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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I received the check for $5.26 for the 
crate of eggs lost June last, for which I 
thank you greatly. u. n. 
Virginia. 
This was a check we collected from 
an express company for a lost crate of 
eggs. Another crate lost by the same 
express company for the same shipper 
more than a year and a half ago has 
not been settled for yet, but we expect 
to get it. They are still asking for 
time to look it up. 
I am in receipt of your valued letter 
containing $30 check of Irving R. Farming- 
ton & Co., for which please accept my 
grateful thanks. You can bring the an¬ 
swer when such people pay no attention 
to us old hayseeds. I will now use the 
$30 in the preparation and seed for five 
acres of Alfalfa, a safer investment for a 
farmer. I enclose herewith $1 for which 
please renew J. N. Riley’s subscription for 
another year, a true old friend of The It. 
N.-Y. j. a. j. 
Ohio. 
This friend had sent $30 for stock 
in a company which he found had not 
been fully organized, but he was unable 
to get the remittance returned, the 
assurance being that the stock would 
be issued later. The R. N.-Y. had no 
trouble whatever to get the money for 
him. He will find Alfalfa a better in¬ 
vestment. 
Would you advise taking out a fire and 
tornado policy in State Farmers’ Mutual 
Insurance Company of South Omaha, Nel).? 
A local banker advises against it. and for 
my part this would bo sufficient, but a 
neighbor, who is one of your subscribers, 
is a policyholder in this company, and re¬ 
ceived different advice before taking out a 
polciy. To settle this to our satisfaction 
we take you for the court of last resort. 
Nebraska. a. d. f. 
This is a Farmers’ Mutual Insurance 
Company, organized under the laws of 
the State of Nebraska. It is reported 
in good, sound financial condition. Its 
officers are men of affairs, who enjoy 
the confidence of the community. The 
company is reported as wisely and con¬ 
servatively managed and abundantly 
able to meet all obligations. Where 
these mutual companies have been con¬ 
servatively and honestly managed they 
have saved money to farmers and 
afforded a safe and cheap form of 
insurance. 
Will you slate what you know about the 
International Lumber and Development 
Company, offices 701-705 Drexel Building, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; header. 
Pennsylvania. 
This company seems to enjoy good 
credit and pays its bills promptly 
enough. It, however, has an authorized 
capital stock of $6,000,000, of which 
85 shares were issued as organization 
stock and the remaining 101,915 shares 
are being sold on monthly installments. 
Until these installments are paid up in 
full it would seem that the 85 shares 
would control the company. It is a 
Mexico land development plan, and we 
are frank to say that the details are 
too complicated to iustify a positive 
estimate of its prospects by us. Judg¬ 
ing it by the history of other schemes 
of the same kind in the past, we should 
not invest in its securities ourselves, 
and we most earnestly advise our peo¬ 
ple not to do so. 
Will you please let me know the “real 
game” of Leonard Darbyshire, Rochester, 
N. Y., who is sending out the literature 
enclosed? We have a farm for sale, and 
have been hearing from these people for 
some time back. They first wanted $10, 
then $5, and now they are down to $2. 
It looks rather suspicious to me. e. a. j. 
Vermillion, O. 
This seems to be a modification of 
the old Ostrander scheme to get a re¬ 
mittance in advance for a promise to 
sell farms. Some farmers have paid as 
high as $15. He sometimes sends a 
list of alleged buyers, but we have 
never learned of a sale having been 
made. If Mr. Darbyshire cannot get 
farmers to send him $5 or $10 for the 
promise, we should think he could 
afford to take $2, and if the postage 
does not cost too much on letters to get 
it he could probably make a good profit 
fit 30 cents, which, to say the least, 
would be nearer to ou- estimate of the 
value of the service. 
THE RURAL- NEW-YORKER 
February 13, 
company had not yet been organized, 
though the circulars would lead one to 
think that it had been organized. For 
ourselves we failed to find anything in 
the proposition that * ould justify 
farmers in signing a contract to take 
the stock in the company, and we told 
the representative frankly that we 
would have to advise farmers that, in 
our judgment, they would have noth¬ 
ing to regret if they declined his prop¬ 
osition. \Ye are now informed that 
the company has since been legally 
organized. 
You see I keep a paper with me on the 
train, and occasionally get a subscription 
by an inquirer asking “What is that you 
are reading?” and I push it along. There 
is no. paper in t he country equal to it. 
Massachusetts. h. it. s. 
This good friend inclosed a dollar 
for his friend’s subscription. It is such 
service on the part of old friends that 
makes such a paper as The R. N.-Y. 
possible. If we had to pay for the 
time and expense of agents to get all 
the subscriptions we could print a 
paper, but it could not be such a paper 
as you now get. It would have to be 
cheaper in every way, from the raw 
paper to the quality of information; 
and there would be less fight and 
backbone in it. It is no secret that 
most publishers look for little or no 
net returns out of subscriptions. Their 
cash revenue comes from advertising. 
The result is that they must and do 
cater to the advertisers, good and bad, 
in order to get the expense and profits 
out of the business. Such papers could 
not afford to show up a crooked deal 
of an advertiser. If the deceptive 
schemes were kept out, the revenues 
would fall below the cost of the paper, 
to say nothing of profits. Hence, as 
the advertiser pays the bills, he gets 
all the consideration. This is why we 
have so often said that if farmers 
want a paper that will give them first 
consideration thev must help pay the 
cost of making it out of their own 
pockets. Our experience, as shown in 
thousands of letters like the above, is 
that farmers are only too glad to do 
their part when they see that they are 
getting the right kind of support. 
_ J. J. a 
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