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November 30, 
Hope Farm Notes 
I must get back to my questions again, 
for they come from all over—some of 
them too much for me. Here is one 
about strawberries: 
I am planning to plant a new strawberry 
field. A neighbor, who a few years ago 
grew lots of fine berries (Klondyke and Ex¬ 
celsior), offers me all the plants I want 
just for the digging, but his patches have 
not been cultivated for three years, and 
the plants are matted—a perfect turf. 
Which will be the safer plan, use those 
plants or order from a dealer? I have been 
told that plants from old beds would not 
do, that the resultant crops of berries 
would be too small for anything; that is, 
the berries would be small and inferior. 
Arkansas . c. s. 
Of course if you dug up the old plants 
from such a bed they would not amount 
to much. If, upon examination, you find 
new runners made this year of fair size, 
I would use them. Unless you knew 
enough about strawberries to distinguish 
this year’s runners I would not play with 
these old patches. Do not plant any¬ 
thing but good-sized plants of this year. 
You ought to find some of them in that 
bed. 
And here comes another: 
If one could get pulverized sheep manure 
for $15 per ton, would it pay to use that 
on berries rather than stable manure full 
of weed seeds? Would it pay to buy 
good commercial fertilizer rather than seed 
the ground with weed seed? If one re¬ 
ceived 12%, 15 and 18 cents oer quart, 
would it pay to grow the Marshall berry in 
preference to a berry that, while not quite 
as large, produced more fruit of fine flavor? 
Indiana. h. h. 
There are weed seeds in the sheep 
manure also. I think $15 per ton a very 
high price, and a better fit for glass¬ 
house work or tobacco growing than 
for. berries. Why use manure at all ex¬ 
cept for mulching when you cannot get 
straw? The chemicals are cleaner, free 
from weed seeds, and when you use 
them you know just what you are feed¬ 
ing the crop. Some of us have to use 
manure as a mulch because straw is 
worth too much, but except for mulch¬ 
ing I would prefer to keep it off the 
berry field. Plow under green crops for 
humus and use chemicals. 
I hesitate to advise about the Marshall 
strawberry. It is the only thing with 
us, but it is like a high-grade machine 
and must have just the right condition 
of soil and culture. We have sold plants 
tc people who praised it to the skies. 
Others used plants from the same patch 
and had no use whatever for it after a 
trial. For our own trade we want Mar¬ 
shall, but I would never advise anyone 
to plunge on it. Take 500 plants or less 
and give them a fair trial before you 
decide. 
We have a good many questions like 
the following, where people do work 
without any contract or understanding: 
When I moved on the farm two years 
ago, on going into the apple orchard I 
discovered some of the trees. 10 years old, 
were girdled, and I told the owner that 
he would lose his trees if he did not do 
something with them. He said: “What 
can I do?” I told him the only thing to 
do was to bridge-graft them. He asked me 
if I could do it. I told him T could; so 
we did it, and they are all alive to-day. 
We had talked about the trees in an off¬ 
hand sort of way concerning what he was 
going to allow me for saving his trees. 
He says I did it for the apples I would get 
off them. I think he ought to allow me 
something for doing it. What do you 
think would be a fair price for doing 11 
trees? - j. s. B. 
New York. 
Of course this owner is not legally 
bound to pay you anything unless you 
made some contract with him. You 
simply improved his real estate. If, as 
you say, you saved his trees, he ought 
as man to man to allow you something 
for the work. If the trees are good 
ones 50 cents apiece would be fair, but 
I doubt if you can collect anything un¬ 
less the owner gives it freely. 
And here comes another old-timer 
which seems like one of the sharp teeth 
on “civilization”: 
Last Summer a telephone representative 
called on a neighbor and told him he 
thought the proposed line would not touch 
his farm; however, if it did, when the sur¬ 
veyors went over the ground, would that 
neighbor allow the company to nut one or 
two poles in his pasture at $1 a pole? 
After accompanying the telephone man to 
the pasture lot and being assux*ed by him 
that if a pole or two were needed it would 
be in a very remote end of his pasture lot 
only, neighbor consented, and signed a 
printed form' which allowed putting up 
poles at $1 each. The agent left $1. 
Last week the farmer was surnrised to find 
the surveyors at work on his cultivated 
fields and meadows, where they had already 
driven stakes for poles. They had cut a 
roadway through his woods before he knew 
anything of their presence. After hot 
words the farmer drove them off, and threw 
their outfit over the fence. Farmer is will¬ 
ing to stick to his verbal agreement with 
agent, but does not want poles anywhere 
else. Telephone company’s excuse was, 
“We changed the original Toute.” As this 
fight is now on and someone is liable to 
be imposed on any moment, could you give 
us a bit of advice? It was not stated on 
the paper signed by farmer how many 
poles nor where to be located: that por¬ 
tion of agreement was verbal. 
In a case of this sort I should not play 
or guess at it, but have these neighbors 
combine to get a good lawyer’s advice. 
It is a shame that farmers must pay for 
protecting their rights, but the safest 
way is to know just where you stand 
and what your rights are. These “pub¬ 
lic service” companies know how to get 
within a hair’s breadth of the law and 
still keep away from it. Do not play 
with them, but learn just what your 
legal rights are from people who know 
the local circumstances. In most such 
cases legal advice is much like medical 
opinion—better get it on the spot 
Now comes a Pennsylvania man with 
clippings containing a report of a recent 
lecture by Prof. Patten of the Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania. Prof. Patten says 
that girls should spend all they can earn 
on clothes. 
“I tell my students to spend all they 
have and borrow more and spend that. It 
is foolish for persons to scrimp and save. 
It is argued that they are trying to lay 
something aside for a rainy day; for old 
age; for sickness and death. It is not the 
individual's place to do this, but the com¬ 
munity’s. * * * Men and women should 
spend their earnings, for the better they 
dress, the more pleasure they have, the 
higher the tone of tb whole community. 
When they struggle and save, they lower 
that tone, and thereby the enlightenment 
that should be.” 
My friend, who is a thrifty farmer, 
wants to know what we think of that. 
I think it is the duty of everyone to. 
dress neatly and well, but this advice to 
make no attempt to save would never 
have worked with me. Prof. Patten 
seems to be opposed to life insurance 
or any form of saving. People should 
spend their money, and when they are 
old or sick or out of work the commu¬ 
nity should support them. _ If Prof. Pat¬ 
ten really said that we might accept his 
own opinion that he is a wise and far- 
seeing man, but he has about the dumb¬ 
est idea of human nature that a human 
being can well develop. Take the world 
as it is to-day, and 1 can hardly think 
of a more demoralizing doctrine to 
preach to the young people I know. 
Should they decide to work it out in 
their own lives, I should expect them 
to drop their individuality and become 
little better than parasites. I have found 
that self-denial and necessity have done 
more than all else to develop character 
and real ambition. 
A New Hampshire man does not like 
the way farmers feel about game and 
the game laws. He says all game be¬ 
longs to the State, and therefore that< 
he as a hunter or sportsman has a right 
to go anywhere under State regulation 
and kill game, the farmer having no 
right to control his farm. There are on 
Hope Farm to-day several families of j 
rabbits. They were born on the farm 
and have not, I am sure, ever left it. 
They have fed on my crops and dam¬ 
aged my property to some extent. I do 
not see why these rabbits do not belong 
to me, the same as the cows, horses or 
pigs. Why should the hunter have any 
more right to come on my farm and 
take my rabbits than to take the other 
stock ? 
To prove his contention that land be¬ 
longs to the community, my friend 
quotes from a recent magazine article 
on the earning power of population. 
The author speaks of seeing a sickly 
child two years old, and says that its 
birth added $849 to the value of New 
York real estate: 
Every soul added to the population of 
New York—each child born, each person 
moving in—by the very fact of birth or 
removal, adds $849 to the city’s real estate 
values. 
New York’s realty values are $849 higher 
to-day only because that sickly child is 
here. They are $84,900 higher because the 
hundred poor denizens of the park are here. 
Not for anything these people have ever 
done or are likely ever to do, but, because 
the permanent population of New York is 
increased by so many units. 
I do not know where he gets his fig¬ 
ures. One would think that New York 
property would be worth more if the 
poor and out of work were to move 
away—for I cannot see how they add 
value unless they add to productive 
power. Where I live property is worth 
five times or more as much as when we 
came here, yet it is doubtful if popula¬ 
tion . has increased five per cent. I 
should not like to tell my redheads that 
their coming into the neighborhood had 
any effect upon financial values. They 
might become disciples of Prof. Patten 
and ask for their share of increased 
value to spend. We must, of course, 
agree that population adds value to real 
estate, but who can definitely prove the 
real estate value of that child? h. w. c. 
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