1902 
71 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
I have another big grist of personal 
questions. I hesitate to answer some of 
them in print, because in spite of all some 
people are sure to take what I say as 
direct advice, when it is only meant as an 
opinion, or a record of experience or obser¬ 
vation. I often wish people would not 
transfer the brands on special and general 
advice. 
Training a Mane.— Here is a letter from 
an Ohio man:— 
“How can I compel or train my mare's 
mane to lie all on one side of her neck? 
I think the mare was at one time owned 
by a person who kept the mane clipped 
short, causing it to stand erect like the 
mane of a mule. Now it has about reach¬ 
ed its natural length and is very pretty ex¬ 
cepting that it very stubbornly insists 
on dividing, part lying on wrong side of 
neck, nothwithstanding my many and 
repeated efforts by plaiting, training, etc.” 
The only personal experience I have 
had with this trouble was a “cow lick’’ on 
my own head. A part of the hair persist¬ 
ed in sticking up straight while the rest 
would lie down. I finally broke the back¬ 
bone of this stubborn lock by constant 
wetting and hard brushing. Perhaps your 
mare has what is called a double mane 
—with a part in the middle. If Nature 
aimed that hair both ways you will have a 
job to change the direction. I would wet 
the mane and spend what time I could 
brushing it hard with a stiff brush in the 
direction you want it to go. I have had 
more experience with bad habits than with 
bad hairs. I have thought sometimes that 
habits were pulled out—only to have them 
root and grow worse than ever. Cutting 
them off seems to make them harder! Try 
to keep them pliable and then change 
their direction! 
have brought me over $100. I sowed the seed j 
on one-eighth acre of ground. On one-half 
the piece I spread three tons of city ma- I 
nure at $2 per ton and then spread 16 
bushels of wood ashes (costing me $ 2 ) 
after the ground was plowed. On the 
other half I sowed 400 pounds of potato 
fertilizer costing me $6. The onions where 
I sowed the fertilizer were larger and 
finer in every way than where I put the 
manure.” p - 
My plans are not fully ripe yet, but they 
will include something in this line. Philip 
is getting his hotbeds ready and will 
start seeds of lettuce, celery, tomatoes 
and early cabbage in time. The lower part 
of the farm is strong. I feel that it will 
pay me to crowd our manure there and 
grow small fruits, celery and possibly 
onions. The back of the farm I shall seed 
down and plant apple and peach trees, 
using fertilizer, cow peas and clover for 
plant food. I want to go all over these 
plans soon, so as to compare notes with 
friends. 
Farm Notes.— The days are chock full of 
work this Winter. From Grandmother 
down to the youngest calf all are busy. 
The Madame still keeps up her little 
school, and with all the trials of a busy 
housekeeper has hands and heart full. 
Even the little Bud has plenty to do with 
school and sewing, her little share of 
housework and her short play time. What 
a glorious thing it is to be busy! Dig into 
the history of those who say they are un¬ 
happy, and you will find idleness some¬ 
where. That cannot be, you will say, be¬ 
cause all know poor drudges who toil in¬ 
cessantly and yet are not happy. Yes, but 
they do not see the true joy of labor which 
comes from self-denial—toiling in order 
that others may be helped.It 
occurs to me that many lives—in country 
and in town—are somewhat like the dish- 
rag I found in our kitchen. It had been 
squeezed and wrung up into a twist and 
Cow Pea Varieties.— There are so many 
letters like the following from New York 
State that I answer it now: 
“Which is the best kind of cow pea for 
us, and what is the best way to sow, the 
same as you would drill in grain, or drill 
in rows so they may be worked with cul¬ 
tivator? I wish to plow them under.” 
F. G. s. 
For green manuring I would use the 
late varieties. They will not make seed, 
but will make far more vine than the 
earlies. Whippoorwill, Wonderful and Clay 
have given me heavy yields. If you expect 
to mature seed use Early Black, New Era 
or Mount Olive. If I had a grain drill I 
would drill the cow peas 30 inches apart 
and cultivate them. Not owning a drill 
I broadcast as I do all grain. If you ever 
use fertilizer it is well to put a fair 
amount of potash and acid rock on the 
cow peas. The peas will act as fertilizer 
mixer and put nitrogen with the minerals 
so as to give a complete mixture. Would 
I use an early or a late variety? I have 
been using Early Black but I am now 
about satisfied that we help the soil more 
by growing the big vines and not attempt¬ 
ing to produce seed. 
Why, then, do farmers begin by growing 
the early varieties? 
tossed away, so that it dried in a hard 
lump. It should have been untwisted and 
shaken out to the sun and air. The lives 
of some hard-working people are not un¬ 
like that dishrag. The rude forces of life 
have twisted and wrung them with trial 
and work without reversing the process 
and taking out the twist. There they are, 
all crumpled and narrowed. What a 
blessed thing it is when such lives can be 
shaken out and aired and sunned. 
But this, you will say, has nothing to do 
with farming, and I have no space to 
argue with you about it. The hens—but 
wait until the end of the month! They are 
laying a few eggs, but they should be do¬ 
ing better.The filly has been 
weaned at last. She is a large, handsome 
animal, and bids fair to beat her mother 
in speed and style.Spot, the 
latest calf, is a daughter of the old cow, 
and the best of all, we think. Her two 
sisters are half Holstein, and I do not care 
for any more cross-bred heifers. Spot is 
a pure Jersey, her sire being a good-sized, 
hearty animal with a good pedigree. I 
have said before how I hope to obtain a 
small but choice herd all with the blood 
of the old cow and alike in size and color. 
.The smaller barn has never 
been painted. The timber is old and very 
dry—thirsty enough to drink a barrel of 
paint. We have given it first a coat ol 
crude petroleum, and shall use a ready- 
mixed paint over this. On the new house 
we plan to try oil and lead and do our 
own mixing. H - w - c - 
NEURALGIA 
One reason is that unless they can get 
a crop of seed they think they have been 
cheated! No man would be satisfied to 
grow a crop of beans for the vines alone! 
When a man tries a crop of cow peas for 
the first time, and picks a fair crop of seed, 
he feels that there is some return for his 
money. He needs that thought, for there 
is no doubt about the fact that cow pea 
vines in Winter look as though they were 
dead failures. If he did not get a crop of 
seed the farmer would often get so dis¬ 
gusted with them that he would give them 
up as a fraud. Their good works live after 
them, and show up in the crops that fol¬ 
low. If a farmer lose interest in them he 
is quite likely to credit the good they do to 
something else. If he puts credit where 
it belongs he will see that twice as much 
vine will mean a larger future crop, and 
so he will gradually work into the late 
varieties and let the seed crop go. 
Vegetable Growing.— Several weeks ago 
I said that I was tempted to let Philip go 
ahead and plant a fair space in onions 
and celery. Here are some remarks from 
a Jersey man: 
“I second the motion in regard to letting 
Philip plant some onions another year, but 
if that field at the lower part of the farm 
is inclined to be wet don’t do it, you will 
have too many scullions. I find onions a 
very profitable crop. Last year I sent for 
two pounds of Southport Yellow Globe. 
The seedsmen sent two pounds of Yellow 
Globe Danvers. I sold one pound and im¬ 
mediately sent to another seed house for 
a pound of Southport, and I would have 
been better off if 1 had given the other 
pound of Yellow Danvers away and got two 
pounds of the Southport, as they outyield- 
ed the Yellow Danvers two to one. I 
sowed the two pounds of seed and har¬ 
vested 120 bushels of onions, which sold 
for $88, and had I kept them till now would 
We suggest curing a pain in 
the face by taking Scott’s 
Emulsion into the stomach. 
Usual way of treating neural¬ 
gia is to rub liniment on the 
outside. That’s only a make¬ 
shift. 
Scott’s Emulsion is nerve 
food. Scott’s Emulsion feeds 
and strengthens nerves. 
For an obstinate neuralgia, 
for nervousness, for nerve 
weakness take Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion. It’s nerve food and nerve 
strength. 
We’ll send you a little to try, if you like. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street, New York. 
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