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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Hope Farm Notes 
A Grind. —On Election Day we ground 
them up in great shape! I am not speak¬ 
ing of elections, for the Hope Farm man 
ran for councilman in our borough and 
went to the ground as usual. I refer to 
grain grinding. We set up our new sweep 
grinder in the barnyard, and gave it a 
full try-out. I assume that most people 
know how this implement works. There 
is a fixed metal plate with ridges or teeth. 
Inside of this is a revolving plate, also 
ridged so that it crushes the grain against 
the outer fixed plate. A long pole is 
fastened to the inner plate and the horses 
walk around and around in a circle. The 
grain is fed from a hopper so that it 
drops slowly down between the plates. 
“Get up there, you lazy, shiftless things. 
I could come out there and pull you and 
your load!” 
Be sure that no Hope Farm human 
made any such rash statement. The Hope 
Farm man doesn’t make any such political 
promise to the voters. It was old Jerry 
who thus expressed himself. He stood 
looking from his stall while Bob and 
Nellie loitered through their monotonous 
round. I think Bob was born tired, while 
Nellie thinks the two fine colts she has 
given us entitle her to a pension of rest. 
At least neither likes to walk in an end¬ 
less circle, while Jerry will go anywhere 
so long as you let him go alone. Jerry 
showed his desire to work so plainly that 
finally we put him on the pole alone, and 
he proceeded to make good by keeping up 
a shambling trot, which kept the meal 
pouring out of the spout. 
We used the mill on dry grain and on 
entire cob just as it came from the field, 
and we think we have hit upon the most 
useful tool on the place. We ground 30 
pounds of soft ear corn in seven minutes 
—made it into a thick meal which fooled 
every animal on the place into eating the 
entire cob. No more piles of corncobs 
in the yard for us! For ground horse 
feed we mix two parts of shelled corn 
with one part oats, and grind it to a fine 
meal. To 300 pounds of this we add 100 
of bran and 25 or more of oil meal, thor¬ 
oughly mixing it. For driving horses or 
colts I would use more oats and bran, and 
when we feed dry stalks entirely I shall 
add more oil meal. As a general feed, 
however, this mixture keeps our horses in 
fine shape. While my mill works and old 
Jerry holds out I shall buy no more 
ground feed. No one knows, except the 
makers (and they won’t tell) how many 
oat hulls and other refuse things go into 
that ground feed. When I buy corn and 
oats I know what I have, and the home 
grinder can’t adulterate them. I am sorry 
I didn’t get at this before. 
Farm Notes. —We are late about husk¬ 
ing after all, but fine weather has come 
at last, and we hope to close up in time to 
do our Fall spraying. The corn crop is 
good—one of the best we ever had. We 
are feeding cornstalks entirely for forage 
to both horses and cows—keeping the hay 
for late Winter and Spring. The slender 
stalks of the flint corn and late-planted 
sweet corn are eaten whole almost as clean 
as hay. When we come to the Learning 
cornstalks we shall have to cut them. 
. . . I expected to sell a good many 
cabbages this Fall, but the price is so low 
that it seems wiser to bury them. This we 
shall do about December 1 by plowing 
double furrows, putting the solid heads 
upside down with roots on and plowing 
the soil back over them. Cabbage will go 
higher, I believe. Just now most produce 
is low, and rather hard of sale in conse¬ 
quence of the money scare. We feed all 
the soft heads to the stock—the hogs each 
getting two goods ones a day. This, with 
corn and cob meal makes pork fast. . . 
The boys have their birthday together. 
This year I offered them as a present each 
a good pig weighing 50 to 60 pounds. 
They are to feed their pigs, buying ear 
corn of me and grinding it in the mill. 
They can have what cabbage they need 
and can boil the small potatoes for feed¬ 
ing. I will give them a plan for feeding 
and they must live up to it. They will 
pay for slaughtering and sell the pork for 
what they can get. I want them to see 
how much pork they can pack upon these 
pigs for a dollar. The little girls think 
of taking the job of making butter at a 
fair price per pound. I am on record as 
saying that a child will do better in life 
if it have opportunity for its presents. As 
for giving a child all it cries for without 
any effort on its part to earn it—none of 
that at Hope Farm. As part return for 
the pigs our boys will gather forest leaves 
for bedding. I need all the mulching ma¬ 
terial I can find for the strawberries, and 
several parties have told me easy ways of 
gathering leaves. Here is one method: 
I have a number of 200-pound bran sacks. 
Rake up a large windrow of leaves, take a 
sack between your knees, stand both feet on 
part of the mouth and hold It open with one 
han<L, with the other scrape the leaves in the 
moutn and follow up the row of leaves. Set 
the sack upright occasionally and stuff the 
leaves down to the bottom around inside next 
to the sack; stuff it as full as it will hold, 
then take three wire nails, eight-penny, draw 
the center together, put in a nail for a pin 
and one each side of the center. You will 
be surprised to see how many leaves you can 
get in a sack. Then you have them where 
you can handle them. E. h. 
Greene Go., N. Y. 
Nothing Happens. —The other night 
as we sat on the porch after supper the 
moon came sailing out of the east. A 
little voice at my elbow spoke the thought 
of all of us: 
“What is the moon, anyivay?” 
That was too much for me, I confess, 
though I ought to have known offhand. 
It is folly to give children a guess when 
there is an encyclopaedia within reach, so 
we went in and hunted it up. The key¬ 
note of what we found about the moon 
is this: 
“We might describe the moon as a 
place where nothing ever happens. No 
sound ever breaks the eternal silence; 
every object, large or small, stays where 
it was placed long ages ago; and doubt¬ 
less our remotest posterity will see the 
moon just as we see it to-day.” 
I hope so, for the moon has been a 
source of cheerful comfort to me at 
times. I have watched it rise in lonely 
places where all we could do was to listen 
to the noises of solitude or watch the 
stars. Our folks decide that they do not 
care to live on the moon, where “nothing 
ever happens,” but the study of the moon 
brings up two things to make us thought¬ 
ful. One is that this lonely, desolate place 
can by means of its reflected light bring 
so much cheer and comfort to the world. 
Another is a city family who tell us that 
they consider the country just about as 
desolate as the moon, since nothing hap¬ 
pens among the hills. Nothing happens? 
Why, these poor things know nothing 
about the events that are constantly being 
worked out on a farm! We feel sorry 
for them. Their education has been 
neglected! 
The Women Folks. —The Rural folks 
are scattered all over the world. Not 
long ago I had a note from a man in Mex¬ 
ico farming 8,000 acres, with hope on 
every acre of them. Now here comes a 
man from Alaska with even more con¬ 
densed hope: 
Please find enclosed $1 foi next year’s sub¬ 
scription. Will try and pay what I owe you 
as soon as I sell my potatoes In Spring, 
which will he against my squaw’s wishes, 
for she nearly wore out the bottom of my 
boat going for that rose that never came, but 
as I never had much business with any firm 
that did not do me somehow, I will overlook 
that. It looks now as if I will be a suc¬ 
cess. Farming her for the last two years, I 
have made a little money raising potatoes. 
I have the Gold Coin. c. f. s. 
Now I feel sure that rose bush was sent. 
The blame rests upon some of Uncle 
Sam’s hired men. However, we are bound 
to get that rose bush up there somehow, 
and we shall try it again. It will do us 
lots of good to think of Ruby Queen 
climbing over an Alaskan home. As a 
rule the women folks decide what home 
papers shall be taken, and I have thought 
this fact was a great asset for The R. 
N.-Y. So I am all the more anxious that 
this good woman should have that rose. 
She wore out her patience as she wore 
out that boat rowing back and forth from 
her island home. The man, I regret to 
say, rather looked for fraud in most of his 
dealings, while the woman fully expected 
that rose and when it didn’t come I know 
just how she felt. It seems that human 
nature is much the same from Alaska to 
Cape Horn. 
Other things are much the same, too. 
One is the fertilizer question. You would 
hardly think this would trouble Alaskans, 
yet two years ago this same man wrote 
us about his best fertilizer for potatoes. 
He can get any amount of fish and fish 
waste and bones, and seaweed. What 
else should he have? Now the fish and 
the bones supply nitrogen and phosphoric 
acid, but no potash, and in the majority 
of cases where fertilizers are used potash 
is necessary. I went contrary to the ad¬ 
vice given hundreds of times and advised 
this man to use ashes with the fish. If I 
lived up there and wanted a potato fer¬ 
tilizer I would make a pile of dry seaweed 
and drift wood, pack the bones all through 
it and burn it to an ash. Of course this 
would drive out the nitrogen in the 
hones, but the fish will provide an abund¬ 
ance and the burning would turn the hard 
bones into bone ash. But you have 
claimed that the lime in wood ashes will 
cause scab on potatoes. No, I have said 
it will increase the scab should there be 
any in the soil or on the seed. There is 
a great difference between cause and in¬ 
crease. The tendency of the fish would 
be to make the land sour and this would 
overcome the effect of the lime somewhat. 
Anyway on this new land there would be 
no other way of obtaining potash. You 
see every rule except the Golden Rule was 
made to be stretched a little. h. w. c. 
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