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THIS K URAL NEW-VORKKK 
February 20, 
Hope Farm Notes 
E GG TRADE.—During the month of 
January, my 11 R. I. Rods from the 
igg contest laid 96 eggs. Now, gentle¬ 
men, don’t get excited! I understand, 
<>f course, that some of you can come for¬ 
ward with 12 hens that were guilty of 
200 or even 300 eggs in this same month. 
1 just tell what our hens did and there 
I stop without brag or apology. These 
lions were moved to their new house 
during the month, and of course they 
stood still until they were fitted in. 
These birds suit me well, and I do not 
envy the people who can tell such won¬ 
derful stories. Li tie Redhead father boat 
me with his 12 Rose Combs. They have 
been steadily at work—some days going 
up to seven eggs. The price now is 50 
cents a dozen, and the boy is usually two 
dozen behind his orders. No one seems to 
care for the color of the eggs. Our tint- 
« d specimens sell for as much as the 
white eggs—they are certainly just as 
good. This boy has evolved a business 
scheme which is worth considering. 
When he runs short a few eggs in a 
dozen he plans to borrow of me. The 
January eggs are to be paid back in 
May! An egg is certainly an egg, and 
its eating value remains constant wheth¬ 
er the prices change or not. My boy 
wants to borrow the egg and not the 
price. At any rate his little egg trade is 
brisk and he treats all customers alike— 
from the washwoman with a sick hus¬ 
band to the rich man in the city. 
Farm Hens. —This is the first Winter 
that our hens have ranked as helpers. 
I think we have better stock than ever 
before, and the plan of feeding is right 
I think. Some years ago I paid a good- 
sized price for a trio of Reds taken from 
the big Madison Square show. They 
were beauties, but I am sure the hens 
never laid over 60 eggs each in the year, 
and I am sure the introduction* of that 
blood cut down the egg yield of our flock. 
We did get a few beautiful specimens, 
but I do not care to eat feathers. Eggs 
suit us better. I got rid of the Reds be¬ 
cause this show blood bled my pocket- 
book. Day after day through the Win¬ 
ter we poured out the feed for those 
greedy hens, and they never even looked 
at a nest. They just lazed out in the 
sunshine and the rooster spread his 
beautiful feathers, and having made sure 
the old Brahma was behind a wire fence 
challenged the veteran to a fight. We 
can stand a lot of such folly in an April 
day, or in the pretty girl at high school, 
but when hens play with your pocketbook 
they must adorn a chicken pie! 
Our “utility” Reds are of a different 
makeup. We get eggs—that is what we 
keep hens for. I have no quarrel with 
those who prefer other breeds. I have a 
notion that when we find a man very 
strong for some particular breed we shall 
usually find that he has selected hens 
which, in their way, represent the quali¬ 
ties he sought for in his wife! No doubt 
the selection of a second wife would in¬ 
duce an impressionable man to take tip a 
new breed of poultry! 
I have a letter from a man who says 
lie prefers White Leghorns, but he wants 
more meat than these dainty birds will 
give. His scheme is to keep the Leg- 
horps for eggs and buy mongrels or 
scrubs in the live poultry market for 
eating. At times he can buy such birds 
at 12 cents a pound. That makes cheap¬ 
er chicken meat than you can grow on 
a Leghorn, and the scrubs will lay some 
<ggs besides. As it happens we have 
a few Rocks and Leghorns left over from 
old flocks. It is my impression that each 
breed is particularly good for laying 
at some special season of the year. The 
Reds do best with us in late Fall and 
Winter, the Leghorns through Spring and 
Summer, and the Rocks late Summer and 
early Fall. 
Children Wanted. —Every Winter I 
have many letters about children. There 
are thousands of people of middle age who 
have comfortable farm homes—in fact 
everything to make plain and simple life 
worth while, except children. As Win¬ 
ter comes on or as snow and ice shut 
them in, these people look about their 
great roomy houses and see ghosts all 
. ver them. These ghosts are planted 
there by memory or imagination. They 
represent what might have happened if 
the children had lived or could have re¬ 
mained at home. Hard fact and cold 
reasoning would show that the children 
could not or would not have lived up to 
these ideals, but in the lonely Winter 
nights when a man knows at last that he 
has begun to slip slowly down over the 
ridgepole of life—who cares so much for 
fact and reason? A man comes home 
from a journey or from work long after 
dark, and finally sees the light from his 
home. It is a very dull brain which can¬ 
not look inside the house and picture 
little folks running to meet him and fill¬ 
ing the kitchen with the joy of childhood. 
A Great Undertaking. —Mother and 
I have had in our home at various times 
and for long or short periods 16 different 
children in addition to our own child. 
Some of these remained for a few months, 
others for years. They were of all sorts 
of temperaments, pedigrees and habits, so 
that we have had opportunity for study¬ 
ing the child crop from many points of 
view. Our conclusion is that taking a 
little child to bring up is about the most 
serious and solemn obligation that a man 
or woman can enter into. I know of 
course that people who are supposed to 
be “authorities” will give you to under¬ 
stand that taking a little child is much 
the same as taking a calf or colt to feed 
and train and make useful. If you take 
my advice you will pay no attention to 
that, but get it down into the lowest 
corner of your mind and heart that when 
a man takes a homeless child into his 
house he enters into a direct covenant 
with God to be responsible for a little 
human life. He may fail utterly with 
the child through no fault of his, but it 
is a moral responsibility first of all. 
Sizing It Up. —Most people expect too 
much of a little child. They want a 
handsome little thing, full of life and en¬ 
ergy—a great credit to them in every 
way. A moment's thought ought to show 
them that few children of superior breed¬ 
ing or well born would be given away 
to strangers or abandoned by parents and 
relatives. Those fine qualities you de¬ 
sire only come through a long line of 
strong well-selected ancestors whose rela¬ 
tives would not let such children leave 
them. When you take an unknown child 
to bring up you take your chances on 
pedigree, and the great hope for the little 
one lies in your character and example. 
Most people of middle age go to one or 
the other extreme in their treatment of 
such a child. They are too soft or too 
hard. Some cunning little thing comes 
into the lonely home and the childless 
man and woman feel their hearts molt 
within them. The child becomes a toy 
or an idol, and the meanest tendencies 
in him are aroused to dominate the old 
folks. It is bad enough to spoil a child 
of your own. but it becomes a tragedy 
when you spoil an adopted child with no 
one know what grasping or hateful ten¬ 
dencies. On the other hand, we have 
the people who see in the little one only 
a small machine to be worked and driven 
to the limit. Such men and women have 
forgotten their own childhood, and can¬ 
not see in the little stranger anything bpt 
a small edition of a matured adult. He 
conies up on work without tendencies or 
imagination or real childhood. His hab¬ 
its of industry will be better than the 
other child, yet he too will be “spoiled” 
for the real work which a man should 
do in the world. 
What Then? I wish every childless 
home in the country could be filled up 
with little ones now homeless. Yet I 
am afraid some of them would prove mis¬ 
fits. The test ought not to be whether 
the man is able to provide for the child, 
but rather the motive which prompts him 
to take the little one in. Maybe he or his 
wife merely want a plaything or a com¬ 
panion. In such case I hope they will 
not try it. Perhaps they want a worker 
first of all, and plan to “make him earn 
his board.” If that is the only motive I 
hope the child will not go there—for I 
know all about that from experience 
Perhaps a man feels that he would like to 
put part of his mature life right on the 
altar of service, and take a child first 
of all because be wants to do something 
for humanity, so as to make the world 
better and give hope and a fair chance 
to a little one. If a man can feel that 
way about it and have the character to 
train the child honorably he ought to tat* 
one if he can. it. w. o. 
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