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PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We would suggest to readers that one 
of their New Year resolution should be 
to sign all letters written with full name 
and address. We have in hand a letter 
making inquiry in an important matter 
signed “An Old Subscriber.” We are un¬ 
able to communicate with the subscriber 
in question and give the advice desired. 
Unsigned letters, or those without ad¬ 
dress. usually go into the waste basket 
without consideration. Most business 
houses complain to us of the carelessness 
of country people in not signing their let¬ 
ters. 
We want to thank our indulgent 
friends for the handsome mail on the first 
business day of the new year. It was 
one of the biggest days because of a delay 
in mail delivery, but the first two days 
have topped all previous records, and the 
lead was maintained for the week follow¬ 
ing. Thank you. We hope to serve you 
during the year in a way to express our 
appreciation of your indulgence aud 
friendship. 
1‘lease find enclosed $3 to renew my 
subscription to The U. N.-Y. as far as it 
will go. Why don’t you raise the price 
of your paper? I consider I have often 
got the worth of my subscription out of 
a single issue. liaise the price to at least 
cover the postage over to Canada, and I 
for one would thank you for doing it. 
Canada. n.e. 
We print the above letter because the 
same suggestion has been repeated many 
times from many sources. We have con¬ 
sidered every one of them. With the in¬ 
creased cost of paper, postage, labor, and 
materials of all kinds there are abundant 
reasons to increase the subscription price 
of the paper. A. two-dollar price would 
not be out of proportion to other publi¬ 
cations using similar material and talent. 
To advance the price would be to save 
work and worry and to make money. A 
large number of our old friends would 
gladly pay the new price; but some who 
perhaps need the service more might feel 
that they could not afford the extra ex¬ 
pense, and we would lose the opportunity 
to serve those who most need the help. It 
would also retard the tendency to reach 
out to others of the same class. So far 
with our economies in production, we have 
been able to make ends meet on the pre> 
cut basis, and provide further safeguards 
besides. The present management have 
been on tin* job now more than 30 years. 
In the nature of things others will be 
called to the work later on, and we prefer 
to leave them a tradition of service to 
agriculture rather than riches to spend. 
A farm paper is in many respects about 
as close to a co-operative institution as 
it is possible to get. and all co-operation 
succeeds best when the management 
shares the trials of the membership, and 
when the membership shares proportion¬ 
ately in the benefits. And so as long as 
we can, we maintain the dollar price. 
Will you inform me whether the Gun- 
son Co. of Rochester, N. Y., is a reliable 
firm? I am a farmer and market gar¬ 
dener, and have given them an order 
which T shall cancel if they are unreliable. 
I ordered through an agent named Moyes. 
Vermont. E. R - 
There are two seed firms by name of 
Crimson in Rochester—L. P. Gunson and 
R. J. Gunson. Both houses sell their 
seeds through agents, and on the strength 
of extravagant claims for their seeds. 
Their prices for unknown seeds are usu¬ 
ally from two to three times the prices 
charged by the most reliable seed firms of 
known value and merit. Gunsons and 
lligbie represent in the seed trade Avhat 
H. M. Whiting stands for in the nursery 
business. 
Can you tell me anything about the 
standing and responsibility of James Wil¬ 
cox. 921 Sixth Avenue. New York City? 
Me is a dealer in butter and eggs, and 
wrote me, asking me to ship him eggs; 
got my name through the American Ex¬ 
press Company. He says that he does 
not charge commission aud pays the top 
market price the day received. F. C. 
New York. 
For more than 10 years we have 
warned against making any shipments to 
this man Wilcox. Shippers report the 
same experience—goods sent and no pay¬ 
ment made. Wilcox seems to have ar¬ 
rangements for the delivery of express 
shipments, but no one is able to find him 
‘Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January IS, mm 
at the address he gives. If letters are 
received from him through the United 
States mail soliciting your goods, it will 
be well to turn them over to the Post 
Office Department. 
TIow is this for a bunco game? I never 
ordered or received any seed from this 
concern, nor any previous letter or circu¬ 
lar from them. Any concern that resorts 
to such methods to get trade must be 
hard up for business. A. A. n. 
Vermont. 
These comments were written on the 
margin of a circular letter of Earl Seed 
Co., Gouverneur, N. Y., asking 35 cents 
for 10 packages of seeds alleged to have 
been sent the subscriber last season. It 
is not claimed by the Earl Seed Co. that 
the seeds were ordered. One clause of 
the circular reads: “We cannot imagine 
a man so mean that he would wilfully 
keep the seeds and not pay for them.” 
A. A. II. claims he never received the 
seeds. Anyhow we “cannot imagine” a 
reputable seed house shipping seeds in 
this way without having received orders 
for them, and expect and demand pay for 
seeds so sent. 
I have been a subscriber to The R. 
X.-Y. for many years, and it had been a 
visitor in our family a long time before I 
commenced to take it. Now that I have 
passed the age of 75 years I cannot say 
that I am any longer a farmer, yet in my 
declining years it gives me great pleasure 
to peruse its columns, and it is eagerly 
looked for each week. What I particularly 
value it for is the “Publisher’s Desk.” 
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to 
see the exposure of some of the fakes 
that it seems our country is infested with. 
These vampires do not catch me, but I 
know many that are caught with them. 
You are surely doing a good work in ex¬ 
posing them. W. F. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are much pleased with the above 
expression from this long-time reader, 
now of a ripe age. All right-thinking 
and right-living men and women feel a 
sense of satisfaction in seeing crooks and 
rogues so branded that their intended 
victims will recognize them on sight. 
This is what we are trying to accomplish 
in this department, and we have never 
received so many words of approval for 
the work as at this time. It is needless 
to say those looking for farmers’ money 
without giving a fair equivalent do not 
approve of The R. N.-5. V e are as 
proud of having earned the crooks dis¬ 
pleasure as we are to merit the high re¬ 
gard of so honorable a citizen as W. F. 
B. , whom we hope will live to enjoy life 
for many years to come. 
Gan you give me any information as to 
the reliability of the George K. lligbie 
& Go. Seed Company, Rochester, N. Y.? 
They are selling blight-proof and big- 
yield potato seed to farmers in this 
county, as well as extraordinary oats. 
Pennsylvania. N. e. g. 
The above claims are characteristic of 
George K. lligbie & Co. There is no such 
thing ns a blight-proof potato, and yet 
many farmers—intelligent ones, too—are 
induced to sign orders by “windy” agents 
on the strength of such false claims and 
pay three to four times the price of the 
best seed of the standard varieties. 
I am sending some clippings from one 
of the Philadelphia papers. You will see 
by the clippings that the hog men are 
still trying to do business. This is for 
the benefit of the city people. c. n. r. 
Rhode Island. 
One enclosure was advertisements of 
the Fairfield Hog Growers, guaranteeing 
eight per cent dividend for stock in their 
hog raising scheme. The other enclosure 
is probably the last of the old African 
Ostrich Farm and Feather Company and 
its successor, the Direct Supply Company, 
in which thousands of dollars were lost by 
investors. This is the usual result of all 
these schemes offering big dividends for 
small investments to people at a distance. 
Whether the offer is to raise ostriches, 
hogs, cats, rats or oil, the demand is for 
a good advance payment on the strength 
of the profits. If you contemplate invest¬ 
ing money, ask your bank about the 
standing of the concern before sending 
cash. As an alternative that will be safe 
and pay well buy Thrift Stamps and War 
Savings Stamps. The new issue is now 
ready. 
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