1907 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
771 
Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —If you were here to¬ 
night you would find the Hope Farm 
folks busy clipping off the tangled threads 
of the week. We have had our supper, 
and the children have cleared off the ta¬ 
ble. There was a cold rain this after¬ 
noon, and the night air has a bite to it 
which has driven me away from my desk. 
So I have brought my writing to the table, 
with many injunctions from wife and 
daughter to spread out a paper so as not 
to drop ink on the tablecloth. As soon 
as supper was over Mother remembered 
that those Damson plums had not been 
cared for. It is true we have 104 jars of 
preserved fruit and jelly in the pantry, 
but our family can take care of 50 more. 
So those plums have been looked over, 
and now they are simmering on the stove. 
The plums out of the way, Mother has 
a great pile of mending on hand, and as 
the needle goes to and fro she is trying to 
patch the Sunday school lesson upon the 
children’s minds by asking a few pointed 
questions. The smaller boy is peeling po¬ 
tatoes, the large one is blacking the shoes 
for to-morrow’s display, while the girls 
are washing dishes. We can see across 
the lawn the light where Jack and Henry 
are doing their own housework. Shep is 
outside the door, with an eye open for the 
burglars that have been about lately. So 
all the Hope Farmers are at home and 
busy. . . . Perhaps my eyes are get¬ 
ting poorer, but it seems as if the lamps 
do not give as much light as they used 
to. I like to have the rooms brilliant at 
night, especially in Winter. It seems more 
cheerful inside and more homelike to 
those who pass by in the night. I went 
to the electrical show last week, and 
found a great hall as light as day. As 
one exhibit there was a set of rooms, 
from parlor to storeroom, lighted and 
heated by electricity. The kitchen stove, 
flatirons, coffee pots, registers and all else 
required were heated to any ordinary de¬ 
gree by the electric current. Brilliant 
lights were everywhere. The washing ma¬ 
chine, coffee mill, fans and a dozen other 
things were run by electric power, and 
even an icebox was controlled by it. That 
sent me home asking what 1 am doing 
with our little brook. Is there no way of 
harnessing it and getting this light and 
heat into the house? The volume of 
water is small, but I think 1 can make 
a pond and thus obtain a small power. 
The marvels of that wonderful show 
make me think that anyone who lives 
near a brook may well try to put a har¬ 
ness on it. There is no reason why city 
people should have a monopoly of such 
things. . . . Another thing 1 am study¬ 
ing now is a paper milk bottle. It is 
made of wood pulp paper soaked in par¬ 
affin. I took a pint bottle and poured 
boiling water into it to see if this would 
melt or loosen the paraffin. It did not. 
Then we filled it with milk and put on 
the cap. Our folks didn’t expect to find 
the milk there in the morning—thought 
the paper bottle would melt. It didn’t; 
the milk was there as sweet and clean 
as it would have been in a glass bottle. 
1 am satisfied that the bottle will hold the 
milk and keep it sweet. At first I 
thought it could not be sterilized, as I 
feared the paraffin would melt under high 
heat. It did not appear to do so when 
I poured in the hot water. The worst 
thing I see against this bottle is its ap¬ 
pearance. The color is a light brown— 
not as neat as glass. I think there would 
be some prejudice against it, at least to 
begin with, among people who had been 
used to holding up a clean glass bottle 
and looking through it. I know it will 
hold the milk, however. . . . Our 
foiks had a great tuck-out of peaches for 
supper. I brought in a basket of Smocks 
with some hesitation, for to my taste this 
is a pretty dry peach. To my surprise 
they were voted "fine!” In fact, Elberta 
and Smock were voted best of all. I re¬ 
gard Carman as far ahead of Elberta and 
Bray’s Rareripe a much better peach than 
Smock, but the Hope Farm family won’t 
have it so. Next you hear my people will 
be advising me to plant Ben Davis apple 
trees. I am forced to confess that this 
has already happened. Our five-year-old 
Ben Davis tree actually began this year 
to give a crop of large, fine-looking fruit, 
while Baldwin does nothing but grow. 
My boys want to see fruit. As for any¬ 
one buying Ben Davis from choice. I 
think it would be Hobson’s choice if any¬ 
thing. I worked for a man once who 
used to express his feelings for a shirk 
by saying, "You take as much table room 
as a Rood man!” Our folks haven’t quite 
the patience to wait until the young Bald¬ 
wins get going. The finest peaches do 
not interest me when I can find a baked 
apple. I have just taken a big pan of 
them out of the oven. I cooked them 
myself. Medium-sized Baldwins and Pip¬ 
pins were washed clean and the cores cut 
out with a corer. Then they were ranged 
in a deep pan with a little sugar in the 
center of each apple, and about quarter 
of an inch of water in the bottom of the 
pan. Then they went into a hot oven, 
and have just come out so fragrant that 
1 must stop and eat two at once. Some 
of the milk in my paper bottle will go 
well with these apples. . . . Our corn 
is all cut and potatoes all dug. We are 
now picking apples and working at those 
strawberries. 1 shall husk the corn early 
and get the stalks under cover, so as to 
cut and feed them by November. Most 
of us wait too long before feeding stalks. 
A Michigan man wants to know about 
seedling strawberries: 
I made several crops of strawberries, and 
have a tine lot of seedlings and want some 
one to tell me how to carry them through 
the Winter. H. c. s. 
I should treat them as I would layer 
plants. They should have been trans¬ 
planted in September. As the chances 
now are for a late Fall, I would trans¬ 
plant them, cultivate until the ground 
freezes and cover as for other plants. 
The following comes from a New 
York man who says he is “a new farmer 
and a subscriber for four years.” 
1. Tell me how much time it would take to 
plow and harrow a lawn containing one 
acre, and how much grass seed you would 
need to sow one acre. 2. Would eating 
green apples prevent a cow from giving 
milk live months before her coming in? 
She formerly gave 18 and It) quarts a day, 
night and morning. Now she only gives 
three and four quarts a day. There is tine 
pasture, over 30 acres to roam around in. 
INQUIRER. 
I cannot answer, as there are too many 
conditions I do not understand. It will 
take all the way from one to three days 
to break up an acre of lawn, depending 
on the number of trees and shrubs that 
are growing on it. After we plowed our 
old lawn we harrowed it at least twenty 
times, besides the work of grading, and 
even then did not get the old growth 
killed out. There is no use trying to see 
how quickly you can make a lawn. It 
isn’t like a meadow where you can plow 
under your own mistakes—the lawn 
should stand for years. It is, of course, 
too late now to make a lawn. We fin¬ 
ished seeding our last one October 8. 
Last Fall the place was plowed and seeded 
to rye. This was plowed this Spring and 
potatoes planted two feet by one foot and 
given thorough culture. Then the ground 
was plowed again and harrowed and har¬ 
rowed and still harrowed until it was fit. 
We would use three bushels of grass seed 
per acre for a lawn. 
The second part of the question recalls 
lively memories of the time I ran for 
office on the Prohibition ticket and my 
cow got drunk on apples. I know that 
the scientific men say a cow can’t get 
drunk, and I shall not argue with them, 
because I feel sure that cow was. I have 
had cows gorge on apples several times. 
In every case they quit giving milk en¬ 
tirely for several days, and never came 
back to their full mess. Fair quantities of 
apples will not hurt a cow. By beginning 
with a few at a time we can feed up to 
half a bushel a day with good profit. 
When some one tells me why a cow will 
leave a good pasture to break into a place 
where apples and weeds are found I can 
perhaps tell you why some men leave 
home and reputation to make criminal 
fools of themselves. h. w. c. 
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