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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
July 3 , 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
.Some requests have come in for a repe¬ 
tition of the constitution of the Anti-Fake 
Club, and for their benefit and the benefit 
of new members, we give it again : 
The organization committee of proposed 
club to curb dishonest advertising sug¬ 
gested the following declaration for mem¬ 
bership : 
The name of the organization shall be 
the Anti-Fake Club. 
The purpose of the organization shall 
be to protect the mutual interests of its 
members; to discourage deception and 
fraud and to promote honest legitimate 
business. 
The officers of the organization shall 
be a president, a secretary and a treas¬ 
urer. 
The president shall preside at all meet¬ 
ings. and direct the activities of the or¬ 
ganization. 
The secretary shall keep a record of 
all meetings, and a roster of all members, 
and an alphabetical list of all concerns, 
whose transactions with members have 
justified complaint. 
The treasurer shall receive all monies 
contributed to bear the expense of the 
work of the organization, and pay the 
same out on the order of the president or 
secretary. 
Officers will hold office until their suc¬ 
cessors are elected, but any officers may 
be replaced at any time by the election of 
a successor by a majority vote of the 
members. 
Any person may become a member by 
expressing a willingness to perform the 
duties imposed on members by this con¬ 
stitution. 
The duties of members shall be to re¬ 
port to the secretary any case of decep¬ 
tion or fraud of a general character that 
comes to his or her attention ; to refuse to 
encourage or patronize any scheme that 
promises quick riches at unusual profits; 
to protest to publishers against the pub¬ 
lication of fake or fraudulent advertis¬ 
ing ; and if the publisher persists to. re¬ 
fuse to allow the publication to come into 
the home. 
There will be no fee for membership, 
but members writing for information by 
mail will enclose a stamp for return 
postage; and voluntary contributions in 
any sum will be accepted to defray actual 
expenses. 
A report of the transactions and re¬ 
ceipts and expenses will be made annual¬ 
ly by the secretary and treasurer. 
Members are sending instances of pal¬ 
pable fakes that are being worked on the 
public generally, and by referring to them 
in this column we are able to save others 
from loss. 
Enclosed find bill against H. R. & M. 
R. Morris, Coney Island, and Brooklyn, 
N. Y. for four cases of eggs, $35. Will 
you collect the same for me if you can? 
I have written asking for payment, but 
get no response. They promised to pay 
highest quotations in the daily “World.” 
expressage and return crates. They never 
did it. P. H. 
New York. 
A Mr. Morris called us on the ’phone 
in regard to this complaint, and promised 
to go to the farm and look up the matter, 
and send check at once. The check never 
materialized, and we could get no further 
response. Our attorney then proceeded 
with the case, and secured a judgment 
against them, but there was no prospect 
of satisfying it. However, we are hold¬ 
ing it for any future developments. 
Could you give me any information re¬ 
garding the McAlester Real Estate Co., 
of McAlester, Oklahoma? They have 
sent through this section what they call a 
“booster car,” offering to act as attorney 
in the purchase of Government land to be 
sold in Oklahoma this Fall, provided, 
however, that the purchaser shall buy a 
city lot in McAlester from them, which 
they claim is insured by a bonding com¬ 
pany of Washington, D. C. w. B. 
Connecticut. 
Reports from a section of New York 
State, where the McAlester Real Estate 
Co. operated something more than a year 
ago, are such that we could not recom¬ 
mend the investment in the government 
land and the city lot at McAlester. One 
of the prospective purchasers from the 
section referred to visited McAlester last 
Fall, and concluded the proposition a 
good one only if the purchaser decided to 
locate in the locality and make it his fu¬ 
ture home. The land in question con¬ 
tains standing timber, which we under¬ 
stand is not included in the purchase of 
the land. Another man who purchased 
one of the city lots, having paid in full 
for the same, received a deed and gold 
bond for $200 as promised. Upon re¬ 
ceipt of the bond this man was disap¬ 
pointed to discover that the bond did not 
mature for 10 years and draws no inter¬ 
est. This party has placed his lot in the 
hands of the McAlester Real Estate Co. 
for re-sale at the price for which he pur¬ 
chased it, but up to this time he has found 
no one eager to take it off his hands. As 
is usually the case, these real estate prop¬ 
ositions at a distance that are going to 
make the investor rich, turn out to be a 
delusion and a snare. 
I have been receiving catalogs from the 
35% Automobile Supply Co., of 140-152 
Duane Street, and 1765 Broadway, New 
York City. Kindly let me know if they 
are reliable to deal with by mail. 
New York. J. H. R. 
We will answer the above inquiry by 
printing the letter of a subscriber who 
has had dealings with this firm, which ex¬ 
plains itself. 
I enclose catalog No. 44 of the 35% 
Automobile Supply Co., sent to me 
through the mail unsolicited. I ordered 
from them on May 5, 1915, two Ever- 
ready Red Tread Tires 30x314, listed on 
page 27, and two reliners as listed on 
page 28. The price of the tires was 
$20.20, and the reliners $3.10, and I en¬ 
closed check with order for $23.30. I re¬ 
ceived the tires, paid the express, exam¬ 
ined them, found them unsatisfactory and 
returned them express collect, and wrote 
the firm asking for the return of my 
money. In a few days the reliners came 
and I accepted them. The parcel post on 
them was 10 cents. Since then I have 
written once or twice a week asking for 
the return of $20.10, the price of the tires 
less 10 cents parcel post charge on the 
reliners. The company has never written, 
either to acknowledge my order or the re¬ 
ceipt of the returned tires or my several 
letters. Will you kindly take care of this 
for me and see if I can get the $20.10 re¬ 
turned? I enclose their catalog No. 44, 
and if you need them can send express 
receipt and cancelled check. E. w. M. 
New York. 
E. W. M. eventually received refund of 
his money, except the express charges, 
which the 35% Automobile Supply Co. 
retained. The guax-antee in the catalogue 
says: “We take all the risk, and if not 
satisfactory, return at our expense.” This 
guarantee anticipates that the goods be 
ordered C. O. D., but since E. W. M. sent 
money in advance for the goods, the 35% 
Automobile Supply Co. feel justified in 
making the customer stand the express 
chai’ges on goods that were unsatisfac¬ 
tory and misrepresented. We do not 
think tire buyers are likely to continue to 
patronize houses that take advantage of 
them in this way. 
A recent conference of representative 
dairymen of Central New York requested 
the Department of Foods and Markets to 
make an investigation of the loose milk 
condition and distribution in the markets 
of the State, including the Metropolitan 
market. The needs of the inquiry, as out¬ 
lined by the Utica conference are: 
1. To provide some independent au¬ 
thority to protect producers in the 
weights, measures, fat and bacteria tests 
of milk, when the price is based on these 
tests. These tests are now conducted by 
the buyers, and the producers have no 
means of knowing that they are accurate 
or reliable. 
2. Another need of the inquii-y is to es¬ 
tablish. as near as possible, th< cost of 
producing milk under the grades and con¬ 
ditions now exacted, and to find some 
means by which the price to the producer 
may be fixed, with a view to the cost of 
production and a fair profit. 
3. The producers also expressed the 
hope that the Department would inquire 
into the legitimate cost of the distribu¬ 
tion of milk in cities, with a view to find¬ 
ing, if possible, a more economic method 
of distribution. The producers contend 
that the practice of maintaining a uni¬ 
form pi-ice to families during the whole 
year tended to restrict consumption, when 
milk is so plentiful, and that if the cost 
to the consumer was made commensurate 
with the price to the producer, consump¬ 
tion would be increased at times of the 
largest flow, and prices to the producer 
automatically increase with the increased 
consumption. 
4. The Department was also requested 
to inquire into the practice of handling 
bulk milk in the city, and the range of 
prices for same, and in fact to establish 
all of the pertinent facts in connection 
with the city distribution, with a view to 
correcting abuses, and to establish rules 
for the l-egulation of the trade. 
Farmers throughout the producing sec¬ 
tion are px-otesting against present prices 
and present methods in the milk industry. 
Meetings have been held in St. Lawrence, 
Chenango and Madison counties and in 
other sections of the State, at which pro¬ 
tests have been made against the prices 
now prevailing and the methods used to 
establish a basis for payment. 
At a meeting of producers, held in 
Oneida on June 12th, a resolution was 
adopted fixing the pi’ice at $1.40 per can 
for the month of July, and it was inti¬ 
mated that unless they received this price 
factories would be built for the manufac¬ 
ture of milk, butter and cheese. The De¬ 
partment has already begun the prelim¬ 
inary stages of the inquiry. 
Cockerel Losing Feathers. 
I have a Buff Leghorn cockerel about 
one year old; his feathers are falling out 
under neck and on his back, and skin all 
over body is as red as a beet instead of 
being yellow. What is this and how 
cure it? J. H. c. 
This loss of feathers is very likely due 
to the work of the depluming mite, which 
burrows into the skin at the base of the 
feathers and by the irritation of its pres¬ 
ence causes inflammation of the skin with 
breaking off and dropping out of the 
plumage. It is not dangerous to the life 
of the fowl, but can make it very uncom¬ 
fortable, and may be gotten rid of by 
thoroughly rubbing into the bare places 
an ointment of lard and kerosene, or lard 
and sulphur. Repeated applications at 
intervals of several days may be needed. 
M. B. D. 
A thoroughly reliable black 
paint for ready roofings, 
farm machinery, tanks, 
metal work, etc. It does 
not rub, peel or scale. Comes 
ready for use. No mixing 
necessary. Easy to apply. 
If your dealer doesn’t sell 
it, write direct to us. 
BARRETT MANUFACTURING CO. 
New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston 
St. Louis Pittsburgh Cleveland Cincinnati 
Kansas City Minneapolis 
Detroit Salt Lake City . 
Birmingham Seattle 
Fowls Picking Others ; Dead Chicks. 
1 . IIow can I prevent chickens from 
pecking at one another’s backs? I do 
not think the are troubled with lice. 2. 
Can you give me cause and remedy for 
little chicks dying in the shells? 
1. Irritation from the presence of lice 
or mites, or the habit of feather pulling 
and eating, cause fowls to pick at their 
own, or other’s backs, and, like other 
vices, this one is encouraged by close 
confinement and idleness. Give the fowls 
as much liberty as possible, grease the 
backs of those beng picked at, and remove 
from the flock any confirmed culpi-its. 2. 
No one knows the l’eason why chicks die 
in the shell, save for the lack of sufficient 
vigor to emerge after reaching full de¬ 
velopment. This may be due to lack of 
vigor in the breeding stock or from weak¬ 
ness caused by unfavorable conditions of 
hatching. The trouble is particularly 
common when artificial methods of hatch¬ 
ing are used, and, as yet, no one has 
found a remedy. M. B. D. 
They preserve silage perfectly. Com¬ 
bine best construction, greatest dura¬ 
bility and convenience. Easy to erect 
and keep air-tight. Writetoday for cata¬ 
logue, Agents wanted. Address i m .. a 
TJNADILLA BILO 00., Box C , TTnadllU, V. Y. ] 
GREEN MOUNTAIN SILOS 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CO. 
EU w est St.. Rutland, Vt." 
A REAL 
SILO BARGAIN 
15% cut in prices 
We are now ready to fill silo 
orders promptly and give you 
plenty of time to pay for same. 
Write for free catalogue and 
prices. 
ENTERPRISE 
LUMBER & SILO CO. 
North Tonawanda, New York 
Write, Phone or Wire! j£° 
Y\TE have the stock and can make 
* ’ immediate shipment, enabling 
you to preserve 100 per cent of 
your corn crop in the 
Easy to erect. No special tools or skilled 
labor needed. Every stave guaranteed. 
You pay tor the Indiana Silo out oi what it 
saves on feed bill. Address nearest office. 
THE INDIANA SILO CO. 
Anderson, Ind. Pes Moines, Iowa 
Kansas City, Mo, Ft. Worth. Texas 
SILO FILLING MACHINERY 
Especially Designed for Gas Engine Power 
Guaranteed to deliver silage into the silo at 50% less speed and 30% 
less power than ordinarily required. 
Cuts the silage in uniform lengths, which 
insures the Best of Feed. Silage packs 
closer, which permits of more tonnage 
into the silo. For strength, durability, 
for life of machine. 
capacity and easy-to-feed — Ilosa Machines 
are unexcelled. Write for catalog. 
THE E. W. ROSS CO. 
Box 1X3 Springfield, Ohio 
We also manufacture the Ross Wood 
and IN-DE-STR-UCT-O Motal Silo. 
That Inward Shear Saves Power 
You can cut easier with a pair of shears near the pivot than out at 
the points. The last of a cut is the hardest because the fodder is 
pushed one way or the other. Our inward shear finishes the cut 
near the main shaft and under the belt ; not way out at the point 
as in other machines. This feature of the 
THAT INWARD SHEAR 
If you cannot buy a 
CLIMAX alone, buy 
with your neighbor. 
Tell your thresher- 
man to investigate 
itagreaterdurabilitj 
and convenience. If 
we have no agent or 
dealer In your local¬ 
ity, get in touch with 
ua at once. Ask a User, 
ENSILAGE 
CUTTER 
CLIMAX 
is fully explained in our FREE CATALOG, which also explains 
the power of the feed rolls to draw the fodder in faster. Saves time 
and labor. The three closed elbows enable you to maintain full pres¬ 
sure into any silo. 
Be sure to examine these exclusive features of the CLIMAX 
__ before you buy any machine. 
Send for'FREE Catalog Today. Attractive Proposition for Live Dealers. 
WARSAW-WILKINSON CO., 104 Highland, Warsaw, New York._^ 
^ MICA 
AXLE GREASE 
r Makes the load easier for your horse—less ’ 
strain on the harness. The mica does it. 
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK 
Principal Stations 
Albany 
Boston 
New York 
Buffalo 
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MICA AXLE GREASE 
