1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
375 
Hope Farm Notes 
Hope Farm Beautt.— The Hope farmers 
are well aware that their chances for win¬ 
ning a prize in a beauty show would not 
be bright enough to see by. Yet we have 
one four-footed candidate that will be 
heard from. A picture of the filly is shown 
at Fig. 133. She will be two years old in 
July, but is already well broken, so that 
we drive her in a two-wheeled cart. I 
never thought 1 should care for a good 
hor.se. but sometimes, when jogging this 
lilly, she comes to a level piece of road 
and' really throws out her feet into the 
stride that kicks the seconds out of three 
minutes—well, i want to see her “go.” i 
know then just how some of these good 
deacons feel when their love of a horse gets 
in a knock-down blow on their idea of the 
example they should set to the rising gen¬ 
eration! The lilly is a beautiful creature 
and bids fair to glow into a valuable 
horse. Thus far she has not developed any 
mean tricks, but seems as true and fear¬ 
less as a horse well can be. Her mother, 
Nellie Bly. is kind and true but so nervous 
and timid that she will dance and jump at 
the sight of a bicycle or auto. Beauty 
doesn't seem to know yet that these things 
can do her any harm and so she takes 
them as a matter of course. To my mind 
that is the great seciet oi contentment for 
horses and humans alike, if we would all 
go on about our business and Iruni to the 
driver we wouldn’t dance and shy and 
worry over a lot of things that couldn t 
possibly hurt us. Beauty takes this calm 
good nature from her father, who is a 
liorsc of great speed and power and yet of 
wonderful gentleness. As 1 go along 
through life i am amused to see how many 
of tliese good dualities are claimed foi 
latlier's side of the house. Some of these 
good fathers are ready to claim hereditary 
credit for all the good traits in their chil¬ 
dren. Some of them are very ordinary 
people as judged by their own performance 
-yet, in the rellected light of their chil¬ 
dren’s early promise they become wonder¬ 
ful characters. But for their wife’s patient 
work of training the child some of these 
gentlemen wouldn’t have any character 
worth mentioning! The little boys planted 
strawberries last week. A couple of hens 
got out and made for the strawberry patch, 
one scratched and dug until she rooted out 
a plant and killed it. The other scratched 
arcund a plant and gave it perfect cultiva¬ 
tion. The two roosters looked through the 
fence at their daughters, i could imagine 
old Black addressing the heuyard as fol¬ 
io v/s: "There, ladies, is what my daughter 
does for agricultuie. My young and vigor¬ 
ous friend here is something of a lighter, 
lie might whip me—1 never shopped with 
him long enough really to lind out, but you 
will see that his daughter takes Irom him 
those vulgar and destructive qualities 
which kill yonder plant. My daughter on 
tile other hand practices those gentler arts 
of husbandry”—that was as far as he got, 
for Dick moved in his direction. 1 will let 
the gentlemen who think their unappreciat¬ 
ed qualities shine in their children apply 
this as they will. 1 am not going to set 
the eggs from that hen, expecting to raise 
strawberry cultivators—because i feel cer¬ 
tain that hen had a sore foot! 
The 'Weather. —The Madame claims that 
she wasn't half as cold at any time during 
the Winter as she has been thus far in 
-May. That’s one thing we must say about 
a city house. It can be kept warmer than 
the average farmliouse. Jack Frost loves 
to .set his teeth into a thin skin. We have 
had cold, biting winds and frosty nights. 
Straiige to say the winds die down at night 
and start up again at sunrise. That suits 
us to a T, for on still nights the cooled air 
rolls dow’n into the valley so that the tem¬ 
perature at Hope Farm is live to eight de¬ 
grees higher. Reports are that strawber¬ 
ries. peaches and plums are badly killed 
below us. while w'e are likely to have a 
good crop. Our orchards are a perfect 
mass of bloom, while I fear that the early 
apples in many sections are killed. It is 
hard not to feel good natured when Jack 
Frost uses the misfortunes of others to 
build a good outlook for us. I realize that 
this is a great country with many railroads 
reaching our markets, but it looks now 
like a shortage of early apples. We shall 
spray and thin like gi od*fellows or as close 
to that as we can get. . . . These cold, 
drying winds are tough on the little 
Stringfellow trees. This will kill them if 
an.vthing will, but we have been able to 
keep the soil around the roots moist and 
cool, and every one seems to be starting. 
I nave taken the job of starling a peach 
orchard on a small field near the road. It 
has always been an eyesore, since few 
things will grow there. The rock comes 
close to the surface—in some places giving 
but eight inches of soil. I cut the peach 
trees back root and top, set them in small 
holes, and mulched them with old sods, 
manure and coal ashes. . . Our Orchard 
grass shows the effect of the cold weather. 
Usually by May 1 it is far ahead of other 
grasses, but tliis year it i.s far behind Tim¬ 
othy and Red-top. It will come on later, 
but thus far it is quite a disappointment. 
The clover on the low, wet ground is far 
behind that on the dry hill. The hill clover 
is as good as anything I have seen. It was 
seeded with oats and peas last year. 
Farm Notes.— Our first rye was fit for 
hay by May 5. I had to buy one ton of 
baled hay to carry us through—the first 1 
have bought for five years—and it hurts 
my feelings to admit it. No more fodder 
buying for Hope Farm. Our grass has 
sprouted up as thick as a mat. We put 
nearly $1J worth of fertilizer on each acre 
and now if we don’t fill our barns to over¬ 
flowing with hay it will be the fault of the 
rain. These cold, blowing days are hard 
on the grass, for without a constant supply 
of moisture it cannot keep growing. You 
should see the improvement in the mea¬ 
dows where we used nitrate of soda, either 
alone or in fertilizers. A season like this 
one is just the time to show the value of 
nitrate, for this soluble nitrogen keeps the 
grass moving steadily on. . . . The onion 
ground is ready and so are the plants. We 
are waiting for a good shower before trans¬ 
planting. The first plowing was done a lit¬ 
tle too early and part of the field turned 
up lumpy. The manure was spread on 
the furrows and worked in with a right- 
lap Cutaway. Then the Acme was worked 
up and down and across, but still some 
lumps were left. Then Charlie made a sort 
of tool out of an old spike-tooth harrow 
and some planks that smashed and ground 
the surface into powder. The onion plants 
are stocky and strong. . . . The chil¬ 
dren came home from Sunday school re¬ 
cently in great glee. They had each re¬ 
ceived a package of Government seeds. 
The Graft had a package of beans and the 
others chose watermelons. I never realiz¬ 
ed what a hold this Government seed shop 
has upon the people until I heard our lit¬ 
tle people telling about their seeds. When 
the Sunday schools begin to use these seeds 
as premiums it is time for sensible folks to 
stop fighting the distribution and be thank¬ 
ful it is no worse. The Graft is the busi¬ 
ness man of our little quartette. 
“What do they give me these seeds for?” 
"Who pays for them?” 
“Do I have to give them my crop?” 
He is getting a little suspicious of peo¬ 
ple who make him presents without expect¬ 
ing something in return, and I wish there 
were 1,000,000 larger farmers who would 
think out answers to his questions. . . . 
The most promising orchard on the farm 
this Spring is the one near the house which 
was seeded to Orchard grass two years 
ago. Mulch culture? No—the trees stand 
on high-heeled shoes—headed far up in 
the air and after August 1 we let the cows 
run in this orchard as they pleased. They 
ate the fallen apples and kept the grass 
gnawed close. In September we put on a 
dressing of iron slag. I am not prepared 
to say why such treatment should give us 
such a magnificent bloom—but there it is. 
I think, however, that the manure from 
the cows and the slag coming late in the 
season stimulated a growth of fruit buds 
rather than wood.- H. w. c. 
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