THE RURAL, NEV/-YORKKR 
January C, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
During the last two weeks of Decem¬ 
ber we did not receive the usual per¬ 
centage of renewals for the time cov¬ 
ered. We make no complaint. The 
mails have been heavy, and never in the 
history of the paper did we receive 
more cordial holiday greetings nor 
stronger or kindlier words of encourage¬ 
ment and loyalty. But we have no theo¬ 
ries to support, and no pretences to 
keep up. We keep no secrets from the 
subscribers who make this paper possi¬ 
ble. It is true that the subscriptions did 
not expire until the last week of the 
month, and we think that many of our 
friends are getting to humor our ambi¬ 
tion for a big mail after New Year’s 
day. At all events we hope to make up 
the little deficiency in January, and to 
this end we ask those who delayed the 
December renewals kindly to look up 
the blanks now and send the renewal. 
We have the book—“Hind-Sights’—all 
ready wrapped, and one is mailed you 
the day the renewal is received. It 
should reach you by return mail. 
A subscriber sent us literature from 
the Gardner Nursery Company, Osage, 
la., on a leaflet of which we find this: 
We have known of eases where a local 
nurseryman has become so jealous as to try 
and influence the editor of his own State 
farm paper against us and when he 
found that he could not do so he bit his 
own nose off and withdrew his advertising 
from the paper in question, just because 
it carried our advertisement offering six 
Evergreens free to some of his customers, 
lie was afraid of Fair and Honest Compe¬ 
tition. 
The only case that we know of where 
this class of jealous nurserymen has really 
succeeded in working us an injury, is in the 
case of a prominent New York Agricultural 
paper whose editor seems delighted in print¬ 
ing misstatements and untruths about us. 
This editor even refuses to give us the 
names of parties he claims have made com¬ 
plaints about us. but we have been able 
to secure the names and addresses of some 
of them and invariably the complaint was 
not a legitimate one. and came directly or 
indirectly from another nurseryman, their 
agents or someone interested in the busi¬ 
ness. This is the only time in the whole 
history of our forty years in the nursery 
business where we eould not get a FAIR 
DEAL, and in this case the editor, by liis 
unjust course toward us, is working an 
injury to his own paper as letters from 
our friends will testify. 
We advertise in over 120 different farm 
papers and magazines, including such me¬ 
diums as Farm Journal, Farm and Home. 
Orange Judd Farmer, Saturday Evening 
Post. Colliers, etc., about all of whom 
guarantee their advertisers. Besides this 
general guarantee, backed up by the largest 
and best publications in the land, we give 
our own guarantee of safe arrival of every¬ 
thing we ship. 
In a circular letter the company says 
it has a new strawberry named the 
Giant, which will bear from three to five 
quarts of fruit from each plant, the 
next Spring after planting, and contin¬ 
ues with these extracts: 
We expect to spend over $10,000 in ad¬ 
vertising this wonderful variety in the 
agricultural and horticultural papers this 
season. To supplement our advertising cam¬ 
paign and to get this valuable variety 
growing and fruiting in your part of the 
country, we have decided to offer you a 
HOLIDAY GIFT, if you will help us to 
show what these plants will do in your 
vicinity. In looking up some gifts for our 
own family use. we ran on to a real bar¬ 
gain in a very fine looking, serviceable, open 
face GOLD WATCH. It is made in the 
popular sizes, suitable for either ladies 
or gents’ use, with extra thin case so much 
in style nowadays. Tt is fitted with good 
works that keep accurate time and that j 
are fully guaranteed for one year. It is 
stem wind and set and has the appearance ‘ 
of a watch costing from $12 to $20. In I 
fact, it is an exact duplicate of the watch ' 
carried by the writer for his own personal j 
use. Now what we offer you is one of | 
these splendid watches, with our best 
HOLIDAY GREETINGS, if you will help j 
us in showing what our new strawberries 
will do in your part of the country this ' 
coming year. 
The special introductory price of the I 
GIANT is $10 per 100. Our special HOLT * 1 
DAY OFFER to you is to send you 100 [ 
GIANT plants, delivered to your town, at 
proper time in Spring, 1012. for $4.98. 
Further, if you will accept this offer at 
once, we will make you an absolute present 
of the new THIN MODEL GOLD WATCH, 
as described above. 
It was just such schemes and pre¬ 
tenses as this that caused Ti-ie R. N.-Y. 
to refuse this advertising some years 
back. We want no share of that ten 
thousand. We doubt if the privilege of 
showing off this strawberry will be any 
more successful than the show orchards 
they promised some years back for $10. 
A good many growers did not feel that j 
they got the value of the money. In! 
this case they have 100 plants and a 
watch costing them $1.15 which they 
want to sell you for $4.98, and that is 
all there is to it. What showing vou 
can make with a cheap watch or straw¬ 
berry plants has nothing to do with it, 
unless it fools you into the belief that 
you are going, to get something for an 
indefinite service. A dollar a hundred 
is a good price for good strawberry- 
plants ; and this seems to be the actual 
value placed on these by the company 
themselves, because if you do not want 
the watch they agree to send you an 
extra 100 plants in place of it, and the 
watch is made by a New York house 
and costs $1.15. If there is no more 
merit in the plants than there is gold 
in that “gold watch,” you need not fear 
any over-production of Giant strawber¬ 
ries. We ask the publishers who guar¬ 
antee this advertisement if their guar¬ 
antee covers the guarantee of gold in 
this $1.15 “gold watch”? 
Last week we prmted letters from 
Prof. Ly'on and Prof. Warren, both of 
Cornell University, to the First Burbank 
Timber Co., in reply to letters of that 
company asking their services in connec¬ 
tion with the scheme. The replies 
showed that the request was refused in 
no uncertain tone. Prof. Warren’s let¬ 
ter refusing to have anything to do with 
it was addressed to the number given 
in tbeir letter, but was returned un¬ 
called for. Recently our investigators 
were unable to find them at the address 
given. Now we have the following let¬ 
ter sent by Dr. Brooks, whose name 
was also used in the prospectus of the 
company as an assurance of respecta¬ 
bility. 
The First Burbank Timber Co., 1 Madi¬ 
son Avenue, New York. 
What prices are 
you getting for table eggs? 
You may know how to handle hens to get the maximum egg yield. Your 
cost of production may be as low as skill can make it —in your territory. 
You may be receiving the highest prices paid there .. .yet, you may not be 
making the net profit you should. The trouble may be in your location. 
Gentlemen: Your letter of the 20th inst. 
asking for my terms for services as soil 
expert for examining land in the Hudson 
Valley has been received. I thank you for 
considering me for such service, but do not 
think it best to consider it, as my official 
engagements occupy my time very fully. 
Yours very truly, 
WM. P. BROOKS, 
Director. 
If the First Burbank Timber Com¬ 
pany has any defense to make of the use 
of these names after the men declined 
his proposition, these columns are open 
to it. 
Neither these professors nor the col¬ 
leges they represent seem to be in any 
way responsible for the use made of 
their names in this instance, but both 
colleges have been for two years know¬ 
ingly and deliberately indirectly con¬ 
nected through the Home Correspond¬ 
ence School of Springfield, Mass., with 
a scheme compared to which this Bur¬ 
bank development sinks into insignifi¬ 
cance ; and when one set of fakers are 
permitted openly to use the names of 
these colleges to promote their schemes, 
it is not surprising that other promoters 
should feel privileged to profit by the 
same influence. j. j. d. 
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