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April 18 , 
Hope Farm Notes 
On the New York police force there is 
;i company of picked men known as the 
“strong-arm squad.” They are big. husky 
fellows, ready to tackle anybody or any 
job. When there is liable to be a riot, 
or when toughs try to terrorize a neigh¬ 
borhood, these “strong-arm” men get into 
action and go where they are needed. 
The gasoline engine has become the 
“strong arm” of the farm. I can re¬ 
member the time when manufacturers 
laughed at the idea of making an engine 
of less than five horse-power. Even that 
power was a ponderous, heavy thing, 
that could not be easily transported. I 
was a hired man in those days, and had 
to play the part of “strong arm.” I 
know what the small gas engine has 
done to take up this burden. 
The engine on our power sprayer 
pumped water and blew it out as spray 
faster and better than any hired man 
ever could. Even the boss would grow 
weary on the spray pump after a few 
hours’ work, and the sprayer would be 
more like a squirt-gun than a producer 
of fine mist, which a spray ought to be. 
After spraying was over the “strong 
arm” would have stood idle if it had been 
confined to the single job. A loafer is a 
nuisance on any farm. So is the char¬ 
acter that claims the right to a long 
vacation because it has done its duty at 
one hard job. So we lifted strong arm 
off the sprayer and mounted it at the 
well, near enough to be belted to the 
pump. The windmill lifted the water 
when the air was strong. When a calm 
fell upon us with an empty tank the 
little engine rolled up ns sleeves and got 
ou the job. Air is cheaper than gaso¬ 
line, but it does not always move when 
you need it. The two together make a 
fine team. Then when the Summer’s 
supply of wood had been hauled from 
the hill in 10-foot sticks there came an¬ 
other job for “strong arm.” We bought 
a saw, moved the engine up near it, set 
it going, and these sticks were chewed up 
into firewood, while the redheads and 
their comrades piled the chunks in the 
slu'd. There are half a dozen other 
tilings which strong arm could do. It 
can turn the feed grinder or grindstone, 
or run the cutter to chop up the stalks, 
or slice the mangels. It is a great farm 
helper, and no one can realize its con¬ 
venience until he has tried it out. It 
is a great educator when you can stand 
at ease and see this strong arm doing 
t lie work which formerly took the starch 
out of your own back. 
When the wood was cut up the engine 
was lifted back upon the sprayer, ready 
for its original business once more. 
There are new types of sprayers, so ar¬ 
ranged that the engine cannot be taken 
off. The manufacturers do this pur¬ 
posely, as they claim the engine should 
not be used for any work except spray¬ 
ing. We have found that a good engine 
is suitable for these different jobs, and 
I would rather keep it at steady work. 
Spraying thus far this season has been 
a slow, interrupted job. Winds and rains 
have been frequent, and we have been 
obliged to take advantage of a few hours 
of suitable weather here and there. As 
usual, we spray the apple trees with 
soluble oil and lime-sulplnir on the peach 
frees. I know, of course, what some of 
tlie scientific men say, but experience 
tells us that the oil solutions spread bet¬ 
ter on older, rough-barked apple trees, 
and are more likely to get at the scale 
in the fuzz or fur-like growth around 
tlie bud. I have no quarrel with the 
lime-sulphur men; there is nothing lo 
quarrel about. We like the oil for ap¬ 
ple trees and use it. The lime-sulphur 
is excellent for pouch trees—not only 
cleaning out the scale, but destroying the 
germs of curl-leaf and brown rot. It 
should have gone on before this, how¬ 
ever, to do much good with brown rot. 
This season there have been many 
questions about time and quantity in the 
spraying business. Therefore we have 
been doing some figuring. For filling 
the tank our plan is to drive alongside a 
little pond or pool and use the tnuk- 
l'ller. Our pool is formed by putting a 
dam across a little spring brook. The 
tank filler is put on a piece of plate at 
the bottom of this pool, the upper part 
attached to the pump, and the engine 
started. With this system it requires 
“Raw Phosphate.” —We have had 
several articles about the use of raw 
ground phosphate rock. Recently a 
Pennsylvania man asked if it would pay 
him to use sulphuric acid on the farm to 
“cut” this rock. Our answer is 
“No, it is too dangerous.” Now comes 
a Michigan man with the following: 
If ,7. ()., page 37, will put his raw rock 
phosphate through the manure pile he 
will get just about the same result as 
if it was treated with sulphuric acid, 
provided there is enough horse manure 
in the pile to cause chemical action. A 
good way is to sprinkle the phosphate 
behind the animals and allow it to soak 
up the liquid; keep the manure pile wet 
enough to prevent burning and loss of 
ammonia, but allow it to be warm enough 
and wet enough to cause the change in 
the phosphate. Haul the manure to the 
field about once a month. j. a. v. 
Where is your authority for any such 
statement? I have read several experi¬ 
ments at our government stations where 
this thing was tried. Careful chemical 
tests seemed to show that the manure 
had practically no effect upon the raw 
phosphate. H. W. c. 
about eight minutes to fill the 250-gallon 
tank. Our apple trees are about 30 
years old, I should judge—good-sized 
Baldwins. Between four and five gal¬ 
lons of spray are required to cover them 
well. The time required to spray such 
a tree will depend on many conditions— 
wood, shape of tree, pressure, and half 
a dozeu other things. Far better take 
more time and do a thorough job. for 
if you leave a few parts of the tree un¬ 
touched the scale insects will spread like 
a fire over it. Spraying for the scale is 
not like fighting the Codling worm. You 
must hit the scale with the spray mix¬ 
ture; it will not crawl up to any poison 
and cat it. There seems to be little 
doubt that the scale insect is weakening 
in our neighborhood. Yet this is no 
time to stop spraying. Rather make a 
rally and clean them out. As for fruit, 
we are at this moment promised a good 
crop of peaches and a small crop of 
apples. 
The strawberries arc very promising 
as Spring begins her tardy preparation. 
The heavy snow on top of the mulch 
gave the plants a good chance. They 
begin to crawl out of bed and stretch 
themselves, like one who has had a good 
rest and is now ready for a great day’s 
work. I find some demand for Mar¬ 
shall plants, though we make no effort to 
“boom” this variety. It will probably 
fail to satisfy seven times out of 10 in 
ordinary soil and with ordinary culture. 
II lien you get it right, however, there is 
nothing finer. We are trying a few 
others this year—Joe, Chesapeake and 
Progressive. Wo have had Chesapeake 
before. It is a fine berry for hill cul¬ 
ture. Joe is highly praised for its qual¬ 
ity and its ability to produce on rather ! 
poor soil. 
Bio Stories. —Not long ago I printed 
a newspaper story about a Washington 
apple orchard which averaged $3,235 per 
acre for seven years. Now comes one 
of our readers in Wenatchee, asking me 
to print the following statement from 
the local paper, The Daily World: 
An erroneous report is going the 
rounds of Eastern farm journals and 
other papers, bearing a Wenatchee date 
line. It tells the astounding news that 
E. W. Smith has averaged $3,235 per 
acre from his five-acre orchard on North 
Wenatchee avenue for seven years. The 
skepticism with which this report is 
commented upon in the East is not to 
be wondered at. The fact is that owing 
to a misprint, we should judge, the 
amount is given as per acre when it 
should have said per year. At any rate, 
we are in possession of the fact, and it 
is true that five acres of apple orchard 
has averaged $3,235 per year for seven 
years. 
This paper claims that in 1911 O. G. 
France received $3,9(>4 from one acre 
of Winesap apples, and that local grow¬ 
ers average 500 boxes to the acre! The 
man who sends this says that from his 
own eight acres—10 years planted—he 
picked and sold last year 3,140 boxes of 
apples. I feel sure that some of our 
South Jersey and Now York growers 
can match that. We have one field at 
Hope Farm with a little over one acre. 
There is a fringe of apple trees around 
it. with strawberries in the center. Last 
year this field gave us 175 barrels of 
Baldwin and Spy apples, and about $250 
worth of berries and plants. The berry 
plants were three years old. There will 
be a fourth picking this year. 
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