1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
7o7 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Chestnut Thieves.—We have several large 
chestnut trees on Hope Farm, and this year, they 
are loaded with nuts. We have been looking for¬ 
ward to a good time after the first hard frost, 
gathering these nuts for the children. Last Sun¬ 
day afternoon, I saw a man across the farm 
working like a beaver under the best chestnut 
Wee. He had a long pole with which he knocked 
the green burrs down. It seems to me like good 
Sunday work to protect my property, and I 
signed this man’s walking papers at once. We 
are simply overrun with these chestnut hunters. 
They tramp over our fields without saying, “ By 
your leave!” and proceed to help themselves. 
They might just as well take our melons or sweet 
corn, or go to the henhouse and take eggs. It 
beats me why these people should think that the 
farmer’s stock in trade is for free distribution. 
If I should go into a store and fill my pockets 
with peanuts, I would hear from it withottt delay. 
Home-Grown Seed. — Our sweet corn seed 
proved so unreliable this year that we deter¬ 
mined to grow our own seed. One piece of corn 
came up so poorly that the boys wanted to plow 
it up and try again. Instead we let it grow, and 
set late cabbage in the missing places. The cab¬ 
bage has done well, and the scattered corn stalks 
have produced fine ears. We are letting them 
mature in the field. Before the heavy rains, we 
shall strip back the husks and hang them on a 
wire stretched across the upper part of the barn. 
Most of the farmers in our part of the country 
are saving their own seed this year. They are 
mostly disgusted with the seed they bought last 
Spring. 
Good Reputation.—Our boys feel quite proud 
of the fact that our regular customers never 
count the ears of sweet corn after them, and 
never feel it necessary to run over the cabbage 
or potatoes. They did at first, but they soon 
found that Hope Farm takes pride in selling 
first-class goods. If, by mistake, we should run 
In something that is not as represented, or give 
short weight or count, we expect to make it right 
at once. I should be sorry to have an old cus¬ 
tomer feel that he must stand over our wagon 
and see that we do not cheat him. A farmer 
ought to work on the principle that he is going 
to be in the business for a long time, and that, in 
the long run, good reputation comes in ahead. 
Rhubarb .Jelly.—All the Hope Farm folks are 
fond of fruit, and we try to make the farm supply 
us with fruit every day in the year. Our southern 
friends tell us how they pick fruit from one year’s 
end to the other. So do we. From November 
until May, we pick it off the shelf in the cellar— 
canned fruit of all sorts. For my part, I am very 
fond of rhubarb. We have a fine lot of it grow¬ 
ing, and I suggested an experiment in making 
some rhubarb jelly. Grandmother tried it, but it 
would not “ jell ”. Then she tried it with a small 
amount of apple mixed with it, and we have 
something which, to my mind, is ahead of any¬ 
thing of the sort I have ever tasted. That will 
go well with a slice of fat roast pork about next 
January. 
Another Crop Failure.—The barley and peas 
we sowed after the oats, have proved a failure. 
Prof. E. B. Voorhees told me that the peas would 
disappear during the hot weather, and sure 
enough they did. I can’t just tell where they 
went to. They were there of good size one week, 
and the next week only here and there a little, 
dried-up plant could be found. The barley headed 
out when a foot to 18 inches high—not enough of 
it to pay for cutting. Prof. Voorhees says that 
he has about come to the conclusion that, even 
for late Fall seeding, barley and peas are not 
likely to prove a success. That is about the way 
it looks to me. I am sorry for it, because in our 
plan of farming, a late grain crop to cut for hay 
would pay very well. 
“ Strike ” Money.—A friend who does a small 
business in town tells this story: He did quite a 
lot of work for a rich man. One day, the coach¬ 
man came to him and said, “ Mr. J., there ought 
to be at least $5 for me in this trade ” ! Without 
saying so directly (he was too sharp for that), he 
let it be understood that, if J. would give him $5, 
he would bring the trade there and let J. charge 
a little extra now and then so as to get the 
money back. Our friend refused to do this, and 
gradually the trade dropped off until it ceased 
entirely. One day, J. saw the rich man himself, 
and asked him why he could not have his trade 
any more. 
“ Why, John tells me your work was not satis¬ 
factory. You seemed to be getting a little care¬ 
less, and so he took it to Smith ”. 
Now you see that rascal had lied to his em¬ 
ployer, and taken that work away from an hon¬ 
est man so that he could make $5 out of it. I am 
sorry to say that this scheme of doing business 
is quite common in large towns and cities. The 
best way, in a case of this sort, is to go right to 
the boss and tell him the truth. In nine cases 
out of ten, he will thank you for doing so, for 
these men do not like to have dishonest servants 
about them. 
Pigs Doing Well.—Thus far our pig experi¬ 
ment is very promising. Eight shotes cost us $22. 
Four of them are May pigs, and four are two 
months younger. We have them in large pens 
close to the rape field. We bed the horses with 
planer shavings, and manure and bedding are 
thrown into the pigpens every day. We feed 
rape, cabbage leaves, .sweet corn stalks, house 
slop and a small quantity of dry corn meal. Thus 
far the cash cost of feeding is barely 25 cents a 
week for the eight shotes. We could handle sev¬ 
eral more if we had them. Rape has proved a 
cheap and effective hog food with us. We cut it 
every day, and throw it over to the pigs, and 
they eat every wisp of it. Turnip tops, cabbage 
leaves, over-ripe melons and small sweet pota¬ 
toes all find a resting place down the throats of 
those pig3. It is astonishing to see how much 
we wasted last year. We have small nubbins of 
sweet corn enough to feed all our stock for 
weeks. Our largest hog will now dress about 
160 pounds. As soon as cold weather comes, we 
shall kill him and sell to local butchers. There 
is a good demand all around us for pork and 
eggs. The latter now bring 2*4 cents each. One 
thing I notice about this pig feeding is that the 
shotes require lots of water. They are very 
thirsty, even when they are fed on green food. 
It cannot be too often stated that all farm stock 
demand plenty of pure, fresh water. I think, as 
a rule, such stock suffer more for lack of water 
than from lack of food. These pigs crave ashes 
and charcoal. _ h. w. c. 
FROM ALL PARTS. 
Market for Fine Fruit. —The City of 
Dover, N. H., contains 13,000 inhabitants. 
From May 1 to July 1 the markets of that 
city take care of 75 to 100 bushels of 
strawberries per day. Buyers want the 
finest fruit they can get, too. Some of 
those Marshalls grown by Mr. Tice were 
sent to Boston, and then to Dover, where 
they sold at high prices. This experi¬ 
ence seems to show what most thought¬ 
ful men understand, that our large cities 
contain people that are waiting to be 
educated up to the idea of using a finer 
quality of fruit, milk and other food. 
There is, probably, more to be obtained 
through the education of 10,000,000 of our 
urban population than in trying to edu¬ 
cate 10,000,000 colored or Asiatic humans 
on the other side of the globe. 
Celery Blight in Maryland. — A 
serious outbreak of the Celery blight or 
Sun-scald (Cercospora apii) has occurred 
in some parts of Maryland during the 
present season. This disease has ap¬ 
peared in previous years, but does not 
seem to have done so much damage as 
during the present season. The disease 
made its appearance in the month of 
August, just after a rain, which was 
preceded and followed by long dry spells. 
Some growers lost practically their 
whole crop in about two weeks. In some 
instances, the plants were nearly ready 
for market when they were struck with 
the blight, and died before they could 
be marketed. It would be well for all 
celery growers who have been troubled 
with this disease to burn all diseased 
plants and leaves as soon as possible. 
[prof.] C. O. TOWNSEND. 
Maryland State Pathologist. 
An Everbearing Raspberry. —Mr. G. 
B. Porter, of Waterbury, Conn., sent us 
on October 4, a sample of ripe red rasp¬ 
berries. He says this variety originated 
on his place last year, being found along 
a fence between two cultivated fields. 
The canes ripened fruit about July 1 , and 
also again on September 20. The fruits 
were of good size and flavor, and so he 
did not cut the canes as he usually 
does all weeds and bushes along the 
fence. This year, they did much better. 
Several bushels of fruit were picked 
from the plants about July 1 . Picking 
began again September 20, and a full 
crop has set. If warm weather con¬ 
tinue, the plants will yield fruit until 
the middle of October. Mr. Porter says 
that he will allow them to fruit next 
season, and see if they continue to pro¬ 
duce two crops. He attributes the heavy 
second crop to heavy fertilizing and 
thorough cultivation. About one-fourth 
acre of the raspberries were between two 
fields of ensilage corn, and the wash from 
a 12 -acre corn field, which was fertilized 
with 11 per cent potash, 10 per cent phos¬ 
phoric acid, 3 per cent nitrate of soda, 
came to the fruit. The second crop 
comes mostly from last year’s wood, but 
this season new shoots are well set. We 
would like to hear from others who have 
secured two fair crops of red raspberries 
during this peculiar season. 
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