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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 22, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Inclosed please find check for .$5 to pay 
five years’ subscription for The Ruual 
New Yorker. This ought to convince you 
that: I am not afraid of Dawley and *his 
gang putting you out of business. Keep 
right after the counterfeiters and grafters 
in the cow, fertilizer or any other business 
connected with farming. This kind of 
moral pressure will make many a crook 
think twice before he carries out his shady 
schemes. h. h. l. 
New York. 
Comment on the above note is hardly 
necessary. It speaks for itself. If it 
were an isolated case it might not have 
much significance, but scarcely a mail 
comes without a letter of similar char¬ 
acter. Farmers have little doubt about 
the final showing in that cattle case; 
but they do want the facts brought out. 
They want some competent body to 
pronounce the facts. An open investi¬ 
gation is all we ever asked from the 
first. The one command that we get 
from farmers more than any other is, 
keep it up until the object is reached. 
We have no wish or purpose to disobey 
that command. 
I am a patron of a milk station operated 
by the - Dairy Co., of New York 
City. They are backward in sending checks 
for milk delivered to them, and at present 
are nearly three months behind, as I have 
received no check for November milk, al¬ 
though I wrote them for it some time ago, 
Please advise as to the standing and re¬ 
liability of this company. i\ u. h. 
New York. 
When we received the above letter 
we wrote the company as follows: 
We are getting requests from some New 
York State farmers for confidential advice 
as to your responsibility for the milk being 
shipped you by producing farmers. We do 
not find you rated in any of the commercial 
houses, and following our usual custom in 
such easels where the parties are unknown 
to us. we go to you direct for the informa¬ 
tion. Would you be willing to receive our 
representative to give him a statement of 
your assets and liabilities in the interests 
of these farmers, or any other information 
or references that will enable us to assure 
them of your responsibility and the safety 
of their accounts? 
To this we received no reply. Later 
we presented a bill for this subscriber, 
and got a check for the December ship¬ 
ment, the November bill having been 
paid just after we wrote them. On ac¬ 
count of these payments we are not 
giving the full name; but the informa¬ 
tion may be had by any reader who is 
interested by dropping us a line. The 
company in question has no rating in 
commercial books, and from the fact 
that they refuse a statement and are 
reported slow in meeting bills there is 
no basis on which farmers should ex¬ 
tend a credit for one month, not to say 
for three months. 
I am very grateful to you for the prompt¬ 
ness in receiving the kitchen knives. They 
came this morning. I have acknowledged 
the receipt of them to the publishing com¬ 
pany. It proves that any one who values 
liis standing will do as he agrees after 
being noticed by The R. N.-Y. It is a 
high compliment to you. I never realized 
the good you are doing as I do now. I 
shall speak a good word for The R. N.-Y. 
whenever opportunity affords. 
Maine. mrs. m. n. 
The above letter is from a subscriber 
who was unable to get a premium which 
had been promised from a publisher. 
On receipt of her complaint we wrote the 
paper, and she got her premium promptly. 
It is easy enough to drop the letter of 
complaint from a farmer’s wife into 
the waste basket, but when there is a 
prospect of the story of deception or 
neglect • appearing where a hundred 
thousand farmers’ wives will read it, the 
case is different. We know doing these 
things is described by some conserva¬ 
tive and respectable publishers as yellow 
journalism, but it seems to us that if a 
paper is to be co-operative in spirit as 
well as in theory, it must do just such 
things. The paper is only what its sub¬ 
scribers make it as to power and in¬ 
fluence, and that power and influence 
should be to our notion exercised for 
the good of the people who make the 
paper possible, and not for the schemer 
or grafter, who at best contributes only 
a small portion of its support. Theo¬ 
rists may deplore work of the kind by a 
paper, but the people have no false no¬ 
tion about it. 
I admire the square methods of The R. 
N.-Y. in the Rogers-Dawley affair. The Hope 
Farm Notes and the Publisher’s Desk are 
either of them ample justification for a 
Subscription to The R. N.-Y. And yet, 
after taking out all of these, I consider 
the remaining contents well worth the dol¬ 
lar. I inclose cheek for renewal and three 
10-weeks’ subscriptions, also Rural Cook 
Book in cloth. Wishing you the fullest 
success, I am, yours fraternally, g. e. ii. 
I enclose post office money order .$1 for 
renewal of my (subscription, also three 
names for the 10 weeks’ trial. They are 
all able to take and pay for the paper, and 
will probably do so. For mysell’ you can 
count on me as a life subscriber, first for 
merit of your paper, second, your correct 
stand in advertising matters; third, your 
determined course in the A. J. C. C. matter. 
New York. p. e. d. 
We receive thousands of letters like 
the above, and no doubt thousands of 
others feel the same way, but do not ex¬ 
press it in letters. What we want to 
say to you is this: We are glad to have 
your kind words, and we will just as 
fully appreciate any criticism that will 
help us make you a paper that will suit 
you and help you more than the one 
we are now making for you. We have 
now more than 30 people devoting their 
whole time to the making of this paper. 
The mechanical equipment for making 
and printing it has cost over $25,000. To 
build up such a paper from the start 
to-day would, before it was on a foot¬ 
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million of dollars. The foundation of 
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have no other purpose except to make 
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readers. Not a man connected with the 
business wants any political office, not 
one would take such an office if it 
were given to him. We want no State 
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any State. We are not concerned to 
make the most money that the paper is 
capable of producing in the way of 
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pride in knowing that it is of real ser¬ 
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The only patronage we want is the sub¬ 
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ducks and pure breed Pekin ducks from Japan. 
Write your wants. 
Mammoth Bronze Toms, $1 and$5. Indian 
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No. 39, Ridgefield, Conn. 
THOROUGHBRED FOULTR Y-Best 20 varie- 
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lAfriglit’s White Wyandottes—Prize winners, 
(Dnston’s). Eggs $4.00 per 100. Baby chicks 
$10 per 100. Grandview Farm, Stanfordvillo, N. Y. 
EMPIRE STATE S, C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
winners at N. Y. State Fair; Trios, $5.00. Eggs for 
hatching from heavy layers, $1.00 for 15, $5.00 for 
100. Catalog free. C. H. Zimmer, Weedsport, N. Y. 
Yearling Barred Rock Hens, 
dotte Pullets and Cockerels. Priced for quick sale. 
Write H. J. VANDYKE, Gettysburg, Pa. 
WOODLANDS FARM. 
Record Laying Strains of White Wyandottes, 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and S. C. 
White Leghorns - 835 Trap Nests. 
Bred for large, symmetrical size, vigorous consti¬ 
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standard requirements. Address 
L. T. HALLOCK, Proprietor, Iona, New Jersey. 
BUSINESS BARRED 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
The breed that lays. Eggs for Hatching. 
15 for $1.75 
Breeding stock $3.50 per head 
FANCIERS STOCK FARMS, 
P. O. Box 171, Long Branch, N. J. 
Pure Bred Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 
bred from the most noted winning strains; extra 
heavy boned, large frame and beautiful plumage; 
some good specimens for show birds. Address 
ELKTON STOCK FARM. Forest Depot,Va. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS lh,ee <irsts . seconds 
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Red Kegs BOc. peris, $1.50 pel 30; Mottled Ancona Eggs,$1.00 
per 15, $1.75 per 30; cat. tree. JOHN A. 1COTII, <piu!.erUnvn,Pa. 
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R. G. RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
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EGGS FOR HATCHING 
from fancy matings. S. C. White Leghorns, S. C. Brown Leg¬ 
horns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. $1.00 per setting; $3.00 per 
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357 Henry St„ Buffalo, N. Y. 
Hatch Chickens by 
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PRICELIST 
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