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November 5, 
Hope Farm Notes 
It seems like old familiar times to be 
sitting here on Saturday night with the 
rain beating against the window. After 
(he long months of drought the rain 
came with a rush when it finally started. 
A southern hurricane roared up the coast 
and out to sea, with a sprinkle from i ; 
wing over New Jersey. There is not 
enough of it to fill the ponds and wells, 
but it is rain at least, and the feel and 
the sound of it are both encouraging. 
It is a most comfortable thing to sit in 
a warm farmhouse on the right side of 
a window while the storm is pounding 
away outside. I cannot say that Autumn 
finds us with mighty results—the drought 
took care of that—but much of that can 
be forgotten sitting here after supper. 
The boys are trying to work a few 
problems in arithmetic, the girls are in 
the next room singing, and mother is 
upstairs getting the child ready for bed. 
I am sitting here with a fat baked apple 
cooked just to the proper turn with can- 
cned sugar showing at the core. Down 
cellar there are two ducks ready for to¬ 
morrow’s roasting. I will not worry 
about carving them until I have to. 
Surely there is no place like home! 
“Fire! Help!” 
That is what came from upstairs with 
a scream and a crash of some one fall¬ 
ing. If these boys could multiply and 
divide as fast as they ran upstairs they 
would never have to work after school 
hours. I was right after them, but fast 
as we were the crisis passed more rapid¬ 
ly. The little red head went to the 
bathroom to wash his hands. He had a 
candle, and in some way as lie turned 
he set a light curtain on fire. Then he 
screamed—the most sensible thing he 
could do. Mother ran to help, but 
slipped on a rug and fell. She got there 
in time to pull down the curtain and 
drown it in the tub, but one hand was 
burned. There was nothing for the rest 
of us to do but express our sympathy 
and suggest remedies for the hand. It 
was a frightened and trembling little 
boy who climbed into his crib. His ques¬ 
tion is one which for ages strong men 
have asked and vainly waited for an¬ 
swer, “Why did God let we do that?” 
There was a great man once who in a 
moment of impulse did a great wrong. 
When, too late, he realized what he had 
done, he groaned out a pitiful prayer, 
“Roll back thy universe and give me 
yesterday once more.” There is hardly 
a man of character and intelligence who 
has not expressed that desire. Our chil¬ 
dren at least will apply the yesterday of 
that candle to-morrow. 
With the danger over I came back to 
my work. The rain ends our drought. 
Of course we might growl and say that 
it ought to have come 10 weeks ago, but 
who feels like growling with the child 
safe, the burned hand not so bad as we 
feared, and a big dish of baked apples 
nearby? This rain will quicken up the 
rye, help the cabbage, save those potted 
strawberries and send our trees to Win¬ 
ter in good shape. Some of them were 
feeling like a camel must feel when the 
last of his reserve water is going. This 
rain will start out new roots and give 
the trees a better grip on the soil. If 
we can get a little more we can begin 
ditching. Up to this time the soil has 
been as hard as a rock. 
We have about 15 acres of rye seeded. 
Part of it was scratched in with spring- 
tooth and Acme, while the rest had bet¬ 
ter preparation. We find that our big 
disk plow worked the hard soil in better 
shape than the turning plow, and this 
enabled us to cover some ground which 
could not have been worked before the 
rain. As it is, practically every part of 
the farm except the strawberries and the 
cabbage field is covered with rye, clover 
or grass. Now that the rains have come 
you will see crops jump, for the soil is 
full of nitrates, and these rains would 
have washed them away but for the 
cover crops. That German rye has made 
a good record. We seeded some on July 
23 in drills two feet apart, and culti¬ 
vated it like fodder corn. Early in Oc¬ 
tober we seeded Winter rye between 
these drills and cultivated it in. Now 
the German rye is ready to cut for grain 
and straw and the Winter rye has made 
a good start. I can sow the German rye 
in Spring and get a good crop in July. 
Then plow the pround and seed more 
German rye in wide drills and then seed 
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Winter rye between these drills and have 
a good stand for next year. With good 
dressings of fertilizer such rye farming 
would pay in many parts of the East. 
The boy started for Florida, and after | 
some delay got there. He reports that 
on the place where he wants to start the 
garden the weeds were as high as his 
head—he is nearly six feet. He started 
in to cut these weeds and burn them 
when the hurricane hit the country with 
a deluge of rain. So he has not made 
much progress. Florida is certainly a 
State of many moods. I have already 
had prospects there ruined by frost, heat, 
drought, blight and flood. Of course we 
get all these things in New Jersey also, 
but Florida seems to carry them further. 
I have been talking about growing 
strawberries in Florida. Mr. D. E. Hart¬ 
man sends this statement about his crop: 
The one thing of all others for interest 
and satisfaction in that garden, I think, 
would be to bring down a lot of those 
young Hope Farm strawberry plants and 
give them u chance to show what they can 
do in ‘’Sunny Florida.” Potted plants, 
of course, would be best, but if 1 found them 
too expensive in plants or transportation, I 
should not hesitate to use ordinary matted- 
row plants. Here they begin bearing by 
Christmas, if planted in October, and bear 
continually until June. I ain inclined to 
think that with protection from frost by 
mulching they might bear much the same 
in Putnam County. At any rate, they 
would yield a crop in March. Of course 
I presume variety will be a great factor in 
the success of the crop. 1 have found 
Brandywine and Klondyke both good, pre¬ 
ferring the first. You must not expect the 
plants to grow large and produce as much 
per plant as at Hope Farm, so the plants 
can be set quite close, 12 inches or less 
each way in the beds. I am planning to 
plant four or five acres, and shall plant 
in beds of four rows each, 10 inches apart, 
with plants eight inches apart in the row. 
With necessary paths that will require 
about 50,000 plants per acre. I have 
grown the plants from parent plants set in 
March. Last Winter I had 11-14 of an acre 
set three rows to bed, rows 15 inches apart, 
with plants 12 inches in row. The greater 
part of the patch was plainly not at its 
best, but they yielded 2,548 quarts, most of 
which were sold at 30 cents per quart, with 
total receipts $775, very close to $1,000 
per acre. d. l. habtman. 
Dade Co., Fla. 
That is almost enough to make a dry 
season man plunge on Florida straw¬ 
berries to try to make up for a Jersey 
drought. Our friend Hartman may be 
able to swing $1000 from an acre of 
strawberries, but 1 should be likely to 
muff part of it the first time. 1 will go ' 
slow on this game, and see what a few \ 
hundred plants come to. It may turn ; 
out like the baby chick business. I ! 
know a man who took a good number 
of these little chicks to Florida in the 
early Fall. His scheme was to push 
them along through the Fall and Winter 
and have them ready to sell as broilers 
to the large hotels. The theory vvas 
right,, but he found that the short Win¬ 
ter days were against the rapid growth 
of the chicks. 
Much has been written this year about 
Hairy vetch as a cover crop in place of 
Crimson clover. In parts of Connecti¬ 
cut I am told that this vetch has proved 
wonderfully successful. J. H. Hale has 
acres of it in his peach orchards. Many 
tobacco growers find it a great help. 
Mr. Brewer, the famous corn grower, 
who has won the championship for best 
corn in America, sows vetch in the com 
crop at the last cultivation—much as we 
use Crimson clover. The result has been 
very satisfactory. Most of these Con¬ 
necticut farmers have selected their own 
vetch seed through a number of seasons, 
and in this way have obtained strains 
which are acclimated and sure to grow. 
They sow in early September, which is i 
called the best time for seeding this crop, j 
Usually a light seeding of barley, oats 
or rye is used with the vetch. One of 
my neighbors sowed vetch in October 
this year, but 1 fear it was too late. 1 
think this acclimated vetch seed is to be 
a great boon to northern farmers. We 
may well try it and stay by it as we do 
with Alfalfa. 
The carrot crop has given us a sur¬ 
prise this year. We put the seed in sev¬ 
eral places. Some old chicken yards 
which had been well stocked for some 
years were plowed and seeded. The 
girls undertook to handle this crop for 
their rabbits, but during the early rains 
the weeds beat them. They cut these 
weeds off with a sickle several times, 
and I supposed the carrots were gone. 
To my surprise t..ey have come on, mas¬ 
tered the weeds and kept on growing. 
On the farm I abandoned a field of car¬ 
rots when the dry weather came on, but 
in spite of lack of care they have kept on 
and will make a good crop. Carrots are 
handy for Winter horse feed, especially 
where you feed many cornstalks. And, 
by the way, we have already begun feed¬ 
ing our dry stalks. Usually we wait 
• until Christmas, and often regret it, but 
this year we began in October with one 
feed of stalks per day. These stalks 
are never better than during the Fall. 
We haul one load at a time from the 
field and feed out. h. w. c. 
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