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THIS RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
October 21, 
Hope Farm Notes 
The Joy of Life. —I have often asked 
people what event or work result had 
given them the greatest satisfaction. No 
doubt the reverse of that question—the 
memory of the meanest thing they ever 
did—would have been easier to remem¬ 
ber. The whip of the mind may out¬ 
live the ivy wreath. At any rate this 
question interests me, and there have 
been some strange answers. An orator 
once told me that the supreme joy of 
life came when he stood before an 
audience arguing an unpopular cause, 
which he knew was right, and felt the 
audience moving in line with his 
thought. A great doctor said that it 
came to him after some difficult opera¬ 
tion, or at the crisis of some disease, 
when after a flickering struggle with 
death the sick man turned the corner 
and floated back toward life. A mis¬ 
sionary has told me how this feeling 
came to him when men finally won the 
victory over long generations of bar¬ 
barism and gave up evils which were 
as much a part of them as hands or 
feet. It seems as if no man can taste 
this supreme joy of living unless there 
be some flash* of the spiritual in it. 
The orator, the doctor, the clergyman, 
the engineer—all these trained men 
find the true glory of labor in saving or 
influencing human life. They match 
their skill and their faith against na¬ 
tural forces, and they are satisfied be¬ 
cause the world is made better for their 
struggle. But this feeling of holy pride 
is not reserved for the so-called pro¬ 
fessions. It comes also to the man who 
has struggled through years to save a 
farm or to develop an orchard. Let us 
take a man who buys an old farm— 
which has been rejected by others and 
turned back to nature. This man has 
vision and faith. His neighbors and 
perhaps his own family laugh at him, 
but he goes silently on, plants trees on 
the hills, gives them the best care he 
can, lives within his means, and waits. 
He finds a way and finally there comes 
a Spring when the bloom shows here 
and there on his trees. The next year 
some of them are white and pink, and 
as the days grow short in the Fall the 
red and yellow fruit show through the 
leaves. Then all men know that the 
patient worker has won. Here at last 
is the orchard which, with continued 
care, will stand for years, constantly in¬ 
creasing in beauty and value. Other 
men have much the same joy when they 
see fields of Alfalfa where they found 
waste places, or herds of beautiful 
cattle in the place of the poor scrubs 
with which they started. Yet, I doubt 
if anything in the material part of farm 
life can quite touch the feeling which 
comes to a man when his young or¬ 
chard urst shows itself and proves his 
years of labor. 
Farm Notes. —The buckwheat was 
cut October 5, and is a fair crop. Two 
years ago this field was what we call a 
“loafer”; that is, a field grown up to 
brush and small trees and covered with 
briers. Such a loafer is a nuisance. 
We cut off and burned the brush in 
Winter, blew out the larger stumps, and 
planted corn. At the last cultivation 
rye and Crimson clover were seeded, 
but the clover killed out. This Spring 
the rye was plowed under and oats 
seeded. They were cut for hay with 
the cutter bar high, so as to leave con¬ 
siderable stubble. This was plowed 
under and buckwheat seeded with a 
mixture of Red and Alsike clover seed. 
A fair dose of fertilizer was put on 
with the buckwheat. There is a good 
catch of clover, perhaps two-thirds Al¬ 
sike. Next Spring we expect to plant 
a solid block of McIntosh Red apples 
20 feet each way. Strips about five feet 
wide will be plowed and the trees 
planted in these strips and given good 
culture. This will leave IS feet of 
clover between two rows of trees. This 
clover will be cut at the right time for 
hay making. If we need it for the 
stock part will be hauled to the barn. 
If we have hay enough elsewhere, all 
this clover will be. piled around the 
trees. In brief, that is the way we 
would handle a “loafer field” of that 
description after experimenting for 
about 10 years. I used to say go right 
into the brush and plant, clearing up 
afterwards. There may be conditions 
where this would pay, but in this par¬ 
ticular field I would clean up and sub¬ 
due the land first. . . . Rye seed¬ 
ing still goes on. We shall soon have 
the potato fields all covered. Then will 
come the onion field, and after that the 
Brussels sprouts and cabbage. In these 
crops the rye is scattered between the 
rows and worked in with a light fine- 
tooth cultivator or harrow. Of course 
the sprouts remain until late November, 
but the rye gets a good start. The 
seeding is not perfect, but there is a 
heavy growth to plow under or cut. As 
we expect to follow the sprouts with a 
block of Elberta peaches, the rye will 
be plowed under. . . . The first 
touch of frost came on October 7, 
within a few days of the average. This 
did . o harm, but told us what to ex¬ 
pect. The squash and pumpkins must 
come in and the last of the sweet corn 
must be cut. . . . Our Greening 
apples were all picked by October 7. I 
shall sell them off early. The last of 
the Salway peaches were picked on that 
date also. They were hard, but will 
soften up under cover. Same with the 
Kieffer pears. They are all off and 
coloring rapidly. For all the hard 
knocks old Kieffer has received it is a 
profitable fruit to grow when you are 
near a canning factory or an Italian 
colony. As a stewing or canning pear 
the Kieffer has a place. 
The Cow. —Molly’s record for Sep¬ 
tember was 767 pounds. This is worth 
four cents a pound to our family, or a 
total of $30.68. The month’s feed cost 
$4.50, and we allow $6 for time spent 
in caring for the cow. This leaves 
$20.18. Figured in the same way the 
cow’s financial record stands: 
April (12 days). $7.76 
May . 30.31 
June . 29.94 
July . 27.79 
August . 18.92 
September . 20.18 
Total .$134.90 
The total yield from April 19 to Octo¬ 
ber 1 was 4793 pounds. As will be seen, 
she averaged a little over 25 pounds 
a day. This is no champion record, 
but the cow suits us well. She is 
picketed about through the day and has 
garden wastes at night with grain. For 
Winter feed we have a good lot of 
tender ctalks and a nice lot of mangels. 
This crop has surprised me. I thought 
it was a hard one to raise. We put 
the seed in as directed. It came up 
slowly and the drought caught the 
young plants. I thought it was all up 
with them and gave them little care 
except an occasional horse cultivation. 
To our surprise they lived through this 
drought and neglect, shook themselves 
when .he .ains i-ame and are now large 
and thrifty. The general opinion seems 
to be that mangels may be all right, but 
that it is too much of a nuisance to 
grow them. I know they are all right, 
and this season shows that the so- 
called “bother” of raising them is 
greatly overestimated. 
Organic Matter. —We keep coming 
back to that because each succeeding 
year shows- how desperately our soils 
need humus. I think the soil in north¬ 
ern New Jersey is particularly lacking 
in organic matter. Where we have kept 
on year after year plowing under rye 
o* - even weeds we see the effect clearly. 
The soil does not bake as it did, water 
does not run over and wash it so badly, 
it can be worked earlier, and chemical 
f rtilizers certainly give better results 
on it. This is not a live stock country. 
While some of our farmers buy city 
manure, I doubt the wisdom of doing 
so. I fed sure that with lime to start 
clover and organic matter plowed un¬ 
der in connection with fertilizers we 
can feed our crops with greatest econ¬ 
omy. There are other sections where 
this would not be true, but with us I 
think chemicals and clover and lime 
pay best. Yet there are some crops 
where it seems hard to get in the or¬ 
ganic matter. Take our system of 
growing strawberries in hills. It would 
not pay to start plants in this way un¬ 
less they can be kept fruiting for four 
or five years. In that time the organic 
matter will be pretty much worked out 
of the soil. We have a hard soil which 
in a drought bakes like a brick around 
the plants and pinches the yield out of 
them. Of course you can use stable 
manure for mulching and work this 
under in Spring, but this is just the 
way to grow a prize crop of weeds. If 
you have ever fought with such a crop 
in a five-year strawberry bed you know 
what a bedfellow this stuff may be¬ 
come. It will cost more to keep the 
old beds clean than they are worth. I 
think Mr. D. L. Hartman in his article 
on page 978 got at the remedy. By 
sowing oats all over the bed in the Fall 
you get a good humus crop which will 
fill the soil with roots and then die out 
so that no plowing in Spring would be 
required. Turnips alone or with the 
oats might help. We have not tried 
this, but it looks like a good way of 
filling the berry ground with humus 
without disturbing the plants in Spring. 
In a rainy Fall like this one the scheme 
would have worked with us. Last year 
I think it would have failed. H. w. c. 
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