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American Agriculturist, November 1, 1924 
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Service Department 
These Women Signed and Then They Were Sorry 
CATTLE 
FOR SALE—16 head registered Holstein 
cows, fresh springers, clean test, reasonable 
price for quick sale. OSCAR DENNIS, 
Cameron, N. Y. _ 
REGISTERED AYRSHIRE CATTLE—• 
Cows, bulls and heifers. Bull calves 5 to 9 
months old. W. H. PRICE, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Two Ayrshire bull calves; 
accredited herd; born August. First calf by Top 
Notches Butter Boy, a bull by imported sire; 
dam of calf, Peter Pans Maggie of Briers, strong 
in production, price, $75. Second calf by Top 
Notches Butter Boy; dam is Flossie Ross, a cow 
with strong milking propensities, price, $60; 
two calves, $125. LEONARD H. HEALEY, 
Woodstock, Conn. ___ 
THE CAYUGA COUNTY Guernsey Breeders 
will hold a public sale of thirty choice young 
registered bulls and fifteen good grade cows, 
fresh or near to freshening. At the C. G. 
Meaker Co. farm, on South Division St. Road, 
Auburn, N. Y., on Wednesday, November 5, 
’24, at one o’clock. RAY H. ALEXANDER, 
Sec’y, Union Springs, N. Y. 
MILKING SHORTHORNS — 4 yearling 
heifers, tuberculin tested, Bull, six weeks, 10,000 
lb. dam. Heifer calves. Farmers prices. 
ERNEST J. COTTRELL, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 
SWINE 
BARGAINS IN DUROCS—Disposing of 
entire herd offer wonderful gilts and pigs of 
America’s best blood lines at practically meat 
prices. GLENROAD FARM, Bloomsbury,N. J. 
O. I. C.’s—Choice Registered pigs, $10 each; 
bred from quick growing, _ easy feeding, big 
type stock. Pairs no-akin. Satisfaction 
guaranteed. R. HILL, Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
_ SHEEP _ 
FOR SALE—A few Registered Delaine rams, 
yearlings and two year old. Prize winners. 
Address DONOVAN E, PIATT, Angelica, N. Y. 
ONE TWO YEAR OLD Shropshire ram; 5 
vearling Ramboullet rams; ram lambs, $20 each. 
H. C. BEARDSLEY, Montour Falls, N. Y. 
REGISTERED LINCOLN, Cottswold, Lei- 
cester and Southdown rams. They have won 
many premiums at fairs. F. S. LEWIS, Ashville, 
N. Y. _ 
DELAINE RAMS—From largest registered 
flock in state, bred for size and heavy, long 
staple fleeces. Grown on upland pastures which 
adds to their natural hardy and disease re¬ 
sistant qualities. Like produces like. See them 
write. J. C. WEATHERBY, Trumansburg, N.Y, 
REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE Rams and 
Ewes for sale. H. B. COVERT, Lodi, N. Y. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
FERRETS for killing rats and other game. 
November prices, females, $4.00; Males $3.50. 
Pair $7.00; one dozen, $36.00; yearling females, 
$5.00 each. Will ship C. O. D. instructive book 
free. W. A. PECK, New London, Ohio. _ 
BUY your English and Welsh Shepherds 
now. They will bring your cows next summer. 
Splendid bunch. GEO. BOORMAN, Mara- 
thon, N. Y. _ 
EXTRA FINE male Airedale, six months old, 
black with dark tan markings. Mother, a 
daughter of international champion Kootenia 
Chinook; father, a son of Altro Sand Bar, price, 
$20. ED. GLENDENING, Delhi, N. Y. 
COLLIE PUPPIES—“The Intelligent Kind.” 
Purebred. Shipped on approval. Females, $6. 
Also Airedales. Win. W. KETCH, Cohocton, N.Y. 
OKAW RIVER Bottom Coon Hounds Red- 
bones, Black and Tans and Blueticks. Fox¬ 
hounds, Skunk hounds and Rabbit hounds; 
fifteen days trial, good reference. LEE ADAMS, 
Ramsey, Ill. ___ 
COON AND FOXHOUND pups that are 
hard to equal. Males only, $10 each. Ready 
now. H. S. OSTRANDER, Mellenville, N. Y. 
GUINEA PIGS, make fine pets. $3 pair. 
ERWIN PETRY, Northford, Conn, _ 
COLLIE PUPS and breeding female—White 
Crested Black Polish, Seabright Bantams, 
Tumbler pigeons. PAINE’S FARM, So. Royal- 
ton, Vt. 
ENGLISH SHEPHERD PUPS 8 weeks old. 
2 litters ready, fine for cattle and great watch 
dogs. W. W, NORTON, Ogdcnsburg, N, Y. 
FERRETS FOR SALE, ratters, rabbit and 
varmint hunters, safe delivery guaranteed any¬ 
where. Write HARLAN PECK, Box'854, Des 
Moines, la. _ 
HUNDRED hunting hounds cheap. Trial 
C. O- D. Beclcennels, AAN, Herrick, Ills, 
“THOROBRED COLLIE puppies, males, 
spayed females; all ages. ARCADIA FARM 
Bally, Pa. 
RAW FURS AND TRAPPING 
TRAPPERS—My method of catching foxes 
has no equal. Will send free. EVERETT 
SHERMANN, Whitman, Mass. 
HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid for raw 
furs, beef hides, sheep skins, calf skins, tallow 
wool, etc. Write for price list. No lots too 
large. No lots t6o small. ALVAH A. CON¬ 
OVER. Lebanon, N. J. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
EVERY GARDEN profits with these good 
things to eat; Columbian purple, best Rasp¬ 
berry, dozen plants, dollar; hundred, four 
dollars; Washington, best Asparagus, hundred, 
dollar; thousand, eight dollars; Bliss, highest 
quality Strawberry, dozen, dollar; hundred, 
five dollars. Postpaid. Circular free. CERTI- 
FIED PLANT FARM, Macedon, N. Y, _ 
IRIS AND PEONIES—Iris, finest German, 
12 for $1; peonies, gorgeous, 3 to 5 eyes, all 
colors, bloom first year, 3 for $1; 12 for $3. 
Dutch Bulbs—Tulips, Giant Darwin, mixed or 
in separate colors, 40 for $1, 100 for $2; Tulips, 
single or double, early, 40 for $1, 100 for $2; 
Hyacinths, Bedding, all colors, 20 for $1, 100 for 
$4; Hyacinths, Giant size, all colors, 12 for $1; 
100 for $7; Crocus in mixture, 100 for $1; 
Narcissus, single or double, 30 for $1, 100 for $3; 
Freesaia, Purity, 100 for,$l; Anemone, 50 for $1. 
Send for catalogue. Mail orders postpaid 
C.O.D. if desired. R. J. GIBBINS, Mt. Holly, 
N. J. 
_ REAL ESTATE _ 
FOR SALE in Dansville, New York. House, 
conveniences, one acre land, barns, poultry, 
equipment. JOHN NEU, Leonard St., Dans- 
ville, N, Y, __ 
DIRECT FROM OWNER—Large grain 
and dairy farm, good location, buildings and 
markets well-equipped with stock and tools. 
Price right. Easy terms. W. G. RUSSELL, 
Nichols, N. Y. 
AUCTION SALE of my 90 acre stock farm 
on stone State Road. Will be sold November 
27th regardless of price, in Dorchester County, 
Md. next to Sharpstown Bridge. You name the 
price. ALBERT HARMAN, sole owner. Oak 
Grove, Del. __ 
FOR SALE—Farm of 100 acres in Rome 
township, good buildings, a large amount of 
wood and timber. About 100 young fruit trees 
and a fine sugar bush. Inquire of EDITH S. 
MOORE, Wysox, Pa., R. 1. 
FARM FOR SALE OR RENT—Splendid 
dairy farm adjoining borough of Bellefonte, Pa 
About 160 acres cleared, 47 acres timber, land 
and buildings in fine condition, good orchard, 
good reason for selling. ANNA J. VALEN¬ 
TINE, Bellefonte, Pa. 
MONEY MAKING FARMS FOR SALE in 
central New York State. For sizes, description, 
price and terms, write PERRY FARM AGEN¬ 
CY, Canajoharie, N. Y. 
STATE ROAD FARMS—$500 up. J. G. 
POWERS, Newport, N. H. 
HONEY 
BUCKWHEAT HONEY in 60-lb. cans, 
$6.50, F.O.B. G. W, BELDEN, Berkshire, N. Y . 
HONEY—White clover, postpaid, 3rd zone, 
5 lbs., $1.05; Dark, 95c. Wholesale list free. 
ROSCOE F. WIXSON, Dundee, New York, 
HONEY—Best quality new crop honey, 6 lb. 
ran clover, $1.40; buckwheat, $1.20. Prepaid 
first 3 zones. I. L. BARTON, Tryonville, Pa. 
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, 
$3,000-$4,000 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. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
FOR SALE—Avery 18-36 H. P. Tractor. 
Been used moderately. Must be sold before 
December 1. A bargain. Address FRED R. 
PIATT, Fillmore, N, Y. _ 
FOR SALE — One 12|24 H. R Waterloo 
Boy tractor and three bottom John Deere plow, 
used in one field demonstration, good as new. 
Will be sold at an unbelievable sacrifice. Write 
for price and descriptive literature. W. WIL¬ 
TON WOOD, INC , (Dealer), Huntington 
Station, N. Y. _ 
FOR SALE—Cheap Frick portable steam 
engine, 22 H. P. Also 17-acre farm along state 
highway. LEVI SMOKER, Bird-in-hand, Pa. 
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. 
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. 
T WO very pathetic letters almost 
identical in nature have come to us 
this week, and they are worth commenting 
upon in the hope that they may save 
others from similar trouble. The first 
was from a woman who listened to a glib- 
tongued book salesman and allowed him 
to sell her a set of books. She paid him a 
small amount down, and signed an iron- 
bound contract agreeing to pay the re¬ 
mainder of a fairly large sum on the instal¬ 
ment plan. When she got to thinking it 
over, she realized that the books could not 
possibly be worth half of wliat she had 
agreed to pay for them. Still she was 
game to see it through, until sickness 
developed in her family and the increasing 
expenses made it seem impossible for her 
to go forward with the contract. Then 
she wrote to us for help. 
Victim of a Book Agent 
The other case was a farm woman who 
also allowed a book agent to hypnotize 
her and get her name on a contract for 
what to her was a large sum of money for 
a set of books. She did not tell her hus¬ 
band at first, but continued to worry 
about the matter until she finally con¬ 
fessed to him what she had done. There¬ 
upon he told her that because of her ill 
health, he had kept the n6ws from her 
that they were likely to lose the farm 
through mortgage foreclosure and it 
seemed like the last straw when she 
agreed to spend the money for these 
books without consulting him. Then 
in her despair she, too, wrote to the 
American Agriculturist Service 
Bureau. 
We have turned both of these cases 
over to our lawyer and if there is any 
possible way by which we can help these 
women out of their difficulties, we will do 
so. But the situation is difficult, if not 
impossible, from the start because their 
names are on ironbound contracts, and 
usually the directors of the companies 
who employ this type of salesmen are of 
the same type themselves. That is, they 
will squeeze, if they can, even the widow 
and the orphan to their utmost farthing. 
It is an unfortunate part of human na¬ 
ture that so many married people live so 
much in fear and trembling of the other 
partner that they fail to talk over frankly 
ami freely the business affairs whi h 
affect them both. This is especially true 
of the farm business because affairs of the 
home are tied up so closely with the whole 
farm business. It is unfortunate also 
that in spite of all the warnings there are 
still so many perfectly intelligent people 
who allow these smooth agents to get 
their names on sales contracts for some¬ 
thing for which they are sorry three 
minutes after the agent is gone. 
Look Out for Unlicensed Brokers 
R EADING the hundreds of letters 
which come to our Service Bureau, 
is the best study we have ever had of 
human nature. Of course, in this work 
we find lots of dishonest people, but on the 
other hand, those who are square and 
want to do the right thing far outbalance 
the others. 
The average business man wants to do 
right naturally, and anyway he knows, if 
he has any common sense, that he cannot 
do business at the same old place all of 
the time unless he comes through clean. 
But right there is often the rub. Those 
who do not want to do business on the 
square do not expect to do their business 
in the same place under the same name 
and address for any length of time. 
Probably a third of our correspondence 
comes from readers who have had 
trouble in getting returns from commis¬ 
sion men to whom they have sent their 
products, and in many of these cases 
when we come to follow up the claim, we 
find that that particular commission man 
has moved on to parts unknown. 
Of course, there is no help for a situa¬ 
tion of this kind. The only help is pre¬ 
vention, which means that in New York 
State at least, no farmer should ever, 1 , 
under any circumstances, ship to any 
dealer who is not licensed and bonded 
under the New York State law. A list of 
such dealers, brokers and commission 
men who are approved by the State will 
be forwarded free of charge gladly. 
An Honest Concern 
W HAT a lot of trouble there has always 
been between nurseries and farmers! 
How many, many times a farmer has 
bought a lot of fruit trees from an agent 
or direct from the nursery only to find 
that the trees did not grow well, or did 
not come true to the variety. It is a 
pretty serious matter, too, for a farmer to 
work several years growing his orchard 
to find, when the orchard begins bearing, 
that he did not have what he thought he 
planted. 
However, the better class of nurseries 
do not do this kind of business. Recently, 
our Service Bureau had an interesting and 
satisfactory experience with a nursery of 
the better type. 
One of our subscribers wrote us that on 
March 10, 1924, he had sent an order to 
the West Hill Nurseries at Fredonia, 
New York, for plants amounting to 
$11.48. The plants were to be delivered 
on April 10, by parcel post, and enough 
additional money was enclosed to cover 
the postage. The nursery company 
mailed the plants by parcel post, and they 
were lost in the mails. 
The subscriber wrote to our Service 
Bureau and we wrote to the nursery. 
This company replied that during their 
fifty years in business there had been a 
good many shipments lost by freight and 
express, but that the freight or express 
companies had always paid the claims. 
However, the government does not hold 
itself responsible for parcel post packages. 
The nursery is not held responsible by law 
for the safe arrival of packages and 
therefore it seemed on the face of the 
matter as if our subscriber would have to 
lose his order. 
However, the West Hill Nurseries 
happened to be a little bit more than 
honest. When we put the case squarely 
up to them, they agreed to replace the 
whole stock free of charge. They had 
already previously offered to replace the 
ordei for one-half charge. We appreciate 
the way in which this company handled 
the matter, and have informed them that 
we do not think they will lose anything 
in the long run by this way of doing 
business. 
Maybe We Can Help You 
“ T RECEIVED to-day your letter con- 
taining statement and check relative 
to sale of apples in the fall of 1923, for 
which please accept my thanks for the 
diligence displayed in obtaining a settle¬ 
ment. 
“I shall ever speak a good word for 
your service to me in this matter. 
“Thanking you again, and with best 
wishes for American Agriculturist, I 
am — J. S. W., Dutchess County, N. Y. 
Reasonably Good: Outlook Favorable 
Financial Department: Will you kindly advise me as 
soon as possible if you consider the stock of the Adiron¬ 
dack Power and Light Corporation as a good sound 
investment. And do you think it is better than the banks. 
Please give me full particulars on this firm. —H. E. T., 
New York. 
A DIRONDACK Power & Light pre¬ 
ferred is a reasonably good invest¬ 
ment for a customer of the company or 
one able to keep in touch with earnings. 
Present income covers dividend require¬ 
ments by a good margin. You must 
understand, however, that unless the 
company continues to operate profitable 
there is no assurance of the keeping up of 
dividends. That is a risk any stock¬ 
holder always takes. The present out¬ 
look is favorable, however. 
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