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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —Uncle Ed will hardly claim 
to be an angel of labor, but he looked like 
one to us when he appeared at the farm 
one Saturday. That lawn was still un¬ 
laundered, corn uncut, a dozen jobs wait¬ 
ing and Mother at the point of starting on 
a long and sad journey. T he last time I saw 
Uncle Ed he was looking down over the 
very edge of the grave, seemingly unable 
to rally. Yet here he was walking about 
as usual and you may be sure that we wel¬ 
comed him like a man from the silent 
land. We were glad to give him the place 
of honor—which just then was sowing the 
grass seed on that lawn. There was no 
competition for the job! On Monday we 
organized our work as best we could. 
With outside help Uncle Ed tackled the 
lawn, while Merrill and the boys began to 
cut corn. It was a hot, sweaty week end¬ 
ing with a deluge of rain on Saturday. 
As we looked out from the woodshed 
where we were cutting up the last of the 
dead pear trees we were able to figure 
out a good week’s work. J he lawn was 
all seeded except a small place back of 
the house. The grass was just breaking 
through. The water betrayed one dish 
that will give Mother a chance to talk 
when she gets back, but on the whole 
we call if a fair job. The corn was all 
cut, and we are ready for rye seeding. 
The driveways are not finished, but we can 
finish them by degrees. We are making a 
more elaborate job of these driveways than 
1 first intended. They were plowed out 
deep. Then we went to the stone walls 
and hauled load after load of stone, pack¬ 
ing it solidly at the bottom of the drive. 
They are to be covered several inches deep 
witli gravel, and the roadbed finished with 
crushed stone. 1 his costs considerable 
time and money, but it will pay to do a 
thorough job and have dry feet. . . . 
The little girls are very busy and im¬ 
portant just now in caring for a large 
family. They are on a doll committee at 
the church fair, and are collecting dolls of 
all shapes, sizes and colors. '1 hese are to 
be dressed, named and arranged for sale, 
and any woman who will skip, back into 
her doll days can realize the importance 
of our little folks at this time. ... I 
still hear now and then from people who 
dread the Winter, and are evidently pre¬ 
pared to make the cold and stormy months 
as gloomy as possible. 1 hey need a few 
happy children in the home. On this wet 
Saturday night, with the rain pouring out¬ 
side and the wind blowing, our folks have 
little cause for complaint. Uncle Ed lies 
on the lounge reading “The Manxman,” 
the children are laughing and shouting' 
over a game, while Aunt Jennie is sorting 
over clothes by the table. We have plenty 
of lamp light and good cheer. When 1 
tell Uncle Ed that he ought to throw aside 
hi s' novel and read “The Physics of Agri¬ 
culture” he stops to tell us about the tree 
agent who “worked” his part of blorida. 
He offered what he called a^ “tropical 
cherry.” This man put up at Uncle Ed’s 
house, and took orders for a good many 
trees at $2 each ! One morning the Sheriff 
of Putnam County appeared to arrest this 
man, for it seems that all he delivered as 
“tropical” fruit was the ordinary wild 
cherry. The tropical part of it seems to 
have been the language of those who 
watched the tree come to fruiting! Be¬ 
fore the sheriff took his prisoner away 
Uncle Ed wanted payment for board. The 
agent had nothing but a revolver, which 
he left as security. What became of that 
pistol will make material for another story. 
To me the fraud of this agent has a deeper 
significance. Some country people seem 
to sell themselves a gold brick when they 
try to secure happiness by aping the man¬ 
ners and habits of city people, lbey pay 
a big price for. their wild cherry. Far 
better be satisfied with the humble and 
simple joys of plain, earnest living. Be 
content with humble things and the sheriff 
of discontent will let you alone! 
A Worthy Trust. — The following 
proposition from Connecticut stumped me 
at first: 
This question came up in our Sunday 
school yesterday : When was the motto first 
put on our silver coins, dollars, halves and 
quarters, “In God we trust"? Not one in 
the school could answer. h. f. 
Some of these Sunday School discus¬ 
sions lead to serious consequences unless 
they are promptly settled. I could , tell 
some singular stories of what befell in a 
farm neighborhood where I once worked. 
Not knowing about this motto, I wrote 
the Secretary of the Treasury, and re¬ 
ceived this reply: 
In reply to your letter you are respect¬ 
fully informed that the motto “In God Wc 
Trust” was first placed upon the silver 
dollar, quarter dollar and half dollar, in the 
latter part of 1805. Respectfully, 
k. k. prbston. 
Acting Director of the Mint. 
I wish Mr. Preston had gone on to say 
why it was put on at that time and why 1 
it was not used before. I presume his 
business is to deal with facts and not with 
motives. This is a late expression of a 
sentiment which 1 believe lias always been 
in the minds of those who have directed 
the affairs of this Nation. The motto is 
well placed on money, for if a trust in God 
were ever necessary it would seem to oe 
doubly so in the disposition of our cash, 
which with most of us represents labor 
and self-denial. 
Seeding in Corn. —Here are good ques¬ 
tions from a Massachusetts man: 
I read so much of sowing clover, vetch, 
cow peas, rape, etc., in the corn at the last 
cultivation, but I cannot see how this can 
he done successfully, without wasting an 
immense percentage of the seed that falls 
on and lodges in the corn plant, and never 
reaches the ground, nor can I see how it 
is possible to do this fairly even, for at the 
last cultivation the corn nearly covers the 
ground. Will some one who does such sowing 
(especially clover) successfully, kindly take 
the trouble to describe minutely the process. 
—tell exactly how they do it, describe every 
motion made, every tool used and how, take 
nothing for granted, in fact imagine that 
they talk to a perfectly green ignoramus 
in such matters? reader. 
T don’t like to imagine any such thing. 
I have observed that some people willingly 
call themselves ignorant, yet it wouldn’t 
be wise for another to tell them they were 
right! This man is right in 'saying that 
there is a waste of seed when used in this 
way. The system is a makeshift at best, 
the* only advantage being that we gain time 
by getting the new crop started before the 
corn is off. In the case of Crimson clover 
we must sow the seed before the corn is 
cut, or we could not start it in time. On 
some of the larger farms l have known a 
boy to mount a horse and ride through the 
corn, working a broadcast seeder like the 
Cahoon. This scatters the seed pretty 
well over a strip five rows wide. A fair 
proportion of the seed sticks to the leaves 
or catches in the pockets, but enough rat¬ 
tles down to make a fair seeding. My own 
plan is to walk through the corn, scatter¬ 
ing the seed by hand, scattering it as even¬ 
ly as possible, one or tw'o rows at a time. 
Where the corn is drilled I take one row; 
when in hills two rows may be easily man¬ 
aged. With a little practice the seed is 
evenly scattered, but it is slow work. 
Crimson clover stools out well, and a thin 
seeding well covered often makes a fine 
stand. This seed is scattered on the un¬ 
broken ground. After seeding I follow 
with a light cultivator with small dia¬ 
mond-shaped teeth. This is really more 
of a harrow than a cultivator. When 
opened wide it just about works the entire 
width of the row, and covers the seed. 
We fasten a wire to the cultivator and 
hang it so that it dangles and drags be¬ 
hind a piece of plank or joist about the 
width of the row. This drags behind and 
smooths down after the cultivator, doing 
much the work of a roller. In hilled corn 
we go both ways with this outfit or go one 
way. and follow with a rake, scratching 
around and between the hills. In drilled 
corn we go once and then rake. This 
usually gives a fair seeding, though it is 
never equal to seeding an open field. How 
can it be with two crops where one ought 
to be? The thick corn will shade and kill 
some of the clover, and if the soil be dry 
one crop or the other will suffer and 
usually the corn gets the worst of it. 
H. w. C. 
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