1904. 
767 
Hope Farm Notes 
The Ocean Blue. —It may surprise read¬ 
ers to learn that I am writing this on a 
steamship, far out of sight of land. To 
make a long story short, I will say that 
early in September the youngest boy took 
cold and began to cough in a way we did not 
like. The cold and the cough would not go 
away, so finally we took him to the doctor. 
The result of that visit has changed all our 
plans for the Winter. There is a little spot 
near the boy's lung which is too close for 
comfort. While the lung is not yet affected 
it is time for action. Many readers know 
how such announcements fall like a bombshell 
into a family. You must plan a new cam¬ 
paign about as quick as the shell explodes. 
It didn't take the Madame long to think of 
Uncle Ed's place in Florida. The fierce Win¬ 
ter winds which howl down our valley are 
as mild as a lamb when they reach Florida— 
if they ever do. There was the place for the 
boy, so cutting out all details I am on my 
way with him. We have taken the case in 
time. It is now only a bronchial trouble, 
and we intend to cure it instead of letting it 
spread. The treatment will be to keep the 
boy out in the sun and air as much as pos¬ 
sible, avoid colds, take a good bath with hard 
rubbing every night, The It. N.-Y. treat¬ 
ment of soda and vaseline, and take a mild 
tonic of iron and quinine. So here we are 
headed for the South, and rapidly putting 
the long miles between us and Hope Farm. 
I shall look around a little in Florida, and 
probably arrange to send the Madame and 
tlie other children down later. The Madame 
has coughed a little of late, and the cold 
winds bite her hard. We shall see what 
Uncle Ed can do with the Hope Farmers 
this Winter. If I can get hold of a piece of 
laud Charlie will go down and raise a crop 
of early potatoes and beans. 
A Lazy Trip. —Thus the Hope Farm plans 
are quite a little shaken up for the Winter, 
but we will adjust them as best we can and 
go on. By disposing of some of the stock 
we can carry Hope Farm safely through. Our 
orchard plan helps here, for there is not 
much work among the trees in Winter. We 
shall see what can be done in Florida to keep 
moving. It is no place to worry about the 
future out here on the water, with the sun 
sparkling and the water rippling with just 
the suggestion of waves. The ocean can be 
as cruel as an evil fate if it cares to be, but 
nothing can be more beautiful and calm 
when you strike one of her quiet moods. We 
have surely struck one of them on this trip. 
No such thing as seasickness. You can lie 
in the sun or shade as you prefer. The sun 
climbs ou^ of the east, crawls over the sky 
and sinks like a great red ball on the other 
side. He seems to take all your care with 
him, and you are so glad to see him in the 
morning that you never imagine that he 
brings the same old care. The boy runs at 
regular intervals to say that the dolphins are 
playing around the bow of the ship. We 
watch them for hours. They act like a lot 
of boys at play, turning and tumbling in the 
water and jumping out into the sunshine, 
always keeping close to the bows. All of a 
sudden without any warning they dart away. 
The boy keeps watch until another lot ap¬ 
pears. And then three such meals as we 
devour each day: As an apple grower I am 
pleased to seo th’e fruit dishes piled high with 
McIntosh Red apples. I find that the ma¬ 
jority of the passengers eat apples in prefer¬ 
ence to oranges or bananas. For some time 
past there has been what at first seemed a 
dim haze off to the west. As we come 
nearer we see plainly that it is land. The 
“Sunny South’’ is in sight. It seems dull 
enough—a mere streak of sand with a few 
scattered trees here and there. I begin to 
wonder how the boys at home are getting on 
picking apples and harvesting onions. While 
we are lazing here the frost may be gnawing 
at Hope Farm. The sight of land has 
brought all these things to mind. We shall 
be far down in Florida at Uncle Ed’s place 
to-morrow. Then we can tell what we think 
about it. 
Advice From Long Island. —It is queer 
that while I am on my way to Florida to see 
what we can do about Winter farming I 
should receive this letter: 
“I read the Hope Farm Notes and see that 
you are a man about my stamp, quite large 
and quite deaf. I have made up my mind 
that you could do better to throw up that 
old farm with all the barren hills and low 
cold spots of ground and come to Long 
Island, N. Y., and buy a good farm of nice 
level land with good buildings and raise 
cauliflower and potatoes, You would not be 
in debt long; neither would you keep old 
horses. Y*ou would not be bothered with 
hogs, nor would you bother with apples, even 
if they were already on the farm. We are 
digging out good trees to make room for 
farm produce. The farmers hereabouts keep 
farm teams worth from $400 to $500, besides 
fine carriage horses and carriages. They get 
mostly colored help from the South for labor 
and a few Poles. They take a vacation in 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
hot weather and go to live by the seashore 
for three or four weeks.” l. i. 
There are good arguments in that letter. 
I have been on Long Island and know that 
many farmers there are contented and happy. 
And yet, “there’s no place like home!” The 
very fact that our hills are barren with cold 
spots on the level parts of the farm will 
make us feel that we have "done something” 
when we conquer them. Our orchards are 
growing on the hills, and we are draining 
the cold spots. Our Long Island friend has 
probably lived on his present farm all his 
life. Does he realize what it woulu mean 
to come down off the hills and work in the 
sand? Having started in to try to demon¬ 
strate that these old hills can be made fruit¬ 
ful I feel inclined to stay by my job. I don't 
know how to raise cauliflowers—we hope we 
are beginning to learn how to raise apples. 
It is hard for an old dog to learn new tricks. 
As for being “bothered with hogs” in a good 
orchard with a good woven wire fence around 
them they are no bother—not half as much 
as your Poles or southern help ! I am frank 
to say that I should miss their society, for 
they have been a genuine help to us. As for 
digging out apple trees to make room for 
farm crops—we call good apples about the 
best farm crop in the business. We don't 
pretend that old Kate or Major or “Bird” 
are fair samples of what a farmer ought to 
keep, but we respect gray hairs in horse or 
human. In Frank we have a horse that will 
make the best of your work horses look 
tired, while Beauty will toss the sand in 
their faces. I'll admit that it is a fine thing 
for a farmer to take a vacation by the sea¬ 
shore. Wait till we see what we can do in 
Florida this Winter. No—every farmer to 
his job. Our job is to try to show that 
these old hills can be made over into pro¬ 
ductive orchards. Is it not more patriotic to 
make the waste lands useful than to follow 
others on the good lands where success is 
assured? 
Farm Notes. —The onions are all under 
cover—drying out. The yield is not quite 
equal to last year's, and the bulbs are gen¬ 
erally smaller. Our sign in front of the 
farm brings trade and it looks as if we can 
sell our entire crop at the door. Hope Farm 
has a reputation for growing these large, 
mild onions, and people come for them. 
. . . Billy Berkshire felt the knife earlier 
than he expected. There was a call for 
pork on October 5, and Billy answered. He 
weighed 239 pounds live weight and 1SG 
dressed. Billy was born November 2, '03. lie 
was a purebred Berkshire a little off in color 
and markings. He came to us May 5 and 
weighed then 85 pounds. He gained, there¬ 
fore, 154 pounds in 153 days. 1 am aware 
that this will not be considered a large gain 
by many farmers, but they must remember 
that we did not try to see how fat we could 
make Billy. The largest hog does not always 
make the cheapest piece of pork. After 
Billy came he was fed in a pen for two 
weeks. He had no skim-milk, but a slop of 
bran, middlings and cornmeal. Late in May 
he was turned into the orchard near the 
house. There he had a good pasture of 
young clover, Orchard grass and rape. Dur¬ 
ing June and July the sweet apples fell and 
were eaten by the pigs. There were 1G be¬ 
sides Billy. A small quantity of grain was 
given through the Summer, a little over a 
pound per day for each pig, though Billy got 
more than his share. September 1 Billy and 
four others were put in a small pen and 
given about all the grain they could digest, 
with weeds and surplus vegetables. We fig¬ 
ure that this pig consumed all told less than 
$4.50 worth of grain. At nine cents a pound 
dressed it will be seen that he paid his way 
and made a good profit out of the orchard 
wastes. He left the orchard better than he 
found it. I would prefer to sell pigs when 
they dress 115 pounds. There is more profit 
in this size. Billy being a Fall pig was kept 
until cool weather. The others are Spring 
pigs and we shall see how they come out. 
Billy’s record is good, considering the care 
he had. Most of the time he took care of 
himself. The field was supplied with run¬ 
ning water, and it took barely five minutes 
a day to care for the whole herd. This is 
where the hog comes in as a brother to the 
orchardist. It is the only way to keep a hog 
in our country. The smaller pigs will be 
killed before Thanksgiving. The crossbred 
Chester and Berks still seem to lead. The 
man who sent me Billy wrote in May : “That 
pig, like all pigs farrowed as late in the year 
as November, is at a disadvantage when 
compared with the growth that can be made 
in a Spring pig during the warm season. 
Your pig roughed it with 20 other shoats all 
Winter, many of them older and bigger.” 
II. w. c. 
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