1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
291 
HOPE FARM HOTE.S 
Farm Plans.— Thus far they have 
worked out quite well except for a rain 
that we did not figure on. The clover seed 
went on the grain just about right. The 
oats and peas were sown April 4. The 
peas were thrown on the bare ground 
among the corn stubble and plowed under 
with the small plow. That soil is too 
stony to use the Cutaway. Then the oats 
were scattered on the rough furrows and 
worked in with the Acme twice. Then as 
an experiment we sowed five quarts Qf 
clover seed to the acre and covered it with 
the weeder. That left a good job excep.t 
that the Acme and weeder pulled up too 
many corn roots. They will rot. We used 
400 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. I apn 
told that the oats and peas will smother 
out the clover. Let’s see about that. Why 
do we sow oats and peas? There are five 
hungry cows walking about, and part of 
the old pasture will be plowed for corn. 
With rye, wheat, barley and fodder corn 
this oat and pea crop should carry our 
cattle through the Summer. W T hile Hugh 
was doing this Charlie was fitting the land 
for barley and Alfalfa. It was well plowecl 
and thoroughly fined with the Acme. We 
used 2Vz bushels of barley per acre and 
about 18 pounds of Alfalfa seed. This was 
sown the same as the clover—after the 
barley and covered with the weeder. It 
was a good job except that too many corn 
roots worked up to the surface. From the 
best advice I can get I judge that it does 
not pay to use the roller after seeding 
clover or Alfalfa. Why use barley? Oats 
do not do well in our country. I rely on 
the advice of good farmers who tell me 
that beardless barley is the best grain for 
Spring seeding, and by far the best to cut 
as hay. After finishing the barley and 
Alfalfa ’job Charlie began on the ground 
where we are to grow potatoes and sugar 
beets. This will be plowed once and well 
harrowed—then covered with a thick coat 
of manure, plowed again, and harrowed 
and harrowed. 
Garden and Fruit.— Philip planted Alas¬ 
ka peas April 3. Before plowing the 
ground was covered with hog manure. 
When the peas are about two inches high 
Cory and Crosby sweet corn will be planted 
two feet apart in the row. By giving the 
little plants care they will grow above the 
peas and do quite well. When the pea.s 
are picked Hubbard squash will be planted 
between the rows. The corn can be cut 
out in time so that it will not step on the 
corns of the squash! Then, if we like, we 
can sow Crimson clover and rape or .tur¬ 
nips among the squash, as the vines begin, 
to cover the ground. If the season is 
very dry we shall not attempt this. 
.The big chicken yard where we 
are to have onions was plowed March 29. 
The hens scratched and tore at it, and 
Philip and the children raked and picked 
load after load of stones. These were put 
along the bottom of the chicken fences. 
All the year’s accumulation of chicken 
manure was scattered over the ground, 
which will be plowed again and harrowed 
and raked until it is right. On part of 
this yard Philip will drill onion seed in the 
usual way. On the rest he will transplant 
little plants of Prizetalcer onion now grow¬ 
ing in flats and in the hotbed. 
Great stories are told about this plan qf 
transplanting onions. They seem plausible, 
but so have others which somehow failed 
to connect with our manner of doing 
things. I can see the advantages of this 
method. We will give it a fair trial. Philip 
has read the books which describe the 
plan in detail. He says one man tells us 
to set the plants three inches apart in the 
row, and then tells about onions nine 
inches in diameter. He wants to know 
where they grow to. We’ll attempt to find 
out, for the best and the richest plant food 
that Hope Farm can show up will go into 
that onion patch. Why don’t we plunge 
in and raise two acres and get rich all at 
once? We don’t plunge half as much as 
we used to! 
Clover Seeding.— It was a sharp biting 
morning with a little flurry of snow on 
the ground. The rye in that “loafer field” 
at the far western end of the farm was 
Just right for the clover seed. If there is 
one farm job that I like to do it is to sow 
clover, and I picked out that one job for 
myself. The Cutting had breakfast started 
early, and I climbed our big hill only a 
little behind the sun. The boys thought 
the wind was too high for good seeding. It 
did blow hard on the hill, but the field 
beyond the woods is well sheltered, so on 
I went with my bag of seed and the Ca- 
hoon seeder. Shep trotted ahead. He and 
I make many a journey to the peach or¬ 
chard. I think Shep knows as much about 
the Stringfellow method of planting trees 
as most experiment station men in the 
country! But we were not concerned 
about the trees that morning for we walked 
on through the thick woods, across the 
little swamp till we reached Westward 
Ho! That’s what I call my western 
"loafer^field,” but Uncle Ed, who has never 
read Kingsley, always thought I meant 
If you want the best, the most im¬ 
proved and the most reliable hinder in 
the world—buy the McCormick—it is 
the unit of measure in harvesting ma¬ 
chines.— Adv. 
hoe! It doesn’t take long to fill the hopper 
with seed, and off we are on a steady 
tramp, keeping time to the click of the 
seeder. Shep goes two or three rounds 
with me and then goes back to the tree 
where we buried old Franko, and watches 
—with sharp ears and wide-open eyes. The 
frost has left the soil with a network of 
little cracks running here and there, i 
love to watch the seed as it is whirled out 
of the seeder. It bumps and jumps along, 
finally settling into one of these little 
cracks—just where it ought to go to be 
covered for its sprouting. As I march up 
and down across that field I think what 
it means to be sowing clover. Two years 
ago when we started, the field was half 
way back into the forest. It was a mass 
of weeds and briars with clumps of birches 
and cedars growing among them. There 
was plenty of chance for work near the 
house. This field is a mile or more from 
the road, but I was determined to save it 
if I could. We burned it over and plowed 
it and planted cow peas. Here I am sow¬ 
ing clover seed on a good field of rye, 
which but for the plow and the cow pea.s 
would have been captured by that hungry 
wood which has now been beaten back to 
the swamp! It does a fellow good to 
realize that he has saved a field from the 
forest in this way, yet who else will care 
to keep up the battle? If I pass away be¬ 
fore I can get this field well set with 
thrifty apple trees, who will care if the 
cedars and the briars do capture it? T 
don’t know what thoughts come into the 
minds of other clover seeders, but these 
things come to me as I watch the seeds 
dart out and roll over the ground. I know 
not who cut this field out of the depths of 
these silent woods or why he did it—so 
far from his home. I might be wiser to 
give it back to Nature and use my clover 
seed elsewhere, but with that strange ob¬ 
stinacy which wins from others the title 
of “crank,” I have determined to make 
myself remembered in that field. Yes. 
some day people will come and bless the 
memory of the Hope Farm man because 
he planted an apple orchard in this out-of- 
the-way place, after his cow peas and 
clover had civilized the soil. I woufd 
rather have my memory kept green by a 
ripe Baldwin apple than by some unripe 
inscription on a stone! 
All Sorts.—I have found a useful job 
which seems like play to the little boys. 
It is splitting wood. They each have a 
little ax and they really call It fun to 
chop up the chunks left by the buzz saw. 
.We expect to try the “dust 
method” of spraying. A big blower or 
“Jumbo” dust gun has been placed at our 
disposal, and I want to use dry dust on 
half the orchard and the liquid spray on 
the other. We have used the dust on 
potatoes with good results—I do not see 
why it should not prove fairly effective on 
trees, provided we can apply it while the 
leaves are moist.I am somd'-’ 
times asked to give prices for farm 
products in our markets. Early in April 
we charge $3 each for grade pigs just 
weaned, 18 cents a dozen for eggs, five 
cents a quart for milk, $1 a bushel for seed 
potatoes, $1.25 for Thoroughbred flint seed 
corn, $3 per cord for wood and all the way 
from $1.50 to $2.50 for telephone poles as 
they stand in the woods. 
Greening apples are thought to be out of 
season in April. They are past their prime, 
but I find no trouble in eating half a dozen 
every day. Our apples have kept well, 
though they are about gone. I feel sure 
that Greenings and Russets will always be 
popular with a good class of buyers, and 1 
shall plant quite largely of them. 
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