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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Voorhees of New 
August where the 
can now see that 
Jersey advises 
soil is full of 
on weedy soil 
sowing m 
weeds. 1 
the little 
Farm Notes. —Anyone who has tried to 
cure oats and peas into hay will know that 
(he peas are like some good talkers—hard to 
dry up. We had fair weather, and finally 
got this fodder into such shape that it could 
he housed. The oats without the peas were 
ready to put In the barn two days before 
the others. Why, then, raise the peas if they 
are so bard to cure? They add to the weight 
and to the value of the fodder, and are well 
worth the extra care and time. We have 
been most successful in cutting the crop in 
the morning, letting it lie until the peas 
are well wilted and then raking into wind¬ 
rows. The next day we throw the fodder 
into good-sized cocks and turn them over 
from time to time. These oats and peas 
make very fine green fodder for cattle, and 
they are equally good for dry fodder when 
they can be cured. Few if any are grown in 
our section. I think they would pay better 
than fodder corn for cow feed in Winter. 
Where hay brings as much as it does with 
us it pays to raise some rough fodder for 
our own stock, and sell the Timothy. IN e 
can, if we like, harvest a good crop of oats 
and peas, work the land up at once, and sow 
fodder corn in time for a good growth. We 
shall not do this, because we seeded clover 
in the oats and peas and have a fair stand. 
. . The onions are moving now. That 
emulsion of soap and carbolic acid seems to 
have discouraged the maggots—for the time 
at least. The onions are behind last year's 
record in size thus far, but I think they 
will catch up. . . . The Hubbard squash 
is coming on. Haying rushed us so that 
cultivating was neglected, and in parts of the 
field the weeds rushed in until they nearly 
hid the squash plants. The worst places 
were where there is a wash from the upper 
farm, and here the redroot grew to perfec¬ 
tion. We have them under the hoe now. 
. . The pepper plants look as though 
they had been varnished. I have never seen 
such a shiny, polished green on any plant. 
The nitrate of soda, which was scattered 
around them, seems to be responsible for this 
polish. I have never yet thought it needful 
to dissolve nitrate of soda and pour it 
around plants as some do. A small quantity 
worked into the soil will make itself heard 
from in a very short time. These peppers 
require constant cultivation and hoeing. 
They are on a piece of ground where Crab 
grass and Nut grass abound. One reason 
why I grew the peppers was to give such 
culture that these grasses would be killed 
out. We are likely to conquer them, but it 
has to be done with the fingers! 
The Alfalfa. —I find that many people 
are interested in the Alfalfa experiment. 
Here is the experience of a man who lives in 
Middlesex Co., N. .T. : 
“I am interested in your Alfalfa field. I 
am trying a little experiment myself. I 
sowed a strip May in. The ground was in 
excellent condition; had been well manured 
and limed. Sowing was immediately fol¬ 
lowed by terrific bail and floods of rain. Tlail 
as large as walnuts covered the ground. Rain 
washed, seed out on one side of strip and 
washed it under on the other, reducing it 
to about one-half in width. It was grow¬ 
ing rapidly, but pigweed and smartweed ap¬ 
peared here and there. I pulled out some 
and concluded that I would not hesitate to 
weed an acre under like conditions. Weeds 
increased; purslane and Crab grass appeared. 
Alfalfa looked fine, and was beginning to 
stool. Some plants stood 15 to 18 inches 
high, and many 10 to 12. I was quite proud 
of my patch. A few days ago I had it 
clipped. To-day I walked over it, first no¬ 
ticing that Crab grass is pointing upward 
everywhere. 1 walked on a carpet of bloom¬ 
ing purslane. You would hardly believe that 
there is any Alfalfa left. The field of which 
this is part, was comparatively free from 
weeds. It was in corn last Summer, follow¬ 
ing a fine crop of Crimson clover. I used 
some soil from our experiment station and 
a small quantity from a growing field of Al¬ 
falfa in California. I have since learned 
that effect of such use of soil may not be 
looked for before next year. I hardly know 
what to hope for. Before clipping I noticed 
the plants were very wiry and elastic. I 
hardly believed that any harm could come 
to them. If I see them out-topping the mass 
of weeds that now occupy the ground I shall 
be much elated. My friend in California 
sows barley to protect from the hot sun. 
lie says the only fault he can find with the 
crop is that it takes a quarter part of the 
ground for a stack yard. I do not take that 
quite seriously.” w. w. s. 
This man well states the appearance of my 
field. Before it was clipped I felt very hope¬ 
ful. Since clipping I am obliged to confess 
that the Crab grass and some of the weeds 
have grown away from the Alfalfa. I can 
still see it, but it is surely running behind 
the weeds. From what I was told I expected 
that after the clipping the Alfalfa would 
jump ahead. Near Syracuse, N. Y., farmers 
sow barley or oats and 'Timothy with the 
Alfalfa, as they argue that these crops help 
keep the weeds in check until the Alfalfa can 
work ahead. I unuerstand also that Prof. 
Alfalfa plant has too hard a struggle alone 
with our Summer weeds. I notice that a 
spell of very hot weather—hot enough to 
wilt ragweed and plantain—sends the Alfal¬ 
fa ahead. Take it all in all, I make no 
brags about my Alfalfa crop, but am more 
anxious than ever to make it go. 
Justice and The Robin. —The following 
letter has been hauded me. Mr. Hollenbeck 
says that he dares us to print It, and that 
our ideas of the word “justice” are “only 
rudimentary” : 
“That degenerate robin! No doubt it 
would be a revelation to those It. N.-Y. writ¬ 
ers who have so very courageously offered $1 
if some one else would become a lawbreaker 
by shooting robins, if they would cage a 
young robin where the parent birds can feed 
it a few days. The surplus of winged and 
crawling things on the cage bottom would 
surprise them. But pshaw! What of that? 
The robin is a villain. Time was when vast 
forests and acres of berry bushes in a state 
of natural growth gave the feathered hosts 
ample supplies. Who cleared all this vast 
berry patch and forced the birds to invade 
cultivated fields or starve? 'The robin! Who 
invades the few remaining berry fields pro¬ 
vided by Nature for her children, invades 
with wife, children, cousins and aunts, yea, 
even the hired man? The robin! Who 
picks not only for to-day, but also to can? 
The robin ! Who picks to sell (hat he may 
put another dollar In the bank or buy a 
cigar, or a schooner of beer? The robin! 
Who mows the berry bushes out of the fence 
row and turns sheep and goats on the hill 
pasture to kifl all the berry bushes? The 
robin ! Who grows cultivated berries to put 
money in the bank to rob Naboth of his 
vineyard, or to buy Steel Trust stock, or to 
bet on the ponies, or to aid get-rich-qulck 
people. The robin! Who crucified his Re¬ 
deemer? The robin! Who is popularly sup¬ 
posed to be a candidate for hell and making 
his election sure? The robin! He is a 
hardened monster that should have the ship 
timber pulled out of his eye so he can see the 
bacterium of the dollar craze in the eye of 
man. Let's all give $1 apiece to the lawless 
lawbreaker who kills him. So shall we adorn 
our women with wings and tails of the dead, 
and so send them to church on Easter Day 
to proclaim that. Christ, the Merciful, has 
arisen to do justice!” E. Hollenbeck. 
I do not print this because Mr. Hollen¬ 
beck dares us to do so. I think we would 
better leave the “daring” and its conse¬ 
quences tolsinall boys. This is a fair sample 
of a class* r of letters we receive now and 
then. When they come I always wonder 
what a man really expects to gain by such 
language. Are there any large number of 
sensible people who are converted or strength¬ 
ened in their views by such denunciations? 
It has been truly said that “it takes all sorts 
of people to make a world," but I think 
Brother Hollenbeck's class is smaller than 
he imagines. Very likely the members of 
that class will say that they make up in 
quality what they lack in quantity! I should 
certainly regret to have my children or any 
other young people I know grow up to think 
that they will benefit themselves or advance 
any really worthy cause by violence and 
abuse. A man may grow sweet or bitter by 
his own thinking—whether he is surrounded 
by poverty or all tlie comforts of wealth. I 
can, in a way, sympathize with those who 
have such intense hatred for what they be¬ 
lieve to be unjust, for in my hardest strug¬ 
gles I have, at times, felt that way about 
many of the conditions of society. There is, 
however, so much of good in the world and 
so much more of power in a gentle, hopeful 
life than in one filled with hatred and bitter¬ 
ness, that I always regret to see a man or 
woman thinking only of the hateful, horrible 
things that live in the shadows. I wonder 
if Brother Hollenbeck really thinks that his 
talk will ever induce a fruit grower to stop 
shooting robins or prevent a woman from 
wearing hat feathers! If he knows anything 
of human nature he must see that such talk 
will have the opposite effect. He relieves 
his mind but burdens the situation. The 
sensible articles by Mrs. Styer, recently 
printed in The It. N.-Y., are far more effee 
tive. The sting in Mr. Hollenbeck's letter 
enters his own argument and does no harm 
to the evil which he wants to attack. In 
fact, if a person wants to write an article 
that will carry conviction and help against 
wrong, he should take this letter as an ex¬ 
ample of how not to do it. We see how a 
man with a good command of language, and 
what many people consider a strong case, 
has put so much poison into his weapon that 
even those who would like to agree with him 
will not use it. There are honest people in 
the world who have reason to regard the 
robin as a thief. They live in places where 
the bird undoubtedly 
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