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December 25 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
This paper will reach the homes of 
practically all our subscribers on the 
eve of the great annual festival of 
Christinas. It is a time of universal 
cheer and good will, and we wish that 
this issue may carry to our friends 
something more than the material serv¬ 
ice that we try to put into each and 
every issue of the year. First of all, 
we want it to carry to you the assur¬ 
ance of our appreciation of your friend¬ 
ship and loyal support. Without these 
elements of strength which you con¬ 
tribute it would be impossible for any 
man or set of men to make such a 
paper as this is. We want also to 
assure you of the sincerity of our ef¬ 
forts to do our part to make a paper 
that will be a real help to you. Mis¬ 
takes we make; opportunities we neg¬ 
lect. But everything we do undergoes 
two tests—first, is it true? Second, will 
it help our readers? When something 
is inserted or omitted contrary to these 
principles, we want you to know that 
the fault is in our heads and not in 
our hearts. We also wish this issue 
to carry to you our best wishes for the 
peace, comfort and happiness of your¬ 
self, your family and friends. We hope 
the coming year may bring you health, 
and abundant prosperity; and the spir¬ 
itual gratification of your fondest hopes 
and aspirations. 
This is the month of all the year 
that we look to our subscribers for a 
vote of confidence. This vote comes 
every month with the renewal of sub¬ 
scriptions; but it is emphasized in the 
month of December by the larger vol¬ 
ume that comes this month. Without 
exception, the record of renewals for 
December for each successive year for 
10 years has been greater than the year 
before. The last week usually makes 
the record for the month, and we hope 
that the record for December, 1909, will 
exceed any previous year. For recent 
years we have prepared a little sou¬ 
venir to send subscribers in acknowl¬ 
edgment of renewals. We have never 
had anything that we felt was more 
certain to please you than the story, 
“The Heron Nest," which we are 
sending this year. It is a clean, health¬ 
ful, inspiring story of country life; and 
we do not think there is a member of 
the family who will not read, it the 
second time. \\ e will send this book 
postpaid the day your renewal is re¬ 
ceived ; we have thousands of them, 
all wrappd and ready for your name 
and address, so that you will get it 
in the return mail. You will please ac¬ 
cept it with our compliments, and as an 
acknowledgment of your much appre¬ 
ciated vote of confidence. 
What do vou know about the Interstate 
Hay Co., Goshen, Ind.? Is it safe to ship 
to I hem? c - E - 
’Ohio. 
This is the business of a young man. 
From the rating we would recommend 
cash transactions. 
I received a refund of $4.50 from the 
express company. H. u. d. 
Texas. 
The above acknowledgement was sent 
by a New Jersey nurseryman who ex¬ 
pressed a $15 shipment of goods to Tex¬ 
as, on which the charges were $12.50. 
The complaint came to us and we found 
there had been an overcharge, and the 
refund is finally made. One would 
think that the regular charge of $8 was 
high enough without tacking on 50 per 
cent more in the way of extortion. 
I wish to thank you very much for the 
$10 you saved me today. I have a patent 
for sale, and received literature from Leon¬ 
ard Darbyshire offering to sell the patent 
for a fee of $10. I intended to send the 
$10 this evening, hut on coming home this 
evening I picked up my to-day's R. N.-l. 
and noticed this patent agent quoted as a 
fake. Of course I kept the $10. This will 
keep me in R. N.-Y's for 10 years. F. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
There are a great many discourage¬ 
ments in this kind of work, but one 
result like the above atones for them 
all. 
Several of the readers of your paper 
have purchased or given their order for 
different kinds of nursery stock to II. M. 
Whiting, agents for Whiting and Company 
of Geneva, and say they had offices in 
Boston. These sales include six different 
kinds of .Japanese plums, very large and 
entirely new varieties; he claims the pits 
are not half tin* common size and tree bears 
in two years, hut when lie gets the order he 
simply says Japanese plums but does not 
designate any name. This man has sold 
in this vicinity a large lot of these plums 
for $1 each, and in quantities, and these 
people have got worked up because this 
agent told so many different stories about 
his stock, telling some their nurseries were 
in the State of Maine, and others they 
were in Geneva, N. Y. Everything he 
sold was at large figures. Are there six 
new varieties of Japanese plums? m. g. f. 
New York. 
We regret that readers of The R. 
N.-Y. placed any such orders. They 
would not, if they had kept an index 
of what has been said about this con- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
cern before. We know of no six new 
varieties of Japan plums. Of course, 
they send you some of the well-known 
varieties that you can get from any 
reliable nursery for 15 to 20 cents, or 
less in quantities. They have an ad¬ 
dress in Boston and one at Geneva, N. 
Y., but buy considerable, if not all, their 
stock. Under such a state of facts as 
reported above, we think growlers 
abundantly justified in cancelling the 
order and refusing the goods. It is 
simply time this kind of salesmanship 
was eliminated from the nursery busi¬ 
ness. 
I received to-day from E. G. Lewis, a 
chock for $6.10. which I asked you to 
collect for me, and for which I have to 
thank you. I am positive I could never 
have obtained it without your help. This 
was put in when the bank was first organ¬ 
ized, and any attempt to get it back 
brought a letter asking me to send on the 
note or receipt or whatever I held at dif¬ 
ferent times, and then I got another certi¬ 
ficate, and a request to invest more money. 
New York. s. u. 
Mr. Lewis refused to send this money 
to us; that does not worry us. We 
are entirely satisfied when our sub¬ 
scribers get their money. We are 
neither vain nor technical—results are 
what we arc after. We have on file 
some other claims against Mr. Lewis 
that we would like to have settled in 
the same way. Keeping victims satis¬ 
fied as long as possible by exchanging 
one worthless certificate for another is 
an old financial fake trick. Ostrander 
is working itv continuously, and with 
some success. It has been a favorite 
trick for many years. It gives an air 
of confidence and often actually brings 
more money from the same victim. But 
we do not believe that Mr. Lewis could 
safely refuse to refund this money. The 
receiver of the defunct bank w r ould have 
sent 87 per cent of the money to the 
investors when the affairs of the. bank 
were closed up, but Lewis prevailed 
on many creditors to assign their 
claims to him, promising pay in full, 
This was some six 
believe that those who 
compel Mr. Lewis to 
refund the money. In reply to Mr. 
Lewis’s complaint, he received the fol¬ 
lowing letter which brought the money 
and which may serve as a model for 
others: 
Dear Sir.—I am very greatly in need of 
those funds, and shall be pleased indeed 
to receive a draft for the amount; my 
certificate is there at the bank and you 
can get it and pay it there. I did indeed 
ask the publisher of The R. N.-Y. to see 
if he could get it for me, for I had made 
up my mind that you never intended to 
pay it of your own free will. I had re¬ 
ceived circulars and pamphlets tending to 
show that you had money to start new and 
larger enterprises, and I thought if you 
had money to do that it was time yon paid 
your old debts. s. r. 
We regard that as something of a 
classic. It brought the cash. 
Yes, our good friend Mr. Burbank and 
the St. Johns Development Company have 
both heard of you, although they may pos¬ 
sibly think you are "little known.” And 
there are a lot of others who have heard 
of you that wish you were entirely unknown. 
There are a great many more who have 
heard from you weekly, and are very glad 
vou are so well known. And .iust to help 
make you a little more interesting to those 
fellows who think and wish you “little 
known,” I would like to ask every sub¬ 
scriber through your columns just to help 
me make The Rural New-Yorker a Christ¬ 
mas present, by sending it 10 cents for 
ten-weeks subscription to be sent to a 
friend who they honestly want to help and 
at the same time lend a hand toward 
helping those fellows who think you "little 
known” out of business. I enclose here¬ 
with one dollar for renewal of my sub¬ 
scription and ten cents for a ten-weeks 
subscription. Now, brother subscribers, 
don’t be “backward in coming forward” with 
your ten cents, but send it off at once, 
and let us see what the result will be. 
Long Island. frank b. smith. 
While we could not and would not 
ask our friends to go to the extent of 
money for the sub¬ 
friends, even to the 
amount of 10 cents, this letter expresses 
such a sentiment of genuine interest 
and withal so timely at this season of 
the year, we just could not help giving 
it the compliment of a prompt publicity. 
It serves, if nothing more, to express 
the general sentiment of many friends, 
and a sentiment which we are anxious 
in some measure to merit. J. j. d. 
and big profits 
years ago. We 
now can 
insist 
sending their own 
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EDGE HILL SILICA ROCK CO., 
Box S, Now Brunswick, N. J. 
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WHITE LEGHORNS 
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Pure-bred White Holland. 
We have a large flock of as fine White Hol¬ 
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We still have some 
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BONNIE BRAE POULTRY FARM, New Rochelle. N. Y. 
S.C.WHITE LEGHORNS 
A number of choice April hatched cockerels for sale. 
Write for prices to WHITE 8 RICE, Yorktown, N. Y. 
S O l Kl I. KGHOKNS of exceptional vigor and 
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EMPIRE STATE S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair; Tiios, $5; Eggs for 
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CO. 
WILDER 
STRONG IMPLEMENT 
B0X33, Monroe Mich. 
