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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
I /IsWeGoToP! 
THE R. N.-Y. 
This heading indicates that we pur¬ 
pose to talk about our own business this 
week. Take notice, therefore, and skip 
this column all ye who think you know 
enough about the paper already. The 
words of our text may be found in the 
following letter over which we have 
pondered thoughtfully : 
In Brevities, page 700, R. N.-Y., you say: “ Never 
write, till you know what you are going to write 
about.” There goes the head of the “professional ” 
agricultural writer into the basket! “Tell it in 
a few words.” Same old thing. Boll it down. 
Haven’t time. What’s the matter with your blue 
pencil. “Make it simple.” Certainly. Can’t 
write any other way. “ It may be an old story to 
you, but unless it is new to others, it is not worth 
printing.” There goes my head in the basket ! 
Can’t interview all your readers to see. Haven’t 
the time. Or money. Am no globe trotter. “ Give 
your reasons for the why of it.” Don’t always 
know them. Sometimes they are self-evident. 
Sometimes want to find out the reasons. “If rea¬ 
sons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give 
no man, a reason on compulsion.” 
Sorrowfully, w. 
Now, as we are on the lookout for new 
ideas and new ideaei’s (if we may coin a 
new word), it may interest both contrib¬ 
utors and subscribers to know what we 
want, and when, where and how we 
want it. The quickest way to get at it 
will be to quote the following exact 
dialogue between a young man and the 
editor of Thk R. N.-Y. We like actual 
facts and real incidents, you know ! 
Young Man : “ Well, sir, I thought I would call 
and see if I cannot get a chance to write some 
articles for The R. N.-Y. I see you call for new 
contributors ? ” 
Ed.— “That’s right! Glad to see you! We are 
after all the new contributors we can get!” 
“ I have written some for our local paper, and 
our folks praise my work. It will help your paper 
down our way to have me write for it.” 
“ Pretty well known, eh ? ” 
“ Yes! yes! I can give the best of references— 
principal of the academy, our minister—” 
“ Well, sir, the chief refei-ence we cali for is an 
article written just as you think it ought to go to 
the priblic. With all due respect for the opinions 
of others, we shall place our own estimate on your 
literary ability.” 
“All right! Let’s see if we cau agi-ee upon 
terms! If I can make enough at writing for you, 
I’d just as soon quit other work, and travel 
about the country, writing up things of interest.” 
“ No doubt of it—but we haven’t the least idea 
what we can pay you.” 
“ Don’t know what you can paj' ? ” 
“ No, sir; and we won’t know until you send us 
a sample of what you can do. We can tell you 
then in live minutes what it is worth to us.” 
“ But I took a prize for writing an essay, and I 
can show you letter’s praising my work!” 
“ We congratulate you; but that would have no 
influence at all with us. The one single standard 
of value is your actual thought on paper—just as 
you want it to reach the public. Sit right down 
here and write an article, if you call it so easy!” 
“ Well, give me some subjects you want written 
about, and I’ll look them up.” 
“ We have no subjects for you. We don’t pay 
for words or personal opinions; we pay for ideas. 
A very commonplace man can grind out words by 
the cart-ioad. Such an article has no value to us. 
We want the idea and true purpose that lives in 
each paragraph—the soul in the body of words. 
Have you no topics yo\i would prefer to write 
upon ?” 
“ Well, I could write a series of articles on 
Political Economy !” 
“ We don’t want them ! We’ll tell you that be¬ 
fore you begin. Maybe you can discxiss those 
abstract subjects better than any other American. 
We are not disposed to dispute that; but we know 
our own readers better than any one else does, 
and when we get ready to take up such questions, 
we must do it in our own way. No doubt some of 
our friends think we are slow about discussing 
some of the great que.stions of the day; but we 
think that the plan we have marked out is the 
safest one. The R. N.-Y. is an agricultural jiaper, 
and deals of all with the farmer’s duty to his 
farm and family.” 
“ I see you are prejudiced in favor of the big 
men—the professors and other fellows with titles 
get all the chances.” 
“ Not at all. If you will look at recent issues 
of The R. N.-Y., you will see that the ‘ Professors’ 
have less and less space with us. We don’t think 
less of them because of their titles, but we find 
more and more younger farmers with heads full 
of new ideas, who are testing these things right 
on the farm. We must rely on the educated men 
for scientific fact and theory. For practical in¬ 
formation, we like the views of men who test their 
work on the scale of bread and butter.” 
“ I see lots of articles in the paper no better 
than I can write.” 
“ No doubt of it! The best we can do, some 
‘ stuff’ will get in. You must remember, though, 
that some of the articles that seem poor to yoii, 
are just what others want. Every ai’ticle in the 
paper is printed for some definite purpose—you 
may be sure of that, though you do not under¬ 
stand the motive that prompts its publication.” 
“ But you wouldn’t condense or cut up an article 
by a learned man as you would one from me !” 
“Certainly we would ! We call that ‘blue pen¬ 
cilling.’ I am hired to see that the ‘ bhie pencil’ 
is handled properly. Personally, I would just as 
soon chop an article by Gladstone if it were needed, 
as one written by an unknown hired man. . We 
like to disregard all personal friendship or re¬ 
spect for ability in judging the merits of an 
article. Lots of people want to know why we cut 
their articles. We can’t always explain. We 
always cut out a long-winded introduction, and 
some writers are liable to repeat themselves. 
Others undertake to give the scientific side of 
things, when it is evident that they know little 
about it. Out it ali comes ! On general prin¬ 
ciples, we prefer the short and simple note of the 
common farmer to the essay of the ‘know-it-all’ 
man. We can amplify the former easier than we 
can cut the latter.” 
“ Can you give a few short rules and advice for 
would-be writers ? ” 
“ First, we would say, don’t write an article till 
you feel that it’s just simply ( 70 < to come out. Every 
progressive man has thoughts that ‘ haunt ’ him 
—that follow him up demanding investigation and 
study. They may be about a crop, live stock, 
buildings, soils, machines, or some larger and 
deeper thing. We want the m.an who cannot set¬ 
tle these questions satisfactorily, to bring them to 
us that we may get our wise friends to help him. 
We want the man who has settled the m.atter 
right, to tell us how he did it. And that is all we 
do want—helpHil and honest problems of agri¬ 
culture and the answers to them. We stop there. 
We have no place for the ‘ professional writer ’— 
the man with the wild and crazy theory, or the 
man who simply writes to ‘ hear himself talk.’ 
Every article in The R. N.-Y. must be an honest 
and sincere call for help, or an equally honest 
effort to give it, or to suggest a way to it. 
“ We want the thing that is of most interest to 
you in your farming. That is the thing that has 
benefited by your brains, and we are after it. And 
not your farm alone, but your neighbors’. In 
every community, you will find a successful man 
who' has made much of some line of farming. 
There is a chance for an ‘ interview.’ Go to him 
with a set of civil and practical questions, and 
learn how he did it: Send it to us. You can’t 
possibly get better articles. No doubt, one of your 
neighbors could come to your farm and give us a 
better idea of wh.at you are doing than you could 
yourself. Here is a chance for young men to 
‘ write,’ if they have any ability to ask a question 
and remember the answer. The grammar, spell¬ 
ing and punctuation, don’t matter so much if the 
idea is sound; we’ll fix the former. 
“Don’t attempt any ‘fine writing.’ We can do 
all that here. Write just exactly as you would 
talk. Imagine yourself talking to your readers. 
Don’t let your pen run away with you. Don't 
make it evident that you are trying to show off 
your learning. We will crit that out the first 
thing we do. Write about one thing at a time, 
and be done with it. Don’t wander all about Robin 
Hood’s barn in a single article. Strike right at 
the quick as hard as you can. We will guarantee 
that such an article will command respect, and if 
we cannot use it, we will try to show you how it 
can be made useful. It is our ambition to make 
The R. N.-Y. a great force in agricultural journal¬ 
ism by encouraging and developing as writers, 
the hundreds of enterprising and successful men 
who are now hiding under closed bushels, 
thouglits, methods, devices and suggestions that 
ought to be blazoned out where all may study 
them. We want those men. We can put a little 
money into their pockets in exchange for their 
ideas.” 
We think this will show what we are 
up to for 1895. All the good old features 
of The R. N.-Y. will be maintained and 
improved. You may rest assured that 
you will receive your full dollar’s worth. 
We see very plainly that the way to im¬ 
prove business is to improve the paper. 
VVe are, therefore, out gunning for im¬ 
provements. To show you how the paper 
as it now is, strikes a stranger, read this: 
Deab Sib : I sent for a sample copy of The R- 
N.-Y. and received it to-day. Now I want you to 
send it to me the rest of this year, and the next 
year. Your paper is just what I have been look¬ 
ing for for five years. Inclosed please find a 
postal order for $1. d. e. w. 
Belmont County, O. 
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THE 
Cow5 Demand 
that their owners shall make effort to educate them¬ 
selves in Dairy Truth. For years they have furnished 
the main revenue of the farm, and now demand that 
the owner Invest one dollar a year as a subscription 
to Hoard’s Dairyman, that he may receive the 
varied experiences and teachings of the most success¬ 
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THE 
Cows Deserve 
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and in other ways make your life worth living. Dairy 
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THE 
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And common sense demands that every farmer who 
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Dairyman are practical men trained in the dairy 
business. The paper is recognized as the leading 
dairy paper of the world. It is crammed full every 
week with the very cream of dairy thought and ex¬ 
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Tlie Rural New-Y'orker readers should take 
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Watches at Panic Prices. 
K nowing that every person needs a watch, we have taken advantage of the panic times to offer 
watches to subscribers at panic prices. The wages paid to skilled labor in the great watch-case 
factories of the country have just been cut as never before, in the desperate effort to prevent the 
closing of the establishments, and prices have been greatly reduced to stimulate consumption of 
the product. It is not reasonable to expect that such a condition of things can long continue, and the 
shrewd buyer will make an effort to buy a watch, while the prices are lower than ever before, and before 
they are again advanced to something like previous rates. 
“ CRESCENT STREET.” 
Waltham Watch, Men's Size. Pride of the Wal¬ 
tham Factory. 
The best full-sized Waltham watch Iscalled “Cres¬ 
cent Street.” This watch Is made from the very 
OFFER No. 113. 
Men’s Size Gold Watch, Waltham or Elgin, 114.50 
No. 106. Is a Men’s size Hunting or Open face gold 
filled engraved case, guaranteed by the manufact¬ 
urers to wear 15 years. This watch contains the 
finest materials, each part being selected by expert same movement as Offer No. 100. We will send this 
workmen. Every wheel Is perfect, every jewel Is a watch, delivery guaranteed, for $14.50. 
precious stone, every pinion Is polished to the high¬ 
est degree. In fact, this watch Is, as the Waltham 
Company guarantees, “ perfect In construction and 
finish.” The Company also says in Its catalogue 
OFFER No. 114. 
Men's Size Silver Open Face Watch, $6.50. 
No. 107. Is a seven-jewel Waltham or Elgin, open 
that this is “the finest full-plate movement In the face only, stiffened silver case. In other words, In 
world.” The full plate is a recent Improvement in order to give strength sufficient to make the case 
watchmaking. It is a metal cap, covering all the durable without making the metal thick and heavy, 
mechanism, excepting the balance, thus saving many the sliver is strengthened by a nickel plate, intro- 
bllls for cleaning. These celebrated works are full duced in such a manner as to be entirely hidden. 
jeweled with red ruby jewels In solid gold settings 
They contain compensation expansion balance, safe- 
and were It not explained, the purchaser would not 
be able to tell It from a heavy solid coin silver case. 
ty pinion, stem winding and setting apparatus, pat- This watch comes in open face only, with a heavy 
ent Breguet hair-spring, hardened and tempered In beveled plate glass crystal, strong and durable. The 
form, patent regulator and double sunk dial, made dial Is of white porcelain, either Roman or Arabic 
expressly for this watch. The dial Is genuine. characters. In order to prevent the possibility of 
No. 101. Crescent Street, Solid I4k., 40 dwt. the hands catching, the dial upon which the second- 
(Huntlng case only.) . $52.90 hand Is mounted Is sunk below the level of the sur- 
No. 1C2. Crescent Street. Gold filled, 20-year. rounding face. We will send this watch, delivery 
Hunting or Open face case. 37.00 guaranteed, for $6.50. 
No. 103. Crescent Street. Gold filled, 15-year. 
Hunting or Open Face case. 33.25 OFFER No. 115. 
No. 104. Crescent Street, 2-ounce Coin Silver. Ladles’ Solid Gold Waltham or Elgin Watch, $22. 
Hunting or Open face case. 27.85 nj. The works are manufactured at Waltham 
No. 105. Crescent Street, Solid Nickel Silver. ^r Elgin. They are made of the finest materials. 
Open face dust-proof case. 25.C0 mi... woiu «... 
Hunting or Open Face case. 33.25 OFFER No. 115. 
104. Crescent Street, 2-ounce Coin Silver. Ladles’ Solid Gold Waltham or Elgin Watch, $22. 
Hunting or Open face case. 27.85 nj. The works are manufactured at Waltham 
105. Crescent Street, Solid Nickel Silver. ^r Elgin. They are made of the finest materials. 
Open face dust-proof case. 25.C0 carefully selected. The jewels are all cut and pol- 
^ Ished In Europe, where secret processes are handed 
•APPEETON, TRACY A CO.” down from generation to generation. The dial is 
Waltham, Men’s Size. made of the finest porcelain and the hands of blue 
. , , „ ^ . tempered steel. The case Is solid I4k. United States 
Appleton Tracy & Co. ” Is one of the cele- handsomely engraved. We will send this 
ted watches of the world. The works are full ^atoh, delivery guaranteed, for $22. 
brated watches of the world. The works are full 
jeweled, with 15 extra fine red ruby jewels In solid 
gold settings, compensation balance, safety pinion, 
stem winding and setting, Breguet hair-spring, spe¬ 
cial adjustment to temperature, Isochronism and 
position, and all the very latest Improvements. This 
OFFER No. 116. 
Ladles’ Solid Gold Waltham or Elgin Watch, $16. 
No. 116. Is a ladles’ solid gold hunting or open face 
watch took the first prize at the World’s Exposlilon ‘delicately engraved, and contains a Wal- 
in Paris, against all .competitors, both American and seven-jewel movement. We guarantee 
foreign. We will deliver this watch to any address watches offered, to be 
in the United States; works as above In timekeepers. Postpaid, delivery guaran- 
teed, for $16. 
No. 106, Solid 14k. gold, 40 dwt. Hunting case OFFER No. 117. 
Postpaid, delivery guaran* 
.$40.00 iiadles’ Gold Filled Waltham or Elgin Watch, $13.50. 
No. 107, I4k. gold-filled, 20-year. Hunting case. 23.50 
No. 108,14k. gold-filled, 20-year. Open face... . 22.50 
No. 109, 2-ounce, Solid Coin Silver, Hunting or 
Open face... 17.50 
No. 117. Is a ladles’ gold filled engraved watch, 
guaranteed by the manufacturer to wear 15 years. 
The works contain seven jewels, exposed pallets. 
No. 110, Stiffened Silver, Open face only.15.50 Improvements. Price, deUvery 
No. HI, Solid Nickel Sliver case, open face. 12.75 *13.50. 
OFFER No. 118. 
OFFER No. 112. Ladles’ Gold “Skylight” Watch, 512.50. 
Men’s Size Solid Gold Waltham Watch, $29. No- I® a 14k. gold filled engraved “Skylight ” 
Waltham or Elgin, guaranteed to wear 20 years. The 
No. 100. Is a Men s Size Hunting or Open face case Is made by placing two heavy sheets of 14k. 
Waltham solid gold Standard, U. S. Assay Case, gold, reinforced between with a thin sheet of stiff 
handsomely engine turned. The works contain seven composition, which makes a perfect case for pro 
jewels, and are made according to the celebrated lectlng the works. The ring joint plugs, thumb- 
Waltham Riverside Model, In which the two nickel piece, hinges and every part subjected to constant 
winding wheels are plainly seen. The case Is the wear, are solid gold, while the gold is brought down 
thinnest solid gold model ever made. Remember, over the edges of the composition metal and joined 
we mean that the watch when closed in the pocket 
Is thin. The lids of the case are the usual thickness, 
and form a perfect protection for the movement. 
This is just the watch for doctors, lawyers, clergy¬ 
men, and all others who wish a really first-class 
article. The works are jeweled In all Important 
parts with precious stones; the regulator Is an Im- 
In such a way that even an expert Is obliged to cut 
the case to find that It is not solid gold. We will de¬ 
liver this watch for $12. 
OFFER No. 119. 
Ladles’ Solid Coin Silver ’‘Skylight” Watch, 18 
.... . " No 119. Is a solid coin silver watch, Waltham or 
proved pattern; the halr-sprlng is Logans patent Elgin, contalnlngseven jewels and all Improvements. 
Breguet Spring. We will send this watch, delivery We mean by “Skylight” that the front case Is cut 
cuaranteed to anv address in the United and a heavy crystal is Inserted BO as to see the dial 
f ^ aaaress in the United States ,vithout opening the front case. We will deliver 
for $29 this watch, postpaid, for $8. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Corner Chambers and Pearl Streets, New-York. 
