6813 
May 4 
Hope Farm Notes 
A New One. —Tom got here after his 
long journey from Virginia. He is a 
big gray colt, clumsy but big of bone 
and giving promise of making a worker 
worth having. The Western horses are 
good, but they usually have the dis¬ 
temper badly before they are fit for 
steady work. The Southern horses are 
not so likely to be sick, and I think 
they are tougher and harder of bone. 
In several of the hilly Virginia counties 
Percheron horses are bred. Tom is a 
half-breed—his father being a prize¬ 
winner. The horse came up on the rail¬ 
road, and I hired a man to ride him out. 
They got here at about 10 p. m. The 
next morning we had a chance to look 
Tom over. He stands a little higher 
than Broker, but the two are well 
matched in size and color. 
We gave them their first try-out on 
the big disk plow. The two horses 
when hitched side by side snuffed at 
each other and appeared to engage in 
some sort of horse conversation which 
I could imagine about as follows: 
Broker. —“Well, how do you like New 
Jersey?” 
Tom. —“All right thus far. The hay 
you have here is fine and the oats taste 
good after my Winter down in Loudoun 
County, Virginia. Why, there was no 
hay down there, and they fed me on 
ear corn and oat straw.” 
Broker. —“You do look a little thin. 
Did you say you came from Loudoun 
County ?” 
Tom. —“I did—I was born there.” 
Broker.—“So was I. It’s a good thing 
to have two Virginia gentlemen together 
on a plow.” 
Tom. —“I am not so sure I want to 
spend my days on a plow at slow work. 
My father was a strong horse, but my 
mother had some speed. If I could get 
on the road now I think 1 could put 
the dust over a lot of these smart trot¬ 
ters. Back to the farm may not suit 
me so well.” 
Broker. —“Young man, forget it! I am 
older than you are and have been out 
in the world a little. That little sorrel 
mare Brownie in there can trot all 
around you. With your big feet and 
legs you look like an elephant on the 
road, but when you put those big 
shoulders against the collar you are king 
of the farm. Forget your mother’s trot¬ 
ting blood and follow father.” 
But just then I touched them up and 
told them to go. We put that big disk 
down into a tough, wet sod. It was 
a hard pull, but the big greys got down 
to it and pulled it on. With a little 
patience and humoring they will work 
together and we hope to have a team 
fit -for any farm. I have a big double 
Cutaway harrow for them to, play with 
this Summer, and I hope Broker’s ad¬ 
vice will be accepted. 
Fruit. —About a month ago I was 
about ready to give up the peach crop. 
As the trees start, however, we found 
some blooms. On the lower ground 
around the house is a poor showing— 
only a scattering bud here and there. 
As you mount the hill the prospect gets 
better, and on the west slope and in 
the sod orchards the trees seem to be 
starting all they ought to carry. I have 
one orchard of about 250 trees half in 
sod and the other half handled after 
Mr. Repp’s plan of good culture up to 
July and then abandonment to grass 
and weeds. The only difference is that 
while Repp lets the weeds alone we 
cut them with a scythe and left them 
on the ground as a mulch. This orchard 
looks well, and the trees are lpaded 
with bloom buds. Both wood and buds 
were thoroughly ripened, which meant 
self protection from the cold. A late 
frost may get us still, but at present it 
looks like a fair peach crop, and we 
shall feed and care for these trees the 
best we know how. This is the off 
year for our apples; still it looks like 
a fair crop. And we still have apples 
to eat. The children gnaw several each 
day and what do you think they eat? 
Black Ben Davis! I confess that it 
comes hard for me to admit it but 
Black Ben came into bearing four or 
five years ahead of Baldwin and kept 
two to three months longer! Do I 
like to eat it? I do not. Russet is far 
better, keeps as well and bears as well; 
yet is color is against it, and the dark 
red Black Ben is in demand. 
The Hens. —We started our “hen” 
experiment on February 15. There were 
39 birds. After the first month I 
thought a breeding experiment along 
with the egg yield would be worth while. 
So we decided to take out some of the 
hens and use two good roosters with 
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the remainder. On April 15, after 
runing exactly two months, we took out 
five hens. There are two R. I. Red 
roosters with them. They were each to. 
be put with the flock on alternate days. 
One is of our own stock, the other a 
fine utility bird of good breeding. We 
selected the Reds because the majority 
of the hens seem to have that blood, 
and we like the breed. What we want 
to do is to hatch eggs from this pen 
and if possible select 25 pullets from 
such hatching for another experiment 
next year. These pullets will be crossed 
with these same roosters and 25 pullets 
selected from their chicks and so on. 
All birds are to have similar care. The 
object is to see how common “hens” 
may be improved by breeding. The 39 
liens laid 278 eggs in the first 15 days 
of April. This makes 754 eggs in two 
months or 60 days. Of course I know 
this is no prize record. I did not ex¬ 
pect any. I just w r anted to know what 
common hens do. Wc also have 12 
Light Brahmas under test. One thing 
is sure; our plan of hen keeping re¬ 
quires little care and time. 
“Unsinkable.” —In common with the 
people in thousands of farm homes the 
Flope Farm folks followed the story 
of that fearful ocean disaster. It got 
on the nerves of some of our folks. 
Sleeping and waking they saw that 
fearful picture spread out before them. 
I was born in a seaport town, and my 
father was a sailor and fisherman. A 
vessel went ashore in a fearful storm. 
The crew lashed themselves to the rig¬ 
ging. The captain ordered all hands to 
pour brandy from the bottles into their 
boots to keep the feet from freezing. 
Some of the poor fellows drank the 
liquor and were so frozen that feet and 
hands were cut off. It was a fearful 
thing for men and women to stand on 
the shore and see the waves wash 
over and around these poor wretches. 
Yet I think there is something even 
more appalling in the loss of the Ti¬ 
tanic. The floating palace, the proudest 
dream of human marine skill, swept 
through the clear night with the domi¬ 
neering rush of arrogant pride. Her 
builders pronounced her “unsinkable”— 
actually claiming that with their feeble 
human skill and knowledge they could 
dare the mighty forces of nature. That 
is all you can say for them. So they 
neglected life boats and safety ap¬ 
pliances in order to develop speed and 
elegant surroundings. And so proud 
and foolishly arrogant, scorning danger, 
the big ship swept on. As if to show 
the folly of man’s pride, the little finger 
of an iceberg gouged out the side of 
that “unsinkable” ship as a child’s finger 
would plow through sand! That is the 
first thing that comes to me out of this 
fearful tragedy. It is a world warning 
—a word out of the great depths at the 
sin and speed and pride which is captur¬ 
ing the minds of so many of our people. 
The automobile, the flying machine and 
similar inventions and the inherited 
wealth which the generation now pass¬ 
ing away is pouring into unfit and un¬ 
tried hands—all these are changing 
character and doing it the wrong way. 
This fearful thing upon the ocean is 
the direct result of the unholy use of 
the things I have mentioned. They are 
also responsible for the fearful unrest 
and bitterness which are working be¬ 
neath the surface of politics and society. 
So much for the sermon side of it. 
There is another for men and women 
to think of—the way those people on 
the sinking ship met their death. There 
were the lifeboars scattered around the 
doomed ship. Wives and sisters could 
see their husbands and brothers as the 
waters slowly rose, higher and higher, 
until with a great sigh and what seemed 
like a dimple on the face of the ocean, 
the “unsinkable” Titanic passed under. 
There are reports of two or three 
cowards who forced women aside and 
tried to save themselves first, but happily 
most of the men on that steamer will 
go down into history as heroes, and I 
am glad that is the record. Most men 
have probably tried to think what they 
would do if brought face to face with 
certain death. That would probably be 
easier than drifting on a raft without 
water and food or being thrown upon 
a desert island or buried alive in a 
mine. In the latter case I am told that 
the long waiting and nerve strain drove 
men back to the worst of their ances¬ 
tors, but when face to face with the 
sure step into eternity, most of them 
seem to draw the best they have in 
their ancestry. It is a great thing for 
the world that those men died like 
heroes. I wish that this fearful warn¬ 
ing could make the rest of us live more 
like heroes in our daily life. H. w. c. 
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