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We will be pardoned for a little pride in 
this number of The R. N.-Y. The first of 
these horticultural numbers was published 
21 years ago. It contained 20 pages; car¬ 
ried about 40 columns of advertising and 
required about two tons of paper. This 
was printed on a flat bed press that cost 
probably $2,000, and was folded on a 
separate machine. The work required 
all told about 12 different operations, 
and the principal operations did not ex¬ 
ceed 1.000 units an hour. This number 
contains 04 pages, with color covers. It 
carries 145 columns of advertising; and 
requires 55 tons of paper to print it. The 
quality of paper in this issue cost $1,000 
more than it would cost for the grade of 
paper generally used in the body of the 
paper. The printing and folding is all 
done on one large perfecting rotary press, 
which receives the paper in large rolls, 
and delivers a paper completely printed 
and folded in one operation at the rate 
of 0.000 copies an hour. This printing 
machine was built and equipped at a cost 
of $25,000. Another source of pride is 
the business facilities of the paper. 
Formerly the offices were in one building, 
the type set in another, the printing done 
in a third, and the mailing in still an¬ 
other, all being on rental or the work on 
contract. Now every operation is per¬ 
formed under one roof, which is owned 
by the company and is the permanent 
home of the paper. But the source of 
the greatest pride to us is not found in 
the size of the paper, not in the rapidity 
of its press work; but in the increased 
power that it has attained in service to 
the farmer and to farm interests. This 
power the subscribers have given to it. 
We hope the individual capacity of the 
publisher and editor have improved in 
21 years; but no matter what their indi¬ 
vidual development, they could not lead 
a following of forty-odd thousand with 
the same effect that 175.000 can ac¬ 
complish. So long as the dead beat 
thought we would not dare publish his 
record, he had no fear of us. He didn’t 
care for our personal opinion of him. lie 
would not care so much if it was pub¬ 
lished only to a small list; but when his 
black record is in danger of going to 175,- 
000 homes in every farming community, a 
large and rich section of the country, he 
knows what it nn ans, and he has come 
to know that the only way to escape 
retribution is to make timely amends. 
General agricultural interests are as¬ 
sociated even more than the individual 
farmer. Every day some fool proposition 
is being advocated to affect agriculture 
adversely. For these reasons the farm 
wants a fearless champion who knows its 
needs. AYe have led some of these con¬ 
quests in the past; and the harder they 
have been contested the more emphatic 
has been the victory. Without 175,000 
subscribers backing us up to a man, we 
would not contract to bring about any 
rightful reform in State or Nation. We 
have already tackled and won some of 
them. 
Liberman Dairy Co., 56 Boerum Place, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Interstate Milk & Cream Co. (De¬ 
funct). 323 E. 111th Street, N. Y. 
Bronx Farms Co., 337 E. 157th Street, 
N. Y. 
When the first named concern went 
out of business the Interstate Milk & 
Cream Co. was organized by officers of 
the old company. Last month two of the 
officers, Frank Liberman and Henry Fine- 
burg. were indicted at Utica, N. l r ., 
charged with grand larceny in the 
Trenton-Remsen Milk Co. case. Soon 
after the failure of the Interstate Milk 
Co. the Bronx Farms Co. was incorpo¬ 
rated with Frank Liberman as treasurer, 
and Solomon Solomon, who was also con¬ 
nected with the old company, as secre¬ 
tary. Frank Campbell, who is reported 
to be an accountant, appeared as presi¬ 
dent. No doubt Liberman is the domin¬ 
ant figure in the Bronx Farms Company, 
as he was in the others. His record in 
connection with the Liberman Dairy 
Co. and Interstate Milk & Cream Co. 
isn’t such as would warrant farmers to 
extend credit to the new venture. Our 
records show that farmers have had 
trouble to get money due them from 
Liberman’s connections for a dozen years 
back. The dairymen in the vicinity of 
Utica now bid fair to lose a good many 
thousands of dollars through the Inter¬ 
state Milk & Cream Co.’s operations, and 
no doubt other sections in which Liber¬ 
man's concern operated have fared no bet¬ 
ter. The history of Liberman’s operations 
suggests the wisdom of caution and the 
granting of credit only if proper security 
in the way of a bond or other tangible 
property is given. 
I have formed my opinion of the en¬ 
closed letter from Eugene Thwing, but 
please give your opinion of it in The 
It. N.-Y. for the benefit of others. 
New York. E. s. 
I am enclosing you a letter from 
Thwing Co., 141-145 W. 45th St., New 
York. Would like to know if this is an 
investment or just “sucker bait? 
New York. E. L. c. 
To answer the last query directly w r e 
consider the letters forwarded about as 
brazen a piece of “sucker bait” as we 
have ever had the privilege of reading. 
The letters forwarded the subscribers 
are identical—neither of these men seems 
to feel flattered because of being con¬ 
sidered “representative citizens,” and so 
favored by Mr. Thwing; very stupid 
of them. Each received two letters—the 
first explaining why, the second offering 
the recipient the privilege of sending Mi*. 
Thwing money to be invested in the 
Purity Products Co., the location of 
which he fails to enlighten the indi¬ 
viduals on whom he confers the favor of 
sending the money. The product—“Vel¬ 
vet-Balm”—is described as a cure-all and 
beautifier of the skin. 
Of course, the hope of big profits is 
very deftly held out, but Mr. Thwing 
has only 200 shares to sell, and it is a 
condition of accepting the money that he 
be trusted absolutely. This apparent re¬ 
luctance of Mr. Thwing to make any 
promises, extravagant or otherwise, shows 
a great deal of caution on his part— 
charges of using the mails to defraud on 
the basis of false px-omises or represen¬ 
tations made in this letter could never be 
sustained. The meddlesome post office 
inspectors with a nose for get-rich-quick 
literature can put their fingei’s on no 
word in these letters promising any¬ 
thing. Mr. Thwing even tells the pros¬ 
pective investor that he may lose his 
money—so the investor need not com¬ 
plain if his money evaporates as money 
put in investment schemes of this kind 
has a w T ay of doing. We have heard of 
pouring money into a rat hole, but in 
this case thex-e is the possibility of dig¬ 
ging the rat hole out. 
I enclose a circular from the Ameri¬ 
can Producers’ and Consumers’ Trading 
Association, Minneapolis, Minn. It has 
the earmarks of a get-rich-quick scheme 
of which your readers should be posted. 
I do not quite see the advantage of mem¬ 
bership with them. c. J. L. 
New Jersey. 
The circular makes a plea for a mem¬ 
bership of 100,000 names, for which you 
are obliged to buy one'or more shai’es in 
the company at $1. The alleged purpose 
is to connect the producer and the con¬ 
sumer. Reports indicate that the com¬ 
pany is incorporated under the laws of 
South Dakota, and is authorized to is¬ 
sue $50,000 of stock. They, however, 
give no reference and it is said they have 
established no banking connections. 
They decline to give any information as 
to their previous business or present 
standing, and as an excuse state they are 
doing nothing as yet. They simply oc¬ 
cupy desk room where they are located 
and under the circumstances it is not 
hard to understand that our corres- 
pondent sees no advantage In the so-called 
membership. 
About a year ago you paid your com¬ 
pliments to the Standard Home, of Bir- 
mingham, Ala. Some 10 days ago a ne¬ 
gro named Wallace asked my advice, as 
they had some seventy-odd dollars of his 
money, and would not “come across.” I 
advised him to write you, and to go see 
the Mobile postmaster and see if he 
coull not “sick” Uncle Sam on the covey. 
I don’t know what he 'id. but I read in 
the paper today that they were tangled 
up in the Federal Court in Birmingham 
for misuse of mails, and something like 
150 witnesses were appearing against 
them. I know you are interested in these 
old acquaintances, and will join me in 
the wish that the Government in appre¬ 
ciation of their services to the public, 
will initiate them into- the ancient and 
dishonorable order of horizontal stripes 
while enjoying their hospitality at Atlaii- 
ta with much congenial company of their 
high moral character. M. A. P. 
Alabama. 
The above correspondent is modest; 
or possibly he does not know how far his 
influence has already l’eached. It was 
at his suggestion some time back that the 
Alabama District Attorney sent to us for 
the papers and complaints against the 
Standard Home Company of Birming¬ 
ham, Ala. The District Attorney seems 
to be one of those officials who takes his 
position seriously and it was not long be¬ 
fore we heard that an indictment had been 
issued against the officers. The matter 
seems to be yet in court. M. A. P. de¬ 
serves his share of the ci'edit for what¬ 
ever results may follow. 
Can you give me any information as to 
the reliability of the Wm. C. Moore Nurs¬ 
ery Co. of Newark, N. Y. ? Their agent 
claims that they bud their peach trees 
on wuld roots and thereby produce a 
tree that is long-lived. J. J. L. 
Pennsylvania. 
We regard the claims of the agent of 
the Wm. C. Moore Nursery Co. of New- 
ark, N. Y., as pure “guff.” These agents 
have to invent some sort of stoi’y of this 
kind in order to induce farmers and 
fruit growers to pay from two to three 
times the price for stock that reliable 
nurserymen selling direct are chaining. 
The R. N.-Y. has many times warned 
its readers against this sort of tree 
agents, and the houses responsible for 
them. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Eankike Difference 
You want a tractor that will save 
money—one that can work all the 
year round, on all kinds of jobs — 
one that won’t tie you up a couple 
of weeks on the spring plowing 
because the ground is too soft—one 
that won’t pack the soil. Round- 
wheel tractors won’.t do—you’ve 
.got to have a Caterpillar. 
The Caterpillar has a long, wide, endless 
track, with 8 times the bearing surface 
of round wheels. Works on soft, rough 
or hilly land. Over a dozen imitators, 
but only one Caterpillar. Holt has built 
it for the last 10 years. Over 2000 in use. 
<a 
Rog. UL S. Pott Oft. 
Don’t say Caterpillar 
.unless you mean Holt! 
Write (or Cat A.I. 166. It tell* 
why the Caterpillar wear* so well. 
The Holt Mfg. Co. 
(Incorporated) 
Peoria, Ill. Stockton, CaL 
50 Church Street, N. Y. 
MONEY SAVING for 
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YOU can save money if you buy an EXCELSIOR 
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engine that it is possible to build. We are so 
certain of that that we say to you, order an 
EXCELSIOR without the payment of a single 
penny in advance, compare it with any engine 
made anywhere. If after 30 days’ trial you 
find the EXCELSIOR the best engine, you can 
buy, then keep it; if not, ship it back to us. 
Catalog, telling why the EXCELSIOR IS THE 
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farm you own and we make you a SPECIAL 
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