Ghe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Frank  of  Peach  Hill 
By  Geo.  B.  Fiske 
(Continued  from  page  1311) 
“And  did — that  is,  did  you  wake  up? 
T’rohably  I,  that  is  she  had  a  cold.” 
“Yes,  I  did  wake  up.  But  I  kept 
thinking  and  wondering  what  the  real 
girl  would  do.  And  I  went  to  find  out. 
I  bad  thought  maybe  the  old  love  was 
dead,  but  it  wasn't.  I  didn’t  wait  for 
breakfast.” 
“You  always  did  have  a  good  appetite, 
too.  But  Frank,  did  you  suppose  I 
would  stay  angry  three  years?  I  wanted 
to  teach ;  that  is,  for  a  w  hile.  If  I’d 
been  angry  with  you  so  long,  I’d  have 
married  somebody  else  long  ago. 
“You  would?  I  won't  stop  to  puzzle 
that  out  now.  I  must  know  how  you 
would  have  ended  the  dream.” 
“Suppose  we  step  into  the  shade,"  sug¬ 
gested  Hazel  politely.  Then,  suddenly, 
“Mr.  Frank,  I  am  going  to  surprise  you.” 
A  pair  of  strong  young  arms  were  flung 
about  his  neck  and  a  flushed  face  with 
mischievous,  starry  eyes,  drew'  very 
close. 
“If  you  hadn’t  waked  up,”  she  said.  “I 
think  I  shouldn't  have  kept  you  wonder¬ 
ing  long.  Now  you  might  as  well  finish 
tlie  dream  yourself.” 
CHAPTER  XX. 
Talking  It  Over. 
I  think  that  will  be  all  the  reader  is 
entitled  to  know  of  my  love-making.  Of 
course  I  had  to  see  Barney  Frost  about 
it,  and  I  looked  forward  to  the  interview 
with  more  reluctance  and  doubt  than  I 
had  ever  felt  about  any  task  of  my  piou- 
eer  life. 
But  my  future  father-in-law  made  it 
as  easy  as  he  could.  “I  suspected  you, 
Frank,  ever  since  the  straw  ride,  be¬ 
cause  I  had  noticed  you  didn't  do  things 
without  you  meant  to  follow  ’em  out. 
It’s  all  right,  my  boy.  You  have  done 
so  well  with  the  hill  lot,  you  can  have 
all  the  rest  of  the  farm  you  want,  and 
I  calculate  we  can  make  a  go  of  it,  some¬ 
how.” 
And  so  after  that  year  my  business 
branched  out  more  and  I  ceased  to  be 
called  the  Poultry  Boy,  because  it  no 
longer  fitted  me  so  well.  But  we  live 
now  on  Peach  Hill  in  our  modern  house. 
Other  fruits  than  peaches  cover  the 
slopes.  The  pond  hole  has  been  blasted 
to  the  size  of  n  nice  little  artificial  lake, 
with  food  fish,  while  the  adjoining  fields 
are  dotted  with  neat,  colony  poultry 
houses  among  the  fruit  trees. 
We  were  talking  it  over  one  rainy 
afternoon,  some  of  us  who  had  been  to¬ 
gether  in  many  a  discussion  since  the  day 
I  first  came  to  town  and  listened  to  the 
talk  of  those  old  strangers  in  the  real  es¬ 
tate  office.  It  was  the  old  quiz  that  has 
amused  people  so  many  centuries;  wheth¬ 
er  or  not  the  other  fellow  is  better  off 
than  we  are. 
“Trouble  with  me,  I  had  a  big  head,” 
said  Streeter,  a  Boston  lawyer  who  was 
spending  the  week  end  with  relatives  in 
Mnpleton.  “Thought  I  was  too  smart  to 
stay  in  the  country.  But  it’s  my  honest 
belief  I  would  have  been  happier  if  I  lmd 
stuck  to  the  old  farm.  There's  nothing 
quite  like  the  natural  life  in  the  open 
air.  cultivating  the  same  old  fields  that 
fathers  and  grandfathers  worked.  I 
might  not  have  so  much  money,  but  I 
would  pay  the  difference  in  a  minute  for 
a  fanner’s  good  nerves  and  stomach.” 
“We'll  have  you  out  here  with  us  yet.” 
remarked  Landers. 
“I  hope  so  sometime,  but  the  older  a 
fellow  gets  the  harder  it  is  to  change. 
We  become  fitted  to  the  harness  and  a 
new  one  would  chafe  us.  So  we  tug  nud 
strain  away  and  try  to  believe  that  the 
artificial  stimulants  called  city  advan¬ 
tages  make  up  for  the  wholesome  life  we 
are  missing,  or  we  have  climbed  half  up 
the  ladder  and  we  don’t  like  to  jump 
down  and  start  near  the  bottom  of  an¬ 
other  ladder.  But  I  got  my  children  into 
the  country  as  soon  as  I  could,  and  I 
hope  some  of  them  will  stay  there.  The 
city  is  no  place  for  children.  Get  the 
women  and  children  out  of  the  city  as 
soon  as  you  can  is  my  advice.  You  can’t 
oven  raise  good  chickens  or  calves  if  you 
coop  them  close  all  the  time.  The  coun¬ 
try  is  the  place  to  grow  things.” 
“The  city  is  only  a  place  to  sell 
things,”  said  John  Joy.  “Father  and 
grandfather  work  hard  and  leave  the 
young  man  little  money  but  plenty  of 
health  and  ambition.  He  takes  these  to 
the  city  and  sells  them.  Ilis  children  are 
left  sometimes  with  little  health  or  en¬ 
ergy,  and,  if  the  old  man  sold  out,  well, 
plenty  of  money.  They  must  go  to  the 
country  to  buy  health  and  vigor,  or  they 
die  out,  and  so  goes  the  round  from 
country  to  city  and  hack  again. 
(To  be  continued) 
Crops  and  Farm  News 
The  7>otato  crop  is  very  poor  in  this 
locality.  Ilay  crop  was  good  and  well 
saved ;  other  crops  medium.  A.  D. 
Bark  River,  Mich.  * 
The  hay  crop  was  a  heavy  one  and  it 
was  secured  in  good  condition,  onh  the 
farmers  could  not  get  help,  and  had  to 
help  each  other,  so  the  corn  got  left,  and 
ft  is  a  poor  crop.  We  had  such  hot 
weather  it  damaged  potatoes.  Late  po¬ 
tatoes  are  no  good,  and  many  farmers 
have  to  buy  their  supply.  Early  pota¬ 
toes  go  from  SO  to  100  bus.  per  acre,  and 
a  good  quality,  not  very  large.  Thev 
bring  from  $1.25  to  $1.00  per  bu.  this 
week,  by  the  wagonioad.  Not  much 
wheat  raised  here  on  account  of  the  Hes¬ 
sian  fly.  j.  XT. 
Bronson,  Mich. 
Peaches  few  and  inferior ;  corn  one- 
third  crop,  plenty  of  fodder,  but  too  dry 
at  earing  time.  Wheat,  quality  good,  1 
average  22  bu.  Oats  light,  run  from  28 
to  35  bus.  per  acre.  Hay  crop  good  and 
stored  away  in  excellent  condition.  Po¬ 
tatoes  still  green,  but  too  dry,  n<>t  very 
promising.  Garden  truck  cut  in  half; 
grapes  three-quarti  rs  crop.  Pasture 
short ;  new  set  fields  look  fair.  There 
will  be  quite  a  bit  of  clover  seed  cut  this 
Fall.  j.  c.  E. 
Stark  Co.,  O. 
Potatoes  will  not  amount  to  much  un¬ 
less  we  have  lots  of  rain  and  the  frost 
holds  off  Until  late.  Ilay  was  an  excel¬ 
lent  crop,  well  cured;  had  vry  little  rain 
during  July  and  August.  The  corn  crop 
is  poor  on  account  of  late  planting  and 
lack  of  rain  in  the  Summer.  Oat  crop 
was  light,  average  25  bushels  to  the 
acre.  R.  C.  B. 
Gowanda.  N.  Y. 
nay.  Timothy  $24;  clover  $22.  Oats, 
bu.,  (lie;  corn  $1.05;  potatoes  $1.25; 
cabbage,  head,  oc;  wheat,  bu.,  $1.20;  to¬ 
matoes,  bu.,  $1;  string  beans,  bu.,  80c; 
beets,  six  in  bunch,  5c;  cucumbers,  doz., 
5c:  sweet  corn,  doz.,  10c ;  radishes,  10  in 
bunch,  5o.  Plums,  hu.,  Toe;  peaches,  bu., 
$1.25;  pears,  bu.,  $1.50;  apples,  hu,,  75c; 
eggplant,  each,  5c;  carrots,  six  in  hunch, 
5c;  Lima  beans,  qt.,  20c;  Summer 
squash,  5c;  broilers,  live,  lb.  “0c;  old 
chickens,  live.  20c;  butter,  lb.,  35c;  eggs, 
doz.,  35c;  milk,  qt.,  8c;  young  pigs,  pair, 
$10;  old  pigs,  lb.,  20c;  fresh  cows  $75; 
horses  $200.  F.  r>. 
Ashland,  Pa. 
Potatoes  almost  a  failure.  Everybody 
wants  to  buy  potatoes.  Horn  about  half 
crop,  too  wet  last  Spring,  and  then  too 
dry  and  hot.  Ilay  is  a  bumper  crop, 
and  cured  without  rain.  Hay  is  selling 
for  $S  to  $10  per  tou.  Wheat  a  fair 
crop.  Oats  a  fair  crop,  40c  pet*  bushel. 
This  is  not  a  dairy  country,  or  farmers 
do  not  keep  many  cows.  T.  c.  K. 
Butler,  Ind. 
Potatoes  very  poor.  Corn  two-thirds 
crop;  hay  and  wheat  were  average.  It 
has  been  very  h««t  and  dry  here  this 
Summer.  G.  y. 
Kendallville,  Ind. 
The  price  of  new  milch  cows  is  around 
$75 ;  veal  calves,  lie.  per  lb.  live ;  but¬ 
ter,  34c. ;  eggs,  .‘!4c*. ;  potatoes,  $1 ;  apples, 
00  to  75  c. ;  onions,  $1  ;  pears,  ,75c.  Hay, 
$8  at  the  barn;  oats.  55c.;  buckwheat,  $1 
per  bu. ;  wheat,  $1.25  per  bu. ;  milk.  $1.70 
per  can  of  40  quarts.  A.  c*.  B. 
Barton,  N.  Y. 
Potatoes  at  present  time  are  $1.20  per 
bu.  wholesale ;  cabbage.  2c.  per  lb.,  by 
the  head.  Wheat,  $1.35  at  elevators. 
Peaches,  $1.50  per  bu.  a  fair  crop.  Apple 
crop  piMir,.  Good  corn  crop.  No  cuttle 
being  sold  around  here.  Hogs  are  1 1  L4o. ; 
butter,  MOe.  Eggs,  35c.  per  dozen. 
Dauphin,  Pa.  C.  U.  M. 
Butter,  30c.  per  lb. ;  eggs,  28c. ;  apples, 
50c.  bu. ;  plums,  $1.50  bu.;  cattle,  7  to 
0c.  lb.  A.  E.  M. 
Cottage,  Pa. 
Wheat  35c ;  rye  00c;  potatoes  $1;  ap¬ 
ples  SOe;  onions  $1;  peaches  00c  to  $1 
according  to  quality.  Butter  30c:  eggs 
28c;  calves  weighing  150  lbs.  and  over 
10c  per  lb.;  steers  and  bulls  average  7c 
live;  dressed  hogs  12 tog  per  lb.  Fresh 
Lima  beans  20c  per  L-pk. ;  radish  5c. 
per  bunch;  red  beets  Se  per  bunch; 
blackberries  15c  per  qt. ;  turnips  $1  per 
hu. ;  green  beaus  15i 
hearts  two  fur  25c. 
Breiniugsville,  Pa. 
-pk.;  celery 
c.  it.  w. 
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