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May 30, S- 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
I note your article relative to Freder¬ 
ick O. Groesbeck of Hartford, Conn. I 
write this to say that on February 2S, 
1908, said Groesbeck ordered from me 
2.000 cinnamon vines, amounting to $24. 
These I shipped him at once. I have not 
been able to get anything at all from him 
in payment. A. T. c. 
New York. 
We demanded payment on this account, 
and get the reply that he owes this cor¬ 
respondent nothing . At the recent suit 
for libel, three bills from three different 
publishers for advertising were presented 
against Groesbeck, and he denied owing 
any of them. Two protested notes were 
presented, and he denied owing anything 
on them. Two unsatisfied judgments 
were presented, one of them for wages of 
an employee, and he repudiated them. lie 
admitted himself that he put the title of 
his poultry farm in his mother’s name, 
made a bill of sale of his store to his 
father, and a bill of sale of chickens to 
another man at the time these creditors 
were pressing for payment. Hartford 
lawyers, it was testified, reported him 
execution proof, and Groesbeck testified 
that the sheriff on one occasion “got 
in bad” by making a levy on chickens 
which he had covered with a bill of sale. 
Under the circumstances we advise A. 
T. C. to charge his $24 to profit and 
loss. 
I am very glad of the strict super¬ 
vision of the advertisements of The Rural 
New-Yorker, and assure you that if any¬ 
thing can be done to make the other farm 
papers come up to the same high stand¬ 
ard I will do what I can for the cause. 
I enclose a letter advertisement, which 
must be quite largely distributed among 
a varied class of people, as it is a mul¬ 
tigraph letter. It looks to me as though 
the main thing in the blank is the three 
dollars to be remitted. I have had such 
letters from varied, sources, and have al¬ 
ways gone on the supposition that if I 
could write anything worth publishing I 
could find a place for it without contract¬ 
ing and paying in advance for its dis¬ 
tribution. The general style, however, is 
such that many imaginative young peo¬ 
ple might be misled into thinking that 
the remittance of the three dollars would 
make them finished writers with good in¬ 
comes. Your paper has improved great¬ 
ly in the past few years. c. S. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
The advertisement enclosed is from 
Franklin Davies, literary agent, 500 
Fifth Avenue, New York. The $3 fee 
is requested to show sincerity and in 
return you will receive an outline for a 
marketable story, with suggestions for 
style, length, etc., and the story when 
returned to him will be sold for from $15 
to $75 less 20% commission. If the 
story you submit is not marketable it 
will be returned for correction. We 
rather assume the majority of the man¬ 
uscripts would be returned. Our sub¬ 
scriber is right. If you write anything 
of merit you will find a place for it with¬ 
out paying some, one for the privilege of 
outlining your plot. 
Herbert Myrick, the self-styled editor 
and president of Springfield, Mass., does 
not like the Land Bank of the State of 
New York. lie says it is a failure, but 
he has not learned enough about it to 
know that it has not been yet organized. 
The only place that a bank which does not 
exist can be a failure is in the mind of a 
prejudiced critic. What Mr. Myrick doesn’t 
know about the Land Bank is apparent in 
the jumble of things he says about it which 
are not true. But no one expected this 
bank to please Myrick. How could any 
bank without the Myrick brand please 
Myrick? When he built the much lauded 
concrete building, some years ago, Mr. 
Myrick introduced a financial scheme 
that he might approve for New York 
State farmers. He controlled several in¬ 
corporated stock companies which never 
owned a brick or a foot of ground, and 
issued from them building certificates giv¬ 
ing the impression that they had the 
Myrick building behind them as security. 
In fact the purchasers of the certificates 
were, in some instances at least, told 
flatly that the certificates made them 
Fart owners of the building. They of 
course did nothing of the kind. The 
certificate shorn, of much confusing 
verbiage, was simply an acknowledge¬ 
ment that the holder of it had deposited 
fifteen dollars with Mr. Myrick. It af¬ 
terwards turned out that the depositor 
had to die to gain some of the prom¬ 
ised rewards for the use of the 
deposited money. It bore about the 
same relation to the Myrick build¬ 
ing that a farmer's unpaid grocery bill 
bears to his neighbor’s barn. Farmers 
have had trouble in getting the money 
sent for these certificates returned, and 
several of them have appealed to us for 
help. We collected the money on one 
of them from Mr. Myrick some days ago. 
Such is one of the Myrick schemes of 
finance. New York State farmers do 
not want any of that style of finance in 
their system of farm credits. There is 
none of it in the Land Bank and the 
omission probably accounts for Mr. Myr- 
iek’s sneers. 
The New York State League of Sav¬ 
ings and Loan Associations will hold its 
annual meeting in the convention hall of 
Hotel Statler in the city of Buffalo, on 
June 11 and 12. Mr. Edwin F. Howell, 
chairman of the legislative committee, 
will give an exhaustive analysis of the 
provisions of the new Land Bank soon 
to be organized. Many other important 
subjects are to be discussed by men of 
State-wide influence and fame. A sym¬ 
posium on “organization of new associa¬ 
tions and gaining the confidence of the 
community” will be a feature of the 
meeting. This will interest farmers, as 
many of them will become members of the 
new association in order to benefit by the 
provisions of the Land Bank. 
“An ounce of preventive is worth a 
pound of cure.” I am urged to invest in 
three dozen washers for $19.S0 plus 
freight, and to sell them at $54, making 
a profit on same of $34.20 or nearly 
173%. It seems too good to be true. Can 
you express an opinion on the subject? 
I omit the name of the company inten¬ 
tionally. If honest they should pay for 
their advertisement. If not reliable I 
will expose them gladly. INQUIRER. 
New Hampshire. 
This class of advertisers appeal to the 
cupidity of local agents. They offer you 
big profits to get your remittance; but 
the profits must come, not from them, 
but out of your neighbors. They do not 
care whether you get the $54 or not. so 
long as they get the $19.S0. At best 
they offer you the privilege of faking 
your neighbors. In this particular in¬ 
stance, at least, we think they have 
picked the wrong man. 
I have two shares of preferred stock 
of the Monaton Realty Investing Corpor¬ 
ation, par value $100 each. What chance 
is there of getting anything on them? I 
had a letter from a party in Connecticut 
who proposes to issue participation certi¬ 
ficates to be secured to the same extent 
as second mortgagees holding mortgages 
against the property. I wrote the cor¬ 
poration and never got a favorable re¬ 
ply. R. R. s. 
Vermont. 
Our latest advice is that the receiver 
of the Monaton Realty Investing Corpor¬ 
ation, Maximilian Morgenthau, filed a re¬ 
port in the Supreme Court that he had 
been unable to find any cash of the cor¬ 
poration, that it had no active bank ac¬ 
count, and there were no funds in his 
possession with which to defray the cost 
of an examination of its affairs. The 
company’s books are in the possession of 
the United States Attorney. Proceed¬ 
ings are under way to forfeit the charter 
of the company. It is doubtful if the 
shares have any value whatever; and it 
is not advisable to put up any new money 
on any pretext. 
I don’t need your paper any more than 
“a cat needs two tails.” However, I am 
anxious to show my appreciation to any 
publication that has the nerve to show 
up the fakes and frauds the way you 
have. It must mean a good deal to turn 
down the advertising you do. You are 
doing a great thing for the farmers. I 
don’t see how a farmer dare be with¬ 
out The II. N.-Y. I hope to be able and 
eligible to do some advertising in your 
paper in the near future. F. w. t. 
New York. 
The thought of this letter comes to us 
in many different forms of expression. 
In them all the wonder is expressed that 
The R. N.-Y. does not have more sub¬ 
scribers than it has, though the list is 
constantly growing. Business men un¬ 
derstand the meaning of loss of revenue 
from discarded advertising, but few un¬ 
derstand the expense of getting informa¬ 
tion that justifies the criticism of re¬ 
spectable crooks. Even then the rogues 
sometimes think they can hoodwink the 
public by filing a libel suit. Whether 
they are ever tried or not and as a rule 
they are not, there is heavy expense in 
preparing for them. If tried, a single 
sympathizer with crooks on the jury can 
prevent a clean-cut rebuke to the schemer 
by insisting on a disagreement. No pa¬ 
per could face such conditions without 
the full sympathy and cooperation of a 
large list of subscribers. The larger the 
list the easier the work. It is the only 
opportunity that farmers have ever had 
to express themselves in this kind of pro¬ 
tection. It will continue as long as they 
approve of it and want it. It could not 
continue, if they became indifferent to it. 
J. J. D. 
Wet or Dry Mash. 
Have there been any comparative ex¬ 
periments between the moist and dry 
mash in feeding poultry carried out sys¬ 
tematically by an experiment station? If 
so which method gave the better results? 
Maine. f. c. c. 
I am informed that the Experiment 
Station at Cornell University has con¬ 
ducted some extensive experiments with 
the different methods of feeding, but that 
the bulletin giving the results of their 
experiments is now out of print. In one 
they fed four pens of 40 birds each; pen 
1 was hopper fed upon grain only and J 
gave a net profit of $15.35; pen 2 was 
fed three times daily upon grain only and 
made a net profit of $19.90; pen 3 was 
fed grain morning and night and a wet 
mash at noon, and the net profit was 
$21.25; pen 4 was fed grain morning and 
night and a dry mash of the same feeds J 
as were given wet to pen 3 was kept be¬ 
fore them ; the profit was $28.67. I pre¬ 
sume that other stations have carried out 
similar experiments, though I do not 
know of them. So far as my observation 
has gone, the feeding of dry mash has be- | 
come well nigh universal with poultry- i 
men keeping fowls upon a large scale, j 
and while the above ratio of profits would 
undoubtedly not always obtain, there is 
little doubt that it is the most profitable 
method. M. b. d. 
Eradicating Hen Lice. 
My old fowls are quite badly affected 
with the large gray hen lice. Will you 
give me a certain method to get rid of 
these vermin? c. G. G. 
New Jersey. 
The only certain method of permanent¬ 
ly freeing fowls of body lice that I know 
of it to dust them at frequent intervals 
with a good lice powder, but few will 
take the pains to do this sufficiently often 
and well entirely to rid the fowls of 
their parasites, and fortunately it is not 
necessary that this should be done. If 
given access to a good dust bath and kept 
free from the red mites by painting the 
perches, nests boxes, etc., with some good 
insecticide like kerosene and carbolic 
acid, the less important large body lice 
will do little or no harm in any numbers 
in which they are likely to survive. 
M. B. D. 
Charcoal for Poultry. 
Is the practice of feeding charcoal to 
poultry based on scientific or practical 
principles? Does it have any chemical 
effect upon the hen, or is its value large¬ 
ly mechanical? 
In regard to charcoal, theoretically it 
is valuable in poultry rations as a puri¬ 
fier or absorber of impurities, but per¬ 
sonally I have never had a great deal of 
faith in its actual practical value. In 
fact, we feed practically none of it in our 
rations here, nor do we recommend the 
feeding of it. Chemically, or from a true 
nutritive standpoint, I do not believe that 
it has any value. It may have a little, 
as I mentioned, as an internal disinfect¬ 
ant or absorber of impurities. 
New Jersey Station. h. r. lewis. 
It is my personal opinion that char¬ 
coal is of no particular value if the chicks 
are in health, and I am not sure that it j 
is of any particular value if they are out 
of health, although it has sort of been as- 1 
sumed that chicks with digestive disor¬ 
ders, especially where there was any ten¬ 
dency for the formation of gas, should 
receive charcoal which would tend to 
absorb these gases and perhaps be of 
some service. I feel that no special 
physiological effect is to be expected from 
the use of charcoal, nor has it any chem¬ 
ical properties that make it particularly 
desirable. I think the prevalent idea in 
using it is that it may be a sort of chem¬ 
ical absorber. I am afraid, however, 
that after all we cannot cite you any ex¬ 
perimental evidence bearing on this point. 
Storrs, Conn. w. f. kirkpatrick. 
I fed charcoal for years, both in mash 
feeds, pulverized and with cracked grains 
and in hoppers, granulated. I considered 
it a conditioner, crop sweetener and a 
sort of cure-all. Sometimes when the 
chicks were not eating as well as usual 
or droppings were off color I would put 
in a double dose in their dough, and I 
was satisfied that it was a good “cure- 
all.”. I am not ready to say that it is 
of no value. We are using a very little, j 
if any, at this time. I would rather sug¬ 
gest that it be placed in the hoppers 
where poultry of all ages can get some 
if they wish to do so. d. j. Lambert. 
Rhode Island. 
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