1907. 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Michigan Fruit Growers. —I went 
to Battle Creek to attend the Michigan 
State Horticultural meeting. Those 
Michigan fruit growers know their 
business, though J. H. Hale told them 
they were the worst packers in the 
country—which I do not believe. A 
speaker at a New York dinner recently 
said that Ohio was settled by eastern 
people who started to go “out West” 
and lost their nerve, so they stopped 
at the most convenient place. This 
cannot be said of Michigan, for it re¬ 
quired great nerve and patience to turn 
aside into this peninsula and drain the 
rich swamps. When they got these 
swamps drained they had some of the 
most productive land in the country, 
while the labor of draining developed 
some of the most useful men. Over 25 
years ago, when I was a student at the 
Michigan College, it was hard to find 
a gray-haired man who was born in the 
State. Most of them had come as 
children when their fathers were pio¬ 
neers. Now a new generation has 
grown up, and there are plenty of white 
hairs that have been developed from 
the fuzziest of down on Michigan soil. 
All this is giving Michigan people a 
firmer hold upon the soil, and the things 
that make for permanent civilization are 
growing deeper and deeper into the 
ground. 
On the way down from Port Huron 
we passed through a low flat country 
of apparently strong soil. Twenty years 
ago about all the fences you saw in 
this country were up-rooted stumps 
placed side by side so that the roots 
formed the fence. Strangers from the 
East where civilization is 200 years old¬ 
er laughed at these fences, yet they 
were the most economical that could 
have been provided. Now these fences 
have largely disappeared along the rail¬ 
roads—wire taking their place. 1 have 
no doubt that crops of all kinds will 
show in higher color and increased 
vigor for years where the old stump 
fences stood—just as for years the 
memory of the strong, honorable lives 
of the old pioneers will influence so¬ 
ciety. A good deal of Fall plowing 
had been done on those fiat lands. In 
some places I saw a plan of avoiding a 
deep Winter dead furrow that was 
new to me. The fields were plowed to 
the right, around and around, but in¬ 
stead of leaving the dead furrow a 
strip of sod some two feet wide was 
left at the center—to be finished, [ pre¬ 
sume, in the Spring. I cannot say that 
I was glad to see acres of corn still out 
in the field, but 1 remembered my own 
snowbound shocks at home. The big 
open ditches alongside the roads made 
me realize that the good road problem 
is harder here than with us, where most 
of our roads are on ridges which give 
good drainage, and are close to gravel 
and stone. Here and there I saw great 
piles of stones, evidently picked from 
the fields. I should put them in drains 
and wells on the wet ground. Who 
said wind power was going out of use? 
It seems to me I never saw so many 
windmills as there were in this part of 
Michigan. 
I cannot say that there was anything 
about this flat country that attracted 
me. Give me the hills. The worst 
feature, as 1 saw it, was the slovenly ap¬ 
pearance of farmhouses and small 
towns.. In our country we plant trees 
and vines around our houses. It is a 
part of our business to do this, because 
we know that it improves the value 
of property and makes it more avail¬ 
able for sale. It makes me feel that 
country people are not living up to their 
privilege when I see square boxes of 
houses squatting on the ground with no 
sign of tree or bush around them—no 
shade from the sun or shelter from the 
wind. With a few dollars spent for 
trees, or even a few seedlings from the 
woods and a little care all this could be 
changed. Instead of wishing the train 
would go faster and get him out of the 
country a traveler would like to stay 
longer and carry away with him a pleas- 
THH? RURAL NEW-YORKER 
ant memory of homely comfort. And 
some of the little towns through which 
the trains pass are worse yet. Prob¬ 
ably the residents do not realize how 
such things look to one who comes 
from a neater section. Some of these 
towns are prosperous, with fine people 
and beautiful homes, but you would 
never think so from the streak of lean 
ugliness which is exposed along the 
railroad. 
Now this is not true of all of Michi¬ 
gan. In the older parts of the State, 
and where the influence of the College 
and the Horticultural Society is felt, 
people are proud of their homes and 
towns, and realize the value of neat¬ 
ness. 1 was glad to see that the Horti¬ 
cultural Society makes a feature of 
this pride in the home as well as the 
production and sale of fruit. I find 
that already the country people in 
Michigan are beginning to face some 
of the hard problems which “civiliza¬ 
tion’’ forces upon them. The large 
cities like Chicago, Detroit and Grayd 
Rapids are reaching out into the coun¬ 
try for land and for finer products. 
Along Lake Michigan to Benton Har¬ 
bor and beyond there is a growing de¬ 
mand for building places which gives 
the land too great a value for ordi¬ 
nary farming. 1 found people there 
who feel just as people do in our 
country—that sooner or later much of 
the land will reach such a valuation that 
it will scarcely pay to use it for fruit 
growing. Add to this the fact that a 
treeze last Fall destroyed thousands 
and thousands of fruit trees in this sec¬ 
tion, and we can see that those growers 
have plenty to think about. Many have 
already pulled the frozen trees out, and 
will replant. From my experience this 
is wise. I have tried to nurse these 
frost-bitten trees along, and have al¬ 
ways lost by doing so. The freeze will 
in the end drive or lead those men to 
better methods or varieties, so that they 
will be better off. 1 think they will be 
obliged to follow something; of the 
methods which have saved the farmers 
and truck growers along the Jersey 
coast and Long Branch. These men by 
crowding their acres and fitting their 
crops to the wealthy newcomers have 
grown more prosperous than ever. Thus 
with growing home markets and trol¬ 
leys and telephones spreading out all 
over the State Michigan fruit growers 
are touching “civilization” as their fath¬ 
ers and grandfathers never dreamed of 
doing. What they want to remember 
is that while this “civilization” may pay 
a bounty on their fruit crops it may also 
put a blight upon the child crop, un¬ 
less they meet in in the right way. What 
will be the use in developing a great 
fruit farm to feed the city people on 
dainties unless there is a home on that 
farm which will hold the children? I 
was glad to see that Michigan people 
understood this. You should have 
heard those Michigan fruit growers 
stand up and sing “Home. Sweet Home” 
without any music to guide them. And 
baked apples? 1 confess that I nearly 
reached my limit, for wherever 1 went 
people remembered my weakness (or 
strength) and put out a plate of baked 
beauties! And when I got home I 
found another great panful—and this 
letter from Chicago: 
I consider the Hope Farm Man’s letters 
as Rood reading as R< Lin son Crusoe; he 
certainly would make a dandy Robinson 
Crusoe. .lust imagine Hope Farm a desert 
island: Friday’s face would break in two 
at sight of those luscious strawberries and 
baked apples. u. g. e. 
Illinois. 
Oh—I don’t know! I could view a 
desert island with philosophy if I could 
choose my own companions and have 
an orchard to look after. I have an ; 
idea most missionaries would make sat- j 
isfactory progress if they could arm j 
themselves with a plate of baked apples. I 
By the way—there’s another use for the ! 
apple which has not been suggested 
before! 
A Meatless Banquet. —While we 
were at Battle Creek Dr. Kellogg, of 
the famous sanitarium, gave us a ban¬ 
quet. There were neither microbes nor 
meat about it, and it was voted a great 
success in every way. Here is the full 
bill of fare: 
Celery Ripe Olives Suited Pine Nuts 
Grape Fruit 
Almond Bouillon Bread Sticks 
Apple Juice 
Roast Protose Sage Dressing 
Potatoes Baked in I in if Shell French Peas 
Crab Apple Jelly 
Nut and Rice- Croquettes 
Browned Sweet Potatoes 
Waldorf Salad Cream Crisps 
Raspberry Nectar 
French Floating Island 
White Cake Cashew Nuts 
Orange Gelde 
Kumquats Apples Pears 
Cornicbon Grapes Muscat Grapes 
Yogurt Cheese Toasted Cheese 
No Ko 
I cannot imagine a better substitute 
fot; Ijeef soup than the “almond broth.” 
It appeared to be nuts chopped or 
shredded and boiled down to a thick 
soup. It was delicious. The “roast 
protose” stumped me, but it appeared to 
be a mixture of nuts and cereals 
chopped fine and pressed and then 
baked like a veal loaf. It was served 
with a brown gravy, and was a full sub¬ 
stitute for meat. You will say there 
were no apples, but there were. That 
“Waldorf salad” was full of them, and 
the toastmaster presented me with a 
plate of extra fine baked ones. Within 
two feet of me there were enough ap¬ 
ple consumers to clean that plate in 
five minutes. Dr. Kellogg thinks raw 
apples are better than baked, but I 
think it is more a matter of teeth. Dr. 
Kellogg gave some facts about meat 
eating that made many of us thoughtful. 
I think he is right, and that all of us 
over 40 would be better off if we cut 
meat out of our diet. The food he of¬ 
fered would surely sustain any man of 
decent disposition. Another good thing 
abut this banquet was that it gave the 
Michigan fruit growers a good idea of 
the benefit of such a meeting. Let peo¬ 
ple come together for a feast with the 
lighter part of the programme to fol¬ 
low the eating and folks will go home 
with the best of feeling. That’s the 
best thing on earth to take home with 
you. _ h. w. c. 
The Wife: “Fancy. John, they are 
getting out a woman’s dictionary. I 
wonder if it’s any different from the 
others?” The Husband; “Probably 
has more words in it.”—London Tele¬ 
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