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the: RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 
Hope Farm Notes 
State Primary Nominations. —Under 
our new election laws the people of New 
Jersey have cut oat the caucus and con¬ 
vention. Last week we nominated can¬ 
didates for Governor. For several years 
avc have nominated local candidates by a 
primary election—but this was the first 
time a governorship was involved. It 
was just Mke any other election. There 
Avere four Republican candidates, three 
Democratic and two Progressive. We 
did not “designate" or guess at it. The 
man obtaining the largest vote will be the 
party candidate, without any convention 
to enable a lot of politicians to get to¬ 
gether in some dark room and pick out 
a “slate.” Fnder this system the people 
can wipe off any slate that is prepared 
for them. The whole thing was simple 
and effective. The vote was light, but at 
that five times as many people took part 
as ever would have done so under our 
old caucus system. The candidates are 
of a high class—better than any conven¬ 
tion would have selected. We all know 
how the convention workers patch up a 
ticket in order to give each section or 
group a little recognition or graft. There 
is no public man in New Jersey who 
would dare come before the people and 
advocate killing this primary election 
law. lie would be killed off by a vote of 
five to one. You Avill also find if you 
will look it up that since New Jersey 
began this campaign for primary nomi¬ 
nations her people have obtained more 
progressive and useful legislation than 
any other State east of Ohio. These 
things make it all the more incompre¬ 
hensible to us why the farmers of New 
York State do not rise up and demand 
the same thing. A primary which re¬ 
tained the State nominating convention 
Avould not be of much account, for a 
dozen shrewd politicians bunched together 
at some hotel could undo the work of 
100.000 separate voters. The thing be¬ 
comes so clear after it is really put on 
trial that it seems like a profound mys¬ 
tery that our friends over the line in 
New York State cannot understand what 
they could do Avitfa a real direct primary. 
One would think the present disgraceful 
drama at Albany would make them think. 
There is enough testimony already to 
show that Mr. Sulzer never should have 
been made Governor—yet any verdict 
against him Avould be a victory for the 
worst and most vicious elements in poli¬ 
tics to-day. Under our New Jersey nom¬ 
ination and election system such a disgust¬ 
ing state of affairs would be impossible! 
A Peach.—I have had some 50 ques¬ 
tions like the following: 
“What do you lcnoiv about this J. II. 
Hale peach?" 
Until recently I knew nothing about 
it except what people told me. I found 
it a handsome, well-flavored peach, and 
a good keeper. Noav we know something 
more about it. I have no wish to “boom” 
this variety or any other. I imagine that 
the men who control this peach are now 
about as rich as is good for them to be, 
though they should be Avell paid for their 
accident in first finding what Nature has 
done for man. I merely tell what I know. 
On September 9 Mr. Hale had a crate of 
these peaches picked in Connecticut and 
sent to me in Noav York. It was an ordi¬ 
nary peach crate—containing six baskets 
—each peach Avrapped separately in pa¬ 
per. They came September 31—some 
were ready for eating—others Avere hard. 
Part of them Avere passed around for 
people to test—in all about 25 people 
tried them. The remaining peaches were 
merely left in the crate without cover or 
protection in a warm and sunny room. 
On Monday, September 15, they were 
still firm and solid, with no show of de¬ 
cay. That night Ave started for New 
England and I put five of the wrapped 
peaches in the outside pocket of my over¬ 
coat just as I Avould apples. Other 
peaches were put in a suit case. I did 
not need to Avoar the overcoat, and it 
was hung and tossed abont on railroad 
seats Avith no effort to save the peaches. 
In Boston on a street car I met II. S. 
Wiley, of Cayuga, and gave him a peach 
out of my pocket. Through a long rail¬ 
road journey the overcoat hung over the 
back of a seat with that fruit still in the 
pocket. Tuesday night far up in New 
Hampshire, Ave ate two of these peaches. 
One was soft at the end—the other still 
firm. Wednesday afternoon in Massa¬ 
chusetts we ate the last of these peaches 
—soft but eatable. Back in. New York 
Thursday, September 18. I found that 
part of the peaches, kept in a closed 
drawer, had begun to rot. yet there were 
several still firm and solid. I gave one 
of these to W. II. BoAvker on this day. 
The last one Avas eaten September 19. 
About 25 people sampled these peaches. 
I did not keep an exact record, but I 
should say that 20 of them considered the 
flavor hotter than Elberta. I call it 
handsomer than that variety. Noav this 
is what I know about the peach. It was 
on its good behavior Avith me. Hale’s 
children may not act as Avell at home as 
they do before company. Hale tells me 
other fine things about it. but these I do 
not know. The fruit will evidently ship 
almost like potatoes, and I should think 
it must take the place of Elberta in most 
orchards. For many years we have been 
told that desirable “quality” cannot go 
Avell with the tough skin and flesh re¬ 
quired for rough shipping. No one has 
expected a Ben Davis apple with the 
flesh of Fall Pippin. I must say that the 
J. II. Hale peach comes nearer to prov¬ 
ing that flavored juice can stand a jour¬ 
ney than anything I have seen yet. 
Farm and Home.—I figure that up to 
October 1 we have had this year fresh 
peaches on the table at 175 meals. There 
should be nearly 20 more before the Sal- 
ways go. We began AA'ith Greensboro and 
Alexander and there have been varieties 
enough to keep up the succession. Of all 
varieties I should say that Carman eov- 
ers more days of picking than any other. 
We find it an advantage to have this 
long succession, th'ough the. larger grow- 
ers do not as a rule like to have so many. 
They prefer a feAv standard sorts so they 
can make large shipments of each. . . . 
On September 25 the government experts 
sent out frost warnings. They were sure 
of it, and the evening papers warned us 
in big letters that here was the end of 
the garden. When night fell it did not 
seem like frost, and our folks smiled 
when I proposed picking peppers and 
green tomatoes. They had heard these 
“experts” talk before, they said. Wash¬ 
ington seemed so perfectly sure of it that 
Ave did pick some of the tender stuff after 
dark, yet Avhen morning came there was 
hardly a wrinkled leaf to be found. There 
was a little damage in the valley, but no 
sign of frost on the hills. One man who 
picked a lot of stuff that was not ripe 
thinks he could have a suit for damages 
against the government. That man 
should not take expert agriculture too 
seriously. . . . Our corn is all cut. 
The last field by October 1 was not quite 
ready, but I decided that it is more profit¬ 
able to save green corn than to let it ma¬ 
ture longer at the risk of freezing. Our 
crop is good—probably the best we have 
ever had. We shall begin feeding 
dry stalks about the middle of Octo¬ 
ber. The hay is short and the stalks 
never will make better feed than during 
the Fall. We begin by giving the horses 
one feed of stalks and one of hay. . . . 
This year’s success with our flint corn 
giA-es us a good combination for fodder 
crop and culture among the young trees. 
I find that Ave can seed the cover crops 
among the corn and let them stand until 
the middle of May at least. Then there 
will be a good crop of hay. The stubble 
plowed under and limed enable us to 
grow a crop of this flint corn in time to 
mature the grain and get another cover 
crop started. This gives us an abund¬ 
ance of green matter to plow under or to 
cut for fodder, and a crop of grain each 
year. The cultivation of the corn crop 
helps the orchard. If a man has a silo 
this method of Avorking would give him 
a continuous supply of silage right 
through the year, and he can keep cows 
or sheep to eat up the fodder and make 
manure for the trees. I think many of 
us Avill come to sheep or some smaller 
stock. We must have more humus in 
our soils. We can grow cover crops and 
feed them to sheep cheaper than we can 
buy manure. . . . Our own cover 
crops are doing well. Some of the rye 
is five inches high—vetch the same and 
Crimson clover three inches. We shall 
keep on seeding rye up to October 15. 
The longer avc run this cover crop sys¬ 
tem the more valuable it seems, and the 
more Ave Avonder why farmers are Avilling 
to let their soils go bare through the Win¬ 
ter. u. w. c. 
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control. 
With old-type tires—clincher 
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one tire in three. That is shown 
by most careful statistics. 
Way Two —We add to our 
tire cost $1,500 daily to final- 
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is done to save countless blow¬ 
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No other tire maker does this, 
because of the extra expense. 
wise, under these conditions, to 
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