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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Hope Farm Notes 
People iiio rushing in with all sorts of 
questions and comments these days. Here 
are a few’ of them: 
“T have saved some fine ears of sweet 
corn for seed, some of which have a few 
(two or three) kernels of yellow corn from 
an adjoining field. Tf these were removed, 
would the next crop be apt to be mixed?” 
As I understand it. these yellow kernels 
will show the difference, but the kernels 
of true sweet corn on the same cob will 
give pure sweet corn. T take it that each 
kernel is a law unto itself. T wish that 
the same could be said of humans, and 
that a man brought up among evil sur¬ 
roundings coiild get rid of the power to 
seed evil when he got away from the gang 
Potato Rot.—H ere is a. tough one: 
“There are evidences of rot in my pota¬ 
toes, but little. Would it be safe to use 
the same land for potatbes next year? 
'I'his land has a cover cro]) of rye to plow 
dowm in the Spring.” 
T don’t know, but from my own experi¬ 
ence I would not plant on the same ground 
next year if I could help it. Plow’ing 
under a crop of rye will help, but the 
germs of the rot disease are dangerous 
bedfellows for another jiotato crop. A dry 
season next year might carry the crop 
safely through, but there is aUvaj a (' n'" 
For the first time in years we neglected 
to use sulphur on our potato seed. T am 
jiow .satisfied that this and our failure to 
spray or use dry Bordeaux was largely 
responsible for the loss. Tf I planted pota¬ 
toes on a field where the rot appeared thi 
season T would use sulrihur freely on the 
seed. Tf T used a planter T w’ould mix the 
sulphur in the hopper w’ith the seed pieces. 
I know that there are times when it .seems 
very desirable to plant potatoes after pof.a- 
toes. but I should regret to do it after 
a season of rot. 
But after all, the best of my experience 
with 'Potato rot may be regarded as much 
the same thing b.v others. Here is what 
a far better farmer than I am says: 
■ “You tell us how’ you have stored your 
ixitatoes to prevent them from rotting; T 
used to put mine away very much in the 
.same way. but now I put them as soon 
as dug (an hour or two to dry) on my 
cellar floor in one corner. The floo'r is 
b:-;ck laid in sand. Tn a very wet Time tl 
\ r comes up between the bricks; T 
Lave seen two or three inches of water 
under my potatoes. I am not troubled 
with rot as T used to be when they were 
stored above the floor. This may appear 
\ ( ry strange to you, and T confess does 
not look like good sense, but I assure you 
it is true. I have no patent right to sell.” 
Torn Smut.— Here is an old question fre- 
((uently asked: “I w’ould like to ask if you 
know of any remedy or preventive for 
smut in corn? Will treating the seed as 
for Oat smut do any good, or is it caused 
from injury to the stalk, or is it on ac¬ 
count of so much rain?” 
There seems to be no true remedy for 
this disease when it once attacks the corn. 
All smutty stalks should be burned if pos¬ 
sible, although this is a great job for a 
practical farmer. Soaking the seed corn, 
as is done with oats, will not answer be¬ 
cause the germs of the disea.se are not in 
the seed corn. No one would think of 
taking a smutty ear for seed. The germs 
of the disease which smuts the oats are 
in the seed. When we soak the seed in 
formalin and water we kill these germs, 
so that the oat grow's without them. Seed 
corn that had been covered with smut was 
planted. It grew to maturity without t 
disease. The Corn smut attacks the plant 
as the ears are forming—the germs float¬ 
ing about in the air. It is worse in wet 
weather, because then the conditions for its 
growth are best. Oat smut may be com¬ 
pared to the evil tendencies that are born 
in a child. They may be a variety of 
“sour grapes” which set such an edge on 
the child’s teeth that they will, if not 
filed down, gnaw all the joy and honor out 
of life. Com smut is like the evil that 
comes to a child or “grown-up” by per¬ 
sonal contact with those who set an evil 
example. We are advised to go through 
the corn and cut off all smutty ears as 
they mature, but who except a scientific 
n.an can find time for that? 
Sunday Thoughts.— There are lots of 
friends who are determined to make a 
good citizen out of the Hope Farm man 
if they can. He gets many gentle hints 
and some harder pokes. Here is one: 
“Please let me bring to your notice what 
the Bible says of the way to keep the 
Sabbath. Tf thou turn away thy foot 
from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure 
on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a 
delight, the holy of the Lord, and shalt 
honor him, not doing thine own ways, not 
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking 
thine own words. . . . And I will cause 
thee to ride upon the high places of th"' 
earth.’ The thinking of one’s business 
and planning of work or worldly things on 
Sunday would be. in the I,ord’s sight, just 
as bad as the doing of them. We need 
.''ome time to plan for the world that is 
10 come. Why should we not use most of 
our time the wisest and best management 
in preparing for that home? It is like the 
man in the story who spent his time and 
money in beautifying his home, when he 
knew he should soon have to move to an¬ 
other country and should be getting ready 
for that. However good the earthiv things 
are that we think about, they cannot take 
the place of being heavenly minded. The 
Hope Farm man is certainly wrong there.” 
Now. you won’t get me into any religi¬ 
ous argument—Sunday observance is the 
last thing I would fight over. In a general 
way I think this lady has the right idea— j 
though I find that this very letter was i 
written on Sunday. We probably wouldn’t 
quite agree about some things regarding 
true worship. There are some people who 
love to wander off into the woods on Sun¬ 
day and pick up hope and love from the 
trees, the flowers and the sky. There are 
others, like the old man I heard of when 
a boy, who when he went to church tied 
the boy to a bed post and told him to com¬ 
mit to memory the old hymn, “Thine 
earthly Sabbaths, I,ord I love!” I,et us 
<'ill remember that between and including 
these classes of people there are many 
good citizens and jieople who love God and 
i,c rve him! The children on Sunday after¬ 
noon walked all over the farm with me 
and told in their childish way of what 
they will do to the orchard when they 
grow up. Then as it grew darker they 
came into the house, and while the 
Madame played sang “Just as T am.” 
Ai.L Sorts.—I am satisfied that grain of 
all kinds will be higher than ever this 
Winter, since the corn crop is short. It is 
the time now to get rid of the old stock. 
No use feeding scrubs this Winter. We 
have sold all the old hens at 3.5 cents each, 
and shall sell many pullets. All the hogs 
will go. I am not fully satisfied with their 
breeding, and I think it good business to 
sell them while iiork is high and buy new 
stock in the Spring. I will let some one 
else feed grain this Winter. I also e.xpect 
to sell two cows. Time now to fire the 
useless animals! .... We sell .a good 
many onions at the door for ?1 a bushel. 
The rest are shipped to New York in 
baskets. We shall not try to hold them; 
they will all be off before November 1. 
.... We began cutting corn September 
29. Some of the neighbors waited a week 
longer, but while much of our crop was 
loo green I thought the risk from frost 
too great. The crop is a' poor one. Tf the 
■’odder can be curecl it will make fine feed, 
but the grain is very light. The lield 
i (anted on July 3 gave .a fair crop of 
fodder and a few good ears of corn, but 
the cold August shut off its chance to 
nuike a record. So the race was not to 
the swift, because it had no chance to 
show its speed.The yellow tur- 
niiis and the cabbage are doing their host 
to get into shape, but the season has held 
them back, as well as everything else on 
the farm. I am looking for a warm, dry 
October, and I believe that the turnips 
will make their size yet. They will be 
worth some money this year as a subst, 
tute for potatoes.The children 
have earned a little money this year. The 
Graft started to earn enough to buy a 
bicycle, and he has pretty nearly done it. 
I felt that if he earned the money him¬ 
self he would not throw it away. He now 
says he would like to buy a violin with 
his money and take music lessons. I con¬ 
sider that a wiser investment than a 
bicycle. Few' things will do a child more 
good than a love for music, and I am glad 
to see these sweat-marked dollars going 
that way. I w'as denied those things when 
I was a boy. and now I miss them. Aunt 
Mary gave the Bud a ring wTien she 
learned to play “Nearer, My God to Thee!” 
It W'as a proud little girl that fingered out 
the tune w'hile the other children sang. 
H. W. r. 
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