1908 . 
239 
Hope Farm Notes 
All Sorts. —Here is a man who knows 
good eating when he tastes it: 
I would like to ask the readers of Tim 
R. N.-Y. whether they ever ate any scalded 
cream? In the Winter, when we have but 
little milk, my wife sets the milk in pans 
until the cream rises, then puts it on the 
stove and scalds; does not let it boil, then 
skims the cream off. You can use it on 
pancakes or on bread with maple syrup or 
jelly. It would be fine on the Hope Farm 
man’s baked apples with a little sugar. 
It is fine on apple pie. j. h. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
This scalded cream is dangerous for 
people who are inclined to put on flesh. 
It induces them to eat too much. I use 
milk—partly skimmed at that. A few 
years ago I saw a man about my height 
trying to get through the door of a 
car. He was so fleshy that he had to 
turn about and twist through on the 
principle of a screw before he could 
enter. How he ever got out again with¬ 
out taking off his coat I cannot say. 
That frightened me, and it is skimmed 
milk and baked apples in large supply 
with an abundance of exercise for my 
share. For those who like cream and 
don’t care how meaty they become 
cream is something to hold homes to¬ 
gether. 
I have not said much about baked 
apples lately^ since people who have no 
apples write and ask me to enjoy them 
in silence. There is something wrong 
with a day during which I do not eat 
eight or 10. Our girls bake a big pan¬ 
ful usually four times a week. My idea 
of duty to the Apple Consumers’ 
League is to start off at breakfast with 
two good baked apples, and follow it up 
through the day whenever you feel like 
one. Eat two or three more at supper, 
and before you go to bed get three 
more good ones. I know we are told 
that raw apples are better, but I think 
it is largely a matter of teeth. I have 
just counted 74 jars of fruit preserves 
in the pantry, so we could stand quite a 
siege. 
One thing that makes me thoughtful 
is the way people are eating nuts. In 
hundreds of families the habit is grow¬ 
ing of making an entire meal now and 
then of bread and butter and nuts. I ! 
see people making sandwiches out of 
buttered bread with meats of walnuts or | 
pecans between. I find people offering 
to wager that they can live six months 
on nuts, cereals, milk and eggs, and out¬ 
work and outlive people of their own 
age who stuff all the meat they choose. 
I believe they could make good. I be¬ 
lieve this nut eating is largely the re¬ 
sult of popular scientific teaching—the 
continual showing that many of our 
nuts contain nearly or quite as much 
food as meat. Here is a tip for young 
men who want a paying business 25 
years hence. Let them think what the 
demand for nuts will be by that time. 
This is no fad, but as sure as you live 
it is only the beginning of a great de¬ 
mand for edible nuts. I surely believe 
that a grove of walnuts, improved hick- 
ans or pecans well cared for will be a 
sure life preserver for the future. 
Chestnuts do not seem to me so sure, 
but I could consider my children safer 
with a good nut grove than with a 
bunch of government bonds. They 
would be safer, for the orchard would 
make them work before it would work 
for them. 
I expect our folks are a little old- 
fashioned with regard to training chil¬ 
dren. I have heard people say that they 
had a hard time when young and were 
not allowed many privileges—therefore 
their children shall have easier times. 
I hen they proceed to spoil their chil¬ 
dren with a nice theory. Father scrimps 
and denies in order that Billy may go 
to high school have a wheel and 
keep up with the richer boys. Mother 
wears her old clothes until they are 
threadbare, and her fingers until the 
bones show so that Mary may be 
petted and pampered. These young 
folks go sailing about the coun- 
try, often in questionable com¬ 
pany, without home authority or respect 
for their parents. I was at a home once 
where there were two great stout girls 
lolling about. I knew these people were 
not in good circumstances, and after 
supper of course I expected to see those 
girls clear the table and wash the dishes. 
Not much! Not while mother was will¬ 
ing! ! hey sat still and .the tired mother 
proceeded to do the work. By way of 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
apology she weakly stated that the dish 
water might make the girl’s hands 
rough and soiled! What in this world 
is the human hand for, I’d like to 
know ? I felt like taking that dish¬ 
water and sousing it right over those 
lazy girls. Their mother in trying to 
keep their hands smooth had made their 
hearts rough. 
Now as I look over my own make¬ 
up I can see knot-holes and shaky tim¬ 
bers that were put there in childhoood. 
They may be painted or varnished over, 
but I know they are there, and that they 
wouldn’t be there had influences been 
different 40 years ago. No child that 
I have to do with will have putty in 
the knot-holes or paint over the rotten 
places of character if I can help it. I 
consider real respect for honest labor as 
the true foundation of character. When 
a man sneers at a “hired man” he 
sneers at me, for I had to work for 
some years as a farm hand. When peo¬ 
ple show contempt for those who do 
homely work with their hands they in¬ 
clude all our folks. Our children are 
expected to work. Each has some little 
duty to perform—not in the way of 
drudgery but as an equivalent for home 
and what home means. I wouldn’t have 
man or woman or child over 10 around 
me who couldn’t on occasion cook a 
good meal, harness a horse or plant and 
care for a tree. I shall be sorry to 
have a child who did not have a living 
pet of some sort or, during the year, do 
some unselfish thing for others. We 
keep our children as close to home as 
we can. That’s the place for a child, 
and where else can you do it save in 
the country? 
Every little snowstorm is followed 
by a rain, which rushes off the frozen 
ground—and leaves a gulley on the hills. 
We shall have to put many patches on 
the face of the farm later. Our peach 
buds are O. K. up to date. The Crim¬ 
son clover is all right, and the Cow- 
horn turnips have rotted—as they ought 
to. As for the Alfalfa—I hope to see a 
fair stand of it. Our pruning is pretty 
well done. Now comes hauling the 
year’s supply of wood down and haul¬ 
ing forest leaves, coal ashes or any¬ 
thing we can get to put around the 
trees. When the ground is fit for plow¬ 
ing we want to have spraying and all 
such jobs off our hands. We are start¬ 
ing onion seed in Florida again this 
season. Charlie lost his crop last year, 
but this season he has already sown 
Prizetaker and Bermuda seed, and if 
they get through will ship the seedlings 
north in early May. h. w. c. 
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