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STHEC RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Windy Days. —They tell me that New 
Jersey habits are well set. You cannot 
change them. This applies to weather. 
When it starts to rain we get a flood— 
long continued. When the rains stop 
high winds follow. They suck the 
moisture out of the earth and bake our 
hard soil like a brick. This windy habit 
caught us right in spraying time this 
year, just when the fruit was right for 
the poison these rough winds started up 
and swept our hills with fierce power. 
On the larger trees it was possible to 
cover at least part of the foliage, but 
on the younger trees there was no 
chance to do a full job. This is one 
of the drawbacks to fruit growing on 
windy hills. No doubt we must, sooner 
or later, come to artificial means of 
holding off the wind. Big sails or 
screens will be needed partly to protect 
the trees. These will be carried on or 
near the sprayer. The winds are a seri¬ 
ous drawback in spraying, and they 
suck out tons of our moisture, but on 
the other hand, they save much disease 
by blowing the germs far away. On the 
wind-swept hills we have but little rot, 
curl-leaf or scab. These high winds are 
still blowing, and among other things 
they blow up a new argument for the 
use of lime. When you see hard soil 
bake up like a brick when dry winds 
follow rain you may know that lime will 
help that soil. For the lime will stop, in 
part, this hard baking by loosening or 
opening up the soil. If a brickmaker 
had a nice batch of clay all puddled 
ready for use and you went and threw 
lime into it you would be like the enemy 
who sowed tares in the wheat. The 
bricks would crumble and break. Thus 
lime on these hard hills would loosen or 
open the soil. 
Politics. —These high winds may be 
parti)' due to the great political commo¬ 
tion New Jersey has endured. Mr. 
Roosevelt and President Taft have been 
rushing about, each with an army of 
talkers. The older children went to 
hear Roosevelt at the county town, and 
two days later Mother took them to 
hear Taft. When they got home and 
had talked it over I took a vote of the 
Hope Farmers who are old enough to 
think the questions out. This included 
the three older children and the women. 
This canvass showed five for Roosevelt, 
five for Taft and one for Champ Clark. 
Several of these voters had no definite 
choice and did not much care. If you 
took what you might call “rooters” 
there were four for Roosevelt and three 
for Taft as personal choice. Yet see 
what a “representative” government this 
is. Here are these 11 people with five 
smaller children in addition. They are 
“represented” by four voters—two Re¬ 
publicans, one Democrat and one Pro¬ 
hibitionist or Independent. At our pri¬ 
mary only two were permitted to vote 
and express the sentiment of this big 
family. This is because our primary 
law states that only those who voted at 
the last general election shall have a 
primary vote. The object of that is to 
encourage voting and this heated pri¬ 
mary will cause many a new voter to 
come up in future. Yet see how it 
works. Our family with its varied de¬ 
sires was probably represented by two 
Taft votes! 
I speak of this to show how difficult 
it is to have anything like real popular 
government in this country. Whoever is 
elected President will be put in office 
by not more than 20 per cent of our 
population. As things are now such a 
thing as “popular government” seems 
far away. It is just because people be¬ 
gin to realize this that we have such a 
demand for primary elections and for 
every fair device for putting extra 
power into the hands of actual voters. 
This demand is sure to go further and 
call for more voters. 
A Jersey Primary. —We have in New 
Jersey one of the best primary laws yet 
tried out. It is not perfect by any 
means, yet it is like sunshine to black 
midnight compared with the old days 
when half a dozen men met at a saloon 
or store and elected themselves as “dele¬ 
gates.” As I have been chairman of 
political clubs I know a few strands of 
the rope. Here is a reproduction of 
Mirk a cross X in the square at the left of the 
name of the person for whom you wish to vote. 
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LOCAL PRIMARY BALLOT. Fig. 263. 
part of the Republican primary ballot in 
our voting district. In another column 
were names of “alternates.” The aver¬ 
age “alternate” has no alternative but 
to look wise and put up some money to 
defray expenses. The Democratic ballot 
had the name of Woodrow Wilson alone 
at the head, and four “uninstructed” 
delegates. The object was to try to beat 
Gov. Wilson by electing four men who 
would oppose him. 
You know the result of the election 
by this time. Our district gave 10 votes 
for Taft and eight for Roosevelt and 
15 for Gov. Wilson. The State went 
for Roosevelt with a whoop. The poli¬ 
ticians and managers tried to stop it 
but were run over, because the people 
were disgusted with present conditions 
and only waited for a good chance to 
hit somebody. 
The contest was, on the whole, a good 
thing. It set people to thinking and 
discussing as nothing else could. Some 
of the reasons given for supporting 
Taft or Roosevelt were remarkable, yet 
I never knew the time before when the 
people were so well prepared to use 
their own judgment and not ask the 
“big men” what to do. The people will 
make mistakes, but in the end I believe 
they will make a success of self gov¬ 
ernment as far as is possible under our 
laws. At least it is evident that they 
will try it. 
Farm Notes. —We began cutting the 
rye for hay on May 25. It was, even 
then, a little harder and larger than I 
like, yet it will make fair fodder. The 
high winds which held up the spraying 
were just what was needed for curing 
rye. The rye stubble will be plowed un¬ 
der, the soil fitted and planted to corn— 
with rye again at the last cultivation. 
Let no man say I told them that rye 
hay, even at its best, is equal to Tim¬ 
othy hay. It is hard and tough, and at 
first the horses will not eat It well. Rye 
stems‘were designed by nature to make 
the toughest kind of straw. As “hay” 
rye is only a makeshift to be used as a 
last resort in time of shortage. . . . 
We began setting out the hotbed musk- 
melons on May 25. These melons were 
started early in the hotbed—using 
strawberry boxes and rich soil. The 
plants grew well, but the soil was alive 
with weed seeds. We pulled out these 
weeds, took the entire chunk of soil out 
of the box and dug out a hole down to 
moist soil. The chunk of soil with the 
melon plants was Dressed down into this 
hole and the soil hilled up a little 
around it. These plants have started 
off well. We are not attempting any 
large crop—just enough for our own 
use. 
These high winds show the need of 
lime on our soils and also the great need 
of cultivation. Where we plow this wet 
soil and leave the rough furrows to 
these high winds we lose tons of mois¬ 
ture which ought to be held for use 
in July and August. These gales suck 
this water out while if we could only 
keep the harrows moving over this 
A DISHORNED PEACH TREE. Fig. 203. 
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plowed ground we could hold the water 
right in the soil. There is no more im¬ 
portant time for harrowing than right 
now while these winds are blowing. Yet 
this is the hardest time of the whole 
year to keep up the work, for the late 
season held a dozen dogs in check, and 
they are all snarling at us now and de¬ 
manding attention. Our peach crop is 
coming along well—the apples will be 
light. ... A plant out of place or 
out of season is about as dignified as a 
hen on one foot. On one field where 
the soil is quite sour we seeded buck¬ 
wheat last July with Alsike and Red 
clover mixed. This year apple trees 
have been planted there. The clover is 
in scattered patches, and as might be 
expected is two-thirds Alsike. This va¬ 
riety certainly can stand up and grow 
on soil which makes the Red fade away 
like a dream. A volunteer crop of 
buckwheat came in this Spring. It 
crawled along, pale and weak, until 
about three inches high, and then made 
tiny blooms. Seeded in June it would 
be four feet high. Like Crimson clover, 
it is out of place when Spring seeded. 
. . . I want to show a picture of one 
of our dishorned peach trees at Fig. 
263. This tree was Stringfellow planted 
OLD APPLE TREE DISHORNED. Fig. 264. 
and is eight years old. The top grew 
feeble and we cut it off as shown. Now 
a fine new top is coming on. I will 
show it soon and at different times 
through the season. I will also show a 
picture of one of the old Baldwin trees 
with the top cut back. This old tree 
was failing at the top and, as seen, we 
cut it back severely. The longer branch 
with the new wood shows where we cut 
two years ago—not far enough back. 
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