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THIS RURAL NKW-YURKER 
January 4, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Moving Winter Plants. —There have 
been so many questions like the follow¬ 
ing that I print this one from New 
York: 
I a in going to move in a few weeks. I 
have some strawberry plants here I 
would like to take along. Does the law 
allow this, and do you think, considering 
the very open season we have had, with 
soft ground her^ now, that if they were 
carefully taken up and set right in again 
in new place, (irmly, and mulch well, they 
■would live and grow and possibly bear 
some little fruit this coming season? 
In New Jersey I understand the law 
to hold that such strawberry plants are 
personal property and could be taken 
up and carried away. On the other 
hand, fruit on trees or bushes—culti¬ 
vated year after year—like currants, 
blackberries or apples, become real 
estate and cannot be removed. As for 
making such plants live, 1 think it pos¬ 
sible if the soil is not frozen too deep. 
We have carried many such plants over 
by digging during a thaw and planting 
in flat boxes with soil around the roots. 
These boxes were kept in a-cool, not 
freezing, place, and in the Spring the 
plants taken out and planted where de¬ 
sired. As for digging them now and 
planting at once where the new bed is 
to be made, 1 doubt if it would pay. 
A Tobacco Cure. —To the people who 
ask how they may get rid of the to¬ 
bacco habit, 1 can only say with great 
thankfulness that I never had it to get 
rid of. Here, however, is a statement 
from a reliable friend: 
Thirteen years ago I stopped the use of 
tobacco by the following treatment. I 
had smoked tobacco .'JO years. I bought 
two pounds of gentain root ground coarse, 
about as coffee should be ground, spread it 
on a cloth and let it dry so that it would 
burn, got some new clay pipes and smoked 
it in place of tobacco. For the nerves I 
used the tincture of nux vomica. This 
should be used on a prescription from a 
physician. In about three months I was 
curi’d and have not had an appetite for 
tobacco since. It is disagreeable instead. 
You may give this to A. A. F. I should 
advise him to try it under the direct ob¬ 
servation of his family physician and use 
his will power the first week; after that 
it will be easy. m. l. 
I imagine that is as sensible and ef¬ 
fective as any of the so-called “cures” 
which are so loudly proclaimed. Do not 
under any circumstances begin taking 
nux vomica unless some good physician 
can watch the effect. 1 doubt if the 
gentian root has much beyond what they 
call a psychological effect. To put it 
in small words, the man who is smoking 
may think it helps him and this takes 
his mind away from the desire. For 
will power, or perhaps we might say 
“won’t” power, is what does the thing. 
We probably have a number of tobacco 
slaves who will read this. Do they 
want to follow M. L. to freedom by the 
will power route? 
Pork Figures. —Last May we bought 
three Red pigs of fair breeding. They 
were put into a little house mounted on 
runners with a portable yard attached. 
This was hauled about in an old sod 
orchard so as to keep the pigs on fresh, 
clean ground. They ripped and turned 
up the sod in great shape. They had 
wastes and a grain slop each day. Grain 
has been very high this past season, 
which made it a poor time for fattening 
pigs. Last week the first of these pigs 
was killed. It dressed 208 pounds, 
which sold at 11 cents. The total cost 
of grain for all three pigs was $38.50. 
This pig brought $22.88, his share of 
the grain costing $12.84. We paid $4 
for him in May. The other pigs are not 
quite so good, but I think they would 
make together about $64 worth of pork, 
while^ the original cost and the grain 
foots up $50.50. At nine cents a pound 
there would be a very narrow margin, 
if any. We might have sold this pork 
to better advantage by hunting up board¬ 
ing house keepers or others who use 
considerable meat. It would have been 
possible to sell five to eight pound 
pieces over the ’phone and deliver by 
parcels post, but we figure on the prices 
which our local butcher pays for good 
pork. Does it pay to make pork on any 
such margin? This means, do you get 
pay for your labor? We do in this 
case, for these pigs have done a fine job 
tearing up that old sod and working 
around the trees. Another year I want 
to keep 15 or more pigs in this same 
way. Grain will be cheaper, and we 
shall have more waste apples than ever. 
A pig running at large in an orchard 
may do considerable damage, but when 
you keep him in a small portable pen 
you hold him right down to useful work 
—and he will do it. 
Farm Notes. —The strawberries are 
comfortable down under their warm 
blanket of mulch. This was put on at 
the first real freeze, and as we had 
material enough this year a good job 
was done. We used manure, bean vines, 
marsh grass, straw—anything that would 
not carry too many weed seeds. If I 
had my choice I should use coarse vines 
of beans or cow peas. These do not 
mat down solidly over the plants, but 
are open enough to give air. Of course 
we all know that the object of mulching 
is not to keep the ground from freezing, 
but to prevent thawing when it is once 
frozen solid. It is the succession of 
thaw and freeze which lifts the plants 
and exposes the roots. Judging from 
the growth of Fall-sown barley on other 
parts of the farm I think we can sow 
this grain among our berries and have 
good Winter protection. This would 
not answer in a dry Fall, as the berries 
would suffer without cultivation, but in 
a wet Fall it would work. . . . The 
“cover crops” are all right, though the 
ground is frozen solid. The rye is still 
bright green and the Crimson clover 
looks bright. The tops of the Cow-horn 
turnips have faded out, and of course 
the roots have been frozen again and 
again and will decay with warm weather. 
1 lie vetch does not look promising, but 
I know that it seldom does look the part 
it hnally plays. To my surprise the 
Jiarley is still bright and green where 
it made its best growth. On the whole, 
I stick to my estimate that our cover 
crops arc worth at least $15 an acre of 
any man’s money put into stable manure. 
. . . And the crop of Redheads and 
Towheads is worth more yet. As I 
write there is a busy group of little 
correspondents about me. They arc 
making out lists of Christmas presents 
which they expect to give. I think I 
know who will finally pay for these 
presents, but that is not much compared 
with the fun and importance these little 
folks are having. The nights are long 
now and the evenings before the fire are 
making pictures on the minds of these 
children which will remain through life. 
I have been going here and there to 
various fruit meetings, and before I 
start the children give a commission to 
their agent to bring back some apples to 
sample. So when I tell these fruit grow¬ 
ers that the Redheads want the best 
you ought to see these experts hunt for 
superior quality. When I get back we 
sit before our blazing fire and gravely 
sample Grimes, Winesap, York Imperial, 
Northern Spy, Delicious, and all the 
rest. They are surely fine, but at the 
last little Redhead goes and gets a few 
of our Baldwins and we put them away 
with the others. Then it seems to be 
the unanimous opinion that while these 
prize apples have their good points, after 
all there is nothing quite equal to a 
Hope Farm Baldwin from our mulched 
orchard. Of course I know that Judge 
Van Deman would not award us silver 
cups or gold medals, but he does not sit 
before our fire, and while he eats our 
Baldwins plan for that beautiful time in 
the future when the Redheads are to 
run the farm and make these same Bald¬ 
wins do all the beautiful things which 
one may find in the future and in 
dreams. That is our “scale of points” 
for judging Hope Farm apples. 
And right here seems a good place to 
print the following: 
Some time we would like the opinion of 
some of your “dyed-in-the-wool” apple 
cranks on the host apple, or rather a 
liberal list of the best apples for baking. 
That continuous “dope” of the Hope 
Farmer’s about baked apples gets over us 
like a tent. H. T. 
Michigan. 
I call that a good tent to crawl under, 
for who could not forget “the cares that 
infest the day” with good baked apples 
at hand ? Ifl could have one variety 
every day in the year for baking it 
would be Fall Pippin. Greening is good, 
so is Baldwin or Northern Spy. Where 
it grows well Spitzenburg will come out 
of the oven like a benediction in red, 
but Fall Pippin is the ideal apple for 
eating in any form you may name. 
H. W. C. 
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