1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
435 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
June Days. —No use talking, i hate to 
see these beautiful June days slip away. 
As a fellow gets along in years he real¬ 
izes more and more what these days 
mean. Every family man of ordinary 
sense knows that when the Madame 
comes down with a new dress on, her 
hair arranged as he likes to see it with¬ 
out any trace of a headache, a mind 
turned away from his imperfections, and 
actually proposes to walk over the farm 
with him, he is enjoying one of those 
rare and beautiful occasions that are too 
valuable to be common. That’s just the 
sort of mood Nature put on for Sunday, 
June 10, and the Hope Farm folks did 
enjoy it. Two days before a soaking 
rain had washed and nourished the 
crops. Hugh brought in a basket of the 
first ripe cherries, and the first mess of 
green peas was cooking on the range. 
The windmill was turning merrily—the 
cow peas were sprouting on the back 
field’s. The oats, grass, corn and pota¬ 
toes were fairly jumping in the sun¬ 
shine. It is true that the Potato beetles 
were hatching, and that the same lain 
that started the meadow grass was start¬ 
ing that in the corn, but we were just 
piling in the rest and force needed to 
tackle them. It was a glorious day, and 
we sat under the grapevine arbor and 
enjoyed it. I have seen the sun rise out 
of the Atlantic Ocean, and I have seen 
the shadows crawl up among the Rocky 
Mountains. I have seen the glisten of 
the western whe'a't fields and the shad¬ 
ows of a southern forest, but that view 
among the Jersey hills was the best of 
all. It was because the farm, with all 
its hopes and possibilities, was ours. 
'Fodder Crops.— I spoke several weeks 
ago of our plans for fodder crops. On 
Sunday, the stock all seemed to get to¬ 
gether for a caucus in the pasture. 
After much discussion, old Major went 
off in one corner and made various hoof 
marks on the ground. I am not familial 
with horse-language, but those marks 
might be translated as follows: 
TO THE HOPE FARM MAN. 
Whereas, We, the four-footed people ol 
Hope Farm, provide necessary power and 
the milk and. 
Whereas, We cannot do this without 
proper food and plenty of it. 
Resolved, That we view with deep appre¬ 
hension the plan which the Hope Farm 
man has adopted of plowing up meadows 
of grass and growing thereon other crops 
not available as stock food. 
Resolved, That we reject with uncer¬ 
tainty the theory that such untried crops 
as Kaffir corn, Soy beans, sorghum and 
millet will ever take the place of good hay. 
Resolved, That our secretary, Major, has 
lived with many and various mti, that he 
knows the breed well, that his teeth aie 
worn out on cornstalks, and that he con¬ 
siders it a false and misleading proposition 
that a farmer will be likely to take the 
money obtained for potatoes to buy hay. 
We therefore respectfully demand more 
meadows and more hay. 
I have explained why those old 
meadows were plowed up. What have 
we to take their place? There are over 
three acres of oats. These will he cut 
early and cured like hay. At once this 
soil will be plowed or worked with the 
Cutaway, and seeded to Pearl millet, 
which will be used for cow feed. In the 
orchards near the house we have seeded 
sorghum, rape, carrots and sugar beets, 
Kaffir corn and Soy beans, and we have 
nearly 10 acres of fielu corn. This, with 
about eight acres of fair grass, ought to 
keep the stock quiet. 
Odd Crops— In former years sorghum 
has given us good crops of excellent fod¬ 
der, especially in dry seasons on dry 
soils. Kaffir com is an unknown quan¬ 
tity in the East. We have planted these 
by themselves, and also mixed with cow 
peas. The cow peas were broadcast, and 
the Kaffir and sorghum scattered with 
tnem—'all being covered with the Acme. 
The theory is that the sorghum and 
Kaffir will hold the cow pea vines up 
and thus m'ake a better hay or fodder 
crop. This seems reasonable, but we 
can learn only by trying it. 
I have heard so much of Soy beans that 
I got half a bushel of seed for another 
trial. They have never been equal to 
cow peas wilth us. The wise men say 
this is because the Retie Soy bean bac¬ 
teria are not in our soil. I sent to the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College and 
got 100 pounds of soil out of a field 
where these beans grew. We shall scat¬ 
ter this soil in one row of the SOy 
beans—and watch results. The boys are 
inclined to make light of this scheme. 
I believe in it, but I am saying nothing 
until I can see what these bacteria are 
up to. I came out of Massachusetts my¬ 
self, with some tough bacteria pounded 
and ground into me. I hope this Soy 
bean soil will do more for New Jersey 
than I have. 
Garden Notes. —We had our first eat¬ 
ing of Alaska peas June 10. That doesn’t 
mean a tablespoonful of peas all around, 
but three or four saucerfuls for each 
member of the family. Really, we need 
soup plates to serve fruit or vegetables 
at Hope Farm. NOtt’s Excelsior and 
Telephone peas are following. 
Our people will eat string beans even 
when Limas are at their besit, so we 
keep sowing the beans right through the 
Summer—one short row at a time. . . 
. . Turnips, beets, spinach and onions 
are on deck. I am very fond of small, 
tender turnips and beets. Our people 
are strong on onions. ’They cut them up 
and mix them with all sorts of food, 
naked beans or boiled cow peas and 
cnopped oniOn is a ration that sends our 
workers out to conquer old fields and 
smooth them into usefulness. 
We are short on strawberries this year 
but we have 20 or more varieties start¬ 
ed. The soil is so full of white grufbs 
that it will be hard to save the plants. 
I hope to pot about 800 plants for Fall 
setting, chiefly Gladstone and Marshall. 
. . . . The potted sweet corn has 
taken such a start of la/te, that I must 
call it a success to date. 
All Sorts.— The ooys find Whole rows 
in the cornfield with 10 to 12 stalks in 
the hill. Some of these rows belong to 
me, I think. We got the tar pretty 
thick on the seed, and, to tell the truth, 
I was afraid of it, and so I dropped in 
enough to cover any loss. It all sprout¬ 
ed. These fellows without much faith 
in new things should make it up by ex¬ 
tra work.The Madame is 
talking emphaitically these days about 
the looks of the yard. “Pretty work!” 
she says, “with all these men folks, and 
such a looking lawn! Just look at that 
grass!” If you will excuse me, that’s 
just what I don’t want to look at. It 
doesn’t appease the lady at all to ask 
her to come over and see how hard we 
worked putting in the cow peas. . . • 
I am satisfied that the crows have been 
at work on the Potato beetles. Who 
can tell anything about this?. 
Last year I used Paragrene with suc¬ 
cess. It killed the beetles, and did not 
scorch the vines. I shall use it again 
this year by the side of Paris-green. . 
The first cultivation of the corn 
was done with the diamond-tooth culti¬ 
vator. This tool is really a light, nar¬ 
row harrow, with fine teelth, which 
scratch and tear up the sod without any 
plowing or digging. We do noit run 
closer than six inches from the hill at 
this first cultivation.I hope 
to give al'l corn and potatoes one good 
hand hoeing. I know that a fair crop 
can be grown without it, but I want 
the fields to be clean, if possible. We 
shall hill up all crops just a little, and 
this will be done with the two-horse cul¬ 
tivator about July 1. Some men think 
that this hilling should be done with the 
hoe, and they lift tons of dirt on the 
hoe blade Which should be done by the 
horses. “The man with the hoe” can 
do a heap of damage if you let him. 
Double-Working Loafers. — There 
are several loafer fields at the back of 
the farm. They are actual “mossfbacks,” 
and grown up to ferns and cedars. The 
first week in June Charlie wenit in with 
the sulky plow and plowed double fur¬ 
rows across these fields where he could 
get a chance. These furrows are ir¬ 
regular and crooked, for they had to 
dodge rocks, trees and brush. Unde Ed 
and Hugh followed, and sowed cow peas 
on top of these furrows, using a small 
amount of nitrate of soda. Then the 
AOme was run twice lengthwise, and 
this worked imoslt of the peas under. At 
intervals along these double furrows we 
are planting pumpkins, using a large 
handful of potato manure in each hill. 
A hole is scooped out with a hoe, and 
tne fertilizer dropped in and covered 
with the seed on top. The cow peas and 
pumpkins are expected to run out over 
the unplowed ground! Will they do it? 
I hope so—I believe it, too, but I’ll tell 
you later. Even if we never get a pea 
or a pumpkin, 1 won’t complain. We 
have tried to shake up a loafer, anyway. 
H. w. c. 
It is said that the phylloxera destroyed 
450,000 acres of vineyards in Spain in 1890. 
Kansas Farmer says that the hen is a 
lay delegate and belongs to the popular set. 
Farm, Stock and Home says that ice 
water is all right in the dairy, but en¬ 
tirely out of place in a man’s stomach. 
A western exchange says that Wyoming 
claims to be the leading wool State, hav¬ 
ing over 3,500,000 head of sheep, yielding 
25,000,000 pounds of wool, a trifle over seven 
pounds per head. 
The United States Consul at Valencia, 
Spain, reports that that Province annually 
imports 50,000 tons of sulphates, 8,000 tons 
of superphosphates, and 20,000 tons of ni¬ 
trate, for the manufacture of commercial 
fertilizer. 
According to reports from San Fran¬ 
cisco, the warehouses there are crowded 
with freight for Honolulu, which was to 
be held back until the Hawaiian tariff was 
removed June 14. Among these goods are 
?60,000 worth of automobiles, on which ?12,- 
000 duty would be charged if they were 
shipped earlier. 
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