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Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —The warm weather has 
kept up well to Thanksgiving. We did 
a little plowing late in November. This 
was a piece of ground used for a mixed 
garden this season. Next year I want 
to try my hand at a prize strawberry 
patch. So we took the cutaway and 
chopped this garden over, breaking up 
the vines and stirring the surface. Then 
it was plowed with the furrows left 
rough; as the place is level there will 
be no serious washing. Thus it will 
stand till Spring, when we shall put on 
a coat of manure and plow once more 
and then make as fine as possible before 
setting out our plants. I shall follow 
this up tp see just what we can make 
the Marshall strawberry do. ... I 
fear this warm Fall will ruin many of 
the apples in cellar storage. Several 
years ago this same thing happened— 
thousands of barrels were lest, and the 
effect of this was shown later when 
these cellar apples would naturally have 
been sold. Every year adds force to 
the argument in favor of good storage. 
The ability to hold back the apple crop 
until prices go up is just about as nec¬ 
essary as spraying. . . . Farmers 
want to know if the Eureka corn pro¬ 
duces a crop of grain with us. No; 
you could hardly call it a crop, though 
we have husked off a good many ears. 
With two weeks more to grow the 
Eureka would have made a fair yield of 
grain, but it is not intended to rank 
with other varieties in tms respect. It 
is a corn for the silo and will, I be¬ 
lieve, make more silage to the acre than 
any other plant I have yet seen. There 
will be many soft ears to work into 
the silo. It still remains a debatable 
question whether these immense stalks 
of Eureka give more actual food to the 
acre than other varieties which ripen 
the grain. The argument for Eureka is 
that it gives great bulk, so that we can 
use cotton-seed meal or some other 
strong concentrate to balance it. There 
are two sides to this, but for dry fodder 
I prefer a smaller stalk, for the tough 
Eureka stalks are not eaten readily 
when dry and hard. A medium grow¬ 
ing flint variety makes better fodder. 
. . . We may be able to spray the 
peach trees this Fall after all. The 
leaves are now mostly fallen, and if 
the weather continues right we may get 
the oil on. The apple trees are still 
well covered with leaves. The only 
reason for Fall spraying is that we get 
the job off our hands and save Spring 
work. 
Taking a Child. —At this season we 
have letters from people who ask about 
children. Probably the coming of Win¬ 
ter, with its feeling of loneliness, 
prompts much of this inquiry. Let me 
give a typical case. The man who comes 
this time says: “Wife and I are on the 
sunny side of 50—that is, we are -about 
57.” They have reared a good-sized 
family, and all but the younger ones 
have gone from home and have, appar¬ 
ently, done well. Now these good peo¬ 
ple are capable of providing a home for 
a child, and this is what they want: 
“I am looking for a ‘redhead’ who will 
do chores, head his class in school, and who 
is worth giving a chance to make his mark 
worth looking at. Do you know where he 
is ?” 
I do not know where such a paragon 
can be found. I fear we could not sup- 
uljr him from Hope Farm. Our friend 
expects too much from a child who 
would be given away, and I fear he 
will be greatly disappointed if he tries 
his experiment. 
I want to talk plainly about this, for 
it is one of the saddest things in life to 
see people of middle years take a child 
and feel that it has proved a poor in¬ 
vestment. I know what I am talking 
about, for I was “put out” in this way 
as a little child, and we have had years 
of experience. Most people expect too 
much of a child. Some of them have 
forgotten all about their own child¬ 
hood, and regard the little one, when 
he comes, as a small old man. Thus, 
whenever the question of working such 
a child comes up as part of the bargain, 
I know from sad experience what it 
means. It is true that every child 
should be taught to work and have 
some duties to perform, but it is too 
easy to overdo this when you start out 
with the proposition that the little thing 
must earn his board and clothes from 
the start. It is too easy to continue on 
and argue that he must pay interest on 
the investment also. First you know, tlie 
child is regarded as a little drudge, and 
still expected to “head* his class” and 
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December 
do a lot of impossible things. While 
we may read of such children in novels, 
I never got near one, after trying the 
job myself and working with a dozen or 
so here. The fact is that every: child 
has the God-given right to a happy 
childhood. I do not care what “marks” 
he may make, how much work he does 
or where he stands in the class; unless 
he can have the early years which right¬ 
fully belong to a child he will never 
measure up to something really “worth 
looking at.” 
Our friend says he wants a child 
who is “worth giving a chance.” That 
is what I do not like about it. Why 
man, every child is worth “a chance!” 
Think what would happen to the world 
if only the strong and promising were 
given opportunity. What would happen 
to the backward and defective among 
us, who cannot hope to head our class, 
if such ruling were to be made uni¬ 
versal? In the course of time with that 
rule strictly applied there could be no 
true religion in the world, because there 
would be no personal sacrifice or kindly 
sympathy. It may be considered a hard 
doctrine, but I would not advise anyone 
to take a child unless he can give up 
the hope of great personal satisfaction 
to himself, and do it for the child and 
for humanity. You ought to read the 
pitiful letters we get here from disap¬ 
pointed men and women who have taken 
children either to work them or to pet 
them foolishly as playthings. There are 
very few of what one may call human 
prize packages in the children who are 
denied homes of their own, yet that is 
all the more reason why they should, 
every one of them, have the fair chance 
of childhood. I wish I could locate 100,- 
000 children in farm homes, if I could 
only get the farmers who took them to 
realize just what they were doing; 
what a blessing it would be to the chil¬ 
dren and to many a weary man and 
woman, if this thing could be done with 
the true motive. And what is this true 
motive? Taking the child not because 
he is smart or handsome or superior 
and will become a credit to you, but be¬ 
cause he may be quite the reverse, so 
that you, through your love and sacri¬ 
fice, may become a credit to him. I have 
tried to bring out this idea in the little 
book, “The Child,” which I would like 
to have you think over. 
As I finish writing this I glanced up 
from my desk to find that visitors had 
come upon me. It is a dark, wild night 
outside, with rain and high wind. My 
open fire is burning brightly. One of 
the boys is reading before it. The girls 
are singing in the fr«it room. Mother 
has come in with three of the little 
boys. The two smaller redheads are 
asleep upstairs, and these three little 
fellows are listening to the first chapter 
of “Pilgrim's Progress.” I wish I had 
never progressed so far that I could 
walk with the pilgrim as they are doing. 
I have little thought that either of these 
youngsters will ever Head their class or 
become governors or president. On the 
whole, I rather hope not, but one thing 
is sure—they shall have as good a child¬ 
hood as New Jersey can give them. 
h. w. c. 
Sulphur as Fertilizer. 
TP. F. T., Turnerscille , X. J. —In the 
article on sulphur as a fertilizer on page 
1089 mention is made of its value on 
truck crops, such as beets, cabbage, lettuce, 
etc. Would you inform me whether sul¬ 
phur drilled in rows will have a tendency 
to injure or burn the roots of young 
plants coming in contact with it? Would 
sulphur sprinkled on potatoes when stor¬ 
ing injure the eyes for seed purposes? If 
used with well balanced commercial fer¬ 
tilizer, will either be benefited or injured 
through chemical action? 
Ans. —Much of this matter about sul¬ 
phur as a fertilizer is untried. It seems 
to be demonstrated that many or most 
of our crops have a greater need of sul¬ 
phur than was supposed, but the full 
details have not been worked out as in 
the case of lime, nitrogen or potash. 
We have used sulphur in the drill with 
potatoes without injuring the plants, and 
with good results to the crop. Onion 
growers have used sulphur in the same 
way as a preventive of onion smut, and 
other cases are on record where it has 
been used with drilled seed. As for 
sprinkling sulphur over potatoes as they 
are stored we have not tried it, but we 
know that it is a good plan to sprinkle 
the sulphur over the cut seed before 
planting. Some potato growers, who 
use a planter, put sulphur into the hop¬ 
per with the cut seed and find that it 
helps to prevent the growth of scab 
germs, and also preserves the seed 
piece. If anyone has used sulphur when 
the potatoes are put in storage we would 
like to know about it. 
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