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THE RURAL NR W-YORKER 
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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Find inclosed $2 in payment of two 
years' subscription. I double the order as 
a mark of appreciation, and trust it. may 
be some slight encouragement to the paper. 
New York. F. a. s. 
Enclosed herewith my check in payment 
of renewal for two years. I have made it 
two years so you will have the use of the 
extra dollar while giving Dawley a chance 
to chute the political chutes, s. w. u. 
Pennsylvania. 
Enclosed I hand you $2 to renew sub¬ 
scription for The It. N.-Y.. one dollar for 
paper, the other dollar toward that $50,000 
suit ; more if you lose. j. h. h. 
New Hampshire. 
I have read with a great, deal of interest 
the articles published in The It. N.-Y. con¬ 
cerning Dawley and liis honorable (?) deal¬ 
ings with Squiers. Think of him as being 
the head of the Farmers' Institutes and 
doing such dirty work as he did with this 
man Squiers. I have known Dawley well 
for over 20 years and if you are in need 
of friends when your suit with him comes 
off. I'll help you show him up to the ex¬ 
tent of .$5. E. I.. K. 
New York. 
We are receiving so many strong, 
serious letters on this cattle subject it is 
hard not to overdo the matter by pub¬ 
lishing many of them. The above selec¬ 
tions will serve as indication of what 
they are. There are few better tests of 
a man's devotion to a principle than his 
willingness to put up his money and 
service in defense of it. 
Our subscription receipts for Decem¬ 
ber were very satisfactory, but we did 
not beat the record of 1907 the first day 
of 1908. We were in fact a little short; 
and the first four days of the year are a 
little short of corresponding days of 
last year. We do not like this to be 
so. It ought not to be so, because the 
extra list ought to make the average re¬ 
turns more each day than last year 
even to equal the percentage of returns. 
We tell you the conditions just as they 
are in full confidence. This paper is 
largely what you make it. If the 
farmers of this country want a paper of 
this kind, they now have an opportunity 
to have it. We doubt if they ever had 
the opportunity before. If they reject 
it now it will probably be some time be¬ 
fore one is attempted again. It is help¬ 
ful to have a few strong, earnest men 
coming forward with extra support; but 
after all it is the mass of farmers that 
decide issues that affect them and that 
determine the character of the men and 
papers that represent their interests. 
We have no concern about the senti¬ 
ments of the plain farmers of the coun¬ 
try on these questions; and we have 
every confidence that the month of 
January, 1908, as a whole, will compare 
favorably with the same month last 
year, when the returns for the whole 
month are in. If you have not yet re¬ 
newed, won’t you contribute to this re¬ 
sult? 
Following is the copy of a paragraph 
from a letter sent by a farmer to a 
manufacturer recently, when ordering 
an implement: 
I saw your advertisement in a recent 
issue of The Rural New-Yorker, and be- 
eause of my confidence that any unreliable 
company would not be accepted as an ad¬ 
vertiser in that paper, I give you this 
order. I would not give the matter of 
giving you an order serious consideration, 
if the matter had come to me through any 
other advertising medium. 
Of course, it is not necessary to go 
into so much detail. To say that you 
saw the advertisement in The R. N.-Y. 
is enough. It is the source of a good 
deal of satisfaction to us that in the 
thousands of orders to our advertisers 
every- week there is only an occasional 
complaint, and these for the most part 
on account of delays or oversight such 
as naturally occur at times. We find 
sufficient reward in this not only for the 
orders constantly being refused, but 
also for the expense and time given to 
looking up the records and standing of 
those accepted. There is no other di¬ 
rectory in the world, we confidently be¬ 
lieve, which contains such a large and 
varied list of exclusively responsible 
and reliable houses. 
On November 20 T sent to Tlieo. Burgartz 
«_ Co., 336 East 65th street. New York. 
in post office money order for an AA No. 1 
St. Andreasberger roller canary, request¬ 
ing them to ship the bird by Adams Ex¬ 
press on Tuesday morning, December 3. 
On December 5 I got a letter from Mr. 
Burgartz acknowledging the receipt of the 
SO. but stating that the. time set by me 
for shipping the bird was too short, and 
requesting me to set some other date for 
shipment. I answered the letter at once, 
telling him to ship it the next Tuesday, 
December 10, but the bird never came, 
although I have written four letters and a 
postal card to them. Could you do any¬ 
thing for me in the matter? j. f. 
Virginia. 
, We are able to do nothing. We sent 
a trusty messenger to the place and 
found they had moved and left no ad¬ 
dress. He is probably in another street 
doing the jame thing all over again 
under another name. It is bard to.scqld 
a person' af ter lie’ has’ suffered a loss * 
and yet we would like to say something 
that would induce people to learn some¬ 
thing about correspondents before send¬ 
ing them remittances. In any kind of 
trade one is likely occasionally to have 
trouble even with local dealers with 
whom we are personally acquainted, 
as well as with those of a distance 
whom we have never seen; but we do 
not know how one could be more secure 
than when dealing with an advertiser in 
a responsible paper that guarantees its 
patrons. In such cases the publisher 
looks up the advertiser for his own pro¬ 
tection; and the buyer has the benefit of 
this caution as well as the guarantee of 
the publisher himself. With such safe¬ 
guards there is little excuse for sending 
money to concerns without either 
rating or reference. 
Wliat is a bucket shop? 
Pennsylvania. 
d. s. 
A bucket shop is a place where you 
pretend to buy fractional parts of stocks 
or products which are listed in exchange 
markets. The bucket shop never ex¬ 
pects to deliver the things it pretends to 
sell, and its customers never expect to 
receive them. You buy one or more 
shares of any stock which is quoted on 
the exchange, and put up cash for 10 
per cent of the quotation; or you buy 
a certain number of bushels of wheat 
at a certain price, and put up the cash 
for 10 per cent. If the stock or wheat 
goes up and you can sell before it goes 
down again you make a profit; but if it 
goes down, you have to put up another 
margin of 10 per cent or lose what you 
have already put in. Strictly speaking, 
nothing is bought or sold in a bucket 
shop, except that it may be said the vic¬ 
tim is always sold. It is in effect a 
place where you bet that prices on the 
stock or produce exchange will go up or 
down within a given time. It is a 
gamble pure and simple; and the cards 
are always marked at that. Don’t go 
any closer to a bucket shop that you 
would to a fiery furnace. 
We want agents to represent The R. 
N.-Y. in unoccupied territory. We can 
give you work for a day or week or 
month, or continuously by the year. 
J. J. D. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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