1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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hope farm motes. 
Household Matters. —One would 
think it should be a long jump from a 
discussion of piety to a talk about pie¬ 
eating, but I don’t know—after reading 
this letter. It really looks as though 
some of these good people regard pie¬ 
making as one of the essential forms of 
right living: 
In your Hope Farm kitchen statistics 
you have named no pies. Now, if I were 
a betting woman, I should not be afraid 
to bet you would be glad to have 365 of 
those pies that the man gets down in 
Pennsylvania. You say you “like pud¬ 
dings better!’’ You remind me of the 
maxim, “Sour grapes hang high.” My 
men folks like pies; they like them so well 
that they offer to pare the apples in the 
evenings, so that they can have more pies. 
If a hired man should tell me he didn’t like 
pie I should know something must be 
wrong. Doesn’t your mouth water to 
think how nice a piece of apple pie would 
taste, made in an old-fashioned deep yel¬ 
low dish, such as our grandmothers used 
to make? Don’t your women make bread? 
Don’t you know that biscuits are a great 
cause of dyspepsia, and the worst things 
you can eat or give children to eat? I 
suppose you feed your folks on oatmeal 
cooked about half an hour or less! I be¬ 
lieve oatmeal and biscuits as bad for chil¬ 
dren as plain cakes and pies. I find that 
if you want your hired man to work, he 
can’t work on oatmeal; it will not stand 
by him until noon. When I get very 
tired my husband doesn’t settle into the 
big soft chairs, or the boys either, after 
supper. They wipe the dishes for me. 
Don’t spend any more time figuring on 
those dishes. Take a towel and see how 
long it will take you and those boys to 
help the women folks to get them done. 
'Then you can all sit down, and enjoy the 
evenings together, as we do. 
MASSACHUSETTS FARMER’S WIFE. 
Mouth water! Why, I much prefer 
baked apples or apple sauce to all the 
apple pie you can bring along! I don’t 
want my fruit jailed in a cell of flour, 
butter or lard. I was born and raised 
in the old Bay State, and know what a 
good pie is, but now the craving is all 
out of my heart and tongue, and I am 
no longer a slave to crust I My judg¬ 
ment is that average pie crust brings one 
much nearer to a dose of medicine than 
a biscuit. Yes, the Hope Farmers make 
bread—over 10 loaves a week! It so 
happened that during the April when we 
took notes the bread was bought of a 
baker. Of course we have something be¬ 
sides oatmeal to eat! As for dyspepsia 
we will match doctor’s bills with any 
family or families averaging 12 persons 
—and the red color in the cheeks of the 
Bud, Graft and Scions isn’t hand-painted 
either! 
Dish Washing. —Somehow those kit¬ 
chen statistics seem to have struck 
home. Here is a man from Michigan 
with a new scheme: 
In Hope Farm Notes you bewail the 
drudgery of the women of the household 
In having to wash the supper dishes year 
in and year out, and figure out how many 
acres of earthenware and miles of knives 
and forks have to be washed and wiped 
in a year, but you suggest no remedy, un¬ 
less we are to infer that the old man 
ought to rise in his mightiness from his 
easy chair and take a hand. I’ll tell you 
how we manage the supper dishes; we 
don’t wash them, but merely turn the 
plates till morning and eat breakfast from 
them. Of course, we leave no messes to 
be cleaned up. It is a mighty poor calcu¬ 
lator who can’t measure his capacity with 
his eye—mind’s eye. By this scheme my 
wife saves at least half an hour every 
evening, and in the 20 years we have been 
married this would amount to a whole 
year. Think of the books, etc., she can 
read instead of standing on her feet and 
washing acres and acres of dishes for an 
entire year! And we do not have a mo¬ 
nopoly of this labor-saving device. There 
are others, and they are not called poor 
housekeepers either. F. x. c. 
I am not ashamed to say that I once 
had to wash and wipe dishes for a liv¬ 
ing. I claim to be an expert at this 
business, but I never heard of this labor- 
saving scheme before. I would like to 
know how the cups and glasses are 
turned inside out so as to hold liquid. I 
think our folks would rather wash twice. 
Of course your humble servant shakes 
the towel at times. S. R. Divine has in¬ 
vented a dish drier that seems like a 
fine thing. It is a rack of light wood 
with a flat pan at the bottom. The 
dishes are placed in the rack and well 
soused with hot water. They dry quick¬ 
ly, while the water runs out of the pan. 
Such dried dishes have a gloss or polish. 
It always seemed to me that a towel 
rubbed bacteria in rather than wiped 
them out. 
Farm Notes. —All our animals except 
the hens have had the waste molasses 
and all like it. It is certainly a useful 
and cheap feed. The old horses in par¬ 
ticular show that it has sweetened life 
for them a little. ... I never ex¬ 
pect to see one patch of Crimson clover 
again, and it is my own fault. It was 
seeded in the orchard after oats, and 
made a good start. It looked so nice 
that in November I told the boys to 
turn the horses in to nibble it. The 
weather turned warm and muddy. As 
is usually the case, the stock left every¬ 
thing else and made for the clover. They 
grazed it close and tramped and pounded 
it in so that it now looks dried enough. 
It makes a fellow feel like a criminal 
to know that he is responsible for the 
ruin of clover! . . . Those Winter 
oats are still alive. They look about as 
thrifty as the rye—which is a surprise 
to me. ... A cold snap struck us 
January 19. When the mercury sank to 
four degrees at nightfall we thought of 
our tussle with frozen pipes last Win¬ 
ter. We found the exposed point and 
protected it, just as a man who takes 
cold in the throat will huy a scarf or 
turn up his coat collar. We were tak¬ 
ing no chances, though, and so we turn¬ 
ed on the windmill and let it pump 
water into the tank until bed time. This 
stirred up the water and raised the tem¬ 
perature so that no harm was done. A 
couple of pigs in a small outdoor house 
suffered until we tacked a fertilizer sack 
so that it hung down in front of the 
door. This kept the wind out. . . . 
We are selling out the last of the cab¬ 
bage, which kept quite well above 
ground in an old chicken house. The 
pile in a fence corner, covered with corn 
fodder, has not been touched, h. w. c. 
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