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THE RURAL* NEW-YORK.ER 
September 1 
Hope Farm Notes 
The orange grower may brag about the 
beauty of his golden fruit shining amid the 
green foliage, but he did not see our El- 
breta peaches- on Labor Day. Many of 
the trees were umbrella shape, the tops 
bent over all around until the tips reached 
the ground. There were trees which had 
been left to shape themselves without any 
pruning. The '"sunny side” of the fruit, 
was brick red, and they hung in great 
masses as large as your list. The Chair’s 
fhoice were not far behind, but if a 
nurseryman were to print a colored pic¬ 
ture showing Just the way these peaches 
looked he would be aecnsed of faking. It 
was a glorious sight, but those big red 
f Hows did not stay there long. We hus¬ 
tled them off and they went along the 
road to market, which is where a peach 
belongs. The season has paid us well. 
We do not rank as large growers, and we 
have planted a succession of varieties 
which gives us about 50 days or more of 
picking. Thus we can care for the crop 
with our own labor and satisfy a certain 
number of customers through the season. 
This I think a safer and more satisfac¬ 
tory business than to try to rush off thou¬ 
sands of baskets of any one variety. I 
should not care to be a “peach king.” or 
to bank too heavily on this fruit. Peach 
growing is good as a side line, or to help 
pay the bills while the apple orchards are 
coming on ; but the red Winter apple for 
me. And here again the beauty side of it. 
Your orange grower never had any such 
beauty spot as we can show in our Bald¬ 
win and McIntosh orchards, with the red 
fruit showing through the leaves. Some 
years ago I was in Georgia while J. II. 
Hale was getting off one of his first big 
crops of peaches. That was before the 
railroad ran a spur out to the orchard, 
and every mule team for miles around 
seemed to be hauling peaches to the sta¬ 
tion. Riding through the orchard, Hale 
stopped and took off his hat. All around 
us were great golden masses of Georgia 
Elbertas. Hale wanted to do something 
right there to show his gratitude for that 
wonderful crop. He got out of the buggy 
and selected two baskets of the finest 
fruit, and we carried them to a convict 
camp, where poor black wretches, chained 
together at night and at the muzzle of a 
gun by day, were working on the road. 
“Good roads made by bad men” was the 
story ; but these men were not all bad, 
and I have snrely seen better roads. At 
any rate, those fellows had Hale’s best 
peaches—the millionaire had no better— 
and I remember that Hale carried them 
himself, as I imagine men in old times 
carried their gifts to the altar. At that 
time peach eating was about all I could 
claim at the business, and I could not 
quite understand the feeling of it. The 
whole thing came to me on Labor Day as 
little Redhead and I started at the end of 
a row of glorious Elbertas. It was at the 
back end of the farm, where we have had 
many peaches stolen. Labor Day is an 
event for fruit thieves, and little Redhead 
was a little afraid they might come. But 
I had a stout hoe for a weapon, and under 
the New Jersey law I could act as con¬ 
stable and arrest trespassers—provided I 
was large enough. If they proved too 
numerous for me Redhead was a good 
runner, and in a nearby cornfield the 
Italians were at work putting in cover 
crops. Here was an Italian army quite 
willing to cover itself with glory. But no 
one came, and we picked on in peace, 
little Redhead telling of that glorious time 
coming when we shall have so much fruit 
that we shall need an auto truck to de¬ 
liver it. That will be a step from Bob 
and Broker; but all life is one step after 
another, and the boy has a long journey 
ahead. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. —Noting 
the reply to "F. T. J.” by the Hope Farm 
man. wherein lie gives the impression that 
good crops of berries cannot be grown 
from potted plants the next season after 
setting, I wish to say that for years we 
have potted and set thousands of plants 
each season; in fact, we grow practically 
all of our strawberries from potted plants, 
and we get tin* largest yields of the finest 
berries, that bring the highest prices of 
any berries in our markets. We set the 
plants one foot apart each way, tearing 
out every fourth row for a path, and keep 
them in hills, running the beds two sea¬ 
sons. We set six to eight thousand of 
these potted plants each year. In this 
way we gain a year’s time and get full 
crops every season, l’otted strawberries 
have been grown for years, and grown 
successfully, and hundreds of thousands 
of plants are sold annually and give per¬ 
fect satisfaction. I am not guessing at 
this, for we have practiced it for years, 
and always with success. 
Vermont. A. A. hall ad AY. 
We can grow small erops from potted 
plants—usually one good spray of fine 
large berries. I think the variety has 
something to do with it, also the soil and 
season, and certainly the man back of the 
plant. We have sold potted Marshalls for 
five years or more, and have been inter¬ 
ested in learning how they came out. One 
or two persons out of many report a fair 
yield of big berries; the great majority 
got only a small yield. I have had much 
complaint from people who bought potted 
plants on the great story of some one who 
said they would yield a quart or more per 
plant. Such stories are nonsense, and 
told merely to sell plants. It seems to me 
far better to tell a moderate story within 
what you know to be the limits of the 
average man’s capacity. 
I offered onr R. F. D. carrier a parcel 
post package and he informed me that it 
was not a part of his business to receive 
such. He said, all parrel post must, be 
delivered at the office. If I have to drive 
to the city to deliver a parcel to my city 
friend, I can just as well deliver it to the 
person. If this is correct I think parcel 
post is not what it should be; it gives the 
dealer a chance to send his goods to the 
country, but no hope for the city con¬ 
sumer to get 00 cents’ worth of fresh 
goods from the producer for $1. instead of 
35 cents’ worth of stale goods for $1 from 
the store. W. D. M. 
Iowa. 
In order to make sure of this I sent it 
to Washington for a decision from the 
Postmaster General. He says that the 
carrier is obliged to accept and carry all 
mailable packages that are offered him. 
If these parcel post packages are under 
20 pounds weight and properly stamped 
it is his business to take them. 
Having heard about the wonderful 
properties of the Japanese kudzu vine as 
a forage plant, and its easy curing into 
hay. I would like your opinion about its 
merits and its availability for this lati¬ 
tude. and also as to its value for a Flori¬ 
da farm belonging to a relative, who has 
seen the glowing accounts of it in the last 
Quarterly Bulletin of the Florida Agri¬ 
cultural Department. A. c. H. 
Tappan, N. Y. 
You are in about the same latitude as 
Hope Farm. The kudzu is not suited to 
our section. I am sure that our ordinary 
Lima bean will give more forage and 
green manure than kudzu. It is a warm 
weather plant, although we have reports 
of its success as an ornamental vine as 
far north as Philadelphia and beyond. As 
a farm or forage crop I doubt the prac¬ 
tical value of kudzu north of Arkansas. 
Soy beans or cow peas will pay better. 
We bought a farm here this Summer, 
too late to put in silage corn. In a field 
adjoining us is about two acres of corn 
put in for that purpose. We wish to buy 
it, but the man who now owns it says he 
never sold any, and we never bought any, 
so thought I would ask you how the price 
is determined. It is not extra good owing 
to dry weather and a minimum of care. I 
shall be very grateful to you for telling 
me, if you can, whether to buy by weight 
or general looks, or how. A. L. p. 
Vermont. 
I have had no experience except with 
buying dry corn fodder. The “going” 
price for this in our section is five cents 
a bundle of about a dozen hills. If there 
are scales so that this green fodder can be 
weighed I would buy it by the weight. I 
should call it worth $2 per ton in the field 
as figured on the usual value of silage in 
silo. H. w. C. 
The portly lady had accidentally taken 
a rear seat in a tram car reserved for 
smokers. With unconcealed indignation 
she watched the man beside her fill his 
pipe. “Sir,” finally came her frigid 
tones, “smoking always makes me feel 
sick.” “Do it now. ma'am?” said the 
man, as he carefully lighted up; “then 
take my advice an’ chuck it!”—Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
“The time is past,” said the orator 
haughtily, “when any man can hide him¬ 
self behind a woman’s petticoats.” “You 
bet,” commented the cynic in the back 
seat. “Those X-ray skirts have stopped 
that.”—Buffalo Express. 
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