” Very few ship¬ 
pers of produce are on hand to see 
their goods sold in the market, hence 
the commission men and their employ¬ 
ees, if they wish to ' be dishonest, 
ean make false statements about the 
condition of the goods when received 
and doctor their hooks and papers so that 
an investigation would show nothing 
wrong. This is not written with a desire 
to belittle any honest attempt to improve 
conditions in the produce commission busi¬ 
ness by laws enforced without partiality 
or graft, but to emphasize the fact that it 
is the man himself, rather than the way he 
is tied up by law, that makes it safe -to 
send him goods on commission. The only 
way to make some men honest by law is 
to lock them up. It is not generally knofvn 
that a very large proportion of the better 
cmality of produce that comes to New 
ork is not sold on commission, and that 
many of the largest so-called commission 
men buy the goods they handle. They 
have their buyers in the producing sec¬ 
tions, and in some cases their commission 
business amounts to less than five per cent 
of the volume of their trade. These people 
formerly solicited shipments, large and 
small, and helped to keep the commission 
business on a fairly high plane of honesty. 
Now nearly all their commission shipments 
are unsolicited and come from old cus¬ 
tomers or new men who have learned about 
them accidentally. Meanwhile a lot of slip¬ 
pery individuals have gone into the commis¬ 
sion business, seeing in it a good chance to 
get something for nothing, or for a frac¬ 
tion of its real value. Hence the risk of 
the producer who, from lack of local buyers, 
must ship rather than sell, is proportionally 
increased, and he needs to use all available 
information as to the reputation and finan¬ 
cial standing of the man who is to receive 
the goods. w. tv. n. 
Strong 
Calves 
mean healthy, profitable herds. 
You can’t afford to let your calves be 
stunted with skim milk and slop diet. 
You can’t afford to feed them your 
profits in the form of whole milk. 
And it isn’t necessary. You can raise 
four calves on Sugarota Calf Meal at the 
cost of raising one on whole milk, and get 
better results. Sugarota Calf Meal is balanced and mixed to meet the 
actual needs of the growing calf. It has been tested out in actual use on 
our experimental farm and its value proven; it is always uniform, making a 
complete dependable ration, preventing constipation and insuring health, 
vigor and vitality. Sugarota Calf Meal positively contains no dope to stim¬ 
ulate or to create artificial conditions. 
It is the Malted Milk for Calves 
We guarantee results. Your money back if it does not satisfy. Ask your 
dealer for Sugarota Calf Meal. Write for our Booklet on Raising Calves 
Right. It costs only the postal card request, and it is filled with money¬ 
saving facts. 
PA IR YaHDLIVL STOCK FE 
are specialized, each for its particular purpose. In addition to 
Sugarota Calf Meal, our brands include Sugarota Dairy Feed, 
Sugarota Cattle Feed, Sugarota Horse Feed, Sugarota Swine 
Feed, Sugarota Sheep Feed, Sugarota Scratch Feed and 
Sugarota Chick Feed. Every separate brand is balanced for 
.its special purpose, tested out on the animals for which it is 
made, and guaranteed to be better than any other feed, home- 
mixed or manufactured. Buy Sugarota Feeds from your 
dealer. If he doesn’t handle them, write us and we will 
see that you get the feed, for trial on the money-back 
guarantee basis. 
Wrox 
Ask for our Calf Feeding Booklet now. 
NORTH-WEST MILLS CO. 
509 W. Third Street 
Winona, Minn. 
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A.M/Jtf# yl 
H. R. CENTRE, STEWARD OF WORCESTER INSANE HOSPITAL, WORCESTER, MASS., writes :—I have given 
UNICORN DAIRY RATION 
a test and find it to be a superior feed for making milk. Send for booklet and 
prices to CHAPIN & CO., BUFFALO, N. A. 
CAST YOUR VOTE 
FOR MANILA 
Vote Down Sisal as a Twine Fiber in 1910 
VOTE EARLY! 
Every first-class implement and hardware store is now a voting place on the twine 
question. Important issues depend upon the casting of the ballots. This is the way to 
vote : Go to your twine dealer and say—“I vote for Manila hemp and against Sisal as 
a twine fiber, and, in order to know that my vote is effective, will buy no twine in 1910 
which does not run 550 feet or more to the pound." (Shorter twine is usually made of Sisal.) 
This is why you will vote that way: A time of emergency in the twine business is 
here, of importance to manufacturers and dealers, but of vital importance to you—the 
consumer. When speculation or monopolistic movements force up the price of any 
commodity the consumer is the one to suffer. 
Attempts are being made by operators to control the fiber markets. A corner has 
been attempted in Sisal with the hope of selling the fiber at high prices to twine manufac¬ 
turers, thereby raising the price of twine to the farmer. 
The Plymouth Cordage Co. will have no part in such operations and is utterly 
opposed to these methods and policies. 
We have devised a way to defeat these plans and discourage future attempts of the 
same kind. It is very easy to do—simply don’t use any binder twine made of Sisal this 
season and the Sisal speculators will drop their “corner’’ like a hot coal. 
Go now and “Cast your vote for Manila.” 
We tell you this for your best interest whether you buy Plymouth twine or some 
other. Here are two excellent twines : 
Plymouth 
.These twines run 550 feet and 600 feet to the pound respectively. They are cheaper 
per unit of length than “Standard” or Sisal, and they are stronger, smoother, better. 
Cheaper and better—what more can you want ? 
You are much interested in preserving 
healthy conditions in everything connected 
with the twine business. 
We have had opportunities to study the 
situation and have no doubt you will see the 
wisdom of our suggestion to “Cast 
vote for Manila.” 
This suggestion is made in the interest 
of all twine-users. It implies no obligation 
to use PLYMOUTH twine unless, on 
account of its superior qualities, you prefer 
it to other makes. 
your 
rink Tag. 
PLYMOUTH CORDAGE COo, 
Entirely Independent. Established 1824. 
NORTH PLYMOUTH, MASS. 
For more complete information upon all the mat¬ 
ters mentioned above mail us a postal saying "Send 
Twine Booklets.” 
Cu*r«n*o«d 
ptYHOUIHCORD.aECO. 
