1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
885 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
This month we begin the distribution 
to subscribers of the surplus earnings of 
the paper for the past year. 
This is a new departure for The R. 
N.-Y. It has never before been attempted 
by the publisher of any paper, and it 
marks an advanced stage in the develop¬ 
ment of the co-operative spirit that exists 
between the paper and its subscribers. 
You may well ask: “How can you do 
it?’’ You have no doubt noticed that 
publishers of other papers, some of them 
farm papers, too, have this year been 
obliged to increase the subscription price. 
As a reason for the increase they tell you 
that the price of paper and of labor has 
increased. So it has, but the price of the 
high quality of paper used in The R. 
N.-Y. and the skilled labor employed in 
producing it have increased more than the 
cheaper material and low.ef grade ©f Work¬ 
manship, in cheaper publications. , Theiq 
too, we have an expense in the editorial 
department that no other fahii paper dp- 
proaches or attempts. For ten dollars a 
week we could hire men to write over 
station bulletins and rehash articles taken 
from other papers just as our original 
articles are often pilfered and mutilated by 
other editors; but our readers demand 
something better. The R. N.-Y. must, 
first of all, be reliable. We want it to be 
the court of last resort for agricultural in¬ 
formation. This responsibility cannot be 
entrusted to men of unknown ability. We 
can employ only the best, and men of this 
talent come high. 
Why, then, you may again well ask, are 
we able to share a surplus with sub¬ 
scribers, when these other publishers are 
asking their readers to help bear the extra 
expense of publishing their papers? 
When the present editor and the pub¬ 
lisher, Mr. Collingwood and myself, as¬ 
sumed proprietary control of the paper 
about five years ago, transferred from sub¬ 
ordinate tasks to positions of undivided 
responsibility, we realized that we were 
on trial. Our principal capital was in our 
honest purpose and capacity to work; our 
debts were heavy and in exacting hands. 
The paper had been fairly successful along 
conservative lines, and any radical de¬ 
parture would be looked upon with more 
or less concern by our friends, and sus¬ 
picions by our creditors. Hence the de¬ 
velopment of our ideals had to be prudent 
and Cautious. We asked the help and co¬ 
operation of you, our old friends and sub¬ 
scribers, and promised you that we would 
put the best that is in us into the paper. 
It should be a service and a help to the 
farmer In his home, and a champion of his 
interests everywhere. We said we wanted 
100,000 regular subscribers, and asked you 
to co-operate with us by making the paper 
known to new readers. As a result of 
this co-operation the circulation of the 
paper has since more than doubled, and 
has to-day, we believe, a larger list of 
bonaficie subscribers than any other 
weekly farm paper in this country. Every 
dollar of the indebtedness has been liqui¬ 
dated, and the running expenses, including 
the increased cost of labor and material, 
are paid regularly every month. The R. 
N.-Y. has now no standing liabilities. Rut 
after paying all running expenses and a 
fair dividend on the capital invested there 
is a surplus left that we decided to invest 
in a new poultry book, “ The Business 
Hen,” and distribute it as a co-operative 
dividend to subscribers for the year 1905. 
When we asked the co-operation of old 
subscribers to increase the subscriptions 
and promote the general usefulness and 
power of the paper in other ways we said 
that you would share in a material way in 
the prosperity of the paper. We are now 
going to make that promise good. The 
surplus, of course, owing to the heavy run¬ 
ning expenses, is not large. It would, how¬ 
ever, be a snug little sum divided among 
two or three men—the postage alone will 
be over $2,000—but when divided between 
75,000 the portion to each cannot, of 
course, be large on a dollar investment. 
At first we were undecided how to dis¬ 
tribute it, but finally concluded that we 
could give more real value in a poultry 
book than in anything else, so “ 1 he Busi¬ 
ness Hen” was prepared, and it repre¬ 
sents your share in th.e year’s profits. 
First we laid out a plan of just what 
it should be. In this we were guided by 
our own experience, but more particularly 
by the thousands of questions that are 
asked annually by subscribers. When the 
plan was outlined we picked out the men 
who were most successful and experts in 
the different departments and secured 
their services to write on these subjects. 
Then we traveled to learn all that experi¬ 
ence could teach on the subject. Hi nail y 
we sat down and wrote and sorted and 
sifted. We had enough matter to print a 
half dozen such books; but we did not 
want a big book. So we wrote and re¬ 
wrote, cutting out all useless matter, keep¬ 
ing only the digestible meat. We wanted 
no waste matter, no big words or tech¬ 
nical terms. From the first we said it 
should be a book that would tell the be¬ 
ginner what to do and how to do it in 
plain and simple detail from first to last. 
No essential fact about poultry raising ha^ 
been omitted, and special attention has 
been given to the important things which 
other books have left out. But if any 
point is not sufficiently clear, or more de¬ 
tail is needed, write us and your questions 
will be answered promptly by the best 
authorities in the country. This is every¬ 
thing you could get in an extensive agri¬ 
cultural college course of poultry. We 
could make a bigger book for a great deal 
less money, but we could not make a bet¬ 
ter poultry book at any price. It is simply 
the best we can do. It is printed on good 
paper, fully illustrated, and we will sell it 
to non-subscribers at the uniform price of 
75 cents in paper covers. The agricultural 
Colleges have already began to use it as a 
text book. A Copy of the book will be 
Sent free and postpaid to evety reader who 
renews his subscription to The R. N.-Y. 
for 1905. 
While the book represents the surplus 
earnings of last year, we have decided to 
distribute it only to subscribers for 1905. 
We do this for two reason: First, that 
we may always know in advance just what 
the surplus will be for distribution the 
succeeding year—working ahead rather 
than backwards; and second, as an en¬ 
couragement to prompt renewals for the 
succeeding year. This is only fair to the 
old and regular subscribers, as it is their 
work and influence that have made such a 
surplus possible. 
This is a beginning. When we have 
reached our full 100,000 regular readers 
we hope to be able to effect some savings 
and increase these surplus earnings. When 
we do your share in the division will be 
increased in whatever form it may be dis¬ 
tributed. Our ambition will be to make 
it more and more from year to year. In 
the meantime we, of course, realize that 
the great service to you is in the paper 
itself and in the opportunity it affords in 
carrying information to the farm fireside, 
and in speaking out in plain and bold 
language for the farmer’s interests every¬ 
where. The book is valuable as a poultry 
guide, but it will be appreciated quite as 
much for the principle of co-operation that 
it represents as for any intrinsic value that 
it may possess in itself. The books are 
all ready and will be mailed daily as the 
renewals of subscriptions are received. As 
there is always a rush of mail about the 
holidays, there will necessarily be some 
delay at that time, but those who renew 
early will get the book by return mail. 
JOHN J. DILLON, 
h. w. collingwood. Publisher. 
Editor. 
There is no dis¬ 
puting the fact that 
man’s heart is often 
reached through the 
stomach. Happy the housewife who can 
please her husband’s appetite with well 
cooked food for the table. Many a man is 
grouchy, ugly, nervous, suffering from dis¬ 
tress after eating, heart palpitation, and all 
through the overworked stomach. 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, 
which helps the digestion of food in the 
stomach, assists the blood in taking up the 
proper elements from the food, helps the 
liver into activity, thereby throwing out 
the poisons in the blood and vitalizing the 
whole system. This assimilation helps in 
the oxidation of the red blood corpuscles, 
the poisons in the system are eliminated, 
the heart gets the right kind of blood and 
the person feels invigorated and stronger 
in consequence. As a tissue builder it is 
far preferable to cod liver oil or any alco¬ 
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the blood and the tissues the food elements 
they require and maintains a person’s 
nutrition by enabling him to eat, retain, 
digest and assimilate nutritious food. 
It overcomes the gastric irritability and 
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good effects from using Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery upon nutrition and the 
building up of the tissues, catarrh, con¬ 
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"I believe that it is generally conceded that 
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