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THE KUR.A.L NEW-YORKER 
Hope Farm Notes 
Dky Weather. —Out on Long Island 
last week I found the soil dry as an ash 
heap. A few thunderstorms crossed the 
island litre and there and left a little 
moisture, but over most of the territory 
there has been no rain since May. I saw 
cornfields with the stalks barely two feet 
high and dried up nearly to fodder. Po¬ 
tatoes in some places were better, for 
they were planted early and well fed 
while there was moisture in the soil. 
Thus the vines got a good start and 
were able to carry the tubers to fair 
size before the drought chased the last 
of the moisture away. It is sad enough 
to see these crops dying of thirst. They 
mean pretty much the whole thing to 
these farmers, and they were planted and 
fertilized properly. This is a prosperous 
section, and most of these farmers can 
tide over a season’s loss, but it is hard 
to be beaten out by old drought. I know 
how senseless it is for a stranger to go 
into a section and tell old farmers what 
to do. I have seen young college instruc¬ 
tors do this at farmers’ institutes, talk¬ 
ing what to them was wisdom, but which 
was rank nonsense to their audience. For 
the test of wisdom is always experience, 
and these young men did not realize that 
when they stepped out of their college 
laboratory they stepped into a larger 
one where in place of their chemicals 
farmers tested them with biting experi¬ 
ence. Judging from our own experience 
in New Jersey, I think this Long Island 
soil needs organic matter and lime to 
make it hold water. This is a fertilizer 
section where little manure is used. Li mo 
is hardly ever applied, because these 
farmers grow potatoes largely and fear 
that lime will increase the scab. Now 
there is no ordinary soil which will not 
respond to lime after 50 years of crop¬ 
ping, and some of these Long Island 
farms are two centuries old. I think 
lime would reorganize much of that soil 
so that it w 7 ould hold water better, and 
I know that green crops plowed under 
year after year would make it more like 
a sponge. Thus lime and organic matter 
would help take old drought by the neck 
and shake him so that his very tears 
would water the crops. Right now, how¬ 
ever, Long Island is as dry as a bone. 
And there are others. All through 
Southern and Western New York the 
drought has cut into all departments of 
farm life. Take the following letter from 
Chenango County, N. Y.: 
Most of the farmers are more anxious 
about how they are going to get their 
stock through the Winter than they are 
over the milk business, as the drought is 
very severe here, hay very short, and 
not much corn or other fodder, and a 
farmer who has worked for the last four 
or five years to get a good dairy started 
does not like to sell, and if in debt for 
his farm, as most of them are, cannot buy 
feed for them, so is “up against it” re¬ 
gardless of price of milk. Most of them 
think that the Dairymen’s League is all 
right, but some would hesitate to join it 
who send to Borden’s, as they would 
rather see it tried out first. The Dairy 
Products Company failure a short time 
ago made them afraid of a new scheme. 
C. K. 
Thus the loss of pasture and feed and 
the prospect of losing part of the cows 
takes the heart out of organization. Yet 
it is just at such a crisis that the right 
sort of an organization would help. A 
manufacturer or storekeeper may find 
himself face to face with hard times or 
a panic, yet if he can obtain fair credit 
he can ride through the storm and find 
his business in better shape when condi¬ 
tions improve. In some way these dairy¬ 
men should have the same chance to bor¬ 
row or work on credit, thus save their 
herds until the effects of the drought 
have passed away. Whenever men are 
forced through such necessities to sacri¬ 
fice their property some other class will 
usually benefit by it, and to that extent 
the business of farming is hurt. Here is 
another argument to show why farmers 
should get together and be able to seli 
their credit so that such a calamity as 
this drought may not cripple them or 
put them out of business. While no one 
can blame these farmers for being cau¬ 
tious about selling their milk, I think the 
Dairymen’s League is well worth a trial. 
In our own case the drought has not 
been so severe, although bad enough. 
We have had several drenching thunder¬ 
storms along our hills. The rain fell in 
torrents and we had the soil in such 
shape that a good share of this moisture 
remained. While our hay was short, 
corn is good, though potatoes will be a 
light crop. Peaches are fine and we 
never had such a crop of apples. The 
crop is not only large, but very fine in 
quality. It is hard to find a wormy 
specimen. I think this is due largely to 
the thorough work of the power sprayer. 
Some of the fruit would be hard to beat. 
We have Wealthy apples about as large 
as Northern Spy, and the McIntosh is 
well-nigh perfect. It certainly is a great 
satisfaction to see your young trees 
finally come into fruit in a business way. 
I have had complaint to make about 
Sutton, but as the trees begin to mature 
their fruit I want to stop fault-finding 
and wait a little longer. The apple is 
surely handsome and well flavored, and 
as the trees begin to bear they drop that 
upright Kieffer pear head and broaden 
out. Northern Spy gives me another 
surprise party. When we planted the 
orchard the expert advice was to cut out 
Spy, since it would not do well so far 
south. Thus I planted only a few trees. 
There were several young ones growing 
on the farm. As these come into bearing 
they prove the most satisfactory of any 
we have except the McIntosh. The fruit 
is large and fine, good color and flavor, 
and the trees are covered with fruit. We 
ought to have more of them, for Spy is 
about as well known in market as Bald¬ 
win. These things make me very shy 
about giving direct and positive advice 
about varieties unless I know all about 
the location and soil. 
The Work Cure. —Every year-, with 
monotonous regularity, people come say¬ 
ing that they understand that we run a 
sanitarium and guarantee to cure all 
sorts of chronic diseases! The founda¬ 
tion for this belief is what I have said 
we would do to some of the fat and tired 
individuals who think they need a “rest 
cure” or vacation. I know some of such 
people. As a rule they are flabby from 
over-eating and lack of exercise and 
“nervous” through too much excitement 
or high living. I think these people need 
work rather than rest—a sweating that 
will make them physically tired and nat¬ 
urally hungry. If I took a man in this 
condition I would make him sign a bond 
for $1,000 or more to do just what I told 
him. There would be no liquor permit¬ 
ted and very little meat. I would make 
him work on the farm right down in the 
dirt, chase him on a cultivator or make 
him hoe. lie would drink about two gal¬ 
lons of spring water every day and sleep 
at least 10 hours and beg for more. The 
theory of the work cure is to drink cool 
water and then get in the sun and sweat 
it out, at useful labor. These men would 
want to fight after about three days of 
this driving, and accommodating them 
would have to be part of the cure. If a 
woman in this condition came along she 
would get over a tub and do washing. 
There would be ironing to follow, the 
steam and sweat being part of a beauty 
cure. How such patients would rail at 
the Hope Farm man for the first week ! 
Then slowly they would feel health com¬ 
ing back with clearer eye, firmer mus¬ 
cles and natural sleep. The flab and the 
“nerves” would steady down and they 
would find more pleasure in bread and 
cheese and vegetables and apples than 
they ever did in their high living. That 
is what I would do to some of these 
sports if I had them so they couldn’t 
get away, but I am not hankering for 
the job. H. w. C. 
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