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CATTLE 
REAL ESTATE 
REGISTERED AYRSHIRE CATTLE— 
Cows, bulls and heifers. Bull calves 5 to 9 
months old. W. H. PRICE, Cincinnatus, N. Y. 
MONEY MAKING FARMS FOR SALE in 
central New York State. For sizes, description, 
price and terms, write PERRY FARM AGEN¬ 
CY, Canajoliarie, N. Y. 
STATE ROAD FARMS—$500 up. J. G. 
POWERS, Newport, N. H. 
TAPPAN, NEW YORK — 12 room house for 
sale, bath, improvements, 10 acres ground, barn, 
outbuildings, beautiful location, 5 minutes to 
R. R. station. Formerly used as chicken farm. 
Will sacrifice for quick action, $16,500. Mort¬ 
gage, $5,500. Cash. $5,000. G. MACLEAN, 
Bayport, L. I., 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 
Notch's Butter Boy dam is Flossie Ross, a cow 
with strong milking propensities, price, $60; 
two calves, $125. LEONARD H. HEALEY, 
Woodstock, Conn. 
REGISTERED HOLSTEIN heifer calf, 
six weeks old, $50, bull, $40. JOSLIN BROS., 
Chemung, N. Y. 
DIRECT FROM OWNER—For sale, large 
grain and dairy farm, good buildings, location, 
roads and markets; equipped with stock, tools, 
hay and grain. Price right. ULYSSES G. 
RUSSELL, Nichols, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
FOR SALE — Pure bred Ayrshire calves. 
Fully accredited and right. C. J. AUSTIN & 
SONS, Wellsboro, Pa. 
SHEEP 
ONE MAN FARM, excellent condition, fine 
location. Particulars. J. MINARD, owner, 
East Thetford, Vt. 
FOR SALE—A few Registered Delaine rams, 
yearlings and two year olds. Prize winners. 
Address DONOVAN E. PIATT, Angelica, N. Y. 
AUCTION SALE of my 45 acre chicken farm 
November 27th. Situated on State stone road 
m Dorchester Co., Maryland, one mile from 
Shorptown. A HARMON, owner, Oak Grove, 
Del. R. F. D., Box 48. 
ONE TWO YEAR OLD Shropshire ram; 5 
yearling Rambouilet rams; ram lambs, $20 each. 
H. C. BEARDSLEY, Montour Falls, N. Y. 
REGISTERED LINCOLN, Cotswold, Lei¬ 
cester and Southdown rams. They have won 
mi ny premiums at fairs. F. S. LEWIS, Ashville, 
*N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Farm of 214 acres near Ithaca, 
New York, to settle an estate. Two houses, 
three barns, with basement, two miles from milk 
station, one mile from village. Price, $12,000. 
No trading. Box 337, AMERICAN AGRI¬ 
CULTURIST. 461 Fourth Avenue, New York. 
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. 
FOR SALE OR RENT—Poultry and truck 
farm 17 Yi acres. Semi-bungalow. Good build¬ 
ings. Capacity 700. HORACE WILLEY, 
Fulton, N. Y. 
FOR SALE — 40 choice Cheviot ewes and a 
few rams, best breeding, price right. AMOS F. 
WHITE, R. 3, Hornell, N. Y. 
OWN A FLORIDA FARM. Grow 2 and 3 
crops annually. Enjoy Florida’s year-round 
healthful climate, and its semi-tropic beauty. 
Hillsborough County, surrounding Tampa, 
South Florida’s metropolis, offers exceptional 
opportunities, for new settlers. Citrus fruits, 
vegetables, livestock, poultry. New develop¬ 
ments in bananas, grapes, figs, blackberries, 
avocados. Paved highways; main line railroads. 
Good schools. Land, $30 to $100 acre. Write 
for free agricultural booklet. BOARD OF 
TRADE, Box H407, Tampa, Florida. 
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. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
LAST CALL for Turks Cap Lily; 6 for $1: 
30 for $3, postpaid. T. B. SHAW, Lincoln. 
Mass. 
BUY your English and Welsh Shepherds 
now. They will bring your cows next summer. 
Splendid bunch. GEO. BOORMAN, Mara¬ 
thon, N. Y. 
EVERY GARDEN PROFITS with these 
good tilings to eat. Columbian tasteful Rasp¬ 
berry. Dozen plants, dollar; hundred, four 
dollars. Washington, healthful Asparagus, 
hundred, dollar; thousand, eight dollars. Bliss 
highest quality strawberry, dozen, dollar; 
hundred, five dollars. Postpaid. Circular free. 
CERTIFIED PLANT FARM, Macedon, N. Y. 
OIvAW 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. 
GUINEA PIGS, make fine pets. $3 pair. 
ERWIN PETRY. Northford, Conn. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
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 
$9.00 and other looms. UNION LOOM 
WORKS, 332 Factory St., Boonville, N. Y. 
COLLIE PUPS and breeding female — White 
Crested Black Polish, Seabright Bantams, 
Tumbler pigeons. PAINE’S FARM, So. Royal- 
ton, Vt. 
HUNDRED hunting hounds cheap. Trial 
C. O. D. Beckennes, AAN, Herrick, Ills. 
THOROBRED COLLIE puppies, males, 
spayed females; all ages. ARCADIA FARM, 
Bally, Pa, 
PATCH WORK. Send fifteen cents for 
household package, bright new calicoes and 
percales. Your money’s worth every time 
PATCHWORK COMPANY, Meriden, Conm 
ANGORA — Long-haired kittens of pure bred 
stock. Maine grown pets, male or female. 
ORRIN ,T. DICKEY, Belfast, Maine. 
SWITCHES-Transformations, etc. Booklet 
free. EVA MACK, Canton, N. Y. 
GUINEA PIGS for sale, breeding age, $2 
pair. Also laboratory stock. Write for prices. 
CHES ’ER D. AYERELL, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manu¬ 
facturer. 75c to $2.00 per lb. -Free sample. 
H. A. BARTLETT, Harmony, Maine. 
BEAGLES, well trained, ready to train, 
puppies all ages. P. HAMILTON, Cochran- 
ville, Pa. 
BLUE FLEMISH Giant Hares, six month’s 
old. Does and bucks, $3 each. H. E. FELCH, 
Florham Park, N. J. 
GEO. F. LOWE AND SON, Fultonville, 
New York, ship New York State clover and 
timothy, alfalfa, oat and wheat straw, alfalfa 
meal for poultry. Our prices and quality are 
right. Advise when in need. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, live 
pounds, $1.50, ten, $2.50; twenty, $4.50. 
Smoking, five pounds, $1.25; ten, $2.00; twenty, 
$3.50. Pipe Free. Money back if not satisfied. 
UNITED TOBACCO GROWERS,Paducah,Ky. 
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. 
LATEST STYLE SANITARY MILK TICK¬ 
ETS save money and time. Free delivery. 
Send for samples. TRAVERS BROTHERS, 
Dept. A, Gardner, Mass. 
FOR SALE — One 12-24 H. P. 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.. 
ALFALFA, mixed, and timothy hay for sale 
in car lots, inspection allowed; ready now. 
W. A. WITHROW, Syracuse, New York. 
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. 
TOBACCO—HOMESPUN smoking, 5 lbs.’ 
$1.25; 10, $2; 20, $3.75. Pipe FREE. Chewing 
5 lbs., $1.50; 10, $2.50. Quality Guaranteed. 
WALDROP BROTHERS, Murray, Ky. 
FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT—we can offer 
several cars good color Second Cutting Alfalfa. 
Also a few cars First Cutting Alfalfa, Timothy 
and Grass mixed. DEAN FARMS, INC., 
Auburn, N. Y., R. D. 3. 
HONEY 
HONEY — White clover, postpaid, 3rd zone, 
5 lbs., $1.05; Dark, 95c. Wholesale list free. 
ROSCOE F. WIXSON, Dundee, New York. 
PUNE BON WOOD for sale. Apply WALTER 
COLLIER, Sudlersville, Md. 
WANTED — Postage stamps of the Civil War 
period and before.—on the original letters or 
envelopes—good prices. COLLECTOR, 18 
Hewlett St., Waterbury, Conn. 
When writing to advertisers he sure to 
mention the American Agriculturist 
kAILROAD POSTAL CLERKS start $133, 
month, railroad pass. Send stamp for questions. 
COLUMBUS INSTITUTE, V-32, Columbus, 
Ohio. 
Additional Classified Ads. on page 332 
American Agriculturist, November 8, 1924 
Service Department 
“Home IVork” Schemes Not Reliable 
I N looking over the Service Bureau 
letters this week, we cannot help but 
note the large proportion of letters from 
farm women either inquiring about some 
scheme for earning money at home, or 
asking us for help to get them out qf 
trouble after they have tried out such a 
scheme. 
For instance, we have before us a letter 
from a lady asking about the reliability 
of a music publishing house. This con¬ 
cern offers “ big wages for home work, 
positively no canvassing!” When this 
alluring literature is answered, it is found 
that the concern will sell you music for 
ten cents a sheet and furnish you a list 
of names to whom you can write to re¬ 
sell the music at thirty cents. Then they 
go on to tell how much money can be 
made on such a big profit per sheet. 
It ought to be perfectly plain that if 
there were any such profits there, the 
company would do its own writing and 
selling, and keep the profits. As a matter 
of fact, it is just an ordinary sales scheme 
for getting rid of cheap sheet music for 
ten cents a copy. 
* * * 
Another subscriber writes to inquire 
about a correspondence school that 
promises huge profits if you will just take 
their course in show card writing. At 
least a dollar an hour is promised to the 
student who successfully completes the 
course. 
Now there are many excellent corre¬ 
spondence schools, and there are thou¬ 
sands of students successfully taking 
correspondence courses at home. But a 
promise of one dollar an hour for the 
home work of a student is a fake on the 
face of it. Show card writing is a trade 
in itself. Those who practice it live for 
the most part in cities near the sources of 
demand, and it is practically impossible 
to sell the work at long range. 
* * * 
Another letter about, home work is 
from a lady who spent weeks of work 
crocheting for a knitting company. 
When she sent in her work she was un¬ 
able to collect anything for it. 
Some of the knitting companies that 
have work of this kind are reliable, but 
the pay is very small and many of them 
are not honest. 
Then, too, every mail brings letters 
from our women folks asking about knit¬ 
ting machines. Some of the companies 
that sell knitting machines are perfectly 
reliable, and their machines will do good 
work. But there are few people who can 
successfully operate them. 
ISiearly all of the inquiries about home 
work are from the women folks, who are 
making a commendable effort to piece 
out the family income by trying to do 
something for pay at home. It is too bad 
that such efforts have to be discouraged, 
but most of the companies who advertise 
to pay for home work are not dependable 
or even honest and are merely putting 
out their tentacles to get hold of hard- 
earned savings. A very careful investiga¬ 
tion should be made every time before 
any money is invested in these home¬ 
work schemes. 
* * * 
Fifteen Thousand From a 
Hundred! 
It is always a source of wonder to us to 
know the number of people who can be 
taken in by the glowing descriptions of 
stock-selling schemes. 
Here is a letter from a subscriber who 
was wise enough to write first before he 
invested his savings: 
‘'Enclosed find reading matter of the Grocers 
Baking Company, Inc., of Schenectady, New 
York. Will you kindly let me know through 
the Service Bureau of your valued paper what 
you think of investing money in that company. 
Would it be a safe investment or not? They 
have been trying to sell my husband and my¬ 
self stock in the company, but we refused to 
buy until we heard what American Agricul¬ 
turist thought of it. 
“A good many people around here have 
invested money in it. 
“As my husband has been a subscriber to 
your paper for a good many years and we have 
never taken advantage of your Service Bureau 
«before, we thought we would ask for a little 
advice concerning this. My husband is a paid- 
in-advance subscriber. Kindly let us know as 
soon as possible through your columns of 
Service Bureau.” 
With the letter was a very beautifully 
printed circular with a lot of pictures 
describing the business of the Grocers 
Baking Company. Here are some of the 
statements: 
“ Common stock of the Grocers Baking 
Company with no par value sold for $6 a 
share in 1919. It is now worth to the original 
holders over $900 per share. 
“In other words, $100 invested in this stock 
only five years ago now has a value of just 
$15,000.” 
There are several pages of this sort of 
argument and it would seem that all that 
any person would need to know about 
this company is its own printed matter. 
As a general principle, when somebody 
tries to prove that you can turn $100 
into $15,000 in five years, the investment 
is absolutely unsafe. We answered the 
inquiry as follows: 
“We were very glad to have your letter of 
October 1 in regard to investing in the Grocers 
Baking Company. This thing illustrates what 
we have been trying to warn our readers against 
for years. 
“The Grocers Baking Company is not listed 
in our commercial register. This may not 
mean that they are necessarily not square, but 
it does mean that the least you can say for 
them is that they are a small, obscure com¬ 
pany, absolutely unsafe for people with a 
little money to invest their savings with. 
“Furthermore, their literature itself is 
against the dictates of common sense. I am 
speaking rather plainly because I want to be 
just as emphatic as I can that there is not a 
day goes by that we do not get mail saying 
that people have lost their life-time savings 
just as a result of too hasty investment in 
concerns like this one. The only safe invest¬ 
ments are those, first pertaining to the farm 
business like tools, better stock or home con¬ 
veniences or interest on mortgages. Second, 
if one does not care to invest their savings in 
their own business, they should buy absolutely 
reliable stocks and bonds in old established 
concerns, such as Strauss bonds, government 
liberty bonds, U. S. Postoffice savings certif¬ 
icates, etc. 
“I want to repeat that I cannot be too em¬ 
phatic in warning you and others of our friends 
in investing hard-earned savings in unreliable 
concerns.” 
* * * 
Let Someone Else Finance This 
While we are talking about investments, 
we want to speak of a scheme being ad¬ 
vocated by the Rural Life and Farm 
Stock Journal, of Rochester, which we 
think is decidedly unsafe as an investment 
proposition. 
In a page advertisement in the Novem¬ 
ber issue. Rural Life says that it is 
“ready to take its place in the front 
ranks with the foremost farm publications 
that are ‘cutt.ng melons’ every year in 
the dividends to stockholders.” 
In the first place, there are few farm 
journals in recent years that are “cutting 
melons,” or even making enough to meet 
expenses; and in the second place, if Rural 
Life or any other journal is paying large 
dividends, it would have no difficulty in 
borrowing necessary capital at the banks. 
Rural Life states that it is going to sell 
$50,000 worth of 7% debenture bonds, 
and with each bond there will be sold also 
two shares of common stock. 
A similar scheme was advanced some 
years ago by another publication in this 
territory, and those farmers who invested 
their savings lost them. Whether the 
scheme is reliable or not, there is only one 
safe rule in all investments, and that is. 
put your money into your own farm busi¬ 
ness, something you know about, or else 
consult your lawyer or your banker and 
invest in standard high-grade securities. 
