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THE RURA.L, NEW-YORKER 
May 15, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I received a check today for the full 
amount due me on my Building Certifi¬ 
cate. Will you kindly return the certi¬ 
ficate to me, as I would i-ather forward it 
to them if it makes no difference to you. 
I thank you for all your trouble, and will 
gladly remit any expense it has been to 
you. M. C. B. 
Massachusetts. 
There is no expense, and we gladly re¬ 
turn the certificate, so that it can be re¬ 
turned to Mr. Myrick from the original 
holder. She got her money direct after 
we had made the demand for it. It would 
be interesting to have Mr. Myrick’s ex¬ 
cuses for not settling claims before they 
come to us. We are not sure that pre¬ 
vious demand had been made in this 
case; but previously we had refused to 
take the claims until he had refused or 
neglected settlement. 
I like the editorial tone of your paper 
because it deals with concrete problems 
of right and wrong. There are so many 
papers that condemn wrong in the ab¬ 
stract and condone it in the concrete. 
You attack wrong-doers, and hence are a 
menace to rascals of every sort. The 
“square deal” will never triumph until 
full publicity is given to particular cases 
in which its principles are violated. The 
strong who rob and oppress the weak 
laugh at the newspaper that preaches 
righteousness but can be easily chloro¬ 
formed into silence regarding specific 
acts. 
Fear of libel suits does not appear to 
prevent The R. N.-Y. from attacking 
wrong-doers. Such a public champion 
deserves the highest praise and the full¬ 
est support. A. c. HILL. 
Now York. 
If the full sense of the first para¬ 
graph of the above does not sink into 
your comprehension on the first reading, 
go back and read it over again. We 
have tried to express the principle in 
our own way at different times; but we 
never succeeded in expressing it so terse¬ 
ly and so clearly and well as it is here 
expressed by Mr. Hill. In one of our 
most famous controversies, the able head 
of one of our prominent State institu¬ 
tions upbraided us for doing just what 
Mr. Hill commends. We put the brand 
of dishonesty on the man; our critic 
contended that our proper function was 
to confine ourselves to the condemnation 
of dishonesty as a principle, but not to 
lay the burden of his own acts on the 
crook or the thief. While leading men 
hi the community and the State take 
this position it is not surprising that 
publications take their cue from them 
and follow the course pursued by men in 
high places. But Mr. Hill is right. 
While you praise honesty and righteous¬ 
ness in the abstract, and abuse deceit and 
fraud in general terms, every crook with¬ 
in hearing will slap you on the shoulder 
and cry himself hoarse in approval of 
your eloquence. You merely flatter con¬ 
ceit; and encourage the rogue to con¬ 
tinue his deceit in the belief that he is 
smart enough to deceive you or that you 
lack the courage to attack him on account 
of his cleverness or position. In other 
words you encourage rather than sup¬ 
press crime. Bring the wrong-doer face 
to face with his acts, and put the brand 
of dishonesty on the back of the rascal, 
and you at least make deceit unpopular, 
and embarrass rogues. 
I ordered some nursery stock from C. 
W. Stuart & Co., of Newark, N. Y., last 
Fall. I notified them last week and 
told them not to ship it. They answered 
saying I had to take it. They had an 
agent here who was a good talker, hence 
the order. MRS. P. J. D. 
Pennsylvania. 
So many people sign orders with 
agents for nursery stock, with the idea 
that they can cancel the order later on 
if circumstances arise which make it un¬ 
desirable to plant the stock, that we 
want to impress all readers with the fact 
that the order blanks which nursery 
agents present for the signature of the 
purchaser contain a definite provision, 
that the order is NOT cancellable. It is 
also the invariable policy of nursery 
houses selling through agents in this way 
to refuse to accept cancellation of orders 
under any circumstances. The stock is 
left on the property of the person sign¬ 
ing the order by a delivery agent and 
then payment is demanded and forced 
through the courts if necessary. No 
matter what the representations of the 
agent may be when one of these blank 
orders is signed, the party signing it is 
held for the amount stipulated on the 
order, unless it can be shown that the 
signature to the order was secured by 
fraudulent representations. 
Through an error in using the wrong 
tags our house shipped 112 pounds of 
turkeys to Jos. E. Bowen, 310 No. State 
Street, Philadelphia, Penn., on January 
16, 1915. We have been unable to hear 
from this Mr. Bowen. Please take this 
matter up. w. E. C. M. 
Virginia. 
We have been unable to get any re¬ 
sponse from Mr. Bowen. We leave our 
readers to judge whether or not they 
want to send him shipments. 
Mr. V. G. Butler of the Slipno Com¬ 
pany, with office at 118 Market Street, 
Newark, N. J., requested me to send to 
his home address at Huguenot Park, 
Staten Island, N. Y., two bushels of my 
best potatoes. The amount is small, 
$2.20, but every time I think of it a sick 
feeling comes over me, and I am going 
to ask if you will collect it for me and I 
will donate the amount to the Anti- 
Fake Club. G. A. o. 
New York. 
We have received no reply to our re¬ 
quests for payment. It is inconceivable 
that anyone would order produce for 
their table and neglect to pay for it in 
this way. Huguenot Park is getting a 
bad name, for in addition to this bill 
against Mr. Butler we have several 
against D. L. and C. J. O’Connor of the 
same place. 
What do you think of the enclosed ad¬ 
vertisement of the Magic Egg Tester 
Works, Buffalo, N. Y.? I bought one 
and feel as if I had been stung. We set 
as follows: Eggs testing from X-XX 
15—no chickens, 18, 1) chickens; 15, 8 
chickens; 15 eggs six chickens. I re¬ 
ceived about an arm load of reading mat¬ 
ter which told me how to tell if the eggs 
were fresh and such things as that. Are 
they playing a square game? I think I 
should have my $2 back. D. s. B. 
Minnesota. 
The experience of the Minnesota sub¬ 
scriber confirms our owij information re¬ 
garding this so-called Magic egg tester. 
We have always regarded the claims 
made for the tester as entirely unwar¬ 
ranted. No practical poultryman could 
credit the contention that the contriv¬ 
ance is capable of indicating fertile from 
infertile eggs. 
Pierre M. Looker, President of the 
Monaton Realty Company, was found 
guilty, April 25, by the jury which has 
been trying him for 10 days in the Fed¬ 
eral District Court before Judge Cush¬ 
man on the charge of having used the 
mails to defraud. lie was found guilty 
on seven indictments. He may be sen¬ 
tenced to five years’ imprisonment on 
each of these. 
Some years back a woman sent us a 
certificate from the Monaton Companion 
which she had made several payments, on 
the promise of big profits, but she was 
unable to keep up the other payments to 
complete the contract. We tried to get 
back for her the money she had paid in, 
or even a part of it. We could not get a 
cent. The contract allowed them to keep 
it all and they did. We showed up the 
scheme at the time, and have repeated 
the warning several times since, and we 
have no! heard that any of our people 
suffered loss since. The more of such 
schemers go to jail the better it will be 
for honest people and reliable concerns. 
Please note attached file. I ordered 
ten “Practical Calculators” from C. W. 
Prcwett, Houston, Texas, thinking I was 
getting something original and very val¬ 
uable, as the circular seemed to indicate. 
After I saw the little 10-cent pamphlets 
and saw that the methods were common 
property and familiar to our people, I 
tried to dispose of them at 50 cents each, 
and was laughed at for trying to fake 
the people. I am mailing the books to 
you under separate cover for your in¬ 
spection. If you can get Mr. I’rewett to 
refund the $5 and take the books back, I 
will be mighty glad, as money is almost 
an impossibility right now. p. c. s. 
Alabama. 
The subscriber paid $5 for the pam¬ 
phlets, which could be produced at a good 
profit at 10 cents each. Of course Mr. 
I’rewett refuses to take the pamphlets 
back or refund the $5. The circular de¬ 
scribing the pamphlets is so skillfully 
worded that it gives the impression that 
they are real books and of great value. 
While you cannot put your finger on a 
word that misrepresents, the whole ef¬ 
fect of the circular is none the less mis¬ 
leading. If other readers receive this 
literature they can benefit by the exper¬ 
ience of P. C. S. 
Feeding Young Turkeys. 
What is the proper food for young 
turkeys? G. R. 
Young poults require about the same 
kinds of food that are given young chicks, 
but in considerably less amounts. Over 
feeding predisposes to the ailments which 
carry poults off in such numbers and 
should be carefully guarded against, even 
to the extent of giving considerably less 
food than you think the poults must 
need. After 48 hours, stale bread 
soaked in milk may be given, followed by 
hard boiled eggs crushed together with 
the shells, a moist mash of corn meal, 
wheat bran, middlings and sour milk, 
and finely cracked corn, cracked wheat, 
etc. Loppered skim-milk is one of the 
best foods for poults and may be fed 
in almost unlimited quantities; tender 
green foods should also be provided for 
poults in confinement. The one essen¬ 
tial point in feeding young turkeys is to 
feed very sparingly. M. B. t>. 
Chicken Pox. 
There is a new disease started here 
among the poultry. Large scabs appear 
on the combs, the eyes swell very large 
and the fowls continually keep scratching 
their heads and eyes. A bunch comes in 
their throats which causes them to cough. 
The disease is contagious, as I have 
known it to have been carried from one 
farm to another by the caretaker of the 
infected chickens. A. S. 
New York. 
I judge this to be “sore-head,” or 
chicken pox, a contagious disease of 
fowls characterized by scabs or crusts 
which form upon the comb, wattles, eye¬ 
lids and other parts of the head and also 
sometimes invade the mouth and deeper 
internal passages. While not as serious 
a disease in the North as in Southern 
States, it sometimes becomes widespread 
and causes a very considerable mortali¬ 
ty in flocks into which it is introduced. 
Sick birds should be isolated, the quar¬ 
ters cleaned up, whitewashed and dis¬ 
infected, and the sores upon the fowls’ 
heads painted with tincture of iodine. 
With care and thorough treatment, the 
disease should be eliminated from the 
flock. M. B. D. 
Infectious Colds. 
I have four pens of birds, one pen of 
180 Leghorns which seem to have cold. I 
have taken 12 birds out of this pen with 
one eye closed. Several of the birds re¬ 
moved have recovered and are laying 
again, but every day or two I find an¬ 
other bird with a watery eye. These 
birds are in a house 53x15. I have lime- 
washed and disinfected, used permangan¬ 
ate of potash in drinking water. These 
180 are pullets, and laying 65 eggs a day; 
I have two pens of yearling hens and have 
not had the first symptoms of trouble 
with them. My houses are cleaned out 
every day. Some of the birds show a 
black scab on the bill and wattles. I 
killed two badly affected birds. a. a. 
These birds evidently have infectious 
colds which can hardly be called, true 
roup, though it is easy for the latter and 
more serious disease to become engrafted 
upon the milder catarrhal affection. You 
have done well to isolate the sick birds 
and kill those that were seriously affect¬ 
ed. In addition to using permanganate 
of potash in the drinking water, it would 
probably be well to dip the heads of the 
sick fowls into a stronger solution of the 
same drug. The flock should be guarded 
from dampness and drafts, though they 
should be in buildings having ample ven¬ 
tilation. With good care, there will prob¬ 
ably be few fatalities in the flock and 
there is no need to expect recurrence of 
the trouble unless the fowls are again 
subjected to unhygienic conditions or con¬ 
tagion from some source. m. b. d. 
Systems for Judging Layers. 
I)o you know anything about the “Ho¬ 
gan” system for selecting layers? As I 
understand, he selects layers by the size 
of abdomen, but how he measures the ab¬ 
domen I do not know. He states one 
finger means hen will lay from none to 36 
eggs, two fingers 66 eggs, three fingers 
180, four fingers 225 eggs, and five fingers 
250 or more. I think it was 250. If he 
does measure the abdomen how does he 
do it. W. P. 
New York. 
This correspondent has probably been 
mistakenly informed about the Hogan 
system. The one, two, three fingers re¬ 
late to the distance apart of the pubic 
bones, the small flexible bones on each 
side of the vent. The passage of an egg 
separates these bones, that is, pushes 
them apart; and if an egg is laid every 
day or two, the bones do not get back, 
but remain apart. When the bones are 
apart only the width of one finger it is 
a pretty sure indication that the hen 
is not laying; when two fingers can be 
placed between the bones she is probably 
laying some, but not very frequently; 
when three fingers can be placed between 
the bones, she is likely to be laying well. 
The abdomen should be very soft, not 
hard or lumpy, and abundant, that is, not 
scanty. Both the distance apart of the 
pubic bones and the amount of the abdo¬ 
men are affected by the condition of the 
fowl. An overfat bird will have the bones 
apart whether she is laying or not. 
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