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THE RURAL, NEW -YORKER 
August 21, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
This department is in receipt of an 
anonymous appeal for charity toward 
fake publishers who are trying to 'sell 
paper securities based on promises of 
future prospects to country people. The 
anonymous appeal bore all the evidences 
of having been inspired by one of the 
fakers. Now, charity is a beautiful vir¬ 
tue, but by what right does a rogue 
claim protection under its mantle? 
Charity would feed the hungry, give 
drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, 
and help the weaker with its burdens. 
It might shut its eyes to the errors 
of judgment, to vulgar habits, and even 
to personal sins. We can be charitable 
to the man who is the victim of his 
own follies, who brings misfortune to 
himself through his own faults, but 
when the rights and interests of others 
are involved, we cannot let charity blind 
the eyes of justice. An old couple in 
Virginia had saved $3,500 in a lifetime 
of labor and privation. They were in¬ 
duced by promises of future profit and 
of big dividends, to put every cent of 
it into the stock of one of those pub¬ 
lishers’ schemes. The dividends never 
came, and they lost every cent of their 
life savings. Would charity to the 
fakers forbid that we sound a word of 
warning to those who are likely to fall 
victims to similar schemes? The horse- 
thief, the housebreaker, the pickpocket 
and the counterfeiter would gladly in¬ 
voke charity on their deeds, but to pro¬ 
tect itself, society is obliged to mete out 
punishment to fit the crime. We simply 
hope to lessen the practice of deception 
and fraud on our people by stripping de¬ 
ception and fraud of its disguise and 
cunning. The R. N.-Y. has no indul¬ 
gence for concealed fraud, and no char¬ 
ity for unrepentant rogues. It considers 
the trade of the highwayman and the 
horsethief respectable in comparison 
with the publisher who betrays the con¬ 
fidence of his readers by inducing them 
to buy fake certificates and inflated 
■stocks in his enterprise. The ordinary 
rogue picks his victims at random; the 
fake publisher promoter victimizes his 
friends. They need invoke no charity 
from us until they stop the disgraceful 
traffic. 
I had au idea for many years that I 
needed no more papers. A trial subscrip¬ 
tion to The Rural New-Yorker showed me 
my error, so it went into the class of the 
Youth’s Companion, St. Louis Republic and 
Herald and Presbyter. That’s the highest 
compliment 1 can pay it. e. l. l. 
Colorado. 
It was letters like the above that first 
suggested to us making the 10 weeks 
for 10 cents proposition for new sub¬ 
scriptions. We had at the time about 
forty thousand subscribers. We reasoned 
that if we made a paper that pleased 
forty thousand farmers, it would please 
a greater number, provided they once 
got acquainted with it. We adopted 
the 10 weeks’ trial plan as the easiest 
way to broaden the acquaintance. Our 
old readers took hold of the plan at 
once; and we 'soon found the list 
had grown to sixty thousand, then to 
seventy-five thousand, and again, to one 
hundred thousand. This brought the ne¬ 
cessity for more room, and a new press, 
in order to get the edition out on 
time. With this new press and the 
increased circulation, we were able to 
print during the Winter instead of 16 
and 20 pages, as formerly, 24, 32 and 
sometimes 40 pages weekly. This gave 
opportunity for an extra number of 
subjects, and a more efficient service 
in many ways. We see no reason now 
why this growth and this usefulness 
should not continue to increase. This 
is a big country and there seems to be 
no limit to the territory for The R. 
N.-Y.’s circulation. Subscribers in the 
West. Northwest, South and Southwest 
are quite as liberal in their friendship 
for the paper as those of the East. We 
cannot ask old friends to go out and 
make a business of canvassing their 
neighbors for The R. N.-Y. We do 
not ask them to get up clubs to secure 
renewal of subscriptions. After a far¬ 
mer has had the paper for a year he 
knows the line of work it is doing. If 
it pleases him and benefits him, he will 
want it continued. We want to make 
it as easy and convenient as possible 
for those who want it to have it; but 
we have no wish to urge it unduly on 
anyone who for any reason does not 
care to have it. We are convinced, 
however, that there are 'several hundred 
thousand farmers who would want the 
paper regularly, if they knew it well, 
and we simply want to ask our old 
friends to help along in making the 
acquaintance of people who are 
strangers to the paper now. Make it a 
rule to send us one of these 10-weeks- 
for-10-cents orders when you can; and 
like our friend from Colorado, many of 
them will soon class it with their life¬ 
long favorites. 
Your publisher’s desk continues to in¬ 
terest me. You may recall that I wrote 
you a year or two ago protesting against 
your sweeping denunciation of Mexican rub¬ 
ber companies, and calling your attention 
to the fact that some of us down here 
are working in good faith to develop a 
new industry. Well. 1 see in a recent 
issue you refer again to this subject in 
relation to inquiries of subscribers and you 
say that money invested in rubber would 
pay the cost of the late Civil War, which 
I suppose is to be taken as a figure of 
speech and not literally. However, it is 
obvious that you need a straight tip ever 
and anon, and we know more about Mexi¬ 
can rubber than we did a year or two 
ago, when I last wrote you. We find that 
the Mexican tree (Castilloa) produces only 
ounces of rubber at the age that we ex¬ 
pected pounds', so only the plantations can 
pay that have the most favorable situa¬ 
tions and economical management. This 
means that probably 00 per cent of the 
Mexican companies never will pay any¬ 
thing to their stockholders, and 50 or 00 
per cent will not even pay working ex¬ 
penses. Furthermore, in many sections 
where millions of trees have been set 
out they show a disposition to die out 
when eight to ten years of age. Para rub¬ 
ber in the Far Fast has been and is a 
big moneymaker, but to date the Castilloa 
has been a financial failure, and no further 
investment in it should be advised. 
Mexico. ,T. HERBERT FOSTER. 
We are glad to have this report from 
a practical operator on the Mexico 
rubber production. This is rather dis¬ 
couraging for the industry; but the 
men who are honestly working to de¬ 
velop it may yet find a way to over¬ 
come the difficulties to be encountered. 
We would not willingly say or do any¬ 
thing to discourage them. We would 
prefer to be the means of helping them 
in the development of an honest indus¬ 
try. Our criticisms have not been of 
the industry itself, nor of the men who 
go there and give their time and money 
to the development of rubber produc¬ 
tion. Since men on the ground have 
not been able to make it pay we would 
not encourage others to take it up; 
but our advice has been and is unspar¬ 
ing in condemnation of the multitude of 
promoters who have organized Mexi¬ 
can rubber companies for the purpose 
of selling stock to small investors un¬ 
der the promise of big profits. There 
are probably a few exceptions to the 
rule; the majority of the companies 
formed by these promoters have for 
their principal object the sale of the 
stock and not the production of rubber. 
If, as Mr. Foster states, only about 10 
per cent of those in operation can hope 
to pay any profit, the chances for small 
investors are not alluring at best. No 
matter in what part of the world a 
question arises, The R. N.-Y seems to 
have a working member of the family 
right on the job ready to help out with 
practical information. j. j. d. 
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ole Manufacturers BOONVILLE, INDIANA 
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31 Beverly St., BOSTON, MASS. 
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AT.FNTS 200 % PROFIT] 
y A k/ Handy, Automatic 
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Successfully used upward of 30 years 
Carbolineum Wood Preserving Co. 
351 W. Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
Sunny Slope Farm S.C.W. Leghorns 
“WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED.” 
We offer Fine Cockerels from our 1909 Breeding Pens, 
at Five Dollars each. Also, at One Dollar each, choir.- 
Cockerels hatched in April and May last, from selected 
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We off er a limited number of Grand Yearling lien 
selected for size,shape and great laying qualities, at Two 
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youngsters. Reference First National Bank. 
SUNNY SLOPE FARM, Bound Brook, New Jersey 
FDR 9 A I F~ 500 PURE BRE0 S C - WHITE LEGHORNS, 
run OHLL Hens, Yearlings. They are good 
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CAR CAI c—50 S. C. W. Leghorn Pullets. 
rUll OMLC Wyckoff Strain. Hatched May 5th. 
85c each until Sept. 1st, or $40 for the lot. Address 
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CD BARKKI) ROCK HENS, cheap. Bred-to- 
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Iflrt 8 - c ‘ BROWN LEGHORN 1 YEAH 
I'Jw HENS— Vigorous, handsome and great egg 
layers. 75c. each. O. A. SABINE. Robinson, Mii. 
WHITE LEGHORNS S»S'S” ^ 
Ing chicks and 1000 
ducklings, we aie 
forced to offer at a 
sacrifice nearly all of our this season’s breeding 
pens, consequently you will be able to get barga; s 
in Single and Rose Comb White Leghorns, Barred 
and White Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, 
also Imperial Pekin Ducks. Our birds have beeu 
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better results this year than ever. Have some 
early hatched cockerels, grand in every respect, 
and nine pound drakes hatched this season. Let 
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in vicinity of New York City. 
BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM. New Rochelle, New York. 
PEKIN DUCKS 
