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Hope Farm Notes 
U NSIGNED LETTERS.—I call it 
strange—to use a mild word that 
after all we have said about signing 
communications, so many people still per¬ 
sist in failing to identify their letters. 
Here is a postal card which we had pho¬ 
tographed : 
J (X -Kw-W) 
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There is nothing on this card to iden¬ 
tify it. I am at a loss to know why the 
writer'should not sign it. This is a good 
question, and no one need be ashamed for 
asking it. Our usual rule is to pay no 
attention to unsigned letters. Some of 
them attack public men, or have bitter 
criticism of some printed statement. 
When such notes are unsigned they go 
right to the waste basket, for experience 
has taught us that no criticism is worth 
considering unless the author of it is will¬ 
ing to stand up and be counted. Such 
a person might have honest reasons for 
not wishing to. appear, in print. We 
would respect his wishes in such a mat¬ 
ter, but he must at least give his name 
as evidence of good faith. We have no 
use whatever for the person who would 
attack another in the dark and not stand 
up to face responsibilities. 
Most of the cases we have are evi¬ 
dently due to carelessness or haste. 
There are quite a number of instances 
where people have sent us money and 
neglected to sign their names or give the 
post office. A little later these people 
write again, very indignant and feeling 
that they have been robbed. In such 
case's we can send their original letter 
right back to them, and that of course 
settles it. 
Roots And Drains. —Regarding the 
question on this post card it seems to 
depend on the condition of the drains. 
If the soil is very wet and there are not 
enough drains water will run through the 
tiles most of the time, and in such cases 
clover and Alfalfa roots will work in. 
Where the drains are dry part of the 
time there seems to be little trouble. In 
preparing land for Alfalfa, where it is 
naturally moist a very thorough job of 
drainage must be done so as to take the 
water off rapidly and not have a constant 
flow through the drains. If there is a 
steady flow the roots will make trouble. 
New Alfalfa Culture. —Alfalfa has 
never been a success with us. On the 
lower, lighter lands a few miles away the 
crop does fairly well—not as well as on 
the deep limestone soils but a reasonable 
crop for a few years. The cost of fitting 
these soils is considerable. Our soil is 
hard and sour. It is mostly a thin rind 
over the solid rock—in some cases barely 
three feet deep. A deep-rooted crop like 
Alfalfa does not thrive in such soil, and 
I have become convinced that Soy beans, 
Alsike clover or cow t peas pay us better. 
We have had the experience which com¬ 
pels us to be conservative in booming 
Alfalfa. I would try it by all means 
and give it every chance, but it is no 
more a sure thing on all kinds of soils 
than the $10-a-year hen is sure to come 
out of every henhouse. Now, however, 
there are several new varieties of Alfal¬ 
fa which promise better things on our 
soil. Instead of having one long tap¬ 
root these Alfalfas branch out away from 
the crown almost like corn roots. They 
ought to do better on our thin soils. We 
shall try them this year, planting the 
seed in garden soil and transplanting the 
seedlings. A big new business is being 
developed in this seedling Alfalfa. It 
may seem strange to our Western farm¬ 
ers with great stretches of this crop, but 
on many an Eastern farm the little Al¬ 
falfa seedlings will be put in like cab¬ 
bage or transplanted onions. It seems 
that most Alfalfa failures come to the 
young plants. If we can get these babies 
so they can walk and then transplant 
them we may do better. 
Trees And Hay.—S everal people have 
asked about the same questions as the 
ones which follow : 
We have only seven or eight acres of 
land and of that only U 1 /^ or four are 
suitable for fruit trees. The rest is build¬ 
ing sites and sideliill. My plan was to 
set out trees on three-fourths of an acre 
of mellow ground and break up and ma¬ 
nure a like amount for next year’s set¬ 
ting. You see I need all the hay I can 
get when we get started with fruit. (I 
sell one or two tons a year now.) How 
would it do to plow a strip seven feet 
wide for each row of trees and not raise 
anything inside of them, this coming Sum¬ 
mer ; then there would be just room to 
cultivate down and back on each side of 
the trees. Rows of trees to be 40 feet 
apart and I planned to put in one filler 
between each tree in the row, some peach 
and some apple trees, the kind that begin 
to bear soon and cut them out when or 
before they begin to crowd each other. 
That would leave a space of 20 feet 
between the trees, which it seems to 
me would make a good place to raise five 
<>r six plants of red and black raspberries- 
e’so strawberries in the same way. Next 
the: rural imew-yohkkh 
March liO, 
year widen -the strip to perhaps - 12 feet 
and each year as they need it, and raise 
a row of potatoes on each side of trees. 
I have never heard of anyone doing this 
way, but if the plan is feasible it would 
save me a great deal of work as I have 
only one good leg, the other is nearly use¬ 
less about one-third of the time. I in¬ 
tend to sow a cover crop of rye around 
trees. I have followed that plan on corn 
and garden ground some years. ,T. z. M. 
Connecticut. 
This plan will work out. We have 
tried it a number of times. Plow your 
strips and chop the soil up well with a 
Cutaway harrow. Plant the trees in 
the center of each strip. You can plant 
potatoes or squash in the line between 
the trees if you like. Keep the plowed 
land on either side of the trees well cul¬ 
tivated or hoed and hoe around the trees 
three or four times during the season. 
Each year you can widen the plowed 
strip, and as you do so plow one or more 
rows of potatoes or fodder corn along the 
tree rows. Good corn fodder will take 
the place of hay for Winter. I should 
sow rye and barley along these plowed 
strips in early August as a cover crop. 
From our own experience I would not 
use peach trees as fillers, but would plant 
Wealthy apple trees or dwarf apple trees 
of suitable varieties. I would not ad¬ 
vise the dwarfs on a large scale, but in 
a small planting like this where they 
would have good care they would pay. 
If you take my advice you will keep rasp¬ 
berries out of this orchard. Currants 
will answer, but there is danger from 
crown-gall from the brier fruits. 
Home Notes. —The scarlet fever pa¬ 
tients have become impatient—otherwise 
all is well. They will be out soon, all 
the better for their imprisonment. It 
came hardest for these boys to look out of 
the window at the great snowstorm which 
whirled down upon us on March 6. It 
was wet, damp snow which clung in great 
masses to the trees and spread its soft, 
kticky blanket over the earth. It was 
just the kind of stuff for snowballing or 
making snow men, and who can blame 
Redhead for feeling that scarlet fever is 
a tyrant as he realized what it would 
mean to roll in that 6ticky whiteness? 
.The Summer’s wood has all been 
cut and will now be piled in the shed— 
under cover. There were 32 to 15 cords 
of dry wood. We cut it with our own 
saw—using the gasoline engine from the 
sprayer. This engine will now be lifted 
back ready for blowing the oil over our 
apple and peach trees. Really it is not 
good business to take the engine off the 
sprayer, but we have been using it for 
pumping all Winter. Now that the 
water runs freely down from the spx-ing 
the engine is not needed for this work. 
.We are considering a trial of this 
overhead irrigation system. Every year 
in late Summer we have fierce trouble 
from drought. The garden suffers and 
when the garden has trouble we feel it 
all through the family. We have a good 
water supply from the spring with a 
powerful pressure. I think of building a 
new tank at the spring to give greater 
storage capacity, and get enough per¬ 
forated pipe to cover our garden at least 
This could also be moved to the straw¬ 
berry field in case we needed water for 
potted plants. It is worth trying out on 
a small scale at least. I think gardeners 
will be obliged to come to something of 
this sort sooner or later, as our dry sea¬ 
sons are likely to continue.There 
seems to be great interest in this cam¬ 
paign for potato eating. I have many 
letters about it, and some surprising 
things have been worked out at substitut¬ 
ing potato for bread. Our folks have al¬ 
ways been fond of potatoes, and we eat 
great quantiti s of them, taking care to 
supply fat and protein to go along with 
them. Potatoes, butter and peas make 
a great combination for plain, substan¬ 
tial food. Where children can have but¬ 
ter and cream and eggs and milk I think 
potatoes are excellent, and we encourage 
our children to eat them in a dozen dif¬ 
ferent ways. The other night we had for 
supper baked potatoes, creamed codfish, 
bread and butter and baked apples. 
While the Hope Farm man is no longer 
ranked as an athlete he thinks he can 
hold his own on such food with any 
hearty beef eater of his ago. u. w. c. 
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