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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Fak.m Notes.—O n June 25 the best of the 
Alfalfa stood six inches high, li was seeded 
May 20. Since the weather turned hot and 
dry this Alfalfa has grown as I thought no 
farm crop could grow in such a short time. 
The weeds are starting with it and the whole 
thing must he clipped off before long. Is 
there any difference in favor of the inocu¬ 
lated seed? My eyes are not good enough to 
see any above ground, but 1 think the roots 
are better where we used (lie bacteria. 
While tiie vinos are most useful the roots 
are most important ! 1 do not judge results 
by the eye any more. I hope that we have 
caught the Alfalfa at last, but 1 will not 
brag. . . . Grass is later than last year, 
but we began haying earlier than usual. By 
June 24 we had over three tons under cover. 
We shall have more Ilian twice as much hay 
as we ever had before- not counting the oats 
and peas. Now give us good hay weather an 1 
we will pack tiie barns. . . . tin June 25 
we took Billy Berkshire and six of the smaller 
pigs out of the orchard and put them in a 
small Held where there is a crop of volun¬ 
teer rye and clover. One of the little pigs 
weighed .'!0% pounds when lie came on May 
28. lie weighed 51% on June 25. lie lias 
not been fed heavily, but has made a good 
share of that gain on clover and rape. There 
is a brook running through tiie new pasture 
and I lie pigs make tiie most of i(. A pig is 
glad to take a bath when lie can. if I can 
keep up this gain for 100 days I shall feel 
well satisfied. . . . The Onion maggot is 
a small insect, Iml he throws a long shadow 
on our ITizetakers, We find an army of 
these maggots in tiie field. They have done 
great damage already. We put on nitrate of 
soda to hurry the crop along and use Mr. 
Slingerland's remedy of soap emulsion and 
carbolic acid, but. I fear they will fix a good 
share of the crop in spite of all we can do. 
We have never been bothered by them before. 
The Reach borer is another insect that has 
let us alone thus far, but now it is coming in 
deadly array. . . . When we planted the 
young currant bushes this Spring we planted 
a potato hill between each two currants. 
Midway between tlie currant rows we have 
sweet corn. The potatoes have made a good 
growth. They have been kept clean and now 
give promise ot a line crop. As soon as they 
are ripe they will be dug and a good straw¬ 
berry plant set out where they grew. Three 
runners will be permitted to root from each 
plant, which will give us a good hill of ber¬ 
ries between the currants. It will require 
plenty of hand work to keep these fruits 
clean, but such work pays on good fruit. The 
Marshall strawberry makes its tines! fruit in 
the shade, and I am sure that the work spent 
in keeping the berries clean will help the 
currants as well. Such culture is in line with 
the plan we have for our lower fields. . . . 
It. looks like a noble crop of apples with us— 
especially the Nyack Pippins in the lower 
orchard. The bloom was not heavy, but tiie 
trees are now well covered with line, large 
fruit. We give much of the credit for this 
good showing to the hogs that ran in this or¬ 
chard last year. They rooted just enough to 
give light cultivation and ate the fallen fruit 
so that few wormy apples were left. There 
is no doubt but that a drove of hogs in such 
an orchard wul in the course of a few years 
make spraying a light job. The apples prom¬ 
ise to bring good prices this year. I see no 
reason to growl at that. . . . We were 
not able to get all the young trees mulched 
and hoed during June, but the job will soon 
be done. The Alabama peach orchard at (he 
back of the farm lias made a line start. The 
grass is waist high, but around each little 
li*ce the grass was cut with a sickle and piled 
at the base of the tree. During July the 
hay rakings, forest leaves, weeds from tiie 
fence rows, brush—everything we can get 
wul be piled in a circle around these trees. 
The annle trees handled in this way are mak¬ 
ing a sturdy growth. We are to have some 
peaches—so far as l know about the only 
crop in our neighborhood. There was some 
question last year as to whether a rabbit or 
a man cut my little peach trees. Whoever did 
it knew his business, for these trees have 
made a nice growth and seem to he heading 
as the experts tell me they should. This leads 
me to think that man had a knite in tiie 
job. I wanted to let tiie trees head them¬ 
selves out. 
Day Days. —Who was this man who com¬ 
plained about wet weather a few days ago? 
What does lie think of himself now? These 
things came into my mind as I stood on a 
high ladder, perched against a cherry tree, 
and looked over the farm, it was June 25— 
the sun was busy and so were the Hope Farm¬ 
ers. A passing carriage left a great cloud of 
dust on the road. The Madame and Aunt 
Mabel had brought their work out under the 
grape arbor. Charlie was cutting grass on 
the roadside with the mower. You could 
hardy see Frank and the Bird for the dust. 
1 ‘hi I ip was down on his knees behind the 
barn -weeding a row of beets. The three 
boys were with me in the tree picking cher¬ 
ries while the little girls were sitting at the 
foot of the tree picking over our fruit and 
packing it in baskets. The largest boy whom 
we call the Graft had sold some cherries the 
night before and we were tilling his order. 
Dry? The farm was parched. Still there 
was a good wind. It rubbed the hot air in. 
but kept the windmill turning, which madi 
us think of the cool water that was passing 
up into the tank. I had to think what a 
strange creature man is—to-day he calls foi 
rain and to-morrow lie howls for dry weather 
What a mess of it lie would make if he reallj 
directed the seasons. The lillle girls linishei 
pacuing their baskets and we started tin 
Graft off to deliver the goods, lie drove ok. 
Kate in tiie two-wheeled cart. We kept on 
picking. The boy came back very important 
over the fact that he had taken four mor« 
orders. 
“iitl I had to do was to show 'em," he sah. 
"They said they were line the best they eve 
saw !” 
You see there is some fun in delivering 
goods that please your customers. The lit!I 
girls had a share in this pride because the. 
sorted the fruit and it was just as much th 
had cherries they rejected as the good one 
we picked that pleased the customers. I tei 
the children that we are in the fruit busines 
for life, and that we can't afford to have an. 
customers that are not satisfied. Mothe 
called us to dinner before we had our order 
tilled. By three •clock the baskets wer 
ready. As it was Saturday there was no us 
picking more. One boy hitched up old Kat 
and went lo deliver the fruit and do som 
other errands, another mounted the pony an 
went to carry a letter, while tiie ollit 
cleaned up the driveway. The Hope Fan 
man went over the hill lo try to cut aroun 
Ioo peach trees. Aunt Mabel washed the li. 
tie girls' heads while the Madame divide 
her attention between a pile of mending an 
a speech she had promised to deliver bel’oi 
the Sunday School! it was a hot and lived 
day and we ended it pleasantly at supper ov< 
our Imked beans and strawberries. If th 
child had a sued me, ns she usually does, “At 
you glad il is dry?" I should have reasoned 
the hay crop has been made, the soil is nc 
really suffering, as for dust we must all ea 
our peck of dirt, and those cherries are no\ 
right at tiie point when a hard rain wool 
ruin them. 
Oi.p Majoh.—I came out from the city th 
other day to find something of a traged, 
waiting. Aunt Mabel, the Bud and the hah. 
had driven old Major over to meet me. Tin 
old horse had caught one of his brittle hoof 
in some way and ripped the lower part oil 
The shoe and about two Inches of the boo 
hung by a patch! it was a bad outlook l'(t 
the old fellow. It looked as if his days wer 
numbered! The girls started to walk hour 
and I got tiie old horse out of (lie shaft? 
The piece of hoof hung by a shred, but th 
horse could not move it without pain. II 
seemed so had that my first thought was h 
have him taken into some nearby field an 
shot at once. Then 1 thought 1 would tr. 
to get the old fellow home anyway. We al 
turn to home when we are in trouble. Wit. 
some help we got tiie old hoof off an. 
wrapped tiie bleeding foot in a bag. The. 
I took the faitiiful old brute by tiie head an 
began the siow, dusty walk home, lie limpe 
along with hanging head—seeming to fee 
that his days of usefulness are over. Peopl 
came to the doors or stopped work in th 
fields to see us pass. There must have bee. 
something pathetic about the old horse, fo 
no one laughed at him. As for me, as I le> 
the old veteran through the dust, I wa 
thinking many tilings. The day must come t 
all or us who work on long enough to fall i 
the harness. Will there be some one to lea 
us home? 1 hope so, for this breaking dowi 
away from friends or home is tiie saddest pic 
ture ot' life. The entire Hope Farm famil; 
were lined up on the road as I led old Majo 
home, l’hilip came out and took him, am 
some very sober little children followed tin 
old horse out to tiie barn, where Charlie ex 
amined his foot. It was bad enough, bu 
Charlie dressed it with tar and turned th 
old fellow into tiie orchard. Charlie has ha' 
Major on the cultivator before now when tin 
old sca'tnp claimed an old man's privilege t< 
quit work and roam all over tiie rows. Ye 
all this was forgotten when (lie old hors 
limped home. I once had a man write nn 
that Major seemed "tiie most intelligen 
member of the family, and I think lie L 
right. We have not yet decided what to d< 
with the old horse. We can probably us< 
him for raking hay or light work until hi 
k hoof grows out. At any rate, no one shal 
abuse old Major. H. w. C. 
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They were disappointed last year in its work 
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