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TI-TEJ RUR-A-L, NEW-YORKER 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes— I regret to say that 
the strawberries are not all mulched yet. 
A man who pretends to be a strawberry 
grower ought to be ashamed to make 
such an admission at Christmas. Yet 
he ought to telb the truth. This Fall 
was a hard one to do work suitably. 
There was one long succession of rains 
which while fine for the cover crops 
was like a drag upon corn husking and 
apple picking. We got behind and had 
to haul the last three acres of corn un- 
lmsked to the barn. 1 like to put the 
mulch on at the first hard freeze. Very 
likely it would be better to put it on 
in November at the first crust, but we 
waited and just when we were ready 
came our first snow, deep enough to 
cover the plants so that we could not 
tell just where to put the mulch. This 
snow is all right while it lasts—but as 
Soon as we can tell just where the 
plants are we shall put on the manure. 
I don’t like to be caught in this way, 
though the great damage to uncovered 
strawberries is done in the Spring when 
the soil freezes at night and thaws 
in the day.When the soil 
finally froze up the Crimson clover was 
some six inches high on an average, 
with a good root. The Cow-horn tur¬ 
nips average over .'to inches from tip 
of top to the end of the large roots. 
1 judge that these turnips will act like 
a sort of mulch and protect the clover 
about as the mulch protects my straw¬ 
berries. If I had plenty of manure 
I would put a good coat of it over 
the Crimson clover and the Alfalfa, but 
the greater part of our manure is 
needed for the strawberries. I believe 
in putting it on thick—where it will 
do the most good. In Michigan, along 
the lakes, T found that Winter vetch is 
preferred to Crimson clover as a cover 
crop, the latter not doing well there. 
We scraped away the snow from one 
field and T saw how the vetch had 
grown during the Fall. It was five times 
as large as mine—seeded at about the 
same time. I am told that this plant 
makes a remarkable growth in Spring 
and that it does better after several 
years of growth on the same land. 
1 hope so, for my crop at present needs 
a lot of hope and encouragement. . . 
During the cold and stormy weather 
we have been husking in the barn. The 
more I see of our flint corn the better T 
like it. The dry stalks are fed whole 
to both horses and cows, and you would 
be surprised to see how little waste 
there is. Yet, many of those slender 
stalks carry two good ears. A man 
who had never grown anything but 
the large dent corn would laugh at 
those ears until he tried the real test. 
Let him weigh one of his big ears, shell 
it and then weigh the cob. Then let 
him do the same with our two smaller 
ears of flint and see what he had in 
grain. That would make him thought¬ 
ful if anything could. It is still my 
belief that on our rough hills an acre 
of this Hope Farm flint planted 2 l / 2 feet 
each way can yield more grain than 
any other crop we could put in. Right 
in this connection the following letter 
from a Long Island farmer is interest¬ 
ing: 
I see you are looking for a variety of 
corn that grows quick, can be planted 
as late as June 15, will yield a goodly 
a mount of corn and that has shorl leafy 
stalks. I am sending you by mail to-day 
two ears of a variety that completely an¬ 
swers your description. While these are 
not ideal ears they will give you a start 
and be sufficient for experiment. The 
farmers of Orient have raised this variety 
for quite a number of years and their 
method was as follows: Plant Early Ohio 
potatoes about April 1, harrow, weed, cul¬ 
tivate and hoe till June 10 to 15, when the 
tops should nearly meet rows two feet 
eight inches apart. Then the next morn¬ 
ing after ji shower between every other 
row of potatoes plant this corn in hills 
2% feet apart, if you want corn, or closer 
if you want stalks. By this time the po¬ 
tatoes should have been cultivated six 
times and you can go through the other 
row once or twice more before digging. 
I tig the potatoes by middle of July, sell 
for good price and cultivate the corn at 
once. Cultivate till middle of August and 
then sow Red Clover and Timothy and cul¬ 
tivate in with Planet. Jr., 12-tootli. Dig 
potatoes with Planet. Jr plow digger. 
Plant not later than April X Early Ohio 
seed and dig July 15. when potatoes 
should turn out 2dO bushels per acre. This 
system has been practiced here for 17 
years: some of our farmers still think it 
is all right and some condemn it. You 
can try it. chari.es t„ young. 
This man sends me a couple of ears 
of his corn. It is a yellow flint with 
a larger kernel and a larger cob than 
ours. [ will use some of it this year. 
We have tried the plan he mentions 
with our own corn, though we cannot 
plant potatoes so early. Thus we have 
to give at least one hand hoeing before 
we can dig the potatoes and cultivate. 
I find that the success of such cropping 
depends on the season largely. If 
there is plenty of moisture you can get 
a fair crop of both corn and potatoes, 
not a large crop of either. If the 
season is too dry both crops will suffer. 
Judging Things. —“Why should any¬ 
one zcant such a foolish variety as 
that/” That was Mother’s comment 
last June at the first taste of Excelsior 
strawberry. Now I bought Excelsior 
on faith. It was guaranteed to be 
earlier than Michel's Early, a fine ship¬ 
per and a heavy yielder. \\ c do very little 
with early varieties. Marshall is early 
enough for our trade but it doesn’t suit 
our folks to have the neighbors eating 
berries 10 days before we do. So 1 got 
Excelsior to help out. The berries were 
early and they looked nice in the box— 
but sour—why, they would beat the old 
Mary strawberry as a pickle. All I could 
say was that they would be fine for can¬ 
ning. Our folks took me at my word and 
.put up many jars. \\ e opened one the 
other night and—well, it pleases any man 
to learn that he is a true prophet. I doubt 
if a finer berry ever came out of a can. 
The very acid wh ch set nerves and 
teeth all askew in the raw, under the 
influence of cooking, became a taste 
which straightened out all the cares 
of life for the moment. I hav ■ found 
no poorer berry for eating raw than 
Excelsior and no better one for can¬ 
ning. Excelsior means ‘‘still higher 
and that’s a good name for this berry, 
since it ought to go up through the 
chemistry of cooking into a can. We 
sometimes hear from country clergymen 
who say they get ideas for their ser¬ 
mons from The R N.-Y. Wc suggest 
this as a good one for them to work out 
—showing the development of charac¬ 
ter. 
Alt. Sorts.— T have never known such 
a flood of questions as is now pouring 
in. 1 am glad to find more and more 
of the sort evidently written by people 
who are unused to writing and who 
cannot clearly express what they have 
in mind. I can read between the lines 
and 1 do my best to answer them. Next 
week I wili try to print some of these 
questions. It will give you a better 
idea of what poor, and nearly hopeless 
people are trying to work out after 
their untrained and untaught fashion. 
Now here is a question from a man 
in Maryland which will interest many: 
“Will you give me a few good names 
that would be suitable for girl babies?” 
1 shall have to decline the job, for 
the naming of a child is a serious mat¬ 
ter. I think most of us if we had the 
chance would change our names after 
we grew up. It is something like tak¬ 
ing advantage of a child to rivet a 
name upon it without giving the poor 
thing any chance for appeal. I have 
known men named Claude and Alonzo 
who in appearance, training and occupa¬ 
tion were such misfits for their names 
that these cognomens stuck out from 
them like sore thumbs. As for women, 
think of a delicate child named Violet 
or Fairy growing up to weigh 200 
pounds or more, or a Geraldine, taking- 
all the poetry out of her name! Now, 
I think the mother of the child ought 
always to have the right to name it. 
Even with her full knowledge of its 
father she hopes the little thing will 
grow up to be both beautiful and good, 
and she may select a name which rep¬ 
resents those qualities. That is some¬ 
thing of a gamble, however, for the 
beauty name or the name picked out of 
history may not fit later on. My ad¬ 
vice would be for the .mother to think 
over the people who are closest* and 
dearest to her and give 'their names to 
her children. That will be the next thing 
to having these loved ones with her. 
She may live in fond hopes that their 
good qualities will be found in her 
children with their regrettable habits 
wiped out. If the man of the house 
should say that this plan might pre¬ 
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