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THE; RURAL NEW-YORKER 
105 
Hope Farm Notes 
Now and then I hear people say that 
it is a sad fact that women have such 
a small part in American public life. 
As a rule such people know very little 
about it. In most farm homes the wo¬ 
men decide what papers are to be taken, 
what books are to be read, the house¬ 
hold habits, good or bad, and most of 
the other things which dominate the 
home. As this country is yet domi¬ 
nated by the spirit of the middle class 
American, home, it can well be seen that 
the women have a mighty influence in 
public affairs. While the fighting and 
the hard labor should ever be done by 
the men, much of the spirit and temper 
which must dominate all that is worth 
while must come from the women folks. 
I think every man would become a bet¬ 
ter citizen if he could have in his home 
what I may call a critic and the anti¬ 
dote for criticism. As critic there 
should be a wife of good judgment, not 
in the least afraid of her husband, and 
anxious above all things to see him de¬ 
velop, not through a dollar, but in the 
highest way. She knows his many 
faults and his very few virtues, and the 
strong buds of egotism and conceit 
which every man succeeds so well in 
working upon himself. The antidote 
should be a daughter who believes with 
a faith that cannot be shaken that father 
is the greatest man that ever lived! 
Thus the critic will apply the needed 
caustic while the antidote will apply the 
balm. The antidote will stimulate the 
growth of these buds of self-conceit, 
while the critic will cut them off so that 
they will do the stock little harm. In 
my day I have seen a number of gentle¬ 
men receiving praise from their daugh¬ 
ters and yet with a corner of their eye 
on the barometer of their wife's face. 
If anyone doubts the ability and per¬ 
sistence of the true household critic let 
him read this: 
In renewing my subscription for The R. 
N. Y. I included 25 cents extra for a cloth 
bound copy of the Cook Book. Up to the 
present time the book has not been re¬ 
ceived. My good wife is anxious about it; 
in fact, I hear of it at breakfast, dinner 
and supper, when I go to bed and before 
rising in the morning, unless I can manage 
to get up so as not to disturb her peaceful 
slumbers. Now if you have any copies of 
said book left kindly “push” one along and 
contribute to the domestic happiness of 
“YOURS TRULY.” 
There was some delay in getting the 
cloth bound books from the binder, but 
they are now being mailed as fast as the 
orders come. I hope that both critic 
and antidote of this household will unite 
in working up a few choice recipes from 
this book. If they do this man will 
have no occasion to try to bring the 
cook to book. 
Now after saying what I have about 
women and the moral side of questions, 
see what I have to face here! 
If the “woman of the house” were co¬ 
erced into buying or agreeing to buy in the 
Spring 1,000 strawberry plants and prom¬ 
ising to pay .$14 for the same, would you 
think she’d better pay it and say nothing, 
or may she, can she, countermand the or¬ 
der'; 1 Are seedling plants any better than 
the other kind? If they are, why does not 
our horticulturist at the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at the University of Vermont tell us 
about them? Yes, I ought to have had 
head enough to have asked the agent this 
question. If I can buy of some reliable 
seedsmen good plants for $5 I'd rather do 
it than pay another firm $14. Can I, may 
I countermand the order, or are the seed¬ 
ling plants enough better so I am justified 
iu paying $14 for 1,000 plants? 
MRS. c. J. s. 
Now, the safest way for any man to 
advise a woman in business matters is 
to find out what she wants to do, and 
then make the best and fairest proposi¬ 
tion you can along that line. I think 
our women folks would stand up to any 
bargain they might sign for unless they 
were convinced that there was some 
humbug or fraud about it. If they were 
convinced that some one had tried to 
cheat them, I think they would go to 
jail rather than pay. There is no one 
at Hope Farm who would agree to pay 
$14 for 1,000 seedling plants. A seed¬ 
ling plant.is one grown from a seed. The 
seeds of the ripe berry are taken off the 
fruit and planted like other small seeds. 
1 he little plants when large enough are 
transplanted and cared for like other 
plants. That is the way new varieties 
are obtained, and the seedlings are sel¬ 
dom, if ever, just like their parents. If 
you bought 1,000 seedling plants you 
would very likely have over 900 differ¬ 
ent kinds of fruit with possibly one or 
two worth keeping. For my own use I 
would not pay 14 cents for those seed¬ 
ling plants. If, however, you have 
bought 1,000 plants all of some new 
seedling—that is a very different thing. 
What is the name of the variety? Un¬ 
less it has been fully tested and found 
superior to other sorts I never would j 
buy more than a dozen plants for trial. 
A nurseryman who expected to sell 
plants might pay such a price, but for a 
fruit grower I think such a thing would 
be nonsense. As to what a person 
should do after making a contract of 
this sort, I can only advise that person 
to get off alone with himself and apply 
the golden rule. For my own part, I 
will live up to every contract as squarely 
as I can. The only one I feel justified 
in repudiating is where by evident mis¬ 
representation or fraud some one took 
advantage of me. I think it a part of 
a good education to compel most people 
to live up to a few bad bargains. They 
will be more careful in future. Some¬ 
how I can’t have much sympathy for 
people who pay foolish prices for plants 
or trees nowadays. At the same time 
I would not pay $14 for 1,000 seedling 
strawberry plants. 
I shall have to put the following ques¬ 
tion up to readers; 
Do you know of a manure spreader that 
will spread sea weed (eel grass) brought 
from the salt marshes, and such coarse 
material. Manufacturers do not seem to 
know what the stuff is. I think your Hope 
Farmer will know what a Cape Codder 
whose barnyard is Cape Cod Bay wants. I 
wish he could have some of the thousands 
of loads that go to waste to mulch his 
trees. j. a. c. 
Eastham, Mass. 
I cannot tell about this. We do not 
use a manure spreader, as most of our 
manure is put on the strawberries or 
around trees. Who can tell ? I well 
remember the piles of sea weed that 
were thrown up by the sea along the 
shore and the coarse grass cut on the 
marshes. We used to haul it back to 
the upland and spread it on the mea¬ 
dows. I should think it would be excel¬ 
lent for asparagus, but I should want to 
use lime with it when put on ordinary 
crops. People who have never farmed 
near the ocean do not realize the great 
wealth of fertilizing material that comes 
out of it. Most of us know in a general 
way how nitrogen is drained away 
through the soil through brooks and 
streams into the great lakes or the ocean. 
This is not the end of it by any means. 
All sorts of marine growths—plants and 
animals—use it. It is brought back to 
the soil in seaweed, kelp, oysters, clams 
and fish, and millions of land animals 
and birds obtain part of their living 
from the water. Thus while nitrogen is 
being constantly lost through the soil or 
into the air it is being just as constantly 
brought back by plants like clover and 
peas or in the form of seaweed and fish. 
The waters of the sea contain traces of 
every known metal—including silver and 
gold. h. w. c. 
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