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THE RUF£AI> NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
J am finding that the work the Foods 
and Markets Department is doing in New 
York is the best feature that we have had 
in a long time. I have a mighty good 
canvass on it. Me- says it is O. Iv., 
and when he agrees to anything it has to 
be right. E. v. a. 
Ohio. 
The need of the Department of Foods 
and Markets is proved by just such a 
canvass and this is w'here the strength 
lies—among the farmers. Abuse and ridi¬ 
cule cannot hurt it as long as the 35-eent 
dollar remains the farmers’ share, and 
when they unite in a common cause they 
can swing it their way. Another thing 
—the problem of marketing and distribu¬ 
tion is nation wide, and not confined to 
any State or locality. These Ohio farm¬ 
ers see that the fight made in New York 
for a fatter dollar is a fight for their in¬ 
terests as well" that they benefit directly 
in their shipments to New York and if 
we can succeed here farmers in other 
States will have our experience to guide 
them. The battle is one in which every 
producer is concerned—no matter where 
he lives, and he knows it. 
I inclose you a recent report of a sale 
of a building in the Bronx by the Amer¬ 
ican Beal Estate Company for a price 
said to be $850,000. Would this trans¬ 
action change the status of the bond¬ 
holders in any way? investor. 
Connecticut. 
The deal reported in effect that the 
American Real Estate Company had 
traded one of the best income holdings to 
Vincent Astor for a piece of unimproved 
non-income properties in the same bor¬ 
ough. Legally this does not change the 
status of the bondholder. He has no lien 
on either property, lie simply has a de¬ 
benture bond or note of the company, and 
it may do what it pleases with its real- 
estate holdings. It is not conceivable 
that the company took over a piece of 
vacant property for immediate improve¬ 
ment in the present state of the real es¬ 
tate and money markets. The natural 
conclusion is that the company wished to 
realize cash on some of its holdings and 
made the turn to get the difference in the 
equities. If the bonds were in the shape 
of a second mortgage this could not be 
done and the creditors would be better 
protected. According to its own report 
the real estate is mortgaged for 50 per 
cent, of its value and this building would 
carry probably $350,000 of a first mort¬ 
gage or possibly more. A deal of this 
kind certainly could not be regarded as 
other than unfavorable to the note hold¬ 
ers under present conditions. 
These big figures seem to tend to con¬ 
fuse some small investors. Take com¬ 
parative figures. Suppose your neighbor 
had a farm which he valued at $2,700, 
with equipment, with a mortgage of 
$1,550, and you knew he owed notes for 
about $1,150. This would leave him $200 
to the good on his own estimate of the 
property. How many of the notes would 
you want to hold coming due in 10 to 20 
years? Then suppose the farm had an 
orchard which was turning an income to 
help pay the interest and taxes on the 
farm and notes. Later you see the or¬ 
chard traded for a piece of pasture or 
wood land. Would you think the position 
of the note holder improved by the ex¬ 
change of the orchard for the non-pro¬ 
ductive land? 
I shipped six dozen eggs on August 28, 
15)14. They were never delivered. The 
Adams Express Company have had the 
claim six months and have done nothing. 
Do vmi tlmik you will have better suc¬ 
cess? w. II. c. 
Long Island. 
July 15, 1915 we received voucher for 
$2.-10. the value of the eggs; nearly 11 
months to settle a clear claim for non¬ 
delivery. Their delay, however, must not 
encourage dilatoriness in entering claims. 
The time limit is four months. A day 
later will invalidate the claim. We wish 
they had as rigid a rule for adjusting 
claims within a reasonable time. 
John S. Howell, M. D., Cincinnati, 
Ohio, offered a complete treatment for 
nervousness for $4.80. and a guarantee of 
money refunded if not cured. My brother 
sent $5 for the treatment, but as it did 
not help him asked for a return of the $5 
he sent, and has repeated the request 
many times and cannot hear from him. 
Can you collect it for him? D. J. L. 
We could not attempt to collect this as 
there was evidently no intention on the 
part of the “doctor” to make good the 
guarantee, or he would have done so be¬ 
fore this. There is only one safe way to 
deal with propositions of this kind—put 
the literature in the fire as soon as it 
reaches you. 
On October 6. 1911, I shipped a car of 
grapes (3,050 baskets) to W. C. Kneibes, 
17 W. South Water Street, Chicago. Ill. 
He acknowledged receipt of same by 
’phone, and wrote grapes would net better 
than six cents per basket, which he would 
remit in a day or so. Not receiving re¬ 
mittance I drew on him for $183, but he 
paid no attention to the draft. In the 
Summer of 1912 I called on him, and he 
promised he would pay in a week, but at 
that time wrote asking for more time. 
Since then I have not been able to get a 
word from him, although he makes fre¬ 
quent trips to Benton Ilarbor and recent¬ 
ly bought an auto for one of his solicitors. 
Do you think you can get anything out of 
him? E. A. B. 
Michigan. 
We were unable to get any response 
from Mr. Kneibes and publish the above 
history as a warning to other shippers. 
Will you tell me if the American In¬ 
vestment Association, Minneapolis, Minn., 
is all right? I have a farm for sale and 
would like to list it with them if it is all 
right. F. L. B. 
Massachusetts. 
Concerns of this kind are looking for 
an advance fee for listing your farm. You 
are too far away to know whether they 
will make any attempt to sell it and for 
this reason alone it is doubtful if the ser¬ 
vice would be of any value to you. Our 
records do not show that any serious at¬ 
tempt to sell farms is made by these con¬ 
cerns asking advance listing fees. Os¬ 
trander began the game and his follow¬ 
ers have found it profitable, but our read¬ 
ers will do well to avoid their allure¬ 
ments. It is easy to write specious liter¬ 
ature sitting in a luxurious office. Sell¬ 
ing a farm or other real estate calls for 
too much hustling to suit concerns of this 
kind. Their methods are similar. The 
only change is in the name. Page 46 of 
Hind-sights deals with this plan of sell¬ 
ing farms. 
Profit Sharing Groceries Corporation 
opened up a number of stores in New 
York City promising great saving to 
housewives. They offered stock for sale 
at $1 a share, but the company has failed 
and the chain of stores is being closed up. 
G. A. Davenport, Brookville, N. J., a 
poultry dealer, was arrested, charged with 
using the I T . S. mails with intent to de¬ 
fraud. He also operated under the name 
of the Cedar Ridge Poultry Co. He re¬ 
ceived several shipments of poultry and 
then disappeared without paying for the 
goods. He was located at Apollo, Pa., 
where he was operating under the name 
of the Iviski Poultry Farm. His “farm” 
consisted of 20 chicks in a small coop. 
We have had several complaints this 
year where farmers sent produce and 
poultry to private parties for home use 
and payment was neglected—noticeably 
among these were: D. L. or C. J. O’Con¬ 
nor and V. G. Butler, of Huguenot Park, 
Staten Island, N. Y. 
Mottufsky Bros., of West Washing¬ 
ton Market, New York, are in financial 
difficulties. 
Clias. F. Droste, Jr., will have to pay 
a judgment of $500 for having eggs in his 
possession which the Board of Health 
condemned. 
Samuel Levy, formerly salesman for A. 
A. Kennard & Co., who failed some time 
ago. is reported to be in financial straits. 
We have had many inquiries about him, 
and our cautionary advice seems to have 
been justified. 
Many complaints came in of non-pay¬ 
ment for poultry and eggs shipped to 
Frank Trumbidora. of Watson Street, 
Newark, N. .T. We learn he received 
something like $1,500 worth of goods and 
disappeared without notice, closing his 
store and leaving no address. 
Grazing Cure for Founder. 
Having a horse that is foundered, and 
being told that to let him run in the grass 
all night would cure him, would like to 
know your advice. Would you put a 
blanket on him? They say by his lying 
down that the dew draws it all out in 
a couple of weeks. w. B. 
New York. 
We cannot give the advice requested 
unless you give us full particulars as to 
the exact condition present and the length 
of time the horse has been affected. 
Grazing will not cure a confirmed case. 
A. s. A. 
Ailing Animals. 
Forging. 
I have a horse seven years old that 
“clicks” (over-reach) quite badly. Is 
there any remedy for it? I have been 
told that the fault can be overcome by 
proper shoeing, but thus far I have failed 
to find a blacksmith who could help mat¬ 
ters any. Horse seems to click only 
when he strikes a certain gait, and I 
notice that some days he seems to be 
worse than others. He clicks the least 
right after he has been shod. F. G. u. 
Massachusetts. 
Have the hind shoes set back an inch 
or so at the toe when nailing them to the 
sole. Put heavy shoes upon the fore 
feet and have them short in the heel 
and bevelled over at the toes to give roll¬ 
ing motion. Do not drive the horse until 
leg weary, but keep him “up on the bit.” 
A. S. A. 
Cough. 
We have a horse which has been both¬ 
ered with a cough the past year, and 
of late we have been unable to help her 
any. Sometimes I think she is coming 
down with the heaves. Please advise 
me. H- A. B. 
New York. 
We cannot determine the cause of 
cough without making an examination, 
the causes of cough being many and dif¬ 
ferent, but if you have an- idea that 
heaves is present treat for that ailment 
on general principles. Give half an ounce 
of Fowler’s solution of arsenic night and 
morning. Wet all feed. Let her live on 
grass in Summer and in Winter feed wet 
oat straw in preference to hay. Roots 
or silage may also be fed in Winter. Let 
whole oats and wheat bran form the con¬ 
centrate feed. Never feed any bulky 
fodder at noon and do not work her soon 
after a meal. a. s. a. 
Depraved Appetite. 
I have a young Jersey cow that will 
come in fresh in the early Fall. She is 
thin, but is very active. She tries to 
eat sticks or bark from apple trees, pine 
shats and almost anything that is not 
fit to eat. Her appetite sems to crave 
something, but nothing I give her seems 
to satisfy. I have a year-old heifer in 
good condition, seems to have the same 
habit; they have been on pasture about 
a mouth or more. Could you tell me 
what to do for them? H. D. 
Maryland. 
Add wheat bran freely to the ration 
and if that does not suffice give two tea¬ 
spoonfuls of precipitated phosphate of 
lime twice daily. In chronic cases acid¬ 
ulating the drinking water with - dilute 
hydrochloride acid sometimes acts like 
a charm. Feed a variety of foods. 
A. S. A. 
Founder. 
I am thinking of buying a mare sev¬ 
en years old. She is badly foundered, I 
think. About one year ago she was 
warmed up and then driven home 
through a cold rain and let stand. The 
next morning she could hardly walk she 
was so stiff. They have given her dif¬ 
ferent stuff but no results, except to 
take the sweeny out of her shoulders 
and breast. She is in fine condition, 
eats well and feels fine.' Her hoofs are 
contracted some, but not badly; the ten¬ 
dons from knee to hoof-head are swollen 
and hard. She is a fine animal if she 
could be cured. What do you advise, 
buying or not. and what treatment? 
Pennsylvania. J. ii. m. 
You do not describe the symptoms of 
founder and we cannot advise you to buy 
the mare. The symptoms suggest injured 
tendons and possibly navicular disease of 
the feet, which is incurable and requires 
unnerving for removal of lameness. With¬ 
out an examination we cannot, however, 
give a confident opinion or prescribe ap¬ 
propriate treatment. A. s. A. 
Stiff Calf. 
I have a three-montlis-old calf which 
has apparently got rheumatism. For 
several weeks it has acted stiff and would 
lie down about all the time. Lately its 
front knee joints are swollen badly and 
it stands “knock-kneed” or knee-sprung 
rather, and moves around very painfully. 
The calf has lost flesh quite a little until 
it is quite thin now. At first it would 
eat very little and I thought calf was 
“off its* feed” hut lately it eats more. 
I am feeding sweet milk and allow it to 
eat all the hays it desires, which is very 
little. Can you advise me of a success¬ 
ful treatment? p. J. c. 
New York. 
We suspect that infection of the navel 
at birth has led to this lame condition 
of the joints, and if so chances of recov¬ 
ery are very poor. If rickets is present, 
and that also is likely, treatment will not 
be likely to prove profitable. Under the 
circumstances we scarcely think that it 
will pay you to bother with the case, un¬ 
less the calf is a valuable purebred animal, 
in which event you should ask a graduate 
veterinarian to give hypodermic treatment 
with antistreptococcic serum. Meanwhile 
it would be well to paint to the swollen 
joints with tincture of iodine two or 
three times a week. Mix an ounce of 
limewater with each pint of milk fed. 
A. s. A. 
.Tulj 31, 191.'.. 
Clipping a Mare. 
Would it be right to have a mare 
clipped that is due to foal in two months? 
j. o. 
If the coat is long and rough it would 
be well to clip it from the belly and from 
the legs above the knees and hocks, but 
not from the entire body. She will shed 
more quickly if blanketed when she 
starts casting her Winter’s coat. 
A. S. A. 
Nervous Disorder. 
I have a cow that eats well, chews 
her cud, but she seems to be stiff on the 
right side; when she walks she throws 
both right legs out to the side and stag¬ 
gers. When she puts head down to eat 
or drink she trembles so that it is with 
difficulty she gets started. When she 
lies down she gets up with a little trou¬ 
ble, sometimes makes two or three at¬ 
tempts. She continues to milk; due to 
calve in two months. Can you give me 
the cause and a remedy? w. II. S. 
Maryland. 
Pressure upon nerves incidental to the 
condition of gestation may be the cause 
of the symptoms noted, but tuberculoses 
may also cause such symptoms, or they 
might be induced by molds in feed. Bet¬ 
ter have her tested with tuberculin. Feed 
light, laxative, or succulent rations. Let 
her take abundant exercise every day. 
If she is not tubercular the veterinarian 
might put her on a course of mix vomica. 
Feed sound feed. a. s. a. 
Lameness. 
I have a horse 10 years old that is a 
little lame in his left hind leg, does not 
limp when walking, but has a hitch when 
trotting. I think it is in his stifle as 
he does not like to have his foot lifted 
and drawn back in shoeing, and when 
resting he stands with the aukle joint 
knuckled ahead. R. K. 
New York. 
Unfortunately we cannot confidently 
locate the seat or cause of such myster¬ 
ious lameness without making a personal 
examination. The symptoms more in¬ 
dicate spavin (hock) lameness than sti¬ 
fle lameness. Test the hock as follows: 
Pick up the foot of the lame leg and 
hold the foot well up to the abdomen. 
Hold it there for two or three minutes, 
then drop the foot and have the attendant 
instantly trot the horse forward. The 
attendant should be instructed what he is 
to do before starting the test. If the 
horse is much more lame after the test 
than before, the trouble is in the hock 
joint and spavin, seen or occult, 
should be suspected. Firing and blister¬ 
ing would be in order if a spavin is 
found to be the cause, and should be fol¬ 
lowed by a six weens’ rest, the horse be¬ 
ing tied up in a stall. A. s. A. 
Mammitis. 
What is the matter with my cow’s 
udder, and what can be done for it? 
She came in fresh three weeks ago. I 
milked her out at once, over 20 quarts 
and all the teats were all right, the milk 
coming well from all. Two days after 
she got milk fever and was down over 
26 hours before I could get a veterin¬ 
arian. He had no hopes for her. but 
had the good fortune to bring her around. 
Now the udder around the hind teat fac¬ 
ing the milker has hardened. From the 
top of the udder between the hind legs 
down to the teat (the teat is not hard) 
is as hard as a stone and the milk some¬ 
times is “cheesy” but always the color 
of yellow matter. I have applied all 
home remedies but nothing seems to effect 
any improvement. She is just seven 
years old. o. t. ii. 
New Jersey. 
The cow should not have been milked 
dry at calving time. That greatly helped 
to bring on milk fever. The quarter re¬ 
ferred to became infected at time of 
treatment or later, and is ruined, in all 
probability. Milk it four times a day. 
fomenting with hot water and massag¬ 
ing thoroughly each time and at uighr 
rub in some of a mixture of one part of 
mercurial ointment and two parts of 
lard or lanolin. Once a day give her a 
tablespoonful each of powdered saltpeter 
and poke root in water as a drench, for 
five consecutive days a week, for two 
weeks. a. s. a. 
Thin Horses 
We bought a team of horses seven and 
eight years old. They are about the same 
size and weigh about 2.200 pounds. 
They were a little poor. We have them 
two months; they have very good appe¬ 
tites, eat everything, are getting about 
nine to 10 quarts oats apiece, good hay. 
and they do not gain. We are working 
very little. When the real work comes 
I am afraid they would not be able to 
stand it. Can you suggest something to 
put on a little flesh? J. B. 
New York. 
Have the horses clipped and their 
teeth put in order by the veterinarian: 
then add one-ninth part of wheat bran 
to the oats and feed a few ears of corn 
at noon. Work or exercise the horses 
every day. Give the worm powders often 
prescribed here. A. s. a. 
