1906. 
5o7 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
„ AT nlateful “I wish we wouldn’t have any belief is that while cultivation forces a 
HODe harm [Notes more this Summer!” That is discouraging growth the mulched trees come into bear- 
_£__talk for a Cape Cod man to hear from his ing earlier, and are certainly lower down 
wife, and as I looked around I saw that where we can handle them from the 
Live Stock. —I am almost ashamed to even ' niy daughter was taking some scram- ground. By June 10 some of our three- 
say that we have five dogs and eight cats b i e( ] egg w hil e the boy asked for beans year-old apple trees had made a growth 
at Hope Farm! Four of these dogs are on]y tw A e . It’s tough to realize at last of 18 inches, and still stretching, these 
Boston terriers which Jack is breeding. tbat ne j tber heredity nor example can fix have never been plowed or cultivated, and 
These little creatures are said to he worth wort hy habits as you would like to have have received little if any manure. On 
more than dairy cows. Shep is still them 1 part °* the y° un g apple orchard on the 
alive—more human in some of his good Qne of the best things about the week’s hill the grass has nearly died out and l.ttle 
traits than many who walk erect upon en di n g was the news from Uncle Ed. besides weeds is left. We are plowing 
two legs. Not long since Shep followed He is slowly improving, having come as part of this up and shall plant Early 
us on a Sunday afternoon walk. Three ; t seems ou t 0 f the very jaws of death. Canada flint corn in drills. I expect to 
big dogs attacked him and tore his ear As tbe n j gbt settled upon Hope Farm it mature grain from this variety planted as 
badly. Shep came home and scratched on brought the belief that we all had much late as June 20. We shall keep this crop 
Phillip’s door—something he had never to be thankful for, and that God had clean, and in August sow grass seed in 
done before. His ear hurt him, and like blesesd our little household beyond meas¬ 
ure ! 
All Sorts. —The weather has been on 
the whole a little too cool for the cow 
peas, yet they are growing fairly well. 
1 he Kaffir corn does not niake much of a calmity surely and every precaution 
showing yet. but it will .come .along in be taken tQ preven(; ^ We have 
humans who are hurt or sad he craved 
care and sympathy. You may be sure he 
got it. There is something of human 
nature among the cats too. Frisky was 
found in the barn with a litter of five 
kittens. The little girls begged for one 
each and the others disappeared. The 
the crop. . . . Thus far the water 
works in our house have given good satis¬ 
faction. Many people, when asked about 
such fixtures in the country, away from 
a regular water supply, say: “Just wait 
till the water runs dry!” That would be 
July. The Alfalfa was all ready to cut 
boys fixed a box with holes in it so that , June 12, and probably before this is 
the top could be closed and the kittens rea( j w ju be ; n th e barn. It is thick as 
with their mother where put on the back need be> and the best pf it near i y thr ee 
porch. 1 hen came Black and crawled into f eet b j gb . . t . Some readers want to 
the. box leaving three more kittens there. ^now wby j pu t stable manure around 
Frisky and Black are sisters and they peacb t rees . They have read somewhere 
beat any two human sisters I ever saw m fV»af T LT Malp hp would shoot a 
the care of these five children. Ihen, 
as is often the case, grandmother took 
a hand. Old Tabby, mother of both cats 
carried all the kittens away and hid them. 
I have known grandmothers before now 
to single out one child for special care. bau ]j ng manure into my orchard I would 
hut never before have 1 seen one take ^ f i, 0 w* rilnn^r TTonp 
that J. H Hale says he would shoot a 
man who was caught putting manure in 
his peach orchard. I don’t believe Hale 
ever made any such statement. Trace it 
down and it would be much like Merrill 
catching the rabbit. If I found a man 
a tank at the barn holding 1,300 gallons, 
and another at the house holding 300 
more. I figure our daily need at present 
at about 150 ~allons, which seems to make 
sure of about 10 days’ supply. Our water 
is lifted by wind power, and there are 
some still times in August and Septem¬ 
ber. Then leaky valves and other break¬ 
downs seem to come when the wind is 
still. While the water holds out the sys¬ 
tem is a great comfort. Let us not bor¬ 
row trouble about a dry tank until the 
time comes. h. w. c. 
an entire family as a rebuke to her easy¬ 
going daughters! The little girls hunted 
high and low until they found the kit¬ 
tens in a pile of boards back of the barn. 
Then there was great rejoicing. A few 
good cats around the barn are useful, 
but a swarm of house cats will raise 
scratches on a man’s philosophy! I have 
invite him in to the best dinner Hope 
Farm affords, and then put some potash 
with the manure just as soon as posible. 
I put manure around the tree for several 
reasons. We had the manure—well rotted 
and ready. There is certainly no sense in 
buying nitrogen if you have it on hand. 
We scraped up the manure piles and 
also dug some three inches of thg earth 
floor in the henhouse, and put ahout 15 
suggested that the girls select one cat 
from each new litter and at the same time p 0un( j s G f this trash around each young 
we dispose of two old ones, that would tree< We are taugbt to do this with every 
•m m time 0 p ler crop on the farm—why not with 
surely settle the cat question in time 
. . . The story of Merrill and the rab¬ 
bit makes me think of the way some 
folks build a foundation for a big story. 
As I have stated Merrill weighs close to 
225 pounds at 17 years. Fie has lost some 
peaches? They are growing on very poor 
soil, and the manure not only provides 
nitrogen, but gives a good mulch around 
the tree. If I had my choice I would pre¬ 
fer nitrate of soda, for when I put on a 
pounds in the potato and strawberry fields, p 0l]n d of that I know that I am giving the 
yet one would hardly pick him as a racer. ^ree ^ y 2 ounces of nitrogen, which it can 
Yet he ran down and captured a rabbit in - - 
the peach orchard! I am aware that the 
job of catching a rabbit is one which a 
greyhound might creditably shirk, yet I 
know Merrill did it for I saw it done! 
Why not enter him for the next Olympic 
games! Because the rabbit was about a 
week old. It ran perhaps a yard and then 
poor foolish and innocent thing waited for 
capture! You see the glory of such a 
chase depends upon the age of the rabbit 
and the way he makes use of his speed! 
I have known men to take a pinch of 
truth and make it seem like a ton of per¬ 
formance. I may do a sad injustice but 
hereafter when I hear some people tell 
of their wonderful doings I shall think of 
Merrill running down the eight-ounce 
rabbit. ... I have mentioned some 
eggs which came all the way from France. 
There were 60 aggs and we hatched 21 
good chicks of which 17 are Faverolles. 
Two dozen eggs were bought in the regu¬ 
lar Paris market simply because they 
were large and fine looking. No one 
use at once. I do not know how much 
we feed when we use stable manure. As 
soon as the trees are manured we give 
each one a pound of sulphate of potash 
scattered well around. I feel very sure 
that any bad result from using manure 
will be overcome by the potash. Such bad 
result would most likely be an excess of 
wood growth—making the fruit and the 
wood soft and tender. Potash will stop 
that. I might compare the effect of a 
heavy dose of nitrogen to the work of an 
eager young man who dashes through a 
large amount'of work, hut does most of 
it without much judgment. Potash is 
more like an experienced old man who 
will steady the young fellow and get him 
to put character into his work. It is 
more than that, because while few old men 
will take the job of handling a heady 
young fellow, nitrogen is obliged to work 
with potash. I shall not have manure 
enough to go over all the trees—I wish I 
had. Some strange stories are told ahout 
manure. I have had farmers tell me that 
knew what they were it was like buying b og manure will always cause club root 
eggs at random in an American market. 
Four of these eggs hatched and the chicks 
are a strange looking lot. One seems ex¬ 
actly like a Brown Leghorn. We are 
watching these Frenchers carefully—every 
honest character is welcome at Hope 
Farm. 
A Week’s Work. —Saturday, June 9, 
was a hot one. It was one of those stifling 
days when the very air seems to sweat. 
Merrill came down from the peach or- 
.chard where he had been putting potash 
around the trees, several pounds lighter. 
The boy rode old Jerry while I held the 
'Cultivator in the cornfield. Mother and 
on cabbage. You cannot argue with these 
farmers, because they knozti —though I 
have grown good cabbage on such manure. 
What they seem to have done is to use 
manure in which diseased cabbage had 
been thrown for the hogs to eat. This 
carried the disease to a cabbage crop—hut 
the poor hogs were not responsible. The 
vegetarians and some people who like 
ham curse a hog, but they are not respon¬ 
sible for club foot! ... I am asked 
what we think of the mulch method of 
growing trees. I haven’t said much about 
it lately. I did what I could to get people 
to give it a fair trial—now I will wait for 
.the little girls had gone to the church to results. This has been a good growing 
rehearse for Children’s Day. Philip ended year—with rain enough to keep the soil 
the week with the scythe, mowing around moist. Out of 500 young trees planted I 
the peach trees. When we all quit we do not find one that has failed to make 
could look back upon a lively and useful a good start. Not one has been plowed or 
week The potatoes had been hoed and cultivated yet. As fast as we can we are 
fertilized, the last of the rye stubble cutting the grass in a good sized circle 
around the trees, and this is all the culture 
most of them will receive. I may be 
driven to plow and cultivate the young 
peach trees in the few places where it 
would be possible, but the great majority 
of our trees will simply be mulched"— 
that is the grass and weeds cut and piled 
around the tree. With this treatment 
thus far the apple trees have made a very 
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and potash put around more tljan 1,000 
trees and many other small jobs attended 
to. It was a satisfaction to end a week 
in this way—that is, after the sweat was 
rubbed away. Just as we sat down to 
sunper a black cloud came rolling up from 
the north. It looked like a fierce one. 
I ran out and threw the windmill out of 
gear, while Philip closed the barn doors satisfactory growth at a low cost 
and Merrill shut the windows on the Why then cultivate the peaches? It 
north side of the house. We expected lit- seems to me a fact that the young peach 
tie less than a cyclone, but it swung off tree responds to cultivation as it will not 
to the east. On the ridge about a quar- to any other treatment. With the scale 
ter of a mile away the rain came pour- after us in such a deadly way we must 
ing down, while we had but a light sprin- force our trees into a quick growth with 
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