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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 26 
ATTENTION, AGENTS! 
We frankly say that we are disap¬ 
pointed with our October subscription 
contest so far. At the present writing-, 
October 19, only one agent has sent any 
names to speak of. The second largest 
club to date is nine names; the third 
largest is five names. These are for 
prizes of $40 and $30 cash. The premi¬ 
ums this month are $50, $40, $30, $20, $15, 
$10 and $5. The checks will be mailed 
November 1, even though not another 
name is received during the month. We 
send the paper the rest of this year free 
for yearly subscriptions, and guarantee 
to return the money if the paper is not 
satisfactory. Most of the agents say 
that the names they have sent come 
easy, and it is surprising that there is 
no one who cares enough for those 
checks to put in three or four days’ work 
to get them. From the reports to date, 
any one could start out even after re¬ 
ceiving this paper, and capture one of 
the best prizes. In the past, agents 
have secured enough names in one day’s 
canvass to do it. We will give the names 
of the prize winners in due time, and 
they will have the checks before you 
read the announcement. Those who 
work up to Thursday night, if any do, 
may mail their report, and wire us the 
number of yearly names sent, and they 
will count. If you wish one of those 
checks by Saturday, start right out at 
once. There is time enough yet to 
secure one. _ 
“A HUNGRY HEADACHE.” 
I know a man who was brought up by 
one of those “close” old fellows who 
used to live in New England. This 
Yankee was “ so close you could see 
him,” as they say. He had a favorite 
trick of saving meat for dinner. He 
would happen in the kitchen just as his 
wife started down cellar to the pork 
barrel. 
“ Now, Mary Jane,” he would say; 
“I’ve got a terx*ible headache. I can’t 
ea.t much dinner, so I wouldn’t cook 
much meat. It’ll only be left an’ the 
cat might get at it an’ eat it up. That 
meat’s safest in the barrel—can’t afford 
to waste it! ” 
As a result the poor wife would cook 
a little piece of pork and a big pile of po¬ 
tatoes and turnips. The boy would 
look fondly forward to a slice of that 
meat, but at dinner time, the old gentle¬ 
man would clear his throat, smack his 
lips, and say:— 
“My stars! I guess that wasn’t any¬ 
thing but a hungry headache. It feels 
better at the smell of that ’ere meat ! ” 
Then he would reach over and take all 
the meat, leaving his wife and the boy to 
a vegetable diet. Thus you see that his 
“ hungry headache ” enabled him to get 
a full dinner, yet saved a few cents’ 
worth of meat, that otherwise might 
have been used to build up boy and 
woman energy. 
* 
Now we don’t expect to make any di¬ 
rect application from this ; but here is a 
letter that opens a somewhat new line 
of thought:— 
Last week and this there was an advertisement 
in The R. N.-Y. of a Virginia farm for sale. I 
wrote and received a glowing description of the 
place from an agency. Of course they give the 
bright side. Not long ago, one of your corres¬ 
pondents advised “ Go to the farmers; keep away 
from land agents.” That’s good ! But how can 
we? They don’t advertise. Can you not put me 
on the track of some Northern man who has gone 
South, preferably in the vicinity of Lynchburg or 
Danville, who can tell us all about the drawbacks 
as well as the advantages of the country? I 
would like to take a trip down there this fall, 
and thought of trying to pay my way by working 
for some farmer after I got there ; but if labor is 
so cheap, I may have to give that up. I would 
especially like to know what good labor costs, 
and what farm produce is worth. Their figures 
seem to me to be 'way off. I would like to hear 
from disinterested parties. j. s. d. 
Jolinsonburg, N. J. 
Now let’s see about this thing a moment. 
Here’s a man with a farm for sale. 
There is no one right in his neighbor¬ 
hood that will pay more than $1,000 for 
it ; but the chances are that some reader 
of The R. N.-Y. ’way off in some other 
part of the country, would give $2,500 if 
he could be brought to look it up. 
Now suppose that farmer came to us 
and said : “ See here, Mr. R. N.-Y., 
you’re a good fellow, you’ve given me 
some good advice ; now I want you to 
find a customer for my farm. You sell 
it for me, and I’ll be much obliged to 
you. Just put my name and address 
right in your paper, and you’ll have my 
thanks ! I haven’t any money to spend 
on an advertisement, but you go ahead 
and I’ll make it all right some time !” 
Do you know what that would be ? A 
case of hungry headache ! What would 
be the result at the end of the year ? 
That farmer would have all the meat. 
We would be living on dried printer’s 
ink, and those babies at home would 
have to be satisfied with water and air. 
It would be a fair sample of hungry 
headache—now wouldn’t it ? 
If we did business on this principle, 
our poet would soon be exhausting him¬ 
self on such productions as this—which 
is taken from the Cattlesburg, (Ky.,) 
Democrat: 
The wind bloweth, 
The water fioweth, 
The subscriber oweth, 
And the Lord knoweth 
We are in need of our dues ; 
So, come a-runnin’ 
This thing of dunnin’ 
Gives us the blues. 
It is pretty hard to make a person 
understand sometimes just what the ad¬ 
vertising space of a paper represents. 
You have to pay for using a telephone, 
a telegraph wire, or a postage stamp. 
The doctor, lawyer, engineer or teacher 
doesn’t work on the hungry headache 
principle. When you advertise in The 
R. N.-Y., you talk to a large army of 
people, old and young. It has cost us a 
good deal of money to get that big 
family together. The only reason you 
have for advertising is to find people 
who will pay more for your goods than 
your neighbors or local patrons. Some 
one else has a want, and you have the 
article that fills that want. We bring 
the two together, and for that service 
we are justified in asking fair pay. 
We have always thought that it would 
pay more individual farmers to adver¬ 
tise some of their best products, and 
thus work up a little outside and direct 
trade. During the past two years, many 
of our readers have tried this experi¬ 
ment, and most of them, we think, have 
met with success. We don’t urge people 
hard to do this, because all do not 
always realize that successful advertis¬ 
ing is a business of itself—one that takes 
patience, study and some money to per¬ 
fect. The facts about it are that our 
advertising rates are fair ; our readers 
are good buyers—and we don’t do busi¬ 
ness on the “hungry headache” principle. 
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And now, there is another side to that 
hungry headache plan. It doesn’t pay— 
it never pays to be mean and close. 
That boy didn’t always get enough to 
eat. Boiled vegetables were about as 
Killing as they were filling for a grow¬ 
ing boy. The craving of his stomach 
sent him sneaking into the pantry and 
down cellar where he fingered all the 
food he could find. The old man killed 
the cat because he thought she was the 
thief; but the point was that he lost 
more in the end by his meanness than 
his hungry headache could save for the 
pork barrel. 
When it comes to subscriptions, no 
one can accuse The R. N.-Y. of working 
on the hungry headache principle. We 
try to pack the paper full of meat. It 
would be easier to stuff it with bulky 
food, but we want meat for all. Then, as 
you know, we make your friends a pres¬ 
ent of the rest of the year. We give you 
a commission, a chance to earn $1 
{Continued on next page.) 
A FAKE. 
Webster’s Dictionary says, “to fake is to manipulate fraudu¬ 
lently so as to make an object appear better or other than it really 
is ; as to fake a bull dog by burning his upper lip, and thus artificially 
shortening it.” 
The above seems to be a very accurate description of the circulars 
and advertisements put out by the 
De Laval Separator Company, 
claiming a decision in several United States Courts in favor of their 
Bechtolsheim, or Alpha, Patent. In one paragraph it is, “the U. S. 
Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York in the next 
paragraph it is “the U. S. Court.” The object, of course, is to make 
it appear that it was in different Circuit Courts, and therefore appear 
as though there was much litigation. 
The facts are, it was one and the same Circuit Court. There ^was 
no testimony taken for the defense in either case. The manufacturer 
of the claimed infringing bowl did only a small business, so small 
that he did not deem it worth his while to be at the expense of de¬ 
fending the case. The De Laval Company waived all costs and 
damages, the users having nothing to pay. The Company’s main 
point being to get decisions, in order that they might “ Whoop ’em 
up ” as great and 
“ Important Decrees,” 
but the Court did not think it of enough importance to file an opinion 
in either case. 
The attempt to make it appear that this decision on the Bechtols¬ 
heim, or Alpha, Patent, covers all Separators, is 
Worse than a Fake, 
as that Patent covers the tin discs or plates (of which there 
are 27 to 45, depending upon the size of the machine) within the 
bowl, these discs resembling tin pie plates, bottom side up, with 
holes cut through the bottom. It therefore follows that separators 
without this multiple of inverted tin pie plates do not infringe or 
come within this 
“ Fake” Advertisement. 
The De Laval Company have burned the bulldog’s nose to make 
him look savage, blit he is harmless. He will not bite, nor even 
growl, at anything except a pile of tin pie plates bottom up. It 
follows, of course, no other construction comes within the decision. 
The United States Separator 
has proved to be so much superior to the De Laval Separator, that 
the De Laval Company take this “FaKE” way to attempt to 
frighten dairymen from buying the United States, which beats them 
in every day work. 
1 THE UNITED STATES SEPARATOR 
_gg Aji is made under special patents of its own. Its 
|1§| 1-. peaceful use is guaranteed to all users. 
\ It is simple in construction, having only 
||(| three parts to the bowl. It has the wonderful 
f* C //\ \ record of skimming to full capacity and leaving 
I \/ \| only 0.03 of one per cent of fat in the skimmed 
M \V milk at the Vermont Experiment Station, and 
M only 0.04 of one per cent at the Pennsylvania 
A y—-—w Experiment Station, and only a trace at the 
' Indiana Experiment Station, skimming full 
Send for Illustrated Circular. 
The Vermont Farm Machine Company has been incor¬ 
porated and doing business for about 23 years, owning many 
valuable patents, and manufacturing under them. It employs 
the best patent experts in the United States, and never has 
infringed other’s patents, and never expects to. In all this 
long period no purchaser of its manufactures has ever had to 
pay one cent of costs or damages for any claimed infringe¬ 
ment. It has always protected its patrons from all annoyance 
of this kind, and always will, so that its name has become a 
synonym for protection to its patrons. 
WE GUARANTEE ALL USERS OF OUR MACHINES 
AGAINST ANY CLAIMED INFRINGEMENT. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
