1909. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hope Farm Notes 
The Commission Man. — Farmers 
often heap abuse upon the commission 
man, and some of it is well deserved. 
It is well for all of us to examine our 
own eyes before we go hunting for 
motes in the eyes of others. A case of 
our own shows this. We made a ship¬ 
ment of Brussels sprouts a month ago. 
They were packed in crates, and the 
men neglected to use the stencil for 
marking them. I told the boy, on the 
way to the station, to address the crates 
properly, as I had no time to attend to 
it myself. Days grew to weeks, but I 
heard nothing from those sprouts, so I 
decided to go after that commission 
man. When I made my complaint he 
calmly showed me that the boy forgot 
to put my name on the crates, and 
there was no way of telling where the 
goods came from. They had been sold, 
and the money was ready as soon as 
the shipper came forward. There was 
no getting away from it, for he had 
me fast. He showed me a thick pad 
of bills and records of sales ready tp 
be paid when the owners came forward. 
In our business we frequently have let¬ 
ters sometimes unsigned, and often 
without any post-office address. Some 
enclose money and others ask impor¬ 
tant questions, but we cannot attend 
to them until later some one comes 
with a furious complaint. The best 
answer to that is to send the original 
letter right back to him. That is what 
you may call convincing evidence. 
When you find the perfect man you will 
generally strike one who is incapable 
of doing business. 
The Apple Supply. —The following- 
letter opens up an old subject: 
I notice the Hope Farm man thinks he 
will be short of apples to bake and cat be¬ 
fore the season ends; on account of the un¬ 
favorable season they do not keep, and he 
sold too many. Now, I am not disap¬ 
pointed ; I expected you to he in this tix 
before. When I met you a few years atto 
I tried to interest you in planting a dozen 
trees that would give you fresh apples 
every day in the year, if you had planted 
then and given them the care you did 
those trees you exhibited in The It. N.-Y. 
December 6. you would have had four 
barrels of good apples to carry you over 
the Spring. They bear every year and each 
year your crop would have increased. I 
am sorry you are going to run short. You 
may get relief from cold storage, but it is 
much better to have them in one’s cellar. 
B. M. STONE. 
I remember meeting Mr. Stone and 
listening to his talk about the Missing 
Link apple. Now that we have missed 
several links his talk seems reasonable. 
He didn’t quite claim that you could 
handle Missing Links like potatoes, then 
let the boys play baseball with them 
through the Summer, then have the 
women use them for pin-cushions, and 
have them turn up as yearlings just 
right for baking—but he came reason¬ 
ably near it. Seriously, there is little 
doubt as to the keeping quality of this 
variety. I am of the opinion, too, that 
it beats Ben Davis for quality, which, 
of course, is not high praise. However, 
the value of a thing is based upon de¬ 
sire. Suppose, now that your own sup¬ 
ply is low, some one came forward with 
a pan of well-baked Ben Davis—would 
you take back some of the hard things 
you have said? Well, it is a dangerous 
thing to tempt people in any such way. 
Mr. Stone takes the position that there 
are two ways of having a full year’s 
supply of apples. One is to buy cold 
storage fruit when your supply of ordi¬ 
nary varieties runs short; the other, to 
grow long-keeping varieties and thus 
have the cellar supply of one season 
lap over into the next one. The latter 
plan is certainly nearer the reach of 
the farmer. 
Women and Farming. —You may 
remember that in speaking of the nui¬ 
sance of deer in Vermont (page 50) 
1 he R.-N. Y. said that bashfulness in 
men may usually be traced to a dear. 
Now comes a Vermont farmer with 
this proposition: 
T believe you hit it nearly right when 
you changed the spelling to dear. If the 
women of this country would believe in the 
farm and. the possibilities of living a life 
worth while in the country, the business of 
farming would receive new life, and many 
of tiie ills it. suffers from to-day would be 
cured. I believe that our women have not 
been directing the toil of our men toward 
the country as they have toward the city, 
and the country is suffering from it. 
Here is a new thought to many of 
us, and one which ought to be well 
considered. I believe this proposition 
is as sound as a rock. There is no in¬ 
fluence in society stronger than that 
exerted by a good woman. That was 
one reason why I said and still main¬ 
tain that women like “Nell Beverly” do 
far more real erood for society than 
many women who live amid larger op¬ 
portunities, and who become “known to 
fame.” I have seen so much of what 
our friend refers to that whenever a 
city man asks if he can make a living 
on a farm I would refuse to answer 
until I knew how his wife and daugh¬ 
ters feel about the country. We may 
as well put it down as settled that men 
as a class do not drive or lead women 
—they follow them. That is one rea¬ 
son why a sound, practical education is 
even more necessary for girls than for 
the boys. You may train all the boys 
you can find at agricultural colleges, 
but unless they can find girls with 
something of the “Nell Beverly” spirit 
few of these boys will contentedly head 
for the country. That was one reason 
why our little hook was published. We 
need new ideals and new education for 
girls and women. 
Farm Notes.— We had one change 
from the damp and soggy weather. The 
mercury fell to seven below zero one 
morning, but, as if ashamed of itself, 
quickly climbed up again. The buds 
were well swollen last Fall, and the 
warm V inter has not hardened them, 
but I do not think they are seriously 
injured. Whenever the mercury goes 
to that point, however, it is time for 
the peach grower to tighten up his belt 
and read something that will give him 
fresh philosophy. I can often find that 
in a plate of baked apples, but since 
that solace is now denied me I must 
go to certain old books for a substitute. 
As the mercury fell -the children forgot 
about the peach buds. What difference 
does a frozen peach bud make anyway 
when you are young and mother says 
you can go out after supper and coast 
on the. long hill in front of the house? 
The girls finally induced me to go out 
and coast down a few times. The rush 
and sting of the air was a better tonic 
for the spirits even than baked apples. 
Even though the mercury was still fall¬ 
ing I came back very sure the buds 
were safe. 
“Oh, but I am glad we live where 
there are hills,” said the girls as they 
came in rosy with the cold. So am I, 
in spite of the brags which the level 
country folks can make.The 
lumber pile from our woods is grow¬ 
ing. By Spring we shall have enough 
for new stable floors and for an 
addition to the house. As the children 
grow larger we feel the need of more 
room. I want a “den,” a room of my 
own, .where I can have books and pa¬ 
pers in confusion if need be. Then we 
want an open fireplace in this house, 
and we need a new bedroom. So our 
plan is, this Summer, to build a little 
addition at the rear of the house and 
have these rooms. We can get most 
of the lumber from our own woods 
You remember that on page 69 there 
was a question about mice-girdled trees. 
Here we have a statement from a New 
York man: 
W. O. N. asks, page 69, if paint will help 
liis trees where girdled by mice. I have a 
pear free that was completely girdled by 
mice up 10 inches from the ground, and in 
only a few places was the cambium-sheath 
left, and then only in spots. How long it 
had been girdled I do not know; I discov¬ 
ered it in the Spring when the snow melted. 
Immediately I made a thick plaster of 
fresh cow droppings on a cloth wide enough 
to cover the denuded portion and lap on 
the bark three inches: then a waterproof 
cloth around that, all well hound with 
heavy twine, and finished my job by a 
heavy trimming to the tree. My cloth 
rotted off in about three years, leaving me 
a perfectly healthy tree. Six years ago a 
stray steer came into my yard and broke 
off a tree Hydrangea about four inches 
from the ground. The Hydrangea was then 
-}/■> inches in diameter. This top was en¬ 
tirely separated from the stump for two 
hours, and was carried 20 feet away by the 
steer. By the use of the same kind of 
plaster, very thick, and well supported 
with splints, also well roped to stakes, my 
tree lived and threw out new leaves in 
about six weeks, the old ones dropping 
completely. Time of accident, July. A 
heavy ridge entirely around the tree still 
remains, showing where the break was. So 
I would say to W. G. N., save your trees 
if you have an;/ sap wood left by grafting 
wax or my method. Be thorough in what 
you do. w, 
T would not discourage experiments 
with a few trees. This method is as 
good as any I know of, but it will not 
answer where the cambium has been 
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