1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
539 
Hope Farm Notes 
FaIim Xotbs. —As 1, write the rain is fall¬ 
ing outside, a steady drip. Under some cir¬ 
cumstances we should welcome the wet, but 
to-day the ghost at this welcome is the 
thought of three tons of elegant clover hay 
which lies on the hillside. We had that hay 
all ready to haul in yesterday ; in fact, were 
lust hitching up tlie horses when a drenching 
shower came flooding out of the west. It 
was over in half an hour, hut the damage 
had been done, for t lie weather kept muggy 
and close through the day, with no chance 
to dry the water out of that hay. There was 
no use hauling it to the barn. I never saw 
so much damage to hay crowded into half an 
hour before ! Mother tries to be cheerful by 
saying that the special Providence in this case 
knows that the stock will be provided for 
anyway, while the trees are more likely to 
suffer—so that clover will help the orchard. 
That is certainly one consolation that comes 
to the fruit grower who practices “mulch 
culture." Sometimes a man will make up 
his mind to put all the grass around the 
trees. Then when it is nicely cured his 
heart fails him and he wants to haul it 
all to the barn. If a man starts in to 
mulch trees he must give up the idea of hay 
making, and so perhaps this rain knows more 
about it than we do. What seems to hurt a 
man more than anything else is to have 
his well-laid plans fail in the hatching. 
. . . If this gentle rain is bad for the 
hay it is good for everything else. There 
could be no better time for transplanting 
cabbage. We have just put nitrate of soda 
on the onions and this soft rainfall will 
put it right where it is needed. The fodder 
corn will sprout, and it will fit the old 
strawberry bed and the oat stubble for 
plowing. Where we cut the rye early a 
thick growth of Red-top is coming up. This 
rain will mean six inches of extra growth, 
and all the other meadows will lie freshened. 
Our oats were cut for hay on June 
27. At that time most of the heads were 
soft. After about 10 hours in the swath 
the oats were raked into small cocks, and 
these were turned over from time to time. 
With us this seems by far the best way to 
handle oats. As soon as possible we spread 
a fair quantity of manure on the stubble, 
and plow it under. Then we sow fodder 
corn in drills three feet apart. For this 
purpose we use either Evergreen sweet corn 
or Rural Thoroughbred flint. Early in Aug¬ 
ust we shall sow a mixture of Crimson clover 
and Cow-horn turnips in this corn. 
Part of the old strawberry bed is so grassy 
and weedy that it will not pay to bother 
With it another year. The whole tiling is 
jut off with the mower, and then plowed and 
well harrowed. On this we shall sow yel¬ 
low turnips. In former years we have 
drilled the seed, but this year we shall try 
broadcasting Yellow Globe, and thus avoid 
cultivation and weeding. . . . When the 
first planting of peas were about six inches 
high we made hills between the rows and 
planted muskmelons. Now the pea vines 
have done their duty and are pulled up and 
thrown around peach trees. The melon hills 
are cleaned* up and seem likely to give a 
fair growth. It would also be possible to 
plant hills of sweet corn five feet apart 
among the melon hills, and, if fertilizer 
enough was used and hoeing faithfully done, 
obtain a fair crop of corn. I am getting 
more and more each year into the plan of 
crowding the lower part of the farm hard 
by the system of close cropping—leaving 
tlie rest of the farm in sod. This requires 
much hand work, but you can get a good 
deal from an acre. In our currants we grow 
potatoes between the rows, and can grow a 
good-sized plant of Marshall strawberry be¬ 
tween each two currant plants. . . . The 
Potato beetles came with a rush this year 
just as we thought they had skipped us. We 
are using dry Bordeaux Mixture and Paris- 
green put on with a powder gun. This 
knocked out the beetles, and I believe it will 
help us against the blight. 
Cement Monuments. —Among the many 
curious questions which come to me is the 
following: 
“What is your private opinion in regard to 
the possible "chance for success in the manu¬ 
facture of cement monuments for one who 
understands handling this material, who has 
ingenuity enough to make molds for various 
designsV Could they not be sold cheaper 
than either marble or granite, and in many 
eases be as handsome and nearly as durable? 
I)o you know of its ever having been tried?” 
It seems to me possible that in some sec 
tions where suitable stone is not found such 
monuments might find a sale. In the East, 
or within a reasonable distance of marble 
or granite, it does not seem to me that many 
people would consider them. As I never saw 
such artificial stone used for the purpose, 
I can only guess at it. So far as human 
sentiment goes, it seems to me that a stone 
made in this way is far more significant of 
the growth and outcome of a human life 
than a solid stone dug from the earth. The 
lime or cement goes through the fire and the 
crushing machinery much as human impulses 
and passions do. When they bind the sand 
and broken stone together, it seems to me not 
unlike the final binding of purpose and 
deed in a human life. I think, however, that 
the majority of people would overlook such 
sentiment and prefer to have a stone that 
is “fashionable." I have even heard of 
people who, while denying common rights to 
the living, desired uncommon monuments to 
file dead. 1 will pass this question on to 
those who know. 
Making an American.” —I have received 
the following note from a man who knows 
why he came to America : 
“You want to know how they leave the old 
country and come to America. I was born 
in Germany (Bavaria) in a little village. 
My father is a stone mason and worked for 
about a half dollar a day, and had five hoys 
to keep. When I was 12 years of age 1 had 
to work for farmers for about -312 a year, 
and poor board ; twice a week a little meal, 
working from five in the morning to eight at 
night We did all mowing by hand, all grain 
cutting with a sickle, and all thrashing with 
flail; from two o'clock in piorning till night, 
and big haying from morning, five o'clock, to 
midnight. After I was 20 years of age I 
served three years in the army. After this 
I would not stand the work any more, and I 
came to this country, farming for the last 
10 years in Pennsylvania. I do not work 
such long hours; I have a mowing machine 
and binder and a one-horse thrashing ma¬ 
chine. If I remained in my native country I 
should be a poor man like mv father is "to¬ 
day." G. M. 
Vinco, Ta. 
So it seems that foreigners come here be¬ 
cause they think America has bigger oppor¬ 
tunities than Europe can offer. I think they 
are right. Up to this time this has been the 
land of opportunity. In the old countrv habit 
has become too strong—the habit of thinking 
that one man is better than another—not be¬ 
cause of something that he das done, but be¬ 
cause of his birth and ancestry. In the past, 
in this country, the habit has been to class 
a man by what lie does and what he over¬ 
comes. When men went into the woods to 
make a home it didn’t matter who their 
grandfathers were. The arm. the heart and 
the brain counted. I fear the habit is chang¬ 
ing in this country, and that we are slowly 
picking up the old country habit. I am very 
glad that my ancestors have never handed 
down any very remarkable performance. Our 
children must do something for themselves 
if they are ever to make a hole in the world. 
It seems to me like a brave thing for a man 
to break away from the old,country and start 
here in a new and strange land. I wish 
more of Ihese men would get into the country 
and help us with the land. I have heard 
several made-over Americans say that they 
prefer to spend their last years in the old 
country, because over there they find greater 
respect for elderly people. There is a good 
old habit which our younger people are get¬ 
ting away from. 
Oi.d Horses. — nere is a note which gives 
me an idea : 
“Last Fall we had an old horse who had 
outlived her usefulness, and could not eat 
anything but grass and cut feed, so late in 
the Fall the horse was shot and the hide 
sent to Rochester to be made into a robe. 
’Phe hair was very thick and long, and of a 
dark brown. We now have the most beauti¬ 
ful robe imaginable. It is a soft shining seal 
brown, shading to cream and white on the 
flanks. It is well made and lined and only 
cost $10.10.” 
That seems to me a very sensible and beau¬ 
tiful way of keeping the old horse in mind. 
The faithful old friend that carried us about 
and did our work may still protect us and 
remain as evidence of faithful service. I 
would like to have such a robe made from 
old Major’s hide when the old horse passes 
away. lie is feeble now, and cannot do 
much work. Most of his time is spent in the 
pasture with Brownie, the little colt. It is 
more probable that the old fellow is giving 
her good advice than it is that she is listen¬ 
ing to it. Dick is our newest horse. lie is 
a little bay fellow that I got in central New 
Jersey. lie came up on the cars safely. Dick 
came from a level country, and he doesn't 
like our hills, not knowing yet how to save 
his strength in climbing them. He got half 
way up one Dill and stopped. The load went 
hack and he with it. Dick, like Tom and 
Harry, must learn that life is a steep and 
rocky road, where one must keep hauling 
on. with few good Samaritans to put a chunk 
under the wheel. 
Help Wanted. —T have been asked what 
sort of position people have to offer hired 
heln. Here is a letter from Connecticut 
which ought to give a hint at least: 
“I need the following: A married man 
with furniture for a house (and not too many 
kids), who will board an extra man or sev¬ 
eral. absolutely sober, willing, able-bodied, 
not over middle life, nor under middle size, 
used to dairy farm work, haying, etc., who is 
anxious to have a situation for a term of 
years. The position is worth $500 per year. 
Including use of good house, spring water! 
garden, use of team to plow it, pigpen and 
chicken house, pasture for his cow and barn 
room, fuel sawed, not over 10 cords per year, 
and $.300 in cash. School and church near, 
daily mail. Also a single farm hand: also 
a man in sawmill second to the sawyer; also 
two log cutters: all at usual wages. I could 
take a man and wife for a while, until first 
above can be found, man for farm and wife 
for general housework and plain cooking: $25 
and board per month for the two.” 
Tills man calls his section a help-deserted 
country. I fear that he will have a job to 
strike the people he wants, yet the average 
man may well question his ability to produce 
$500 worth of farm value with fair profit to 
his employer. Such a place as this would be 
worth a $1,000 job in a town or city—most 
men would save more actual money in it. I 
conclude that many people care less for in¬ 
dependent saving than for a “good time" or 
living “near people." I cannot make out 
who they expect will take care of them later 
on. ' h. w. c. 
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