HOW WAR CONDITIONS WILL BE MET ON HOPE 

 FARM THIS YEAR. 



Editor H. W. Collingwood, Rural New Yorker, N. Y. City 



This Avar situation is changing the life of every man and 

 w^oman in America. Men of my age can never expect to see 

 this old world settle down once more into normal conditions, 

 and the future of this world will depend very largely upon 

 the way we older people view life during the next few years. 

 I do not need to come to New England and tell your people 

 what war means, or what preparation for war means to 

 those who stay at home. For the New England people, 

 from the time of King Philip's war, down to this day, have 

 at intervals gone through a period of home preparation and 

 war change. The problem is what shall we do ; with our 

 boys and our workmen taken away from us to keep our farms 

 and do our share at fruit production. 



During the Civil War a Pennsylvania farmer came in 

 from his work one day and drove his axe into a log. Then 

 he walked into the house and said to his wife, "Mother! T 

 am going to volunteer ! I must get into this war ! " He had 

 brooded over the subject out in the fields day by day until it 

 had come to be a part of his life, and he had to volunteer. 

 The wife told him to go, and that she and the children would 

 get along in some wey. When that man went, a boy of 

 about fifteen years became the head of the family- He went 

 to his mother one day and said, "What shall we do with this 

 farm?" The mother put her hand on his shoulder, looked 

 off across the fields for a moment, and said, "There are just 

 two things for you to do. Trust in God ! And plow up close 

 to your fence rows ! ' ' 



That was the soundest advice I ever heard, and it tells 



