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THE RURA.lv IM K W-YORKER 
December 0, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
As The R. N.-Y. lias increased in cir¬ 
culation and in revenue, we have aimed 
to increase its value and its service to 
its subscribers. Some years back a 16- 
page paper was the usual size, with an 
occasional 20-page edition. Now 20 to 
24 pages is the usual size, and many 
editions run as high as 32 and 40 pages. 
One edition last year had 64 pages. It 
must be admitted, however, that at all 
times the quality was the best we could 
produce at the time. If the quality of 
the paper has steadily increased as many 
readers assert, it has come from a ripened 
experience and better facilities. We have 
never at any time failed to give in each 
issue the best service that was in us. 
That has been our aim in the past. It 
is our purpose for the future. 
Sometime back we got into the way 
of returning a little souvenir in acknowl¬ 
edgement of subscriptions; but the prac¬ 
tice, originally intended as an expression 
of thanks and good will, developed some 
abuses, and resulted in an expense for 
postage that imposed a tax on the paper 
without corresponding benefit to the sub¬ 
scriber. We have therefore concluded to 
save the expense of mailing souvenirs 
in acknowledgement of subscription re¬ 
newals,. and will put the saving and an 
extra allowance into the paper itself. 
This enables us to give more during the 
coming year than we have been able to 
give in the past. The extra size of 
the paper will enable us to increase the 
horticultural features, the live-stock and 
dairy department and the poultry pages. 
We have also increased the facilities for 
personal service in all departments. We 
are prepared to make prompt replies to 
all questions by subscribers, and special 
reading courses will be devised for those 
wishing to make a study of any subject 
of farm or home economy. 
The real treat for the coming year will, 
however, be in the Woman and Home 
Department. For at least once a month 
this department will be increased to the 
proportions of a woman’s magazine, and 
it is our ambition to make it unique in 
the field of women’s publications. We 
have in fact laid out a programme for 
this department that is extravagant for 
our present circulation and revenues. It 
would really require a circulation of two 
hundred thousand to justify the expense 
we are planning to put into it. In other 
words we are anticipating an increase of 
a little over fifty thousand circulation to 
meet this extra expense. Many friends 
will say it would be wiser to keep within 
the present limit and increase the service 
as the business warranted. That would 
be good conservatism, but it would not 
be good journalism. Experience has 
taught us that the American farmer re¬ 
sponds to an honest service to his in¬ 
terests. 
When we refused deceptive and dis¬ 
honest advertising and published the 
tricks of rogues, farmers and business 
men paid for subscriptions out of their 
own pockets in order to make the paper 
known among their neighbors and friends. 
When we went in debt for a new 
press and increased the size of the 
paper and the service, the circulation 
went up and the press was soon paid 
for. When we bought a permanent home 
for the paper and increased the facilities 
for editing and publishing, the circulation 
took another jump and we are now 
obliged to place an order for another 
larger and better press. While we have 
been making this progress we have had 
the help and encouragement of the good 
women of the farm homes. All the time 
we have been thinking and planning 
ahead, and anxiously awaiting the time 
when we could do more for them. We 
shall wait no longer. We are now pre¬ 
paring the first edition for December is¬ 
sue. This is going to be edited largely 
by women for women, and as much as 
possible by farm women for farm women. 
With the experience of the past, we have 
no concern for the future. We are going 
ahead with the service, and the needed 
fifty thousand extra circulation we will 
leave with confidence to our old friends 
and to the American farm women. 
The Mills Farm Company of New 
York has purchased outright 40,000 acres 
of cutover pine lands near Bond, Harri¬ 
son County, Miss., and will clear, fence, 
plant and cultivate the entire tract in 
small fruit and truck farms of from ten 
to forty acres each. A house and well 
will be placed on each farm by the com¬ 
pany. F. B. Mills, head of the Mills 
Seed Company, of Rose Hill, N. Y., is 
the promoter and manager of the enter¬ 
prise, and B. C. Lawlor, of Gulfport, 
Miss., has accepted a position as resident 
sales manager. The company will con¬ 
tract to cultivate the farms for at least 
five years, and will guarantee dividends 
to buyers from the start.—Journal of 
Commerce. 
To guarantee dividends from the start 
sounds good; but to any thinking man 
this assurance would be enough to make 
him suspicious of the scheme. Think of 
10 acres of stump land in Mississippi 
paying dividends from the start! But 
who is to guarantee Mr. Mills? Some 
years back he guaranteed stock in a 
ginseng farm scheme, but some of the 
men who put their money into it on the 
strength of the guarantee are yet looking 
for the return of their money. Others 
he induced to put money into the Consoli¬ 
dated Ginseng Company. Recently we 
read in this column the story of one of 
the Pennsylvania investors, and later of 
Mr. Burpee’s interest in him. These ex¬ 
periences ought to be of some value to 
the people who are now expected to fol¬ 
low Mr. Mills to his pine stump lands in 
Mississippi. 
About five months ago I sent for a 
catalogue to C. II. A. Dissinger & Bro. 
of Wrightsville, Pa., who are manu¬ 
facturers of gasoline engines, and sent 
them .$112.50 the 20tli of June. I re¬ 
ceived receipt for that amount, and from 
that time they fooled me along; some¬ 
times the engine was done and sometimes 
it did not test right. For the last month 
I did not hear anything of it. Will you 
please let me know the best way to get 
my money back or the engine? F. o. 
New York. 
After repeated letters to Dissinger & 
Company they write us on Nov. 18 that 
they “trust to be able to make shipment 
of the engine during the coming week.” 
This is the same promise that was made 
to the subscriber on August 5th. In this 
situation the farm customer is not only 
furnishing the capital to manufacture the 
engine, but he is suffering a greater loss 
in waiting for the use of an engine to 
do his work. This man wanted an en¬ 
gine for his Fall work. The loss of it 
may well equal the cost of the engine. 
We have had similar complaints to the 
above regarding this concern covering a 
period of five or six years back. The 
rating would indicate that the house is 
responsible, and we have had no com¬ 
plaints as to the quality of the engine, 
but R. N.-Y. readers are entitled to know 
what they might expect when they send 
order and check to Dissinger & Brother 
for an engine. 
The Strout Farm Agency now say tliey 
have put their compensation on a com¬ 
mission basis and no longer work for the 
biggest profit they can get. Do you 
consider that this change removes the ob¬ 
jection to their plan of selling farms? 
New York. T. D. 
The Strout people admit they cannot 
list farms as cheap as they could buy 
them for cash. Yet they add the sell¬ 
ing commission to the owner’s price, and 
yet claim that the owner selling pays the 
commission. Their commissions as re¬ 
cently revised run from 10 per cent to 
20 per cent, and this commission to be 
added to the owner’s price. They have 
admitted that they cannot sell a farm 
on these terms if the buyer knows that 
he is paying this commission above the 
owner’s price. We all know that no man 
would knowingly pay one-fifth of the value 
of the farm for the privilege of buying it 
from the Strout Agency. So that to sell 
on these terms the buyer must be either 
kept in ignorance or deliberately deceived. 
The seller may get a satisfactory price, 
when the deal goes through, but the 
sales are few compared with the num¬ 
ber of farms listed, and as has been 
previously shown, the fees of listed farms 
run as high as $20,000 a month or there¬ 
abouts; and these fees the listing farm¬ 
ers must pay unless they can show fraud 
or misrepresentation in procuring the con¬ 
tract. Such are the conditions as we 
understand them. The inquirer must be 
his own judge as to the merits of the 
proposition. Some eminently respectable 
publishers find nothing objectionable in 
the plan, and while claiming for them¬ 
selves and their publications a high moral 
standard, publish the Strout advertising. 
All we care to add is that it does not 
square up to our standard. J. J. D. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY PRICES. 
Tork, 12; pigs, six weeks old, $4 to $6. 
Cows, from $50 to $100. Good young 
farm horses from $200 to $250. s. w. 
Calverton, N. Y. 
Cows from $30 to $60; horses, $100 to 
$250; two-year-old steers and heifers, 
from $35 to $45; yearlings, $20 to $35; 
cream to butter factory, 25 cents, c. ii. 
Dafoe, Mich. 
Fresh cows bring from $75 to $90; 
milk, four cents a quart; potatoes, $1 
per bushel; new corn, 75 cents per 100 
pounds; old corn, shelled, $1 per bushel; 
new oats, 40. We sold our Winter apples 
on the trees for $1, buyer to find every¬ 
thing, the gleaner to haul them to the 
depot. J. B. 
Chester, N. J. 
Cattle are high. Good milch cows bring 
$75; Spring calves from $25 to $35. I 
sold two two-year-old grass fat steers at 
$65 per head. There is not much de¬ 
mand for horses at this time of the year. 
They sell for $75 to $175 each. Butter 
fat is 26 per pound ; butter 25 ; eggs 25 ; 
chickens 8 cents per pound. A neighbor 
sold his turkeys for $2 apiece. Fat hogs 
are worth $6.50 per hundred. j. w. C. 
Arnold, Neb. 
This is strictly a dairy section, four 
miles from Watertown; will give you 
prices farmers receive for their products. 
Springers and new milch cows, $60 to 
$100; milk delivered to city, $2 per 100; 
cheese, full cream, present make, 15; but¬ 
ter, 38; potatoes, $1 per bushel. Veals, 
live weight, 10 y 2 ; veals, dressed, 15; 
pork, live weight. 8; pork, dressed, 12; 
turkeys, dressed, 22; beef, native sides, 9 
to 12. f. T. 51. 
Burr’s Mills, N. Y. 
Potatoes direct to consumer sell now 
at $1 per bushel; apples from $3 to $4 
per barrel; cows from $40 to $60 per 
head; hogs, dressed, 11 cents per pound, 
about 200 pounds each ; pigs four weeks 
old, $3 to $4 each. Butter at present 
40 cents per pound direct from the churn. 
Eggs, 35 (strictly fresh). Chickens. 12 
cents per pound dressed. Cabbage from 
four to five cents per head. Turnips 
(Swedes), 65. As this has been an off 
year for potatoes and fruit of all kinds 
it makes the prices on them about double. 
Cadosia, N. Y. f. a. s. 
The large brick sugar-of-milk plant 
erected by the F. X. Baumert Co. here 
this Summer is completed and has begun 
operation. The company is getting about 
20,000 pounds of milk daily, which is 
made into several kinds of cheese; the 
whey is then run into the Italian cheese 
plant, where the Sanna Co., of New York, 
makes Italian cheese; then the whey is 
taken over to the sugar-of-milk plant, 
whore, it is made into milk sugar. The 
milk is bought here on the test; milk 
testing 3.6 brings $2 per hundred for No¬ 
vember. Fine weather for plowing and a 
large acreage is being done. Potatoes 
turned out fair; some rot is appearing. 
No apples to speak of in this part of the 
town. g. ii. L. 
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