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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. — The first snowstorm 
whirled upon us November 15. We did 
not expect it, though the morning was 
gray and dismal. We were spraying in 
the back orchard, and Philip and Merrill 
mixed a tankful of oil and water and 
started up the hill as the first flakes began 
to form. They kept on, for a few snow¬ 
flakes will not interfere, but by the time 
they got the spray started a perfect bliz¬ 
zard was upon them. No use attempting 
to spray in such a wind, so they came 
back. That tank of liquid would be use¬ 
ful in the henhouse, only we have learned 
that a stronger mixture is needed for hen 
lice. The storm kept up all day, leaving 
nearly four inches on the ground. Then 
came a sharp freeze, until we thought 
Winter was upon us. Then, just as quick, 
the warm weather came and left us a bed 
of mud. . . . We are putting the oil 
and water on all the trees except a few 
which are so bad that it seems better to 
cut them down and burn. My plan is to 
go over everything this Fall and again in 
early Spring. In this way we hope to 
keep the scale down. In spite of all that 
has been said about spraying, it is not the 
easy job that some would have us believe. 
Probably the most common mistake is to 
neglect the trees which show little or no 
scale. There are several parts of my 
own orchard where the scale is very bad. 
I know the trees. In other parts it is 
hard to find a single insect. Wheji we 
know a tree is plastered we are pretty 
sure to do one of two things—cut it down 
or soak it well with spray mixture. When 
we cannot easily find the scales it is 
human nature to think the tree does not 
need much attention. Right there is where 
we are likely to make our mistake. Soak¬ 
ing the bad trees will be likely to fix 
them, while neglecting the others will give 
the scale a chance to breed and spread. 
. . . The farmers’ institute at our 
place was voted a success. The local 
Grange took a hand and helped out. 
Wherever you find a live Grange you are 
sure to have a good institute. The 
Grange brings people together, gives them 
something to unite on, and also gives men 
and women confidence to get up and talk 
or ask questions. Our family turned up 
eight strong at the evening session to 
listen to lectures on the farm boy and 
his care. Our boys considered the advice 
they heard very fine, and were greatly in¬ 
spired until it was discovered next morn¬ 
ing that they were so much interested in 
the theory of the farm boy that they for¬ 
got lo bring in their wood and do other 
chores! There always was a wide dif¬ 
ference between theory and practice! 
. . . Julius is in the navy. The gun¬ 
boat on which he serves came back from 
long service near Cuba and Playti, and 
all hands got a furlough. 'Julius spent it 
on the farm, chopping wood and doing 
other work. He found a great pile of 
trash back of the house—the refuse of old 
fences and buildings. It is the part of a 
good seaman to bring order out of chaos, 
so Julius waved, his ax over that heap, 
and now it is an orderly pile of kitchen 
wood. Julius tells us many things about 
life in the navy. I do no.t care to enlist. 
Our small boys were rather disappointed 
that Julius had no hair-raising stories of 
bloody adventure to relate. They seemed 
to have a mental picture of a man who 
smoked a long pipe, carried a cutlass at 
his side and went about hitching up his 
trousers and telling the number of men 
he had killed. Julius doesn’t smoke, his 
trousers stay without hitching, he uses an 
ax with greater effect than a sword, and 
he has no desire to appear as a naval hero. 
As near as I can make out his most thrill¬ 
ing adventure was going in swimming at 
the South and having a big turtle bob up 
near him. Julius admitted that it was a 
question as to which had the greater scare 
—he or the turtle. As for me, I would 
rather have such men “behind the guns” 
than a set of blowhards and swaggerers. 
Stock Notes. —Dick, the son of Daisy, 
is a vigorous specimen of calfhood. At 
first I thought I would raise him, get his 
mate somewhere and try to develop a good 
yoke of steers. We could use them with 
good effect on our stony hills, but Dick 
is too small. What he lacks in size he 
makes up in energy. His days are few, 
and the butcher has an eye on him, but 
that casts no shadow upon Dick’s life. We 
started feeding him on a calf feeder until 
he bunted and pulled it apart. With a 
small quantity of new milk and well-boiled 
oatmeal gruel in skim-milk Dick promises 
to make a fine cut of veal in a few days. 
There may be living creatures of a like 
age that have less common sense than a 
calf, but I have never seen them. . . . 
The pigs are too happy even to grunt. 
We have them penned two together, 
feasting on soaked corn and bran and 
middlings slop, with enough cabbage to 
keep them in good condition. After run¬ 
ning at pasture all Summer they came to 
the pen long and lean. The packing of 
the fat around those healthy muscles is 
pleasant for the hog and not bad for the 
pocketbook. A new trade has developed 
this year. Private families want to buy 
half or an entire carcass of a pig dressing 
about 125 pounds. We have just the ani¬ 
mals for them, and the way our pigs are 
grown I am sure there is more profit at 
this weight than for a 200-pound hog. 
“Running.” —Several people ask how I 
came out in my run for Congress. As 
usual, I was not elected. I find that one 
must poll at least two per cent of the 
total vote in order to be an “also ran.” It 
is doubtful if I come in that class. I was 
not defrauded or “stuffed out” or bull¬ 
dozed—the fact is people didn’t vote for 
me, and I remain at home. One faithful 
friend who wants to convert me to vege¬ 
tarianism sends me an account of Rev. Dr. 
Clubb, who is 79 years old and yet active 
and strong, so that he walks 10 miles a 
day. This friend says: 
You, like Dr. Clubb, are not “built for run¬ 
ning,” but If you practice persistently and 
everlastingly you may, and I sincerely hope 
will, reach legislative halls, and help enact 
laws that will prohibit the use of alcoholic 
beverages. 
To my mind it doesn’t seem to be so 
much my “build” as the build of those 
who do the voting. I am getting good 
practice at least. I wouldn’t mind seeing 
what I could do to stir things up in “leg¬ 
islative halls,” although far abler men 
than I am have been lost to sight and 
memory when they once got on the “in¬ 
side.” 
Doll Sales. —We get all sorts of ques¬ 
tions—one no doubt as interesting and 
valuable as another. Here is one from 
Connecticut: 
I always read Hope Farm Notes with a 
great deal of interest, and in a late issue 
you mentioned the girls being interested in 
a “doll show.” I too am interested in the 
same thing for our Christmas sale, and I 
want to get some hints. Will you tell me 
just what they did? I wish particularly to 
know how they arrange them for display. 
MRS. E. G. M. 
The little girls first wrote to all their 
friends, telling about the sale and asking 
for contributions. I am afraid they made 
life a burden to some, but they succeeded 
in getting a good many dolls. Some were 
dressed and some were not, but the girls 
made dresses for a good many, so that 
practically all were sold with clothes of 
some sort. They used mostly white or 
strong colors, so as to make a bright dis¬ 
play. They were sold in a booth with a 
frame in front, so that the dolls could 
be hung around it, with the colors well 
'contrasted. Several of the popular “Teddy 
bears” were grouped on the table and 
these found ready sale. Our girls made 
no great effort at display except to ar¬ 
range the colors. If one had a supply of 
dolls’ furniture it would be possible to ar¬ 
range a furnished room and group the 
dolls in it. About all our girls did was 
to get the dolls ready, agree upon prices, 
marking each one, and then arrange them 
as best they could. Really this doll busi¬ 
ness is out of my line, while the girls are 
not yet strong on description. 
Killing Potato Bugs. —A number of 
years ago I was working in a lumber camp 
in northern Michigan. When I went to 
town I stopped at a boarding house. There 
I met a young man who was interested in 
the landlord’s interesting daitghter. It 
was my pleasant duty to entertain the old 
folks while this young man made himself 
agreeable to the young woman. I had 
forgotten all about this pleasant and use¬ 
ful service until I heard from the success¬ 
ful suitor. He had invented a machine 
for killing Potato bugs without poison. 
This machine works somewhat like a cul¬ 
tivator, with arms that shake the vines to 
the center of the row, throwing most of 
the bugs into a hopper, where they are 
crushed between rollers. A manufacturer 
is now considering this machine and asks 
me what I think about it. Among other 
things he says: 
In regard to the machine, will say that 
the inventor not only has the Potato-bug 
killer, but has a cultivator attachment, and 
also a sprayer for taking care of the blight. 
In other words, the machine sprays the vine 
for blight, removes 90 per cent of the 
bugs, and kills them, catches the bug juice 
and cultivates tht ground. 'Hie juice of the 
bug. he informs us is valuable for a certain 
work in connection with poisons. 
Such a machine will have to sell for $50. 
Would it pay a manufacturer to take the 
risk? I suppose we have a dozen such 
problems every year. They indicate some 
of the arguments that arise between in¬ 
ventors and manufacturers, and it is hard 
to give a decided answer. I should not 
pay much attention to the value of that 
bug juice, though I have been told that it 
is useful for dyeing cloth. We often hear 
from readers who are sure that Paris- 
green or other forms of arsenic injure 
potato vines. This machine might do good 
work on straight, upright growing varie¬ 
ties like Carman or Rural No. 2, but when 
the vines are down I don’t see how it 
could get the bugs. To cultivate, bug and 
spray at one operation; but on our small 
fields I doubt if such a machine would 
pay. What is your opinion? H. w. C. 
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