1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
9t5 
Hope Farm Notes 
Home and Farm. —We expected to get Into 
the new house by the middle of November 
but we are not there yet—and nothing defi¬ 
nite in sight. These plumbers take the record 
for slow, dawdling work. You may call them 
any name you like, and abuse them to the 
limit in black and white, and they seem 
to be pleased at it. I am told that the 
plumbers have the most complete labor union 
of any class of workmen. They dou t make 
a very complete union of labor with agree¬ 
ment. . . . The first fall of snow came 
the night of December 9. There was just 
enough of it to be disagreeable without any 
of the good features. One of the little girls 
wanted to make a breakfast of snow and 
milk. Bob and Nellie had no use for the 
snow when they started to haul the church 
goers over the hills. The sticky stuff rolled 
up on the wheels like a big snowball. Even 
the turkeys hunted, shelter. Seymour had 
been spraying the day before, but the resin 
and oil sticks to the trees so that rain will 
not wash it away. I am asked by dozens of 
people what there is to say about these 
soluble oils. All l am prepared to say is 
that they mix well with water, spray out 
evenly under high pressure, and cover the 
trees well. I know that many scales have 
been killed but whether they kill enough 
to save the trees is a question still. I shall 
spray everything this Fall. Then next Spring 
I expect to cut fair samples of wood and 
send to the experiment station. If they re¬ 
port only a few living scales I shall spray 
again witli the oils. If a fair proportion 
are still alive I shall use lime and sulphur, 
at least upon the worst trees. Some of the 
entomologists tell me they fear the effect of 
the oils upon the trees, while some good 
growers say that the lime and sulphur will 
hurt the trees after some years. So there 
you are! I think it a fair statement that 
up to date lime and sulphur has a majority, 
but no one claims it is perfect! . . . One 
of my blunders in years past was to build a 
hoghouse on the wrong spot. It was too 
far from water, and the hogs often suffered. 
Mother objected to it because it occupied the 
most prominent point on the lower farm. 
I learned by experience that in our farming 
hogs do better in small houses well scattered 
through the orchards. So the house has 
stood there, a rather melancholy monument 
to a bad plan. Now we expect to utilize it. 
Jack will make it over for chicken houses. 
He has sawed lengthwise through each side 
of the roof and will o?t a double length of 
a low sloping house. It will be cut into 
sections and moved down near the barn, so 
that the runs will be made under the trees. 
We Intend to utilize our orchards as thev 
grow for benyards. I am willing to keep all 
the hens that the boys will care for, but 1 
don’t want one more than that number. 
Animal Notes. —There was less argument 
than 1 expected when it was suggested that 
some of old Major’s carcass be used for lien 
food. Why not? The old fellow was prac¬ 
tical and useful in his day; why not have 
him continue when the night comes? Ills 
hide will make a robe, his bones will put a 
winning streak on the Baldwins, and why not 
hang up a chunk of his meat for the hens 
to peck at? They jump up and present their 
bills to it just as if they knew some one 
owed them a portion of meat. . . . Our 
liens are slow to start. Some of them are 
"getting ready,” but that is a slow process 
at best. We are getting to think more and 
more of the White Wyandottes, and Brown 
Leghorns. The Wyandottes are gentle, good- 
natured bens. We have a couple of young 
roosters from Mr. Cosgrove's flock which we 
will use for breeding. This will introduce 
some good laying blood. I wish these bllds 
could also bring some of the skill and care 
which they represent. . . . Every time 1 
speak of using sawdust for bedding or under 
chicken perches I hear from people who 
say they are afraid of it. Some have hurt 
their soil by using fresh sawdust. My 
opinion regarding this is anything but fresh. 
The sawdust as it comes from the mill con¬ 
tains an acid, which on some soils would 
prove harmful. It would prevent a full crop. 
The ammonia formed in manure is alkaline, 
so that when the sawdust is well mixed 
through it the acid is corrected. Sawdust 
under the perches dries the manure and is, 
1 think, thoroughly sweetened. The disad¬ 
vantage Is that the hens eat more or less 
of it and may become crop bound. It would 
not do to use sawdust as a litter for this 
reason. Planer shavings would be better. 
An Ohio man wants to know about 
this: 
"Can any of your readers give a remedy 
to break a valuable sow from catching 
chickens? Of course I understand that the 
butcher can do it.” a. j. h. 
I would sooner try to cure a colored man 
of the chicken habit, and our southern 
readers will know what a statement that is 
In our experience, when a hog once gets a 
taste of chicken you must either keep the 
chickens away or kill the hog. For some 
reason our hogs and cats seem to prefer the 
small Brown Leghorn chicks. 
All Sorts of People. —Having lived for 
some years, and having seen life from many 
points of view, I am willing to agree that 
this world is a mixed-up affair. I have been 
thinking of this since receiving a letter from 
an old friend in Pennsylvania, who says, 
among other things: 
“I have two classes for the study of the 
International Sunday School Lessons on the 
Sabbath day; one of those classes is com¬ 
posed of young fellows with their blood all 
in a ferment to taste the world’s enjoyments: 
the other, about three miles distant, com¬ 
posed of elderly business men, thus necessi¬ 
tating almost an entirely different prepara¬ 
tion." 
Now the thing that comes to my mind is 
this: Many of us cannot remember when we 
were boys, or else cannot realize that we 
have grown up. The Sunday school lesson is 
supposed to lie founded upon some funda¬ 
mental truth; yet stop and think how dif¬ 
ferently that may appeal to the young man. 
1 once* rode over the line into Canada. A 
stone post marked the dividing lines between 
the two countries, but I could not help 
thinking that a Canadian saw things in that 
post that were not visible to a Yankee. Many 
a man and womau have failed with children 
because they could not see that they were 
dealing with the inexperienced wishes of a 
child and not with dwarfs in size but adults 
lu experience and comprehension. Bight here 
on this farm there are a dozen different 
temperaments; each oue no doubt claiming 
to know what is best. The blind or the deaf 
or those afflicted in some way are most likely 
to carry the visions of childhood along with 
them : yet most people get them badly dis¬ 
torted as they go along. At some part of its 
life the child has true ideals and well-nigh 
perfect ambitions. He gets rid of them by 
associating with others and observing the 
actions of parents and relatives. I have 
known some complacent men to wave off 
the responsibility for bad habits in their 
children with—“Oh—.that means- my wife’s 
family !’’ All the time those black marks on 
the child’s character were made by his own 
lingers direct from handling mean habits 
and neglecting self-control. The world seenis 
pretty full of misapplied education. From 
the primary school through the farmer's 
institute to' the lecture room wisdom seems 
to be lingering in great chunks because 
teachers do not recognize the difference that 
our Pennsylvania friend sees in his Sunday 
school classes. 
They Won’t Lay.—O ut of a dozen or more 
letters I take the following: 
“I have housed in one house 10 x 25 feet 
65 hens and pullets. Some of the pullets 
which were hatched in May have begun lay¬ 
ing; in fact the first one laid her first egg 
Nov. 27. I am feeding mornings a mash of 
corn and cob meal, chopped oats, wheat 
middlings and wheat bran, equal parts. They 
are allowed live minutes to clean up the 
amount given them. Noons alxmt two to three 
quarts of oats are scattered in the litter, 
at night about four quarts of corn is scattered 
in tlie same way in the litter. They have 
scratching beds; oyster shells are kept by 
them. I am only receiving about five eggs 
per day. Will some one write what they 
think is the cause of the small amount of 
eggs? n. ,T. 
This man thinks his hens should do better, 
but they are beating ours out: of sight, and I 
am therefore not qualified to tell what to 
do. They are crowded more than most 
authorities advise. Have you a plan of ven¬ 
tilation which makes sure of pure air? I 
would keep grit in some form and powdered 
charcoal before them and of course supply 
them with fresh water. Green food in some 
form would help. I would use one-sixth 
by weight of animal meal or beef scraps in 
tiiat mash, and let them eat 10 minutes. 
Still, some people are doing all these things 
and not getting an egg! All I can say is 
keep them clean and stay by them. 
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