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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 20 
“HEARD FROM.” 
The manufacturing of the “boom ” to 
nominate McKinley for President, has 
been one of the most remarkable events 
in American politics. Most of the so- 
called leaders or “ bosses ” of his party, 
were opposed to him ; but this fact seem¬ 
ed to make him stronger with the peo¬ 
ple, who began to go about talking and 
writing “ McKinley ” at every possible 
time and place. A single man doing this, 
would never have made himself heard, 
but when thousands or millions of men 
began to talk all together, they created 
a chorus that swept almost everything 
else out of hearing. 
Some of the ways in which this boom 
was worked up, were quite remarkable. 
A man in Philadelphia opened a case of 
eggs that were shipped all the way from 
western Iowa. They were Leghorn eggs, 
and white and clean as snow, but right 
in the center of the upper layer, where 
it would be sure to attract attention, 
was a big brown Brahma egg on which 
was written : 
mckinley is our man i 
NO MORE SIX-CENT EGGS ! 
And so it went all along. Men went 
around naming their favorite with 
tongue or pen, until the very repetition 
gave people the idea that there was 
something in it. When eggs and calves 
and lambs and, nobody knows what not, 
came rushing in bearing such tags as the 
above, people began to think, “ The 
West must be alive for McKinley 1” and 
first you know, they began talking for 
it, too—so that they might be on the 
winning side. 
Now there are several thoughts sug¬ 
gested by this incident. We often have 
reports of men who are pushing some 
special line of farming hard, and obtain¬ 
ing tiptop prices for what they have to 
sell. When you come to analyze the 
causes of their success, you will find 
that they carried out, on a small scale, 
just what these people did for McKinley. 
They just went out and captured all the 
“ free advertising” there was to be 
caught. First of all, they made sure 
that they had a good thing—so good 
that the truth could not possibly hurt 
it. Then they started to talk, and got 
all their friends to talk, and also fixed 
up every article that left their farms so 
nicely that it said as plain as could be, 
“ I represent the labor of a careful man. 
I am reliable—I’m all wool and 36% 
inches wide, and everything my boss 
sends out is just as good as I am !” 
The farmer sets everybody and every¬ 
thing that he touches talking for him 
just in that way, and first he knows, it 
swells into a perfect chorus of praise, 
and people everywhere within buying 
distance, begin to say, “ I guess I want 
some of those articles—I will follow the 
crowd !” That is the way a “reputation” 
is made. That is “free advertising,” 
and it belongs fairly to any man who has 
the pluck and the patience to get hold 
of it and wait. 
Suppose that those men who have 
been booming McKinley on their eggs, 
should use the same thought and inge¬ 
nuity in booming their own hens ! Some¬ 
times a man spends valuable time and 
oil in carrying a torch in a political pro¬ 
cession. About all he gets out of it is 
“a good time.” Let him start now with 
a business torch, and throw a bright 
light over the good things he has to sell. 
First thing you know he has a good 
trade—that is what we are all after. 
Now The R. N.-Y. is prepared to prac¬ 
tice just exactly what it preaches. We 
don’t hesitate to say that we are out for ail 
the free advertising we can possibly get 
our name connected with. You needn’t, 
for a moment, think that any spirit of 
false modesty will prompt us to decline 
any gift of advertising you feel like mak¬ 
ing us. We claim to give a full dollar’s 
worth in the 52 issues we print during 
the year. If you don’t think that you 
can get your money’s worth, it’s all right: 
you are perfectly free to proclaim it 
from the housetops, or from any other 
place. If, on the other hand, you think 
that your dollar comes back to you with, 
perhaps, a little interest thrown in, we 
can’t help thinking that you are a per¬ 
son of great sagacity and excellent feel¬ 
ing if you spread your opinions abroad, 
and say in public what you think and 
write. Here, for example, are a few brief 
extracts from letters : 
I would rather lose a meal a day than be with¬ 
out The R. N.-Y. D. m. 
Long- Island. 
I shall advise my son to give The R. N.-Y., 
when he has read it, to some poor farmer. It is 
not the business of The R. N.-Y. to make new 
Christians, but I think that it will “mend old 
ones” for it will have a tendency to make them 
better men, better neighbors, and better citizens, 
and, of course, they will then be better Christians. 
New Jersey. J. R. 
You try to print the truth of which so many 
are afraid. I’m speaking the truth, we shall 
always have an open way in spite of all trials. I 
will speak a good word for The R. N.-Y. 
Ohio. h. b. s. 
I do not want to part company with The R. 
N.-Y. so long as I have an acre of ground to till, 
or an animal to feed. It has been a continuous 
welcome visitor since its second year of publica¬ 
tion (in Rochester). J. w. n. 
New York. 
I thought that I could, perhaps, do without The 
R. N.-Y. this year, but find that I can’t. X>. R. 
Massachusetts. 
I thought that, possibly, I might have to give 
up The R. N.-Y. ; but wife and I concluded that 
we would make sacrifices upon every side before 
we would do so, for we think more of it than of 
all the other papers we read combined. We shall 
always be on the lookout for a chance to speak 
a good word for The R. N.-Y., and whenever the 
opportunity offers itself, I shall be glad to add a 
new subscription to your already large list. With 
best wishes for The R. N.-Y.’s success, 
Paris, Ky. w. o. M. 
I would not like to do without your valuable 
paper, as I think it one of the very best. The 
farmer who cannot get more than one dollar’s 
worth of information from its 52 issues, must be 
an agricultural college and an experiment sta¬ 
tion within himself. M. E. s. 
Maryland. 
Now, then, suppose that every one of 
our readers that can truthfully proclaim 
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Fresh air is a great 
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In every American household, there should be 
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THE 
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BINDER 
Would surely appeal to you strongly If you were 
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other machines of the same class. We have been working 
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and have produced the following: A low down binder that 
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lightest possible draft; a 
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balanced, operated by one 
lever; the best 
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seat it is easy to keepthc machine 
in perfect balance with no weight 
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you more about it in our Rook 
on Farm Machinery, No. 27 . 
D. M. OSBORNE & CO., 
Auburn, N. Y. 
Test of Separators. 
“Herewith find report of the test of Separators held at my 
place in Hubbardton, April 22,1896. The committee of 3 chosen 
from the 50 dairymen present decided that on the three points 
of amount per hour, general durability and ease of running, 
the Improved United States Separator was much superior. The 
test of the skim-milk was left to be decided by the Vermont Ex¬ 
periment Station. Eight tests of each were made at the station, 
the average of the tests of each Separator being as follows: 
No. s Imp. U. S„ 0.11 of 1 per cent, of fat left in the skim-milk. 
Sharpies, 0.23 “ ... 
De Laval “Baby,” 0.30 “ “ “ “ “ 
So that in all points the Improved United States Separator was 
decided to be superior." 
Hubbardton, Vt., May 20, 1896. C. A. ST. JOHN. 
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