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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Our farm income for the month of 
August was $81 41. We realize that this 
is small compared with the business done 
by many other farmers, yet it is not 
much under what we planned for in the 
year’s work. A friend who has a good 
farm near Washington, D. C., makes this 
note of our July sales : 
I see in Hope Farm Notes that you took in $60 
during July. Why, that Is only a winter month’s 
amount My account of sales reached, in June, 
$401.60, and $401 29 for July. I have already sold 
and got the cash for August, $170. My sales of 
vegetables and fruits will amount to over $1,COO 
for June, July and August. 
This is far above the average of farm 
sales as we have had a chance to com¬ 
pare them. If our friend is selling fruit, 
of course he has had several years in 
which to get his plants into bearing. We 
started at Hope Farm in April with 
nothing but weed seeds in the ground. 
Next year, when the strawberries and 
other small fruits come into bearing, we 
certainly expect to do better. We have 
no big stories of success to tell this year. 
The best result of the season’s work is 
that the land is in much better condition 
for next year's crops. One thing about 
our August income is that we paid out 
only $8.56 cash for labor, and $6 of this 
was spent on weeding the fruit and not 
on this year’s crops. We hire just as 
little labor as possible, doing what we 
can ourselves with the best tools. On 
many farms, the hired man makes more 
clear money than his employer, and the 
latter would do better to change his 
crops and grow only what his own family 
can care for. 
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The first week in September made 
lively times in our neighborhood. August 
had been cold and wet, but about the 
27ih, the sun came out hot *nd bright, 
ripening the corn and melons almost as 
if by magic. It made us jump to pick 
the crops and get them to market. The 
melons crowded us worst of all. First 
we knew there were a lot of them too 
ripe and soft to cart 10 miles to market. 
The little boy, not seven years old, has 
a small “ express” wagon, and he wanted 
to try selling melons in the nearby vil¬ 
lage. We tacked a sign “ Five Cents 
Each'’ on the wagon, and loaded it with 
melons, and oil he started. He took, in 
all, three loads, and brought back $1.45. 
Most buyers made their own change 
from his little purse. A bad boy stole 
one melon, but that seemed to be his 
only loss. We pay him 10 per cent of 
his total sales, and he will soon start a 
little account in the savings bank. We 
consider it a good thing for children to 
pick up habits of business and money 
responsibility in this way. The price of 
melons has been disappointing this year. 
The New Jersey peach crop is very 
heavy, and it comes to market just when 
melons are at their best. Melons always 
sell best when the peach crop is light. 
This year, we have the rare combination 
of a light crop and low price. 
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The pullets have been put by them¬ 
selves in new houses. We have built 
two new houses with a total lumber bill 
of $27 20, including tar paper for one. 
One house will hold 75 hens comfort¬ 
ably, while the other is in two parts. In 
one side, we expect to keep one pen of 
Black Business birds, and in the other, 
15 of the best black pullets of this year’s 
breeding. It seems to me that many 
farmers make a mistake in delaying 
until frost before housing their pullets. 
We like to get them started early in the 
places where they are to spend the 
winter. 
As to feeding, I have long believed 
that a good hen knows better than any 
man what she needs to produce eggs. In¬ 
stead of giving her a certain mixture of 
food that we, who never laid an egg in 
our lives, theorize about, why not let 
the hen make her own selection ? I am 
ready to take the risk of letting the hen 
balance her own ration. In fact, we are 
now feeding 60 pullets in just this way. 
In one corner of the house is a “ self- 
feeding ” box or hopper. The parts of 
this are kept full so that the feed falls, 
by its own weight, through a small hole 
at the bottom where the hens may eat 
it at will. One part of the box contains 
cracked corn, another oat flakes, and an¬ 
other a mixture of five parts bran and 
one part animal meal. The pullets take 
their choice and eat whatever they like. 
They have been fed in this way now for 
over two weeks, and are as healthy and 
lively as one could wish. They eat about 
twice as much of the corn as of the bran 
and meat. Of course, we do not recom¬ 
mend this method of feeding to others. 
With us, it is only an experiment, under¬ 
taken, we are frank to say, against the 
advice of the majority of the best poul¬ 
try authorities we know. We have more 
faith in the answer to be made by the 
pullets than we have in the opinion of 
the wisest chicken men. With another 
lot of pullets, we hope to try the ration 
mentioned on page 575 by 0. W. Mapes, 
fed in the same - way. 
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The field of cow peas is making a 
tremendous second growth. The hot 
weather is forcing the vines to their best. 
In order to know more about this second 
growth of vine, I wrote E. Q. Packard, 
of Delaware, asking how much of a 
growth we may expect. He says : 
Those cow peas will go right on doing business 
at the old stand, until overtaken by frost. They 
now have the advantage of strong, well-developed 
roots to push them along, and will make a much 
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