THE-RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
HOPE FARM NOTES. 
Wet Goods. —Easter Sunday found 
Hope Farm like a great sponge. We 
started the plow on April 2—plowed tne 
chicken yard and a few rounds in the 
orchard, and then had to make for 
cover. The rain fell steadily for the rest 
of the week. It would pelt hard until 
all out of breath, and then drizzle while 
getting ready for another round. Young 
rivers poured down the hills, and the 
roads were great beds of deep mud. It 
was hard to watch that flood of water 
and realize how it kept our work back. 
The oats ougnt to be in, and yet it was 
impossible to turn a furrow. The grass 
and grain stood up and jumped as the 
rain fell, but we did not seed half as 
much as we should have done last Fall. 
The trees were thriving and the wells 
and springs were Ailing up, Dut we 
couldn’t get half the comfort we wanted 
out of that. So when Easter opened 
with more rain—well, we didn’t like it. 
The Madame and Hugh weni to church, 
but they didn’t have any new bonnets 
or clothes to spoil, and that was a small 
satisfaction at least. In the afternoon I 
tramped through the mud over the farm. 
I tried to whistle, and say: “This is just 
the thing for our peach trees—planted 
on that Stringfellow plan!’’—but the 
words nearly stuck in my throat when 
I saw how the water had gashed the hill¬ 
side and washed the grass seeding. 
Verily, man is hard to please. In 
drought he prays for rain. When Na¬ 
ture pours rain with a liberal hand he 
growls. When he gets weather just to 
his taste how often does he give thanks 
for it? Mighty seldom, I fear. 
Fakm Notes. —The flrst run of the in¬ 
cubator gave us 103 chicks. We put 200 
eggs in, but only about 130 tested fer¬ 
tile. They were purchased eggs—Wy¬ 
andotte and White Leghorn. The Leg¬ 
horn eggs proved the better. This hatch 
doesn’t size up very well by some of the 
reports we read about—but we give the 
facts. A hen sitting on 15 of the same 
lot of eggs hatched nine chicks. . . . 
We are often told that it is possible to 
sow rye very late in the Fall and still 
get a fair yield. We have about two 
acres which were sown November 1. The 
stand is fair, but the plants are small 
and spindling as compared with the 
earlier-sown grain. This rye may come 
to the front yet, but it ought to go in 
earlier. . . . The Crimson clover, 
seeded with the rye after early potatoes 
is fine. The rains are bringing all gfrass 
and grain out. This Crimson is particu¬ 
larly good. It will be cut with the rye 
for hay or green fodder—in fact, I ex¬ 
pect to cut all our small grain this year 
for hay. The oat hay this year was so 
satisfactory that I think it paid better 
than the grain and straw would have 
done separately. . . . We are still 
feeding cabbage and yellow turnips to 
the pigs. This cabbage was kept in an 
old chicken house. It froze solid, and 
is not salable in the market, but a good 
proportion of it is fit for the sows, and 
they eat it readily. We boil the yellow 
turnips and mix them with bran and 
middlings. ... I still think that we 
kept our Berkshire sow too fat, but we 
do not purpose to repeat the mistake 
with the others, and they are living on 
what they evidently call short commons. 
They have plenty of raw cabbage—and 
a fair feed of boiled turnips and bran. 
Corncob ashes are on hand for them. . 
• I do not intend to sow many of the 
much-praised fodder crops this year. I 
have yet to find any late-sown crop that 
will make more good fodder to the acre 
than our Rural Thoroughbred corn sown 
in drills. When used after oats or other 
grain, or following a meadow, it will 
make an abundance of feed, and rye can 
be seeded in it at the last cultivation. 
Too Much Fat.— Side by side in our 
barn stand two heifers which seem to 
teach a lesson in feeding. They are sis¬ 
ters daughters of our old Jersey—their 
father being a Holstein. The older one 
is fat and beefy-looking. Her neck is 
heavy and her back and quarters are 
thick and coarse. The younger heifer 
is thin and fine—a picture of the old 
cow. Breeders tell me that sisters will 
frequently vary in this way. In fact, 
we see many cases of such variation in 
human families. I think, however, that 
in this case the trouble is largely due to 
feeding. I think the older heifer had 
too much food, so that during her early 
life she took on the beef or fat-making 
habit, which made her coarse and gross. 
The little one has not had so much milk, 
and has had to hustle more. She will 
make the better cow of the two. No use 
talking, many of us feed too much fat 
and foolishness to our young stock— 
brute and human—so that when the 
whip of necessity urges them on to do 
their share of the world’s work they 
have flabby flesh or fooling habits when 
they should have muscle of body and 
brain. The trouble is, too, that we feed 
foolishness to the child out of our own 
example! In crossing two breeds as we 
did in the case of these heifers we can¬ 
not tell which parent they will most 
resemble. 
Keep Good Natuhed. —The wet wea¬ 
ther is bad enough, but it would be 
worse if we let it dry up our faith in the 
outcome. Some folks seem to think that 
the wife and daughters are responsible 
for the weather, and they go into the 
house and growl like bulldogs at the 
women folks. I wish the farm women 
all over this country would turn on such 
fellows and make them understand that 
weather growls are for outdoor con¬ 
sumption. There is far more sense in 
trying to be cheerful and keeping on top 
of the weather, than in letting it ride 
you. Why, we might work ourselves 
into the belief that we are worse off 
than other folks, when thousands of 
farmers are wetter than we are, and fur¬ 
ther behind with their woi’k! Here is a 
man from a section of New England 
where on April 3 they had five inches 
of snow! Yet he comes forward with 
the following: 
At present we have two horses, four 
cows, two yearlings, four calves, 45 sheep, 
nearly 200 hens, a brood sow, a pig, and a 
duck. This duck, though she comes last 
on the list, is by no means the least among 
us. She has a record of two eggs a day, 
and is In every way a bird of superior 
qualities. She rejoices in the name of 
“Knox,” for two reasons: First, she Is 
named after a friend, and second, she Just 
“knocks the spots” off all the other ducks 
hereabouts. Last year this duck formed a 
strong attachment for a White Leghorn 
rooster; in fact, the admiration seemed to 
be mutual. This unusual friendship tempt¬ 
ed me to perpetrate poetry. 
A PARADOX. 
A cute little duckling called Knox 
Fell in love with a rooster named Cox; 
They were wedded one day 
In the regular way; 
And now they raise chicklings by flox. 
R. W. R. 
I wish I could write poetry under suck 
depressing circumstances! You will see 
that “Knox” keeps right on doing her 
duty through rain or shine. Would that 
more of us had oil on our faith, so that 
wet weather would drop off without 
taking the starch out. 
Another Winter Job. —^Suggestions 
for new jobs come rolling in. Here is 
a good old job in a new light: 
I see at Hope Farm you want a side line 
that will keep you busy in Winter. I do 
not think much of witch hazel, broom 
making, mail order, etc., but if you keep 
a dairy and retail your own milk to a me¬ 
dium class of people who take only pints 
and quarts I guarantee you will not only 
have all the work you want in Winter, 
but work in Spring, Summer, Fall and 
Winter; Fourth of July, Christmas, Sun¬ 
days and everything else thrown in. I 
speak from experience; have about 26 cows 
and retail about 130 quarts of milk daily 
to that class of people, which means that 
I must climb In and out of the wagon over 
100 times in a day. We try to raise enough 
roughage for the 25 cows, three or four 
heifers, a bull and four horses; keep a 
few pigs and hens, and raise three acres 
of potatoes. We do not take anything to 
make us sleep at night. w. e. a. 
I know that by experience. I once 
drove a milk wagon and milked my 20 
cows a day. You don’t need any 
“knock-out drops” when night comes If 
you are brother to the cow. There are 
many worse sisters in this world, how¬ 
ever, than old bossy. I am not hunting 
a job for the mere sake of working, but 
we all know that Winter is the dull sea¬ 
son on most farms, and I would gladly 
make it profitable for all our folks If 
possible. H. w. c. 
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