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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7, 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
In spite of previous caution, many 
inquiries are received in this department 
which fail to bear the name and address 
of the writer. We make it a rule never 
to print the name or address of our 
correspondents without asking their con¬ 
sent, but we cannot reply to anonymous 
communications in this column. Those 
■who have made inquiry on any subject, 
signing only their initials, “A Reader,” 
etc., and who are disappointed in not 
seeing their letter and answer printed 
will get prompt attention if they will 
repeat the inquiry, giving full name and 
address. 
A number of manufacturers have told 
me personally of the merits of the auto¬ 
matic cigar-making machine. In Balti¬ 
more a number of the banks and business 
men there gave me their word for the hon¬ 
esty and ability of those back of the 
machine. If this cigar machine is what 
I believe it is, it will be one of the few 
great producers like the cigarette ma¬ 
chine, the linotype, the shoe machine and 
the crown cork seal company. However, 
I would be glad to hear your report on 
it. w. c. D. 
Pennsylvania. 
This machine may and may not make 
cigars. We have not looked it up. We 
assume it does make cigars, and that it ef¬ 
fects a great saving like the other innova¬ 
tions in other fields. From the illustra¬ 
tion of it we should assume it could be 
built for $200 or $300. But we are con¬ 
sidering the matter of an investment in 
the stock of the company. 
The company was organized in 1911, 
with authority to issue $5,000,000 stock 
in shares of $10 each. This seems to have 
been a reorganization. Anyway, $2,000,- 
000 of the stock was issued in exchange 
for patents and stock of another com¬ 
pany, and $1,000,000 of the stock was 
issued for the right of selling in Cuba 
and Mexico. A Baltimore concern seems 
to have had a contract to sell the balance 
of the stock for about 22 cents on the 
dollar. The assets of the company con¬ 
sist of about $2,500 in cash and about 
$1,700 in cigars and tobacco, besides the 
patent rights, sales rights and a few ma¬ 
chines. It must be plain that no one 
can put money into such stock and call 
it an investment. Some people would 
call it a speculation, others call it 
a bet or a gamble. At best you 
pay your money on the chance that the 
machine will be successful, and that the 
business will be honestly conducted, and 
the profits equitably divided. What hap¬ 
pens in most cases is that the money 
comes easy. The promoters spend liber¬ 
ally, and the company fails, with total 
loss to all investors. If the machine is 
worthless that ends it unless the pro¬ 
moters think they can work the scheme 
all over again. If the machine is a great 
success, and there are enough small in¬ 
vestors to make it worth while, they are 
frozen out, and afterwards the business 
is re-incorporated free of the old in¬ 
vestors, and the promoters become the 
sole owners. You may point to one case 
in a million where this has not happened; 
but we give you the rule. If any man 
wants to speculate or gamble for that mat¬ 
ter and takes his own risk, we have no 
right or disposition to dispute his privi¬ 
lege. We give the information and draw 
the distinctions; you exercise your good 
judgment. 
We have received several inquiries 
about the Colonial Motion Picture Com¬ 
pany. It seemed to us that the promises 
of quick wealth found in their literature 
were so romantic that they would defeat 
their own purposes with a people used to 
dealing with practical material things. 
As one practical correspondent puts it, 
while the row of official names is impos¬ 
ing, and the information rather general 
that there is money in the picture busi¬ 
ness, he cannot understand why men who 
are running the business, and making the 
money, should go out into' the country 
hunting up perfect strangers to share the 
promised wealth. But in all such cases 
you will observe that you make the 
first remittance of real cash, and in most 
cases that it is the last exchange of cash, 
unless you are indiscreet enough to make 
another. 
I have a claim for two cases of eggs 
shipped to a New York house which were 
in a damaged condition, and as the Adams 
Express Company refused to let him ex¬ 
amine them he refused to take them. The 
eggs were worth 35 cents per dozen. The 
express company say his place of business 
was closed when they went to deliver 
them, so they sold the eggs and realized 
only $15.44, which they offer us. Please 
see what you can do with them. 
New York. s. T. s. 
The Adams Express Company made 
the same report to us and the same offer, 
which we refused. We called their at¬ 
tention to the discrepancy in the report 
originally made the subscriber and the 
actual condition as stated by the commis¬ 
sion house, and finally their offer was in¬ 
creased to $18.89, the value of the eggs 
less commission and expressage. 
rhoclan M. Daniel, Jr., once Presi¬ 
dent of the Le Roy Realty Corporation, 
which had an office in Nassau street, was 
convicted Feb. 16, by a jury before Judge 
Crain in General Sessions of grand lar¬ 
ceny in the second degree. Daniel sold 
land, representing that it was 15 minutes’ 
walk from the Port Jefferson, L. I., rail¬ 
road station. Purchasers found it was 
from five to eight miles away. Daniel 
bought his land for about $16 an acre 
and sold it for $19.50 a city lot, employ¬ 
ing numerous agents. He had 25 acres, 
which he divided into 3,000 lots, about 
two thousand of which were sold, mostly 
to purchasers who had never seen the 
property. The complaint which resulted 
in conviction was made by George W. 
Cole, an automobile dealer of No. 100 
West One Hundred and Sixty-second 
street, who said that after a talk with 
Palmer he bought 12 lots and paid $36 
down, under an agreement to pay the 
balance at $1 a month. When he got 
his deed he decided to see the property. 
He met Daniel at a roadhouse near Port 
Jefferson. “Then,” Mr. Cole testified, 
‘‘lie drove me in the direction of the Port 
Jefferson^ station until we came to some 
lots. We drove right in, and Daniel 
pointed and said, ‘There are your lots.’ ” 
It developed that the lots which were 
pointed out were not those on Mr. Cole’s 
deed, and that his property was four 
miles further from the station. Before 
he discovered that, he had paid down 
$178.20. 
The above is a fair instance of the 
Long Island land promoting schemes 
which people at a distance are asked to 
put their savings into. If a few such 
promoters get jail sentences for robbing 
the public in this way the effect will be 
wholesome. The above case should serve 
as a warning to all who may be ap¬ 
proached on any such land scheme re¬ 
gardless of whether they hail from Long 
Island, Florida or elsewhere. 
What is your opinion of the "Family 
Butter Merger?” If you think they 
should be exposed, I wish you would 
please do so. i. p. 
Maryland. 
These butter mergers -have been ex¬ 
posed in Tiie R. N.-Y. a number of 
times. All work on the egg-beater prin¬ 
ciple, and by breaking up the globules 
of the butter they mix milk w'ith it in 
such a way as to make a greasy product 
which cannot rightly be called butter at 
all. Anyone selling it for such in the 
general market might be subject to prose¬ 
cution under the Pure Food laws. 
I received a catalogue of commercial 
fertilizer materials from Farmers’ United 
Bone Fertilizer Co. of Reading, Pa., and 
would suppose from the appearance that 
it is another name for "Farmers’ United 
Chemical Co.” of the same place. It is 
about the same literature, price per ton ; 
they “pay the freight,” etc. The com¬ 
pany still owes me about $5 freight on 
fertilizer purchased two years ago. Last 
Spring they sent me quotations, order 
blanks, etc., and I sent them a letter in 
return stating that I was a "trout” in¬ 
stead of a “sucker.” That means when 
one gets caught the others are a little 
shy about biting at the same bait. I 
also told them that about one “sucker” 
in a neighborhood would be all they 
could catch without getting a new kind 
of bait. So I think they changed part 
of the bait by substituting the words 
"bone fertilizer” for the word “chemi¬ 
cal.” I would advise all readers of The 
Ii. N.-Y. to be aware of the above-named 
company. j. p. 
The above letter speaks for itself. It 
is a matter for comment the number of 
houses our subscribers complain about 
that change the name under which they 
do business—some of these houses com¬ 
plained about have a way of operating 
under two or three different titles per¬ 
manently. But we are unable to name 
a single concern, whose business rela¬ 
tions with our readers are satisfactory, 
who has adopted this policy. The rea¬ 
son is obvious. j. j. p. 
502— Bushels Potatoes 
From One Acre of Ground 
T wenty different farmers 
in 20 different parts of New England 
competed the past year in growing 
potatoes. The crops were widely separated 
as to climatic and weather conditions. Each 
one planted, cultivated and took care of his 
crop in his own way; but all used 
Bowker’s Fertilizers 
And No Other Dressing 
The winning crop was 502.6 bushels. The average 
of the twenty crops was 322.8 bushels. The average 
yield in New England is 131.6 bushels, and for the 
United Stat es 89 bushels. Our crop-growing contests 
of the past four years have been so fairly and accurately 
conducted that they have been accepted everywhere as 
authentic. Henry Wallace, Editor of Wallace’s Farmer, 
writes: There is no guesswork about them.” 
Send for our Book of the Contest. Also tell us what your 
crops are, and your fertilizer requirements and we will send 
you our helpful book on Plant Food and our new Illustrated 
Catalogue. 
Rnil/YITD FERTILIZER COMPANY 
VV IvLilv 43 Chatham St., Boston. 
Also New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Baltimore 
ALWAYS HANDY ON THE FARM 
Frontg of Steel 
Buy the Head amt Bolts and make the Drag yourself, \VrIT<f 
for full information. We deliver anywhere in the IT. y 
HUSSEY PLOW CO„ Box R North Berwick, Maine. 
I viw.'Vjj 
LAY, 
TV/T AY all be kept for one year on the product of one acre of land. 
-D'A It’s hardly believable. And keeping seven cows for a whole 
•v. •, 
year on one acre goes a long way towards reducing the cost of 
milk. Eureka Corn produced in one year on one acre 70 tons 
and 800 pounds. This enormous crop won our $50.00 gold 
irize for the heaviest yield. We believe this record cannot be 
>roken by any other corn, but Eureka can still beat it. Figuring 
at the rate of 50 pounds of ensilage per day, which is a very 
liberal allowance, this amount will feed seven cows for 
one year, with enough left over for 201 feeds. 
We believe our crop of Eureka Corn for 1914 planting 
will germinate better than 98%. Eureka Corn was 
introduced by us about 25 years ago. It is a white, 
smooth dent corn, grows the tallest, usually from 16 to 
20 feet, has the most leaves and is short jointed. If 
planted thin, it will yield two and three ears to the 
stalk. Planting Eureka Corn is as good as an insurance 
policy to any farmer. It grows where other kinds fail 
and the yield is tremendous. Last season Eureka Corn was 
planted in 45 states and the returns were exceedingly gratifying. 
Eureka Corn 
Grows Tallest— Has Most Leaves— Greatest Number of Ears 
You do not need to plant your whole farm when you can fill a 200-ton silo 
from 4 or 6 acres with Eureka. 
The best money you can spend on the farm is for good seed. Poor seed is 
dear at any price. Good seed is always worth what you pay for it. We’re 
selling Eureka at last year’s prices. Good seed is going to he very scarce and 
much higher before the planting season is over. Ask yourself what corn is 
worth per bushel that will produce 70 tons and 800 pounds. We are not ask¬ 
ing you to experiment: we are only asking you to buy seed corn that has been 
proven by thousands of successful farmers to be the best that money can buy. 
fAITIftN D ? 1 ? 4 acce Pt of any yellow'dent or 
v-r»lLi l IW 11 . white horsetooth corn as Eureka. 
We received several letters last year from parties 
who were unable to get their Eureka from us and 
claimed that they had received from other dealers 
corn marked Eureka, which was entirely different 
from the genuine. Eureka Corn shelled is always 
shipped in our trade-marked burlap bags and ear 
corn is shipped in rat-proof crates holding70 pounds. 
Either buy direct of us or some of our agents who 
have the genuine. Write at once for catalogue and 
quotations. 
ROSS BROS. COMPANY 
67 Front St., Worcester, Mass. 
70^ PERFECT EARS - 
RfiiftiliifMifi 
EUREKA CORN 
She wanted to call up the shoe store 
and ask if a certain style of shoe had 
been received. She took down the re¬ 
ceiver: “What number?” said exchange. 
“Narrow twos,” she promptly replied.— 
Cleveland Plain-Dealer. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.’’ See guarantee editorial page. : : : 
