1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
771 
Old 
New 
Place. 
Place. 
.. .39 
.35 
.. .04 
.039 
.. .03 
.026 
.. .32 
.28 
.. .60 
.28 
.. .42 
.33 
..$1.80 
$1.30 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Taxes. —Bugs, blight and weeds may 
cut down the potato crop, but our old 
friend the tax collector never fails. We 
have just received our tax bills, and 1 
give the items below for the purpose of 
comparison. We pay tax on personal 
property at the old farm and on real 
estate at the new place. 
RATE OF TAXATION. 
County Tax. 
Bounty Interest.... 
Poor .03 
State School.32 
Borough Purposes.. 
Special School. 
Total rate, per $100.$1.80 
I am rather ashamed to say that I pay 
50 cents for keeping a dog for the chil¬ 
dren to play with. The rate of taxation 
on the new place is lower. In our 
county the old townships have been 
largely cut up into “boroughs,” each of 
which supports its mayor and “council.” 
This “borough” business is often hard 
on farmers, who are forced to pay a 
good share of the cost of light, sewers 
and water for some little town inhabited 
chiefly by commuters. It is a favorite 
scheme in our country for some sharp 
landowners to get a large tract of land 
near a railroad station. They establish 
a “borough” government, and vote ap¬ 
propriations for sewers, electric lights, 
macadam roads and what not. They 
make a great thing out of selling lots 
and renting houses. 
Pubi.ic Burdens. —I have no objec¬ 
tion to paying my share of the public 
expenses, but most of us feel that taxes 
are usually too high. Take the matter 
of schools, for example. Nearly half my 
taxes this year go to support schools. I 
have paid these taxes for 10 years, and 
yet the Cutting is the only person con¬ 
nected with our family who has re¬ 
ceived any direct benefit. In spite of 
this, I am now asked to pay $40 extra 
for sending her to the advanced public 
school in our county town! My own 
education cost the taxpayers mighty 
little. 1 paid for about all I had after 
I was 12 years old. As it is now, the 
landowners are largely educating the 
children of those who pay little if any of 
our taxes. Do we get our money’s worth 
out of the present public-school system? 
I am frank to say that I doubt it. The 
Madame is an old school-teacher, and I 
tried a few terms myself. It seems to 
us that our public schools scatter and 
stuff too much, and that the system is 
recklessly expensive. I notice generally 
that it is the people who provide most 
of the children and least of the public 
money who shout loudest for new build¬ 
ings and other improvements. We have 
no State tax in New Jersey. The tax 
on corporations provides for State ex¬ 
penses. Perhaps the corporations don’t 
get their money back out of our legis¬ 
latures and “councils.” 
The Potato Chop. —With a small area 
yet to dig we have harvested 1,079 
bushels. That is quite a come-down 
from our estimate, but the late varieties 
simply fell down on us. In some places 
where we hoped for 200 bushels per acre 
we dug only 40! Sir Walter Raleigh and 
R. N.-Y. No. 2 were the traitors this 
year. The early crop was very satisfac¬ 
tory. Rural Blush did well, and Carman 
No. 3 was fair, but don’t mention the 
other two to Charlie and Uncle Ed! 
There are causes for this. First, I think 
a mistake was made in cutting the seed. 
These Carman varieties mostly throw 
out sprouts at one end. The eyes near 
the stem end are nearly worthless. I 
think too many of these stem-end eyes 
were planted. This made many misses 
and more slim, spindling plants. Then 
we planted some of them too late, for 
there was a long drought, which stunted 
and weakened the plants so that they 
fell easy victims to the blight. I never 
saw a spindling potato plant «which 
dawdled along as these did, finally pro¬ 
duce a full crop. A quick, sharp and 
steady growth seems to be necessary. 
Loss of Crop. — I have just been read¬ 
ing some figures from the Vermont Ex¬ 
periment Station, which indicate what is 
lost when the potato plant cannot reach 
its full development. The potatoes were 
planted about the middle of May, and 
well cared for. White Star and Dela¬ 
ware were used. They began to dig 
August 1, and kept at it every 10 days, 
in order to see how much the potatoes 
gained. Here are the figures: 
Bushels. 
August 2. 65 
August 12. 103 
August 22. 148 
September 2. 222 
September 12. 240 
September 22..... 283 
October 1. 301 
You will see that the heaviest growth 
was made during the latter part of 
August, while nearly one-third of the 
yield was made during September. Dur¬ 
ing the last two weeks of August these 
potatoes made nearly seven bushels per 
day to the acre. I believe these figures 
are substantially correct for our coun¬ 
try. We must learn how to keep the 
plants growing up to the middle of Sep¬ 
tember, at least. We saved part of our 
early crop by using nitrate of soda. I 
wish now that we had used it on the 
late potatoes. 
A Sick Calf.— A friend in New York 
State apparently voices the sentiments 
of many others when he writes: 
I have been patiently waiting for some 
other subscriber to The It. N.-Y. to rise 
up, and gently reprove the Hope Farm 
man for springing that joke on us lately—1 
refer to that carefully-written article 
which apparently suggested the arrival of 
a small human, but it turned out to be 
quadrupedal. Maybe the audacity of it 
staggered them. 
I suppose, really, I ought to apologize 
for that story, and yet the little calf 
was really “a new daughter.” We found 
how much we thought of her when she 
was taken sick the other day. The men 
folks were away, and the Madame got 
nearly everybody that came near to di¬ 
agnose the case. Luckily, all these 
amateur doctors prescribed much the 
same thing—raw egg, sweet oil, warm 
milk, ginger and pepper! The Madame 
and Aunt Patience nursed the calf, but 
I can’t tell how the medicine was given. 
Whether they threw Blossom down and 
sat on her, or whether it was a sort of 
bicycle hold, I am unable to say. At any 
rate, the calf was alive at night. Aunt 
Patience saw the black Jersey tongue, 
and concluded that the calf was chok¬ 
ing. That was about as near as some 
of the wise ones came to the cause. The 
calf got so bad that I sent for the Vet. 
He came in late at night, and pro¬ 
nounced it a case of lead poisoning. He 
said that the chances were against her, 
but that good nursing might save her. 
Charlie made a good nurse, and finally 
carried Blossom through. As I write 
she seems all over it. He had her tied 
up in bags at one time, for the barn 
was cold and the little thing trembled 
like a leaf. We cannot understand 
where she got at any paint. When first 
found she stood grinding her teeth, and 
seemed unable to swallow. Later, she 
fell over in convulsions. 
Odd Notes.— My belief is that coal 
will be high this Winter, and I have en¬ 
gaged the full Winter’s supply. I shall 
have it hauled at once, before the heavy 
rains come. Money costs too much to 
pay it out for water in the coal. . . . 
It pays to burn sulphur in a new house 
before moving in. This is no reflection 
on former tenants. The sulphuring de¬ 
stroys germs as well as insects. A box 
of lime in the damp cellar is another 
wise precaution. At the new farm there 
is a big cistern right under the kitchen 
floor. That must be pumped dry and 
limed. We shall disconnect it with the 
roof at once.We had our first 
taste of roast duck last Sunday. This 
is the first duck we have killed. The 
majority voted it better than chicken. 
It is wonderful how the meat is packed 
around a duck’s frame, and how easily 
it slips off the breast bone. Well, it 
certainly packs on easily.The 
last week in October I found potato 
plants still growing in an open shed 
where we dumped some of our small 
early potatoes. The plants were rank 
and green. I feel sure that with a little 
protection we can mature a second crop 
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