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Hope Farm Notes 
Poultry Matters. —The little boy in Flor¬ 
ida sent me the following letter: 
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I do not think this shipment will do much 
to Improve Florida poultry. The Brahma lien 
must be at least three years old. Florida is 
a good place for old people, but it is a cpies- 
tion as to how much the old folks do for 
Florida. The “Rhode Island Red” is a badly 
mixed up mongrel, while the buff ou the 
“Cochin” has been pretty well faded out. 
However, the hoy loves these three birds, and 
love is the foundation of successful poultry 
keeping. We shall send half a dozen of the 
best Leghorns and Wyandottes in order to 
keep up the reputation of the farm. 
I did not see much poultry in Florida. 
An insect known as the “chigger” is said to 
be more deadly than our northern parasites, 
but I think it can be overcome. A man in 
Jacksonville told me that he kept poultry, 
but that “our colored friends pick them be¬ 
fore they are ripe.” There are few if any 
colored people where Uncle Ed lives. I be 
henhouses there are built much like a corn- 
crib, since the hens run out every day in the 
year. I would like to try the experiment of 
hatching chicks iu Florida in December and 
January. My plan would be to ship the best 
pullets from such hatching to Hope Farm 
in May, and let them run at large in the or¬ 
chards. I think they would lay through the 
late Summer aud Fall and be ready to sell 
by Thanksgiving. I think the pullets can be 
grown cheaper iu Florida than here. If pos¬ 
sible I shall try this plan this Winter. When 
our plans were changed so suddenly I was 
tempted to sell all our pullets and not try to 
keep a bird over Winter. I have finally de¬ 
cided to pick out about GO of the best and 
give them a good chance. There is an old 
building near the barn, half of which was 
lilted up for au icehouse. I intend to use 
this icehouse part for a roosting room, while 
the other part will make a good scratching 
shed. The objection is that little sun can 
reach this room, but I think the place can be 
made comfortable. The pullets have made 
an excellent growth, - and ought to do then- 
part if we do ours. 
Going South. —People have begun to write 
me about chances in the South, price of land 
and all about it. I am not able to answer 
such questions. I have no land for sale, do 
not own any, and have only a week's hasty 
trip to judge from. We locate where we do 
simply because Uncle Ed lives there. There 
are doubtless other places as good or better. 
From a first view I think well of Florida as 
a Winter home for those who feel the teeth 
of Jack Frost As for farming there the 
whole thing is different from anything I have 
ever known, and I will let opinion wait upon 
experience. I remember that live years ago 
1 felt sure that potato growing would pay on 
our bills. Now I kuow better, but I hope 
and believe that fruit will give us what we 
want. The soil 1 saw in Florida seems to me 
like a very thin proposition. The Wire grass 
ou it is of no earthly use that 1 can see. 
Man, however, should judge soil not by what 
grows on it with no care at all, but by what 
lie can make grow there, if, as I believe, we 
can make Alfalfa and other forage crops 
grow on that soil, Florida ought to be a fine 
stock country. We can have green feed all 
the year around, and there is no barn tribute 
to pay to Jack Frost. The roads 1 saw in 
Florida are bad. I would not locate far from 
a railroad and expect to haul produce. The 
sand is deep and yielding, and it is impossi¬ 
ble to trot a horse for any distance. The 
best feature about them is that no one need 
fear an automobile. No auto could ever get 
through that sand. 
Pump in the Well. —Just as I started for 
the South we bad an accident with the pump 
which works in our drilled well. It got out 
of order, and we pulled up the pipe to fix it. 
Some connections had rusted off, and in try¬ 
ing to separate it the cylinder, sucker rod 
and part of the pipe broke loose and made a 
dive for the lower part of the well, which is 
142 feet deep. I had never had such an ex¬ 
perience before, and will confess that I did 
not know how to bait a hook that could catch 
such a fish in a deep hole. We had to have 
water at once, and so on the advice of an 
expert I let the lost part stay at the bottom 
of the well, and had a new cylinder and rod 
put in. The present one is smaller than the 
other. It does not lift quite so large a 
stream, but it works a little easier, and with 
it the windmill will work in a lighter breeze. 
I think it desirable to make the work a little 
lighter than the full power of the engine, 
whether it be mill or boy. A little reserve 
of strength means much. There must be some 
way of overcoming every mistake, and a Mich¬ 
igan friend sends the following account of hia 
way of fishing in a deep well: 
“There are several ways to get it out.. One 
way, and the best I ever tried, is to take 
another pipe, about three-fourths-ineh. long 
enough to reach the pipe in the well, but first 
put a soft wood plug in the three-fourths-inch 
pipe large enough so it will make a tight fit 
in the lower pipe, and taper to a sharp point, 
so it will enter easier. They can tell when 
they get hold of it by the heft. Drive it 
tight, then let it swell for 10 minutes; then 
you can lift it out by being very careful. 1 
lifted a drill out of a well over 400 feet deep 
in that way, beside getting the drill rod out 
when it broke apart from 50 to 350 feet 
down. If the plunger rod sticks out above 
the pipe (which you can tell by the amount 
left in the pump) let three-fourths-inch pipe 
or larger down the well until it i-ests on 
top of the pipe in the well: then take a chain 
with a ring small enough to slip down the 
pipe and around it; lengthen it with a small 
rope until it gets around the lower pipe, and 
lift it out. I have taken a crowbar out ot 
a well that way.” K - T - 
Farmington, Mich. 
Farm Notes. —Major, the old horse that 
broke off his hoof, has had a long vacation. 
He ran in the orchard—or rather walked 
there—and enjoyed his barefoot days. The 
hoof grew out and finally got firm enough 
to hold a shoe. Then the old veteran was 
shod and took his place in the rank's of labor 
without a murmur. He arched his neck and 
pointed his ears as he did 30 years ago. 
Everyone was glad to see okl Major in har- 
ness again. He stood up with Nellie, with 
the pole between them, and trotted off to 
church. It was a whole sermon to see this 
old veteran glad to put his new hoof to good 
use. I doubt if old Kate and the “Bird”* 
realized whv the Madam patted the old horse 
and called‘him “dear old Major.” Nobody 
spends much time endearing them. I sup¬ 
pose that before now the turnip has wondered 
why people pick out the Baldwin apple or 
Bose pear to eat out of the hand ! The little 
tiling we call character and gentle breeding 
is hard to analyze and describe. Old Major 
has his share of it. . . . We have just 
put up a new section of wire fence. In this 
•one the wires are welded together where 
they cross. Last year we put up a fence with 
I lie wires twisted or woven. I shall use next 
a fence of long wires with cross pieces fas¬ 
tened by clamps. The object in using the 
different sorts is to give them a fair test, 
both for quality of wire and to see which 
form is best. After one year’s service the 
fence put up last year has lost its bright 
color and looks dull. Rust has already be¬ 
gun ! Most people who see the welded fence 
say it will begin to rust at the welds and 
give out before the woven. We shall see 
about that. . . . The most surprising 
thing to me on the farm is the way the 1-all- 
sown Alfalfa lias started. It was seeded with 
Timothy when the buckwheat was sown. We 
added a small quantity of Alfalfa seed in 
order to test it. Some of this Alfalfa is now 
over a foot high, with long roots. I notice 
that it is best where I tried Alfalfa two 
years ago. That crop died out entirely, yet 
almost to a line this year’s seeding is best 
where that former Alfalfa died. I have no 
doubt that the proper thing to do when 
Alfalfa fails is to fit the ground and sow it 
again. By keeping at it again and again on 
the same soil we can in time win. It is 
worth working hard for. . . . Next to 
the Alfalfa the thing that pleases me most 
tliis Fall is the Red clover. We never had so 
much of it before. It is now growing well 
on places where we did not expect it. Last 
Spring we threw clover seed in the mud on 
thin meadows without working the soil at 
all. We may expect a fair stand when this 
is done on Fall-sown grain, hut the chances 
are all against it on old meadows. This year 
we have a fair stand of clover where this 
was tried. . . . The gray eat is a famous 
hunter. Day after day she comes to the 
house with a rat which she caught in the 
barn. She seems to know that this is her 
job, and she will wait at a hole for hours 
with all a tiger’s patience. The other day 
I caught her at a new game. A young dove 
sat on the ridge over the barn door. The cat 
saw the bird and crept through a window 
and along the hoard with a look in her eyes 
that I do not like to see. I frightened the 
bird and saved her life, for the cat would 
have had her in an instant more. The barn 
is full of rats, aud the cat is fond of them. 
From every point of view—all the way from 
selfishness to what in a cat stands for pa¬ 
triotic duty—the cat should hunt rats. Yet 
she leaves this helpful job to attack a useful 
bird. This I am told is an argument which 
proves that while humans have character 
brutes have nothing of the sort. It doesn't 
make much difference anyway, for a cat is 
only a tiger condensed both in size and cour¬ 
age. I am quite sure that I have seen human 
beings who were as bad as that eat in dodg¬ 
ing their duty and trying to kill or ruin 
worthy things. h. w. c. 
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