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Hope Farm Notes 
The weather still continues mean and 
variable. We get in half a day’s spray¬ 
ing now and then. Some of our neople 
tells us how they spray in the wind and 
do better work than when it is calm. 
“Wind” has an elastic meaning. I 
would like to see some of these gentle¬ 
men try their hand at spraying when a 
good north wind is puffing down our 
valley. At fruit shows I have seen 
demonstrations of spraying against the 
wind where an electric fan produced a 
breeze. I always felt that I would like 
to get the outfit on our hills on a day 
when April was really trying to show 
off the reputation which belongs to 
March. However, we find no fault, but 
put on the spray whenever possible. 
It will be necessary to consider Sum¬ 
mer spraying this year. Is there any 
mixture that will clean out the crawling 
scales before they settle down and still 
not injure fruit or foliage? We have 
got to find something of that sort for 
part of our orchard. I find that most 
practical growers shake their heads and 
say the scheme will not work. They 
claim you must keep spraying every 10 
days or so all through the season in 
order to keep the trees clean. We will 
do that on part of our orchard if we 
find the mixture we are after. Shall it 
be weak lime-sulphur solution, soluble 
oil, kerosene emulsion, whale-oil soap, 
or what? From reports that pile in 
upon us it is evident that many fruit 
growers have been unable to spray as 
they wanted to, and they are afraid of 
the scale. Now, gentlemen, what can 
you do for us in the way of a Summer 
spray? What will take the freckles off 
and not injure the face? 
It is still cold and windy. On the 
lighter soils a few miles away a few 
early things have been planted. In our 
section oats and peas have been disked 
into sod ground, but that is about the 
limit of farming up to April 10. Our 
first plowing was done April 2 in a 
peach orchard. It is a mistake to turn 
our heavy soil over too early. It means 
tough lumps and clods which stay with 
us more or less all Summer. Then what 
do we sow cover crops for if not to get 
as much growth as possible before turn¬ 
ing under? We have no section for 
early truck growing—we do better at 
the end of the season. The hotbeds 
are full of plants coming on all ready 
to be put out when soil and weather 
fit them. Among other such crops we 
have one frame of three sash full of 
potato plants. These are started some¬ 
what like sweet potato plants. There 
is a thin layer of manure at the bottom 
and a crust of soil on this. Here the 
seed pieces are put about six inches 
apart each way and then covered with 
two inches or so of soil. If they are 
kept well watered they grow rapidly 
and by the time frost danger is past the 
plants are often a foot or more high. 
Then they are dug up and planted in 
deep furrows with the seed piece about 
four inches underground. This is a 
way of getting early eating potatoes. 
It would not pay commercially, though 
a plan somewhat like this is often tried 
on a large scale. This year potatoes 
promise to be cheap, as there seem to 
be many old potatoes left over. Seed 
potatoes have been cheaper than for a 
good many years. 
We seldom hurry about taking the 
mulch off the strawberry plants. There 
is danger from late frost the same as 
with peach blooms, and 1 see no great 
reason for pushing the strawberries 
along. In fact, I would rather hold 
them back if possible: You see that 
on our cold hills we cannot expect to 
compete in earliness with the lighter 
soils! The entire plan of handling the 
soil is different and we must change our 
plants to suit. That is where the trouble 
comes in when we try to give definite 
advice in some case where the details 
are not known. Each man’s farm and 
THE K.URA.E, NEW-YORKER 
April 19, 
conditions make his case a special one. 
While he may be helped by general rules 
he must finally figure it out himself. 
All Sorts. —You remember the call 
on page 470 for a young man who 
would do good work on a farm and at 
the same time prove an example of 
worthy conduct in the family. Two 
people have already come forward for 
particulars. I hope they are not so 
strong on conduct that they think good 
society will take the place of hard labor. 
It would not with me. . . . Now we 
have a somewhat impatient critic who 
wants to know why we talk so much 
about baked apples—why not eat them 
raw ? Eating raw apples is very much 
a matter of teeth. Then again we are 
reduced to Ben Davis at this season, and 
baking certainly helps old Ben. Then 
the baked apple can be eaten with milk 
or cream—and you can eat more of 
them. I have no quarrel with the raw 
people. The redheads and I frequently 
cover up half a dozen, but for choice I 
take the baked fruit. ... I have a ; 
good many letters from people who say 
that crown-gall on young trees is noth¬ 
ing of importance and should not be 
considered when buying. I know that 
scientists do not agree on this point, and 
I am not prepared to argue with them. 
All I know is that I have Jost trees 
from this disease—therefore I want no 
more of it. Some man might come 
along and offer proof that roup or 
cholera in poultry was harmless. If I 
had time I might listen to him, but I 
would not buy birds carrying such dis¬ 
eases if I knew it. I feel that way about 
trees with crown-gall. I would not 
plant them, but would sort them out and 
send them back to the nurseryman. I 
have bought peach trees which had 
borers working on their roots. Once I 
bought potted strawberry plants and 
found a number of white grubs right 
in the pots. As the plants and trees 
were not seriously injured we killed the 
grubs and borers and said nothing about 
it. I can easily see how in the rush of 
packing and sorting such things might 
get by. An evident case of crown-gall is 
different. I would not accept such a 
tree or plant it. . . . As a rule Crim¬ 
son clover winters over on our hills 
about two times out of five. This Spring 
we are to have one of the two times, for 
on most of our fields the clover stands 
thick and green, in excellent condition. 
By the middle of May it will be knee 
high and more, with more plant food 
to the acre than I could buy in 1,200 
pounds of fertilizer. When this is put 
under with 600 pounds of active lime I 
expect to transfer some of that activity 
to the trees. The rye is good, as it 
usually is. The vetch is scattering, but 
I can give no judgment until we see 
what full growth looks like. 
Home Matters. —How many people 
are to be on your farm this Summer? 
We shall have 17 when two friends 
move into the old house. I think the 
country is the best place for a crowd if 
you must have one. What a world we 
would have if every silent and lonely 
farmhouse could be filled to the last 
room with youth and hope and the feel¬ 
ing that comes with “another chance.” 
If you want to see the most hopeful j 
outlook for this country, give us the 
conditions which would fill these farm¬ 
houses with prosperous and contented 
people. 
We have all sorts of questions and 
propositions. One that made me very 
thoughtful was a letter from a man in 
a town who wants to go to a farm. His 
mother wants to go, but he says: 
My wife is very much set against going 
back to a farm, and says that she will not 
go on a farm, and that if I go it will be 
an indication that 1 love my mother better 
than I do her. I feel that I can make a 
better living on a farm, and also that all 
the family would be in better health, but 
I cannot make her see it. 
I see the whole household tragedy in 
this, yet I could not advise. I had the 
letter in my pocket as I came home 
from the city, remembering that an 
eventful day had come. Not long ago 
a friend wrote in to say, “This Hope 
Farm man seems to be a ‘raisin,’ a sort 
of dry old cuss who has kept some of 
the sweetness of experience.” At any 
rate, the Hope Farm man went into a 
“rosary” and bought 25 roses to take 
home. The woman who sold them 
rather guessed the secret from the par¬ 
ticular number, and the man followed 
the Hope Farm man out, took off his 
hat, shook hands and said: “I wish you 
much joy and good luck mit your anni¬ 
versary.” And so the Hope Farm man 
carrying his 25 roses home to mother 
and his mind going back into the details 
of over 8,000 various days, was not in 
the proper mental condition for decid¬ 
ing hard domestic problems. H. w. c. 
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