1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
579 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
The Home Market. —We had a visit 
from some Mississippi folks not long 
since, and I was much interested in com¬ 
paring methods of farming. About all 
they can sell for cash is cotton, live 
stock and butter. Buyers come in for 
the cotton and live stock, and butter 
from the creamery is sent to Mobile or 
New Orleans. Every man keeps a gar¬ 
den, but there is no particular sale for 
fruit or vegetables. “ Why,” said Mr. 
A,” you have cabbage enough to sup¬ 
ply our whole county. If we should 
plant as many potatoes as you have, we 
couldn't possibly find a sale for them.” 
It seems that people in his country 
never plant sweet corn. They don’t 
know how it tastes. They take the 
young “ roasting ears” of common field 
corn and boil them. Tough eating I 
call that. I took this man up to the top 
of a high hill, and showed him village 
after village where lived men who work 
in New York, and come and go daily to 
their families. Within seven miles of 
where we stood, there were, probably, 
30,000 such people, most of whom do not 
produce even a potato. A radius of 30 
miles would include most of Greater 
New York, and represent nearly 4,000,000 
eaters. The point I tried to make was 
that, for Hope Farm produce, the best 
market lay in the seven-mile radius 
with its 30,000 people, rather than in the 
30-mile radius with 4,000,000. 
Shale Towns Neglected. — Most of 
our farmers like to take a big load of 
produce to New York or Paterson. Our 
local grocer frequently drives 10 miles to 
I’aterson to buy potatoes or cabbage 
from farmers’ wagons. In our county 
town of 9,000 persons seven miles away, 
most grocers buy produce in New York 
or Paterson, while hundreds of farmers’ 
wagons drive through town on their 
way to New York. I have heard of one 
case where a farmer on his way to New 
York with a load of sweet corn passed a 
grocer coming back with corn that this 
same farmer had hauled the day before. 
Many farmers consider it a nuisance to 
stop and sell a few hundred ears of corn 
out of a big load, and so it is that local 
grocers often have to follow these farm¬ 
ers to market and buy from them there. 
It struck us that, if we could get two or 
three grocers or marketmen to take our 
goods regularly, we could handle the 
stuff to good advantage. 
Blowing Our Horn. —VVe have sweet 
corn and potatoes this year that we are 
proud of. Many of our readers, perhaps, 
do not realize what sweet corn means to 
the average citizen in this country. A 
fresh, tender ear of Evergreen sweet 
corn well boiled, and eaten with butter 
and salt is—well, too good for most of 
the kings left on earth. It’s better than 
meat, and people in this part of the 
country are very glad to gnaw it down 
to the cob. You should see the Hope 
Farm folks sitting down to dinner some 
hot day. There will be one big plate 
with three dozen boiled ears of sweet 
corn on it, and another big dish with 
about 20 baked apples. Plenty of good 
bread and butter and milk, with a bit of 
cold meat for the outdoor workers, make 
a meal good enough for our folks. For 
all this, few townspeople ever get a 
really fresh ear of sweet corn. Few 
vegetables lose their quality so rapidly 
after being taken from the stalk. By 
dealing directly with the grocers, we 
can deliver the corn a few hours after it 
is picked. This seemed like a good thing 
to talk about, so I went to the county 
town and bought some advertising space 
in the little daily paper. I meant to 
find out whether there is any virtue in 
printer's ink for a farmer. 
How We Advertise. —My idea of an 
advertisement is that it should be true, 
lively and a little odd, without running 
down any business rival. You want to 
attract attention and tell your story so 
that people will listen to it. You want 
to make folks curious and give them an 
idea that it’s going to pay them to in¬ 
vestigate. Here is the first advertise¬ 
ment we used: 
Sweet Corn That Is Sweet ! 
It’s fresh, too; you may eat it sixteen hours 
after it comes from the stalk. It isn’t dead, 
dry stuff that tastes like sawdust and chews 
like leather. It’s SWEET CORN — tender, 
sweet and juicy. Just now we are picking 
the Crosby variety at HOPE FARM. The 
Evergreen comes later. 
Bergen County Potatoes 
are the best to be found—that is when they 
are grown on light, sandy land, with good 
fertilizer. “ Hope Farm ” is all sand—there¬ 
fore, our potatoes are first-class. We dig 
every other day. You get them while they 
are fresh and tender. HOPE FARM PRODUCE 
is sold by JAMES BLAUVELT JR., 
Sample it. The Union Street Grocer. 
Then came the following — of course, 
these occupied a good deal more space 
in the daily paper : 
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ARMSTRONG <fc MtKELVY 
Piti Hburgii. 
BEYMER-BAUMAN 
Pit i nburgh. 
DAVIS-CHAMBERS 
Pittaburgh. 
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Pittsburgh. 
ANCHOR ) 
f Cincinnati. 
ECKSTEIN ) 
ATLANTIC 
BRADLEY 
BROOKLYN | 
JEWETT 
ULSTER 
UNION 
SOUTHERN 
SHIPMAN 
COLLIER 
MISSOURI 
RED SEAL 
SOUTHERN 
JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS CO 
Philadelphia. 
M0RLEY C]eveland . 
New York. 
Chicago. 
\ St. Louis. 
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SALEM 
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Salem, Mass. 
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It's Hope Farm. That is the name of our little 
place. What doea hope stand for ? Well, among 
other things, we hope to produce something that 
is good to eat. Our crop will not be large enough 
to feed a herd of elephants, but it has quality. 
Our sweet corn is sweet and tender, and our pota¬ 
toes cook out dry and mealy. Our cabbage, too, 
is nice. There are no dead heads in the lot. They 
are all live and tender. Hope Farm produce is 
sold by Jas. Blauvelt Jr., the Union Street Grocer. 
Then came this one, and so on ; 
BEFORE IT WILTS! 
Housewife : “ Have you any more of that sweet 
corn T” 
Grocer : “I shall have it before dinner.” 
H.: “Where is it?” 
G.: “They are picking right now at Hope 
Farm, and in less than two hours you can have 
it cooked for dinner.” 
This conversation took place in Jas. Blauvelt 
Jr.’s grocery store. We were picking the corn at 
Hope Farm. It was shipped down at once, and 
the buyer had it cooked, buttered and eaten be¬ 
fore it had time to wilt. That is the way to eat 
sweet corn. It may not be generally known that 
new potatoes are much better than those that 
stand for weeks in the sun. If you find an ear of 
Hope Farm sweet corn that isn’t good, bring it 
hack and get two good ones in its place ! 
We have felt the effect of this advertis¬ 
ing- already, althoug-h we can’t tell yet 
bow much there is in it. I sign my name 
to all the advertisements, and change 
them frequently. If this doesn’t do 
what we want, I shall get up a neat cir¬ 
cular and have it distributed through 
the town. Of course, I would not advise 
farmers everywhere to try this plan, 
though with us, it seems like a reason¬ 
able scheme. It seems to me that we 
must suit not only our crops, but our 
plans for handling them, to the actual 
local conditions. I think there are al¬ 
ways people in every town who like a 
novelty. Some farmers appear to feel 
a shame at getting into print. What a 
mistake that is. It is just as honorable 
for us to sell good cabbage, corn and po¬ 
tatoes, as it is for the jeweler to sell a 
watch, or for the grocer to sell coffee. 
One reason why farmers fail at this 
business is that they are unreliable. 
They are not carefiri enough to throw 
out the culls, and send only first-class 
goods. Then again they will undersell 
their grocer, or go and sell somewhere 
else for a little higher price. 
Tiik Potato Digger. —We have given 
this tool a good trial. It gives a team 
of stout horses all they want to do, for 
it throws dirt, weeds and potatoes all 
out of a deep furrow. The potatoes all 
come out, but about one-third of them 
are covered lightly with earth. We are 
digging now before the vines are fully 
dead, and most of the tubers hang to the 
vines; this makes them easier to find. 
We dig every other row and then go 
through with potato hooks, and scratch 
the ground over, throwing three rows of 
potatoes together. This is faster and 
easier than hand digging, and the digger 
leaves the soil in fine shape for rye or 
wheat seeding. The digger might do 
better on ground that had been kept 
perfectly clean, but there is no such 
land in our country. As soon as cultiva¬ 
tion stops, ragweeds and Crab grass 
possess the land. The digger does all 
we can expect, and will pay for itself. 
It will not, however, get every potato 
without considerable hand work, h.w.c. 
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