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THE HURAb NEW-YORKER 
December 28, 
Hope Farm Notes 
The Young Generation. —The Hope 
Farm man read a paper at the late 
New Jersey Horticultural Society meet¬ 
ing at Rutgers College. Several people 
have asked just what he said about 
young people of to-day. So here is part 
of it for a New Year’s thought: 
There moves into the neighborhood a 
rich man who has made his money quickly 
and not in a way we want our boys to 
make it. If such a man had dug his wealth 
out dollar by dollar I can see that he would 
make a good neighbor, but this man has 
little use for hjs dollars except to advertise 
the fact that he has been smart enough 
to handle graft. The main use this man 
has for his wife and daughter is to act as 
signboards to show that he has money. 
There is lavish and foolish extravagance. 
Competent 'workmen are bought or bribed so 
that they leave their jobs and work at showy 
and impractical farming. The worst fea¬ 
ture is that the children of working farm¬ 
ers see what this man’s family are doing, 
and the imitation tax falls upon father. 
As I can remember my own childhood, I 
do not greatly blame young men and 
women for feeling that they have a fair 
right to the things which other children 
and young people enjoy. You may scold 
them and compare their desires with the 
actual things you had when their age, but 
if you are fair you will realize that there 
is truth in the text I have taken. For 
each generation must make over the clothes 
which suited the previous one and trim 
them to fit new conditions. We dislike to 
have our old habits and ideals made over, 
yet were it not necessary to do so there 
could be no growth. 
I know a man and woman who were 
graduated at college under the old self- 
help plan. The boy dug ditches and sawed 
wood—the girl taught school, did her own 
washing and mended her own clothes. 
There is genuine pathos in the way this 
worthy couple regard the habits of their 
children. The father got out of a ditch, 
washed and put on a suit which had been 
discarded by another, walked bare-handed 
to the college chapel and won a prize in 
oratory. His son must have $3 gloves to 
attend a school function. Mother made her 
own graduation dress and led her class in 
brains and beauty in a 25-cent ribbon. I 
would not dare tell you what her daughter 
spends on school clothes. This is the imita¬ 
tion tax levied by several families of the 
shoddy rich who have moved into that dis¬ 
trict as spenders. For you see father and 
mother were young people at a time when 
habit and fashion were their slave. John 
and Mary now live in a period when fash¬ 
ion is their master. You will ask me why 
I do not join the jeremiads over the sins 
and failings of the younger generation. It 
is my happiness and privilege to remember 
something about my own youth. I know 
that 50 years ago the older people had the 
same dismal view of the young generation. 
Did a boy want to polish his boots with 
blacking? He was an extravagant dude, 
for father and grandfather had always 
used tallow. Did the boy have his hair 
cut by a barber? He was on the road to 
ruin, for mother could do it with her cloth 
shears. Did the boy want a buggy? He 
was far more of a spendthrift than my 
boy who wants a motor car, since father 
drove an ox team when he courted mother. 
Therefore I do not give up hope at this 
imitation tax. I do not know that I want 
my children to live just the life which I 
had to live. If we want our children to 
follow us and make the profession which 
we love just what it should be, we must 
make those children see a future in it 
which equals what they can find in the 
city. Have we any right to ask them to 
accept less? 
Selling New Products. —I have al¬ 
ways believed it possible for many 
farmers to do a direct trade with 
consumers—whenever they live within 
reasonable distance of a town. They 
can even do business with other farm¬ 
ers if they go at it right. Again, it is 
possible to develop a sale in new things 
or products not generally found on the 
market. We had this in mind when 
developing that part of “The Child” 
which relates to Jim Turner’s store and 
the way they “scraped the farm” to keep 
it going. I know of dozens of cases 
where people have developed good trade 
in common articles of food. For in¬ 
stance, take this from a little circular 
issued by Edwin A. Dean, of Maine: 
DEALER IN 
ALL KINDS OF EATABLES 
Raiser and Manufacturer «f 
SALTED DANDELION GREENS 
SOUR KROUT 
HORSE RADISH 
VEGETABLE SALAD 
This is an illustration of what"! mean 
by trade in new products. Of course 
these are not new, but they are new to 
this sort of trade. Under the new par¬ 
cels post such direct trade can be greatly 
developed. In the list of people who 
buy this sauerkraut I find hardly one 
German name! 
“Tommyrot.” —A friend in Pennsyl¬ 
vania sends an extract from “The Daily 
Iron Trade,” which contains a fierce 
outburst against the farmer. Here is a 
sample of it: 
There is no disguising the fact that 
the American farmer is as grasping as 
any “trust,” is as. fierce a “slave-driver” 
as any mill owner or employing contractor, 
and generally considers himself as “far 
above” his field laborer as the veriest city 
snob. 
The so-called “honest farmer” is a myth. 
He was invented by stump speakers for 
selfish political purposes. The modern 
farmer may not actually water his milk 
(the city milk inspector sees to that), but 
he is full of just as small tricks. That's 
why he is so easily “stung” by sharpers 
who craftily plan to let him overreach him¬ 
self. 
More tommyrot has been spoken, -written 
and sung about the “honest farmer” than 
would fill libraries. 
Our friend thinks this ought to be 
answered. But why? I knew a man 
once who, whenever challenged to a 
fight had this excuse: “I promised a 
sainted mother that I never would strike 
a fool or a cripple.” His great obliga¬ 
tion enabled him to go through the 
world as a man of peace! Now our 
“tommyrot” friend is evidently a mental 
cripple. He cannot think straight. Let 
him alone and his remarkable mind will 
walk him off into oblivion. It is aston¬ 
ishing, though, how some of these poor 
penny-a-liners are attacking the farm¬ 
ers. Some years ago it was ridicule— 
“old Rube” or “hayseed.” That seems 
to be going by, and now it is more of 
malignant hatred. I take all this to be 
evidence that the farmers are slowly 
and surely gaining power and wisdom. 
If these men did but know it they are 
doing the one thing needful to make 
farmers work and think together. By 
all means let such little minds as this 
“Daily Iron Trade” keep up his daily 
tirades! 
Home Note. —The mercury has put on 
its overcoat and seems determined to 
get close enough to zero for investiga¬ 
tion. A fierce North wind is blowing 
down the valley. The dominant member 
of your household is an advocate of 
fresh air and has arranged the windows 
so that a strong current of such air is 
blowing through the room. It is mid¬ 
night and, in dreams, you are picking 
oranges in Cuba! How would you like 
to be brought back to New Jersey by a 
strong tattoo on your back and a voice 
at your ear calling: 
“Someone is at the door trying to 
break in!" 
I give you the facts. You may answer 
for yourself. As for me, it was a rude 
awakening. There was someone on the 
porch walking about and at times pound¬ 
ing on the front door. One thing is 
sure, a burglar would not announce him¬ 
self in any such way, so Jack and I pro¬ 
ceeded to investigate. The night was 
bright and clear—a frosty sparkle in the 
starlight, but the porch was deserted. In 
front of the house the dog ran about, 
but gave no sign or noise of warning. 
The road stretched away clearly, and 
except for the shadows under the lawn 
trees, there was no place for hiding. 
But no one was in sight! There is no 
question about Jack’s ears—there must 
have been someone at the door. Those 
of you who live in lonely places will 
realize what such visits mean. Every¬ 
thing was right with us, and there was 
nothing to do but to go back to bed. 
In the morning the redheads argued 
that it must have been Santa Claus. As 
lie couldn’t get in he might not come 
back again—but he will. A more prac¬ 
tical explanation came later, when we 
found that the^hired man on a neigh¬ 
bor’s farm had been on a spree. Fa¬ 
miliarity breeds contempt, and liquor 
breeds familiarity. For all I know, this 
man may have imagined himself just out 
of the opera house making a fashionable 
call at midnight! Now, my main reason 
for writing this is to point out the dan¬ 
ger of shooting at such visitors. I have 
heard people say that under such condi¬ 
tions they would shoot first and inquire 
afterwards. That seems to me a wicked 
proposition. We do not have any dead¬ 
ly weapons around. There might be a 
deaf man or some chilled or excited 
person who could not answer your ques¬ 
tion. If a man were seeking to rob or 
harm you he would not pound on the 
door or make a noise; he would either 
be in genuine need or perhaps some 
harmless thing like this drunken hired 
man who could be handled without 
great harm. As for shooting at un¬ 
known people in this way, it is close to 
a crime to do so. A good watch dog 
will give warning when real danger is 
near. h. w. c. 
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jsHigh and so is the Price of Cattle. 
For years the Province of 
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Land at $10 an acre up 
Alfalfa makes 4 to 6 tons per acre; Corn 60 to 
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Apples pay $ 100 to $500 an acre; Truck crops 
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EASTERN APPLE TROPHY 
(THE $750.00 PRIZE CUP) 
WON AT THE AMERICAN LAND AND IRRIGATION EXHIBITION 
MR. THOMAS W. STECK, of Opequon, Va. 
(A USER OF COE-MORTIMER FERTILIZERS) 
T O encourage apple growing in the East and to 
demonstrate the fact that Eastern raised Apples 
are equal to, and superior to the Western product, 
the Coe-Mortimer Company offered at the recent 
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York City, November 15th to December 2nd, the 
EASTERN APPLE TROPHY, a magnificent 
$750.00 Prize CUP. 
The competition was open to every Fruit Grower in 
New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. There were no 
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Prize was offered for the best 15 boxes of apples (three 
varieties, five boxes to each variety,). 
The score card or scale of points was prepared by Pro- 
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expert apple judge in the country. The judging of the 
apples at the Exposition was done by Professor Van 
Deman assisted by students in horticulture from the New 
Jersey State Agricultural College. 
Professor Van Deman stated: “1 have never judged a 
set of exhibits that, all things considered, have run closer 
or higher on the scale of the score card, than in this com¬ 
petition.” Mr. Steck, the winner, scored 281.75 points 
out of a possible 300 (100 for each of the three varieties shown). 
Mr. Steck’s closest competitor was Mr. Granville W. Leeds, of 
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