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Hope Farm Notes 
APPLES AND IDEALS. 
I IIAD a call a few days ago from a 
friend living in Rochester. He found 
me in the orchard picking a few ap¬ 
ples. He was so impressed by their 
beauty and excellence that he bought a 
barrel and had it shipped by express to 
his family in Rochester. H. V. n. r. 
Amenia Union, N. Y. 
Western Spirit.— This is merely re¬ 
newed evidence of what I have always 
claimed, that .the Hudson Valley fruit 
region can and does produce the most 
beautiful fruit that comes into market. 
This fact is not generally known. So 
much has been said about the wonders 
of fruit growing on the Pacific Coast, 
and about the immense orchards of 
Western New York, that the Hudson 
River growers have been content to re¬ 
main quiet and let others do the talking. 
They make a mistake in this, for the 
Valley is really a wonderful fruit section, 
and its advantages and possibilities 
ought to be advertised. At the big fruit 
meeting in Poughkeepsie last V inter, 
the Hope Farm Man gave a little talk on 
“Ideals in Horticulture.” There have 
been a number of requests for a copy of 
what he said regarding this matter of 
advertising the section. lie spoke of the 
spirit which is found in many of the 
Western towns and cities toward those 
who excelled in fruit growing. _ Let a 
man from that region go to a big fruit 
show and win a prize for beautiful fruit, 
and when he comes home he finds the 
whole town lined up to meet him with a 
brass band, and all the notables present. 
This spirit is a wonderful thing for 
Pacific Coast fruit growing, because it 
gives all people, old and young, the true 
thought that their own produce should be 
the best of all, and that they should .all 
strive to make it so. After stating this, 
the Hope Farm Man went on to talk 
about as follows: 
Glory. —During the Spanish War 
this part of New York State sent a 
company or a regiment of soldiers to tbs 
front. It is very doubtful if these young 
men ever saw a Spaniard on the battle¬ 
field. Quite likely they never fought 
anything fiercer than a malarial mos¬ 
quito in the recruiting camps of Florida 
and Tennessee, yet their spirit was true. 
They willingly offered their services and 
their lives to their country, and when 
they came home, very properly the main 
street of Poughkeepsie was one mass of 
color. Your factories were empty, your 
stores were closed for the time, and all 
your people turned out to welcome those 
boys back home again, because they had 
upheld the honor of the Hudson River, 
and offered the best they had for their 
country- 
Baseball.— I read not long ago of a 
baseball player who took part in the 
famous world’s series. 1 cannot tell_you 
how many men he struck out as a pitch¬ 
er, or how many runs he made, but he 
was a great man, because he did some¬ 
thing which appealed to popular feeling. 
When he wont home and stepped off the 
car, he found lined up in the public 
square half the population of his home 
county. The president of a great univer¬ 
sity made a speech welcoming him home. 
The leading clergyman, the judge of the 
local court were there, and the Congress¬ 
man hurried home from his arduous du¬ 
ties at Washington to show himself be¬ 
fore that crowd. This man had done 
nothing but throw a baseball so that it 
dodged around a corner and got away 
from the bat. yet he threw that ball 
partly for the money he got out of it, 
and very largely for the glory of the 
home town. The Congressman said that 
this young man had put that town on the 
map by throwing the baseball. At any 
rate he made an appeal to popular feel¬ 
ing, and society rose up and honored him. 
Bruisers. —In like manner I heard of 
a prizefighter who went away from home, 
and succeeded in hammering another hu¬ 
man brute into the condition of ham¬ 
burger steak, winning fame and profit 
thereby. When he came home his town 
turned out to welcome him with great 
applause. He also was told that he had 
put his home town on the map, and 
written his rame in italics. I could 
stand here and give you instances by the 
hour which would show where men, 
women or children have gone out into 
the world, done something for the 
honor of their home section, and returned 
to be lionized and pointed out as public 
benefactors. That is the spirit which 
makes a community worth while. When 
a man does something to put his home 
town on the map ho ought to be called 
a good citizen, and honored accordingly. 
A Prize Winner. —Now let us see 
how t! : s works out in the Hudson Val¬ 
ley. A few v lcs ago our good friend, 
,T. II. Hepworth, who is known to all, 
packed his grip and sta -fed for Roches¬ 
ter. That grip did not co ain dynamite, 
or boxing gloves, or baseballs, or a fancy 
dress uniform, but it did contain a 
bunch of the finest fruit that ever grew 
on a tree; fair specimens of the best 
products turned out by the Hudson Val¬ 
ley. Brother Hepworth went up against 
the best fruit growers in the country. 
He exhibited his apples at the big fruit 
show, and won so many first prizes that 
it wasn’t worth while to ask who was 
second. Ills Baldwin apples from the 
Hudson Valley were voted by the judges 
to be the most beautiful and perfect 
specimens of that fruit to be found at 
that great exhibition. You see some men 
write the name of their home section 
with a baseeball; others pound it into the 
face of their antagonist; still others 
shoot it into the enemy, but Hepworth 
wrote the story of the Hudson Valley 
in the beautiful colors of your priceless 
fruit. And in doing so he did more for 
your section than any man you have ever 
sent to Congress to do your public work 
for you. 
Home Coming. —All this was very 
fine, and of course Hepworth, like the 
rest of the notables, got his reward. 
When he started from Albany on his 
way home down the valley, of course 
there was a signal fire on eve y hillside. 
Every time the train stopped, of course 
there was a brass band, and all the pret¬ 
ty girls in town were out singing “Hail 
to the Chief Who in Triumph Advances.” 
When he got off the train at his town, 
of course everybody within gunshot was 
there to greet him. They put him into 
an automobile of coxirse, with the old 
flag flying above it. The Congressman 
of his district, and the local judge were 
there, to welcome home this great man 
who had put the home town on the 
map. Am I not right. Brother Ilop- 
wortli, in this? Hepworth shakes his 
head. But didn’t they have the band 
out? Didn’t the school children meet 
and sing “America?” Didn’t they give 
you the freedom of the city? Hepworth 
still shakes his head. Didn’t the minis¬ 
ter on the following Sunday put you 
right into his sermon, with you up on a 
front seat listening to the text? “Well 
done , thou good and faithful servant.’’ 
Hepworth still shakes his head, and says 
he doesn’t know, because he didn’t go 
to church. Then leaving out these small¬ 
er matters, when you got home from 
that glorious victory, didn’t you receive 
a visit from a committee of gentlemen 
who demand that you run for Congress 
as a reward for your services? He says 
that nothing of this kind was done. Lie 
simply came home with the blue ribbons 
stuffed in his pocket. He got off the 
train and walked up the hill alone, and 
when he got home he had to explain what 
had been going >n during his absence, 
just like the rest of us who are common 
people. 
Think It Over. —But seriously, I 
speak of these things to bring home a 
point which we must all recognize. Most 
of us are chasing off into some other part 
of the country to find heroes or heroic 
things. Somehow we think that the 
home town may be a good enough place 
for the practical working things of life, 
but when following the ideal or the im¬ 
agination of life we seem to think that 
we have to go somewhere else and find 
it. That is one reason why this good 
old Hudson Valley has never really come 
to its own. That is why the world does 
not recognize the fact that here on these 
sunny slopes by the side of the river, we 
are producing the most beautiful fruit, 
the most glorious specimens of Horticul¬ 
ture, that ever were colored by the Au¬ 
tumn sun, or ever were picked from a 
tree. Tourists come back from the old 
world after studying the valley of the 
Rhine. Travelers come back from Cali¬ 
fornia and the Pacific Coast after wan¬ 
dering for hours through the orange 
groves of that beautiful country, and yet 
when they stand on the banks of the 
Hudson in the Autumn, when nature is 
paii.ting the fulfillment of her promise 
upon vine and tree, they say there is no 
fairer valley, no more hopeful section on 
the face of the earth, and they are right. 
And if we could have in this valley some¬ 
thing more of the spirit which prompts 
the Western town to applaud those who 
make her products famous this valley 
would become as glorious in song and 
story as any spot on earth. It. w. c. 
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