THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
353 
£900, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Home and Farm.— We have heard of 
people who say that they are “shut-ins,” 
that is, unable to go out. I am a shut-out 
just now! One of the little girls was 
taken down with a contagious disease, and 
to satisfy the local Board of Health the 
boy and I have moved over to the old 
stone house. We have our meals here 
and try to view the situation with philoso¬ 
phy. At least I do, for the boy doesn’t 
need any, for this situation to him is not 
unlike camping out. So I have a chance 
to sit by the fire again instead of watching 
a radiator. I find that much of the com¬ 
fort from the fire comes from those who 
are gathered around it. The little girl is 
not sick, merely uncomfortable. This re¬ 
minds me of the old scarlet fever days 
when we were quarantined. . . . The 
“good roads” question has struck our 
country hard. We live on an off road, 
which has received but little attention. 
In Spring or in a rainy time it is in awful 
condition. There is a fine house for sale 
near us. Recently people came out from 
the city to look at it- They were in a 
powerful automobile and yet they stuck in 
our mud and could not move for hours. 
Needless to say, that experience ruined 
the sale, for a man buying farm property 
wants two things at least, good water and 
good roads. There is now a proposition 
to borrow money enough thoroughly to fit 
every road in the township or borough. I 
favor that, as we are situated within 25 
miles of New York. It will be a good in¬ 
vestment for us, although it might not pay 
in a township far removed from a large 
town. In case, this money is borrowed I 
am in favor of making the bonds small 
and offering them to our own people for 
sale. It seems to me like a good thing to 
encourage our own people to lend their 
savings to themselves. It would encour¬ 
age public spirit and provide a safe invest¬ 
ment. A banker undertakes to tell me that 
this scheme would not work. It is not 
“business,” he says—far better go to a 
bank and borrow the money in a lump and 
thus save a lot of bother and at least one- 
half and possibly one per cent. I believe 
that the plan of encouraging people to 
invest their savings in their own town is 
worth more than one per cent. On a large 
scale I have always favored Government 
bonds issued in small sums to ordinary 
people. Government savings banks would 
suit me very well—in which we could 
invest our savings at a low rate. The 
Government could use the money and in 
time cut out some of the big bankers and 
“financiers.” .... The weather has 
been cold, with high winds. These winds 
have been so fierce that we have hardly 
dared to burn brush on the new-cleared 
land. I take no chances with fire in the 
woods. We have the new orchards pretty 
well started, and shall be ready to plant 
after April 15. I am planting peach trees 
as fillers in a young apple orchard. There 
is no good argument in favor of this 
practice except that the peach trees may 
give some income while the apples are 
growing. We have been able to get fair 
growth on Carman and Elberta peaches, 
so that they produce many fruit buds 
the second year. Here is a case where 1 
believe in “a short life and a merry one.” 
With the scale and all our other troubles 
it seems to me that we must depend upon 
young and small trees for our fruit. . . 
. The grounds around the new house are 
to be fitted up. At present there is an 
old, weedy sod with the dirt thrown out 
in digging the cellar. There are several 
large apple and cherry trees and some 
smaller pear trees growing about. We 
want to leave most of these veterans for 
a while at least, and get the whole place 
into a wide sweep of lawn with shrubs 
and flowers. Just how to do it is the 
question. My idea is to scrape and scatter 
the cellar dirt evenly over the old sod, 
give a good coat of manure, plow and fit 
well and put in some cultivated crop over 
most of it—such as early tomatoes and 
potatoes tied up to stakes. Then give the 
most thorough culture and in August or 
September plow and fit as best we can 
and sow lawn grass seed. That is one 
way, the other is to plow and fit and 
sovv oats, millet or cow peas, plow the 
entire growth under in August and seed 
to grass. It seems to me that the thor¬ 
ough culture plan will give us the better 
lawn because it will kill out more of the 
weeds. 
All Sorts.—I will try to answer some 
of the many questions that have been 
pouring in: 
Will the Hope Farm man give me his advice 
about free Nebraska land? Would he advise 
a, man with a family that is willing to work 
to go there: four children, two boys, two 
girls, from 10 to 17 years in age? We are 
what_ people call successful here, but dairy 
farming is not what it used to be here. 
Putnam Co., N. Y. j. j. w. 
The land he refers to is a tract taken 
by law from the big cattle men and re¬ 
offered as public land. I don’t know what 
this land is, but I do know that it is a 
Serious thing for a man of middle life to 
make such a great change of home. If 
fairly successful in the old home I should 
be inclined- to stay there. If you are tired 
of dairying why not begin to work into 
poultry, fruit or some other line. I should 
think hard and long before I left niy 
home. 
F,arly last September you told us that 
“Seymour” had stated that, “All the corn in 
Canada was frozen.” I had fodder corn grow¬ 
ing unhurt in an exposed position, half a 
mile from Lake Ontario and about 30 miles 
from Niagara Falls until the twenty-second 
of October, 1905. S’. T. L. 
Seymour came from the Province of 
Quebec, and it is a fact that the corn zvas 
frozen in his section. The mistake was 
in thinking that conditions in this small 
place represented the whole of Canada. I 
notice that a number of people have nar¬ 
row views of the world because they can¬ 
not adjust their spectacles. They think 
the universe is pretty well bounded on 
the east by their cornfield and on the 
west by the pasture. I have met people who 
firmly believe that New Jersey is one half 
mosquito pasture and the other half dry 
sand. It is a great thing to think highly 
of our section—but there are others. 
I want to ask the Hope Farm man if it 
would pay to use land plaster on corn crop; 
if so at what time and how much? Some 
think it pays to roll the corn in it before 
planting. J. p. p. 
I am unable to see what good the land 
plaster would do. I have never used it 
on corn and have no wish to do so. 
When I was a boy it was thought that 
land plaster was a wonderful fertilizer. 
That idea is pretty well exploded now, 
and few farmers use it except in the 
stable. If anyone can give me reasons 
for using it on seed corn I would like to 
hear them. 
What is the best feed for work horses? In 
feeding ground feed, such as oats and corn, 
would you grind both oats and corn or grind 
the corn and mix the oats in whole. F. e. d. 
I know of nothing better than corn and 
oats fed about half and half. From choice 
I would grind the corn, but as we have 
no mill yet we soak the corn about 12 
hours in warm water. This makes a satis¬ 
factory feed. I like to feed oats whole. 
We prefer to buy whole grain, as we 
are less likely to get adulterated feed in 
this way. In buying ground feed nobody 
but the grinder (and he forgets) knows 
how much plaster, oat hulls and white 
earth you pay for. H. w. c. 
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