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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 14 
" LOOKING AHEAD.” 
We have, in The R. N.-Y. office, a man 
who was formerly a tree agent. He 
went wandering about the earth talking 
people into buying his trees. We don’t 
know all the big stories he used to tell 
in order to make a sale, or whether it 
would be safe for him to travel over his 
old territory to-day (now that his trees 
have come to fruiting age) and disclose 
his identity. We don’t know how much 
the real fruit on these trees looks like 
the plates he used to show in his book, 
but one bit of his experience may well 
be taken for our theme this week. 
He met an old farmer who was trying 
to sell his farm. Year after year he 
offered the bare land for sale, but no 
one wanted it. Seasons came and went, 
but there were no buyers. At last the 
tree agent said: 
“See here, my friend, you are trying 
to sell this farm, but no one wants it. 
Suppose, when I first came through here, 
you had bought a lot of fruit trees, set 
them out on the best part of your farm, 
and given them good care, you would 
now have a bearing orchard on your 
place. Instead of sitting here waiting 
for a customer, buyers would be running 
after you and competing for a chance to 
buy your farm ! ” 
Now you see the point to that right 
off. There was no competition for the 
land itself, but there would be for the 
product of that land. Only one man in 
100 would take the land and develop its 
possibilities, but 99 would pay some 
other man to do it for them. That 
farmer should have looked ahead. He 
ought to have bought the trees and in¬ 
vested his time and skill and patience in 
bringing them up to a paying orchard. 
He might have done it while he was sit¬ 
ting down waiting for a customer. I 
know a man who started with a little 
money and bought a run-down place. 
He cleaned it up, planted an orchard, 
put nice trees and shrubs around the 
house, and sold it at a big increase. 
Since then he has repeated the opera¬ 
tion on six other places—always at a 
good profit. That man looked ahead 
and sold his time and good taste at a 
good figure. 
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Of course you understand that the ap¬ 
plication of this point will bring in The 
R. N.-Y. Let our readers and agents 
look ahead. On January 15, we shall 
distribute $250 in cash for subscription 
work—and $5 for every club of 20 which 
does not win one of the regular prizes. 
Are you looking ahead for a slice of 
white meat off that money? May be 
you are like that farmer who sat down 
and waited for buyers to come to him ! 
We hope not, for those dollars are not 
going to fall into your hat without any 
effort. The announcement of those 
small winning prizes last week must 
have dilated some eyes like a dose of 
belladonna. Buy your trees now for this 
December contest. Set them out and go 
to work at once. You can well afford to 
wear out one dollar’s worth of shoe 
leather, and win a $50 prize by doing it. 
Begin now and work. 
When we took so many trial subscrip¬ 
tions, we were looking ahead. We looked 
ahead to the time when those trial read¬ 
ers would become attached to the paper 
so that they would not give it up. We 
were right, you see ; here is a sample: 
Some time ago, I succeeded in getting a friend 
to send a trial subscription to The R. N.-Y. 
Saturday he told me that he would cut down his 
list of papers for 1896, but wouldn’t do without 
The R. N.-Y., and I inclose check paying for his 
subscription from January 1 to December 31,1896. 
New Hampshire. F. E. B. 
See that? That trial subscription has 
taken root in that man’s mind, and now 
it bears fruit. There is going to be an 
immense crop of the same sort all over 
the country. Gather it in ! And right 
here, while we are talking of sample 
copies and trials, read this : 
I have been looking over my 1893, 1894 and 1895 
Rurals to see whether I could spare any to give 
to my acquaintances to secure them for a club of 
subscribers to the best paper for the farmers’ 
interest on earth. But it was like the woman that 
was going to give away her children; she looked 
them all over, and they had their Qualifications, 
and she couldn’t spare one of the half dozen. I 
felt the same way; every one had something in 
its pages that I couldn’t part with. 
Now don’t go and give your old friends 
away. Send to us and get a big bundle 
of sample copies. We are always glad 
to send them out. We would like to 
mail a specimen to every friend you 
have. And this leads to another phase 
of the subject. Read this from a well- 
known business man: 
Inclosed please find one dollar, for which you 
may send me The R. N.-Y. for one year, with the 
understanding that my contract ceases at that 
time, unless I renew it, without any claim to 
obtain against me on account of your forwarding 
the paper longer without such order. 
Now it is too bad that a man finds it 
necessary to protect himself in that way 
in ordering his papers. It is not neces¬ 
sary in dealing with The R. N.-Y., 
because we have it distinctly understood 
that our paper stops short at the end of 
the period paid for, unless the subscriber 
orders it renewed. Furthermore, we 
stand ready at any time to return any 
man’s dollar at the first hint that the 
paper is not worth what it costs. There 
are a number of papers that stick to a 
man worse than a leech. Once let him 
subscribe, and he never can get away 
from them. The paper “ keeps coming,” 
and so do bills and threatening letters. It 
is just such business that compelled our 
friend to take measures to protect him¬ 
self. A paper that keeps forcing itself 
upon you whether you want it or not, 
is a nuisance. We advise you to do a 
strictly cash business with your papers. 
If there is one you don’t want next year 
—chop it off. Write to the publisher 
and tell him that you don’t want it, and 
if it keeps coming, refuse to take it from 
the post office. Then take no further 
notice of bills and statements from the 
publishers. 
Here is another of these trial results: 
Your insinuating agent at the Orange County, 
N. Y., Fair induced me to invest 25 cents in three 
months of The R. N.-Y. Now I want it for a year. 
Bainbridge, Ga. J. b. b. 
Think of that! A Georgia man saw 
the paper in Orange County, N. Y., and 
now finds it necessary to have it in his 
southern home ! Thus it goes every¬ 
where ! There is a big harvest for some 
one who will look ahead and work up 
subscriptions in the right way. 
Our minister thinks that he has made 
a great success of the chicken business. 
He bought a crate of pullets in the city, 
and they all turned out to be roosters. 
That ruined the egg prospects, but made 
a boom in fried chicken. Those roosters 
have eaten up my sweet corn and kept 
fat on it. One by one they have gone to 
the pan. The difference between their 
actual cost and their estimated value in 
the pan, is great, because they have 
cared for themselves and husked my 
covn for a living. There is great profit 
in it, but not half so much as there will 
be for the man who looks ahead now, and 
so conducts himself as to walk off with 
that $75 prize in his pocket on Januarjr 15. 
Here are the dates for the farmers’ institutes 
in New York State, 
after January 1, 1896 : 
TOWN. 
COUNTY. 
DATE. 
Camden. 
.Jan. 2, 3 
Johnstown. 
.Fulton. 
.Jan. 2, 3 
Belleville. 
.Jefferson.... 
.Jan. 3, 4 
Glen. 
•Jan. 4 
Newport. 
.Jan. 6, 7 
Pulaski. 
•Jan. 6, 7 
Central Square. 
•Jan. 7 
Chadwicks. 
.Jan. 7 
Higginsville. 
.Jan. 8 
Fulton. 
.Jan. 8, 9 
DeRuyter. 
.Jan. 9, 10 
Hannibal. 
.Jan. 9, 10 
Cortland. 
■Jan. 10, 11 
Wolcott. 
.Jan. 10, 11 
Williamson.•. 
.Jan. 13 
Marathon. 
.Jan. 13, 14 
Lakeside. 
.Jan. 14 
Union. 
.Jan. 14, 15 
Harpersville. 
.Jan. 15, 16 
Rose. 
•Jan. 15, 16 
Jordan. 
.Jan. 17 
Deposit. 
Jan. 17, 18 
Baldwinsville. 
.Jan. 18 
Fayetteville. 
.Jan. 20, 21 
Marcellus. 
.Jan. 21, 22 
Skaneateles. 
.Jan. 22, 23 
Seneca Falls. 
.Jan. 23, 24 
Clifton Springs.... 
.Jan. 24, 25 
Waterloo. 
.Seneca. 
.Jan. 27, 28 
Ovid Center. 
.Jan. 28, 29 
Trumansburg. 
.Jan. 29, 30 
Phelps. 
.Ontario. 
. Jan. 30 
Pittsford. 
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