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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 14, 
Hope Farm Notes 
I know two men, both close to the 
period of life when they may be said to 
live on “borrowed time.” One of them 
is as sour as a pickle. I think this man 
had opportunities when he was younger, 
but he never seemed to grow into any 
of them. They tell me that he took up 
one thing after another, until it got a 
little hard and monotonous, and then 
dropped it and took something else. Thus 
when the bloom of youth had been rubbed 
off this man found himself only able to 
tinker at a few inferior jobs. lie was 
master of nothing, because he had not 
dug down to fundamental principles, and 
could put no spirit into his work. You 
should hear this man complain about the 
condition into which life has crowded 
him. 
The other man has, all his life, done 
what most of us call inferior work. Yet 
there is a curious thing about it. Does 
anyone in town Want a garden spaded up, 
a front yard cleaned, a path dug through 
the snow or a cord of wood cut up, there 
is competition and demand for this man’s 
services, as there would be for service 
from the leading lawyer or the expert 
doctor. For this man always does a 
clean, neat job, and is good-natured and 
accommodating. I never hear him growl 
about conditions. I have seen him walk¬ 
ing about on Sunday afternoons looking 
with some show of pride at the work he 
has done in garden or yard. Ask him 
how he is able to be content with his 
humble lot, and how he can put pride 
and reputation into such “inferior” work, 
and he will tell you something like this: 
“I know that I am better qualified 
(with my age and powers) to do this 
kind of work than any other. I made up 
my mind I would do it better than any 
other man in town. I have been able 
to do that because I take joy in my job.” 
As I write this I glance at a book 
shelf on which I can see 50 volumes of 
Dr. Eliot’s “Harvard Classics.” Here 
we are supposed to have the wisdom of 
the ages—the words which should not 
die—sifted out through a mesh so large 
that only the gigantic thought would not 
pass through. For example, out of all the 
Bible Dr. Eliot has selected the Book 
of Job, the Book of Psalms, Ecclesiastes, 
the Acts, the Gospel of St. Luke and the 
two Epistles to the Corinthians! Yet, in 
all the nearly 2,000,000 words of this 
sifted classic wisdom I find no lesson of 
life truer to human nature than these 
seven w,ords of the humble worker—“I 
take joy in my job.” 
There you have the whole story. The 
man who takes joy in his job puts spirit 
and love into it, and these are the un¬ 
conscious things which make the job liv¬ 
ing and vital. I have seen a fisherman 
hauling up his nets and lobster traps— 
wet and tired, with torn and bleeding 
hands—looking off over the boiling ocean 
as the sun comes up out of the east with 
a look on his face which showed the 
“joy in the job”—for he was working 
for home and family. I have seen the 
same look on the face of a farmer who 
stopped the plow for a moment to look 
across the valley to the farmhouse among 
the trees or on the face of a workman on 
a high city building looking over the 
country where he hoped some day to have 
a home. It is the “joy in the job” which 
lifts the man and his work out of dis¬ 
content and drudgery. 
The man I spoke of who has grown 
sour and bitter as the years went by has 
made all his jobs joyless and dry because 
lie has put no spirit or personality into 
them. Any one of half a dozen jobs 
which he has taken up offered him the 
chance for taking joy in it, but he 
couldn’t find the joy. You cannot find 
any so-called “great” man or any fair 
approach to a happy man, who did not 
find his greatness or his happiness in 
“the joy in the job.” I might go on for 
an hour with illustrations or arguments 
to prove this, but it is one of the things 
which men must think and work out for 
themselves. Take joy in your job. 
Fkuit Buds. —The mercury touched 
about eight degrees below at Hope Farm. 
Under ordinary conditions this would not 
put the peach buds over the danger line, 
but tills year conditions are not ordinary. 
The warm Fall and early Winter induced 
some of our buds to take a little too much 
J'joy in the job” and they were soft and 
tender. There may be some damage on 
the easterly slopes, but not much. I hope. 
On the western slopes the buds seem to be 
in better condition, and we still expect 
a fair crop. In some other localities 
much more damage has beeu done. In 
parts of New England Jack Frost cer¬ 
tainly took “joy in the job” and rubbed 
the joy in. However, those Yankee peach 
growers can try the homeopathic cure on 
such troubles. They usually have such 
joy in their job that it will offset Jack 
Frost’s mirth, and so they keep good 
natured. Except for this danger to peach 
buds the Winter has gone well at Hope 
Farm, and the time has actually come 
for developing the next season’s cam¬ 
paign. 
Belgian Hares.—A number of good 
friends seem to regard the Hope Farm 
man as a “back number” because he does 
not try to “boom” the Belgian hare busi¬ 
ness. My scrub hens require more 
“booming” than I can develop to make 
them lay. One thing at a time. Those 
“back numbers” are not all candidates for 
the scrap heap. Not long ago a man was 
willing to pay $10 for a certain back 
number of The R. N.-Y. I never could 
develop any “joy in the job” over Belgian 
hares. The children have kept rabbits 
from time to time, but beyond the pleas¬ 
ure of keeping pets there was nothing 
to it. Several people have told me about 
the great profits in these hares. To prove 
it they gave names of parties who bought 
the animals. I wrote these dealers and 
this is what I get from one of them: 
The handling of these rabbits by us is 
not for market use, and there is very lit¬ 
tle demand for rabbits for market use, 
but they are used for experimental work 
with various laboratories throughout the 
country. However, just now the demand 
is on the decline, and the prices have very 
much declined on the same. While no 
doubt the demand will keep up for the 
coming year, I doubt whether they will 
bring over 15 cents a pound. 
J. HOPE. 
That is about what I expected. The 
meat markets here indicate no particular 
demand for rabbit meat. The “joy of the 
job” seems to come in selling these hares 
for breeding stock, with a limited demand 
at that. I shall stick to my scrub hens. 
H. W. C. 
Orchard Trees on Cleared Land. 
I have a tract of land from which I 
have cut the timber. It is high and 
rolling, real hard-wood forest land. I 
am thinking of putting it out in fruit 
trees, such as apples, cherries, pears, 
plums and peaches. Do you think by 
keeping the brush cut down and grub¬ 
bing the trees I can keep them growing 
until I have the small stuff killed out, 
and can plow and cultivate? How 
would sawdust do as a mulch the 
first year on the young trees? Would 
it be policy to plant apples 24 
feet apart and keep them cut back? How 
would leaf mold do as a mulch? w. c. 
Brunswick, O. 
It is possible to follow a plan of this 
kind and obtain fair growth to the tree, 
but you cannot hope to make your trees 
grow as fast as you could if they were 
given thorough culture from the begin¬ 
ning. Our own plan is to cut off the 
timber and burn the brush. Then mark 
out lines 20 feet apart through the 
cleared field. Blow, or dig out the stumps 
on these lines, so as to leave a clear space 
four or five feet wide. Set the trees 20 
feet apart on these lines, sighting, so as 
to have even rows each way. We plant 
“fillers,” so that when they are finally 
cut out, there will be an orchard of 
standard apple trees, 40 feet apart each 
way. By clearing out these lines, you 
can give a little cultivation by plowing 
a couple of furrows on each side of the 
road, and keep at work with a cultivator. 
Do not use fresh sawdust, as a mulch 
around the trees, unless you add lime 
also. The sawdust and also the leaf 
mold are too sour to use when fresh. 
Clean up the middle between the rows 
of trees, as you get opportunity, keeping 
up the cultivator on these narrow strips 
each year, or hoeing around the tree. By 
the time the trees come in bearing, the 
ground will be reasonably clear, and you 
can handle it as you please. This plan, 
with modification to suit conditions, will 
work out fairly well. The great danger 
is from fire. In a dry time, such a fire 
would sweep through the woods and do 
a great damage to the young trees. This 
is not an ideal way to grow trees. It is 
a makeshift which may give fair satis¬ 
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