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EGGS AND POULTRY 
SO MANY ELEMENTS enter into the ship¬ 
ping of day-old chicks and eggs by our ad¬ 
vertisers, and the hatching of same by our 
subscribers that the publishers of this paper 
cannot guarantee the safe arrival of day- 
old chicks, or that eggs shipped shall reach the 
buyer unbroken, nor can they guarantee the 
hatching of eggs. We shall continue to ex¬ 
ercise the greatest care in allowing poultry 
and egg advertisers to use this paper, but 
our responsibility must end with that. 
WHITE MUSCOVY DUCKS — $5 per pair. 
Utility Black Leghorn ckl’s $3, two, for $5. 
My daughter Lucile is offering her sensation 
pig club boar, Oct., weight 236, $75. RALPH 
WILSON, Bloomville, Ohio. ^ 
MANY VARIETIES—Pure Bred Poultry, 
Baby Chicks and Pigeons at low prices. 100 
page book in colors describes them. Mailed 
for 5 cents. FRANK FOY, Box 14, Clinton, 
Iowa. 
ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN — Cocks, 
hens, cockerels ; reasonable ; booking orders for 
chicks and eggs. L. D. CLARK, Binghamton, 
N. Y. 
DARK RHODE ISLAND RED COCKERELS. 
Owen Farm Strain $3 to $4 each. HUBERT 
C. BEARDSLEY, Montour Falls, N. Y. 
PRIZE WINNING AFRICAN AND TOU¬ 
LOUSE GEESE, White Runners and Buff 
Ducks. J. H. WORLEY, Mercer, Pa. 
WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS. Mam- 
mouth Pekin ducks. Pearl Guinea. LAURA 
DECKER, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
BARRED ROCK COCKERELS—Yearling or 
spring; select stock, $3 each ; 2 for $5. W. H. 
COOLEY, Albion, Pa., R 2. 
KULP. ROSE COMB BROWN LEGHORN 
COCKERELS. MAPLEWOOD FARM, Navarre, 
Ohio. 
PARDEE’S PERFECT PEKIN DUCKLINGS. 
Eggs, catalogue. ROY PARDEE, Islip, N. Y. 
BUFF ROCK COCKERELS. EDGEWOOD 
FARM, Ballston Lake, N. Y. 
TURKEYS 
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. Large 
stock. Toms, $10. Hens, $8. GEORGE A. 
BLAIR, Lebanon, N. Y. 
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. From 
large, purebred stock. Toms $12. WM. W. 
KETCH, Cohocton, N. Y. 
MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. Hens and 
Toms. THOMAS VOKE, Skaneatles, N. Y. 
MAMMOUTH BRONZE TOMS. LAURA 
DECKER, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
CATTLE 
FOR SALE — Registered Guernsey cows, 
heifers and calves ; accredited herd ; May Rose 
breeding. ALFADALE FARM, Athens, N. Y. 
MILKING SHORT HORNS—Two fine bulls. 
Farmers prices. WM. E. SUTTON, Windham, 
N. Y. 
SWINE 
REGISTERED POLAND CHINAS—Berk- 
shires, Chester White, all ages, mated, not 
akin. Bred sows, service boars ; collies, beagles. 
P. HAMILTON, Cochranville, Pa. 
REGISTERED CHESTER WHITE PIGS. 
Only a few left, “Prince Big Bone” blood. 
ALLAN MORTON, Ashville, N. Y. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
CHRISTMAS PUPPIES—English and Welsh 
Shepherds. Man’s best friend; always alert, 
watchful and fearless; a faithful companion 
born with herding instinct; a pup can be 
trained in six months; order early for first 
choice. GEORGE BOORMAN, Marathon, N. Y. 
ENGLISH SHEPHERD PUPS, guaranteed 
heel drivers and to make perfect cow dog or an 
all-around farm dog Make good Christmas 
present for your boy or girl. Will ship on De¬ 
cember 20. W. W. NORTON, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
SABLE AND WHITE SCOTCH COLLIE 
PUPPIES. .JOHN D. SMITH, Walton, N. Y. 
COLLIE PUPS PAINE’S KENNELS, South 
Royalton, Vt. 
RAW FURS AND TRAPPERY 
WE SOLICIT LARGE AND SMALL country 
consignments of beef, horse hides and kindred 
lines. Prompt and fair returns. Write for 
tags. PENNSYLVANIA HIDE & LEATHER 
COMPANY, Scranton, Pa. 
TRAPPERS. My method of catching foxes 
has no equal. Will send free. EVERETT 
SHERMANN, Whitman, Mass. 
SELLING SILVER POXES—$5 monthly. SIL- 
VERBAR ASSOCIATION, 143 e, Dracut, Mass. 
STANCHIONS 
CRUMB’S STANCHIONS are guaranteed to 
please the purchaser. They are shipped sub¬ 
ject to trial in the buyer’s stable. They are 
right. Send for booklet. WALLACE B. 
CRUMB, Box A, Forrestville, Conn. 
American Agriculturist, January 6, 19 
Your Market Place 
This is YOUR Market Place. It helps you to sell, buy, rent or exchange; 
to secure farm help or to find work. The address must be counted as part of 
the advertisement, and each initial or number counts as a word. Because of 
the low rate to subscribers and their friends, cash must accompany your 
order. Copy must be received by Monday to guarantee insertion in the 
following week’s issue. Phrase your wants, as others have secured your 
interest, by following the style of the advertisements on this page. Classi¬ 
fied advertisements are inserted at the rate of five cents a word per inser¬ 
tion; no single advertisement accepted for less than one dollar. Address 
all communication to: 
American Agriculturist, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City 
SHEEP 
CHOICE SHROPSHIRE ewes bred to a 
Warden ram, and Rambouillet ewes bred. 
Papers free. HUBERT C. BEARDSLEY, 
Montour Falls, N. Y. 
TOBACCO 
HOMESPUN TOBACCO. Chewing, 6 pounds 
$1.75; 10 pounds $3; 20 pounds $5. Smok¬ 
ing, 5 pounds $1.25 ; 10 pounds $2 ; 20 
pounds $3.50. Send no money, pay when re¬ 
ceived. COOPERATIVE TOBACCO GROWERS, 
Padueah, Kentucky. 
KENTUCKY SMOKING TOBACCO, aged in 
bulk, mild and mellow; 5 pounds $1.25 ; 10 
pounds $2 : 20 pounds $3.50 ; satisfaction guai-- 
anteed. KENTUCKY TOBACCO GROWERS’, 
Lynnville, Ky. ^ 
NATURAL LEAP TOBACCO. Chewing, 5 
pounds $1.75 ; 10 pounds $3; 20 pounds $5. 
Smoking, 5 pounds $1.25 ; 10 pounds $2. Pay 
when received. TOBACCO GROWERS’ UNION, 
Paducah, Ky. 
KENTUCKY TOBACCO—Three year old leaf. 
Pay for tobacco and postage when received. 
Chewing 5 lbs. $1.65 ; smoking 10 lbs. $1.50. 
FARMERS’ GRANGE, DlOO, Hawesville, Ky. 
LEAP TOBACCO—Chewing 4 lbs. $1.40; 
12 lbs. $3.60; Smoking 4 lbs. $1 ; 12 lbs. 
$2.40. Collect on Delivery. KENTUCKY 
TOBACCO GROWERS, Sedalia, Ky. 
TOBACCO — 10 lbs. chewing, $3 ; smoking, 
$2.50 ; second grade smoking. $1.50. Pay for 
tobacco and postage w'hen received. FARMERS’ 
EXCHANGE, Hawesville, Ky. 
CIGABS 
BUY YOUR CIGARS direct. 50 LaColumnas, 
prepaid for $1.50. Agents wanted. HAVANA 
SMOKEHOUSE, Homeland, Ga. 
FEMALE HELP WANTED 
THE OLIVIA SAGE SCHOOL OF PRAC¬ 
TICAL NURSING offers one year’s course in 
special bedside nursing to limited number of 
women. Classes formed quarterly. Pupils 
receive maintenance, uniform and salary. Ap¬ 
ply to DIRECTOR, NEW YORK INFIRMARY 
FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 321 East 
15th St., New York. 
REAL ESTATE 
CALIFORNIA STATE LANDS — The State 
.,and Board of California has for sale 87 
rrigated farms at Ballico, near Merced, in 
!an .loaquin Valley on main line Santa Fe 
lailway. The State makes it possible for you 
o own one of these farms, only requiring 5 
)er cent of purchase price, remainder in semi- 
innual installments extending over 36 Mi years 
vith 5 per cent interest annually. Here is 
in opportunity to become a home owner on 
erms as favorable as renting. It will be a 
ong time before any more land will be avail- 
ible under such generous provisions. Money 
idvanced on improvements and dairy stock, 
fhose already located very enthusiastic; you 
ian farm all year in California ; all deciduous 
Tuits profitably grown ; alfalfa a paying crop, 
deal conditions for stock and poultry , many 
persons long some day to make their homes 
n California, with its winterless climate, 
Jlenty of sunshine, seashore and mountains, 
ertile valleys, paved highways, very efficient 
narketing, excellent schools; State Board’s 
pamphlet, also Santa Fe folder describing San 
loaquin Valley mailed free on request. C. L. 
3EAGRAVES, General Colonization Agent, 
Santa Fe, 951 Railway Exchange, Chicago. 
[11s. 
FOR SALE — 160 acres, 10 miles east of 
lil City, Pa., about half under culti-^ation; 
balance in timber and pasture; with good 8 
-oom house and good barn and other build- 
ngs ■ 2 good orchards, at a low price of 
34 000. Address, .1. C. WOKASIEM, Denus, 
Pa’., R. F. D. Box 42. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
PATCHWORK—Send fifteen cents for house¬ 
hold package, bright new calicoes and percales. 
Your money’s worth every time. PATCH- 
WORK COMPANY, Meriden, Conn. 
AGENTS WANTED 
AGENTS WANTED—Agents make .a dol- 
ir an hour. Sell Mendets, a patent patch 
>r instant mending leaks in all utensils, 
ample package free. COLLETTE MFG. CO., 
ept. 140, Amsterdam. N. Y. 
AGENTS—Our soap and Toilet article plan 
a wonder. Get our free sample case offer. 
O-RO-CO., 177 Locust St, St Louis, Mo. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCKS 
SEED POTATOES—Russet Rural Variety. 
Selected twelve years. FAIRACRES POTATO 
FARM, E. R. SMITH, Specialist Kasoag, N. Y. 
ALFALFA HAY—First and Second Cutting, 
also Light and Heavy Ciover Mixed. Ask for 
delivered prices. SAMUEL DEUEL, Pine 
Plains, N. Y. 
BEES 
HONEY — 5 lbs. clover. $1.25 ; buckwheat, 
$1.15 : 10 lbs. clover, $2.15 ; buckwheat,. $1.90. 
Postpaid to 4th zone. We are Farm Bureau 
Members. RANSOM FARM, 1310 Spring St., 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
PURE HONEY—Circular free. ROSCOE F. 
WIXSON, Dept. A. Dundee, New York. 
I 
COMB HONEY—Prices reasonable. 
GRIGGS, Seneca Palls, N. Y. 
FRANK 
AUCTION SCHOOLS 
LEARN AUCTIONEERING AT HOME- 
Full course, diploma. Free catalog. AUC¬ 
TIONEERS’ SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE, 
1215 Arlington Ave., Davenport Iowa. 
MALE HELP WANTED 
ALL men, women, boys, girls, 17 to 60, will- 
ing to accept Government positions, $117- 
$190, traveling or stationary, write MR. OZ- 
MENT, 258 St. Louis, immediately. 
WANTED—Experienced foreman that un¬ 
derstands making furniture and wood novel¬ 
ties. EDWARD SADLER, Pine Plains, N. Y. 
miscellaneous 
ALL WOOL KNITTING YARN for sale, 
from manufacturer at 95c, $1.35 and $1.60 
a pound. Postage paid on $5 orders. Free 
samples. H. A. BARTLETT, Marmony, Maine. 
LATEST STYLE SANITARY MILK TICK¬ 
ETS save money and time. Free delivery. 
Send for samples. TRAVERS BROTHERS, 
Dept. A, Gardner, Mass. 
ALFALFA, mixed and timothy hay. Have 
seven cars, shipped subject inspection. W. 
A. WITHROW, Route Four, Syracuse, New 
York. 
BEST EXTENSION LADDERS made 23 
cents per foot. Freight paid. A. L. FERRIS, 
Interlaken, N. Y. 
FERRETS—Get our free booklet and pre¬ 
war prices on sound healthy Ferrets. W. A, 
JEWETT & SONS, Rochester, O. 
MILK TICKETS a specialty. Samples free, 
BONDS PRESS, Middletown, N. Y. 
Old Accounts Collected 
L ast September we received a letter 
from Mr. W. J. Steers, Massapequa, 
L. I., which told of a debt owed him by 
the National Pie Baking Company of 
Brooklyn. Almost a year before he 
wrote us, Mr. Steers had sold this com¬ 
pany seventy-four barrels of squash. 
The driver left them on the promise 
that a check would be sent, but al¬ 
though Mr. Steers repeatedly wrote 
and also called himself, he never got 
any satisfaction about his claim. 
It took some time for the Service 
Bureau to locate the debtor because the 
company had evidently gone out of 
business. However, we finally found 
that a reputable law firm in New York 
had been appointed attorneys in taking 
over the reorganization of the com¬ 
pany. Through some cai’eless book¬ 
keeping on the part of the original 
owners, the address of Mr. Steers had 
not been kept, but the lawyers had dis¬ 
covered that the account was payable 
to him, and had held out sufficient 
money to meet this indebtedness if 
Mr. Steers succeeded in getting in 
touch with them. 
* They immediately enclosed a check 
of $92.50, asking the Service Bureau to 
forward it, and wrote: “We might 
add that you have not only been of 
service to Mr. Steers, but that we have 
likewise been served, in that you have 
enabled us to readily dispose of this 
account, as otherwise we might have 
been required to retain this fund on 
hand for some time awaiting ■ devel¬ 
opments.” 
Mr. Steers, on receiving the money, 
offered to pay any expense of collec¬ 
tion, but as usual we wrote him that 
it was part of the service which the 
bureau was glad to render at any tinie, 
and that we were only glad that his 
complaint had been one we could settle 
so swiftly._ 
COLLECTED HIS COMMISSIONS 
"It gives us great pleasure to enclose 
a cneck for $27.50 in settlement of your 
complaint.” It was thus that the Ser¬ 
vice Bureau wrote to Mr. Bert F. Kiner, 
of Sloansville, Pa. who submitted his 
case to us last October. Mr. Kiner had 
undertaken in August, to sell fruit trees 
for a firm in New York State. His 
commission was to be 25 per cent pay¬ 
able on the weekly plan. When $36.18 
was due him, he turned the case over 
to the Service Bureau. We investigated 
and found that the company had been 
rather laggard in paying its commis¬ 
sions, but that the delay was partly due 
to their natural wish to check up and 
be sure that the orders were good. In 
such a case the firms always require 
good references because thi|Amust pay 
out money in advance they re¬ 
ceive payment for the 
The check for $27.50 covered the 
major part of the commission due him 
and the company stated that they would 
be glad to pay at once as soon as they 
received from Mr. Kiner the names of 
banks or other reputable references to 
cover the rest of the orders. Mr. Kiner 
felt that he either would not have re¬ 
ceived this commission or would have 
had to wait a great deal longer for it if 
it had not been for the Service Bureau. 
MORE LOST EGGS 
The American Railway Express Com¬ 
pany recently made good a claim for a 
lost case of eggs within a few days 
after it was brought to their attention 
by this magazine. The subscriber who 
lives in Mannsville, N. Y. had previously 
endeavored to get action out of the 
company, but without success. 
He very wisely referred it to the 
American Agriculturist at once. In all 
such cases it is better to call in the 
Service Bureau as soon as there is any 
difficulty because it is sometimes almost 
impossible to disentangle a case when 
many different people have had a hand 
in it. ■ 
Just at Christmas Time 
A subscriber who had just received 
a check of $9.03 through the good 
offices of the Service Bureau, recently 
referred to us another case which Ajon- 
cerned a lost crate of eggs. We took 
the matter up at once with the whole¬ 
sale dealers to whom he had consigned 
it and at first they claimed that they 
had no record of the case of eggs. _We 
kept after them however, and just 
before Christmas Mr. Lewis Green, of 
So. Otselic, N. Y. received a check for 
$6.74. He felt that if it had not been 
for the service which we rendered he 
never would have received this money 
which came just in time for the holiday. 
Simple Farm Accounts—The first of 
the year is the time when those farm¬ 
ers who do not already have a good 
system of keeping accounts should turn 
their thoughts in that direction. The 
county agent can advise on this 
problem. 
Just to say that Tulips came last 
evening, all O. K. condition. Mrs. Olin 
says the finest bulbs she ever saw. She 
was more than pleased with same, be¬ 
sides they were ordered for a surprise 
and birthday present. But we are 
truly thankful for them, also to knof 
that each issue of the American Agri¬ 
culturist is better than the previous 
week. Wishing you the best that is 
going.—Arthur V. Olin, St. Lawrence 
Co., N. Y. 
