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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 
Hope Farm Notes 
I have been selling cottage cheese at 10 
cents per pound. Now another person has 
started in at eight cents per pound. Would 
it be. better for me to meet this price and 
spend the money for fertilizer or feed my 
skim-milk and buttermilk to my poultry? 
1 understand that but little fertility loaves 
the farm when butter is sold, but that a 
large amount is sold with the milk and 
cheese. Will you also tell me if there is 
much feeding value in the whey that drains 
out of the cheese. j. w. s. 
Massachusetts. 
It would be hard for one man to set¬ 
tle this question for another. I should 
be inclined to sell the cheese at eight 
cents and feed the whey. As for plant 
food values here are analyses of butter 
and skim-milk—these are figured to 
ounces in 100 pounds: 
Phos. 
Nitrogen. Acid. Potash. 
Butter . 2% Ya Ya 
Skim-milk . 8 5 3 
Remember these are ounces, not 
pounds. Some little nitrogen gets away 
in the butter, but it does not count for 
much. At eight cents a pound you get 
a large price for the plant food in cot¬ 
tage cheese. This plant food in 100 
pounds of skim-milk is worth less than 
12 cents in chemicals. How many 
pounds of cheese can you make from it? 
One trouble with such things is the fact 
that when a man sells a product of this 
sort for cash he is not inclined to spend 
the cash. It is like the farmer who 
will not raise strawberries because he 
can “buy them cheaper.” The result is 
his family rarely have a berry. 
Breakfast Food. —The following will 
not be new to some of our readers but, 
new or old, it is a good thing to try. 
We have just got on to a new breakfast 
food that we like first rate, and my daugh¬ 
ter says I must tell The It. N.-Y. about It. 
It is simply boiled uheat. We like the Red 
wheat the best; it seems to have the most 
gluten in it. Simply select the plumpest 
wheat, have it absolutely clean, and boil it 
until very tender and many of the kernels 
have burst. In fact we like to boil it 
the second time. It can be eaten with 
cream and sugar or in any way desired. 
I like it with milk only and eat it both 
morning and night. We like it better than 
oatmeal or any other style of breakfast 
food, and then when we buy it we are 
getting the entire worth of our money in 
wholesome food, not six cents in food and 
four cents in package in every 10 cents 
paid. Try it. J. s. woodward. 
I do not know of any better way to 
get the value of whole wheat. Some 
of this “breakfast food” idolatry is past 
belief. Not long ago I was at a farm¬ 
er's house and they offered me my choice 
of five different “foods.” A dish of the 
boiled wheat would have suited me bet¬ 
ter than any fancy stuff. Of course I 
need not tell any man over 45 that he 
would be far better off to substitute 
wheat for meat. His joints will soon 
tell him if I do not. 
Who Owns the Tree? —We have 
many questions about the following 
matter of ownership: 
I have a tree which has blown over the 
fence of a neighbor. I have put up the 
fence again. The other day I sent a man 
to cut it up and remove it, but he was 
stopped by the owner of the land on which 
it fell, saying it belonged to him. Is he 
right or am I right in regard to moving 
this tree? Who does the tree belong to? 
New Jersey. w. h. b. 
This tree belongs to you. If it grew 
on your side of the fence it was a part 
of your real estate, and it did not cease 
to be such when it blew down. Under 
the New Jersey laws the neighbor might 
perhaps prohibit you from coming upon 
his land to get your tree but this right 
would not make the tree his property. 
We have had such cases, and in our 
neighborhood no one would think of 
claiming any such right. If the tree 
is not too large you can hitch to it and 
haul it back on your own farm without 
going on the other land. There ought 
not to be any question about such a 
thing, and we do not think this neighbor 
will claim your real estate. 
Back to the Land. —The following 
note is characteristic: 
A farmer told mo the other day about 
a young nephew who had been sent down 
on the farm because he would not study. 
He arrived in good spirits on Saturday 
morning, loafed around all day and Sun¬ 
day. Early Monday morning bis uncle 
called him for breakfast. The youth rubbed 
his eyes, and seeing no trace of daylight 
drowsily asked: “Wassa matter, Uncle?” 
Uncle made him understand that he was 
not going to school now, he was working 
on a farm, and must get up and help 
cut the oats. Uncle was very much 
amused when he heard the whining voice 
ask: “You don’t have to sneak up on ’em 
in the dark, do you, Uncle?” G. b. k. 
New Jersey. 
That young man came to the unhappy 
point in the life of a back-to-the-lander 
when it suddenly dawned upon him that 
life on a farm is not one long round of 
pleasure. That is a hard moment, but 
it will come to all. No man escapes it 
who goes to the country expecting to 
make a living on a piece of land. I do 
not envy the job of that uncle, yet if he 
will stay by the boy and make him work 
there may be hope for him. Every year 
at this season we have a lot of people 
coming to ask why farmers work so 
hard and why they keep at it like bull¬ 
dogs. They do not all do so, but there 
is no way to obtain a convincing an¬ 
swer except by trying to support a fam¬ 
ily by actual labor on a piece of land! 
Who Can Tell?— If you think such 
suggestions not needed just read the 
following from a Pennsylvania man: 
In this age of “back to the farm” we all 
get the fever more or less, and I wish to 
ask your advice. I am a man 35 years 
of age, have accumulated several thousand 
dollars and a discontent. I know abso¬ 
lutely nothing about farming except a little 
book knowledge from The It. N.-Y. and 
other similar magazines, but I admire and 
love the country and would like to spend 
the rest of my life in such surroundings, 
but lack of knowledge of farming gives me 
fear of initiative. Would you advise me 
to make farming my business under the 
above circumstances? If your advice is in 
the affirmative, would you advise following 
specialization or general farming and if the 
former which specialty would be most ad¬ 
visable? c. F. R. 
Allentown, Pa. 
No, I would not No knowledge, 35 
years, several thousand dollars and a 
discontent strikes me as a poor quar¬ 
tette to sing, “The Happy Farmer” for 
a prize. Following the usual course I 
shall receive letters from people who 
find fault because I do not give this man 
an “optimistic” view of farming. When 
I trace these critics down I shall find 
that practically all of them want to sell 
this man something—land or advice. 
The “several thousand dollars” which 
this man has is a shining mark. I hope 
he will not let it become an easy one! 
A young man situated in much the same 
way came to see me last week about 
farming. I told him to go up into 
Orange Co., N. Y., get off the train al¬ 
most anywhere, go out into the country 
and get a job on a good farm. Why 
not give an imitation of the cadets at 
West Point and earn something while 
getting your farm education? 
Farm and Home.— There never was 
quite so much dirt in our house as you 
could find right now. It is in boxes, 
for the redheads are starting their 
seeds. They have dug up soil in the 
garden, sifted it well, and made ready 
for business. I suppose those seeds 
have been handled over and counted a 
dozen times, for each one has mighty 
possibilities in the imagination of a red¬ 
head. That is a place where large 
tilings grow and great records are made. 
We have selected the place for the little 
gardens. Just now it is mud at noon 
and crust in the morning, but in due 
time it will be plowed and fitted and 
the children will start their gardens. 
There are two things about the child’s 
garden which are very characteristic of 
human nature. The child wants to plant 
his seed the moment the soil is plowed, 
whether the conditions are right or not. 
Then he wants to pull up the seed at 
intervals to see if it is growing! Thus 
children need an abundance of plants 
and seeds to carry them through to a 
crop. No better thing can happen to a 
child than the garden fever provided 
you can direct him so that he thinks it 
is play and yet learns something from 
it. The cold “raw” weather prevents 
much satisfactory work just now, but we 
are still pruning and all ready for a 
spraying day. h. w. c. 
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