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Hope Farm Notes 
Big Stories. —I have written several 
things which keep me in trouble—com¬ 
ing up like ghosts at the wrong time. 
One was an account of a skunk farm. 
I struck it in the early Spring of its de¬ 
velopment. It did seem like a fortune 
in skunks, and I put more financial 
fragrance into it than skunks can stand. 
The enterprise failed, as such things al¬ 
ways will, but the story of the failure 
runs like a cart horse behind the fleet- 
footed story of success. That was 20 
years ago, yet still people come quoting 
me as high authority on skunks—asking 
how to start a skunk farm. 
Then I went to see George Stanton, 
the original ginseng man. “For the fun 
of it” lie had me go out with a basket 
and pick a quantity of ginseng seed. In 
about 10 minutes I picked what Mr. 
Stanton said he could dry and finally 
sell for $75. I told about it, and before 
long they had the Hope Farm man mak¬ 
ing $7.50 per minute growing ginseng— 
when I never had but one plant on the 
farm, and that a wild one. As you may 
know, the ginseng seed grows in red 
clusters—genuine “red-heads.” We may 
get $7.50 per minute raising human red 
heads, but no ginseng for me. Then 
again we did actually pick more than 
one quart of fine ripe berries from a 
single Marshall strawberry plant. Within 
a year I saw it stated in print that the 
Hope Farm man grew 25,000 quarts of 
berries on an acre and sold at 20 cents 
a quart! Our entire farm cost us only 
$4500 when we bought it, but that one 
strawberry plant gives it a wonderful 
value—on paper. That is the way such 
things wade on through printer’s ink— 
twisting and turning to keep away from 
the slow moving truth. At a meeting 
once I told how we sold $6 worth of 
peaches from a four-year-old Carman 
tree. We got four baskets, which sold 
at $1.50 each in our local market. A 
man came to me and denounced the 
story as a lie. He sold peaches at 50 
cents, and no four-year-old tree ever 
gave 12 baskets! 
The Work Cure. —I let most of these 
stories go—life is too long to keep after 
them—but the farmers’ “work cure” 
story needs yearly explanation. A few 
years ago I gave some suggestions 
about treating some of these run-down 
and “tired” gentlemen who need rest. I 
proposed to work them back to health. 
Now some people think we run some 
sort of a sanitarium, and people have 
actually applied for treatment._ We have 
all the patients we have patience for, 
but I do not mind repeating what I call 
the farm work cure. Most of the peo¬ 
ple I refer to need work rather than 
rest. They have eaten too much, and 
the men usually drink and smoke until 
they are somewhat like a walking bottle 
with a cigar leaf wrapped around them. 
If I had one of them here for treat¬ 
ment I would first make him sign a 
bond to do just what he was told. He 
would have to forfeit $1,000 or more in 
case he refused to do as we told him. 
I would have him examined to see how 
much work he could stand—then give 
him overalls and a flannel shirt as a 
uniform. I would go through his bag¬ 
gage and throw away all the liquor he 
brought. He would go right into the 
onions to hoe and weed—down into the 
dirt. In half an hour he would be will¬ 
ing to quit, but he would be held right 
up to it for at least three hours. Then 
he would go behind Bob and the cul¬ 
tivator and chase up and down the corn 
rows. At intervals he could go to the 
spring and drink a quart of cool water. 
I have a quart can with a small hole at 
one side—the only way to get the water 
out. My patient would get all the water 
through that small hole. It would taste 
better! Having absorbed his quart of 
water he would go back to onions and 
corn and proceed to sweat it out. 
For dinner he would have bread and 
milk, vegetables and fruit, with a small 
piece of meat. After dinner he could 
lie down on a pile of hay in a shady 
place and sleep one hour. Wakening 
from this would be the time for fight 
and for forfeiting his bond. We would 
be prepared for anything he might offer 
—but he would probably go back to 
work. He would get a light supper and 
have a bath and rubdown with salt or 
ammonia in the water. He would stay 
in bed 10 hours. Each day he would 
work harder and be held up to it. In a 
few weeks of such treatment you would 
hardly know the man. Instead of the 
flabby, soft flesh and boiled looking eyes 
you would find him brown and hard. 
The wife of such a man would be 
put at picking berries, pulling weeds or 
at the washtub—up to the safe limit of 
her strength. I am not running any 
work cure or sanitarium, but that is 
what the flabby or the dissipated would 
get if I could handle them. I know of 
nothing like good honest sweat, induced 
by practical farm work, to test a man’s 
will power, make over a soft body, and 
calm excited nerves. Keeping Summer 
boarders is one thing, but administering 
the work cure is quite another. Do not 
try it unless the patient will sign a bond 
of behavior—with a forfeit large enough 
to hold him. You do not realize how 
the strain of the first week will pull 
these gentlemen apart. Resisting and 
overcoming the desire to quit is two- 
thirds of the cure. When a man has 
put himself in the condition of some of 
these “tired” citizens heroic treatment 
is needed. It is somewhat like dishorn¬ 
ing a tree when it begins to play out. 
It looks as if you were killing the tree, 
but really you are only handing it a 
new chance. A few weeks ago I showed 
one of our dishorned trees—cut down 
to a long stump. Another picture of the 
same tree appears at Fig. 300, showing 
how the top is growing. This was taken 
June 12. This new top is of beautiful 
color and will be twice as large by the 
end of the season. 
Farm Notes. —Haying comes earlier 
than ever before this year. The cool, 
wet weather has forced the grass along. 
Our own crop is good, but reports show 
that the general crop is short and the 
old hay is pretty well cleaned up. Prices 
ought to be high. ... As explained 
last week, the thing to do with a straw¬ 
berry bed is to clip it over as soon after 
picking as possible. Opinions vary as to 
GROWTH ON A CUT-BACK PEACH 
TREE. Fig. 300. 
whether the clippings should be burned. 
We object to burning anything that can 
possibly serve as a mulch, so the clip¬ 
pings are raked and piled around the 
trees. The best arguments for burning 
are that germs of plant diseases and in¬ 
sects are destroyed. I assume that most 
strawberry growers realize that the time 
that the plants most need food is right 
after picking. The plants are then like 
a tired man with a hard job still ahead 
of him. The plants must make a good 
growth for Winter, runners for propa¬ 
gation, and fruit buds for the next sea¬ 
son. All these things require food— 
chiefly potash and phosphoric acid, and 
right now is the time to hand them their 
dinner. . . The peach crop is very 
promising. There has been rain enough 
to drive the trees into beautiful growth, 
and the fruit is swelling day by day. 
Our apple crop will be light, but we 
seem likely to have more peaches than 
ever before. ... As was stated two 
weeks ago the New Jersey Horticul¬ 
tural Society will hold a held meeting 
in our neighborhood on July 17. We 
are planning to meet at Hope Farm for 
dinner and then to drive through sev¬ 
eral good orchards. This country will 
be like a new discovery to most Jersey- 
men. Up here in the backyard of Ber¬ 
gen County we think there are good 
possibilities for fruit. There are several 
new features suggested for this meet¬ 
ing. We hope to have several experts 
show us just how to summer-prune a 
tree. I shall dig up a couple of our 
crowbar hole trees and call on some of 
the experts to trim young trees as they 
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