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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —The boys and I spent 
five days at Plymouth, Mass.—fishing and 
looking about. I had a chance to go 
back several miles from the water and 
see some of the land that has been under 
cultivation for nearly three centuries. 
Farming in that section has been largely 
abandoned. Cranberries pay well in the 
swamps and bogs, and asparagus has 
given great returns on some of the lighter 
soils, but as a business general farming 
seems to have been about wiped out in 
the Old Colony. It seemed to me that this 
was due less to the condition of the soil 
or to the markets than to the spirit of 
the people. The Pilgrims were farmers, 
and forced to learn their lessons in agri¬ 
culture from the Indians. Their descen¬ 
dants of this generation seem to have 
very little use for a farm. My grand¬ 
father settled in Plymouth some 80 years 
ago. -His children, grandchildren and 
great grandchildren of mature years have 
numbered nearly 60, and of the lot only 
one seems to prefer farm life. Why this 
is so is to me an interesting story, and 
I shall try to discuss it in comparing this 
Cape Cod section with what I saw in 
Iowa last Fall. . . . Just now I am 
more interested in what I found at the 
farm on getting home. We had several 
soaking showers, which changed the loose 
dust to a deep mud. We sowed the 
Crimson clover and turnips and the Al¬ 
falfa in the dust. All had just started 
when I left home. We came back to 
find some of the little Alfalfa plants over 
three inches high. 1 could hardly have 
believed that any farm crop could grow 
like that if the evidence were not before 
my eyes. The Crimson clover, though 
seeded a week before the Alfalfa was 
barely two inches high on September 6, 
while the Cow-horn turnips in some 
places stood four inches and over. 
. . . . The Carman peaches were ex¬ 
cellent this year. In spite of the drought 
they were large, and colored a beautiful 
dark red. Up to the time it is fully 
ripe this peach ranks as a cling, and one 
that fully understands its business of 
hanging to the pit. When just ripe the 
pit separates like a freestone. I have 
heard complaints that Carman rots badly, 
but we have had little if any trouble 
with it in that respect. With us the tree 
has the habit of early bearing, and its 
high color and fine flavor under our 
method of culture make it a standard 
sort with us. .* . . The Fall Pippin 
apples are now ready for eating and 
shipping. There is no finer apple of its 
season than this, and if it had a red color 
and ripened with Baldwin it would easily 
take rank at the head of the apple world. 
If I wanted to borrow money of some 
man who is usually hard to start I would 
get him to eat a couple of baked Fall 
Pippin apples before starting after his 
pocket book. That would loosen it if 
anything could. . . . This has been 
one of the seasons when it does not pay 
to plant corn between the potato rows 
for a double crop. There wasn’t moist¬ 
ure enough in the soil for one crop, and 
the extra one could not grow itself, and 
stole water from the other. My corn 
grew barely two feet before the rain 
came, while had it been a wet season it 
would now stand shoulder high. All corn 
cutting in this section will be late this 
year. The crop is generally a fair one. 
For my part I never had a better yield 
of grain in sight. The stalks of the 
flint corn are not large, but they make 
better fodder than the heavier corn. We 
intend to feed our stalks earlier in the 
season than in former years. Usually we 
have waited until Christmas before feed¬ 
ing, but this year I intend to begin to 
cut up and feed by October. The stalks 
will be softer and less likely to spoil. 
That leads up to the following question 
from a friend in northern New York: 
I was talking with a neighbor about boil¬ 
ing some sowed corn (no ears) for my hogs, 
to make a “filler,” and to cook the meal, 
which would be added when corn was hot. 
He said you had tried it, and spoken of it in 
The R. N.-Y. What do you think of it? 
Some years ago when I had 10 brood 
sows to winter, I hunted all over for 
cheap food. We had a quantity of yellow 
turnips and a good deal of corn fodder. 
The grain was all bought. We ran the 
stalks through a shredder and filled the 
cooker about half and half shredded 
stalks and turnips. This was boiled until 
all were soft, and this soup thickened 
with shorts or bran. I was surprised to 
see how cheaply the sows were kept in 
good condition on this feed. I noticed 
that they ate about two-thirds of the 
boiled stalks—what was left being mostly 
the hard butts. I do not think the boiled 
stalks will be of much value for fatten¬ 
ing pigs, but for brood sows they will 
help. If you have some clover hay and 
can chop and mix it with the stalks 
before boiling you will be surprised to 
see how it takes the place of grain. If 
I were to feed boiled stalks again I 
would not use clear cornmeal with them, 
but add wheat bran. This is coarse, and 
makes a good thickener for soup. From 
our experience I would not boil bran or 
any of the so-called muscle-making foods, 
but simply add them to the hot soup. I 
judge that boiling does not make these 
muscle-makers more digestible, while 
cornmeal is evidently helped by it. We 
find that a good cooker is very useful 
where pigs are kept. 
“A Literary Man/’—I print the fol¬ 
lowing note just as it came from a 
Massachusetts man: 
I am very anxious to write for some paper 
or for some magazine, whore I can earn more 
money. I am a very good writer and a good 
composer. If I could hear of a chanch I 
would apply for it. I heard about the — 
Press Syndicate, who will sell me their in¬ 
structions and find me a place If I would 
send them three dollars. Can I ask you to 
investacate this concern and if you think it 
is wise for me to do so I will. I love to 
travell and I can describe sights and scenery 
as good as anyone. I have traveled a great 
deal in my life and I have written quite a 
few articles and poems. I wish you would 
tell me all you can about this syndicate, or 
assist me where I can get such a position. 
Now every year I have quite a number 
of letters from people who think they 
can earn a living by writing. This “Syn¬ 
dicate” will doubtless be of some help, 
because they will give fair criticism and 
suggest places where good copy might be 
sold. They cannot guarantee to find a 
place for a would-be writer. To agree 
to do that for $3 would be worse than 
nonsense. Writers for this “Syndicate” 
have sent us some articles, but they had 
little value. I must confess to a soft 
spot for would-be writers. I have been 
through the mill, and have had poems 
and stories fired back at me until I 
thought there was no appreciation left in 
the heart of man. With all this 1 must 
tell our friend that I see no possible 
chance for him to make money at writing. 
I would advise him to get over the 
dream as rapidly as possible. Suppose 
he sent such a letter as this to the editor 
of some magazine. The misspelled words 
and poor English would spoil his chance 
at once. It is true that men have some¬ 
times come with unquenchable thoughts, 
who mixed up their verbs and their 
letters, but they did not come by way 
of the magazines—nor were they paid for 
their work. Who says you can “describe 
sights and scenery as good as anyone?” 
Sometimes a mother or wife or sister, 
too fond to be wise, will tell boy or man 
that he is a great citizen. If a person is 
wise he will use that opinion about as 
he uses his Sunday clothes, and test his 
poetry or his story on the dollar basis 
before he pats himself on the back. I 
advise this man to stick to his present job 
during working hours, and to practice 
writing during the time he might other¬ 
wise be in mischief. Begin with the dic¬ 
tionary and a good grammar, and stay 
by them well. 
Resting a Dairy Farm. — A Pennsyl¬ 
vania man asks my personal opinion 
about this scheme: 
Suppose I have a farm of about 90 acres 
adapted for dairying and I do not wish to 
run it as a first-class dairy farm until two 
years from now. Can you suggest a plan 
to follow during the meantime that will re¬ 
quire a minimum of labor, machinery and 
expense and at the same time keep the land in 
good condition and store up the fertility? 
The idea is to keep the land in the best pos¬ 
sible condition for a period of two years 
with the least outlay of time, labor and ma¬ 
chinery, so that at the end of the time men¬ 
tioned, the farm may be worked as a full- 
fledged modern dairy farm. w. B. 
I am not a dairyman. I don’t know 
what is now growing on this farm, or 
whether the man expects to pasture the 
stock or cut green feed and carry to 
them. If I wanted to run a dairy here 
I would follow the latter plan and grow 
forage crops on the fields near the barn. 
During the two years I would fix up the 
fences and put the farm in pasture. In 
our country it would pay us best to 
pasture horses, and I would advertise for 
a lot of them and turn them on the grass 
with water close at hand. If I couldn’t 
get horses I would buy yearling cattle; 
let them run through the Summer and 
sell them in the Fall—feeding some grain. 
Properly handled this would keep up the 
grass lands with very little labor. The 
first year I would plow as little as pos¬ 
sible unless it was necessary to seed some 
of the land. The second year would 
depend upon when I wanted to start with 
the cows. If in the Fall I would sow 
oats and peas and cut for hay, and 
grow corn for silage—sowing the ground 
thus used to wheat and rye to be cut 
the following Spring. If I did not begin 
until Spring I would sow a fair amount 
of wheat and rye in the Fall. It all de¬ 
pends, however, upon the shape the farm 
is now in. It may be short of good grass 
in which case I would work part of the 
two >ears to get the best grass land 
well seeded. h. w. c. 
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