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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
i57 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —We had a heavy fall of 
snow on February 9. I looked for another 
“blizzard,” but after about 16 hours the 
storm suddenly stopped, leaving about 8 
inches of thick snow on the ground. This 
was what we were looking for and we got 
the bob sleds out at once and began hauling 
wood for fuel. We are making a good-sized 
mountain of wood near the buildings, and the 
gas engine and saw will soon tear it up for 
stove wood. We tinda number of dead oaks and 
chestnuts standing in the woods. The tops 
were killed or Injured by a bad ice storm a 
few years ago. These make first-rate fuel if 
cut up and split before the rain soaks them. 
You will find that soaked dead wood is mean 
stuff to dry out. . . . I>ast Summer I 
told of the trouble we had with the little 
horse Bob. A bunch formed at the top of 
his shoulder. The vet called it a “cold 
abscess.” After a time it disappeared but 
now it has come back. We took it in time 
and put on a strong blister, which seems 
to be fixing it rapidly. I am unable to 
learn just what a “cold abscess” is. It 
certainly chilled the ardor of a man who 
was thinking of buying Bob or trading. 
. . . We have only one hen story of mod¬ 
erate size to relate. A breeding pen of 
single comb R. I. Iteds containing four hens 
and a cockerel gave us 19 eggs the first 10 
days of February. One day they laid three, 
the next four, then skipped a day and laid 
three again. They are good birds, and we 
hope they will not only lay eggs but also 
lay the foundation of a strain of layers that 
will prove a credit to all. Y’et right in the 
same house with these Reds, there is a pen 
of 11 White Wyandottes that did not lay 
a single egg in the 10 days, and another 
pen of some 35 mixed hens that laid scarce¬ 
ly a dozen. There is evidently no “sure 
thing” in the chicken business. . . . 
'this snow brings regrets that we have no 
sleigh. The old one played out last Winter, 
and there has been so little use for one this 
year that I did not get a new one. I doubt 
if we have more than a few' days of good 
hauling. Our folks w'ent to church packed 
into the wagon box. mounted on the bob 
sleds. Since writing the above I went out 
and borrowed an old sleigh of a neighbor. 
The Hope Farm man hitched himself up and 
hauled the sleigh home. He knows now 
how old .Terry feels at times! We 
have had several hard pinches of cold 
but I do not think the peach buds 
here have been injured. I expected damage, 
because the continued warm w'eather was 
just enough to fool a oeaeh bud and start 
It out to be nipped. It has happened thus 
far that our coldest nights have been still. 
At such times the cold air rolls down into 
the valleys, so that the mercury falls several 
degrees low'er than on the hills. We have 
proved this a number of times in the most 
practical way—carrying a thermometer 
with us as we drive to the railroad. Thus 
the hills are safer for the peach crop wdten 
the air is still. When the wind is blowing, 
there is little difference, since the air is 
well stirred up. In fact, during hard storms, 
I think the hills are colder. ... I 
find that the recent articles by Alfred John¬ 
son have drawn out many questions and sug¬ 
gestions. Some people marvel that a man of 
Mr. Johnson’s years could go to the coun¬ 
try and do well. A woman in Pennsylvania 
among other things says this: 
“I am in my sixty-fifth year (don’t know 
at what age woman should be ‘chloro¬ 
formed’) and have to look after the farm 
tnyself. My husband, w’hen living, was a 
subscriber to The R. N.-Y.” 
A woman of that age shouldn’t be chloro¬ 
formed at all. It seems to me that some 
people of advancing years hurt themselves 
and their own prospects by anticipating such 
things or trying to pretend that they are 
still young. The Bible truly says that “as 
a man thinketh—so Is he” and if one keep 
thinking about failure and trouble he will 
most likely get more than his share of each. 
Yet, how is one to run away from his 
thoughts? Get wines! 
Fitting Vine Ground. —Here Is a Long 
Island man after information. Last year a 
Long Islander advised me to sell out or give 
away here and come where we could raise 
something: 
“I have about three acres that are now 
bare after a crop of late carrots. We wish 
to plow it early in the Spring and sow oats 
and some legume to be turned under about 
June 15 for cukes and sprouts. Shall I get 
Canada field peas or vetch, and if vetch, the 
Winter or Spring kind? I want something 
that will make the largest growth in the 
shortest time.” 
We will understand that “cukes” means 
cucumbers, while “sprouts” refer to Brus¬ 
sels sprouts. I have never succeeded with 
vetch though others claim great things for 
it. From our experience I would use Canada 
field peas with the oats. There would be 
no use sowing cow peas so early In the sea¬ 
son. Sow a bushel of the Canada peas 
on an acre and work them under with a 
small plow or Cutaway harrow. Then sow 
three bushels of oats and harrow them in. 
I would use part of the fertilizer you intend 
using on the later crop when sowing the oats 
and peas. If the soil and weather are both 
warm when the peas and oats are plowed 
under there will be danger of souring the 
soil unless you harrow in a coat of lime 
after plowing under. That is one reason 
why we do not like to plow under a green 
crop in Summer and plant the ground to 
another crop at once. We much prefer to 
grow the green crop the previous year or 
during the Fall and Winter, so it can be 
plowed under while the soil is cool. 
Sorgiium For Stock.—I have the follow¬ 
ing question from Maine: 
“Will you give me the feeding value of 
sorghum as compared with fodder corn with¬ 
out ears to be fed green from the field to 
horses and cows? Is it perfectly safe to 
feed green? Will it yield as many tons per 
acre as small flint corn?” a. l. w. 
The chemist and the cow seem to vary a 
little_ In their answers to the question. The 
chemists says that ton for ton the corn fod¬ 
der will contain 25 per cent, at least of nu¬ 
triment more than the fodder—yet put the 
two side by side and most cattle will clean 
up the sorghum first. This seems to be due 
to the fact that the sorghum is sweeter. 
The cattle like the taste of sugar. I have 
seen a cow stand and suck a big stalk of sor¬ 
ghum as a child sucks candy. For green 
feeding I would rather have sorghum. Early 
Amber cane has given us a larger yield than 
fodder corn, and also makes a fair second 
growth when cut. It is reported by some 
that this second growth will hurt stock—it 
never hurt ours. The seed is harder to 
start than corn. We soak it in warm water 
before sowing. For dry fodder we prefer 
the corn, as the sorghum does not cure easily. 
This you will understand is only our limited 
experience. We have never been large grow¬ 
ers. 
Utilizing Wastes. —Many questions like 
the following lead me to think that a good 
many gardeners are hunting for plant food. 
That is a good hunt. 
“I can get bone and meat scrap, about 
one-third meat, collected from the meat 
markets in town and put through a digester 
for $15 a ton. For the hauling I can have 
the tank water that is left from the above, 
distance to haul about one-eighth mile. What 
would be the best method of using them, 
raising mostly vegetables? I can also get 
some fish waste from the fish markets. 
Greenfield, Mass. R. s. "c. 
I cannot add much to what was said last 
week. In my own case I would send samples 
of meat and liquor to my State experiment 
station and try to learn what they are worth 
before buying. The price mentioned seems 
to be fair, though for anything except plain 
bone and meat it would be wiser to have a 
sample analyzed. We would handle this 
solid matter about as described on page 133. 
As for the liquid, I doubt if it would pay to 
haul it far unless you have some sort of con¬ 
venient tank for holding it. If I did haul 
it I would try to have some compost heap 
of manure and hold this liquid when poured 
over it. Be careful there is not too much 
salt in it. The fish waste may be mixed 
with the manure. 
Another thing that bothers some of our 
people is how to hold fresh meat for poultry 
through the Summer. They can get fair 
quantities in Winter—more than they need. 
I have had no experience except with salting 
or smoking meat. Neither would answer 
for the hens. It might be possible to cook 
the meat, pack solidly into stone jars or 
stout barrels and pour molted fat over and 
around it. Who knows anything about it? 
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