1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes 
You would hardly call a dull drizzly 
Sunday in late October an ideal day 
for roaming over the hills, yet the baby 
and I were there. Our folks drove off 
to church and left the little chap to 
“keep me company” and, incidentally I 
was to keep him straight. Can it be 
possible that any of the Hope Farmers 
are inclined to walk in crooked ways? 
I fear that all of us are naturally in¬ 
clined that way. At any rate we can 
keep a straight gait on the hills among 
the trees. The picture was probably not 
one that ) r ou would keep long in mind. 
A man in old coat and a still older 
hat walked slowly through the woods— 
his rubber boots shuffling up the wet 
leaves. Hanging to his fingers was a 
little red-headed boy—his little feet pat¬ 
tering over the leaves. He held the 
man’s finger with one little hand while 
the other held a big apple up against his 
teeth. Under his arm was tucked a 
small pasteboard box in which Mother 
had put a “lunch.” The man’s head was 
a little bowed as he walked slowly on, 
for he was thinking of many things. 
The boy’s head was up as far as his 
apple would permit, for he was not 
thinking, but looking ahead. The sky 
was dull and gray. Across the sweep 
of the valley the Autumn tints showed 
on the trees. In the distance a thin 
ribbon of smoke showed where a train 
was crawling along at the western foot 
of the Palisades. The wind was rising 
cold and raw from the north. As the 
man and boy walked on through this 
cheerless stage setting they represented 
the meeting of two generations. 
“Won’t you carry me?” said the boy. 
“No—but you can sit on this stump 
and rest—I want you to learn to help 
yourself and save your own strength.” 
So the boy sat on the stump, opened 
his box and proceeded to bite into a 
cracker. 
“How long before I’ll be big?” 
“What do you want to be big for?” 
“So I can work on the farm—when 
I get big we’ll raise big crops, won’t 
we ?” 
The man certainly hopes so. That is 
what he is laying the foundation for, 
so that the boys may build on it. If he 
could only make them see the value of 
the foundation work they would be 
better off. There isn’t the fun or the 
showing in digging a ditch, hauling 
muck or getting out peach borers that 
there is in handling the money for fruit. 
Yet the man knows that the hoy must 
pass through one to reach the other. 
The little legs are soon rested and 
we go on as before. We look over our 
orchards, watch the crows flying over 
the woods and the squirrels hunting for 
nuts. The sky is clearing a little and 
there is a glimpse of the sun. Two lit¬ 
tle dogs come running along the path. 
They are friendly and run up to us 
with noses out. The boy is afraid. He 
drops my fingers and starts to run. Then 
as rne dogs follow he realizes that the 
point of safety is near me, and back he 
comes and holds my arm so tight that 
I could hardly fight for him if it were 
necessary. Though you may smile at 
the boy you have probably done the 
same thing with stronger defenders. 
The boy finally finished his “lunch,” 
and he was tired enough for his nap. 
So hack they come down the hill to 
the house. The man saw the falling 
leaves, the dead weeds, the leaden sky 
and all the other signs which indicated 
the closing scene. Yet, happily, he 
could also see the brisk young clover, 
the rye breaking through the ground, 
the young growth on the apple and the 
plump fruit buds on the peach. Here is 
fresh young life and hope and promise 
stored safely away for next year’s crop. 
So it is a question which had greater 
hope as they went down the wet hillside 
—the man or the boy. The boy protest¬ 
ed that he was not tired, yet five min¬ 
utes after he was tucked into bed he 
was sound asleep. And then the man 
sat down in a comfortable chair, with 
a dish of baked apples close at hand 
and found the place he had marked in 
the big history. 
Tree Making. —Some years ago I got 
a lot of seedling apple trees from a 
nurseryman. They were planted in a 
nursery row close by the woods at the 
back of the farm. Next Spring we for¬ 
got them until too late, and after that 
they were neglected. Grass and briers 
worked in and the trees finally looked 
exactly like the natural seedlings found 
scattered over the fields in apple sec¬ 
tions. This year the boys were large 
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GROWTH ON GRAFTED SEEDLINGS.” 
Fig. 530. 
enough to try grafting. They sawed off 
about 50 of these trees and stuck in 
wood of Baldwin and Fall Pippin. The 
trees had no culture—our object being 
to see if we could top-work natural 
seedlings under natural conditions. Every 
tree lived, and I show a couple of them 
as they looked in October. The trees 
shown in the upper picture are fair 
specimens . They were grafted the lat¬ 
ter part of April. The one in the boy’s 
right hand had a large trunk, which was 
sawed quite close to the ground. It 
has made a thick, bushy top, while the 
other had made a thinner but longer top. 
The other picture shows how we shall 
cut those trees back for transplanting. 
The root system is good and the 
growth is very thrifty. Now we know 
how to do it I expect to work many 
trees in this way, and also top-work a 
number of fence corner trees which now 
produce sweet natural fruit. There are a 
number of such trees scattered over one 
field, all sweet apples of various sizes 
and seasons. Sweet fruit is of little ac¬ 
count with us, but by top-working to 
Fall Pippin or McIntosh I can make 
these trees very useful.- 
At the Boston fruit show, I met men 
who told how they have top-worked 
these natural fruit trees with fine re¬ 
sults. On some farms these seedlings 
AS CUT FOR PLANTING Fig. 531. 
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is magnificent. Naturally these trees 
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