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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
55 
Hope Farm Notes. 
Farm Noticb.—I have seen better weather 
than we have had thus far this Winter. 
That Is as near as you will get me to find¬ 
ing fault after this. As I look back over 
some years of a.ssorted weather I can’t re¬ 
member a single “bad spell” that wasn’t 
just exactly the right sort for something 
on the farm! We are not grieving there¬ 
fore at the rain and slush and the nipping 
,.f,l(]_we are trying to keep as cheerful as 
possible. . . . The sugar beets still hold 
out. They are greatly relished by all 
slock. We never had such an outfit of suc¬ 
culent food before. Cabbage, beets, yel¬ 
low turnips, squash and pumpkins, and a. 
few apples! Our stock never wintered so 
cheaply or so well! . . . The boys have 
begun cutting wood, having hauled out 
mo.st of the manure. They are working on 
the tops of the chestnuts which were sold 
lor telephone poles. There are quite a num- 
1)1 r of crooked White oaks which are unfit 
f))!- timber but will keej) .somebody’s coal 
hill I'roiM looking lonesome. Th<- coal sltu- 
allon Is bad enough. At our station a small 
iiinouut of coal Is supplied at about $7 per 
ton. 'I'he New York papers tell of coal 
selling at $15 and $20, but I think that must 
refer to prices paid by people who buy 
small lots at a lime. We could easily cut 
over COO cords of wood. At present prices 
llmt would make a mortal wound In the 
mortgage, but 1 shall not have it done. 
'I'hat would Include some young trees that 
ought to stand for at least five years more. 
I hate to see a good tree go down, and 1 
am going to resist the temptation and cut 
only those that are ready. . . . We are 
iiallsfled that there Is a good chance for 
working a portable engine along our ridge. 
We can put a blower on to our shredder 
ami to.ss the corn fodder Into many a 
neighbor’s hay mow! It makes me tired to 
.see the long stalks In the manure. With 
cur buzz saw we could pick up many a 
Winter's day’s work. Instead of selling 
our cord wood In the woods we could cut 
it at home and make at least one dollar a 
cord. The old question as to whether to 
buy a steam or gasoline engine comes up 
as we think the matter over. 1 Incline to 
steam for the reason that we have many 
uses lor a jet of live steam. If we couhl 
put our shredded fodder In a tub or vat 
and thoroughly steam It. 1 am sure It 
would pay. We turn off a good deal of 
pork, and steam In the barrel or tank 
would be a great convenience. We can’t 
have the engine this Winter, but there are 
olhers to come! 
lloMH Notks.—T he Utile folks are mak¬ 
ing greal progress in their school. 'I’hey 
suriu ise me by taking up books atid papers 
and reading them without trouble, ’fhe 
time has come to see what sort of reading 
mattci' comes Into the house. Our children 
have been kept clean thus far and we will 
Irv hard to have them remain so as long 
as we can. ... It was a proud little 
Hud 111 )- other night when she undertook to 
show Father what her music les.sous have 
amounted to. Home of your great prima 
donnas may fed a sort of pride when they 
sway a gnai audience with the sweep aiul 
ripple of their voice, but It is doubtful 
whethei- lhe.v ever touched the satisfaction 
of the little girl lingei-ing out hei- little ex¬ 
ercises for l''ather, who by the way, doesn't 
know one note from another! It may be 
asked why 1 am glad to have my little 
ijaiighler sludy music! 1 have come to re¬ 
gard music as one of the greatest consola¬ 
tions which life has to offer, it should not 
lie I’eseiwcd for those whose life Is easy 
and above cure. It Is of far greater use to 
those who must do the hard and painful 
drudgery of the world. 1 would give a good 
deal If 1 could play .some musical instru- 
nnnl. 1 have known men who say that 
music and poetry spoil people for real 
work. Thai Is the worst sort of nonsense. 
. . . . It is a great thing to see the Mad¬ 
ame every Saturday night figuring out tin- 
(dilldren’s “allowance.” Tln^y have one 
cent each week for each year of their age. 
'I'hen there are little fines for leaving things 
about and other infringements of home 
law. 'I'hese fines are taken out each wefd< 
and given to the Old Oadies’ Home! 11 
nmde the Scion very thoughtful when he 
found that only one cent was corning to 
him after paying his lines. . . . We have 
a little Shetland pony, I’eter, that has 
grown up with the Bud from babyhood. 
'I’he children drive him more or less, but 
with little Johnnie on hand there Isn’t 
much use for him. To my great surprise 
I find that this little fellow will sell for 
$150—for he Is small and very well bred. 
It was a temptation to let him go —1 can 
tell you, but at the first suggestion of It 
the Bud was in tears and the Madame not 
far behind! 1 had no Idea they loved the 
little fellow so. 1 wouldn’t sell him for 
$ 1,000 while they feel that way about him. 
Ueally he belongs to the Bud, for 1 gave 
him to her when she was a baby, 'i'o .sell 
him and pocket the money would be as 
much of a crime as It would be to steal 
my neighbor’s horse and sell him! I regret 
that the law sustains the man who steals 
I he animal that belongs to the Vmy or girl! 
lIousK Mattkrs.— Nellie Bly’a daughter, 
the filly, is a beautiful creature. I have 
never cared much for a horse, yet, as I see 
this young animal round out and grow In 
bedy, spirit and mind, I can understand 
how some people feel toward their horses. 
The time has come to train the filly, 
tfiiarlle rubs and grooms her thoroughly 
every day. As soon as the weather will 
permit he will drive her about two miles 
each pleasant day. We have a little two¬ 
wheeled cart for this driving. The object 
is to get her thoroughly used to the har¬ 
ness. and also to give her just enough ex¬ 
ercise while she Is growing. I want above 
all things to have iier developed Into a fast 
walker. 1 certainly believe that It pays to 
give such a young horse as this the best 
possible care. By the time she Is four 
years old 1 expect her to be worth five 
limes as much per pound as a good heifer. 
Hf course, I realize that one deep scratch 
on a wire fence, or one little bone out of 
place, will divide this value by 10! Home 
liorsemen undertake to tell me that the 
filly is too young to train. What seems 
to me the soundest advice I can obtain Is 
that gentle and constant exercise for the 
little thing will develop her as nothing else 
will—yet there Is always the risk of strain¬ 
ing her. We give the lilly some oats every 
day and a little bran. This work will make 
her better natured also. Work Is the great 
sweetener of life. Our little boys hardly 
agree with that—they call It more of a 
sweatener! Whoever did agree that a thing 
w'as really good for him until he looked 
at It from behind? For roughage all our 
horses have shredded fodder. When Major 
began on the corn fodder this Winler he 
grew stiff and his legs “stocked” or 
swelled. 1 liave not Iced this In many old 
horses, especially when they are fed corn 
for grain. We find that a small (luantlty 
of linseed meal helps such horses greatly 
'i'hls Winter promises to be a hard one for 
ohl Major-he may not see Spring! 
TuRNii’S FOR Swine.— Here is a Tennes.see 
man after information: 
“In Hope Farm Notes, page 851, H. W. 
C. says In writing of turnips; 'We do not 
feed them to cow.s. but find them excellent 
foo«l for hogs.’ What Is their value for 
putting fat on hogs? Will they in any way 
take the jilace of corn?” J. w. b. 
The turnips cannot be compared with 
corn .'IS a hog food. 'I'he following table 
will make that clear: 
I'ounds In One 'I'on. 
Muscle Fat 
makers, formers. Fat. Waier. 
Oorn . 
I’otatoes .. 
Oats . 
Apples .... 
Clover hay 
Of course 
it 
...168 
1,200 
86 
288 
...26 
212 
2 
1,740 
.. 42 
436 
4 
l,.50b 
..180 
866 
91 
286 
... 6 
258 
, , 
1,662 
...170 
764 
31 
330 
is 
understood 
that 
by 
"muscle-makers” we mean that part of 
the food which makes lean meat or muscle; 
“fat formers” are the parts of the food 
which provide fuc -1 for the body and are 
made over Into fat. You will see that a 
hog In order to get the fat producing food 
which you give In six pounds of corn 
would have to eat over 30 pounds of tur¬ 
nips. Kven If It were possible for the hog 
to eat turnips enough to fatten him the 
pork would be soft and of very poor flavor. 
An old man of moderate habits can nearly 
live on b.'iked apples and milk, but you 
would not try that diet alone on growing 
boys or working men. The hogs I feed on 
turnips are mostly brood sows. In win¬ 
tering a brood sow we plan to keep her 
busy, to keep the system open, to feed bulky 
food which will keep the stom-ach well 
filled out, and to avoid keeping her too fat. 
'I’he yellow turnips answer these require¬ 
ments well. We give the sows about all 
they care to eat and. of cour.se, feed some 
grain In addition. For fattening hog.s I 
would not feed many turnips. Sugar beets 
aie much better. 'I'here Is nothing eipial 
to corn for fattening hogs, yet a supply of 
ashes and a few beets or apples will keep 
them in good condition. Don’t forget that 
clover hay Is very useful feed for a hog! 
H. w. c. 
RICKI'TY CHILDREN. 
Loose joints, l)ow legs, liig 
head, and soft liones—mean 
rickets. It is a ty])ical disea.se 
for the best workings of Scott’s 
i'hnulsion. 
I'or the weak bones Scott’s 
K in u 1 s i o n siiiiplies those 
})Owerful tonics the liypopho.s- 
pliites. For tlie loss of tlesh 
.Scott’s Emulsion jirovides the 
nourishing cod-liver oil. 
Scott’s tunulsion corrects 
the effects of im|)erfect nour¬ 
ishment and brings rapid im- 
jirovement in every way to 
rickety children. 
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and cost less money than our Rider and Kilcsson IIot-AIr Putn|>s, hut If you want 
water every day while your Mowers are grow 1 ag anil do not want yon r pumt) blown 
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THE WEAR 
OF RUBBER BOOTS AND 
SHOES DEPENDS UPON 
THE RUBBER IN THEM. 
There irt absolutely no wear lii any of the other ingre¬ 
dients of which they are composed. Kvery time the 
quality of Rubber Hoots ami Shoes Is reduced 10 percent., 
thedurahility is reduced over 20 pcu'cent. because there is 
only one way to cheapen them, and that is to leave out 
Rubber and ^)ut in its place other things that have no 
wearing quality whatever. This choapoiting jwocess has 
been steadily going ou for the past -10 years. 
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An actual testof a e-lnch 
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Iho eluBtlcliy ami strength 
Only the l>est Kublsir 
will Bland a test like this. 
Weight of boy and swing 
11011 )8. 
