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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
It is really jtratifyiiiK in this time of 
the eternal chasing of the almighty dol¬ 
lar, to find a i)aiK*r. and men. who imt 
men before money. More power to y.m 
and e.si)eciallv to your “I’nhlisher's 
De.sk.” .T. K. Y. 
Virginia. 
This recognition of the ideals which 
are behind '1 'hk U. N.-Y. is encouraging. 
-Vt this time when the whole country is 
.•iroused in defense of a right and ])rin- 
oiple. the individual actuated by mer- 
ceiiiiry motives ha.s reason enough to 
hang his head in .shame. 
The National Pet Stock I\>., Milwau¬ 
kee, \Vis., has the audacity to ask Thk 
11. N.-Y. to quote on the following ad- 
vertisemejit: 
“Make mone.v, raising Pelgian hares 
for us. Easily rai.s<‘d anywhere. Mul¬ 
tiply quickly. St(wk costs a trifle. We 
buy all you raise from our stock at .$5 
per j»air. Send dime for b(K)k, Fortunes 
in Hares, contract and full j)articulars. 
Nothing free. National I’et Stock Co., 
r>r>7 llith St., Milwaukee, Wis.” 
The ijidvertisement is a fake on the 
face of it, as is evident from the offer 
to furni.sh breeding stock for a “trifle” 
,‘ind i)ay .$5 per pair for all stock raised. 
As this advertisement will i»robably ap¬ 
pear in other i)ub]ications we want to 
warn our subscribers regarding the 
scheme. 
I enclose sfune literature from I). & 
C. Company Inc., New York City, and 
1 was wondering if they did not deserve 
a notice in Publisher’s Desk. I have no 
funds to invest, but some of your sub¬ 
scribers may have, who receive their 
flattering inducements. A. A. A. 
N(>w York. 
’’I’he I). & C. (yo. referr(‘d to seem to 
be <‘Xi)loiting the good name and reputa¬ 
tion of its president, Mr. Edwai'd Ells¬ 
worth, in ai)pealing to the public for sub¬ 
scriptions for the .*)i2.n(M).()00 capital 
stock of the comi)any. The concern has 
failed or refused to make any statenumt 
of its assets or liabilities to the houses 
whose business it is to furnish such in¬ 
formation to the public, and no state¬ 
ment in this regard niq)ears in 'the liter¬ 
ature forwarded to us by those who have 
been solicited to invest in the stock. 
Whatever the future of the concern may 
be, the methods employed in selling 
stock are subject to criticism, and in¬ 
vestment in the stock can only be con¬ 
sidered in the light of a speculation. 
I enclose some very flattering circulars 
regarding the “fJood-Wear Kubber (’o.” of 
Elyria, O. This company has not start¬ 
ed uj) >et but is making big promises as 
to what they will return to stockholders 
in the way of dividends. The shares of 
the corporation are iflO each, preferr<“d 
paying 8 per cent, interest, without being 
cumulative and participating. A limited 
amount of preferred is being put out to 
about five stockholders in each town, 
carrying an extra particii)ating feature. 
'^I’o this select few the company agrees 
to pay back to them that original in¬ 
vestment, and yet they will retain their 
paid-up stock certificate and be entith'd 
to their 8 per cent, interest. The way 
the company plan to do this will be as 
f< Hows: After the jdant is started and is 
on a jiaying basis, the company will lay 
back .$1 for each and every tire they 
manufacture in a separate fund, to be 
u.sed in i)aying 'back to the.se selected 
stockholders. They contemidate manu¬ 
facturing about TdK) tires each day, which 
would mean that they are laying back 
each day $500 to pay ba(‘k to the stock¬ 
holders their original investment, and 
which they contemplate will take about 
two years. This looks very attractive. 
Would you consider it a safe invest¬ 
ment? 1). H. L. 
Ohio. 
The statements made in the above let¬ 
ter are sufficient to show' anyojie of ex- 
l)ericnce in investment matters that the 
l>roposltion is anything but “attractive.” 
Such promotions attract only the inex- 
l)erienced and the gullible. According to 
this subscriber’s report the concern has 
not even started to manufacture, but 
this fact rarely is suflicient reason to 
deter promoters from making big promises 
of future profits. I’romises are poor 
substitutes for assets and actual earn¬ 
ings. w'hich are the only ba.sis on which 
a concern can rightly ask the pi:blic to 
•'nvest their savings. The Oood-Wear 
Rubber Co. is not even listed by the 
commercial agency houses, and Ave can 
only consider an investment as highly 
speculative and the experience of the 
past would indicate that those Avho put 
C/ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.May 5, 1917. 
their savings in such enterprises are not 
likely to see the money again. •; 
A client of mine who is also a sub¬ 
scriber to your i)ai)er, living on a farm 
near this city, yesterday purchased two 
horses from a man signing his name .as 
1). Reeves. The horses were tried in 
New York City and were brought to this 
city by boat last evening, and taken to 
the farm. They apparently were in good 
condition, but this morning the hor.ses 
were examined by a veterinarian and 
were found to be suffering very badly 
with heaves. The veterinarian says the 
horses were drugged and were doctored 
UJ) for sale. My client was directed to 
this horse market by an advertisement 
in one of the New York pajiers stating 
that 120 horses having been displaced 
by motor truck.s, were offered for siile 
at the rear of 1.5.2 E. 27th Street, b('- 
tween .‘lOth St. and Lexington Avenue, 
New York fMty. 
My client informs me that your pa- 
j>er investigat(“8 frauds of this character 
p(“rj»etrated upon fai'iners and we desire 
to know whether or not you coiild ascer¬ 
tain if I). Reeves, the i)erson who claims 
to be the proprietor of this business, is 
really the i)roi)rietor and if he is a re¬ 
sponsible person. 1 will advise my client 
to commence an action .against him for 
damages if he is a resimnsible person, 
or if you have any other saiggestion or 
recommendation to make we will be glad 
to liear from you. J. E. C. 
New York. , 
This is a typical “hor.se gyi)" case. 
Since horses have been suitiilanted by 
automobiles and trucks to so large an 
extent thes<‘ swindlers have turned their 
attention to the latter trade. We have 
been unable t<» locate anyone by the 
name of “Reeves” at the address given. 
Evidently the nanit' is .a fictitious one. 
This class of gyps pick up all sorts of 
broken-down bors<“s. and «1 oik‘ them up so 
they will go sound long enough to palm 
them off on some unsusj>ecting buyer. 
'J'he claim of closing out a trucking 
business is the pretense of all the New 
York City hor.so sharpers. 
I have read several times of the expe- 
rieiKHj of women who got “stung” Avith 
the I’eerlesH Self-heating Iron (3o., Vine- 
land, N. .1., and I am in almost the same 
boat. ’I’wo agents came through this 
place last August with the Progress self¬ 
heating iron. The iron they had seemed 
to Avork very Avell, so I thought this a 
great labor-saving thing, and deposited a 
dollar and signed the contract as several 
of my neighbors did, but Ave were all 
treat<‘d alike. In due time the iron man 
came with the irons, and I paid the hal- 
anc(* of ,$2..50, and t(M>k my iron Avhich 
lias jiroA'ed Avorthless. It Avon’t even do 
a floor rag and do it Avell. It does not 
sta.A’ hot long enough. I Avrote the com- 
jiany, but they i»aid n ' attention to the 
letter, and I feel as if I should like to 
help some other Avoman Avho, like my¬ 
self, needs the money more than the ex- 
jicrience. I wish The R. N.-Y. could 
get back my money, ,$;{..50. I am enclos¬ 
ing the contract so you can s<‘e it. 
Connecticut. ii. 0. T. 
AVe have many rejtorts similar to the 
aboA'e, regarding s*'lf-heating irons, and 
the consensus of opinion among farm 
Avomen s<Muns to be that these irons are 
a delu.sion and a snare. While occa¬ 
sionally we have a favorable report re¬ 
garding tliis tyive of iron, Ave Iuia'C re¬ 
ceived so many unfavorable ones that we 
feel justifiisl in advising tmr people to 
turn a deaf ear to the stories told by the 
agents of the.se self-heating irons Avhen 
they come around. 
On August 24 I shipped some turtles 
to O. Keiby, Fish and Oyster House, 
Reading, Pa. We wrote him a couple 
of letters and cannot get any reply. Can 
you help us to receive any adjustments? 
Pennsylvania. AV. N. L. 
Mr. Keiby cannot be located. It looks 
as though he had given a fictitious name 
or decamped immediately after receiving 
the shipment Here is .$14.7-6 lost be¬ 
cause goods were shipped to a party 
without financial standing. 
A local farmer has given me the en- 
clo.sed letter from the Central Institute 
of 8t. Louis, ofl'ering a course of farm 
instruction Avith a view to securing a 
OoA'ernment position. I liaA'e adA'i.sed him 
against sending the .$8, and presume you 
can confirm my judgment in the matter. 
New Y'oi'k. E. G, E. 
We most certainly do approAU* E. C.’s 
judgment and advice to his neighbor. 
The ])romi.s'e of an easy position is the 
standard “bait” of corr(‘sj)ondence course 
I)eddlers. The government position is 
promised regardless of any knowledge of 
the prospect’s ability to fill such a posi¬ 
tion, Avhieh is eviden(*e enough that it is 
a fake scheme to get the $8 for the 
course of instructions—a great bargain, 
reduced from $12. 
Hanu 
Facts That Bring 
T^oIIhTS You, Mr. Farmer, are vitally 
o interested in the conservation and 
increase of soil fertility. You should read the little 
book—“Helping Mother Nature”—that we are 
sending free to 1,000,000 progressive American 
farmers; it’s as full of substance as an egg is of meat. 
Our nearest office will send a copy on request. 
It’s a fact beyond dispute that wasteful wagon-and-fork methods 
of distributing manure are costing farmers hundreds of millions yearly. 
It is also a fact beyond dispute that the 
NEIWIDCA 
A m Jj^ U5.PatM ^ ^ 
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ical condition and makes its full manurial value available. The New Idea 
Spreader was the first machine to spread wider than its own wheel base. 
The Original Wide- 
First to lead 
o j' , o 1 and still lead- 
Spreading Spreader ing. covers 
a seven foot strip evenly with thoroughly 
pulverized manure. Low down light draft. 
Spreads 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 loads per acre. 
Built for a lifetime, guaranteed for a year. 
See it at your dealers. 
NEW IDEA SPREADER CO. 
. “Spreader Specialists” 
Main Office and Factory, Coldwater, Ohio 
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Minn., Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., Guelph, Out., Canada 
Down 
they go¬ 
to smash! In 
scads of cases cut down 
a HALF! Thousands of farm¬ 
ers aro Belling their No. 1 hay, 
milling off - grades. They’re 
‘ ‘ alfalfa 
chop; xattoninir bora, cattle^ 
ehoop, poultry end purBctt! 
maktnir it cheaply, eaaily, with 
our famouH patontod Rucuttor 
AttachmontlOeizcsforfioIduso), 
Handles loevos, stems and alU 
Ho waste! no Injurinir color 
of hay. Makes dandy combina* 
tlon leods from clover, ricu, 
straw, cornstalks, bean straw, 
pea vinos, oats and ryo. BtRKcst 
fniarantoed capacity 11200 to 12700 
ibb. per hour. 600 to 000 lbs. of 
meal per hour with Junior Mill (run 
wiUi 6 to 8 h. p. engine). Cracks peas, com and beans. 
SMALLEY pfllLER 
SEVEN SIZES 
Trcmondonaly elmpHflon siio Blling. Grip Hook Force Food 
taMU autornutfcally feeds cutter—saves wairo and board of 
from one to three men. Makes richest fced.lncroasessllo 
toiinaKo. 
Blower built Indopendont of cutter. Lot your fan spin fast 
or slow* the speed of knife shaft is uncbanirt^. No bolt to 
slip, wear out. and waste time, 
money, power. PatonUt<l low-spet^ 
one-pulley vnain 
drivs ia fester, 
cleaner. Save 3 1-6 
to 1-4 power costal 
Powerfully built. A 
fourth heavier with 
wonderful record for 
lonjr service. Write for 
latest cataloir and aum- 
ple of chop to 
ARDER MFC. CO. 
Junior Mill— Cobloskill, N.Y. or 
600 . Smalley MIe.Co. 
. toOOOIbs.nMOTlperhr. Dep.irtinenl 47 
I 6 to 8 U. V. Ensloe. Manitowoc, Wis. 
K FFDi; Checks High 
i\LLr J Feed Costs Low* 
When forced feedine is most necessary, then can a 
Unadilla Silo prove your independence of the feed man. 
The cconomic.il, succulent food it provides will in¬ 
crease profits by incrcasine the milk flow. 
From coast to coast Unadillas are faithfully 
servine and saving for most successful 
dairymen. County. State and National 
officials have from time to time de¬ 
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the Unaililla won out for quality, 
simplicity, durability, conven 
iencc. Learn why, by send¬ 
ing for free catalog. 
Agents Wanted. 
UNADILLA SILO CO. 
Box C Unadilla, N.Y. 
Vd MORE ROOMl 
iT. 
Globe Silo 
An improvement over all 
other stave silos. Exten¬ 
sion roof and other exclusive 
features. Double spline with 
tightest scaled joints. No waste 
of strength loosening pinched 
doors. Endorsed by all Stale 
Granges in the East. 
Save Money NOW— sond for information 
about Globe 8ilo iiropositioii and big cash and 
early sliiiimunt disoounts. Drop postal »t oiiec to 
GLOBE SILO CO., 2-12 Willow SL,Sidney,N.y. 
THE INDIANA SILO 
Fifty thousand arc now in 
use on the fi nest farms in 
America. 
If you are going to buy a silo 
—this satisfactory service ren¬ 
dered everywhere—should be 
of special interest to you. 
The cost of all materials ii 
advancing like the price of 
wheat and corn. 
^Vhy not save money by 
contracting for your eilo 
now. It undoubtedly will cost you more 
next spring or summer. 
Let us send you our proposition—to con¬ 
tract now for your silo and deliver it later. 
We still have openini^s for a limit¬ 
ed uumber oi farmer agents. 
INDIANA SILO CO. 
518 Union Building, ANDERSON, INDIANA 
518 Exchange Bldg., KANSAS CITY. MO. 
518 Indiana Building DES MOINES.JOWA 
518 Live Stock Exch. Bldg.. FT. WORTH. TEXAS 
BEFORE YOU BUY WRITE FOR 
NEW CATALOG DESCRIBING THR 
GUARANTEED MONEY-SAVING 
INTERNATIONAL 
SILOS . 
stront^est built, simplest to put up and easiest operated 
on tlie market. Adjustable automatic take^uphoop^- 
continuous open-tioor front—air«ticht door and pct» 
*nanent ladder are some of the unusual features^ Tke 
fotoniatlonal 8 IIo Co.f lift Flood Rtdfr. MFadTillo. pn 
$ 10 , 000.00 
Backs this saw. 
As low as 
.$7.90 
It is thi best and cheapest saw made. 
HERTZLER & ZOOK 
Portable 
Wood 
Saw 
is easy to operate. 
Only $7.90 saw made to 
which ripping talilo ran 
bo added. Giiarnntec<l 
1 year. Money refunded 
if not eatisfactory. 
Send for catalog. 
Hcrtzler & Zook Co. 
Box 
3^ Belleville^Pa. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you'll get a 
quick reply and a ‘‘square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
