750 
July 23, 
THE rural new-voe kur 
PUBLIC SENTIMENT DEMANDS 
the most sanitary handling and delivering of milk 
and dairy products. This sentiment is being em¬ 
phasized daily in the ordinances passed by the 
Boards of Health of the many cities. The 
PARSONS “ LOW-DOWN ” 
is designed to meet the approval of the most critic¬ 
al Health Department and at the same time please 
the most fastidious purchaser. Refrigerators are 
built in the wagons when so ordered. Particular 
customers are willing to pay an extra price for 
milk delivered ice cold. Write us your require¬ 
ments and we will submit specifications. 
THE PARSONS WAGON CO., 
DAIRY DEPT. Earlville, N. Y. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We are much interested in your light 
against E. G. Lewis, and hope you will 
win. This is a tiny community, but Lewis 
already has a chapter of his League here, 
and they have been looking for the "house" 
for nearly a year. The deed of the lot 
was sent Lewis last Winter. The chapter 
has created more or less “feeling" here 
even among relations, and it is time the 
thing was smashed before more people go 
to the extent of even borrowing money to 
go into it. The National Daily is to be a 
bi-weekly from now on. One of the Leag¬ 
uers gave a subscription to my son in order 
to use up her certificates. I don't see why 
other publishers are not as brave as you. 
New York. e. w. 
Some people think that the other pub¬ 
lishers are wiser. They, let their readers 
hear the brunt of their own misfortunes 
and losses, and save themselves lots of 
trouble and expense. Whether wise or 
unwise, we simply cannot stand bv and 
allow rogues to pick money away from 
poor and inexperienced people any more 
than we could stand by and see a bully 
ill-treat a child or a cripple. 
We are not a hit surprised that these 
Leaguers have waited a year for their 
house. Lewis’s League plan is char¬ 
acteristic of all his fake schemes. It is 
all worked out with an intelligent pur¬ 
pose worthy of a better cause. The 
prominent places are taken care of to 
make a showing. The small out-of-the- 
way places are neglected. But look for 
a moment at the scheme. In the first 
place each member must send $r>2. After 
a certain number do this, they must 
deed a lot to Lewis or. some organiza¬ 
tion which he controls. If he builds a 
house at all the house and lot belong 
not to tbe women who paid the money 
but.to Lewis or his organization. We 
would not be surprised later to see a 
blanket mortgage placed on each and 
every one of them, and the money 
would, of course, pass through Lewis’s 
hands or be subject to his direction, so 
that when the crash comes the “house” 
would have to he bought over again or 
abandoned. It is a beautiful scheme 
for sifting money through the fingers of 
country people into Mr. Lewis’s bread- 
pan. But bear in mind that the League 
scheme is not the source of our conten¬ 
tion with Lewis. lie got about $20,000 
from our subscribers during the last 10 
years through misrepresentation. He 
got the notes given for it into his pos¬ 
session through trickery, and some of 
the methods used to get and keep this 
money closely resembles plain ordinary 
swindles, if they do not come clearly 
under that term. We want this money 
returned to our people. Lewis refuses, 
though he brags of a large private for¬ 
tune and enormous income, arid the sup¬ 
port of bankers and business men of St. 
Louis, all of which we believe is as far 
as cash is concerned pure fiction, and 
set up for the purpose of allaying sus¬ 
picion, that lie may collect more money 
from country people. St. Louis bank¬ 
ers and business men to whom Lewis 
owes money, are, of course, willing that 
money should pour in to him from the 
country, as it is their only chance of get¬ 
ting what is coming to them, but our 
information is that no man in St. Louis 
would give him a dollar without secur¬ 
ity. If he had the income and unincum¬ 
bered property that he claims, it would 
be an easy matter to pay tbe little claims 
of our people. His refusal is the cause 
of his trouble with us. 
Will you Wll me if the TTavenll Realty 
Co , Metropolitan Building, New York City, 
is a reliable firm? They have an agent 
here trying to sell building lots at Eastport. 
Suffolk'Co. What is your opinion of these 
lots as an investment? c. r. 
New York. 
Thousands of lots on Long Island sold 
in this way by promoting companies have 
been abandoned, and sold for taxes. 
Page after page of these tax sales are 
advertised in tbe Long Island papers 
every year. 
Last season I shipped two lots of plums. 
16 baskets and 19 baskets respectively, to 
Ash & Baldwin, commission merchants, 
Pittsburg, Pa. My neighbor, R. D. Hill, 
also shipped at the same time (or about) 
two shipments of 19 and 33 baskets of 
plums respectively. We have received noth¬ 
ing for them up to date. Ash & Baldwin 
wrote us that the first shipment was re¬ 
ceived, and were selling at 20 cents to 25 
cents per basket, and we immediately or 
soon after shipped them more. I have 
continually written them, but the only an¬ 
swer I have ever received was one post 
card. As you will notice, they promised to 
remit at once, but have never done so. 
Both Mr. Hill and myself would like you 
to take the matter up and see if you can 
get tin* returns for these shipments. 
Medina, N. Y. D. C. G. 
This complaint came to us in Febru¬ 
ary last. Ash & Baldwin first wrote 
their bookkeeper was away, but they 
would attend to it. In March they 
wrote that it was a small annoyance and 
they would fix it up right away. We 
have been unable to get anything out 
of them since. We think little more 
need be said. They have a good enough 
financial rating, and we have now given 
the account to our attorneys for collec¬ 
tion, but the transaction will hardly in¬ 
fluence shipments from other growers. 
Last Spring we ordered from Rogers 
Brothers 300 chicks. They guaranteed full 
count and safe arrival: but 172 were dead 
when received at the station. We have 
written them several times, but can get no 
redress. w. n. m. 
Connecticut. 
We had this up with Rogers Brothers 
and they promised to send check by June 
first to settle for the dead chicks, but 
They have failed to keep the promise. 
There has been lots of complaint from 
shipment of young chicks, but when safe 
delivery is guaranteed, as in this case, 
there is no possible excuse for refusal to 
make good. 
Last Spring we shipped to the Central 
Nursery & Floral Co., Kalamazoo, Mich., a 
bill of nursery stock, payable June 1. The 
bill was $35.56. They claimed a shortage 
of $1.75, which we allowed without demur. 
The bill was not paid, and while we have 
had numerous promises, we have not been 
able to collect. Can you get it for us; 
Ohio. c. N. c. 
We have been after this little account 
since January last. We, too, got prom¬ 
ises, but no cash. We do not know how 
a concern unable or unwilling to meet a 
bill of this kind can expect farmers to 
send them remittances for orders. The 
growers who take our advice will do 
nothing of the kind. 
I have a claim of $11.85 against A. C. 
Mine, Meadow Brook Farm. New Britain, 
Conn., for a case of eggs shipped on his 
order October 23. 1907. The price was 
agreed upon in advance. I had sent him a 
previous case the same Fall, and he paid 
promptly; but I have never been able to get 
this bill'. I hope you can get something out 
of him, if only an explanation. H. p. g. 
Vermont. 
We have not even got the explanation. 
To our several letters he makes no reply 
whatever. Perhaps Mr. Hine has some 
farm neighbors who could excite his 
sense of obligation to a farmer in an¬ 
other State. We propose to make trans¬ 
actions of this kind with farmers un¬ 
popular, if not unprofitable. 
Enclosed you will find an advertisement 
of the United Wireless Telegraph Co. that 
appeared in our local paper, relative to a 
seven per cent stock that is offered for sale 
before the price is advanced again. 1 would 
thank you for your valuable opinion on this 
stock as an investment for working people 
or those of moderate means. I am enclos¬ 
ing a stamp for reply and trust that you 
will answer at your earliest convenience. 
North Carolina. a. s. 
If anyone offers you stock in any con¬ 
cern at a low price with the assurance 
that at a given future time it will go up 
to a certain advanced price, put him 
down as a faker, and just an ordinary 
rogue. This stock has no market value. 
If you owned it, you could not sell it 
for the price of printing the certificate. 
It is not even a fair gamble. No one at 
all familiar with the situation would put 
a nickel into wireless stock. 
I find your fraud page flic greatest ever. 
My son had trouble with the American Ex¬ 
press Company about a lost calf, and threat¬ 
ened to report them to you. Well, they 
didn't wait long before they paid the money. 
New York. J. C. 
If shippers have found a way to in¬ 
duce express companies to make prompt 
settlement of claims, they have well nigh 
performed a miracle. In putting in claims 
of any kind, we would suggest that it be 
always done in firm but polite language. 
It would be well, for example, to say 
that you present the claim direct, be¬ 
cause you do not wish, if it can be 
avoided, to trouble them or The Rural 
New-Yorker by referring it to the paper. 
In other words, you can politely inti¬ 
mate what will happen in case tbe claim 
is neglected without putting it in a way 
to give them an excuse to be offended. 
This is a good rule whether applied to 
express company or any other concern. 
It is well to remember that causes of 
complaint occur with perfectly respon¬ 
sible bouses which are quite as anxious 
to correct errors as any of us are to have 
them corrected. 
In the Winter I bought four tons of hay 
at $15 per ton, giving two notes of $30 
each for one year. The man sold my notes, 
delivered a trifle over one and one-lialf 
tons. Then his hay was gone; he prom¬ 
ised to buy hay for me, but does not do so. 
What can I do to make him settle up, and 
will it make any difference about time ; that 
is. now or when the notes are due? I am 
a poor man just starting in farming, and 
have no money for lawyers or suits if it can 
be avoided. header. 
New York. 
It was a mistake to give him tbe notes 
before you received tbe bay. The fact 
that he sold the notes to a third party 
indicates that he deliberately tried to 
trick you. As the present holder of the 
notes is presumably an innocent party, 
be can collect whether you get the hay 
or not, provided he did not know of the 
failure to deliver the hay. If the party 
who bought the notes knew that no 
equivalent had been given for them, then 
he becomes a party to a conspiracy, and 
would not be entitled to recover on the 
notes. If the man who sold the hay is 
responsible, you can sue him at once for 
the delivery of the hay or for damages 
because of his failure to deliver it. If 
you have reason to believe that there was 
a conspiracy, it will be best to let it rest 
until tbe notes become due and defend 
yourself if they press for payment. 
Otherwise it would be as well to bring 
suit at once, provided he is good for the 
amount. 
I think you are having success in get¬ 
ting money from the Globe Association, 
Fhicago. I have a contract with them for 
$85 a month and expenses. I worked six 
weeks and received no money from them. 
They owe me all told $165. I have written 
them a dozen times and get no answer. 
Can you get it for me? L. T. 
New York. 
The Globe Association says that L. T. 
is indebted to them for $52.50. They 
say “Mr. T. entered into an agreement 
with us to perform certain services for 
one year. He agreed he would be en¬ 
titled to retain the sum of $1 for each 
membership sold during this period, the 
same to apply on the amount guaranteed, 
and that upon completion and fulfillment 
of his contract, we would be due him 
any deficit. One year’s time has not 
elapsed since tbe date of his agreement, 
so it is impossible that Mr. T. could have 
completed and fulfilled his contract in 
this respect.” 
This is their interpretation of their 
own contract after tbe agent has de¬ 
manded his pay. In the early corre¬ 
spondence and in the wording of the con¬ 
tract he is led to believe that he is being 
guaranteed $85 per month and expenses. 
Of course no one would pursue such a 
fake scheme for a year, and all the agent 
is entitled to is a commission on his 
collections; in other words, if the agent 
fakes his neighbor he is entitled to keep 
a little of the money. There is no other 
reward. j. j. d. 
GRIT FOR POULTRY. 
I have five purebred Iloudan hens and 
roosters that were in the country last year 
on free range. We now have them in the 
city in a small yard. The soil here is sandy, 
being entirely free from stones and gravel. 
I keep oyster shells always before them. 
Should they be supplied with gravel, or will 
the oyster shells be sufficient? Of course 
a hen has gravel in its gizzard, but 
wouldn't this last a long time, perhaps a 
year? If oyster shells will not do and they 
must have gravel, would a good supply of 
coal ashes take the place of the gravel ? 
The hens seem to be laying as well here 
as on free range. I have had 20, 26 and 
27 eggs per week the last three weeks from 
the five hens, and they are still laying at 
the same rate, so I am anxious they should 
have gravel if it is necessary. Chick grit 
of course would not do. Can gravel be 
bought at a poultry supply house usually? 
New York. E. L. s. 
While hens have been known to live 
and do well with oyster shell alone for 
grit, yet it is better to furnish them 
some coarse grit which can be bought 
from all poultry supply houses, and al¬ 
most all feed stores in the East. We 
have not used any oyster shell for over 
two years, as we find a lime crystal near 
here, which furnishes the lime and grit 
both, but so far the lime company which 
owns it has not seen fit to put it on the 
market. floyd q. white. 
We Can Spare A Few Well Grown 
Cockerels Twelve Weeks Old 
Breeders From 
Producing Breeders 
500 White Leghorn @ $1.00 
100 White PI. Rocks @ 2.50 
50 Black Orpington @ 5.00 
CASH WITH ORDER NO CORRESPONDENCE 
Satisfaction Guaranteed 
Richland Farms, £* r d ;, r i c n k d ’ 
LAKEHILL FARM 
W. H. THACHER 
For real bargains in young stock and yearlings in 
8. C. W. Leghorns and Imperial Pekin Ducks write 
to us. Stock bred from tbe finest, under the best of 
conditions: large, vigorous and pure white. Some 
promising March batched cockerels now $1.00 each. 
Prices of other stock on application. Address all 
communications to 
JOHN H. WEED, Mgr., Hillside, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Free Poultry Catalogue 
EAST DONEGAL P00LTRY YARDS, MARIETTA, PA. 
DARLINGTON POULTRY FARM 
WHITE ROCKS exclusively; better than ever; no 
incubators or brooders used The natural way. 
Fine, healthy stock for sale. Eggs, $5 per 100; 
Fisliel and Van Orsdale strains. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. JAMES T. JONES, Darlington, Md. 
W, P, ROCK YEARLINGS~ Tr ”"" e!ted: 
stock. 
bred to lay 
A. S. BRIAN. Mt. Kisco, New York. 
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. 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS and INDIAN 
DIUIIIETD nilPI/C for show, breeding and utility. 
nUNI'ltll UUllIxu All stock sold on approval. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, Box 153, Southold Suffolk Co., New York 
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. 
O. H. ZIMMER, Weedsport. N. Y. 
FAMOUS LAY- 
ING STRAIN 
breeding stock for sale. Also yearling S. C. R. I. 
Reds. Low prices to make room for growingpullets. 
ST. MORITZ FARM, RAMSEY, N. J. 
S. C.W. LEGHORN 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
3NT 
ID 
PEKIN DUCKS 
YOUNG STOCK AND 
YEARLINGS 
AT BARGAIN PRICES 
TO MAKE ROOM 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY 
FARM, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
Interior Dairy Barn op Montana School for the Deaf and Blind. 
LETTER FROM SUPERINTENDENT MILLIGAN. 
Boulder, Mont,, March 24, 1910. 
Kent Manufacturing Co., Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
Gentlemen: —The James Sanitary Cow Stalls and Steel Stanchions installed 
in our Dairy Barn last summer have proved very satisfactory. 
Yours very truly. L. E. Milligan, Supt. 
mg i 
all the L_ ._„ . .. . _ 
the labor of barn cleaning much easier. The divided manger enables the attendant to feed each 
cow separately according to her requirements. She cannot get more or less feed than is given 
her. The mangers are self-cleaning, A trough built in the floor of the barn forms the bottom of 
the manger. The front and partitions are in sections of six divisions.liinged to the stall frame.and 
are easily lifted up by means of counter weights. The bottom can then be swept perfectly clean 
and used for watering purposes. The saving in labor alone will pay for this equipment in one 
year, and the increased production from the cows, because of the added comfort and cleanli¬ 
ness, will he clear extra profit. Write for catalog and full particulars of James Equipment to 
KENT WIFG. CO., 130 CANE STREET, .FT. ATKINSON, WISCONSIN. 
