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THE RHH-A.L NEW-YORKER 
March 21, 
Hope Farm Notes 
Hope Farm Scrubs. —Our scrub hens 
are still in the ring at the Storrs laying 
contest. I cannot say that they are lay¬ 
ing any rings around the world’s record, 
but they are not tail-euders yet. Here 
we have a word from a chicken man: 
“/ hope the Hope Farm man wilt not 
let them bluff him out of that egg con¬ 
test." L. F. 6. 
Ohio. 
Well, gentlemen, I know what is prom¬ 
ised to the boaster and the haughty spirit, 
yet I feel disposed to say that when they 
bluff the Hope Farm man out of a con¬ 
test there will not be any contest left. 
For some reason my scrubs have aroused 
the ire of many otherwise good-natured 
hen men. As one good friend puts it: 
“The entire country is laughing at you." 
Well, sir, I never did expect to become 
a national character, as this statement 
would indicate. These 66-cent scrubs 
seem to be putting me up into the hall 
of fame. I do not deserve the honor. 
For it is an honor to provide amusement 
for the nation. This has been a hard and 
tedious Winter—full of trouble and gloom 
to many. If we could only gather the 
statistics of “grouches” we should find 
that there is a larger crop this Winter 
than ever before. Good, honest laughter 
kills off a “grouch” faster than lime- 
sulphur destroys the scale. If the entire 
uation is laughing at my scrubs they have 
done far more for the world than Tom 
Barron’s Wyaudottes. True, those Wy- 
andottes have laid more eggs, but my 
scrubs have laid out more “grouches” by 
making more people laugh—while eggs 
would only increase the “grouch.” Oh, 
uo; if you want to laugh some man out 
of a contest you would better try it on 
some other character. The Hope Farm 
man has been laughed at for 40 years or 
more, lie has become immune, and the 
scrubs will not mind so long as they have 
plenty of food and a nest. These early 
laughs are something like a tomato plant 
which has been fed on too much nitrogen. 
It makes a fine growth but it has a hard 
time when drought comes. The time to 
laugh in this laying contest will be on 
the second day of next November when 
the contest ends. That will be the time 
to let out a fine, long ha, ha, ha I 
In this contest there are 82 pens, or 
S20 birds in all. I understand that 790 
of these birds are purebred specimens, 
probably averaging at least $5 each in 
value. My scrubs cost GG cents each. 
If any of these happy gentlemen who are 
laughing so merrily at my scrubs feel that 
my pen will end No. 82 in the final count, 
or that my 10 birds will be last of all in 
individual records, they can have a chance 
to make some charitable organization 
richer for their laughter. I have a lot of 
men tell me their hens are doing far bet¬ 
ter than the birds in this contest. My 
own hens at home are outlaying the 
scrubs at Storrs. But why do not these 
gentlemen with such wonderful hens get 
out into the limelight and show Tom Bar¬ 
ron how to do it? When a man goes to 
buy a superior cow he wants to know 
what that cow’s mother has done—not 
what the owner says she has done, but a 
certified, cold-blooded trial by some offi¬ 
cial who knows his business. In much 
the same way a record at one of the 
laying contests is worth far more than 
any private record, no matter how care¬ 
fully made. Some of these gentlemen 
who are growing fat and good-natured 
laughing at my scrubs could not be driven 
at the mouth of a cannon to put 10 of 
their birds right up against the real 
thing at a poultry contest. Their wives 
and children might well contribute a 
purse to erect a monument to the Hope 
Farm scrubs, for father’s laughter at this 
s rub performance has probably made him 
too good-natured to scold and find fault. 
Then comes another man, a first-class 
breeder, who tells me my birds are not 
scrubs at all. He says most of them look 
like culls—the poorest specimens of pure¬ 
bred stock rejected for their evident de¬ 
fects. lie cannot see what good can ever 
come from entering such poor culls. 
“Good” is only a result—often not to be 
observed until years have passed. There 
would be mighty little “good” in the world ' 
if it did not mean something which must 
be worked out through struggle and op¬ 
position and ridicule. Only those with 
clear, long-sighted vision can see the good 
which may follow humble things. If these 
birds of mine are not “scrubs” I do not 
know where to get true specimens. The 
dictionary tells us that a scrub is “a 
small, mean, inferior or worthless thing. 
* * * an inferior, worthless or worn- 
out animal * * * a runt,” etc. If 
these birds are culls so much the better, 
for they are then purebred “scrubs,” and 
their records will show that something 
besides “pure blood” is needed in a hen. 
I am ready to pay some good judge to 
“score” these birds, both for the show 
ring and for the “utility” standard. In 
fact. I will do anything to show that the 
Hope Farm scrubs represent a serious 
effort to learn something about poultry 
which the experts have not yet told us. 
You will see by this time that the Hope 
Farm man will stand by his friends. The 
Lord loveth a cheerful loser. I consider 
that the “bulldog” element is one of the 
most important factors in human life. 
The dog haters may curse all dogs as use¬ 
less pests and worthless nuisances, and 
I would walk a long distance with them, 
yet I think one great moral lesson of 
human life was framed in the ugly jaw 
and teeth of a bulldog. The unrelenting, 
unreasoning, undaunted ability of the 
bulldog to hang on with his fearful grip 
is the one thing which has made most of 
the human success that I know of. The 
yellow quality which takes the starch or 
spring out of those jaws under pain or 
pressure is the thing which spells failure. 
Perhaps not all the Hope Farm defend¬ 
ers are bulldogs. The four little boys 
built a big snow fort on the lawn near 
the road. Then they played that the 
“enemy” was coming, and that they must 
defend the home. The “enemy” turned 
out to be the nearest neighbor, and 
as he passed on the road he received a 
volley from the fort. Then the enemy 
charged. There was no bulldog behind 
the breastworks, but one redhead and 
three towheads ran in four different direc¬ 
tions, while the neighbor very properly 
kicked the fort over and trampled on the 
ruins. These boys will pick up the bull¬ 
dog later on. In the meantime, if any¬ 
one expects to kick those scrubs or “culls” 
out of the ring he must prepare for some 
sore feet. 
Just what have my scrubs done to be 
laughed at? At the end of the eighteenth 
week there were four pens of pure bloods 
below them. During that week the scrubs 
laid 2G eggs, with 1G pens of pure bloods 
trailing behind. Why not laugh at these 
pure bloods? During the month of Feb¬ 
ruary they beat out eight pens of pure 
bloods. My Red scrub laid 14 eggs in 
February. There are 820 hens in the 
contest. Of these 57G birds laid fewer 
eggs than my Red scrub, and 32 tied her 
score. She beat four and tied one cf 
Tom Barron’s Wyandottes, and beat 
seven and tied one of his Leghorns for 
the month. During that month 125 
birds never laid a single egg. There are 
150 purebred Reds in this contest, and 
98 of them failed to beat my Red scrub 
for February. Let’s have a good laugh 
while we can. U* w. c. 
Second-Crop Turnips. 
Corn is not the only crop that we can 
grow, and I was a bit amused at your 
comment some months ago in regard to 
the growing of turnips us a second crop, 
being a new thing in Kansas. It is in 
truth a very old practice here in the 
Raw Valley. I remember well having 
hauled many a 40 or 50-bushel load to 
the Kansas City market when I was but 
a boy and in the Fall and Winter of 1889 
another young man and I, sold on the 
same market 13 carloads, about 450 
bushels to the car. These turnips wen* 
grown by Edwin Taylor, and were all 
second crop, being grown after the early 
potatoes had been dug. W. E. K. 
Lawrence, Ivans. 
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