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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 21, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
202 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allfn B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. V., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
The defeat of Bryan and the elec¬ 
tion of Taft need not, we think, be 
taken as conclusive that the people; 
condemn these three planks of the for¬ 
mer’s platform: 
1. Election of United States Senators 
by direct vote of the people. 
2. Publication of campaign contribu¬ 
tions before election. 
3. Government guarantee of bank de¬ 
posits. 
We believe a great majority of the 
people approve these reforms. Taft 
\yas elected not because his opponent 
favored these reforms, but because 
these were not looked upon as impor¬ 
tant enough to outweigh other consid¬ 
erations. 
What do you know of the “Sterling De¬ 
benture Corporation,” and the Telepost com¬ 
pany, as per enclosed card? Please an¬ 
swer in the next issue and oblige many 
readers in Ohio. F. p. m. 
Ohio. 
Previous answers to this question 
have been overlooked by many readers. 
We know the promoters occupy well- 
furnished and expensive offices. They 
wear good clothes and they spend 
money freely in good printing and for 
postage stamps. All this has been going 
on a long time, but we have not heard 
that thev have done much of anything 
else in the wav of earning money in 
a business way. We find nothing in 
it to justify us in recommending the 
stock to farmers as an investment. We 
would advise them not to do it. 
Will you give your opinion under “Pub¬ 
lisher's Desk” of the Consumers’ Pure 
Milk and Dairy Co., in regard to its product 
and as an investment? w. b. h. 
Massachusetts. 
This concern seems to have an office 
at Pittsfield, but little seems to be 
known of them locally. It is thought 
that Boston parties are interested; but 
they give no Boston address and no 
further information could be obtained 
there except that it is not organized 
under Massachusetts laws. Caution 
would be advised until rating is estab¬ 
lished. 
The “Scout” is a paper published at 
Detroit, Mich., in the interest of the 
lumber trade, and calls itself the offi¬ 
cial organ of the Michigan Retail Lum¬ 
ber Dealers’ Association. Its sub¬ 
scribers would naturally he lumber 
dealers. Trade organs of this kind as 
a rule refuse subscriptions from far¬ 
mers or others who buy from the deal¬ 
ers. In a recent issue of “The Scout” 
one of the dealers reports that he has 
received a card saying that a mail¬ 
order house had shipped some sash and 
doors to a man in his town. Appar¬ 
ently the card was not signed, and no 
address given. The dealer asks “The 
Scout” where the card came from and 
what it was sent for. The editor 
makes this reply: 
The Scout cannot inform you whence this 
card came, as we do not know anything 
about it, but we would suggest the follow¬ 
ing as a good plan to follow; When you 
receive one of these cards, look up the 
man to whom the mail order house has 
made ihe shipment. Then tell him that 
you understand he has bought some mate¬ 
rial from whomever it is. Ask him if he 
has received it; if it is good stuff; how 
cheap he got it. And then no matter if it’s 
really going to cause you a loss to hack up 
your statement, tell him it's too had he 
bought that without consulting you. ’cause 
you could have sold him just what he 
wanted and at even less than he paid Die 
mail order house. In other words make him 
sick of his deal. You can do it, and you 
must if you want to put a crimp in this 
mail order house competition. Remember, 
a dissatisfied customer is a poor advertise¬ 
ment for a mail order house. Make this 
man dissatisfied. 
Comment on any advice of that kind 
is unnecessary. If the lumber dealers 
of Michigan stand for that sort of thing, 
we would be willing to expect any¬ 
thing from them. If local dealers, 
through avarice and combination, put 
up the price of their goods so that 
mail order houses from a distance can 
undersell them in their local territory, 
they would not meet the competition by 
reduced prices, but by a cunning scheme 
to deceive the purchaser and try to 
make him feel “sick of the deal,” even 
though as a matter of fact, he had 
saved money on it. There are unques¬ 
tioned disadvantages in ordering goods 
of some kinds especially through mail 
order houses, because of the distance, 
inability to inspect the goods before 
buying, and some necessary delay in 
delivery, but we have yet to see a 
better argument for patronizing mail 
order houses than the above reprint 
from the official organ of the Michigan 
dealers' A more contemptible, low- 
down piece of trickery we have never 
seen in cold type. 
It is with great pleasure I enclose $1 
for the renewal of my subscription. We all 
think you did a grand good work in the 
Dawley case. Your paper is just what the 
farmers need—some paper to stand up for 
their rights. My earnest wish is that every 
farmer in the whole country would sub¬ 
scribe for your paper. j. e. v. 
New York. 
This good friend’s enthusiasm even 
exceeds our own expectations. There' 
are probably twelve million farmers in 
the country. About one out of every 
120 subscribe for The R. N.-Y. We 
hardy hope to get them all. We think 
it would be better to establish a prece¬ 
dent in agricultural journalism that 
other publishers in the same line would 
follow, and thus spread the influence 
more effectively, perhaps through sev¬ 
eral papers than it could be done by 
one alone. The success of The R. 
N.-Y. will probably decide the char¬ 
acter of other farm papers for some 
years to come. 
If it be demonstrated that farmers 
will appreciate and support a paper that 
discards all other considerations and 
devotes its energies exclusively and 
fearlessly for the good of the farm and 
the farm home, other publishers will 
be encouraged to take up the same line 
of work. For ourselves, we have no 
doubt about the ultimate results. 
Sooner or later people get in this world 
just about what they merit. Farmers 
will get just about the kind of service 
in a farm paper that they deserve and 
that they demand. If The R. N.-Y. 
seems to you to be doing what a farm 
paper ought to do for the farm, then 
we ask you to help extend its useful¬ 
ness and its power by increasing its 
number of readers, and by such sug¬ 
gestions and helpful criticisms as will 
enable us the better to serve your inter¬ 
ests. J. J. d. 
SQUAB RAISING. 
I notice from time to time articles 
and comes from the parent birds. His 
trouble is the first named cause—dis¬ 
eased stock. Is he discouraged because 
his birds lay no eggs? Then he has old, 
worn-out birds that breeders and dealers 
have sold and resold to one innocent 
after another. He need never hope to 
succeed with such birds. Do his breed¬ 
ers have diarrhoea and his squabs and 
young birds die from bowel trouble, 
with messy, foul-smelling nests? Then 
be is feeding new wheat, new corn, new 
peas or musty, cheap grain. 
Overfeeding is almost as bad. If the 
birds do not clean up all the grain at 
each feeding, and the keeper throws 
down more grain and still more grain 
regardless of what is already there, he 
deliberately courts trouble, besides wast¬ 
ing the feed for which he pays his good 
dollars and cents. He is probably feed¬ 
ing rats and mice, too, and it is no 
wonder he sees no profits. Every dead 
squab and every wasted grain is a loss 
to his profits. Thus the cost of feed¬ 
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It may cost one man two or three 
times what it costs another. Let the 
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breeders, seamless-banded, two-year- 
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