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Hope Farm Notes 
Hen Notes. —Our four Single Comb Rhode 
Island Reds struck a good gait in February. 
They laid 78 eggs during the 28 days. Two 
days In succession they laid four eggs, then 
one day three; then three days four each and 
then one day three. I think highly of this 
breed. The two Rose Comb Reds have start, 
ed. They laid 11 eggs during the first nine 
days of March. The Brown leghorn pullets 
have also begun business. . . . Our sit¬ 
ting hen advertisement brought lots of calls. 
One man came to say he had four hens for 
which he wanted 81 each. The standard 
price is our neighborhood early in the season 
is HO cents. The blue blood in a hen's veins 
Is of no more value in warming up eggs than 
the most ordinary scrub blood. In fact, it 
isn’t as good, for the scrub will generally 
prove truer to nature. Two of our sitting 
hens lost interest in their job too early. They 
covered our precious Red eggs carefully up to 
about the nineteenth day, and then got into a 
tight with the other sitting hens; while they 
were fighting their eggs chilled, and every 
chick was killed. Not content with this mis¬ 
chief. those foolish creatures tried to drive 
the other faithful hens from their nests. 
After such an example of unfaithfulness they 
were thrust out into the henhouse, where they 
actually had the cheek to cluck about and 
get into a nest as though they wanted to try 
Incubation again. It was hard to have at 
least 25 good Red chicks destroyed in this 
way. I have heard people find fault with an 
incubator, but the old hen also has her 
faults. When a horse is guaranteed “sound 
and kind" we can take him back if he fails, 
hut no one will guarantee a sitting hen to 
keep from fighting. 
Dishwashing. —Most farmers will sa.v 
that this operation, being women's work, 
doesn't concern them. It does, however, be¬ 
cause if a farmer doesn’t actually lend a hand 
to help at times it is true that the kitchen 
dominates the household. Anything thai 
makes kitchen work easier helps the family. 
Here we have a gleam of hope from Massa¬ 
chusetts : 
“The Hope Farm man seems to he chronic¬ 
ally oppressed by the dishwashing problem. 
Now that he is settled in the new house, and 
has an abundance of hot and cold water in 
the kitchen sink. let him try this method: 
Provide a dish mop. a whisk broom and a 
chain dishcloth, also a wire or other drainer. 
As the dishes used In preparing a meal are 
done with set in the sink and fill with cold 
water. When dishwashing time comes turn 
tlie hot water faucet to run a slow stream; 
hold one dish at a time under the faucet, 
using mop for tea cups and very slightly 
soiled things, whisk broom for those that 
need rubbing. One dash of hot water after 
the dish is clean and it may be turned over 
on the drainer to dry without the use of 
a cloth. Burnt kettles and saucepans should 
!*e set on the stove with a little sal soda in 
water and will then come clean without scrap¬ 
ing. Of course it is presumed that all table 
dishes are scraped for the benefit of the bid¬ 
dies before going to the sink. The hands 
need not go into water at all, and very little 
soap is needed, the hot water melting all 
grease.” 
While that doesn’t exactly make play out 
of work, it comes nearer to it than the old 
style of scrubbing greasy dishes with .a thick 
rag in cool water. In some country places 
where all water must be pumped by hand the 
hot water supply is limited. We have a tank 
in the upper story connected with the large 
tank at the barn. Thus far this has worked 
well. Last Summer we had a great trouble 
with leaks in the pipes underground. We 
find that these leaks were in the hydrants. 
When they were taken out and the pipes 
closed the water held. 
Emulsified Kerosene. — I have long 
claimed that kerosene is a great cleaner for 
dishes or clothes, and that its use would 
greatly help dishwashing. I have never been 
able to get our folks to try It, probably be¬ 
cause I did not present the proper argument. 
Our Massachusetts friend who talks about the 
dishwashing has this to offer : 
“There is no question but the use of kero¬ 
sene greatly simplifies washing and all other 
cleaning, but if there is to be no odor from 
it the kerosene must be emulsified. To one 
cup of soft soap or soap jelly made by melt¬ 
ing bar soap and two tablespoons kerosene; 
stir and beat until well mixed, then add to 
the water in which soiled clothes are to be 
boiled. No rubbing will be required in most 
cases. This method is especially adapted to 
removing pitch from the garments of the saw¬ 
mill worker. The one objection to using ker¬ 
osene on washday is that it soon ruins the 
rubber rolls of fhe wringing machine.” 
It is wonderful how far soft soap will go 
in getting people to change their views! Tilts 
combination certainly ought to do the busi¬ 
ness. 
■Apples and Disease. —Last week we start¬ 
ed a discussion on strawberries and rheuma- 
usm. I neglected to say that one so-called 
cure ’ for gout consists in drinking large 
quantities of sweet cider. The potash in the 
cider is thought to help the trouble. But 
here comes our Massachusetts friend again 
with the first shadow I have yet seen on the 
Apple Consumers' League programme: 
“Let the apple-loving Hope Farm man pity 
tnat unfortunate of like mind to whom the 
eating of even one raw apple means a more 
or less severe attack of enteritis.” 
I certainly do feel sorry for such an unfor¬ 
tunate, and I am quite unable to account for 
1 V Life would certainly lose much of its 
cnarm if apples had such an effect upon me. 
f should keep on eating them, and take the 
consequences—I fear. I should hunt for some 
antidote to take along with the fruit. This 
only goes to show what a strong and contra- 
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265 
dietorv thing the human system is, and how. 
in spite of this, we use it ns thought it were 
made of concrete and steel. It is a little 
more in our line to turn to the following note 
from Connecticut: 
“We tried a tin of the baked Sheep Noses 
as we call them here, as you suggested. We 
are still trying them. We will still continue 
trying them as long as they hold out.” 
Of course when this man speaks of “Sheep 
Nose” he means the apple of peculiar shape 
and good enough in flavor to tempt our Mass¬ 
achusetts friend to eat a dozen and glory in 
the martyrdom that follows. 
A 1.1, Sorts. —I will try to reply briefly to 
some of the many questions that are pouring 
in : 
“Having ditched my meadow and not hav¬ 
ing stone for stone drain, what would you ad¬ 
vise as next best as a conveyance for the 
water.” l. s. 
Tile, of course, make the best drains. I 
consider stones next best, but if I could not 
get them I would use straight poles, rise 
three or four at the bottom of the ditch, giv¬ 
ing a good fall to the drains. Put some fine 
brush on top of the poles, and cover first with 
stiff clay, letting it harden before filling in. 
This is not a perfect drain, yet I know of 
some put in this way which have worked well 
for years. 
Several have asked this question : 
“Which of the two will make the best hay 
for either horses or cattle and which will give 
the largest yield per acre, oats or millet, and 
which of the millets makes the best hay?” 
The Japanese Barnyard millet gives ns con¬ 
siderably more hay to the acre than oats cut 
green. This millet is good fodder for cattle, 
hut we would not use it for horses. We 
would not feed any of the millets to horses. 
Many cases of sickness are reported from 
such feeding. 
Here is a small lot farmer arter a large 
lot of fodder: 
“I am expecting to raise forage for a horse 
and cow the coming year on land that is 
somewhat run down, and would like to know 
if the Canada pea and Soy bean are suitable 
for this location, or can I do better with some 
other forage crop? Also, what commercial 
fertilizers and what amount shall I use to 
the acre?” 
Oats and Canada peas sown together earlv 
in the Spring will give a fine lot of feed. 
Our plan is to sow Canada peas at the rate 
of one bushel to the acre on top of the 
ground. Plow them under with a light plow. 
Then sow oats at the rate of three bushels 
per acre on the furrows and work them in 
with a harrow. Use 500 pounds per acre of 
a fertilizer containing three per cent of nitro¬ 
gen. eight of phosphoric acid and at least 
six of potash. Cut the crop when the peas 
are forming their pods and cure like clover 
hay. Then plow the ground at once and sow 
fodder corn thickly in drills. Cultivate this 
and late in August sow rye in the corn and 
cultivate it in. This will give you a good 
crop of oats and peas, a fair crop of fodder 
corn and a stand of rye for next year. I 
would rather try this than to sow Soy beans. 
Here is a question from Emil Grafe, the 
Dixon strawberry man : 
“An agent came to my place trying to sell 
me a new red raspberry, the ‘New' York Seed¬ 
ling,’ which he says grows berries as large 
as blackberries, is of higo flavor, very hardy 
in cane and fruit very firm, bearing double 
as many quarts of berries to the bush as 
King or Cuthbert. People who are growing 
this raspberry are getting rich very fast. 
Pickers are getting one cent a quart for pick¬ 
ing and can pick 300 quarts a day. The 
plants grow best in poor soil when top-dressed 
with ground hone. This would be a grand 
berry for the poor hills near Hope Farm. I 
did not order any of these plants, as I do 
not like to get rich too fast. I would like 
to ask you or your readers if there Is such a 
thing as a New York Seedling raspberry.” 
I sometimes think I wouldn't mind getting 
rich just to see how it seems to have more 
money than you can spend. I imagine one 
would get tired of it, but the experience would 
be novel. I have tried some of the roads to 
wealth and lost my way. I am not going to 
try this berry route, as I have no money to 
bury. I should deserve a worse jolt than 
that given the unfaithful servant who hid 
his talent in the ground ! I never heard of 
such a variety, don't believe there is any and 
don't believe it would pay me to try it if 
there was one. That agent Is a star" orator 
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