THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
io9 
lft03 
Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes.— Cord wood brings a good 
price. The boys are cutting up chestnut 
tops and crooked oaks. Some of the wood 
sent from this section goes to a brass 
foundry in New York. In brass-making 
wood is better than coal, as it makes a 
clear flame. It seems that this foundry 
has in former years used driftwood picked 
up on the ocean shores. This year fuel is 
so scarce that the driftwood brings more 
for other purposes, and so the brass-makers 
hunt elsewhere for fuel. Thus our wood 
lot gains an extra value from causes which 
no one could foresee. I feel quite sure 
that this demand for wood will continue 
for some years.Mice are at work 
at some of the young peach trees. They 
are worse on the mulched trees, gnawing 
the bark close to the ground. My low¬ 
headed root-pruned trees are being hurt 
worst. The mulch favors the mice. I also 
think the bark of the mulched trees where 
the mulch is piled around the tree is very 
tender, and this gives the mice a good 
chance. Is the disease known as “collar 
rot” ever caused by piling the mulching 
material around the'tree? We move the 
mulch from the trees and smear the lower 
part with castor oil. This seems to keep 
the mice away while it lasts. Some of our 
trees are headed so close to the ground 
that it is next to impossible to wrap them 
with paper.The yellow turnips 
are coming out of the pit in good condition. 
VVe have been able to borrow a root cutter 
which slices the turnips up into little pieces 
—just right for eating. This is our first 
experience with hay made from oats and 
peas. We were able to cure it nicely and 
the stock all vote it first class. 
flow is Julia since her horns were cut off? 
Quite humble so far as her head is con¬ 
cerned. She is no longer the boss of our little 
herd—the youngest heifer can drive her, 
but 1 cannot see that the saw did anything 
to her heels. She will still jump and strike 
out when anyone gets near her with a 
milking pail. However, she is dry now, 
and she may behave herself when she 
starts business.The filly is cer¬ 
tainly going to make a handsome animal. 
She is driven a little every pleasant day 
and is rapidly learning what is expected of 
her. Charlie claims that she is going to 
show great speed. She seems to me too 
thick and powerfully built for that. Yet 
when 1 look at the pictures of fast horses 
1 lind that the best of tliem are thick 
through the lungs and heart. Come to 
think of it, there is where the power to 
move the stout legs must come from. I 
tell Charlie that the filly will make a good 
animal at the cultivator, it rather dis¬ 
gusts him to think of such a beautiful 
creature at farm work—yet why not? A 
little honest labor in company with old 
Frank will not hurt this four-footed lady 
any more than dishwashing will hurt the 
Bud! 
Selfish Ownership.— A good friend for 
whom 1 have great respect writes this 
sensible note: 
“I notice what you say about the pony 
in Hope Farm Notes. Doesn’t that make 
you want to grow ponies? By the way, 
don’t you think this reluctance to part with 
belongings sometimes needs to be dis¬ 
couraged? Of course it would be a crime 
to rob the child of her pony, but suppose 
she were induced to negotiate it for a 
possible greater good! A friend of mine 
inherited her father's property, homestead 
and outlying lots, no use to her as she 
lives in another town. But she cannot bear 
the thought of selling—no matter what 
the advantages to herself or others. It is 
a form of selfishness that grows with 
years and unfits for business.” 
Yes. I think there would be some money 
in breeding ponies if a man would get 
good stock and be able to overcome their 
tendency to grow too large. The best de¬ 
mand is for the little toy horses. Our 
pony, Petei', is a good sample of what the 
trade demands. 1 must say that there is 
much sense in this idea of cari-ying senti¬ 
ment too far. 1 notice that when people 
earn property with their own labor they 
handle it in a more business-like way than 
properly which is given them, and which 
represents the labor of another. I shall 
never yice any more animals to the chil¬ 
dren. They must pay for them in some 
way and pay for their keeping, or else 
the animals belong to me to sell if it 
seems desirable. This, I think, will be 
better for all hands. At the same time 
property right should be held sacred, and 
if the child really owns an animal that 
ownership must be respected. 
Child Questions.—A man who pretends 
to be a teacher of any sort and tries to 
make important things clear to grown-up 
people can have no better friends than a 
few inquisitive children. If he will pa¬ 
tiently try to answer the questions of his 
children he will lind that his capacity for 
clear and interesting statement of fact will 
be greatly helped. Let a man study the 
words of the wise ones and then attempt 
to make the children understand wliat he 
has in mind if he would really reach the 
people. You should see the Hope Farm 
man and his four counsellors some Sunday 
evening! We do not need a light for such 
a meeting—the flashes from the fire are 
enough. I can fill the big chair quite com¬ 
fortably. A little girl sits on either knee, 
and a little boy perches on each arm of 
the chair. We can talk of any subject— 
Icok head into the future or get back into 
the past. 
Those little folks have been having a dis¬ 
cussion over their “allowances.” They have 
one cent each week for each year of their 
age and there are certain expenses they 
must meet with their own money. Under 
this arrangement the Graft had 11 cents 
and the little Scion six cents. It was 
thought that the Graft might “get rich too 
fast” under this arrangement, so finally 
Mother suggested that they lump all to¬ 
gether and divide. Thus 33 cents were to 
be divided among four. These four little 
Socialists agreed without trouble to take 
eight cents for three and give nine cents 
to the Graft. ‘ 
When they ask me why grown-up people 
in the world will not divide up earnings 
in this way they give me one that is too 
hard to answer. Possibly when the only 
“allowance” they can hope for is wet with 
sweat and stained by self-denial they will 
be less willing to "divide up even,” yet I 
trust that the time will never come when 
they will not be willing to help each other 
along. This world would be a great place, 
wouldn’t it, if the rich and the strong were 
as willing to help the poor and feeble as 
the Graft was to divide up with the Scion? 
Wise men tell me that society would be 
worse off than now under such conditions, 
but I think such wise men have studied 
books rather than hearts. 
"Tell us what a mortgage is!” said the 
Bud as she snuggled up close to my 
shoulder. She had heard of a poor woman 
who had lost her home because a mortgage 
had been foreclosed. 
“Well,” said Father, “suppose you came 
to me and said, ‘1 want to borrow $5!’ ” 
"i'es, 1 could buy something for Mother.” 
“1 might say ’yes, my little girl, I will 
let you have the money, but you must give 
me security for it. You have a nice pony 
and you write on a piece of paper that 
if you do not pay back the money when 
the time is up. Father can sell Peter and 
thus get his money. That paper or prom¬ 
ise is a mortgage and when people sign 
their names to such a thing they can’t back 
out. I let you have the money and you 
sign your name to the paper. You spend 
the money and when I come to get it you 
cannot pay. That paper gives me the right 
to sell little Peter and get my money back, 
and then you have no pony!” 
At this point a big hot drop fell on my 
hand and a poor little wavering voice sob¬ 
bed out: 
“But, Father—you wouldn’t sell Peter, 
would you, if he was a mortgage?” 
You wouldn’t get any one of this little 
quartette to sign a mortgage after that. I 
hope this love for little Peter will stay 
fresh in their hearts so that they will re¬ 
member it if in after years they are tempt¬ 
ed to mortgage the home in order to obtain 
cash for something they think they need. 
A mortgage to earn a home is quite another 
thing. I know that, because I should have 
had no home had I not started with a 
mortgage. 
These little folks are beginning to be 
busy with money problems. For example, 
the Madame said in a half joking way, 
“All that Father has is mine, too.” 
"But he works and earns money,” said 
the Scion as though that settled it. 
"But I keep his house so that he can 
work,” said the Madame. 
The little fellow puzzled over that for 
an hour. He hasn’t solved it yet—which 
is not to be wondered at when millions of 
men—good men at that—have never been 
able to understand that woman’s work 
should have a lien on a share of man’s 
wages. Two of the hardest things I have 
had to explain to the children are life in¬ 
surance and why we should pay Interest 
OR borrowed money! h. w. c. 
Scale Hard to Kill.— In spite of my 
thorough spraying with undiluted kero¬ 
sene oil one will still find some of the 
San Jos6 scale insects unharmed. Perhaps 
crude oil would be more effective. Don’t 
take it for granted that one or more spray¬ 
ings have exterminated them; also be pre¬ 
pared to find them upon parts of the farm 
quite distant from the original infested 
trees or shrubs. J. w. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Uniform Sowing, 
4 to 8 Acres per hcpr.snving 
one-third the seed. The 
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