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THE RURA1> NEW-YORKER 
January 18, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Parcels Post. —Hope Farm expects to 
use the new postal privilege freely. It 
will take some little time to adjust a 
mailage business, but in time we shall 
work it to advantage. I do not claim 
this law is all we ought to have, but it 
will help. I understand the people all 
over the country are using this mailing 
privilege so as to drive the government 
to extra work. Our first taste of parcels 
post comes in the following: 
Happy New Year! To celebrate the 
opening' of the parcels post to-day, I am 
sending you my first shipment of fruit by 
this conveyance—a single, solitary King 
apple; it is my first package so sent. In 
thinking of it this morning I wondered 
for a moment who. of all my friends should 
receive my first “shipment,"” and it im¬ 
mediately 'occurred to me that the work 
vou have done for this reform for years 
and years and years, entitled you to the 
first recognition from me, and I could 
think of nothing that could mean more to 
both of us than a specimen of this great 
fruit. It goes with my heartiest con¬ 
gratulations for a step at least, in con¬ 
summation of a project that has been so 
dear to your heart and for which you 
have worked so long. w. l. mckay. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
So this “solitary King” came- all the 
way from Geneva and arrived in con¬ 
dition fit for a king. The redheads and 
started the discussion we had quite an 
unpopular cause—or at least one to 
which the majority were indifferent. 
There was nothing to do but hang right 
to it cheerfully. After a while they be¬ 
gan to come—people who are right at 
heart, but who do not like to show 
their sentiment. First you know the 
cause is popular—people come in droves 
and the thing is done. Now, take it 
from thfe Hope Farm man, this idea of 
saving children and giving them a fair 
childhood will develop in the same way. 
It is a bigger question than any of the 
others, for tariffs and laws may be 
changed, while you can hardly undo the 
training of a child. I know, of course, 
that many strong and successful men do 
not quite see it yet, but they will come 
in time. 
The Old Church. —It is surprising to 
find so many friends who formerly at¬ 
tended the “Chelsea Methodist Church,” 
which is to be The R. N.-Y.’s new home. 
We meet such people everywhere. Here 
is one more: 
Would you kindly gratify curiosity? 
Might your new quarters in Chelsea 
Methodist church be one which stood some 
60 years ago (may be there still), north 
side West 30th street between Eighth and 
Ninth avenues? “Kipp and Brown’s” 
stages which went down Ninth avenue and 
through West 23d street were called the 
Chelsea Line. As a little girl (when the 
[SPECIMEN OF KING APPLE SENT BY PARCEL POST. Fig. 24. 
I proved that before our fire. To com¬ 
plete the celebration I had a picture 
made of the apple—exact size—and here 
it is. I wish we could raise the King 
here, but it does not do well in our soil. 
There could be no more appropriate way 
of celebrating the opening of this new 
privilege than the mailing of a fine apple. 
It certainly has been a long, hard pull, 
but The R. N.-Y. never could have done 
anything if men like Mr. McKay had not 
backed us up and made their influence 
felt. This is a good thing to consider 
right now, for there are many other 
reforms to be worked out in the next 
few years. They must all be won in the 
same way, by long and patient work. 
You must manufacture public thought 
before you can enforce legislation, and 
the trouble is that thought is often 
manufactured the wrong way by books 
or papers which are printed to deceive 
the public. Mr. McKay is also correct 
in speaking of the postal privilege as a 
step. That is all it is, but it’s a step 
ghead. It will teach us how to jump 
tli'e rest of the way. 
Children. —I never knew anything 
like the interest in the child crop that 
has been developed during the past 
year. I am getting letters as never be¬ 
fore from people who have taken chil¬ 
dren or who plan to do so. Here is a 
characteristic note from an old friend 
who has taken a child: 
“We find it is not all pleasure. I was 
brought up practically alone, and my 
wife says I am now groiving younger 
each year!” 
I know all about that. “All pleasure!” 
Not by a large majority. No pleasure 
at all in the ordinary meaning of the 
word, but a mighty satisfaction some¬ 
times when you sit down and think 
what you have tried to do. That is 
why and where a man grows younger 
at such work—he can pick up new 
sources of pleasure to take the place 
of those which grow gray and slow 
when he does the same. We have been 
through many a hard battle during the 
past 25 years. As a rule, when we 
corresponding block in West 29th street 
was Lamartine Place) I was occasionally 
taken to the chnrch I refer to. Do not 
recall the denomination but remember the 
sexes were seated separately. In the 
morning Paterfamilias marshalled the flock 
to an Episcopal church in 20th street, 
where he went to sleep against a column, 
and subscriber peered around another 
column to catch a glimpse of the genial 
face of clergyman. In the afternoon we 
were heterodox. R. T. 
It is the same church; the building 
was erected in 1848. This church or¬ 
ganization was a strong one. Several 
of the ministers were men of power and 
eloquence and the church was widely 
known. When we get into the building 
we shall try to keep our congregation 
awake, at any rate. 
Farm Notes. —New Year’s Day was 
like April, but within 24 hours there 
came a fierce gale which swept the hills 
and locked up the soil. Our snow has 
disappeared. This is trying weather on 
the young grain and grass, but it got a 
good start in Fall and seems firmly 
rooted. On several fields we sowed bar¬ 
ley and rye together, expecting to cut 
the barley for fodder in November and 
let the rye come on for Spring. The 
wet Fall upset the barley hay scheme, 
though this grain made a good growth 
and gave green fodder and pasture. On 
two fields we did not cut the barley at 
all. but let it die down and mat on the 
ground. Here we have our best rye, for 
this mat of barley seems to act as a 
blanket or mulch and prevents the thaw 
and freeze which does so much damage 
to Fall-sown grain. I think there will 
be something in this plan of seeding a 
small quantity of barley to protect the 
rye. . . . People write asking if it 
is safe to feed work horses heavily on 
cornstalks. Our horses have had little 
else in the way of fodder since Decem¬ 
ber 1. They eat the stalks well—espe¬ 
cially the younger stock. I certainly 
cannot afford to feed $25 hay to work 
horses in Winter when they keep well 
on stalks. If they were hard at work 
it might be different, but there is not 
much Winter work in our country and 
the stalks answer the purpose. 
h. w. c. 
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