1166 
•Ghe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 6, 1917 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Will you tell me whether the Cole 
Conrad Co., Dept. B. K., 2214 Ogden 
Ave., Chicago, Ill., is reliable? I do not 
see the advertisement in R. N.-Y., but 
saw it in Park’s Floral Magazine. I 
am an old subscriber of your paper. 
Connecticut. u. A. 
This fake scheme of offering some one 
product, such as sugar, at a very low 
price in order to sell a large bill of other 
cheap goods is one that we have repeat¬ 
edly warned our people about. No one 
is going to get any bargain from a house 
that resorts to tricks and .schemes of this 
kind. “D. A.” will do much better to 
deal with good reliable houses that sell 
their goods on an honest basis without any 
faking. Just so long as country people 
allow publications carrying fake advertis¬ 
ing into their home they are likely to get 
caught oq fake advertising concerns of 
this kind.. 
Enclosed please find Mr. A. L. Kush- 
ner’s advertisement, as advertised in 
the Albany papers. About the middle of 
.Inly I sent Mr. Kushner $24.-50 for two 
.30x3% Non-Skid Castings and instructed 
him to send only firsts and to select them 
for me. The best I can get out of these 
castings is about 700 miles each. The 
rubber is as rotten as can be and they 
all went out of shape and the rubber 
comes loose from the canvas. I wi’ote 
him about it but he won’t even answer 
my letters. He has my money and it 
looks as though that is all he cares about 
it. I wrote him that I wanted a fair 
adjustment and wanted to do what was 
right and honorable. M. F. s. 
New York. 
Mr. Kushner adverti.ses to save 40 
per cent, on tires. This is exactly the 
form of advertising adopted by all the 
gpy tire venders. The claim in itself brands 
the advertiser as a gyp because anyone 
who is familiar with the automobile tire 
trade realizes that no one can sell tires at 
40 per cent, discount from the regular 
price and stay in business for any length 
of time. Bargain tires usually prove 
well-nigh worthless which is coufirnml by 
the experience of the above subscriber in 
this case. The old adage that “the best 
is the cheapest’’ is emphatically true as 
applied to automobile tire purchasers. 
As I am a reader of your paper and 
know you are reliable, I am writing to 
you for advice. I am 18 years of age and 
would like to do some kind of work that 
can be done at home. Enclosed you will 
find two advertisements which were pub¬ 
lished in “The Woman’s Home Weekly.” 
MTliat is your advice as to answering 
them? I do not want to answer any fake 
firms. M. F. 
Michigan. 
One of the advertisements enclosed 
offers $20 weekly stamping patterns at 
home. This is a scheme to sell material 
instead of furnishing employment to 
country people, as a reading of the adver¬ 
tisement would lead anyone to expect. 
The other advertisement offers employ¬ 
ment to n)en and women addressing en¬ 
velopes and mailing advertising matter. 
We have explained previously that these 
advertisements scheme to get country 
people to mail fake and disgusting matter 
to their friends and neighbors with the 
promise that they will be paid a com¬ 
mission for any business resulting. We 
not only advise our people to beware of 
all the.se fake schemes but also to refuse 
to read publications carrying such adver- 
ments into their homes. Parents 
should see to this that their sons and 
daughters are not subjected to tempta¬ 
tions by reading the low class of publica¬ 
tions carrying this deceptive class of ad¬ 
vertising. 
You see by the enclosed letter that I 
am still on the “honored” (sucker) list. 
See what a bargain I am offered, and I 
have the nerve to refuse it. Well, it is 
not so easy to get burnt by the same fire 
twice before the first burn is healed up. 
I’ll turn this over to The R. N.-Y. Wish¬ 
ing you success. s. E. k. 
• Ohio. 
The letter enclosed purports to come 
from the president of the AYilbur Stock 
Food Company, Milwaukee, Wis. The 
first paragraph of the letter reads as fol¬ 
lows : 
Do you want a genuine bargain? I 
find that we have on hand at a station 
near you a shipment of our goods con¬ 
sisting of five pails of our tonic. They 
were shipped to the wrong address by 
mistake and the railway company wants 
US to move them at once. If you will 
Loss of Feathers 
I have 25 R. I. Red hens whose feath¬ 
ers on backs are broken off or pulled 
out. Some are partly bare on necks 
and head.s. An old poultry doctor said 
it was favus. Their combs are not 
pale, at least not decidedly so, nor is 
there any apparent skin trouble. The 
conditions have existed over a year. 
Could you give a remedy? e. h. a. 
Virginia. 
This may be favus or the work of 
the depluming mite, probably the latter. 
If the loss of feathers is dile to the 
mite, that may be killed by one or more 
applications of some such ointment as 
that made by mixing sulphur with lard 
in about equal proportions. The oint¬ 
ment should be well rubbed in over the 
bare spots and the application repeated 
after a time if necessary. m. b. d. 
take them up for us I will not only ap¬ 
preciate it a great deal, but I will make 
you a special bargain price on the ship¬ 
ment. 
These bargain (?) offers on the pre¬ 
tense that a .shipment has been refused 
or gone to incorrect addre.ss have been re-' 
sorted to of late by a number of houses 
which are not very zealous of their repu¬ 
tation. This offer, like the others which 
have been referred to in this column, is 
made in a printed form letter; the con¬ 
clusion therefore must be that the Wilbur 
Stock Food Company must have a great 
many shipments sent to wrong addresses, 
or the firm is attempting to sell its pro¬ 
duct by false pretenses. 
What do you know about the Clyde De¬ 
velopment Corporation of Ivongacre Build 
ing, corner 42nd Street, New York? They 
Avere advertising a property which they 
called “Poultry City.” situated about 
eight miles from Lakewood, and near 
New Egypt, New Jersey, You are the 
only paper exposing the fakers, and 
there are plenty of them right at home. 
New .Jersey. ii. M. 
We asked a friend in Lakewood to itt- 
vestigate this development for us, and 
here is his report: 
I sent a man out there to look over the 
property, and he reports that it is mostly 
covered with pine, and the land is all 
white sand. It is about 14 miles from 
Lakewood, away off the main road, and 
the auto got “stuck” trying to find it. 
The natives out around “Poultry (Tity” 
always smile when the name is mentioned, 
and it is considered a fake by those who 
know it best; that is, there is nothing to 
it yet, and the location is very much 
against any prospects for future develop¬ 
ment. 
Let me acknowledge with thanks your 
letter of September 17, enclosing check 
for $21.36, received from the Adams Ex¬ 
press Company in payment of my claim 
against the ciompany representing the 
difference between the valuation of a ship¬ 
ment of strawberries and the amount re¬ 
ceived for them, due to damage. Previous 
to turning the claim over to your office 
Avith the request that it receive your 
attention I made a number of efforts to 
effect a settlement with the express com¬ 
pany and could get ab.solutely no satis¬ 
faction from them. Soon after you took 
up the claim I Avas advised by the ex¬ 
press company that it Avas receiving at¬ 
tention, and now you have sent me the 
check. I greatly appreciate your interest, 
as I feel sure that the matter Avould have 
dragged, endlessly, except for the fact that 
you have taken it up. This demonstrates 
the value of your organization to the 
farmers of the country, and surely the 
settlement of this claim has repaid me 
for my .subscription for several years, en¬ 
tirely aside from the valuable information 
I obtain from it constantly. f. b. m. 
Delaware. 
This is a gracious acknowledgment of 
a service Avhich Ave are ahvays glad to 
perform in behalf of farmers. In cases 
Avhere the evidence of responsibility of the 
express company is clear AA’e are usually 
successful in securing settlement for ship¬ 
pers ; on lost or damaged shipments while 
considerable time is ahvays required. In 
taking up claims against transportation 
companies it is ahA’ays essential that we 
have the shipping receipt. Claims must 
in all cases be entered within four months 
from the time of shipment. 
A subscriber signing initials H. F. T. 
and failing to give post office address, 
makes inquiry about an automobile con¬ 
cern in Chicago. We are unable, because 
of the omission of full name and post 
office address, to answer the inquiry by 
letter, and Ave Avill not print anonymous 
communications in this column and give 
the advice requested. All letters must be 
signed and address given. The name of 
an inquirer is never printed Avithout his 
or her consent. 
ir 
Which Road Is Yours? 
An Earth Road which requires at least 
a 218-pound pull to each ton 
A Concrete Road which requires an average 
pull of only 27,6 pounds to each ton 
I T takes a pull of 218 pounds on your team to get a 1-ton load over the 
road on the left, when you can get over it at all. In wet weather you can’t 
over it at all; even in dry weather it is rough and dusty. On the 
right, where the road has been paved with concrete, it takes a pull of only 
28 pounds. It never takes more than that in the worst kind of weather— 
winter or summer—because it is hard, clean and even. 
Which Road Do You Want? 
University of California. They are summarized as follows; 
Over a level, unsurfaced concrete road. 
Concrete base, /^inch skin top asphaltic and screenings.49 
Waterbound naacadam, level, good condition.64 
Concrete base, 1 J^-inch Topeka top, level, good condition ... .68 
Gravel road, good condition, level.78 
Earth road, fine dust, level.92 
Earth road, stiff mud on top, firm underneath, level.218 
Loose gravel, not packed down, new road, level.....263 
CONCRETE ROADS 
Their Advantages 
No Mud—No Dust 
No Ruts—No Holes 
No Slipping 
No Skidding 
Easv Hauling 
Smooth Riding 
Long Life—Safety 
Always Ready for Use 
Low Maintenance 
Moderate Cost 
Big difference, isn’t it? You pull on a concrete road, where you .pull 
against an unimproved, rough or boggy surface. Where one wastes 
power, the other saves. Power costs money, whether you feed a 
team or buy gasoline. Your saving in ixiwer will pay your share of 
the cost of a concrete road. 
Be sure you know what a concrete road is. Concrete is made of 
Portland cement, sand and pebbles or crushed stone, and water. It is 
hard and durable. Concrete is the material used in dams, factories, 
bridges, and big engine'ering works like the Panama Canal requir¬ 
ing great solidity and strength. 
While you are thinking this matter over, write us for Bulletin 136. It 
will help you decide the matter in a way that will cost you less— 
eA'erything considered—than the old type of road is costing you now. 
Portland cement association 
ATLANTA 
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Offices at 
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MILWAUKEE 'SALT LAKE CITY WASHINGTON, 
NEW YORK 
SAN FRANCISCO 
D. C. 
CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE 
national giant 
$noke house 
Don’t sell all your hogs and 
pay big butcher bills. Save 
enough for your own use and 
smoko hams.bacon,sausages, 
m the National Giant Smoke 
House. This wonderful smoko 
house ia portoble. Can be oper* 
ated in end out-doors. Runs on 
sawdust, cobs and little bark for 
Bcasonin&r. The 
tfi a jrreat success. After smoking: meats 
use for store house. Made in three sizes of 
hcavj? eralvanized sheet steel. Fireproof. 
Guaranteed, Send for 
eppgr RfinK which gives prlze-wlnningr 
rnce DUUIa recipes for Curing Hams, 
Bacon.Sausages,at home. Also get our low 
prices. Write today sure. 
PORTABLE ELEVATOR MFG. COMPANY 
258 MoClufi St. Bloomington, 111. 
Only S2 Dow n 
One Year to Pay! 
Buys the New Butter- 
fly Jr. No. 2. Lightrunnin^ 
easy cleaning, close skim¬ 
ming, durable. Guaranteed 
..a lifetime. Skims 95 quarts 
f )er hour. Made also in five 
arser sizes up toNo.8 shown bere^ 
30 Days’Free Trial Earns fts own cosi 
I j ■*, — I and more by what 
It saves in cream. Postal brings Free cat* 
alog, folder and ‘*direct-from-factory” offer« 
Buy from the manufacturer and save money, 
ALBAUGH-DOVER CO. 
2171 IWarahall Blvd. CHICAGO 
SELF-OILING windmill 
With INCLOSED MOTOR 
Keeping OUT. DUST a^ .RAIN — Keeping IN OIL 
SPLASH OILING 
SYSTEM Constantly Flooding 
f Oil.MakeskPumpIn 
TheUghtestBreeze 
REPLENISHED And Prevents Wear; 
ONLYONCEAYEAR 
DOUBLE GEARS “• Each Carrying Half the Load 
Every feature desirable in a windmill in the 
AUTO-OILED AERMOTOR 
White AERMOTOR CO, 2500 l2Tit STuCH iCAao 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins 
with hair or fur on, and make them 
into coats (for men and women), robes, 
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Your 
fur good, will cost you les. than, to buy 
them and be worth more. 
Our Illustrated catalog gives a lot of 
Information. It tells how to take off 
and care fpr hides ; how and when we 
pay.the freight both ways; about our 
sale dyeing process on cow and horse 
hide, calf and other skins; about the 
fur goods and game trophies we sell, 
taxidermy, etc. 
Then we have recently got out an¬ 
other we call our Fashion book, wholly 
devoted to fashion plates of muffs, 
neckwear and other fine fur garments. 
With prices ; also fur garments remod¬ 
eled and repaired. 
You can have either book by sendingf^®^ 
pour correct address naming which, or 
both books it you need both. Address 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company. 
571 Lyell Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
—if you store it in a MAR¬ 
SHALL IRON CRIB. Made of 
perforated galvanized iron. Cost no more 
L than ordinary wood cribs. Send for Free catalog today. 
cure corn better than wood- 
keep it drier—free from mold— 
don’t lose germination. Saves 
every kernel. 
Fire and Weather Proof 
won’t bum, rust, rot or decay. 
Easy to erect. Surprisingly low 
in cost. Last a lifetime. Many 
sizes and styles. Catalog FREEL 
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