1904, 
Ho pe Farm Notes 
Country Food. —There is one thing at least 
about a well-kept farm at this season that is 
worth thinking about—there is plenty io eat. 
Right now at Hope Farm we can take our 
choice from the following vegetables: Pota¬ 
toes, beets, tomatoes, sweet corn, cabbage, let¬ 
tuce, turnips, Lima beans, parsnips, onions, 
peppers, egg plant, with late peas nearly 
ready. For fruit we can pick apples, pears, 
grapes, peaches and plums, with huckleberries 
and a few late blackberries still on the hills. 
With a fat calf in the barn, a house full of 
young Wyandotte and Legnorn roosters, and 
plenty of fat young pigs, we could if need be 
stand quite a siege. The old tales of farmers 
who live on pork and potatoes from one year’s 
end to another seem ridiculous in the face of 
the easy possibilities of a farm garden. The 
farmers in our neighborhood have far better 
food than you will find among the middle 
class in town or city. Here is a sample day s 
bill of fare at Hope Farm : For breakfast oat¬ 
meal or some other cereal, with all the thick 
cream and sweet milk you can crowd into the 
dish; baked apples, fried potatoes and sliced 
tomatoes, with fried bacon for those who 
want it, and white and brown bread. Din¬ 
ner, a pot roast with potatoes, green corn, 
pickled beets, bread and butter and a bread 
pudding. Supper, stuffed peppers or baked to¬ 
matoes or fried egg plant, Lima beaus and 
apple fritters or baked apples. All these veg¬ 
etables are eaten less than an hour from the 
vine. It would seem that this ought to sat¬ 
isfy any reasonable individual, and it doesn’t 
make much of any difference how hard the 
meat strikers strike. While, of course, eat¬ 
ing is not the chief end of life, it is one of 
the important things which hold that end up, 
and the farmer who has a good garden out¬ 
side and a good cook inside the kitchen is in 
shape to lay a sond foundation for his sup¬ 
ports. 
There Are Others. —Here I will quote 
from a letter from a Vermont man. who says 
he has just returned from a vacation on Lake 
Champlain : 
“I am now fresh for Fall work and can eat 
as much sweet corn and tomatoes as anyone, 
and corned beef and cabbage. What season 
of the year is better than this, when every¬ 
thing in the garden is at its best? Who 
wouldn’t be a farmer and fruit grower? I 
notice that our city friends enjoy sitting 
down to our table to a Sunday dinner. Here 
is an order just received from one of our 
girls who is coming home to-morrow, and 
bringing her fellow with her: ‘Mother, please 
have dinner ready at two o’clock to-morrow; 
have a chicken pie, mashed potatoes, baked 
squash, sweet corn, celery. For dessert plum 
pudding and cream cake. I wouldn’t mind if 
you make a little Dutch cheese.’ I can enjoy 
that dinner myself, so I will try to he at 
home. We have 11 living children and seven 
grandchildren, so you see Sunday is a quite 
a day at home for those near us, and we are 
young yet, 52 and 40 respectively, hale and 
hearty. A little more than three years ago 
we sold our little home here and bought a 50- 
acre farm. We soon found out that we had 
gone awav from home, so last January we 
found a buyer for the farm and came back 
home to the little five-acre farm, where there 
is bread enough and to spare.” e. c. b. 
There are several things about this Ver¬ 
mont man that are worth thinking about. He 
takes a vacation. lie has 11 living children 
and seven grandchildren. He raised this big 
family on a five-acre place, and when he went 
to a larger farm got homesick and came back 
to the old home. There is a man of middle 
life who has kept his health and spirits, and 
can get as much fun out of life as the young¬ 
est. It is probable that he never broke the 
record in growing potatoes or any other crop, 
but lie ranks high as a solid citizen and a 
good sample of farm contentment. I wouldn't 
mind trying that dinner myself, and I'll guar¬ 
antee that tills will be read by 500 young men 
who would like to take the place of that “fel¬ 
low” and have Mother express her feelings 
about her daughter in terms of chicken pie 
and plum nuuuing ! Some of us old fellows 
might be willing to drop 30 years or so at 
such a prospect. Rut then we would want to 
take the Madame along with us! Our Ver¬ 
mont friend has promised to tell us. later on, 
how he makes his five-acre farm so produc¬ 
tive. 
Farm Notes.- —I am no betting man, but If 
anyone wants to give me a new hat if the 
Alfalfa shows up next Spring I think I would 
be sure of the hat. Since the last clipping 
the Alfalfa has surely improved. It has not 
made a heavy growth above ground, but the 
color is line and the roots are long and of 
good size. It has reached September in bet¬ 
ter shape than I expected, and I now look 
for it to carry through the season. Among 
■other suggestions I have received is this: In 
case of a failure this year plow up the same 
piece next year and sow to Alfalfa again. 
This seems reasonable, and I expect to try it 
in case the crop is killed this Winter. The 
last clipping of Crab grass in the Alfalfa field 
gave us a fair load of good hay. . . . 
Tne second cutting of grass will not be heavy 
—not as good as I expected, still there will 
he enough to feed part of the stock this Win¬ 
ter, so as to leave much of the best hay for 
sale. . . . The barnyards will be cleaned 
out this Fall and the manure put on the 
strawberries or plowed under in the lower 
fields for rye seeding. On level sod I am will¬ 
ing to broadcast manure in the Fall. On 
hilly land I would rather keep it. in large 
piles. Early in September we put a few loads 
of manure around a block of peach trees that 
somehow do not respond. I know that some 
growers say they would not have manure in 
a peach orchard, and that others say a tree 
should not be fertilized in the Fall. 1 have 
already broken so many of the rules laid 
down by the fruit-growing experts that a few 
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more will not matter. I wanted those trees 
colored up a little better before Winter, and 
manure was me most, convenient paint brush 
I had. . . . We have just sold a call at 
eight cents a pound live weight. It weighed 
130 pounds, and made a good carcass. Tak¬ 
ing out the waste and the bones, tbere is not 
much margin for the butcher even at present 
retail prices. . . • The live largest pigs 
have been put in a small, clean pen by them¬ 
selves and .will now be stuffed with soaked 
corn and a slop of middlings and cornmeal. 
As soon as the weather gets a little cooler 
they will be slaughtered and six more fat¬ 
tened in the same way. I am more than ever 
convinced that the time fot us to sell pork 
is when the pig will dress not over 12o 
pounds. Up to that time the cost of a pound 
of pork is light. After that the cost increases 
rapidly. . . . We shall begin digging po¬ 
tatoes about September 10. There have been 
no signs of rot thus far, though the scab is 
worse than I like. We never had a better 
yield. At present prices are very low, but I 
think they will come up a little later. . . . 
The grain anu grass on the hill fields have 
made a fine start. I shall probably let the 
buckwheat die down and mat the ground. It 
will depend somewhat on the season. If frost 
holds off until very late we shall cut the buck¬ 
wheat with the mower and let it lie on the 
ground over Winter. The crows are after 
this new seeding. They come in great flocks, 
feeding in the early morning. Sometimes as 
we look up to the hill the air seems fairly 
black with the birds. . . . Among other 
"rare seeds” we planted what, was supposed 
to be a verv flue ffTirkish melon. The seed 
came from Turkey and we expected something 
that would, to quote a very bad pun, be the 
“boss for us!” The upright stalks seemed a 
little strange, but never having seen melons 
grow in Turn.ev we waited with confident pa¬ 
tience until aii unmistakable sunllower burst 
into bloom. The Turks may eat sunflowers 
and call them melons, but we do not. We can 
llnu a practical use for the sunflowers, but 
what will heal the bruises on our bump of ex¬ 
pectations? . . . The “built up ' straw¬ 
berry beds begin to look like something. It 
will be remembered that we hoed out spaces 
through the last year’s bed after fruiting, 
leaving strips about a foot wide. The weeds 
were pulled from these strips so as to leave 
good plants about a foot apart. The spaces 
were kept clean and now runners have come 
out We have placed them where they were 
needed, and the result looks like a fine new 
bed. 
Home Notes.— Our big family is thinning 
out a little. Vacation is over, for the sum 
merers, and tney have gone to take up the 
duties of home and school. We still have 
enough left to fill out a good-sized table, or 
make a wide ring about an open fire. The 
children are more anxious than ever before to 
hear stories about Cousin Woodchuck and 
Brother Bear. The other night I told them 
the old story alamt how Daniel Donkey lost 
his voice, he being at one time one of the fin¬ 
est singers in tne valley. It is not every 
story teller surely that has such an attentive 
audience. . . . The children have begun 
to get their eyes fixed on the nut trees. We 
gy through the woods and hunt for them 
early. Then we know where they are, and 
when frost comes we are ready. We must, 
remember that sharper eyes than ours have 
been studying these trees all Summer. The 
squirrels are ready for business, and they will 
make sure of their share. . . _. It is a 
cure for the blues and a blood stimulant to 
ride behind the filly these days. No use talk¬ 
ing, there is something about a beautiful, 
well-bred horse that keys up the life strings 
and makes them play a livelier tune. Let the 
superintendent of a Sunday school get out be¬ 
hind Beauty for a few nights on a hard, level 
track and he would be called upon to decide 
whether he ought to sell the horse or resign 
from the Sunday school in order to he con¬ 
sistent. And vet, why cannot a man drive a 
good horse and be all the better citizen for it? 
. . 'l'hese are beautiful days for living 
outdoors. The sun is warm and lialmy, with 
just enough wind to be comfortable. The 
women folks should get out now all they can. 
and make the most of this sun. I remember 
reading in “Lazarre” how the poor fellow 
was put into a cold, dark cell in prison. Ills 
regret was that he did not soak in more sun¬ 
shine when he had the chance. The sunless 
time is coming—let’s soak in all we can right 
now. All sorts of sunshine, too. H. w. c. 
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