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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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HOPE PARK MOTES. 
Wind Powek.— After 18 months of work, 
1 am very well satisfied with our windmill 
and pump. Our wind records are not com¬ 
plete, but I do not think there have been 
a dozen days in all that time without wind 
enough for at least a few hours of pump¬ 
ing. Our tank has never been empty ex¬ 
cept when we cleaned it out, and there has 
been a constant supply of cold water at 
the barn and hot and cold water at the 
house. A reader wishes to know why we 
did not put up a power mill while we were 
about it, and thus do our own grinding, 
sawing, and other work. I thought of it 
at the time, but finally gave it up. I had 
the well drilled at a point away from the 
buildings where, if need be, it will be con¬ 
venient for irrigating a large field. I hope 
some day to be able to own a power that 
can be moved about from place to place to 
do work on any part of the farm. For ex¬ 
ample, I would like to take the table saw 
right over to the woods and cut the stove 
wood there, or even shred the fodder right 
in the field. I would rather take the power 
to the work than to bring the work up to 
the power, and some day I hope to be able 
to do it. For such work as pumping, the 
small windmill is O. K. in our country. 
Women and Horses. —When I handed the 
following letter over to the Madame she 
said after reading it: "She is all right!” 
The Madame’s opinion goes —inside the 
house at least—and so the letter goes also: 
“I. too, wish to say a word to Hope 
Farm man. I think your estimate of the 
horse 'that officiates as a woman’s horse’ 
altogether too small; the interest on $15! 
.lust think of it—90 cents! Now, if I were to 
e.stimate in dollars and cents the pleasure 
derived in one year from petting, harness¬ 
ing and driving our horses, I know It would 
l)e greater than any of the items you men- 
lion; and I can hustle over an acre of 
dishes after dinner pretty lively if in an¬ 
ticipation of a horse to drive in the after¬ 
noon, and many times have left the dish¬ 
water to get cold and went to the door to 
say ’Hello’ to the horses as they came 
from the barn. You will say. Do you get 
repaid for all those miles of travel? Cer¬ 
tainly, when they put their noses In my 
face and say in their horse language by 
looks and actions, ‘I like you!’ Now, just 
give your women folks a chance to drive 
your horse that $250 wouldn’t buy, and 
I’ll bet a pie that they would do those 
dishes quicker or give you a chance to 
wash them while they go pleasure driving. 
But before they start be sure they know 
the difference between the breast collar and 
breeching in case of accident. All honor 
to the old horse. Feed him on molasses 
as long as he lives, and the tears of the 
whole family on his grave when he dies, 
but a woman likes to drive a good horse 
as well as you. My husband never refuses 
pie, but doesn’t kick if on a fine morning 
when the horses are at leisure I go driving 
Instead of mixing lard and flour for his 
dinner. There would be less chronic grunt- 
ers among our women if they spent some 
of their leisure time in this way instead of 
on the sofa reading trashy novels. I do 
not yearn for a bicycle or automobile; a 
horse worth $150 hitched to a good buggy 
is good enough for me, and when Hope 
Farm man estimates woman’s pleasure in 
this line at such a small sum he runs 
against a snag.” 
farmer’s wife from ’way back. 
Now, I meant no disrespect to old Major 
when I rated him at $15. I was trying to 
get at the true or selling value of our stock, 
the value that pays bills. The old fellow 
wouldn’t bring an offer of $5, but the 
Madame wouldn’t let him go where he 
would be abused for $500. Frank, the horse 
I value at $250, is a big farm horse— 
stronger than a yoke of cattle, but not much 
good on the road. Our women folks often 
drive him, but he is better in front of a 
plow or a load of hay. I bought Nellie Ely 
hoping to have a horse that the Madame 
could drive, but the mare proved a little 
too frisky and timid at sight of a bicycle. 
No one should drive a horse until he knows 
how to harness and unharness. Grand¬ 
mother and the Graft are the only Hope 
Farm drivers who have never done it—the 
Graft understands the theory of a harness. 
I like to have our women folks hitch up 
and drive, and Major, Franko and Nellie 
are always at their service, with Frank 
and Dan part of the time. I think that 
some women would be better off if they 
walked more, but riding is much better 
than “reading trashy novels.” That is 
about the worst business a farmer’s wife 
or daughter can be up to, when the world 
is full of strong uplifting books which 
would help and inspire them to nobler and 
higher living. Yes, yes, I ran against a big 
snag when I estimated the yearly value of 
a woman’s horse at 90 cents. The fun our 
folks have out of old Major couldn’t be 
bought for the legal interest on $1,500. This, 
however, does not pay taxes or interest. 
Pork and Eqqs.—B oth are in sharp de¬ 
mand in our neighborhood. Butchers will 
pay 8% cents per pound for dressed pork. 
and eggs sell eight for a quarter. There 
are very few pigs for sale in our part of 
the country. I am more and more satisfied 
that there is good profit in pork. We do 
not sell now, because it pays us better to 
keep our pork for home use, but if I had 
50 good pigs now they could all be sold to 
advantage before May. I do not mean to 
say that it will pay us to feed pigs in little 
pens on purchased grain. We never can 
compete with the West by bringing them 
grain here to feed, but we can do it by 
feeding the pigs through the Summer on 
rape, sorghum and cabbage, with a small 
amount of grain, and finishing them off on 
corn grown on what are now waste or 
loafer fields at the back of the farm. I 
have studied this thing hard for several 
years, and I am now satisfied that it is 
practical. I have started a good purebred 
herd of hogs, and w'e are building a hog- 
house so as to go at it right. As for eggs, 
in spite of all the talk about overproduc¬ 
tion, people complain that fresh eggs are 
scarce. Hope Farm is not the best place 
for poultry, yet I think we could run a 
flock of 500 with some profit. 
Home Notes. —The Madame had folded 
her napkin and proceeded to run her eye 
around the dinner table as a good house¬ 
keeper should. Surely it was a row of well 
fed and contented faces that came in view. 
The great platter of meat which Aunt 
Jennie had placed on the table was now 
but a pile of bones. The potato dish was 
empty, the Lima beans had vanished, and 
only a few crumbs remained on the bread 
plate, while the plum pudding was all out 
of plumb. Surely the wreck of that dinner 
was a glorious monument to the cook. 
“Well, now,” said the Madame, “do you 
suppose that the new King of England en¬ 
joyed his dinner half as much as we have 
ours?” 
Outside the snow was whirling and danc¬ 
ing with the fierce wind. It was a bitter 
day for man or beast to be abroad. It 
didn’t take me long to make up my mind 
that I would rather occupy the chair at 
Hope Farm than sit on King Edward’s 
throne. There may be those who envy his 
royal highness the job he has just fallen 
heir to. I aifi very much obliged to you, 
but I don’t want even a corner of it. There 
is more happiness even in the mortgage 
on Hope Farm than In the sorrows and 
crimes that cluster around the Cape of 
Good Hope.We have had 10 days 
of good sleighing, with cold sharp weather. 
On a very cold windy morning I again 
carried the thermometer down hill. This 
time there was no difference. It was just 
as cold on the hills as in the valley. This 
is just what one might expect; on still 
nights the cold air settles in the valley 
while when the wind blows hard it is all 
mixed up—if anything, the hills are colder. 
. . . . The children have made much of 
the coasting, and the big folks have had a 
hand at it, too. There is a little hill on 
the road in front of the house. 
Our friend who writes about the “woman’s 
horse” talks about “trashy novels.” I 
would call such books “mental pies” with 
mighty poor crust. I don’t want to hurt 
the feelings of the pie eaters and pie bakers, 
who have a perfect right to pile on the pie 
if they want to. I prefer the pure fruit 
and also the natural and true books. Those 
who must work for a living, and I have 
little use for anyone else, have no time to 
take from a busy life to read “trash.” You 
may be surprised to hear an old farmer 
say so, but I believe that one may well 
read a selection of good poetry every day. 
I have read Whittier again and again in 
this way. Will this enable a man to raise 
more corn or know a good hog when he 
sees one? Perhaps not—though we call our 
fine sow a poem in pork—but it will raise 
the mind and soul—are they not worth 
more than corn? .... I have read the 
stories of those who claimed that tin cans 
and glass concentrated the rays of the 
sun and set things on fire. We have had 
such a case at Hope Farm. The children 
have three goldfish which swim about in 
a small glass globe partly filled with water. 
This globe stood In a sunny window when 
Grandmother saw smoke arising near it. 
Investigation showed that the sun’s rays 
had been concentrated through that globe 
upon a small tape measure which lay on 
the wihdow sill, and had actually set it on 
fire. It was easy to prove this by holding 
the hand where the light fell. I notice that 
when the globe is filled with water the 
heat is not nearly so strong. It is a most 
wonderful thing to the children that a jar 
containing water should be able to set 
things on fire. h. w. c. 
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