IMS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
583 
Hope Farm Notes 
Back Takk.—I have had many questions 
lately which may interest others. One 
bunch comes from Iowa: 
“There are a few things that puzzle us. 
About your corn, why don’t you grow dent 
corn instead of Hint? It will make double 
the crop and better corn, and .some kinds 
of it about as early as any flint. I am test¬ 
ing about 40 varieties of dent corn this year, 
and about a dozen of flint. Including the 
N.-Y. Thoroughbred. At least three 
Ijjj-ge-eared varieties of dent are showing 
up as early as the flints.” 
This question has been asked before. The 
flints give us better fodder. They sucker 
more than the dents, and give more leaf. 
This offsets the smaller yield of grain, 
though our yellow flint will make a dent 
on the record of any dent corn we have 
ever tried. .As we handle this flint fodder 
it nearly takes the place of Timothy hay 
for feeding horses, and such hay is worth 
at least $20 per ton. And here comes our 
l,,wa friend again; 
“Your $30 a ton for hay sounds odd here. 
Clover and Timothy that will make three 
to four tons to the acre is selling for $5 
an acre as it stands or $4 to $5 a ton de¬ 
livered in town.” 
If we had such cheap hay in this county 
farmers would surely be in oiover. By the 
lime that hay gets here we mu^ pay at 
least $17 for it. The business of boarding 
city horses has grown to be a great thing 
in our neighborhood, and long hay is hard 
10 obtain after February. Mueh baled hay 
is bought, but It is often unsatisfactory, 
and horse feeders will usually pay $3 to $4 
per ton extra for long hay. A neighbor 
bought a lot of standing grass and thought 
he made a good bargain because it cost 
him about $13 per ton in the barn. If we 
were feeding cattle or idle farm horses I 
doubt whether we could get $10 value out 
of a ton of hay, but when you get $12 a 
month for boarding a horse the value of 
the hay counts up rapidly. This leads to 
the following question from Pennsylvania; 
“How mucti grass do you consider suf¬ 
ficient to keep a horse, feeding other feed 
Unit offers during the year, say some fod¬ 
der, at least half, during the Winter? How 
much seed is required per acre by the 
Clark method? What kind?” 
Experienced horsemen here figure on 
about two tons of hay per year for a fair¬ 
sized horse. This is not far from 11 pounds 
per day. Uur own average is nearer 2,5U0 
pounds per year of actual bay, as we feed 
considerable shredded fodder, rye hay. 
cabbage and turnips. In the city stables 
the average will be nearer 5,000 pounds per 
year. When western grain is cheap it pays 
us to feed more bran and sell more hay. 
1 do not agree with those who think it 
necessary to stuff a horse with hay. Mr. 
Clark advises 14 quarts each of Red-top 
and Timotliy per acre with four quarts of 
Red clover added. The man who asks 
about feeding a horse adds; 
“We use mules; we would not give two 
good mules for three horses when it comes 
to farm or orchard work, and they do not 
ciit us much as a horse does.” 
That is a strong statement, but I have 
never worked a mule, and cannot argue 
tile question. 1 believe that it wouid take 
three good ones to follow Frank and the 
Bird around all day. I used to think a 
mule was about the most stupid animal 
that ever tried to do farm work, but 1 
know better than that now. A fellow has 
to get rid of some of his prejudices when 
old Direct Evidence comes along and cuts 
them off! 
Our Iowa friend is a successful potato 
grower. Here is what he says: 
"Why is it that you never grow the 
Early Ohio type of potatoes? With us it 
is the only thing. It will stand more grief 
and still make a good crop than anything 
We can get. Earlier, too. I planted a barrel 
of Eureka this year, and they are not in 
it for a minute. They are lots later and 
not half the yield. Try some Chios next 
year. Get Red River seed of either the 
Red or White Ohio, and plant very early. 
I’his has been the most disastrous year on 
potatoes here for a long time, and still I 
have 250 per acre on some of my White 
Ohio, and an average of about 150 on 30 
acres or more.” 
We tried the Early Ohio years ago and 
gave it up. It was about as early as any¬ 
thing. but the yield on our soil was very 
poor. .June Elating and Junior Pride greatly 
outyield the Chios we tried. Possibly seed 
from the Northwest would be superior, and 
I am willing to try it, but my experience 
this year with Early Fortune is very satis¬ 
factory. We have also planted Thorburn, 
which was highly recommended by a friend 
in New England. With us it does not 
touch June Eating for yield, while Elarly 
Eortune is earlier. I am more than ever 
convinced that our soil is not well adapted 
to potato culture—still the yield this year 
is better than ever before. Can it be that 
man who does not want his name men¬ 
tioned, as it would ruin his reputation as 
a stack builder: 
‘‘I stacked a stack of good English hay 
last Summer, and not being familiar with 
stacking, made a bad job of it, which cost 
me the stack, as water got into it and 
ruined it all for feed. Plow can I best get 
that into dressing for the land, having no 
w’ay to use it, only to rot it down in a 
heap? The staek contained about 15 or IS 
tons. What would you advise to mix with 
it, and what would be the manurial value 
of it before being mixed with anything 
else? Some say mix lime and potash.” 
A ton of good hay contains not far from 
30 pounds of nitrogen, 35 of potash and 10 
of phosphoric acid. Thus the stack con¬ 
tains nearly as much plant food as 50 tons 
of good manure. I know how this man 
feels, as I nearly ruined a stack myself 
once. If I had that hay I would either use 
it to mulch the young fruit trees, or let 
the stock nose it over and eat what they 
will, using the remainder for bedding. I 
know that cows will often eat a fair share 
of such hay if it is thrown into the barn¬ 
yard. If I had no stock and no trees to 
mulch I would rot the stack down much 
like a compost heap. If you can mix two 
tons of wood ashes or one ton of lime and 
800 pounds of muriate of potash with the 
old hay you will quicken the rotting and 
make a better manure. This rotted hay 
can be spread and plowed under like ma¬ 
nure and for every ton thus plowed under 
I would use 50 pounds of acid phosphate 
broadcast and harrowed in. It is hard to 
see several hundred dollars worth of prop¬ 
erty ruined because of a bad job at prep¬ 
aration. No man living can say that he 
never did that with something. Instead- of 
grieving over it -we should go to work like 
this man to get the manurial value out of 
it. The manurial value of a bad plan i.s 
experience! 
E''arm Notes.— The boys have had all the 
corn hoeing they want, but thp corn i.s 
hardly satisfied yet. During the wet 
weather we ran the cultivator as deep a.s 
possible with the side wings on, and threw 
dirt to the hills. This opened the soil and 
covered most weeds. Part of our corn is 
in drills, and this makes harder hoeing. 
The corn has taken a good start lately, ha.-, 
a good color and I am still hopeful that it 
will pull through. . . . We sowed about 
three acres of buckwheat the last week 
in July, using a heavy seeding of Timothy 
with it. I have never grown buckwheat 
before. That was one reason why I wanted 
to try it, and I also -wanted to see how 
Timothy works with it. The field is on a 
steep hillside. 1 did not dare try the Clark 
method there, for one of our August storms 
would wash all the tine soil down to the 
river. I reason that a rank-growing crop 
like the buckwheat will hold the soil and 
give the Timothy a fair showing. The 
glass that was seeded with the cow peas 
has made a good start, and will, 1 think, 
occupy the land wlien the cow peas are 
cut. . . . The buckwheat was put where 
the Alfalfa failed last year. This Alfalfa 
made a fair start, but dawdled along 
through the season in a yellow, half¬ 
hearted way. This Spring not a spire could 
I find. By the first of May the ground 
■was about half covered with a good growth 
of Red clover. We cut a fair crop of hay, 
and it started up better than ever. Part of 
it was plowed under for the buckwheat, i 
shall let the rest go to seed and then run 
weeder or harrow over it, so as to get a 
full seeding. This clover seed may have 
been mixed in the Alfalfa, but 1 think 
more likely it lay dormant in the soil until 
the conditions were right for it to sprout. 
Certainly it could not have hit upon a 
better time to help out our necessities, i 
wish you could see a clover field on the 
top of our hill. It was seeded last year 
with a crop of oats and peas. We cut one 
good crop and now it is loaded again—a 
thick mass of green. I was toid that we 
cannot get a good catch of clover with oats 
and peas—but here it is! . . . . We have 
heard considerable about feeding stock on 
apples. The hogs met their match in our 
big orchard, and we began turning the cowa 
in for a few hours to help them. The two 
heifers from our old cow stuck to the 
sweet apples and did well. Julia and her 
daughter ran to the sour apples and 
gorged on them. The next morning they 
were both stupidiy drunk, while the 
heifers were in prime condition! It was a 
pitiful thing to see the old kicker, Julia, 
in such shape that she cbuldn’t even kick. 
I have seen rum overcome stronger heredi¬ 
tary traits than that! These two cows 
gave no milk for two days and then came 
back to full measure. You see, therefore, 
that these general rules of feeding or be¬ 
havior do not always work out. I have 
' known two horses to break out and get at 
the grain bin. One got enough and quit. 
I'he other nearly killed himself. Four men 
went out to a uarty where a Keg of beer 
was on tap. Two were brought home by 
the others. Julia is too strenuous to be 
left alone with sour apples. The expert 
seems to be the man who can get down 
past a general rule and study individual 
traits. 
Child Notes.— That is true of children. 
We had at one time, on the farm, 11 per¬ 
sons with character so undeveloped tluit 
they may be called children. It would 
be nonsense to say that one rule of re¬ 
ward or punishment would suit for all 
these young folks. With some a single 
kind vyord was enough to straighten out 
their little pranks, while others would dare 
you in every way except actual words to 
prevent them from having their own way. 
One child wanted to do a certain thing 
which her mother had said she did no’i 
want done. Still the child persisted. 
"But did not your mother say you were 
not to do it?” 
“She said. ‘I’d rather you wouldn’t,’ and 
I know that when she says that I can get 
her to say I can.” 
It was a harmless thing, but for the sake 
of the principle Involved the Madame 
w'ould not permit it until the child’s 
mother knew. I often hear people tell 
about appealing to the conscience of a 
child. Does a young child really know 
what conscience is? I ought to say rather 
—do all children know? My observation is 
that some children do not acquire any keen 
sense of right and wrong until they are 12 
years old. I have known children to be 
awakened from selfishness by cultivating 
their love for an animal. It seems to me 
that there are people who grow up without 
ever knowing what it is to be unselfish or 
to serve others. Who can name any 
greater defect of character than that? 
Sometimes after the day’s work is done I 
sit on the porch and watch the children at 
play. Play developes character, and I 
realize the big responsibility that faces 
one who undertakes to train half a dozen 
children. It is a great job, and probably 
the man who can leave societj- a legacy in 
the person of a good man or woman does 
better than he who leaves a bag of money. 
Probably he who takes some little waif or 
stray and at some discomfort to himself 
makes a good citizen out of it does more 
than one who developes his own child. 
What a great thing it would be for the 
world if more of us could throw our faith 
in with the child and make it outweigh 
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