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HOPE FARM NOTES. 
“the lord’s farm.” 
In the Paterson, N. J., street markets, 
there will often he seen wagons bearing 
this inscription : 
THE LORD'S FARM. 
Most farmers have their names and resi¬ 
dences painted on their wagons, and the 
above singular inscription represents all 
the name that the wagon driver will 
care to answer for. 
“ The Lord’s Farm ” is only about four 
miles from Hope Farm. It is conducted 
as a small community by a group of re¬ 
ligious fanatics or enthusiasts, who claim 
and apparently believe, that they are 
on specially intimate terms with God. 
There are, at present, four members of 
the community, though there are always 
more or less poor homeless people with 
them who are, apparently, free to stay as 
long as they like. 
Several years ago, the principals were 
arrested and lodged in the county jail 
charged with keeping a disorderly house. 
At the trial, they made no defense what¬ 
ever, and, at least two of them served 
terms of imprisonment. After serving 
their time, they came back to the farm, 
and have lived there undisturbed ever 
since. 
They are strict vegetarians — eating 
neither milk nor eggs. They wear rough 
and coarse clothing, and their hair is 
worn down to the shoulders. Perhaps a 
good idea of their peculiar beliefs may 
be obtained from the following report of 
an actual dialogue held with one of the 
leaders: 
“ Why do you live as you do ? ” 
“ The Lord told us to. He showed us 
the mistakes of living as many so-called 
Christians do, and so we deal directly 
with Him. Whatever he tells us to do, 
we do.” 
“ What does He tell you to do ? ” 
“ For instance, He tells us to shout and 
praise Him, and whenever He says so, 
we must do it. Sometimes the order 
comes right in the field, or in the middle 
of the night. It makes no matter where, 
we must shout and sing. Not long ago, 
1 was in the tax collector's house, and 
the Lord told me to praise Him. I would 
much rather not have done it, but the 
Lord told me to, and I shouted ! ” 
“ What else does He tell you to do ? ” 
“ Everything ; he plans our lives for 
us. He told me to drop my last name, 
so now I am only Brother John. We used 
to keep a cow. The Lord told us not to, 
and we sold her. The same with hens. 
The Lord told us to eat nothing but 
vegetable food, and we keep no stock 
but work horses on the farm. I make 
the bread for our family, and generally 
get up at 2 o’clock in the morning to 
bake it. The Lord tells me when it is 
ready, even to a minute. I never need 
an alarm clock.” 
“ Do you ever pray or hold worship of 
any sort ? ” 
“No, we talk to the Lord instead of 
praying. I went to a prayer meeting 
once, and a man got up and said that 
he had quit praying. They made him sit 
right down, but I knew what he meant. 
He had just got so close to the Lord that 
he could talk to Him on familiar terms.” 
“ But how do you know that it is the 
Lord that tells you to do these things ? ” 
“ Oh, we know that beyond any doubt. 
There can’t be any mistake about that ? ” 
“ Suppose the Lord told you to give up 
eating bread, and go to eating grass— 
would you do it ? ” 
“ Oh, He wouldn't do that, but if He 
did. we would obey. He tells us to do 
many things that we would rather not 
do. I’d rather have my hair cut, and I 
wanted to go out West, but the Lord told 
me to stay here and to wear my hair 
long, so I do it.” 
“ Do you make many converts to your 
doctrines ? ” 
“ No, most people prefer to stay away 
from the Lord, and enjoy the things that 
do not belong to them.” 
“ But many of these things might 
safely be used with moderation.” 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
“ That may be, but the Lord tells us 
to have nothing to do wi«,h them.” 
“ What would you do if some unbe¬ 
liever tried to make trouble for you ?” 
“We throw the power into him— 
preach and talk at him. It comes down 
to a contest between good and evil pow¬ 
ers, and before long, you will see him 
give up and go sneaking down the road.” 
The people at The Lord's Farm live 
chiefly on bread, vegetables and fruit. 
They use cotton-seed oil for cooking 
purposes, and preserves of various kinds 
in place of butter on their bread. They 
all seemed strong, healthy and well fed. 
“ Brother John ” wanted to knowhow to 
raise sorghum, as he hoped to obtain 
from it a syrup to use with oatmeal or 
mush. He was also studying bees, ex¬ 
pecting to add honey to their store of 
food. He said that they knew practi¬ 
cally nothing about farming when they 
started, and had learned mostly from 
books and papers, working out the ideas 
thus obtained, by practical experiment. 
As they keep nothing but work stock, 
they use large quantities of fertilizer, 
and they have adopted the sound prin¬ 
ciple of doing just as little hand work as 
possible. With a broadcaster and potato 
planter, they can put on all their ferti¬ 
lizer by horse power, and a weeder, two- 
horse cultivator and sulky plow help to 
give one man dominion over the weeds. 
The tools are kept with almost affection¬ 
ate care. They are all safely housed, 
and kept well painted, and the steel is 
greased and kept covered with sacking. 
The quiet, simple life of hard work on 
The Lord’s Farm, is not expensive. The 
farm supplies, probably, 85 per cent of 
the food and fuel. There are none of the 
extra expenses for dress and luxury that 
stalk like the shadow of a mortgage into 
many a farmer’s home. One may smile 
at the eccentric religious ideas of 
“ Brother John - ’ and his friends, but we 
must admit that they are teaching us 
possibilities in farming. Years ago. the 
old-time Jerseymen made money on their 
farms—chiefly because they reduced 
their living expenses. The farm supplied 
most of their food, such as rye bread, 
homemade meat and pumpkin and milk. 
Had they been blessed or cursed with 
the modern desires that live in the family 
with their children, it is doubtful 
whether they could have left what they 
did. The people on The Lord’s Farm 
have succeeded in reducing their living 
expenses even lower than the old-time 
farmers, while they have all the produc¬ 
tive advantages of new crops and 
methods. There cam be no doubt that 
any business conducted fairly on the 
community principle, where all may 
share work and profits alike, will prosper. 
That is the story told by all well-man¬ 
aged community enterprises. There is 
no doubt that a private family of farm¬ 
ers working so that all, from father to 
the baby, may feel that they are to have 
a share, will produce greater results 
than where father and the big boys 
pocket the lion’s share. 
“We haven’t made much money yet ! ” 
said Brother John, “ because the farm 
was very poor when we took it. We 
have worked it up with fertilizer, and 
now we are likely to make some money.” 
“ What will you do with money in case 
you make it ? ” 
“ I have thought about that. Of course, 
the Lord would not want us to hoard 
money away. I think I would keep my 
eye out for some poor, unfortunate man 
with a mortgage cutting him like a har¬ 
ness. If he seemed to be true, I think I 
would pay the mortgage off ! ” 
“Brother John” is a little man. He 
made a strange appearance that day with 
his long hair, his slightly-bent figure, 
and the coarse black patches on his 
brown overalls. Yet there was something 
about him as he stood looking down over 
the farm that made me feel that he 
meant what he said about the money. 
“ The Lord loould, probably, tell us to do 
that.” 
1 rather think he is right—at least, I 
have never yet known a hurrum to give 
such advice. h. w. c. 
Chance for Hay Farmers.—A reader 
in Victoria, Mo., says that he lives in a 
natural grass country which has as little 
hay grass as any country he ever saw. It 
is all corn and oats, and w’hen the land 
is worn out w’ith these crops, the farm 
or certain fields of it are abandoned, and 
there is “ a chance to get a cheap farm.'’ 
Our friend bought one last year, and is 
trj’ing to “ clover and cow pea it back to 
its former state.” De Soto, a town of 
7,000 people, imports hay each year. The 
little hay that is cut is overripe, weedy 
and coarse, from heavy pasturing. It is 
impossible to buy good clover hay. There 
ought to be a good chance for a hay 
farmer. 
War Prices 
Are inevitable. During the last war some dollar 
medicines advanced as high as $1.50. To-day 
prudent people are preparing for the coming rise 
by laying in supplies of medicines and other 
necessities. First among medicines comes Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier and health 
protector, then Hood’s Pills, the best family 
catharic and liver pill. It is positive practical 
economy to buy at least half a dozen bottles of 
each TO-DAY. Remember 
HOOd’S S pariTl"a 
Is America’s Greatest Medicine. 
FRUIT PACKAGES k °L1‘ 
Also Beekeepers’ Supplies. 
Order now before the busy sea¬ 
son catches you. Catalogue and 
price-list free. Address 
BERLIN FRUIT BOX CO. 
Berlin Heights, Erie Co., Ohio. 
LITTLE 
GIANT 
DU5TER 
EX CHESS PAID, 
ON RECEIPT OF 
$4.00. 
Guaranteed to give 
satisfaction. 
PEACH 
APPLE 
PEAR 
Trees — also small 
fruits — our specialties. 
Order early for fall 
shipment and get 
special low prices. 
JOS. H. BUCK, SON&CO., 
Village Nurseries, 
RIGHT ST 0 B N, N. J. 
Large, perfect shape 
vigorous, prolific, 
drought-resisting. 
Best varieties Straw¬ 
berry Plants; also As¬ 
paragus Roots, Peach, 
Apple and Plnm Trees. 
Peaches grown from nat¬ 
ural seed In section free 
from scale and yellows. 
Write for lateiAratilog—FRKI. 
hIkkisovs hCrserixs, 
Berlin, |d. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. 
100 Glen Mary for # fl. 
T. C. KEVITT. Athenia, N. J. 
C RIMSON 
LOVER 
and other Seeds for Summer Sowing. Write for 
our Mid-Summer Catalogue.We send It Free. 
HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia. 
CELERY PLANTS FOR SALE. 
Leading varieties, carefully packed in baskets, and 
delivered here at Express Offices; 250 plants for liOc.; 
500 for 90c.; 1.000 for $1.50. Special price on quantities 
over 0,000. Cash with order. 
WOODLAND FARM, Canastota, Madison Co.. N.Y. 
CELERY PLANTS. 
First class stock, all leading varieties. First sow¬ 
ing ready June 5. $1.50 per 1.000. Special price on lots 
of over5,000. T. W. HOWELL. Port Byron, N. Y. 
CELERY PLANTS 
herrv Plants. August 1. $1 ner 
now ready. Only $1 
per 1,000. Potted Straw- 
Flrnnlnr frD<» 
Pnlilvwva Dlontc 10 varieties. $1 per thousand. 
UuUUdgc r ldni5»t;eo.Tillinghast., La Plume,Pa 
Choice Seed Potatoes 
by the bushel, barrel or car-load, including the best 
new and standard varieties; prices right. Write for 
catalogue. THE C. C. BRAWLKY SEED AND 
IMPLEMENT CO.. New Madison. Ohio. 
Will dust Paris-Green, London-Purple, Hellebore, 
etc., on Vines, Bushes and Trees. Agents Wanted. 
Write for circular. 
LKGGETT & BKO.. 1101 Pearl St.. New York. 
You Must Fight 
Insects and Fungi if you 
ever expect to grow any 
more good fruit. For 
economy, reliability and 
durability the 
“ ECLIPSE” 
spraying outfits are positively the 
latest and best implements on 
the market. Send for catalogue. 
MORRILL & M0RLEY, 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
with our new 
Kerosene Sprayers 
is simple. Kerosene Emulsion made 
while pumping. Send for photo, of 
ourNsw PEERLESS ORCHARD 
SPRAYER, with BORDEAUX 
NOZZLE, the WORLD’S BEST. 
r THE DEMINQ CO. SALEM, O.fe 
West’n Ag’ta Henlon A Hubbell,Chicago 
FRANK B. BARKLEY MFG. CO. 
Bldg., Chicago. III., will sell you a Spray Pump, Gas 
Engine, or Cider Press, direct from factory. 
835 Old 
; Colony 
HARLEQUIN ESS,*:::! 
Bugs, etc., killed by^a guaranteed method. 
Address FRED RE1NLEIN, Mt. Vernon, 111. 
SHRUBS, FLOWERS AND FRUITS. 
Most complete General Collection in America. Three thousand 
varieties described in a 200-page (free) Catalogue. “THU 
LEADING NEW ENGLAND NURSERY.” 
Trail Book 
Wi(lJR3Lnl Millions of market sor 
free, write quick,—« a marvel of WePAYIRtlGHl 
exact orchard information ;» line 
colored plates of 21 fruits, IOC photos, 
of market sorts --a cost LESS, yet 
old & new: Ben Davis, Black Ben Da- better quality 
vis; Elberta; Red June Jap—EVERYTHING. wap ■ • ■* is impossible. 
HP 
LOUISIANA, MO. 
_ Stark, Mo. 
5 Rockport, III. 
Dansville, N.Y. 
REMEMBER 
E0R 
DANSVILLE, 3NTEW YOHK. 
BLACK DEATH 
The best and cheapest Insecticide on the market. Instant death to potato 
bugs, and will not injure the vines. A fine dry powder ready for immediate 
• use. Recommended oy Edward F. Dibble, the largest grower of Seed Potatoes I 
in the United States. To introduce, special price, 100-pound keg. $1. AGENTS WANTED. Address for 
tun particulars O-AT-KA CHEMICAL CO., Le Roy,CN. Y. 
AN OVER-STOCK 
THE LENOX SPRAYER CO., PITTSFIELD, MASS. 
are entirely over-stocked. 
5,000 SPRAYERS ON HAND, 
MUST BE UNLOADED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS. 
$4 
CUT IN TWO 
$2 
THE LEJiOX SPRAYERS are first-class, and well known, hold 24 quarts, Regular price 
§4; will be cut in two—$2. One or a thousand, $2. No use to write letters or ask 
Questions for wholesale prices or agencies, letters without remittances will receive no 
attention. All our wholesale price-lists have been thrown away. $2 each if you take 
one or the lot, for yourself or to sell again, makes no difference. Has a swinging agi¬ 
tator, constantly mixing the liquid. An excellent machine, a pity to sell at 
this price, but must go. Send money order before thev are gone, lots ot 
times you can use a knapsack where you cannot a barrel pump. Handy at 
anyplace. Get one while at $2. Cash with order. The world will never see 
a Lenox Sprayer for $2 again after these 5000 are gone, so if you want one 
get it right away. Our reference, this paper or any of our banks. 
THE LENOX SPRAYER CO.. 30 WEST ST.. PITTSFIE LD, MASS. 
