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<Ibt RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
We have appealed to the common sense 
of investors so many times in prose that 
perhaps the following, from the Detroit 
Times, will reach those who prefer a 
little poetry in their mental diet: 
Upstairs in a box I’ve got wonderful 
stocks 
That I’ve bought at odd times through 
the mail; 
I've got Mexican rubber and Antarctic 
blubber. 
Preferred Ambergris—that’s a whale. 
I’ve got oil stock in wells that the pros¬ 
pectus tells 
Are gushing great guns at each vent; 
And ail that they need is more suckers 
to bleed 
To pay seven hundred per cent. 
I've got Pineapple stock that’s as firm 
as the Rock 
Of Gibraltar, whatever that be; 
It's as good as the cash and secured by 
the ash 
Of some volcanic isle in the sea. 
I’ve got gold that will run fifty pounds to 
the ton. 
And copper that's almost pure stuff; 
And it’s all sure to pay big returns some 
fine day 
When the suckers buy holdings enough. 
I’ve got Plain and Preferred. I’ve got 
Scrambled and Shirred. 
I've got Sugar and Coffee and Trash 
That brings me a lot of prospectuses fine, 
And everything else except cash. 
I’ve got the old Spanish Grants West In¬ 
dian Lands 
That were deeded one time to Capt. 
Kidd. 
And some stock that he bought in this old 
swampy spot 
Is as good as the day that he did. 
I’ve got stocks of all hues—red, green, 
purple and blues. 
Guaranteed nine per cent, and some 
ten; 
And just when I swear I’ll not buy a new 
share, 
Then I get “promoted” again. 
I haven’t been missed by one investor’s 
list, 
By every new swindle I’m booked; 
Now here’s a new line, come on in— 
water’s fine, 
I feel myself biting—I’m hooked. 
F. E. W.B. 
Last week a Long Island real estate 
shark was convicted of defrauding a pur¬ 
chaser of a lot out of $4. lie was sen¬ 
tenced to three years in prison. Pre¬ 
viously he had boasted that he had sharp 
legal talent and was operating within the 
law. It was testified that his victims had 
lost many thousands of dollars by clever 
manipulations that kept him within the 
law. He slipped on this little $4 case, 
and the judge gave him the full benefit 
under the law. When he found himself 
caught he was willing to return some of 
the money, but the judge was anxious to 
make an example of him. These Long 
Island sharks have been operating for 
thirty-odd years, and it is time that some 
court made an example of one of them. 
We have had the enclosed advertise¬ 
ments from Isaac F. Tillinghast. Santa 
Rosa, Cal., submitted to us. It is our 
impression that some time ago you had 
something to say regarding this same Mr. 
Tillinghast, May we not have your 
opinion of this advertising? 
Ohio. PUBLISHER. 
The publisher’s memory is good. Isaac 
F. Tillinghast was shown up in The R. 
N.-Y. as a “humbug” 20 years ago. For 
several years after that he pursued one 
petty fake scheme or another, and now 
he turns up in California advertising 
“Burbank Tomato,” which we understand 
lias some merit on the Pacific Coast, but 
is not suitable for the Eastern section of 
the country where the publication, to 
which the advertising was offered, circu¬ 
lates. 
Inclosed find the interesting announce¬ 
ment by Mr. Edgar W. Philo, Jackson¬ 
ville. Fla., in his full-page ad on page 
115 of the January, 1020. American Paul- 
1r/t Journal, that “Hens or incubators 
omplete their work in 10 or 12 days 
•e of 21 days” by Mr. Philo’s new 
of “hatching chickens by the hun- 
ureUs of thousands in trunks, boxes or 
any old thing.” T. P. 
Connecticut. 
This is the same E. W. Philo whose 
business methods we had occasion to refer 
to some years ago. when located at El¬ 
mira, N. Y. In the advertisement Mr. 
January 81, 1020 
Philo claims: “Hens or incubators will 
complete their work in 10 or 12 days in 
place of 21 days.” 
The really wonderful thing about this 
announcement is that so many people 
whose credulity outweighs their common 
sense will place five dollars in the hands 
of a man whose name is so very sug¬ 
gestive of other marvellous, but now 
nearly forgotten, discoveries that, but a 
few years ago, were to revolutionize the 
poultry industry. 
“A simple process of bringing the latent 
heat of the egg into action and trans¬ 
forming it into natural heat” sounds de¬ 
lightfully mystifying, despite the fact that 
we do it every time that we eat an egg. 
Probably, however, this “new way” doesn’t 
require that eggs be eaten in order to 
develop their latent heat; placing them in 
a warm place for a few days will bring 
about the same result, and the idea is so 
new that we can’t trabe it back any fur¬ 
ther than to the ancient Egyptians and 
Chinese, who used as simple apparatus as 
a fermenting manure pile or a basket con¬ 
taining a jar of eggs and having a char¬ 
coal fire beneath it. 
If any one has five dollars to bet with 
Mr. Philo that “after forty years study 
and experience” he has discovered a bet¬ 
ter way to develop the latent heat of an 
egg than placing it under a hen or in an 
incubator, there is no doubt that he will 
be permitted to put up the money. It is 
a small amount compared with the ex¬ 
pense that would have to be incurred in 
recovering it by legal processes if the 
bet was won. If enough people will place 
their five dollar bills in Mr. Philo’s hands, 
his profits will exceed those of the best 
managed poultry plant, even after he has 
whacked up with the publishers of such 
poultry journals as are willing to enter 
the game with him. 
Your paper is too valuable for me to 
accept any pay for sending a new sub¬ 
scription. It has been in my family for 
80 years, and for honesty, educational 
value and truthfulness it stands at the 
head of all farm journals of the United 
States. So I send you $2 to pay for my 
subscription and for my friend. 
Massachusetts. g.a. d. 
We cannot add much to a letter like 
the above. Even if the paper is not all 
our good friend thinks it is, he pictures 
it no better than we aim to make it. To 
keep up its functions the paper must go 
on growing. In nature nothing stands 
still. It must grow or go back. That 
means new subscriptions all the time. We 
do not want sudden booms, but a steady 
growth. It is a legitimate expense to 
increase the circulation of the paper. 
When our friends interest themselves to 
do this, it is pro* jr and good business to 
pay them for the service. At first the 
pay must seem small, but when friends 
show such generosity as this, we can make 
no other return than an extra effort to 
put a little more effort into the service. 
Do you think A. A. Berry Seed Co., 
Clarinda, Iowa, is a reliable firm to get 
seed from? I shall need quite a lot of 
seed this year. A. L. 
Ohio. 
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The seeds sent out by this firm have 
been tried and found wanting by the Min¬ 
nesota Experiment Stations and also by 
the New York Experiment Station at 
Geneva. N. Y. A number of samples were 
examined at Geneva last season, with the 
result that a considerable amount of nox¬ 
ious and troublesome weed seeds were 
found, and in some cases the seed was 
of low vitality. We heartily concur with 
the experiment station’s bulletin issued 
on the subject that pure seeds of high 
vitality and germinating power is so es¬ 
sential that inferior seed is a bad bargain 
at any price—nor could a farmer afford 
to sow such seed if received as a gift. 
The Berry Seed Co. advertising has been 
excluded from tbe columns- of The R. 
N.-Y. for several years, as are all other 
seed bouses whose seeds we have any rea¬ 
son to believe cannot be depended upon 
to be pure and of good vitality. 
Herbert Hoover has called attention to 
the frauds in conueetiou with sending 
money and supplies to Europe. Some of 
the food packages selliug for $27 cou- 
tained about $7 worth of food. Some 
concerns are selling food packages here 
for Europeon delivery, and any readers 
who contemplate making use of this ser¬ 
vice will be wise to look up their rating 
before parting with their money. 
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