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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 23, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Christmas Trees. —Every year New 
York City calls for thousands of Christ¬ 
mas trees. In past years great ship¬ 
loads came here from Maine and all 
New England sent carload after car¬ 
load out of the forests. You could see 
them piled up in great green mounds 
along the docks and vacant places. This 
year there will be no trees from cer¬ 
tain sections of New England. No 
shipments will be permitted from sus¬ 
pected localities through fear of bring¬ 
ing in injurious insects. The trees will 
come from other sections, but this 
quarantine order forces me to face a 
blunder of judgment I made some years 
ago. When we first came here I found 
about 10 acres of waste land at the back 
of the farm. It was grown up to brush 
and briers and considered worthless for 
farm purposes. Since then we have 
learned how dynamite will clear out the 
stumps and stones and how fruit or hay 
will pay, but in those early days it 
seemed poor business to tackle those 
loafer fields. An old man advised me 
to clear the fields and plant seedlings of 
pine, hemlock and spruce, and give them 
good culture. The old man looked for¬ 
ward to just such a situation as we have 
to-day. I figured on it, but the cost 
frightened me, and I confess that I did 
not quite have the nerve to plant forest 
trees and wait 10 or 12 years for re¬ 
turns. Yet the years have gone so fast 
that I can hardly count them, and you 
can see what would happen if I had 
several thousand young trees suitable 
for Christmas! There is where I lost a 
chance—no doubt of it. If those trees 
were growing to-day the redheads could 
certainly have their choice of Christ¬ 
mas presents. Yet I think they would 
be worse off for such a chance. 
And I made another mistake on a 
timber proposition. We found a fine 
growth of chestnut timber when we 
came here. My first thought was to cut 
it, sell and pay off the mortgage, but 
then it seemed as if timber must in¬ 
crease in value, so I let the trees stand 
—considering the woods much the same 
as a life insurance. Now the increased 
use of concrete has held the price of 
lumber down and the chestnut blight 
has about ruined the trees. The woods 
are worth but little more than half of 
what they would have sold for when we 
came here. So there you have two for¬ 
estry propositions which went wrong 
from both ends. We lost by not planting- 
evergreens and we lost by not cutting 
the chestnuts. It takes a wise man to 
look through to the end. 
Late Planting and Plowing. —We 
have many questions like the following. 
It seems as if there was a general desire 
to get work done in the Fall. 
May strawberry plants be set with ad¬ 
vantage so late as this? The ground is 
moist. In anticipation of the rush of 
Spring work and wet weather is it advan¬ 
tageous to plow peach orchards in the 
Fall, and then use the spring-tooth harrow 
in the Spring? c. k. p. 
Ulster Park, N. Y. 
That was written about November 1. 
I think good, well rooted plants would 
get through this Fall. The soil is moist 
and frost has held back well. I should 
be willing to try it, but at the first hard 
crust on the ground I should cover the 
plants with coarse straw. As for plow¬ 
ing orchards in the Fall it is safer now 
than a month ago. Then there would 
have been danger of starting out a new 
growth which would be killed this Win¬ 
ter. Now the wood ought to be well 
matured and the plowing would not be 
likely to affect them. I do not follow 
this plan, as we think Spring plowing 
better, yet to save time it might pay. 
Thanksgiving. —We have no turkeys 
of our own this year, but we shall try 
to scare one up somewhere. I am 
getting so that when I want a list of 
things to be thankful for I go to the 
children—and always find so many 
things that they could not all be printed. 
Anion" other things our boys are thank¬ 
ful for their dogs. I know what some 
of these anti-dog men will say about 
that, but it is our business to give facts, 
not to try to tell people what they ought 
to do. And so this picture may be an 
appropriate one for Thanksgiving. Here 
are the two Airedales and the rat-ter¬ 
rier with the boys backed against the 
feed grinder. To our critics I will say 
it is better to be a redhead thankful for 
a dog than a grown-up man unable to 
find anything to be thankful for. My 
wish is that everyone of you may have 
your share of the white meat of life, 
with enough of the cranberry sauce to 
make the meat taste well. 
Ball Players. —It would seem as if 
some of these ball players ran better 
than many politicians. Here I stand 
corrected: 
On page 1120 the Hope Farm man, refer¬ 
ring to the ball game between New York 
and Boston, says: “Only one. I under¬ 
stand, coming from New England, and he 
is an Irishman.” Larry Gardner, the third 
baseman, and Ray Collins, the left-handed 
pitcher, are both Vermont boys, and both 
graduates of Vermont University. If either 
of them has any Irish blood in him it 
didn't hinder him getting a college educa¬ 
tion, and I presume they would both enjoy 
a good meal of baked beans after doing 
their share to help trim as good a team as 
the New York Giants. Anyhow, they are 
good citizens, as the reception given them 
at Burlington would tend to show, where 
the president of the university presided, 
and which was attended by the leading 
business men and citizens of Burlington, 
when they were students for four years, 
and where they left a fine record as good 
men, good students and good athletes. 
Perhaps these men by their many noble 
qualities may have had something to do 
with drawing around them such a good 
crowd of game losers as the Hope Farm 
man speaks of in such admiration. Isn't it 
true that the standard of the game is being 
continually raised by the addition of so 
many college men to the ranks of profes¬ 
sional players? 
Vermont. c. A. chapman. 
I certainly meant no disrespect to the 
Irishman who lives in Massachusetts. 
I spoke more in admiration of him as 
a representative of cultured Boston. So 
there were two representatives from the 
“Bashful State’’ on the Boston team! 
I saw nothing bashful about the way 
they handled the ball and lat. To tell 
the truth I had not thought of the in¬ 
fluence of uriversity education upon the 
game of baseball. That is a new one 
to me—yet what is education for but 
to “leaven the lump?” Certainly if it 
can get into baseball it will touch most 
of our people. 
All Sorts. —The children have husked 
their popcorn. It is a good crop and is 
safely stored in the closet of my room. 
HOPE FARM BOYS AND DOGS. 
We can pop it this Winter over the 
coals of the open fire. Our little boys 
have their eye on this as a farm crop 
some day. . . . The pigs in our 
portable houses have done remarkably 
well, and will dress nearly 200 each, I 
should judge. They have not cost much, 
having had fresh sod and wastes in 
addition to grain. This is, I think, the 
way to keep pigs in an orchard, and I 
am planning for a number of these 
portable houses next year. One thing 
that astonishes most people is the way 
these hogs devour wopd ashes when 
they can get such a treat. They will 
leave grain for the ashes and charcoal. 
I have no doubt many an otherwise 
well-fed hog is stunted or left with 
brittle bones because he does not have 
ashes in plenty. . . . We began 
feeding cornstalks November 1. Most 
farmers wait too long, until the stalks 
have had much of their value leached 
out by rain, and what is left moldy or 
dried hard and brittle. We begin with 
one feed a day, and while the young 
horses are idle they will have nothing 
else for fodder. The older horses can¬ 
not handle the stalks so well. The big 
Eureka corn will be run through the 
shredder. . . . Any fresh-laid 
eggs in your neighborhood? A man 
with a sick wife called up on the phone 
the other day, saying he had been out 
hunting for new-laid eggs. Though he 
took an auto and rushed about the coun¬ 
try he did not find an egg guaranteed 
less than 24 hours old. We told him 
where to go, but I want to know if this 
country is abnormal in not producing 
eggs through November. In this fam¬ 
ous “contest” just closed some hens laid 
on each day of the year. Do you have 
such hens up where you live? I am 
forced to confess that we haven’t them 
at Hope Farm. h. w. c. 
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