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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKE« 
April 5, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Now, then, have an apple! 
will give with generous hand, and July 
and August will pile up the harvest. It 
has always been so. We know that. 
The children guess at it—we ought to 
know. March never went scolding and 
There is no more trying season in nipping over flope Farm with a better 
Northern New Jersey than the latter prospect in view. It is to be our fruit 
part of March. The ground is either year. Late frost may get us, but I’ll 
, ,, • r , wait until it does, before I worrv. Our 
mud or a thin, frozen crust. The rye - ;1 Q . £ .. 1-3 
... , soil was never in better condition, we 
is green, but everything else stands never had more solid experience—and 
brown and dead—except a faint blush so on this cold March night I pile up 
on the maples and a suspicion of life the fire as the doughnuts come in and 
in the crab apple buds. It is pruning say-gentlemen, have another; apple up! 
time and the old apple trees look as ave an a PP^ e - r 
if they had taken off some of their Will there be any danger from rcmt-gall 
rlnflies thrown thpm on thp rrrniinrl if 1 set blackberries and raspberries be- 
ciotnes, thrown tnem on tne ground twoen apple trees? The row £ are four 
and were now sorry they ever did it. It f ect apart, and I would like to set three 
rows of berries between them, the berries 
is the crisis with the cover crops, par- to be 12 feet from the apple trees, berries 
ticularly the Crimson clover, for the J? stay * reca b? ar - then to be removed, 
heave and settle of the soil will most ° r WOUld be better to set alo c De l c 
likely rip out the roots. You ought to j am sat}sfied that the gall disease was 
be spraying but rains or fogs are fol- incrcased and spread b * berry p l a „ ts 
lowed by cold days with the wind blow- in one of our orchards . Blackberry and 
imr rx rro o rlrmm the vo au r . •' 
ing a gale down the valley. It cer¬ 
tainly is the meanest part of a Jer 
sey year, and that is why I say, 
“Have an apple!” 
raspberry bushes were set among peach 
trees. They were set closer to the trees 
than you intend setting, but I am sure 
the berry plants were responsible for 
For a baked apple is the best anti- much of our trouble. The same report 
dote I know of for that mean Spring has been made by others. The scientists 
feeling. It is true that we have noth- say that the germs of this gall are prop¬ 
ing but Ben Davis to offer! The Bald- agated on the roots of Crimson clover, 
wins and other human varieties are and we had several crops of this in the 
gone, while old Ben stays by us. Where orchard. It may account for the trouble 
you have nothing else he is not quite but if you take my advice you will keep 
so bad; baked slowly with enough the berry vines out. 
water, with perhaps a touch of Bald¬ 
win vinegar to help out and plenty of young man we thought would help 
sugai inside the core. So bring up jj e does not wan t to wor ii by the month, 
your chair to the fire and help yourself, nor all through the season; wants the higli- 
You may have your choice of milk or est day wages so he can take a \day olf 
cream Mine i* milk T was hrnucrht whenever he feels like it, and then wants 
cream. Mine 1S milk. I was Drougnt ug to jj ee p a horse for him to ride around 
up in a family where it was considered nights, Sunday and those days he wants 
a crime for the boy to help himself to to take off. 
cream or put butter on ginger cake. That is from a woman farmer so 
Some people shed such enforced habits situated that faithful help is a neces- 
easily when they grow up and particu- sity. You might say that is about the 
larly when some one else puts up the limit, but it isn’t. Some of these men 
cream. I stick to old times. But help can be meaner yet if they think they 
yourself— have you in a position where you can- 
“Have an apple!” not get away from them. The fact is, 
My daughter has some doughnuts this hired be, P P r ° bI £m j? a berce ° ne 
tucked away in a secret place. After the °" man y a farm ’ ? basbeen the policy 
redheads go to bed we will sample a of government to favor the town 
few. Let the boys pile a few more big and ^, in eve 7 way. Money and men 
apple chunks on the fire. March is bave botb u run down hlU from tbe 
doing,its worst outside, with a raw, cold farms ’ , There are many farmers who 
storm which pounds darkly against the change their plans entirely and 
windows. The lamb which is said to [ a,se the , cro P s which require least la- 
“go out” on April fool's day is strain- bor - or which some kind of stock can 
ing to pass as a lion. It will blow up eat up and tben walk off to market. 
soon and end the mean weather per- What about mixing muck and water from 
formance. In the meantime a roaring, a cesspool which we have a chain pump 
snannino- fire of drv annle wood turns 5n? If 1 P low onion bed and earl - v cabbage 
snapping nre ot or} apple wood turns groundi wh jch have a good coat of manure 
March into June. I hats, right—turn already on them, and soak the muck with 
out the lamps. There is light enough the water from the cesspool, and give the 
from the fire for us to see and do. But g™, un(1 ? f®°J* t ®^ re 0 88i J 1 ,? t °L, tbe ro sa ™i 
, * , , , and work it in with a disk harrow, and 
you have only had three thus . tar. then apply three tons per acre of hydrated 
Plenty more in the dish. Here’s a 1J — -’* J *’—-- 
chance to bring up the average for 
many lost days. No, that invitation does ap oh°io. 11 * 
lime, and work in well, and then prepare 
for planting, would this meet with your 
E. L. H. 
not include the redheads—they have 
eaten enough. 
Have an apple! 
We have tried something of this sort. 
Most people over-estimate the value of 
this thick liquid from a cesspool. Its 
As we sit here in the firelight there chief value is in the nitrogen. It is bet- 
is just about one child apiece to sit ter to use some potash and phosphoric 
with us and look at the fire. A great acid with it. A better way to use it 
combination that—youth and experi- would be to make a pile of the muck 
ence. If there was some way of graft- and use about one-third of the lime 
ing the two together what a world we mixed through this pile. This would 
would have. They are doing 'some ferment and sweeten it. Then pour 
wonderful grafting these days. I read the cesspool liquid over the muck and 
of a Frenchman who has grafted the mix it well. As a top-dressing this 
parsnip on the carrot and the water would be better than the muck without 
cress on a cabbage, but who can make the lime in it. It would be a better plan 
a permanent union between the fire 
of youth and the cold water of experi- 
than mixing all the lime into the soil. 
What is the value of wood mould as a 
^ *1 \t 1 r YVilML IS LLUJ VttlUC Ul WUUU II1UUIU US <1 
ence. \ou may, perhaps, use the fire mulch for a young orchard? Will good 
to heat up the water and make steam, rich wood mould applied as a mulch yearly, 
take 
wo u d 
but no man puts the two permanently stimulate the growth of trees, and 
t* i_...__ „... c. „ the place of fertilizer? If I can use woou 
together. It is better to put the fire mould instead of fertilizer it prevents land 
under the water than to pour the water from washing, acts as a mulch and improves 
on the fire. It seems as if my roaring physical condition of land. It costs iis 
r- i „ much as or more than good wood ashes. Is 
file and baked apples starts a tern- jj. neeessarv to use fertilizer if I apply 
porary union, but wait till the fire goes heavy mulch of wood mould six to 10 inches 
down and the cold March storm has deep around my trees yearly? I have over 
its own way. But you and I are old tlees * H ‘ K ' r ‘ 
enough not to strive for the impossi¬ 
ble. Let us sit here and have the red¬ 
heads tell us what wonderful things 
they are to do in their garden this 
This wood mould right from the for¬ 
est is usually quite sour. It contains 
considerable nitrogen but little or no 
year. They told much the same thing P ota 1 s i 1 ° r P hos l> h ? ric Thus it 
a year ago’ and by August there was not answer to use alone smee t 
J 0 7 0 ic entir n n rl i*miilrl miion 
r h ’ r a i + fi is too sour and would produce too much 
a fine crop of weeds, but they are now , . ,, T , 1 . , „ 
larger. But, say-it seems a long time wood growth. It cannot be well com- 
between apples. pared with wood ashes, since the latter 
Have an appleJ 
contains no nitrogen, but lime, potash 
and phosphoric acid. The two together 
Too bad—but there comes a dominat- would make a good fertilizer for the 
ing hand and voice and the redheads trees. If you can pile the wood mould 
are marched off for a journey into that and mix it with the ashes a few months 
beautiful land where there is no March before using you will have a good mulch 
Weather. That may take youth out of material. Or you can pile the wood 
the combination, but the fire is bright mould around the trees and scatter the 
and we may sit here and plan our ashes over it and throw soil on top. 
work for the year. Wait until the Either plan will work, but neither wood 
March weather marches off. Then April mould nor ashes alone will prove sat- 
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