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The More You Tell, The Quicker You Sell 
pVERY week the American Agriculturist reaches over 130,000 farmers in New York 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and adjacent States. Advertising orders must reach our 
office at 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City, not later than the second Mondav previous 
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the low rate to subscribers and their friends, cash or money order must accompany your 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS ready for 
shipment from eight weeks to six months old. 
Also five hundred yearling hens. OLIN HOP- 
KINSON, South Columbia, N. Y. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
FOR SALE. Choice Gold Coin seed wheat. 
$2.15 per bushel, bags included. JARED VAN 
WAGENEN, JR., Lawyersville, Schoharie Co. 
N. Y. 
PULLETS SI UP. Rocks, Reds, Leghorns, 
etc., White, Brown and Buff Leghorns, Ancona, 
yearling hens. Circular. GARDEN STATE 
CHICKERY, 329 Arch SL, Camden, N. J. 
FOUR PURE BRED (single comb) Black 
Minorca cockerels, March hatch, $3 each if 
taken at once. MRS. BERTHA DEVLIN, 
Arcade, N. Y. 
CHICKS—7c up C. O. D. Rocks, Reds' 
Leghorns and mixed. 100% delivery guaran¬ 
teed. 19th season. Pamphlet. Box 26, C. M. 
LAUVER, McAllisterville, Pa. 
THE THREE BEST Strawberries: 
best early, Boquet, greatest yielder 
lughest quality. Originated New York 
ment Station. Plants for fall setting, 
dollar; hundred, five dollars. Postpaid, 
lar free. CERTIFIED PLANT 
Macedon, -N. Y. 
Beacon 
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FARM 
FOR SALE—Choice young Rose-comb R. I. 
Red Cockerels and young Mammoth Pekin 
drakes. EDGAR M. BROWN, Cuba, N. Y. 
THOMPSONS RINGLET Barred Rocks, 
also choice Rhode Island Reds, old and young 
stock, at attractive prices. 200 April hatched 
White Leghorn pullets, $1.75 each. I guarantee: 
to please. I. H. BACORN, Sergeantsville, N. J. 
CATTLE 
ORCHARD GROVE Milking Shorthorn. 
$175 buys five-months-old bull and four-month- 
old heifer, beauties from heavv producers. 
L. R. HOTCHKISS, West Springfield, Erie Co., 
Pa. _ 
SHROPSHIRE RAMS. Yearling rams for 
sale, bred from the best stock in America that 
are right in every way. Estate of ARTHUR S. 
DAVIS, Chili Station, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—22 Registered Holsteins. fe¬ 
male, 2 to 6 years old, due to freshen in Novem¬ 
ber to January. 14 are from one sire, accredited 
herd. GROVE GOODWIN, Baldwinsville, 
N. Y. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS cheap. 
Trial catalogue. BECK, W 14, Herrick, Ill. 
FOR SALE—Fox, Coon and Rabbit Hound 
puppies. Also one hound 14 months old, well 
bred. Prices reasonable. SIMON DORNOW, 
Wellsville, N. Y. , 
THOROBRED COLLIE puppies, males, 
spayed females; all ages. ARCADIA FARM, 
Bally, Pa. 
DON’T run your legs off chasing cows. 
English and Welsh Shepherds go for stock 
lalone. Just in from Canada. Order quick 
'while they last. GEORGE BOORMAN, 
Marathon, N. Y. 
ANGORA—Long-haired kittens of pure bred 
stock. Maine grown pets, male or female. 
ORRIN J. DICKEY, Belfast, Maine. 
SABLE'AND WHITE Collie Pupoies, Males, 
$6.00; Females, $5.00. P. HAMILTON, Coch¬ 
ran ville, Pa. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
FOR SALE: Boomer and Boschert knuckle- 
power press, reversible platform for 48-inch 
racks, in running order, good as new for $300, 
cash; also 2 or 3 hundred used Cider Barrels, 
$2 and $3 each. JAY CARPENTER, 835 Cliff 
St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
CORN HARVESTER cuts and piles on 
harvester or windrows. Man and horse curs 
and shocks equal Corn Binder. Sold in every 
State. Only $25 with bundle tying attachment. 
Testimonials and catalog. FREE showing pic¬ 
ture of Harvester. PROCESS HARVESTER 
CO., Salina, Kansas. 
PRINTING 
150 NOTEHEADS, 100 white envelopes 
printed and mailed $1.00. Samples printing 
free. SUNCO, Mohawk, New York. 
COLLECT your outstanding accounts with. 
Common Sense Collection Letters. Price low. 
Sample letters free. WALTER G. COLLINS, 
Cohocton, N. Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
UNUSUAL OFFER—Delco Light Battery, 
56 cell, 160 ampere hours, 112 volt, in excellent 
condition, cost $600, asking $250. New Jersey 
farmers note! Write BOX 450, Caldwell, N. J., 
or call at Amitage Estate. 
BEST EXTENSION LADDERS made 
25c per foot. Freight paid. A. L. FERRIS, 
Interlaken, N. Y. 
FULL BARREL Lots. Dishes, slightly 
damaged crockery, shipped any address direct 
from pottery, Ohio, for $6.00. Lots are well 
assorted and still serviceable. Plates, platters, 
cups and saucers, bowls, pitchers, bakers, mugs, 
nappies, etc., a little of each. Send cash with 
order. Write us. E. SWASEY & CO., Portland, 
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 for sale 
in car lots, inspection allowed, ready now. 
W. A. WITHROW, Syracuse, New York. 
When writing to advertisers, be sure to 
mention the American Agriculturist 
CELERY AND CABBAGE PLANTS, all 
leading varieties, strong plants readv for field. 
$1.25 for 1,000. $10.00 for 10,000. J. C. 
- SCHMIDT, Bristol, Pa. 
HOLLAND BULBS—Order now, our supply 
is limited. Tulips, Giant Darwin or Early 
Mixed or separate colors, 40 for $1; 100 for $2; 
Narcissus, Single or Double, 30 for $1, 100 for 
$3; Hyacinths (Bedding), mixed or separate 
colors, 20 for $1, 100 for $4. Hyacinths, Giant, 
top-size, 12 for $1; Crocus, 100 for $1. Special 
prices on large lots. All orders sent post-paid. 
C. O. D. if desired. R. J. GIBBINS, Mt. 
Holly, N. J. 
ORDER NOW. For Planting time. Low 
Prices for early orders. Gorgeous peonies. All 
colors. All bloom next spring, 3 for $1.00. 12 
for $3.00. R. I. GIBBONS, Mt. Holly, N. J. 
( PEONIES, 12 mixed, at $2.50. Prepaid at 
13.00. A card will bring our price list. Large 
acreage of peonies and many new sorts. Whole¬ 
sale and retail. MUNSELL & TILTON, 
Ashtabula, Ohio. 
' HONOR WHEAT SEED — College Inspected. 
White, beardless, heavy yielding. Improved 
selection from Dawson's Golden Chaff. JONES 
$ WILSON, Hall, N. Y. 
REAL ESTATE 
MR. FARM BUYER, Good farms for sale- 
Equipped, with small payment down on easy 
terms. Reason selling old age, sickness. Estates 
settled up, etc. Let me submit your offer to 
Owners. Tell your wants to C. M. DOUGLAS, 
Herkimer, N. Y. 
MONEY MAKING FARMS FOR SALE in 
central New York State. For sizes, descriptions, 
price and terms, write PERRY FARM AGEN¬ 
CY, Canajoharie, N. Y. 
FARM WITH STOCK and tools, 5 miles to 
Prattsburg; )4 mile to country road. Good 
buildings, level lands, mile to R. R. Station. 
2 miles to Wheeler Center. Price $2,800. 
CHARLES RICE, Box 625. Hammondsport, 
N. Y. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
PATCHWORK. Send fifteen cents for 
household package, bright new calicoes and 
percales. Your money’s worth every time. 
PATCHWORK COMPANY, Meriden, Conn. 
LOOMS ONLY $9.00—Big Money in Weav¬ 
ing Rugs, carpets, portieres, etc., at home, from 
rags and waste material. Weavers are rushed 
with orders. Send for free loom book, it tells all 
about the weaving business and our wonderful 
$9.90 and other looms. UNION LOOM 
WORKS, 332 Factory St., Boonville, N. Y. 
ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manufac¬ 
turer, 75c to $2.00 per lb. Free samples. 
H. A. BARTLETT, Harmony, Me. 
AGENTS WANTED 
WOODROW WILSON’S LIFE by Josephus 
Daniels selling like hot cakes. Outfit Free. 
WILMORE BOOK & BIBLE COMPANY, 
Como Building, Chicago. 
MEN’S SHIRTS. Easy to sell. Big demand 
everywhere. Make $15.00 daily. Undersell 
stores. Complete line. Exclusive patterns. 
Free Samples. CHICAGO SHIRT MANU¬ 
FACTURERS, 229 W. Van Buren, Factory 222, 
Chicago. 
HELP WANTED 
MEN to train for firemen or brakemen on 
railroads nearest their homes—everywhere 
beginners, $1.50, later $2.50; later as conductors, 
engineers, $300-$400 monthly (which position?). 
RAILWAY ASSOCIATION. Desk W-16, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
ALL MEN, WOMEN, BOYS, GIRLS—17 to 
65, willing to accept Government positions, 
$117-$250; traveling or stationary, write MR. 
OZMENT, 258 St. Louis, Mo., immediately. 
Can You Talk to Farmers? 
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We want to hire a few more reliable men who 
can talk convincingly to farmers about their 
great need of AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
If you are a retired farmer or inactive for 
any reason, this is a real opportunity to make 
a permanent and profitable connection. 
Details on request. Write to-day 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
461 Fourth Avenue New York City 
American Agriculturist, August 30, 1924 
Service Bureau 
Invest in Your Own Farm, Not Someone Else’s 
1 am sending a leaflet describing a proposition in which 
I have been asked to invest. It looks too good to be true. 
What is your advice? If it is fraudulent I wish to warn 
my friends.—N. C. H., New York. 
THHE proposition that N. C. H. sends 
A in with his letter is a stock selling cam¬ 
paign being conducted by a western ranch 
known as Tomahawk Ranch of Kelton, 
Ariz. The proposition put forth in the 
circular is that the ranch “is offering for 
sale a limited number of 'pedigreed shorthorn 
cows at $200 each, payable at the rate of $10 
a month—$300 each if paid in cash, with 
immediate participation in profits—and 
agrees to care for, feed, breed, and milk the 
cow and her heifer progeny, to sell all milk 
products, to develop and sell to the best pos¬ 
sible advantage all calves capable of becoming 
high-grade breeding bulls, to market all 
steers, and to replace the original cows, in 
event of death from any cause whatsoever, 
during a period of 10 years. At the end of 
ten years the original cows and half the un¬ 
sold progeny are to be delivered to the 
purchaser, or sold for his account, or 
contract may be continued at his option .” 
The ranch operators then go on to give 
a mathematical analysis of their propo¬ 
sition under the heading of Estimated 
Income. They estimate their biennial 
earnings starting with 10 dual purpose 
Shorthorn cows they figure for the in¬ 
crease in inventory every two years to be 
$4645 to be participated in by the share 
holder. They also estimate that the 
average annual earning of each cow is 
$232, leaving for distribution to the 
owner of the cow $116. 
“Too Good to Be True” 
N. C. H. is certainly just in saying that 
‘it is too good to be true” and our advice 
is to keep away from this proposition. 
The reasons for this advice are (1)—the 
seat of operations is too far away to know 
anything about the conduct of the busi¬ 
ness; (2)—when you wish to sell your 
shares in this proposition, the market for 
such shares is very very limited; (3)—the 
estimated earnings appear to us to be all 
out of proportion with any line of reason¬ 
ing; (4)—in view of the nature of the 
business it does not seem wise to invest 
your money in a farm in Arizona when you 
can turn around and invest just as well in 
your own farm; (5)—if you have money to 
invest, invest it in a business of long 
standing, nationally known and of an 
earning reputation that stands above 
question or doubt; (6)—suppose disease 
should wipe out the herd—where would 
your money go? And so on. No! If you 
are going to invest, invest and don’t 
speculate. Don’t look for a good invest¬ 
ment that gives such outlandish returns. 
They don’t exist. 
Questions About Investments 
I Lave some neighbors who are working in the Light 
and Heat Corporation in Ridgewood. They have been 
solicited to buy stock, and bought $500 worth of stock 
and found after it was not worth the paper it was written 
on. They are hard-working men and they can’t afford to 
lose. Can you advise them what to do to get their stock 
back?— Mbs. N. M. B., New Jersey. 
Unless you can show actual fraud we 
enow of no way you can recover money 
paid for stock which you later find to be 
worthless. We have no record of this 
particular corporation and so it is hard 
to advise you specifically. The only 
safe rule is never under any circum¬ 
stances to buy stock of salesmen. Sound 
securities are not sold that way. 
I am attaching a letter from the Pittsburgh Tin Plate & 
Steel Corporation in regards to some bonds they advise 
us to buy to save the stock we have bought several years 
ago. Would you advise us to buy the enclosed bonds 
which they advise, or is it best to lose that which seems 
to be lost?— S. E. MacC., Maryland. 
The proper way to solve your problem 
is to disregard the fact that you have 
already lost money in the stock. The 
question for you now to consider is 
whether if you had new funds to invest 
you would take these bonds. Stated that 
way the answer is obviously—no. Assum¬ 
ing that you have no money with which 
to speculate we think you might better 
buy something else of demonstrated 
investment value. 
* * * 
I am attaching papers of the Traders’ Finance Corpora¬ 
tion. Would you please advise me if this would be a good 
investment? If not would you please inform me of 
another reliable corporation in which I could invest 
$1,000.—-T. C., Pennsylvania. 
We advise against investment in 
Traders’ Finance Corporation by those 
unable to take large risks. Why not buy 
a good bond with your $1,000. We 
suggest one American Telephone & Tele¬ 
graph collateral trust 5 of 1946. It sells 
for about $970 for a $1,000 bond and pays 
you $50 a year in interest annually. It is 
entirely safe and can be sold at any time 
or you can borrow on it at the bank as 
collateral. 
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No Market for Oil Stocks 
* 
^ I would like to know if the San Antonio Oil and Natural 
Gas Company of Milwaukee, Wis., is any good and if their 
stock is worth anything? I have shares in this company 
and would like to know if I will get anything out of them. 
I would also like to know if the Deep Wells Oil Company 
of San Antonio, Tex., stock is worth anything.—C. S., 
New York. 
As far as we have been able to find out 
there is no market for your oil stocks A 
Milwaukee house offers San Antonio 
Oil & Natural Gas at 35 cents a share but 
makes no bid. As you probably know by 
this time there is no more dangerous and 
foolish speculation than to buy oil stocks 
of any kind. 
* * * 
Being a subscriber to your very useful paper and seeing 
your good advice on oil stacks and other questionable 
business I would like your advice on the following. I 
bought as a speculation some Jewel Oil stock, later trans¬ 
ferred to^Ziegler Oil Corporation as voting trust certificate 
due June 1, 1926, to receive stock in this company and I 
have not heard from this company since the middle of 
June. The certificate is signed by Victor Ziegler, William 
B. Lloyd, T. M. Pettigrew, J. Meyer, Louis Fredenberg 
and Empire Trust Co. of New York City. I am enclosing 
a circular. Their business address is or was 25 West 43a 
St., New York City—Lloyd, Pettigrew & Meyer.— C. C. 
M. 
Aside from the fact that a Denver house 
offers Ziegler Oil at 25 cents a share but 
makes no bid, we have no information 
about your oil stock. You say you bought 
this stock as a speculation. We think 
speculation in oil stocks is foolish in the 
extreme. The chances are 99 out of a 100 
that you will lose, but if you must specu¬ 
late take listed issues with a ready market, 
shares in corporations with long estab¬ 
lished records. Even then do not put a 
dollar more into such stocks than you can 
conveniently afford to lose. 
Give the Child a Bank Account 
{Continued from page 130) 
himself, arouses a child’s sense of responsi¬ 
bility. 
The question of, investing would 
forinerly never have come up when a 
child’s small savings were considered, 
but nowadays there are excellent 
opportunities for the wee investor. 
The wartime Thrift Stamps started many 
juvenile savings accounts. I wish there 
were something of the sort to enlist the 
quarters and half dollars now. But the 
Treasury Certificates are graded down 
to a low cost and the system is so ar¬ 
ranged that any child could understand 
it and manage his purchases himself. 
There are also “baby bonds” and other 
securities which an older boy or girl 
might be able to achieve. At any rate, 
it is well worth the trouble of initiating 
the young folks into the principles of wise 
investment. Soon enough will come the 
time when if they have any savings at 
all, glittering inducements are held out 
to dazzle their vision, and if they are not 
forewarned they may lose the entire 
result of many years’ patient saving by 
one foolish endeavor to “get rich quick.” 
This may be a valuable lesson but it is 
too dearly bought, and one that, with its 
heartache and discouragement, is better 
avoided than experienced. A little of 
the right sort of investment practice in 
advance will counteract the effect of a 
great deal of persuasion toward the 
wrong sort. 
