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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
39 
Hope Farm Notes 
Dishorning Juma.—I t was a Pennsyl¬ 
vania man who said that most of Julia’s 
meanness lay at the base of her horns. 
Here comes another from the same State: 
“I am glad to see that you have decided 
to dishorn the notorious Julia. Take my 
advice and treat your cows all alike, and 
when you see them lined up to the water¬ 
ing trough or feed rack like so many sheep. 
Instead of thinking dishorning a cruel 
practice you will wonder how you could 
have been so cruel as to leave the horns 
on during all these years, for unless your 
herd is an exception to the general run, 
you will find on the sides and fianks of 
your underlings, long red marks made by 
the horns of the bosses, causing as much 
pa^n as clipping a horn. Yes, take off the 
horns and your neighbors seeing the ef¬ 
fects of your good works, will go and do 
likewise, and afterwards consider it one 
of the humane acts of their lives.” o. R. 
Julia’s horns are off! We are not pre¬ 
pared to say that we did a scientific job, 
but we got them off! Judging from our 
first attempt I call it a tough and pain¬ 
ful job. I was surprised to find that one 
horn bled more freely than the other. Did 
Julia faint away? Not a bit of It—she 
started eating hay 10 minutes after the 
operation. We used tar on the wounds 
and later smeared them with “Shoo Fly,” 
which we have found excellent for wounds 
and bruises. I notice a difference in Julia 
already. Formerly she would strike quick¬ 
ly with her horns at any obstacle that an¬ 
noyed her. Now she draws her head back 
to strike and then seems to remember the 
folly of it! It is like a man with a sore 
finger stopping his hand half way In de¬ 
livering a blow. But will this take the 
spring out of the old girl’s heels when 
milking time comes again? We shall see— 
1 begin to hope so, for this sturdy kicker 
has won my respect. Our other cows are 
of a family noted for small slight horns. 
1 do not find the red marks our friend re¬ 
fers to. 
Farm Notes.—I spoke of shipping apples 
in bushel baskets. We sent one lot just 
before Christmas. They were delayed, and 
struck the market at a bad time. Tlie 
weather was cold and the streets so block¬ 
ed with snow that few outside stands 
liandled apples. After some delay they 
sold at 80 cents a basket! At the same 
time similar apples in barrels were quoted 
at $1.50 and $175. The baskets cost us 10 
cents each. The single baskets sent by 
express to regular customers net us $1. 1 
notice that wherever these baskets go the 
demand for apples increases. A man may 
be buying fruit by the small measure or 
by the dozen—not enough to make his fam¬ 
ily demand it. The basket comes and all 
hands start in to empty it, so there will be 
no waste. They all eat more than ever be¬ 
fore, and the more they eat the stronger 
the habit becomes fixed, and after a few 
baskets you have a set of confirmed apple 
cranks. We can well afford to sell apples 
at $1 a bushel—pack them neatly and re¬ 
ject all culls. I call it wiser to sell at this 
fair rate tlian to try to obtain $2.50 or $3, 
as some growers exiiect. This apple trade 
in small packages is a matter of education. 
We must make a fair price in order to get 
it started. . . Philip has just finished 
a large liolbed. It is made of solid plank, 
and will last for years. This hotbed is for 
onion seed. We expect to grow over half 
an acre of transplanted onions this year. 
The manure for these onions is now steam¬ 
ing and cooking in a big compost heap, 
and the seed will be started late in Febru¬ 
ary. . . . We have bought several loads 
of cornstalks at “four cents a bundle.” 
This means not far from $5 a ton. I would 
never buy a cornstalk to feed long, but 
with our shredder we can tear this fodder 
up so as to make it take the place of hay. 
After three years’ experience we think 
more than ever of shredded fodder. Our 
stock have nothing else in the way of 
roughage. The shredded stalk seems to me 
quite superior to the cut.For the 
first time in our experience we are having 
trouble with the little pigs. They go lame 
behind, In some cases getting so bad that 
they lose control of the hind legs. The 
chief cause seems to be damp quarters 
during the fearful weather of late Decem¬ 
ber. A dry bed and doses of homeopathic 
veterinary remedies have saved most of 
them, though I am sorry to say that three 
little ones died. A hog has a stout heart 
and a good constitution, but once let him 
get really sick and there is not much hope 
for him. 
'Prusty Men.— When I printed that note 
on page 8G7 I had no idea there would be 
any such response. Thus far about 50 men 
have come forward to say that the de¬ 
mands fit them to a T. The letters come 
all the way from Cape Cod to Montana, 
and some of them are so well written andl 
clear as to be surprising. And yet, why 
should that be said? The farmers of this 
country are not ignorant men incapable of 
telling their needs on paper. It would be 
an eye-opener to many a city business man 
to read this set of letters. Some of them 
are shai-p and far-seeing, who realize what 
a combination of .skilled farmers and land 
owners will mean. I will quote from one 
of these letters: 
“What liberties is he willing to give? 
What wages? What per cent over all ex¬ 
penses does he expect his farm to pay him 
on money Invested? How many hours is 
the man expected to work outside of chores 
and little things expected of the man In 
charge? How many times a day must he 
leave the field to wait upon the house, and 
look after pleasure teams going and com¬ 
ing? How many hours a day is he expect¬ 
ed to spend with the flower beds, shrub¬ 
bery and lawn mower, washing verandas 
and carriages, and cleaning harness? No 
man can successfully look after the farm 
and be a jack-of-all-trades. If he Is hired 
to look after the farm that must be his 
work. If a gardener, that should be his 
specialty. I have been through the mill 
and fully understand the position a man is 
placed in where he Is required to be gar¬ 
dener, hostler, chore boy, coachman, and 
still look after the general work on 33 
acres. I pulled through with a recommen¬ 
dation, but money would not hire me to 
try it again, for it took 16 hours out of 
every 24 hours, and that is more than any 
man can stand long. This letter applies 
to myself. It may seem boastful, but these 
are facts which I can back. However, 
there are two other men In my acquaint¬ 
ance who practically answer the same de- 
scriptlen, but their experience has been 
limited to large farming. But they are 
men who can be trusted with money un¬ 
counted. 
“Now another thing. In a large measure 
a man’s wife Is the making of him. No 
man with a dishonest extravagant wife 
can be strictly honest himself, and no man 
who Is willing to live In uncomfortable 
quarters, and take Into his family as 
boarders, any Ignorant Tom, Dick and 
Harry, addicted to the use of tobacco and 
profanity. Is man enough to make a trust¬ 
worthy farmer, or anything else. Both 
men I mention, as well as myself, have 
cultured wives, of good family, one has 
two little girls, one two girls and one boy, 
and myself two girls, one and two years 
respectively. Such families cannot think 
of taking strangers into their home when 
they, feel the responsibility as we do of 
bringing up children as they should be 
brought up in a Christian home.” 
That man, my friends, lays bare with 
his pen some of the causes of failure of 
tenant farming as a surgeon cuts to the 
core of disease with his knife. I shall have 
more to say about this “trusty man” mat¬ 
ter later. 
Triumrh Peach; Spraying.- In reference 
to article about Triumph peaches by Geo. 
F. Platt & Son would like to ask whether 
anyone has ever sprayed the early peaches 
in an endeavor to prevent brown rot? In 
this section and in Niagara County the 
Triumph is down as no good, but I do not 
know of any thorough and consistent 
spraying ever having been done in either 
place to overcome this serious trouble. I 
believe Prof. Craig can tell us of some 
spraying experiments against the brown 
rot of peaches that were attended with 
good results. We have quite a few Tri¬ 
umphs which should begin to bear the 
coming Summer. We are uncertain what 
instrument will pay us best to use, the 
ax or the spray pump. Discu.ssions about 
spraying may seem unseasonable at this 
time, but I believe this is a subject that 
should be rubbed in pretty hard all the 
time. G* E- 
Lynbrook, N. Y. 
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