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Hope Farm Notes 
W EATHER.—Up to July we were 
finding more or less fault with the 
rains. It was wet during early Hum¬ 
mer, but now we make up for it. The 
soil is dry and baked. You may now 
easily see what cover crops and lime 
have done for our soil. On pieces of land 
where for some reason our regular plan 
has not been followed the soil is so hard 
that a pickax would be necessary to open 
it. On the same kind of land where rye 
and lime have been used for a number 
Of years, the soil is open and me'tiw — 
you can kick it up in dust with your 
feet. The color is darker and even in 
this dry time you can find dark colored 
soil down below showing that there is 
still a supply of moisture. This has been 
an ideal season for this kind of farming. 
The Spring was wet and this made a 
heavy crop of rye without drying the soil 
too much. The lime in this damp soil 
quickened decay, and tne rye was rapidly 
broken up. Had it been a dry Spring I 
would not have let the rye grow so large, 
as this would have taken too much mois¬ 
ture out of the soil. As it is now the 
rye, turnips and rape in the corn are 
growing very slowly, and will not come 
to much until we have rain. 
Late Crops. —You remember how we 
planted potatoes at July 4? A five-year- 
old strawberry bed was turned under and 
die potato seed put right down into the 
mass of vines and weeds. The seed was 
not the best yet on September 25. most of 
the vines were still green and thriving. 
A few are dead, but apparently the 
greater part will grow until frost kills 
them. As we expected, that heavy, green 
mass turned under held the moisture just 
where the plants needed it. I think this 
experiment will succeed.The old 
strawberry beds look better than ever this 
Fall. They had been fruited four years, 
hut we needed them one more year. 
Right after fruiting the vines were eut 
with the mower and raked off. Then 
with plow and cultivator the middles 
were ripped out and a narrow str.p of 
plants loft. Hoeing the grass and weeds 
out of this strip was a long and expen¬ 
sive job, but the dry weather helped and 
we took the time to rake up I lie weeds 
and dump them around the apple trees, 
t'or the cultivator is kept going, and wo 
have a fine new growth and strong plants 
for next year’s fruiting. . . .The Japan¬ 
ese millet seeded late after cutting rye 
for straw and grain, is growing well and 
proves a good yield. Corn cutting began 
September 22. Part of the corn in the 
young apple trees is poor—the rest is good 
Fruit.—B y September 25 1 figured 
that we had eaten peaches continuously 
for <50 days—beginning with Alexander 
and running through Greensboro, Car¬ 
man, Belle of Georgia. Niagara, Elberta, 
Mountain Rose. Crawford, Crosby and 
others. Our crop was larger than ever 
before, but it has been a peculiar season 
for selling. Many people who formerly 
bought peaches for canning have this 
year refused to buy—complaining of the 
high price of sugar. It seemed strange 
to me that they could not see that the 
low cost of peaches more than offset 
sugar prices. Some of the smaller fruit 
has been slow of sale, but the larger 
peaches have brought fair prices. 
Our apple crop is good, and 1 am selling 
it off rapidly. By September 22 the 
Wealthy and Twenty Ounce had all been 
sold, and we were working oil the Mc¬ 
Intosh. Northern Spy is a Fall apple 
with us, and that and Greening will go 
next. T shall let the Baldwins hang to 
the tree as long as is safe, and then get 
them off rapidly. If conditions were nor¬ 
mal 1 should put up a storage plant this 
year and hold tln^ fruit, hut the lack of 
an outlet to Europe will complicate the 
situaCon here. No poor <>r low grade 
fruit should ever be sent to market this 
year. Far better give it away as an ad¬ 
vertisement. 
Puente Markets.- —The farmers in our 
section are interested in the market dis¬ 
cussions, but the trouble is to transport 
<>ur produce. On every farm in this 
neighborhood can be found fruits and veg¬ 
etables that will be wasted for lack of 
transportation. TV ilh onl\ one team or 
three horses, how can a farmer haul all 
his perishable stuff and at the same time 
do bis farm work? A load of fruit goes 
from Hope Farm practically every day, 
yet we could send more, and in fact we 
could often use the horses to advantage 
here. Another year 1 shall evidently be 
obliged to get some sort of an auto¬ 
truck. In order to make these public 
markets successful I think some sort of 
swift trucking service will have to be ar¬ 
ranged. If some auto-truck could make 
a daily trip through our section, picking 
up produce from farm to farm, we should 
soon get into the habit of providing for it, 
and arranging to send tons of produce 
during the season. Most of this produce 
would not otherwise be sent away, but it 
would be a great help to the city buyers 
and a help to us when it was taken away. 
This side of the public market question 
has not been discussed yet, but it will 
have to be worked out before these mar¬ 
kets reach anything like full success. 
Pedigreed Asparagus. —You will re¬ 
member liow last Spring we planted a 
pound of superior asparagus seed. This 
was our first experience with this crop. 
After much hard work at weeding we 
have about 15,000 good plants. The va¬ 
riety is Reading Giant of a rust-proof 
strain. This is the variety which has 
been selected from immune plants. The 
original male parent was one plant out of 
nearly half a million, which showed no 
rust in a locality where every effort was 
made to spread the disease. Later the ex¬ 
perimenter found a female plant which 
stood up and resisted the disease while 
hundreds of thousands around her went 
down with rust. By breeding these two 
strong plants together the plant breeders 
have obtained a strain of Reading Giant 
which may be called disease proof. The 
seeds have grown well on our soil, and I 
think the roots will be good ones. I ex¬ 
pect to go into this business on a larger 
scale next year. 
•1>vmpi.ixg” Wyandottes.—1 should 
judge that our friend. John 11. Robinson, 
must be having an ideal time just now. 
He recently printed more than half a 
page in his paper entitled, “The Hope 
Farm Man’ as ‘Mr. Facing Both Ways.’ ” 
He seems to find fault because I do not 
engage in a long controversy over a mat¬ 
ter which eggs rather than words should 
settle. Of course, we all understand that 
Brother Robinson is doing very well 
what the boys call “playing to the gal¬ 
leries." That is good fun and very 
profitable at times, and l have no desire 
to interfere with it. And now, for the 
last time, let me state the case as I see 
it: We printed a picture of what the 
Standard of Perfection calls an ideal 
White Wyandotte. I called it a dump¬ 
ling, and said that 1 d<> not believe a hen 
shaped like that one can he a good layer. 
The more I look about, study Wyaudottes 
and hunt up their records the stronger I 
will make that statement. Now, of 
course, Brother Robinson knew well 
enough what I meant. There was no 
thought of discrediting the Wyandotte as 
a breed. No one can do that in the face 
of the records which Wyaudottes are 
making at the egg-laying contests. What 
I did say, and what I repeat is that the 
“ideal” Wyandotte, as represented in that 
picture is not a good layer. It suits 
Brother Robinson’s purpose to try to 
make it appear that I am in some way 
attacking the breed. Under such circum¬ 
stances a long wordy controversy with 
him would get nowhere, and I cheerfully 
admit that I am no match for him at 
“talking about it.” I want him to let his 
hens talk, or rather lay. In my own case 
if some one stated positively that a horse 
or a cow or a hen in which I was inter¬ 
ested could not trot or milk <ir lay profit¬ 
ably I should not expect to settle it by 
1 iiUcin</. I should come hack to the old 
text: 
‘'lie is of af/c—ask him!" 
I should put my animals right up 
where all could see the work if I really 
had faith in them. That is what I call 
upon Brother Robinson to do. Let him 
enter a pen of what I call “dumplings”— 
which means birds shaped like that 
“ideal” picture—at one of the egg-laying 
contests, and then stop talking and let 
his hens settle it. I see no better way to 
decide it. When I was a boy there was 
a five-word comment which seemed to me 
very appropriate: ‘'I*at up or shut up!" 
Perhaps Brother Robinson does not want 
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