1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
329 
Hope Farm Notes 
Dignity of Labor. —We hauled our 
goods back to the farm on March 29, hav¬ 
ing rented the town cottage. The roads 
were bad and “the Bird’’ has not gathered 
the little wind she naturally owns yet. 
We were afraid of her for this hard trip. 
A neighbor's horse affected with this 
“thick wind’’ dropped dead on the road last 
year in the midst of a hard pull. So 
Charlie hired a mule and hitched him up 
with old Frank. I have known horses to 
make a great time when hitched with a 
mule, but Frank is too much of a gentle¬ 
man not to see the point. He looked that 
mule over as much as to say: 
“I haven’t the pleasure of your acquaint¬ 
ance, and don’t care to meet you in society, 
but if you are ready to pull your share of 
this load I am right with you, and you 
will get full credit for what you do. No 
use for us to light over our position in so¬ 
ciety. I helped haul this load down here, 
and I know that by the time these men 
quit loading we shall have our shoulders 
full. I noliced a few mudholes on the way 
down. Your test of character will come 
in the way you hold your end of the even- 
er in these places. I am going to pull you 
back into the load if I can. I trust that 
when they take our harness off we shall 
part with mutual respect!” 
The mule never said a word, but when 
the load was tied securely and Charlie 
said: "Get up!” Mr. Mule was there, and 
he stayed there till the last muddy hill 
was climbed. 
I think we would all be better off if 
white, black, speckled and spotted, rich 
and poor, pedigreed and scrubs, would 
take Frank’s view of such matters. If we 
would judge others by their character and 
their ability to do their duty without 
flinching instead of being prejudiced by 
their color, parentage or appearance the 
world would be better off. And this leads 
me to print this question from a Massa¬ 
chusetts man: 
“I notice what you say about Idas in¬ 
fluence on the children’s opinion of the 
.Russians. Don’t you think the constant 
association of children with ignorant peo¬ 
ple (however good) is open to grave ob¬ 
jection?” . . . 
In one way I do think so, yet there is 
more than one side to it. Ask the south¬ 
ern people who were brought up with the 
old-fashioned colored people, and see what 
they say. When the Madame was a little 
girl in Mississippi there was an old black 
"aunty” in the family. This ex-slave 
could not read or write, and yet the 
Madame says that she regards this old 
woman’s influence upon her as one of the 
best in her life. Who is to say what ’ ig¬ 
norance” is? I have known so-called 
“highly educated” people who were as ig¬ 
norant as a child when it came to the 
application of their learning. I would not 
have my children “constantly” associate 
with the “ignorant” of either class, but I 
think we can correct bad grammar or any 
unjust opinion of the Russian people easier 
than we can supply the lack of shrewd 
common sense. 
Farm Notes.— Our first sowing of clover 
seed was made March 31, in the old 
orchard near the house. This was seeded 
to clover and Orchard grass three years 
ago. As all know, Orchard grass grows in 
tufts or bunches, so that it is more pos¬ 
sible to reseed with clover than it would 
be with most other grasses. The hogs 
rooted more than we desired in the lower 
parts of the orchard, so we put clover see u 
all over it and put in about a pound to 
the acre of rape seed with it. My object 
is to have a hog pasture at about the time 
the apples begin to fall. Then we can turn 
the hogs in and let them harvest both 
pasture crops and windfalls. . . . Just 
after this clover seed was put in a lung 
rain set in and made the farm so nuiddy 
that I did not like to go at last balls 
seeding. To go tramping ankle-deep in 
mud through young grass is a good way 
to kill it out. I much prefer to sow clover 
in the early morning, when the soil is 
wrinkled by frost, but this year we are 
not getting any of the conditions that we 
prefer. Clover seed is very high this year, 
but we need it more than ever before. 
. . . Last year we did our first plowing 
on March 28, but this year will be at least 
10 days later. The garden will be plowed 
first and then the oats and peas will go In. 
One field which I intend later for a peai 
orchard will be sowed as soon as we can 
work the ground. We scatter about five 
pecks of Canada field peas to the acre and 
put them under with a small plow or the 
disk. Then we broadcast 2% bushels of 
oats and one pound of Dwarf Essex rape 
seed to the acre on the furrows and work 
them in with the Acme—working twice^- 
the last time with the teeth flat down. At 
the right time—which we call when the 
oats and peas are about 18 inches high 
we turn a drove of pigs in. By dividing 
the field in two parts, and turning the 
pijk-s from one to another we shall have 
good pasture, for with care the rape ill 
follow the oats and peas. A little brooK 
runs through this field, so that the pigs 
will not require much care—though or 
course they will have some grain. I ms 
will leave the field in great shape for 
pears. . . . Farmers around us are 
handling city manure. Some of them use 
several carloads every Spring. Hauling is. 
heavy work this year. In some places frost 
has worked down under the macadam 
roads and ruined parts of them. When the 
stone roads do break through into the 
mud they seem worse than the dirt roatis. 
Much the same, I suppose, as the fact that, 
the moral breakdown of some one who has 
been held up as a fine example seems 
worse than when some every-day man gets 
into jail. I do not buy manure. By scat¬ 
tering our home supply as far as it will 
go, and using fertilizer to fill out, I think 
we get results. I would likq to have ma¬ 
nure for mulching the trees if the hauling 
were not so expensive. 
Fruit Notes. —I cannot find yet that 
many of our trees have been seriously hurt 
by the cold weather. A few of those 
planted last year show a litlle_ dark wood 
at the heart, but we can, I think, cut be¬ 
low it. It doesn’t look like a peach crop, 
however, but we shall take the best care 
we can of the trees this season. The rab¬ 
bits have killed a number of good poach 
trees, but I can find no damage worth 
mentioning on the apples. The worst dam¬ 
age is in the back fields near the woods, 
where 1 have planted trees without even 
clearing the ground. There the rabbits 
have proved a nuisance. That is one of 
the drawbacks in planting peaches in such 
back lots. The brush and timber make a 
hiding place for bunny. Another thing 
that pleases Mr. Rabbit is the low head¬ 
ing. When trees are headed as low as I 
am trying to crowd mine down, it is very 
hard to use paint or wrappers so as to 
cover the lower limbs. I shall keep on 
heading low, however, as I think the ad¬ 
vantages ahead of the drawbacks. . . . 
For the first time in my experience I find 
many of the wild cherry trees along the 
stone walls gnawed clean of bark. This 
seems to have been done by rabbits. It 
may be a common practice, but I have not 
noticed it before. I have heard people 
claim great things for wild cherry as a 
tonic. The rabbits certainly needed some¬ 
thing stimulating this Winter, but I re¬ 
gret that after swallowing their dose of 
wild cherry they went at our peach trees. 
However, I am obliged to them for clean¬ 
ing out the wild cherry. . . . We have 
about 200 apple seedlings of Northern Spy 
in the nursery that, through a mistake, 
were not budded last year. We shall use 
them for finishing out a couple of rough 
fields at the back of the farm. They will 
be planted right in the brush, which will 
be cut later and piled around the t - ees. 
We intend to let these seedlings grow at 
least one limb, so as to tell what they 
come to, and top-work the rest of the head 
with suitable varieties. I have always 
wanted to try this plan, which, I think, 
has some advantages over budding in the 
nursery row. 1 
All Sorts. —The weather is cold and 
raw. I think a raw April is about the 
saddest season of the year. It is a sort ol 
"hope deferred,” which surely maketh the 
stoutest heart sick at times. Winter has 
cuffed and kicked you for months, and 
you are so anxious to get your crop start¬ 
ed, yet are held up by the wind and cold. 
It is hard, but please remember that me 
wife and children are not responsible for 
it, so don’t go into the house and scold 
them. . . . Hope Farm is in a section 
where v/e think it pays to improve the 
house. Property is made more salable by 
doing so. I know of people who say it 
does not pay to improve or beautify a 
farmhouse, since farm property is not sal¬ 
able in their section, anyway. With us I 
think money wisely spent on the house is 
a fair investment. We take part of it 
each year and fix it up in a moderate way. 
We have had a big open fireplace built ii' 
one room. We wanted to make this room 
look “old fashioned,” so the plastering was 
knocked down. We hoped to find the big 
old beams which we fondly imagine looked 
down upon Washington 125 years or so 
ago. We found a makeshift lot of stuff, 
evidently put in at various times. After 
some debate it was decided to box these 
rafters in with hard pine. The floor, too, 
is of hard pine—we haven’t had a carpet 
for years, but use rugs instead. When 
these floors were put down the Madame in¬ 
sisted that there should be no thresholds, 
but a level under the doors from room to 
room. Most carpenters when they lay a 
new floor over the old one want to saw 
off the doors and put on a threshold. We 
like the level space better, though the 
other may answer for an outside door. 
. . . The old plastering which came down 
from the walls made what I call good 
material to put around young trees for a 
mulch. Such plastering is likely to con¬ 
tain nitrate of lime. I would not think of 
throwing such stuff away when it will 
hold the moisture around a tree. In fact, 
I don’t want bonfires at Hope Farm, ex¬ 
cept of such rubbish as could not possibly 
be used as a mulch. ... I am asked to 
give the remedy which Dr. Hatch pre¬ 
scribed for "the Bird”—our thick-winded 
horse. The powders contained one dram, 
of iodide of potash and one-half dram, of 
nux vomica. This dose is to be given 
twice a day. This is for thick wind, which 
is different from the heaves. h. w. c. 
“He that loves a 
rosy cheek,” uses 
only Williams’ 
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Write for booklet “ How to Shave.” 
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Trousers for Men and Boys 
Suits and Knee Pants for Children 
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