1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
257 
Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —The sun is making some 
progress, and while there are still snowdrifts 
in the yard two feet deep the hare ground be¬ 
gins to get its face through here and there 
on the hills. The Alfalfa lield is rubbing the 
snow out of its eyes early. I have been 
watching the bare spots to see what the 
Alfalfa is doing. I don't know how Alfalfa 
ought to look under such conditions, but this 
patch seems to me like a very thin new piece 
in a very old garment. I find some plants 
beginning to turn green under the dead tops, 
and that seems to mean a partial stand at 
least. Good ! We will see what Spring will 
bring out. Having learned how to get part 
of the seeding through we will feel encour¬ 
aged and attempt the whole thing. . . . 
It is getting near time for spraying. There 
is too much snow’ in our orchards yet for 
good work, but we shall get ready. On the 
young trees we shall first cut out the few in¬ 
side limbs that need to go, and then put 
limoid and kerosene on with a brush. A live¬ 
ly man can paint over these little trees rap¬ 
idly. It hardly pays to spray* them, as more 
than half the spray is lost. By brushing the 
mixture over them we get it on rapidly and 
save spray material, which is worth while on 
our hills, far from water. I have some large 
blocks of trees where few if any scale insects 
are to be found. Will it pay to spray such 
trees—“on general principles?” I think it 
will pay to go over them carefully, and at 
least put the spray on trees where any sus¬ 
picion of scale is found. I have found a 
number of people who say that lime and sul¬ 
phur gave poor results on apple trees. While 
the scale on the trees was held pretty well in 
check, the fruit was quite badly spotted. I 
do not find that lime and sulphur sprays or 
which I have also tried, but those made in 
this same way, from my regular rule for 
doughnuts, we think are more satisfactory, as 
they are not as tough ; the dough fries more 
quickly and they keep moist longer, but I< 
the raised ones are eaten hot they are very 
palatable.” 
I have eaten these pies and know that 
they are calculated to make even the Hope 
Farm man break a strong resolution and neg¬ 
lect baked apples. If there were not boy 
readers of The It. N.-Y. I could tell how 
some 40 years ago I would break down a door 
and cheerfully take a good whipping in order 
to get into the pantry where fried pies were 
kept! That wouldn't do, however, but if any 
man doesn't feel like making all his friends 
a valuable present after eating this wonder¬ 
ful cross between a doughnut and pie timber 
1 can only say that the New England blood 
has all been worked out of his veins, and 
that’s a serious calamity ! 
Horses. —I have a couple of colts that 
ought, some day. to throw dust in the eyes of 
Father Time. Beauty is now 3V6 years old, 
not as large as I would like her. but well 
shaped and full of spirit. Neither Philip nor 
I care much for a fast horse, but a careful 
neighbor is driving Beauty. She is hitched 
beside a conservative old’ black horse and 
driven double. The skittish young thing 
doesn't think highly of (he slow methods of 
her teacher, but being bitched firmly to Prof. 
Black she simply has to go along with him. 
She can show her fright at an auto, an en¬ 
gine or a can of paint, but that is about all, 
for Prof. Black knows that these things are 
harmless and goes calmly on. carrying Beauty 
along with him. Beauty may alittde to him 
as “beast” no doubt, yet 20 years from now 
she will thank him for his kindly instruction. 
Like other young sprouts, she finds restraint 
irksome. Horses are high, yet there seems 
slow sale for light driving horses. The de¬ 
mand is for large animals with greater power. 
I want a good horse, sensible and strong, that 
I can now and then hitch up with Frank for 
double work, or drive alone on the road. 
Beauty is too fast and lively for a steady old 
farmer, and I shall sell her or trade her for 
a larger horse with more power and less 
speed. I think the autos have hurt this 
larger class of horses less than the lighter 
and speedier drivers. 
spreads perfectly on the little apple twigs. 
This wood is usually covered with a soft, 
fuzzy growth, into which the lime and sul¬ 
phur does not always penetrate. The apples 
grow out from these twigs, and if scales are 
left there they or their children crawl on the 
fruit and discolor it. M’y belief is that the 
limoid and kerosene will do cleaner work on 
these i.ruit-bearing twigs. Perhaps this is one 
reason for the frequent statement that lime 
and sulphur does better on peach than on 
apple. ... I am well satisfied that the 
soil of Hope Farm needs lime and I must use 
more of it hereafter. Wood ashes and iron 
slag have always given us results out of pro¬ 
portion to the amount of potash and phos¬ 
phoric add they contain. The ashes are one- 
third lime by weight, and the slag nearly 
half, and I think the lime did the business. 
I expect to use lime around most of the trees 
this year. If iron slag could be sold at a 
fair price I would use it in preference to 
other forms, but it costs too much. I am told 
that in Germany and France this excellent 
fertilizer is bought at $8 or $!) per ton. 
Here we are exnected to pay .$10 to $20! 
Wood ashes are good if you can get them un¬ 
der a sure guarantee, hut it seems to me 
cheaper to buy the lime alone, and buy other 
fertilizers separately. What kind of lime 
shall we buy? I think quicklime is the cheap¬ 
est all things considered, but it. is hard and 
disagreeable stuff to handle, and air-slaked 
lime will probably suit most farmers better. 
This year I am trying a new form of lime 
called II-O or “hydra-oxide” of lime. I can 
tell more about it after we have noticed re¬ 
sults, but I see no reason why it should not 
pay to give lime a special preparation. I 
intend to scatter tills lime on the sod around 
the young trees, some distance away, and 
work part of it into the soil. 
Fried Pies. —Here is a characteristic let¬ 
ter from a western farmer’s wife : 
“I wish to ask a favor. My husband is an 
easterner (Providence, R. I.), and when he 
was a boy his mother made ‘fried pies.’ As 
I am a westerner I can't make them. Would 
you please ask if some of the ladies would 
give the recipe?” 
Now here is a man who is falling into the 
unfortunate habit of alluding to mother’s 
cooking. That might lead to serious results 
if he did not have a wise wife who goes at 
the trouble in the right spirit. If mother 
made “fried pies” there is no reason to be¬ 
lieve that the secret died with her, and so 
this wife does well to try to analyze the 
situation and learn how the pies are fried. 
Aunt Jennie knows how to make a pie that 
would cause the Czar to stop the war and 
give his people all the rights that are coming 
to them, if we could only get him to eat one. 
I can t do better therefore than give her 
recipe: 
Fried Pies From Raised Dough. —“To 
one pint of raised dough add one beaten egg, 
one cup sugar, one tablespoonful melted but¬ 
ter, nutmeg or cinnamon for spice, as pre¬ 
ferred; flour enough to roll out. Roll thicker 
than ordinary pie crust, so it will not break 
apart; cut out piece as large as a small sau¬ 
cer, roll back and forth until a little longer 
than in width, put as much pie meat, or thick 
(not waterv) apple sauce (in which has been 
grated a little nutmeg or cinnamon), as it 
will conveniently hold, in center; fold over, 
bring edges together, turn in or crumple, so 
Ailing will not get out. Fry in hot fat like a 
doughnut. I am very sure this is the old- 
fashioned kind that my mother used to make, 
Beating Oi.d Farmers. —I hnve a letter 
from a man who asks about chemical fer¬ 
tilizers for potatoes. He wants to plant a 
large acreage at once, and says: 
“If this fertilizer will help to make half 
the showing claimed in pamphlets, it will he 
pie for me at the same time. I want to 
make some of my neighbors look like 30 
cents; they look wise and get a 2 x 4 smile 
on their faces, as much as to say : ‘Another 
city man with fangle-dangle ideas.’ No 
fertilizer for them: two-thirds of them never 
saw an agricultural paper, and wouldn't read 
them. If they did would sneer and believe 
nothing; they think they know it all." 
If our friend will take advice from one who 
has had some little experience I will give it. 
Don t tell these old farmers that you are 
going to make them “look like 30 cents" until 
you are dead sure of the resemblance. Those 
md farmers have a way of getting a full 
dollar s worth for 30 cents that upsets the 
most careful theory and the most elaborate 
plan. i< com my experience I should start out 
to show them how to farm with a most hum¬ 
ble spirit, and be prepared to turn one cheek 
alter another to them until I had them heaten 
so clearly that a blind man could see it. 
As to the use of fertilizers there is no 
doubt but that a well-balanced mixture of 
fertilizers will provide the food for a good 
potato crop. That isn’t the whole story. You 
must have strong and vigorous seed, soaked 
to clean off the scab, well planted in mellow 
soil that contains a fair amount of humus 
I he crop must be eultivaled and spraved and 
bandied with judgment in order to get vour 
money back from the fertilizer. The chances 
are that if you were to plow up a lot of 
raw, inferior land and let hired men plant 
your potatoes, without interest in the crop 
you would look more like 30 cents than the 
old farmers. You must remember that the 
large potato crops reported in fertilizer 
pamphlets are grown by successful farmers of 
long experience. Such crops are grown in a 
rotation following corn and clover. It is a 
very different thing to plow raw land and 
use fertilizers heavily. The rotation fits the 
soil for the potato crop. These things should 
be clearlv understood bv those who undertake 
to use fertilizers heavily for the first time 
As to fertilizers being “pie" for you. it won't 
taste like one of Aunt Jennie’s fried pies 
until you know how to use it. Experience is 
“pie.” but it takes much frying of spirit to 
produce it. H w 
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