1907 . 
Hope Farm Notes 
Building Advice.— The Hope Farm man 
was never much of a success as referee or 
umpire. I umpired a game of baseball in 
Mississippi once where trouble occurred 
over a close play. 1 should have stood 
off like a just and dignified judge, but 
I found myself in the thick of it enforc¬ 
ing my decision with a baseball bat. I 
don’t think I have the umpire’s tempera¬ 
ment. I want to say this before I under¬ 
take to give an opinion on this dispute 
between the head of a house and the 
heart and mainspring of it: 
As usual we look to the Hope Farm man 
to give us advice. I append rough sketch 
of farmhouse. The head of the house is to 
put in bath and closet arrangements, and 
we cannot agree; lie wants to partition half 
of storeroom No. 2, remove stairs, and 
cut door back of cook stove to go out and 
in. I think to enlarge closet that opens out 
of dining room, cut door through from bed¬ 
room, close up door from dining room 
if desired and have door open from 
storeroom if wanted would he better. We 
could not use all of the storeroom No. 1, 
as It is our only inside cellar way, but to 
extend closet to stairs would give us a 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Dollars for 
you in the 
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m»st first master it in some detail 
at least. Yet some of these very men 
seem to believe that they could step out 
upon a farm and make a living. As a 
matter of fact the trade of farming re¬ 
quires far more skill, study and practice 
than that of plumbing or similar occu¬ 
pations. 
Farm Notes. —We are all hustling to 
pick apples and help out the Harvest 
Home festival at the church. The Hon. 
‘John Frost is as accommodating as a poli¬ 
tician just before election in a close dis¬ 
trict. He will come like a wolf, though, 
when it suits him. This is the best apple 
crop we ever had and our storerooms are 
running over. It is a great pleasure to 
handle these great globes of red and 
green, solid as a baseball and fragrant as 
a rose. As soon as we get them picked 
we shall work up our local trade. As for 
the festival that promises to be a great 
event. The girls have a doll’s table, the 
boys represent Indians, while the Hope 
Farm man is expected to play the part of 
benevolent citizen and contribute a wagon¬ 
load of produce. . . . We had our last 
peaches October 13. They were Bray’s 
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storeroom has outside door and window. The 
house is heated by stoves, no furnace, as 
Spring Hoods would forbid furnace—drown it 
out some years—or we would have put one 
in long ago. The carpenter is ready and we 
wait for the Hope Farm man to tell us 
what to do. 
A BROOME COUNTY SUBSCRIBER. 
If the house were mine I should con¬ 
sider it a great piece of head work to let 
the mainspring have her own way—gently 
introducing the following suggestion so 
she would think it was her own. The 
bathroom should be as centrally located 
as possible. It should be light, and have 
ample means for ventilation. I should 
not want it near the kitchen. The store¬ 
room No. 1 is the place for it, but the 
space between the stairs and the dining 
room wall give little chance for light and 
none for proper airing. I would move 
the cellar stairs to the other side of this 
storeroom, and then make the bathroom 
the depth of the bedroom and as wide as 
needed—with a door for storeroom if de¬ 
sired. 
Learning a Trade.—I find that what 
was said about a trade some, weeks ago 
has stirred up quite a little interest. It 
appears that some men of mature years 
are after a trade. One important side 
of the matter is brought out in the fol¬ 
lowing : 
On page 719, in Hope Farm Notes, you 
refer to trade schools, and I wish to ask 
you for some Information in regard to the 
same I wish to learn the plumbing trade 
and am too old to serve as an apprentice, and 
also I could not afford to work for years 
for small wages. I have the catalogue of the 
_ school of your city: this is the in¬ 
formation I would like to have, which I am 
not in a position to find out for myself. 
After a student finishes the course to the 
satisfaction of the instructors, is he com¬ 
petent to take a position as a journeyman 
plumber, or will lie have to work as a helper 
for some time? What will be his position in 
regard to the union? Can lie join the union 
by an examination or will he have to work a 
certain number of years first? Of course the 
school answers these questions favorably to 
Itself, but I would like to be sure. 
Ohio. E - M - 
There seems to me no good reason why 
a man should not get hold of the princi¬ 
ples of a trade in a good school. Whether 
he could go right out and make a living 
at it is another matter. In the case of 
E. D. this would depend very much upon 
the attitude of the union. In order to 
settle this I wrote the New York Local 
Union of Plumbers and Gas Fitters. Here 
is the answer: 
In reply to yours of recent date asking 
about taking in applicants to this organiza¬ 
tion, who have served the apprenticeship in 
a trade school, permit me to say that we 
never objected to the taking of any young 
men in this organization of good moral char¬ 
acter, with a diploma from a trade school, 
with the exception of -, who we consider 
unfair to organized labor, as the product of 
this school lias been used for strike-breaking 
purposes throughout the United States. 
FRANK A. KIERNAN , 
General-Secretary. 
The school is the one named by E. D. 
I notice that all grown-up men realize 
that in order to make a living at a trade 
Rareripe, and good, thought it was baked 
apple for me. ... I wish you could 
see the Crimson clover and Cow-horn 
turnips, or I wish I could see them on 
your farm. It does me good to look out 
of the window as the sun begins to 
sparkle on the east side of our hill, and 
see the green streaks of clover. It is a 
pleasure to think that while we sleep or 
while we wake that clover is at work mak¬ 
ing the soil stronger and better able to 
do its work for humanity. As for the 
Alfalfa, it’s growing every day. If I 
hadn’t been disappointed several times be¬ 
fore you would hear me telling what great 
things we shall do with it. ... I 
sometimes think this season is the great 
test for family spirit. The nights grow 
long and the cooler weather drives peo¬ 
ple indoors. In town or city there is, 
of course, much to interest children out¬ 
side of the home, but off among the hills, 
as we are, the household is put to its own 
entertainment. That’s why I want bright 
lights, plenty of music and fun, plain food 
and hearty appetite, and the day ending 
without hatred or envy or sorrow, or am¬ 
bition that cannot be gratified. I am very 
thankful that our children can still get 
more fun out of 50 cents than some could 
out of $50. It is a great thing when you 
blow out the last light and see the trees 
waving in the cold wind and the shadows 
creeping as the moon sails on, and it’s 
pleasant to think that all’s well with the 
home! h. w. c. 
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the greatest actual money savers 
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cause it does one man's work. It is the 
easiest, quickest and most economical 
method of conveying manure and litter from 
the stable, or carrying silage or any other 
articles that have to be moved from place 
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It cuts out hard and disagreeable jobs. 
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the carrier will dump the load wherever you want it dumped—in a wagon 
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Saves Time and Labor, 
Soon Pays for Itself. 
The Climax 
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Hook the same car to our large ensilage 
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Positive chain hoist. Pans will rest on 
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