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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 28, 
Thanks to you, the Globe Hosiery Co., 
Bushnellsville, N. C., have sent the goods, 
with slip to say original package was lost 
by express company. Be that as it may, of 
one tiling 1 am sure; if it had not been for 
the long arm of The K. N.-Y., I would 
never have had a line from them. From 
September 24, 1909, to April 18, 1910, is a 
long time. s. j. c. 
New York. 
This story is practically all told above. 
This man sent an order in reply to an 
advertisement in a daily paper for some 
goods. He did not get them, and could 
get no reply to his letters about them. 
He complained to us. and we had no 
better success. We then told the story 
in this column. Then we got a letter 
calling The R.-N. Y. hard names in 
three letters and promising to sue us for 
libel if, on examination, we were found 
to have any financial worth whatever. 
We assume they found none. Perhaps 
they are yet looking. In the meantime 
the farmer got the goods. We have no 
doubt that the goods were sent, and that 
they miscarried, but that is no reason 
why they should not reply to inquiries 
about them when they were not deliv¬ 
ered, and no reason why they should not 
be civil instead of abusive, when we in¬ 
sisted on an accounting for them. 
John E. Horn, Commerce Building, Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo., sold me some stock in the 
Verde Grand Copper Company, under the 
name of ('has. B. Rudd, the said Rudd be¬ 
ing no other than John E. Horn himself, 
lie made me the following proposition, 
which caused me to part with the money. 
In a letter which I have he said : "If you 
buy stock in the Verde Grand Copper Com¬ 
pany, and you become dissatisfied, if you 
will take 10 cents per share, the price sell¬ 
ing for, I will return your money.” 1 
became dissatisfied and have written him 
time and time again, and he will not: return 
the money. He said if I would draft on 
him and attach such a letter he would 
pay the draft. 1 did so and the draft came 
back unpai$- 1 hope you can bring him to 
terms. I wish you would also get my 
$910 from II. II. Tucker, or the Uncle 
Sam Oil Company; of Atchison; Kan. This 
party sold me stock from time to time by 
making it low, saying it was at the-bottom. 
I paying 10 cents, then six cents, then live 
cents per share, then stopped, while, he has 
made the price all the way down, and only 
2i/ a cents per share at the present time, 
though he claims the company is prosper¬ 
ing wonderfully and is making great sales, 
while this stock .lias gradually come down. 
If his words were true, the stock would 
go up. So you see what I have lost in 
buying alone, under the above trick to keep 
me buying. Tucker has been sent to jail 
once for contempt. He is a great one lor 
explaining things aside. So just tell him 
that no excuse will be accepted; just pay 
this $3-10 back and cancel the stock, and 
do so at once. e. c. 
■Maryland. 
There is no more chance of getting 
back .a dollar put into such stocks than 
there would be of getting back a paper 
dollar put into a burning blaze of tire. 
We are sorry for this investor; but it 
is impossible to do anything to help her. 
Such people are not returning money. 
Their business is to get it and keep it. 
Remember that the promises and guaran¬ 
tees of irresponsible people are no good 
when you want cash. 
If I had a lot of your small envelopes 
I would distribute them where they would 
bring some returns. I would like to know 
how long I have been a subscriber to The 
It. N.-Y. I think it has been nearly 20 
years now, and it has grown better and 
more helpful all the time, and if a copy 
fails to come (which it seldom does) some¬ 
thing is wrong for a week. Long may it 
continue to work for the interest of * the 
farmers. With .best wishes, I am, j. o. h. 
North Carolina. 
More helpful is what we want it to 
be with each succeeding issue and each 
succeeding year. If we succeed in mak¬ 
ing it so, it is because good friends like 
this one, contribute in their own way 
to make it so. In distributing those lit¬ 
tle envelopes and sending the 10-weeks’ 
subscrij tion= direct, such friends are 
making possible by their personal in¬ 
fluence the kind of work The R. N.-Y. 
is able and anxious to do. It could not 
be done without such support, j. j. d. 
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Most liberal offer ever made on first class 
roofing, better than goods that sell at much higher prices. 
Don’t spend a dollar on roofing until you have seen 
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You send no money when you order Unito Roofing. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write today for free samples for 
test and comparison and our unparalleled selling plan. 
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See the extraordinary values in the 1910 
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Compare with the offers of other makers 
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two years—gives four weeks’road trial. 
We want every farmer in America to 
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Don’t buy till you see it. Send today. 
The Wilber H. Murray Mfg. Co. 326-332 E. 5th St. 
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$30 
The 
largest 
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printed. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
Fo,' Poultry is best. Coarse or flue granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Est.1814 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO.. Peeksltill. N.Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
AND the lead. We are 
breeders of the 
PEKIN DUCKS g,andest la y* ng 
1 l J 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, 
$6.00 per 10U, $1.60 per 13. Pekin duck eggs, $8.00 per 
100, $1.50 per 11. We also have choice pens of Hose 
Comb White Leghorns. Barred and White ltoeks, 
White Wyandottes, Light Brahmas and Single 
Comb Rhode Island Keds. 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. 
LAKEHILL FARM. 
\V. H. THACHER 
The home of S. C. W. Leghorns, W. P. Rocks and 
Imperial Pekin Ducks. Leghorn eggs for hatch¬ 
ing, $1.50 per 15; $0 per 100. White Rock eggs, 
$3.00 per 15, $12.00 per 100. Duck eggs, $1.50 per 
10. $8 per 100: 90 per cent, fertility guaranteed on 
all eggs. Ducklings, 25 cents each, $20.00 per 100. 
Correspondence invited. Address all communica¬ 
tions to 
JOHN H. WEED, M«r„ Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I . REDS 
PRICKS REDUCED 
BABY CEE ICKS 
$bl3 FEU 100 after June 1; full count guar¬ 
anteed on arrival. 
EGGS 30# OFF balance of season, circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM, Berlin, Mass. 
Van Alstyne's R, I, RedsT,?!™, 1 '"; 
bred for vigor and egg production. EDW. VAN 
ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N.Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs, $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Route 1, Richland. N. Y. 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks Island 
Beds, Partridge Wyandottes, Indian Runner 
Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, 002 Fifth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
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 
S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks, While Wyandottes, 
R. L Reds. Single and Rose Comb. THE R. & C. 
POULTRY PLANT, P. (3. Box 333, Stamford, Conn. 
E GGS.— $1 per 15, $2 per 40, from thoroughbred 
Brahmas, Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds, Leghorns, 
S. Hamburgs; 14 varieties: catalogue: 20 years 
experience. S. K. MOHR, B. F., Ooopersburg, Pa. 
B UFF, WIi. Leghorns, eggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. R. I. 
Re.I, Mottled Ancona Kggs, 90r. per 15, $1.50 per 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
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. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS. 
$10per 100; Eggs. $5 per 100. All chicks and eggs from 
our own farm raised, free range selected yearlings. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
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. 
T) It IZE-AV INNING STRAINS—R. I. Reds. 
. both combs: White Wyandottes; Barred Rocks; 
Light and Dark Bralunas; S. <’. White and Brown 
Leghorns; safe delivery: 70# fertility guaranteed; 
eggs, $1, 15; $5, 100. F PRESCOTT, Riverdale. N. J. 
OR BREEDS POULTRY.— Bred for laying. Eggs for 
ud hatching. Big circular illustrated in colors 
free. JOHN E. HEATWOLE, Harrisonburg, Va. 
C fl fl fl —Ftandard 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. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Our work in this department is often 
misunderstood. We frequently get let¬ 
ters from strangers who promise to sub¬ 
scribe if we collect an account for them. 
Others with more grace, send a 10-cent 
subscription order with request to collect 
an account. Last week we received an ac¬ 
count from' a lawyer who said he had 
been unable to collect for a client, but 
had heard that The R. N.-Y. had suc¬ 
ceeded in collecting from the same con¬ 
cern, and wanted us to undertake the 
collection for his client, neither the 
lawyer or the client being a subscriber 
to the paper. As a rule we are not 
technical about these matters. Some 
time ago, a man sent a dollar for a 
years’ subscription with the condition 
that we compel a house to whom he 
sent an order to return his remittance. 
We returned his dollar, but his com¬ 
plaint was just, and we went ahead and 
got his remittance for him. We are 
glad to help a farmer get his just rights 
whether he happens to be a subscriber 
or not; but we do not like to be put 
in the position of making a bargain of 
doing ten dollars’ worth of work for a 
dollar or ten cents and send the paper 
besides. It would rather hurt one’s pride 
to make many such bargains. Neither 
do we like, as in the case of the lawyer, 
to be put in the position of a mere col¬ 
lection agency. 
.T. II. McKillip, Vineland, N. J. 
We have a bill for collection against 
him for $S.05, but have been unable to 
get any response from him. 
In November, 1908, I sold B. M. Herrick, 
of Hilton, N. Y., 236 bushels 35 pounds 
wheat at 90 cents per bushel. ' I have re¬ 
ceived $175, leaving a balance of $37.92. 
I wish you would see if you can get it for 
me. G. p. 
New York; 
We have failed to make the collec¬ 
tion, and get no reply whatever to our 
requests for remittance or explanation. 
You may remember that some time ago 
you hurried up the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany about paying a claim against them 
for eggs shipped by Mr. Groff, who prompt¬ 
ly received the money after you got "on 
the job.” w. r. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is a comfort to know that we get 
prompt adjustments occasionally. Some¬ 
times we spend six months on a single 
case. 
Would you try to collect from A. A. 
Brooks, of Long Meadow, Mass., doing busi¬ 
ness in Springfield, Mass., the amount of 
$11.52 for 36 pounds butter at 32 Vi cents 
per pound? He pays no attention to our 
letters, although lie lias acknowledged re¬ 
ceipt of the butter. p. s. f. 
Vermont. 
This complaint -came in on January 
12, and we have since been trying to 
collect, but have so far failed to get so 
much as a single reply. The amount of 
the bill is $11.52. 
You don’t know how thankful I am to you 
in taking up my case with the Globe Asso¬ 
ciation, Chicago, 111. They sent me a check 
for the $5,1 paid down, and have offered to 
settle my account. I have only asked for my 
time: I let the expenses go. it is the Home 
Supply Co., but it is the same as the Globe 
Association. j. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
These people are returning some of 
the deposits now at our request. They 
are wise in doing so. We believe the 
refusal to return the money would leave 
them liable to postoffice inspection. But 
their contract is a fake on the face of it. 
I have a claim against T. C. Furnas & 
Co.. 839- Ft. Wayne avenue, Indianapolis, 
Ind. The amount is $75, with interest for 
five years. I never could get any answer 
from them, although I wrote them several 
times. They style themselves, “The Indi¬ 
anapolis Nursery Co." They also claim to he 
florists and seedsmen. My claim is for nurs¬ 
ery stock, mostly cherry trees. t. t. w. 
Indiana. 
We have other claims against them 
that we are not able to collect. Our 
reports are that they are execution 
proof, and when they refuse to pay an 
account voluntarily, nothing can be done 
to collect it. 
I am not a sucker aud never hit other’s 
games. I am writing you to ask if there 
is no law by which sucker hunting may 
not be prohibited. An old soldier and 
neighbor of mine, who was a subscriber of 
a Washington, I). C., paper, published os¬ 
tensibly in the interest of old soldiers, hit 
on one of the paper’s advertisements of 
Florida lauds, even after I had told him 
of your exposure of the scheme, lie took 
his’family and all lie had and there lie is 
now swamped five miles from nowhere. 
Michigan. - l. d. a. 
There is no law against a man making 
a bad bargain. We all make them at 
times. When the general rogue catches 
us it is bad enough, but when those who 
pretend to be our friends set out de¬ 
liberately to rob us it cuts a hit deeper. 
It is too bad that the veterans .who 
fought the Nation’s battles in youth 
should be exploited in their old age by 
their pretended friends. To our mind 
the publisher or editor who first wins 
the good will of subscribers through his 
paper only to take advantage of his con¬ 
fidence afterwards for selfish purposes 
in the most contemptible rascal in the 
whole catalogue of rogues. 
J. C. Fredericks, Wellsville, N. Y. 
We have a bill of $5, beirtg the 
balance due a farmer for shipments to 
him in September two years ago. The 
prices were agreed upon before ship¬ 
ment was made, and Mr. Fredericks 
makes no explanation or excuse for 
failure to pay the balance. 
A. J. Melson & Co., 188 Readc street, 
New York, commission merchants. 
We have two of their protested checks 
for collection—one for $1.88 and an¬ 
other for $2.76. They say they are not 
able to pay them now; but expect ship¬ 
ments to increase, and think they can 
then pay. Just think of producers send¬ 
ing goods on consignment under such 
conditions. 
I shipped E. Sclilossor & Co., 77 Com¬ 
merce slreet-. Newark, N. J.. 50 prints of 
butter, weighing 48 Vj- pounds. They wrote 
the butter was received, hut made no re¬ 
turns. 1 receive 30 cents per pound for 
the butter at home. If you induce them 
to settle, I will pay you for the trouble. 
New York. R. E. v. 
Last May I shipped a 30-dozen crate at 
eggs to E. Sclilossor, 77 Commerce street, 
Newark, N. J. In reply to request for pay. 
lie only wrote to send on more eggs, as 
they were in good demand at 24 cents per 
dozen. I have not been able to get re¬ 
turns yet. Can you collect it ? w. m. r. 
Pennsylvania. 
If the above complainants took the 
pains to look up ratings, they would not 
make the shipments. Inasmuch as the 
firm is yet in business and evidently look¬ 
ing for shipments, we expected to get 
these returns, but have so far failed to 
do so. We suggest to shippers to make 
a note of the experience. 
Clark’s Nursery, of Rochester. N. Y., 
through their agent, from Greenport. Long 
Island, sold a neighbor Of mine last sea¬ 
son a hill of nursery slock. $25 or over, 
cash. Any and all trees that died were 
to be replaced. Only about six of the trees 
were alive when received, and they refused 
to make good. I)o you know anything 
about th<‘ firm? F. E. N. 
Long Island. 
We have had other complaints about 
them, and have been unable to get any 
satisfaction. In view of the many com¬ 
plaints about tree agents and the houses 
they represent, we are about ready to 
advise our people to refuse to sign any 
orders for nursery stock for agents. Tell 
the agent to write out all the promises 
he makes- verbally, and that you will 
sign it, and send it direct to his house 
for acceptance, keeping a copy of it, 
provided you feel you must give him 
the order, but if you send the order to 
some nursery you know to be respon¬ 
sible, you will save trouble, annoyance 
and money. 
I have been canvassing for the Globe 
Association for a month and 10 day's, and 
sent them 13, memberships, with $2.50 for 
each. I have written to them twice for 
my money, and my wife has written to them 
during my absence; hut they do not an¬ 
swer. They got an agent to work for them 
travelling all over the neiglilwliood, and 
when they get all the memberships they 
refuse to pay his salary. According to my 
contract, 1 am entitled to the following 
amounts : 
Month’s salary.$80.00 
Paid for outfit. 7.50 
For express order.50 
Postage.20 
Carfare .60 
Express on outfit.75 
Total.$89.55 
That is the amount this agent would 
be entitled to if his contract was just 
what he thought he was when he signed 
it, and what they wanted him to think 
it was. He is really entitled under the 
contract to nothing hut $1 on each of 
the memberships sold, and this he has 
received already. He sold memberships 
for $3.50 and sent them $2.50 for each. 
He collected $45.50 from 13 of his neigh¬ 
bors, and sent $32.50 of it to the Globe 
Association. As far as the neighbors are 
concerned they might as well have 
burned the $3.50. The Globe Associa¬ 
tion induced this man, as it does others, 
to go out and fake his neighbors, and 
actually induced him to send them $7.50 
for the privilege. Of course, the agent 
gets the worst of the deal, and does not 
know that the game is a fraud, but he 
usually finds it out before he goes very 
far. Reading the contract casually, it 
looks as if the agent was to get $S0 
a month, but a careful reading shows 
that he is to get $1 for each membership 
sold and no more, unless his commis¬ 
sions net him three-fifths of the salary 
promised. In that event he would have- 
sent them $120. and earned on commis¬ 
sions $48. Whether he does little or much 
it is all loss to the alleged members, and 
all gain to the Globe Association. The 
membership costs them the printing of 
the certificates and no more, and is worth 
less. The wliol^ thing is a fake and a 
fraud from beginning to end, and we do 
not see why the post office department 
does not put a stop to it. 
PHI I 1C P| | DO— From imported stock. Females 
uULLIL rUlOrlieap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
Maple Cove Poultry Yards 
offer you eggs that are guaranteed fertile, from 
well-matured, vigorous, range grown Silver-Laced 
W. Wyandottes, W. S. C. Brown & White Leg¬ 
horns, R. I. Reds, Barred and W. P. Rocks, Im¬ 
perial Pekin Ducks. Write for what you want. 
R. D. 24, Athens, Pa. 
W D ROCKS -Eggs from tested heavy layers, 
i I i $2 for 15, from best pens; Incubator Eggs, 
$6 per 100. A. S. BRIAN, Mt. Kiseo, N. Y. 
Wright’s White Wyandotte Winners-j^ 
Chicks S10 per 100. GRAND VIEW FARM, Stanfordville.N.Y. 
Free Poultry Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA, PA. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS 
250 acres devoted to the best in 8. O. W. Leghorns. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, pox Y, Havre de Grace, Marylanp. 
T URKEY EGGS-Bourhon Rods, $3 50 for 12: Mam¬ 
moth Bronze and Narragansetts, $3.00forl2: B. P. 
Rocks, 8 O. R. I. Keds and S. (’. Black Minoroas, 
$1.00 for 17 eggs. W. R. CARLE, R.F.D. 1, Jacobsburo, 0 
