1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8i7 
PUBLISHE R'S DESK. 
A subscriber from Indiana sends us an 
advertisement of The Veterinary Science 
Association, London, Canada, and two 
letters which they have sent him in reply 
to his inquiry. The advertisement is 
headed “Fanners’ Sons Wanted.” It 
promises $(50 a month and expenses. In 
the first letter he is offered $(50 a month, 
promised $50 a month for expenses and 
advance of $240 in salary for the second 
year. How does he want his salary paid, 
by the month or week? They are just 
itching, it would seem, to get the money 
to him. It is so easy, it seems like find¬ 
ing money. The work is to be: 
Looking after the advertising and agents, 
shipping goods, attending to correspondence, 
keeping track of the business and such other 
work as the office duties may require. 
That certainly seems like a snap, and 
no wonder the young man wrote back 
that he was ready to go to work. From 
their anxiety to have a man in this par¬ 
ticular field, one would expect a prompt 
engagement, but no. The young man 
would require some preparation to fit him 
for the work. For this he needs a book. 
It is their book. It is a large book. It 
is a valuable book. If the young man 
will send on $3 they will send him the 
book. 'J hat is as far as negotiations 
have gone yet. If the young man should 
send for the book, they would then prob¬ 
ably want him to demonstrate his ability 
to fill the position by sending on a further 
remittance for some other valuable pro¬ 
duct, and so on. It is the old scheme. 
Under the promise of an easy job and 
big money at home, you are in¬ 
duced to make a remittance for some¬ 
thing you don’t want and wouldn’t buy. 
The promise of a salaried position is a 
fake pure and simple, and one of the 
meanest fakes of which we have any 
knowledge. We refused this advertising 
years ago, and would not carry a line of 
it under any consideration. Put this in 
the list of things to be let alone. 
If J he R. N.-Y. is not bright and 
readable, it certainly is not the fault of 
its readers. Almost every mail brings us 
letters on one subject or another, with 
suggestions bright and snappy enough to 
liven up the dullest mind. Here is one 
of them: 
I wish to thank you for (he list of the 
(he last copy 
been in corre¬ 
spondence with II. L. S. Hall. Scottsvllle, 
N. Y., in regard to a Jersey bull, but bis 
“cake is all dough” now as far as this 
“chicken” is concerned. Registered stock 
costs enough when one gets a “square deal.” 
I have been a subscriber to your paper for 
nearly 15 years. n. r. M. 
New York. 
The idea expressed in the symbol 
“minus square” is original and clever. 
The expression drives home the thought 
in a way to make it stick. Our work 
puts us in correspondence with the ablest 
minds of professional and business men 
in all parts of the world, and yet some 
of the cleverest and brightest letters we 
get come from subscribers in their farm 
homes. This is a tribute to the farm fire¬ 
side that we are glad to be able to ac¬ 
knowledge. There is probably no other 
paper in the world that is able to say it, 
because no other stands in so close and 
confidential a relation to such a large 
number of progressive and cultured farm¬ 
ers. Why do we speak of it? Why, 
sir, we are proud of it! 
We receive several letters every day 
expressing approval of our work in pro¬ 
tecting readers against fakes of one kind 
and another, as well as of other features 
of the paper. Other farm papers are get¬ 
ting thousands of dollars a year for these 
advertisements, which we refuse and 
openly denounce. But see the logic of 
the situation. These advertisers pay 
money to the papers for the privilege of 
looting the readers. They get the money, 
or they would not continue the adver¬ 
tising. In this way the publisher be¬ 
comes an accomplice in the theft for a 
share of the loot. His guilt is especially 
criminal when lie disarms vour suspicion 
by assuring you of the reliability of the 
deceptive advertiser. 
If you are one of those who approve of 
— | | (minus square) in 
of The R. N.-Y. I liave Just 
our course in this matter, this is the 
time to express practical approval by 
speaking of the paper to your neighbor 
and sending in his subscription. We will 
give him a ten-weeks’ trial for to cents. 
Can’t you send a few of these dimes? 
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An Unfair Test 
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buildings? "Lookfortho 
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NKWTOS’S Hear*. Cough, Pli- 
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A reterinary specific for wind, 
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T he N e w ton Kerned jr Co.. 
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Dr. Holland’s Medi¬ 
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ha. no rival a. a Conditioner and 
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S COTCH COLLIES, Spayed Females, two to 
eight mos. Clrc. SILAS DECKER, Montrose, Pa. 
If your hens are 
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30 years. 
WOMAN WANTS 
The ^butter and egg money |ygQ||£r 
is a big item to the farmer’s 
wife. Shecan increase her 
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■Harvey’s Mixed Grains 
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POULTRY KEEPERS* 
The course of “First Lessons in Poultry Keep¬ 
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R A PRFR 1,UFF »<»<1 WHITE PLYMOUTH 
^ ’Rocks, White Wyandottes, White 
Minorcas, Brown Leghorns and Mammoth Pekin 
Ducks, $3.00 each: $7.50 for trio. EDWARD G. 
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Anconas. W. G. MOSHER, Sylvania, Penna. 
FOR SALE 
300 choice Buff and Barred P. Rocks 
_ and White and Partridge Wyan¬ 
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Dr. S. C. MOYER. Lansdale, Pa. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Four promising young Cockerels for $5.00. Over 
1,000 to select from. Send for circular. 
WHITE & RICE. Yorktown N. Y. 
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Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book, 10c. 
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EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Won twp first premiums at New York State Fair, 1904. 
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guaranteed to hatch more and healthier 
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G botceSi ock for Sale.—Rocks, Wyandottes, Leghoms 
Minorcas, Turkeys, Ducks and Guineas. Also Lice 
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WHITE WYANDOTTE Choice 
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ET L> A I C—Very nice pure bred 
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5,000 FERRETS. These animals 
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Prices and Circular FREE. 
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FOR SALE 
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1 • 11 Stock. First class stock at low 
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250 
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and information. 
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