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RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
March 30, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Open Fires. —The best part of my 
day is the half hour after supper before 
the open fire. We have a good-sized 
stone fireplace, and the little boys keep 
up a good supply of fuel. We can make 
the fire all ready, and after supper a 
match starts it off. Then we sit and 
watch the blaze slowly start at the paper 
and work up through the kindling until 
the big logs of dry apple wood are all 
glowing and the blaze goes roaring up 
the black throat of the chimney. We 
have a screen in front of the fire, so 
that no sparks or “pops” can get at us, 
and there we sit in the shadow and 
watch the blaze. The little dog often 
sits with us gazing at the fire as if 
something called him back thousands of 
years to the time when his wild ances¬ 
tors lay by the side of half-wild men 
and looked at the fire. For ever since 
fire was started man and his compan¬ 
ions have watched in silence and soli¬ 
tude while the flame licked up the wood 
before their eyes. And I think this si¬ 
lent watching has been responsible for 
much of the best that is in mankind 
to-day. A man may forget his cares as 
he sees the wood eaten away before 
him, and make new plans for the battle 
of life. No country house is complete 
without a good open fireplace with a 
blazing pile at night. Your city man 
may sit beside his glowing gas log, but 
it is a poor substitute for the real thing. 
The world would be a better place to 
live in if all country people could spend 
an hour each night before a roaring fire 
—in the shadow, without saying a word. 
The Storm.— The rains descended 
last week. There was a flood of water, 
and as the ground was frozen solid it 
could not work into the soil. So it came 
rushing down our hills, plowing and 
gouging wherever it found a track. A 
wagon rut made while the upper soil 
was soft became a deep gulley. The 
roads were washed, ditches and drains 
clogged, and sand from the upper hills 
spread all over the lower fields. Our 
little brooks jumped over their banks, 
and the larger streams changed the 
meadows into great lakes. We have 
known nothing quite like it in our coun¬ 
try. In the midst of this storm Mother 
was obliged to start on a hurry call to 
the South. In 24 hours we heard from 
her “delayed indefinitely” in a Virginia 
town, as bridges and roads were washed 
out. Not a cheerful outlook, but she 
knows how to keep cool and cheerful, 
and it was far better to hold up the 
train than push on over dangerous 
places. 
Spraying. —The season thus far has 
given but few spraying days. By the 
middle of March we began to have parts 
of mild, sunshiny days, and we plan to 
make the most of them, for spraying 
comes first in important, o.i a fruit 
farm. Last year we made the mistake 
of not fighting the scale. It fought us, 
and we were helpless. And so, remem¬ 
bering these lost days, we put spraying 
at the top of March list of jobs. We 
use both oil and lime-sulphur. On ap¬ 
ple trees, and especially certain varieties 
there is a fuzz or fur around the tips and 
buds. The strong solution of lime-sul¬ 
phur does not spread through this fuzz 
as well as the oil does. I am sure we 
have had cases where the scale was 
practically all killed except upon the 
tips or on rough and scaly bark. There 
was enough left there to mark the fruit. 
I think a thorough soaking with oil 
would have cleaned them all out. The 
use of lime-sulphur with poison last 
year for the Codling worm was a great 
success. I do not get into the contro¬ 
versy going on between the lime-sul¬ 
phur and the oil men. We will use 
anything that will kill the scale without 
hurting the trees. I know that both oil 
and lime-sulphur will do this, and I 
think there are some conditions under 
which one is better than the other. Mr. 
A. J. Devoe, known as a “weather 
prophet,” has some preparation for 
painting on a tree which he claims will 
do wonderful things. He has challenged 
me to go out to the country school- 
houses and debate on the scale question 
—he to champion his new mixture. Mr. 
Devoe thinks we might make some mon¬ 
ey by such debating. I declined the 
challenge. I think we would have to 
pay people to come out and hear us. I 
have told Mr. Devoe that he may paint 
his mixture on six of my apple trees 
which I know have scale, provided he 
will give a guarantee to pay for them 
in case they are injured by his treat¬ 
ment. Those trees yield about three 
barrels each, and are worth at least $25. 
I know I can keep them clean with oil 
and lime-sluphur. 
Debating. —Speaking of debates, they 
had one recently at the school with a 
good question, “Resolved, that U. S. 
Senators should be elected by popular 
vote.” Our boy was on the negative. 
My sympathies are with the affirmative 
on this question, but we tried to dig up 
all possible arguments. The boy’s side 
won on the theory that the original de¬ 
sign was to keep the Senate away from 
the people as a check upon hasty legis¬ 
lation. Personally, I think the Senate, 
under the old plan, is no longer repre¬ 
sentative of either popular or State gov¬ 
ernment. The majority of its members 
appear to represent some sort of mo¬ 
nopolized business or some theory of 
government either untried or exploded. 
Men of these two classes have let things 
get away from us, and I can see no way 
of holding them except by making the 
Senate understand that this being a Re¬ 
public the people must rule. I take it 
for granted that much of our present 
business trouble is due to the fact that 
Congress, and particularly the Senate, 
has done about as they pleased because 
they felt themselves out of reach of the 
people. Mr. Roosevelt has written an 
article on “Shall We Strangle Business 
—or Control It?” I think there are 
some forms of business which ought to 
be strangled and others which will never 
be controlled until they are half stran¬ 
gled and actually feel the business-like 
fingers shutting off the wind. 
Orchard Heating. —There have been 
several questions like the following: 
Will you inform us what your idea is of 
heating an orchard to overcome the severe 
weather we have had this Winter? I mean 
an orchard, size of about 40 acres. 
m. h. w. 
I have had no experience, yet I think 
this question is to become a big one. 
There will be little use trying to over¬ 
come the effect of such fearful weather 
as we had last Winter. The value of 
orchard heating comes in Spring, when 
the bloom is threatened by a late frost. 
Sometimes when the flowers are out 
there comes a sudden fall in tempera¬ 
ture, and if we can by means of fires 
raise this natural fall by several de¬ 
grees we may save the fruit. That, I 
think, is about all there is to it. In 
the West many reports of successful 
heating are made I think the best re¬ 
sults are obtained on still nights or 
where the orchard is in a “pocket” or 
with protection from wind-breaks. This 
holds the heated air around the trees. 
In an exposed place, or where the wind 
is blowing hard this heated air is driv¬ 
en <away and results are not sure. I 
doubt if such a plan would work on 
our steep hills, but in sheltered places 
I think it would pay. 
Feeding In Fat. —Here is another 
question which has caused many hours 
of heated debate: 
Can the fat content or other constituents 
of milk be changed by feeding? A friend 
who has worked on a farm scoffs at my 
statement that feeding does not affect the 
quality of milk. w. n. J. 
Massachusetts. 
I am not an authority on fat, but our 
experience shows that there is only a 
slight difference due to feeding. All 
cows seem to vary somewhat according 
to the condition they are in, and I think 
a heavy grain feeding as a change from 
pasture or hay alone would make a little 
difference. In general, however, the 
quality of the cow’s milk is character¬ 
istic of the cow, and not dependent on 
the feed. Ask your scoffing friend why, 
it his belief is true, the breeders of Hol¬ 
stein cattle are not able to feed Jer¬ 
sey milk into their cows? Such im¬ 
provement in quality as Holsteins have 
made has been done by selecting the 
best animals and breeding from them. 
Wanted, A Child ! — During the past 
month I have had calls from nearly a 
dozen people who say they want a stout 
boy to bring up. As a rule they are 
elderly people who have no children or 
near relatives, but some little property. 
They want a boy big enough to work, 
and they agree to give him his board and 
clothes, a chance for schooling and pos¬ 
sibly a little inheritance. Now the main 
object in such cases is to obtain a work¬ 
er. Let us all remember that to start 
with. It is quite a different thing to 
take a helpless little one and care for it. 
The larger boy proposition is a hard 
problem. It is not only hard to get a 
suitable child, but it is harder for 
most elderly people to know what to 
do with him. Having been “put out” in 
this way when I was a boy I know some¬ 
thing about it. I fear most people would 
be disappointed in the average homeless 
boy. While in theory the thing looks 
well it will prove a great shock to 
most people of over 60 to try to work 
a boy who has many of his habits al¬ 
ready formed. I should want to know 
all about the boy and the man before 
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