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THE RUKAt NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Dear Sir: I see in your edition of De¬ 
cember 16, page 1206, a statement that my 
name has been used as a director of the 
“First Burbank Timber Company.” This 
A Happy New Year to all friends of is the first intimation 1 have ever had that 
Publisher’s Desk, and wit'h it goes our 
best wishes for a prosperous year to 
come. 
Our old friends will remember that 
we are always concerned about the first 
mail of the new year. We take it as a 
vote of confidence from our friends. It 
has never failed us yet. Year after 
year the first mail after New Year’s Day 
has given encouragement for an honest 
effort to serve the people. We say ef- 
my name was in any way connected with 
this company. In fact I had never heal'd of 
the company before seeing the article on 
the subject in the copy of your paper to 
which I have referred. Any use of my 
name in connection with it has been en¬ 
tirely unauthorized by me. There is no 
way in which I can prevent the printing 
of my name by a concern of this kind, but 
I take this opportunity to disclaim all con¬ 
nection with it. I shall be indebted to you 
for publishing this statement. 
Cornell University. t. l. lyon. 
Prof. Lyon's name was not given as 
a director. By reference to page 1206, 
you will see that he appears in the Bur- 
fort advisedly, because we know it is bank Company prospectus as one of a 
not without fault. Our only apology board of experts on operation. This 
is that it is the best we were able to do prompt and frank repudiation of the use 
for the time being. We can promise °f his name is just what we expected 
no more for the future, but hope that f rom Prof. Lyon, but we wanted it to 
with added experience we may increase f OI T* e voluntarily. Some time back we 
the efficiency of an honest effort to e ^ pe t r . lence f wlth ano , ther 
. , , . , concern, and wrote the professors whose 
produce a paper to champion the cause names wcre thus uscd> and we were ac _ 
and seive the rightful interests of the cused of intimidating them, and forcing 
farm. If any farmer feels in his heart them by threats of publicity and criti- 
after reading the paper that it does not cism to withdraw from the connection. 
have the elements of sincerity in sup- Prom now on we propose to give the 
port of his best interests, then our ad- facts as we find them, and let the em- 
vice to him would, frankly, be to drop iuent instructors whose names and insti- 
it. A false friend is more dangerous tut . 1( ? ns are used to , Promote get-rich- 
-T- , quick concrns speak for themselves, 
that an open foe. Our mail Tuesday Prof W P Brooks and Prof. G. F. 
morning next will tell the story. It will, Warren have informed us also that the 
as heretofore, indicate the results of the use of their names by this concern was 
year to follow r . As the mail is opened entirely unauthorized 
tlie morning after New Year's Day xhis is not the first timc tllat these 
State and National institutions support¬ 
ed by the people have been used, through 
the teachers connected with them, as 
confidence dope to extract money from 
confiding and gullible people. Nearly 
two years ago we called the attention 
of the teachers in these and other sim¬ 
ilar agricultural schools to the use be¬ 
ing made of their names by E. G. Lewis, 
through his affiliation with the Home 
Correspondence School of Springfield, 
Mass. Some of them withdrew; others 
split hairs and withdrew their names, 
but continued the service; others had 
the temerity to make excuses and apolo¬ 
gies and brazenly continued their iden- 
the renewals will be couyted as votes of 
confidence, and in advance we thank 
those who register that vote. 
If you should happen to write this 
department and get no reply please do 
not hesitate to remind us of it. The 
purpose is to reply promptly to every 
inquiry. But the mail is large, and an 
oversight may at times occur. If it hap¬ 
pens, we want you to know that it is 
an oversight. 
A fanner took an extra big load of spe¬ 
cially selected corn to the Columbus market 
and was offered two cents a bushel above 
the market price, which he accepted, and 
was instructed to unload at a certain ele- . 
vator. The buyer accompanied the farmer tity with the scheme until the money 
to the elevator, and after weighing went to f ' 
the office, got his pay for the load, and left. 
The farmer got nothing. Another farmer 
was robbed of a load of hay iii the same 
way. w. h. s. 
Ohio. 
failed to come in return for the serv¬ 
ices. All this in face of the fact that 
we proffered evidence of victims within 
the very shadow of the college build¬ 
ings to pro\ e the way they had been 
These farmers were easy. There are allured to part with their savings, and 
times when even a man of peace is un- in some cases where the dupes had 
der obligation to fight for his rights, 
and we are frank to say that there 
ought to have been a fight or a foot race 
as a part of that performance. The 
parted with their last dollar and became 
a town charge. That was not all. We 
tried to correct these abuses without 
disagreeable publicity, and our private 
lesson, however, is to see the money in letters were turned over to the promot- 
sight before property is turned over to 
strangers. 
ers of the scheme, and every possible 
device of cunning and contortion of 
word and fact used to misrepresent our 
purpose in the matter and encourage 
and prosecute libel suits against us. We 
propose to profit by experience. We 
have no apologies for the past. We 
simply did a duty to the people, and in 
attempting it we expected the apprecia- 
We were unable to get any reply from Lon of those who turned or. us and bid 
On April 29 I sent one case of eggs to 
W. W. Wright of the Clearfield Butter & 
Kgg Company. 1694 Rroadway, Brooklyn, 
N. V. I have not heard from him, although 
I have written twice. Can you help me 
to collect? It is a small matter, but I 
need it as much as he does. l. m. h. 
New York. 
Mr. Wright, and when we called him 
on the telephone were advised that it 
had been discontinued. Our attorney 
undertook to look .him up, but was un¬ 
able to find him, and at the address 
given no one seemed to know where he 
had gone. We are now informed that 
he is bankrupt and has no assets. Of 
course we could not make a collection. 
We are giving this history because we 
had occasion to refer to his methods 
some time back, and if he should again 
solicit shipments our people will be wise 
as to his practices. 
Why don’t I see the advertisement of the 
Wm. Galloway Co., Waterloo, Iowa, in The 
Rural New-Yorker? He is in most other 
papers. Is there anything wrong? 
Pennsylvania. a. g. m. 
We have no objection to the advertis¬ 
ing of Mr. Galloway’s machinery ad¬ 
vertisements ; but the stock-selling scheme 
that he has been promoting does not ap¬ 
peal to us, and we could not recom¬ 
mend the stock investment to farmers, horticultural teacher may innocently ac- 
On the contrary, our advice to them is cept a commission for service to them 
to keep out of such propositions. If in his line. No harm in that, surely, 
our people see the machinery advertise- But, bless their confiding and gullible 
tnent in The R. N.-Y., while it would souls, these promoters care nothing for 
have no reference to the stock proposi- their chemistry, or their knowledge of 
tion our friends may be led to invest in plants. They want to make a showing 
the stock on the assumption that the in their prospectus, and in their adver- 
appearance of the advertisement was tisements. They do not care so much 
a virtual indorsement of anything the for the name of the individual. They 
company sold our people. Frankly, we want the prestige of the college or in¬ 
think there would be some justification stitution to which they belong. Therj, 
for this kind of reasoning, and we do they say to the people: “See who is with 
not wish to assume the responsibility, us! Do you think Cornell, or Amherst, 
This company has issued tons of liter- or Columbia Colleges would indorse our 
ature to persuade farmers to. buy the plan, if it were not sound and honest?” 
stock of- the company, but we have seen These are the uses made of these names, 
nothing yet that would justify us in rec- These are the facts that we have tried 
ommending the investment. and tried in vain to force privately on 
us at our peril not to interfere with their 
petty graft. Now we propose to tell the 
facts as they come to us and let emi¬ 
nent instructors speak for themselves. 
If they have any defense to make these 
columns are open to them, and notice is 
given now that this subject is only just 
begun. 
We want to be clearly understood. 
Prof. Lyon is plainly blameless for the 
use of his name by the Burbank Com¬ 
pany, though there is a way to prevent 
the use of his name in the future by this 
concern. We have never known his 
name to be connected with any other 
concern, and we believe him to be too 
high class a man knowingly to permit 
the use of his name in any way to de¬ 
lude the people. The same thing is true 
of many other teachers who are at times 
innocently drawn into these schemes. 
At first sight a chemist sees no harm 
in accepting an engagement to analyze 
soil for a land-promoting concern; a 
the attention of eminent educators in 
our public institutions. Now we are 
going to try it in a different way. If the 
people want this collusion and affilia¬ 
tion of their colleges with fake schemes 
to go on, they will probabl - fail to re¬ 
new their subscription to The R. N.-Y. 
No other publisher will invite a similar 
fate, and the subtle schemes to separate 
honest people from their savings will 
go on rejoicing. But we will wait and 
see. _ j. j. d. 
Garget. 
I have a cow six years old, a Jersey and 
a good one. Two years ago her udder, be¬ 
fore she came fresh, swelled up very large, 
and she lost one teat. This year it did the 
same, and the milk seems to stop; could 
only get enough for the calf for the first 
week; then it came all right, but the one 
teat. Now the teat next to it is nearly 
dry. She has been fresh five months. The 
milk is good. What is wrong, and can I 
cure it? j. h. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
She has suffered from attacks of garget 
(mammitis) and in consequence two of the 
quarters have lost their milk-secreting func¬ 
tion. This condition is incurable, and for 
that reason the cow should be fattened off 
for slaughter. It does not pay to keep an 
affected cow. Properly treated at the out¬ 
set. the trouble might have been prevented 
from causing loss of the quarters. See re¬ 
cent answers as to treatment of garget. 
Indigestion. 
Can you tell me what ails my mare? She 
used to be in quite good flesh, but since last 
Spring has grown poor. She eats well; in 
fact, greedily. When not at work she will 
clean up 12 quarts of feed a day (hay at 
night), and is never satisfied. Feed con¬ 
sists of bran and corn.and oats ground to¬ 
gether; weight of mare, about 1200. She 
eats up all the woodwork in the stable, 
gnaws the bark off trees, and is continu¬ 
ally biting (not licking, but drawing her 
teeth over) iron, stone or wood posts. I 
have very little use for horse, so she stands 
in stable a great deal. l. r. m. 
Connecticut. 
If a horse does not work, neither should 
he eat—much, and never should he eat 
ground food if his .teeth are fit to masti¬ 
cate whole oats. Turn the horse out of 
doors and do not let her stand a single day 
idle in the stable. If she cannot be worked 
every day, she must run out doors for abun¬ 
dant exercise. Stop all grain food for a 
time and substitute hay, corn fodder and 
roots. Allow free access to rock salt. As 
soon as the animal is doing -well, feed whole 
oats, bran and hay. Some ears of corn may 
be allowed at noon in cold weather. Do not 
give medicine of any sort. a. s. a. 
December 30, 
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