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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
H appy new year to an the r. 
N.-Y. family. Our wish is that joy 
may come to every home, and that the 
new year may bring cheer and prosperity 
and happiness to all. 
The ideal of the Department of Foods 
and Markets is to find a profitable mar¬ 
ket for the products of the farms of the 
State of New York, and to devise such 
an economic system of distribution of 
farm food products that, through the 
saving, the farmer may receive more and 
the consumer may pay less.—The Depart¬ 
ment. 
Everyone points to this as a big job. 
No one says it is easy to do. Some say 
it is impossible. Those who think it can 
be done admit that it is a job of no moan 
proportions. Certainly no one man can 
do it alone. Fortunately no one man is 
expected to do it. We have not proposed 
a problem in a lifetime that produced 
such spontaneous enthusiasm and proffers 
of assistance and cooperation as have come 
with the proposal to tackle this job of 
reforming the distribution of farm food 
products. The ‘necessity for reform is 
now recognized by consumers as well as 
by producers, and all are agreed that an 
economic system is badly needed. If we 
can accomplish the undertaking the re¬ 
sult will be reward enough for the labor 
of a lifetime. I would rather lead a 
movement to accomplish the task than be 
Governor of the State. I believe it would 
bring more lasting benefits to the people, 
both producers and consumers, than any 
one man could accomplish as Executive 
of the State. But when accomplished it 
will not be the work of any one man or 
any one institution. If successful, it 
must be the fruits of thought, and work, 
and sacrifice of many. To say the least, 
it is being tackled by strong determined 
men, who know the difficulties, and who 
believe that food should not be allowed to 
rot on the ground within walking dis¬ 
tance of children who are dying of hun¬ 
ger. The purpose is right. A definite 
policy will be established. It will be 
fair to all interests. Those in the busi¬ 
ness will be encouraged to work along 
the lines of reform; every help will be 
given them. If they adopt the friendly 
course, they should profit by the eco¬ 
nomics of the change. If. however, they 
persist in the old wasteful, extravagant 
and ruinous methods, then they will have 
to compete with the competition of an 
economic cooperative system. The two 
systems cannot prosper in the same ter¬ 
ritory. We propose to stand by the 
economic system. There will be discour¬ 
agements. There may be some minor 
failures. No matter; we persevere. In 
the end the right system will win. 
Here I come with trouble for you, but 
you must let me pay you something, or 
do something for you in return. If you 
will send a supply of 10-week envelopes 
I will gladly put one in each letter I 
send, and will see that some of them are 
returned from this section. The letter 
I enclose was received from A. Seckendorf, 
Bath Beach, N. Y.. and I asked my bank 
to look him up and they sent me a re¬ 
port on him. I did not consider him a 
crook, although I knew I was running 
a little risk on a man with no resources 
or capital. I shipped him a case of eggs 
and have been unable to collect. He pays 
no attention to my letters. H. G. jice. 
New York. 
This party solicited egg shipments on 
commission, but if payments are neg¬ 
lected in this way our people will not 
care to deal with him. Mr. Seckendorf 
refused to acknowledge our letters. The 
account was then sent to our attorney, 
but he returned it with the advice that 
his demands received no attention, and 
was unable to find Mr. Seckendorf at 
home. No one seemed to know anything 
about him. There is always great risk 
in shipping to houses of unknown respon¬ 
sibility. This seems to be a case for the 
new commission merchant law and we are 
calling the attention of the Commissioner 
of Agriculture to the transaction. 
I shipped a case of white eggs to A. 
Gams & Co. and have not received any 
word or check from them yet; wrote 
them several times. I know you helped 
me once before, and have helped others, 
and I wish you would get this check for 
me as soon as possible, as I need the 
money very much, and in fact cannot 
afford to lose it. Eggs were quoted at 
■>5 cents per dozen at the time I shipped 
them. P- C. G. 
New York. 
We were not able to be of service to 
this subscriber. Mr. Gams was located 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 2, 
Little Margie, in company with her 
mother, on stepping out of a fast ele¬ 
vator at the sixteenth floor, remarked: 
“() mamma, I tought my tummey would 
dot upstairs fore we did !”—Chicago Tri¬ 
bune. 
at 187 Duane Street, but removed to 62 
Moore Street, Brooklyn, from which ad¬ 
dress he evidently solicited shipments; 
at any rate we have a complaint from an¬ 
other subscriber that he received a check 
which was protested. After some corres¬ 
pondence check was sent for the amount, 
but the protest fees were not included, 
and we cannot get anything more from 
Mr. Gams. Our letters are received, but 
his silence certainly shows he has no in¬ 
tention of adjusting these complaints. 
Louis Rosenstein & Company, 101 
Lowell Street, Boston, Mass., are evi¬ 
dently soliciting shipments from farmers 
and we recall complaints received some 
time ago from subscribers for shortage 
in weight on the returns, and that two 
shippers brought suit against Rosenstein 
and it was decided in favor of the ship¬ 
pers. A new complaint reaches us that 
a Maine subscriber sent eggs to him in 
September and failed to receive returns. 
We have sent a statement of the facts to 
the District Attorney of Massachusetts 
for his information. 
Today I received check for $25.86 from 
the Southern Express Company, covering 
damage claim for avocado pears received 
by them on October 18, 1913, for ship¬ 
ment to a New York house, which never 
reached their destination. I placed it 
with you for investigation after having 
waited months for a settlement on their 
part. I thank you very much for what 
you did, as I feel this claim would not 
have been settled by them for a long time 
to come, had it not been for your efforts 
in my behalf. The R. N.-Y., and its 
business methods for me. j. b. mck. 
Florida. 
This was a clear claim and all papers 
supporting it were regularly filed with 
us. There was no good reason why the 
claim was not settled promptly; but it 
did require persistent effort for a long 
time to get it. 
I didn’t send in my name for the Anti- 
Fake* Club because it seemed to me I had 
so little chance to do anything, and I’d 
let others with more time and oppor¬ 
tunity push the work, but they don’t seem 
to push very fast, so here is my boost. 
Put me down as an Anti-Faker. Some 
time when the Anti-Fake movement 
comes out pretty strong in the Publish¬ 
er’s Desk, send me some more sample 
copies and envelopes to go in each one. 
New York. J. F. c. 
The Anti-Fake Club is growing; and 
the members are beginning to make them¬ 
selves felt. The rules will be formulated 
and adopted now soon, and the work 
will then be in full swing. 
For quite a good many years I have 
watched projects, similar to that of 
the company to raise hogs. In no sin¬ 
gle instance have I learned of a success¬ 
ful result to those who have bought stock. 
There have been two companies started 
to work the hog scheme. The National 
Ilog Co., of 1 West 34th street, will be 
a very good proposition for the promoters 
while it lasts, but its result is a fore¬ 
gone conclusion. The other one had a 
very brief career, and the promoter is 
now in jail or out on bail. I am not sure 
which. The reason for the failure of all 
these projects as applied to farming is 
obvious. Farming is essentially a per- 
sonal proposition. If it succeeds it does 
so because of the personal management 
and attention to details of the man at its 
head—and this man neither needs to nor 
wants to divide the results with outside 
stockholders whose only care or interest 
has been the furnishing of some capital. 
Socialistic farming schemes have always 
failed because what is everybody’s busi¬ 
ness is nobody’s business, and the man 
who makes a success of farming is the 
man who personally likes it and has the 
interest of an owner in making it suc¬ 
cessful. H. G. 
New York. 
The above reply to a promoter of one 
of the so-called co-operative hog-raising 
schemes contains sound logic. It is 
hardly conceivable that any farmer 
would give a hog company in the city of 
New York a second thought. H. G. gives 
convincing reasons why any such project 
honestly conceived would fail; but we 
would have no one consider such enter¬ 
prises as a serious proposition. They 
are conceived by rogues and nurtured by 
fraud. The promoters never expected 
them to be successful. They simply 
serve the purpose of ready money. They 
promise quick riches to cupidity and to 
the credulous; but their purpose is to 
wear good clothes and live high at your 
expense. J. J. n. 
Farm Accounts 
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The pages are ruled and printed with columns for 
every item of expense and income from 
Personal Work —Hired Help — Improve¬ 
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etc.. Recapitulations and Inventories. 
Contains il pages, size 8 by 12, and is 
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The Farm Account Book 
Takes the place of a set of account, books, and 
enables the farmer to see at a glance whethor he is 
making or losing money on an individual item, and 
ii .w much. It enables You to Run Your Farm On a 
Business Basis. 
You tako no risk. We mail this book pre¬ 
paid to any address on receipt of $1.00. If 
you do not find it satisfactory, send it ■ 
back and we will refund your money. 
15,000 Farmers ore using them. Send 
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52 Clifford Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 
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per year you can utilize soil acids to 
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Write us today for further facts about 
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