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1898 
ter have proved that it may vary from 8 
to 27 cents per pound. These experi¬ 
ments teach the value of keeping- a re¬ 
cord of each cow of the herd. The by¬ 
products of the dairy should always be 
used to the best advantag-e. Much de¬ 
pends upon the care and handling of the 
milk. Poor milk means poor butter and 
poor cheese. Ropy milk has been found 
to be due to a specific germ. Cleanliness 
around the stable and in the care of the 
cans is of the utmost importance. There 
is a promising field for those dairymen 
who will have their herds inspected, and 
sell guaranteed milk. 
The following officers were unanimous¬ 
ly chosen for the coming year : 
President, A. R. Eastman, of Waterville. 
First Vice-President, C. M. Lamont, of Owego. 
Secretary, S. Brown Richardson, of Lowville. 
Treasurer, F. E. Dawley, of Fayetteville. 
Directors, Prof. H. H. Wing-, ,J. R. Van Wagenen 
Jr., W. W. Hall, H. E. Cook, J. D. Smith, Harvey 
W. Richardson. 
Vice-Presidents, Hon. F. S. Black, Hon. C. A. 
Weitingr, Hon. W. Carey Sagner, ,T. S. Woodward, 
Prof. I. P. Roberts, G. A. Smith, Jesse Owen. 
T,. A. CLINTON. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
15 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
A Connecticut reader has sent this 
note: 
A Brevity in The R. N.-Y. of Oct. 1C says: “Just 
as soon think of letting the baby winter in a cal¬ 
ico dress, as to let the soil winter without some 
covering * * Do you mean to have it un¬ 
derstood that it is better to leave the weeds and 
litter on the ground till spring, and then plow ? 
Some have read it that way. Is not fall plowing 
beneficial to the soil, especially for hoed crops 
the following year ? If I am not wrong, that is 
the prevalent opinion among farmers. 
This question cannot be settled by any 
single rule. At Hope Farm, we do very 
little fall plowing. We plowed a small 
piece of tough sod on rented ground on 
Dee. 1(5. It is a hard old meadow, which 
we expect to seed to oats and Alfalfa 
next spring. The oats are to be cut for 
hay, and the Alfalfa is to hold the 
ground—if we can get it to start. Here 
are our reasons for winter plowing this 
field: The sod is tough and hard. By 
turning the furrows up straight, the 
frost will have a chance to work all 
through them. This will kill many in¬ 
sects. and also destroy roots of grass and 
weeds. The frost will, also, break up 
and mellow the soil to a certain extent. 
In the spring, we can work up this 
plowed sod with the Cutaway earlier 
than we could work it with a plow. We 
thus get our oats in earlier, and save 
work at a busy time. Heavy clays, or 
soils compact and tough, are often bene¬ 
fited by fall plowing. 
t t t 
Most of the soil at Hope Farm should 
never be touched in winter. It is light 
and open—most of it with good natural 
drainage into a swamp. During an open 
fall and winter, the loss of nitrates from 
such soil is very heavy. The water soaks 
and washes through it readily. Nitrifica¬ 
tion, or the change from insoluble to 
soluble nitrogen, has been going on 
through the summer. When frost kills 
the cultivated crops, if there be nothing 
left to utilize it, this nitrogen will be 
washed out and lost. If. however, Crim¬ 
son clover or rye or wheat be sown so 
that they grow through the fall and 
early winter, these crops will utilize' 
much of this nitrogen, and it will not be 
lost. Our land needs vegetable matter 
also, and these crops, which grow while 
the land would otherwise be idle, will 
provide this vegetable matter at a low 
cost. We find that both Crimson clover 
and rye will choke out and destroy many 
weeds if the ground is well prepared be¬ 
fore sowing them. 
X t X 
At Fig 3, page 3, is shown a sweet-corn 
field at Hope Farm. This was about 
the best soil on the farm. It has not 
been in sod for many years. It was 
worked three times with the Cutaway, 
and once with the Acme. We then planted 
Bush Lima beans, dropping the seed 
in drills with the Robbins potato planter. 
The season was so wet and cold that few 
of the beans grew. In June the ground 
was worked once more with the Cutaway, 
and Evergreen sweet corn was planted in 
hills. About 400 pounds of fertilizer per 
acre were dropped with the beans, and 
about 200 pounds more were applied when 
the corn was knee high. From two-thirds 
of an acre, we picked 3,800 ears of sweet 
corn, and the horses are now eating the 
stalks. Late in July, we sowed Crimson 
clover seed at the rate of one peck to the 
acre among the corn, and then cultivated 
with a two-horse cultivator. The photo 
graph was taken early in October, and 
the ground is now a perfect mat of green 
It will be plowed under next spring, and 
used for either strawberries or Lima 
beans. The clover cost nothing but the 
seed, and there is no doubt in my mind 
that, when it is turned under in the 
spring, the soil will be in far better shape 
than it would be if now turned up to the 
weather. Therefore, when we compare 
our soil to the baby in a calico dress, we 
want it understood that the soil is 
light and poor, needing to be compacted 
and needing “ body ” rather than the re¬ 
verse—which would answer for a tough 
clay sod. 
X X X 
Speaking of the baby, some one wants 
to know why we do not let the “ Bud ’ 
and the “ Graft” eat meat. Meat is ex¬ 
cellent food for young chickens, why not 
for young humans ? In the first place 
a child does not and cannot chew meat 
properly. The first teeth are not strong 
enough for such chewing. The meat is 
swallowed half chewed, and the little 
stomach is overworked. Again, meat 
makes the child fretful and bad-tem 
pered. It is too stimulating. I t makes 
the glands soft and spongy. We have 
made quite a study of this matter for the 
past eight years, and have had several 
children in the family that were troubled 
with throat diseases. We are well satis¬ 
fied that the trouble with 90 per cent of 
the cross and fretful children with en¬ 
larged throats and almost constant colds 
or “ catarrh ”, lies in their diet. Meat is 
responsible for many ills of childhood. 
Our children shall not eat lean meat 
until their second teeth are well formed 
Oatmeal, or other whole crushed grain 
well cooked, with good milk and cream, 
fruit and vegetables — not too much 
potato—a little fish and good bread and 
butter, will make child-flesh that one 
may be proud of. It will not do to com¬ 
pare a chicken with a child, for the 
chicken can use stones to grind up its 
food. 
X X t 
The old hens are slowly falling into 
line at the nest. Our Black Business 
birds start ahead of the New York 
fowls. We decided to use the first lay¬ 
ers for breeding stock. The first Black 
hen to begin winter operations is the 
worst looking one in the lot—with a 
wry-tail, and as clumsy as an elephant. 
She is the first one up, though, and we 
want all her daughters we can get hold 
of—wry-tail or not. We can stand al¬ 
most anything in the way of looks if 
they will begin to lay eggs in November. 
In our mixed pens, the Plymouth Rocks 
are starting earlier than the Leghorns, 
which rather surprises us. n. w. c. 
Dr. I). Jayne's Family Medicines never have been 
recommended as cure-alls; but. Jayne’s Expectorant 
for the cure of Throat and Lung diseases is probably 
unequaled. 
If bilious take Jayne's Painless Sanative Pills.— 
Adv. 
Cows barren 3 years 
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JERSEY CATTLE FOR SALE. 
R F SHANNON -I 907 Liberty Bt„ Pittsburgh, Pa 
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