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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
February 13, 1915. 
P UBLISHER’S DESK 
W ILL you please look these parties 
up, Security Farm Loan Associa¬ 
tion, Chicago? I am enclosing their 
circular letter. If they are fishing for 
suckers we do not need them here. 
Nevada. c. w. n. 
Apparently this is the old Ostrander 
scheme applied to the farm loan busi¬ 
ness. The prospective borrower is re¬ 
quired to pay an advance fee to cover the 
expense of appraisal on the property. 
The minimum fee is $10. If enough ap¬ 
plications were received on this basis and 
no loans made at all the association 
would reap a comfortable income. At 
any rate no farmer should advance 
money on such a pretext without some 
definite assurance that the loan will be 
made. 
A glib individual gave me marvels 
about the trees he could sell me and when 
lie came to a cherry for 50 cents that 
would sure yield a peck the first year, 
and half a bushel the second I told him 
I wanted it; that it was worth $10, and 
I would not take it for less. My plan 
was that my X was to go into the hands 
of any neighbor, of his choosing, and 
have company with one of his. both to go 
to him if the peck materialized, but if not 
mine must come back, and his go to the 
neighbor for his trouble. 
Another day a medicine man had some 
bottles that would cure every ailment in¬ 
cident to man or beast, and among others 
blood spavin. I asked particularly about 
this, and he was sure of it. In fact he 
guaranteed it. I led him to one and said : 
“A cure is worth $100 to me. I will di¬ 
vide with you. Put $100 in my hands or 
any neighbor’s; take the horse away or 
come here and cure it. If cured your $50 
is sure, but if injured, whatever part of 
yours I deserve comes to me. Let us go 
to the desk and article.” Both of these 
fellows found I was not the man they 
wore looking for. 
There are ads. running about “free” 
things, worded to catch the fellow who 
thinks he can get something for nothing. 
If they appeal to him, he himself is dis¬ 
honest and deserves to be nipped. Free 
cures, trusses and other things are given 
'on trial for 30 or GO days, but the little 
item of sending plenty of money with the 
order is woven in. For some reason my 
name is on all the “sucker lists.” None 
of the “sure thing men” slight me, and 
to-day I have about the twentieth catarrh 
cure. The others came from a dozen 
cities from parties pining to cure me. 
This one is from Sam Katz, a real nice 
old-fashioned fellow, no doubt, of 1325 
S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Sam tells 
me that “a friend of his, and mine” has 
suggested that he write me. It appears 
that neither Sam nor our mutual friend 
knows that my flues are clean as a new 
chimney, and Sam tells me he can make 
me “feel like a wanderer in a desert, 
parched and blistered, when he comes 
upon a cool pool, suddenly.” He makes 
me almost wish I had catarrh because he 
says “it goes like dew before the morning 
sun” by the use of his “blessed oxygen.” 
Now Sam knows. He had it worse than 
the foot and mouth disease, and it cured 
him and he wants me to “share his joy.” 
The mails are full of money orders going 
to fellows like Sam. 
There, my dear R. N.-Y., is a chance 
for you, perhaps. Don’t let this “great 
international disease” get you. You’d 
better get some as a nreventive. This 
should make the unsophisticated readers 
take notice if you want to use it on them. 
Utica, O. w. w. K. 
The subscriber’s letter above covers the 
ground so thoroughly that it scarcely per¬ 
mits of comment. W. W. R. will prove 
a valuable member of the Anti-Fake 
League. 
Jackson County Nurseries, Bosky 
Dell, Ill. 
Bosky Dell Nurseries, Bosky Dell, 
Ill. 
Bradley & Bradley, Makanda, Ill. 
Bradley Bros., Makanda, Ill. 
Illinois Nurseries, Carbondale, Ill. 
We have known Messrs. Bradley under 
the first four of the titles and addresses 
given above during the past 10 or 12 
years. The information just comes to 
us that they have adopted the name, 
Illinois Nurseries, this year, and changed 
their address to Carbondale, Ill. The 
reason is obvious. Legitimate nursery 
houses consider the name a valuable 
asset. It is figured as good will and such 
a nursery house would not change its 
name for a consideration of several 
thousand dollars. Evidently Messrs. 
Bradley consider the old firm names as 
a liability. The change from one name 
to another is made apparently to escape 
the odium of their reputation because of 
their previous manner of doing business. 
Our readers may remember that these 
are the gentlemen who advertised last 
year to send 12 strawberry plants 
“absolutely free.” When one asked for 
the 12 plants he was told that the plants 
were non-fertilizing and some more plants 
must be purchased in order to make them 
of any value. Any house resorting to 
schemes of this kind is not worthy of 
the confidence of the public, and we want 
our people to recognize the Illinois 
Nurseries of Carbondale, Ill., as the same 
parties we have warned them about in 
previous seasons under the various names 
given above. 
And say, please enter my name as a 
member of the Anti-Fake Club. I notice 
some of our other papers are getting the 
spirit. Long life to it. W. J. M. 
Connecticut. 
The more emphatic we are in our de¬ 
termination not to patronize papers that 
carry fraudulent advertising, the wider 
will be the circle of our influence. 
“The publications that accept fake ad¬ 
vertising will sooner or later lose their 
honest patrons. I tell our local publish¬ 
ers, ‘If you don’t purge your own col¬ 
umns yourselves, the merchants of the 
city will get together one of these days 
and purge them for you.’ ” 
“It has long been a tenet of my creed 
of journalism, that every fake advertise¬ 
ment shaves a percentage off the value 
of every honest advertisement in the same 
medium.” 
The above is part of a conversation be¬ 
tween a California drygoods merchant and 
a New York newspaper representative. 
It is in effect the creed of the Anti-Fake 
Club, and our remedy is to unite in a de¬ 
termination not to patronize or admit 
into our homes any publications carrying 
dishonest or fake advertising. We have 
over one hundred applications for mem¬ 
bership, and the club will soon be or¬ 
ganized. 
I have the enclosed voucher from the 
Southern R. R. for $20. I thank you 
very much for collecting this claim for 
me.* After I had written the Southern 
Railway three times, and they would 
not even acknowledge my letters, I felt 
that outside aid was necessary. I feel 
that I have received more from my claim 
by placing it in your hands than would 
have been possible any other way, be¬ 
cause most persons would have charged 
the best part of the voucher for their 
service. I feel indebted to you, and 
scarcely know of a better way to repay 
you than to speak a good word for your 
excellent paper whenever opportunity 
presents itself. w. H. M. 
New Glasgow, Ya. 
This claim covered household goods 
which were damaged in a shipment of 
February, 1914, and was not adjusted 
until December, 1914. The Interstate 
Commerce Commission should insist upon 
some clear method of handling just 
claims of the kind to do away with such 
long delays. A little postage spent on 
the matter to them direct might have 
some effect. 
Well, yes, I do not want to be without 
Tiie R. N.-Y. We have been traveling 
acquaintances for some years now. 
Things read in it are and have been in¬ 
teresting. helpful, cheering and encour¬ 
aging. Then, do not lose sight of the 
influence of the splash made when you 
dip your pen in the ink to write those 
stirring things in the columns of The 
R. N.-Y. The waves of the mighty 
splash reach far out. For instance I 
had a damage claim for lost freight 
against a local railroad. The amount in¬ 
volved was small ($3.10), and the delay 
was big and large both. I thought of 
asking the aid of The R. N.-Y., but 
encouraged by reading of your successes 
in that line I followed on, insistent in 
my demands, and in 20 months sticking to 
it won out. I value that $3.10 at more 
than par value because of the many in¬ 
cidents connected with getting it. This 
is only one of the many features that 
cheer, encourage, interest and profit me. 
The dollar returns more than the ordin¬ 
ary rate of interest. G. M. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is what we call a really helpful 
letter. We like it because G. M. B. has 
absorbed and benefited by the experiences 
we have related in this column. One of 
the points which have helped us win out 
with transportation companies is persist¬ 
ency. There is no reason why a shipper 
should not be successful with his claims, 
but it is necessary to have patience and 
stick right to them. Twenty months is 
a ridiculous time, and probably $3.10 is 
not worth it, but if every person having 
a claim, no matter what the amount, 
would keep at the transportation com¬ 
pany, we believe they would work up a 
system that would enable them to adjust 
claims promptly, and perhaps prevent 
some of the causes of complaint. The 
moral is, stick to your claim. j. j. d. 
“Can I git off today, boss?” “What 
for?” “A weddin’.” “Do you have to 
go?” “I’d like to. sir—I’m the bride¬ 
groom.”—Cornell Widow. 
—best Man on the Farm 
To start the chores 
ahead of the sun, and 
keep the work ahead 
of the seasons — Big 
Ben. 
For a good full day’s 
work according to plans, 
and plenty of time for din¬ 
ner—Big Ben. 
He will get you up and 
get you out —either way 
you say—with a steady 
call,or ten successive half¬ 
minute taps. 
His price is $2.50 in the 
States; $3.00 in Canada. If 
your jeweler hasn’t him, a mon¬ 
ey order to " Westclox, La Salle, 
Illinois,” will bring him to you 
postpaid. 
“50 pounds to tlie ton of manure will increase 
the producing value of the manure 60%, says 
the Ohio Experiment Station. 
Raw Rock Phosphate 
Finely Ground (Float*) 
A phosphorus fertilizer for use with stable 
manure or green manure crops. Write for free 
booklet Y-15, and delivered prices. 
Robin Jones Phosphate Co. 
NASHVILLE, TENN. 
yC Delivered at any Station 
* 1 ** East of Mississippi River. 
“Lucky Low Down” Dump Cart. 
Strong, substantial 
hard wood body. Steel 
wheels, wide tires, steel 
axle. Body 12x40x60 ins. 
Capacity 1400 lbs. Hun¬ 
dreds in use to entire sat¬ 
isfaction of every pur¬ 
chaser. Saves its cost 
every year, 
Hobson & Co., Box 47, Easton,Pa 
LIME—LIME—LIME 
YOUR LAND NEEDS 
“WYANDOTTE CHIEF” 
SPORICIDEt 
SMUT 
Sure Cure For 
in oats. Guarant’d, 
' Simple to treat. 
Sent direct by parcel post where we have no agent. 
Agts^wanted. Sporicide Chemical Go. 
HYDRATED AGRICULTURAL LIME 
Write us for prices 
THE NATIONAL LIME & STONE COMPANY 
CAltEY, OHIO 
cide. This Marl (Nature’s Lime) could then be put 
on your soil to increase each acre’s productivity $15 
a year, as it did for Mr. L. J. Rounds, for instance. 
Write us to-day for explanatory booklet, etc. 
LET LIQUID 
manure; 
BUY YOUR 
i __ 
I Between now and seeding time, 10 tons of Cale¬ 
donia Marl (Lime Carbonate) could absorb, from 
your stable floor, $40.00 worth of ammonia and pot¬ 
ash—in addition to acting as deodorizer and germi- 
INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CORP. 
800 MARINE BANK BUILDING, 
Write for this FREE SAMPLE Genuine 
Peruvian Guano 
Nature’s Most Wonderful Fertilizer 
The Greatest Crop-producer Known 
HOME-MIX YOUR FERTILIZER 
* * using PERUVIAN GUANO, Nitrate of Soda, 
Acid Phosphate, Potash 
SAVE $4.00 TO $12.00 PER TON 
Write to-day for this sample and Formula Booklet 
NITRATE AGENCIES CO. 
106 Pearl Street, New Tork City 
Hubbard’s “Bone Bas e 
Almanac for 1915 
Contains much valuable information that will 
help you in planning. It will tell you about 
THE ROGERS & 
HUBBARD CO., 
Address Dept. A, 
Middletown, Conn. 
Office and Works, Portland, Conn. 
Hubbard’s 
ON 
Fertilizers 
and their relation to your farm and crops for this 
year. Be sure and write for your copy TODAY. 
Also send for the booklet on “Soil Fertility ,” 
You will find them very interesting and helpful. 
