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November 15, 1924 
TRAPPERS 
& FUR BUYERS 
Get New York Price List 
If you want more money for furs than anybody else will 
pay, you must get the Geo. I. Fox-New York guaranteed 
price list. It is the shipping guide to better prices—thou¬ 
sands of wise trappers and fur buyers all over U. S. and 
Canada know this. 
Ship to FOX—New York City 
The World’s Largest Fur Market 
Fox pays more for furs because New York City is the world’s 
greatest and highest fur market. American and foreign manu¬ 
facturers buy direct from us at top prices. No middlemen or 
dealers ever make a profit on your furs when 
Fox buys them. You get the benefit. 
Mr. Fox grades every shipment himself and 
pays all he can to make friends and boost¬ 
ers. That is why “A Fox Shipper Never 
Changes”. Write now for New York 
market reports, Fox - New York Guaran¬ 
teed PriceList and shipping tags—all FREE. 
It means more money for you—use coupon 
or send post card. 
Mr. 
Fo 
Geo. I. 
Fox. Inc. 
190 W. 25th St. 
New York City 
Send me yonr New 
York Price List. Bhow 
me how to get more 
money for my furs. 
GEO. I. FOX, INC. 
Raw Fur Merchants 
190 West 25th St., 
New York City 
Name_ 
Town_ 
State_R.F.D. 
TRAPPERS 
IT’S NOT WHAT A MAN SAYS 
BUT WHAT HE DOES 
that puts the dollars in the shippers’ 
pockets. That’s the main reason why 
JIM ELLIS 
never has any trouble holding 
old shippers. No Bluffing. 
No Ridiculous Promises. 
Simply a square deal to shippers through¬ 
out the United States, Canada and Alaska 
since 1899. Who offers more and keeps 
his promise? 
JAS. P. ELLIS’ RAW FURS 
34-36 Mill Street. Middletown, N. Y. 
Reliable Quotations Sent Free 
We Tan Them, You Wear 
any tame or wild animal hide 
Cow, Horse, Deer, Bear, 
mink, muskrat, skunk, ’coon, 
fox or other skins, tanned, 
mounted or made into fur 
auto robes, rugs, coats, caps, 
vests, gloves, muffs, scarfs, stoles. 
Blankets made from your own wool. 
FREE-BIG CATALOG-FREE 
Illustrated by living models. How to prepare hides 
for shipment. Prices for tanning, making garments 
from your own furs and complete garments. We 
will save you money on tanning, taxidermy and 
$10 to $50 on beautiful fur clothes. 
Rochester Fur Dressing Co., Inc. 
46 Crescent St., Rochester, N. Y. 
■y« . ri»i p r| n Money counts. Better prices—bet- 
I HflrrrnN ter grading—reliable quotations 
I llnl I LIIO means more money. We need your 
_ Furs—You need us. Free bait. Pric e 
lists, tags, etc. O. FERRIS & CO., Dept. 11. Chatham, N Y. 
SHOT GUNS BREECH LOADING S4 50 
Like Cut ^2^ - - V 
It is the U. S. Cal. 45B. L. 
Rifle. Barrels cut to 22-inch length. 
Rebored smooth for Bird shot. Kifle Bar¬ 
rels interchangeable, same length $2.00 extra. Bird 
shot Cartridges for these guns, $3.00 hundred; Ball 
cartridges, $3.00 hundred. Send for Catalog. 
W. STOKES KIRK, 1627-FG NORTH lOtb ST., PHILS., P*. 
Commercial Poultry Raising 
by Roberts. 
An all-around book; $3 postpaid, by 
j|JUST TREATMENT 
I ! is all you want. It’s the checks that count, 
not the lists with high prices and wind bag 
t promises. Our checks have satisfied thous- 
I ands in the last 14 years. Send us a trial 
shipment today. The check you'll get will 
I make you a steady Warenotf shipper. You may 
put on your own valuation; if we can't pay as much 
or more we return your furs at our expense. If you 
I want the most money for your furs and a square 
deal write today for Warenoff’s FREE price list, 
weekly market reports and shipping tags. 
ESTAB. 1911 
Sol Warenoff a Co.,inc 
A Wise Old Trapper 
In the state of Ohio there lived a bunch of 
boys who had this trapping business down to 
a science. They each sent for separate price 
lists every year and then sent all their furs 
to the house giving the best quotations. After 
five years they decided they weren’t so dread¬ 
fully wise because they didn’t have enough 
profits to make their efforts worth while. 
One day they met Tom McMillan driving a new car 
to town, Tom said he made the price of his swell 
outfit shipping peltB. He told how he got wise to 
those funnv prices and found it was better to deal 
with Chas. Porter because he always knew in advance 
just what he was sure of getting. He said that Porter 
never offered $5 for a $3 pelt but he always paid the $3 
which he promised and sometimes a little better. Chas. 
Porter now has five wise trappers in that section 
instead of one 
Don’t Take a ITIIDC 
Chance With Your r U lO 
Send us your name Your furs mean real dollars to 
and address. Get you. Whyselltliemtosomefellow 
our Price Butte- who offers you $1.25 when you 
tins, Shipping know blame'well you are lucky 
Tags and full par- to get fifty cents. Ask the wise 
ticulars. Doit right trapper who knows. Once a Chas. , 
note. This means Portershipperandyouwillalways • 
real dollars to you, be one. You know’in advance that 
so don’t put it off. we give a square deal and every 
Write today. shipment brings sure money. 
CHARLES S. PORTER, INC. 
Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
125 West 27th Street 
New York 
Nature Notes 
A Talking Crow 
I notice the question about making a 
crow talk. Yes, he can be taught to talk, 
kindness, patience, perseverance, and if 
he takes an interest in picking up words 
treat him, don’t press him too hard. A 
crow taught to talk hopped in at an open 
window when judge w r as addressing court, 
flew on to a desk near to judge. Crow 
seemed interested, listened for a few mo¬ 
ments, looked up at judge, sang out, “Oh, 
hello there,” stalked around, picked up a 
pen, rolled it for a second, sang out, 
“Shut up, shut up.” Judge slammed his 
hook shut and adjourned court; he did 
not like crow talk. They are like par¬ 
rots, will pick up rough talk faster than 
decent. john spiers, 
Florida. 
Fox Terriers and 
Woodchucks 
Since writing the article about the old 
fox terrier dog that found his way hack 
to his master over 70 miles of unknown 
territory, I have learned another interest¬ 
ing fact about that little dog. While he 
was with his master, Edward Wraight, 
at the Tunxis Club in Western Massa¬ 
chusetts, he was missing for four days. 
Then Mr. Wraight started out to look 
for him, and found him under a big stone 
near a stone wall, with a dead wood¬ 
chuck near him. He had torn the wood¬ 
chuck out of the wall, and in so doing 
dislodged a big stone which fell on him 
and crushed him to the ground. Here he 
had lain for four days. Mr. Wraight 
got the stone off him and carried the dog 
in his arms home, and cared for him un¬ 
til he was well. But the dog never en¬ 
tirely recovered from the crushing of 
those four terrible days; he was always 
a little lame afterward. 
When I moved from my farm, where I 
had lived 20 years, to the village on Wil- 
lington Ilill, a half mile away, I put a 
tenant on the farm who let it run down 
badly. Rats ran riot in the poultry- 
house, and woodchucks multiplied in the 
fields. Then George H. Wraight bought 
the farm. Edward sent him a son of the 
old dog, and in a few months there was 
hardly a rat to be found on the place. 
One evening the dog was taken up to a 
neighboring poultry plant and he killed 
35 rats within an hour. Woodchucks 
got scarce on the farm, the little dog was 
supreme for several years, then someone 
killed him, what for, no one seems to 
know. But Mr. Wraight got another fox 
terrier, a puppy. These dogs weigh only 
from li) to 20 lbs. when full grown. A 
relative of Mr. Wraight is poultry-keeper 
for a wealthy lady whose place is about 
one and a half miles away. The poultry- 
house has a board floor, and the rats had 
eaten numerous holes in it. It had been 
arranged that on a certain night Mr. 
Wraight was to bring his dog, then 
only eight months old, and they had 
pieces of an old iron casting tied to a 
long string and arranged in such a way 
that pulling the string would draw them 
over most of the holes. A man entered 
the building at one end, pulled the string 
and flashed on the lights, which was the 
sign for Mr. Wraight to put the dog in 
at the other end. He told me he never 
saw such a sight in his life; I should 
think there were 500 rats in that long 
house. The little dog killed 32 before 
the rest got away and Mr. Wraight says 
so far as he knows that was the first 
time he had ever killed a rat. 
Not long ago in The R. N.-Y. some¬ 
one told how his farm of 125 acres was 
overrun with woodchucks. I suggest to 
this man that he buy two or three of 
these terriers and let them run on his 
farm. They would just enjoy the fun 
of cleaning it of woodchucks. 
GEORGE A. COSGROVE. 
Recording Wild Voices 
I expect when you were in Nebraska 
and Colorado you heard the gabbling of 
many flocks of wild geese and brant, as 
they winged their way north or south; 
then, too, you heard music of the packs 
of coyotes or prairie wolves. In the 
pineries you have heard the old timber 
wolf on cold frosty nights. You may 
not have enjoyed all this music. I have 
had experience with all but the big timber 
wolf. I was handy with a gun, and en¬ 
joyed the voices of the wild birds and 
animals. Only twice in 30 years have I 
heard a prairie wolf howl. I stopped 
and listened; it was music to me. The 
voices of these wild creatures should be 
recorded on graphophone records and pre¬ 
served ; they would bring back to the old- 
timers memories of the past, when the 
West was young. They would bring 
real wild music to the young people of 
today, some of whom never heard a frog 
to know what it was. 
If the gabbling of a flock of wild geese 
was turned in over the radio many an 
old-timer would jump up and run out 
doors to catch a glimpse of the passing 
flock. The curator of the Iowa State 
Historical Society is recording the songs 
and folk-lore of the Iowa • tribes of In¬ 
dians for the study of their music as well 
as for the historical value. I believe the 
voices of wild birds and animals should 
also be preserved before it is too late. 
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LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Horse or cow" hides, calf, dog, deer, 
etc., made into coats (for men or 
women), robes, rugs or gloves. Or 
we tan your hides into oak tanned 
harness, sole or belt leather; your 
calf skins into shoe upper leather. 
Any desired color. FINE FURS, 
such as fox, coon, skunk, mink, 
muskrat, etc., made into latest 
style coats, muffs, vests, caps, 
neck-pieces or other garments. 
No Middleman Needed 
In Dealing With Us 1 
Factory prices mean a big saving to you.Write 
for free CATALOG and STYLE BOOK. Tells 
how to take off hides, about our safe dyeing 
process on cow, horse and calf skins. Gives 
prices on all work. If you haven’t enough pelts 
for garment you want, send what you have and 
we will supply the rest; or garment can be 
made complete from high grade skins we carry 
in stock. Furs repaired or remodeled. Estimates 
if desired. Automatic cold storage. Taxidermy 
and Head Mounting. Write today. 1 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company 
Largest custom tanners and furriers in the World 
593 Lyell Ave.. Rochester, N. Y. 
Leather' 
SHOE 
All Sizes 
An honest to goodness 
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bargain 
offered in 
years. The 
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and built 
to stand 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York City 
