1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
830 
Hope Farm Notes 
Woman’s Work.— We are hearing 
more and more from the farm women. 
They seem to be well able to speak 
for themselves. Some of them strte 
frankly and with a hopeless pathos that 
their lives are hard—that they are 
denied rest which might be easily af¬ 
forded. Some are the victims of plain 
dollar chasing—for the sake of the v 
dollar. Others are in trouble because 
the dollar is hunted the wrong way, 
or in places where there arc few dol¬ 
lars. The greater part of our letters 
are from hopeful women who work 
hard, yet find compensation and hap¬ 
piness in their home service. Several 
women tell us how they are conducting 
farms with good success. Among other 
reports is the following, which is worth 
committing to memory: 
As my little girl of nine went to leave 
her jacket in our Methodist dining hall at 
the fair, she was put to setting tables. 
Finally, as they were still short of help, 
she was required to wait on a table. When 
I came later tlie ladies were loud in her 
praise. In answer to my quizzing on the 
way home, she said : “No, I did not forget 
to serve the soup, or anything. I did it 
all right.” “Well !” I remarked, remem¬ 
bering the number who sat at the same 
table the year before, “I think they ought 
to have tipped the waiter. Did they?” “No, 
y-e-s; one lady did ; she backed into me and 
made me spill the soup all down a man’s 
back.” I held in long enough to ask if the 
man said anything. “No, but he looked 
just awful.” AIRS. B. 
It is well to know the exact mean¬ 
ing of words. That woman certainly 
“tipped” the little waiter—the wrong 
way. As for the man who “looked 
just awful ’’—I imagine his unspoken 
words were not suitable for a Metho¬ 
dist supper. Had it been his own child 
or wife who poured the soup over him 
there would probably have been a merry 
time—when they got home. “I won’t 
be bossed by no woman!” I knew a 
man once who laid that down as his 
rule of life, and ended by being or¬ 
dered about by wife and daughter, who 
formed a mutual defense society. 
Planting Trees. — The following 
question from Ohio gets down to busi-* 
ness: 
I have a hill field that I expect to plant 
to apples in the Fall of 1910. The field 
needs some humus first, before planting. 
Would I be ahead to buy the small-sized 
trees and grow them in a small plot for 
two years, or could I grow the trees in that 
time by root-grafting seedlings this Spring? 
I want apples as soon as possible. Which 
is the quicker way to get them? o. e. c. 
Ohio. 
When I began planting our orchards 
I set the trees right in the rough 
ground, or even among brush and 
stumps. I thought we could clear the 
land and fit it while the trees were 
growing. So you can, but I am now 
satisfied that this is not always the 
best way. If I had such a field as 
our friend mentions I would cultivate 
it this year and next, plowing in all 
the organic matter I could—like oats 
and peas, millet and rye and clover—• 
using lime in the Fall. The soil would 
then be well stuffed with vegetable 
matter and in fine shape for planting. 
This Spring I would buy fair-sized ap¬ 
ple trees and plant them in rows about 
4x5 feet apart, and give them good cul¬ 
ture. You could make the rows six 
feet apart and plant beans between. 
Keep on cultivating next year, and late 
in Fall cut these trees back and trans¬ 
plant where they are to stand per¬ 
manently. You will then have your soil 
in fine condition while the trees will 
have made a good growth. We did 
this last Fall with nearly 100 apple 
trees, and I have every reason to be¬ 
lieve they will start off this Spring 
just as. I want them. While we have 
had fair success in planting on soil 
which vye knew was not fit, and then 
fitting it after trees were planted, I 
would now advise the plan I speak of, 
and fit the land first with the trees 
close planted by themselves. 
Farm and Home.— March thus far 
has been damp and cold, and in spite 
of the mild weather in February the 
season will not be much earlier than 
usual. Thus far the peach buds are 
safe—they have made but little growth 
during March, and with each week 
now our 'chance for a crop grow 
brighter. I do not think this is a 
natural peach section, yet our experi¬ 
ence thus far in planting on the hills 
induces me to keep on and I shall plant 
more of Carman and Elherta this 
Spring. . As the boys begin to take 
serious interest in the fruit I shall en¬ 
courage them to start a little nursery 
an d_make specialties of Carm an peacq ^ 
and Baldwin apple from our own bear¬ 
ing stock. I think there will be a fair 
chance for small nurseries to take uo 
a few choice varieties and produce 
good trees. Several years ago I planted 
a number of apple seedlings, intending 
to bud them that season. This was 
neglected, and the trees have grown 
pretty much at will ever since. They 
are now quite large., and we plan to 
graft them this Spring. I shall have 
a neighbor who is an expert come and 
graft part of them, with the boys to 
watch him at it. Then they will po 
ahead and see what they can do with 
the rest. I ‘shall use Fall Pippin, Bald¬ 
win and McIntosh from our own or¬ 
chards for wood. The Fall Pippin is, 
to my mind, one of the best of all 
apples. I think we can pick it at the 
right time, put it in storage and handle 
it in December to great profit. I 
planted a vineyard in the wrong place, 
as I now find out. You can hardly 
look ahead too far in planning for 
permanent fruit, for when the trees 
and vines get their size they may be 
all out of shape for your plans. We 
are digging these vines up and putting 
them along a high trellis which will 
screen, the yard and lawn from the 
garden. The vines that are left will 
be planted along one of the big stone 
walls on the hill, trained up on a four- 
foot stake and then left to crawl over 
the wall at will. The vines which have 
been started in this way are remark¬ 
ably thrifty, and give large yields of 
beautiful grapes. It seems to me like 
a good way to utilize these old stone 
walls. Some people advise burying old 
stones. In our country it is only a 
question of a few years before all 
these walls will have value for build¬ 
ing stone. I firmly believe that the 
stone walls on Hope Farm \vill some 
day bring as much as I paid originally 
for the farm. There are now four 
tunnels unde, the Hudson River—be¬ 
tween New York and New Jersey, and 
more are to follow. That means great 
floods of people pouring back and forth 
each day to work in New York and 
sleep on our hills. I speak of this to 
show that land in our section is going 
^0 high in value that only the highest 
type of gardening or fruit farming 
will pay. People write asking if they 
cannot buy a small farm here at a low 
price. It would be impossible to do 
so. Such people must now go farther 
back. 
I have noticed that when a man 
wants to sell his farm property he can 
sit down and think of a dozen chances 
which he has not tried to work out. 
If men could only prove to themselves 
what they try to prove to others we 
should have a great world. The fol¬ 
lowing letter from a man in Maine will 
probably interest many of our western 
readers. This man is not trying to sell 
—he does not work the farm himself 
because he is a fisherman—but see what 
could be done! 
Farm consists of 135 acres, some of the 
best crops that can be found in the State 
of Maine. There are. 500,000 feet of White 
pine lumber and 2,000 of cordwood. I am 
just holding this until I find a market for 
the lumber. I am a lobster fisherman and 
have not worked the farm any for seven 
years. Last year it cut 12 tons of hay. I 
could get 1,000 cords of sea dressing every 
year besides tons and tons of waste fish. 
Farm is seven miles from Brunswick. 10 
miles from Bath and 20 miles from Port¬ 
land. I go from my place to Portland in 
three hours in my motor boat. Plenty of 
fish, lobsters and clams; codfish is selling 
now for three cents for large and two 
cents per pound for small; any fish that 
does not weigh 10 pounds is a small one. 
Clams, 10 cents per peck, or you can dig 
a peck in 15 minutes within 100 yards of 
the house. House is only 300 yards from 
steamboat wharf, 500 yards from a Sum¬ 
mer hotel that will accommodate 150 
guests, and they have to feed them on 
canned peas, beans, etc., because they can¬ 
not get the fresh ones unless they send to 
Portland. If a man wanted to start in 
poultry raising let him raise his poultry 
and raise his grain and he could make $500 
from 200 hens, as it has been done here. 
If a man wanted to try sheep I have pas¬ 
ture enough for 30 ewes, and if he wants 
to try truck farming he can get good prices 
for his stuff at the Summer hotel and 
bouses of which there are about 300 with¬ 
in five miles of the farm. 
G. W. S., THE LOBSTER MAN. 
What he means by “sea dressing” is 
seaweed and kelp—thrown on the 
shore by the sea. The waste fish will 
furnish nitrogen and phosphoric acid 
in large quantities and the sea will 
also provide half the food for a fam¬ 
ily besides giving a job to a fisher¬ 
man. People who live inland do not 
realize what, can be obtained from the 
sea. You will ask why do not all these 
sea farmers grow rich? The answer is 
that, those who have the true farm 
spirit and study their markets and crops 
are probably as well-to-do as any other 
class of farmers in the land. You see 
it all comes down past the soil, the 
crops and the man, to the spirit and 
horse sense that lie back of him. 
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