1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
871 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Training Children.— I have received the 
following letter from a friend in Nebraska: 
“I read much about the management of 
the children at Hope Farm, but the last 
act given in The R. N.-T. for November 
25 needs to be condemned by some one, and 
I feel disgusted with the way the man ex¬ 
presses his opinion for the welfare of boys. 
He will know what the boys will ‘prob¬ 
ably’ say or act, when they get grown. 
If he had compelled the boys to read a 
chapter in the Bible it would have been a 
reasonable alternative for all concerned in 
their misconduct, and thus it would have 
a good effect on the spiritual and moral 
character at their maturity, and it would 
‘fortify the soul’ for the support of truth 
in each sphere of life. The children’s lives 
are a branch of the same tree from whence 
we all are, and sympathy and wireless 
telegraph are not entirely foreign as a 
comparison by readers of The R. N.-Y. 
Yes, men folks not only ‘shirk duty some¬ 
times,’ but they even neglect to ‘search 
the Scriptures’ that they may first know 
their duties. ‘The sower soweth the word.’ ” 
s. B. COLE. 
I have lived long enough to understand 
that for some wise purpose it has been 
made hard for people to agree on all 
things. It looks to me as though a good 
share of our trouble and anger is due to 
the fact that we can’t or won’t disagree 
pleasantly. As regards the occasional 
spanking of children, I will say right out 
that I don’t agree with Brother Cole. At 
the same time, that is no good reason why 
we should get into a fight over it. Let’s 
talk it over. 
Hard Punishment.— The Graft and the 
Scion are little boys who cannot read a 
word yet. They know their letters, but 
as far as reading a chapter in the Bible, 
they won’t be able to do it for years to 
come. I submit that to make them carry 
out Brother Cole’s plan would be a pretty 
tough job. There is no use talking about 
impossible things. Both the Madame and 
I had much of this sort of punishment 
when we were children. We look back 
over life now and try to trace out the 
things that helped make character. I 
am frank to say for myself that the sev¬ 
eral good sound whippings I received, ad¬ 
ministered justly and without anger, did 
me lots of good. I have known a boy to 
be spanked so that he found it convenient 
to take his meals standing, and yet, in 
after years, he rose up to call the spanker 
blessed because he knew he deserved the 
spanking. I don’t believe in whipping boys 
as David Harum’s father did—not by a 
good deal. If I do say it, you will hunt 
long before you find two little boys who 
are more devoted to their parents than the 
Graft and the Scion are to the Madame 
and me. On Thanksgiving Day the boys 
followed me all over the farm. We 
talked about how they are to work the 
farm “when they grow up’’ as though 
there never had been a stick or a shingle 
between us. These little fellows are never 
afraid to come and talk to us on any sub¬ 
ject. We try to listen patiently to their 
questions; we have their confidence—fully. 
“Search the Scriptures.” —We don’t 
do half as much of this as we ought to, I 
am free to confess. The old farmer who 
brought me up did much of this searching, 
and he found, among others, the following 
texts, and he acted as though he believed 
in them: 
“He that spareth his rod hateth his son, 
but he that loveth him chasteneth him be¬ 
times.” 
“Withhold not correction from the child, 
for if thou beateth him with the rod he 
shall not die.” 
“The rod and reproof give wisdom, but 
a child left to himself bringeth his mother 
to shame.” 
We love and believe in the good old 
book at Hope Farm, but this idea of put¬ 
ting a little child to “search the Scrip¬ 
tures” as a punishment strikes me as a 
great mistake if the influences of our own 
childhood are worth anything as a guide. 
When I was a boy I was obliged to com¬ 
mit the Sermon on the Mount and other 
chapters to memory. I could go through 
it all with my eyes shut—and unfortu¬ 
nately my mind was shut, too. It was 
like a parrot repeating those beautiful 
words. I did not and could not under¬ 
stand their meaning. I remembered only 
the forced task of memorizing the words, 
which was hateful to me. My children 
shall never be forced unwillingly to study 
and think over that most beautiful story 
of all history—the story of the Cross. I 
may shock some of my good friends when 
I say that there are times when our four 
little folks are more influenced for good 
through the thicker parts of their skin 
than through their minds and souls. 
Practical Religion.— Don’t think, 
though, that Hope Farm is a Godless place 
entirely. Grandmother is a Methodist 
budded on the old New England orthodox 
stock. There is no truer or more hopeful 
Christian living than the Madame. As for 
myself, I will say that I once received 
seven votes for deacon in the Reformed 
Church. Our little folks love Bible stories 
and all things connected with sacred his 
tory. The “red” and “green” Bibles are 
two books of pictures which these little 
ones are never tired of looking over. They 
will gladly leave their play at any time if 
the Madame will explain the Royal Scroll, 
which is a little panorama showing scenes 
in the life of Christ. They love that story, 
and while their little minds cannot com¬ 
prehend it we hope that they will grow up 
into it and feel it more and more. My 
observation is that the spiritual ration for 
many children is composed of 100 parts 
precept and one part practical example. 
With self-denial as the standard of value 
precept costs one cent where example costs 
a dollar. The Madame and I are not very 
strong on precept—I’ll admit that—because 
we don’t pretend to be much except a girl 
and boy of middle age. We do try to 
make it up on example, because we know 
that in the great struggle between heredi¬ 
tary traits and environment the latter 
comes out ahead eight times in 10. “As 
the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” I 
think that the Hope Farm folks have more 
than their share of human faults and fail¬ 
ings, but we agree on two things. Our 
little folks are the best crop this farm will 
ever produce. They will be largely what 
we are, and they give us the best chance 
we shall ever have of catching the oppor¬ 
tunities for character that we have thrown 
away. The habit of cutting children and 
snarling at them is all wrong. So is the 
idea of pounding them while in a fit of 
anger. At the same time, I submit that 
all children should be made to mind, and 
I consider that a good shingle, applied 
justly and judiciously, contains elements 
of good citizenship. 
Odd Mention.— But this sort of thing 
“won’t buy the woman a dress”—as an old 
friend used to say. The people who are 
not interested in children will desire some¬ 
thing more substantial. I ought to 
apologize for taking so much time to dis¬ 
cuss so common a thing as child punish¬ 
ment.The hens are starting up 
nicely on their egg laying. About 24 
hours after he brought the animal meal, 
Charlie found a nest of six eggs in the 
barn! That, he claims, beats the record 
for poultry forcing. All joking aside, 
however, this animal meal is very useful 
in the hen’s ration. The cheapest grain 
now is corn. Hens love corn, but will not 
do their best work on it. Mix animal meal 
with corn meal and bran and you have a 
good poultry mash.We go a 
little better than this, and mix two parts 
ground corn and oats, one part of bran 
and one-half part animal meal—all by 
weight. This makes a good morning mash. 
Stock of all kinds love oats but care little 
for the taste of bran. At the same time, 
wheat bran is the best bone and muscle 
forming food we have.Our ducks 
are easily satisfied, so long as they can 
secure bulky food. Boiled potatoes, chop¬ 
ped corn stalks or other “bulk” will fill 
them up and keep them satisfied. Very 
little grain is needed with this bulk. A 
duck and a little pig will run a close race 
for the position of best farm scavenger. 
.... The cooker has been started. There 
can be no doubt about the value of cooked 
potatoes. We have fed many small potatoes 
raw to the larger pigs, but such animals 
barely hold their own. With cooked po¬ 
tatoes they make a slight gain. This 
cooking is more helpful with potatoes than 
with any other vegetable. A few green 
bones cooked with the potatoes please the 
pigs. A well-pleased animal is the only 
profitable one.The orchard near 
the barn has been plowed. It was a 
tough job. Neighbors tell me that it is 
15 years since it was seeded down, and the 
sod was hard enough. We have broad¬ 
casted dissolved phosphate rock and mu¬ 
riate of potash. in ow to cut off the 
sprouts and suckers, and prune off some 
of the limbs.Our last potatoes 
were dug on November 29. That is late 
digging, for the frost had crusted the 
ground several times. Still, the potatoes 
were in prime condition. They were Sir 
Walter Raleigh—few in a hill, but of fair 
size and very handsome.The 
springs and wells all through the country 
are still low or dry. There have been no 
soaking rains to fill the soil. Our drilled 
well has plenty of water, but it seems to 
have tapped some of the wells and 
springs. At least, they are low, and for lack 
of a better reason for it one well may take 
the blame.Some of these cold, 
raw mornings when we drive down from 
the hills we realize more than ever what 
it means to live in a valley. We start 
from home with the air crisp and clear, 
but by the time we reach the valley we 
are in a thick fog. If we carry a ther¬ 
mometer with us, we find that the mer¬ 
cury goes down several degrees. “Let us 
look unto the hills!” The valley folks may 
have the drainings—we like to be nearer 
the top of things. h. w. c. 
BULLETINS BOILED DOWN. 
Wilt Disease.— The United States Agri¬ 
cultural Department has now Issued a 
handsome pamphlet in Bulletin No. 17, 
which discusses a wilt disease of cotton, 
watermelon and cow peas. This appears to 
be one of the new fungous diseases, which 
appears in various parts of the country, 
and often causes very great damage before 
it can be studied so as to find an effective 
remedy. This pamphlet describes the 
disease, and shows how it spreads, giving 
some suggestions as to possible means of 
combating it. 
Adirondack Forestry.— The Department 
of Agriculture at Washington has issued 
Bulletin No. 26 from the Division of For¬ 
estry. This is a beautiful pamphlet of 85 
pages, describing practical forestry in the 
Adirondacks. It is copiously illustrated, 
and gives an immense amount of practical 
information regarding the proper treat¬ 
ment of forests and practical methods of 
handling timber. We think that this will 
be of general interest, not only to those 
specially interested in forestry but to 
practical farmers as well. 
Home Pork Making.— The art of raising 
and curing pork at home, is a very prac¬ 
tical little book of 144 pages. It discusses 
all that pertains to hog slaughtering, cur¬ 
ing, preserving and storing pork products, 
including chapters on pork making on the 
farm, finishing off hogs for bacon, 
slaughtering, scalding, dressing, salting, 
smoking, etc. The directions for cutting, 
with illustrations of the different cuts, will 
be found very useful. There is a copious 
list of recipes for cooking pork, many of 
them entirely new to publication. Price, 
in cloth, 50 cents, postpaid, from this of¬ 
fice. 
Orchard Scales.— Thousands of people 
are examining their trees for scales. So 
much has been said about the San Jos6 
scale insects that any white or gray spots 
on the bark of young trees cause alarm 
among fruit growers. We receive every 
week many specimens of twigs and limbs 
for examination. Most of these limbs are 
covered with the common Oyster-shell 
bark-louse and the scurfy scales, which 
are not particularly harmful except where 
they are very abundant. The New Jersey 
Experiment Station (New Brunswick), has 
issued a little bulletin by Prof. J. B. Smith 
on three common orchard scales, in which 
the Oyster-shell bark-louse, the Scurfy 
scale and the San Jos6 scale are well de¬ 
scribed. This bulletin gives, in very con¬ 
densed form, some of the remedies that 
have been found effective in fighting these 
scales. It ought to be in the hands of 
those who are at a loss to distinguish be¬ 
tween these insects. 
Dr. Bidaman’s Pilules cure biliousness and clear 
the complexion. Price 25c. Samples free. P. O. 
Box 3022, New York.— Adv. 
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Sheridans 
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