Counters criticism of farm papers for "giving away" circulation, selling premiums more than subscriptions, and paying solicitors 100% of what they take in.
Periodical is called to testify in a Senate hearing that involved the so-called sisal trust or fibre monopoly "which has recently sent upward the cost of the raw material from which binding twine is made." Farm Implement News "has been conducting a vigorous campaign against the manipulations of the monopoly…"
Commentary about the relationships between editorial matter and advertising. Maintains that editors have "annexed the territory on the other side of the column rule" and will stand up to advertisers and publishers, if necessary, "to keep the other side of the column rule clean territory."
Reprinted editorial from Farm, Stock and Home. Recounts the dangers of withholding advertising because a marketer does not happen to like a certain article or editorial in a paper. "If this attitude of mind becomes general and advertising is distributed to the trimmers or the silent publications the public will be under the necessity of paying something like a reasonable price for publications that dare to be alive and vital. Perhaps that would be more satisfactory all around, for if an editor must write with both eyes on the advertisers, it's a long farewell to social, economic and moral progress."
