1906. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
35 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
January 2, 1905, yet holds the record for 
subscription returns. The returns for 
the first business day this year were just 
a litttlc short of the corresponding day 
last year, but the returns for January 2, 
1906, arc ahead of any previous record in 
the office with the single exception of the 
great returns of last year. Then, too, 
the returns for the first three days of this 
month, which brings it up to the present 
writing, are considerably ahead of the 
record for the first three days last year. 
What we were behind the first day was 
much more than made up by increase of 
the two following days. Some of the let¬ 
ters seemed to indicate that they were in¬ 
tended to reach us by the first day, but 
were delayed in the mail. So that while 
our ambition to exceed the record of last 
year for the first day of the year was not 
gratified, we came so close to it that we 
have no cause for complaint and feel 
none. On the contrary, the returns for 
the first three days justify our highest ex¬ 
pectation, and we take this opportunity to 
thank all who contributed to the very sat¬ 
isfactory result. 
Here is a note from a western reader: 
I enclose printed matter from the Globe 
Company, Chicago, 111. The $2.50 member¬ 
ship fee seems to me to be what they are 
after. I do not find their “ad” in The R. 
N.-V. I. o. G. 
Oregon. 
No; the ad. is not in The R. N.-Y., 
and never will be. The proposition is to 
send $2.50 for a membership fee which 
would entitle you to buy goods from them. 
Of course they contend that members may 
buy at a discount. It is an old scheme, 
and the old arguments of co-operation 
are urged. As there have been many 
crimes committed in the name of liberty, 
so have there been many frauds and fakes 
launched under the guise of co-operation. 
Here is another: 
i have been a subscriber and reader of 
Ti e It. N.-Y for a long time, and have been 
wailing and hoping to see in it your indorse¬ 
ment of the American Society of Equity. I 
have been a member of the Society since it 
was organized. Indorse this society in The 
It. N-Y., and here is my hand and support. 
If you do not, we must dissolve partnership, 
it is up to you. w. K. y. 
Ohio. 
Here is evidently a well-meaning man, 
who has become a prey to the allurements 
of one of the so-called co-operation fakes. 
This American Society of Equity is the 
conception of a man who has had fre¬ 
quent recourse to the bankrupt courts, 
as his creditors may attest. We believe 
he is before that court now. He has 
been in the seed business, and the imple¬ 
ment business, and the publishing busi¬ 
ness, and we have probably had more 
complaints from farmers against him than 
of any other man who caters to farm 
trade. We have persistently refused his 
advertising for years, first because of 
consideration for our subscribers, and sec¬ 
ond. because we would never expect to get 
our pay for the service. -We have also 
published the complaints of readers who 
have had reasons to wish they had not 
known him. It seems incredible that a 
man with such a past and present could 
bob up with a scheme of co-operation and 
secure the support and following of hon¬ 
est and well-meaning farmers. We do 
not believe, however, that any number of 
intelligent men can read his printed mat¬ 
ter and seriously credit both his sanity 
and his sincerity. 
Now listen to this: 
A I)r. I)a Cor.ta wrote to me some time 
ago from Detroit, Mich., telling me that be 
baa a \ i-\ i Eloctrocon for tIn* cure of deaf¬ 
ness and head noise. lie offers to send me 
one, free from charge, and have the free 
use of it fr^-tiiree months and if it cured me 
I was to u {.y him $15; if not send it back 
and there V'buhi be no charge. So I let him 
send me one, When the machine came the 
cxpressmai notified me that it came and I 
was to paj <353. A month later I received a 
letter from gfcit? Dr. Da Costa telling me that 
be imd sh'.oned me two months’ more medi¬ 
cine. 'Hie next day I got word from the ex¬ 
pressman that my medicine had came and the 
bill was $5. I wrote him I did not want it 
»nd would pot accept it. To-dav I heard 
from him saving I might take the"stuff from 
the express offi-e by paying the express and 
send him $1 a month. subscriber. 
Massachusetts. 
Tf there be any more contemptible form 
of fake than these deaf cure machines, 
wc are frank to say we do not know what 
they are. Yet their advertisements are 
found in papers of every class, including 
some of the farm papers, which make 
their collusion with the fake doubly crim¬ 
inal by a pretense of guaranteeing the 
responsibility of the advertiser. The ex¬ 
press company is evidently another party 
to the scheme. They make excessive 
charges to the receiver and refund part of 
it to the shmner. Responsible no doubt 
such concerns are in the sense that they 
will pay their advertising bills; it is little 
comfort to a deaf man to know that an 
express company, a publisher and a 
quack divide the loot that he contributes 
equitably among themselves. 
Did your subscription expire in Decem¬ 
ber? If so, your copy of “The Farmer’s 
Garden” is wrapped up and all ready to 
put into the mail bag, the day your re¬ 
newal is received. 
I’itcii for Leaks. —That Southern pine 
black pitch (see page 911) is a very conveni¬ 
ent article to have about the farm. A short 
time ago one of our iron pans used in the 
poultry yards rusted through in several 
places. It was too badly rusted for solder¬ 
ing, and we built a tiny bonfire, placed a 
small piece of pitch in the pan over each 
hole and held the pan over the (ire until the 
pitch melted, and we had a tight pan. The 
moment the pilch liquefies remove it from the 
fire and it hardens instantly. I have just 
repaired a leaky tin pail in the same way. 
Down at Bath, on the Kennebec, where they 
build wooden vessels by the hundreds, when 
the water pails about the shipyards get leaky 
they receive a light coating of hot pitch, 
which makes them good as new. f. c. c. 
Hawk axd Dog. —The Hartford Courant 
prints the following: “Arthur Willey's dog, 
Jim, has doubled in value since this morning. 
Hearing a commotion in the henyard, Mr. 
Willey let Jim loose, thinking at first that 
some two-footed thief was trying to lift a 
fowl or two. But the thief proved to be a 
large Red-tailed hawk which was so intent 
on trying to grasp a tender pullet on the 
other side of a wire netting that it descended 
within three or four feet of the ground, 
Riving the dog his opportunity. Jim grabbed 
the hawk and the hawk grabbed Jim, but the 
dog held on, and after a sharp but short 
battle the hawk was numbered among its 
forefathers.” 
Chinese Labor. —I have been in the busi¬ 
ness of gardening for 34 years, and I have 
had hired labor during all these years I 
first hired intelligent Christian men, and 
would allow of no smoking of tobacco. The 
first question I would ask a man was, “Are 
you a Christian ?” the next was, “Do you 
use tobacco?" So I got the best class of 
men, but when I had a man such as I want¬ 
ed he would stay but a short time. He 
would go into business for himself. Even 
will) this class of workmen, most of them 
cared only to get their wages: they took but 
little interest in anything but for them¬ 
selves. Twenty-five years ago I made a 
change and commenced hiring Chinese men, 
and in the work they could do they took a 
greater interest, worked more faithfully and 
put in more time than the white men 1 had 
hired. One Chinaman. (Yug), I kept for 
tour years, and he could handle more plants 
in a day or pick more strawberries than any 
man I ever had. One day I had my best 
workman fill boxes with dirt, take up tomato 
plants and set them in the boxes, 50 in a 
box. read for selling in the market; he put 
up 57 boxes in the day. Two years after I 
set Yug doing the same kind of work, box¬ 
ing tomato plants for the market, and he 
tilled the boxes with dirt and put the plants 
in 125 boxes in a day. The feeling against 
the Chinese was such that a great manv of 
them went away from here, and I hired 
whites again, until one year ago my old 
Chinaman (Yug), came hej;e and wanted to 
work again, and I employed him and I was 
glad to do so. He is a man 58 years old, 
and yet he can do more work and I can 
trust him more than any man I ever had. I 
have put up a small house for him and I 
expect to keep him as long as he lives and 
is able to work. dexter field. 
Oregon. 
dust$3532. 
Our trade mark adds 25% to value of a' 
; buggy because it Btandu for quality with a _ 
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SPLIT HICKORY MARVEL 
Guaranteed Two Years. Made to order. I 
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catalogue. 
The Ohio Carriage 
Mfg. Co. 
H. C. Phelpe, Prei.' 
Station 290 
Cincinnati^ 
Ohio 
* 35 ) 
UBBER-TIRETOP BUGGY $*>f| 
'A ith leather- q u nrter 
top and all up-to-date 
appointments.Guaran- 
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With Steel 
Tire. R39, 
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This and many other bar¬ 
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■ . and sell direct to you at 
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when they bought an 
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Send for our catalogue and save money. 
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The WAGON to BUY. 
Properly con¬ 
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TO FIT ALL 
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STEEL WHEELS 
ARE YOUR 
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5 %? 
Assets. • 
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Surplus and Profits 
#1150,000 
Write for full 
particulars. 
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withdraw at your pleasure, your 
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Dept, supervision and reg¬ 
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Industrial Savings and 
Loan Co., 
5 TIMES 11LDO., BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
AND 
HIDES 
10 to 60% more mousy for you to ship Row Furs, 
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Writs for Price List, market report, shipping tags. 
Hunters’and Trappers’ Guide 
Best thing on the subject over written. 
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BOX .7 HAVANA, ILL. 
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FOSTORIA, OHIO. 
AMPLE 
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PER ROD 
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r "T7"T 
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