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THE KURAE NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Woman Suffrage. —Of course I get 
many letters about “Votes for Women.’* 
.Most of them are good-natured, one way 
•*r the other, but now and then someone 
conies growling like a bear at the thought 
of women at the polls. Now this is a 
free country, and up to certain limits a 
man may say about what he likes, but, 
p nimbly, if he could see himself as others 
' e him the public growler would comb 
out his growl. It doesn't carry him any- 
v here, and in the case of this woman 
.sulTrage question the thing is sure to 
< me finally, as sure as fate, and the 
growler will be eaten up by his own 
■■grouches.” One man says this: 
"The average woman is a fool! None 
i ' them is fit to vote!" 
1 find that this man has a wife and 
daughters. Of course he does not stop 
to realize how he classes himself in this 
tirade, for selecting such a character for 
his wife, or for raising more of them ! 
“Women cannot hear arms in tear — 
th< ref ore they should not vote." 
That's another! Mr. Lloyd George 
says the present war will be won by the 
workers at home, hot by the soldiers. 
Thousands of men never get nearer the 
front than the hospitals. They vote - 
yet women do even more dangerous hos¬ 
pital service. During our Civil War hun¬ 
dreds of women disguised themselves in 
men’s clothing and fought as hard as 
anyone. In Paraguay during the fearful 
war with Brazil most of the men were 
killed, but women fought on. Jeanne 
d'Arc was something of a fighter for 
France. I presume our friend will claim 
she should not have been permitted to 
vote! It is not impossible that it would 
require a steam engine to pull this very 
gentleman up to within a mile of the 
lighting line. 
"The majority of women do not want 
to rote." 
I find this the most general and effec¬ 
tive argument against suffrage. The 
idea is that “a few agitators who have 
nothing else to do” are trying to force 
women into new duties and responsibili¬ 
ties which they do not want to assume! 
For instance, women now have the school 
vote! Why do they not turn out and 
use that vote? My answer is that they 
are doing so more and more every year, 
as they think out for themselves the need 
of it and realize their right. I can give 
you many cases where the men were un¬ 
able to control a school meeting as it 
should be controlled, and they had to go 
to the women for help. Plenty of the 
male voters failed them at the pinch, but 
not a woman did so! Again, here is 
your own argument upset. You agree 
that this school vote is just and right, 
yet the majority of women did not call 
for it or particularly desire it. It was 
given them as their right to use or not 
as they saw fit. During the past few 
centuries the franchise has been granted 
to one class after another as a right. ITad 
the governments waited until a majority 
of each class demanded the ballot half of 
them never would have received it. In 
each case a few strong and far-seeing peo¬ 
ple saw that their class or their race 
was entitled to the ballot and it was 
given them as a right. Give the ballot 
t<> woman and all women are not com¬ 
pelled to vote if they do not care to do 
so. 
But the Hope Farm man is no shouter 
or bluffer for woman suffrage. If New 
Jersey says: “No,” I shall not abuse any¬ 
one or lose any sleep. The thing is ab¬ 
solutely sure to come sooner or later. 
You cannot possibly stop it any more 
than you can stop the wind. Public 
thought is working in that direction and 
a man might as well stand in front of 
the avalanche as to think he can ever 
argue it out of the popular mind. I 
think the wise man will understand this 
and not build his house in the path of 
the deluge. As for the few individuals 
who seem to think they can scare the 
I lope Farm man by a few hard names, 
let me tell them that they will waste 
their time. The Hope Farm man is 
something of an old bird who has been 
in battle many times and can meet all 
these things with good nature. 
Farm Notes. —It required 3,500 gal¬ 
lons of spray to cover our larger trees. 
Even at that a couple of young orchards 
were left. To those who merely talk or 
May 1, 1 01 
think about spraying the work is easy 
or even ideal. Ask Merrill and Philip, 
or interview Tom and Broker about this 
if you want the practical side of it. 
They will show you cracked and sore 
hands, eyes that smart, and tongues that 
taste sulphur with every meal. Spraying 
is no easy road to wealth or health. The 
little engine on our sprayer puffed and 
pushed out the liquid with good power, 
and the nozzles distributed it well, but 
the last few days were a hot race with 
Spring. Before the last spraying was 
done the crab apples were well leaved out 
and the peach buds showing the pink 
color. Here at the last of April there 
is every reason to look for the largest 
fruit crop we ever had. A late frost may 
get the peaches, but we hope for the best 
as usual. The apple orchards on the hill 
are in good condition for a run this Sum¬ 
mer. There is a fair stand of rye, and 
this will be plowed under in late May 
with lime worked in. No corn there this 
year, but fertilizer and harrowing up to 
July and then the cover crop. At present 
it looks to me like a dry Spring, and this 
may change our plans somewhat. 
Child Work. —The little boys are 
busy enough with their plant trade. They 
are selling plants of Marshall strawberry 
and Reading Giant asparagus. They do 
their own digging and counting and ship¬ 
ping, and have half the proceeds except 
where they sell their own plants—when 
they have it all. Life is full of busi¬ 
ness and beauty to the children this 
year. Redhead was very important over 
the sale of the first setting of eggs from 
his breeding pen of Reds. He has four 
hens at work hatching and more eggs 
in a custom incubator nearby. Thus far 
our hatches have been very good, and we 
have some strong chicks. The boys take 
the R. I. Red Journal, for of course we 
patronize the trade papers. They came 
to me the other night showing some ad¬ 
vertisements in which breeders offer eggs 
for hatching at 50 cents each! Then 
they figure. My breeding pen laid about 
1,700 eggs last year, at 50 cents each we 
have $S50! Will anyone dispute those 
figures? We surely have a couple of 
alert back-to-the-landers liex-e! I tell 
them we must first get a high score at 
the egg-laying contest and then 10-eent 
eggs will come—and they go out to look 
at their hens once more. Oh, Hope Farm 
is it hopeful place for these young folks. 
“There comes the bee man" and little 
Redhead pulls on his hat and coat and is 
off like a shot. You know we are in a co¬ 
operative partnership with a bee-keeper 
who lives some miles below us, where the 
factories have ci’owded out the bee past¬ 
ure. So he brings his bees up here on 
the hills. He has come to look them over. 
Four colonies are dead, hut the rest are 
all right and we shall have honey and 
bee work in our orchards. I am satisfied 
that the bees help pollenize our fruit 
bloom, and I like to have them around. 
The farm is a busy place just now—as 
it ought to be. 
“The Key To The Land.” —This is a 
new book by Frederick F. Rockwell, pub¬ 
lished by Harper’s. It is a sensible baek- 
to-the-land story. That means much, for 
many of such stories are worse than 
senseless. I try to read everything I can 
find along this line that gives a true 
picture of actual life. When we come to 
that great history of American farming 
we shall find it essentially a back-to-the- 
land story. For what was the settle¬ 
ment and development of America if not a 
long series of efforts on the part of peo¬ 
ple to find land and adventure? Some of 
the things now being attempted by city 
poeple are as truly pioneer work as any 
our forefathers went through. Mr. Rock¬ 
well’s book tells the familiar story of a 
city manufacturer who was ruined by a 
trust combination. Most of such men 
who are as wise as Mr. Mantell proved 
as a farmer will provide for wife and 
children during their easy days, but this 
man was left with a few hundred dollars. 
With his wife and two children he took 
an old farm that had belonged to his 
wife’s uncle and started in. As you 
know, in most stories of this sort a great 
income is secured the first year. Man¬ 
tell figured the first year’s sales at 
$673.82 with a “pay roll” of $1300. This 
“pay roll” consisted of $40 a month for 
Mantell, $20 for his wife, $10 each for 
the two children and $20 for the hii’ed 
man. They all agreed to leave most of 
this in the business until it could pay 
out—which it did in time, This is a 
pleasant and useful story—useful because 
it teaches the true spirit of baek-to-the- 
landing. You cannot find fortune or 
great profit, but you can get health and 
old-fashioned contentment. Mantell had 
two strokes of fortune which other back- 
to-the-landers will envy. He found a 
hired man who did not draw out his 
money and took more than personal in¬ 
terest in the work. Then there was 
“Squire Hunderson,” the neighbor, who 
never tried to beat him or deceive him, 
but actually gave double measure of the 
Golden Rule. I am afraid this character 
will seem most nearly imaginary of any 
to the usual back-to-the-lander. The 
book is a good one—with thought in it. 
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String Beans for Cannery. 
I urn going to grow string beans for a 
canning house and would like to know 
how to plant them, how far apart to put 
them, how thick to plant them in row, 
and what kind of seeder is best? I have 
some land that was in corn in 1013 and 
seeded to cow peas in 1914, but did not 
have much of a crop, and a piece that 
was in cow peas in 1913 plowed and seed¬ 
ed to rye, cut 1914 for seed, plowed in 
August and seeded to Crimson clover. It 
came up, hut the dry weather stopped it 
so the open Winter has frozen it out. 
Which is the better land for them? I 
have a piece of land that was in toma¬ 
toes last year that has a heavy cover 
crop of rye. I am going to plow under 
soon, that had a small coat of lime. Is 
lime beneficial for string beans? 
Federalsburg, Md. w. n. w. 
We plant string beans iu rows 2% feet 
apart so as to permit of horse cultivation. 
For best results the beans should be 
about two inches to four inches apart in 
the row. It is a sometimes a little hard to 
get them in the row just the distance we 
like, especially when using a drill. Any 
of the standard seed drills are good. If 
the rye has not made so much growth 
as to interfere with the rise of soil 
moisture, after it is plowed under and 
had a little while to decay, I would pre¬ 
fer the field that was in tomatoes last 
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Beans do best where the soil is moderate¬ 
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One of the most important points is cul¬ 
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ground should be kept stirred thoroughly. 
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