1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
675 
Hope Farm Notes. 
(CONTINUED.) 
Animals like the bulldog may be trained to grasp 
certain parts of the body, but the wild animal 
fights without method or reason I would like to 
know what readers think of this. Have any 
noticed a spirit of revenge in horses? Lots of 
men in Major’s place would certainly “ lay low” 
for the fellow that hit them. 
Four-Footed Middlemen.—Our shipments of 
sweet corn to New York were so unprofitable 
that we have turned to new middlemen to handle 
our surplus. We have bought eight good Berk¬ 
shire shotes, and will, probably, have more soon. 
These pigs will make pork out of the soft melons 
and cabbage, and the sweet corn nubbins and 
small sweet potatoes. Sweet corn brings a bet¬ 
ter price just now, but we shall have thousands 
of ears for feeding. The hogs will pay us better 
than the commission men. On a little farm like 
ours, there are hundreds of odds and ends that 
would go to waste but for a pig. These shotes 
cost $2.50 and $3 each. There is good sale around 
us for pigs dressiug about 100 pounds, at six 
and seven cents. I didn’t expect to get into the 
hog business this year, but no one can tell where 
circumstances may drive him. 
Chickens Under Cover.—Some of our pullets 
have had free range, during the past two mouths. 
It has been a good thing for them. They are 
evidently ahead of birds of the same age that 
have been shut up. The range pullets, however, 
have {licked up the bad habit of roosting in every 
odd corner—on fences, wood-piles and trees. 
During the past week we have been catching 
them and putting them in the houses where they 
are to pass the Winter. It is high time. The 
frost and the Fall rains would do such birds lots 
of damage. Last year we were alive with roup, 
which, I think, was started by the hens we bought 
in New York, and made worse by exposure to 
storms. The place for the pullet is inside the 
warm house where she is to pass the Winter. 
Poultry Figures.—My friend, the editor of 
Farm Poultry, has been after me with a sharp 
stick of late. He has devoted several pages of 
his paper to things I have said about the profits 
in poultry and the statements that are made by 
some of our poultrymen. Now our friend was 
right aud I was wrong about those old scrub 
Leghorns. He knew more than I did about it. 
No doubt he knows more than I do about the 
other matters over which we differ, but before I 
admit it I am going to find out for myself. Now 
I say that the average farmer, with many aud 
varied things to look after, does well when he 
makes a flock of 250 hens pay an average profit 
of $1 each per year. My friend says in effect that 
I have no business to make such statements, be¬ 
cause there is no earthly reason why such men 
should not make $3 or more per hen. Now, my 
days are spent mostly with practical things. I 
can’t afford to theorize very much, and I try to 
keep my ideals tied up for private enjoyment. I 
know hundreds of poultrymen who take Farm 
Poultry and believe in it—as they well may do. 
They have studied it for years, and know by 
heart all the arguments in favor of this wonder¬ 
ful hen that gives an avei age profit of $3 a year. 
Still, do you know that in spite of the constant 
and thorough instruction which Mr. Hunter gives 
them they are mighty glad to average 90 cents 
profit on 200 hens or more ? I know it, for I have 
talked with them, and gone over their books and 
figures. What is wrong, when these faithful 
readers and students fall so far short of what 
their teacher tells them they ought to do ? When 
we finish some experiments we have on band I 
want to answer some of our friend’s remarks 
about well-bred poultry. I always read his criti¬ 
cisms with much interest. Farm Poultry is a 
good paper, in my opinion. 
Hens and Cabbage—It is wonderful how hens 
do love cabbage. Our pullets have ruined one 
piece of 600 cabbage that were set out back of 
the barn. They have kept the leaves picked down 
to skeletons. I have thrown rape, clover, turnips, 
melons and cabbage into the yards all together, 
and the hens take to the cabbage first of all. It 
is not generally known, I think, that cabbage is 
about the richest in muscle-forming food of any 
of our watery vegetables. In Ireland and France 
the poorjieople have learned instinctively to boil 
potatoes and cabbage together—the two making 
a mixture almost equal in composition to white, 
bread. A laying hen seems to crave nitrogen. 
She does not want it all in the form of meat. She 
seems to love cabbage because it gives her nitro¬ 
gen in a bulky form. 
Rum and Ruin.—A neighbor had a hired man 
who gave good satisfaction except that he would 
go off every 10 weeks or so and get drunk. The 
neighbor kept part of his money back, so that he 
might buy clothes and other things before Winter. 
On September 1, there were over $80 due him. He 
took it, went away and spent all of it in about 10 
days. He was probably on a spree all that time. 
There were plenty of saloonkeepers glad to get 
his money. Then he wandered back to what had 
been his home. He was in awful shape. He had 
been without food for days. He was on the verge 
of delirium tremens. He was not wanted where 
he had worked before, and he wandered about— 
lioor, helpless wretch—hardly knowing what he 
was doing. When our folks found him in the 
morning he had been lying in the cold, wet, grass 
all night! They made him a nest of hay on our 
barn floor and there he lay through the day—cry¬ 
ing like a child! When I got home he was still 
crying. We took his matches away and gave him 
warm milk with an egg broken in it. Then we 
made him a bed in the little shop. Why, he was 
as helpless as a child 1 In the meantime the town 
authorities got together and decided to put him 
in the poorhouse. At about 9 o’clock at night 
they came to our house and carried him away. 
Now—but this is not the place for a sermon. I 
will merely say that happy is the family into 
which liquor has not reached, and left a mark 
of shame and misery on some dear friend or 
relative. h. w. c. 
A BETTER D00RYARD. 
BEAUTY IN WEEDS. 
Reading the article under the above 
caption by ,T. G., page 590, impelled me 
to write of a farm dooryard I once saw 
near Bethel, O., the boyhood home of 
Grant. Lawn it could not be called, for 
it sloped in varying grades to the road, 
and was crossed by a small hollow or 
ravine. A solid post-and-rail fence in¬ 
closed it. and the plain cottage house, 
and a couple of beech trees of goodly size, 
cast grateful shade near the front door. 
The grass was scythe-mown, not close 
but evenly, and the shrubs and plants 
which gave the place its greatest charm 
were common everyday weeds, that the 
owner had planted and trained into 
grand ornamental plants. A clump of 
Iron weed reared its dark red tassels 
above the pale yellow of a wild sun¬ 
flower ; the goldenrod close by was just 
spreading its feathery plumes under the 
August sun, near a plant of wild carrot 
with its wealth of snowy umbels. A 
single dry mullein stalk stood like a 
sentinel by the leafless plants of Butter¬ 
fly weed and their silvery pods, while 
the centerpiece of the whole was a mam¬ 
moth horseweed growing from the hol¬ 
low of an ivy-covered walnut stump. 
I might say a few woi’ds about the 
small ravine that crossed the lawn 
diagonally. Part of it was filled with 
just such plants as grow in ravines : 
there were sumach, elder, willow, a 
bunch of hazel and a rather shabby- 
looking vine of wild grape. There was 
no air of neglect about the place ; every¬ 
thing seemed to be in its proper position, 
and even to me, a hard-working farmer 
accustomed to the destruction of any and 
all of the weed tribe, this yard had 
charms far beyond that of the velvety 
lawn, with its many dollars’ worth of 
stately foliage plants, which I saw a few 
miles farther on in a village. The owner 
was a miller who was forced by ill-health 
to remove to the country, and who was 
able to see in our weeds, the material for 
handsome dooryard ornamentation. As 
I look from my window and see under 
the fading evening sun on the eastern 
hillside, all of these plants, and more, 
and then look down at the beautiful bed 
of ever-blooming roses in my own door¬ 
yard, I am constrained to think that the 
wild flowers—weeds if you choose—do 
not suffer by comparison, c. d. lyon. 
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