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NEW-VOKKEK 
May 29, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
In our May Sth issue we gave the ex¬ 
perience of a New Jersey subscriber in 
ordering an automobile tire from the 
American Tire & Rubber Co. of 1775 
Broadway, New York City. We learn 
that there is another company of this 
same name with headquarters at Chicago 
and branch houses at Atlanta, Ga., 
Dallas, Texas, and Omaha, Neb., manu¬ 
facturing what is known in the trade as 
“American Heavy Car Type Tires,” hav¬ 
ing no connection with the New 1 ork 
house referred to in our issue of May 
Sth. We feel it is due the Chicago house 
to point this fact out lest readers might 
conclude that the New York and Chica¬ 
go houses are identical. 
It is evidently time to reprint the fol¬ 
lowing letter which was sent us some time 
ago: 
You would do well to caution your 
readers against a gang of petty swindlers 
who are making the rounds of the coun¬ 
try, trading on the name of the Cooper 
Union or Cooper Institute, soliciting or¬ 
ders for crayon photographs, collecting 
money in advance and taking with them 
portraits supposedly to be enlarged. If 
these people, who have been carrying on 
their nefarious work for many years, 
could be placed behind the bars, it would 
save their innocent dupes the loss of 
money and photographs of dear ones 
whicli cannot be replaced, as these pho¬ 
tographs are never returned. It is need¬ 
less t(> say that the victims, having part¬ 
ed with their money, never hear from the 
swindlers again. L. c. l. JORDAN, 
Assistant Secretary. 
Cooper Union, New York. 
One of our subscribers signed a con¬ 
tract with the Cooper Art Institute, 
formerly Bible House but now at 224- 
226 W. 34th St. She gave the agent four 
pictures to enlarge and furnish frames. 
A deposit of $4 was paid. The agent of¬ 
fered to paint and frame one picture free 
of charge for a canary, which hung in 
the room. Later another agent called 
and as the price had been increased, the 
subscriber cancelled the order and asked 
for the return of the amount paid and 
particularly the photographs. The mana¬ 
ger came to our office in reply to our 
request for the return of the photos, and 
with much bluster insisted upon his right 
to hold the subscriber to the strict letter 
of the contract and threatened suit if the 
payment was not made. We could not 
consider the exchange of a bird for a 
portrait in a serious or business light. It 
simply indicates the methods used by 
these agents to put through a deal, and 
with the warning in the above letter our 
people will want to avoid giving orders to 
or making contracts with the Cooper Art 
Institute. We are not concerned over 
their threat to sue. They will not be 
anxious to have a transaction of this 
kind aired in court. 
I must report to you that I have re¬ 
ceived a check from the New York, New 
Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. for lire 
damage to my woodland. Now what do 
I owe you for your valuable service? I 
would not have gotten this if it were not 
for your good work. a. h. e. 
Connecticut. 
We are very glad to have been of ser¬ 
vice to the above subscriber in securing 
adjustment of his claim against the rail¬ 
road company. The long delay in get¬ 
ting settlement in this case seemed due 
to the disposition of the fire claim agent, 
,T. P. Shanley, rather than any desire 
of the officials of the road to deprive the 
farmer of his just claim. We frequently 
find that the claim agents for railroads 
take it upon themselves either to ignore 
claims of farmers or tire them out with 
investigations and delays, and Mr. Shan¬ 
ley seems to be the highest type of this 
class of claim agents. We were obliged 
to take this claim up with the officials of 
the road before we could get any action 
on it. 
I am sending you enclosed some get- 
rich-quick literature and hope you can 
save somebody from becoming a sucker. 
To me it has all the earmarks of the fake 
promoters. Somebody gave my name to 
H. L. Barber, Chicago, and that good 
man has been wanting to make me rich 
and independent ever since. Keep up the 
good work. Y’ou can be proud of your 
enemies J. A. it. 
New York. 
The literature which the above letter 
refers to is a letter of the Farmaek 
Motor Car Corporation of 1739 S. 
Michigan Ave., Chicago, appealing for 
an investment in the stock of the con¬ 
cern. The usual suggestion of great rich¬ 
es to be had through the investment if 
the opportunity is taken advantage of 
at once, is held out. The literature 
states that the company is organized un¬ 
der the laws of the State of Virginia 
with an authorized capital of a million 
dollars. The letterhead gives A. ,7. 
Farmer as president, George S. McKen- 
ney as vice-president and M. M. McIn¬ 
tyre as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Mc¬ 
Intyre is reported to be a promoter by 
profession and was for a short time vice- 
president of the Coey Motor Co. of Chi¬ 
cago, which was promoted along similar 
lines. We are sure that no Rural New- 
Yorker reader will entrust his hard- 
earned savings to any professional pro¬ 
moters. 
On March 10th. 1015, I sent to the 
Talking Poultry Yards of Hainesport, 
N. J., for 200 White Wyandotte hatch¬ 
ing eggs. The eggs were received April 
1. On the first test 65 eggs proved in¬ 
fertile. After the hatch came off I had 
six black chicks, some that looked like 
Rhode Island Reds; some White Leg¬ 
horns and White Rocks—in fact prac¬ 
tically every breed except the White 
Wyandotte as ordered. A. S. T. 
New York. 
I sent R. ,T. Gibbins of Mt. Holly, N. 
,7.. $4 for 100 purebred White Leghorn 
eggs. When the eggs were received I 
noticed they were all shades of color and 
64 eggs hatched the finest lot of mon¬ 
grels you ever saw. Not one of them 
looked like a Leghorn—but the purest 
dunghills. F. d. c. 
New York. 
The above letters are fair samples of 
the complaints we have been receiving 
during the past year against R. J. Gib- 
bins, who has used various names, but at 
the present time seems to be doing busi¬ 
ness principally under the name of Talk¬ 
ing Poultry Yards at I-Iainesport, N. ,7. 
We have repeatedly printed the exper¬ 
iences of subscribers in sending orders to 
Mr. Gibbins for the guidance of the pub¬ 
lic. It is apparent from the reports re¬ 
ceived that Mr. Gibbins makes no at¬ 
tempt whatever to send eggs of the va¬ 
rieties ordered but fills all orders from 
the same mongrel hens. 
The complaints are still coming in 
from our subscribers that they hold one 
of the many checks given out by C. 
Abramson, 233 Madison Street, New 
York, last Fall. Nothing can be collected 
on these, and we only refer to it now in 
a cautionary way. In 1611 Mr. Abram¬ 
son received shipments and neglected to 
pay for them, and later disappeared. 
Last year complaints began to come in 
again that he had solicited shipments and 
failed to pay for them. Checks were 
drawn against a bank in which he had 
no account. In the meantime Mr. Abram¬ 
son had again disappeared. If any of 
our readers hear from him in a new loca¬ 
tion we will be glad to have the advice. 
Occasionally some of our people write 
they have received check for goods but 
have not deposited it, as they have been 
unable to get to town, or some similar 
reason. It is advisable to cash checks 
received for produce as soon as possible 
after receipt. It will enable you to keep 
your records straight, and also serve as 
a receipt for the sender of the check. If 
the check goes astray it can be discov¬ 
ered more promptly, payment stopped 
and a new one issued. In some cases a 
check from an unsatisfactory firm would 
go through all right if deposited prompt¬ 
ly, but when held there is a possibility 
of the firm going out of business and the 
manager disappearing, and the checks 
are worthless and there is no way of 
tracing. One shipper lost a check of $40 
by delaying to deposit it, and in the 
meantime the manager of the concern dis¬ 
appeared, and there were no funds at the 
bank to take care of the check. 
The transportation companies are be¬ 
coming more and more technical. They 
are now declining claims which have not 
been filed in writing before the four 
month limit is reached. If you enter a 
claim see that your agent writes the full 
particulars, but the better way will be to 
write out the statement yourself and file 
it with the agent. 
The small boy who was visiting on his 
grandfather’s farm sent his mother the 
following letter :—“Dear Mother.—I am 
having an awful good time, and have seen 
lots of animals and an accident. It was 
an exciting accident. You know Bill 
Hitchcock, the hired man’s neck? Well, 
he fell in the creek up to it yesterday.—• 
1'our loving son, Jim.”—Credit Lost. 
Raising Geese. 
How are geese hatched and cared for? 
Madison Hts., Ya. a. c. 
Goose eggs may be hatched under geese 
or hens, putting from four to six under 
the latter and eight to 10 under a goose. 
They require about 30 days to hatch. 
Goslings should have tender grass to eat 
from the first. In addition give a mash 
consisting of bran, cornmeal and any 
other ground grains that are fed to 
chickens. Rolled oats, either wholly or 
in part, make the best feed for the first 
few days. All mash should be slightly 
moistened and should contain a little fine 
grit and a pinch of salt. Be careful not 
to allow any lumps of salt to get in. Give 
the goslings plenty of room to exercise. 
Leg weakness in young goslings and 
drooping wings in older ones are the re¬ 
sults of inability to exercise. When two 
months old or more they may have a little 
whole grain to eat. From that age they 
can get most of their living from grass, 
but if one wishes to have birds of good 
size other feed should be given. When 
practically full-grown they may be fed all 
the grain they will eat if the owner wants 
blue ribbon birds in the show room. Those 
intended for the table should be confined 
in restricted quarters for about two weeks 
before killing and fed all they will eat of 
corn or cornmeal moistened. w. H. H. 
Emphysema; Fattening Broilers. 
I am starting with pure-bred Barred 
Rocks. I recently noticed one so much 
larger than any of the rest that I investi¬ 
gated and discovered it was puffed be¬ 
tween the skin and muscles with gas. A 
neighbor advised me to clip a small hole 
in the skin which I dreaded to do; but 
which I did do to-day; it let the gas out 
but the chick is still lame. He eats well 
and seems lively. What is the cause and 
cure, and will it live? Also tell me what 
feed to give them to insure early broilers? 
Pennsylvania. H. B. R. 
The escape of air from some of the in¬ 
ternal air passages of the fowl to the 
muscular tissues beneath the skin is the 
cause of the condition you describe, and 
which is known as emphysema. The cause 
is very obscure, being supposed, in some 
eases, at least, to be due to obstruction in 
some portion of the lungs and a conse¬ 
quent bursting of some of the air sacs. 
Puncturing the skin to let the air out is 
good treatment but most young chickens 
so affected do not develop well, and the 
value of any treatment is questionable. 
Chickens designed for sale as broilers 
should be fed and cared for as though 
they were to be reared to maturity, up to 
within about two weeks of marketable 
age. this means that they should have as 
much range as possible and be fed upon 
the mixed whole or cracked grain, and 
the mashes suited to their age. They will 
thus develop a good frame and vitality 
that will stand two weeks of closer con¬ 
finement and heavy feeding. About two 
weeks before marketing, confine the broil¬ 
ers to a small pen that is clean, well ven¬ 
tilated, and comfortable and feed them 
twice daily all that they will readily 
clean up of a wet mash composed of corn 
meal alone or of corn meal combined with 
finely ground oats, ground barley, ground 
buckwheat and about 10 per cent of beef 
scrap. Many chicks are fattened on corn¬ 
meal alone, but a mixture of grains is bet¬ 
ter. At noon give them a little whole or 
cracked grain and see that they have an 
abundance of fresh water and some grit. 
Feed all that they will cat. but be careful 
not to cloy them by overfeeding. Skim 
milk for moistening the mash is better 
than water. Chicks will not stand close 
confinement and heavy feeding for more 
than about two weeks, and should be sold 
before they get “off their feed.” M. B. n. 
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