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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Septem! <•;■ 
Hope Farm Notes 
College Family Party. —There are so 
many questions pouring in upon us at 
this season that we would better take 
them in hand. It will give many of us 
something to think about. Here is a 
new idea to me: 
I am a small farmer on 11 acres of land, 
and as a side issue I have raised three 
children. They are now ready for better 
schools and so we have decided all to go 
to college. We have a good 10-room house 
in good repair, and well painted; have 
hot water heater and bathtub; good barn, 
all cement floor, chicken houses for 300 
hens, more fruit of all kinds than we can 
use and a good supply for sale; have Al¬ 
falfa well started, so keep two cows and 
a horse. Main crop is strawberries and 
early potatoes. We are pulling stakes and 
leaving and have not found a renter yet. 
Can you help us out with a good man who 
is willing to work? w. B. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
This scheme of going to college with 
the entire family is a novelty. I under¬ 
stand that this man has made enough 
from his 11 acres actually to give this 
cooperative education. I never heard of 
just such a case before. He deserves a 
good tenant for that place; so his ad¬ 
dress will be furnished to those who 
mean business . 
You tell us that different methods of 
culture change the date of ripening on your 
farm. Have you noticed any difference 
in appearance or quality of fruit? 
B. G. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
We certainly have. At the top of the 
hill are two grafted seedling apple trees. 
r l hey came into bearing with a rush tit is 
year at eight years from the graft. The 
original seedlings grew near a gulley 
full of stones and trash, and vines and 
brush have grown around them. These 
seedlings were cut off and scions put in. 
When the fruit came this year I could 
not recognize it, and sent samples to 
Washington. The authorities identify 
it as Twenty Ounce. On comparing it 
with our other fruit of that variety we 
see the resemblance, yet the fruit on 
those grafted trees is quite distinct in 
color, size and to some extent in shape. 
It would certainly deceive a large pro¬ 
portion of fruit men. Last week at 
Syracuse I saw the new apple “Hitch¬ 
ings,” growing in the Hitchings orchard. 
The tree appears to be just like Twenty 
Ounce in shape and size, but the fruit 
is quite distinct, being a dark red with 
most of the stripes obscured in the solid 
color. The flavor appears to be superior 
to the ordinary Twenty Ounce. The 
grafted trees on our hill carry some 
fruit very much like Hitchings in ap¬ 
pearance, and they certainly are supe¬ 
rior in quality. The question is, would 
this apple still show these superior qual¬ 
ities if grown under other conditions? 
Oats in Fall. —Here is an illustration 
of the way some statements are taken: 
In “Hope Farm Notes” of September 2 
you say it would be nonsense to sow oats 
this Fall with the expectation of cutting 
for hay next year. We have oats here 
that we sow in September, October and 
November, also in February and March. It 
will stand as much frost as Winter wheat. 
Our Winters are not very cold, but we 
have some frost every Winter. Sometimes 
the ground freezes two or three inches 
down, but the grain seldom freezes out. I 
have been sowing oats in the Fall for 25 
years, and never had but one crop to freeze, 
find that was planted late, on low wet, 
ground. I am in the same latitude as 
the northern boundary of New York State. 
Sherwood, Oregon. s. m. k. 
When I spoke of “nonsense” refer¬ 
ence was made to this section of north¬ 
ern New Jersey. We would never at¬ 
tempt to advise a stranger definitely on 
matters which are determined by climate 
or local conditions. Our Winters are 
very severe at this end of the country. 
On the Pacific Coast the climate is tem¬ 
pered and the Winters are milder, and i 
1 have no doubt these oats have been 
adapted to Winter conditions. They are 
probably much like the Southern Win¬ 
ter oats. We have tried them several 
times, but they die during the Winter. 
Apple Eating Contests. —I presume 
everyone likes to feel that he is regard¬ 
ed as a possible champion in some line. 
That is a pleasant way to regard this in¬ 
vitation : 
On Friday evening, September 22, a bi¬ 
ennial apple-eating contest will be held at 
the Camp Buildings in the Protumna Or¬ 
chard (near Tablers Station), at which time 
I would he very glad to have you present. 
J. W. STEWART. 
I would like to be on hand for that, 
though perhaps officers of the Apple 
Consumers’ League would be barred. I 
saw part of a pie-eating contest once, 
and it was not an edifying spectacle. 
At another time I saw a man offer a 
prize to the boy who could eat a dozen 
dry crackers first. The conditions were 
that there was to be no water con¬ 
sumed until the last cracker was down. 
After about the third cracker those 1 
boys were in hard shape. It looked easy [ 
but—try it! An apple-eating contest 
seems like a good thing. Let us have 
some of the records! 
Losing Fat. —Suggestions of apple 
eating might well go by the side of this 
letter—which is a sample of many: 
I enclose letter from the Dr. Turner Co., 
who claim to cure obesity. As I am very 
anxious to lose about 100 pounds, but not 
my money, I ask you if you can kindly 
ascertain for me the facts. l. a. r. 
Wisconsin. 
The letter is a printed circular, and a 
very good sample of “guff.” -A few 
choice selections are “untimely grave,” 
‘‘terrible monster of fat,” “long, weary 
hours of the night,” etc. Ds- Turner 
says he was once “the fattest of all fat 
men.” I have a notion that he has a 
sure method for reducing the size of a 
fat man’s pocketbook. It is the old 
story that he is thinking of increasing 
his price, but if you send $10 or even $5 
at once you can get the treatment. 
Now obesity is a disease of disorgan¬ 
ized nutrition. It may be compared 
with gout or diabetes. Under similar 
conditions one person might have one 
disease and another one of the others. 
Obesity is not always due to over-eat¬ 
ing or to eating the wrong food. If a 
man ate nothing of course lie would 
lose weight. There is therefore some 
kind and amount of food which will 
compel his body to use some of its 
stored up fat to do his work. It is not 
exactly a fair illustration, but yet not 
unlike the practice of some English ten¬ 
ants of using nitrate of soda alone dur¬ 
ing the last years of their lease. This 
active nitrogen in the nitrate stimulates 
the plant to take potash and phosphoric 
acid out of the soil—leaving it poorer. 
If a fat man came to us for “treat¬ 
ment” I would put him on the “work 
cure.” Give him a diet of bread and 
skim-milk with green vegetables and 
fresh fruit, with no sugar and little 
starchy food. After some reliable doc¬ 
tor had pronounced the fat man’s heart 
to be fairly sound I should put him at 
gentle work like weeding or hoeing and 
keep him right at it, and make him 
sweat. I feel confident that too much 
food and too little exercise are respon¬ 
sible for half the cases of obesity. It is 
hard to cure obesity because man’s first 
instinct is eating. Eew men have the 
will power to continue for a long period 
to eat less than the pampered body 
craves. Take my advice and let all 
these so-called “obesity cures” alone. 
The true cure “cometh only through 
fasting and prayer,” and the. strongest 
prayers will be needed at times to re¬ 
sist temptation to break the fasting. 
“The Redheads.”—T his question has 
been asked by many readers: 
“Who or what are these 'redheads’ 
that the Hope Farm man often refers 
to?” 
The “redheads” are three little chil¬ 
dren—the youngest of our hrood. There 
is one boy of six and a little girl of 
four and a baby of about 18 months. 
They are well named, for their hair is 
30. 
about as^red as human hair ever gets to 
be. These little scamps are the young¬ 
est of a family of six—the children of. 
Mother’s sister. Their father is dead 
and their mother is an invalid, and so 
they have become genuine Hope Farm¬ 
ers. They run about under the trees, do 
a little work and a great deal of play, 
and altogether make a promising crop 
of young stock. In the morning they 
roll out of bed, get their fill of wheat 
and milk or fried potatoes with a melon 
or peach. Then through the forenoon 
those redheads go like flaming birds 
over the sun-lit lawn or through the 
fields. At noon they line up again for 
vegetables and fruit and bread and but¬ 
ter, and then off again with the tireless¬ 
ness of childhood. The bread and milk 
and baked apples disappear at supper 
and in due time the bruised feet are 
washed and all the mischief fades away 
into sleep. Yes, indeed, the redheads 
are the real thing. They say they all 
want to be fruit growers—but that is 
many years away. The oldest one is 
already a partner in four Twenty 
Ounce apple trees. You know that we 
believe that every child has a God- 
given right to a home and a happy 
childhood, and the redheads are to have 
what belongs to them. 
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Farm Notes. —Two of our Fall crops 
are having a race with Jack Frost— 
buckwheat and Brussels sprouts. If I 
were a sport I would back buckwheat 
and let the sprouts alone. The buck¬ 
wheat grew but slowly during the dry 
weather; when the rains came it was 
blooming when only a few inches high. 
The water started another bloom appar¬ 
ently and the plants grew fast. Thus 
the grain was slow to set, but it looks 
good for the race now. The sprouts 
stood still during the drought and got 
behind. Now they are coming, and 
may work through, as they are a cold 
weather crop. The plants are all right, 
and if they have a chance they will help 
pay for the new house. We have some 
buckwheat seeded in drills like fodder 
corn and cultivated. It is larger than 
the broadcast crop and will, I think, 
outyield it. . . . We tried our hand 
at growing mangels this year. In spite 
of the dry weather the crop is fair. 
These beets are for the cow's Winter 
feeding. I find there is a good demand 
for mangels from town poultrymen. 
They will often pay one cent a pound 
in small lots. It is doubtful if the ac¬ 
tual feeding value of mangels will run 
much above $4 per ton. . . . To my 
surprise the potted strawberry plant 
trade kept up through September. We 
ran out of plants. I would not think of 
planting so late except in the South; in 
fact, we have a job to make people real¬ 
ize the limitation of a potted plant. You 
cannot hope to get a full crop nexl 
Spring. If you get one spray of good ; 
berries you will do well. By olanting 
a few of these plants you get a little 
fruit and can grow more runners than 
from the Spring set layer plant. That 
is about the story. h. w. c j 
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