THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Kakm Notes.—A reader in Pennsylvania 
wants to know about buying corn fodder and 
shredding it himself to take the place of 
wheat straw. The fodder cost $4.50 per ton, 
and the straw will bring .$10. We would 
certainly make the exchange. A ton of 
average fodder will contain over nine pounds 
of nitrogen. 20 of potash, and 10 of phos¬ 
phoric acid, while the straw contains nine 
pounds of nitrogen, 13 of potash and five 
of phosphoric acid. So far as the actual 
plant food goes you gain seven pounds of 
potash and five of phosphoric acid when 
vou exchange fodder for straw. The stock 
will also eat more of the fodder, but it does 
not make quite as good bedding or absorbent, 
and probably will not decay so quickly. I 
wish I had the straw and the chance to 
exchange it for fodder at your price. As it 
Is we have neither. You will see that a ton 
of the fodder contains a little more plant 
food than a ton of average manure. Still, 
everyone knows that the manure will give 
quicker returns because its plant food Is 
more available. . . . .Taking advantage 
of a cold snap which froze the ground solid 
we have begun to haul out the manure—direct 
from the hog factory. As 1 have explained, 
the horses are bedded with sawdust, and 
every day the contents of the stalls are 
thrown into a large room where the hogs 
work it over. This makes it nearly as fine 
as some brands of fertilizer. This is being 
hauled out and spread thickly on the frozen 
ground where we are to grow garden crops. 
We have two good-sized places on the lower 
part of the farm where we alternate with 
the garden. One year peppers, onions or 
cabbage will be grown on one field and the 
next year garden crops—.transferring the 
peppers to last year's garden ground. This 
seems better than the plan of gardening on 
the same soil year after year, and the stones 
have been thoroughly cleaned from these two 
fields. At one time we used the hen rota¬ 
tion that is, moved the hens back and forth 
letting the garden follow the hens. Now it 
seems better to keep the hens in a permanent 
place and carry the manure they make to 
the garden or berry patch. We use coal 
ashes for piling around young trees and cur¬ 
rant bushes. 
The Hex Business.—O n the post in front 
of Hope Farm you will find the following 
sign: “Wanted, Hens To Set." We have 
no desire to get into an argument as to 
whether a hen sets or sits, or whether you 
set or sit a hen. We want hens that have 
gone into that mental and physical condi¬ 
tion in which both their temperature and 
their resolution rise to such an extent that 
they are willing to endure hunger, thirst, 
insects, cold and solitude in order to trans¬ 
form fertile eggs into chicks! We have 
generally hit what we wanted by advertis¬ 
ing for it. Let's see if advertising will 
make hens Incubate! Jack and Philip did a 
great job on the henhouse. The old hog 
shed couldn't recognize itself now. As I 
have said, the shed was taken down, cut in 
two, and put up in sections so as to give 
double the length and half the width. It 
was mounted on a wall, covered roof and 
sides with roofing paper, with cloth-covered 
windows on the south side. Inside, the 
space is divided into five pens, the floor 
thickly covered witli shredded fodder and 
crushed corncobs from the mill. The walls 
are whitewashed—In fact the lien that 
wouldn't lie happy in such a house has such 
a hard heart that you couldn't boll her 
soft. It is by far the best place for hens 
we ever had on Hope Farm. The egg yield 
Isn't large enough for publication yet, but 
they will come along in time. As for breeds, 
we have a good pen of White Wyandottes 
and a fine one of Brown Leghorns, and one 
not so good of Whites. There is a large 
gathering of “all sorts'—a mixture of vari¬ 
ous breeds. A small pen of Single Comb 
Rhode Island Reds will rank among the 
best and we have coming trios of Rose 
Comb It. I. Red and Columbian Wyandottes 
that we are prepared to brag about. I 
never expected to put as much money into 
a hen as these cost, but they seem to be 
worth the price. I think the Columbian 
Wyandottes are “comers.” They look some¬ 
what like a Light Brahma with smooth legs 
and the true Wyandotte shape. 
Home Notes.—A letter from Julius tells 
me that the warship on which he serves Is 
at Santo Domingo, helping to put down the 
revolution. He says lie lias seen ills “first 
man killed” —-two poor fellows being blown 
up by a shell. “They were revolutionists,” 
adds Julius —so it appears that this country 
is taking a hand in Santo Domingo affairs 
like a policeman with a club. As for me, 
1 want none of it. Raising good apples— 
and eating them, is a business quite exciting 
enough for me. The boy has got to the 
point in “The Deerslayer" where tlie Mingoes 
tied the hero to a tree and threw their 
tomahawks at him. It is easy for a boy 
to sit by a comfortable fire and wish he 
lived in a time when people settled their 
differences with bullet and scalping knife! 
Doing chores around the house and barn 
seems like dull business with a full stomach, 
a warm back and Fenimore Cooper In hand, 
but. turn the boys out to shift for themselves 
once and how they would beg for shelter! 
What a world this would be if we could get 
folks to glorify the common things of life 
which lliey are obliged to do as they do the 
tilings they read about! 1 am afraid it 
would lie a hard place for some of us who are 
Inclined to be lazy.When old 
Major died we took off liis hide and sent 
it to Rochester to be tanned. It seemed to 
be a pretty tough proposition and I didn't 
see what they could do with it. To my 
surprise it came back soft and silky—to my 
notion an ideal carriage robe, llow they 
turned that tough old hide into this light 
and soft fur is too much for me to under¬ 
stand. Even the place on poor Major’s back 
where the saddle galled him has been soft¬ 
ened and smoothed until the little patch of 
thin white hair seems like an honorable scar 
rather than a defect. I wisli the gall marks 
which time as made on my character could 
lie as gently smoothed over. This seems to 
me an ideal way to handle the bide of an 
old horse. Mother doesn't quite like it. She 
thinks the old horse deserved to be buried 
“in full.” .... The hot water heater 
still continues to deal out heat and good 
nature. There is no doubt about both. 
Sometimes a woman in a cold house—windy 
and with the heat all crowded into two 
or three rooms for fear it will be lost—'Spends 
the few moments before getting up in think¬ 
ing out a few things about which she can 
adequately express her feelings. Nine times 
out of 10 she will settle upon something her 
husband has done or has not done, and that 
gentleman is warm If the house is not. With 
a warm house—comfortable all over—the 
lady forgets most of such things and there¬ 
fore a hot water heater belongs to that 
class of worthy things which hold homes and 
society together. One tiling you want to 
remember about water or steam—have enough 
radiation to heat the house in the coldest 
weather. In mild weather you can get along 
with less, but when the cold really comes you 
must have heating surface enough. 
Farm Fertilizer Factories. —This ques¬ 
tion comes from a New York butcher. We 
have had many others like it: 
“We ask you for information in reference 
to bones, chicken feet and heads. We get 
very little for it from the bone man, and 
make several barrels of it every week. Can 
you advise us how to gain best results from 
it as a fertilizer? We want it for our own 
use on the farm.” 
I wisli some one would tell me how to 
do it. The simplest way I have found with 
chicken feet and heads is to throw them to 
the hogs. Some will be crushed or eaten and 
the rest well mixed with the manure. They 
can also be thrown into the manure pile 
where they will be partly decomposed, or they 
can be spread in thin layers and sprinkle'y 
with land plaster. This, In time will dry 
them so that they can be ground or crushed 
in a large bone mill. It is hard to dispose 
of large bones on the farm. In fertilizer 
factories the bones are steamed under high 
pressure and then crushed and ground bv 
powerful machinery. It is hard to imitate 
this on a farm. The bones can be boiled w 
vegetables or grain to make hog feed. After 
boiling the soft bones can be smashed witn 
a sledge or baked soft and fed to hens. 
The large bones can be softened by packing 
them in layers of wood ashes—keeping the 
mass wet. This softens the bones but is not 
very satisfactory. If a farmer had power 
of some kind, and could get enough of the 
bones, lie might do rough work with a fail- 
sized bone mill, but it would never equal the 
bone meal of the market. I would not ad¬ 
vise the use of sulphuric acid on the farm. 
After all this telling of what a man coulo 
do. I am obliged to say that we throw the 
soft, bones to the hogs or into the manure, 
and bury the harder ones around the trees. 
Fumigating Stock. —Here is another man 
after me with something I have never tried : 
“Do you know of anyone using an airtight 
box stall to inclose young or grown stock and 
use some insect treatment to kill the lice? We 
have quite a good deal of trouble with lice, 
both the large and small ones, more particu¬ 
larly on young animals than on cows, ana 
have used many good insecticides, but some, 
if made strong, would take hair off, and 
if weaker would not harm large lice. I had 
thought if we could inclose animal in box 
with exception of head and burn sulphur 
we could injure the insects or kill them 
almost entirely. If you can give me any 
idea, old or new, that is all right 1 would 
be very grateful to you.” c. 
While I have never tried this I doubt the 
wisdom of it. Probably burning the sulphur 
in the stall would not hurt the animal, but I 
do not see how you could make the hole 
where its head comes out so tight that the 
fumes would not get out. In any event you 
must do something to kill the insects which 
stay along the back of tlie neck and around 
the horns. Some one may have succeeded 
witli this, but it hardly seems possible to me. 
I should smear a mixture of lard, sulphur ana 
snuff along the back and head of the cattle, 
and dust tobacco powder all over them. 
Failing in this I would make a warm tobacco 
tea such as has often been given in The It. 
N. Y., wash the cattle off thoroughly, and 
blanket them until dry. Y r ou cannot expect 
to kill them all at once, as eggs will keep 
hatching. h. w. c. 
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hard. dry. stony soil, and save a third of draft on 
horses. The plowman does not need to hold plow 
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If it does not do all of these things, you can 
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Let this *‘1900’* Gravity 
Washing Machine do 
your Washing Free. 
An unseen power,'called Gravity, helps run this 
washing machine. 
By harnessing this power, we make It work for 
you.You s tart t he washer b y hand, then Gravity- 
power takes hold and does the hardest part. 
And It makes th Is machine turn almost as easy as 
n htcvcle wheel does. 
Gravity, you know, is what makes a stone roll 
down hill. 
This machine has just been Invented and we call 
it the “1900” Oravity Washer. 
There are slats on the Inside bottom of the tub. 
These slats act as paddles, to swing the water In 
the same direction you revolve the tub. 
You throw the soiled clothes into the tub first. 
Then you throw enough water over the clothes to 
fioat them. 
Next you put the heavy wooden cover on top ef tho 
clothes to anchor them, and to press them down. 
This cover has slats on its lower side to grip the 
clothes and hold them from turning around wheu 
the tub turns. 
Now we are all ready for quick and easy washing. 
You grasp the upright handle on UnT^Ihe of tho 
tub and, with It, you revolve the tub one-third way 
round, then gravity pulls it the other wav round. 
The machtne must tiave a llttlo help from you, at 
every 8wing, butGravlty-power does practically all 
the hard work. 
You can sit in a rocking chair and do all that the 
washer requires of yon, A child cun run It easily 
full of clothes. 
* * * 
When you revolvo the tub the clothes don’t move. 
But the water moves like a mill race through the 
clot lies, - 11 -— 
The paddles on the tub bottom drive the soapy 
water THROUGH and through the clothes at every 
swing of the tub. Back and forth, In and outof every 
fold, and through every mesh In tho cloth, the hot 
soapy water runs like a torrent. This Is how It carries 
away all the dirt from the clothes, in from six to ten 
minutes by the clock. - 
It drives the dirt out through tho meshes of tho 
fabrics WITHOUT ANY RUBBING,-without any 
WEAR and TEAR from the washboard. 
It will wash the finest lace fabric wtthontbreaklng 
a thread, or a button, and it will wash a heavy, dirty 
carpet with equal ease and rapidity. Fifteen to 
twenty garments, or five large bed-sheets, can be 
washed at one time with this 1890 “Gravity” Washer. 
A child can do this In six to twenty minutes better 
than any able washer-woman could do the same 
clothes In TWICE the time, with three times the 
wear and tear from the washboard. 
This ts what we SAY, now how do we PROVE It? 
We send any reliable person our 1900 “Gravity” 
Washer free of charge, on a full month’s trial, and 
we even pay the freight out of our own pockets. 
No cash deposttts asked, no notes, no contract, 
no security. 
You may use the washer four weeks at our ex- 
Egmj®* . If you find it won’t wash as many clothes In 
FOUR hours as you can wash by hand In EIGHT 
hours, you send it back to the railway station,— 
that’sail. 
But, if, from a month's actual use, you are con¬ 
vinced It saves HALF the time In washing, does the 
work better, and does it twice us easily as It could he 
done by hand, you keep the machine.’ 
Then you mall us50cents a week till It Is paid for. 
Remember that 50cents is partof what the ma¬ 
chine saves you every week on your own, or oTTa 
washer-woman’s labor. We intend that the 1900 
Gravity” Washer shall pay for itself and thus cost 
you nothing. 
You don’t risk a cent from first to last, and you 
don t buy it until you have hud u full month’s trial. 
W e have sold approaching half a million “1900“ 
Washers on a month’s free trial and the only trouble 
we’ve had has been to keep up with our orders. 
Could we afford to pay freight on thousands of 
these machines every month, If we did not positively 
KNOW they would do all we claim for them? Can 
you afford to bo without a machine that will do your 
washing In HALF THE TIME, with half tho wear 
and tear of the washboard, when you can have that 
machine for a month’s free trial, and lot It PA Y FOR 
ITSELF? This offer may be withdrawn at anytime 
It overcrowds our factory. 
Write us TODAY, while the offer Is still open, and 
while you think of It. The postage stamp Is all you 
risk. Write me personally on this offer, viz. • 
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