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THE PURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I wish to take a preparatory course for 
a civil service examination Do you re¬ 
commend the Franklin Institute, Roches¬ 
ter, New York? s. a. 
Ohio. 
This institute makes a charge of $12.50 
to prepare you to take an examination 
for railway mail clerks, carriers, post 
office clerks, etc. Some time ago they 
were using the photograph of the New 
York postmaster, without his consent, to 
promote the correspondence courses. The 
Civil Service Department can give advice 
and recommend correct text books that 
will be needed to prepare for any par¬ 
ticular position, and this will be more 
valuable than information from this or 
any other institute. We advise getting 
your information in a less costly way, 
and the Post Office Department and Civil 
Service Department, Washington, D. C., 
will make no charge for their help. 
Something ought to happen to such a 
concern as the enclosed; for gall they 
surely are supreme, causing a man to 
waste a stamp or pay for a book. 
Vermont. c. A. c. 
The above refers to a scheme of the 
Ha mmond Press, Buffalo, N. Y., to sell 
“The Farmers’ Guide Book.” The pub¬ 
lishers seem to take it for granted that 
every farmer needs a guide, and so for¬ 
ward a copy without leave or license, 
and ask for a remittance of $1.50 in 
payment. If the farmer pays no attention 
to the matter, he will, no doubt, in due 
time, receive threatening letters from col¬ 
lection agents, etc., to pay up or be 
hauled into court. We hope our people 
will not allow themselves to be imposed 
upon by such schemes. You are under 
no obligations either to return or pay for 
books sent you in this way, and houses 
sending out books or other goods in this 
■way have no standing in court. 
In reply to my advertisement in the 
New York Telegram, soliciting trade in 
eggs, I received an order from F. A. 
Iluneken, G02 West 137th Street, New 
York. I promptly sent a case of eggs 
by express prepaid, but have been unable 
to get a single word or reply in any way. 
The amount is $8.10. I sent draft 
through my bank, but it was refused. 
Please advise me whether or not I can 
possibly realize anything on this account. 
Connecticut. J. G. b. 
Letters, personal calls and other de¬ 
mands have met with absolutely no re¬ 
sponse, and we must regard this claim as 
worthless. A suit would merely be a 
waste of money and we could not recom¬ 
mend it. Just as long as advantage is 
taken of farmers in this way, just so 
much greater are the difficulties to be 
overcome in getting direct trade between 
producer and consumer. Anyone who 
wishes to supply his table at a farmer’s 
expense, has little consideration for his 
credit standing and reputation. We will 
now add Mr. Huneken’s name to the list. 
The list now reads: 
D. L. O’Connor, C. J. O’Connor, V. G. 
Butler, A. Seckendorf, J. II. Chapman, 
A. E. Roemer, Chas. Haller, F. A. Ilune¬ 
ken. 
We enclose a letter from Mr. Bush, 
manager of the Western Sales Agency, 
Minneapolis, Minn. Do you know any¬ 
thing about him or his firm? Is this 
concern responsible? I would like to list 
my farm with them but don't know 
what they may be. CoulcI they come in 
and claim commission if some other real 
estate firm sold the property? J. s. 
New Y T ork. 
The Western Sales Agency require- 
$7.50 in advance for listing the property 
with them. A real estate agency in 
Minneapolis has little or no chance for 
selling Eastern farms. Our experience 
lias been that such firms make little or 
no attempt to sell farms, but merely 
pocket the advance fees. Their contract 
seemingly renounces claim for commis¬ 
sion if property is sold by another 
agency, and claim advance fee is deducted 
fen their commission, but our advice is 
to leave all real estate agents asking 
money in advance of sale on any pretext, 
severely alone. 
The proposition of the Value and Ser¬ 
vice League, 18 East 41st Street, New 
York, is that they will undertake to buy 
goods at value prices, and save 10 per 
cent, to 100 per cent, on all the commo¬ 
dities of life. Each person pays $3 mak¬ 
ing them a co-partner without risk in 
the business, and entitles them to trade 
prices. There is no reason why you 
should pay a $3 membership fee for the 
privilege of buying goods from any con¬ 
cern. The representation that you will 
save money by doing so does not work 
out. Y'ou pay the value of the goods one 
way or another, either in increased prices 
or inferior goods. An organization of 
this kind has not better facilities for 
supplying goods than the regular houses 
in the trade. Opportunities to lot you 
“inside” usually terminate in leaving you 
outside at the last analysis, and if the 
large profits are to accrue, we have yet 
to meet one philanthropic enough to in¬ 
clude even a limited number of outsiders. 
A sharper drove his Ford runabout in 
my place on Friday the I5th with a new 
one. Here it is. It’s that long tin fire 
extinguisher loaded with dry material 
such as powdered sand colored with, I 
should say, ochre and claiming to come 
from the Insurance Company of New 
York. lie read a lot of letters from well 
known firms in Providence praising the 
thing of course, but he stubbed his toe 
here, for he read one so nicely word for 
word—a testimonial letter which a well 
known reputable fire extinguisher manu¬ 
facturer printed in his advertising a 
short time ago. He had that one down 
fine as silk and was in a terrible hurry to 
get $2.50 each or $30 per dozen for an 
article selling for 45 cents at most big 
stores in New York. Needless to say he 
left here in a very unsettled state of 
mind. Please warn all R. N.-Y. readers 
to watch out for him. They that do not 
read Tiie It. N.-Y. ought to and save 
money doing so. J. c. 
Rhode Island. 
This Rhode Island subscriber has the 
true spirit of the Anti-Fake Club in his 
desire and efforts to warn farmers in 
other communities against this sort of 
travelling fakers. 
Statistics received from authoritative 
sources show that the people of the 
United States have been swindled out of 
more than $700,000,000 during the past 
year. The loss of the greater part of 
this vast amount of money is due to the 
cupidity of the public. Most of it comes 
from people of small means, but the rich 
are not immune either from the bland¬ 
ishments of the get-rich-quick promoter. 
Their only stock in trade is the ability 
to tell a plausible sTry, either through 
agents or on paper, of riches to be made 
through investment in some land, mining 
schemes or other reckless ventures. We 
believe Tiie It. N.-lYs readers have been 
warned so often against stock peddling 
concerns that they are not in danger of 
becoming victims of the gilded bait; but 
w r e want to urge every subscriber to join 
our Anti-Fake Club and constitute him¬ 
self or herself a committee of one to head 
off any agent of get-rich schemers who 
may come to their neighborhood, and 
warn their neighbors against the circu¬ 
lars of such concerns, with which the 
mails arp flooded. 
W. C. Farwell, portrait agent, was ar¬ 
rested and ordered from Allegheny Coun¬ 
ty within 24 hours by Assistant District 
Attorney John Dunn, when the former 
was accused of reproducing a likeness of 
a portrait of the husband of a Bellevue 
woman, who said it was a “hideous trav¬ 
esty on his handsomeness.” The com¬ 
plaint resulted in several unusual admis¬ 
sions on the part of the accused, and the 
uncovering of an alleged “lucky days” 
bunco game. 
F. W. Dauber, a Bellevue policeman, 
arrested Farwell on complaint of the 
woman, and he took his prisoner to the 
district attorney’s office. Farwell ex¬ 
plained the method of operation, which 
was that one of the agents would, in an¬ 
swer to a summons to the front door of 
a home, ask the woman of the house if 
this was not her lucky day, and secure 
her consent to draw an envelope from 
several which he held in his hand. Each 
envelope contained the lucky number, or 
one which permitted the woman to secure 
an enlargement of a friend or relative’s 
photograph valued at $15, for only $1.98. 
Farwell said that he was a representa¬ 
tive of the Empire Art Institute. Por¬ 
trait Building, Syracuse, N. 1\, and that 
he had several agents working for him. 
Mr. Dunn instructed him to return the 
photographs he had received from 25 
women of Bellevue, and leave in 24 
hours. When told that the order only 
applied to the county, Farwell intimated 
that he would next try Butler County 
or Philadelphia.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. 
This bunco game has also been worked 
by some of the Chicago portrait houses, 
and was exposed in this column nearly a 
year ago. The Empire Art Institute of 
Syracuse seems to be guilty of stealing 
the fake scheme from the Chicago house. 
The item is of special interest as a sug¬ 
gestion to district attorneys of other com¬ 
munities where these agents are oper¬ 
ating. 
Trouble With Fowls. 
I am having serious trouble wfith my 
poultry. Some are losing the use of 
their legs, and others going blind. The 
largest of them -weigh or should weigh 
four pounds and more, but of course lose 
weight, being unable to see or get their 
feed. They do not seem sick, but rather 
nervous. Will you advise me? M. J. T. 
Connecticut. 
Without knowledge of all the circum¬ 
stances under which this trouble has oc¬ 
curred, it is impossible to make a diag¬ 
nosis. The symptoms of leg weakness, 
probably evidenced by a staggering gait, 
blindness and “nervousness,” point to the 
possibility of some disturbance of the 
nervous system, very possibly caused by 
poisoning from spoiled food. With this 
in mind, a search should be made for de¬ 
caying animal or vegetable food to which 
the fowls may have gained access, and 
the meat scrap and other food fed the 
fowls should be carefully scrutinized to 
see that none of it has become musty or 
otherwise spoiled. The affected fowls 
may be given a physic, administering a 
teaspoonful or two of castor oil to each 
individually, or mixing a small teaspoon¬ 
ful of Epsom salts for each bird in what 
moist mash they will. eat. Those that 
■will not eat may have the castor oil 
given them through a soft rubber cathe¬ 
ter. carefully passed down to the crop. 
It is possible, also, that the fowls are in¬ 
fested with intestinal worms and one 
should be opened and the entire digestive 
tract examined for these. If they are 
found in excessive numbers, a teaspoon- 
fill of spirits of turpentine may be given 
each fowl through a catheter as described 
above. m. b. d. 
October 30, 1915. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Laying House in Loft; Portable Colony 
House. 
1. We have a loft over one of our farm 
buildings, and would like to know if it 
could be fitted up for a colony of pullets. 
The roof faces east and west, and the 
gables north and south. All of the build¬ 
ing is well built and weather-boarded, 
and part of it is plastered. Could com¬ 
fortable quarters for Winter layers be 
arranged by having windows put in the 
roof and the shingle roof covered with 
tar paper roofing? 2. Will you also give 
plans for a portable colony house on 
runners for about 25 pullets? E. a. b. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. I know of no reason why the loft of 
such a building as you describe could not 
be made into a suitable place for pullets 
during the Winter. With windows and 
openings for ventilation on the south 
side, light and air might be provided for 
and the comfort of the fowls assured. 
With a good shingle roof I doubt if any¬ 
thing would be gained by covering the 
roof with tarred paper. Light and ven¬ 
tilation would be the chief necessities and 
these may be secured by windows and 
window openings guarded by poultry net¬ 
ting. 
2. A portable colony house 8 by 
10 feet in size would house 25 pullets. 
Two 12-inch planks of hardwood, 10 feet 
long would make the runners. These 
should be chamfered on the lower corners 
and eight-foot floor joists of 2x4-ineli 
scantlings should be framed into them. 
Over these floor joists a matched floor 
should be laid and upon this the walls 
and roof erected. A single thickness of 
matched pine flooring, placed vertically, 
will make tight, warm walls, and the 
roof may be of the ordinary shed type 
covered with prepared roofing. Two 
large windows and a door in one side 
complete the building. The side in which 
the door and windows is placed should 
be seven feet in height, the rear four feet. 
A team hitched to the plank runners 
could draw this building to any place de¬ 
sired, and it should face the east or 
southeast. M. B. D. 
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