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TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —Corn husking was inter¬ 
rupted by the hard storm of October 19. 
Our crop thus far seems the best we have 
ever had. I have spoken of a small field 
at the lower part of the farm which was 
drained last Fall. It had been a nuisance 
—soft, boggy and sour—lying so that it 
received much of the drainage from the 
hills, and with several hidden springs. 1 
do not think we got $20 worth of grass 
from it in five years. Last Fall this field 
was ditched and stone-drained. It was 
then plowed and left through the Winter. 
The Spring and early Summer was wet, 
and we found that several places would 
not dry out well. As soon as we could 
get on the field it was harrowed with the 
Acme and Learning corn planted late in 
May. The corn made a poor start, and 
the wet weather kept it back, as it was 
difficult to cultivate this soil properly. 
We used no manure or fertilizer of any 
kind, as I wanted to see what the soil was 
good for. We have finished husking and 
have taken 135 bushels of corn and nearly 
three loads of good stalks from the field. 
That is worth over $110 as prices go in 
our country. The only cash outlay was $2 
for seed. With the exception of about 
one day of my labor in planting and hoe¬ 
ing, and help from Philip in husking, the 
work was all done by the boys. 1 never 
before realized so thoroughly the value 
of drainage for a wet soil. Now the field 
will be seeded to rye. If all goes well we 
shall cut two tons of good rye hay in May, 
and then follow with a larger corn crop 
than this year r since we shall use lime 
on the rye and fertilizer on the corn. 
. . . The chestnut crop is heavy this 
year, but I never saw the nuts hang to 
the trees as they do this year. Our boys 
were tired of waiting, but the big storm 
brought them down with a rush. We 
make no effort to sell nuts—with eight 
good sets of teeth on the farm and others 
not so good the chestnut crop is pretty 
well cornered at home. . . . We 
planted pansies as Mr. Hartman advised, 
and have a good stand. The plants now 
look well. I am told by an importer that 
some one ought to make some money 
growing pansy seed. This man says that 
most of the seed used here comes from 
France and California, the latter being un¬ 
suited to our latitude..- Our children ask 
why they cannot take several well-known 
sorts and make a small business of grow¬ 
ing seed. I don’t know about it, but I am 
willing to start them at it on a small scale. 
. . . We are having trouble'with wash¬ 
ing on our hillside; where the road goes 
up the water has come down, making a 
bad gulley. The last storm did so much 
damage that we were forced to get into 
action. We threw a deep furrow diag¬ 
onally along the hill above the starting of 
this gulley, throwing the earth up into 
a small bank. This will turn most of the 
water to one side, and send it over the 
grass. Then the gulley was filled with 
small stones, topped off with sods and 
brush, and old cedars piled at the top. 
This will hold the water back until a new 
sod forms. Of course we must make a 
new road. 
Hog Questions. —A Pennsylvania man 
wants to know about the hog business: 
Will it pay to raise pigs to sell alive in 
wholesale market, provided one has a place 
large enough to raise feed? I am speaking 
now of a farm in Montgomery or Bucks 
County, Penn., say about 40 or 45 miles from 
Philadelphia. H. F. M. 
From my experience I doubt it unless 
you can handle large numbers of pigs. I 
think the South and West can beat us at 
the wholesale trade. The best chance for 
an eastern farmer is to butcher on the 
farm and sell to a retail trade, or sell the 
young pigs. There is quite a business in 
this. Many farmers want two or three 
pigs to fatten, and find it cheaper to buy 
than to keep breeding stock of their own. 
In most towns of fair size there is a good 
market for cuts from a small carcass of 
pork. To do such business economically 
a farmer must have good pasture for the 
pigs, and use as little grain as possible. 
. . . A good friend takes issue with me 
because I let the pigs root. He says no 
self-respecting pig will root, if you give 
him what he roots for. My Cheshires 
look as if they respected themselves, and 
I am very glad they root. What in the 
world was a hog’s snout made for? Of 
course I would not put them into a good 
meadow where we wanted to cut hay, but 
for cleaning up an old sod-bound orchard 
or gleaning a grain stubble that is to be 
plowed for a second crop, or for working 
a cornfield before grain seeding there is 
nothing like a good hog. Some people 
take all the ambition out of a hog by keep¬ 
ing him in a small pen and stuffing him 
with fat. That’s the sort of hog that has 
“no respect for himself!” No, there is a 
good place for the rooting hog on our 
farm. Not in an orchard where young 
trees are mulched, for the first thing the 
bogs do is to get under that mulch for in¬ 
sects. You people who are troubled with 
white grubs, put a drove of hogs on the 
field for a few weeks ! 
Lawing with Boys. —A New England 
reader wants a lawyer’s advice: 
I have a six-foot wire line fence. The 
bovs climb over it and are fast destroying it. 
Can you tell me what is the best course to 
take to prevent it? w. b. n. 
A lawyer informs me that the law does 
not recognize boys until they are 10 years 
old or more. Then they may be treated 
as '‘disorderlies.” You will find lawing 
with boys very unsatisfactory. It is bad 
for the boys, and will make trouble with 
their parents. Run a boy through the 
machinery of lawyers and courts and you 
come close to spoiling him, for he cannot 
understand property rights until he gets 
older. Why can’t you get the boys to¬ 
gether and talk with them ? Most boys 
are reasonable if you go at them right. 
If moral suasion is not in your line (and 
I know it does not come easy to some) 
you can put barbed wire or "teasers” on 
the fence. A “teaser” is a piece of metal 
or wood with sharp spikes in the top. 
They are used in the city at the top of 
back yard fences to keep fence-climbers 
and cats at a distance. When all the yards 
are supplied with these teasers cats go 
elsewhere. I fear such a defence would 
make the boys worse. I should go straight 
to the boys or their parents and talk it 
over without threats. 
Feeding Colt and Clover. —An Ohio 
man asks these questions: 
I would like to have the Hope Farm man 
tell me how much to feed of the following 
to an 18 months colt, Timothy hay, oats 
and oil meal. Whaf I want is a balanced 
ration. How much acid phosphate and muri¬ 
ate of potash should i sow to the acre on my 
onion patch, which I intend to sow to clover 
next March? The ground is fairly rich, but 
I wish to make the clover boom. F. a. c. 
For my own colt I reason that oats and 
wheat bran make the best grain. Oats 
give the spirit and growth. Wheat bran 
is excellent for growing stock, because it 
contains a large proportion of bone-form¬ 
ing food. I do not feed much oil meal. 
It does not seem to be needed when we 
feed bran. I should give a tablespoonful 
a day if I thought it necessary, or just 
enough to keep the system in good condi¬ 
tion. 1 feed about all the good hay the 
colt will clean up. A balanced fertilizer 
ration is three parts of acid phosphate to 
one of muriate. I should use 600 pounds 
per acre of this mixture on the onion 
ground. 
Spoiling Children. —I rather expected 
to get a gentle “call down” like the fol¬ 
lowing : 
I trust that the Hope Farm* mail will not 
give the new baby the idea that singing and 
rocking are necessary before he will consent 
to go to sleep. The establishment of such 
a habit means a lot of unnecessary work for 
Mother, who must have plenty ‘ to do al¬ 
ready. Rocking the babv cannot be defended 
upon any ground. 1 think those four small 
children who needed three grown-ups to get 
them,.to sleep were badly spoiled or very un¬ 
wisely cared for. . m. t. 
I expected it, because when I undertook 
to practice the art which gave me high 
standing as a hired man I quickly heard: 
“Don’t you walk that baby!” 
You see Mother has no idea of falling 
heir to a habit which makes labor neces¬ 
sary. I begin to see how it is that grand¬ 
mothers are accused of spoiling children. 
I once worked for a farmer who was such 
a handy man with the baby that he called 
himself “a he dry nurse,”—and he prac¬ 
ticed his calling to the injury of his corn 
crop. To tell the truth, I am acting in 
this capacity as I write. Mother and the 
girls are away. They put the baby asleep 
and left me full directions. Now he is 
awake and makes the fact known. I 
won’t walk him, but I can put him in his 
carriage, tie a string to it and send him 
on a long and pleasant journey by push¬ 
ing the carriage with my foot and pull¬ 
ing it back by a string. Some people go 
so far as to say that this rocking and 
walking spoils the character of the child. 
That seems to me absurd when we realize 
that our ancestors were all rocked in 
cradles and carried about. It is hardly 
consistent to praise the character of the 
old folks and then condemn the way tbev 
were nursed. I imagine there are good 
people in this world who refuse to rock 
or carry the child because they don’t like 
the job. The reason they give, however, 
is that it makes the child self-reliant. 
Then later on they won’t hold the child 
up to its duty—for the same reason—be¬ 
cause they don’t like the job. Then when 
the child gets “smart” and spoiled, the 
most convenient excuse is to say that “it 
came” from father or mother—depending 
upon which side of the house is talking. 
As a baby is one of the most important 
things in the home we certainly ought to 
spend as much time discussing its care 
as we would that of a pig or calf. For 
my part I have no use for a spoiled child. 
He carries a badge of dishonor bearing 
the name of those who* brought him up. 
If one of my children showed signs of 
the disease as I see it every day, I do not 
hesitate to say publicly that I would take 
a shingle to the smart one at once. 
H. w. c. 
T HE secret of rubber 
boot making is in 
the quality of rub¬ 
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boots are made of old re¬ 
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at random by junk dealers. 
Such boots have no elastic 
properties, little strength, 
and crack after a few 
weeks wear. 
Take a Buffalo Brand 
rubber boot and you can 
stretch, twist and bend it 
in any direction. It proves 
that there must be a good 
lot of new pure Para rub¬ 
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Besides being made of 
stronger, better rubber, the 
canvas is made lighter and 
the rubber thicker. They 
stretch where the strain 
comes, hence wear longer 
and don’t crack. So that 
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