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THE kUKAL 
>1BVV -VOKKER 
October 9, 1915* 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I enclose two letters from Conrad Tol- 
ken, 95 Amsterdam Avenue. New York. 
This party wrote me for Virginia hams, 
and having sold out T wrote him I could 
get them from a neighbor and shipped him 
15, weighing 177 pounds. He was rated 
at $10,000 to $20,000. I wrote him sev¬ 
eral times, and receiving no reply I drew 
for the amount, and now draft is returned, 
stating, “Moved, address unknown.” Will 
you see if you can collect? m. r. it. 
Virginia. 
We could not locate Mr. Tolken. It is 
said a party of this name formerly had 
mail sent to a newspaper stand at 95 Am¬ 
sterdam Avenue, but he has not been 
around for several months, and a num¬ 
ber of persons are looking for him. The 
rating referred to evidently belonged to 
another party of the same name at a dif¬ 
ferent address. This man represents a 
class of people that must be avoided. 
Their attempts to get produce without 
paying for it can only be frustrated by 
refusing to send without first-class refer¬ 
ences, or send the goods C. O. D. No 
fair-minded person can blame a farmer 
for insisting upon payment in advance 
where parties are unknown to him. 
The Continental Mortgage and Deposit 
Company of Baltimore, is offering stock 
to country investors. No statement is 
made of their assets and liabilities, and 
financiers in Baltimore and Philadelphia, 
who have been consulted, do not look 
upon the proposition with favor. The 
secretary and treasurer is J. French 
Storey, and the president is D. Bowen, 
who is also president of the American 
Canadian Security and Loan Company of 
Denver, Colo., which has been unfavor¬ 
ably criticised- 
The Minneapolis authorities have ar¬ 
rested Eugene Goodwin, of that city, be¬ 
cause of apparent connection with a get- 
rich-quick scheme involving the “Sir 
Francis Drake” estate. Goodwin had 
asked one party for $25 to enable him 
to go to England and get the money due 
her. The schedule was graduated, and 
for the $25 she was to receive $50.000; 
for $50 she would get $100,000. and for 
$100 her share would be $200,000- He 
had asked her to furnish the latter 
amount. Goodwin claims to be acting 
under a commission from Mrs. Susie 
Whitaker, 2S27 Grand Boulevard, Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., to find heirs for the Drake es¬ 
tate, and declared he had given the 
woman $25, for which he was later to 
have $50,000. He claimed his brother, of 
Kenosha, Wis., had invested $125, for 
which investment he was to receive $250,- 
000. The advice is that Mrs. Susie Whit¬ 
aker is under indictment at Dcs Moines, 
Iowa, for attempting to work the “Sir 
Francis Drake estate” there, but that she 
is out on bail, and is said to live in Chi¬ 
cago. Whether Goodwin is an accom¬ 
plice or a victim, it will be well to with¬ 
stand any invitations to finance the inves¬ 
tigation and settlement of the estate. The 
money is sure to be lost, and you will add 
to your experience dearly. 
Will you send me information about the 
Texas Gulf Coast Company, selling Fre¬ 
mont lots? What, do you think about it? 
Ohio. C. .J. 
The information sent out by the com¬ 
pany is of the usual alluring type. We 
went to one of our correspondents, who 
reports that he would not want land in 
the neighborhood at any price if he had 
to stay there and make a living. Some 
parts are low and flat, with little drain¬ 
age. If it could be underdrained it could 
be made to produce good crops, but this 
would be expensive. Farther south there 
is better ground, and (he section is set¬ 
tling up rapidly, but his advice is identi¬ 
cal with that so often given in this col¬ 
umn—that it is the height of folly to buy 
land anywhere without first seeing it. 
Can you tell me anything about the 
Texas Land and Development Company, 
promoting a land scheme in Northwest 
Texas, around Plainview? They are try¬ 
ing to get buyers for irrigated farms, and 
are anxious for me to go and see the 
property, and have offered to pay half my 
expenses. Is their plan anywhere as good 
as they claim it is? If so. I should think 
it would not last over night- F. c. C. 
Ohio. 
The Texas Experiment Station is not 
acquainted with this company, but makes 
the following report: 
This Northwestern part of Texas has 
water from 90 to 75 feet from the sur¬ 
face, which is much more shallow water 
than can be obtained in the surrounding 
country. Much of the land is suited to 
dry farming. The soil is heavier and a 
little harder to work than farther south¬ 
ward. Good crops in adjoining sections 
have been obtained for the past two years, 
The country is well suited to the produc¬ 
tion of all sorghum crops, and in the 
northern part good crops of small grains 
are produced. It is an excellent dry 
farming and stock-raising country, with 
certain places where supplemental irriga¬ 
tion could be practiced. As to the proba¬ 
ble value, and whether a man should pur¬ 
chase there or not, the invariable advice 
is to visit a piece of land before purchas¬ 
ing. Visit the community and hold free 
intercourse with the neighbors in order to 
learn of the possible drawbacks, and also 
to get an accurate line on values. 
We give this report in detail because 
the advice is timely whether the land is 
situated in Texas, Florida or the West. 
I have been reading about the Anti- 
Fake Club. Will you kindly help me out 
in a case of my own? In April I returned 
a suit to the Fels-Itiehardson Co., 15 East 
2(>th Street, Madison Square, N., New 
York, for slight alterations, which they 
guaranteed to do. I returned it by in¬ 
sured parcel post, and have since written 
three letters, but nave not received either 
the suit or any reply. I paid $12.75 for 
the suit and I do not wish to lose both. 
Delaware. w. a. r. 
In response to our requests for adjust¬ 
ment the Fels-Riehardson Company ad¬ 
vised the suit would be sent promptly. 
This was not done and we sent a repre¬ 
sentative to their address but the con¬ 
cern had moved and it was impossible to 
trace them. This is a method some con¬ 
cerns adopt to avoid their just obligations. 
In mail-order transactions it is well to 
be cautious about sending money to con¬ 
cerns without financial rating. 
George Graham Rice, who served one 
year in the penitentiary for his stock- 
jobbing scheme, is now promoting the 
Emma Cooper mine, and calls Alta Con¬ 
solidated his “best bets.” They are good 
propositions to pass by, for as usual they 
are mostly on paper. 
Request has been made to the courts for 
the appointment of a receiver for the 
Home and Country Publishing Company, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. It is alleged that the 
majority of the stock was sold to women 
investors all over the country. As no 
property has been found belonging to the 
concern, prospects are small for any re¬ 
fund to the stockholders. 
One of our exchanges reports that the 
Home Builders’ Corporation of Los An¬ 
geles, Calif., Joy A. Winans, president, is 
in trouble. They are charged with man¬ 
ipulating the stock, and conspiracy in the 
sales to the extent of some $400,000. Let 
these concerns finance their own propo¬ 
sitions. If they are worth it they will 
do so. When they come to outside par¬ 
ties for small investments you may be 
sure there is something wrong somewhere. 
“ Salts” for Hens; Poultry Matters. 
“Here lie me and my three daughters, 
Dead from drinking Soidlitz waters. 
If we had stuck to Epsom salts 
We wouldn’t have been here in these 
vaults.” 
This is said to be an inscription on an 
old tombstone. It has long been known 
that the above mentioned compound is 
good for humans. It is not so generally 
known that the unpleasant purgative is 
also good for hens. At a lecture before 
the poultrymen of Manchester, N. H., 
Prof. R. V. Mitchell of the State College 
at Durham stated that a dose occasionally 
is beneficial to the birds. The amount 
should be about half a teaspoonful for a 
bird, mixed with such a quantity of wet 
mash as the hens will readily clean up. 
Several doses a year will do much to 
remedy any ill effects from heavy feeding- 
Another bit of advice to his hearers 
was to set eggs as soon as possible after 
they are laid, for even with the best of 
care in turning and keeping at the proper 
temperature eggs that have been laid for 
some time will not hatch so well as newly- 
laid ovoids. The question was raised why 
eggs that remain for two weeks or more 
in stolen nests hatch' so well. Prof. 
Mitchell said that it is because the hen 
remains on the nest, each time that she 
lays, long enongh to thoroughly warm the 
eggs, and that keeps them in the best con¬ 
dition for incubation. The experiment 
has been tried of taking two lots of egg* 
as nearly alike in condition as possible, 
turning one lot regularly, and putting the 
others under a sitting hen for an hour 
every day for a time. The second lot 
hatched much better than the first. 
The poultry amateur who uses an in¬ 
cubator usually turns and cools the eggs 
when he trims the lamp. The professor 
advised turning the eggs before attending 
to the lamp, for the oil that inevitably 
gets on the fingers will seriously impair 
the hatching qualities of the eggs. The 
hen has an oil with which she coats her 
feathers and eggs to the probable benefit 
of both, but man has not yet discovered 
a good substitute for the hen's product. 
The poultry industry in New Hamp¬ 
shire is growing. The products of the 
poultry pens already exceed in value the 
entire fruit crop, and are more than half 
the value of the dairy products. Prof. 
Mitchell, with very limited means at the 
college, is doing much to help the busi¬ 
ness both at the college at Durham and 
in trips throughout the State, meeting 
societies and individuals. The New 
Hampshire hen is growing in numbers and 
importance. w. H. n. 
Loss of Ducklings. 
I have had bad success with young 
ducklings. I lost 20 in eight weeks; they 
seem all right when they are put in at 
night and in morning two and three are 
dead. They die with their head draw¬ 
ing back till it touches their back. I 
fed them on oatmeal and potatoes boiled 
and mashed, also parings. Do you know 
of anything I can do for them. J. F. 
I think it most likely that the trouble 
with your ducks is with the feed. While 
rolled oats, slightly moistened, is an ideal 
feed for the first week, a variety of 
ground grains is better from then on, 
with an admixture of meat scraps, a 
small amount at first, and cooked vege¬ 
tables, mashed or chopped fine. Grit 
should be given with the mash or the 
ducklings cannot digest their food. 
Chicken grit or sand is best at first; 
later coarse grit can be given. A little 
charcoal and a pinch of salt are recom¬ 
mended by some. Such a diet, with clean 
water for drinking and immersing the 
bill and a chance to get into the shade, 
ought to bring ducklings through to ma¬ 
turity, barring accidents. w. H. H. 
A person was explaining the law of 
compensation to Patrick. Said he: 
“When a person is blind, his hearing is 
more acute.” “Oi see,” said Pat, “Oi 
often noticed that if a man has one short 
leg the other is always longer.—Credit 
Lost. 
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