1907. 
‘THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
8o5 
Hope Farm Notes 
Prize Fighters.—A reader in New 
York State sends me this picture of a little 
boy who has made up his mind to be a 
prize fighter. What do I think about it? 
That’s a fine-looking hoy. He is pick¬ 
ing out his trade very early in life, and 
the chances are that he won’t follow it. 
I may shock my friends by saying that 
there are some excellent things about 
prize fighting. A prize fighter, in order 
to amount to anything in the ring, must 
develop his body. Thus he must be clean 
and temperate, and must keep constantly 
at work. 1 hen he must practice self-con¬ 
trol until he is master of himself. These 
things form the very foundation of hu¬ 
man character, and few men need them 
more than the prize fighter does. This 
boy can hardly do better than to keep his 
muscles hard and firm and the fat worked 
off his body. By all means let him fit him¬ 
self for the ring so that he will never lose 
courage or temper in the face of pain or 
danger or insult. 7 hen let him stay out 
of the ring, and use his powers for a 
worthy purpose, and he will make a great 
man. It may seem glorious to some peo¬ 
ple to knock a fellow-man into insensi¬ 
bility while thousands are shouting and 
dancing with excitement, but it is far 
nobler and better to use your powers to 
lift, up some poor fellow and heal his 
bruises instead of making them larger. I 
hope that boy will get the body and self- 
control of a prize fighter and then develop 
the brain and heart to match it. Then 
let him fight the evil that is in society 
with bare knuckles. 
The Mountain Rose.— This is what I 
get from an old friend in Jersey: 
The “Hope Farm Man”tells us on page 755 
that on September 28 he picked some Moun¬ 
tain Rose peaches. As I am somewhat of a 
peach grower, and familiar with the time of 
ripening of this peach (until I discarded it), 
I want to know how you manage to have 
it ripen at the season of the year you men¬ 
tion. This peach when brought up in the 
good old orthodox way. always (with me) 
completed its existence at a much earlier 
date. It seems to have departed from the 
path of rectitude, and gone astray from its 
early training and fixed habits; 'its morals 
also must be affected. Can it be because 
of the effect of those baked apples the 
“Hope Farm Man” ate for his supper? We 
have heard that apples when frozen caused 
a cow to turn off some queer antics. Per¬ 
haps it is due to the Stringfellow method 
of root-pruning or mulch method of grow¬ 
ing the tree. Whatever it may be. surely 
It’s a freak of nature or of something else. 
It certainly is in order for the “Hope Farm 
Man” to rise and explain the phenomenon. 
Now if I was a lawyer I would make 
our friend prove that I picked the 
peaches. All I said was that I went to 
the orchard after them! I will admit, 
however, that I picked some peaches and 
brought them home. There are three 
trees up in a corner of a rough orchard 
that has never been cleared up. The trees 
are small and not very thrifty, and have 
always been late in ripening. As for proof 
that they are Mountain Rose, suppose I 
offer the label on the tree as it came from 
the nursery? After this great struggle 
over “papers” and cows it seems evident 
that the papers have got to be called a 
“fit” until the people who made them out 
say that they don’t fit! In the same way 
I might claim that the label fits the trees 
until the man who put it on the tree says 
that it doesn’t! But, seriously, those 
trees are Mountain Rose if I know what 
that variety is. I cannot account for the 
late ripening of these three trees. This 
year 1 , however, many varieties have been 
far behind their usual order. One thing 
may be said for the Stringfellow method 
as it has worked out with me. The fruit 
hangs long to the tree, and is not so read¬ 
ily blown off. There are usually some 
late maturing fruit which if it hang on 
and ripen will be far behind the main 
brop. We were still eating peaches on 
October 23 from an old seedling tree at 
the top of our hill. 
Farm Notes. —The hot-water heater 
was started October 19—a little later than 
last year. We can keep up a gentle heat 
by using chunks of apple wood for fuel. 
The two ends of the season prove one 
great advantage of hot-water heating. 
You do not need a fierce heat—just 
enough to take off the chill. This is sup¬ 
plied by a mild fire while w.ith steam a 
hot fire is needed to keep up the pressure. 
. . . I have pulled up plants of Cow- 
horn turnips which measure 28 inches 
from end of the root to top of leaves. As 
the roots grow the soil is burst open as 
if you drove a stick in and worked it 
back and forth. We can easily see the 
advantage of having thousands of such 
roots splitting and digging in the soil. I 
notice, too, that the Crimson clover is 
on the whole better among the turnips 
than where it is growing alone. It be¬ 
comes more satisfactory every week to 
see the clover and turnips growing on un¬ 
occupied land. . . . The first appear¬ 
ance of Hairy vetch above ground is not 
impressive. It looks like the meanest 
sort of a weed. When you look at it just 
breaking through the ground it is hard 
to believe the stories that are told about 
it. However, we are here to see what it 
will do, and we .will give it a fair chance. 
. .. .. Apple picking still continues the 
main job, though the end is in sight. Some 
of the four-year-old trees are beginning 
to bear, Wealthy, Ben Davis and McIn¬ 
tosh. It must be said that our old friend, 
Ben Davis, gets started early in life. He 
surely doesn’t belong to the class of peo¬ 
ple who cost $25,000 before they can make 
a living. T have also fruited Black Ben 
Davis. . This fellow certainly draws the 
color line, being much darker than his 
older brother, plain Ben. I think the black 
is a little higher flavor, though sampling 
green apples is no test. The more varie¬ 
ties I fruit.here the more I am convinced 
that Baldwin and Greening are, after all, 
most desirable for us. It seems to me' 
clearer every year that success in fruit 
growing means individual selection of lo¬ 
cality, varieties and method of culture. I 
should hesitate to lay down any definite 
detailed rules for another to follow. 
. The “Harvest Home” was voted a 
great success. I know one man who will 
testify that the most successful part of it 
was the ending. All our folks had a hand 
in it—with several hands in my pocket. 
Mother was one of the head waiters. It 
wasn’t necessary for her to go around 
saying: 
“Well, what is your order!” 
‘‘Will it be apple or squash pie?” 
“Our fried ham is very nice!” 
The food was put on the table and we 
helped ourselves. I found that the job of 
waiter has one great advantage. Mother 
was so busy that she didn’t have time to 
spend any money. The girls sold over 
$15 worth of dolls—it was a great success 
—even those who ate too much supper 
and went about next day with a case of 
dyspepsia will agree to that. It was hard 
to drag my family away from the festive 
scene, but finally after Nellie and Bob 
had danced in front of the chapel for 20 
minutes the last cent seemed to be paid 
out. We started ahead, with two chil¬ 
dren behind us in the buggy with Madge 
to bring them home. The night was a 
little misty. The road has many turns, 
and leads through thick woods in places. 
Madge soon fell behind out of sight. Now 
and then we would stop and listen. Those 
of us with good ears could hear the buggy 
coming, and so we went on. Finally at 
the last turn before home our folks lost 
sound of the buggy. It was too misty to 
see clearly and Mother jumped out and 
ran back to find Madge sauntering on 
leisurely with both children sound asleep 
in the buggy. The little things were so 
worn out that they fell asleep soon after 
leaving the church, and the faithful brown 
mare had brought them over the brook, 
through the woods, down the stony hill 
and around all the turns in safety. 
I have three acres of planted State corn, 
and desire to use the stover to the best ad¬ 
vantage in feeding four milch cows this 
Winter. Will you tell me how much the 
feeding value of this fodder will be increased 
if I put it through a hand-power cutter 
before feeding, and whether it would pay 
me to purchase a machine for that pur¬ 
pose? M. B. D. 
By “State” corn I assume you mean 
common field corn. My experience is that 
cutting increases the feeding value by 25 
per cent. Cattle will eat about that much 
more. If it didn’t increase this value at 
all it would pay us to cut the stalks. The 
“orts” or waste make good bedding and the 
manure is much better than when the long 
stalks are fed. If you want to get the 
most you can out of those stalks cut them 
and pack in a barrel or hogshead. Pour 
on enough hot water to steam them and 
cover tight with cover and blanket. You 
will find them warm and soft—the best 
substitute for silage I have yet seen. 
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