Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-30
Another Fraud.

Editor Vermont Fdrnier:-Allow me to
say to the readers of the FARMER that sent
to N. Z. Bower (who has an advertisement
in the FARMER) for n pair OF Chester White
pigs, he agreeing to send me some very
choice ones. The pigs he sent me were so poor
| would not use them to breed from, so l
killed the boar ut five months old and sold
the sow, to get them of the premises. The
said n. p. Boyer is denounced in MO0re'S
Rural NetO Yorker, page 10Y, and now,
readers of the FARMER, send just ms much
money to him as you have mind to.
Stockbridge, Aprl 10. G. A. Blown.
1t is said that mistakes will happen in
the best regulated families and newspapers
likewise-in confirmation of which we have
very frankly to acknowledge that the Pdver.
tisement of N. Z. Boyer, OF Chester CoInty,
Pa, u swindler, was recently inadvertently
given in the Rurdl.-RUrdl NetO Yorker.
We look at the FARMER with pride as the
freest from humbug advertising Of all the
Vermont papers, so far as the judgment of
the editor and of the proprietor is able to
detect them, but, like all others, we some
times get sold." We had slight doubts
about N. p. Boyers seeds, but believed the
pigs he sold were good, pure-bred animals.
We admitted his advertisement of seeds, as
we do those of hulless oats, and some similar
things, because we do not know them to be
humbugs, at the same time cautioning our
readers, edtorially, that most Of the new
varieties of oats, corn, potatoes, &C.. put
upon the market, instead Of being worth the
dollar or such a matter charged for them,
are really worth less than the common va
rieties, as was the case with the Norway oats
and now appears to have been with the Ear
ly Rose potato which fails to stand the test
of use and will not now bring the top price
in market. Advertisements of hulless oats
lat less than $50 per busheD can be seen in
the FARMER. The advertisers, however, do
not claim that they are anything very won
derful, but simply offer them to such as wish
to buy at less figures than Boutele start
ed them at. The great yields claimed
for them,-30, 49, aud 80 bushels per
acre,-are not so astonishing as might
be supposed at the first glance. A little
more than year ago communication was
published in the FARMER respecting the farm
and farming Of b. Smith, Of Barnston, p
O., and the average yield of his thirteeH
acres of oats was GO bushels per acre. We
have known him to raise so.
Now, our advice to all is not to invest in
any Of these novelties that come around until
they are sure they want them. Then when
you do wish to try them, you will generally
be just as likely land a dOOd deal more SOY
to get good article of the man nearest home
as you would by sending to California, or even
to Pennsylvania. Belgian, Norway, or Hulless
oats, or Branching corn, or a new early po-
tato " fifteen minutes earlier than the Early
Rose" may possibly be improvements, but
after so many Of them have proved to b.
humbugs it is well to use caution. When
any really valuable addition to our varieties
of grains or other crops are originated they
will be very likely to be heard from in other
ways than by advertisements in the paper
or testimonials annexed to advertisers circu.
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