1901. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
725 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
To January 1, 1905, for to cents. 
About three years ago we told you wfc 
wanted one hundred thousand regular 
subscribers to The R. N.-Y. We asked 
our old subscribers to help by introducing 
the paper to neighbors and friends. The 
response has been prompt and hearty. In 
three years the circulation has just about 
doubled. It is now past the 75,000 mark. 
Our hearts are yet set on the hundred 
thousand. That means twenty-five thou¬ 
sand more yet. That will not take so 
long. If one out of every three old read¬ 
ers will send back one of the little enve¬ 
lopes this week it will be done. We are 
going to ask you to do it for one. Get 
a dime from one neighbor for The R. 
N.-Y. We will send it to him every week 
for the remainder of the year. Just send 
his name, address and dime and we will 
do the rest. You will find the little enve¬ 
lope in this paper, with blanks for his 
name, and a pocket for the dime. 
When we first asked The R. N.-Y. 
readers to assist in this work of increas¬ 
ing the circulation and usefulness of the 
paper we promised them the best paper 
that we are capable of making. In this 
we are keeping our word. Our sole object 
is to make The R. N.-Y. in itself a help 
and a necessity to the intelligent farmers 
of this county. We arc sparing neither 
labor nor money to that end. Besides this 
we have distributed free of cost to sub¬ 
scribers horticultural novelties and other 
valuable things when the increasing profits 
of the business enabled us to do so. The 
profits were never before so large as they 
have been this year, and we have prepared 
to share a larger portion of this with sub¬ 
scribers for 1905. More about this later. 
We mention it now only to show that we 
are keeping our word to our friends and 
as a renewal of the assurance that we re¬ 
gard The R. N.-Y. as a large co-operative 
enterprise in which every subscriber is a 
member and entitled not only to a voice 
in the conduct of its affairs, which we in¬ 
vite, either in approval or criticism, but 
also to a share in its profits. 
If you feel that you can give a little 
time to getting up a club for The R. N.-Y. 
write for terms and supplies. The terms 
are liberal, and you can make a little holi¬ 
day pocket money very easily. 
As stated last week, we have some 
plants of the Philadelphia rose due recent 
subscribers. They are growing in the 
field. As soon as we have some heavy 
frosts the leaves will fall, and the plants 
once dormant may be shipped safely. They 
will be sent out as soon as it is safe to 
do so. 
Above all other things, do not forget 
to return the little envelope this week with 
a trial subscription for a neighbor. 
MARKET NEWS 
Apple Buyers. —A reader in a hilly sec¬ 
tion where the orchards run 100 barrels or 
less and are not very close together, finds it 
hard to get competent help for picking and 
packing, and asks whether we know of buyers 
who will take the crop on the trees at a fair 
price. The best houses can usually get all 
they wish in localities where there are 10,000 
to 20,000 barrels within easy reach. Quite 
a gang of men is needed to pick and pack to 
advantage, and too much time is lost in hand¬ 
ling scattering orchards. There are plenty 
of men who will go anywhere for apples, but 
they always expect to beat the growers in 
some way so as to make the trip profitable. 
They have all the advantage, and as a rule 
the grower will do better to have the fruit 
tucked in almost any way, dumped into bar¬ 
rels and sold on commission. A man does 
not need to be an expert to pick and bar¬ 
rel fairly well. If the apples are put into 
the barrel in small quantities, not more than 
half a bushel at a time, shaken down often 
and rounded up before heading, they will 
carry quite well. A barrel cannot be well 
shaken on the ground. It should stand on 
something solid, like a plank or floor, and 
ihen a lot of little chuck.v shakes will take 
up the slack as one goes along. 
Are They Reliable? —We are very often 
asked this question concerning dealers in 
country produce in New York and other cities, 
and are glad to receive these inquiries, as we 
are thus able to commend those who are con¬ 
sidered honest and warn against the dead, or 
partly dead, beats. The latest inquiry of this 
s ort is about a concern that is doing a large 
business, and, so far as we can learn, paying 
ds bills, but it has an early record of failure 
and bunco. The man who started the busi¬ 
ness was formerly a real estate dealer who 
failed for a large amount and cannot at pres¬ 
ent use his own name. He carried on a 
produce business in his wife's name. She 
died, the property fell to him, and before he 
got himself protected again his creditors 
seized a good slice of it. Then he used his 
brother’s name, and after various escapades 
the business passed on to two other brothers, 
who for several years have carried it on 
without failure. A neighboring concern in 
the same business has been in existence 50 
years, passing from father to son. They have 
always paid their debts, and in the seven 
years that I have known them I have never 
heard a well-founded complaint about their 
business methods.. The* 1 two types are 
found in all lines of traxles, and while it 
would be unjust to put up a permanent boy¬ 
cott against a man who was once a bankrupt, 
it ought to be made hard enough for him to 
get into good business standing again, so that 
lie might to some extent understand the value 
of it. We cannot advise anyone to send 
goods to the concern first mentioned, even 
though they are now paying their bills. 
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OSTRANDER, 
367 North American Building:, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
If You Want to BUY, Fill Out, Cut Out, and 
Mail This Coupon To Me Now. 
.1904 
W. M. OSTRANDER, 
3G7 North American Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 
With a view to baying, I desire information about 
properties which correspond approximately to the following 
specifications: 
Kind of Property . 
If You Want To SELL, Fill Out, Cut Out, and 
Mail This Coupon to Me Now. 
.1904 
W. M. OSTRANDER, 
307 North American Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Please send without cost to me, a plan for finding a 
cash buyer for my property, which consists of 
Size . SUtte. 
City, County or part of State preferred . 
The in'icc must he between $ . and $... 
I will pay $ . down, and the balance. 
in the tenon or city of, 
County of . and State of. 
and which I desire to sell for $ 
Follmoing is a brief description of the property 
Name. 
A dtlress 
Name. 
Address. 
