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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 2, 1918 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
^ I have been giving copies of The R. 
X.-Y. to the factory men who have been 
gardening for the last two years, and I 
expect some subscriptions. E. a. b. 
Xew York. 
That is the kind of help that has made 
a paper like The R. N.-Y’. possible at 
one dollar a year. It is i)articularly 
what makes it po.s.sible just now. We 
venture to say that fully 70 per cent of 
our present subscribers were sent in first 
by some old subscriber and friend, these 
in turn renewing them.selves and sending 
others. 
When the present managemeiit came to 
the paper the subscription price was .$2 
a year. It was printed on a small flat¬ 
bed j)rcss at the rate of about 400 com¬ 
plete coi)ies an hour. The printing was 
done in commercial shops, and the pub¬ 
lisher's office was two rooms in an old 
downtown i)uilding. Sixteen pages was 
the average size for the ye.-ir. X^ow we 
sometimes run 04 i)ages. and the average 
is fully doubh' the old size. It is printed 
on two perfecting rotary presses that turn 
out eight to twelve thousand copies an 
hour, depending on the number of iniges, 
and if need be with seijarate cover in 
two colors of ink. It owns its own build¬ 
ing. presses, type-setting machines and 
all equipment to turn out the paper com¬ 
plete from start to finish. This was all 
paid for before the war. Avhen times for 
publishers were better than now. when 
restrictions and reguliitions are strenu¬ 
ous and burdensome. Paper now costs 
more than double the i)rice two years ago. 
Ink and other materials have increased in 
price in nearly the same proportion. 
Labor goes up in the printing trade every 
dii.v. Postage rates have increased one- 
third and go higher year after year from 
now on. 
In the face of these conditions we are 
preparing to increase and improve the 
paper. Professor F. C. Minkler has just 
become a member of the editorial Htall. 
I’rof. Minkler is one of the be.st known 
and most popular livestock men in the 
country. He is familiar with every phase 
of the subject, and he will give courage 
to the livestock interests of the Eastern 
States. 
In the face of all this we yet keep the 
subscription price at .$1 a year. This 
year we can do it. because we paid for 
the building.s. the pres.ses. and the entire 
equipment before, and we now have no 
rent and no interest to pay on anything, 
and we give subscribers the benefit of the 
saving. We admit that this year we ex¬ 
pect it to i)inch a little, but with our old 
friends sending in the usual quota of new 
subscribers we face the situation with 
confidence. This year even more than 
ever before you can tell your friends that 
the biggest dollar's worth in a farm ])aper 
is to be found in a subscription to The 
Rhrai, Xew-Yorker. 
We have reports that many sections of 
the State have been visited by the annual 
seed oats salesmen repereseuting a Roch¬ 
ester, X’. Y"., concern, offering another 
“new and wonderful variet.v” at ^3 per 
bushel. Many farmei's have, according 
to reports, placed orders for seed at this 
exorbitant price on the strength of the 
agent's claim and the sample which the 
agent displayed. We have no knowledge 
of the merits of this alleged new variety 
of oats, but the experience of farmers 
who have purchased new and wonderful 
varieties of oats and other .seeds in the 
past have been that they proved inferior 
to the well-known standa'd varieties sold 
by reliable seedsmen at ' alf the price or 
loss. It is easj' enough under favorable 
conditions to i)roduce samples of superior 
quality of any variety of oats or other 
grains. The farmers who are purchasing 
seeds on the strength of samples plus the 
“guff” of the seed agent are certainly not 
using the degree of caution they should to 
safeguard their own interests in the im¬ 
portant matter of farm seeds. We have 
warned our readei's repeatedly about 
these, “sharks’’ going about the country 
selling seeds on the strength of extrava¬ 
gant claims. Farmers in other sections 
should beware of this cla.ss of oily-tongued 
seed a.aents when they appear. 
I thank you very much for putting me 
wise to Dellmer Crandal! of Xew York 
city. Had I not consulted The R. X'.-Y'. 
I should have shipped him about $50 
worth of apples and, of course, would have 
lost them. c. C. D. 
Xew York. 
This subscriber exercised only common 
business precaution in looking up the 
standing and reputation of the party be¬ 
fore shipping him valuable produce. Mr. 
Crandall bas a reputation of never pay¬ 
ing for the produce he receives. 
It seems that we are again in trouble 
with Maurice Lippman, something that I 
did not think would ever happen again. 
It happened this way: Jacob Lippman, 
Maurice’s father, was down here .again 
this Summer buying cantaloupes, and so¬ 
liciting for Maurice on the .side. He got 
hold of an agent here, W. T. Godfrey, 
who knew' nothing of Lippman’s record, 
and got a carload from him on August 15, 
and up to date Mr. Godfrey has never 
been able to get a word from him. I had 
.30 crates in the car. If you can help us 
out any on this car, will certainly appre¬ 
ciate it. Had w'e know'n that Godfrey 
was going to ship the car to Lippman we 
would never have put any cantaloupes in 
the car. e. w'. x. 
E. W. T. reports later that account 
sales was received at $1.50 per crate 
when the market time of shipment was 
.$2.25. We have been obliged previou.sly 
to report complaints from shippers who 
have entrusted their produce to Maurice 
A. Lippman and his father. .Tacob I.ipp- 
man. The only explanation w’e are able 
to get from the consignee is that he paid 
the shippers all that the cantaloupes were 
worth. The record of Messrs. Lippman. 
father and son. in the X"ew Y’'ork market, 
is not an enviable one. and w'e are i)ub- 
lishing the above for the future guidance 
of our shippers. 
October IG, 101.3, I signed an agreement 
to take a complete course in agriculture 
with the Correspondence College of Agri¬ 
culture, Fort Wayne, Ind. I was allowed 
five year.s’ time in which to finish the 
course. They w'ere to furni.sh the text 
books and examination paper; the text 
books were to be my property. The cost 
of the cour.se was $150. I paid $.30 down 
at the time the agreement w'as signed, 
and the rest was paid in installments, the 
last being paid April 28, 1014, and I 
have a receipt for the full amount. I 
worked at the course as I could, but did 
not have much time with the farm work, 
and the examinations were much longer 
than they had given me to understand 
they would bo. At present I am a little 
over half through the course, and as I 
cannot finish it in the .specified time I 
wrote to them asking them to send me 
the balance of the text book.s, and that I 
would call it square at that. They did 
not answer my first letter, so I wrote 
them again, telling them that I would re¬ 
port the matter to you if they did not do 
anything about it in two weeks’ time. 
The time is past now, and as I have 
hoard nothing from them, so I am writing 
to you in regard to the matter. The 
books are quite valuable, and, I think, 
as I have paid the money for the course 
that I am entitled to them. I would like 
to have your advice in the matter, and 
see if you could get the books for me. 
Ohio. M. W'. M. 
We have a similar report from another 
subscriber relating his experience with 
the Correspondence College of Agriculture, 
Ft. Wayne, Ind. Our letters in behalf ! 
of both have been ignored. The expe¬ 
rience of the sub.scribers with this insti¬ 
tution is only the usual result of invest¬ 
ments in correspondence school courses. 
Early in the school year that ended 
June, 1918, my class gave Quayle & Son, 
Inc., Albany, N. Y'., a contract to supply 
the class with stationery. Some time 
later we sent them an order for some 
cards, .sending cash in full with the or¬ 
der. and after some delay the cards ar¬ 
rived with C. O. D. charges. After writ¬ 
ing the firm about the matter, they ad¬ 
vised us that the $12 had been anplied to 
the stationery contract instead of apply¬ 
ing it to the order for cards for which 
the money was sent. They refused to re¬ 
lease the cards of the O. O. D. charges 
until after it was too late to make any 
u.se of them. We should not have ob¬ 
jected to making a depo.sit on the con¬ 
tract had we been a.sked to do so, biit 
when the firm arbitrarily applied the 
money which we paid for the cards to the 
stationery contract we lost faith in the 
firm. Quayle & Son have our $12 and 
we have received nothing in return for it, 
and they have refused to make refund. 
New Jersey. E. A. w. 
The above report from the principal of a 
New .Jersey high school is self-explanatory. 
We have written Qua.vle & Son several 
times with reference to the transaction, 
but, after giving the firm full opportunity 
either to defend or justify their action in 
the case, we have received no word of re¬ 
sponse to any of our letters. We are, 
therefore, printing the record of the trans¬ 
action for the benefit of any other high 
schools that may be .solicitetl to enter into 
contracts for stationery with the firm. 
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