1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
575 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —We had our first mess of 
Excelsior strawberries this year on June 
14. On July 15 we were still eating Gandy cent sweat; but it can’t be done on our 
berries, though it cannot be said that they soil! . . . The mulch question brings 
were at their best. For thirty days there- out many answers. Several write me 
fore we consumed at home at least eight that Japanese millet is excellent. A 
quarts of berries each day. We could have Texas man asks the following question 
gone on for five days more, but on July about sawdust: 
14 the first of the black raspberries were I have on my place about 100 tons of old 
cent sweat, 40 per cent finger work, 10 flying from one section to another is 
per cent horse work and 10 per cent P rett y much of a ctcatn. 
fertilizer. Our boys would like to change Rye Hay. —A Michigan reader seems to 
this to 80 per cent horse work, 15 per cent be a little afraid of rye hay: 
fertilizer, 3 per cent hand work and 2 per 
We did not got our rye cut until most of 
each head was through blooming, and the 
other part of the head in bloom. It is all 
cured now, looks yellowish, but was per¬ 
fectly green when cut. I want to know 
the best way to feed it to cows and 
horses. I have just made about 3% tons 
of clover hay and how would it be to mix 
it? Most of 'the farmers here do not think 
much of rye hay. The rye was cut June 19. 
Michigan. R - 
I cannot say that rye hay is popular 
with live stock. It is tough and hard— 
the poorest of all the grains. We feed 
our rye that way because hay is worth 
nearly or quite $25 per ton, and thus the 
rye hay brings more than the straw and 
grain. Our stock eat this rye because they 
My experience with sawdust for this have no other fodder. The way to get 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
DEDERICKS 
BALING 
PRESSES 
sawdust. I am starting a fruit farm largely 
strawberries. The soil is a sandy loam, 
underlaid with a red clay subsoil. Would 
this sawdust make a good mulch for the 
strawberries to keep them clean. Would it 
be an advantage to it? j. Q. s. 
ready. Then will follow Columbian and 
red raspberries and the Red Astrachan 
and Yellow Transparent apples will soon 
be on tap. With what we gave away our 
folks took care of nearly 400 quarts of 
strawberries this year and if we didn’t 
get $50 worth of good out of them my purpose has not been entirely satisfac- most out of it for cattle would be to run 
figuring is all wrong. While the berries tory. I certainly would not use it over withlt.'okl SrmerTin °ouv 
were fine I am glad to see apple sauce the plants, for it mats down over them sec tj on f eec j chopped rye straw before it is 
time come again. That marks a bright and is likely to smother them in Winter, thrashed to horses. It is moistened with 
and pleasantly acid spot in the year for Around them, and along the rows to keep water and mixed with ground feed. I his 
me. Give me bread and butter, apple down weeds and hold moisture it does ^ h °" g ’th^gremrcured'VyeV's^as 
sauce, peas or Lima beans and you may better, but it must be thoroughly rotted j ( j 0 ] iay j j iave known farmers who 
or it will sour the ground even too much W ere afraid to feed it, having been told 
Before you buy a baling press be sure 
to write for our free descriptive catalogue, ' 
and learn of some one particular Iiederick 
Press exactly adapted to your especial needs. 
Some of the Dederick Baling Presses are 
remarkable for the little labor necessary for 
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may be imitated in appearance, but never 
equaled in value. 
P.K. DEDERICK'S SONS. 
69 Tivoli St., Albany. N. Y. 
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for the 
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to-day. 
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have the pork and beef. With apple time 
the old question of building apples into 
good pies will come up again. Here is a 
Pennsylvania man who speaks for his 
wife: 
After reading in your Hope Farm Notes 
of different methods to prevent juice of pies 
from running out in the oven, I will give you 
my wife’s plan. After placing bottom crust 
In dish she trims even with outside, places 
in filling, then cuts the top crust so it fits 
just inside the bottom crust, but does not 
lap on or unite with it. She has a small 
kettle cover to cut the top crust by. 
juice may boil up around the edge, but set¬ 
tles back into the pie. She has used the 
for a sour strawberry! Who can give us 
real experience with sawdust? .... 
We are extra anxious to have our corn 
clean this year as we plan to sow Crim¬ 
son clover and Cow-horn turnips at the 
last cultivation. Last year we waited until 
the corn was off the field, then worked it seems that last Winter Uncle Ed shipped 
the soil with the Cutaway and seeded rye. 18 boxes of oranges to this man. 1 he re- 
This gave a fair crop and we cut some 
that it would poison horses. _ Nonsense! 
Some of the healthiest people in the world 
are rye eaters. 
The Middleman.— Uncle Ed came up 
from Florida to spend the Summer. On 
his way he stopped off at Savannah and 
had an interview with a commission man. 
turns were about $4.60, which did not pay 
, , _ . . . for the packing—say nothing pf the fruit, 
forage but I am now more anxious to im- The excuse 0 ff ere d was “fruit rotten when 
prove the soil than to provide forage, received.” As a rule a small shipper has 
This the clover and turnips will do. While to take about what is offered him. I his 
analysis does not give much value to the man got s0 j lc wouldn t answer Icttei s, 
. : . , 6 , , . . .. . but Uncle Ed got the railroad and ex- 
above for three years or more with perfect turnip it has a way of showing itself in prcss company receipts showing that the 
satisfaction. n. w. m. th e crops which follow it that cannot be fruit was received “in good condition.” 
When a man says his wife’s pies are disputed. The Cow-horn turnip digs down So he walked into the store and some- 
perfectly satisfactory there is little more deep, opens the soil and certainly leaves thing like the following dialogue went 
it in better condition. 
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Capacity: 12 to 18 Tons per Day 
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Press stands on its wheels in operation—no 
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to be said and we hope the good lady 
realizes the full size of such a compliment. 
Now comes the hardest and meanest 
job on the farm—fighting weeds in the 
strawberries and corn. In former years 
the weeds, like “pussley,” have nearly 
captured us during haying. When it was 
Steel I-Iay Track.— Our hay works 
help us greatly this year. As I have ex¬ 
plained we have a steel track running 
under the ridge of the barn with a carrier 
and double harpoon fork. We drive in at 
the center of the barn, lift the hay 
through a hole in the second floor and 
carry it either side to the mows. Since 
through: 
“Good morning—is this Mr. -? 
“Yes!” What can I do for you?” 
“I thought I’d come and pay what I 
owe you!” 
“Good, I’ll look up your account.” 
After some hunting through his books 
the man came back. 
“I don’t see that you owe me anything.” 
“Well, let’s see if you owe me”—and 
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Guaranteed capacity four tons an hour or no sale. 
No jumping. Every farmer who furnishes Tabling 
and Board should talk this Press, because he does 
not have to pitch hay as high as the Upright 
Again, the Upright cannot take feed while pressing 
and tying. We can; hence men on the mow, not 
having to wait, are more efficient. Greater speed 
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J. A. SPENCER, = = Dwight, Ills. 
come up I have been wondering about office, 
this steel track. It projects nearly two “But it may take two or three hours to 
feet outside the barn. Is it likely to draw hunt it up!” 
lightning? Should it be grounded or con- “All right. I am not busy—I’ll stay 
nectcd with the earth? A steel windmill right here”—and he did take a chair and 
stands about 50 feet from the barn. I lighted his- pipe while the man hunted 
asked Mr. J. S. Woodward about this and through his hooks and papers. Right there 
clear we had to use all hands in the hay, the discussion about lightning rods has Uncle Ed followed him right into his 
and when it rained the weeds got a fear¬ 
ful start. So they did this year, but we 
kept one horse quite steadily at work with 
the cultivator and this has helped. The 
strawberries are full of weeds but we 
shall conquer them. Some young apple 
trees planted in the brush are suffering 
now for lack of trimming and mulching, 
but I suppose most of us block out more 
work than we can well do and have to 
let some* of it go. We have a good hay 
crop, most of it saved in good condition. 
I am top-dressing the best meadows, hop¬ 
ing to get a good second crop. . . The 
real work of strawberry culture is now 
upon us. The Spring-set plants must be 
kept clean and the runners kept down. 
That sounds easy until you realize how 
fast the weeds grow in July and August. 
Many a man who would run up a hill be¬ 
hind a brass band to attack a fort would 
quit after two days on his knees weeding 
15 TONS 
A DAY 
HAY 
here is what he says: 
In regard to tlie steel hay-fork traek, I 
don’t think it in any way adds to the dan¬ 
ger of Injury by lightning. If it was per¬ 
pendicular it might in some measure attract 
the electricity, but in the present condition 
it would have little or no attractive force. 
I hav 
on his own books was the record of sales 
and dates. Uncle Ed stayed by him and 
actually got $30.58 in cash before he left. 
“I can’t afford to lose this”—said the 
commission man. 
“You can afford it a good deal better 
,-e no doubt but your windmill on the t h an j can , for I had all the expense of 
steel tower does in every thunderstorm eon- • ■ f r ,.: f w i,i1e npu p r cost vnu 
duct enough electricity from or to the ground raising the truit, while it never cost you 
to destroy your barn, were It to come in the a cent! 
form of a’ stroke. But the mill with its Think of the poor fellows who have to 
many points and angles silently takes fiom the mere nittance without redress 
the clouds and carries to the earth a steady ™ { e me mere pittance wimout rearess 
stream while the cloud is above it. Dr. They cannot chase up their shipments, and 
Say “Baler Book” on a postal to us and wo 
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our experience since 1867 making hay presses. 
You want profit, so should spend a penny to 
learn about our Gem Full Circle Steel Baler and 
how we save you about $25 in price and sell you 
a press which will save you as much more each 
year in repairs and do the most work. Patent 
power head, short trip lever arms, long plung¬ 
er stroke with quick rebound, largo feed open¬ 
ing and two charges for each round of the 
team are ad- |s ( $< vantages of our presses. 
(i*° n cy,"i 
Lardner states that on one oeasion when 
Napoleon was exercising his army a ter¬ 
rific thunder shower came up. Napoleon or¬ 
dered every man to fix bayonets, and shouTder 
arms, aud that as the cloud came over that 
vast concourse of men with the array of 
bright, sharp points presented it ceased thun¬ 
dering and passed silently beyond, when the 
lightning and thunder immediately began 
again. He says the soldiers thought Napo¬ 
leon possessed supernatural power, when he 
only took advantage of a natural law of 
if they do they are usually bluffed out of 1 
what they have. It does me good when ; 
some one gets at least a share of his 
rights. H. w. C. 
Eli” 
Hay Press 
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COLLINS PLOW CO., 1111 Hampshire St„ Quincy, Ills, 
out redweed and “pussley.” There is no 
o-lnrv or nnetrv nhmit it hut there won’t electricity -by drawing off the abundance by 
glory or poetry aDout it nut mere worn means of the thousands of sharp points. I 
be any crop unless you do it. The old have never heard of a steel windmill being 
plants that have been fruited must be han¬ 
dled now. We cut them off with the mow¬ 
ing machine close to the ground. The 
vines are either raked and burned or 
taken off to pile around trees as mulch,, 
as we are opposed to burning organic mat¬ 
ter we like the latter plan. After the 
vines are disposed of we cut out the 
center of the rows. This is done with a 
struck by lightning or a case where a hay- 
track was struck in a barn. 
j. s. WOODWARD. 
South and North.— In the past few 
years we have had some discussion of the 
scheme of fanning both ends of the 
country. Usually some Northern man 
wants to know if he can go South in 
Winter. Here is the other end first: 
I have been teaching a country sehoool 
during the Winter and farming through the 
Summer. I may he forced to quit teaching 
sharp plow or by stretching lines where altogether. I own a small place and hate to 
_„.i quit farming. Gan I get work in a poultry 
plant or dairy for the Winter (North) where 
I can get fair wages and board? I wish to 
we want them and cutting out the plants 
with sharp hoes. This leaves a narrow 
strip of plants at the side, leaving the 
space where the row stood open for the 
cultivator. The plan is to keep this clean 
and let new plants run out and root for 
next year’s fruiting. This gives ns about 
half old plants and half new ones and 
enables us to use horse power in cleaning 
out the weeds. Such varieties as Presi¬ 
dent do best with us the second season. 
You must remember right now that those 
big berries next year will analyze 40 per 
come back and truck next Summer. 
G. L. E. 
Thus this man wants to keep his small 
farm running in Summer, leave it in 
Winter and go North for work. There 
is, of course, less farm work in the North 
during Winter than at any other time. 
Many farmers cannot find \york for a 
man all the year. Yon might find a job 
on a dairy farm hut there would he far 
more competition than in Summer. Very 
likely you would do better to go to Florida 
or Texas into the trucking sections there. 
I am afraid this idea of playing bird and 
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