1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
551 
II0pejarm Notes 
Ciioi’ Outlook. —The first of August 
fiiifls a fanner pretty well in sight of 
his Summer's crop. While August may 
settle the corn and the apples for good 
or bad most of us know by this time 
about what we can expect. It is a good 
time to view the situation ami see how 
we stand. It is hard sometimes to be 
(piite fair with our own crops and prop¬ 
erty. We can view our neighbor’s farm 
with a critic’s eye, but it is hard to be 
quite so just with our own. 
FooiU'Uj.—We are going to have a fair 
supply. One of the “Clark” grass fields 
was much better than we expected, and 
is greening up for a good second growth. 
Mr. Clark writes me that he does not 
tivink the Timothy will come in later 
unless we sow more seed. He says he 
is trying a new tool for doing this. It 
is a large cylinder with 72 sharp saw¬ 
like teeth on it to rip and turn up the 
scd. After this has been run over the 
ground he thinks we can sow Timothy 
and roll with a fair chance of getting a 
“catch” and still leaving enough Red- 
top. . . . Our oats were rather bet¬ 
ter than oats usually are in this coun¬ 
try. There was no smut where the for¬ 
malin was used, 'fhey were all cut for 
hay. I have told of one field at the back 
of the farm where last yeai‘ we had corn 
with corn fertilizer broadcast. We put 
oats there this year with no fertilizer 
and had a fair crop. ... I am 
much plemsed with the looks of the 
clover and Orchard grass which we put 
in with oats last 'Spring. There is every 
appeai'ance now of a good late crop— 
mostly clover. W'liile most of our hay 
was wet more or less it is all suiRible 
for fodder, but not for sale. 
€oii.\.—Our crop was planted late, and 
the long wet season has held it back, 
but it is jumping hard just now. The 
color on part of the field is too light to 
suit us. We have put on fertilizer and 
.shall keep working it as long as we can 
get through it without injury. On the 
whole, 1 do not think our chances are 
good for a heavy crop of grain. With us 
the stalk is nearly as important as the 
ear. We are still planting sweet corn 
on the hill tops, and should the frost 
hold off as late as it did last season wo 
shall have ears on it. The sowed <K)rn 
fodder looks well—'and it will all be 
needed. 
PoT.\ToKs.—I have never known a 
season when it was so haid to make a 
fair estimate of the potato crop. The 
tops may be all right, but when you 
come to pull up some big, fat feliow you 
find that he is all top—with few suit¬ 
able tubers. 1 figure on a light crop, 
though the vines are still growing. 
Where we put on the nitrate of soda 
and sulphate of potash the vines cer¬ 
tainly “show their oats” in the way they 
spread and climb. The .lunior Pride is 
ahead of everything else in our field for 
earliness. June 'Eating must take a 
back seat for enirliness, though I am not 
yet convinced that the Junior is a more 
profitable potato, when all points are 
considered. Most of the Junioi's could 
have bc^n dug and sold by August 1, 
blit I believe this year it w*ill pay to let 
our potatoes stay in the ground until 
they are fully grown. Some years it 
Iiays to dig when the tubers are two- 
thirds grown, and thus get the dollar- 
a-bnsliel price. This year I shall wait 
for full size. If we were to judge from 
the appearance of the vines alone the 
second-crop seed of both Junior Pride 
and June Eating is better than the late 
northern-grown. From the start the 
second-crop seed vines have been more 
vigorous. From the way they have 
grown 1 quite expec^t to flnd more large 
potatoes in their hills, but digging only 
will determine. Last year at digging 
many of our potatoes were alive with 
weeds. It is a fact that we 'had to go 
in with the mower and cut many wee<ls 
down. 'Phis year there is hardly a weed 
to be found. We plante<l in hills and 
worked both ways with the cultivator, 
and the children took the job of hand 
pulling when the weeds were small. 
A'Itlrs. —Our Greenings are well 
laden with fine fruit. They really 
ought to be thinned. ’I’he early apples 
looked well, but are dropping badly. 
Within a few days the ground was near¬ 
ly covered with fine apples—not quite 
ready to pick. There will be a fair crop 
left, however. We are utilizing the 
fallen fruit better than in former years, 
since we have more pigs and better 
facilities for feeding. One of our neigh¬ 
bors, a Salvation Army ollicer, has a 
great crowd of “fresh-air” or slum chil¬ 
dren on his farm. Hugh says these 
young folks are like sheep in an or¬ 
chard, ready to catch an apple before it 
strikes the ground. We are glad to 
have them fill up on all the windfalls 
they can pick. We may be responsible 
for a great harvest of stomach ache, but 
that is soon over with the young. Old 
Frank got more than his share of apples 
the other day, and enjoyed a good case 
of colic. It does hurt my feelings to see 
so many of those windfall apples going 
to the pigs—or worse—while poor lolko 
in town and city are unable to buy 
apples eveu for cooking. Last year I 
tried to sell windfalls, but there were 
too many in the market. They may d.) 
better this year. 
Poui/ruv.—^'I'he first run of the incu¬ 
bator was a dead failure. Later runs 
did better, and the sitting hens helped 
out, so that we have 19(1 chickens. We 
have eaten some of the old hens, and 
Shall devour others later. As soon as 
the young roosters are large enough 
they get right into the frying pan. 
There is no use in keeping them longer. 
People argue about the most profitable 
time for egg production. Right now in 
our country would be the best time. The 
county is full of Summer boarders and 
fresh eggs will bring three cents each. 
As we all know, there is no time in the 
year when the natural egg food, such as 
insects and green crops, are more 
abundant than in August. Yet the 'hens 
demand a vacation, anu want to do the 
bulk of their work in March and April! 
We hope to make them lay in August 
and September this year—not eggs but 
celery! Philip is a good celery gi-ower, 
and we will give him a chance to show 
his skill. He has put the year’s accu¬ 
mulation of chicken manure in the bot¬ 
toms of his trenches. Thus the 'hens 
will lay celery during the lazy months. 
Odd Choi'S. —Our rye went to the barn 
in gooil condition. We shall have it 
thrashed late in August. The bundle.j 
of straw will be carefully tied, and I ex¬ 
pect to sell it all. Can a farmer afford 
'to bed his stock with $18 rye straw 
when he can buy planer shaving at $1 
a load’/ 1 do not think so, and I shall 
sell all the rye straw I can. I would also 
sell Timothy hay at the usual selling 
price in our locality and buy bright coni- 
stalks at the price which farmers charge 
for them. I could run the stalks through 
my shredder and make it nearly equal, 
ton for 'ton, the higher-priced hay. . . 
. . Turnips are making a fine growth 
this year. We have usually had 200 or 
more bushels of small potatoes to feed 
to the stock each season, but I believe 
such iiotatoes will sell this year for 
more than the hogs will pay. We are 
sowing turnips and rape at intervals 
whenever we get a piece of land clear. 
The yellow turnips are up and doing 
well. Now is a good time to sow the 
'Cowhorn turnips. . . . The cabbage 
did well, though later than usual. The 
price is low. As for late cabbage the 
counitry seems to be full of it, and if the 
weather is at all favorable I do not see 
how the price can help being low. It 
is true that when the potato crop is 
short all such crops as turnips, cabbage 
aiul beets are likely to be used as sub¬ 
stitutes, but I thought so poorly of the 
cabbage outlook that 1 set out less than 
3 ,000, against 12,000 la.st year. 
Livic 'Stock. —‘The pigs have paid us 
well. We have sold $30 worth thus far, 
with more to go. At present 'the cost of 
feeding the pigs is very little. They 
have all the apples, turnips, cabbage 
and weeds they will eat, and have little 
room left for grain. Of all grain to be 
fed with so much green stuff I prefer 
corn. The little pigs that run with the 
chickens will pick up crackeil corn as 
easily as a bird. I know farmei’S who 
use cornmeal as a medicine when the 
cows get to the orchard ami eat too 
many apples. What a mistake it is to 
keep tllie pigs, and especially the idle 
.sows, penned up at this season, and fed 
chiefly on expensive grain. It seems to 
me that the chief profit in the pig busi¬ 
ness on our eastern farms is to be found 
in turning what we cannot sell in the 
market into pork. . . . Our lively 
colt is growing fast. Charlie has al¬ 
ready put a halter on her, and we pur¬ 
pose to have her grow up with the idea 
that halter and harness are as much a 
pant of her as head and tail. I begin to 
think I would like to keep that colt for 
my own driving some day, but 1 hope 
she will grow into something a little 
too nervy and stylish for a plain far¬ 
mer! It used to make me smile to hear 
farmers tell about their fine sitock, and 
unwind a yard or more of pedigree. Now 
I catch the same smile on the faces of 
others when I get started on the rela¬ 
tives of our black Berkshire lady and 
Maria, the colt. Well, after all, it is 
a good thing for a farmer to show his 
confidence in his stock or farm—pro¬ 
vided he doesn’t blow his horn loo hard. 
II. w. c. 
Hevii Use for Fair-Ground Buildings. 
The fresh-air camp is located on the 
fair grounds near where I live. The 
children occupy the big halls, and a 
right good place it makes for them, too. 
'I'he great city of Cleveland poui-s out a 
vast swarm of its poorer class of chil¬ 
dren every Summer to enjoy the coun¬ 
try air and scenery, and they appreciate 
the opportunity to its fullest extent. The 
children brougbt out at one time are al¬ 
lowed to stay two weeks, when they are 
returned to the city and a fresh supply 
of eager ones take their places. Church 
societies take turns in supplying food 
for them for one week at a time. Re¬ 
cently one of my neighbors passed 
among the children. He was dressed in 
overalls and work clothes. One of the 
girls, as soon as she spied him, cried 
out, “Oh! here’s a farmer, 'here’s a far¬ 
mer! Oh, how I wish I was a farmer, 
for then I’d have all the fresh eggs, and 
milk, and butter that I wanted to eat.” 
How much that meant, none can know 
except those who are deprivetl of these 
good things of life. Fresh eggs, good 
milk, and sweet, wholesome butter! 
There’s meat and drink for you of the 
very best kind, and crowned wi'th a lux¬ 
ury that none may know, who eat the 
counterfeit oleo. a. h. iuiillii's. 
Chagrin Falls, O. 
Noi.SK IN Watek I’li'i^i. —\our Hope 
Farm man, some time back, mentioned 
in his Notes that the Madame is quite 
annoyed by the pounding and racket 
■causeil by the pipe connection from his 
windmill with his range in the kitchen. 
1 have not noticed anyone giving him a 
remedy. What is wanted is a deadening 
expansion joint. A piece of piping i,s 
taken out anywhere along the line; if a 
foot long only It will do, or it might be 
four to five feet. Then a piece of rub¬ 
ber hose is slipped over the piping on 
each side from which the joint has been 
removed, this is then tightened with 
clamps and the whole business is done. 
Texas. J. w. s. 
“A Field of Grain 
taller than the fence ' 
results from the use of fertilizers con¬ 
taining a high per cent, of 
Potash 
Kvery farmer can know wtiat fertilizer to use 
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