1904 
399 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Hope Farm-Notes 
The Farm.—M ay 1 came without a sin¬ 
gle potato planted. In fact, we had noth¬ 
ing but oats and peas and a few vege¬ 
tables in—or rather out—for the first peas 
were just showing. The potato ground 
had been plowed, but a soaking rain made 
it a mud bank, and we do not care to de¬ 
posit our potato money in that sort of a 
bank, The ground for Alfalfa has not 
been plowed yet. There is work enough 
to do with sowing fertilizer and fixing lit¬ 
tle things. . . . The soaking rains are 
good as teacher^. They s,h°w ug the 
value of our drains, and a few mistakes 
we made in digging them. In formter 
years the “saucer” back of the small 
barn would have been a lake after the 
flood of April 30. Our deep hole and the 
stone ditches drained it perfectly, and 
within a short time after the rain stopped 
the water had gone. Our open ditch 
arounc one of the plowed fields carried 
a big stream of water, which in other 
years would have soaked slowly through 
the field, like an evil spirit, to the crops. 
The flood showed us that we filled part 
of our ditch too full of stones. With so 
little dirt on top, part of it washed in. 
We shall learn just how to do it b'efore 
we strike our worst fields. . . . The fer¬ 
tilizer is going on to the grass and or¬ 
chards. For grass we use a mixture con¬ 
taining a little over five per cent of nitro¬ 
gen, four of phosphoric acid and two of 
potash. This is meant for Spring appli¬ 
cation—we use potash and phosphoric 
acid again later, usually the latter part 
of August. For fruit we are using a mix¬ 
ture with a little over two per cent nitro¬ 
gen, seven of phosphoric acid and 10 of 
potash. It must be remembered that we 
uae a mulch of some sort—manure or 
grass—around the trees in addition to this 
fertilizer. Otherwise, we should use more 
nitrogen. The high winds and heavy rains 
have made fertilizer sowing a hard job. 
We are planting fruit trees all over our 
meadows, and when using the grass .^fer¬ 
tilizer we broadcast at least 600 pounds 
evenly over the acre—with a little extra 
pinch at the trees. After the fertilizer 
is on we put manure, leaves, weeds or any 
organic matter around the tree. 1 believe 
that fertilizer under such a mulch is about 
as effective as where it is plowed or cul¬ 
tivated in. . . . One tool we need this 
year is a good spring-tooth harrow. Fart 
of the young apple orchard was not seeded 
last Fall. I might let the weeds grow 
and clip them for mulching, but a crop 
like cow peas will be worth far ihore for 
that purpose than weeds. I would like to 
scratch the ground over as deeply as pos¬ 
sible and sow cow peas about June 1, 
leaving a space about five feet square 
around each tree covered with a good 
mulch, and some stones piled around it. 
Then, in August, if we can strike it before 
a rain, I shall sow Crimson clover and 
Cow-horn turnips right among the grow¬ 
ing pea vines, or else cut the vines with 
the mower and pile them around the 
trees before sowing clover and tprnips. 
This will work if, as usually happens, we 
have most of our rain early in the Sum¬ 
mer. If May and June are to be dry I 
would rather keep the cow peas out. . . . 
I have both succeeded and failed in trying 
to start small seeds among growing cow 
peas. Last year we seeded to Timothy 
with cow peas, sowing both seeds in early 
July. The result is now a good stand of 
grass, but it must be remembered, tl*at last 
season was one of the best for grass 
seeding and the damp weather was just 
right to give the little grass a good start. 
We seeded Timothy in buckwheat, rye 
and cow peas, and also put it in corn at 
the last cultivation. In every case we 
have an excellent stand, but it would not 
be safe to argue from this experience 
that such seeding will always succeed. 
... We have begun driving the filly. 
Before Summer is over she will be doing 
her share of business. Beauty has all 
the marks of a fine horse. Charlie thinks 
she travels a little too wide behind, but 
se has the shape and spirit of a fine road 
animal, While I think it would be possible 
for her to clip a good many seconds off 
three minutes if she were trained for the 
track, I have no desire to nave any 
Hope Farm representative appear upon 
the public stage in any such capacity. I 
rather think a three-minute trotter would 
arouse in a plain farmer certain rapid 
tendencies which would ill become his 
reputation. If Beauty will carry us at a 
fair pace and hold a reserve of speed in 
case we need a doctor in a hurry, I shall 
be satisfied. We shall hitch her up with 
old Major soon, and then give her a trial 
with her mother. 
The Storm.— The children will long re¬ 
member April 30. They made records of 
its events in their diaries. It is not a 
bad thing for them to find out that while 
camping and playing hunter is all right in 
clear weather, it is quite different when 
the hunter is himself hunted by the ele¬ 
ments. I took all five children up to the 
Strongfellow peach orchard to help put 
on fertilizer. The hills that lead to this 
orchard are steep and rough, and there is 
a long Poad through tne woods. The 
horses had a job to haul 800 pounds of fer¬ 
tilizer up the hill. We dumped the bags 
at intervals through the orchard k so as to 
have them handy for use. We needed 
more fertilizer, so I told the two larger 
boys to put on a load of wood, haul it to 
the house, and bring back more fertilizer. 
It seemed like a great job for two boys, 
but I believe In having children take and 
understand responsibilities. The boys 
went safely and came back with their 
load without hurting a single tree. Mean¬ 
while, the little boy and I began to put on 
fertilizer. We carried it in pails. I had 
a small shovel and he a shingle to put it 
on with. We scattered it around the trees 
about as far out as the branches extend. 
This field has not been cultivated, and 
there are cedars and brush growing there. 
We shall cut these all down this season, 
and throw them around the trees. While 
we were doing this the little girls bor¬ 
rowed my knife and cut birch bark, which 
they use for making napkin rings. I mean 
that, so far as possible, all the work In 
this orchard of about 1,500 trees snail be 
done by the children and myself. 1 intend 
that they shall grow up with this orchard, 
and feel that it represents their labor. 
We came to the house for dinner ana 
th6n hurried back to finish our job. There 
were a few clouds in the sky, and Frank 
and the Bird tossed their heads as they 
climbed the htill. We called ourselves 
pioneers going into a new country, and 
the boys began to tell what they wouiu 
do if they were hunters. We were on our 
last bag of fertilizer when a big rain¬ 
drop hit me on the nose, and in an in¬ 
stant the air was full of rain. A big 
cloud had crept over the sky. We had 
been too busy to notice it. The children 
made a run for the wagon and crawled 
under it for shelter. That was great sport 
for about five minutes, but then the water 
began to drip down and the rain beat 
in at the side. Instead of stopping, the 
storm grew worse and the horses were 
restless. I don’t like the looks of drenched 
children. There came a break in the rain, 
and 1 decided to make a dash for home. 
The boys wanted to make a run across 
lots, and so I put the girls in the wagon 
and started on the long road as fast as 
the Bird’s thick wind would permit. We 
had hardly cleared the woods and started 
up the western slope of the hill when 
bang! went a big thunder gun, and a 
deluge of rain came upon us. The boys 
were far ahead —fear hitting them at 
every stride. They had threatened to do 
great things to “the enemy,” but sucli 
flash and noise took all the fight out oi 
them. I stood up and urged the horses 
on. I felt as thought some one was pour¬ 
ing a continuous pailful of water down 
my neck. The horse slipped on the wet 
grass and nearly fell—plunging and snort¬ 
ing at the flash and noise. The little girl 
began to cry. The other one held her and 
tried to comfort her. but the tears and 
the rain mingled on her cheeks. The Hope 
Farm man held the little girls with one 
hand and kept the horses on their feet 
with the other. Nature was making so 
much noise that it was hard for man to 
be silent in the midst of It. It seemed 
like the height of childishness to yell or 
swear at the horses, as I have known men 
to do, and somehow I found myself try¬ 
ing to sing! I do not feel responsible for 
the selection, but I found myself trying 
to sing “Rocked in the Cradle of the 
Deep!” 
“I know that Thou wilt hear my call, 
For Thou dost heed the sparrows fall; 
In ocean caves still safe with me 
The germ of immortality!” 
That wasn’t so bad—of course, I don’t 
refer to the singing—tearing down that 
rocky hillside with the rain flooding us 
and the hills all aflame with the lightning. 
The little girls were still as 1 drew up at 
the barn in the midst of a . blinding flash. 
I hustled them into the house in lively 
fashion. The children got their weL 
clothes off and hopped into bed for an 
hour. The storm roared on for awhile, 
but it is wonderful how much of a chnu 
courage returns with bed. When at last 
the rain stopped falling and the sunlight 
flooded the wet fields, the little folks were 
eager to be up again—none the worse for 
their ducking. 
Home Notes.— The children all went to 
an “Old Folks’ Concert” at the school- 
house, and came home voting it “splen¬ 
did.” There have been some questionable 
“shows” in the neighborhood—"armless 
wonders” and freaks being on exhibition— 
but our little folks did not go. We shall 
be as careful as possible about such 
things. As it is, our children get more 
fun out of five cents than most children 
could from a dollar. ... I make it a 
point to see that the children do some 
useful work every day. At various times 
people have criticised us for doing this. 
Some well-meaning people think it is a 
great mistake to make children work. I 
don’t agree with them, and from my own 
experience can have little patience with 
them for such talk. I consider the fact 
that 1 was made to work when a child 
one of the best legacies I could have had, 
and there was nothing very gentle about 
my industrial education, either! Why 
should not a child be taught to realize 
that the home requires some little con¬ 
tribution of labor from him? Tell him 
that father and mother work and spent 
without pay so that there can be a home 
and that he does his little duties for the 
same reason. I think it well to pay the 
child something for special work, but he 
should understand that his share of the 
home is to be paid for in labor. This will 
make him feel that he is, in a way, on an 
equality with father and mother. As part 
of their payment for working in the peach 
orchard, the children each pick out five 
peach trees. It took them some time to 
decide on varieties. The first choice of all 
was Emma, but the variety had little 
to do with that. They are in something 
of a dilemma when it comes to ithat 
name. There are three women who rep¬ 
resent “Aunt Emma” to them, and the 
woman who helps Mother has the same 
name. Therefore, the Emma peach is 
popular with the children. 
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