1900 
rHK RURAL NKW-YORKER, 
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HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Traits From ’way Back.— Some of our 
readers find fault because I closed the 
spanking incident too soon. There are over 
75 people thus far who take our side. 1 
want to print the following note, because I 
think it touches the very root of the ques¬ 
tion: 
“In the numerous wise remarks with 
which you have been favored, there is one 
point that appears to have been overlooked, 
viz., the origin of the troublesome boy. He 
was, as I understand it, a waif. No one 
who has seen or undertaken the bringing 
up, as servants, of institution children or 
stray youngsters, such as people the insti¬ 
tutions, will dispute that it takes long 
training to create the first germs of con¬ 
science, the dawning of shame. Any ap¬ 
peal to ordinary motives is a dead language 
to them; it means absolutely nothing. A 
slap touches their understanding, awakens 
their intelligence. 
“If a horse has been broken to the whip 
before you ever saw it, and its ancestors 
for generations have been broken in the 
same way, you will have harder work to re¬ 
train it than if you began with your own 
colts. With these children, one sharp slap 
(better than 50) simply convinces them you 
are in earnest; they accept it quietly, and 
buckle to work; while serious remon¬ 
strance, threats, etc., produce a howling fit 
of the most aggravated description. I do 
not mean that they are necessarily whipped 
at the institutions; there an elaborate sys¬ 
tem of checks and penalties and supervision 
prevails that is impossible in a private 
family. Moreover, you want to be able to 
trust the inmates of your home. It is the 
generations back. It takes two to train 
the mud floor out of some servant girls. 
American-born Jewish, Irish, German, 
children in the schools, each retain their 
own idiom, and a successful teacher will 
have cognizance of the fact in correcting 
inherent mistakes. The Swede alone takes 
to English apparently unhandicapped.” 
Now, as a neighbor says, “I may be 
wrong,” but that seems to me so sound 
that it sings the whole tune. I am sure 
that those who have had experience with 
children that are taken from institutions 
will agree with that statement. One can 
spin theories so fine you can hardly see 
them, but the facts are that a waif or 
child of unknown parentage—who has 
spent some years without definite and in¬ 
dividual authority—cannot be trained and 
handled just as you would train your own 
child. 
Habits that Hang.— A child, a tree, a 
hen, a horse, or a cow, will start bad hab¬ 
its in babyhood, and stick to them with an 
obstinacy that will frighten you. Who has 
not seen a tree with some ugly and crook¬ 
ed twist where it was headed? You may 
prune and spray and feed the tree, but that 
bad start will hang to it. I have owned 
horses that clearly had a defect in their 
education, which clung to them and hurt 
their value. Old Major has picked up most 
of the bad qualities of his many owners, 
and let the good ones go by. One year I 
bought over 300 hens In the New York mar¬ 
kets. I fed them the best kind of a bal¬ 
anced ration, thinking, of course, that they 
would lay eggs, because it is a hen’s duty 
to do so. I found that with a hen it is 
more destiny than duty. Those hens had 
been trained to eat corn and dream about 
laying. Those dreams were certainly made 
of “stuff” that unstuffed your pocketbook. 
1 took some of their daughters, and made 
good layers out of them; but the old hens 
had gone astray. You take a four-year-old 
child who has had no real home influences, 
and attempt to train him just as you would 
the child that you have directed from his 
infancy, and you will end with a broken 
heart, unless your heart is tougher than 
boiled beef. 
Farm Notes.— We are turning the shotes 
into the big barnyard to work over the 
horse manure. Hugh claims that hog ma¬ 
nure, or any manure in which pigs work, 
will make scab or “worms” in potatoes. I 
have been told that pig manure will cause 
club root in cabbage. I call such state¬ 
ments base libels on my friend the hog. 
.Our neighbors on the Lord's 
Farm are about the best farmers in this 
county. They have a big cellar still filled 
with apples. As true as you live, they say 
Ben Davis is the best seller they have in 
the'cellar. Their experience shows that it 
pays to hold apples until late Winter. 
. . . . The mercury has been dancing 
around zero of late, but our water pipes 
came through without a block. There was 
snow enough for a few days’ sleighing. 
Back in our lane is a little hill, where the 
children had rare sport coasting. On sev¬ 
eral nights we all went out and tried it. 
You should have seen the Madame sliding 
down on the Bud’s sled.There 
has been but one day this year when the 
wind was too light to work the windmill. 
What day do you suppose that was? Why, 
it was the day after we emptied the tank! 
We had to pump into the tank by hand. 
You earn every drop of water you get by 
that job. ..... I have been noticing 
the snow on sod and on plowed ground. 
It stays longer where the ground is 
plowed. The sod is, I think, naturally 
warmer, and the dead grass holds the snow 
up so that the air works in during a thaw. 
On hilly ground more of the snow water 
seems to sink into plowed ground. 
We have fixed up the incubators, and ex¬ 
pect soon to start one of them with White 
Wyandotte eggs. I like the looks of that 
breed. I also want to try some Brown 
Leghorns.The first of our 
home-cured hams and bacon are in the 
smokehouse. The meat looks well, but we 
can tell more about it when it is done. . . 
. . . Oil meal is working wonders with 
old Major. His coat is smoother and his 
ribs are retiring. Great is oil meal for an 
old horse.There was a fearful 
flood of rain on the night of February 4; 
the next morning our hills were washed 
clean of snow. Down in the valley there 
were great gullies, and the brooks were 
flooded. I’ll tell you again that the top of 
a hill is the place to go in a storm—or in a 
calm, either! 
Cow Peas.—I hope to put my old friend, 
the Early Black cow pea, right into the 
harness this year. I want to put him into 
some of our back fields. He will do his 
duty if you give him half a chance. Plow 
or chop up the ground, and sow the cow 
pea. We hope to use a little fertilizer with 
the peas. I have great faith in the old 
cow pea. We must look to him to get 
value out of our old back fields, which are 
now wasted. I find that a good many farm¬ 
ers will try cow peas for the first time this 
year. They must not make the mistake of 
sowing the peas too early. Remember that 
the cow pea is not a pea at all. It is a, 
bean. Jack Frost hates it. Keep It out of 
his way by waiting until after the corn¬ 
planting time before you sow it. 
School Notes. —The children surprised me 
the other night by their ability to read over 
50 words! To me it is a wonderful thing to 
see how these little folks are printing a 
vocabulary upon their little minds. Words 
are tools—useful or worse than useless. 1 
am told that there are plenty of grown-up 
folks who use less than 400 words In their 
writing of speaking. It comes over me now 
as never before, how useful words well 
placed in memory may become. Some peo¬ 
ple may say that words are mere wind of 
the sort that does no work. That is where 
such folks make a big mistake. I wish 1 
could get the words out of my head and 
have them sorted and arranged as the 
Madame is packing them in the brains of 
our little folks. We old-timers missed it 
in our early education. h. w. c. 
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Valuable and interesting Points 
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1900 BICYCLE FREE 
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