1906 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
763 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts.— i held him as well as 1 
could, but in spite of all 1 could do he 
hit me two good blows on the nose and 
one in the eye! Now there will be a gen¬ 
eral desire to know who the Hope Farm 
man has been fighting with, and what the 
boys were doing all' this time. The fellow 
who got in these blows under my guard 
is not quite one year old—the baby—with 
curly hair at that. 
Now, whose baby is this? 
Aunt Jennie’s. I spoke recently of a 
sad journey which Mother had taken to 
the South. Aunt Jennie was taken sick, 
and it seemed best all around to send the 
baby back to Hope Farm. We learned 
when Mother would be back and the lit¬ 
tle girls and I went to meet her. Her 
train was late, and various other trains 
came booming in discharging their human 
freight. We watched them all. People 
became interested and wanted to know 
who we were after. For general infor¬ 
mation we specified “a woman and a 
baby” without going into particulars. I 
never before realized that women and 
babies comprise such a large proportion of 
the traveling public. All sorts, colors and 
shapes were pointed out to us, but we 
were quite content to let them all go until 
our own pair appeared. 
So the baby is here, free to thump and 
pound without any return. Barley gruel 
and milk is a balanced ration for him, and 
he is fully prepared to balance it. The 
ability to win the confidence of a little 
child and keep patient with him when a 
howl is the only true vehicle for express¬ 
ing his feelings is not a bad test for char¬ 
acter. I have known men who will take 
the child before company when the little 
one is sweet and clean and amiable, and 
win a great reputation as a family man. 
Let the little one cry in the night and per¬ 
sist in howling and you see a very differ¬ 
ent side of human nature—which the pub¬ 
lic ought to see. You break the nap of 
one of these gentlemen and all the nap of 
their social garment is rubbed the wrong 
way! 
1 was hired man on a farm once where 
there were several little children. Some 
nights they would all get restless and un¬ 
easy, so they would not go to sleep. Many 
a night the farmer’s wife would rock one 
or more of them while the farmer and I 
attended to two more. He would take 
one and I another, and we walked up and 
down the kitchen singing duets—such as 
“Leaf by Leaf, the Roses Fall,” "Lar¬ 
board Watch Ahoy!” “Let Me Like a 
Soldier Fall,” and other old-timers. That 
farmer still takes The R. N.-Y., and he 
will recall these concerts with his hired 
man. A critic might say it wasn’t music, 
but it put the children asleep, which is 
more than some of your experts could do. 
Our baby gives me a chance to try these 
old songs on a new generation. Oh, it’s 
a great thing to have a baby in the house. 
God help the home in which there are no 
children or memories of them. And it 
isn’t so bad for the baby. He doesn’t 
worry about rent or other expenses; lie 
has food that suits him, shelter to his 
taste, clothes that make him proud, the 
most flattering attention, strong friend¬ 
ships and his own choice of pleasures. I 
would like to know what king of rnen has 
more than this? Yet the trouble is man’s 
hunt for the impossible gets keener as he 
grows up! . . . I wish you could see 
the way those Cheshires have torn up 
that orchard! They have ripped and dug 
until the soil looks as if it had been 
worked three times with a Cutaway. The 
pigs eat the cow peas, but do not care so 
much for the second growth Kaffir corn. 
Why do they root so? I find that the or¬ 
chard was alive with white grubs and 1 
think the pigs are after these insects. They 
work and dig, and keep as plump as foot¬ 
balls. I expect to haul the fodder off the 
cornfield and give the pigs a chance at 
that before we seed to rye. No use talk¬ 
ing, a hog’s snout is his best foot. . . . 
Now we get some of our pay for doing 
so much cultivating in the corn. 'I he 
field was very clean and mellow, so that 
twice working with the spring-tooth gave 
a good fitting for rye or wheat. The dif- 
. ference in this field and where we gave 
less cultivation is very evident. . . . 
We did our first spraying for the scale on 
September 29. A ' few trees were very 
bad, and we put on the soluble oil earlier 
than we otherwise would have done. It 
does not appear to hurt the foliage, while 
it seems to get most of the scale. 
Harvesting Sorghum.— The following 
question from a Jerseyman has no doubt 
occurred to others: 
T liave about one acre of sorghum, which 
I planted for fodder, as I haven't stock 
enough to use it green. Can I shock it and 
then' cut. it in four-inch lengths, and put in 
a mow? I have been told that it contained 
so much, sap it would not keep in a haymow. 
I saw it recommended in the paper last 
Spring, and find it very good green feed for 
hogs and cows. When is the right time to 
cut it for Winter use? b. h. s. 
From my own experience I would not 
try shocking and cutting into four-inch 
lengths. This might do with corn fodder, 
but wit!’, us sorghum does not cure as 
well. There seems to be too much sugar 
in it. While excellent for green forage 
or pasture, in our moist climate it does not 
make good fodder. I would cut it at once 
and tie in small bundles. Set them up 
against a frame so that the air can circu¬ 
late around them and begin to feed at 
once. I would feed the sorghum first, of 
all, before the corn fodder and hay, and 
gee rid of it early. I have heard others 
tell of success in curing it, but it has baf 
Bed me. 
Rare Birds. —Among other questions 
received recently is the folio,,ing from 
Rhode Island: 
Will vou please tell me. if you can, what 
were the varieties of birils that were to be 
liberated in Central Park. New York, brought 
in the steamship T^aguno March 22, 1901). 
35,000 were to have been liberated. If you 
mentioned it in the paper I did not see it. 
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I never heard of this, and_ went to the 
Park Superintendent about it. He says 
that no such birds were set free. That 
must have, been a joke in one of the 
papers. It is doubtful if the authorities 
would have the right to set such a large 
flock at liberty. The birds might prove 
as serious a pest as the English sparrow. 
Man’s Work. — I have received the fol¬ 
lowing poem: 
There would be less cause for grumblin’, 
If the men did what they could, 
P,ringin’ in the water 
And choppin’ kindlin' wood. 
Their wives wouldn’t need to worry 
O’er trouble that ain't bit ’em yit. 
If the men would do less talkin’ 
And just git up and git. N. H. T. 
For aught I know this may be a hit at 
me. I am ashamed to say that on one 
occasion I went off to a convention and 
made a speech while the women folks at 
home had to get wood. I agree with our 
poet that many of us would do better, to 
keep silent until we really did something 
worth talking about—and then let others 
do the talking. As for worrying about 
things “that ain’t hit ’em yet,” that very 
thing has done more to make trouble and 
spoil character than most things I know 
of. It is a dreadful thing to suffer from 
mental depression. There are those who 
are never depressed, but always hopeful 
and sanguine. They get great reputations 
for bravery sometimes which I think are 
quite undeserved. The hopeless, hesitat¬ 
ing one who sees a dozen lions on every ! 
corner ahead of him, and yet forces him¬ 
self up to the fight, shows the truest cour¬ 
age, and yet is generally known as a cow¬ 
ard If the poet is right in his estimate 
of the result of man’s doing his plain duty, 
let’s all become hewers of wood and draw¬ 
ers of water at once. I have read another 
poem in which the author said that “the 
brightest crown of eternal life” would if 
properly awarded go to “the overworked 
farmer’s wife.” It seems to me as if some 
men were determined to brighten the 
crown. It will be more comfortable if the 
wife’s throne is made a little softer here. 
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