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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hope Farm Notes 
Home Notes. —Last Fall I spoke of a 
Syrian stew which our folks liked. Sev¬ 
eral parties want to know how to make 
it. The recipe was sent us by a good 
friend in Connecticut and the girls tell 
me it is made as follows: 
This recipe is enough for three persons. 
Two pork chops and three tablespoonfuls 
of rice cooked until almost tender, then 
add three sweet green peppers and one 
small and four large ripe tomatoes. Sea¬ 
son and cook till all are tender; this 
should make a quart when done. The 
stew is very nice warmed over, so it is 
well to make enough for two or three 
days. 
We like this and have it finite fre¬ 
quently in Summer and Fall. . . . 
We are ■studying how to get closer to the 
producer in purchasing food. There 
was a time when farmers were supposed 
to raise nearly all their food—having 
little patches of grain and various ether 
small enterprises. Now—on a fruit 
farm, especially—farmers seem to spe¬ 
cialize and buy much of their food. The 
trouble is they buy from the butchers or 
grocers and pay the highest prices. I am 
buying buckwheat flour from a New York 
farmer shipped direct to us. We get it 
freight paid, at a saving of nearly 50 
per cent over the store prices. We buy 
maple syrup from another New York 
farmer, having it sent direct by express. 
Here is another good saving, and we 
get the genuine goods. I have been able 
to buy a high quality of butter from 
New York, pay the express and save 
nearly five cents a pound over an in¬ 
ferior quality sold at our stores. Sau¬ 
sages, small cuts of meat, honey, and 
dozens of other things which farmers 
have for sale could be sent in this way. 
With a parcels post we could develop an 
immense trade and even with the high 
express rates it will pay us to deal 
direct on many lines of goods. This 
is the way out for thousands of us who 
are held up in supporting a lot of mid¬ 
dlemen. We have simply got into the 
habit of dealing at a store and paying 
the price without asking questions, ex¬ 
cept to growl. We must get down to 
the producer. 
Farm Industries. —This brings up 
another thing for farmers to consider— 
the need of some profitable Winter 
work. Dairymen and stockmen have it 
now. Some fruit growers and garden¬ 
ers store their crops and pack and sell 
during the Winter. With many of us, 
however, little that is more profitable 
than “doing chores” presents itself for 
four Winter months. When I was a 
boy in the .Cape Cod district farmers 
made more money in Winter than they 
did in Summer. We made shoes, 
braided straw for hats and did all sorts 
of jobs. All these little industries have 
now been concentrated in big factories— 
most of them in the hands of monop¬ 
olies. I often hear people say that this 
concentration was necessary and that the 
world would go barefooted, hatless and 
unfed if we had to depend on hand 
labor once more. Personally I doubt it, 
for I look around me and see on every 
hand men out of a paying job who could 
make a good living and more at the 
old trades which machinery has killed. 
In my judgment the world could still 
be well fed and clothed by hand labor, 
and the income from this labor would 
be evenly distributed as it was when I 
was a boy. As I look at it one of 
the greatest evils of society to-day is 
the fact that “progress” has shuffled the 
cards so that income from labor is not 
distributed fairly. 
I know enough to keep out of the way 
of “progress,” but I think the times are 
ripe for taking up some of these smaller 
industries on our farms. For example, 
the manufacture of brooms. I believe 
that several farmers in a community 
could get together, form a co-operative 
society, grow broom corn, learn how to 
make good brooms and develop a 
reasonable Winter job. We have al¬ 
ready had several questions about this, 
and if any good broom maker reads this 
and is willing to give up his knowledge 
1 will make it well worth his while to 
tell us how to make a broom. The 
same offer is extended to a farmer who 
can tell us just how to grow broom corn. 
There are several other things along 
this line which I want to help develop. 
It must be clear to all by this time that 
the way to get a larger share of that 
65 cents of the dollar is to get closer to 
the consumer, and to have more of a 
share in manufacturing the goods. 
“Easy Money.” —The world seems to 
be full of people who will tell us a way 
out of our financial troubles—for a con¬ 
sideration. They are not all as generous 
as the hen gentleman who presents the 
following scheme: 
A Fortune from One Hen. 1 
The hen papers, and others of that class, 
have been running advertisements lately. 
telling how one can make a small fortune 
every year with poultry. A prerequisite in 
.all eases is. however, that a dollar he sent 
to the advertiser, .so they are sure of their 
share of the “producer's dollar,” whatever 
the result to the producer. 1 had planned 
a similar raid by advertising in The It. 
N.-Y., agreeing to give my plan and Tiif. 
It. N.-Y. for four years for a .$5 hill, or 
postal order. Then it occurred to me that 
everyone has a eppy of The It. N.-Y. already 
and does not want another. 1 have there¬ 
fore, considering that 1 have made my for¬ 
tune with my scheme, and The It. N.-Y. 
being my favorite paper, decided to give 
its readers the benefit of it free of charge. 
It must however he understood that m.v 
plan is copyrighted, and anyone using it 
who cannot prove that he or she is a reader 
of The It. N.-Y. will be prosecuted. 
ITow To Do It.—First, get a hen. A 
.$10 one is not necessary, but would un¬ 
doubtedly he better. I used just an ordi¬ 
nary .$2 hen. This hen should lay the flrst 
year, say at least 150 eggs, and you should 
hatch at least one hundred of them. Of 
these select 30 of tlie best pullets for stock, 
the rest to be sold to pay expenses. Ile- 
peat this operation for six years, taking .30 
per cent of the hatch for breeding, and 
using the other 70 per cent for expenses. 
Here follows a table showing the results, 
it being understood that the hens wanted 
to replace old or! poor ones are to come 
out of the 70 per cent. 
First year, 30 hens hatched... 30 
Second year, 30 each from these 
hens added . 930 
Third year, 30 from each. 28,830 
Fourth year. 30 from each.... 893,730 
Fifth year, 30 from each. 27.705,030 
Sixth year, 30 from each. ..... 858,874,530 
Now if you want to stop and realize, you 
can sell those few at 25 cents each, and 
have a living fortune. I believe The R. 
N.-Y. has about 100.000 subscribers, which 
means a half million readers, I will ask you 
kindly to refrain from printing my name 
and address, as I do not want 500,000 ap¬ 
plications for further information. 
CANDID. 
We have not been able to work quite 
that scheme with our Rhode Island 
Reds. Still, it may be our own fault. 
That is a very good burlesque on some 
of the great poultry claims. Various 
“systems” or methods are advertised, 
and a fair share of our time here is 
taken up in answering questions about 
them. There seems to be -some basis of 
fact in all of them, and I have no doubt 
that most of the statements are true. 
The trouble comes in the application. 
A man may have a few superior hens 
and make a good profit in them. He 
may have a superior location or market, 
and for a time make a lot of money. 
He could not be blamed for telling the 
truth about his operations, but he is 
fairly subject to criticism when he seeks 
to make it appear that his results with 
10 hens can be easily duplicated with 
1 , 000 ! 
“Yet, why should I be criticised for 
this?” says one of them. “What I say 
about my own hens is true and I can 
prove it. Any person of common sense 
should be able to decide how many hens 
to keep!” 
There you have it The chief criti¬ 
cism of this form of advertising is that 
poor people and others who never 
should try the poultry business are led 
to invest beyond their means and capa¬ 
city. On the other hand we have a 
class of people who ask why .a paper, 
should treat its readers like feeble¬ 
minded children. It is said that if the 
ridiculous statement made above were 
printed as a large display advertisement 
with some sure and secret way of doing 
it, hundreds of dollars would be paid 
for the “secret.” It becomes a pretty 
nice question sometimes to know what 
to leave to the ordinary common sense 
of a reader. h. w. c. 
February 26, 
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