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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
October 22, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Farm Notes. —The drought continues. 
There was a light rain on October 7, 
but it barely wet the ground an inch 
deep. We did not sow any cover crop in 
the corn, as it never could have started, 
and the corn was suffering as it was. 
The soil was so hard that we could not 
plow it with any satisfaction. So rather 
than have the ground bare through the 
Winter we did some pretty rough seed¬ 
ing. After the corn was cut we worked 
the fields twice with the spring-tooth. 
This scratched the soil some three inches 
deep. Then the rye was broadcast and 
covered with the Acme. By October 8 
we had about 10 acres covered in this 
way. It is a rough job, but rye will 
stand it better than any other grain. If 
we can only have some moisture and an 
“open November” this rye will get 
through the Winter safely and give a 
good crop next year. We shall seed rye 
in the cabbage and work it in with the 
cultivators. A good share of our potted 
strawberry plants have died. How any 
of them have ever been able to get 
through is a mystery to me. You 
should see the difference in growth be¬ 
tween the matted row strawberries and 
those in hills. The former are stunted 
and very poor. The hill plants have been 
worked both ways and are now, in some 
cases, 13 inches high, and will go into 
Winter quarters in fine condition. I can¬ 
not tell how these big plants ever found 
the moisture, but they have done it, and 
are far ahead of the smaller, crowded 
plants in the matted rows. ... We 
have a fair crop of Kieffer pears. I have 
made fun of this fruit in years past, but 
it is a valuable crop when well grown. 
There is a good demand for these pears 
for cooking, and many foreigners eat 
them out of the hand freely. They have 
sold well this year and as the trees are 
hardy and bear well if cared for they 
pay. I have had several parties ask for 
carload lots, which, of course, our neigh¬ 
borhood cannot supply. Had I planted 
r.OO Kieffers when I started the orchard 
I would now be better off. . . . The 
corn crop was close to a failure this 
year, though we have considerable grain 
after all. There is a good rye crop and 
this grain will be crushed with corn 
and oats for horse feed. We shall have 
rye straw and considerable hay to sell. 
The trees have made fine growth, and I 
never knew the peach trees to start out 
such an outfit of plump fruit buds. It 
is true that the drought cut us hard, but 
we stayed by it the best we could, and 
look for a better season next year. 
The Winter. —Our folks have a 
scheme for Winter which promises an 
interesting experience at least. They are 
to spend four months or more in Florida. 
Mother has rented a house, and will take 
down about a dozen people. She will 
have a school, including some other chil¬ 
dren beside our own, and possibly take a 
few boarders. It seems that there are 
people who have children a little back¬ 
ward in development, who suffer in our 
northern Winters. Such children will do 
far better in a private school where they 
can run out into the sunshine all 
through the Winter months. For sev¬ 
eral good reasons it seems desirable for 
our folks to try such a trip, and so they 
will arrange it in this way. It will be 
a business-like scheme, and not a pleas¬ 
ure party, and I think the story of it 
will give us all something to think about. 
If it is possible for a family to live seven 
months at one end of the country and 
five months at the other I can see how 
such a division of life would help. Mer¬ 
rill and I will stay North and keep the 
farm going, though we hope to get rid 
of most of the stock, and do little ex¬ 
cept get ready for next year’s fruit crop. 
One of the boys will go down soon 
and attempt to start a garden. I under¬ 
stand that most hardy vegetables can be 
started in October and carried through. 
This boy will start such things as cab¬ 
bage, turnips, onions, lettuce, peas, etc., 
so as to have them well under way by 
the time our folks appear early in De¬ 
cember. We think we know how to 
grow vegetables in New Jersey, but 
Florida is a new proposition, and we 
have much to learn. However, we shall 
try it. I have also learned that straw¬ 
berry plants have an agreeable habit in 
that climate. Good gardeners tell me 
that a strong potted plant sent from the 
North in November and given a good 
start will grow off, begin to bear fruit in 
January and keep it up through the sea¬ 
son. This seems to make an opportun¬ 
ity for us. I expect to send down a 
good bunch of such plants for trial. We 
will give them every chance to make 
good on this sell erne, and if they are 
capable of doing it another year we can 
try the business on a larger scale. Why 
not plunge into it this year and send 
10,000 or more plants? Well, sir, you 
have to show me about these new things. 
Strawberries will not behave that way in 
New Jersey, and while I have no reason 
to doubt what my friends tell me I keep 
away from thin ice until it has been well 
tested. I also hope to start a small grove 
of grafted pecan trees this Winter. 
Orange growing is too much of a 
gamble in Northern Florida. I have 
tried truck growing and been frozen or 
dried or drowned out. Nut growing on 
the richer soils along the lakes and 
streams seems to offer a chance, and 
we will try it. It promises to be an 
interesting Winter, and I shall keep 
track of it. 
Advice to Widows. —Here is a good 
sample of the calls for help: 
Noticing on page 938 an article on rais¬ 
ing ginseng and mushrooms, on which you 
give no encouragement, what would you 
recommend for a poor widow with three 
or four acres, something of a gardener, 
with possible success? g. h. w. 
Let any man think for a moment and 
he will see how impossible it is to give 
advice on any such information. We 
do not know this poor widow or how 
she is situated. Has she any capital to 
work with ? Does she know anything 
about gardening or poultry keeping? Is 
she contented on her little place, or is 
she grieving because she has to live 
there? All these things must be consid¬ 
ered. Such a woman might take celery, 
strawberries, bees, hens, or half a dozen 
other things and make them pay well. 
On the other hand, she might take any 
of them under the most promising con¬ 
dition and make a miserable failure. It 
is all in the woman. To make a success 
she must take one or two things and de¬ 
velop them. She cannot do this unless 
she can forget her troubles and the 
meanness of life, and throw all her 
thought and spirit right into her work. 
As a rule such women make the mistake 
of expecting too much to begin with. 
They are deceived by the great stories 
about mushrooms, ginseng or Belgian 
hares, and when the returns fail to pan 
out they become discouraged. If I were 
leaving a woman with such a little place 
for her home and felt that she could be 
happy there and have some ambition to 
work I should advise her about as fol¬ 
lows : Keep a good cow to help support 
the family. Start a good flock of poultry 
of such a breed as Light Brahma or R. 
I. Red. I select these because they are 
quiet and do not need much fencing. 
Start with good stock and select so as 
to have fine birds for sale. If near a 
large place put in a fair crop of straw¬ 
berries in hills. Get several of the lead¬ 
ing varieties, and sell potted plants in 
season, as well as fruit. Learn how to 
grow good plants of celery, tomato, 
pepper, etc. Grow a fair crop of trans¬ 
planted Prizetaker onions. Raise corn 
on part of the land for the cow, and if 
possible keep a few swarms of bees. 
Such crops as these are well suited to 
a woman and her children, and they 
can be developed so as to be made very 
profitable. But it is all a guess—since 
it depends on the widow! H. w. C. 
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