1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
i79 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Getting Ready.—As I write, the ground 
is white with snow, and a fierce wind is 
blowing down the valley. The frost crawls 
over the window panes. . Throw up a win¬ 
dow to air a bedroom and ice will skim 
over the water pitcher. Dan, whose stall 
is nearest the door, needs a blanket. The 
neighbors say they heard a bluebird on 
Washington’s birthday. I’ll guarantee he's 
too blue to make himself heard to-day. 
Spring seems a long way off, but it’s not 
too early to get ready—for Spring in New 
Jersey. While the wind howls on the out¬ 
side we may take the tools apart, and put 
them in shape. We can’t plant seeds now, 
but we can decide just what we want and 
where they are to go. I have ordered some 
red paint from Ingersoll. We want to give 
the woodwork on the tools a taste of it, 
and also color up a small barn that has 
never been painted. A wash of lime, salt 
and cement will do for the fences, with 
a pale blue tint for trimmings. Of course, 
I do not advise farmers to use the varieties 
or methods I shall speak of. I think they 
are best for us, but I may be wrong about 
it, and I should be sorry to graft any of 
the wrongs or mistakes of Hope Farm on 
to readers. 
The Season’s Plans.— It is impossible for 
a farmer to lay down any cast-iron plans 
for the Summer. They are sure to be 
more or less upset. We find it so. There 
is talk of a canning factory near us. If 
it is really built, and some one win give me 
a personal guarantee that produce will be 
paid for I shall plan to put in a good space 
to tomatoes, Lima beans and sweet corn, 
and deliver it to the canning factory. In 
that case I'expect to seed down some of 
the ground intended for potatoes, or sow 
cow peas. If there is any hitch about the 
canning factory I shall let these truck 
crops go, and put the whole force on to: 1, 
a good garden: 2, a big crop of potatoes; 3, 
a large corn crop and other fodder; 4, cow 
peas; 5, the fruit already on the place; 6, 
a good herd of hogs. You can see that 
the canning factory will make considerable 
difference in our plans. In fact, as I have 
said, we cannot fully decide yet. Assum¬ 
ing that the canning factory will not give 
any guarantee, our plans will be about as 
follows: 
A Good Garden.— This is one of the best 
things on the farm. Our hotbed is in a 
corner of the fence and serves for an early 
crop of radish and lettuce, and for starting 
tomatoes and cabbage plants. The gardens 
will be made in two inclosures back of the 
barns. One was evidently an old garden 
and our pigs are now in the other. We like 
the old Deacon lettuce. For peas we plant 
Nott’s Excelsior for early, though Alaska 
has served us well. For late we are very 
fond of Telephone. The Valentine beans 
suit us. It is hard to go wrong in ordering 
beets, turnips and radish, for all standard 
varieties are good. We shall plant the Paul 
Rose or Petoskey muskmelon this year. It 
would not sell so well in our markets as 
the old Hackensack, but it is fine for fam¬ 
ily eating. We plant the Dreer’s Im¬ 
proved Lima bean. I do not care for the 
bush Limas. In our damp climate they are 
too liable to rust or decay. They lie on the 
ground when heavily filled. Early Ruby, 
Long Keeper and Ponderosa tomatoes give 
us a good supply. The Faxon squash is a 
good one and so is the old reliable Hubbard. 
We do not do much with sweet corn in the 
garden when we raise a large crop, but 
Cory, Crosby, Perry’s Hybrid and Ever¬ 
green will make a good succession. Va¬ 
rieties like Country Gentleman are ex¬ 
cellent, but the kernels are tied on ton 
tight to suit my teeth. 
The Potato Crop.— For an early potato, 
June Eating has become the standard with 
us. I shall plant at least 15 barrels of it. 
Bovee and New Queen have also given us 
good returns. For late varieties I shall or¬ 
der Carman No. 3, and a few barrels each 
of Green Mountain, Uncle Sam and Orphan. 
I shall plant all my own seed of Rural 
Blush at least. The Rural Blush is such 
a high-quality potato that we can forgive 
its bad habit of straggling in the hill or 
drill. I shall not try to rush off the po¬ 
tatoes as was done last year, unless the 
price is very high. I think we can dig a 
cave into the face of our steep hillside and 
make it into a storage room for holding our 
potatoes and apples. It’s worth trying any 
way. Last year Mr. S. J. Costen, of Cheap- 
side, Va., sent us some second-crop potatoes 
for trial. The vine growth was ahead of 
the June Eating, and there was little differ¬ 
ence in yield. The June Eating were of 
better shape. The southern potatoes stopped 
growing during the drought and then 
started again, but the second growth 
formed in knobs or bumps all over them. 
The vines from this southern seed were 
very vigorous. I want to try some of the 
crop which Charlie and Uncle Ed are now 
growing in Florida for seed here in May! 
Corn and Fodder. —I am the man who 
claimed for years that it did not pay us to 
raise field corn. I thought we could raise 
sweet corn and sell the ears for cash so as 
to buy western grain to feed with the sweet 
cornstalks. At one time that was right, but 
that time has now passed for us. My feed 
bills scare me. I shall quit sweet corn ex¬ 
cept for the very late crop, and raise all 
the field corn I can this year. As to a vari¬ 
ety, I am tempted to make one specialty of 
the old Rural Thoroughbred flint, though 
the dent varieties are mostly grown here. 
I’ll think that over a little longer. I shall 
sow about four acres of Fall-plowed sod 
to oats, to be cut green and cured for hay. 
Our oats have usually been full of smut, 
but this year we expect to soak the seed 
in formalin solution. Other fodder crops 
will be white Kaffir corn, Early Amber 
cane, Dwarf Essex rape and millet chinked 
in as seems best. My ambition is to have 
some day about three acres well seeded to 
Alfalfa. That would nearly provide hay 
for all the stock, and leave the rest of the 
farm for other crops. 
Early Black pea because it has an erect 
upright habit of growth, which I think is 
better for our conditions than the habit of 
sprawling all over the ground. 
Fruit Facts.— The salable fruits now on 
the farm are cherries, pears and apples. I 
regard this as a nearly ideal location for 
cherries, and I shall set a fair number of 
trees this year, mostly Bing, Windsor and 
Montmorency. I have an idea that we can 
compete with the California cherries. Out- 
pears are mostly Bartlett and Clapp’s 
Favorite, but many of the trees are feeble. 
I am going to try to make a run on Bart¬ 
lett, Seckel and Bose with some Kieffers for 
canning. I would prefer the dwarfs, but 1 
understand Bose does not do well on quince 
stock. We want about 20 trees each of 
quince, plum and peach to start with. Too 
many of our apples are early varieties. I 
want to get some of them top-grafted to 
Grimes Golden, Maiden Blush and other 
good varieties. Our present late apples are 
chiefly Baldwin and R. I. Greening. Next 
Fall we hope to set quite an apple orchard 
—mostly Baldwin, Sutton Beauty, York Im¬ 
perial and Spitzenburg. We want fair 
specimens of most small fruits, but anyway 
I want for general planting on this soil 
the Wilder currant, Early Harvest black¬ 
berry, Columbian and Cuthbert raspberries, 
Gregg and Kansas blackcaps, Marshall, 
Gladstone, Gandy and Parker Earle straw¬ 
berries. These four varieties will, I feel 
sure, do well on our heavy soil. I want to 
try, in a small way, some of the newer 
varieties of small fruits and I shall keep 
up my experiment of bringing wild straw¬ 
berry plants back into good care in the 
garden. 
The Hog Crop. —We have three young 
sows that seem to me good enough for 
breeders. I want to get one purebred sow 
and a good boar. It seems evident that my 
friend the hog is the four-footer best 
adapted to our conditions. I shall try to 
develop a good, practical herd of sows. 
There is a fair demand around us for little 
pigs. With cow peas and rape to provide 
pasture we hope to make fairly cheap pork, 
for which there is a good sale in our neigh¬ 
borhood. In brief, these things are what 
we hope to do this year. We shall doubt¬ 
less fail with some of them, while others 
will be but poorly done. Still, it seems to 
me best to try to make a definite plan and 
then keep as close to it as possible. We 
have studied hard at the question of suit¬ 
able varieties for this soil and location. 
Another great problem with me has been 
the question of setting out asparagus roots. 
There seems to be no doubt about the profit 
in this crop, provided it is well grown and 
handled, but the rust disease threatens to 
drive many growers out of the business, 
and there seems no sure wav of fighting it. 
I’ll admit that I find it hard to decide about 
risking a field of asparagus. Before the 
Summer is over we shall know more about 
these plans than we do now. 
But of course we shall not stop entirely 
with these outdoor crops. We want some 
simple flowers and shrubs around the house. 
Inside the house, too, there are hopeful plans 
that the Madame will try to carry out. 
The planting of character and good habits 
falls mostly to her lot. She doesn’t be¬ 
lieve much in the novelties which produce 
character so fast that you can hardly see 
it. She will continue to use the good old 
system that has stood the test of cen¬ 
turies. h. w. c. 
PARAGRENE 
is better, cheaper and bulkierthan PARIS GREEN , 
and will not burn the foliage. Send for pam¬ 
phlet. FRKD.L.LAVAN BURG, Box 1070-A,New York 
SEED POTATOES MICHIGAN, BOVEE 
Rose, Hebron, the Carmans and fi other tlrst-class 
varieties. 11 years experience. Catalog free. 
ABNER B. WILSON, Tecumseh, Mich. 
DflTkTntC Grown especially for SEED. 11 
rU I H I UtO varieties. Prices right. List free 
GEO. H. COLVIN, Crest Farm, Ilalton, Pa. 
Seed Sweet Potatoes, Seed Jersey Yel¬ 
low and Red. II per bu., #3 per bbl. of 3 bu. Securely 
packed to carry safely. Send for price list of frul t 
trees, small fruits, etc. 
CHAS. BLACK, Ulghtstown, N. J. 
2000 
miCUL 1 | C Seed Corn; samples tree. W. 
U U vjilLLo N.SCARFF. New Carlis e, O. 
piVE-EAREI) CORNUCOPIA White Dent Tested 
Seed Corn, for south of 41st parallel. New and 
enormously productive. Circulars. 
Box 24, VISALIA, KY. 
OEED CORN, choice improved varieties: mixed con- 
^ tains corn suitable for any soil or climate where 
the choice kinds will mature. Price 50c per qt., 
shelled, postage paid. 
T. C. HAMILTON, Bokes Creek, Union Co., Ohio. 
h/IEDIUM CLOVER SEED, $5.25. BEARDLESS 
BARLEY, 05c. BANNER OATS, free from 
smut, yielded 71 and 78 bu. in ’98 and ’99, 35c per bu., 
f.o.b. Positively clean. Sacks extra. 
H. D. ltOHRER, Seville, Ohio. 
Strawberry and Sma 1 Fruit Plants. Lowei 
prices. List free. P. SPEER, Passaic, N. J. 
Loudon Red Raspberries. Best red. 
Pure stock. Inspected. Strawberries, etc. List free. 
W. B. DAVIS, Janesville, Wis. 
■DERRY PLANTS. To save money order best 
■“"* plants at our low prices, delivered and guar¬ 
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SLAYMAKER & SON, Dover, Delaware. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS at a Bargain 
90 VARIETIES. ** 
E. J. HULL, Olyphant, Pa. 
Strawberry Plants.— Johnson’s Early, Excel¬ 
sior, and other new varieties, $2 per 1000; standard 
sorts, $1.50. List of small fruits on application. 
CHAS. BARKER. Milford, Del. 
Cow Peas. —The Early Black variety is 
quite good enough for me, and I have al¬ 
ready ordered 12 bushels of seed from Dela¬ 
ware. Seed is high this year, for an early 
frost destroyed much of it. We shall sow 
cow peas on the back fields of the farm- 
now in grass, trees and bushes. Part will 
be broadcast, part put in with the Bobbin’s 
potato planter, and part in hills marked off 
as for corn. I want to see which method is 
best for our climate and soil. I feel sure 
that these cow-pea fields next year will be 
in good order for a corn crop. I shall try 
to have the peas picked for seed. I don’t 
hesitate to say that I am a cow-pea crank. 
That is satisfactory to me, if I can turn 
my friend the cow pea so that it will grind 
fertility out of those old fields. I like the 
QTItAWBERRY PLANTS $1.25 per 1001) and up. 
Miller Red Raspberry and Lueretia Dewberry, 
$3.50 per 1900. Catalogue free. 
D. W. MOSLEY, Dover, Del. 
lUrt CUMBERLAND RASPBERRY. $2 express; 
IWU NICK OHMER STRAWBERRY, 00c. mail. 
F. P. BARTON, Durham, Ct. 
“Strawberry Plants That Grow.” 
Standard Sorts. $1.50 to $2.60 per M. Descriptive 
Cat., with -‘Instructions How to Grow,” sent hike. 
THE C. E. WHITTEN NURS Y CO., Bridgman, Mich, 
Kansas and Gregg Raspberry plants. 
1 v"" All hand-layered and from young plan¬ 
tation that has never fruited: none better. 
W. A. FREED, Homewood, Pa. 
*** A a. A A4. A-4* ■«> • 
The Best Paying Crop 
For home trade or shipping Is 
Fancy Muskmelons. 
VAUGHAN’S MUSK MELON SEEDS have been care¬ 
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big cropswhich sell while I TI| P ulJAl II DnCP” 
others rot on the dump. I * UC I /AUL, rvV/otl, 
is one of our specialties. Flesh beautiful salmon of exquisite flavor. 
A splendid shipper and a good seller. Per packet 10c, per ounce 25c 
Osage Gem —new—we control entire stock, Pkt. 10c Oz. .50 
Paul Rose— 1899 selection by Mr. Rose, Oz. 25c lb. 82.50 
Osage— Vaughan’s Original Stock.Oz. 25e lb. 82-40 
Rocky Ford Gem—Tie st Colorado.Oz. 15c lb. 81.00 
Net ted Gem- Oval (Paul Rose Selection), Oz. 20c 11>. 81.25 
This ad. shews only one class of our Gardener’s Specialties. 
Write for F-REE HOOK— all about the garden, lawn and farm. 
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Our AMERICAN FARMERS’ MANUAL for 1900, 32 pages, devoted entirely to Grass 
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this advertisement. Correspondence invited. 
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NEW YORK. 
ESTABLISHED 1802 
Our 1900 Catalogue is now ready, 
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(Late of 15 John Street) 
36 CORTLANDT STREET. NEW YORK 
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Ensilage Corn. 
We are headquarters for the celebrated Virginia 
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car lots or less quantities. Write for prices, stating 
quantity required. Sample mailed on request. 
T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Klchmond, Va. 
Seed Oats, Corn and Potatoes. 
Choice, pure and true to name, grown especially 
for seed with great care. "Henderson's Clydesdale" 
Oats. Beautiful, large, white, heavy oat, free from 
smut. Large yielder. Send 2c. stamp for sample and 
price. Mammoth yellow 100-day and Ued Gla/.e 90- 
day Hint corn. POTATOES.--“Sir Walter Raleigh." 
“Carman No. 3," “Uncle Sam," “Carman No. 1," 
"Peerless Jr.,” "Early Columbia," “Early Fortune," 
“Early Harvest.” Send for prices and description. 
D. C. McPHERSON SEED CO., Garbutt, N. Y. 
CAD Oil C—1,000 Bushels Crimson Clover 
Tun OllLC Seed; 1.000 Bushels Cow Peas. 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Del. 
Cabbage seed, extra select crop of 1899. My own 
growing, all seasons, sure header. Ounce, 20c.; lb., 
$1.75. J. A. ROBF.RTS, Malvern, l’a. 
My Catalogue for 1900 sent free, tells 
you why my Second-crop Seed Pota¬ 
toes are so much superior to any other 
seed potatoes grown. Johnson’s New 
Early Strawberry. 60 other choice 
kinds, flne as grow, true to name, etc. 
J. W. HALL, Marion Station, Maryland 
HARMAN NO. 3 <tQ.OO 
SEED POTATOES. ^ per bbl. 
Sir Walter ltaleigh and Early Bovee $4.00 per bbl., all 
bbls. 4 bu. Dewey, the great cropper, per bbl. $5 00. 
Wholesale list free. GEO. A. BONNELL, Waterloo,N.Y 
New Cardinal 
Raspberry 
Eighty varieties of Strawberries, com¬ 
prising the best old and new sorts. 
LA FRANCE FRUIT FARM, Holton, Kan. 
i®‘New Late Winter Apples. 
Collins, Beach, Oliver, Arkansaw, Reagan, Helges, 
Gilbert, Springdale, HighHll, Stayman. Givens, 
Hatchers, etc. $4 per doz., packed. 
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BIG NEW BERRIES 
Mammoth sweet chestnuts, Japanese plums, peaches 
—all nursery stock cheap. Free catalogue. 
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KANSAS HOME NURSERY. 
>- Choice Tested Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Orig> 
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PUCQTNIIT 8CIONS from producing trees 
UnCO I HU I Alpha, Reliance, Parry, Grant. 
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General Nursery Stock. 
Trees, Seeds. Cuttings, Hedge Plants, etc. Japan 
Raspberry, $1.50 per 1UU; doz., 35. Gregg. Marlboro, 
Golden Oueen Raspberry plants, bv doz. 35c.; llHJ, 
$1.50; 1000. $10. Send for Price L st. j. A. ROBERTS, 
Malvern, Pa. 
“ rrLC OvIUlia Trees, Fumigated 
SUTTON BEAUTY, Malden Blush, Hubbardston, 
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Price-list free. W. J. Graves. Originator. Perry, O. 
Tree and Shrub Seedlings in Variety 
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J. H. H. BOYD, Gage, Sequatchie Co., Tenn. 
TREES 
at Wholesale prices. Apple, Plum and 
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Reliance Nursery, Box 10, Geneva, N. Y 
Surplus Stock-Very Cheap 
Currant, 1 and 2 yr. Miller and Loudon Rasp., Col¬ 
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WM. H. MORGAN, Westmont, N. J. 
nCUIDCDDICC Austin Dewberry Plants by 
UCflDCnnibd mail $1.25 per 100. 
A. K. BRADLEY, Tioga, Texas. 
Miogufof STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
lrl 60 varieties, A. J. MC’MATH.O.iley, Va 
FREE 
Strawberries 
-As good plants as can be 
bought North, South, East or 
West. Carefully handled,packed Ash'pped anywhere 
at wholesae prices. Wm. Perry, Coot Spring, Del. 
60 VARIETIES 
H. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
$1.50 per 1000 and up. 
Send for Catalogue. 
W. HENRY, La Porte, Indiana. 
New Seedling Strawberries. 
Free Silver and Winchel No. 3 just out and 20 other 
varieties. Write for free catalogue. RIDGE PLANT 
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REID’S 
Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Roses, 
Ornamental Trees and Plants 
true to name. Low prices. No. 1 
stock. Illustrated catalogue free. 
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FRUITS 
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Twenty-five varieties of strawberries. Blackberry, 
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healthy, well-rooted trees and plants packed free in 
best manner. For price list address 
CHARLES BLACK, Hightstown, N. J. 
