1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
387 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Odd Notes. —There seems to have 
been a general advance in freight rates. 
In buying seed and fertilizer this year I 
find that freight bills are considerably 
above those of last year. In common 
with other middlemen, the railroads 
seem to think this is the great year for 
tapping the farmer’s pocketbook. In 
talking with merchants and small manu¬ 
facturers, I learn that they all say much 
the same thing—all complain of higher 
rates on goods that do not yield any 
greater profit. These big corporations 
will find that they are overdoing this 
business.Charlie has made 
what he calls “lick balls” for the stock. 
He takes one part each lime and wood 
ashes and two parts of salt, cooks them 
together, and then pours into a tin can 
to cool. It makes a hard cake which 
may be put in a horse’s feed box. In the 
South these “lick balls” are made of 
large size, built up with clay, and left 
in the pasture for the stock. 
The long rain has helped the grass won¬ 
derfully, and I think we are safe for a 
fair hay crop. The oats which were 
rolled while the ground was too wet 
were beginning to look sick, for the soil 
had baked like a brick. The gentle, 
penetrating rain softened the soil, and 
now the oats are growing as they should. 
.... Last year I sold the apples on 
the trees, reserving five trees for our 
own use. I picked out five Greenings 
that were loaded to the ground with 
fruit. This year one of these five trees 
shows a heavy bloom on half of it. It is 
about the only tree in the orchard to 
show blossoms. There are, surely, 
strange and mysterious things about an 
apple tree. 
A Rousing Rain. —After throwing out 
those big Stones we put on steam and 
got the corn ground plowed by May 16, 
with hard showers during the last day. 
Then the rain started in, so that we 
could not harrow. Friday it looked like 
letting up. We were to use 1 y 2 ton fer¬ 
tilizer on that field. I believe in broad¬ 
casting fertilizer lor corn, especially 
when you own the land and can control 
the crops that are to follow. So, as we 
could not plow or harrow, Hugh and 
Charlie put the fertilizer in the wagon 
and drove over the field, spreading it 
out with shovels. Of course this did not 
mean a perfect job. A drill would have 
put it on more evenly, but we do not 
own a drill, and two harrowings will 
scatter it so that the corn will get what 
it needs. We expected to harrow and 
mark that field on Saturday, but in the 
morning we found the rain falling in 
sheets—or rather blankets. It rained 
steadily all day long—a regular soaker. 
Fertilizer Facts. —It takes a man 
with a very cheerful disposition to feel 
satisfied with his lot under such condi¬ 
tions. There was the fertilizer spread 
out on the rough furrows of a hillside 
field, with a soaking rain pouring on it. 
When a man gets caught in the rain we 
can say that he “isn’t made of sugar or 
salt,” and won’t melt. We can’t say that 
of high-grade fertilizer. “It will go 
down to China!” says Neighbor Dole¬ 
ful. Well, now, it’s a long way to China, 
and a corn root will crawl through the 
hole after it. If it washed down hill 
there is good grass to catch it on one 
side, and chestnut trees at the other that 
will sell some day at $5 apiece for tele¬ 
phone poles. So, as we couldn’t help it, 
we just let it rain, cut potatoes and did 
various wet-weather jobs. There isn’t 
any use grieving about a high-grade fer¬ 
tilizer spread on top of the furrows. It 
won’t run away from the corn. It soaks 
in just where you want it, and when you 
narrow, after the ground dries, you have 
aJbout an ideal seed bed.People 
tell us what a bad job it is to broadcast 
manure. Did you ever shovel out fer¬ 
tilizer on a windy day? If so, you know 
something about geography. The nitrate 
and guano in the fertilizer came from 
the deserts and sea islands of South 
America. The blood and bone came 
from cattle that endured the blizzards 
and sand storms of the Far West. With 
mouth and nose and eyes full, you un¬ 
derstand by night time that these for¬ 
eigners have been able to give to our 
Jersey zephyr the sting of the desert 
scorcher and the lash of the ocean tem¬ 
pest. The horses were plastered with 
the fertilizer dust—so much so, that it 
was necessary to wash them off with 
soap and water. While I believe that 
fertilizer is best broadcast for corn, after 
this experience I Q.m tempted to put it 
all in the drill, as we do for potatoes. 
Transplanted Vegetables. — We 
started sweet corn, melons, squash and 
cucumbers in little pots. They were 
planted April 6, and the pots were sunk 
in the hotbed. The season was so late 
that these plants were not put out doors 
until May 16. The corn was then about 
six inches high, and the roots filled the 
little pots. I did not think the corn 
would thrive, as I thought the roots had 
been cramped too much. We made fur¬ 
rows, thumped out the pots and set the 
little balls in a puddle of water, and 
drew dry earth up over it. They looked 
yellow and sick for several days, but 
will make it go, I think. The melons 
and squash were in larger pots, and are 
doing very well. Of course, we can’t 
say much about it yet, but this scheme 
looks well.We dug up two 
dozen Wilder currant bushes on the old 
place and set them here. We got as 
much root as we could, but I had no idea 
they would fruit this year. They put 
out plenty of fruit buds, but the leaves 
seemed too small and feeble to mature 
them. I put on nitrate of soda. The 
leaves have grown rapidly, and the 
bushes now promise to bear a good crop 
of fruit. 
Round the Farm. —The potatoes are 
sprouting well. The plants poke above 
ground with strong, broad leaves. I 
have an idea that the sulphur has much 
to do with this. I have thought that the 
potato plant absorbed some of the sul¬ 
phur from the seed piece, and was made 
stronger for this medicine. My friend, 
Prof. Knowit, tells me this is impossi¬ 
ble.The weeder does excellent 
work on the potatoes. We ran across 
the rows before the plants were up, and 
shall run twice more, and also begin to 
cultivate as soon as we can well make 
out the rows.The best scare¬ 
crow seems to be a smear of tar on the 
seed corn. Tar inside of feathers seems 
to be a combination not suited to Mr. 
Grow.In part of the corn¬ 
field I expect to plant cow peas at the 
first hoeing. The seed will be dropped 
in every other hill. I don’t know much 
about this practice, and probably never 
will know until I try it. We have sam¬ 
ples of Early Black, Clay, Wonderful, 
Whippoorwill and Blackeye cow peas for 
testing this year. ... I have bought 
seed of Japan Barnyard millet, which 
nas been highly praised by some good 
farmers. I shall sow some of this in 
drills in the orchard. I tried it three 
years ago, but made a failure of it, as I 
think we used too much seed. 
Those potato plants that were nipped by 
the frost now show no scars of Jack 
Frost’s teeth. The top leaves turned 
'brown and died, but they fell off, and 
the lower leaves have grown vigorously. 
h. w. c. 
second generation of moths appears in 
about six weeks, and sometimes two or 
three broods are produced in a sea¬ 
son. The eggs are generally laid at 
the blossom end of the little apple, and 
in fighting them the plan is to locate the 
poison in the blossom opening, so as to 
be ready for them when they begin their 
work of destruction. In old times, be¬ 
CODLING-MOTH AND ITS WORK. Fid. 114. 
fore spraying was thought of, the chief 
remedy for the Codling-moth was to de¬ 
stroy the windfalls. They were either 
gathered by hand or by stock, hogs or 
sheep, which ran in the orchard. Spray¬ 
ing has now largely taken the place of 
this old method, yet in connection With 
spraying some method of disposing of 
the windfalls or small fruit may well be 
used. 
Ginseng Culture.— We have received a 
neat pamphlet on Ginseng culture from 
the American Ginseng Gardens, Rose Hill, 
N. Y., giving much interesting information, 
historical, botanical and statistical, about 
this valuable native plant. Full direc¬ 
tions for culture and many offers of plants 
and seeds are included. Those consider¬ 
ing the culture of ginseng for profit will 
do well to send for this pamphlet, which 
will be forwarded, free of cost. 
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The Codling-moth is an old enemy to 
most of our readers; yet there are some 
who will fight it seriously for the first 
time this year. Fig. 114 is reengraved 
from rrof. Lodeman’s book on the 
Spraying of Plants, and gives a fair idea 
of the insect and its work. As is well 
known, the moths first appear in Spring, 
having passed the Winter in cocoons. 
The first moths appear about when apple 
blossoms fall, and for two or three 
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