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THE RURAL, NRW-VORRRR 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Canning. —Our folks are taking great 
interest in canning this year, and we 
are evidently to have a great display of 
fruit and vegetables. Miss Hauser from 
the New Jersey Agricultural College gave 
a demonstration in canning. Mother at¬ 
tended and came back full of the subject. 
She immediately put the last of the peas 
into cans, and is now ready for corn, 
Lima beans and tomatoes. We have 
ordered a sterilizer, and I imagine our 
kitchen will be a warm and lively place 
for the next month or so. I have been 
suggesting such a campaign for years, 
but most of these suggestions fell upon 
barren ground. Miss Hauser beats me 
on argument, for she seems to have con¬ 
vinced our folks that they never should 
buy any canned goods with this great 
farm and garden boiling over with fruit 
and vegetables. Perhaps we have in 
this a suggestion as to what is coming 
when women vote and thus have more 
to say about public matters. 
A Sound Proposition. —At any rate 
it is a fine thing to realize that you can 
extend your garden over 365 days in¬ 
stead of the 100 days more or less 
which run between ripening and frost. 
We have always had a good supply of 
preserved fruit, but vegetables seemed 
out of our line. Now we are evidently to 
have a full supply. There are two or 
three other things I have suggested as 
helps for the women folks. One is a 
tent outside with an oil stove. This 
relieves the boiling kitchen somewhat, 
but my folks scorned the idea until that 
demonstrator came along. Now they are 
talking about that oil stove. It seems 
the part of wisdom for me to pass up 
all credit for the idea. Then there is 
that old scheme of using a .spray of kero¬ 
sene oil or old lemon peel for washing 
dishes. I know better than to suggest 
the idea again, but who knows but that 
the expert will come around once more 
and advocate these very things? I wish 
we could obtain an outfit of reasonable 
price for making apple syrup. P>riefly 
stated this is made from cider. It is 
boiled gently and then a quantity of lime 
is put in to crystallize out the acids. 
Then after pressing and filtering it is 
boiled down into an excellent syrup. I 
think there would be a good demand for 
such syrup, and it would be a fine way to 
dispose of the cider, but I think the 
apparatus is too expensive for work on 
a small scale. One thing seems to be 
true of the home canning business this 
year. The low prices for fruits and 
vegetables will induce thousands of grow¬ 
ers to put their crops into cans. As for 
meat canning, we have not tried it yet. 
I guess our folks need to have the demon¬ 
strator come along and back up my argu¬ 
ments. 
Why Eat Fbuit? —There is a large 
fruit crop in the country, and future 
years will see more yet. In order to 
dispose of our fruit we must make the 
public realize what fruit eating means. 
I think we should begin at home, and 
eat all the fruit we can, and then try 
in every way to educate town and city 
people. The newspapers can and will 
help in this. If I were asked for a brief 
statement of reasons for eating fruit I 
would give this. No doubt you can im¬ 
prove on it, hut at any rate some such 
statement should be printed in every 
newspaper—again and again : 
THE VALUE OF FRUIT. 
Every civilized human eats fruit. The 
more civilized he is the more fruit he 
desires. Even uncivilized humans hunt 
for wild fruit. Nature tells the savage 
just what science tells the civilized man 
—that fruit is the antidote for too much 
meat. It is an essential part of the diet, 
food, tonic and medicine. Briefly stated, 
fruits have three chief uses in the animal 
economy. 
They carry water to the system and 
relieve thirst. They introduce various 
salts and organic acids which give nour¬ 
ishment and improve the quality of the 
blood. 
They correct the acid condition of the 
system. While sour themselves they cor¬ 
rect and sweeten the blood. Thus a 
disease like gout caused by an acid con¬ 
dition of the blood is relieved or cured 
by fruit acids and the chemical changes 
they undergo in the system. 
They serve as laxatives both mechan¬ 
ically and chemically. They improve 
digestion and give variety to the diet. 
We recognize these facts when we use 
cranberry sauce with turkey or apple 
sauce with fresh pork. The 6barp acids 
of these fruits act upon the fats of the 
meat and aid digestion. 
In these days no one who intends to 
live intelligently and keep well will think 
of leaving fruit out of his diet In the 
high-strung city life fruit is particularly 
necessary — for the cooling effect upon 
the system—for fruit is far more than 
food. 
Of all fruits which come within reach 
of consumers in our towns and cities 
the apple is most important. It contains 
more phosphoric acid than any other 
fruit or vegetable. This is useful in 
forming the nervous matter of the brain 
and spinal cord and the general nervous 
system. There is less waste in prepar¬ 
ing the apple for eating than in any other 
acid fruit. It can be eaten raw or cooked 
alone in more different ways or in more 
combinations, with other food than any 
other fruit It is always palatable, 
always healthy, always useful and can 
be kept longer than any other fresh fruit. 
I think we should all unite and make 
a steady campaign of education in fruit 
eating and especially with the apple! 
Human Nature. —The poet tells how 
he asked a little child, “When does love 
begin?” The answer promptly came 
back, “Ask some one younger than I 
am!” Then he approached a bent old 
white-haired man and asked, “When 
does love end?” The quick answer was, 
“Ask some one older than I am !” You 
cannot get away from the fact that this 
thing we call “human nature” is much 
the same in hut or palace, in the cradle 
or at the edge of the grave. There are 
certain feelings or views of life which 
are a fixed part of the human race. 
For example, there was little Redhead 
the other night resting after his day’s 
play and wox-k. He held up his hand 
and carefully examined a blister on his 
thumb. 
“I have decided,” he said, “that I don’t 
want to be a farmer!” 
“But how is that?” said Mother. “I 
thought you were going to run this farm 
when you grew up!” 
“Well, this Summer I have found out 
just what hoeing means, and the weeds 
grow too fast.” 
Now I imagine that the hoe has done 
more to blight the hopes of back-to-the- 
landers than any other farm accessory. 
For the hoe is associated with labor— 
plain, primitive and incessant. There 
is no glory about a hoe—just dull, dead, 
unending, prosaic labor. The back-to- 
the-lander may possibly spur up his im¬ 
agination and see visions on a mowing 
machine or at a plow, but they all scatter 
when he takes his hoe in hand. No use 
talking, the hoe demands a far stronger 
test of courage and bulldog determination 
than the sword or spear. And so, as little 
Redhead nursed the g '.11 which the hoe had 
made on his hand, I knew that here was 
a little touch of that human nature, which 
left unsatisfied, has done so much to de¬ 
populate our farm towns. For when Sat¬ 
urday night came Redhead presented his 
bill for labor. As his fingers closed over 
the money and he realized that he was 
that much nearer the wheel, he wanted 
to know if I did not have another job 
for him! There you have whole story. 
Labor without reward is the meanest 
and most irksome thing on earth. When 
the reward comes you are quite ready to 
consider more labor. When there is no 
reward life becomes one dull round of 
hoeing, with nothing to put the balm of 
imagination upon the blister. 
I know of a ease where two little girls 
cleaned up an onion patch for their 
father. It was planted on an old sod— 
not fully cleaned—and was full of grass 
and small weeds. These girls got down 
on their knees and fingered the grass out 
of the onions until their little fingers 
were stumpy and stiff. At last the job 
was done, and on Sunday afternoon along 
came a neighbor who had a larger and 
weedier onion patch. 
“A fine job,” he said. “I want these 
girls to clean my patch since they work 
so well.” 
So these girls worked for days at the 
new job—and got nothing for it. Do you 
want the chance to prove to them the 
truth of this proposition —“Virtue is its 
own reward ”? 
The Farm. —The long-continued rains 
and dull weather have done great dam¬ 
age in our country. Here at the middle 
of August I would sum our own situa¬ 
tion up about as follows: The best look¬ 
ing corn we ever had, but a most dis¬ 
graceful lot of weeds in the cornfields. 
We are putting in the cover crops, and 
about all we can do now is to take our 
scythes and cut these weeds, throwing 
them around the trees. This cultivating 
corn with a scythe beats me. Carman 
peaches are ripe. A fair crop, but we 
have a bad dose of brown rot Prices 
are low. The Elbertas and Belle of 
Georgia look well but in a year like 
this only the finest peaches can command 
good prices. The strawberry plants have 
been cleaned twice and are now in fair 
shape—making good growth and an 
abundance of runners. We are ready to 
plow that buckwheat under for the new 
berry planting. The buckwheat has made 
a famous growth. Our potato crop is 
the best we ever had. We are just be¬ 
ginning to sell at fair prices. All gar¬ 
den crops are good, but a very poor mar¬ 
ket for such crops as tomatoes. Apples 
a fair crop but of high quality. There 
was little or no sale for the Sweets or 
Nyack Pippins. Wealthy and Twenty- 
Ounce are now nearly ready, -with fair 
prospects for sale. The Baldwins are 
very fine this year, and will bring good 
prices. The big carrot crop is good. At 
this moment it does not look like our best 
season, as prices for fruit and vegetables 
are low but you cannot tell about such 
things until the accounts are all squared 
up. There has been a fine growth on all 
our trees and that is an asset. 
n. \v. c. 
Cover Crop Without Harrowing In. 
I have a field of corn which was badly 
blown down a few days ago, so that I 
shall not be able to cultivate it. Do you 
think it would pay to sow a cover crop 
and not harrow it in, and what would 
catch best sown this way? B. c. P. 
Long Branch, N. J. 
We should sow 12 pounds of Crimson 
clover seed and two pounds of turnips to 
the acre in this field. Broadcast the seed 
and let it alone. Some of it will sprout 
if the ground is wet and a good shower 
follows the seeding. It will not make a 
full stand, but will furnish a fair crop to 
cover the ground. 
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