1906. 
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55 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Dear Sir: I enclose you herewith one 
hundred cents, for which please send me one 
hundred dollars’ worth of consultation and 
advice on farm and garden topics in weekly 
installments during this year. Also send 
‘•The Farmer’s Garden!” Yours for life, 
Idaho. E- E - °- 
We give the above as a sample of the 
many bright and kindly letters that reach 
us daily. Of course “The Farmer’s Gar¬ 
den" went h ck to our western friend by 
return mail, and we will do our best to 
give him a hundred dollars’ worth during 
the year 1906. 
Knowing as we do the bright and prac¬ 
tical letters that come from The R. N.-Y. 
readers, we sometimes ask them individ¬ 
ually to suggest something new and orig¬ 
inal. Here is a reply from one of the 
strong fruit growers of the State of Mich¬ 
igan : 
Your letter requesting me to suggest some¬ 
thing of interest for the horticultural num¬ 
ber, has been in my hands for some time. 
It has been a revelation to me. Never again 
will I take up a paper, especially The R. 
N.-Y., without a realizing sense of the labor 
involved in getting up the intellectual menu, 
f never felt before how much work it is to 
think up something new, or even to dress an 
old subject in new clothes, so as to make it 
interesting to critical readers—and the R. 
N.-Y. ‘family is critical. But you are doing 
well; I take four farm papers, but none 
touches The R. N.-Y. L. w. R. 
Michigan. 
We print this letter because it contains 
a suggestion that has probably not oc¬ 
curred to you any more than it has to us 
until we saw it in cold ink. We refer to 
the amount of thought and energy re¬ 
quired to get up one issue of The R. 
N.-Y. after another for 52 weeks in the 
year. Of course it would be an easy mat¬ 
ter to fill up the pages with printed mat¬ 
ter from week to week. We could easily 
get enough copy to fill 10 such papers, and 
we could save several thousands of dol¬ 
lars during the year, if we would drop it 
in and let it go, but to think up new things, 
to make them clear and interesting, and, 
above all. to see that everything that does 
go in is reliable and trustworthy, requires 
an amount of energy and thought that one 
would never suspect until he gets face to 
face with the task and his conscience. 
However, when the work is finally appre¬ 
ciated, as it generally is by readers, we 
feel amply paid even if the task had been 
harder than it really is. But it is simply 
impossible to publish a paper with this 
care and work, and the proper quality of 
material and workmanship to go wiuh it, 
and then compete in price with the papers 
that are put up as cheaply as possible as 
mere advertising circulars under the form 
of a legitimate publication. 
Now read this: 
“The Farmer's Garden” came to hand all 
right, l’lease accept my thanks. I was 
called on last week by one of the leading 
farm journal's representatives, who wanted 
me to try his paper, saying It was the best 
paper printed. I said: ‘My friend, I differ 
with you. I much prefer The R. N.-Y." 
“Why,' said he, “we have the highest paid 
professional writers in thte country.” I said : 
“My friend, that’s ihe secret. I can get 
more satisfaction out of a two-inch real ex¬ 
perience of one of The It. N.-Y. readers than 
out of a two-column scientific opinion ; there 
Is that fellow feeling, as though you were 
both members of the profession.” w. ir. 
New York. 
It is appreciation such as is expressed 
in letters of this kind that make us feel 
repaid for any amount of thought and en¬ 
ergy expended on the work of making a 
farm paper. 
Here is one more timely letter: 
I thank you for sending me “The Farmer’s 
Garden.” Anyone can understand that little 
book. It is so plain and instructive anyone 
ought to follow it and be successful in mak¬ 
ing a garden. I also thank you for the book 
“Quincy Adams Sawyer,” sent for the one 
new subscription. 1 have just finished read¬ 
ing it and found it a most interesting story. 
New York. B. C. w. 
We print this letter to remind you of 
two things. First, that the new book, 
“ khe Farmer’s Garden,’’ is ready to go to 
you the day your renewal is received, and 
further, that those who receive it are 
pleased with it. Second, we wish to re¬ 
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postpaid any one of the following books, 
if you will get one new subscriber and 
send us his name and his dollar. These 
are the books: 
DAVID HARUM. 
BLENNERHASSETT, 
QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER. 
THE CHRISTIAN. 
THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
LETTERS OF A SELF-MADE MER¬ 
CHANT TO HIS SON. 
You may have as many of these books 
as you send new subscriptions. The books 
are all favorite works of popular authors, 
bound in cloth, and retail at $1.50. To 
help you get the new subscription “The 
Farmer’s Garden” will also be sent the 
subscriber. We are sending hundreds of 
these books every day in return for this 
work. Don’t you want one or more of 
them ? 
BLACK ORPINGTON POULTRY . 
It is Christmas Day and snowing. We 
have about 50 hens. The man brought in 
14 eggs today, 15 last night, and 11, 12 
or 13 every day for the past nine or ten 
days. Our breeds are Barred Rocks, 
White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, Light 
Brahmas and Black Orpingtons, each the 
finest of its breed, and a few common 
hens. Last Winter Durbin Horne had 
the biggest black chickens at the Pitts¬ 
burg show that I ever saw; they were 
Orpingtons. So I got a setting of eggs, 
and last May raised some chickens; we 
now have six pullets and three roosters. 
They have outgrown Brahmas or any 
other breed I ever had, and are now im¬ 
mense birds, blocky and handsome. The 
pullets began laying a month ago, and 
have been laying continually ever since; 
they lay a third more eggs than any of the 
other breeds, and their eggs are dark col¬ 
ored and extra large. But how long they 
may continue to lay I do not know, as this 
is my first experience with them. I see a 
good deal about Buff Orpingtons, but 
nothing about the black variety. 
Our hens have warm, cosy, sheltered, 
sunny quarters, but no fire heat. The 
scratching and dusting houses adjoin the 
regular henhouse, and the hens can go 
from the latter into the two others without 
having to go outside. The two latter are 
faced with upright hotbed sash, and don’t 
the hens love to bask in the warm sun¬ 
shine inside these houses! They also 
have free access outside. They get all the 
food they can eat wheat, corn, bran and 
cornmeal mixed with boiled mangels, also 
kitchen scraps, and a trough is always 
full of ground oyster shells. As we have 
them for pleasure and home use only, we 
keep no account of expense of mainte¬ 
nance. I am merely writing this to tell 
you what splendid hens the Black Orping¬ 
tons are, and how pleased we are with 
them. WILL RENOCLAF. 
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Name. 
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Box 441, Clay Center, Neb._ Dept. 14, Indianapoll*, Ind. 
