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Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —The weather is still cool, 
but the rain has held up and given us a good 
chance to clean our crops. We never did so 
much work with the hoe before. One reason 
is that in former years we have had in so 
large an acreage of crops that we could not 
get over all with hoes. This year the greater 
part of (lie farm is in crops that will be cut 
with the mower or pastured down by hogs. 
This gives us a chance to keep the culti¬ 
vated crops clean. By crowding our ferti¬ 
lizer and our work upon fewer acres we do 
much better. . . . The peppers are mak¬ 
ing a fair growth. They need warmer 
weather than we have had thus far to do 
their best. We have used nitrate of soda— 
about a tablespoonful to each plant scattered 
some three inches away. This is a season in 
which nitrate will give a gardener the best 
results. The cold air and soil hold the crops 
back, and some soluble form of nitrogen is 
needed to give them a start. We have found 
nothing better than nitrate for this. 
The little boys do not think much of my 
method of growing Marshall strawberries. 
This variety, like the Bovee potato, the Jer¬ 
sey cow or the Minorca hen, must have the 
best of care and feeding, or it will prove a 
great disappointment. We have berries this 
year as large as Red Astrachan apples—yet 
in parts of the field where they were neg¬ 
lected last year they are mere nubbins, tough 
and seedy. I am now practicing every art I 
know on the plants which were set last Au¬ 
gust. They had a hard time through the 
Winter, and some were killed out. The others 
are thriving. We have cultivated them three 
times and hoed them twice already, and I 
expect to hoe them four times more. This is 
what makes the little boys sick. I regret to 
say that they do not like to hoe. Their ideal 
crop would be one that could be scratched 
over once and then left for the season to care 
for itself, while the boy dropped his hoe and 
played baseball. Billy Berkshire and hrs 
gang can handle clover and peas that way, 
hut no one grows Marshall strawberries after 
that plan. This variety must be kept clean, 
and it must be kept in hills. To let it run 
into matted beds as some varieties do would 
spoil the fruit. The little boys think more 
of the job of placing the runners. We watch 
the plants carefully, going over the rows 
every few days, and before the runners take 
root we place them just where we want them 
in the row. Our plan is to set them about 
15 inches apart each way and then keep the 
spaces between the plants clean, putting on 
fertilizer at least three times during the sea¬ 
son. It is a big job, but it results in big 
fruit, which brings big money. What is the 
use in putting ordinary work into ordinary 
tilings and getting less than ordinary prices? 
We have two beds of Marshall straw¬ 
berries that are too good to plow up, and still 
too weedy to yield well next year. A straw- 
bciry plant is something like a hen. Some 
farmers believe in keeping only pullets ex¬ 
cept a few old hens for breeders—and never 
picking strawberries hut oue season. Others 
keep hens four or even five years, and pick 
their berry fields three or four seasons. It 
all depends on the vigor of the hen and the 
plant, and the way they have been kept. I 
nave kept some strawberry plants seven years, 
picking good crops each season. This would 
not pay In large beds, yet when one has a 
bed well started and has the patience to do it 
he can place the new runners each year so 
as to have a constant succession year after 
year. Let no man attempt this who feels 
about strawberry growing as my little boys 
do. lie will have a tangle on his hands 
which nothing but a plow will ever straighten 
out. . . . The little pigs are rapidly 
reaching that stage of growth which entitles 
them to the name of hog. I have never seen 
youngsters lengthen out as these do. They 
have a slop of about equal parts cornmeal, 
middlings and bran, and a quantity of soaked 
corn. They eat all the young clover and 
grass they will, and soon the sweet apples 
will begin to fall. The cross-bred Berkshire 
and Chester Whites are apparently making 
the better gain thus far, though the Berks 
are close to them. I expected low prices for 
meat this year, but the indications now are 
for better prices—at least the butchers de¬ 
mand more for then- dressed meat. . . . 
We shall plant an acre or so of sweet corn 
after all. Some of the clover seeding on the 
hill has failed, and we expect to plow the 
ground and plant sweet corn early in July. 
With au average season we can get good ears 
before frost. Our grass seeding with the 
buckwheat was so successful last year that 
we shall repeat it this year on the part of 
the young orchard which needs seeding. We 
shall also put grass seed in the late sweet 
corn I have just mentioned. 
Peas and Berries. —We sent off one crate 
of Marshall strawberries that we took special 
pride in, and the Madame and I picked the 
fruit, with some help from the children. Not 
a bferry was touched with the fingers. The 
stem was pinched off and tlie berry laid 
gently in the box. The result was a crate that 
was a pleasure to look at—and taste. The 
Marshall is 11 handsome berry, and though 
most growers have given it up we still con¬ 
tinue to plant it. President is another great 
berry for a special trade, and we shall plant 
it freely in July. When we finished picking 
that crate we were hungry, and our folks 
needed very little sauce as we lined up at the 
table. There was a great dish of green peas 
fresh from me vines, an abundance of bread 
and butter, more strawberries than we could 
eat, with cream thick enough to stand alone. 
That was enough to satisfy any reasonable 
person. Our first Alaska peas were eaten 
June 14, and I will not say how many our 
fo..vS tucked away. Just now we have peas, 
spinach, lettuce, turnips, little beets and 
onions ready in the garden, with others 
crowding on their heels. What more do you 
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BLIZZARD Fe«d and Ensilaga Cuttar or 
Angora Cats. —There has been so much 
said about robins and other feathered thieves 
that I want to print this legal opinion from 
a good lawyer: 
“I am glad to be able to prescribe for fel¬ 
low sufferers from the depredations of robins 
and cat birds, a cure, reasonably cheap and 
above all a lawful remedy. Procure Angora 
cats in the ratio of about one cat to 25 cherry 
trees and turn them loose. As a lawyer, I 
assure you that the prohibition of the statute 
does not extend to eats. Ordinary cats won’t 
do—they lack the energy and intelligence of 
tiie thoroughbred. Our Angora kitten has 
climbed every tree on the place, destroyed 
nests and eggs, and has the birds thoroughly 
terrorized. Our cherry trees now hang full 
of ripening fruit with not a robin near them. 
Last year they would have pecked every red 
cheek before this time. Seriously, that cat Is 
going to pay for itself several times over this 
Summer.” f. 
That is certainly one way of getting around 
the law—a sort of cat-hole through it! It 
ought also to start a “boom” in the breeding 
of Angora cats. But will the Angora cat 
know enough to distinguish between a robin 
and a young chicken—or will a taste of the 
former simply whet her appetite for a young 
broiler? These are things to he considered 
before we invest money in Angora cats. We 
have an okl gray ca.t that has broken up 
many bird homes, I fear, and we suspect that 
she has made away with a number of little 
chicks! If our friend can guarantee his 
Angora to distinguish, legally and otherwise, 
between robins and Leghorns, I want one 
right away. 
Speaking of the robin question, here is an¬ 
other suggestion : 
“The Russian mulberry begins to ripen 
with the Early Richmond cherry, and con 
Unties during the cherry season with us, and 
as tiie mulberries are sweeter than the Rich 
mond or Morello cherries (about the only 
varieties that do well here) the robins and 
other birds eat mulberries in preference to 
cherries, although they do take some cherries. 
We have an abundance of mulberries growing 
for the benefit of our feathered friends and 
tiie iittle folks.” w. M. c. 
1 have no doubt the birds will take the 
mulberries from choice, but what are we to 
do while the mulberry trees are growing? We 
have none planted now. This gentle method 
of handling the birds appeals to me, and 1 
wish it could be carried out. I have learned, 
however, that both birds and children vary 
in their disposition, so that gentle, kindly 
treatment that would make a good citizen of 
one will only encourage another to be over¬ 
bearing and selfish. I regret that this is so, 
but life as I have seen it indicates that stern 
and strict repression while habits are being 
formed is the only safeguard for some na¬ 
tures. The birds do not trouble us nearly as 
much as they evidently do others, but I think 
they are growing in their thievery, and while 
I do not pretend to he a scientific observer 
1 feel sure that many of them are becoming 
more and more fruit eaters and less useful 
as insect destroyers. I heard a man say 
last week that the Japanese were “birds.” 
That being so, it seems strange that the Rus¬ 
sians have not planted some of their mul¬ 
berries a long distance from Port Arthur. 
__ H. w. c. 
Fruit Notes. —I have found that the hill 
and narrow row system of growing straw¬ 
berries will give me the most and best ber¬ 
ries; also that it is not wise to fruit my bed 
the second year; it always has proven unsat¬ 
isfactory. I find that early Spring is the 
best time for me to put out the plants. The 
ground should be thoroughly pulverized and 
well fertilized, with a good top-dressing in 
August. There are many good varieties; for 
my main crop I grow New York, Glen Mary 
and Bubach. If anyone who has similar 
soil and climate conditions will plant these 
varieties, and take proper care of them they 
will -ruit freely. I would like to know of a 
berry as good in quality as Michel s Lai ly. 
'leaf is a goou bearer, and would also like to 
know of a very late variety not as acid as 
the Gandy. 1 find the setting of apples, 
pears and plums is not in proportion to the 
amount of bloom; still most varieties have 
enough, or at least a fair setting; some kinds 
very full. I think more attention should be 
given the planting of two or more varieties 
together. I have positive proof this year 
u.at some varieties of plums and pears need 
to lie pollenized by other than their own 
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