1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8o3 
Hope Farm Notes 
I have had so many questions and com¬ 
ments of late that it seems best to take a 
week’s space to consider some of them. 
Dishorning Cows.—Here is a note from 
a friend in Pennsylvania: 
"You say on page 739 your kicking cow 
(Julia) 'is nearly at the end of her rope, 
also that “she has given many a thrust 
with her sharp horns, which only lacked 
a little truer aim to do great damage.' 
Really, 1 am surprised that in this day of 
improvements any man should keep a 
vicious cow for the length of time you have 
had Julia, and not have those sharp horns 
removed. I would suggest that you go sit 
on the stone wall and have another think. 
It is my experience that dishorning, both 
for bulls and cows, has a wonderful effect 
on their viciousness. While it may not 
stop a confirmed kicker I know a number 
of instances where it did. The horns of a 
cow are the heavy artillery, the heels, the 
musketry, and it is my experience with 
quite a number of cows that dishorning 
them or taking the artillery from them 
puts them entirely out of business as 
lighters. They seem to have no use for 
the musketry once the artillery is gone. 
If I had a cow such as you describe Julia, 
to be I should surely try dishorning her 
first before making beef of her. One of 
the very best results of dishorning is the 
quieting effect it has on cattle. The big 
guns are gone, consequently they seem to 
think it hardly worth while to open up with 
musketry.” gi?o. b. kase. 
I have tried to think the horns off a good 
many troubles while sitting on that stone 
wall. I think it likely Mr. Kase is right, 
though I do not think Julia carries all her 
ugliness in her horns. When a cow can 
jump up in the air and kick with all four 
feet at once it will take more than a saw 
to sober her. By taking some of the confi¬ 
dence out of her heart we might take some 
light from her hoofs. There has been lit¬ 
tle if any dishorning done in our neighbor¬ 
hood—most people regard it as. cruel. I 
will admit that I should have sold Julia or 
cut off her horns when I found what a 
heeler she is. There is a local prejudice 
here against both kicking cows and horn¬ 
less ones. I ought to have been the man 
to ldil both prejudices with one saw! If, 
as Friend Kase says, cutting off those 
sharp horns will cut out the kicking I 
ought to have demonstrated the fact to my 
neighbors. I may do it anyway, as I find 
it hard to get a customer for Julia. 
Hens Day Pumpkins.—S later Brown of 
Ohio sends this account of what a hen may 
leave behind her: 
“Dast March we plowed and dug a piece 
of land that Is 120x60 feet. It had been used 
for a. number of years tor a chicken yard. 
Growing on it were 15 large fruit trees; on 
the border of it nearly as many more. 
April 1 we marked it out and planted one 
bushel of medium-sized potatoes without 
cutting. We dug holes in the bottom of 
the furrow. By July 4 we dug 14 bushels 
of potatoes, w r hich sold for $1 per bushel. 
As we dug the potatoes we planted Cushaw 
and Hubbard squash seed. It occurred to 
us that the bugs might destroy the vines, 
and we planted sweet corn among the vines 
and then as an early frost might kill the 
corn we sowed turnips. We got 150 pump¬ 
kins, 12 Hubbard squashes, had ears of 
corn (several dozen) until November 3, and 
there is a crop of turnips yet to gather. 
The usual custom among farmers is to let 
the weeds take the ground when the first 
crop" is gathered. I attribute this good 
yield of pumpkins in part to the fact that 
we had 25 colonies of bees located on this 
piece of ground and on the border of it.” 
1 have often noticed the great fertility of 
an old henyard. That is one reason why 
we have double yards—the hens run in one 
while" the other is producing some garden 
crop. Mr. Brown’s experience shows what 
a man can do on a small area if lie can 
have good soil To begin with, and then take 
care of his crops. IIow much better it is 
to have two Or throe crops in one season 
than to raised one" crop and then let the 
weeds take possession. Speaking- of hens 
and the good they do the soil. 1 believe that 
a moiffiieationfof Mr<Mapes’s plan would be 
just dbout ideal for a yotyjg orchard. I am 
thinkipg of enclosing about two acres of 
orchard in a-wire fence and keeping about 
500 hejrfe ins;de-rin scattered houses. I have 
seen the effect of this hen cultivation on a 
few trees, and if we can keep hens enough 
to the acre, I do not see why we cannot 
duplicate the results on an orchard. 
When you talk about trees tell us how 
you intend to handle the orchard that was 
planted on Election Day. 
There is rye now growing in that field. 
When it gets about 30 inches hign next 
Spring it will be .cut and most of it will be 
banked' around the young trees. We may 
need some of the rye for fodder but all 
that we can spare will be- used for mulch¬ 
ing. Bater in the season we expect to plant 
two rows of cow peas and five rows of fod¬ 
der corn between each two rows of trees, 
keeping these crops well cultivated. The 
cow peas will be cut and put around the 
trees, and so will part of the corn fodder— 
saving only enough for our stock. In the 
early Fall the field will be put in shape 
and sown to grass as -we would for a 
meadow, and from that time on I hope 
never to plow it again. 
But why seed to grass? 
Because grass will provide more humus 
or vegetable matter than weeds or wild 
stuff. If I can possibly help it I shall never 
take any of this grass out of the orchard, 
but cut it and leave it around and under 
the trees as a mulch. 
Managing the “Girls.”— Some friend, 
unknown to me, has sent me the enclosed 
clipping: 
“A modern statesman says that the best 
way in the world for a man to keep young 
is to keep in practice making love to the 
girls. Try it on the ‘old girl’ who looks 
after your household. Note the effect on 
her, too.” 
I don’t know the age of this so-called 
modern statesman, or whether he practices 
what he preaches, but the chances arc nine 
in ten that lie would much better bestow a 
good share of his love upon his suffering 
country! Do I mean that our- country is 
in need of the love of “statesmen?” That's 
precisely what I mean. There never was a 
time since the Pilgrims nearly slipped off 
Plymouth Rock when what we may call the 
Fatherland needed greater personal love 
and self-denial than to-day! The few 
“statesmen” that I have closely examined 
have made me exceedingly tired. If, as this 
one claims, making love to the girls will 
keep them young, and they do their great¬ 
est work in youth, I wouldn't be surprised 
if the girls would serve their country well 
by giving them the cold shoulder! As for 
making love to the “old girl”—that s right 
—but it ought not to be necessary to go 
through a long process of “making”—it 
should be all readymade! I fear that some 
old girls would be shocked at the manu¬ 
facture—which has become a lost art in 
their households. By all means “try it on 
the old girl”; make her young again and 
then see the “statesman’s” saying come 
true. But what have you been up to all 
these years that such a “trial” is neces¬ 
sary? 
All Sorts.— Corn husking was finished 
November 14. We have nearly 100 bushels 
of grain more than last year, and from a 
smaller acreage too. The fodder is in splen¬ 
did shape—crisp and green. Now if we can 
only get it all under cover before the long 
rains start we shall close our corn season 
with a good mark. That fertilizer put on 
in July did the business. . . . We have 
pumpkins enough to last until December 1. 
Thus far there has been little severe weath¬ 
er, and the pumpkins have been fed with¬ 
out waste. When they are gone we shall 
begin on the sugar beets, after which will 
come the yellow turnips. These turnips 
are very fine this year. They were seeded 
late and are really a second crop, yet we 
are pulling 500 bushels per acre. The tops 
make good feed Tor hogs and cows. I had 
always supposed that Major, the old horse, 
would eat anything, but he balks at a 
sugar beet, though every other animal on 
the place will eat them greedily. 
How about flat life in New York? Well, 
we are packed away in our box as com¬ 
fortably as possible. It takes time for 
country folks to shake all the hay seed out 
of their hair. In one way housekeeping 
comes close to play in one of these modern 
apartments. There are conveniences for 
obtaining food and serving it which the 
country housekeeper does not dream of. 
Next wqek I will try to tell of some of the 
things which seem odd to a countryman 
who tries to work himself into- the city 
groove. This makes me remember that a 
friend in California has sent the following 
verses—with “my compliments to the Hope 
Farm man.”. First I know friends will 
picture me walking up" Fifth Avenue with 
eye glass and cane! Disease has driven us 
to the city for a few months, but I hope 
nothing short of death would drive us to 
the things which this poet has forcibly ex¬ 
pressed: 
The long suit of our snobs is wealth—tho 
hull blamed push Is rich, 
Thor short suit is in intellect, morality an’ 
sich. 
The Lord lie kind o.’ evens up on most 
things here below; 
An’ when He’s somewhat scant o’ brains 
Ho makes it up with dough. 
This suits the snobs, for what they lack in 
brains they never miss; 
An’ livin’ on what others makes is ther 
idee o’ bliss. 
It gives them opportunity fer raisin’ of the 
deuce. 
Which same they do a plenty, when our 
Snobs 
Break • 
Loose. 
Sometimes they git divorces an’ are mar¬ 
ried the same day. 
Sometimes they marry dukes an’ then with, 
fiddlers run away. 
Sometimes they dodge ther taxes an’ then 
turn an’ smite the hand 
That fed ’em: they won’t live in -sich a 
’orrid, vulgar land. 
Sometimes they have swell dinners at 
which little Egypts dance. 
Sometimes they lead a mob of titled im¬ 
beciles in France. 
But whatsoe’er they do with tawdry show 
they’re most profuse. 
The hull blamed country blushes when our 
Snobs 
Break 
Loose. 
I agree that the American snob ought to 
be kept on a chain. h. w. c. 
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