1906. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
During this month of May we want 
practically to clean up onr stock of the 
new garden book, “The Faxmer’s Garden.” 
These books 
belong to 
you. We 
wrote it and 
made it for 
you. It is the 
best and 
most useful 
information 
that could 
be found on 
the subject 
of making 
and caring 
for a far¬ 
mer’s garden. It cost us a great deal of 
time and money to get it up. We now 
want you to have it. By following its in 
structions you can certainly make your 
garden produce from five to ten dollars a 
year more than you are likely to do with¬ 
out it. It will be especially helpful to the 
women and children who like to work in 
the garden, and everyone will learn to 
love the work when once into it. If your 
subscription has expired or is about to ex¬ 
pire, just send on your renewal and the 
book will go back to you the next day, 
free and postpaid. Those who got this 
little book appreciate its value. You will 
appreciate it too. Send on the renewal 
and it will go flying back to you by return 
post. 
By the way, there is great value in that 
set of dishes that we are sending for a 
club of four new subscriptions. They are 
going every week to all parts of the coun¬ 
try. There is big value in them. We got 
a set ourselves to make sure of their value. 
Just tackle four of your neighbors. Send 
us their subscriptions with one dollar for 
each, and the set of 31 pieces will be sent 
you promptly for your reward and trouble. 
We print the following letter because it 
shows that our people are appreciating 
our work and determination to print a 
clean paper in every respect, including the 
advertising columns: 
Two or three years ago we were intending 
to purchase a new stove. I saw a Kalamazoo 
•‘ad" in one of our papers, and called my 
husband’s attention to it lie thought it 
promised a little too much, but the next week 
1 saw their “ad” in The R. N.-Y. That set¬ 
tled it; we sent for their catalogue and then 
for the stove, which has proved to be very 
S°°d- e. w. s. 
Michigan. 
Publishers cannot enjoy such confidence 
as that by merely making a pretense of 
keeping clean columns and then admitting 
any old faker. There is only one way to 
enjoy such full confidence. That way is 
to merit the confidence. We are every 
week refusing advertising that appears in 
most of the other farm papers, but the 
thousands of letters like the above that 
come to us are more than enough to com¬ 
pensate for any revenue they might bring. 
That is one reason why we contend that 
no farmer can afford to let cheap papers 
with farm titles into his home, not even 
as sample copies, and most of them are 
either sent as samples or at such a low 
price that the effect is the same. All such 
papers print the advertisements of rogues 
and fakers of one degree or another. The 
advertiser gets his money from you, and 
gives a part of it to the publisher for the 
advertising share. That is why they can 
he sent you without a subscription. It 
comes out of you in the end through the 
fake advertiser. You are not their custo¬ 
mer. Hence they have no interest in you. 
1 hey puff and praise the baldest fakes. 
^ ou are the customer of the legitimate 
publisher when you pay for a subscription. 
1 hat is one reason why your interests are 
protected. I here are also moral and 
ethical questions concerning yourself and 
your family why such papers should not 
he permitted to enter a home. We need 
not go into these. The mere suggestion 
calls up many possibilities of danger. 
Here is one more letter from the Middle 
West: 
1 lease find enclosed money order for $1 to 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
4 < 
pay m;v Subscription for 1906, I like your 
paper very much for Its clean, no-fake adver¬ 
tising, its sound editorial policy and interest¬ 
ing variety of reading matter. b. d. s. 
Illinois. 
Such letters give us great encourage¬ 
ment. They bear evidence of coming 
from the best farm homes of the country. 
We can print only one in a thousand of 
such letters. We like to print one occa¬ 
sionally because they please us, and be¬ 
cause we like to enlist your sympathy and 
encouragement in the work we are trying 
to do. 
Now one last word. Do not forget the 
renewal this month nor “The Farmer’s 
Garden” that will go to you on receipt 
of your remittance for renewal. 
1 ITS REAL VALUE 
■■mm Considering Its real, honest worth, the cost of ■ Champion 
Cart is about one-halt of its value. If you could see the 
genuine, high-grade material used In its construction you 
would realize beyond doubt why it is the best and cheapest - 
cart to buy. Its style of construction commends it to the eye 
of the farmer as well as the practical horseman. It combines 
all the good features of a speed, road and breaking cart. Driver 
is always able to mount or dismount with safety—no matter what 
position the horse may be in -a feature of value in breaking colts. 
THE CHAMPION i^i 
Speeding 
CART 
** built. Where the greatest strain comes there it is reinforced heaviest Shafts have two 
' r °* 8 - bar8 -°, ne OT * r one below-making it practically unbreakable. Springs are l5?g makta^t 
'k® 8y 8eat 18 upholstered and adjustable to any weight of rider thus takinc^’he load oft 
™A? e \ TVhee "f, re 60 inche * high.well tired and bolted/ Nicely painted and triced- absohftelv 
v e Van?^rtr» e i m ^ >tl0 iI 1 '» A t 8r f. ma i® to raake friends by its real honest value. Made in three sizes/ 
viVtal detiled “nformaUon° r K Purposes. One price to all. Send for free descriptive book 
CHAMPION CART CO., BOX 109; UGONIER, INDIANA. 
SAVE ALL THE GRAIN M)U GROW 
. .“•■ill! 
Let Us Reason Together 
B ETWEEN seed time and harvest, the grain grower 
has to trust very largely “to luck.” 
Nature makes the crop in her own way. 
But when harvest time comes he must “get busy.” 
. His profits then depend upon the wisdom with 
which he harvests his grain. 
The wise man begins to get ready weeks before the 
actual time of harvest. 
He knows he can’t “trust to luck” then, and he 
does not want to be caught unprepared. 
The first thing he does is to make sure that he has 
the right facilities for harvesting—the right kind of 
machines for the proper cutting of his grain. 
He wants to get every spoonful of grain that 
Nature has given him. 
He wants to get it with 
—the least delay in time; 
—the least labor on his own part; 
—the least hardship on his horses; 
—the least likelihood of trouble and annoyance. 
He cannot “trust to luck,” and certainly he cannot 
trust to a poor harvesting machine, a worn-out har¬ 
vesting machine or an uncertain harvesting machine. 
How about you and your harvest? 
If you are a businesslike farmer, you will get ready 
for harvest now. 
Go to a dealer who handles any one of the Inter¬ 
national line of harvesting and haying machines. 
Get a catalogue, look at the machines, study their 
construction, and you will see for yourself that they are 
built to meet every requirement. 
In principle of operation —in design—they embody 
all that the most skilled mechanical experts have dis¬ 
covered in the past SO years. 
In materials they have lumber, steel and iron of the 
highest grade only—the selected products of the manu¬ 
facturers’ own mines and mills, produced for the pur¬ 
pose of harvesting machine building. 
In workmanship, it is the product of the best facili¬ 
ties that money and experience can produce. 
In everything that makes a machine reliable , trust¬ 
worthy t durable and efficient, the 
Champion Milwaukee 
Deering Osborne 
McCormick Plano 
repreSent lhe h «>>- 
These machines have been before the public for a 
long term of years—some of them for more than half a 
century. Other machines—scores and scores of them_ 
have come and gone. These have remained, groyne 
every year in popularity Is the stamp of approva! 
placed on a machine by the farmers of America and 
grain growers of the world worth anything? 
, 1 t? ot certain that their popularity has been mer¬ 
it* ^o Men i?° D °j buy ^^ y ear after year, un¬ 
less the machines do satisfactory work. 
To-day the standard harvesting and haying ma¬ 
chines embraced m the International line, are better 
than ever before, because they are the products of riper, 
richer experience, more expert skill, and better and 
ESS&SE for “ ctare p“ 
The manufacturers of these several machines, bv 
th?qr ^°'^ 1 i era i tl0n ’ are . able to . own, control and operate 
their own coal mines, iron mines, lumber camps, coke 
stee * m +k otber sources of supply, producing 
their own materials, under their own supervision. 
, . ^ be T & e !j these materials when they want them not 
being dependent upon uncertain and fluctuJinTm*. 
kets, they get them of the right quality. 5 
By co-operation they are enabled to employ the most expert skill in 
designing improvements and in the actual manufacture of the machines 
eron^r < l Pera i l0n .- they f are e ? abled t0 em Pl°y extra facilities for the 
economical production of machmes of the highest quality, facilities 
which are impossible for an individual manufacturer 
recordsoTthepalr enab ‘ ed SUrPaSS eVen their proud 
If you expect to save all your grain; 
. 7 If - y / U a harvesting or baying machine on which you may 
depend with absolute certainty; 
bills - ~~ If y ° U Want t0 be frCe fr ° m "break-downs," delays, and repair 
Take a little time, go and talk to an International Agent. 
Inspect the machine he handles and get a catalogue. 
It will pay you whether you buy this year or not. 
If you don’t know an International dealer—write to us for the 
name and address of one nearest you. 
International Harvester Company ot America, Chicago. 
(Incorporated} 
INTERNATIONAL LINE. 
Spreaders. Weber Wagons, Columbus Wagons, Bettendorf Wagons and Binder Twine. 6 S ’ Gas ° bae En B in es, Pumping Jacks, Manure 
