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Hope Farm Notes 
land and get it under way. 
meantime the man can be 
money at his trade and putting his sav¬ 
ings into land or into fixtures and tools. 
Quite likely the boy will find farming 
more tiresome than a trade, and the 
man will see why this is so. On the 
5FHE0 RURAB NEW-YORKER 
In the 
earning 
January 25, 
The Master. —Some days ago there 
was a bit of foreign news tucked away 
in the daily papers which interested me 
greatly. Nothing followed it. I judge - , 
that it leaked through a small hole other hand, they may both find it just 
somewhere and that the hole was . e . _ e they are after. In anj r event, 
promptly plugged up. It was stated that ls j ar safer to find out one or the 
the son of the Czar of Russia was in a pther in this way rather than to plunge 
condition which demanded a very deli- V} without experience and take a chance, 
cate and unusual operation. The one ^ cm see, I express no opinion as to 
man in the world most capable of prob- whether this man can make a farmer 
ing into this royal flesh was a Jew liv- or n< ?** H°w do I know? Could I tell 
ing in another country. We have all whether he would succeed as a doctor 
heard of the Russian policy against or n °t? It would be harder to tell 
Jews, yet here was a case where tariffs *-‘ ie farmer. . A doctor might pos- 
and race prejudices were as nothing. s, hly fool his patients for a time, but 
Under a special edict this famous sur- uobody fools the soil and Nature! 
geon was admitted to Russia, where he Southern Inducements.— -Here is a 
successfully operated on the royal boy sample of what we are requested to 
and then left the country. Before answer: 
he started he demanded not only his fee What ’ do you think of the following? 
in money, but also certain public rights World’s Work says that the Chamber of 
for his race! Both were granted. The Commerce of Sumter. S. C., offers, as an 
storv lias not been denied and T helie^e ! nducem(,n t to white immigrants, to rent 
story lias not Deen denied, and i believe farms of 20 to 40 acres, with houses and 
it IS at least partly true. Supposing it out-buildings on a half-crop basis, advanc- 
to be so, there are several things to fertilizers, seed, provisions, tools, mule, 
consider This snro-eon was in demand £-—f 0 , ’ 1 Presume, deducted from 
consider, inis surgeon was in demand tenants share at harvest-time—real S'outh- 
because of his skill—not for his money, ern style. Also, expert supervision will be 
When you get to the bottom of any provided. I should think that, as a rule, 
case iron find the man -valued fnr bic expenses would equal. or nearly, one-half 
case }ou find the man valued tor his the crop, so where does the tenant get 
abiltty to do some one thing better than off? j. L . p 
others can do it. The man may be a Brooklyn, N, T. . 
farm hand or a great lawyer, but if it I probably should not express an 
is known that he can hatch chickens, opinion on this, because I do not pre¬ 
hoe corn or save a man’s life before a tend to know about this particular place 
jury better than anyone else he is mas¬ 
ter. 
Again, such a man can usually com¬ 
mand his price, for price is based on 
reputation. When it is known that a 
man is master of some work he secures 
what amounts to a patent. He does not 
need to say “What will you give,” but 
rather says “My price is so much.” 
My. judgment, however, is that such 
tenants will “get off” on the road to 
oblivion. The average Northern farmer 
does not understand the Southern ten¬ 
ant system. He would not be satisfied 
with such tenant outfits as I have seen 
in the South. Anyone who tells you a 
white man can go from the North and 
learn how to farm under Southern con- 
And now comes the size and form of d't*° n s in less than four or five j'ears 
the price. This Jewish surgeon, when eit her does not know or is hard pressed 
' for settlers. Again, the recent tirades 
by the Governor of South Carolina can 
hardly be said to be effective immigra¬ 
tion documents to put before white men 
who have been brought up as most of 
our people have. 
_ I’arm Notes. —The soft weather con¬ 
tinues, with sharp freezes alternating 
with mild days. This is- the sort of 
__ ___ W inter to kill out strawberry plants 
to him when they came begging him to when not well covered. While the open 
the proposition was made to him, must 
have had in mind Shakespeare’s won¬ 
derful picture of Shylock in court: 
“Therefore prepare thee to cut off the 
flesh. 
Shed thou no blood, nor cut thee less nor 
more, 
But just a pound of flesh; if thou takest 
more 
Or less than a just pound * * * * 
Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.” 
What a moment that must have been 
cut so as to save a royal life! He could 
name his price, and part of it was 
partial freedom for his race. You will 
see what I would like to have you think 
over in this. The crowning glory of 
mastery is the quality of the price which 
the master demands. He may demand 
it all in gold, or he may use part of it 
to compel the buj'er of his services to 
ground freezes and thaws again and 
again the soil under the mulch and on 
plants remains uniform, and the roots 
are not disturbed. I think there will be 
heavy loss in the strawberry fields where 
no cover was used. Our plants were 
never in better condition. The rye ac¬ 
tually grows through this Winter 
weather. The early seeding and the 
pay part of it in freedom or in better moist hall gave this grain a good start, 
conditions for those in his control. The 
gold price makes the world harder; the 
other makes it better. 
Back to the Land. —Here is a plain 
statement from an honest man. He is 
like dozens of others who write us: 
I would like to ask your advice. I am 
40 years old am a bricklayer, earn 70 cents 
per hour, but am getting tired of it, would 
like farming, but the recent note by Mrs. 
Gertrude Berylsou has got me thinking. 
1 don’t expect to become a millionaire, but 
if I could make a living for four children, 
wife and myself, and put a few dollars 
away for a rainy day, would be satisfied. 
Would a course in general farming in a 
correspondence school at $55 be worth the 
money ? My boy is past 15. expects to get 
out of school in February. Would a course 
in an agricultural school be the proper 
thing? I don’t know much about farming 
only what I read; have always had good 
health, am not afraid of work, always 
worked hard and am not looking for any¬ 
thing soft, but would like to leave my 
children better off than I was. I would 
not go in debt to start; would go where 
my pocketbook suited. p. t. b. 
Now then, you older farmers who 
have been through the mill, what would 
you say to that? Do not write trying 
to sell this man a farm, for I shall not 
send him such letters, nor shall I give 
his name. If he wants to answer letters 
sent here he may do so, but he does not 
want to answer a lot of questions. I 
only print his letter because it is like 
dozens of others. I doubt if such a 
man could possibly make 70 cents an 
hour at farming. Under his conditions 
I would not pay the $55 for that corres¬ 
pondence course. The plan to let that 
boy take the short course at an agri¬ 
cultural college is first-rate. I would 
do that by all means rather than pay 
for the correspondence course. Let the 
father go over the course with the boy. 
The college teacher will mark out a 
course of reading which the man can 
take up. Then let the boy go to some 
good farm this Summer where he can 
work and see how things are done. If 
the boy takes to the work he will in a 
few years be qualified to take a piece of 
and with every mild spell it greens up 
and makes a new start. I think more 
and more of the plan of seeding a lit¬ 
tle barley with the rye. It surel> r mats 
down on the ground and protects the 
ry e * * * \y e are hard at work 
pruning. There is some dead wood in 
the old orchards, and this must all be 
cut out. The 3 'ounger trees are not 
heavily pruned. This is to be the bear¬ 
ing year, and we shall leave wood 
enough. At any rate, we do not cut as 
closely as many do. We want this 
pruning done early, so as to be ready 
for any possible spraying days which 
may come in February. 
The Cow Record.— Last year we gave 
a 12 months’ record of Mollie, the 
Hope Farm cow. In one year she gave 
8.883 pounds of milk. When she came 
fresh she started in once more, but has 
never equalled her old record. We did 
not give her enough rest. Here is a 
statement showing what sl|e did in six 
months. The first column of figures in¬ 
dicates pounds of milk. 
Month 
Pounds 
Grain 
Care 
July . . . . 
$4.65 
$ 6.20 
August . . 
. . . 656 
4J85 
6.20 
September 
.. 667 
4.50 
6.00 
October . 
... 647 
4.65 
6.20 
November 
. 565 
4.50 
6.00 
December 
.. 494 
4.65 
6.20 
3,774 
$27.60 
$36.80 
$18.95 
15.39 
Mils 
15.05 
12.10 
8.91 
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We charge against her just what the 
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Now we shall experiment with different 
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