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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 5, 
Hope Farm Notes 
T HE article on child labor is one all 
mothers are deeply interested in. I 
believe in the weekly allowance if 
paid regularly, but this I find if spent 
rapidly causes expensive habits. Now 
Mr. Philosopher, how can the boy be 
made to save a certain amount? I have 
tried several methods with indifferent suc¬ 
cess. E. w. s. 
New York. 
It will depend on the boy. Right in 
the same family I have seen natural 
spendthrifts, while their brothers and sis¬ 
ters were saving in habit. We started 
small bank accounts for our children 
when they were little things, and tried 
to explain how their money works for 
them and draws interest. They have all 
been quite willing to invest their money 
and see their account grow. Money which 
they earn means far more to them than 
any “allowance” or gift. When I lived 
in Colorado I met some “remittance 
men.” These were second or third sons 
of well-bred English families. The first 
son seemed to inherit the estate and those 
others seemed to expect a regular “al¬ 
lowance” for their support. A more use¬ 
less, lazy set of men I never saw. From 
boyhood they had been brought up to 
expect someone to pay them money regu¬ 
larly without any equivalent on their 
part. That was the “allowance” carried 
out to its final conclusion, and I have 
never believed in it. I would bring a 
child up to understand that he must give 
some return in labor or service for the 
money he receives. 
There are two reasons why some peo¬ 
ple cannot start their children at a bank 
account. One is they never start one 
themselves, or at least do not make an 
effort to keep it up. Most children will 
do what their parents do, and if some of 
the family talk is about fair saving for a 
wise purpose they will want to do like 
the rest. I do not mean talking about 
money as if it were the only desirable 
thing in the world, but a fair idea of 
economy and the need bf saving. Some¬ 
times a boy will want something badly. 
It is not a necessity but he sets his heart 
on it. I would tell him he must save the 
money for it—bank it until he has 
enough. If after he earns the money and 
banks it, he is still willing to buy the 
thing he had in mind he will most likely 
make a good investment. After the child 
gets a few dollars in the savings bank it 
may be a good plan to have him buy one 
or two shares in a local building and 
loan association. The demand for prompt 
monthly payments ’"ill give him good 
habits of meeting his bills, and the money 
will come back to him in a lump when he 
is ready for college or business. 
I have observed one thing, however, 
which is quite true of human nature. No 
child is likely to start any bank account 
when he comes up with the idea that he 
does not need to do so. Once let him 
get the idea that father and mother have 
plenty, or that they think it degrading 
for him to work, and the chances are that 
you will be training a “remittance man” 
for life. Children of the rich can feel 
no particular incentive to save their 
money or bank it. Why should they? 
Put yourself in their place. Or take the 
case of a family where father and mother 
try hard to “keep up appearances” and 
imitate their rich neighbors. Who can 
expect their children to practice self- 
denial or see the need of saving? The 
best way I can think of to start a child 
is to let him understand early that all he 
can reasonably expect from you is good 
body and brain and home and education. 
Beyond that he must work his own way. 
I am sure that our children understand 
that fully. 
at this record. They, have hens which 
averaged 25 or more eggs in July. All 
I can do is to invite some of these gen- 
tlement to put 10 of these wonderful hens 
right into the egg-laying contest. With 
the fullest confidence in what these men 
claim I have graduated into the “show 
me” class, and I want to see before giv¬ 
ing them full credit. There are some fine 
pure-blood hens in this contest. Suppose 
we see how the scrubs stood up to them 
in J uly: 
JULY RECORD —10 HENS. 
Hope Farm Scrubs. 173 
Best Plymouth Rock . 1SS 
Poorest Plymouth Rock . 129 
Average Plymouth Rock (13 pens) 154 
Best Wyandotte... 192 
Poorest Wyandotte. 93 
Average Wyandotte (10 pens). 140 
Best R. I. Red . 188 
Poorest R. I. Red. 103 
Average R. I. Red (15 pens). 137 
Best Leghorn . 250 
Poorest Leghorn . 90 
Average Leghorn (34 pens) . 187 
Average all pens (82) . 163 
The Orpingtons averaged 105 and the 
Campines 149. There are four other 
pens called “hens.” These averaged 138. 
The “scrubs” beat seven pens of the Leg¬ 
horns. Of the 4S pens outside of the 
Leghorns the “scrubs” beat 43 pens! I 
am well satisfied with this record, in fact 
I would not complain if the scrubs were 
tail-enders. That No. 7 is a poor per¬ 
former, and she is the one I picked as 
the best of the lot at that. She started 
in to molt the first week in August, but 
thought better of it and came back with 
two eggs during the second week. I find 
no fault with any of them. It appears 
that if they could have started with the 
others they would now be higher up. 
They were a hard-looking lot of birds 
when they entered. Most of them had 
hard colds, and seven of them had re¬ 
ceived no training whatever for such a 
contest. The old complaint that these 
birds are not “scrubs” now comes up 
again. I thought that in buying them as 
I did in the live poultry market I should 
surely get cast off or rejected hens which 
were considered not worth keeping. How¬ 
ever, these birds were so poor that before 
they started laying most of the experts 
hooted at them and wondered why they 
were ever selected. It was not until 
these “scrubs” began climbing over a lot 
of the pure-bloods that we heard any 
complaint. I think they represent the 
type of hen to be found on the majority 
of our farms. They will certainly show 
whether the introduction of purebred 
blood will pay. h. w. c. 
Four-year-old Josephine was greatly 
pleased to have a garden bed of her own, 
and worked faithfully planting and weed¬ 
ing. One day she ran in and announced 
triumphantly: “O, muvvy, my onions 
have got they little tails stickin’ up!”— 
Woman’s Journal. 
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Hope Farm “Scrubs.” —They are still 
on deck at the laying contest, and doing 
far better than I ever expected. When 
they were entered I asked a number of 
good hen men how many eggs they would 
probably lay during the year. The aver¬ 
age of these estimates was 75 eggs each. 
Up to August 14 they had averaged 106 
and “still going strong.” I figured that 
they might possibly lay 950 by August 1. 
The actual record was 98S. My estimate 
for September 1 is 1100! The record of 
the scrubs for July is given below: 
HOPE FARM SCRUBS. 
No. 
May 
June 
July 
1 . 
. 21 
7 
18 
No. 
9 
99 
19 
21 
No. 
3. 
. 23 
22 
20 
No. 
4. 
10 
18 
No. 
5. 
.. 28 
21 
12 
No. 
6. 
19 
15 
No. 
7. 
. 13 
11 
4 
No. 
8. 
18 
10 
No. 
OO 
23 
25 
No. : 
10. 
. 19 
19 
22 
Including the e"ss laid on the floor and 
not credited to individual hens they laid 
173 in July. 
Of course I understand that a dozen 
henmen will start up at once and scoff 
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