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THfcC KUKAL, NKW-VOKKEK 
February 27, 1915. 
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H AH the enclosed any merit other than 
being of the regular wildcat nature? 
Is this Elmer Ostrander, Supt., the 
same Ostrander who operated in real es¬ 
tate so extensively a few years back? Is 
this Mills Seed Co.? w. g. y. 
Virginia. 
The enclosure referred to is a letter 
of the Mills Farm Company, Rose Hill, 
N. Y. The farms of the company are 
alleged to he located at Fruitland, Miss. 
The letter head bears the following names 
as officers of the company: F. II. Mills, 
manager; Elmer Ostrander, superinten¬ 
dent; B. C. Lawler, sales manager. The 
purpose of the letter is to sell five acres 
of land. The regular price is $100 per 
acre, but by using a special application 
before a certain date a special price of 
$78 per acre can be secured. Great bar¬ 
gain. Mr. Mills personally recommends 
that the five acres be planted to a fig 
orchard. “Looking Ahead” is the title 
of a book issued by this Mills Farm Co., 
setting forth the wonderful advantages 
of the lands and the riches that will flow 
into the pocket of the purchasers of the 
five-acre tracts. We would suggest that 
Mr. Mills write another book “Looking 
Backward,” and that in it he tells how 
many victims there are of his ginseng 
farm investment scheme, which he pro¬ 
moted some years ago, and how many 
thousands of dollars these victims lost 
on the same sort of representations he is 
making now for his Mills Farm scheme. 
Yes. this is the same F. II. Mills who 
conducts a seed business at Rose Hill, 
and at other points under various names. 
Ho far as we know the Elmer Ostrander 
associated with this enterprise is no rela¬ 
tive of the king of all get-rich-quiclc 
promoters, W. M. Ostrander, but it is 
evident from his connection with this 
scheme that he is following the same 
footsteps. 
Come to the front, Mr. Mills, and tell 
those you are expecting to invest in this 
land scheme how much your victims lost 
in your ginseng company. 
This is from a prominent correspond¬ 
ent in Central New York in reference 
to the bill introduced by Assemblyman 
Kincaid, of Syracuse, to abolish the State 
Department of Foods and Markets: 
I apprehend that he is probably an 
"inspired emissary” of interests that are 
going to make an “underground cam¬ 
paign” to thwart the purpose of those 
who are trying to liberate producers and 
consumers from the thralldom that has 
so long bound them hand and fool. I 
earnestly hope that you will put up a 
bold front and not give the enemy any 
suggestion that a truce is to be called 
for a moment on any account. 
New York. n. o. p. 
Our correspondent may rest assured 
that Mr. Kincaid will find no spirit of 
compromise here. The judgment of the 
farmers of the Htate crystallized in the 
bill for the creation of the Department of 
Foods and Markets last year. It was 
the result of many years of work and 
study, and personal expense of the men 
who devised it with no purpose but to 
relieve the grip of the food gamblers on 
the throat of the producers and con¬ 
sumers of the country. 
The food manipulators first hoped that 
it would become a political bureau and 
have no effect except to furnish a job for 
a number of politicians, but when they 
found it in the hands of men who know 
the game, and who struck straight at the 
bonds that bound the people, they began 
to realize that the only way to save their 
system and their spoils was to strike 
down the machinery that has been de¬ 
vised to insure an honest and economic 
distribution of food. 
There may be men in the produce busi¬ 
ness who do not merit the reproach of 
producers and consumers. We find none 
of them who have the hardihood to de¬ 
fend the present system of distribution, 
but we are equally frank to say that we 
know no one of them with courage 
enough, if he has the disposition, to sug¬ 
gest or help in a reform of present de¬ 
plorable methods. 
Mr. Kincaid has surely put the ques¬ 
tion squarely up to the farmers of the 
Htate of New York. It is their measure. 
It was inaugurated to relieve their sorest 
needs—a ready market and an honest re¬ 
turn for their products. The law was 
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..nig! passed at their insistent demand a year 
ago. They need it as much now as they 
needed it then. The railroads which in 
the past rather favored the middlemen 
have now come to see that their interests 
lie with the producers. They come for¬ 
ward with the money to build suitable 
markets, and storage for farm produce 
in the city, where food can pass from the 
producer to the consumer in any quan¬ 
tity required under Htate supervision, 
and at a reasonable cost for the service. 
The farmers want these markets. The 
city consumers want them. The middle¬ 
men who have been speculating in food 
products do not want them. Mr. Kin¬ 
caid takes the side of the middlemen. 
The legislators who line up with him will 
be counted. Their names will appear at 
the head of this column from the time 
they make the record until the next elec¬ 
tion. We propose that the farmers of 
this Htate shall know who their avowed 
enemies are. In the meantime, Mr. Kin¬ 
caid has issued his challenge, and we 
must meet it. The Governor was long 
since assured that if he preferred a man 
of his own selection the present incum¬ 
bent would gladly step aside provided he 
would give us a man qualified by experi¬ 
ence and sentiment for the work. No 
one connected with tin* work would make 
a contest for a position or to retain a 
position, but we propose to fight for the 
existence of the Department itself and 
for an honest administration of it. We 
have set out to run this one Htate De¬ 
partment free from the taint of politics. 
That is perhaps its greatest danger, but 
it is its strength also, and the man who 
undertakes to make it the football of 
politics will find his records in print, and 
his motives in the public eye. It is a 
sharp political trick to have this bill in¬ 
troduced by an up-State man. It comes 
from New York, but is no doubt encour¬ 
aged by dealers in Syracuse, where the 
people are trying to establish markets 
for themselves. 
Tell your Assemblyman and Senator 
that you want that Kincaid bill killed. 
Write or wire Hon. Harold J. Hinman, 
leader of the Assembly, and Alex. Mac¬ 
Donald. Chairman of the Committee of 
Ways and Means, that you want the De¬ 
partment of Foods and Markets supported 
and honestly administered. 
Mr. Kincaid has challenged the 
strength of the farmers of this State. 
Now, let him know the size of a job he 
has undertaken. 
Can you give me any information con¬ 
cerning the Colorado Separation Co. of 
Harrisburg, Pa.? These people claim to 
have a wonderful invention, a machine to 
separate zinc from other metals. They 
say their machine has been looked into 
by some authority of Columbia University, 
who have pronounced it the greatest in¬ 
vention of the age. Some stock has been 
sold in our county. Has the machine 
any value, or is it merely to “separate” 
us from our dollars. j. n. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
We suspect that the chief function of 
the machine is to separate the unsuspect¬ 
ing from their hard-earned money, as 
J. D. M. suggests. If the invention is 
so “wonderful” why in the world do not 
the officers of this “Separation Com¬ 
pany” keep it or distribute the stock 
among their good friends instead of let¬ 
ting strangers in on it! How very un¬ 
selfish these promoters must be! Country 
districts seem to be flooded at this time 
with investment schemes of every sort. 
Apparently the big stories printed regu¬ 
larly in the daily papers of the fabulous 
wealth of farmers is taken seriously by 
the promoters. Not a day passes that 
Tiie R. N.-Y. does not receive several 
consignments of promoters’ guff forwarded 
by subscribers who are too wise to be 
influenced themselves, but fear others may 
get caught. Every pretext from a Mis¬ 
souri hog ranch to a worthless building 
lot is used by these schemers to get their 
hands in the farmer’s pocket. So many 
swindles have been exposed and the 
swindlers sent to jail that it would seem 
everyone should be on his guard, and yet 
schemers and fakers continue to reap the 
usual harvest. The members of the Anti- 
Fake Club can do their neighbors a ser¬ 
vice in warning them, as few escape hav¬ 
ing their name on a “sucker list” these 
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