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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
823 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
TiiE Weatiiek. —After several weeks 
of bright, clear weather the Sunday be¬ 
fore Thanksgiving opened with a cold, 
driving rain. When morning came the 
clouds were racing along the sky and 
the rain was pelting hard at the win¬ 
dows. Hugh went to church alone, and 
the Graft and I delivered the milk, but 
the rest of the Hope Farm folks kept 
close under cover. The cows wanted to 
go out for a while, and a few of the hens 
walked out into the rain, but it was a 
comfort to know that there was warm 
shelter and food for everybody at Hope 
Farm, from the Madame down to the 
cat. There was a great mountain of 
golden ears in the granary, the corn 
fodder was all in barn or barrack, the 
fruit and potatoes were snug. The tur¬ 
nips were all in the hoghouse, and only 
a narrow strip of cabbage remained out 
doors. The growing grain and grass 
were happy. I was afraid the rains 
would catch us, but we got in ahead. 
These things lightened the gloomy out¬ 
look—for, say what we will auout coun¬ 
try living, a sad November rain washes 
all the brightness out of the landscape. 
When the early twilight of such a day 
comes you would better pull down the 
curtains, light the lamps and chase old 
memories out into the rain. Better 
make the present as comfortable as pos¬ 
sible, and live right in it. On such a 
night 1 am in favor of lighting every 
lamp we have in the house. That’s what 
1 call burning kerosene in a good cause! 
The more light you get on a dark sub¬ 
ject the better for you. 
Unnatukai. Tuinos. —My observation 
is that lots of us go on for yeai-s with¬ 
out really becoming acquainted with our 
families or farms. We go at them from 
an unnatural point of view, and thus 
fail to understand them. This thing 
came home to me recently on reading a 
very good little book entitled "Deafness 
and Cheerfulness.” The author is so 
deaf that he has to use a trumpet, and 
he describes the growth of his trouble. 
Among other things he noticed that 
“few speak to the deaf man in pleasant 
tones.” His wife seemed to be sharply 
ordering him about, neighbors and 
friends all seemed to be snapping 
and snarling at him. It seemed as if 
human tones had lost all kindness and 
sympathy! So they had—for him, but 
only because those who spoke to him 
were obliged to talk in unnatural tones 
in order to make him hear! They were 
as kind as ever—'there was even more 
sympathy than before, but what he 
heard was a voice all out of tune with 
their sentiments. When I spoke of this 
at home the Madame gave me a queer 
little look and said: “There, I am glad 
you know now that I am not scolding 
you—^^that I am trying to make you 
hear!” Now the fact is that i have been 
in something of the position of the au¬ 
thor of that book. I must confess that 
I have given the Madame undue credit 
for ability to use her tongue to inocu¬ 
late her thoughts! Her voice has sound¬ 
ed out of tune, but I didn’t realize that 
I was the one off the key. I refer to this 
to show how the wisest and strongest 
of us may fail to grasp the true rela¬ 
tions between ourselves and the things 
that touch us. Blessed is the farmer 
who can understand his own limita¬ 
tions and quit adding his own faults and 
failures to the sins of others. 
Holi.ow Heaut. —The following ques¬ 
tion from Massachusetts is frequently 
asked: 
My Green Mountain potatoes gave a good 
yield, but the large ones all have hollow 
hearts. Does anyone know what causes 
this trouble? Will it be safe to use the 
hollow tubers for seed? 
I wish our potatoes were large enough 
to show hollow hearts this year! I 
have never known this trouble except in 
large thick tubers. The long, slender 
kinds seldom have it. It is worst in 
varieties that are soggy and wet, though 
we have found it in Rural Blush, which 
we regard as the finest of cooking pota¬ 
toes. It is what the scientists call an 
“obscure disease,” but probably a too 
rapid growth is the usual cause. You 
take a young man and push him along 
too fast—puff him up with a sense of his 
own importance, and put too many rich 
opportunities in his way, and actual 
trial will find him hollow as a gourd. 
Crowd a potato on rich ground into a 
great size, or let it dawdle along in dry 
weather and then give too much rain, 
or let it be grown on rich, wet soil, and 
it will be quite sure to shrink at the 
center and leave a hollow space. I do 
not believe that a hollow-hearted tuber 
should be rejected as seed. “Black 
heart” is woi'se in potatoes or men. 
There is no hollow in this, but a dark 
lump sun’ounded by lighter colored 
rings. I regard this as a true disease, 
and would not advise using such tubers 
for seed. 
Fakm Notes. —We are ready to begin 
shredding the corn fodder and shall 
probably get at it about the first of De¬ 
cember. We are feeding a little uncut 
fodder now, and it surely is a wasteful 
method. . . . We have so much cab¬ 
bage for the pigs this year tuat it is 
hard to find room for them all. The 
sows themselves make good warm stor¬ 
age for such crops, and we shall feed 
cabbage heavily during December with 
enough corn to give warmth and sub¬ 
stance. After that the turnips come in, 
and we have enough for all Winter. I 
would not like to winter brood sows 
without green food of some sort. . 
I recently referred to a pear tree that 
gave a second set of blooms. The fiow- 
ers amounted to nothing, but small 
bunches of leaves on that tree kept 
green until Thanksgiving. They were 
the only green things to be seen, and 
held their color in spite of several hard 
freezes.We are mulching 
around all the little trees with a good 
coat of manure—spreading a circle 
about four feet in diameter. 1 think this 
will help the Fall-planted trees to estab¬ 
lish themselves, and will not injure 
those set out in the Spring. 
We consider it good economy to use 
dried brewer’s grains for feeding. Just 
now we have no grain on the farm for 
the stock besides dried grains and ear 
corn. I think it would pay better to mix 
the dry grains with bran before feeding. 
. . . . Last Winter we sold several 
hundred chestnut poles. The tops and 
bark are still in the woods, and I intend 
to have them cut into stove wood during 
the Winter. There are two ways of sell¬ 
ing this wood—one is to snip to the 
brickyards on the Hudson River and the 
other to peddle it out as fuel in the 
smaller towns, either in four-foot sticks 
or cut ready for the stove. 
Terkible Taxes. —I am pretty well 
ashamed of myself for saying a word 
about taxes after receiving this letter 
from Indiana: 
Nearly every 40 acres has or had ponds 
on it. 1 am draining and clearing 40 acres 
now that has 14 small ponds on it. Our 
drainage laws are very favorable for get¬ 
ting rid of these, and but very few now 
contain water. There is now soon to be 
let a ditch costing $5,500 with a 24-inch tile 
for outlet that I am assessed on. Some of 
the land benefited by this ditch is taxed 
$14 per acre. Just south of us is another 
ditch with 27 miles of tile (not including 
all of the branches), a 20-inch and a 30- 
inch discharging into a mile of open ditch. 
Part of this land is assessed $10 per acre. 
The ditch to cost $17,000, and it is this way 
all through this section. There are seven 
force ditches in this township under way 
now. In addition to this tax, the town¬ 
ship is building a $20,000 school house, the 
county paying for a court house, the State 
for a State house; with a two-per-cent 
tax in perspective for an electric road 
through the township. From some cause 
the people most benefited or living the 
nearest a railroad are the most anxious 
for an electric line. Why? r. 
Tippecanoe Co., Ind. 
They should change the old campaign 
song of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” to 
“Tippecanoe and tile us too,” for it 
looks to me as though every farm 
pocketbook in the county would be 
drained before they get through. Will 
all this expense pay? I have two fields 
that need draining, but when it comes 
to a whole farm I should certainly take 
to the hills where Nature wrinkled up 
her face on purpose to let the tears run 
easily away. Why do the people near¬ 
est a raili'oad want an electric road? In 
this county they want it to break up a 
monopoly. The reason that with an 
electric running alongside a steam rail¬ 
road there will be competition, which 
will cut down freight and passenger 
I'ates and give better service, u. w. c. 
“Sago Beans.”— Cow peas are all right, 
but what is the matter with “Sago heans”? 
They look much like cow peas, are earlier, 
and the seed can be gathered by pulling the 
vines and thrashing like beans. The yieid 
is good and the seed being small not much 
is required. I planted about a spoonful of 
seed and of course my experience isn’t great, 
but I believe they may be as useful as cow 
peas. Who has tried the Sago bean? 
Michigan. j. h. v. 
Cheap Farm Power.— About a year ago 
I bought a Foos sweep grist mill and power 
combined, and a No. 11 Wolverine cutter, 
with 16-foot carrier, and they gave perfect 
satisfaction. I can grind out a grist while 
I could go to the mill and back and save the 
toll. The cutter and carrier work nicely 
and will cut an ordinary two-horse load in 
20 or 30 minutes with power to spare. I 
wish I had bought a larger cutter. I have 
no doubt there are lots of small farmers 
fixed as I am who want to do their work 
with their own help. I fill a 25-ton silo 
and take my time for it. 1 can put a few 
loads in every day and carry my other work 
along at the same time; that gives the silage 
time to settle, and 1 get in a lot more. 
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