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THE Kl.:KAL NEW-YORKER 
February 4, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Several friends have asked me to 
print what the Hope Farm man had to 
say at the banquet of the New \ork 
State Fruit Growers’ Association. The 
topic was supposed to be “My Advice 
to the Young Man.” One who asks 
for this is a young man who hardly 
needs this advice—another is an older 
man who would not take it. At any 
rate—here goes. I suppose we may all 
be pardoned for a little “guff” at start¬ 
ing : 
Heredity and Environment. —My ex¬ 
perience with young men, as something of 
an old boy myself, convinced me that no 
one should dare to advise them unless be 
can pose as a teacher of long standing 
and strong training. I am no teacher, al¬ 
though I ought to be. In one of Bailey’s 
books I learn that the two great prin¬ 
ciples of living force are heredity and en¬ 
vironment- 1 confess that 1 don't know 
exactly what they mean, but Bailey does, 
and if we see it in his book it must be 
so. At any rate I have them both in my 
make-up. My mother was a teacher and so 
was my mother-in-law. My sisters are 
teachers, I married a teacher, and *1 
hope my daughter will be qualified to 
teach. 'Surrounded by all this evidence 
of classified wisdom I have learned that 
it is far better for a man to resign 
practice and present himself as a willing 
sacrifice to be practiced upon. My first 
advice to a y,oung man would be to marry 
a good school-marm if he can get one gen¬ 
erous enough or one blind or fond enough to 
overlook his deficiencies. Then let him re¬ 
sign guardianship at once, and let her boss 
the job, as she most certainly will. 
Tiie Whole Thing. —But speaking seri¬ 
ously. out of a hard life of half a century, 
my advice to a young man is to strive 
earnestly for four things which lie at the 
very foundation of life. These things are 
wife, home, a piece of land and power. 
These four things make a square within 
which lies all that the world has to offer. 
A king can have no more. Any man who 
honestly and with faith can build this wall 
around his life may laugh at adversity and 
truly say “the world is mine.” Let us 
analyze them for a moment. I would ad¬ 
vise* the young man to get the promise of 
a good woman, to realize what that prom¬ 
ise means, and then be prepared to spend 
the best energies of his life in making good 
and honoring that promise. 
Home. —No man is worth his salt who 
does not have a home to which be may go 
in time of joy, in time of sorrow, always 
to feel that he is away from the hard and 
biting world. I think the truest test of 
character comes to the man when he is 
obliged to make his own home, to dig the 
foundation and build the walls; the mortar 
moistened with his own sweat and the 
marks of the bricks upon his own hands. 
You young men may not agree with me, 
but I consider it a misfortune for any 
young man to have a rich father. I have 
bo use for the sentiment which young 
men often express when saying that “the 
old man” will provide for them. It is far 
better for a strong young man to believe 
it his dutv to care for his father rather 
than to believe that father should care for 
him. 
A Piece of Land. —The time will come 
within the life of you young men when 
one who cannot leave his children a piece 
of land will be considered an unfortunate 
citizen. I hail the day when public senti¬ 
ment will compel the great holders of land 
to break up their large estates so that all 
men may have a home and a right to the 
soil. You voung men do not realize the 
wonderful things that are coming to this 
country through the land. We have reached 
the time when food production is falling 
short of consumption. Never again in this 
country shall we see such a thing as cheap 
bread. This means a monopoly for those 
who produce food such as has never been 
known before, and the owner of a piece of 
land will be the part of this great monop¬ 
oly. Where shall the young man look for 
his piece of land? In that section east of 
the Ohio River from West Virginia on the 
south to New York along the St. I^awrence 
to the Atlantic lies the most hopeful re¬ 
gion for the farmer that the world has ever 
known. This section embraces barely eight 
per cent of all our territory, yet it contains 
two of the largest cities in the world. 
There are eight cities with over 250,000 
population, 23 with over 100,000, and 83 
with over 25,000. Now where on the face 
of the earth is there a more hopeful chance 
for increased markets for the superior kinds 
of food? Where is it possible to develop 
electric power as can be done in this re¬ 
gion, and where can a young man with a 
piece of land find greater opportunity for 
body and mind? 
Power. —There are three kinds of power, 
the first is physical*, the care of the body 
and keeping it under control. There have 
been times in the world’s history when 
great things were done by sick men, men 
with deformity or men with affliction who 
were pushed on by sheer courage and will, 
but in the future as in the past the work 
of the world will be done* by well men who 
at 30 lay the foundation for a reserve 
of strength to be used at GO. My advice 
to the young man would be to hold his 
body and its powers like an honest bank 
account with never an overdraft or specula¬ 
tion. Then there is mental power. In the 
future as never before the brain is to have 
the mastery over matter. The trained man 
will lead in all great enterprises. I would 
advise every young man if possible to ob¬ 
tain a college education, even a short course 
if nothing more to gain the college spirit. 
If that be impossible I would master the 
reading habit, and I would master through 
it every good book within reach of my 
home. Do not tell me that you cannot find 
time for reading. I know better. I have 
worked as hard as any man, yet out of the 
odds and ends of life I have been able to 
read and study. Now I find that these 
fragments of time welded together through 
books and thought have developed into a 
priceless legacy, a noble offering for the 
best that the world’s history has to present. 
Thus far I have spoken of the material 
things which naturally come first into the 
mind of a strong and hopeful man. We 
now dome to the dominating force, the 
g*eat thing which finally decides a man's 
life, and that is spiritual power. You 
young men in your strength and pride may 
think that the little share of property or 
money which vou are to accumulate is your 
fair contribution to society. You will live 
to learn, and every gray-haired man in this 
room will back me up in the statement, 
that the world does not need your money 
one-half as much as it needs your man¬ 
hood, your mind and your moral power. 
These same older men will also endorse 
me when I say that the man who leaves the 
world nothing but houses and lands or 
reputation for great learning will fall far 
short of the gift of the less prominent man 
who offers society spiritual service. 
And what is the spiritual service which 
a young man may give out of his life to 
others? You see that a talk to a young 
man naturally runs off into a sermon. Of 
all the Bible stories that I remember not 
one appeals to me more than that of the 
man who was cured of an unclean spirit. I 
take it that this unclean spirit meant de¬ 
pression. ignorance, hesitation and lack of 
pride and respect for oneself and one’s place 
in the world. I take it that this man was 
cured by lifting him out of his state into 
the glory of education, moral power and 
ambition*, and of pride and respect for him¬ 
self and his nobler self. You remember 
how this man in all the joy of his new¬ 
found freedom came to the great Master of 
mankind who had set him free. The slave, 
now a free man, begged that he might go 
out into the limelight, out where men of 
his class would applaud him, and tell his 
wonderful story to the world. The answer 
was “Return to thine own house and allow 
how great things Ood hath done for thee.” 
The Application. —This room is filled 
with men who in one way or another have 
been grouglit up from slavery. It may be 
the slavery of poverty, of despair, of afflic¬ 
tion, of ignorance, of lack of opportunity 
or ambition. If rising from these condi¬ 
tions, you have found competence, educa¬ 
tion, health or moral power you have been | 
redeemed. If so you are under an obliga¬ 
tion to tell your story wherever you go. I 
You Cornell graduates, you prosperous fruit 
growers, you men and women who have 
home and competence and happiness, have 
heard the call and should obey it. You arc 
obligated to tell your story. Not here, not 
in easy places among your own kind, but 
back in lonely homes on hill and in valley 
where men and women still stand in the 
shadow of the unclean spirit from which 
you have been made free. And if any 
strong and hopeful young man ask me 
whence comes this obligation I would an¬ 
swer in words which have been repeated 
over and over for centuries “For 1 have 
redeemed tliec—I have called thee by thy 
name—thou art mine!” 
College for Farmers. —Here is a new 
situation to me: 
We are an organization intending to buy 1 
a farm in this vicinity, for truck farming, j 
We have sufficient money to start in well, 
we have a man, a member of our organiza¬ 
tion, who is an experienced farmer of five 
years’ experience and is fairly successful. 
Would it better for the organization to send 
one of our members, who is entirely with¬ 
out any farming experience, to an agricul¬ 
tural school, or would the instruction of 
this farmer, our member, be sufficient; or 
would it be better that this member go to 
the school after he has had one year’s ex¬ 
perience through the instruction of this, 
our well-experienced farmer member; or 
would it not then be necessary? m. a. 
Pennsylvania. 
I should send one of the members of 
this organization to the Pennsylvania 
Agricultural College at once, this Win¬ 
ter, and let him take some short course. 
He could thus get acquainted with the 
teachers and workers there, so they 
would help later in case their advice 
was needed. He would pick up a few 
principles of farming during his stay. 
This brief experience would show 
whether it would pay to send him back 
for a full year. I think it would. 
Florida Note. —As I write this I am 
on my way South. Wait till I get there 
before asking an opinion about the State. 
While we are waiting here is a report 
from an old friend, D. L. Hartman, now 
located in Dade Co. He was formerly 
in Pennsylvania. 
I just returned from a bicycle trip some 
five miles south to a district where snap 
beans are a specialty. There must be sev¬ 
eral hundred acres lying close together in 
that one section. Within several miles of 
this point there must be upwards of 500 
acres of tomatoes, most of them in very 
good condition. I have three acres myself 
planted October 27 that meet across seven- 
foot rows, and first specimens just begin¬ 
ning to ripen, January 15. My strawber¬ 
ries give every promise of a crop of up¬ 
wards of 25,000 quarts of splendid berries. 
I picked 44 quarts last week; they are 
binging 50 cents per quart wholesale. There 
will probably be several hundred quarts 
this coming week, but price will drop and 
after that the “deluge.” Fine big berries, 
possibly not as fine as your Marshalls, but 
as fine I think as any I have ever seep. 
Most of whai we have picked thus far 
averaged somewhat between 30 and 35 ber¬ 
ries per quart. The color is all that could 
be desired. d. l. haiitman. 
Now I know that Brother Hartman 
in Pennsylvania was a conservative 
man who gave us the facts. Therefore 
I cannot think these are “big stories”— 
but he had to learn how to do it—and 
pay for the knowledge. 
At last reports our folks were still 
hunting for a cow. There are some 
good ones in the State, but not many. 
Some of the large hotels in North Flor¬ 
ida, I understand, have herds of cattle 
which are milked through the Winter 
and driven up into Georgia for the Sum¬ 
mer. At the great resorts in southern 
Florida I think most of the cream and 
part of the milk are brought from the 
North. From most points of view the 
dairy business looks right. Let us find 
out the drawbacks. H. w. c. 
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