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STUB RURAb NfcCW-YORKER 
March 22, 
Hope Farm Notes 
On page 306 the Hope Farm marl 
printed the following: 
I have always felt that there is logiti- 
lntvte -place for all these manufactured 
insecticides or fertilizers. The tendency, 
however, is more and more to buy separate 
ingredients and mix or make at home. 
, * 
He looked at that carefully, put on 
his glasses and studied it. It seems like 
a fair statement of some 30 years’ ex¬ 
perience. Perhaps you know how a man 
feels when he has traveled a short dis¬ 
tance at least on a straight and narrow 
path. But all dreams have an awaken¬ 
ing. First came a manufacturer of wide 
experience and broad mind: 
I'Jt in Brute! Rut how you nre to ho 
disappointed. I have been ’ at this game 
many years, and our books show only a 
slight Increase in the raw Ingredients, while 
the mixed goods, both insecticides and 
fertilizers, have increased to enormous pro¬ 
portions. 
Before this was fairly digested the 
following came from one of the best 
farmers we know of: 
“There is no place for these manufac¬ 
tured goods when a farmer can mix or 
make them just as well! Why do you 
encourage farmers to submit to paying a 
tax to robbers?” 
Well, now, what do you think of that? 
The manufacturers arc not robbers. 
They do a legitimate business, make re¬ 
liable and standard goods and in most 
cases are prepared to offer more uni¬ 
form and effective mixtures than any 
farmer with an ordinary outfit can hope 
to produce. No use abusing the manu¬ 
facturers, for they have a legitimate 
place in the business. On the other 
hand, the manufacturer should not have 
any special privileges or any monopoly. 
He does not advertise out of any spirit 
of benevolence, but because he wants to 
sell goods. He sells goods to our 
readers because his name in our columns 
is evidence of confidence and fairness. 
He has got to do what he agrees to do, 
and he must be willing to face fair and 
thorough discussion of his claims and 
his methods. If a man is making a first- 
class article on a large scale and with 
complete equipment, one would think he 
would welcome experiments at home¬ 
mixing or home making, as the best 
way to prove finally the superiority of 
his manufactured article. Some manu¬ 
facturers go so far as to say that so 
long as they advertise the paper should 
never tell its readers how their articles 
are made. Let them sit and look at my 
open fire for five minutes and they will 
see how that proposition is to be ranked 
among the bluffs. When a man pays a 
dollar for advertising space he simply 
buys a ticket of admission—he does not 
own the show or run it. I know a man 
who, in his younger days, went cut to 
churches or school houses and gave “en¬ 
tertainments.” At one church, on a cold, 
dismal night, this young man found it 
easier to make the women folks cry 
than to make the men laugh. While the 
church choir was singing to give this 
young fellow a chance to get his breath 
a good old farmer called him outside the 
church: 
“See here, now, you are hired to come 
down here and make people laugh. 
That’s what we hired you for, and here 
you are making them heller. My hired 
man will get drunk if you don’t make 
him laugh. *That’s what we hired you 
for.” 
The young man pulled out a quarter 
and told this farmer he could have his 
money back if he wasn’t satisfied. The 
man demanded 50 cents to get out! On 
the spur of the moment the young man 
went back and made that little incident 
into a dialect recitation and the hired 
man laughed so that he nearly fell off 
his chair. Now, as I look at it, the 
most important man in the “family” of 
a magazine or paper is the subscriber. 
As a rule the subscriber is fair, willing 
to give all sides a hearing, and sensible 
enough to separate a bluff from the real 
thing. The entertainment is for the 
subscriber and the advertiser buys his 
ticket like the rest, and should have 
neither special privilege nor unfair treat¬ 
ment. 
What does the Hope Farm man think 
of the President? k. l. 
If I knew enough about the President 
to give an opinion I can think of no 
reason why the public would be inter¬ 
ested in it. When it comes to the cx- 
President, Mr. Taft, I gladly say that 
lie is the best “loser” I ever knew in 
public life. Now that it is all over, it 
is only fair to say that Mr. Taft did not 
get the squarest sort of a deal from the 
people. The really good things he did 
were obscured and his ■blunders were 
magnified. Beaten worse than any promi¬ 
nent candidate of modern times, and 
under exasperating circumstances, most 
men would have turned sour and bitter 
and would have shown their bitterness 
in public.- Mr. Taft never by a single 
word showed any of this spirit. He 
took his hard defeat good-naturedly and 
with a smile. Whatever you may say 
of Mr. Taft, and you can say. much 
that is good, he is what the boys call “a 
game sport,” and that is what the Ameri¬ 
can people like. 
The Farm.—T he March lion was a 
very tame specimen when he entered the 
ring. He seemed to cat up the lamb, 
and this gave him such strength that 
he began to roar. We had begun to 
feel that the peach buds were a mile 
out of the danger zone when suddenly 
the lion waked up, the ground froze 
solid, a fierce gale came down from the 
north, and the mercury started down to 
the bulb. I do not think our buds were 
opened enough to be damaged, but in 
warmer localities I think this blast about 
did the business. Peach growing is a 
gamble at best. I often wonder what 
dairymen would think if their business 
were so at the mercy of the elements. 
At this moment it looks as if we should 
have a good peach crop, but there arc 
still 50 trying days ahead. As a rule, 
on our cold hills, the late frosts do not 
hurt us as much as the bitter cold of 
winter. . . . This sudden freeze gets 
at the cover crops. Many of the Cow- 
horn turnips were alive by late February 
—more than I have ever known before. 
This blast will kill them. The Crimson 
clover is being lifted out and I doubt if 
there will be much left except on the 
early, thick seeding. This clover more 
than pays for itself even if killed in 
March if it can be seeded early and get 
a good size in the Fall. The vetch looks 
feeble enough, yet most of it is alive 
and may come on with a rush later. My 
good old friend rye is on the job as 
usual—always steady and sure, with no 
boasting about bacteria or nitrogen, but 
a sure delivery of plain, solid goods. 
. . . Our corn crop turned out so 
well last year that we are planning a 
larger yield than ever. Most of the corn 
will be grown on the hills among the 
younger trees. Cover crops will be 
plowed under, a moderate dressing of 
lime used and also fertilizer in the hill. 
Lime docs not usually give as good re¬ 
sults with corn as with some other crops, 
but our soil needs the lime anyway. A 
curious thing about lime is that it does 
better on certain flint varieties than 
with most dents. We are starting anew 
with a flint variety from New England 
—one of the strains that have been kept 
pure for many years. We have some 
seed of Eureka corn which matured 
with us last year, but we shall not plant 
this variety largely. It is a wonderful 
silage corn, but we did not like it as 
dry fodder. The stalks are too big and 
hard. This Eureka will surely make a 
tremendous growth. It might pay a 
fruit farmer to grow a few acres as a 
humus crop—the stalks to be shredded 
dry. The stock will pick out the blades 
and tops, the rest will make good bed¬ 
ding and excellent material for mulch¬ 
ing. . . . Our potatoes this year will 
be grown in a joung apple orchard. 
The land was in sod when we bought it 
and we have cut good crops of hay. 
After cutting the last crop the sod was 
plowed as soon as the drought would 
permit, well worked with the Cutaway, 
and then seeded to a mixture of barley 
and rye. The barley made a growth of 
about 18 inches and was cut in early 
October. Then the rye came on and 
occupied the ground. Early in April this 
rye will be plowed under and the soil 
well fitted with Cutaway and Acme. 
Then potatoes will be put in with the 
planter, leaving ample space beside the 
rows of trees for cultivation. Starting 
with the sod with the Fall plowing and 
the barley and rye, this soil ought to be 
in good condition for potatoes. . . . 
Like other fruit growers we are eager 
for spraying days to come. Thus far 
we have had but one good day—others 
have been too windy or cold. This 
promises to be our fruit year and the 
spraying must be done in time, but each 
year it seems as if the weather gets 
more and more “cranky,” as if determined 
to make the job harder and harder. 
One thing we have learned from past 
experience, and that is to work the soil 
with the Cutaway before plowing when¬ 
ever it is possible to do so. This is 
particularly useful when coarse manure 
or hard sod are to be plowed under. 
The chopping of the Cutaway breaks 
and stirs up the surface, and when this 
is plowed under we have a much better 
soil preparation than when the coarse 
manure or sod is put under entire. 
H. W. c. 
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Better and Bigger Crops— 
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Arsite—the most powerful and efficient arsenic poison made—kills the bugs quicker 
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Don’t make mistakes—they’re vital. Use Arsite and save money and labor. Sure 
death to all leaf-eating bugs—nothing better for ridding fruit and potatoes of insect pests. 
It sticks like Arsenate of Lead but it is ten times stronger. Spray once—then watch 
the bugs die. It contains no free white arsenic and therefore won’t burn the foliage. 
One pint of Arsite has the killing efficiency of 3 to 6 pounds of Paris Green and 10 
to 12 pounds of Arsenate of Lead. 
Arsite is in liquid form, put up in tin cans—it mixes more thoroughly, remains in 
suspension longer and is more convenient to lutndlc. It keeps indefinitely. 
Herrmann’s Arsite mixed with 
Bordeaux or freshly slaked lime, 
and used thoroughly, will do away 
with leaf-eating bugs. 
If you don’t spray with Bordeaux 
for blight, use Herrmann’* Calite 
— just another form of Arsite, 
ready to stir into clear water. 
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about these wonderful insecticides. 
You’ll use them when yoti know 
about them. 
Arsite is sold in 35c half-pint 
cans and in 65c pints; Calite in 
30c pints and 50c quarts. We can 
supply you if your dealers can not. 
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