1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
9? 
Hope Farm Notes 
Fool Questions.— When I referred on 
page 39 to people who ask whether we are 
not afraid our children will be laughed at 
if we are known as farmers, I evidently did 
realize what a crust is forming around the 
edges of American society. Here is an in¬ 
dignant blast from our old friend, H. S. 
Wiley, who should be thankful that he 
lives in a locality where farming is the 
leading industry: 
“There are a great many things I would 
rather see than the person or persons who 
would ask such an idiotic question as the 
one you speak of. ‘Some one asks if we are 
not afraid the children will be laughed at.’ 
If that person was on the subscription list 
of a paper that 1 had anything to do with 
I would discontinue his paper and send his 
balance, if he was serious about asking the 
question. Laughed at for doing clean, rea¬ 
sonable, dignified service! Why the ‘joy of 
life is in service.’ ‘Life comes to its true 
development only in the path of service 
and self-sacrifice.’ I suppose a person who 
does not know that should be entitled to a 
great deal of sympathy. I am going to as¬ 
sume that question was asked simply to 
draw you out on the subject.” 
Now, I have to take things just as th-sy 
come and I am forced to tell Mr. Wiley 
that in the fringe around our great towns 
and cities there are plenty of people who 
while morally unworthy of brushing off a 
good farmer’s overalls, yet sneer at his 
work whenever they get a chance. I could 
tell some lively stories of the way such 
people talk and act. There are young men 
and women who get a job in the city at 
a few dollars a week—barely enough to 
clothe them and pay their carfare. Father 
and mother feed them on the farm, yet 
these young sprouts try in every way to 
avoid being known as farmers. I have 
known grown-up women to spend time 
rubbing their daughter’s hands so as to 
make their fingers long and slender, and do 
ing all the dishwashing and scrubbing so 
that Mary’s hands may be like a lady's. 
I used to blame such people and call them 
foolish, but now I feel sorry for them, for 
they have simply come to an end of moral 
and patriotic growth. They have lost th 
true conception of the real uplifting mis¬ 
sion of the human hand—which is, as Mr. 
Wiley says, one of hopeful service. He 
says he would cut such people off ihe list 
and return their money. Oh no! a man be¬ 
hind a paper must have more patience than 
that. We have hope that some of them 
may yet be reformed and started into 
growth again. There is a good old hymn 
in which this couplet is found: 
“While the lamp holds out to burn 
The vilest sinner may return.” 
vft is our business to keep the lamp burn¬ 
ing. 
TO show how people all over the country 
feel about this thing I print this note from 
■ Tenipessee: 
“f wonder who asks such fool questions 
about the little boys being ashamed of 
■being farmers? No lover of the soil would.” 
You .see these friends back from what 
I call t,l?e crust of society, have not been 
hrougibt ,up against the demoralizing influ¬ 
ence of fne city. That is one sad thing 
about the town. When people crowd to¬ 
gether their vices seem to spread faster 
than their virtues. The weak among coun¬ 
try people cannot stand the temptation to 
prefer the poor glitter of town society to 
the truer character which may be dug out 
of the farm. We have, unhappily, a class 
.of farmers who seem to regard the faint as 
,< a good place to make a dollar, but a poor 
i place to spend it. Such people do not yet 
iquite realize that the child crop is ahead 
iin real importance of any other crop that 
(comes out of the land. 
;Some of you may think that this sal eon- 
idition of affairs is confined to the Atlantic 
icoast, where farming is old. No—here is 
a letter from a Minnesota city where we 
should expect better things: 
“The expressions of mingled disgust and 
sympathy I get from my business asso¬ 
ciates because I spend my time outside 
business hours on a small farm would be 
highly amusing, but for the utter miscon¬ 
ception of life’s duties and responsibilities 
that seem to lie back of it ail. The ready 
entry into the so-called ‘best’ society, 
home life, club life and, I regret to say, 
in all too many cases, church life, of mon¬ 
ied men whose private lives are notori¬ 
ously corrupt, and whose business methods 
if closely analyzed would be found equally 
so, is bearing its legitimate fruit. A gen¬ 
eration of young men is growing up whose 
ideals are set upon a ‘money by your wits’ 
standard. The farmer who from choice or 
necessity begins his day’s work at five 
o’clock, instead of 8:30 or nine, is viewed 
with feelings of pity or contempt—the vic- 
time of his own misfortune or ignorance. 
A pair of overalls is regarded with almost 
as much aversion as convicts’ stripes—in 
fact, more of a disgrace provided the 
‘amount’ which on rare occasions brings 
the latter is large enough. Hence the epi¬ 
thet ‘farmer’ as applied by our smart 
young men to anyone who fails to reach 
their false standards. Would that your 
words could be burned deep into the hearts 
of the present generation of young men 
—particularly those in the farming dis¬ 
tricts, who imagine that heaven is just 
over the municipal border.” w. s. w. 
I can testify from sad experience that 
the farm boy who leaves the farm home 
because he thinks it is slow and homely 
will find anything but heaven in the city. 
I would give a good deal if I could only 
make some of those young men see that 
it is nobler to put natural dignity into a 
pair of overalls than to try to take arti¬ 
ficial dignity out of a long-tailed coat. 
You want every young man to be a 
farmer then? Not by a good deal. I 
would not force any boy to do work into 
which he could not put his heart, but I 
would have every one respect honest 
labor. As I have often said, I do not 
blame these young people half as much 
as I blame their parents, for if those par¬ 
ents were strong enough to see what their 
children are coming to trmy would know 
better than to sneer at the hand which 
feeds them. As for those of us who live 
on the farm and love it—we do r^t care 
personally what these silly folks or 
think about us. If it were merely a mat- 
itii 1 of business we would say nothing but 
the farm has a National duty to perform, 
and we do not propose to let these un¬ 
patriotic weaklings sneer us into silence! 
Farm Notes.— Thaw came with the 
snow piled on the hills and the ground 
full of frost. In a short time there was a 
brook on every hillside, and the streams 
began to rise. It looked like a dangerous 
llood when old Jack Frost took a hand 
in once more. Whether he wanted to live 
up to his title of “Hon. John” or not 1 
cannot say, but he laid his icy hand once 
more on the hills, and the little brooks 
were silent. This gave the larger streams 
a chance to unload into the ocean with¬ 
out overflowing. Now if we have another 
gentle thaw the rest of the snow will 
gently pass away without a dangerous 
flood. There are some drifts on the hills 
yet, but nothing to hurt. . . . The low¬ 
er part of the farm is generally covered 
with ice in Winter. As I have stated be¬ 
fore, our best field near the house, is 
shaped something like a plate or shallow 
saucer. The soil is from five to 12 feet 
deep, underlaid by a solid ledge of rock. 
It is difficult to underdrain such a field. 
Spring usually finds it soaked full of 
water. Keeping it pretty well mulched we 
can keep it moist all Summer, but wash 
from other fields must be kept away from 
it. We are planning this Spring a system 
of open drains which will carry the wash 
from the next farm and from our own 
hills rapidly on to the brook. Then by 
plowing the wet soil in narrow lands with 
the dead furrows to act as open ditches 
we can plant earlier and have a better 
show for a crop. We have been criticised 
because the land in some of our orchards 
is not level. It was left purposely with 
the ridge along the rows of trees and the 
dead furrows between the rows, so that 
the water would not remain close to the 
trees. ... I have mentioned an ex¬ 
periment with hogs that I have in mind 
for this year. Our plan of pork making 
is to let the pigs run in good pasture and 
orchard with plenty of water and a fair 
amount of grain. We want a dressed car¬ 
cass of 125 pounds or under. What breed 
-will give this best? I have thought of 
buying a well-bred sow of Berkshire, 
Poland China, Jersey Red, Chester White 
and Cheshire. I would weigh them when 
they came to the farm. Keep exact rec¬ 
ords of the number and weight of their 
pigs, figure as well as I could the grain 
they consumed, and thus know at the end 
of the season which breed gave me most 
pork for a dollar. I do not care to see 
how much I can make a pig weigh, but 
how much a pig will make out of good 
pasture, cull apples, water and a fair 
amount of grairv I want a pig to take 
care of himself largely and leave us free 
to care for our onions and fruit. From 
my present experience I should expect 
that pig for pig the Berkshires would 
win, but five Berkshires will not beat 10 
Chesters. The test is not entirely fair, 
because pure-bred stock ought to be 
worth too much for pork making, and I 
might not get fair specimens of each 
breed. I would probably make cheaper 
pork to buy grade sows, but that would 
not show results fairlv either. h. w. c . 
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