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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 27, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I note what was said last week regarding 
the Myrlck concern. To make the matter 
plain to me, would you let me know what 
the company was doing that the Post Office 
Department would request it to pay the 
first class rate? Your “Publisher’s Desk” 
is doing a great work. a. j. s. 
Connecticut. 
The statement contained in the alleged 
interview with Mr. Myrick and published 
in the city papers was not in correspond¬ 
ence with the facts as furnished by the 
Post Office Department. The circum¬ 
stances as we understand them were 
these: Mr. Myrick bought a semi¬ 
monthly paper in Minnesota. He gave it a 
new name and announced a circulation 
for it of 100,000 copies and fixed an adver¬ 
tising rate of 45 cents per agate line, but 
he applied for entry to second class priv¬ 
ileges under the name of the Northwest 
Orange Judd Farmstead to be entered 
at Springfield, Mass., for a circulation of 
73,604 copies. Pending decision on such 
applications the postmaster may require 
a deposit to cover postage under the 
transient second class rate to protect the 
department in case the application is de¬ 
nied. The interview stated evidently for 
effect that first class rate was demanded 
but the deposit for transient second class 
rate was what was really required. 
The department states that: 
Tn passing upon the application for entry 
of “The Orange Judd Northwest Farm¬ 
stead” as second-class matter, no new is¬ 
sues were settled or involved. In the de¬ 
cision in this case four classes of alleged 
subscriptions were passed upon and held as 
not forming a proper part of a “Legitimate 
list of subscribers.” They were as follows: 
(1) Claimed subscriptions for which tlio 
publishers furnished no orders or other evi¬ 
dence ; these were rejected. 
(2) So-called subscriptions transferred 
from other papers published by the Orange 
Judd Company, which subscriptions had 
previously expired; these were also re¬ 
jected. 
(3) Claimed subscriptions of persons to 
whom the publication was sent, but admit¬ 
ted by the publishers not to be subscribers; 
these, likewise, were rejected. 
(4) Alleged subscriptions paid for by 
banks at the low rate of from two cents to 
15 cents for a year’s subscription, the price 
of the publication being $1 a year, which 
subscriptions were held to be at a nominal 
rate, and therefore not a proper part of the 
“legitimate list of subscribers” required by 
law. 
The press statement to the effect that the 
Department has held that subscriptions ob¬ 
tained through agents, club-raisers and 
others could not be accepted because the 
publishers did not receive practically the 
whole amount paid by the subscribers, is 
without the least foundation in fact, that 
question being but incidentally touched 
upon with a view of determining whether 
the publication was “designed primarily 
for advertising purposes,” and no decision 
whatever was rendered on it. 
Of a total of 73,604 claimed subscriptions 
in the publishers’ application for admis¬ 
sion of the publication as second-class mat¬ 
ter, 32.469, being the aggregate of the four 
classes previously mentioned, were rejected 
as not being legitimate, the publication be¬ 
ing admitted on a basis of but 41,135 of 
the subscription claimed in tho application. 
The published interview made it appear 
that the department held that subscrip¬ 
tions secured through agents at a cost of 
more than 50 per cent of the subscription 
price were not admissible, and this was 
made to appear as the only cause for 
critcism by the department. After the 
ruling it was announced that the post¬ 
master reconsidered his demand and that 
Mr. Myrick had won a victory over 
the department. It seems now that 
Mr. Myrick was entitled to entry for 
41,135 subscriptions, and that he got it. 
It also seems that there were 32,469 other 
names for which entry had been made and 
for which he was not entitled to second 
class mailing privileges, and that the 
privilege was denied as to them. It also 
appears that the announced circulation 
of 100,000 copies was just two and one- 
half times the actual legitimate circula¬ 
tion as fixed by the department, and that 
Mr. Myrick paid the legal rate on the 
rejected list out of the deposit for the 
time they were mailed during the inves¬ 
tigation. How this situation could be 
construed as a “back down for Hitch¬ 
cock” as the head lines told us, and a 
victory for Mr. Myrick will puzzle logi¬ 
cal minds. 
It will be readily seen that the pro¬ 
vision authorizing the department to de¬ 
mand a deposit for postage at the tran¬ 
sient rate of one cent for four ounces or 
fraction thereof on each paper pending 
investigation is a wise one. If it were 
not enforced any large batch of printed 
matter such as circulars or catalogues 
could be mailed on application of sec¬ 
ond class privileges, and having gone 
through the mails to destination, and the 
application later denied, the department 
in many cases would have no redress. 
We criticise public officials in the hope 
of promoting efficient service. It is 
equally the purpose of the press to 
uphold their hands in the faithful 
discharge of their lawful duty. The 
practice of allowing banks or other 
interests to subscribe for large numbers 
of papers to be sent complimentary, aside 
from the violation of the postal laws, is 
one of the most dangerous forms of com¬ 
mercializing the agricultural press. A 
farm paper should be published for the 
interest of the farm and not for banks 
or any other interest. It ought to be 
free to criticise banks or other interests; 
but if it depends on them for its very 
existence it cannot do other than support 
them either openly or covertly. There 
are many trusts and other interests as 
well as banks that would gladly con¬ 
tribute to a control of the agricultural 
press; but it would be a sorry day for 
the farm papers when they barter away 
their independence. If farmers want 
papers devoted to their interests they 
must subscribe and pay for them them¬ 
selves. 
Those who have inquired of us about 
the investment in the stock of this com¬ 
pany may now get a further conception 
of its value. The paper evidently has 
a circulation of 41,135. Its advertising 
patronage does not seem to be very ex¬ 
tensively developed. The company is 
capitalized at a million dollars, nearly 
twenty-five dollars per name, but $750,- 
000 of the capital stock has been issued 
to another Myrick concern, according 
to his statement, in payment for the 
business. Farmers are now asked to 
buy portions of the $250,000 stock re¬ 
maining at a $1.05 per share. Of course, 
you realize that dividends, if any, would 
be paid on the whole million dol¬ 
lars of stock alike, so that the earnings 
of 75 cents on your dollar would go to 
the concern that now holds three-fourths 
of the stock, and you would get the 
earnings, if any, on 25 cents of your 
dollar. 
I received tlie check from M. Steisel to¬ 
day for the crate of fowls and thank you 
many times for the trouble you have taken 
for me, as I would not have received it 
had it not been for you. I shall try and 
avoid such men as he after this if possible. 
New' York. g. b. s. 
This refers to a shipment of fowls 
sent in January, valued at $9.50 for 
which payment had not been made. We 
called Mr. Steisel’s attention to the mat¬ 
ter, who replied that failure to send 
remittance was an oversight on the part 
of the bookkeeper. He stated the fowls 
were small and worth only 13 cents per 
pound, and check would be sent on that 
basis at once. The check was not sent. 
In the meantime Mr. Steisel changed 
his address and our representative 
finally located him in April on Hudson 
street when he again promised to send 
check that night. This was not done, 
but repeated insistence finally resulted 
in remittance, four months after receipt 
of the fowls. J. J. D. 
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