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THE KUKAL NEW-VOKKEK 
April 24, 1915. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Freedom. —The scarlet fever siege lin- 
silly ended. There was an evening when 
1 came home just as the sun was smiling 
sit us over the hill before saying “Good 
night!” On the lawn were two familiar 
little figures dancing about like red and 
blue sprites. Redhead and Towhead had 
come out of jail at last, cured and clean, 
sind with no after effect from the fever. 
There was a race across the lawn and 
they nearly swept old Bob off his feet 
in their eagerness to get sit me. 
“Why,” said the Hope Farm man, 
“you look so fat and fine that perhaps 
six weeks more would fit you up as prize 
winners!” 
“Oh, have a heart!” said little Red- 
liead. It was prize enough for him to 
get out into the clear April air and be 
free. 1 doubt if these boys care to see 
the inside of the old house again! It 
had been a long, hard pull for all of 
ns and supper that night was surely a 
season for thankfulness. Those scram¬ 
bled eggs and baked apples were about 
the limit as a feast to celebrate this 
great event. There was nothing prodigal 
about these sons except perhaps the ap¬ 
petite they displayed, and we are short 
on fatted calves, but scarlet fever was 
over. No one the worse for it except 
perhaps the family pocketbook—and that 
was enough. 
After supper, before my open fire, there 
were many things to go over—plans for 
the season and something about the books 
which scarlet fever had made possible 
for reading. Bong after dark Redhead 
thought we ought to have a look at the 
hens. So we put on our overcoats, got 
our lanterns and went to see how the 
Reds are doing. They were certainly 
fine. In my breeding pen from the egg- 
laying contest, Redman, the bird with 
eggs in his blood, turned his wise head 
and kept an eye on us. When we under¬ 
took to pat one of his wives Redman 
came at us as we deserved. The broody 
hen on the nest peered foolishly at the 
lantern light. Her leg band showed 
that she laid 189 eggs last year. She 
ought to be ashamed of herself for brood¬ 
ing so early in the season. 
Out in the little house by the brook 
the first broody Red had reached the end 
of the long vigil on her eggs. Every egg 
had hatched and there was a ring of lit¬ 
tle brown heads with bright beady eyes 
thrust through the hen’s feathers. We 
like these Red hens because they are sen¬ 
sible and persistent mothers. This first 
hatch must be promptly marked, for they 
are children of “Redman” and we are 
looking for a great performance from 
them next year. 
Then Redhead led the way to his own 
pen of Rose Comb birds. The big red 
rooster Rouge is a giant of the breed and 
a beauty at that. You should have seen 
how his dark mahogany coat glittered 
in the lantern light. Redhead hugged 
him as lie would some old mend, and the 
wise old bird seemed to appreciate it, 
and his sleepy wives cared little. These 
gentle red birds suit us well. We have 
ime pen of Leghorns which are kept to 
supply table eggs during the breeding 
season. Every man to his taste, hut Red¬ 
head and I do not quite like the taste 
(if these nervous and “crazy” Leghorns. 
The Reds will sit on the perch so that 
we can stroke and pet them as we would 
kittens. Try that on one of the Leg¬ 
horns and see them go up into the air 
or fly off into the dark corners of the 
house. 
Back we came through the dark night, 
with Airedale and here son for guard, to 
plan a few enterprises for the rest of 
April. We must burn these piles of 
brush soon and scatter the ashes. A 
good friend has given each child 10 J. II. 
Hale peach trees. That will make an 
orchard of 50 trees, and we plan to put 
them in right. I will take a day off and 
help at this. The land was Fall-plowed 
and now it must be limed and worked 
several times with the Cutaway. Then 
we will mark it out both ways and plant. 
Several people have asked how we plant 
a tree. There is no great story about it 
as we do not pretend to be experts, but 
when we get this planting done we may 
tell about it. Then we have those roots 
of Reading Giant asparagus to be dug 
and shipped. The roots seem to be 
healthy and strong, and the little boys 
can dig and count them out as well as 
anyone. That is a good business for chil¬ 
dren. Most of our trade will be nearby 
in small lots to supply gardens. When 
these children see what people will pay 
for finely-bred hens or asparagus or 
strawberry plants they get my idea of 
trying to make 50 pedigreed specimens 
pay as well as 500 scrubs or mongrels. 
It can be done. Surely we have plenty 
of business this Spring. 
Spraying. —Merrill and Philip have 
been spraying every working hour that 
the wind stands idle. Our hills make a 
great health resort for the wind, where 
it seems to work up muscle when the val¬ 
leys are quiet. Now and then we get a 
full calm day, but usually at this season 
four or five hours will be the limit. It 
is slow work under such circumstances, 
but we have to take it as it comes. If is 
remarkable how a year’s growth on 10- 
year-old apple trees adds to the work. 
Far more material and more labor are 
required. If anyone wants to figure how 
much w r ood surface 18 inches of growth 
all over 8,000 trees will give he may do 
so. Measured in spraying material I find 
it means about 25 per cent, more over 
last year. Part of the orchard still shows 
some scale. In one or two places we 
experimented with new insecticides last 
year, and they seem to have failed. At 
least they did not kill or control the 
scale as oil or lime-sulphur certainly does. 
I shall go very slow' in plunging on new 
materials when these old friends do so 
well. We use oil on the apple trees, es¬ 
pecially on the older rough-barked speci¬ 
mens. The soluble oil spreads better, 
works into the cracks and fuzz more com¬ 
pletely and is better to handle. We 
usually take lime-sulphur for the peach 
trees, as we have found it a great help in 
brown rot and curl-leaf. Of course we 
use a small quantity of lime-sulphur 
mixed with the poison for the (’odling 
worm. 
Fruit Matters. —In our section we 
are quite free from many of the in¬ 
sect and fungus troubles which are so 
dangerous in other sections. Our hills 
are w'ind-swept and n»«„ v ue dis¬ 
ease germs are blown away. Our trees 
have never been forced, but have made 
a rather slow r , natural growth and are 
thus hardy and strong. Last year blight 
appeared in some orchards near us, but 
it was not serious. Should fruit-growing 
become general and develop into a great 
commercial business I presume diseases 
and new insects will come with it. Some¬ 
thing of that sort seems to follow every 
special farm industry as it develops and 
concentrates. It is the canker which we 
always find eating its way to the heart 
of prosperity. Nature and time seem to 
make it their business to even things up. 
That is one reason why I do not despair 
because great wealth has passed unfairly 
into the pockets of certain great fami¬ 
lies. That will cure itself in time. Not 
one child in 1,000 can be nursed with 
wealth and ever amount to anything. 
Sooner or later he must give up his un¬ 
fair share to poorer boys whose very 
poverty have made them strong. If the 
wealthy ones attempt to tie up their fam¬ 
ily supply of money so that it passes out 
of what I may call the competition of 
character, new laws will take care of 
that. The wealthy may call such laws 
confiscation, but it will be merely an ad¬ 
justment of the right of every young man 
in a republic to have a chance to earn 
competence and home cleanly and through 
his own labor. Such things will adjust 
themselves and so will this fruit growing 
business in the long run. Favored sec¬ 
tions may flourish for some years and 
threaten to monopolize the business and 
crowd out the smaller grower. These 
big enterprises will become top-heavy 
with the passing of the men who ox-gan- 
ized them, and insect and disease, both 
of which love a shining mark, will rush 
in to do their work. Clean land will al¬ 
ways he needed and this need gives the 
careful small grower his chance. I 
would go right ahead and develop the 
fruit farm. h. w. c. 
Teacher: “The bones of a person or 
animal separated from the skin and flesh 
we call a skeleton” (shows picture of a 
skeleton). “Have we bones in our ears?” 
Pupils: “Yes, Ma’am.” Teacher: “Then 
why doesn’t a skeleton have ears?” Liz¬ 
zie : “Because it doesn’t need any.”— 
Credit Lost. 
Spraying Pays 
Not only as protection against bugs and blight, but 
every spraying makes healthier plants ami larger 
yields of better quality. Machine pays for itself on 
ten acres, first year. 
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have double acting! pumps, wood tanka, thorough automatic 
mixing of solutions, wind shift, preased brass nozzles and 
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50 or 
100 
Gallon 
Tanks 
Box 
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Globe Elevator Co., 91 Kentucky St. ( Buffalo, N. Y. 
Sorghum Syrup. 
Geo. Purdy of Kansas describes his 
method of making sorghum syrup. Tell 
me how much yellow clay to use and 
how to use it to clarify the juice? 
Roseville, O. s. H. A. 
I used a large wooden tank (or trough) 
anything will do, to mix the juice and 
clay. About one scoop shovel of yellow 
clay to each 150 to 200 gallons of green 
juice. Stir it up well and it will set¬ 
tle all sediment to the bottom in five 
minutes and leave the juice as colorless 
as cold water. It can be drawn off into 
the boiling pan, or front seetiou of the 
evaporator, in a constant stream, as fast 
as the syrup is finished at back end, or 
as fast as constant boiling will evaporate 
it and no skimming is needed, as the froth 
boils over into a hole in the ground, or 
fed to hogs. In the finishing pan we use 
a new broom to stir the finishing syrup 
constantly, until it will “rope" down 
twelve inches from the broom when held 
out of the syrup. It is then let out into 
the cooler, while hot boiling syi'up is let 
in as fast as the finished runs out. 
When the colorless juice is run off the 
clay it can be stirred with more green 
juice the second time. Then the tank 
should be flushed with water and run 
out at the end and away in a pipe, or 
trough. Set the tank as high as the boil¬ 
ing pan so the clear juice will all run 
into the boiler pan ; two or three spigots, 
or corks, can be used set at different 
heights in the side of the tank. 
Two settling tanks are needed so to 
keep a constant stream running into the 
boiler. At the crusher we used a straw 
strainer, and run from there into the 
clay tank. Do not use clay with fine 
sand in as it is so slow to settle. You 
can try this on a small scale with two or 
three barrels of green juice and a small 
old-fashioned boiling pan. I would re¬ 
commend Texas Ribbon cane or Kansas 
Orange, for ease of handling and quality 
and quantity of syrup. Plant on sandy 
soil, never use any manure; it will ruin 
your syrup. We do not bother to strip 
off the leaves, haul the crushed stalks 
out to the cattle and colts, spread on 
the pasture, they will eat them greedily, 
and grow fat. If you try this please re¬ 
port success in The R. N.-Y. 
Kansas. g. p. 
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depleted soils you cannot expect results. 
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