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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Juno 18, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
During the month of May Publishers’ 
Desk received and answered 152 inquir¬ 
ies for rating of houses desiring to do 
business with farmers. We recovered 
92 claims for collecting, amounting to 
$2,164.60. We collected for subscribers 
$1,551.66. We do not propose to con¬ 
tinue these reports regularly every 
month; but we just thought some inti¬ 
mation of the amount of the work would 
be interesting to some of our friends. 
It is the general effect of the work that 
we expect to yield the best results, but 
incidentally we are glad to be able to 
belt) out an individual farmer through 
the power of publicity and public influ¬ 
ence. 
Charles A. Cyphers, Buffalo, N. Y., 
has filed voluntary petition in bank¬ 
ruptcy, showing liabilities of $61,762.37. 
The assets are $125. Mr. Cyphers has 
been in the poultry supply business for 
some years. Some years ago he organ¬ 
ized the Model Poultry Farm for the 
purpose of raising poultry and producing 
eggs. Stock was sold to poultrymen 
throughout the country, under the plan 
of co-operative buying and selling. It 
was not a success, and the company 
failed. Of course the investors in the 
stock lost their investment. The R. 
N.-Y. offended Mr. Cyphers at;the time 
by refusing to carry the advertising of 
the stock proposition, which was carried 
bv other papers. 
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, who was 
so badly mixed up in insurance scandals, 
has been a United States Senator from 
New York State for the past 12 years, 
where lie has faithfully looked after 
the interests of railroads, express com¬ 
panies and corporate interests generally, 
and did all that he could to defeat par¬ 
cels post. He was originally elected and 
re-elected to this position by New York 
State Senators and Assemblymen who 
were sent to Albany by farmers’ votes. 
Mr. Dcpew is now an avowed candi¬ 
date for re-election for another term. 
I f he is successful it will again be by 
the votes of farmers. If farmers con¬ 
tinue to send men to Albany and Wash¬ 
ington to represent railroads, express 
companies and other corporate interests, 
then they should not complain at the 
extortion of these companies. It is an 
insult to the intellisrende of the farm 
community that Mr. Depew should even 
suggest the possibility of going back to 
Washington in opposition to their inter¬ 
ests through the votes of farmers them¬ 
selves. We think there is a new feel¬ 
ing in the State that will surprise the 
Hon. Chauncey Depew when he gets 
close enough to the people to get ac¬ 
quainted with their sentiments. 
I have just received your very valuable 
favor and remittance for .$267 from the 
Santa Fe Ry. Co. for their error in failing 
to deliver car of onions to the party hold¬ 
ing the bill of lading when demanded, about 
May 25, 1909. As you know, the car had 
been billed flat to another commission firm 
of Chicago. I tried hard to get some attor¬ 
ney to undertake to collect this claim for 
.‘’K per cent, of it, but could not find any 
who would undertake it. A neighbor told 
me of the colllections that The It. N.-Y. 
made for its subscribers. I had but little 
hopes of the claim, but decided to see what 
you could do. I am perfectly willing to 
pav you for the valuable service. Hurrah 
for The R. N.-Y. a. c. Thompson. 
Falfurias, Texas. 
This has been rather an interesting 
case as well as an important one. In 
May, 1909, Mr. Thompson was induced 
by a special representative of S. F. 
Fish & Co. of 189 South Water Street, 
Chicago, Ill., to ship them a carload of 
crystal wax onions. The representative’s 
name was A. W. Burnett and he claimed 
to represent Fish & Co. on a salary and 
examined the car of onions as it was 
loaded. He offered a cash advance of 
60 cents per crate on consignment and 
this was accepted, payment to be made 
in a sight draft with bill of lading at¬ 
tached on Fish & Co. Mr. Burnett at¬ 
tended to the billing and routing of the 
car and the forwarding of the draft and 
B-L, which was deposited in a local 
bank for collection in favor of Mr. 
Thompson. The car was bill flat, that 
is directed to Fish & Co. The draft ar¬ 
rived in Chicago before the car and ar¬ 
rangement was made by wire to hold 
the draft until the arrival of the car. 
On arrival of the car Fish & Co. wired 
Mr. Thompson to reduce the draft 15 
cents per crate and. they would pay the 
balance. This Mr. Thompson refused 
to do. After waiting several days Mr. 
Thomnson wired the First National 
Bank of Chicago to have the bill of 
lading and the car turned over to T. 
D. Randall & Co., 92 Board of Trade 
Building, Chicago, Ill. T. D. Randall 
& Co. received the bill of lading and 
presented it early in the morning of 
May 26 to the assistant cashier of the 
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 
Co. He was told that the car had just 
been turned over to Fish & Co., and he 
was refused possession of it. This re¬ 
fusal was made before Fish & Co. had 
removed any of the onions from the car. 
Mr. Randall, however, had made a care¬ 
ful examination of the onions which he 
found at the time in good condition and 
which he estimated to be worth at least 
90 cents per crate at the time he de¬ 
manded possession of them. Fish & 
Co. took away some three or four loads 
of the goods and in the meantime the 
railroad company had begun to make 
inquiries as to the status of the case 
through their Falfurrias, Texas, office, 
and about ten o’clock in the morning 
stopped Fish & Co. from unloading the 
car and ordered the goods replaced. 
Some days later Fish & Co. did replace 
the same number of crates of onions but 
not the same onions that had been taken 
out of the car by them. Matters then 
dragged along for several days and in 
the meantime the onions remained on 
the track six days when they were 
turned over to Randall & Co. During 
this time the onions had deteriorated 
in value and Randall & Co. were obliged 
to sell them at 50 cents per crate, mak¬ 
ing a loss to Mr. Thompson on the ship¬ 
ment of 40 cents per crate, and a total 
loss of some 20 odd crates which had 
been removed by Fish & Co., and re¬ 
placed several days later by another 
variety and a totally worthless deliv¬ 
ery. The total loss to Mr. Thompson 
on the shipment was $267. There was 
some effort made to induce Fish & Co. 
to settle for the onions removed from 
the car and later replaced by worthless 
stuff, but with no results. The Chicago 
representatives of the railroad refused to 
acknowledge responsibility. The freight 
charges amount to $210.48. The em¬ 
barrassment in the situation came from 
the fact that the shipment was made 
Fish & Co. as a consignment to be sold 
on commission with an advance pavment 
of 60 cents per crate but the goods 
were not sold to them. Another embar¬ 
rassment was the fact that the car had 
been shipped flat to Fish & Co. and this 
enabled them to get possession of the car 
without paying the draft and receiving 
the bill of lading. If Mr. Thompson 
had addressed the car to himself, Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., and sent his draft and bill of 
lading through the bank, with instruc¬ 
tions to notify Fish & Co. of its arrival, 
Fish & Co. could not then have secured 
possession of the car without first pay¬ 
ing the draft and releasing the bill of 
lading. The attention of The R. N.-Y. 
was called to the case by a subscriber at 
Falfurrias in September last, and after 
a study of the case we were satisfied that 
the railroad company had made them¬ 
selves liable by refusing to turn the car 
over to Randall & Co. when they pre¬ 
sented the bill of lading and made the 
demand for it, but if they were not re¬ 
sponsible for failure to recognize Ran¬ 
dall & Co. then they were clearly re¬ 
sponsible for the delay because of with¬ 
drawing the delivery from Fish & Co., 
and on these grounds we put in a de¬ 
mand for $267 against the railroad com¬ 
pany on behalf of Mr. Thompson. We 
have been at it ever since and have 
just succeeded in closing the settlement 
and forwarding the check to Mr. j 
Thompson for the full amount of the 
claim. In this connection we want to 
give credit to Mr. T. D. Randall for his 
courtesy and painstaking co-operation 
with us in furnishing evidence to con¬ 
vince the railroad company of their re¬ 
sponsibility. We were obliged to call 
uoon him several times in a busy season 
and his response was always prompt and 
intelligent and fully seconded all our ef¬ 
forts to secure redress for Mr. Thomp¬ 
son. It is also only fair to say that 
Mr. H. C. Pribble, Freight Claim Audit¬ 
or of the Santa Fe Railroad gave our j 
claims and demands in the matter court¬ 
eous consideration. We felt as usual 
that it took a long time for the inves¬ 
tigation, but his disposition seemed to 
be fair and considerate and settlement 
was made finally without any attempts 
to discount it in any way. 
It has been one of the most difficult 
cases we have yet handled; and the re¬ 
sult is a distinct triumph for shippers. 
There is a redress for goods lost or dam¬ 
aged in transit; and the public opinion 
expressed through the press will com¬ 
pel adjustment when the responsibility 
is located and redress demanded. 
GALLOWAY 
YOU 
$50 to $300 
S AVE from $50 to $300 by buying your gasoline engine of 2 to 22-horse-power from 
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enormous modern 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 (and I buy my 
material ‘n enormous quantities). 
Anybody can afford and might just as well have a high grade engine when he 
can get in on a wholesale deal of this kind. I’m doing something that never was 
done before. Think of it 1 A price to you that is lower than dealers and 
jobbers can buy similar engines for, in carload lots, for spot cash. 
An engine that is made so good in the factory that I will send 
it out anywhere in the U. S. without an expert to any inexperienced xyoy * yy 
users, on 30 days’ free trial, to test against any engine made of yy " * 
similar horse-power that sells for twice as much, and let him yy£\A &/x MM S 
be the judge. Sell your poorest horse and buy a yyv\/%y/ G Ct 
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Biggest and Best 
BOOK 
GASOLINE 
ENGINE 
Write today for my beautiful new 50-page Engine Book in four 
colors, nothing like it ever printed before, full of valuable information, 
showing how I make them and how you can make more money with a 
gasoline engine on the farm. Write me— 
Wm. Galloway, Prom., Wm. Galloway Go, 
665 Galloway Station, Waterloo, Iowa 
THE PRODUCT OF 
EXPERIENCE 4 " 0 HONOR 
CALDWELL SPECIAL-$93.10 
I Money cannot buy a better 4 H 
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and I am ready to 
prove it as I want 
.you to be thor¬ 
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I me send you thisen- 
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You may use it for sixty days 
I-I'll even pay the return charges 
if you don’t want to keep it. 
Fully guaranteed for 5 years, 
but will last a life time and 
always give satisfaction. 
Try the Caldwell Special on 
vour place. Write me. * 
CALDWELL-HALLOWELL MFG. CO. 
511 Commercial St., WATERLOO, IOWA 
Get Yours NOW 
Throw your wabbling, rattling 
old wooden wheels away—avoid 
breakdowns in the rush of Sum¬ 
mer and Fall work. Electric Steel 
Wheels Will Make Your Old 
Wagon New. 
We’ve fitted thousands of old running gears. 
Saved owners money—kept them from baying 
new wagons. Measure your axles in five minutcs'fwo 
show you how) aud you have your wheels in no time. 
We guarantee fit. Wagons stronger than ever. We 
also sell Electric Handy Wagons complete. The busy 
hauling season is on. Write for book today. 
ELECTRIC WHEEL CO.. Box48 Qumcr, III. 
Steel Wheels- 
Tliat’s So! Hired hands are 
getting scarcer every day; 
bi t LOW DOWN STEEL 
WHEELS will help to take 
their place. Then, too, the 
sun don't afreet a steel wheel 
like it does the best of hired 
help. More brain and less 
muscle no wadays. Cata¬ 
logue free to you. 
HAVANA METAL WHEEL CO. 
Box 17, Havana, Ill. 
250,000,000, 
Sheep Every Year, 
„ _ Dipped In 
COOPER DIP 
Has no equal. One dipping: kills ticks, lice 
and nits. Increases quantity and quality 
of wool. Improves appearance and con¬ 
dition of flock. If dealer can’t supply you, 
send SI.75 for $2.00 (100 gallons) packet to 
SCHIEFFELIN & COMPANY, 
170 William Street, New York City. 
M acKellar’s Charcoal 
Fo/ Poultry is best. Coarse or fine granulated, also 
powdered. Buy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. ICst. 1844 
R. MacKELLAR’S SONS CO.. Peekskill. N.Y. 
Mapes* Hen-Liee-Wax 
Has been such a boon to mo and my liens that I 
decided to place it on the market. One application 
a year to tiie perches has given me absolute free¬ 
dom from mites. Write for particulars. 
O. W. MALES. Middletown, N. Y. 
Hone’s “Bredto Lay” Rose Comb Reds 
are deep wine red in color: also superior layers of largo brown 
Kggs. lCggB from best matings half price, remainder of the 
season. Please send tiial order anti let me prove the quality 
advertised. 
D. R. HONE, Crescent Hill Farm, Box 24, Sharon Springs, N.Y. 
pRIZE-WINNING STRAINS—R. I. Reds. 
-*■ both combs: White Wyandottes; Barred Rocks; 
Light and Dark Brahmas; S. (,'. White and Brown 
Leghorns; safe delivery; 70ft fertility guaranteed; 
eggs. $1, 15; $5, 100. F I’RESCOTT, Riverdale. N. J. 
,C. Rhode 
Island 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks R 
Reds, Partridge Wyandottes, Indian Runner 
Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, Southold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
Van Alstyne's R, I, Reds _ F„?!,'S"f“u 
bred for vigor and egg production EDW. VAN 
ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N.Y. 
Death the Stomach 
Worms Guaranteed 
We will send you 100 lbs. of DR. 
HOLLAND’S MEDICATED 8TO(K 
SALT on 60 days’ trial freight 
prepaid. If you derive no benefit, 
It costs you nothing; If you do, it 
costs you $5.00. Give us your or¬ 
der at once. 
The HOLLAND STOCK REMEDY 
COMPANY, Wellington, Ohio. 
iPOWN FENCE 
D 1 * * * * & 
Strongest, most durable fence 
made. Heaviest, closest vires. Doable 
{ galvanized. Practically indestructible. Stock ^ 
strong. ChickentighL 15 to 35 c perrod. Samplefree. Wepayfrt, 
TheBrow^Pence^WireCoMDepLSSjCleveland^OhloJ 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
j S. C. W. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks, White Wyandottes, 
R. I. Reds. Single and Rose Comb. THE R. & 0. 
POULTRY PLANT, P. O. Box 333, Stamford,Conn. 
LAKEHILL FARM. 
IV. H. TIIACHEK 
S. C. W. Leghorn Day-old Chicks, 10 cents each, 
$8.00 per hundred. Imp. Pekin Day-old Ducklings, 
20 cents each. $18.00 per hundred. Address all 
communications to 
JOHN H. WEED, Mgr., Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM LEGHORNS 
250 acres devoted to the best in S. C. W. Leghorns. 
MT. PLEASANT FARM, Box Y, Havre de Grace, Maryland. 
Free Poultry Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS, MARIETTA, PA. 
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. 
B UFF, Wh. Leghorns, eggs 75c. per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. K.I. 
Ked, Mottled Ancona Kgga, 90c. 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; Trios, $5; Eggs for 
Hatching, $1 for 15; $5 for 100. Catalog free. 
C. H. ZIMMER. Weedsport. N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
3XT 
PEKIN DUCKS 
YOUNG STOCK AND 
YEARLIN GS 
AT BARGAIN PRICES 
TO MAKE ROOM 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
(Stamp.) 
W. C. DUCKWALL. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 
Rfififi - Standard Bred for Eggs—White and 
UUUU Brown Leghorn and Black Minorca Hons 
and Cockerels. Eggs for hatching. THE AMERI¬ 
CAN PET STOCK CO., Collins, Ohio. 
I herewith send you $1.00 for which send 
me The R. N.-Y. for one year. I think 
your “Publisher’s Desk” alone is worth the 
$1.00. You may send me 200 envelopes and 
key the same and see if I can get you any 
results. I will do the best I can for you. 
Connecticut. p. j. b. 
Those 200 little envelopes went right 
back by return mail. Every one that 
comes back will be credited to P. J. B.’s 
account and a cash commission or pre¬ 
mium goes with a certain number of re¬ 
turns. If any one else can use the en¬ 
velopes, we are always glad to supply 
them. j. j. d. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS. 
$10 per 100; Kggs,$5pcrl00. Allchicks and eggs from 
our own farm raised, free range selected yearlings 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Rnnrhnn Doric Mammoth Bronze and Narra- 
DUUI UUII nCUd' gansett Turkey Eggs, $2.50 for 
12. B. P. Rocks, Black Mlnorcas and R. I. Reds— 
Eggs, $1.00 for 17. Pekin Duck Eggs, $1.00 for 13. 
W. R. CARLE, R.F.D. No. 1, Jacobsburg, Ohio. 
DAVIS S. C. R . I . REDS 
PRICES REDUCED 
SB 12 PER 100 after June 1; full count guar¬ 
anteed-on arrival. 
EGGS 804 OFF balance of season, circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM. Berlin, Mass. 
I nuiMn nuililLil 1 * ‘m* v-ui *-<. 
others at $1.00 per 12. C. GORDON, Sprakers, N. Y. 
QC Single Comb White Leghorn Hens and 2 Cockerels, $30. 
0 J Collie Pups and Bred Bitches, 22 Buff Orping¬ 
ton Eggs, $1. W. A. LOTHERS, Peru Lack, Pa. 
HANDY BINDER 
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