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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Loyalty has no price. You cannot estimate 
it in dollars and cents, but it strengthens 
and enriches the legions who give it; and 
it encourages and inspires the object on 
which it is bestowed. To say that its 
friends are loyal to The R. N.-Y. is ex¬ 
pressing an appreciation of a great and liv¬ 
ing devotion in the simplest possible way. 
No want or purpose of the paper is ever 
made known without a quick and hearty 
response on the part of its readers. No 
matter whether it is educational, political, 
social or business, the response is positive 
and prompt. In the first part of Decem¬ 
ber we gave little attention to subscription 
renewal records. Perhaps the subscribers 
shared our oversight. Anyway, for some 
cause the records for the first part of the 
month were quite behind previous records. 
We mentioned it, and promptly the rec¬ 
ords began to improve. This was so 
prompt that the last part of the month 
made up for the early loss; and the month 
as a whole came within about a dozen re¬ 
newals of being the best record we ever 
had for December. The prompt response 
pleased us more than if the record had 
been much better than formerly, with 
nothing said to indicate the strong interest 
and loyalty of readers. Then we men¬ 
tioned the pride we always feel in the 
record for the day after New Years, and 
the mail this morning is abundant evi¬ 
dence of the interest taken in this record 
by our old friends. We received more 
subscriptions the first business day of 
1907 than was ever received on any sin¬ 
gle day in this office before. It was 10 
per cent over the corresponding day of 
last year, and it will be remember that 
last year was an increase over the previ¬ 
ous year. A better idea of the whole re¬ 
sult will be appreciated when it is re¬ 
membered that the records for corre¬ 
sponding days have increased regularly 
for five consecutive years. 
To put it mildly, we are proud of the 
result, and we heartily thank those who 
made this most practical demonstration 
would have anything to do with them. 
Bettirn? on a horse race or even on a card 
game is really respectable in comparison 
to this "form of gamble and swindle. 
We give the substance of two letters 
below: 
I took the agency of The Iva Dexx Cream 
Separator Co., Rochester, N. Y. They said 
the separator required only ordinal— well 
water and that mineral or cistern water 
would do. no ice needed, and that it required 
only two to five hours to complete separation. 
They also guaranteed to refund the money 
after 15 days’ trial if it proved unsatisfac¬ 
tory. 1 ordered one for a neighbor, who re¬ 
turned It within 15 days, as it did not sep¬ 
arate the cream thoroughly. I returned it 
to Rochester and asked them to refund my 
$7.50. They refused to return the money, 
because the separator had not been returned 
to them within 15 days of shipment. Nothing 
was said about date of shipment previously. 
It took 11 days to reach me, so you see how 
impossible it would be to try it and return it 
within 15 days of shipment. h. d. ingle. 
Gallon, Mich. 
I sent The Ka Dexx Separator Co., Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., $5.30 for a separator on the 
strength of their circular and guarantee. The 
faucet was not nickel plated as promised, 
the whole milk surface was a bum job. ilt 
only for a sink, and I returned it. They 
refuse to accept it, and will not return my 
money as guaranteed. e. j. lounsbury. 
Springdale, Ct. 
The circulars issued by this concern, 
together with their correspondence with 
the above farmers convince us that they 
make claims for their creamer that it can¬ 
not make good in practice, and then make 
quibbling excuses for refusing to return 
the money when demanded. Their so- 
called separator is simply one can placed 
inside of another so that the milk may 
be stored in one and water in the other. 
These cans have faucets for drawing 
off the water, cream and milk. If the 
water can could be kept filled with ice 
water the cream would be separated from 
the milk in five or six hours, but not so 
completely as is done by the centrifugal 
separators. The company claims that it 
will make at least 10 per cent more cream 
than any other deep-set creamer. And, 
again, that it produces a thorough separa¬ 
tion. These claims are absurd. Every¬ 
body knows that the deep-set creamers 
provided with means for cooling the milk 
with running water or ice will produce 
more cream than an implement with cis¬ 
tern water and no ice. The conclusion is. 
therefore, that the implement cannot come 
of their sympathy and support. 
Is 1 ho Indianapolis Nursery and Seed Co., 
Plainfield, Ind., a reliable concern? Some 
lime ago they ordered wheat of me and 
agreed to pay for it when shipment arrived, 
but since I have been unable to get any reply 
from them. SUBSCRIBER. 
Pennsylvania. 
This is the old T. C. Furnas Co., for¬ 
merly of Sheridan and later of Southport 
and Gallaudet, Ind. He has a reputation 
for neglecting bills, and we do not believe 
that accounts against him are collectible. 
We would not recommend sending goods 
in advance of payment or money fn ad¬ 
vance for goods. 
Subscribers continue to receive circu¬ 
lars about further investment in the old 
Cash Buyers’ Co-operative Union of Chi¬ 
cago, and send them to us for advice. 
There is really no such company now. It 
has been sold out, and those who held 
stock have lost every cent it cost them. 
All told, this amounts to more than a 
million dollars, held principally by farmers 
who were induced to take the stock by 
big promises of the promoters. The at¬ 
tempt now to get the old victims to put 
up more money may succeed, but no one 
need think he is in that way saving any¬ 
thing out of the old wreck. Any new 
money put in is a new venture pure and 
•simple. The old investment is lost tor 
good. 
We are receiving letters in almost every 
mail asking about the reliability of stock 
brokers and the stocks and bonds they 
are trying to sell. It seems to be under¬ 
stood that farmers have been making 
progress of recent years and have money 
to invest, and these brokers are making a 
bid for it. It is difficult to get any reli¬ 
able information on the standing of these 
brokers. The rule is they have no prop¬ 
erty that anyone can reach. If they have, 
they are smart enough to make them¬ 
selves no way responsible. They simply 
sell you the paper and you take all the 
chances. It is usually even more diffi¬ 
cult to get at the value of the stocks than 
of the brokers. As a rule they have no 
value at all, and no experienced investor 
up to what is claimed for it on intelli¬ 
gent trial; and anyone who buys one un¬ 
der the guarantee is justified in returning 
it and demanding the return of his money. 
The watch came to hand this afternoon, 
and 1 am very much pleased with it. ’HiIs 
Is the fourth watch I have purchased through 
your aid, and they have all been entirely sat¬ 
isfactory. j. A. D. 
New York. 
We are sending these watches as re¬ 
wards for clubs of.new subscriptions. Thd 
watches are the best that can be made. 
We would use no others. We also have 
other rewards, including a list of good 
books. We will send you descriptive cir¬ 
cular if you ask for it. These new sub¬ 
scribers will, of course, get the grape. 
They will thank you for putting it and the 
paper in their way. If they do not we 
will return the money to them. j. j. p. 
Type A 
40 % less working 
parts than other gas 
engines — more durable 
because a special, tough 
“gas engine” iron, made after 
a German formula, is used 
throughout, repairs cost prac¬ 
tically nothing—these are a few 
reasons why Olds Engines are 
the most economical to own. 
Our Type A catalogue (2 to 15 h. p.) 
gives many interesting fndts about 
them showing the superiority over 
all others for doing farm wont - 
running feed cutters, cream separ¬ 
ators, wood saws, etc. 
Toll us your requirements and wo will 
help you figure out what you need. 
OLDS GAS POWER CO. 
90S Chestnut St., Lansing, Mich. 
. Olda (ins Engine Work*: Ultigliiiiiiltui, N.Y. 
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No Trusts—No Catalogue Houses” 
DE LAVAL 
CREAM SEPARATORS 
First—Always Best—Cheapest 
For Twenty-Five Years 
The World’s Standard 
As much better than other separators 
as other separators are better than 
gravity creamers. 
Send for new 1907 catalogue. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph & Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO. 
109-113 YOUVILLE SQ. 
MONTH MAL. 
General Offices: 
'PHILADELPHIA. 1 ' 74 CORTLANDT STREET, 75 & 7 MoNTC> TREET ’ 
NEW YORK. 
0 & I I Drumm St.. 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
14-16 PRINCESS STREET, 
WINNIPEG. 
CUTS ICE FASTER 
than 50 men with saws, and in the best, 
most economic way. Our Red, White 
and Blue Ice Plow is the boat, low- J 
g ricod plow for 
utchers, dairy- 
men, farmers ami hotels. 
Amis Plow Co., 54 Mar¬ 
ket St., Boston, Mast. 
Has 
patent 
clearing 
tooth and 
Swing Guide. 
Ice Tools, all 
kinds, Catalog free. 
A MAN SAVED 
BY U8INO A FOLDING SAWING MACHINE. 
One mnn can ■>* more 
wood with it than two 
In any other way and | 
dolteasler. Q CORDS 
ih io hours; fiawS 
any wood on any 
S round. Saws tree* 
own. Catalog free, a 
Pint order aecureiagencyt 
Folding Sawing Mach. Co., 158 E. Harrison St, Chicago. Ill 
Cash or Time 
Buys y a 
FARM 
__ _ In Virginia 
With cozy new 3-room cottage like cut, and 25 
acres for poultry, fruit and vegetables. Only 
two miles from the live town!ofaWaverly, on 
N. & W. Ry.,-midway betweenlNorfolk and 
Richmond. Delightful climate, abundant water, 
unexcelled markets for produce. Splendid 
social advantages. "Go South,-Young Manl 1 
Write today for Booklets, lists of bargains in 
farms..lowest excursion rates, etc,- 
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Norfolk a western R?, 
Bos ELRonnoke, Va. 
An Opportunity for 
Homeseekers 
To the man who is in search of a home, 
no better opportunity can be offered than 
the Low Homeseekers’ Rates in effect 
via the 
Union Pacific 
on the first and third Tuesdays of each month 
II .|| i To many points in 
Until Kansas, Nebraska, 
April 30th, I90T, [ Colorado, Wyoming, 
1 Montana, Utah and Idaho. 
Inquire of 
E. L. LOMAX, O. P. A., 
Omaha, Neb. 
