1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
791 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Tax Time.— I print the tax rate on 
Hope Farm for comparison. 
1900. 1901. 
County tax .35 .38 
Bounty and interest.039 .038 
County poor.019 .027 
State school .28 .17 
Borough purposes.27 .27 
Uellciency and Interest.020 — 
Special school.40 .60 
1.384 1.485 
As will be noticed, this year’s rate is 
higher than last, the increase being 
largely in a special school tax. We 
spend a little more on the county poor, 
and it costs a trifle more to run our 
county business. The State school tax 
is lower, and we are told that before 
many years it will be wiped out. Who 
is to pay it? The trusts or big cor¬ 
porations which are chartered in our 
State, and which pay our State tax for 
us. Personally, I do not care to have 
any trust or saloonkeeper pay the share 
of public expense which justly belongs 
to me. New Jersey is already called 
the Mother of Trusts. The money which 
they pay into our State treasury rep¬ 
resents a small part of the blood money 
which they have squeezed out of the 
public. They practically own the State 
now. The average public man who op¬ 
poses them will be flattened out until he 
resembles a pancake with no baking 
powder in it. 
Fine Corn Weather. —Yes, cool, 
breezy weather in the late Fall is flne 
for the corn crop—after it is cut. Our 
husking is over, and the fodder will 
all be under cover, I hope, before this 
is printed. We have never had better 
fodder. It was put in small shocks (24 
hills) and after husking about a dozen 
shocks were set up together. The crisp, 
drying winds cured the shocks like 
clover hay in the cock. They are crisp 
and green, with a flavor and perfume 
like a delicate extract of silage. When 
run through our shredder they will make 
excellent horse feed. The value of a 
good corn crop is pronounced this year. 
Cash corn in Chicago is quoted at a 
trifle over $1 per 100 pounds, while our 
local miller charges $1.35. Thus corn 
is one of the most expensive feeds we 
can buy. I sometimes think it would 
pay me to sell the corn and buy other 
grain, but after all home-grown corn 
is one of the most satisfactory grains 
one can have in the barn. 
Feed Notes. —I have bought a lot of 
dried brewer’s grains to feed as an ex¬ 
periment. The analysis shows that they 
are richer than either bran or oats, but 
I have observed that Fi’ank, Nellie and 
the rest of the barn stock do not al¬ 
ways agree with the chemist. Tongue 
and stomach do not always check off 
the work of flask and test-tube. We are 
feeding the grains to horses, poultry, 
hogs and cows. Thus far the animals 
all seem to do well on them, though I 
think it would be better to mix them 
half and half with bran. They look 
about as dry and unwholesome as little 
pieces of sticks, yet there can be no 
doubt that they analyze well. The nub¬ 
bins and soft ears are reserved for “pig 
corn.” We are feeding the sows a fair 
amount of corn, with plenty of bulky 
food like turnips, cabbage and rape. 
About the middle of December we shall 
begin feeding them linseed meal. They 
now have a small ration of dried brew¬ 
er’s grains and middlings. They have 
all the wood ashes and corncob charcoal 
they want. We have eight brood sows 
all told this year—four of them purebred 
Berkshire^. The grade sows were pro¬ 
fitable last year, and so we shall keep 
them one season more at least. I studied 
over this quite a little. We sold one 
hog for $14.90 dressed. At the same 
rate per pound the two grade sows 
would have brought $25 at least. Would 
it not have been good business to turn 
them off? They raised 18 pigs this year. 
We sold 12 of them for $33, ate two and 
have four left, one of which we shall 
use for a brood sow. The account for 
these sows stands as follows: Figs sold, 
$33; consumed, $6; on hand, $20; total, 
$59. This represented but one litter 
for each sow, remember. Had we sold 
them as pork for $25 they would have 
given an income of $84. I argued that 
they may be expected to duplicate their 
performance of this year, give an extra 
litter and then sell well as pork. So 
instead of knifing them we will fork out 
another year’s feed. 
Bad Calculating. —The following let¬ 
ter created quite a little amusement at 
Hope Farm: 
Mr. Hope Fa in Man; 
Dir Sur; In yure lettir tu las weak’s 11. 
n.y., yu saz that yu be goin tu so rye az late 
az Nov. 10. Well, 1 must tell ye that up in 
this neck uv the woods we’re goln tn knock ofif 
t’rum labor iSalurda night, Nov. 9—even ef 
we dout go tu meetin uex day. Sowin rye on 
the 8awbath Is worser nor settiu on the fents 
aud ponderin. 
i'oors trooly, 
SodUS, N. Y. G. HAW BUCK. 
1 don’t know whether 1 have the 
pleasure of Mr. Haw Buck’s acquaint¬ 
ance or not, bnt he is 0. K. when he 
says that sowing rye is a worse Sunday 
job than sowing reflections on a stone 
wall. I’ll have to admit that when 1 
set a date for late rye seeding I didn’t 
look it up to see what day it came on. 
This gives me a chance to say that I 
think rye seeded up to Thanksgiving 
this Fall will make a fair crop next 
yeai*. It’s a cold-blooded plant. Do you 
know that it is a comfort sometimes 
to realize that your chances are in the 
hands of some cool-blooded, honest 
friend when the way is hard and rough? 
Some folks when they “ponder” may not 
sow rye, but they sow riot unless they 
are able to keep their thoughts to them¬ 
selves! 
Hen Girls. —New wine seems to have 
been put into the old bottles of the 
Hope Farm hen business. Let’s see 
if the bottles burst. Our hens have been 
neglected. The men folks have been 
too busy to bother with them, and the 
pullets got in the habit of crowding 
into corners of the yard, while a num¬ 
ber of sick birds went drooping about. 
This was bad business for November, 
but The Sprout came to the res¬ 
cue with a proposition to take charge 
of the chickens. She has had some ex¬ 
perience with a small flock and did well. 
I decided to set her up in partnership 
with the Bud. They are to take charge 
of the birds, see that they are well 
fed and cared for, pay half the cost of 
feed and have half the sales. At the 
end of six months, if they do well, the 
ownership of the flock will pass into 
their hands. The Sprout was much inter¬ 
ested in the advice offered that girl who 
recently asked for home work in The 
R. N.-Y. She thinks she can make these 
hens pay. The girls went right at work. 
First they picked out all the young 
roosters and put them in a small house 
by themselves, where they are fed on 
corn with warm water to drink. They 
expect that these young fellows can be 
sold for enough to feed the hens until 
there is an income from eggs. Then 
they put the droopy and sick birds by 
themselves in a dry hospital. They may 
be cured and made useful members of 
the henyard if they have a chance, 
otherwise they would surely have died. 
For several nights it was a big job 
catching the wanderers and making 
them go into the house. I helped one 
night, and did so much running that 
I don’t dare to say how many times 
I passed my plate at supper. I used to 
play a good short stop on the diamond, 
but I’m out of practice, and the chick¬ 
ens slid past my fingers with ease. 1 
think these hen girls are going to make 
our poultry department respectable. 
Orchard Problems. —The Hope Farm 
orchard puzzle may be stated about as 
follows: 
Steep, rocky hillsides! The soil is 
heavy and in places the ledge comes 
close to the surface. The few apple 
trees now growing on these slopes are 
strong and vigorous. The man is not 
as young as he used to be, and wants if 
possible to eat some of the apples while 
he is yet able to climb a tree after 
them. Varieties are wanted that will 
ripen at the best time for selling, keep 
well and make people call for more. 
How are we to get an orchard of good 
varieties into bearing on these hillsides 
in the shortest time? 
1 could fill a book with the advice 1 
have had about this. In a general way 
it seems to me a sensible thing to plant 
seedlings of Northei’n Spy—if possible. 
Get them well started and then go to 
some first-class orchard and get wood 
from the best trees, true to name, which 
have given reliable crops for years. 
Use this wood for budding. I think 
that in this way we shall hurry up the 
bearing, and surely know what the trees 
are going to produce. As a part of the 
scheme, Hugh is thinking of taking the 
short course at Cornell this Winter, so 
as to learn all he can about the care of 
a tree. 
'Men Wanted. —I judge from what 
people say and write that the help prob¬ 
lem is about the toughest proposition 
there is on many farms. It is hardest 
near large towns and cities, because 
there it is easier for men and girls to 
obtain other jobs. Those who do work 
on the farms in such locations pick up 
the time and the habits of the factory 
workers—not all of which are suited to 
farm conditions. I print the following 
note, as it indicates the sort of job that 
can be had by those who are capable of 
filling it: 
I want a truck gardener and farmer. I 
have about live or six acres of garden. 
The ground is productive, and the market 
a good one. I have glass for 10 hotbeds. 
1 will give the gardener $15 per month and 
house, and 10 per cent on what he sells or 
fui-nishes the house. We consume a good 
lot, as we have about 65 persons in the 
house—except in Summer (three months) 
when we have but about 10 or 15, I want 
also a man to milk and take care of six 
cows and help the gardener, etc. His 
w.iges are $15 per month and house. Can 
1 get such persons from your region? 
This refers to a school for boys in 
Pennsylvania. I put it here as an ex¬ 
periment, to see how many readers 
would like such a job. The pay will 
seem small to first-class gardeners, but 
the 10 per cent of sales to such a school 
ought to bring it up. Wages of skilled 
labor in other lines of work are pretty 
high just now, and I believe it is quite 
easy for skilled farmers to command 
good returns for their labor. But who 
wants such a job as is described above? 
H. w. c. 
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After 2,000 experiments, I have learned 
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doses must be drugged to the verge of 
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