1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
55 
Hope Farm Notes 
Self-Made Homes.—H ere is a little sen¬ 
timent from an Illinois man: 
“I like that thought that we grow at¬ 
tached to the farm we have developed. I 
wish there was more sentiment and less 
barter in farm homes.” J- M. h. 
To show how universal this sentiment 
mercury went down out of sight. Truth¬ 
ful people in this county claim that their 
thermometers registered 28 degrees below 
zero. 
It was colder in the town cottage than 
it was at the farm. The water pipes were 
frozen stiff. The Madame called up a 
plumber, but there were 50 calls for help 
ahead of her, so she and Ida went at the 
pipes with candles and thawed them all 
out. We have a hot-air furnace, but in 
spite of a roaring fire in it the house was 
cold. ‘‘Hot air” seems about as effective 
in holding up Jack Frost as some of the 
Horse Owners! Use 
QOMBAULT’S 
Caustic 
let me give here what a California man strong words I heard thrown at him. To 
add to the trouble the little boys forgot 
says: to close the barn door one cold night, and 
‘‘There is nothing much moie elevating t]le cow was ce rtainly a subject for gin- 
to anyone than the building of a home, ge r tea in the morning. The Madame 
, , tb .,. includes not the house alone, says, and probably with much truth, that 
and that includes nor u this is mostly my fault for not looking 
but everything about it that may oe u things over, as I usually do, before going 
lessons not only to the immediate to bed. There always was something to 
ject 
members of the family, but to all friends 
may come there. There is not 
of the love of home-building 
who 
enough 
catch me when I neglect my job! At the 
farm the cold fairly snapped. We had the 
old horses blanketed and warm, and they 
stamped and pawed the blood into cireu- 
mnn1 . the neoDle but happily it seems to lation. The young calf snuggled up close 
imono tne p P ._ tn Ita mntViAr tjnrl the firpq were Trent 
be on the increase here, 
•md it is well for t0 its mother, and the fires were kept 
its mother, and the fires 
roaring. My belief is that the peach buds 
are all killed. I do not see how they can 
stand such weather; still, they went into 
their Winter sleep in fine condition. I 
hope Jack Frost didn’t get under the bed 
covers, but I am afraid of it. Through 
all the cold weather we were mostly con¬ 
cerned in watching the reports of the 
temperature in Florida. Uncle Ed and 
other friends have small orange groves 
there. They have been frozen out sev¬ 
eral times, but if they can only get 
though this Winter safely they are pretty 
he has been obliged to work for it and sure 0 f one good crop at least When we 
„ rn it t US ed rather to envy people who read that the record showed ‘‘2S degrees 
e ,, . at Jacksonville” we realized what it 
can pass their lives on the old • meant. That’s too close to the danger 
where several generations have lived be- ij ne f or comfort. The children said they 
the possibilities are so great in this cli¬ 
mate for producing wonderful results.” 
H. G. K. 
It does me good to see that all over the 
country from Maine to California and 
from Florida to Greenland, country peo¬ 
ple still hold true to the old sentiment. 
“There’s no place like home!” A man 
will always think more of his home when 
fore them. It must be pleasant to live 
where those of our own blood have con¬ 
centrated their work and love for us—yet, 
after all. it is better to start out with 
some new and poorer place and put char¬ 
acter into it. To take a farm or a home 
already charged with character is well, 
but to do the charging yourself seems to 
me better. It is no easy job, though, for 
some of these young folks to keep up the 
standard which the old folks set for them. 
One thing is sure, the future strength and 
safety of this country lie in the country 
home. You can build your warships 10 
feet thick, and make cannon that will 
throw a shot 20 miles, and yet the walls 
of a humble home may prove a stronger 
defense, and mother’s influence have a 
i t iLmiP-Vit nf nil this the to ea -t down the clover. By the time they 
longer range. I thought of all tins tne ge( . thrQUgh with it we e x P ecl to have ' 
other day when two Finnish gills came to fleld of oats and peas and rape for them 
Ida. They heard in some way that to go into. Then this Baldwin orchard 
would stand several degrees lower if they 
could relieve Uncle Ed’s country to that 
extent! They reason that we are pretty 
well used to the cold up here and so a 
few degrees more will make little differ¬ 
ence. 
Farm Work.—T his fearful cold and the 
deep snow interferes sadly with farm 
work. We had our wood all cut and 
housed early, the manure all hauled out, 
the stalks shredded and some of the fer.i- 
lizer on before the snow came. Just as 
scon now as the weather permits we shall 
begin to prune the Baldwin orchard. I 
have let this go for two seasons, and now 
there are many water sprouts and inside 
limbs to cut out. Tnis orchard is now in 
Crimson clover. The fence posts will be 
cut during February and as soon as the 
ground can be worked we expect to put 
a 50-inch coiled spring-wire fence around 
this orchard ready for the pigs. They 
will be turned in about the middle of May 
see 
she is here. You should have seen her 
face when she heard her own language 
spoken. It took her far back across the 
sea to a country which must ever mean 
home to her. No use talking—this blessed 
love of home is the strongest human tie. 
We older folks do more than we think for 
our country when we make homes for 
homeless people. 
Strawberries in Burma. —While we 
are frozen up and covered with snow we 
must remember that there are other 
countries on the face of the earth. To 
show what a great family The R. N.-Y. 
has I print the following letter from Bur¬ 
ma, where a Methodist school is located: 
“Your excellent paper has been sent to 
me this year, and I have been greatly in¬ 
terested in it. Our school is situated in 
the Karen Hills, 150 miles north of Ran- 
gun. Elevation is 4,000 feet. We are open¬ 
ing a farm home, and while a goodly part 
.of our land is to be put into coffee, I 
wish to' get a large supply of small fruits, 
both for our own use and for sale. Many 
.of our children are orphans, and we wish 
to work toward self-support as soon as 
i possible. I have found that strawberries 
.do well, so I am putting them in with 
some success. None of these fruits is 
grown here, so they would bring good 
money returns. We have two seasons, 
wet and dry. Rainfall is about 150 inches 
ibetween May 1 and last of October. We 
(can have two crops of strawberries a year. 
J got our start from a few plants (wild) 
from the Shan States, and seed from 
pressed berries sent from Iowa. In your 
July 4 issue your first page gives quite 
an account of the President strawberry. 
I would like to get in communication with 
the grower that I may secure some seed. 
We have everything to learn as there has 
been no one who has gone before us in 
gardening in this hill country. But vege¬ 
tation is dense and the hills are covered 
with trees and vines. Raspberries, red 
and a long orange-colored one, grow wild. 
The red one ripens during the rains, and 
is of little use as it is water-soaked.” 
FANNIE A PERKINS. 
Thandaung, Toungoo District, Burma. 
I hope this lady does not think these 
seeds will come true! She will very like¬ 
ly have the most remarkable collection of 
strawberry seedlings that one can think 
of. Suppose she were to develop some¬ 
thing that we need here—what a job it 
would be to carry the spark of life in that 
plant around the world! It is pleasant to 
think that the American strawberry is to 
help graft practical religion upon those 
Burma Methodists. 
Cold Weather.— Jack Frost is evident¬ 
ly very much like some human beings. 
He made a violent effort and behaved 
himself well last Fall, and let the fruit 
and trees ripen up well. We made the 
mistake of calling him “Honorable John,” 
just as we sometimes spoil a man by 
sending him to office so he can write 
“Hon.” in front of his name. It isn’t 
what man or frost writes in front of his 
name, but what comes after it that makes 
character. The “Hon. John” remained a 
helpful citizen as long as he could, and 
then he broke his reputation and all his 
records together. January 4 and 5 will 
long be remembered in this country. The 
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trees alone are fed. These last-named 
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way they are largely as experiments to 
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