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American Agriculturist, September 1,1923 
The Service Bureau 
And Questions and Answers About Investments 
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The More You Tell, The Quicker You Sell 
E VERY week the American Agriculturist reaches over 120,000 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 
Monday previous to date of issue. Cancellation orders must reach us on the same 
schedule. Because of the low rate to subscribers and their friends, cash or money 
order must accompany your order. 
ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO HIM WHO WAITS —BUT 
THE CHAP WHO DOESN’T ADVERTISE WAITS LONGEST 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCKS 
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 react the 
buyer unbroken, nor can they guarantee the 
hatching of eggs. We shall continue to exer¬ 
cise the greatest care in allowing poultry and 
egg advertisers to use this paper, but our re¬ 
sponsibility must end with that. 
CHICKS—S. C. Buff, White and Brown Leg¬ 
horns, $8 per 100 ; Barred Rocks, $9 per 100 ; 
White Rocks, $12 per 100 ; Reds, $10 per 100 ; 
Mixed light breeds, $6.50 per 100 ; Mixed heavy 
hreeds, $8 per 100. All Number One chicks. 
Circular free. JACOB NIEMOND, Box A, 
McAlisterville, Pa. 
’ PULLETS—Leghorns, Barred Rocks, Orping¬ 
tons, three months old. Hand-picked from 
contest-winning ancestors. FASHION PARK 
FARM, Danbury, Conn. 
PULLETS—8 to 20 weeks; White Leghorns, 
Anconas, Minorcas, yearling hens. Priced right 
to sell. FRANK’S POULTRY FARM, Tiffin, 
Ohio. 
REAL ESTATE 
FOR SALE—A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. 
One of Chenango valley’s excellent 165-acre 
dairy farms in high state of cultivation. 25 
acres alfalfa, abundant crops of hay, corn, 
oats, cabbage, etc. 60 heads of pure-bred T B 
tested Holstein cattle. Spring water in house 
and barn. Good buildings with large maple 
lawn, beautifully located at main road, 80 
rods from railroad station, school, store, milk 
station. Splendid opportunity to make money 
from start. Will sell with or without stock. 
Bare farm with crops is easily worth $15,000. 
For quick sale will take $12,000. J. M. 
QLSEN, Sherburne Four Corners, New York. 
FOR SALE—Farm, 90 acres; well watered; 
best state of cultivation, raising best of corn, 
clover, alfalfa; good location, two miles to 
town, milk stations, school and State school; 
good buildings and cattle; maple grove, fine 
cherry orchard and other fruit; ioe pond on 
farm ; running spring water. Owner has run 
this farm 25 years. Unable to handle it longer. 
Would like to hear from responsible German 
people and others who appreciate square and 
honest dealing. FRANK SMITH, Hamilton, 
New York. 
FOR SALE — 186-acre Central New York 
valleyy hay, grain, vegetable, and poultry farm. 
Very productive, fine state of cultivation, trac¬ 
tor-worked meadows, 12 excellent buildings, 
milking machine, electric lights. Sold with 
tuberculin-tested herd and complete equipment 
if desired. Keeps 50 head of stock and 400 
hens. ELIZA DUROE, South New Berlin, New 
York. 
FARM WANTED — Wanted to hear from 
owner of improved farm or good land for sale; 
priced reasonable. L. JONES, Box 646, Olney, 
Illinois. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
BARGAINS IN SHEPHERDS and hounds 
for thirty days. ARTHUR GILSON, Canton, 
New York. 
FINE SABLE-AND-WHITE COLLIE Pup¬ 
pies. JOHN D. SMITH, Walton, N. Y. 
PONIES AND COLLIES. FRED STEWART, 
Linesville, Pa. 
SHEEP 
REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE RAMS—Good 
individuals at reasonable prices; field stock 
in good condition for breeding. ARTHUR S. 
DAVIS, Chili, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—20 Registered Shropshire rams 
and ewes bred from the best blood. CHARLES 
MOORE, Frazeysburg, Ohio. 
HAMPSHIRE RAMS, ram lambs, breeding 
ewes, yearling ewes, ewe lambs. Largest flock 
in the East. C. & M. BIGHAM, Gettysburg, Pa. 
PENNSYLVANIA “44” SEED WHEAT — 
$1.75. Best wheat for Pennsylvania and South¬ 
ern New York. Fine Rosen Rye seed, $1.25 ; 
bags included. C. L. TAYLOR, Wyalusing, Pa. 
FOR SALE—“Junior Six” seed wheat, extra 
quality, $3.25 ; freight prepaid. DANIEL J. 
CAREY, Groton, N. Y. 
CATTLE 
FOR SALE — Fine Holstein bull calf 5 
months old, % white, ideal markings. Pedi¬ 
gree shows four world records. Dam of sire 
and 12 granddams made average of 1,035 lbs. 
butter in a year. Calf fine individual, large 
and thrifty. Price, $50. WOODSIDE STOCK 
FARM, Remsen, N. Y. 
SWINE 
LARGE TYPE BERKSHIRES — Bred sows 
and weaned pigs, both sexes ; prices reasonable; 
best of breeding. HOWARD GILLETT, Stanley, 
New York. 
REGISTERED O. I. C. PIGS and service 
boars sired by a grandson of C. C. Callaway 
Edd. GEO. N. RUPRACHT, Mallory, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED 
MEN’S SHIRTS—Easy to sell. Big demand 
everywhere. Make $15 daily. Undersell stores. 
Complete line. Exclusive patterns. Free sam¬ 
ples. CHICAGO SHIRT MANUFACTURERS, 
241 W. Van Buren, Factory 159, Chicago. 
AGENTS WANTED—Agents make a dol¬ 
lar an hour. Sell Mendets, a patent patch 
for instant mending leaks in all utensils. 
Sample package free. COLLETTE MFG. CO. 
Dept. 210, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
HELP WANTED 
ALL men, women, boys, girls, 17 to 60, will¬ 
ing to accept Government positions, $117-$190, 
traveling or stationary, ■write MR. OZMENT, 
258 St. Louis, Mo., immediately. 
EXPERT HERDSMAN-DAIRYMAN — Mar¬ 
ried ; to be farm foreman; experienced with 
certified milk. MOHEGAN FARM, Mohegan 
Lake, N. Y. 
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. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
BAROMETERS — Oak or Mahogany Finish. 
Know the weather 24 hours in advance. Needed 
on all farms. Guaranteed instrument, $5.00 
prepaid. ALVAH H. PULVER, Sodus, N. Y. 
EAT APPLE PIE THROUGHOUT YEAR— 
Wayne County Evaporated Apples. Best in the 
world. Stock for 12 pies, $1.00 postpaid. Good 
till used. ALVAH H. PULVER, Sodus, 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—All wool hand and machine knit¬ 
ting yarns, golf and plain socks. We also can 
work your wool into yarn. H. A. BARTLETT, 
Harmony, Maine. > 
WANTED — Second-hand Candee incubators 
or any number of extra sections. H. M. 
HARKNESS, Clyde, N. Y. 
When writing advertisers be sure to say 
You saw it in the American Agriculturist 
T HE Standard Food & Fur Associa¬ 
tion of New York, is one which has 
for some time kept the Service Bureau 
busy. This firm sells rabbits for breed¬ 
ing purposes and assures the buyer 
that it will buy back rabbits which 
come up to certain specifications. 
It seems very difficult, however, to 
meet these apparently simply require¬ 
ments. Rabbits which the breeder is 
sure weighed the proper amount and 
more when shipped, are reported as un¬ 
derweight by the firm. One guarantee 
sent out by the company makes no men¬ 
tion of a definite weight, but simply 
says “in good condition.” Yet repeated 
shipments are refused. 
This is a particularly annoying type 
of sharp practice, because the buyer not 
only invests his original capital, but his 
time while caring for the stock, only to 
be disappointed months later when the 
firm refuses his shipment. There is 
money in rabbit-raising, properly con¬ 
ducted, but it does not come from deal¬ 
ing with the Standard Food & Fur As¬ 
sociation. 
THE MONEY FINALLY GOT THERE 
Another case about which so many 
letters have been written that we have 
lost count of their number, concerned 
two checks, one for $3.73 and the other 
for $30.98. A New York commission 
merchant claimed that the customer 
had received his money, but Mr. H. G. 
S., of New York, the’ subscriber, was 
certain he had not. 
In the end, duplicate checks were sent, 
the claim was settled and both the 
subscriber and the firm thanked the 
American Agriculturist for its services 
in the matter. 
BUTTER AND EGGS PAID FOR 
A check for $17.06 which was to 
have reached our subscriber, Mr. P. 
R. S. some time last spring, has re¬ 
cently been received. The case was 
taken in hand by the Service Bureau, 
which persuaded the butter and egg 
company to trace the matter and to 
issue a duplicate check. 
HALF A LOAF 
Although by no means satisfied that 
she had received what was due her, 
Mrs. W. J. S. of New York was glad 
to get a $5 check which the Service 
Bureau forwarded to her recently. 
She had had a claim against a com¬ 
mission house which refused to pay for 
fowl she shipped them. We succeeeded 
in getting the firm to offer a com¬ 
promise settlement which Mrs. S. ac¬ 
cepted. Another time, we will hope to 
obtain all she believes is coming to her. 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 
ABOUT INVESTMENTS 
Financial Department:—Kindly advise me, 
regarding an altogether safe investment for ’ 
$1,000 yielding about 7 per cent. Would 
you consider Hershey Brothers Chocolate Com¬ 
pany of Harrisburg, Pa. a safe investment? 
The preferred stock sells at 100 and yields 
7 per cent. This is not the original Hershey 
Chocolate Company of Hershey.—A. G., 
Pennsylvania. 
We have been unable to get any in¬ 
formation about Hershey Brothers’ 
Chocolate Company preferred stock. 
The Hershey Chocolate 6 per cent 
bonds, the original Hershey Company, 
are, we think, very desirable invest¬ 
ments. The yield is about 6.15 per 
cent. You must understand that 7 per 
cent is a high return to ask in con¬ 
servative securities. If you divide your 
$1,060 between Mack Trucks first pre¬ 
ferred, selling about 96, and General 
Motors 7 per cent debentures, selling 
about 102, you will get a return of 7 
per cent with reasonable security. 
* * * 
Financial Department:—Will you advise 
if the following bonds are safe: Chicago Rail¬ 
way 5s, Middle States Oil Co., (United Trac¬ 
tors Corporation) Frankfort, N. Y. ?—C. C. C., 
New York. 
We have no information about the 
United Tractors Corporation. None of 
the securities of the Chicago Railways 
or the Middle States Oil is suitable for 
conservative investment. Chicago Rail¬ 
ways first 5s sell to give a maturity 
yield of over 10 per cent, which indi¬ 
cates grave doubts in the minds of in¬ 
vestors. As to the Middle States Oil we 
urge all our readers to avoid securi¬ 
ties founded in part or in whole on 
oil unless it be the preferred stock or 
the bonds of one of the Standard Oil 
Companies. * * * 
Financial Department:—Kindly advise me 
what you know about the North American 
Mortgage & Building Corporation represented 
by Maxwell C. Franklin of 31 Union Square? 
I would like to know whether they are reliable 
or not?—A. D., New Jersey. 
We do not recommend stock in a 
mortgage company as a suitable in¬ 
vestment for one unable to keep in 
close personal touch with the affairs 
of the company. This is not to say 
that the concern may not be perfectly 
reliable. Its stock, however, repre¬ 
sents a business risk not to be under¬ 
taken by those unable to lose. 
Don’t Speculate 
Financial Department:—I am interested in 
the Commonwealth Hotel Construction and 
have agreed to take one share of stock at $125 
and have paid $25 last November 25. Could 
you give me any advise, and shall I pay the 
balance?—J. B. S., New York. 
We hardly know what advice to give 
you in regard to the Commonwealth 
Hotel stock. Until this hotel is built 
and in operation and has demonstrated 
its earning capacity its stock is entire¬ 
ly speculative. No one can foresee 
whether or not the speculation will be 
profitable. Unless you are in a posi¬ 
tion to speculate, the conservative 
course would be to charge the $25 you 
have already paid to experience. 
Strong Corporations 
Financial Department: — Do you consider 
Fleischmann Yeast and National Biscuit Co. 
desirable for investment?—J. M., New York. 
Both Fleischmann Yeast and Na¬ 
tional Biscuit are strong and prosper¬ 
ous corporations. Their common stock, 
however, is not a conservative invest¬ 
ment. A stockholder gets profits when 
there are profits, and when there are 
none he goes without. He must also 
bear in mind that if he wants to realize 
on his investment he has to take the 
market price of the stock at the time 
he wants to sell, and that may be lower 
or it may be higher than the price he 
paid. If you are able to assume this 
business risk, probably these are good 
companies, but you are speculating. 
Companies Vary in Strength 
Financial Department:—Will you kindly 
advise on the following investments : Standard 
Tank Car Co. of Sharon, Pa., Shafer Oil and 
Refining Co., H. A. Stone &' Co. of Philadel¬ 
phia, Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Co., the 
Square Deal Land and Developing Co. of Bel¬ 
fast, Me.?—J. S. Masten, Harrington, Del. 
The companies you list vary greatly 
in strength. We think the Standard 
Tank Car to be the best. However, if 
security is of prime importance, we ad¬ 
vise you to buy only seasoned bonds. 
It is better to take a small return and 
be safe. Why not buy one or more 
shares of the preferred stocks of the 
United States Steel Corporation? It 
has never failed to pay dividends 
through good times and bad, and is the 
strongest corporation in America. It 
will give you a yield at market prices 
of almost 6 per cent. You can buy one 
or more shares at a time and the stock 
is always instantly salable. 
Be Specific 
Financial Department:—Will you advise me 
about the following concerns : Steuben Trust 
Company of Hornell, N. Y.; and The Empire 
State Abstract Corporation, Bath, N. Y. ; S. W. 
Straus & Co.; Ice Service Co., Inc., New York 
City?—W. M. G„ New York. 
You will have to be a little more 
specific and let us know just what it 
is you want to know about each of the 
corporations you name. S. W. Straus 
.sell mortgage-secured bonds which vary 
in merit according to the property on 
which they are a lien. Mostly they 
are, in our opinion, very good. We do 
not recommend stock in the Ice Service 
Corporation for investment. The other 
two financial institutions you name, as 
we understand it, issue notes based on 
first mortgage collateral. The loans 
are said to be placed all in the City of 
Binghamton, N. Y. Ordinarily this is 
good security. It all depends on the 
management, and as to this we have no 
specific information. 
