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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.Tunc 24, 
Hope Farm Notes 
We cannot complain about the drought. 
During the week ending .Tune 11 there were 
several fine showers ending Saturday night 
with a deluge. Say — out didn't it rain! 
There were mutterings and flashings all the 
evening. About nine there came a hush 
with dead and sleepy air Suddenly there 
came a smatter of rain, then came a bellow 
and crash, and out of the north came a 
roaring whirlwind of rain. We had the barn 
doors open, and there was a rush to close 
them and pull down all the windows on the 
north side of the house. Then there 
was nothing to do but let the torrents pour, 
and you may believe the storm accepted its 
privilege. If that amount of water could 
have been extended over 24 hours it would 
have soaked in for a month’s supply, and 
the cultivators would have held it in. As 
it was a good share of this flood rushed 
down the hills into the streams. There is 
enough left. Thex - e was some little washing 
on the hills, but as a whole Hope Farm 
never reached the middle of .Tune looking 
more like a garden and with a better out¬ 
look. There came another soaker heavier 
than ever on Sunday night. Strawberry 
picking is in full blast. Our crop will be 
a little larger than last year on the whole. 
One field is a failure. It never did re¬ 
cover from last year's drought and did not 
have a fair show. The three-year-old Mar¬ 
shalls in hills are fine. I think we can 
safely fruit them two years more. This 
year we planted peach trees in among these 
plants. I have learned to put peach trees 
within sight of the house. The ordinary 
Summer boarder has very original ideas re¬ 
garding property rights iii fruit. I am quite 
sure that some of the hig bags which are 
carried to New York on Monday morning 
are well lined with peaches. So let us help 
keep these gentlemen away from temptation 
by keeping the peach trees in sight. I plant 
no more over the hill. We have some 600 
in sight of the house. They go well with 
strawberries. When I speak of serving 
Marshall strawberries as large as Astrachan 
apples people smile as if to say “There’s 
another!” but we have them all the same. 
No use complaining, but these floods did 
great damage to the berries. It is almost 
impossible to pick clean. 
Potatoes never looked better than this 
season. Plants of Irish Cobbler were in 
bloom June 10. The crop has been handled 
well—cultivated four times and kept clean. 
The bugs have just started, but do not 
seem as numerous as usual. We use lime- 
sulphur and arsenate of lead. The lime- 
sulphur may not be as effective as Bordeaux,’ 
but we shall stay by it as an experiment. 
While the crop looks well now I have many 
times seen June vines come to nothing in 
September. You can no more figure on the 
crop from its June appearance than you 
can decide a man’s real Christianity from 
his clothes. Last year I was delegated to 
meet my daughter and sister on their way 
in from Long Island. It is a hard place 
to meet people. You are likely to miss 
them. Boat after boat crossed the river 
but my folks did not come. I saw that it 
would be necessary to ’phone out to the 
house on Long Island where they had been 
visiting. I am never sure of a long dis¬ 
tance ’phone, and it became a problem 
how to do it. I looked about for some re¬ 
spectable looking stranger that I could trust 
such a thing to. Who would you naturally 
look for in such a case? What is the badge 
of confidence and integrity? Black cloth 
and a white neck-tie ought to come near it, 
but I did not find it so. Several sleek and 
well-dressed gentlemen were “too busy,” or 
else had only a cold stare at such a suggest¬ 
ion. At last I got a man from a liquor 
saloon who ’phoned for me, found that my 
folks were delayed and were coming later, 
and did the whole thing willingly and with 
good spirit. On general principles I sup¬ 
pose I am about as poor a supporter of a 
saloon keeper as you can find, but that man 
had the clergy and the “strong business 
man” out of sight on clean kindliness and 
human nature. No; that experience does 
not induce me to go and take a drink, but 
it seems evident that saloon keepers are 
not all hardened wretches, and if I got into 
similar trouble again and could find one of 
them with a good face I should go to him 
for help. They evidently see sides of life 
that either make them mighty hard or 
mighty charitable. At any rate I know 
that neither potato vines nor men’s clothes 
will always tell you what is going to hap¬ 
pen. 
The cow came forward with 238 pounds 
in the week ending June 11. This makes 
1,652 pounds to date. I do not give this 
as any remarkable record, but simply be¬ 
cause it is what one cow actually does. I 
hear people tell of their five-gallon cows 
but I want to see the milk put on the scales. 
Our cow’s best record thus far is 36 pounds 
in one day. Some of our people are selling 
milk at less than one cent per pound. At 
such price our cow would work three days 
to earn a dollar, while the men who paid 
for her milk in the city would in these same 
three days pay out $4. We have shown over 
and over again that thousands of our dairy¬ 
men are making milk at a dead loss if they 
count mechanics’ wages for their own labor. 
Very few milk dairymen come out even if 
they charge anything for the labor of 
children and wife. Of all the injustice 
and hardships connected with farming, I 
think this robbery of the dairymen is worst 
of all. Milk is such a necessity for infants 
and invalids and dairying is so hard and 
confining that it is little short of a crime 
that there should be such a margin between 
ret&il and wholesale prices. If dairymen 
could only get even half of the retail price 
of milk there would be the most useful dis¬ 
tribution of money ever made in this 
country. 
I was on the hill mowing around the trees 
with a couple of the red heads “helping” 
when word came that the assessor was on 
hand. I found that he had tacked $1000 
to my assessment, though we had done no 
building during the past year. This ad¬ 
dition seemed to be placed on the general 
theory that land in our section is rising in 
value. After some argument the assessor 
agreed to cut down my valuation to the old 
figure. I am willing to pay my fair share 
of taxes provided all are valued fairly. The 
argument is put up to me that it is a fine 
thing to increase valuation, since buyers 
will then get the idea that property is 
rising. But I do not want to sell; so far 
as home is concerned land at $30 suits me 
as well as $500. If our values are increas¬ 
ed first you know rates will be shot up too. 
I told my friend that since we had brought 
three new children to the town they should 
chop off $500 for each child ! “Nothing to 
it!” I just want some of you farmers in 
other States to realize that my taxes have 
grown from $89 to $221 in 10 years. They 
tell us we have no State tax in New Jer¬ 
sey because the corporations pay our taxes 
for us! Our roads and schools give us a 
fine run with our money. 
“I notice this Hope Farm man tells of 
plowing strips on each side of the rows of 
trees and leaving the rye to grow between. 
Why docs he not plow all the rye under?” 
That is a good question. The chief reason 
is that in part of our orchard I am trying 
to see how close a man can get to de¬ 
veloping good trees up to bearing age with 
little or no cost. Rye straw usually brings 
a good price here. A 20-foot strip in the 
middle will give, in straw and grain $25 or 
so per acre. This will pay for the plowing, 
cultivating and a small lot of fertilizer. 
Kept up year after year it will bring trees 
to bearing age with very little cost. After 
the fruiUreally starts I would give up this 
plan and plow everything under and also 
use more fertilize. I do not claim that the 
plan I speak of is the best way. We have, 
I think, demonstrated that such a plan is 
possible and that by this means a man with 
limited capital and only one team can de¬ 
velop a good orchard. 
“But why not seed to grass and mulch 
the treesT” 
We are doing that too in several places 
On the east side of the hill is a place with 
underground springs which keep the soil 
moist. Here we planted trees right in the 
sod eight years ago. The ground has not 
been plowed. The grass is cut each year, 
part taken as hay and the rest put around 
the trees. Here we have developed a good 
orchard which has not cost 70 cents a tree 
outside of spraying. McIntosh trees in this 
orchard have over a box and a half of 
fruit on them this year. Yet on the thin¬ 
ner soil where the rock is close to the sur¬ 
face trees in sod without manure or some 
form of mulching did not make a satisfac¬ 
tory growth. You cannot. expect to de¬ 
velop a good orchard on the sod mulch plan 
except on moist, natural grass land, or 
where you can get plenty of mulch material 
to put around the trees. With either of 
these conditions I know that we can grow a 
good orchard without cultivation—but not 
otherwise. 
We have one peach orchard divided into 
two parts. One has been in sod since the 
orchard was planted. Grass was cut last 
year and left on the ground. The other 
half was plowed in 1910 and put in corn, 
with good culture and fair fertilizing. After 
the corn was cut and shocked the ground 
was worked with the spring-tooth and put 
in rye. This year the rye was plowed under, 
fertilizer was scattered around the trees and 
fair culture has been given. On the sod 
portion more and richer fertilizer was used. 
Which side is ahead ? The cultivated part is 
darker green, larger foliage and has 50 per 
cent more wood growth thus far. With 
most of the varieties, however, there are 
more peaches on the sod part. There are 
10 varieties in the orchard, and it is divided 
so that all are under both forms of culture. 
The explanation of this seems to be that 
the sod part matured its wood early and 
proceeded to form fruit buds. The late cul¬ 
tivating and harrowing on the other part 
stimulated wood growth too late in the 
season. The fruit buds are not matured 
and many of them died. I have seen some¬ 
thing like this when late potatoes were 
grown in a peach orchard. The late working 
and digging forced a late growth and the 
trees could not recover and settle down in 
time. The best plan is to cultivate about 
10 or 12 weeks and then seed down to a 
cover crop like clover or rye and vetch. 
The growth of this will check the growth 
of the trees and they will mature their wood 
and buds. Next year the cover crop may be 
plowed under and the cultivation kept up 
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