1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
387 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
The American Farm Company, of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., has withdrawn its alleged 
libel suit against The R. N.-Y. Our old 
readers will remember that this suit was 
brought against The R. N.-Y. for a little 
over $100,000 by the above company in the 
year 1902. The Company had been organ¬ 
izing local branches in different parts of 
New York and other States, and inducing 
farmers to subscribe for its capital stock. 
In its complaint the Company alleged that 
farmers of Greene County, New York, 
who had subscribed for about $18,000 
worth of stock at par refused to take it 
after the publication of certain articles in 
The R. N.-Y., the farmers alleging fraud 
and misrepresentation in the inducements 
of the company’s agents to influence them 
to subscribe for the stock. On our mo¬ 
tion the court transferred the trial of the 
case from Buffalo to New York City, 
and no motion for trial has since been 
made. The suit is now withdrawn. 
We like the sentiments expressed in 
the following note from a man of large 
business experience: 
I imagine it takes lots of grit to refuse 
a large cash “adv." like that Philadelphia 
real estate agent, hut by so doing and by your 
statement, you have, I am sure, saved your 
readers thousands of dollars. We are in 
full sympathy with your methods, and I 
never lose an opportunity to speak a good 
word for The R. N.-Y. .r. 'r. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Habit makes practice easy, and turning 
down “cash” advertising has become al¬ 
most a habit with us. We never at any 
time during the present management of 
The R. N.-Y. intended to accept the ad¬ 
vertising of an irresponsible house, and of 
late years we have been dr,.wing the lines 
closer and closer. The lines of advertis¬ 
ing which we refuse, and which are ac¬ 
cepted by most other farm papers, 
would, if accepted at our rates, equal 
the entire subscription receipts of the 
papers that carry the advertising we 
refuse. We have absolutely drawn 
the line on the free someth ing-for- 
nothing advertising of every description. 
After several careful investigations we 
have found all these propositions decep¬ 
tive, and most of them full-fledged fakes. 
We do not wish to be understood that 
we never make mistakes. We have made 
them, hut in passing judgment our first 
consideration is the interest of our sub¬ 
scribers, and no order, large or small, 
would tempt us to decide in favor of an 
advertisement after we had become satis¬ 
fied that subscribers could not trade with 
the house with safety. 
The R. N.-Y. is the organ of its sub¬ 
scribers. You help shape its policy, and 
inspire its ambitions. You contribute to 
its growth and its influence. Through it, 
its readers may exert an influence to sup¬ 
press almost any social, business or po¬ 
litical evil, or to promote any good and 
wise reform in these lines. 
By way of expressing interest in “The 
Business Hen” we print the following 
notes from to-day’s mail: 
I wish to tell you how much we thin' of 
The It. N.-Y. You have improved it so 
much during the ‘ last year that I think 
at present ft has the most practical, help¬ 
ful tilings for the farmer, of any paper I 
know. As T am interested in the poultry 
business, I am anxious to see tHe “Business 
Hen.” i. h. B. 
New York. 
The poultry hook came to hand in due 
time. I thank you for it. The whole family 
find it very Interesting. J. f. b. 
Massachusetts. 
CURING A DRIPPING CHIMNEY. 
While I lived in my farmhouse I never had 
any trouble with the chimney, as I used both 
coal and wood, but my farmer not having 
dry wood, has quite an amount of trouble. 
The first trouble noticed the top of chimney 
blew off in a gale and many bricks fell down 
the chimney, and more falling, we attributed 
the trouble to that. I had the chimney 
cleaned, topped out and arched, and thought 
my troubles at an end. The next Winter it 
was as bad or worse. I went to a mason 
who said I should have to take it all down 
and rebuild from the bottom up, and made 
my calculations accordingly, but could not get 
the mason when I wanted him and the work 
was put off for a time, in the meantime I 
kept on inquiring, and I found a man who 
had trouble the same way. lie had his chim¬ 
ney rebuilt, making it perfectly square, think¬ 
ing thereby to make a sure job, but the next 
Winter it was just as bad, and even now he 
has to dip the drippings out at the bottom 
from time to time from a place left for that 
purpose. I commenced to study, and was 
sure the old fireplaces never bothered that 
way, and I reasoned that if a draft from the 
cellar up through chimney would help that 
was what I should do next. My mason cut 
a small hole in the chimney right at the 
bottom ; then as it was a crooked way to the 
cellar, I had to cut through one ceiling and 
two floors to the cellar. I had two-inch gas 
pipe cut the lengths 1 wanted, to he joined 
by couplings, and then cemented ail tight 
again around the chimney. I reasoned that 
if I did not dry out the chimney the drips 
would go down cellar, where a pall could be 
hung to catch it, but so far we have had no 
trouble, and the chimney has a better draft 
than before and is up to date dry. 
Cayuga County, N. Y„ a. d. b. 
If those who complain of dripping chim¬ 
neys, as they call it, will reverse the order 
in putting up their stove pipes, 1. e„ have 
the inside lap in the pipe run toward the 
stove, the outside lap toward the chimney, 
and give the horizontal *»art of the pipe a 
good big slant toward the stove, the liquid 
soot, as I call it. will run into tlie stove. 
This is a remedy if it comes from where the 
pipe enters the chimney or from the joints 
in the pipe. If it comes from the chimney 
I know no remedy. mbs. g. h. allen. 
Harvester Talks to Farmers—No. 5. 
The Economy of Buying Farm Implements and Machinery of the 
Highest Quality and the Best Reputation. 
HE question of what make 
of harvesting machines or 
agricultural implements of 
any kind that you pay 
your hard earned dollars 
for is one that concerns 
you more than any one 
else. 
You pay for the machine. You have 
to stand the worry and bother if it 
breaks when you most need it. You 
have to stand the loss if it goes ty pieces 
after a few seasons’ use. 
On the other hand, if you get a good, 
first-class, durable machine, you are the 
man who reaps the greatest profit. 
For, while the manufacturer is inter¬ 
ested to the extent of the profit he 
makes on the machine, and the dealer 
is interested to the extent of what he 
makes by selling it to you, you are in¬ 
terested a full one hundred per cent— 
the whole price. 
Naturally, then, it behooves you to 
think over the matter carefully and not 
take a leap in the dark. You can’t 
afford to run any risks. You don’t 
want to experiment; it is not wise to 
allow sentiment or prejudice to influ¬ 
ence you one way or the other. It’s a 
straight business proposition. 
How shall you go about it to deter¬ 
mine what line will give you the best 
satisfaction? 
>One of the best buyers this country 
has ever seen, a man who spends hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of dollars every 
year for his employers, has laid down 
this rule in buying: 
“I look first to the reputation of the 
article in question and ascertain how 
generally satisfactory it has been in the 
past. 
“I look secondly to the facilities of the 
producer and ascertain if he has the 
ability to make such an article as I am 
looking for. 
“Guided by these two things, I seldom 
make an error in buying, even in lines 
with which I am not personally famil¬ 
iar.” 
That’s a good rule, because it’s plain, 
every-day common sense. 
Facilities. —Can the manufacturer 
produce a good article? Has he the 
means at hand, or is he trying to make 
bricks without straw? Does he know 
his business? Has he had the experi¬ 
ence necessary to success? Can he pro¬ 
duce the necessary materials for the 
work he has undertaken? 
Reputation. —In the slang phrase, 
“Has he made good?” What do the 
people think who have purchased his 
product? Idas trade gravitated to his 
doors? Has his product given general 
satisfaction? 
That is the way the careful buyer— 
the man who gets a hundred cents in 
value for every dollar he spends— 
judges every proposition placed before 
him. He is not influenced by sentiment 
nor prejudice; he does not jump at con¬ 
clusions. 
And that is the way we ask you to 
look at the question before you buy har¬ 
vesting machines. 
When you find a line of machines 
used by a large majority of the buyers 
in that line—not only one season, but 
year after year—you are pretty safe in 
assuming that that line is giving pretty 
general satisfaction. 
Well, the International line of har¬ 
vesting machines is used by a large 
per cent of the farmers of America. 
They buy the Champion, the .Deering, 
the McCormick, the Milwaukee, the 
Osborn or the Plano, because they 
know they can depend upon these ma¬ 
chines. 
They have seen them tried and tested; 
they have used them, themselves, and 
they know they are right. 
These lines of harvesting machines 
are better today than ever before, be¬ 
cause the manufacturers have better 
facilities than ever before for produc¬ 
ing them—facilities of greater magni¬ 
tude and higher quality. 
And these improved facilities were 
brought about in the most natural man¬ 
ner in the world—by going to the root 
of the matter, and becoming independent 
of the uncertain, unstable, fluctuating 
open markets for their supply of mate¬ 
rials used in manufacturing. 
In order to secure coal of the right 
quality at right prices, the manufactur¬ 
ers of the Champion, the Deering, the 
McCormick, the Milwaukee, the Os¬ 
born and the Plano harvesting machines 
develop their own coal mines. 
To secure iron and steel of the high¬ 
est quality independent of the fluctuat¬ 
ing iron and steel markets, they 
operate their own iron mines, their own 
smelting furnaces and their own steel 
mills. 
In order to make sure that they 
should have an abundant supply of 
high grade lumber for generations to 
come, they own and operate vast forests 
and lumber camps, cutting the forests 
in strict accordance with the rules of 
scientific forestry, and, while thus pro¬ 
tecting themselves from the certain dam. 
ger of a lumber famine, contribute much 
to the welfare of the country at large, 
by helping preserve its sadly needed for¬ 
ests. 
In order to provide a cheap binding 
twine for the use of their customers, 
they are now developing the flax twine 
industry—not only providing a less ex¬ 
pensive twine, but opening an entirely 
new market for one of the great farm 
staples. 
And it is not only in raw materials 
that they have co-operated. In brains 
as well have they been able to secure 
common advantages, impossible to them 
acting separately. 
At every point, from the crude ore 
to the completed harvesting machine set 
up in the farmer’s field of ripened grain 
they have provided, themselves with the 
best possible facilities—facilities pos¬ 
sessed by no other manufacturers in 
similar lines. 
We ask the thinking grain and grass 
growers of America to consider these 
things, because they make possible the 
production of machines which could not 
be produced in any other way—because 
they bring to you machines so necessary 
to your work, of a higher grade and at 
a lower cost than would be possible un¬ 
der any other conditions. 
We point to the reputation of the In¬ 
ternational line because it is conclusive 
evidence that thinking farmers—men 
who are discriminating buyers—have 
proved to their own satisfaction that 
these machines are right. 
We point to our unequalled facilities 
as evidence that we shall be able to sus¬ 
tain the reputation made for these ma¬ 
chines by long years of careful, con¬ 
scientious manufacture. 
There is another point which should 
not be overlooked. Throughout this 
country you will find regularly estab¬ 
lished agencies for these machines. 
Each dealer understands thoroughly the 
machine he represents and carries a full 
line of supply and repair parts. If you 
should meet with an accident you know 
exactly where to get your repairs. You 
will not find, as is too often the case, a 
valuable machine rendered useless be¬ 
cause of your inability to get a small 
part which you have broken. 
Call on the International dealer. 
He will be glad to answer, any ques¬ 
tions, to give you catalogues and furnish 
any information concerning the line he 
represents. 
Harvester Talks 1 to 4 Inclusive Have Appeared In Previous Issues of This Paper. 
In the International Harvesting Machines, 
Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne and Plano, 
The “Business lieu" is a good hook to get 
for nothing. I thank you. j. p. d. 
Iowa. 
About 200 renewals wee received by 
this morning’s mail, and 200 books went 
back by the afternoon post. If you have 
not yet received your book it is here in 
a pile with the wrapper on, and a three- 
cent postage stamp attached. We have 
only to write your name and address on 
it, and it will be ready for the mail. It is 
a valuable book, and you ought to have it. 
It will go back the day your renewal is 
received. 
You Arc Offered The Quality which comes from the world’s greatest facilities in manufacturing. 
The Economy which comes from stable uniform cost of materials. 
The Safety which comes from a well established, permanent institution. 
The Convenience which comes from separate agencies everywhere and repairs always 
on hand. 
you cannot afford to overlook these advantages. They are not offered you in other lines of harvesting machines. 
Remember. The International Lines are Represented by Different Dealers. See them tor catalogues. 
Binders, Reapers, Headers, Header-Binders, Corn Binders, Corn Shockers, Corn Pickers, Huskers and Shredders, Mowers, 
Tedders, Hay Rakes, Sweep Rakes, Hay Stackers, Hay Balers, Knife Grinders, Gasoline Engines, 
Weber Wagons, Binder Twine. 
