1908. 
THE KUKAL NE\\rVC)l -iKEE 
05 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —" he weather still keeps 
away from Wirier. Now and then we 
have a short snap of cold, hut it is not 
long continued, and outdoor work is 
comfortable. This promises to be a hard 
Winter on unprotected strawberry 
plants. With the uncovered ground and 
the freeze and thaw of the cold nights 
and sunny days many plants will be 
slowly lifted out and left on top. The 
thick, matted rows will stand it better 
than the hills. 
Speaking of spraying to kill the scale 
here is a note from Illinois, such as we 
to Rural No. 2 or Carman. A cow 
at pasture will from choice nibble ten¬ 
der young clover in preference to full- 
grown Timothy, but no sane man will 
claim that the latter is “cowless.” All 
varieties of potatoes will he eaten by 
bugs if the bugs get a chance at them. 
You can tell that agent for me that 
there will be bugs on his potato vines 
and plenty of them inside his head also 
if he keeps on telling such stories. He 
needs spraying badly. 
Tired ok Life. —Out of the flood of 
letters from city men who think they 
want a change I select the following: 
Would you advise an office worker with, 
say $000 saved, strong, but tired of city 
life, to try rairlng pineapples, etc., on the 
Hawaiian Islands, as it is described in 
newspaper letters. Ho you think he could 
compete with big capital and cheat) labor? 
often get: 
The Hope Farm man used lye for Peach 
borers. Was it a success? Could lye be 
used as a spray for San Jose scale, or 
would I better use arsenite of lime, arsen¬ 
ate of lead, or Disparene in fruit garden? 
1 can only work one or two hours at a 
time, not time to boil and prepare lime- 
sulphur. X p. Y. 
Illinois. 
I used hot lye for the borers but I 
would not use it for the scale. Some 
years ago it was claimed that caustic 
soda was a sure scale killer, but few 
use it now. The poisons you mention 
would have no effect upon the scale. 
You might as well try to poison a cat 
by rubbing Paris green on its back. The 
scale does not eat the leaves as the Po¬ 
tato bug does, but sucks the sap through 
a tube. During the Winter the insect 
is covered by the little scale or shell. 
You can only kill it by covering it with 
some material that will attack from the 
outside. In your case I should certainly 
use the soluble oil. You can mix this 
instantly by pouring what you need 
into water and stirring. Do not, how¬ 
ever, imagine that the oil will kill the 
leaf-eating insects. It is not a poison. 
If tlm Hope Farm man could get un¬ 
leached hickory ashes for $1 per cubic yard, 
two miles from home, would lie get them? 
If so to what crops would he apply them, 
in what way, in wliai quantity, and at what 
season would he apply them? Are they of 
value to kill or prevent borers at the roots 
of peach trees? a. e. c. 
Alabama. 
The Hope Farm man would muster 
I have never visited these islands but 
I venture the guess that unless this 
man is entirely tired of life he would 
much better keep away from them. We 
have some subscribers there who will 
set me right if I am wrong. A man 
with limited capital would, I believe, 
have two kinds of competition to meet. 
He could hardly expect to compete with 
ordinary labor there, nor do I see how 
he could compete in growing and sell¬ 
ing with the large operators. It seems 
to me he would be be like a grain of 
corn going into my sweep mill. You 
would hardly know it was corn as it 
drops out at the spout. If T had $600 
and wanted to quit city life I would 
put the money in a savings banks where 
it would draw interest, go to the place 
that seemed to me most suitable, and 
hire out as a farm hand. There is no 
better way to get experience. I have 
known young men to go away from 
home on such trips and for the first 
few months they were constantly teas¬ 
ing their parents to send money so 
that they might buy land. As a rule 
the parents who do invest in this way 
ini the boy’s enthusiasm regret it, for 
when the gloss wears off the boy finds 
that some one has sold him a “gold 
brick.” Those who have been denied 
the privilege of an education in Hired 
Man’s Academy have missed something 
of life. 
Oats and Peas.—A Michigan man 
asks this question: 
out every man and team he could con¬ 
trol and haul those ashes before the 
owner recovered his senses. As I figure 
it, that would be not far from $2.50 per 
ton. Such ashes cost us on the regular 
market $10 at least. If I could buy 40 
pounds of potash, 250 pounds of lime and 
15 of phosphoric acid for a dollar hill our 
fertilizer problem would be about as easy 
as picking cherries. I would use the 
ashes on everything I grow except pota¬ 
toes and strawberries. The first loads 
would go on the Alfalfa, well scattered 
over the field. Then we would begin on 
the Crimson clover and rye. My ob¬ 
ject would be to get the benefit of the 
plant food in the ashes, and also set it 
at work catching nitrogen. This it would 
do by forcing the Alfalfa and clover to 
a larger growth, for the more these crops 
grow the more nitrogen they will take 
from - the air. That means more nitrogen 
to put back in the soil by plowing under 
the crops or by feeding it to make 
rich manure. Therefore the wood ashes 
would pay me better on the clover and 
Alfalfa than if put direct on corn, cab¬ 
bage or other crops. If I had such a 
supply of wood ashes I would buy noth¬ 
ing but nitrate of soda for nitrogen, as 
we could easily produce the organic ni¬ 
trogen needed. I would broadcast the 
ashes in any quantity up to two tons 
per acre. I have heard of ashes being 
used piled around peach trees to kill 
borers, but the plan does not seem to 
work with me. A pile of ashes at the 
base of the tree will keep the moth 
from laying her eggs close to the ground 
but T doubt if the lye in the ashes is 
strong enough to kill the borer after it 
has begun work. 
An agent called at my house last week 
and offered to sell a potato that he rep¬ 
resented to be bugless. As I have not seen 
In any farm journal any word about such 
potato. I thought he was a swindler of 
some kind. Can you offer an opinion? It 
seems impossible to grow any kind of plant 
that tile bugs do not destroy, o. c. b. 
I his “bugless potato” is named 
“Roosevelt.” Our good President 
doesn’t allow many injurious insects to 
remain close to him, and those agents 
evidently thought the name would sell 
the potato. There is no such thing as 
a "bugless” potato vine. When you get 
otic there will be no potatoes on it. 
Some varieties hive a tough leathery 
foliage, while others have softer leaves. 
No doubt the bugs would, if left to 
their own choice, prefer the vines of 
Irish, Cobbler tyr similar growing kinds 
• umiii ii i'imini im11 
I came on a farm Oetober 1. find It run 
down badly. Most of the meadow is 
plowed, file balance with no prospects of 
a crop of hay. What crop can I put in 
early in Spring for horse, cow. hog feed 
for early feeding, as well as next Fall and 
Winter, as I am now buying all of my 
feed, and cannot raise bay from Spring 
seeding. The ground Is sandy loam. 
If I was in that situation I would 
sow oats and peas as early in Spring 
as the soil was fit. Our plan is to 
sow first \/ bushel of Canada field 
peas per acre on top of the ground and 
work them under with a small plow or 
Cutaway harrow. We would put them 
in four or five inches deep; then sow on 
top of the furrows 2*4 bushels of oats 
and harrow them in. Of course you 
cannot expect to get a large crop on 
such soil unless you use manure or fer¬ 
tilizer. The pea vines will be held up 
by the oats so that the crop can he cut 
like other small grain. We cut this 
crop when the little peas are forming 
in the pods and cure both oats and 
pea vines together like clover hay. It 
makes an excellent fodder for all stock. 
If you want grain you can let the crop 
stand until ripe and then cut and thrash 
as you would oats. One season we 
seeded Red clover with the oats and peas 
and had a good stand but as a rule 
this crop is too dense for clover seeding. 
In our climate we can cut the oats and 
peas for hay, plant our flint corn in 
drills, get a fair crop before frost and 
seed to rye at the last cultivation of 
the corn. 
Concrete Block Making.—H ere is a 
question which has often occurred to 
farmers: 
Do you think It would pay a farmer to 
go to making concrete blocks and bricks 
when he has a line sand hank on his land? 
The place is on the railroad and a switch 
already put in for his own use, and he 
has boys enough of his own to make brick 
and blocks, and run his farm too. I have 
ail that : will it pay to go to work? 
Virginia. l. ii. p, 
T shall have to pass that up to those 
who know. My guess is that it would 
pay such a farmer in our country. 
Here, those who have the sand haven’t 
the boys, and those who had the boys 
have seen them move on to the city. I 
think if a man got a reputation for 
doing first-class work he could in time 
develop a good trade. I would try it— 
situated as this man is, hut I want to 
hear from those who know. Perhaps 
theory doesn’t stick to practice as con¬ 
crete does to sand. One may well envy 
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