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<THE RURAL NBW-YORKER 
February 28,' 
■ Hope Farm Notes 
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Here is n new one along the line of 
‘ The best meal I ever ate.” The follow¬ 
ing statement was made in the daily pa¬ 
pers last week: 
John Quinn, who weights 250 pounds, 
recently took dinner at a restaurant with 
liis friend Robert Harris. Quinn made 
an excellent meal, and after it was 
finished leaned back in his chair with a 
deep sigh of satisfaction, all ready for a 
pleasant conversation with his friend. He 
did not realize, however, the expansive 
power of a sigh in a man of his weight. 
The sigh broke a horn button on his 
vest. The pieces flew with such power 
that they struck Harris in the face, prob¬ 
ably destroying the sight of one of his 
eyes, and cutting a deep gash on his 
cheek, so that the blood ran freely down 
liis face. 
I was not there to see this, but it is 
not impossible, for some of the forces of 
nature have remarkable power. I am 
told that a skull may be split or burst 
»>pen by filling it with beans and pouring 
in warm water. The expansive power 
of the beans splits the skull. No doubt 
there are New England people who will 
read this and then clear their throats 
and make certain remarks concerning the 
close connection between brains and the 
baked bean habit. At any rate the ex¬ 
pansive power of a fat man in giving a 
sigh of satisfaction is something to re¬ 
member. And it is the meal back of the 
jdgh which provides the power! Ten to 
one this man had finished oil with a nice 
baked Baldwin apple, well covered with 
cream. There may have been in that 
fdgh a bit of the dynamite of disappoint¬ 
ment that he could not eat another ap¬ 
ple. The Mexicans might organize a 
regiment of fat men, put bullets instead 
of buttons on their vests, feed them well 
sind put them in the front rank! Our 
cooks and housewives will have to be 
careful how they food these fleshy veter- 
nns. Gentlemen— have another apple — 
but please do not face me. 
Will you read th* inclosed clipping 
from a Washington paper and tell your 
readers what you think about the truth 
of the statement? It would require a 
yield of nearly 41 bushels of apples to a 
tree, and 40 trees to the acre, to produce 
J,G17^ bushels of apples, which would 
have to sell at $2 a bushel to bring the 
amount of money mentioned. I have 
been raising apples more or less for the 
past 23 years, and I am guessing how he 
managed to do it. Can The it. N.-Y. 
give me and others a pointer? 
Connecticut. z. <:. «. 
“Wenatchee, Wash., .Tan. 0.—An aver¬ 
age of $3,235 per acre annually for seven 
years is the record made by L. W. Smith 
on the gross receipts from sales of fruit 
grown on his five-acre apple orchard on 
North Wenatchee avenue.” 
No. I am out of “pointers” on such 
matters. The experience of one of my 
boys has rather blunted the point to such 
a story. This boy wanted to see the 
•world, so he went West—where he is now, 
He packed apples for a time at this 
place, but could not earn enough money 
to carry him over Winter. There seems 
to be nothing to do in that country. How 
this man raised 41 bushels of high-class 
fruit to a tree beats me. He may be 
like the man recently mentioned who 
bought four crops besides his own, packed 
them all in his orchard and then claimed 
the fruit all came out of his own farm! 
Buzzard and Bi.ttff. —Hope Farm 
lay right in the track of the blizzard of 
February 15, and the wind made tracks 
all over us. It whirled the snow into 
great drifts, and blew the frosty air into 
every crack. There was a surplus of 
buckwheat flour and sausage and fuel, 
and the joy of the children was un¬ 
bounded, as they wallowed in the snow. 
We broke our way to the railroad, but 
getting back at night was something of 
a struggle. Mother met me with old Jen¬ 
nie and the sleigh. Flat in the freezing 
snow lay a man who had tried to warm 
( up with the wrong kind of spirits. He 
Lad no overcoat or mittens and a basket 
full of groceries lay beside him. While 
Mother held the linos on the old black 
borse I bundled this unfortunate friend 
into the sleigh, got the horse blanket over 
1 Slim, and held him in until we got him 
to liis home. There seem to me some un¬ 
answerable arguments for Prohibition. 
The house was warm and bright when 
we finally reached it, with a pot of smok¬ 
ing hot baked beans on tap. Then before 
the roaring wood fire, with the children 
playing ubout, I was well content to let 
the wind howl and play with the drifting 
snow. 
It is a glorious place before an open 
fire to read over your letters. There you j 
get the full spirit of them, and the shy 
sentiment which often hides between the 
lines gathers courage to crawl out and 
show its head. Thei'e might be un¬ 
bounded chances for “making a hit” in 
the following note: 
In looking over the files of The It. 
N.-Y'. we were much interested to learn 
that you had known Emerson. I am 
going to travel all the way to New York 
to ask you to tell me more about it some 
time. I read him every day; indeed 
should find it hard to live without his 
unfailing inspiration. To have seen and 
spoken to him seems to us of the younger 
generation, a rich allowance from fate. 
J. D. F. 
Now it is something of a temptation 
to come forward as an old friend of 
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Who would be 
likely to disprove it? With a little spur 
to the imagination I might perhaps give 
a new color to the “Sage of Concord.” 
Before we start, however, let’s open 
Emerson’s Essays at random and see 
what we get. Here it is on page 243 of 
the essay on “Intellect.” 
“God offers to every mind its choice 
between truth and repose. Talce which 
you please—you can never have both. 
Between these, as a pendulum, man oscil¬ 
lates ever, lie in whom the love of repose 
predominates will accept the first creed, 
the first philosophy, the first political 
party he meets—most likely his father's. 
He gets rest, commodity and reputation; 
but he shuts the door of truth." 
After that there is nothing for me to 
say except that when I spoke to Emer¬ 
son he was the great philosopher, and I 
was a chunky little errand boy in a book 
store, homesick in the great city. The 
great Emerson, with other groat authors, 
sent me out to buy a bag of peanuts. 
When I got back they wanted me to eat 
peanuts with them, and in a half banter¬ 
ing way led me on to tell how I had 
caught fish through the ice. I know that 
philosophers eat peanuts like other men, 
and throw the shucks on the floor. When 
they are not writing for publication they 
can, on occasion, produce some very 
ordinary “gull.” About the most human 
description of Emerson I have read is 
found in “My Own Story,” by J. T. 
Trowbridge—another man who used to 
keep the Hope Farm man running on 
errands—-once at least in just such a 
blizzard as the one that has recently 
stung us. I remember too that some of 
these great and kindly men “chipped in” 
and bought me a pair or rubber boots 
and a coat one hard Winter, when there 
was no one else to do it. Who could 
help picking up the reading habit from 
their books after that? 
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So. Now Berlin, N. Y. ( I)ec. 10, 1913. 
The Rogers & Hubbard Co., 
Middletown, Conn. 
Gentlemen—Hubbard's “Bone Base” Fertilizers have given ns the best of 
results this season We used on 4 acres of Danish Cabbage 1 ton of Hubbard’s 
“Bone Base” Fertilizer for Oats and Top Dressing and 1 ton of Hubbard’s 
.‘‘Bone Base” Complete Phosphate. Applied with fertilizer sown and harrowed 
in just before plants were set. About August 15th 400 pounds of Hubbard's 
“Bone Base” Fertilizer for Oats and Top Dressing was sown broadcast over 
the held and worked into the soil. No stable manure or other fertilizers 
were used. The crop made a strong growth from the start and fully 75% of 
all plants set produced marketable heads. We sold from the 4 acres 59 tons 
by weight and about 3100 heads that were not weighed. The Cabbage crop 
nB a rule, was very light in this section, and we believe onr yield was due in 
a large measure to the use of Hubbard’s "Bone Base” Fertilizers. 
Yours truly, FRED. GROVER. 
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You can test your soil at home in half 
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In your issue of December 6 you say, 
“Remember that the parents of next 
year’s mosquito crop nre probably winter¬ 
ing in your cellar!” What can one do 
about it? I for one would like to know, 
for we have to fight them here sometimes 
for months. K. w. c. 
Jonesboro, Ark. 
It does not look much like mosquito 
weather as we look out to the snow drifts 
and see the wind whirling them, but it 
may be time to get ready. Some of the 
mosquitoes winter over in the cellars 
of farmhouses, tucked away in cracks and 
corners. Leave them alone, and when 
Spring opens these pests will come out 
very ready for business. Brush down 
all the cobwebs and dirt and burn. 
Then fumigate the cellar or lower warm 
rooms. The following “stuff” is sug¬ 
gested for killing those wintering mos¬ 
quitoes: 
Jimson weed (Datura Stramonium) is 
used for fumigation. Eight ounces of 
the powdered weed, burned in a close 
room, will fumigate 1,000 cubic feet. 
Another material is made by using equal 
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carbolic acid crystals in a bottle and 
liquefy by placing the bottle in hot water. 
Put a pound of gum camphor broken in 
small pieces in a one-quart jar. As the 
acid liquefies pour it over the gum cam¬ 
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be one quart of a slightly reddish heavy 
liquid, which will keep indefinitely if 
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by burning in a metal pan over an alcohol 
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