683 
April 11 , 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Some weeks ago I sold a pair of horses 
to a city man. He sent a veterinary sur¬ 
geon to examine them before buying. He 
paid the fee for examination. The horses 
were pronounced sound, and the buyer 
took them at my price. Now the veter¬ 
inarian comes around and intimates that 
I ought to give him something on the 
theory that I sold at a good price and 
could not have done so if he had not 
given them a good bill of health. What 
do you think? Should I give him any¬ 
thing? It has been suggested that, if I 
refuse, he may be in a position to block 
a deal some other time. E. F. 
New York. 
If you were to pay such a demand by 
a veterinary surgeon, you would be as 
guilty of procuring grafters as he is of 
soliciting graft. No custom and no fear 
of future injustice through him would 
justify you in bribing him to neglect his 
duty to his principal. He should have 
no interest in you and you no influence 
over him. lie is hired to examine the 
horses and to give an honest opinion of 
their condition. A conscientious surgeon 
would refuse your money, if you offered 
it to him. To accept it would destroy 
whatever service he could otherwise ren¬ 
der to the buyer. He cannot serve two 
masters. It is true he may do his prin¬ 
cipal as much injury in wantonly condemn¬ 
ing a sound animal as he could do you in 
that case, but you are not responsible if 
you do nothing to tempt his behavior. 
This type of veterinarian is more num¬ 
erous than we wish it were. We know 
there are men of high ideals in this pro¬ 
fession. The grafter is a scandal to such 
men, and a menace to the profession. 
The associations ought to work out the 
grafters of this type and locate them. 
Such men are a discredit to any profes¬ 
sion in which they secure membership. 
Recently somebody offered to be one 
out of 100 to contribute financially to 
“Publisher’s Desk.” I would like to be 
another one, and pledge $5 each year. 
Please get the club together. E. P. 
New York. 
There have been many such offers; 
but as yet no cash contribution is neces¬ 
sary. Cash sent for this purpose has 
always been credited up to the sender’s 
subscription, and some of them are paid 
20 years in advance in consequence. But 
you become a charter member of the 
association to promote honest advertising. 
Massachusetts, like Connecticut, has a 
law making it a criminal offense know¬ 
ingly to make false statements in an ad¬ 
vertisement of any kind. Under that law 
a conviction has just been secured in 
Massachusetts for the first time. Not 
content with this arrangement, a mem¬ 
ber of the Massachusetts Legislature has 
introduced a bill to discipline the news¬ 
papers that print false advertising. That 
leads the Berkshire Courier to say : “All 
over the country are newspapers that re¬ 
fuse doubtful or dirty medical advertising, 
and there are papers that will not handle 
liquor advertising. Beyond that papers 
cannot go far and live.” Oh yes, they 
can. There is Tiie Rural New-Yorker, 
of New York, for example. A prosper¬ 
ous, growing, influential publication, as 
well as one of the cleanest and most ex¬ 
acting as to its advertising in the whole 
field of publications—much more so than 
most religious and trade publications— 
and it continues to thrive and grow. It 
is at once an example, an encourage¬ 
ment and a rebuke to those papers that 
take doubtful advertising of any class. 
Tiie Rural New-Yorker censors its 
columns more severely than any official 
ever would, with the result that it ex¬ 
erts a power for straight business that 
no similar publication can possibly 
claim. It is unique, alive, energetic, 
helpful, and successful. Does that not 
prove it possible for publishers to put 
character, discrimination and care into 
their advertising columns, safeguarding 
their readers; that it is possible to go 
beyond the mild exclusion of undesirable 
business and live?—Bristol Press. 
Several friends sent us the above clip¬ 
ping with a request or suggestion to re¬ 
print it. At first our sense of modesty 
suggested to omit it, but we yield to the 
further consideration that there may be 
something in the argument to combat 
the contention that a paper cannot be 
clean and honest and live, and to support 
the contention that the cleaner and 
straighter a publication the better its 
prospects of prosperity. 
I take four farm papers, and now I have 
got to get Tiie R. N.-Y., just because 
the "Boss” (my wife) says so. a. is. w. 
We simply wish that a whole lot of 
other farmers had a similar boss. 
the rural. 
Our experience with commission mer 
chants was so unsatisfactory that some 
time back we eliminated all of their ad¬ 
vertising, and have since refused to ac 
cept advertising from any produce com¬ 
mission house whatever. We are here : 
however, to serve our friends as best we 
can, and so when a New York State 
subscriber asked us for the names of 
commission merchants to handle hot 
house lambs, we picked out half a dozen 
of the best we knew with financial rating, 
and sent the addresses to the subscriber. 
In response he shipped on the same day 
two lambs, weighing 27 and 28 pounds 
respectively, to Phillips & Sons, 277 
Street, New York, and two 
of exactly the same weight 
Garrison, 332 Washington 
York. lie made no selec- 
that one shipment was 
as the other. Read & 
NEW-YORKER 
Washington 
other lambs 
to Read & 
Street, New 
tion and insists 
exactly as good 
Garrison made him prompt returns for 
$14 for the two lambs on March G. 
Phillips & Sons made returns of $7 for 
the shipment to them. Read & Garrison 
wrote, “The stock is nice and we can 
use all that you can ship us.” Phillips 
& Sons reported to us after complaint 
that the condition of the lambs was not 
good. This is the kind of thing that 
shippers have been up against in this 
market for at least 30 years of personal 
recollection. The farmers have no re¬ 
dress. The commission merchants fought 
our bill to create a State Department 
for marketing farm products. They will 
probably do everything they can to em¬ 
barrass and defeat the purposes of the 
Department, but it is up to the State now 
to put a stop to transactions of the 
kind that we have reported above. 
We took the Tribune Farmer for 10 
years, until they discontinued; but like 
The R. N.-Y. very much. Could we 
not help the paper? new reader. 
New York. 
The friends of the Tribune Farmer 
have become friends of The R. N.-Y r . 
There is one way all friends can help. 
Renew subscriptions promptly and induce 
neighbors to send for at least a 10-weeks 
subscription. Get farmers to know the 
kind of service Tiie R. N.-Y. is giving 
them. Then they are their own judge of 
its value to them. 
About the first part of January I or¬ 
dered a hundred ducks from the Chante- 
cler Poultry Plant of Ulster, Pa. When 
they arrived some were dead, and others 
have been dying since, 25 or 30 prob¬ 
ably in number. These were guaranteed 
or represented to be Walton Cumberland 
White Egg Indian Runner ducks, prop¬ 
erly mated and ready to lay this month. 
Those examined have cither no egg or 
only a little cluster of tiny egg germs. 
They were represented to be first-class 
as to size, markings and laying quality, 
and I paid every cent asked for them. I 
have received a pen of Waltons which 
are fine, and equal to photographs seen 
of prize winners. They came about the 
same distance in cold weather, and re¬ 
ceived the same feed and water, and 
weigh four to five pounds. Now the 
Ulster, Pa., lot are apparently mongrels 
with hardly any resemblance to a good 
Walton, and seven of them, full weight, 
weighed 17 pounds, about half size, and 
dirty, altogether different colors from 
the true Walton. You could never say 
they were the same breed or any par¬ 
ticular breed, as they have varied mark¬ 
ings, hardly any alike, but seem to be a 
Walton cross on some other duck. 
Maine. e. e. I. 
We wrote the proprietor of this poul¬ 
try plant with regard to the subscriber’s 
complaint, but we have not been able to 
induce him to take the complaint serious¬ 
ly or give it the attention which it de¬ 
serves. Under the circumstances we are 
under the necessity of withdrawing any 
endorsement of this concern which may 
have been conveyed to our readers from 
the fact of an advertisement of it having 
appeared in our columns some time ago. 
I enclose a receipt for some magazines 
for which my wife subscribed in August, 
1913. I have received only one magazine. 
Can you do anything for me? w. s. M. 
Maine. 
Our letters to the International Adver¬ 
tising Syndicate, Boston, Mass., were re¬ 
turned 'from the post office unclaimed. 
They claim to have offices in Montreal 
and New York, but our advice is that 
the Mr. Gregory who claimed to repre¬ 
sent this syndicate was never authorized 
to solicit subscriptions for the maga¬ 
zines he had on his list. j. j. d. 
1846 
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