1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Hope F arm Notes 
Washing Machines. —To be honest, I 
must say that this woman expresses some 
sentiments held by the Hope Farm folks : 
‘I don't believe there is or ever was a 
the possible exception of Rhode Island there 
is no State in the Union where the average 
legislator cuts a poorer and more dummy 
like figure than he does in New Jersey. I 
would like to go there, keep out of all 
caucuses, introduce about five radical bills, 
and root-prune them as we do our apple 
trees! 
They would be laughed out of the Legisla- 
. . . ftirt out tr:e. Oh, I don’t know—at any rate they 
machine made that will punc would make a few scratches on the way out! 
of clothes. My son bought me a machine Q ne thing is sure—the fellow who knows 
tint was advertised to be the best 1 he can't be elected has more fun than any 
.... ... m a Ha mv i,nrk a che other candidate, and dreams of greatness do 
couldn t use it, it made J . ' not disturb him. You gain practice in the 
When the men folks could help it did very neglected art of shaking hands, and take 
good work. I had to rub my clothes, I use 
Naphtha soap; boil my clothes; don't believe 
one can wash week after week real dirty 
clothes and not have them grimy without 
boiling. 1 have washed 53 years. That 
does not prove I am an expert. While Mrs. 
G. was getting her clothes ready for her 
candy pails I could have them half rubbed. 
The only way to wash clean, I think, is 
use plenty of soap and elbow grease. My 
folks say washing is my hobby; perhaps 
it is." E - s - B - 
Primrose, It. I. 
The saving grace of that is that the men 
folks could help. I suppose one of the 
greatest tests for philosophy and affection for 
his wife that a man can show is to appear 
happy when his neighbors come and catch 
him a't the job of beating a carpet, washing 
dishes or helping the women folks with the 
wash ! I understand why washing machines 
are not as popular as mowers or reapers, 
though if a man would only think so they 
You also 
the 
fresh interest in your neighbors, 
see many sides of human nature. 
“Y'ou won’t get as many votes as 
Socialists will,” said one citizen. 
“Well, what would that prove?" 
He hasn’t quite demonstrated yet! 
Farm and Home. —Why is old iron so 
cheap while iron and steel goods are still 
high? All we are offered is 25 cents per 100 
pounds—less than in former years. Quite a 
quantity has accumulated on the farm, but 
peddlers do not seem to care for it as in 
other years.Tank water is poor 
stuff to drink. It seems as if our tank 
needs a thorough cleaning every three months. 
Even when a tank is kept well closed filth 
and slime seem to gather. Most unfiltered 
water kept in wood or metal will become 
stale. It appears to be a growth in the 
water, and even in pipes direct from springs 
I hear of serious trouble with these growths. 
It has been suggested by some scientists that 
small quantities of sulphate of copper put in 
the water will purify it by killing off these 
growths. Not any for me, please. I prefer 
to use Bordeaux Mixture externally. A 
number of cases are reported where this use 
of copper has proved injurious. . . . I 
have learned a good deal about drainage this 
Fall. By cleaning out an open ditch so 
give him far more conquering power for his as to give the water from the spring a clear 
f . . ,. mnvhine on the and rapid course I find that the wet land 
brute force than any other machine on rue ^ the *j ower fields dries out perceptibly. I 
farm! With more than half a centuiy o would not have believed that the slow and 
washing behind her this woman may safely clogged stream running through the old ditch 
She has removed forced the water back into the soil as it 
be classed as an expert, 
the “peck of dirt" which each of us is said 
to accumulate for a small army of persons. 
“Soap and elbow grease ’ is a hard combin- 
ation to beat—most people want to use more 
of the former and less of the latter, and 
sometimes soft soap at that. My observa¬ 
tion is that all housekeepers have certain 
rules of propriety which habit has well 
fixed. It is like hunting for serious trouble 
to suggest much change. For example, the 
minister had supper with us the other night, 
and several chickens helped give a warm 
reception from the frying pan. I thought it 
very appropriate to give the minister a wing, 
but Mother interfered and demanded a share 
of the most material part of the bird ! 
Bloodhounds. —A Connecticut man asks 
me to give a personal opinion on the fol¬ 
lowing : 
“Is it safe to keep a bloodhound? If 
not, what danger?” 
I am a poor dog man and never kept a 
bloodhound. In the South I met a man 
who claimed to have owned a pack of dogs 
that were used to chase slaves. At Ander- 
sonville I met another man who saw the dogs 
kept at the prison. These men claimed that 
the English bloodhound is or was a good 
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has done. The prospect now is that we shall 
be able to dry and warm two fields that will 
give us the best soil on the farm. What a 
blunder we have made in neglecting this 
draining. . . . The best of the Alfalfa 
which was seeded on August 20 is now at 
least 15 inches high, and thick all over the 
ground. It was clipped, both to protect the 
roots and make the plants branch out more. 
The fourth growth on the old field averaged 
over a foot high by October 20. “Great 
stuff” is no name for the crop! . . . . 
Hope Farm was well represented at the 
church harvest home celebration. Mother 
was on a “committee.” I stood around and 
tried to look wise—and picked up a few 
votes or promises—-while I fear that our 
family's attention to the supper table made 
serious inroads into the profits. . . . We 
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strawberries, scraping it from under the 
roosts and scattering it along the rows. All 
chickens are to be killed and picked in the 
henhouse, so that the blood and feathers can 
be saved with the manure. Every ounce of 
fertility must be saved and cared for, be 
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natured dog useful mainly to follow the cause as our young trees come into bearing 
Other uglier dogs went along to do they must w^ltlSt KcVf^fuf fS 
need be. The Cuban blood- w (u <] ernan( ] it. . . . We have nearly 30 
scent. 
the fighting if 
hound on the other hand seems to lie fero¬ 
cious, and is when crossed with another 
large breed a dangerous animal. I was told 
that in Cuba the hounds were sometimes 
chained fast, and then slaves were made to 
tease and worry them until they became 
nearly frantic. This continued nagging was 
said to produce a family of dogs that were 
like tigers. I know of two large black dogs 
said to be “part bloodhound." They are bad 
citizens to strangers, but would die for any 
member of the family. It was my Impression 
that they got their ugly temper from the 
“other blood." The truth is 1 know little 
about it. Who does? What does a farmer 
want a bloodhound for? 
“Public Office.”-—A friend of mine was 
once running for office on an independent 
ticket. Here is part of a speech he made— 
under some excitement: “Gentlemen, this is 
a great year for the independent voter—he 
wants a chance to show bis hatred for public 
rascals. Why. if a yellow dog ran for office 
this year people would be glad to vote for 
him—therefore gentlemen—vote for me!” 
Now some yellow dogs, like mastiffs, are 
worth considerable money, and if they ran 
after an office seriously I think most candi¬ 
dates would vacate hurriedly. My friend 
didn’t mean to compare himself with a dog, 
and he made a mistake in his estimate of the 
independent vote. The Hope Farm man has 
been nominated for the New Jersey Legisla¬ 
ture. The party he runs—or walks—-with, 
is not very popular and the chances are that 
a green or a red dog regularly nominated by 
one of the strong parties would chase the 
Hope Farmer a mile away from the race. 
1 know that it takes a ton of promises to get 
one vote actually into the box. and I feel 
rather sorry for some of these candidates 
who really expect to be elected. I have 
heard of the office seeking the man. but I 
cannot say that this office is chasing me with 
the scent of a bloodhound. I am willing to 
stand still and let it catch me. For, I must 
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acres of good timber on the farm, and some 
of it is ripe for cutting. Timber of all 
kinds has jumped up in price, and even 
chestnut is now being sawed up for joists and 
hoards. A few years ago buyers were indif¬ 
ferent, but now they want the wood. Most 
of them want to go in and out the whole 
thing off. but none of that for Hope Farm. 
Mother says she will move away if we do 
that. \Ye shall sell only the large trees that 
are ready or in the way of smaller ones, 
and if possible we prefer to cut them our¬ 
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A Flower Club.—I am glad to print this 
sensible letter—with which we fully agree: 
“Dear Hope Farmer: Sometime ago I was 
offered the local agency of a mutual fire 
insurance company, the majority of whose 
members are farmers, I accepted it, as it 
would take very little of my time away from 
my farm save in Winter, and in visiting the 
various farms whose owners were members 
of the company I have been forcibly struck 
with one great and deplorable fact: the 
almost entire absence of flowers on the farm, 
or any effort toward beautifying the sur¬ 
roundings of the home. This seems to me 
little short of a crime if the children are 
taken into consideration. To bring up a 
child in the country where with so little time 
and money it may be surrounded with the 
beautiful evidences of the Creator’s good¬ 
ness, to bring up such a child with no thought 
save the almighty dollar is to rob the child 
of part of its birthright. 
“Now bring it down to a practical view¬ 
point, suppose you were traveling in a 
strange countrv and were forced to put up 
at the first dwelling on your way. Would 
you not feel a greater sense of security if 
you found the man of the house digging up 
a flower bed for his wife or gathering flowers 
for his children? You would unconsciously, 
and you would do so because of the fact 
that no man with a love of flowers can ever 
he wholly wicked. Flowers are a direct gilt 
of the Creator, and no one can love the 
gifts without partaking, if in ever so small 
a degree of reverence for the Creator. Do 
we not owe it as a duty to our children and 
our neighbors’ children as far as possible 
to see that the dormant love of flowers is cul¬ 
tivated? Now all things are lawful, but all 
things are not expedient, but 1 trust the 
following suggestion may prove to he both : 
Invite the readers of your weekly letters to 
form a children's Flower League, the only 
conditions of membership to be that each 
member pledge himself to plant at least one 
bulb of some flowering plant every Fall and 
plant at least one bed of flowers or one 
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That’s a good suggestion. Let’s organize 
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Fall if possible. Why yes—I would rather 
help put flowers into the life of children— 
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