C8(i 
Juno 25, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Yours with check to balance account of 
F. E. Gale received. I thank you for same 
as I was unable to get a reply out of him. 
Ohio. J. B. Q. 
We have few complaints against farm¬ 
ers. This was one, a protested check, 
probably by carelessness and oversight. 
I wrote you a letter about a week or so 
ago telling you 1 had received a check for 
$7.50 from the American Home Supply Co.. 
Chicago, III., which I asked you to collect 
for nm and am waiting for a reply from you 
with bill for your trouble. G. H. 
Connecticut. 
This is the concern that is selling the 
Globe Association certificates. The 
money was a deposit made by agents in 
advance. They seem never to return the 
deposit until we demand it. 
I got my suit of clothes from John M. 
Smyth Co., of Chicago, the other day. 
Thank you. Send me live little envelopes, 
and I will distribute them. e. a. h. 
Iowa. 
This man wrote us that he was work¬ 
ing for one of our subscribers, and had 
not been able to get a suit ordered by 
mail. Every member of the Rural fam¬ 
ily is entitled to its services, and we 
are glad this member got his goods. Of 
course he gets the live little envelopes. 
Is the McCreory Mfg. Co., Toledo, Ohio, a 
reliable one, and do you think the canvas 
glove business as good as they claim? Can 
the business be made to pay run on a small 
scale? w. g. c. 
New York. 
The company has a very good rating 
and we think them financially respon¬ 
sible, but we do not think their glove 
manufacturing proposition practicable 
and we do not think it could be made 
profitable on a small scale in country 
places. We have already asked the com¬ 
pany to give us the name and address 
of some farmer or country person who 
had made a success of it on the lines 
they recommend, and they have not sent 
it. 
The M. M. Fenner Co., Fredonia, N. Y., 
sent an agent here three or four years ago 
and left some medicine. I told him I did 
not want it but he left it on the floor. II(; 
left It with many people here. Some of it 
might have boon used, but most of the bot¬ 
tles got broken by freezing or otherwise. 
Now they write threatening letters trying 
to collect for it. What do you think I 
should dd? C. L. K. 
New York. 
We have had similar complaints be¬ 
fore. Of course the agent should never 
be allowed to leave the stuff in the house 
or even in the stabh He usually says 
'•ou may use a part of it and if not sat¬ 
isfactory, you may return the balance. 
Rut they go right on trying to collect 
just the same afterwards. The only 
suggestion we would make would be to 
burn their letters, and meet the next 
agent of the firm at the gate with a big 
stick or a shot gun. 
J. J. Pitts & Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 
produce commission merchants. 
We have a note of $215 against them 
for collection and have not been able to 
get it. The note was given a New York 
State shipper more than a year ago in 
payment of consignments, and payment 
has been refused. Old readers will re¬ 
member that we had complaints about 
them more than a year ago and ex¬ 
pressed a word of warning. No ship¬ 
per should ever accept a note for goods 
sold on consignment. The commission 
man gets the money for the goods, and 
he ought to pay promptly. There is 
some chance of forcing payment then, 
but a note simply gives him more time 
to accumulate credits. Failure is the 
inevitable result eventually. Pitts & 
Co. may now say their trouble was due 
to the article in The R. N.-Y. But noth¬ 
ing was said about them in The R. N.-Y. 
until they had given shippers grave cause 
for complaint. If this paper caused 
them losses of shipments just in that 
proportion it saved shippers losses of 
returns. They now intimate that they 
may continue in the brokerage line. 
Shippers will be easy, if this concern is 
able to secure further consignments. 
Florida bind schemes generally, and the 
Everglades in particular. 
A number of colonization schemes are 
under way exploiting Florida lands. 
Much of this has been bought for taxes 
at nominal prices because it is worthless 
for productive purposes. The promoters 
sell it to northern people, who never 
see it, by mail for $20 to $-10 an acre. 
The timber is either removed from the 
land, or reserved when sold. Oftentimes 
the cost of clearing the land is very 
high. From reading the literature of the 
promoters one would think that the State 
had drained these swamps completely 
and that the northern family had nothing 
to "do but move on and begin to plow. 
As a matter of fact the State is simply 
cutting a few main canals or big ditches, 
and owners of the land will have to pro¬ 
vide lateral and sublateral drains neces¬ 
sary to drain the land. The Everglades 
are covered with water of various 
depths, but in dry seasons seldom more 
THE RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
than three feet. It is also covered with 
a rank growth of sawweed grass which 
makes it almost impenetrable. When 
the water is removed, the surface is cov¬ 
ered with sand, alluvial deposit, and de¬ 
cayed vegetable matter. The State of 
Florida holds large tracts, but private 
parties have holdings, and these arc be¬ 
ing exploited. These companies tell all 
the advantages of climate and produc¬ 
tion, but withhold all the discouraging 
features. There is good land in Florida; 
and enterprising and successful produc¬ 
ers; but no one should buy a rood of 
the land without first visiting the terri¬ 
tory in person or by some trusted and 
competent friend. This is the advice of 
every competent resident and State offi¬ 
cial whom we have consulted. It is the 
advice we have so often repeated. 
I notice in your “Publisher’s Desk,” of 
May 28, a communication signed “L. I). A., 
Michigan.” I wish to express my thanks 
to you for publishing this letter. In my 
judgment the St. Cloud, Florida, proposition 
is one of the greatest outrages that has 
been imposed upon the old soldier. I had 
heard a great deal about it and made a spe¬ 
cial trip to St. Cloud to sec it. Language 
could not express my disgust and contempt 
of the parties that were working the scheme. 
Neither could words express the pity and 
sympathy for the old boys that were being 
worked. I really think it is a proposition 
that the U. S. Government should investi¬ 
gate. THOS. E. KNAUS8. 
Columbus, O. 
We are varying our usual custom to 
give the full name and address of the 
writer of the above letter. It empha¬ 
sizes and justifies our oft-repeated ad¬ 
vice not to invest in land schemes with¬ 
out investigating the conditions for 
yourself. It is bad enough for an ordi¬ 
nary rogue to work these land schemes 
on the general public, but it is infinitely 
worse when a schemer sets himself up 
as the friend of a particular class and, 
after winning their confidence through 
protestations of friendship, sympathy 
and loyalty, proceeds to entice them into 
a financial scheme for his own benefit. 
The monthly pension of the old soldier 
is a tempting bait for schemers, but we 
would consider the highwayman or 
housebreaker in a respectable business 
in comparison with the man who tricked 
these old soldiers into an enterprise that 
took them away from their homes, and 
landed them in such a pitiable plight 
in a strange and undeveloped country. 
A mau claiming to-represent tlie Lake 
Erie Seed Company lias been canvassing 
this neighborhood selling a wonderful new 
seed potato at $2.50 per bushel. lie agrees 
to buy next Fall every potato, little or big, 
grown from the seed at 15 cents above the 
market price, but requires cash for the seed 
now. lie offers no written contract, merely 
making a verbal agreement. lie claims to 
have studied agriculture four years in the 
University of Michigan and eight years in 
Germany at a cost of $15,000, making a 
specialty of seeds. Inasmuch as lie did not 
approach K. N.-Y. subscribers, I must give 
him credit for knowing where not to offer 
his seed at least. Several people in the 
neighborhood swallowed the bait and I 
think they will be ready for some of those 
small envelopes about October 1 when they 
begin to feel the hook. w. H. A. 
Michigan. 
This sounds like the old stories told 
by Spaulding when he represented the 
old American Farm Co. of Buffalo, N. 
Y. Tie is now a part of this Lake Erie 
Seed Company. It would not make 
much difference if the contract to buv 
the potatoes was given in writing. It 
would be all the same in the end. The 
potatoes are undoubtedly some old vari¬ 
eties bought in the markets and labeled 
with a new name. Last year they were 
using the same plates and descriptions 
that were used by them ten years ago. 
They have no means of producing seeds 
themselves and produce none. Their of¬ 
fice is a little shantv lying betwen rail¬ 
road tracks on the outskirts of Buffalo. 
As the American Farm Company they 
were debarred from doing business in 
Ohio; their sales of stock were declared 
fraudulent in the courts of Pennsylvania, 
and indictments were issued against 
them in at least one of the western 
States. We commend their prudence in 
keeping away from R. N.-Y. readers, 
who already know their past history. 
Yours containing check received. I thank 
you. I could not have got it except through 
you. and I am going to spend part of it as 
a thank offering. n. C. 
New York. 
The thank-offering came in the way 
of new subscriptions, and was in the 
most acceptable possible form. It is in¬ 
teresting to note the different attitude 
of different people in reference to these 
collections and the special information 
furnished through this department. Most 
people insist on sending back part of 
the remittance, which we always credit 
to their subscription account, or send 
new subscriptions for neighbors or 
friends. But occasionally some one 
neglects even to acknowledge the remit¬ 
tance, though we make no charge for 
the service, and would not accept any 
thing for it. Of course we fully appre¬ 
ciate the interest in sending the new 
subscriptions. That is the kind of re¬ 
ward that makes the work possible any¬ 
way. j. j. p. 
Make Him 
Confess 
These 52 disks 
cream separator 
later discarded 
Dairy Tubular 
were in a common 
sold on claims and 
for a Sharpies 
facts. 
Facts enable you to make any agent 
for disk-filled or otherwise complicat¬ 
ed, out-of-date cream separators con¬ 
fess that you would be unwise to buy 
his hard-to-clean, quick-to - wear 
machine when you could just as easily 
have a simple, sanitary, easy-to-clean, 
wear-a-lifetime 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
Cream Separator 
The Dairy Tubular hasmeither disks 
nor other contraptions, yet produces 
twice the skimming force, skims faster 
and twice as clean as common sepa¬ 
rators. Our catalog plainly tells why. 
The World’s Best. World’s biggest sepa¬ 
rator works. Branch factories in Canada and 
Germany. Sales easily exceed most, if not all, 
others combined. Probably replace more com¬ 
mon separators than any one maker of such 
machines 
sells. 
Write for 
Catalogue 
No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO.. 
WENT CHESTER, 1*A. 
Chicago, Ill. Son FruncUco. Cal. Portland, Ore. 
Toronto, Can. Winnipeg, Can. 
COOPER DIP 
Has no equal. One dipping kills ticks, llco 
and nits. Increases quantity and quality 
of wool. Improves appearance and con¬ 
dition of flock. If dealer can’t supply you, 
send J1.75 for 82.00 (100 gallons) packet to 
SCHIEFFELIN & COMPANY, 
170 William Street, New York City. 
■•.XNINUAJLS* 
•• -FRIEND 
KILLS EVERY FLY 
it strikes when our gravity 
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Thousands of dairymen dupli¬ 
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30 cents worth saves $10 
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No Lice in Poultry Hounaorany place it is sprayed. 
If dealer offers substitute, send us his name and $1 for 
3-tube gravity Sprayer and enough SHOO-FI.Y to protect 200 
cows Name express oilice. #1 returned £f aninmlH 
not protected. Free booklet. Special terms to agents. 
Shoo-Fly Mfir. Co,, 1317N. 1 Oth St.. Phila., Pa. 
NIT. PLEASANT LEGHORNS 
REDUCED SUMMER PRICES 
EFFECTIVE JULY 1 
Hatching Eggs—90# fertility guaranteed. 
15 for $1; 50 for $3; 100 for $5. 
Day Old Chicks 
25 for $3; 50 for $5.50; 100 for $10. 
Extra Fine Cockerels 
$1 each in lots of 5, Single bird $1.50. 
ANNUAL SALE OF BREEDING STOCK 
Send lor circular. 
MX. PLEASANT FARM, 
llox Y. Ham do Grace, Md. 
Van Alstyne's R. I. Reds1S,'”A n S 
bred for vigor and egg production EDW. VAX 
ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook. N.Y. 
A Real Necessity About Poultry Yards 
and Buildings. 
INEXPENSIVE. EFFICIENT. UNIFORM. 
EASY TO USE. 
KRESO DIP NO. I 
will put an end to Lice and Mites; 
stop loss from contagious disease; 
CLEANSE, PURIFY AND DEODORIZE. 
One Gallon 
Makes lOO Gallons 
of disinfectant solution ready for imme¬ 
diate use. 
Spray or sprinkle it about the poultry 
buildings and runs. Put a little in the 
drinking water. Dip the birds if they 
are badly infested with lice. 
This is the best possible means of in¬ 
suring the health and thrift of your flock. 
It will do just as much for 
Horses, Cattle, 
Sheep Hogs. 
The ideal material for killing lice, 
treating scab, mange and ringworm and 
protecting against Hog Cholera and 
other contagious diseases. 
Write for our free booklets giving in¬ 
formation about common animal dis¬ 
eases and suggestions for treatment. 
Kreso Dip No. 1 is for sale 
by all druggists. 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks R ’?;K de 
Reds, Partridge Wyandotte/;, Indian Runner 
Ducks. Mating List sent on request. SINCLAIR 
SMITH, Southold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
T HE FARMER’S FOWL— Rose Comb Reds, best winter 
layers on earth. Eggs. $1.00 per 15. Catalogue 
free. THOS. WILDER, Routo 1, Richland, N. Y. 
LAKEHILL FARM. 
XV. II. THACHER 
S. C. W. Leghorn Day-old Chicks, 10 cents each, 
$8.00 per hundred. Imp. Pekin Day-old Ducklings, 
20 cents each. $18.eu per hundred. Address aU 
communications to 
JOHN H. WEED. Mor., Hillside. Westchester Co.. N. Y. 
P RIZE-WINNING STRAI NS—R. 1. Reds, 
both combs: White Wyandottes; Barred Rocks; 
-I Light and Dark Brahmas; S. c. White and Brown 
Leghorns: safe delivery: 70# fertility guaranteed; 
eggs, $1, 15; $5, 100. F PRESCOTT, Riverdale, N. J. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS. 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Ttios, $5; Eggs for 
Hatching, $1 for 15 ; $5 for 100. Catalog free. 
C. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORN BABY CHICKS. 
$10 per 100; Eggs, $5 per 100. Allehicks andeggs from 
our own farm lalsed. free range selected yearlings. 
VANCREST POULTRY FARM, Salt Point, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORNS g n s 
A ivr -r-» AT BARGAIN prices 
J ' V1 TO MAKE ROOM 
P C 1/ I III nilPITC BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
ElVin UUUlYO FARM, New Rochelle. 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. 
PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY 
Dept, of Animal Industry, Detroit, Mich. 
MacKellar’s Charcoal 
For Poultry is best. Coarse or line granulated, also 
powdered, liuy direct from largest manufacturers of 
Charcoal Products. Ask for prices and samples. Kst.1811 
It. MacKELLAIt’S SONS CO.. Peekskill. N.Y. 
Mapes’ Hen-Lie e-Wax 
Has been such a boon to me and my hens that I 
docitieil to place it on the market. One application 
a yoar to the porches has given me absolute free¬ 
dom from mites. Write for particulars. 
O. W. MAPES, Middletown, N. Y. 
EGGS FOR HATCHING 
S. O. VV. Leghorns, B. P. Rocks, White Wyandottes, 
R. 1 Reds. Single and Rose Comb. THE It. & C. 
POULTRY PLANT’, P. <>. P.ox333, Stamford.Conn. 
B UFF, Wb. LvgboniH, pkkh 75«\ per 15, $1.25 per 30; S. C. R. J. 
Ke«l, Mottled Ancona Kgg«. 90c. per 15, $1.50 j»«*r 30. Cata¬ 
logue free. JOHN A. ROTH, Quakertown, Pa. 
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS— 200 Egg Strain $2.00 per 12; 
I 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. LOTHEKS, Peru Lack, Pa. 
DAVIS S. C. R. I . REDS 
PRICES HBDUCKI) 
33A33Y CIIX CKS 
SiiUJ PUR 100 after Juno 1: full count guar¬ 
anteed on arrival. 
EGGS ‘4 <># OFF balance of season, circular. 
DAVIS POULTRY FARM. Berlin. Mass. 
DARLINGTON POULTRY FARM 
WHITE ROCKS exclusively: bettor than ever; no 
incubators or brooders used The natural way. 
Pine, healthy stock for sale. Eggs, $5 per 100; 
Fishel and Van Orsdale strains. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. JAMES T. JONES, Darlington, Md. 
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Will ralso all of the cream between milkings and give you sweet skim 
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