me. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
835 
Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —It is a great satisfaction 
to me to know that every cultivated piece 
of land is seeded to rye or wheat. The 
cornfields are ready for Winter, and very 
few nitrates will get away from the grow¬ 
ing grain. I am sorry to see hillside fields 
left bare. The Fall rains will wash and 
gash them, and much plant food will be 
lost. One great •need of the soil in this 
country is vegetable matter. A crop ot 
small grain growing through Fall and 
Winter will provide it if it is not thought 
best to cut the young grain for hay. That 
is what I expect to do. . . . In put¬ 
ting in the last of the grain we made ex¬ 
cellent use of the Cutaway plow. This 
is called a harrow, but with the large 
disks it does great work in tearing up the 
soil. Like some men, it needs weighty 
things to hold it up (or down) to its 
duty, and so we put Merrill on the seat. 
That gave the plow no chance to rise up 
and protest, so the disks dug in and tum¬ 
bled the soil over. It is hard work for a 
light team, but by using good judgment 
we can grow two or three crops each sea¬ 
son on the same piece of land with one 
use of the turning plow. . . . What 
is the advantage of doing this? It seems 
to me a better plan the more I study it to 
crowd our bulky crops as hard as we can 
and put them close to the barn. In that 
way we can get the manure out quickly, 
have short hauls for the forage, and crops 
close to the buildings are more likely to 
be well cared for. ... We have be¬ 
gun to fatten the pigs. We put them in 
pairs in small, clean pens where they can 
get to the ground and have a warm shel¬ 
ter, and give them about all they can eat. 
They have weeds and cabbage for green 
food, and the soft ears of corn on the 
cob. A slop of equal parts of middlings 
and wheat bran is provided, and the pigs 
should have all the wood ashes they want. 
These pigs have made good frames run¬ 
ning in pasture through the Summer. 
Now we expect to fill out the frame with 
a good picture of pork. Four good shotes 
are left for later feeding. We have them 
in the barnyard, where the manure is 
thrown out. As we are feeding some 
corn on the ear I like to have hogs work 
over the manure—and they do it well. 
The objection to this is that where ma¬ 
nure is kept tossed up loose too much air 
works in and some nitrogen is lost. This 
manure will be hauled out this Fall on 
the strawberries or young grain, so that 
will not count for so much. ... It 
is time to think of the strawberries and 
young trees for Winter. We have no 
straw for mulching this year. We save 
all the vines of beans, tomatoes and egg 
plant, and some corn fodder. At or just 
before the first hard freeze these vines 
will be scattered over the strawberries 
and then covered with a good coat of ma¬ 
nure. The plants are less likely to smoth¬ 
er if the vines or stalks are put under the 
manure. A cover of some sort is neces¬ 
sary with us, and I expect to put it on 
earlier than ever before this year. Our 
crop never looked better and we never 
had a larger area. Where we seed¬ 
ed that lawn we have a fine stand of grass. 
Clark, the grass man, has acres just like 
it, and *he had to work harder for some 
of it than we did for this lawn. It amuses 
me to hear the way some people talk about 
farming. They will take the figures of 
such men as G. M. Clark, D. L. Hartman, 
T. M. White and other experts, and apply 
them the wrong way. They seem to think 
that with very ordinary care and skill and 
some easy-going manner of working, they 
can get these extraordinary returns. They 
can’t do it. Compare the labor and time 
spent in preparing an acre of ground for 
ordinary grass seeding and an acre fitted 
as we did our lawn ? That is the only 
fair way to look at it, and the same thing 
will be true of the chicken business, fruit 
growing or any other line of work. To 
get extraordinary returns some one must 
do extraordinary labor. 
Circular Letters. —The mails are full 
of letters or circulars which are appar¬ 
ently sent at random. Some man with a 
certain article to sell gets hold of your 
name and he proceeds to bombard you 
with offers. Once in a great while some¬ 
thing is offered that appeals to you, but 
as a rule we pay no attention to them. A 
concern in Florida got my name in some 
way, and has been trying to sell me some 
cigars. I need tobacco just about as much 
as I need another attack of the shingles, 
but these gentlemen keep at me with great 
cheerfulness. I think I will print their 
last letter and my reply. Here they are: 
The Letter. —Did you ever figure out how 
much you spend for cigars in the course of 
a year? 
Let’s figure a little: We’ll suppose that, 
on a low average, you smoke or give away 
five 10-cent cigars a day. That’s $15 a 
month, or $180 a year. 
Now if you buy our cigars at 5% cents— 
which are guaranteed to equal the best sold 
by your retailer at 10 cents straight—you 
save 45 per cent., or $81 a year. 
Isn’t that amount worth saving? Our 
cigars are made of the best grade of Havana 
tobacco, which we import direct by steamer 
from Havana to this city. They are hand¬ 
made by Cubans who learned their trade in 
Havana. 
We don't want any money in ad¬ 
vance, and will not expect any until we have 
earned it to your entire satisfaction. 
Fill out the enclosed order blank for one 
hundred cigars and mail it to us. We will 
immediately send them to you and prepay the 
express. Smoke ten of them and then within 
ten days send us your check for $5.50, or 
return the remaining ninety at our expense, 
without any cost to you whatever. 
Tiie Reply. —You ask if I have ever 
figured out how much I spend for cigars in 
the course of a year. I have, and it only 
requires one figure; a zero. I have not 
smoked a cigar for 25 years, and if I live 
25 years longer I shall be able to then tell 
you that I haven’t smoked one in 50 years. 
‘•Let's figure a little,” you say. That is 
right, there is nothing like figures, although 
sometimes, I am told, they lie. We will sup¬ 
pose, you say. that on an average, I smoke 
five 10-cent cigars a day. Yon then go on 
to confront me with the fact that this will 
mean $180 a year. I accept your figures: 
they do not lie, in fa„t I cannot make them 
tell any other story. But now I want to 
ask you a few questions. If I go and spend 
$180 for cigars, how in the world am I 
going to buy shoes for my children, and 
how am I going to buy food to keep them 
going? I don’t want these little things to 
go up to January barefooted. They might 
possibly do that down in your country, but 
up where I live we have snow and cold from 
this time on. Now, I will ask you as man 
to man. if you don’t think it would be better 
for me to take the $180 and keep my chil¬ 
dren well shod and well fed and give their 
mother an occasional new dress or so? As 
I have answered your questions frankly, 
suppose you turn in now and answer mine. 
You say if I buy my cigars at 5% cents 
instead of 10 cents, I will save 45 per cent., 
or $81 a year. You want to know if that 
amount isn’t worth saving. Again after 
going over your figures, I must say that they 
are correct, but the trouble is that if I 
bought those cigars at 5% cents, according 
to my figuring, instead of saving $81 a year. 
I should lose $99, because as my cigar bill 
now is zero, if I send you $99 for cigars I 
lose that amount. Now, am I right or wrong 
in my figuring? Mind you, I haven’t the 
least doubt but that your clear Havana 
cigars are all that you claim for them : that 
they are hand-made by Cubans, who learned 
their trade in Havana. You also say that 
you don’t want any of my money in advance, 
which is very kind of you under the circum¬ 
stances, as I have explained them. You asft 
me to fill out order blank for 100 cigars 
and mail it to you. Then you want me to 
smoke 10 of them and within 10 days send 
you my check for $5.50. All this is very 
simple, but the chances are that if I smoked 
10 of your cigars I would not be in any con¬ 
dition to send you my check for any money 
at all, judging from the last time I tasted 
tobacco, which was over 40 years ago, when 
my grandfather sent me out to buy some 
black plug at the store. On my way home 
I bit one piece off that tobacco and swallowed 
it. You will never catch me tasting another 
piece of tobacco, even if you offered to send 
me 100 of your cigars free of cost. Mind 
you, I am not trying to compare your clear 
Havana cigars with my grandfather’s black 
plug, but I don’t care to sample them so 
long as the memory of tha 1 taste lasts. But 
one proposition deserves another. I will buy 
100 of your cigars and pay for them. I 
might even promise to sample one of them, 
although that would be a serious thing for 
me to do. If I did this, however. I would 
make the proposition that you send me your 
check for $50, which I will hand over to 
some of our various institutions here that 
are filled with cigarette and tobacco fiends. 
Up in this country we are taxed heavily to 
support these institutions, which are, as I 
have been told, largely filled with victims of 
the tobacco habit. If I am going to buy your 
cigars and pay my good money for them, it 
is a perfectly fair proposition for you to 
help us pay our tax to provide for these poor 
things that are ruined by tobacco. I think 
that is a perfectly fair proposition, and as 
Ex-President Harrison would say, “I leave 
the thought with you.” h. w. c. 
JR 
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