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17 VERY week the American Agriculturist reaches over 130,000 farmers in New York, 
■*—' New Jersey, Pennsylvania and adjacent States. Advertising orders must reach our 
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American Agriculturist, September 13, 1924 
Service Bureau 
Three Billion Dollars for Fraud 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
S. C. W. LEGHORN yearlings, $1 each. 
500 pullets hatched April 15, $1.75 each. 
HILLSDALE POULTRY FARM, Hillsdale, 
N. Y. 
WHITE LEGHORN PULLETS ready for 
shipment from eight weeks to six months old. 
Also five hundred yearling hens. OLIN 
HOPKINSON, South Columbia, N. Y. 
THOMPSON’S 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. 
LARGE PEKIN DUCKS and drakes. 
Stock direct from Pardee. 200 Penciled 
Runners. Great layers. H. K. WILLEY, 
Fulton, N. Y. _ 
WHITE WYANDOTTE cockerels, pullets, 
mammoth Pekin ducks. LAURA DECKER, 
Stanfordville, N. Y. 
_ CATTLE _ 
FALL COW for sale. Due in September and 
October. J. M. McINTOSH, Box 13, Gardiner, 
Ulster Co., N. Y. _ 
FOR SALE—Fifty fresh cows and springers; 
Grade Holsteins and Guernseys. Carloads a 
specialty. One to three carloads always on 
hand. F. O. STOWELL, Richland, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Registered Guernsey bull, 15 
months old, a fine animal. Write for pedigree 
and price. CHAS. H. SCOTT, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
_ SHEEP _ 
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. 
_ SWINE _ 
CHESTER, Berkshire and Poland-China 
pigs for breeding or feeding. Male or female, 
8 weeks old, $5 each; 12 weeks, $10 each. I. R. 
T ANGEE, York Springs, Pa. _ 
FOR SALE—Large type Poland-China pigs 
and service boars bred from 1000-pound 
ancestors. Farmers’ prices. R. F. SEELEY, 
Waterloo, N. Y. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS cheap. 
Trial catalogue. BECK, W 14, Herrick, III. 
THOROBRED COLLIE puppies, males, 
spayed 1 females; all ages. ARCADIA FARM, 
Bally, Pa. _ 
ANGORA—Long-haired kittens of pure bred 
stock. Maine grown pets, male or female. 
ORRIN J. DICKEY, Belfast, Maine. _ 
SALE, EXCHANGE—Registered English 
setter, three years, broken, $75; three 8 months 
Airedale bitches eligible, $10; Airedale, Coon- 
hound cross females, $5. Want shotguns, high- 
power rifles, target pistol. LUTHER FALKEY, 
Phelps, N. Y. _7_ 
FOR SALE—St! Bernard puppies, perfect 
markings, faithful companions and protectors of 
children, reliable watch dogs. EXCELSIOR 
KENNELS, Waterloo, N. Y. _ 
FOR SALE—Beagle pups, 6 months old, 
eligible trailing rabbits, some now $20 each. 
C. CALKINS, Harris, N. Y. ~ _ 
HALF BULL, half collie pups, $5; also Fox 
Terrier puppies. White Rock Cockerels, $3. 
CARMEN D. WELCH, Herrick, Ill. _ 
COLLIE PUPPIES—“The Intelligent Kind.” 
Purebred. Shipped on approval. Females, $6. 
Also Airedales. WM. W. KETCH, Cohocton, 
N. Y. _ 
FOR SALE—Four Belgian does and one 
buck, $1 each. VERONICA STABB, Oriskany 
Falls, N. Y. 
_ 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 cuts 
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. 
SITUATIONS WANTED 
SITUATION—As superintendent of dairy 
farm, near high school, good references. JAMES 
N. SIMMS, Ellicottville, N. Y. _ 
POSITION as manager of private estate or 
farm. Specialist in bee-keeping, poultry, or 
vegetable gardening. Cornell graduate. Age 
37. Married. References furnished. Box 333, 
American Agriculturist, 461 Fourth Ave., 
New York City. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
MONEY IN WHEAT—If you sow best 
seed, try Leap’s Prolific, great stooler, stiff 
straw, red berry, much desired by millers; 
record, 40 bu. acre; 10 bu. lots, $1.95; over ten, 
$1.90. Bags free. Freight paid. E.E. WRIGHT, 
Holcomb, N, Y, _ 
HAY AND STRAW—-Number one, number 
two timothy, light and heavy clover mixed, 
alfalfa, wheat, oat and rye straw and baled 
shavings. Ask for delivered prices. Thirty 
years in the business right in our home town. 
SAMUEL DEUEL, Pine Plains, N, Y. _ 
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 postpaid, 
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. 
HONOR WHEAT SEED—College Inspected. 
White, beardless, heavy yielding. Improved 
selection from Dawson’s Golden Chaff. JONES 
& WILSON, Hall, N, Y. _ 
I BELIEVE these three wonderful straw¬ 
berries will bring you greatest profits in garden, 
market and plant trade. Bliss, highest quality; 
Beacon, best early; Boquet, greatest producer. 
Originated New York Experiment Station. 
Plants fall setting, dozen, dollar; hundred, five 
dollars. Postpaid. Circular free. CERTIFIED 
PLANT FARM, Macedon, N. Y. 
REAL ESTATE 
FOR SALE-—136-acre Delaware County 
Dairy Farm. Will keep 25 cows, complete 
farming equipment. A bargain for quick sale. 
MRS. A. D, HOY, Bovina, N. Y, _ 
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. 
RICH AGRICULTURE LAND, $2.50 per 
acre. All tillable; best climate; good markets; 
no taxes. Join our colony. Secure land that 
should be worth $50 per acre in 10 years. 
BOLIVIA COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION, 
Portland, Ore, _ 
WILL TRADE my 6}4 acre equipped village 
home, 25 miles from Buffalo, for small one-man 
farm. BOX 125, Collins Center, N. Y. _ 
FOR TRADE—5-acre improved farm on 
Lake City Highway for northern property of 
same value. OWNER, Box 810, Jacksonville, 
Fla. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
60 CHEMICAL Indoor Toilet Outfits, regular 
price $12.50, only $6.50 each. (Satisfaction 
guaranteed.) IDEAL CLOSET CO., Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. _ 
FERRETS—White or brown from a great 
hunting strain. Prices very reasonable. Catalog 
on request. RALPH J. WOOD, New London, 
Ohio. 
HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, 5 lbs., 
$1.75; 10 lbs., $3.00; 20 lbs., $5.25. Smoking, 
5 lbs., $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.00; 20 lbs., $3.50. Pipe 
free. Money back if not satisfied. ALBERT 
P. FORD, Paducah, Ky. 
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. Jl, 
or call at Amitage Estate. 
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. 
MY TEAMS collect up 100 tons hardwood 
ashes every month. Price quoted. Any 
quantity delivered. GEORGE STEVENS, 
Peterborough, Ont. _ 
INTRODUCING FLY OIL—Guaranteed to 
kill flies and not taint milk, $4.75 for six gallons, 
$9 per dozen, remainder of season. N. H. 
BROWN, Lafargeville, N. Y. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
PATCH WORK. 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. 
I T is practically impossible for the 
human mind to measure any com¬ 
modity in terms of billions. Yet last 
year, according to Mr. E. A. St. John, 
President of the National Surety Com¬ 
pany, [the people of the United States 
lost three billion dollars through fraud 
and crime. At the head of the list stand 
stock frauds, a good part of which were oil 
stock frauds. These frauds alone cost the 
people a billion dollars. 
Just try to measure what the loss of 
this money, taken mostly from people 
who could ill afford to lose it from their 
small lifetime savings, meant to those 
who were duped, and you will see why 
American Agriculturist believes it can 
perform no bigger service for its readers 
than to maintain a Service Bureau, which 
works constantly to show up fraud and 
dishonesty and to get refunds whenever 
possible for those who have been duped. 
Not a mail goes by without bringing 
letters asking our advice about investing 
in fool schemes that are wrong right on 
the face of them. It is hard to see why 
so many people allow themselves to be 
fooled into losing their savings in schemes 
that plain, ordinary common sense ought 
to show to be impossible. 
What the “Tribune” Says . 
The New York Tribune, on comment¬ 
ing editorially on these losses by fraud, 
says: 
“The biggest item is charged to the confi¬ 
dence game, against which there is no defense 
save the education of the sort of people who 
are most easily victimized, and until greed can 
be educated out of human nature, the con¬ 
fidence man will always flourish. It is the 
desire to get something for nothing, or at 
least much for little, that brings people to his 
door with their savings.” 
When some bright-colored, sensational 
circular comes along offering twenty-five 
to one hundred per cent, profit, burn it! 
It is a lying sheet! When some smooth 
representative comes into your home 
and tells you that he can turn your 
meager savings into riches, kick him 
into the highway. He ought to be 
in jail. In many countries he would 
be. If we had a few less laws in this 
country, and enforced more of what we 
have, such swindles would not be allowed 
nor w'ould their lying propaganda be 
admitted to the mails. But w T hen these 
criminals are brought to justice, their 
scheming shyster lawyers get them off 
entirely, or with very light punishment 
on legal technicalities. 
Farm Sopers on the Alert 
So you have really no protection but 
yourself and the service American Agri¬ 
culturist and other reputable farm 
papers are giving in their warnings about 
specific schemes for fleecing the unwary. 
In this hard old world, there is no 
such thing as “something for nothing”; 
there is no “royal road to success.” The 
only success, the only happiness, comes 
through hard work and careful savings 
wisely and conservatively invested. If 
you have money to invest, talk with your 
banker, or ask American Agriculturist. 
We know of nothing sadder short of death 
itself than for a man or woman who has 
worked for a lifetime and saved a modest 
AGENTS WANTED 
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. __ 
AGENTS make money selling spark plugs. 
Write to RUSSELL DINGER, Melvina, Wis. 
HELP WANTED 
FIREMEN AND BRAKEMEN—Men to 
train for firemen or brakemen on railroads 
nearest their homes—everywhere; beginners, 
$150; later, $250; later as conductors, engineers, 
$300-$400 monthly (which position?). RAIL¬ 
WAY 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. _ 
competence only to have it become a part 
of that great three billion dollars which 
the investment sharks are getting every 
year. 
So, if you are tempted, will you not for 
your own happiness take plenty of time? 
Pay no attention to that argument used 
by all of the swindlers, “ if you don’t do it 
to-day, you never will get another chance.” 
Advise with your friends, and then BE¬ 
WARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! 
Questions About Investments 
Have you any information on hand concerning the 
Ore Chimney Mining Co. of Northbrook, Ontario, 
Canada? If not I wish you would look them up and let 
me know what you find out. The company has a repre¬ 
sentative in my neighborhood now selling stock. The 
business conditions as far as they have gone look very 
good. They have offices also at 700 Main St., Buffalo 
N. Y.—F. C. N., New York. 
We strongly urge you to leave this 
mining stock alone. Dealers in unlisted 
securities offer the stock anywhere from 
10 to 40 cents a share but there are no 
bids. 
* * * 
Some time ago my wife and I took some stock of the 
Consumers’ Service Stations, at that time located in 
Rochester, N. Y., and the salesman told us we could get 
our money when we needed it. They go by the name of 
Go Gas Company, 90 West Street, New York City. 
This company may be all right but we need our money.—- 
T. A. W., New York. 
We are unable to get any information 
about the Go Gas Company. If you buy 
stock the only way you can get your 
money back is by sale of the stock and 
when there is no market for the stock, 
there is nothing you can do. There is 
nearly always speculative risk about 
stock. For investment better buy bonds 
of old and prosperous corporations with 
national reputation. 
A Rural Tragedy of Long Ago 
(Continued from page 172) 
hopeful one. When van Alstvne died on 
the gallows he left a son—a lad named 
Nicholas, who grew to manhood and 
walked not in the evil ways of his father, 
but eventually became a widely known 
preacher of the Lutheran Church, finally 
dying at a great age and sometimes 
spoken of as the “venerable van Alstyne.” 
There is a dark saying that most of us 
have been familiar with from >our early 
youth, “for I, the Lord, thy God, am a 
jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the 
fathers upon the children unto the third 
and fourth generation”—a hard saying 
but one nevertheless which modern 
biology is constantly emphasizing. In 
the case of which we are thinking this 
seems not to have been true. 
Possibly someone will remember Philip 
Wieting, our great Schoharie County 
preacher, of whom I wrote a year or two 
ago. When Wieting died there was surely 
great desire to do him honor and to pay 
to him every tribute that the church 
could bring, and the man who was chosen 
to deliver the funeral address was none 
other than Rev. Nicholas van Alstyne. 
“Thus God fulfills Himself in many 
ways.” 
James Russell Lowell’ in one of his 
essay’s say’s that once in his y’outh he 
talked with a very old man who in his 
youth in turn had talked with an ancient 
man who with his own eyes saw the 
witches hung on Salem Hill—and then 
Lowell moralizes how only two lives lay 
between that time and his. So I may 
say that I once heard Nicholas van 
Alstyne (he was then an old and feeble 
man) preach and so he links me with the 
events of which I w rite. 
I have no sympathy with crime or 
sensationalism. I do not feel sure that 
I have been wise to revive the memory 
of an almost forgotten event that shocked 
this hamlet more than a hundred years 
agone but I am repeating wliat I have 
from unbroken oral tradition and all 
sorts of stuff must go into the weaving 
of history’: 
“Old, forgotten, far-off things 
And battles long ago. ” 
