1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
73 
Hope Farm Notes 
State Taxes.—T hear much discussion of 
the tax question. Farmers in other States 
seem to think Jerseymen are greatly fa¬ 
vored because the corporations ‘‘pay our 
taxes.” Here are the items of my tax bill 
for the farm: 
County tax .51 
Bounty and interest.032 
County poor tax.025 
State school . 
Borough purposes .2a 
Special school .59 
Total .$1,587 
On our town property the tax is $2.76. Tn 
the township next to us it is $2.17. There 
is no State tax in New Jersey because this 
State assesses corporations and makes it 
easy for them to incorporate here. Thus 
the railroads and great trusts pay our 
State taxes but in the end I consider this 
a losing game. It makes our people care¬ 
less. Local taxes are piled up into moun¬ 
tains until the total is, in many cases, 
higher than it would be if we paid our 
State expenses. Nothing could be worse 
for public morals than this game of buy¬ 
ing the right to rob, plunder and run the 
State. These corporations organize here 
and then go out into other States—often 
like licensed highway robbers. The rail¬ 
roads pay our State expenses and then do 
just about as they please. In order to 
avoid the payment of a few dollars in 
taxes the people of New Jersey, in my 
opinion, have given away the best part of 
their public heritage. Gov. Murphy talks 
in a half-hesitating way about restoring 
the State tax. What we need in this 
State is somebody to make a good fight 
that will shake people out of their satis¬ 
fied contentment at the fact that trusts 
and rumshops pay part of their taxes—for 
the privilege of robbing them. 
Mice and Trees. —Here we have a ques¬ 
tion from New Hampshire: 
“Will you tell me if apple trees ever get 
old enough to become immune to attacks 
of mice? I have again been through my 
garden tramping snow around apple, pear, 
plum and cherry trees, some of which are 
12 years old and look safe enough. Are 
all fruit trees subject to girdling by mice? 
I have the latest edition of the American 
Fruit Culturist and other books, but get 
no light on this point.” 
I can only give my own experience, 
which is, that mice have not troubled my 
bearing trees. They work on the young 
trees, but have not touched those over 
10 or 12 years old. Possibly the bark is 
too tough for them. Rabbits will gnaw 
the older trees. Mice work on our apple, 
pear, quince and peach trees, but rarely 
if ever gnaw plum or cherry. If they 
would only get after the wild cherry trees 
they would do real service. Mice are cer¬ 
tainly like boys and men. They quit their 
mischief when they strike something too 
hard for their teeth, and they seldom put 
their mischievous work where it will do 
some good. 
Sunday Dairy Work.— Here is an honest 
man from Connecticut: 
“As I was busy with my cows on Sun¬ 
day it seemed to me that I saw an ex¬ 
planation of why the boys leave the farm. 
There is so much to be done on Sunday 
where live stock is kept. The work goes 
on seven days in the week. Horses must 
be fed twice, perhaps three times on Sun¬ 
day as on other days, and the stables must 
be cleaned. The cows must be milked 
tv\ ice, stables cleaned and probably cows 
turned out to water, for we do not all 
have water in the barn, and they must be 
fed of course as on other days, and man¬ 
gers kept in order. Most likely there is a 
calf to look after and pigs to feed and 
hens to attend to and eggs to collect from 
nests. So you see Sunday on a dairy farm 
is not a day of rest by any means. I 
think I do four hours’ work every Sunday. 
I am not complaining: I am on in years, 
but it must be irksome to younger men. 
r. k. s. 
There is much in that idea. It gives one 
Teason why dairying near the large towns 
and cities is a job to make your hair turn 
gray. Dairy workers see that people who 
work iu town have a day off on Sunday, 
and they want the same. Back on the hills, 
away from town influences it is different, 
but even there a man who does not love 
a cow is out of place in a dairy barn. He 
is worse than the scrubs we hear so much 
about. You may get some profit out of a 
shiftless and disinterested man from hoe¬ 
ing potatoes or husking corn, but when 
he deals with a thing representing such 
delicate life as a dairy cow he is a “plant 
out of place”—a weed! 
Sick Cows.—I thought of this man's let¬ 
ter about 12 o'clock Sunday night, as I 
went out into the frost to give the sick 
cow her medicine. Ida came in Sunday 
morning with sorrow stamped on her face 
—for she loves the cow. 
“Cow very sick!” 
Ida’s grasp on English is not as firm 
as it might be, but she made herself clear. 
I have heard that Finnish is the most ex¬ 
pressive of all languages, but Ida’s com 
bination of English and "sign" beat it. 
“Cow no sick!”—here she gave a good 
imitation of a cow chewing her cud. 
“Cow very sick!"—here she dropped her 
head and shoulders in the most dejected 
attitude. That was as comprehensive as 
though some talkative language master 
had said: 
“I regret to be obliged to inform you 
that a most embarrassing state of affairs 
reigns at the barn. Our unfortunate 
bovine has evidently been stricken with an 
awkward and intensely severe illness. The 
evidences of such illness are plainly ap¬ 
parent to the most casual observer. As 
we all know, when an animal is in normal 
condition it will be observed to masticate 
continually with great freedom, and evi¬ 
dent satisfaction. This animal now stands 
in a most depressed and dejected attitude 
having lost her ambition even to engage 
in that highly interesting and evidently 
enjoyable occupation of remasticating its 
food.” 
The cow looked as though some one had 
explained her condition in that way. It 
seems that she broke loose and got at a 
bag of horse feed of ground corn and oats. 
That and the cold weather had nearly 
used her up. I thought I had her cured 
the night before, but a partial paralysis 
of the back and loins had set in. She 
would not eat or drink and had nearly lost 
the use of her hind legs. I made her com¬ 
fortable with a blanket and sent for the 
veterinary, as the trouble had gone past 
my skill. When he came he shook his 
head, but prescribed for her and I went 
at it. I made a mustard plaster and put 
it along her back and hips. A newspaper 
was put on that and then the blanket. 
Then I gave a pint and a half of raw lin¬ 
seed oil and a mixture of nux vomica and 
ginger every hour. I made her stand up 
all I could, and at times it was necessary 
to get under her and lift her up. There 
is something pitiful to me in the actions 
of a sick cow. Poor, dumb brute, fitted 
by nature to express her feelings in the 
crudest and homeliest way, sickness and 
pain find her incapable of telling you what 
she wants to say. I stayed by that cow as 
best I could, and we all rejoiced when the 
old honest light came into her eyes and 
she slowly came back to her milk. Tt was 
surely a Sunday job to stay by the cow, 
but it wasn’t a job for any day in the 
week to leave a cow and a bag of horse 
feed where they can possibly get together. 
She is all right now, but I can’t get her 
to eat a mouthful of that horse feed yet. 
When I was a little boy my grandfather 
sent me to the store for a plug of black 
tobacco. On my way home I chewed off 
a little piece. From that day to this I 
haven’t wanted any more of that kind. I 
won’t trust the cow to remember that long 
—or even as long as the mustard plaster 
works! Cornmeal is no feed for a dairy 
cow. I will guarantee that no one ever 
made milk at a profit on purchased corn- 
meal. It is, however, great Winter feed 
for a working horse. If I may be per¬ 
mitted to mention “drunken cow” again I 
will say that this cow, stuffed on grain, 
was wobbly on her legs and felt very 
“tired,” but was no more drunk than a 
temperance lecturer. There was a clear 
difference between her condition and when 
she filled on apples last Fall! 
Farm Notes.— Sleighing is good and 
seems likely to be for some time yet. The 
cold weather continues, and the wind on 
the hill is fierce. The snow is badly drifted 
in places, and as usual after bad storms 
we find it impossible to get over the hill 
with a load. Should there come a warm 
rain there would be great damage from 
floods. Some of the bridges across the 
streams are light, temporary structures. 
A flood will carry them away. 
Few satisfactory jobs can be done in such 
weather as we are now having. There are 
chores and odds and ends to be finished. 
The days are growing longer, and this 
freeze will end some day, and then we 
can tackle the work in earnest. I have 
trimmed many of the blackberries, but 
now I fear this weather has killed them 
to the ground.Many peach buds 
seem to be killed, yet I hope there is life 
in some of them. The buds were very dry, 
and the temperature did not rise suddenly 
after the freeze. I think 50 per cent of 
them are still alive. The trees which held 
their leaves so long seem in fine condition. 
Many of the leaves are still hanging to 
the trees. I thought the apples in the 
house cellar must have frozen, but they 
are all right, and we are still selling. We 
have shipped in boxes and baskets all the 
way from northern Massachusetts to 
Florida. The express company has smashed 
two baskets—the boxes are safer and 
better.Pork still brings a good 
price—we are selling at eight to 10 cents 
dressed. There is no doubt however that 
the most money for us is in a 100-pound pig 
in the Fall—or at about the first hard 
frost. We are planning for the best outfit. 
oT pigs we have ever had this Summer, 
■and the best method of handling them, 
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