1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8i9 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Pigs and Potatoes. —We exchanged 
25 bushels of potatoes for six little pigs, 
and now we shall sell to these pigs about 
50 bushels of little potatoes and the 
culled apples. The older pigs have done 
fairly well on raw potatoes, but these 
little fellows should have them cooked. 
Our cooker is in good condition, and we 
shall soon have 'it at work. Experience 
last Winter demonstrated the value of a 
cooker. We used great quantities of 
small potatoes, turnips and small cab¬ 
bage. Chips and waste wood can be 
used for the fire, and the cookers are 
quite economical of heat. We do not 
find it economical to cook bran or any 
of the stronger grains, but for bulky 
foods the cooking is certainly a great 
help. A soup of potatoes, cabbage and 
turnips, well thickened with corn meal, 
is great food for fattenling pigs. This 
bulky food, hot from the cooker, is far 
ahead of the same amount of vegetables 
fed raw. A bit of meat or some bones 
boiled with the vegetables adds to the 
“flavor,” and pleases the pigs. We con¬ 
sider a cooker a first-class investment, 
on a farm like ours, where there are 
many wastes after sorting out the sal¬ 
able products. 
George Washington’s Example.— 
The Madame was away one day last 
week, and Grandmother took care of the 
children. At night there were such 
glowing reports about their good be¬ 
havior that I became suspicious at once. 
In the morriing I found one of our fine 
big cherry trees well hacked with a 
hatchet. There was a big scar on the 
side and a bad wound on one of the 
roots. The Graft and the older Scion 
are just learning what can be done with 
an edged tool. I marched them up to 
the tree, and “wanted to know, you 
know.” They had to admit it—'there 
wasn’t much else to do, and the Graft 
remembered the placard he carried 
around recently. These boys couldn’t 
tell a lie under the circumstances, 
though their motive was not just like 
that of the immortal George. The fact 
that they were somewhat like the 
Father of his Country was no good rea¬ 
son why I should imitate our country’s 
grandfather. I have always felt that 
the older Mr. Washington failed to do 
his duty, and I don’t hesitate to say that 
I took those boys into the barn and gave 
them just what George Washington 
ought to have had. The boys will prob¬ 
ably say that I gave them his neglected 
dose on top of their own. You may say 
what you will, but there are mighty 
lively germs of citizenship !in a stick 
well laid on while the flesh and the 
character are growing. 
Would I have escorted the little Bud 
to the barn !in case she had cut the 
cherry tree? Well, now, I will be hon¬ 
est, and say that I think I would have 
turned her over to the Madame. You 
know how we men folks do shirk duty 
sometimes. Happily, girls do not try 
to cut trees down! I often tell the 
Madame that the chances are that the 
Graft and the Scion will grow up to 
think more of her than her own sons 
would. It’s an easy job to spoil your 
own child! You can spank some other 
child twice as hard! 
The Water Supply. —We were able 
to buy Hope Farm for about 60 per cent 
of its real value, because there was no 
drinking water on the place nearer than 
the spring, over a quarter of a mile 
away. A well over 80 feet deep had been 
dug near the house, but it was never sat¬ 
isfactory, and it was filled in several 
years ago. I had a drilled well 
put down about 150 feet from the 
house, and 100 feet from the barn. 
They drilled a six-inch hole 140 feet 
deep—over 100 feet through the 
solid rock. They struck a sheet of fine, 
pure water, which rises to within 35 feet 
of the surface. We consider it fully 
equal to the water from the spring, and 
with this deep well there seems an in¬ 
exhaustible supply. It cost us $2 a foot 
for the drilling, but I feel sure that this 
sure supply of fine water has added four 
times its cost to the selling value of the 
farm. 
Leading the Water. —It is one thing 
to have plenty of water, and another to 
have it where you want it. A man 
might have great Strength of body, but 
fail to utilize it through defects in struc¬ 
ture or training in arms and legs. Of 
course the men folks desired the water 
in the barn, so as to water the stock 
handily. When the Madame heard that, 
she declared that the women folks were 
just as much entitled to the water as 
the horses and cows. “House first and 
barn afterwards!” was her motto. We 
walked too many miles at the old farm, 
lugging water into the kitchen. After 
figuring and considering for some time, 
I had a windmill and pump put over the 
well. We put a scaffold of oak plank 
high in the barn, and on this placed a 
Red-cedar tank holding about 1,200 gal¬ 
lons. From the pump to the tank we 
used HA-inch pipe laJid about three feet 
under ground, and well boxed up where 
it passed through the barn. It enters 
the bottom of the tank. There is a 
check valve in the pipe close to the 
pump, and about three feet from it an 
inch pipe leaves the main pipe and runs 
direct to the house—entering the cellar. 
Thus, whenever the mill is running we 
can turn a faucet at the house and take 
fresh water right from the well. We 
have two hydrants—one lin the barn and 
one back of the house, which run with 
good force while the tank is full. This 
water system works well thus far. The 
work was well done, and if the wind 
does its duty, I see no reason why it 
should not prove just what we wish. 
We can use 150 gallons of water a day, 
and still keep too far from Godliness. 
Fall Plowing. —We are having beau¬ 
tiful Fall weather, and the plow is kept 
running steadily. We use a Syracuse 
sulky reversible plow this Fall. Our 
hillsides with their “hardheads” and 
tough sod give such a plow a severe test. 
As most readers know, this plow is 
mounted on wheels. There are two 
plows—one right and one left. We start 
at the lower part of the field and turn 
the first furrow to the right. At the end 
of the field we turn around, pull up the 
right hand plow, let down the other, and 
thus throw the second furrow in the 
same direction as the first. Thus we 
work up the hill, throwing all the fur¬ 
rows down hill—in the same direction. 
There are no dead furrows. The plow 
works very well. I do not see that the 
draft is heavier than on the walking 
plow. I think that the horses move 
faster with it. It strikes some fearful 
blows against hidden stones. In one 
case it turned completely over, but will 
not break. A careless man with a walk¬ 
ing plow would be likely to break his 
ribs on our rocky hillsides. We plan to 
turn over all the sod we can this Fall, 
so as to leave the furrows up to the 
weather through the Winter. 
Odds and Ends. —It does me good to 
see the plow turn up this rich, dark soil. 
It spells fertility with a capital F. 
Charlie has no use for the rocks and 
stones, but there is meat packed close 
around them. No need of stuffing this 
soil—it’s stuffed now.We shall 
plow the orchards last of all. Just now 
they make fine pasture for the stock. At 
the old place the stock had no chance to 
graze and walk about when idle. No 
use talking, Satan finds less mischief for 
them in The pasture than in the stall. . 
. . . One small orchard of young apple 
trees has given us a pleasant surprise. 
We cut the grass and weeds in it last 
Summer, but it seemed too poor to pay 
to rake it up. Now, a thick, rank growth 
of Red clover has come in, though where 
it came from is a mystery. There is 
very little clover elsewhere on the farm, 
and the seed must have lalin dormant in 
the soil for some years. It’s a welcome 
tenant.1 have said so many hard 
things about the Ben Davis apple that it 
makes me Thoughtful to have a neigh¬ 
bor, who is a first-class farmer, tell me 
that Ben has brought him more profit 
than any other variety. Ben has a larger 
bank account than Baldwin in the same 
orchard. ir. w. c. 
BULLETINS BOILED DOWN. 
Principal Insect Enemies of the 
Grape.— Farmers’ Bulletin No. 70, issued 
by the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, is devoted to the above subject. 
It describes nine destructive insects affect¬ 
ing the grape, and contains 12 illustrations. 
It will be surprising to many to learn that 
cutworms are very destructive to both 
buds and foliage of vines, doing much dam¬ 
age in northern New York, and in the 
raisin district of Fresno County, Califor¬ 
nia. The cutworms remain concealed in the 
ground during the day, climbing up to 
strip the vines at night. Poisoned bran 
mash, sweetened, is recommended to de¬ 
stroy these insects. Concerning damage 
by Rose chafers, which are annoying to 
other gardeners, as well as vineyardists, 
we are reminded that annual crops and 
the cultivation of all surrounding lands is 
the surest means of combating this pest. 
Hot plow shares have other advantages 
besides the maintenance of fertility. 
Sugar-Beet Experiments.— Bulletin No. 
60 of the Nebraska Experiment Station 
(Lincoln), gives a condensed report of the 
experiments with sugar beets. Some of 
these experiments were very interesting; 
for example, light and heavy seeds were 
tested, to see if one would give better re¬ 
sults than the other. The seed was poured 
into a vessel containing a mixture of gaso¬ 
line and kerosene, and left there long 
enough for the light seed to float to the 
surface. The heavy seed fell to the bot¬ 
tom. The light seed was planted by itself, 
as was the heavy, but experiments did not 
show that the heavy seed gave more yield. 
The large seed was separated from the 
small by sifting it through a fine sieve. It 
apparently did not pay to try to separate 
the seeds in either way. One of the most 
interesting things in this bulletin is the 
account of selection of mother beets. This 
is a sort of Babcock test for the beet, the 
idea being to pick out those richest in 
sugar for seed purposes. The best beets 
are picked out in the field. During the 
season, a small hole is bored down through 
each, and the flesh laid aside for analysis. 
The beets which show the highest per cent 
of sugar, are used the following year for 
producing seed. An idea of the work re¬ 
quired in these operations may be under¬ 
stood when it is stated that at the Ne¬ 
braska Station 6,625 beets were analyzed. 
Of these, 6,232 contained more than 12 per 
cent of sugar; 3,422 showed over 16 per cent; 
990, over 18 per cent, and 156 over 20 per 
cent. Of course, the beets showing the 
highest percentage are reserved for plant¬ 
ing next year. This gives an idea of one 
side of beet culture which is most import¬ 
ant. It is just as important to pick out 
these rich beets for breeding purposes as 
it is to pick out the cows with the highest 
per cent of fat for the purpose of raising 
our future dairy herd. 
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