1004. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
559 
Hope Farm Notes 
Having Notes. —Hay making was slow the 
first week in July, as the weather turned wet 
and sticky. We began cutting Monday, and 
prepared to cut half a day and haul half, 
right through the week. On Wednesday it 
began to rain. We were caught with a beau¬ 
tiful lot of hay on the ground. The wind 
and sun combined for a while on Thursday 
to permit us to rake it and haul part in— 
then the rain began again. We threw it into 
good-sized cocks, made as well as we could 
to shed water, and let it rain. It was hard 
to see this fine grass out in such a downpour, 
but Charlie and I tried to remember that we 
always did like a stew better than a plain 
roast. Friday blew fair again and the cocks 
were thrown open. There was not much dam¬ 
age, for we had put long straight hay on top, 
and the water had followed the stems so that 
it dropped on the ground. I have seen hay 
cocked in such a way that these long stems 
were rolled up, so that they led the water 
right to the center of the cock. We got it in 
on Saturday—a little discolored, but still in 
fair condition. Our best hay and the oats 
and peas are si ill standing. Except for the 
weather it is a great pleasure to handle such 
a crop as we have this year. The farm never 
produced more grass. It grows better each 
year. We took great pains with the seeding, 
and have fertilized well each year. The 
young trees in this grass are making a very 
satisfactory growth. While pitching hay to 
(he wagon I saw to it that the scatterings 
and bunches of damp grass were thrown 
around these little trees. You ought to see 
them grow. Charlie, who drives the mower 
among these small trees, doesn't fancy this 
plan of hay and orchard combined as I do. 
With an active team it is hard to dodge all 
the trees. When I get over $40 worth of 
hay to the acre and, in addition, such tree 
growth as we have this year, I certainly don’t 
feel like complaining. While our hills will 
produce good grass when well cared for, hay¬ 
ing is slow work. The drive to the barn is 
long and dangerous, for the road is steep and 
rough. Still, having tried potatoes, corn and 
other crops on these rough hills, I am satis¬ 
fied that grass is our best interest-payer 
while the trees are growing. This is evi¬ 
dently the last season we can hope to get on 
without a hay tedder and a horse fork or 
slings. The barn is not well titled to use 
either uuloader, but we shall have to fit it 
up, for we plan for more hay than ever next 
year. 
All Sorts. —The first marketable peppers 
were picked July 0. The plants were set out 
May til, which makes quick work of fruit 
making. The growth of these pepper plants 
has been very interesting to me. Tomato 
plants set at the same time are double the 
size of the peppers, but have not ripened any 
fruit. The peppers certainly get down to 
business early without regard to their size. 
At present the fruit is selling well, but before 
long (lie price will be cut in half. Even then 
the crop will pay, for the fruit can be held 
for shipment. I think there will be a fair 
local market for peppers when people get a 
taste of them. Four years ago our folks 
hardly knew there was any such vegetable. 
Now they will eat half a peck at a meal. As 
for me, I do not like them, but it is aston¬ 
ishing how the others enjoy them. I shall 
know more about this crop at (he end of the 
season. Thus far it beats my estimate. 
. . . Since the Alfalfa was clipped on July 
4 it has made a new start. It was not high 
enough to make even a fair cutting, and in 
some places the mower barely touched the 
Alfalfa plants. Some of the weeds were 
higher, and I made up my mind I would take 
no chances. So it was clipped. It is now a 
beautiful sight. We can see it far away on 
the road—in strong contrast to the brown of 
a meadow one one side and the red of a piece 
of ripe Red-top on the other. ... I no¬ 
tice more than ever before this year how Red- 
top works into sour soils. I have one place 
where the soil is quite acid. We seeded it to 
Timothy and Red-top, but now the Iied-top 
has driven its partner almost entirely out. 
Lime will, I think, give better results with 
Timothy or clover. For use on the farm I 
like to have a good mixture of Red-top in the 
hay. It packs in between the Timothy, gives 
more hay and adds to the feeding value. For 
baled hay the Red-top is an objection, but 
for selling by the load as is done in our 
country no difference is made in the price. 
. . . We hated to do it, but were obliged 
to stop in haying to run the cultivators over 
part of the crops. The wet weather started 
up (lie grass and weeds, and I was determined 
to keep at least part of our crops clean. 
During (he wettest weather the little boys 
went through the lima beans and pulled 
“pursley" and Red-root for the pigs. . . . 
We seem to have checked the Onion maggot 
with the carbolic acid emulsion. As most 
gardeners know, this is made by dissolving a 
pound of hard soap in a gallon of hot water 
and adding a pint of carbolic acid. This is 
stirred or churned until it forms an emulsion 
or *ort of soft soap. You add 80 gallons of 
water, stir it well up, and pour it along the 
rows, ’l’lie maggots quickly lose interest in 
their job. 
A New Hoe.— Not long since I received the 
following letter: 
“On page 479, June 18, in transplanting 
onions you say you have not as many hinges 
in your back as you had 25 years ago, nor 
have I when nearly 70 years ago I began to 
do a little in my father’s garden. I have no 
garden now. You fear the weeding. I sym¬ 
pathize with you. To help you in weeding 
I send you a little hoe, which I found a great 
help. Don’t laugh at it; only try it. It will 
serve in the place of a hinge or two. Spe 
how it will pick among onions, beets and the 
like. See how it will pick a weed out of a 
garden walk. Let Philip try it. If neither 
care for it give it to the children for a play¬ 
thing; but I forgot, your children don’t play; 
they work.” s. b. 
This “hoe” is a three-cornered piece of 
steel with a long handle bolted to the center. 
A man can stand upright with this tool and 
work around small plants with the points or 
use the edges as he would a regular hoe. It 
is a first-rate tool, and will save many a bend 
and many a creak of the back hinges. Our 
friend makes a mistake when he thinks our 
children “don’t play.” It is true that they 
work, and are expected to do their small 
share of home and farm duties, but they are 
not little slaves, and have plenty of time for 
playing. Take such an excellent tool as this! 
What is the use of letting children play with 
a thing which was designed for useful and 
productive labor? I would much rather let 
them use it to get weeds out of the straw¬ 
berries ! Of course our children work—but 
they play also. 
Home Notes. —To use a forcible, yet un¬ 
grammatical expression which I have often 
heard, “Fatty done splendid!” She stuck to 
her 13 eggs like a porous plaster, hatched out 
the 10 fertile ones and saved nine of her chil¬ 
dren. This makes our incubator records look 
very small. The chicks are a mixed lot, for 
the children picked the eggs from various 
places. There are two from our best Brown 
Leghorn and one that the children fondly 
hope will turn out to be a “Top-Knot.” 
“Fatty” takes good care of her children ex¬ 
cept that one rainy night she led them into 
an outside corner and sat there in the rain 
until morning. It seems as if a wooden 
brooder would have more sense than that, 
yet we must remember that this obstinate 
Light Brahma stayed by her children, while 
rain has driven many humans away from 
their duty. The children are studying out 
nine suitable names for the chicks ! 
Old Major is improving. His hoof is growing 
again and before long he can wear a substi¬ 
tute for a shoe. He runs (or rather limps) 
in the orchard with Nellie and her daughter. 
This filly seems to be fond of the old veteran. 
She dances about him and now and then 
comes up and rubs her nose against his. As 
they stand thus together I imagine that 
Major is giving his young friend a bit of 
unelely advice. No doubt, if we could under¬ 
stand his language, we should hear him say : 
“You remind me of my own views of life 
some 25 years ago. I have seen life from 
many points of work and pleasure—a sulky 
on the track, a carriage, an express wagon, in 
front of a street car, a peddler’s wagon, a 
plow and many other points to which the 
world’s labor is harnessed. I have seen the 
swift, the spirited and the shinlng-coated 
kick up their heels in their pride and strength 
and think that the morrow was secure. I 
have seen these same smart ones, when they 
failed in lung and leg, turned aside in their 
old age because they never picked up faithful 
character! You may look at me if you will. 
My legs are stiff and bunchy. Everyone on 
this farm knows that I cannot do a full day’s 
work. I consume hay and grain that would 
buy a new carriage, yet I am not afraid of 
being turned out to die because I have cheer¬ 
fully given my feeble strength whenever they 
asked me to do it. They know that they 
could send me out alone with the baby if need 
be, and that while I might stop to eat grass 
by the roadside I would not let the child 
come to harm. They also know that if the 
child were sick and the doctor were needed, I 
would break a leg if need be in getting him 
home! That is why I am here. Speed and 
strength come and go, but solid character re¬ 
mains. My young friend, put character into 
your work. I once drew an old man and his 
son in a buggy ! The old gentleman was ad¬ 
vising the younger man. Among other things 
he said : 
“ ‘Be not like dumb driven cattle. 
“ ‘Be a hero in the strife.” 
“ ‘Now look at those cows.’ ” 
But such lectures seem very dry when your 
legs are so limber that you can tie them into 
a bow knot, and the filly went prancing away 
to her mother. Nellie is like other mothers I 
have seen, so proud of her own family that 
she reserves her advice for the children of 
others. Major is all right, but he will have 
about as much success with the (illy as most 
of us do in trying to fasten hindsight upon 
the young folks who know more than we do. 
They say the world has changed since our 
day, but we forget that we have helped 
change it. u ‘ w - c * 
Strawberry Notes. —We are growing Mar¬ 
shall, which does not rust with us, and 
Brandywine, owing to their superior quality. 
Midnight we discarded. It sets more fruit 
than it can mature. The color is light and 
unattractive, and the quality insipid. 
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