1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5o3 
HopeJarmNotes 
Farm Notes. —The first early cabbage 
was ready to cut June 26. As I have 
stated before, these cabbage plants were 
started outdoors in Florida on January 
20. They were never covered, but were 
transplanted twice and shipped to us by 
express late in April. They were thick 
and stocky plants, and in a better sea- 
.son would have been much earlier. This 
cold and wet Spring has held everything 
back. I do not think it will pay to 
bring the plants from the South. The 
express cost is heavy, and will eat up a 
good share of the proceeds. The early 
cabbage crop with us is not usually 
profitable, as there is too much competi¬ 
tion from the South, The late cabbage 
crop pays better, especially when it can 
be stored and kept well. One thing, 
however, is sure. This early cabbage is 
“as tender as a chicken.” For some rea¬ 
son which we cannot explain our 
“Clark” grass fields turn out to be 70 
per cent lled-top. The Timothy is very 
thin, yet we are sure that we put in the 
full quantity of Timothy seed. As they 
stand, these fields are quite disappoint¬ 
ing. The Timothy may come in later, 
and I try to be hopeful and believe that 
the second crop will be heavier. It tries 
a fellow’s philosophy, though, when 
your neighbor, under the old plan of 
plow and harrow once, sends you to 
grass by getting twice the yield. . . . 
I begin to get a little nervous about hay 
and fodder since the first cutting of that 
“Clark” grass has turned out so poorly. 
Our corn was planted late, and is still 
short, though it will come on. We must 
have more fodder corn in as soon as 
possible. I shall also try to get an acre 
or so of Early Amber cane in after the 
rye. All such fodder run through our 
shredder will make fine horsefeed. . . 
. . On July 6 we plowed a strip from 
which Crimson clover had been cut and 
broadcast Thoroughbred flint corn—cov¬ 
ering with the Acme. It is a new thing 
for me to practice such broadcast seed¬ 
ing, and 1 will not advocate it for oth¬ 
ers. What with the rain and the heat 
we are behind, and must jump things 
in and let them care for themselves as 
much as possible. 
Hot Weatiiek. —The great “hot 
wave” of June and July, TJOl, will long 
be remembered. It began on Saturday, 
and grew worse and worse with each 
hour. It was bad enough out here 
among the hills, but in the city the heat 
was. fearful. Sunday was a scorcher. 
The fierce sun beat down on the hills 
and baked them into solid bricks. How 
our folks did blc'ss the good old Dutch¬ 
men who, years ago, planted the great 
cherry trees in front of our house. These 
big fellows held out their green arms, 
and as the breeze blew through them, 
boxed with the sun and warded off its 
fiercest rays. The big orchard near the 
house also showed great cooling depths 
of shade. The trees are great, ungainly 
things, of varieties long out of date. 
They are too close together, with great 
spool grafts and twisted trunks. Yet 
with all their defects, we love them .for 
their shade if for nothing else. They 
made life endurable during that fearful 
scourge of heat. The air was cooled be¬ 
neath them, and then crawled down the 
hill past the house, keeping up a perfect 
little breeze. The heat rays struck our 
hillside like strokes from a sword, and 
man and beast were driven panting to 
the shade after a few hours of it. Mon¬ 
day and Tuesday were hotter yet, but on 
Wednesday a heavy shower cooled off 
the air. 
Tiip, Gi.ouious Fourth dawned bright 
and smiling. We are Americans at Hope 
Farm, and independent enough to de¬ 
clare our principles when the time 
comes. Our folks have not yet declared 
their independence of the flesh pots of 
Fgypt, and so Aunt Jennie’s first prop¬ 
osition was “What about dinner?” Hugh 
and Clyirlie had killed and dressed a 
little pig. He was too big to crowd 
whole into the oven, so Charlie was ap¬ 
pointed a committee of one to barbecue 
him. A big hole was dug out back of 
the shed, and shortly after breakfast a 
roaring fire was started in it. When 
this fire burned down to coals irons 
were put across the hole and piggy 
(sliced in two) was put on them. He 
soon began to sizzle and brown in a 
way to make your mouth water. Charlie 
turned him from time to time and kept 
him moist with vinegar and butter. It 
was necessary to build a new fire and 
put more coals under piggy, but after 
about three noui’s he was roasted in 
every scrap of his little body from snout 
to tail-tip. In addition to piggy, Hope 
Farm was able to furnish peas, lettuce, 
cabbage, turnips, beet greens, new pota¬ 
toes, cherries, raspberries, eggs, chicken, 
onions and currants, but we were con¬ 
tent with peas and potatoes. The women 
folks set a table outdoors under the 
great gi'apevine, and the whole 15 of us 
sat down and sampled Charlie’s fire¬ 
works with full hearts and stomachs. 
We concluded that this country is a 
goodly place to live and work in. We 
feel grateful to the hard-headed old 
patriots who hung out for their rights 
and thus hung up the flag and gave us a 
country. 
Skntiment AiNU BusiwKss.—Our coun¬ 
try was lively teridtory during the Revo¬ 
lution. Washington’s army camped for 
several days within thi'ee miles of our 
place, and all through the War this re¬ 
gion was a fighting ground. The stone 
part of our house was built then, 1 
think, but 1 am not able to say which 
room was occupied by Washington! We 
have a 10-pound cannon shot which was 
dug out of my neighbor’s farm, and bul¬ 
lets have been frequently found. The 
Dutch farmers of that time were thrifty 
folks, and they didn’t purpose to let a 
redcoat get the benefit of their rye and 
hay if a bullet would stop him! I looked 
at my cannon shot on July 4 and real¬ 
ized that this dull and rusty iron is of 
very little use now except to call up a 
sentiment. It was energy, moral force 
and hard-headed character that painted 
blue and white stripes over the red coat. 
We had about a ton of hay down, and 
an order for a crate of cherries. These 
goods couldn’t be delivered by deliver¬ 
ing a Fourth of July oration, so we left 
the rusty iron ball and went out into 
the sun to finish our work. That dinner 
didn’t leave much in the stomach ex¬ 
cept a chance for repairs, so we made a 
light supper of bread and cheese and 
milk. There were a few lirewoiTts to let 
off in the evening, and after the last 
skyrocket faded out the Hope Farmers 
“turned in” without a burn or a bruise, 
to rest for the duties of another day. 
A World Beater. —Nellie Bly gave 
us a surprise the day before the Fourth. 
There was a baby horse trotting about 
the barnyard—a perfect picture of her 
mother. Every Hope Farmer except the 
Madame made a run for the barnyard 
before tasting breakfast. Charlie claims 
that it is a fine colt. I have never raised 
a colt before, and don’t know what a 
fine one should look like, but this one 
seems to me all legs. I can understand 
that legs are necessary in order to hand 
down a legacy of speed, but my judg¬ 
ment would be that Nature has over¬ 
done the business in this case. The 
father of this colt is Alcyoner. He has 
trotted a trial mile in 2:15, and has 
brothers who have done their mile in 
2:08. Nellie Bly is lively on her feet, 
and this youngster ought to be able to 
go for the doctor when part of a minute 
means the difference between life or 
death! Perhaps we have the coming 
record breaker in this colt! “But what 
do you want such a colt for?” says the 
Madame. “What good will it do? It 
seems like a good thing to raise a 
strong, faithful farm horse like old 
Frank, for he will do his share of the 
world’s work—but of what use in the 
world’s economy is a high-strung ner¬ 
vous trotter?” I fear the Madame is not i 
much of a “sport.” After all, there is 
sense in what she says, yet thousands 
of people have an honest desire for a 
horse that can “go.” The “go” and 
nerve give greater value to a pound of 
horseflesh than the stout muscles and 
heavy bones of the worker. I am rais¬ 
ing horseflesh to sell. 'Nellie and her 
colt market part of our hay and grain. 
Nellie is a worker and her daughter will 
be able to do something besides trot a 
fast mile. The colt is for sale. Its name 
is Maria. I wanted to name it after the 
Madame, but she turned the honor over 
to her mother. 
Odd Mention. —After celebrating the 
Glorious Fourth we were ready for busi¬ 
ness. Friday looked like the beginning 
of clear weather, and so Charlie began 
to cut hay. By noon the clouds began 
to gather in the west, and our hay wea¬ 
ther certainly went to thundering. What 
a storm it was! The rain fell in floods. 
Saturday kept it up. Our hay and many 
acres more on nearby farms was well 
soaked. Ought to have cut it earlier- 
you say. Perhaps, yet our season is at 
least 10 days late for everything except 
strawberries. . . . The cherries on 
one large and one small tree sold for 
$10.58. Two other big trees had at least 
$15 worth of cherries on them when this 
thunderstorm came. In 48 hours rot had 
nearly finished them. I never saw $15 
go quite so rapidly, and I have spent 
some money foolishly, too. Score an¬ 
other point against cherry culture. In 
spite of all the “rot” which nature 
writes about it I shall keep planting 
cherry trees. . . . Among the com¬ 
munications received lately is the fol¬ 
lowing advertisement: 
“Wanted, a steady man to look after 
a garden and milk a cow who has a good 
voice and is accustomed to sing in the 
choir.” 
I will say right off that I could not fill 
the bill. I should probably ruin the 
choir. w. c. 
5o/we Household Notes. 
SORQHUM. —I tried this last year, sown 
in rows about 30 inches apart, and let it 
grow like fodder corn. It grew to be from 
live to 11 feet high. Cattle and pigs were 
very fond of it, even the poultry would 
eat the pith greedily. Of course, it was 
frozen in Winter and became sour. If one 
could take It to a mill and get from it sap 
as we get cider from apples, we might 
have a cheap, pure, domestic syrup. This, 
I am told, is done in some of the Middle 
and Southern States. 
[R. N.-Y.—Yes, this is a regular practice 
in some localities.] 
A Suggestion.— In our family we are 
very fond of mushes made from the vari¬ 
ous grains. Oatmeal of different kinds 
we can get, and generally good cornmeal 
and hominy, etc., but in this country of 
wheat production we could not get good 
cracked wheat. The boasted Fettijohn’s is 
never fresh when we get it, and costs 15 
cents Cor two pounds. As a trial I sent to 
the hour mill for some clean wheat, and 
put it through the coffee mill—now used 
only for tills purpose—twice or thrice ac¬ 
cording to taste. This meal cooked in 
boiling water 20 minutes, then set back to 
simmer for half an hour with an occasional 
stir, makes, with good milk or cream, one 
of the most delicious dishes which come 
to our table—and costs three cents for two 
pounds. There is both benefit to the*buyer 
and money to the seller in grinding grain 
fresh as coffee is ground in the store. 
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