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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 31, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Church and The R. N.-Y. are among 
my chief enjoyments. w. j. s. 
New York. 
You are printing wore truth to the inch 
than anyone I know. j. y. 
North Carolina. 
If you printed nothing else hut “Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk,” I would want your paper. 
Washington. J. F. c. 
Permit me to express my appreciation 
of The Bubal New-Yorker, one of the 
best farm papers, I think, published. 
Ohio. L. b. y. 
Just keep punching the rogues, and give 
honest business a chance. Yours for a 
square deal. G. w. E. 
Illinois. 
I send you to-day one new yearly sub¬ 
scriber for your kindness to me regarding 
the Globe Association. w. B. s. 
Vermont. 
In The R. N.-Y. you are building a 
monument that will bring good fruit long 
after you have gone to your linal reward. 
Mississippi. F. M- 
Inclosed find money for another year’s 
subscription. If there ever was an hon¬ 
est paper printed, The It. N.-Y. is one. 
Washington. H. A. 
Even if your paper was no other ac¬ 
count (but it is the best; I take). I would 
take it if it was only to reward you for 
your noble deeds in the Dawley case. 
Texas. l. o. b. 
Were your fearless exposure of frauds, 
quacks and swindlers fully known through 
the land, it: ought to bring you one million 
new subscribers. d. b. g* 
Michigan. 
I am a subscriber to your paper, and 
although I have obtained sample copies of 
almost every other agricultural paper, 
there isn’t one that is in it with yours. 
Connecticut. s. N. d- 
The R. N.-Y. continues to come 
with the regularity of clockwork, is 
highly prized in Northern Virginia, and 
will continue to be as long as it: continues 
to stand up so squarely for farmers and 
their just rights. w. m. ic. 
Virginia. 
Of all the papers I read, and I read 
quite a number, hone suits me better than 
The Rural, New-Yorker. Why? Because 
the editor takes the big stick, and he 
lays it good and heavy over the backs of 
the rogues and fakers. Keep it up; more 
strength to your good right arm. M. s. 
Wisconsin. 
Just to show the nature of the com¬ 
ments that reach us in a single day, and 
the extent of territory from which they 
come, we give space to the above ex¬ 
tracts of letters accompanying subscrip¬ 
tion renewals. We could duplicate them 
from any day’s mail now. The same 
continue to come from Florida to 
Washington, and from Maine to Texas. 
Publishers are usually fond of printing 
testimonials of what advertisers say of 
a paper. Such expressions are not with¬ 
out value; but we confess that we have 
a much greater pride in these kindly 
words from subscribers. We never before 
received so many, nor such ardent let¬ 
ters of approval. With an army of 
such devoted friends all over the coun¬ 
try, and with The R. N.-Y. to speak 
their sentiments, we feel that henceforth 
the American farmer will not lack a 
respectful hearing. 
AVc are pleased to acknowledge receipt 
of a copy of your June 19 issue, and noto 
article as to the Temple Pump Co., of 
Chicago, on page 018. If more publishers 
would discriminate in their advertising and 
follow up frauds of this kind, they would 
greatly benefit both their subscribers and 
their legitimate advertisers. Of course 
purchasers very often impose on machinerj 
manufacturers, but there are many manu 
faeturers who. in all justice, should be de¬ 
nied the right to advertise, and the sooner 
publishers learn that, it is to their profit 
to protect their subscribers, the better. We 
believe the gas engine industry in general 
is thoroughly in sympathy with your ef¬ 
forts ns far as they apply to the gas- 
engine business. 
The above is from one of the largest 
manufacturers of gasoline engines in 
this country, and a house of the high¬ 
est standing. It is encouraging to find 
responsible and conservative houses 
of this class endorse The R. N.-Y. 
policy in insisting on a square deal 
for the purchaser. The policy is 
clearly in the interest of every house 
that intends to live up to its represen¬ 
tations. The conservative house with 
a reputation to maintain will promise 
only what it can perform. The other 
house promises anything and every¬ 
thing that will insure an order. In 
many cases the excess of promises takes 
the order. The purchaser gets an in¬ 
ferior job and the honest house shares 
disappointment with him in the loss of 
the order. In many cases the purchaser 
puts up with his disappointment. In some 
cases he may not discover his error at 
all; but when, as in several cases re¬ 
ported by customers of the Temple 
Pump Co., demand is made that the 
guarantees made to influence the sale 
be lived up to, the purchaser begins to 
discover that promises and guarantees 
are good only when made by houses 
that respect them. No farmer in one 
State can afford to go to another State 
to enforce a contract in the courts. 
Considering the volume of trade in 
farm implements and machinery, there 
,are few complaints for any cause. 
Most of those made come from acci¬ 
dental causes; and the manufacturer is 
as anxious to correct them as anyone 
concerned. In all our experience we 
never had a case where, according to 
our understanding, the manufacturer 
made such unqualified guarantees be¬ 
fore the sale and so completely repudi¬ 
ated them afterwards as in the Temple 
Pump Co. case with Mr. Leonard. 
When honest houses and honest pub¬ 
lishers stand together to correct such 
abuses, their united influence is pretty 
sure to save purchasers annoyance and 
expense. 
I road with a great deal of pleasure the 
lines In reference 1o the Gardner Nurs¬ 
ery Company, of Osage, Iowa. Several 
years ago ,thoy sent me a rosy list of 
evergreen trees, fruits and bushes, that 
they agreed to send me as an advertise¬ 
ment if I would only pay the freight, 
charges, package, etc., and plant them in 
a conspicuous place. Their prospectus 
looked good to me, and I sent check for 
the teD dollars to cover cost. I received 
notice from them, with the list of several 
hundred trees, bushes, etc. I sent a 
double team to the station to haul them. 
I got a surprise. The whole lot could 
be carried by a five-year-old kid. They 
were seedlings, the majority about four 
to five inches long. Well, my gardener 
planted them and nursed them carefully, 
but they all went dead. They also 
agreed 1o send me a number of barberry 
bushes by mail, but they never did. I 
made up m.v mind I was stuck, and 
dropped it. They knew a good thing, so 
they wrote me again December 22, 190(5, 
and followed it up with a postal the be¬ 
ginning of January, 1907. That was the 
limit. I wrote them the following letter: 
“You surprise me by trying to catch 
the same sucker twice. It is evident that 
your Mr. C. P. Gardner does not know 
of the fraud your company is perpetrating 
on your confiding customers, whom you mis¬ 
lead with plausible letters. I am not 
kicking about the ten dollar William you 
faked out of me. but I feel sorry for the 
poor customers that bought your stock re¬ 
lying upon your respectable references, to 
receive what you claimed to furnish. You 
handed me a lemon that wHl bear fruit, 
but not profitable to you. for I am a 
member of the Peninsular Horticultural 
Society, and shall take great pleasure in 
reading your misleading literature at. 
every meeting, hoping to show up the 
greatest nursery fake in the country, and 
by so doing I expect to protect many poor 
people who cannot, afford to lose their 
hard-earned savings by investing in stock 
that is worthless and will not grow even 
if planted by expert gardeners. The stock 
you sent me, which I paid for in advance, 
was planted very carefully by an expert, 
and if you are in the same condition in 
three months as the “Blizzard Belt 
Stock” you sold me was in that time, you 
will be too dead to fake anymore.” 
In reply, they sent a credit check for 
$10 in nursery stock, and stated that if I 
returned the check to them they would 
send me oilier stock. But I did not bite. 
I enclose the credit check. Can you use 
it? * SET-DEN S. DEEMER. 
New Castle, Delaware. 
The Gardner Nursery Co. complains 
that we are unfair to them in publish¬ 
ing complaints of this kind. Some 
people think that the farmer is a legiti¬ 
mate prey, and any attempt to cheek the 
practice of leading him into loss by de¬ 
ceptions and plausible schemes is an 
interference with their personal affairs. 
This kind of faking has gone on so 
long unchecked that man} r people begin 
to accept it as a matter of course. They 
cannot quite get used to our interference. 
While the farmer had no spokesman it 
was easy enough. It was easy to get 
new victims, but when 100,000 farmers 
get on to the scheme - it soon spreads, 
and the thing will not work. So far 
from being unjust, we attempted quietly 
to get these people to reform their meth¬ 
ods before anything was published 
about them, but they chose to continue 
the schemes, and we found complaints 
so frequent we could only conclude that 
farmers were not getting what they ex¬ 
pected and paid for. We are unable 
to make any use of the credit check, but 
if the company will redeem it in cash, 
as we have requested them to do, we 
shall be pleased to forward the voucher 
to them. 
Complaint has been received from 
Goshen, N. Y., that the Howell Con¬ 
densed Milk and Cream Co. do not pay 
their milk bills to farmers promptly on 
dates as agreed upon. The business at 
Goshen is a branch of the main house 
at Jersey City, N. J., which has good 
rating and satisfactory form of credit. 
Handlers of farm products often like 
to do business on farmers’ capital by 
allowing accounts to run beyond the 
rightful time of payment. The plan 
affords a cheap capital, as no interest 
is paid on the lapsed accounts. If this 
should be the case with the Howell 
Company, payments may be easily en¬ 
forced through the courts. j. j. d. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Stiff Colt. 
I have a colt that got stiff across the 
kidneys. It was stiff in the bind parts 
for about two weeks; then it seemed to 
leave and go to the left front leg. It is 
now very lame, and seems to be swollen 
up next to the body. The skin seems to 
be tight on its back. The colt is about six 
weeks old. It seems to be well other ways. 
It eats well and is in good order. Will you 
please advise treatment? j. c. F. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mix together half an ounce of tincture 
of echinacea and half a pint of water and 
give the colt of this two teaspoonfuls every 
four hours until improvements is noted, 
and then less often until well. We take 
it that the colt either suffered infection 
of the navel and has secondary abscesses, 
or he has irregular strangles. In either 
case the medicine here prescribed will 
prove beneficial, but if abscesses form they 
will have to be opened, the pus liberated 
and the disinfecting solutions injected. 
For such work as this it will be necessary 
to employ an expert. a. s. a. 
Horse With Indigestion. 
Can you tell mo what Is the matter with 
my horse? He has an unnatural rumbling in 
the inside at times. Sometimes it can be 
heard several feet away. He has got quite 
thin in flesh. I called a veterinary but lie 
did not seem to know what was the matter. 
He told me to work him if it did not lame 
him. And I have done so. Bowels seem to 
be too loose; kidneys seem to be all right. 
Sometimes he appears to be a little bloated. 
He* eats bis grain (cornmeal and middlings) 
well, but not much hay. lie Is a young 
horse. Can you give some remedy? b. s. 
New York. 
Stop feeding ground feed, as it is causing 
the trouble. Have his teeth attended to by 
a veterinary dentist if be cannot masticate 
food properly. Then feed whole oats and a 
little dry bran along with best of bay. lie 
should work or have abundant exercise 
every day. Have him clipped, as that will 
greatly help to improve his condition. 
Mange. 
I have a very nice cat and a fox terrier 
dog. The cat has something the matter 
with his head. There seems to be a lot 
of sore spots, and bis hair is coming out. 
He is scratching it all the time. I am 
putting vaseline on one night and witch 
hazel the next, but it does not seem to 
do a great deal of good. I put a little 
sulphur in his milk, thinking that might 
do some good, as he has been eating raw 
meat lately. My dog licks the sores, and 
I am afraid he may get it; he is coughing 
as if he had something in his throat. Will 
you let me know what to do? Should I 
keep children away from the cat? h. k. 
New Jersey. 
Isolate the cat and keep children from it 
as there sometimes is danger of a cat giv¬ 
ing diphtheria to children, and sick cats 
therefore should be avoided. There is noth¬ 
ing in the symptoms described, however, 
that would suggest diphtheria in this par¬ 
ticular case. Apparently it is mange, but 
may be eczema. Wash parts clean with 
soap and hot water and then apply sulphur 
ointment twice daily. Feed on milk. The 
dog licking the sores would be apt to aggra¬ 
vate the sores and keep them from heal¬ 
ing, but would not cause irritation such 
as might lead him to cough. That is some 
incidental trouble, for which give a dram 
of glyco-heroin two or three times daily. 
Lame Cows. 
We have had three cows become affected 
with some disease Ibis Spring that makes 
them lame. The first one would lie on 
her side, and act as if in great pain ; then 
she seemed to lose the use of her bind 
legs. The animal gave a good mess of 
milk all the time; was in this shape about 
two weeks. Now she walks again, but her 
bind legs seem stiff, and she has fallen 
away over her hips. Her appetite has 
been good all the time. We have two 
others that are somewhat stiff in the hind 
legs, but not so bad. They have been 
kept in a clean, comfortable stable, with 
exercise each day. Fed clover hay and 
corn fodder, with a grain ration,' com¬ 
posed of ground oats and barley, ground 
buckwheat and wheat bran. There have 
been several others in this vicinity, who 
have been troubled the same way this 
Spring. I never saw anything like it be¬ 
fore, and would like to have you give a 
remedy. i. h. b. 
Carlisle, N. Y. 
It would be well to have the cows tested 
with tuberculin, ns tuberculosis takes 
many forms, and this lameness may be due 
to its presence. The test cannot possibly 
hurt the cows in any way, and it is the 
first thing to think of where a mvsterious, 
debilitating disease is seen in cattle that 
are eating plenty of nutritious food. At 
the same time there is a possibility that 
the cows have been taking ergot in the 
ground barley or molds in the elover hay. 
Either fungus jvould seriously affect them 
and might well lead to stiffness and par¬ 
alysis. It is a ease where a thorough 
investigation will have to be made by an 
expert. Meanwhile stop feeding barley 
and buckwheat and let the cows live main¬ 
ly on grass. Bran may be allowed. 
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