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July  1,  1010. 
PAT.  AP«.  10-0! 
HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
Part  I. 
"PkEI’AKIDNESS.” — A  few  weeks  ago  a 
r :  ( . . t  proeoBsion  marched  up  Fifth  Av¬ 
enue  in  New  York  City.  Half  way  up 
the  Avenue  there  is  a  gentle  rise  of 
ri'i'Und.  Before  the  white  men  name 
it  was  doubtless  a  hill,  which  lias  been 
cut  down  to  smooth  the  way  for  "civili¬ 
zation.”  One  could  stand  on  this  little 
:  sc  and  look  down  upon  a  mile  of  broad 
avenue — one  solid  mass  of  waving  (lags 
rs  (he  marehers  came  on.  That  watcher 
could  also  realize  that  within  ”0  miles  of 
where  he  stood  were  homes  of  0,000,000 
people.  The  110,000  men  and  women 
who  marched  by  with  their  (lags  repre¬ 
sented  one  and  one-quarter  million  homes 
all  within  an  hour’s  travel  from  where 
this  watcher  stood.  The  bright  sunshine 
sparkled  on  these  flags,  and  a  gentle 
I  r<  "go  shook  them  out.  and  one  man  told 
me  it  was  the  most  inspiring  sight  New 
York  had  ever  known. 
A  Country  Parade. — It  may  he  a 
matter  of  opinion,  hut  I  saw  something 
hist  week,  which  I  think  meant  more — 
to  the  community  at  least.  We  had  just 
climbed  a  steep  bill  far  off  thi'  main  road 
in  Cattaraugus  Co.,  N.  Y.  The  car  had 
coughed  and  kicked  its  way  up  the  steep 
fairly  speckled  with  the  black  and  white 
beauties. 
A  Promised  Land. — I  do  not  see  why 
this  little-known  country  should  not  be¬ 
come  as  famous  for  dairying  as  the  Hud¬ 
son  Valley  or  the  lake  shore  has  become 
for  fruit.  With  the  level,  rich  valley 
land  for  raising  crops,  and  the  hill  lands 
for  pasture,  a  farmer  may  have  a  great 
combination  when  lie  learns  just  how 
to  handle  this  soil  to  best  advantage.  On 
the  side  of  production  the  Farm  Bureau 
with  11.  K.  Crofoot  as  manager  has  three 
big  propositions  under  way.  The  soil 
mostly  needs  lime.  There  are  no  lime 
deposits  near,  but  farmers  are  buying  it 
cooperatively  and  the  bureau  handled 
7,000  tons  last  year.  Then  the  soil  needs 
more  humus,  and  work  is  being  done  with 
cover  crops.  Sooner  or  later  these  farm¬ 
ers  will  gi't  the  habit,  of  always  keeping 
the  soil  busy  with  some  crop  to  plow  un¬ 
der.  The  great  fertilizer  need  of  this 
soil  is  phosphorus.  There  is  a  fair  sup¬ 
ply  of  potash,  and  the  nitrogen  can  he 
supplied  largely  in  clover  and  purchased 
feed.  Phosphorus  is  lacking,  and  acid 
phosphate  is  (he  fertilizer  for  this  re¬ 
gion.  Ground  raw  rock  has  been  tried, 
but  the  acid  phosphate  has  proved  more 
effective.  These  three  things,  with  drain¬ 
age  .are  the  fundamental  needs  of  this 
cow  country  soil.  As  they  are  worked 
out  more  and  more  this  hitherto  uuad- 
1  i 
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Are  You  Prepared  ? 
Have  you  prepared  your  land  to  produce  the  greatest  possible  yields  of 
wheat  and  rye?  Successful  crops  are  the  result  of  careful  preparation. 
T  he  conditions  necessary  to  insure  a  big  grain  crop  are  well  known.  Deep 
plowing,  thorough  harrowing,  careful  seeding  and  plenty  of  available,  effec¬ 
tive  plant  food  are  essential.  The  difference  between  a  35-bushel  wheat 
crop  and  a  20-bushel  crop  is  the  difference  between  success  and  failure. 
I  he  cost  of  preparing  the  land  and  of  harvesting  the  crop  is  about  the 
same.  Usually  the  total  production  is  determined  by  the  amount  of  plant 
food  which  you  furnish.  This  can  best  be  supplied  by  using 
E.  Frank  Coe’s  Special  Grain  Fertilizers 
i  .1  ILU  m  iMnworaa  pmhmbmbm  r  ■  . . mm  . . 
These  brands  are  manufactured  particularly  for  fall  grain  and  are  mixed 
weeks  in  advance  in  order  to  give  them  ample  time  to  thoroughly  cure  out. 
1  his  enables  us  to  deliver  them  to  our  customers  in  fine,  dry  condition. 
These  goods  are  so  formulated  that  they  will  give  your  crop  a  good  start 
in  the  fall,  thereby  insuring  a  deep  root  system  to  prevent  the  wheat  from 
heaving  out  during  the  winter.  I  hey  also  contain  more  slowly  available  plant 
foods  to  carry  the  crop  during  the  spring  growing  season  and  thus  insure 
perfect  maturity. 
We  have  prepared  a  practical  booklet  entitled,  “Winter  Wheat  and 
Its  Culture,”  and  will  be  glad  to  send  you  a  copy  if  you  will  tell  us  how 
many  acres  of  wheat  you  expect  to  put  in  this  fall. 
The  Coe-Mortimer  Company 
Subsidiary  of  the  American  Agricultural  Chemical  Company 
51  Chambers  Street,  New  York  City 
Manufacturers  of 
E.  Frank  Coe  Fertilizers 
1857  Tke^JBusiness^J^arme^Slandard^JFor^Ove^^SJ^ears  1916 
The  Big  Parade  of  the  Farm  Bureau.  Fig.  362 
country  road  and,  at  the  top,  it  slowed 
up  for  a  moment  like  a  man  stopping  to 
get  h.’s  breath  and  run  his  eye  over  the 
1  eight  he  had  mastered.  Far  below  us 
the  road  ran  straight  and  clean  through 
the  valley,  and  as  far  hack  as  the  eye  Could 
teach  was  a  long  string  of  cars,  each  one 
decorated  with  a  mass  ■  f  flags  and  ban¬ 
ners.  There  were  about  113  of  them, 
speeding  along  the  road  about  1500  feet 
apart,  till  crowded  with  fanners  and  their 
families.  The.  long  parade  in  that  lonely 
place — with  its  hundreds  cf  Hags  spark¬ 
ling  in  the  sun.  .seemed  to  me  more  in¬ 
spiring  and  significant  than  the  parade 
up  the  aristocratic  avenue.  From  where 
we  stood  the  30-mile  radius  might  have 
covered  the  homes  of  30.000  people,  yet 
stretched  out  on  the  road  before  ns  was 
it  larger  proportion  of  these  home  dwell¬ 
ers  than  could  be  found  in  the  great  city 
parade.  What  they  were  there  for  meant 
i. tore  to  them  than  "preparedness1’  ever 
could  to  most  of  the  city  marchers. 
Tiie  Farm  Bureau. — All  this  long 
string  of  speeding  cars  and  sparkling 
flags,  represented  the  dairy  excursion  of 
the  County  Farm  Bureau.  We  started 
from  Olean  with  about  23  cars,  but  all 
along  tin  road  at  farms  or  at  little  towns, 
other  cars  were  waiting,  and  Jill  fell  into 
line,  speeding  along  the  country  roads  in 
a  most  impressive  parade.  Few  peo¬ 
ple  outside  of  Southwestern  New  York 
know  anything  about  the  riell  COW  coun¬ 
try  which  rolls  away  on  either  side  of 
the  Erie  Railroad.  It  is  a  beautiful 
country  -particularly  so  as  that  great 
line  of  decorated  cars  flashed  through  it. 
The  long  rains  had  washed  the  grass  and 
the  trees,  and  they  had  on  their  freshest 
green  paint.  The  “cow  country”  is  a 
land  of  narrow  valleys — with  rich  level 
l.md  tucked  in  between  broad  ranges  of 
kills.  The  best  of  the  farms  lie  in  the 
valley  -the  hills  being  largely  used  for 
past  ore — though  here  aud  there  we  could 
see  great  barns  and  farmhouses  at  the 
very  tops  of  the  hills.  Dairying  is  the 
chief  business,  and  it  would  seem  hard  to 
find  a  country  better  adapted  to  the  cow. 
Some  of  the  finest  herds  o+'  Holsteui  cat¬ 
tle  are  located  here,  and  the  hills  were 
vertised  country  will  surely  become  a 
promised  land  for  the  cow. 
What  It  Meant. — I  do  not  know 
whether  the  300  or  more  men  and  women 
in  these  cars  had  such  things  in  mind, 
but  they  were  very  clear  to  an  outsider. 
Sometimes  it  requires  a  stranger  com¬ 
ing  in  without  prejudice  or  commonplace 
acceptance  of  local  spirit  to  see  the  real 
promise  in  such  a  land.  It  seemed  to 
me  that  the  young  man  or  woman  on  one 
of  these  farms  had  far  bettor  opportunity 
than  those  who  grow  up  on  high-priced 
land  in  the  shadow  of  some  great  city. 
They  tell  me  that  good  farms  may  be 
bought  for  $35  per  aero.  I  am  sure  that, 
much  of  this  soil  can  he  made  to  grow 
Alfalfa.  We  saw  fields  of  it  here  and 
there  doing  well.  The  man  who  will 
learn  how  to  drain  and  use  lime  and 
phosphorus,  will  work  this  land  into  Al¬ 
falfa  and  vetch  and  all  the  other  aids 
which  hove  done  so  much  for  dairymen 
elsewhere.  When  that  is  done  this  $23 
land  will  produce  as  much  cow  food  to 
the  acre  as  the  famous  $330  farm  land 
in  Illinois!  Whether  these  crops  are  fed 
to  dairy  cows  or  beef  cattle  or  sheep  in 
the  future  the  land  will  multiply  its  pro¬ 
ductive  power  and  its  income  when  it  is 
handled  right. 
A  Great  Organization. — I  thought  of 
these  tilings  ns  we  looked  back  from  the 
top  of  the  hill  over  that  long  line  of 
fluttering  flags'.  Hero  was  the  army  to 
fight  the  battle  of  improvement.  When 
500  people  from  a  thinly  settled  rural 
county  turn  out  in  this  way  you  cannot 
fail  to  realize  that  here  are  the  parts  <»f 
a  great  machine  waiting  to  be  put  to¬ 
gether  for  effective  service.  In  this  par¬ 
ade  the  parts  of  this  machine  wore  only 
held  together  by  a  common  purpose  or 
curiosity.  If  some  one  with  tact  and 
sjkill  can  put  these  parts  together,  screw 
on  the  nuts  and  drive  in  the  pins,  he 
will  have  a  machine  which  will  put  Cat¬ 
taraugus  County  On  the  map,  and 
make  people  think  of  the  cow  whenever 
they  hear  the  name.  There  is  need  of 
this,  Why?  Whenever  the  average  citi¬ 
zen  hears  of  Chautauqua  County  he 
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