1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
55 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
And— "Don’t let up on the A. J. C. C. 
matter. When a man sells a five-year-old 
as a two-year-old, he is a fraud. 
Connecticut. . G. H. c. 
A questionable pedigree Is not worth more 
than the paper upon which it is written. 
Stick up for the small breeder; the larger 
one can usually fight to better advantage. 
New York. J. w. s. 
Thank you for reply to my inquiry, and 
enclosed find $1. I do not know where we 
are in subscription, but do know you are 
doing good work—Jersey Cattle Club and 
all. JERSEY BREEDER. 
New York. 
The above extracts are samples of hun¬ 
dreds of let'ters that we receive now 
daily. We print them for the benefit 
of those employees of the State Agricul¬ 
tural Department who have threatened 
The R. N.-Y. with the loss of friends if 
we persisted in our demand for an im¬ 
partial investigation of file A. J. C. C. 
case. To the credit of Jersey breeders it 
can be said that their letters are the most 
numerous and the most emphatic in ap¬ 
proval of our demand for an impartial 
investigation. The volume and tone of 
our mail admit of no doubt as to the 
general sentiment. If one of our adver¬ 
tisers had sold one of our subscribers a 
seven-year-old cow, and fitted her out 
with a three-year-old certificate of regis¬ 
try, would anyone doubt our responsi¬ 
bility to the subscriber under our guar¬ 
antee of a “Square Deal?” We certainly 
should not shirk the responsibility in such 
a transaction. 
Several subscribers have called our at¬ 
tention to the error in address of Clias. 
H. Manley in a recent issue. It should 
be St. John, Mich., not St. Joseph as 
we stated. 
Does no one squeal about J. A. Bergey’s 
way of doing business at Telford, I’a.? I 
Invested $4.50 in eggs. Although other eggs 
hatched iu the same incubator at ttie same 
time with his, we got no returns from his 
eggs, and he will do nothing but fill our 
order next year at half price, which doesn’t 
suit, a little bit. The eggs looked after 20 
days in incubator just as they did when put 
in. I do not believe he troubles to keep a 
male bird with his hens. o. l. o. 
Ohio. 
We have always regarded this party 
as entirely honest; but repeated com¬ 
plaints of late convince us that farmers 
who patronize him are not getting the 
value of their money. This may be due 
to causes which the advertiser cannot 
control; and not to any bad intention on 
his part; but the results are the same, 
and we have canceled the order. The 
advertising will not appear again. 
We print in this column from time to 
time some pleasant things said about The 
R. N.-Y., because the things selected 
seem to have some general application. 
We want to take readers into our entire 
confidence by giving both sides of every 
question; but most of the unpleasant 
things that come to us are of a per¬ 
sonal nature and require a personal ex¬ 
planation, justification or apology, but the 
following letter, which we received as a 
Christmas greeting, seems of such a gen¬ 
eral character as to merit public com¬ 
ment : 
My subscription expires with this week’s 
issue. Discontinue it after tills week. it 
is hardly necessary to give any reason at 
this time, as you no doubt can recall the 
disagreement we had iu regard to the ad- 
vertlsemeint of the - -. You 
claim a square deal, but when it comes to 
a matter of dollars and cents it is very 
different. You can get more out of a dis¬ 
honest advertiser than you can from a 
subscriber. 1 will not take any paper that 
allows their subscribers to be humbugged. 
Massachusetts. farmer. 
This man is sincere and speaks from 
the conviction of a real grievance. He is 
a subscriber of long standing, an inde¬ 
pendent thinker and an intelligent and 
progressive farmer. This is his griev¬ 
ance : One of the strongest and best 
manufacturing houses of farm machinery 
in the country advertised to sell one of 
its implements on time. Correspondence 
resulted in this farmer sending an order. 
This was promptly acknowledged; but’ 
the manufacturer claimed that the order 
was not accepted. They took some little 
time to look up the farmer’s responsi¬ 
bility, and concluded that they could not 
ship without an indorsement. Now, the 
farmer is a man of moderate means, but 
strictly honest, and can get any credit he 
would ask for where he is known. Hence 
he resented their request for an indorse¬ 
ment. In his original complaint he says: 
This kind of advertisement appears In 
papers not reliable, but I am surprised to 
read them in The Rural New-Yorker. 
We call attention to this case, because 
it emphasizes the difficulty of our posi¬ 
tion in our efforts to protect readers in 
every way. When a man has a personal 
grievance he has no patience with a 
friend who does not share his grievance 
in every detail. The closer the friend the 
greater his disappointment. So in this 
case, if the advertisement in question had 
appeared in papers which carry fake ad¬ 
vertisements, lie would make no com¬ 
ment, and probably continue the sub¬ 
scription, but knowing as he acknowl¬ 
edges, that this paper is exacting in the 
class of advertising admitted, he is cha¬ 
grined and resentful that we do not take 
his view of the case. It is to avoid just 
such difficulties that many publishers re¬ 
fuse to exercise any censorship whatever 
over their advertising columns. As a 
matter of fact every business house is 
doing just what t’he manufacturer did. 
We do so ourselves. Only last week,' 
with cash to pay for an advertisement in 
advance, we acknowledged the order, and 
sent for a report on the proposed adver¬ 
tiser. He was not good credit. A 
farmer might send him money and not 
get the goods. So we returned t’he re¬ 
mittance and declined the order, though 
we had previously solicited the order by 
letter. No business house looks up credit 
of customers as a rule until they have an 
order. Even then we all sometimes ac¬ 
cept bad credits. We somefimes refuse 
credit to worthy houses, just as this man¬ 
ufacturer did in this case, but as long as 
human nature is subject to error these 
things will be. Contrary to the implica¬ 
tion in file above letter, which, by the 
way, its author hardly believes himself, 
we do absolutely protect subscribers from 
dishonest advertisers. We do not pro¬ 
tect advertisers from dishonest farmers, 
nor even from farmers who are willing 
but unable to pay; and we cannot 
and will not insist that manufacturers 
grant credits against their better judg¬ 
ment. 
After discussing an advertiser that we 
recently exposed, a subscriber says: 
I fully approve of your policy, and can 
give no better testimonial to this fact than 
that if I want anything, I look first to see 
if it is advertised in The R. N.-Y., feeling 
if It is that it is safe to answer. w. h. 
New York. 
That is the sort of confidence we want 
our advertising columns to inspire. We 
realize too that the only way to command 
confidence is to merit it. No argument 
of friend, pressure of power, or allure¬ 
ment of money would induce us knowing¬ 
ly to accept a line of advertising front a 
dishonest advertiser. 
Our renewals of subscriptions are now 
daily running ahead of last year; and the 
number of new names sent by old read¬ 
ers was never anything near what it has 
been this season. We hope to maintain 
this record for several months yet. We 
have some splendid rewards fo send those 
who can get up a little club. Do you 
want a list of them? j. j. d. 
A DRYING HOUSE OF CEMENT. 
O. E. O., Stratham , N. H .—I would like 
to get the opinion of authority or of experi¬ 
ence upon the subject of building concrete 
kilns to dry apples in. Would cement be a 
good material to build a drying kiln for 
apples? The kiln would be 20 feet square 
1G feet high with drying floor six feet below 
the plate. Would not a solid wall of cement 
conduct heat so freely that it would not be 
economical to use in cold weather? Could 
not the wall be built with an air space, tying 
the two walls together with iron rods or 
cement, building the corners solid? If so 
would four-inch answer for the double walls, 
viz., four inches cement, four inches air 
space, four cement? Would the heat from 
the furnace have any effect on the side wall? 
It might at times reach 250 or 300 degrees. 
Could the building be built in freezing 
weather? If cement is not suitable is there 
any other material suitable to build a fire¬ 
proof kiln? 
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We mail samples 'for 
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ur j|atcb- 
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This Is an actual fact—and we’ll PROVE f 
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“Perfect” Incubator 
60 Egg Incubators ... $4.00 
120 ” ... 6.45 
240 " - .... 9.25 
The safe way to buy an incubator is on 
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