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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
75 
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PUBLISHERS DESK. 
I expected to stop The R. N.-Y. this year, 
but will not. on account of your good work In 
helping to defeat Wadsworth, the same being 
a benefit, to every dairy farmer in this coun¬ 
try. Also in trying to defeat Dryden in New 
Jersey. Also on account of the stand that 
you take in regard to the sale of Jersey cattle 
that the A. .1. C. C. did not want to investi¬ 
gate. I wrote and stopped The Country Gen¬ 
tleman for the part they take In regard to me 
same, telling them the reason. Also for the 
manly letter Mr. Collingwood wrote to the 
Secretary of the American Jersey Cattle Club. 
You will find In what you have done In these 
matters, and in the exposure of humbugs, 
whether high or low, that the real working 
farmers will stand by you each and every time. 
I enclose you one dollar for The Rural New- 
Yorker for 1907. g. w. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are glad this man decided to renew 
his subscription. He is the stamp of 
man we need in The R. N.-Y. family— 
men who do things, and who can give a 
reason for what they do. In his enthu¬ 
siasm, however, lie gives The R. N.-Y. 
mere credit than it deserves. There are 
publishers who claim a sort of magical 
or supernatural power over affairs gen¬ 
erally. The R. N.-Y. has no such mis¬ 
taken notion of its functions. It can 
direct energy, but the real power must 
come from its readers. The credit for 
whatever is accomplished belongs to 
them. They defeated Wadsworth. They 
stirred up the whole State of New Jer¬ 
sey against Dryden. Now they want to 
know why that certificate of registry does 
not agree with the wrinkles on the cow’s 
horns. They want the A. J. C. C. to an¬ 
swer. These dignified gentlemen and 
their organs could sneer with impunity 
at the editor of The R. N.-Y. They 
call it buncombe and playing to the gal¬ 
leries, and intimate that he will be 
crushed by the great power of the A. J. 
C. C. and its allies as a train of cars 
would demolish a cow on its track. But 
when the honest breeder and plain farmer 
speak up and demand a “square deal,” 
there can no longer be any doubt of the 
ultimate result. There is no resisting 
such a demand. We will yet know how 
a seven-vear-old cow came to have a 
three-year-old pedigree. Credit for the re¬ 
sult will be due the breeders and farmers 
who are demanding the investigation 
with no uncertain tone, more than to 
The R. N.-Y., which merely voices their 
honest indignation. 
A friend of mine would like you to find out 
If the Standard Trust Co., Birmingham, Ala., 
is a reliable company. lie is a veteran of the 
Civil War, and poor. k. a. 
Colorado. 
This inquiry simply emphasizes the im¬ 
portance of the advice, often repeated, 
not to invest in schemes at a distance 
from your home. It has been only a few 
days since the above inquiry was made, 
yet an involuntary petition of bankruptcy 
has since been filed against this com¬ 
pany. It was one of those big schemes 
to promote a business on other people’s 
money, which has never yet resulted to 
the benefit of the people who furnish the 
cash. 
A Long Island farmer sent Titus Bros., 
154 West street, New York, 10 barrels of 
cucumbers to sell on commission. For 
some reason the market was dull, and the 
cucumbers remained in the storehouse 
for several weeks, with the result that 
the farmer got less than one-half what 
he reasonably expected. We refer to 
this to emphasize the importance of 
shipping to commission men who are fa¬ 
miliar with the line of produce shipped. 
Such houses would not allow perishable 
goods of this kind to remain until some 
one called for them. A salesman would 
be sent to find a customer. 
We have many inquiries about the 
Lake Erie Seed Company, said to be at 
Cleveland, O. They apparently had 
rooms in a building there once, but our 
correspondents have not been able to lo¬ 
cate them recently. They are not known 
there by other seed houses. It is said 
they removed to some point in the West. 
Tt is reported that agents have been sell¬ 
ing seeds under this name in some local¬ 
ities. Our advice would be to buy seeds 
of houses whose location and reliability 
are unquestioned. 
1 enclose renewal to The R. N.-Y., which I 
would miss as much as a plow from the farm. 
If the new grapevine proves as worthy as the 
Rural New-Yorker No. 2 potato has with us. it 
will in itself pay for many years’ subscrip¬ 
tions to The It. N.-Y. J. F. l. 
Illinois. 
We believe the new grape will be to the' 
grape industry all that the No. 2 potato 
has been to the potato field. It will cer¬ 
tainly be much wider distributed. Old 
subscribers continue to send in new names 
for the grape; but not so many this 
month as in December. Now there are 
many farmers who would class the paper 
as a necessity, like the plow, if they knew 
The R. N.-Y. as well as they know the 
plow. This is why we want to ask you 
to induce them to make the acquaintance. 
The 10-cent subscriptions are all right; 
but these do not get the grape until they 
renew for a year. Get the dollar from 
these neighbors and send it along for a 
year’s subscription. Then they are booked 
promptly for the grape, and we have re¬ 
wards to send you for the trouble. This 
is the time now. You take no risk. 
Neither does the neighbor. If he is not 
satisfied, we will return his money and 
ask no questions. J. J. d. 
HENS TOO FAT. 
Our hens do not lay. I feed them accord¬ 
ing to best formula I can get. In dressing 
some of them we find them very fat; the 
small eggs seem hard, some full of lumps, 
some look like boiled eggs or the yolk. Can 
you make a guess what is best to do? 
w. I. H. 
Although I do not know what the in¬ 
quirer feeds nor how he feeds it I would 
say from the description given these hens 
need to be starved. The fact that they 
dress “very fat” shows why t'hey do not 
lav. A very fat hen cannot lay; at least 
that has been our experience when we 
kept Plymouth Rocks, and it will not be 
enough simply to reduce the feed, but it 
must be fed so that they have to scratch 
for every bit they find. Either buckwheat 
hulls or chaff is the best scratch material. 
The feed should be wheat, oats and bar¬ 
ley, and not much corn or buckwheat or 
fattening feeds. floyd b. white. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you’ll get a ciuick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 14. 
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PER ROD 
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via the 
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Until 
April 30th, 1907, 
To many points in 
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Inquire of 
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UNTIL YOU INVESTIGATE 
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«TY-T r -- ” 
THIS 18 OUR FIFTY-THIRD YEAR. 
