5o7 
1905. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Stock Yards, Chicago 
The Ghatham Takes Oats From Wheat 
Every farmer who prows succotash will be glad to learn that 
THE CHATHAM FANNING MILL has a new riddle that Is guar¬ 
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you can reverse the proportions. , , , 
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The new riddle will h e lp you obtain double crop value by sowing 
wheat and oats 
together, as it in¬ 
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Farm 
Hope 
Notes 
Tree Notes. —I can sympathize with what 
Mr. Morse says on page 503. Last year I 
was told of a fine way to plant trees. 1 was 
to dig the holes in the Fall and fill them 
with manure and add a little potash. In the 
Spring this manure was to be dug out, the 
tree planted in the hole thus made, and the 
manure put around it as a mulch. I ought 
to have known better, but this theory was so 
plausible that I fixed 100 trees in this way. 
This Spring I gave directions to dig out 
the manure and some of the dirt. The t 
refused to grow well. The buds started 
dawdled along and most of them dried 
Some never started at all, and some 
recovering, after a soaking rain, hut not 
of 
on 
or 
to 
all 
•ees 
and 
up. 
are 
one 
them is equal to trees put. in small holes 
average soil and started without manure 
fertilizer. It is just as much a mistake 
start a young tree with manure or rich 
soil around the roots as it is to start a boy 
with money and opportunity packed so close¬ 
ly around him that he cannot get away from 
it. The tree or the boy can utilize the wealth 
of plant food or money after they make a 
good start, but keep them away if you want 
any start in the right direction. ... I 
have been planting some apple trees with 
three-year-old roots and one-year tops. These 
trees were left unsold in the nursery row. 
They could not well be carried over, and so 
the tops were cut off close. A new bud start¬ 
ed and so I had a root at least three times 
as large around as the top. These trees are 
starting well. I like them, though I find 
that most people object to their appearance. 
. . . Since I advised cutting down that 
old Flemish Beauty pear tree I have had 
many letters from people who have made 
such old trees fruitful. Here is a note about 
a tree on the old place where I lived as a 
hoy : 
“It was 20 years old and never had borne 
fruit that amounted to anything. Father 
and went out to cut it 
it over he thought to 
the way and shades the 
not cut it down now.’ 
bore two barrels of nice pears, 
down cellar and we had them, 
rosy-cheeked eating pears, all 
tree lias borne ever since, and 
took his ax one day 
down. After looking 
himself: ‘It is not in 
I will 
house some; 
That year it 
We put them 
nice flavored 
Winter. The 
this year the tree was white with blossoms 
and the fruit is forming fast, and looks 
abundant. Every week I used to take a pail 
or two of washing suds and with a dipper 
would pour it down the trunk of the tree, 
starting as high up as I could reach. I 
think that was what gave it a start.” 
1 can readily see how glad the daughter 
must be that Father changed his mind. Per¬ 
haps the tree was barkbound and the soap¬ 
suds may have loosened it: so that the bark 
helped the twigs to produce something that 
one can bite into. I can understand how a 
person would work hard to save an old fam¬ 
ily tree. 
All Sorts.—I have read of the man who 
identified his long-lost brother because he had 
“a strawberry mark on his left arm." The 
Hope Farm people have eaten so many straw¬ 
berries that they ought to be well marked. 
We have them at all hours. The other night 
for supper our family consumed five boxes of 
Marshall strawberries and nearly half a 
bushel of green peas. This, with bread and 
butter and milk, gave the grocer and the 
butcher a poor show for trade. Yet suppose 
we had been obliged to buy those things at 
the price demanded for tlie best. One must 
be a millionaire to live on such food, and 
vet from now until after frost we shall have 
our pick of four or more kinds of vegetables 
and at least two kinds of fruit. It is bad 
enough to live in the city and be denied these 
things, but worse to live in the country and 
cut yourself out of them. I don’t believe in 
that form of self-denial. . . . We still 
raise the Marshall strawberry for main crop, 
though most commercial growers have dis¬ 
carded the variety. The great complaint is 
that it does not yield heavily. That Is true 
on most soils, but we find it remarkably hand¬ 
some. large and of the finest quality. For a 
family berry the Marshall is good, because it 
has a long season of ripening. I have known 
it to continue ripening for 25 days. I do not 
know of any variety that equals it in this re¬ 
spect. I came home late one night last week, 
and found Mother in great trouble. Every 
thing had gone wrong during the day. We 
had promised a crate of My Marshalls to the 
■customer whom we are 
pleasing The little boys 
it was impossible to get 
faith in the staying power 
find I didn’t lie awake 
Shortly after five I was 
We got the crate—and 
too. Mother had 
have faith like a 
most desirous of 
had reported that 
the crate! I had 
of those Marshalls, 
grieving about it. 
out in the patch, 
they were beauties 
to admit that she didn't 
grain of mustard seed, but 
morning brought it back. . . . You would 
be surprised to know how many people have 
come forward with good advice and sugges¬ 
tions about my lame foot. I couldn't possi- 
blv carry out all the suggestions and have 
any fcot left. I am getting on my feet 
again and am willing to accept all the ad¬ 
vice that will keep me there. Among the 
remarks deemed suitable to the occasion is 
one from a man who seems to have had expe¬ 
rience. Tie wants me to read the following 
quotation from “The Heart of Rome,” page 
69: , 
“In nine cases out of 10 it is the woman 
who enjoys the ecstatic delight of saying ‘I 
told you so.’ and there are plenty of women 
who would ask no greater joy In paradise 
than to say so to their husbands forever and 
ever, indeed, eternal punishment and reward 
could thus be at once combined and distrib¬ 
uted in a simple manner.” All of which mav 
being the most pro- 
family man should 
he true, 
nouncod 
this statement 
a diplomatic 
make. This is an additional reason for tak¬ 
ing your wife's advice. 
Farm Help.—S ince I printed the note 
from Mr. Morse on page 459 calling for "de¬ 
cent" married men to take charge of a farm 
I have heard Irom about 15 people who con¬ 
sider themselves decent and capable enough 
to fill the bill. They seem to be all sorts of 
people, young and middle aged, from city and 
countvv. One man >s a farmer who has been 
drenched year after year by floods of rain. 
He wants a dry berth somewhere. There are 
city men who want to try farming. 1 have 
been obliged to ted those people that so far 
as a job at Hope Farm is concerned the wife 
must come ahead of the husband, as we need 
help indoors. Another thing that comes up 
is the children. It is a sad thing, but in 
many cases the child is not wanted. 1 can 
understand how farmers feel about such 
things. They have tried to bring their chil¬ 
dren up at home, and have made sacrifices 
to have them clean and unspoiled. They 
shrink from bringing strange children to the 
farm who may not be well trained, and who 
may have bad habits of speech or behavior. 
There is a danger here, as I know well. I 
also know of farm children who have never 
had good training. The children c f the 
hired man may lie far superior, and yet they 
are at a constant disadvantage. At the same 
time I would like to know' what our farms 
are for, if not for the rearing and training 
of healthy children. It makes me very weary 
to see people object to children, when a little 
extra exertion on their part would fit these 
little ones for good citizenship. I am not 
going to start an “agency." but if people who 
want a job and those who want good help 
will write me, making known their wants and 
what they have to to offer, I will try to bring 
them together. The following letter will show 
what some farmers are doing. 
“Through reading in The It. N.-Y. early in 
Spring that persons could obtain help by 
writing to the Barge Office, New York City, 
1 wrote, sending money for transportation of 
hand. The man came, and is proving himself 
a good, steady, trusty man. That one article 
in your valuable paper is worth alone to me 
several years’ subscriptions to your paper. 
It seems to me other farm journals would be 
benefiting their readers by printing notices 
in their papers that farmers could obtain 
help by writing to the U. S. Barge Office. 
Farm hands are very scarce here, and ex¬ 
tremely high in price and very independent. 
Jackson County is a rural county : no large 
towns in it: has lost in population 1.4-10 
within the last five years. Many other conn 
ties report losses. As the old R. N.-Y. was 
of so much benefit this time. I feel I am 
indebted to it to the extent of being a per¬ 
manent subscriber." b. d. 
Iowa. 
I got Lars at the Free Labor Bureau at 
the United States Barge Office. This Bureau 
is conducted by several immigrant aid socie¬ 
ties who try to send desirable foreigners to 
the country before they are fixed in the city. 
This is a very good work. It is difficult, 
however, to find a good farmer at this place, 
and after sending money for transportation 
one must take chances. IV. II. Meara, at this 
Bureau, is the man to correspond with. The 
farmer who takes an industrious foreigner 
away from this great city is doing a patriotic 
act. The sort of “Americanism” such a man 
picks up here is the sort that ought to be 
planted on the farm to grow up into a purer 
article. 
Farm Notes. —We cut the Alfalfa on June 
15. A few hours after cutting it was raked 
up and thrown into small cocks. Each day 
these cocks were turned over—not spread out 
at all. The result is a green looking hay 
which smells good at least. I am told by 
others that the best way to cure Alfalfa is 
to rake it into windrows and leave it there, 
turning it over from time to time. The ob¬ 
ject is to avoid knocking off the leaves, which 
contain the best part of the hay. For this 
reason a hay tedder seems out of place in the 
Alfalfa field. Now I say “Alfalfa" when I 
speak of my crop, but to tell the truth, there 
is very little Alfalfa in it. It is about 80 
per cent weeds. 10 per cent Crimson and Red 
clover and the rest grass and Alfalfa. As 
many of the weeds are daisies the stuff will 
make fair hay. After cutting it over I hope 
the Alfalfa will get a better start, and thus 
make a better showing, but I don’t know 
about it. I am disappointed at this out¬ 
come, hut shall keep at it. The 
apples are setting a heavy crop. The Green¬ 
ings are likely to be loaded, and Baldwins 
are not far behind. Many of the older or¬ 
chards in our country are in a bad way. 
The scale is working in them, and they are 
dying slowly. It seems almost useless to try 
to spray these old trees. They are too high, 
and the heads are so dense and irregular that 
you cannot get the spray mixture all over the 
wood. . . . Our cherry crop is fair, and 
brings a good price. It is hard to get good 
pickers for cherries. The fruit on the larger 
trees grows far out. and many pickers do not 
relish (he job. The cherries rot easily. We 
were all ready to pick one year when there 
came a warm rain, and in 36 hours practi¬ 
cally the entire crop was ruined. In theory 
cherries ought to pay well, hut from our 
practice T would not advise heavy planting. 
I know one or two people who have 
changed front on the robin question. Thev 
found the largest and finest strawberries 
picked and hacked. The birds did not ston 
to eat the fruit, but simply went through the 
patch, ruining the largest fruit. It was the 
best example of cold-blooded wanton mischief 
I ever saw. “Give the poor birds a little 
fruit,” say the sentimentalists. I am willing 
to contribute my share, but when the birds 
act in that way I am done. 
I get a number of letters like the follow¬ 
ing • 
“Where can I get the form of ground phos- 
phatic rock known as floats, and at about 
what price? I am inclined to think it may 
be good economy to apply a reasonable 
amount of it yearly for future returns, as its 
availability matures in the soil, not omitting 
meantime the usual annual application of the 
acid-treated form. I do not find it adver¬ 
tised in any of the agricultural papers that 
I take.” w. s. 
You will find it difficult to buy the “floats 
or raw ground rock at a fair price. The 
company which controls the phosphate indus 
try does not care to sell the floats. Their 
profit is made on the acid phosphate. I tToubf 
the economy of using “floats.” I do not re¬ 
gard the soil as a long time investment, but 
rather as a bank of deposit whence money is 
always available. I would rather use (.lie 
most available form of plant food in small 
quantities at a time. Experiments with 
“floats” have shown such small results that 
few advocate their use, and few buy them. 
11 . w. c. 
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