432 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 0, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Pike Market, 530 Middlesex street, 
Lowell, Mass. 
We have a bill against them for $2.25 
for a shipment of clams. We have not 
been able to make the collection, and 
would like to turn it over to some one 
who could get the cash. 
What have you to say about the Canada 
Mills, Greenville, Mich.? 
We referred to this nearly a year ago. 
It is a cheap clothing house, run by 
one F. O. Linquist. We have had some 
complaints and no record that they 
have been adjusted. 
E. P. Williams Company, Albany, N. Y., 
commission merchants. 
We had trouble to get settlements out 
of them last year, and they finally wrote 
us that their affairs were in the hands 
of an attorney. We understood they 
went through bankruptcy, but they seem 
to be in business again. We would ad¬ 
vise cash transactions. 
Bankers’ Finance Company, Denver, 
Colo., E. W. Smith, president. Ute Park 
lots. 
This is a typical Long Island land 
scheme operated in Colorado. Don’t 
get caught- on any free lot scheme of 
any promoters. You are sure to pay 
more than it is worth on one pretense 
or another before you are done with it. 
I have received yours with check for 
.$40 from F. B. Mills for the Ginseng 
Farm stock bought of him some years ago, 
and thank you for getting it for me. 
New York. a. d. h. 
This stock was sold with a guarantee 
to refund the money in three years if 
not satisfactory. Of course, it was not 
satisfactory, as no profits ever came 
from it, and none could be expected. 
Geo. F. Fish. 408-410 West Fourteenth 
street; also 183 Reade street. New York 
City. Celery exclusively. Hotel and res¬ 
taurant trade a specialty. 
We have a bill of $15 for collection 
against Mr. Fish, due since July, 1907. 
We have demanded payment several 
times, but have been unable to get set¬ 
tlement. From this experience, we 
would advise cash transactions. 
I received a check from the Howell Con¬ 
densed Milk and Cream Company. Nothing 
ever came so acceptably as that did, and 
I wish to thank you for the interest you 
took in my behalf. l. c. V. 
New York. 
We see no good reason why this com¬ 
pany should not pay their milk bills 
promptly as contract provides. In this 
case they had discontinued the ship¬ 
ments, but left the bill unpaid. 
We received a check for the shipment 
of asparagus this morning for $7.54. We 
thank you for your assistance, as we feel 
sure we would not have received it other¬ 
wise. L. H. 
New Jersey. 
This man made two shipments, June 
8 and June 16. He got returns for one, 
but has been unable to get returns for 
the other in nine months. We received 
the complaint March 17, and the check 
was received March 22. We wish we 
could be equally successful in some other 
cases. 
Theo. E. Payne, in the detective agency 
business at 34 South Sixteenth street, 
Philadelphia, Pa., came to see me several 
times and was entertained in my home. 
He finally promised to work up a trade 
for my eggs and poultry in the city. Short¬ 
ly before the holidays he asked me to send 
him four turkeys a day or two before 
Christmas. He said he would remit just 
as soon as he got the bill. 1 sent them, 
but can get nothing from him. Can you? 
New Jersey. j. a. o. r 
We do not seem to be able to do 
anything. His detective circulars prom¬ 
ise to send list of references on appli¬ 
cation. If anyone is interested, we will 
give them the name and address of this 
reference. 
On January 3, 1910, I sent to H. G. 
rollock, Middlepoint, Ohio, for a car of 
corn. It fell short in weight 10S 6-7 
bushels. They guarantee that the weight 
will not vary more than one per cent. 
It was weighed by a reliable man on the 
town scales. My barn was recently burned 
and I cannot afford the loss. c. d. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
Here is the statement of the man 
who weighed the corn: 
My two clerks and myself weighed the 
car of corn for C. I). Hostetler. Mr. Mc¬ 
Creary, the landlord of the hotel; Mr. 
McAulis, a citizen of the town, both men 
of their word, were one or both of them 
in the car all the time it was being un¬ 
loaded. I saw every load that went out 
of the car, and I know that every load I 
saw was weighed. I have not the least 
desire to wrong the shipper or do injustice 
to him. but I cannot conceive any pos¬ 
sible chance of an error at this end of 
line, because I have gone over and over 
this carefully. j. m. Houston. 
Mr. Houston wrote the shipper of 
the shortage in November, but he or the 
farmer got no reply. On January 7 we 
asked Mr. Pollock to look this matter 
up, and after more than two weeks got 
a reply, in which he says that the car 
was loaded on November 9 and 10 
from the farmers’ wagons, and he sent 
us a schedule of each wagonload to 
show the weight of each load, and that 
the sum total equalled the amount billed. 
This slip contained the last name of 18 
farmers, but without their first names 
or addresses. Besides this alleged 
weigh slip, we have before us three 
different weigher’s certificates—all pur¬ 
porting to certify to the weighing of 
this car, but no two signed in the same 
way by the same weighers. Inasmuch 
as Mr. Pollock said this corn was 
loaded from the farmers’ wagons, we 
asked him to send us the names and 
addresses of the farmers, so that we 
could verify the weights. This he has 
declined to do. If the weights are cor¬ 
rect, and he has paid the farmers for 
the full amount of the shipment, we see 
no good reason why he should not take 
this easy and sure way to prove the 
weight of the corn. The shortage 
amounts to $65.31. It is not a big 
amount to a grain dealer, but rather a 
big sum when piled upon the loss of a 
farmer’s barn with all its contents. If 
Mr. Pollock will send us the names of 
the farmers who supplied that corn we 
will verify the weights and give him 
full credit if his weights are found cor¬ 
rect, but if he fails to do so, he is likely 
to hear from this shortage a few times 
again. 
My 10 cents was well placed, and I 
enclose $1 to have subscription extended 
one year when trial 10 weeks are out. The 
second week I read your report of Bradley 
& Bradley, Illinois, aud immediately de¬ 
stroyed an order for $5, which would have 
gone by next mail with draft. I consider 
it so much gained on 10 cents invested. 
Keep up the good work ; it suits us honest 
people, the backbone of the nation. We 
toilers need more publishers like The R. 
N.-Y. to help conserve our hard-earned dol¬ 
lars. The major portion of our people are 
honest, hence the dishonest find their “pick¬ 
ings" easy. Go on with the good work. 
■ Michigan. c. e. b. 
Well, yes; there seems to have been 
$4.90 profit on that 10-cent investment, 
to say nothing of the annoyance and 
disappointment and humiliation of being 
fleeced out of the remittance for an or¬ 
der of goods. But it is not the saving 
of $5 for an individual farmer that we 
are working for; but the elimination of 
frauds and rogues from the robbery of 
farmer’s trade generally. It is from the 
individual benefited that we get the 
credit; but it is the industry as a whole 
that gets, we think, the greatest benefit. 
If the farming industry as a whole ap¬ 
preciated the fact, and came to our sup¬ 
port as our own 100,000 subscribers do, 
we would drive deception and roguery 
out of farm operations in six months. 
J. J. D- 
2 H.P. Complete 
(,ct 
Out 
Biff 
Cat a- 
log 
STARTLING OFFER 
$40 now buys a complete 2 HORSE POWER 
ENGINE with full equipment This engine is a 
mechanical wonder. Even engine builders marvel 
at the factthatit can be sold atso low a price. The 
demand is crowding the capacity of our factory. 
How can we do it? We operate an immense 
factory, buildinglarge quantities, and undersell any 
other concern in existence. Our bigcatalogis an eye 
opener, showing high grade engines at startling 
prices — Stationary, Portable, Marine — air-cooled, 
water-cooled, and frost-proof* 2 to 12 Horse Power. 
Let us quote you prices. 
Norfhwest«rn Steel&Iron Works, 905 SpringSt. EauClaire, Wis. 
POTATO DIGGER 
Does perfect work. Fully 
guaranteed. Write for illustrated 
catalogue of Diggers, Pickers and Sorters. 
THE HOOVER MFC. CO., Box No. 66, Avery, Ohio. 
Transfer points—Buffalo, N. Y.; Detroit, Mich.; St. Paul, 
Minn.; Marshalltown, la.; Idaho Falls, Id.; Portland, 
Ore.; Spokane, Wash.; Winnipeg, Man.; Hamilton, 
Out.; Fond du Lac, Wis. 
INDIAN BUXNElt DUCKS, 260 Egg Strain, *2.00 per 12. Light 
I Brahmas, prize stock, $2 each. C. GOBDON, Sprakers, N.Y. 
P URE-BRED POULTRY— Light Brahmas, the best eggs, 
$2 per 15: White P. Rocks, eggs, $1 per 15, 
Fishel’s; Barred P. Rocks, $1 per 15. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
Columbian, Silver-Laced and White Wyandottes— Eggs for 
hatching from selected thoroughbred stock, $1.50, 
$2 and $3 per 15. Special rates on 100 lots. A few 
Col. Cockerels. Mrs. J. Alonzo Hulse, Wading River, L. I. 
—Purebred Year¬ 
ling S. C. AVlilte 
liens $1.50, 
Cockerels $3.00. 
Setting of 15 Eggs $1.50; 300, $6.00. 
BELLE IIILL POULTRY 
RANGE, Elktoii, Maryland. 
EGGS 
at Half Price for April. R.O.Buff Leghorns, 
bred to lay. Prize winners, $1 per 15, 
$5 per 10U. Oakdale Farms, Chester, N. J. 
ESSO 
RE-CARBO Na&y 
IZED 
Chicken Charcoal 
We will send yon a free sample package— 
enough for a fair trial—and free instructive book¬ 
let, “The Value of Charcoal in Poultry Raising,’’ 
if you will send us your local poultry supply 
dealer’s name, 
Money-making poultrymen know the absolute 
necessity of charcoal as an absorbent to keep their 
birds in healthy condition. It regulates and puri¬ 
fies the bowels, absorbs the impure gases of the 
crop and gizzard—prevents sour conditions, which 
breed disease. It makes the flesh sweet and tender. 
Esso Ke-Carbonlzed Charcoal Is 
th e purest, most absorbent and*best 
;mode—3 sizes, A, B and C, for young, 
;half-grown and full grown chickens. 
’ Re-Carbonized— twice-burnt— selected 
wood — far superior to ordinary half 
burnt, impure charcoal. 
TheS. OBERMAYER CO., 652;Evans St.,Cinn.,0. 
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 
II. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO., Peelcskill, N.Y. 
EYSTONE FOODS 
K l 
are demanded and used by successful 
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, 
5>^^ a 55 Buys Best 
140-Egg 
Incubator 
Double case all over; best copper 
tank; nursery self-regulator. Best 
HO-chick brooder. $4.50. Both or¬ 
dered together $11.50. Freight Pre¬ 
paid. No machines at any price are 
better. Write for book today or send price 
and save waiting. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
BELLE CITY INCUBATOR CO., Box Racine. Wls 
125 Egg Incubator Qlf) 
and Brooder B F ° 0 t r h 91U 
'If ordered together we ' ’ 
send both for #10 
Freight paid cast of Rock- 
"Hot water, copper tanks, 
double walls, double glass doors. 
Free catalog describes them. 
Wisconsin Incnbator Co., 
Box | 03 i Racine, Wis. 
[—Send Us a Postal for a Price 
Just your name and address on a postal 
brings special low prices on all sizes of 
r> Incubators 
llL and Brooders 
—guaranteed to hatch highest percent¬ 
age of eggs. LiberalTrial Plan. Best 
Incubator Proposition on the market.] 
Postal brings all printed matter and 
special prices at once. Address 
RACINE HATCHER COMPANY j 
Box 87 t Racine, Wis. 
Hatch With the Least * 
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 $4.50. Same low 
prices on larger Hatchers, Brooders and Supplies. 
Write for 176-page FREE catalogue. 
The United Factories Co., Dept.X31,Cleveland, O. 
OUGHT/TO,SEND* FOR 
““ “ OUR FREE 
__ CATALOGUE 
We Will Save You Money ^ s In a to ife'moTes; 
Grit, Eggs for hatching, Baby chicks, etc. Write 
today. THE UNITED CO.. 26-B Vesey St., New York City 
m PPI FRRATFn HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH 
liCLLDRAI CU PARTRIDGES AND PHEASANTS. 
Wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc., lor stock¬ 
ing purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, cranes, 
swans, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, 
squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and ani¬ 
mals. WENZ & MAOKEN8EN, Dept. 10, Pheas- 
antry and Game Park, Yardley, Pa. 
RMlf! - Standard Bred for Eggs—White and 
JUUU Brown Leghorn and Black Minorca Hens 
and Cockerels. Eggs for hatching. THE AMERI- 
CAN PET STOCK CO,, Collins, Ohio._ 
HOROUCH-BRED POULTRY— Best twenty varieties. 
Good stock. Eggs, 15, $1.00; 40, $2.00. Catalog. 
H. K. MOHR, Quakertown, Pa., Route 3. 
OK BREEDS POULTRY.— Bred for laying. Eggs for 
0 J hatching. Big circular illustrated in colors 
free. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 
17' z'' 1 /"< Q—Choice Buff Wyandotte Eggs for sale. 
75c. a setting of 15, $4.00 a hundred. 
CHAS. I. MILLER, R.F.D. No. 1, Hudson, N. Y. 
P RIZE WINNING STRAINS— Rhode Island Reds, both 
combs; Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, single 
comb White and Brown Leghorns; eggs, 15, $1.50; 
100, $7.00. Light and Dark Brahmas, eggs, 15,$2.00; 
100, $10.00. F. M. PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
Eggs From Prize-Winning Stock. 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS—S2 per15,S3.50 per 30; S4.50 
per 45, S7 per 100. Special Pen, S5 per 15. 
ROUEN DUCKS—Big ones, great laying strain—SI.50 per 15, 
S3 per 30, S5 per BO, S7 per 100. 
CLARK FARM, BOONTON, N. J. 
T 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
Ajqj) the lead. We are 
breeders of the 
PEKIN DUCKS grandest laying 
1 Cl IV O strain of Single Comb 
White Leghorns in America, and our Imperial 
Pekin Ducks are second to none. Eggs from se¬ 
lected breeders of Single Comb White Leghorns, 
$0.00 per 100, $1.50 per 13. Pekin duck eggs, $8.00 per 
100, $1.50 per 11. We also have choice pens of Rose 
Comb White Leghorns, Barred and White Rocks, 
White Wyandottes, Light Brahmas and Single 
Comb Rhode Island Reds. Eggs from above mat¬ 
ings. $1.50 per 13, $8.00 per 100. Also genuine 
Bronze Turkeys and their eggs. Let us start you 
right this season. We can please all. Largest 
successful plant in vicinity of New York City. Incu¬ 
bators. 10,000 eggs capacity. Agent Cyphers’ Incu¬ 
bator Co. Bonnie Brae Poultry Farm, New Rochelle, N.Y. 
ALTON FARM.- f ^“ 
of Mammoth Imperial Pekin Ducks, Sin¬ 
gle Comb White Leghorns, Barred Plym¬ 
outh Rocks, White Wyandottes and Cor¬ 
nish Indian Games at reasonable prices, 
Send for descriptive booklet. Do it now. 
S. B. & E. W. TWINING, Yardley, Pa. 
Maple Cove Poultry Yards 
offer you eggs that are guaranteed fertile, from 
well-matured, vigorous, range grown Silver-Laced 
and W. Wyandottes, W. Leghorns, II. I. Reds, 
Barred and W.P. Rocks, Imperial Pekin Ducks aud 
White Embden Geese. Send for leaflet. 
R. D. 24, Athens, Pa. 
S.C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Eggs for hatching from vigorous, mature birds. 
Our stock is the result of 15 years of selection and 
breeding for egg production. Write for prices. 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N. Y._ 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks Island 
Reds, Partridge Wyandottes, Indian Runner 
Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, 602 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
BLACK ORPINGTON EGGS 
FROM PRIZE WINNERS 
$1.50, $3.00 and $5.00 per 15; 1st and 3d on cockerel; 
2d and 3d on pen; 2d on pullet. Imperial Pekin 
duck eggs, $3.00 per 15; 1st on drake, 1st on duck. 
At Huntington Poultry Association, 1910. 
W. W. HAWXHURST, Huntington, L. I. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I. REDS. 
200 egg strains. Greatest Winter Layers known. 
Large Brown Eggs, utility, $5 per 100; Special 
Matings, $1.50 and $2 per 13: $10 and $12 per 100. 
Winners at Worcester, Springfield shows, etc. 
Circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
V AN ALSTYNE’S RHODE ISLAND REDS-Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing in any number, bred from stock that are 
vigorous egg producers. A few breeding Cockerels 
at $3 and $5. Baby Chicks hatched at $20 per 100. 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N.Y. 
B UFF AND BARRED ROCKS-Large, heavy layers, 
true color; 15 eggs, $1; guaranteed eight chicks. 
ART TAYLOR, Box 27, Washington, N. J. 
B ARRED ROCKS— Large, vigorous, heavy-laying 
strain. Best of blood, properly mated. Eggs, 
13, $1.50: 26, $2.50; 40, $3 50: 50, $4; 100, $7. EXCEL¬ 
SIOR Poultry Farm, R.R.4, Box 3, Jonesdale.Wis. 
P oultrymen—Send 10c. for our 1909 Catalog, chock full of useful 
information. Describee and illustrates 35 varieties. You can’t 
afford to be without it. Hast Donegal 1’oultry Yards Marietta,Pa 
E GGS.— $1 per 15, $2 per 40, from thoroughbred 
Brahmas, Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds, Leghorns, 
S. Hamburgs; 14 varieties; catalogue; 26 years’ 
experience. S. K. MOHR, B. F., Coopersburg, Pa. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Trios, $5; Eggs for 
Hatching, $1 for 15 ; $5 for 100. Catalog free. 
C. H. ZIMMER. Weedsport. N. Y. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS. 
Hatching Eggs. Guaranteed 90# fertile. Day-old 
Chicks. The strong, quick-growing kind; 250 acres 
devoted to breeding the very best in S. C. W. Leg¬ 
horns. Send for circular. MOUNT PLEASANT 
FARM. Box Y, Havre de Grace, Md. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS. 
$10 per 100; Eggs, $5 per 100. Allchicks and eggs from 
our own farm raised, free range selected yearlings. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co.. N. Y. 
EGGS 
S. C. White Leghorn, B, P. R„ 
and W. W.,$.75 per 13, $1.35 per 
26. SLAYMAKER 8 SON, Wyoming, Del. 
W RIGHT’S White Wyandottes, Prize Winners. 
Eggs, $4.00 per 100: baby chicks. $12.00 per 100. 
GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
B UFF, Wh. Leghorns, eggs 75o. per 15, $1.26 per 30; S. C. R. I. 
lied, Mottled Ancona Eggs. 90c. per 15, $1.50 per 30. Cats- 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
R 
0SE COMB BLACK MIN0RCAS— Eggs, $1 for 15, $3 
for 50. GEO. BOWDISH, Esperance, N. Y. 
S. C. W. Leghorns, running at free range. Celebrated 
for heavy egg production. Fertile eggs, $1 per 15, 
$5 per 100. GEO. LUNDGREEN, Wyoming, Del. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THUS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland, N. Y. 
20 EGGS $1.00 
Leading varieties of Prize Poultry, 
Hares, etc. Booklet Free. Illus¬ 
trated descriptive Catalog, 10 cts. F. G. WILE, TELFORD, PA. 
W D DflPlf Q—Bred for laying March Pul- 
i I i liUUNO lets, $2.50. Vig. Cockerels, 
$3.50; eggs, $1.50 for 15; $6.00 per 100. QUAKER 
HILL NURSE RIES. Oxford Depot, N. Y. _ 
G iant bronze turkey eggs, $ 3.00 per 
10. R. C. R. I. Reds, $1.00 per 15. Indian 
Runner Duck, $1.00 per 10. Choice Shropshire 
Sheep. Write IT. J. VAN DYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
W ILD and BRONZE TURKEYS and EGGS-Pure bred chick¬ 
ens. Handsome catalogue free showing Wild 
Gobbler right from the mountain. Satisfaction. 
Valley View Poultry Farm, Belleville, Pa. 
I WANT A MAN - ARE YOU MY MAN? 
I WANT A MAN who knows the profit in buying, selling and 
Weight, who will be the first one to get the benefit of the intro- 
price on my Steel Frame Pitless Farm Scale, which I have just 
This 5 ton scale has new compound beam and beam box, free. To 
who will help me continue my 45 years fight against all scale 
ment trusts, I will send a scale 
approval with full information 
and no obligation to keep if not 
ex-actly as represented in writing. t 
The first man gets the introduc¬ 
tory price. 
“JONES He Pays The Freight 
223 Lee St., Binghamton, IM. Y. 
feeding by 
ductory 
patented, 
such aman 
and imple- 
entirely on 
