1904. 
933 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
This week we want to ask every sub¬ 
scriber whose subscription expires at end 
of the year, and who can do so, to mail 
his renewal the last of the week—by Sat¬ 
urday at least. We always have a pride in 
the number of subscriptions received the 
day after New Year’s. We had a big day 
last year, and we are anxious to beat the 
record this time. Help us do so. 
New subscribers sometimes do us a ser¬ 
vice beyond the mere fact of helping in¬ 
crease the subscription list. They have a 
tendency at times to keep down swelling 
of the head. Here is a sample of their 
direct language: 
No; I don't want your paper any longer. 
You did not do as you promised. You prom¬ 
ised to send me the Philadelphia Rose and 
you did not do It. Now I don't want 
nothing to do with you. J- T. C. 
Lynbrook, L. I. 
That is from near home, but here is one 
quite as direct, with a tincture of the 
manly humor of the broad West: 
I sent you order some time during the 
Summer for The R. N.-Y., and was to get 
a Crimson Rambler rose from your office. 
The paper has come regularly, but no Crim¬ 
son Rambler has put in an appearance yet. 
Will The Business lien turn out the same 
way? An acquaintance with the Crimson 
Rambler might give me faith in The Busi¬ 
ness lien. A. b. L. 
Corning, la. 
We print these letters at this time be¬ 
cause some other new subscribers who 
have not written may be laboring under 
similar mistakes. The mails are full of 
letters and circulars which go to country 
and city people alike, promising some¬ 
thing in return for a remittance which is 
never sent, and which it never was intend¬ 
ed to send as promised. Naturally when 
a new subscriber to The R. N.-Y. does 
not get a rose or anything else as promised 
he concludes that he has been the victim 
of a deception. Old subscribers who know 
us better will simply write and say they 
missed it. We can tell by the reading of a 
complaint whether the writer is an old 
reader or a new member of the family. 
The new man is in many cases likely to be 
suspicious when any cause arises for com¬ 
plaint, while the old reader is all confi¬ 
dence, and knows that an error will be 
made good. In both the above cases our 
records show that the rose had been sent. 
That is, we wrote the name and address 
on a label, and sent it to the nursery. The 
chances are that it was mailed all right. 
At all events, we have paid the grower for 
his work on it, and the postage besides. 
They probably got lost in the mails. Plants 
of this kind go astray for some reason 
more often than letters. Of course there 
is just a possibility that an oversight oc¬ 
curred at the nursery, but against this pos¬ 
sibility is the fact that their count of the 
number of plants shipped agrees with the 
number of labels we sent them. We are 
making this explanation to assure our new 
friends that we have sent the rose in good 
faith, and to say further that if anyone 
who has been promised a rose or anything 
has not received it he need only advise 
us of the fact, and we will correct the 
error by sending another. This our old 
friends already know, and our new ones 
will learn it in time if they apply the test. 
After the above “calling down” we can 
hardly refrain from giving you a letter or 
two as a sample of the hundreds that 
come in daily from old and confiding 
friends. Plere is one: 
Permit me to congratulate you for the 
admirable little manual, “The Business lien.’’ 
It would seem to cover in a clear and con¬ 
cise form everything essential to render poul¬ 
try farming a success. The sections on the 
sitting hen and the rearing of young chicks 
strike me as especially good, and containing 
much that is new. I have found getting 
chicks out of the shell and well started in 
growth the most difficult part of the business, 
and the way you have handled this as well 
as other branches of the business seems the 
best possible. “The Business Hen” ought to 
he and doubtless will be, recognized as the 
standard. 11 . h. boardman. 
Jewett City, Conn. 
Note the above is from Connecticut. 
Here is another from Pennsylvania: 
I enclose 25 cents extra, in hope you will 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
see your way clear to let me have a copy of 
“The Business Hen” in cloth. I am sure it is 
worthy of a better binding than paper. The 
R. N.-Y. always does everything rightly. I 
admire the spirit of this sharing your suc¬ 
cess with your subscribers. You have al¬ 
ways given me a full dollar’s worth without 
counting any of the extras you have dis¬ 
tributed from time to time. The general 
tone of The R. N.-Y. is such that I would 
miss it if I uid not have it, in about the 
same way that I would miss a cheerful, hon¬ 
est, kindly friend. You are doing a great 
work apart from the value of the paper as 
a technical periodical. h. l. 
Norwood, Pa. 
We could fill the paper with letters of 
this kind that come in now every day. We 
cannot even attempt to acknowledge each 
one personally, but “The Business Hen” 
goes back the day the subscription is re¬ 
ceived. Possibly an occasional one will 
go astray. If it does, just write us good- 
naturedly if you can, but if you feel like 
saying something real cross, go ahead and 
let us have it. It won’t make a bit of dif¬ 
ference; you will get another first and we 
will trace the old one afterwards. 
We hope you have had a merry Christ¬ 
mas ; We now wish you a prosperous and 
happy New Year. 
BITS OF TALK. 
Bees and Whiskers. —Elias Buckler, a 
farmer living near Delphos, has a remarkably 
luxuriant growth of whiskers. Recently while 
working in the fields a swarm of bees came 
along and settled in this growth. Mr. Buck¬ 
ler sat down and remained quiet. When all 
the bees had settled in his beard he slowly 
arose, walked home, and with the assistance 
of others hived the buzzers.—Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer. 
Thieves at Work. —In Kent County, 
where the scarcity of farm hands has caused 
many tenant farmers to decide to abandon 
farming, a shrewd farmer residing near 
Lynch’s Station is being congratulated on 
his Ingenious method of getting Ills corn crop 
cut. Catching two negroes stealing wheat 
from his granary, and after impressing them 
with the enormity of the crime and what the 
punishment would be, he offered to keep 
“mum” provided they would cut corn for him. 
They consented readily, and the farmer has 
his corn shocked In fine style.—Phi la. Record. 
A Weed Tate.—A friend of ours owns and 
lives on a farm of 400 acres—land rather 
fiat and inclined to be wet He has no 
stock to speak of and is trying to raise 
grain for a living. He is making a flat fail¬ 
ure of It. The only big crop he raises is 
weeds, weeds. The whole farm is literally 
overrun with them, and his crops are hardly 
worth harvesting. In the first place he has 
too much land. He is an 80-acre farmer and 
Is lost on 400. Then 300 acres of this land 
should be In Timothy and clover and there 
should be at least 100 head of stock and a 30- 
cow dairy on the place. It is of no use to 
damn the government when a farm Is run 
this way. Why does he farm this way? 
You tell. We can’t. He Is not the only one 
at it.—Credit Lost. 
Subterranean Pork. —Howard C. Garri¬ 
son, a prominent farmer of this county, was 
in town yesterday and had a remarkable in¬ 
cident to relate. On the night- of the 18th 
of June he lost a fine 300 pound hog. He 
searched high and low, but could find no 
trace of the animal. He finally gave up the 
hunt, coupling the disappearance of the hog 
with some Emancipation Day barbecue. 
Wednesday some one had occasion to look 
in an old dry well, 10 or 12 feet deep and 
only 100 or 200 yards from his house. At 
the bottom he discovered the hog, apparently 
unhurt. It had been in the well 32 
days without food or water. Mr. Garrison 
threw down an ear of corn, but the hog 
would not eat. He then lowered a bucket of 
milk and bran mixture, which proved to be 
more to the hog’s taste. Mr. Garrison has 
decided to feed the hog down in the well for 
a day or two, and then raise it out by filling 
in the well.—Galveston News. 
Worked the Farmer. —Jonathan Dlpworth, 
of Brighton, Monroe County, is a farmer 
and when he was approached the other night 
by two men who were dragging a mowing 
machine after them, he thought that they 
were farmers too simply because they told 
him so. They said that they had started 
for the city to sell the mowing machine but 
a mile down the road their horse had gone 
lame and they had been told that it was 
possible that Dipworth would buy the mower. 
The machine seemed to be in fairly good 
condition and when Dipworth asked the price 
the spokesman said that inasmuch as the 
horse had gone lame a sale on the spot would 
sell it for $20. Dipworth offered $15 and the 
mowing machine man indignantly declared 
that the price was taking the bread out of 
his baby’s mouth, but, under the circum¬ 
stances, he would accept the offer. Dipworth 
paid the $15, the men disappeared and then 
Mr. Dipworth dragged the machine out back 
of his shed, here to discover that the men 
had stolen his machine, and that he had 
bought it back from them.—Hornellsvllle, N. 
Y„ Tribune. 
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