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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 18, 1010 
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1919 prices will make otker years look like 30 cents 
The 1919 Pfaelzer pr : ces, liberal assortments and quick money will take you off 
your feet. They will 6pen your eyes. They will establish a record, for we must 
satisfy the tremendous demand for Raw Furs and we must have them quick. 
Therefore, hurry your first 1919 shipment to the House of Pfaelzer. Write for 
the Pfaelzer price list, but ship anyway. The House of Pfaelzer will let you 
run no risk. The Pfaelzer guarantee of top prices and liberal grading is your 
absolute protection. New York is the world’s fur headquarters and the 
House of Pfaelzer is New York’s leader in boosting Prices for Raw Furs. 
115-123 W. 29th St,(Desk 17) N. Y. 
Members Raw Fur Merchants Assn. 
M. F. Pfaelzer& Co. 
PROUTY 
GUARANTEED PRICE LIST 
Send for it at once 
And join the thousands of trappers who 
ship toProu ty becauseprou ty guarantees 
them more money as the market prices 
go up—and no less than the prices list¬ 
ed if the market goes down. 
Insure Your Fur Profits 
7 » . 
At Prouty’fe there is no risk. You are absolutely 
guaranteed the highest market prices— andspot 
cash payment the same day your shipment is 
received. Mo matter where you have been ship¬ 
ping your fprs. try Prouty once and you’ll real¬ 
ize the biggest profits you ever earned. New 
York can use all your furs. Prouty is theoldest 
fur house in New York. 
Ship to Prouty! 
J. L. PROUTY'S SONS, INC. 
Dsalers in Raw Furs, Ginseng Roofs, Golden Seal, ttC. 
384 C West Broadway, New York City 
. TRAUGOTT _ 
SchnidT 
_ AND 
GET 
MORE MONEY 
FOR YOUR FURS 
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SONS 
complete In I 
America. FtHtab- 
lisbed 186S, Capital *1,100.000. 
Ship to us and make sure of getting “The mar¬ 
ket's highest mark”. WE DO NOT QUOTE A 
“SLIDING SCALE” OF PE1CES. Instead we 
quote one dependable price so you POSITIVELY 
KNOW what your collection will bring. We 
charge no commission—pay all transportation 
charges and send money same day furs arrive. 
p 
I SOtv....—* .* — n . 
I prico list, market report, 
■ shipping tags, etc. 
I TRAUGOTT SCHMIDT & SONS. _ 
■ 117 Monroe Are. Detroit, Mich. 
Write for valuable booklet, 
“Successful Trapping” 
Spend 
a cent 
before. 
You 
Ship 
Before , you j ship your furs elsewhere, 
send us a'postal card for our price list. 
It will pay you. Costs only a cent to find 
out. You will be astonished at the prices 
we pay. Send quick. We need shipments 
now and will pay you well for your pelts. 
RAW FURS 
Those desiring to ship at once can do. so in con- 
fidence. We guarantee highest prices and liberal 
assortments. Our 33 years experi ence is your 
protection.’ 
Prices are soaring high right- 
now. This means we can pay 
you more than ever. before. j 
Ship immediately or' send for/ 
price list. Act quick I 
XSobelJnc. 
22 West 27^ St 
L Dept 24 w jSTewlbrk 
RAW FURS 
IVe pay the HIGHEST prices , grade fair¬ 
ly and liberally, and GUHR/WTEE you 
satisfaction. Here is a typical letter: 
I wish to thank I/on for sending payments so 
promptly for shipments / have made. I got more 
than 1 expected and am glad to advise of yout 
reliability and fine treatment. 1 am shipping to 
you exclusively from now on. 
SEND T0DA Y FOR GRADING SHEET. 
FREE QUOTA TI0NS AND SHIPPING TAG§ 
LOUIMMRERG 
West-26 (ti SCoept mo-BN.Y.Ccfif'a 
Read what a trapper writes: 
Mr. Warenoff, Dear Sir: — I am shipping you today I bay of furs; it is no use for ine to grade th^m 
- a “ yOU have bcen eivin « me Vcry * Aod « rad ' 5 Jacob y os ( Duisburg. Pa. 
Wc 
do not 
claim to pay 
the highest price 
in the world—but we do 
claim and absolutely guar¬ 
antee to give you every dol¬ 
lar your pelts are worth 
—often more than 
you yourself 
expect. 
Send us a shipment today or write for ©u v price list. It’s free. We know our 
grading *will please "ou, so hurry up and connect with us. It’s up to you. 
We 
have a 
good many 
letters on file, all 
same as above, and un¬ 
solicited. Vou too will soon 
Idolize that there is more 
than a promise to our 
way of doing busi¬ 
ness. Try us 
and be con- 
Sol Warenoff & Co., Inc., West 25th Street, New York City 
vino 
. ed. 
The Southern Beach Pony 
There has always been quite a con¬ 
troversy and disagreement as to the 
origin of the little beach pony (marsh or 
banker pony as they are sometimes 
called), so numerous these days along 
the Atlantic seaboard. Some claim that 
they were here long before the landing 
of Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonists on 
Roanoke Island, N. C., and that the In¬ 
dians made use of them in various ways. 
One of the queerest contentious is that 
they were brought to these shores by 
some of the “Lost Tribes of Israel,” after 
their 40 years of wandering in the wilder¬ 
ness, and that the horses were some that 
the record, there were 300 horses in the 
Virginia colony in 1040. and by 1009 so 
many had been imported, and the natural 
increase had been so groat, that instead of 
“bearing the white man’s burden,” they 
became a burden and source of annoy¬ 
ance to the planters because of their dep¬ 
redations, running wild over the plan¬ 
tations, trampling down and eating the 
crops. About this time a tax was levied 
on all horses in the colony, and owners 
were required by law to fence in. or other¬ 
wise confine their stock from July 20 to 
October 20. Further importation was also 
prohibited. In order to escape the ex- 
Brootl Mares on Better Pasture Than ch Affords 
escaped perishing in the Red Sea. If that 
is so, they should be called Egyptian 
ponies. One of the most Quixotic and 
fantastic ideas is that by long ages of 
evolution the pony is a development of 
the common “sand fiddler” of the marshes. 
Both have certain peculiarities and traits 
that arc similar; the fiddler is very 
tenacious of his habitat, burrowing in the 
sand as a means of defense; the pony 
has also been known to dig holes deep 
enough to hide his body. Whether this 
was for defense, or in search of drinking 
water, is not stated. Another peculiarity 
of the fiddler is the great strength in his 
backbone, which is tough and sinewy. 
The spinal column of the pony is equally 
tough and strong, so much so that, it is 
said, he can pull a burden attached to his 
tail, that he could not move if attached 
to his shoulders'. 
“I vouch not for the truth, d’ye see. 
But tell the tale as ’twas told to me.” 
The first authentic case of importation 
that we know of was when 42 horses wero 
brought to Florida from Spain by Cabeca 
Veca in 1527. These are known to have 
perished, as also did the next lot im¬ 
ported by l>e Soto in 1539. In lOOS a 
few were brought to Canada by the 
French. It is just possible that a few 
were brought to Roanoke Island, N. C., 
in 1585-1587, by Sir Walter Raleigh’s 
colonists, hut no mention is made of them 
in the old records, although we have pret- 
Bcach Pony Stallion 
pense of fencing off the ranges on the 
mainland, some of the planters trans¬ 
ported their herds to Cliincoteague and 
Assateague, two island lying east of the 
Virginia peninsula in Accomac County. 
Cliincoteague- is a queer little place, eight 
miles long, with a population of several 
hundred inhabitants. Portions of its nar¬ 
row extent are wooded, but the island 
is largely made up of marshy glades in 
which the herds of ponies graze, and seek 
shelter from the bleak winds of Winter 
among the dunes and brakes of the island. 
The coarse feed of the meadows, and con¬ 
tinual exposure to the elements, readily 
accounts for the stunted growth of the 
original stock. It is only fair to assume, 
as settlements increased to the southward 
along the coast, that some of these horses 
were brought to North Carolina, and that 
they are the progenitors of fhe beach 
pony of today. _ 
The ponies- are -very irregular in size, 
some being as large as the Western bronco 
and others small as the Shetland pony; 
all have rough, uneven sunburnt coats. 
Bays and chestnuts predominate, while 
white and black are very rare and often 
bring fancy prices. Nature has equipped 
the ponies with heavy manes and tails 
as a protection against the swarms of 
mosquitoes and swamp flies that infest 
the coast islands. It is interesting to 
see a herd of ponies lined up in a marsh, 
standing with heads and tails alternating, 
and each pony switching flies from him¬ 
self and neighbors. Notwithstanding ex¬ 
posure and discomfort, like McGregor of 
old, they love their native heath, the wild, 
desolate and often stormy coasts of Vir¬ 
ginia and North Carolina, and while they 
have lost in size, they have become strong 
and hardy, able to endure cold, and thrive 
under conditions where large well-bred 
horses could hardly live. Many a little 
pony after being brought over to the main- 
laud in captivity, has been known to es¬ 
cape from a warm comfortable stable and 
swim a long distance across Albemarle 
or Pamlico Sound to join his companions 
in freedom. 
ty full accounts of what was brought over 
in the way of utensils, farming imple¬ 
ments, seeds, household furniture, etc., 
and in the last expedition of 1587, known 
as the “lost colony,” there were 117 men 
and 13 women and children, numbering 
150 all told. The first child of English 
parents horn in this country was Vir¬ 
ginia Dare, whose mother, Eleanor, was 
the married daughter of Captain John 
White, the commander of the unfortunate 
expedition. 
The most satisfactory explanation we 
have regarding these little animals, is the 
fact that when the English landed at 
Jamestown, Va., in 1607, they had seven 
horses with them. These lived and in¬ 
creased in numbers, so that according to 
One or more of the ponies are often 
owned by members of the coast guard 
who patrol the beach; the stations often 
being from seven to 10 miles apart along 
the lonely coasts of Virginia and North 
Carolina. The pony is hitched to a little 
two-wheel “jumper” in which the patrol¬ 
man rides to the halfway house. 
Pony pennings, or “round-ups,” are fre¬ 
quently held during the Summer months. 
On these occasions the little colts are 
branded similar to the brand on the 
mother; in this way the several owners 
know who’s who. In the very early days 
of round-ups an amusing custom pre¬ 
vailed, which allowed anyone who could 
first catch a year-old unbranded pony to 
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