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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
May 6, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Schools. —In writing of life in Florida 
I spoke of the lack of white school chil¬ 
dren. At the place where our folks win¬ 
tered there were not enough white young- 
f ters to maintain a public school. The 
house has been abandoned. Our people 
opened a school and maintained it through 
the Winter. The pictures on page 559 
show the school population at this place. 
There are two or three other white chil¬ 
dren, but this is a fair picture of the young 
crop. There were several other colored 
children not shown in the picture. The 
colored teacher was an intelligent woman 
who evidently gave her children a fair 
drill in the rudiments. It is to me a 
strange thought that in this far Southern 
State colored children receive a fair public 
education, while the whites are denied this 
and must pay for what their children re¬ 
ceive. As I have frequently stated, our 
own children have been educated at home. 
There has always been a large group of 
children here—large enough for a little 
school. Mother is an old school teacher 
and has supervised the education of our 
young folks from the first. I pay my 
school taxes with more or less cheerfulness, 
but I am glad the children have escaped 
some of the fads and experiments which 
people tell me are practiced on their chil¬ 
dren. I would rather not have a child 
used as an experiment station to test the¬ 
ories of education. 
The Cow.—W hen our folks went South 
last Fall I sold the last of our cattle. 
When the family returned there was a 
great cry for milk. Remembering my ex¬ 
perience with the Florida cow I went to 
the most reliable place I could think of 
and got a good one. She is tuberculin 
tested, gentle and kind—all that a family 
cow ought to be. No. I did not lead her 
home in the dark—this one was brought in 
a big, low-down wagon. She is a high- 
grade Guernsey. No. I will not match 
her against Missy of the Glen to give nine 
per cent milk, but you can come and milk 
her and test the milk any time you doubt 
her record. She reached the farm April 
10 and started that night with 10 pounds 
of milk. In the first week she gave 158 
pounds. It will test I think something 
over 4% per cent fat. We expect to push 
her yield up considerably above what she 
started with, and I feel like comparing her 
income with some of those hen records. At 
any rate, we shall keep a year’s record of 
her milk. Now it comes to figuring values. 
Before we got this cow we bought milk for 
a few days, paying eight cents a quart or 
four cents per pound. That is wbat we 
should have to pay if we continued buying. 
Now 25 pounds a day at four cents is 
$1.00. You can’t get away from that. 
With 16 people—five of them young chil¬ 
dren, all fond of milk—there will be 
scarcely a drop left out of 25 pounds! 
Nothing could be better for these little ones 
than this clean, rich and pure milk. IIow 
they do enjoy it with oatmeal and wheat! 
My cow is earning a dollar a day for me 
right now. I could not supply such milk 
for less than that, nor do I think we could 
get the food equivalent for the children for 
less money. Am I not therefore justified in 
crediting this cow’s milk at four cents a 
pound? If not will some one tell me why? 
What would they have me do—weigh the 
children and charge up a fair price for each 
pound gained? I know there are men back 
among the hills making just as good milk as 
this at one cent or less per pound. It is 
a shame and disgrace to society that this 
is so, yet, should I credit my cow with 
their wholesale price when I am obliged to 
buy at retail? I shall try to match those 
hens, and I want a fair discussion of the 
question of price. 
Farm Work. — I am sorry to say it, but 
the week has not been great with accom¬ 
plishment. The weather is still wet and 
cold, and it is impossible to work the land 
properly. We spread the seed oats on the 
barn floor, wet them with a solution of 
formalin and thus cured the smut, but it 
was impossible to sow them. The ground 
would have packed around them like a 
brick if we had worked it. We did get 
some Alaska and Nott’s Excelsior peas in, 
but they are not sprouting. We can plow 
around the trees, pick up stones, spread 
fertilizer and plant strawberries—and that 
is about the limit. I have told about those 
potted strawberry plants that were left 
out all Winter. We put out some 600 of 
them, and they seem likely to do well. 
Next week I will show one of them—it is 
a new thing to me. The stakes are all set 
for the trees—which are expected every 
day. By April 25 not a tint of pink was 
to be seen on the peach buds. Last year 
at this date they were fully in flower. This 
delay suits us exactly. Our older trees 
are loaded with buds, and if they can be 
held back a little longer we shall feel quite 
sure of our crop. This bad weather has 
enabled us to dispose of the coal ashes 
and hen manure. Both wont around the 
trees. Some of the manure was a little 
damp and chunky. We drove by the tree, 
dug several holes with spade or hoe, scat¬ 
tered in a quantity of manure and covered 
up. Then the coal ashes were scattered 
around the tree in a wide circle. They 
make a good mulch and kill out weeds and 
grass. Where you are crowding things 
with, fruit and garden it is a good plan t» 
put all weeds in baskets, dump around the 
trees and put coal ashes on top. The 
weeds decay without growing or seeding 
and the ashes hold them down. While 
there is practically no plant food in coal 
ashes I would save every pound to put 
around the trees. . . The Hope Farm 
family slowly settled into steady habits, 
and they are now running smoothly. When 
folks come from the South they bring the 
chicken-eating habit, and young and old 
cast expectant eyes at our young Brahma 
roosters. These great birds were unsold, 
and were about as useless as any farm 
citizen could be. So they were doomed to 
slaughter. Another useless citizen was a 
Plymouth Bock rooster caught eating eggs. 
This Rock and one of the Brahmas turned 
up brown and steaming for Sunday dinner. 
They filled the oven and filled the family. 
The Brahma outweighed the Rock, and 
beat him out of sight for roasting quality. 
He ran a small turkey a close race for 
size and quality. I know how people smile 
when yon talk about Light Brahmas, but 
one thing is sure, when you kill one you 
have something to eat. I think I could 
have converted the most confirmed Leghorn 
or “Red" crank that day with a slice of 
white meat. Our folks were already con¬ 
verted—they gnawed the bones. 
h. w. C. 
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R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
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SAVED THE HOME. 
Glory to God Joy the Rural New-Yorker. 
That is the way one of our readers ends 
his letter. The reason for this fervent 
ejaculation is found in the following: 
“Every adult should take The R. N.-Y., 
for I am positive I saved my home here, 
which is worth not less than $3750, for I 
came very near selling my farm to settle in 
Florida, but those letters of the Hope Farm 
man stirred me to contentment and to stay 
where I am with my aged and good wife, 
myself being an old soldier 70 years of age. 
From the letters I had received from Flor¬ 
ida, the places I need not mention, made me 
just wild to sell out and go for a Florida 
home, but am completely satisfied to remain 
at home as the result of those letters.” 
c. f. w. 
I can put myself right in that man’s 
place. One of those land sharks got after 
him and pictured Florida in glowing terms. 
I have heard them tell it. They have the 
State a new and gilt-edged edition of Para¬ 
dise, where old men recover their strength 
and young men become giants. Just enough 
of what they say is true so that you cannot 
prove them total liars. They multiply pos¬ 
sibilities by 100 and make them seem like 
facts. I know just how this plausible guff 
sounded to our friend of 70 years. Why, 
these w T ord songbirds could call a man away 
from his home and send him chasing after 
the air spirits like the characters in Shakes¬ 
peare’s “Tempest.” Going to Florida with 
such hopes as these fellows were putting at 
him would have ruined this man. He would 
have lost his home and found himself 
stranded in a strange place, loaded up with 
useless property and unable to make his 
land available or profitable. We have tried 
to tell the truth about one part of Florida 
at least. As a Winter home the State offers 
real attractions. In some parts of it a man 
with good judgment and fair capital can 
make a living. There you have pretty much 
all there is to it for the average immigrant. 
He who is led to expect more is doomed to 
bitter disappointment. The wicked schemes 
which the land boomers work to attract 
suckers ought to be stopped by the govern¬ 
ment. The papers which share the graft by 
advertising these fakes and endorsing them 
are partners in the crime of drawing people 
away from homes and leading them to dis¬ 
appointment. We are glad that The R. 
N.-Y'. can help a little by giving the facts. 
Florida’s Water Power. 
I have read “Florida Notes” with much 
interest and agree with most of it heartily, 
but in No. 4 you state that no river in 
Florida will provide water power. On the 
Withlacoochee River a million-dollar power 
plant has just been opened to furnish about 
8,000 horse power. There was a fall of 18 
to 20 feet. There is also a plant on the 
Hillsboro River furnishing power for Tampa. 
There are a number of rivers in the State 
that will furnish power, but the trouble is 
mostly that banks are low and much land 
flooded in making a dam. This is my first 
Winter in Florida since the freeze in 1895. 
I was here through the days of “yellow 
fever” but never could see any safety in the 
gamble on oranges. Alachua County is 
raising the staples and the people are get¬ 
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trainloads of cucumbers, cabbages, etc., 
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