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'A'JhUi; RURAL NliW-YURKER 
September 25, 1915. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
“ I Am as Tired as a Dog!” 
That was the message little Redhead 
delivered as I mine home the other night. 
He had surely put in a full day. The 
other two boys have started at the pub* 
lie school, and Redhead has risen to the 
dignity of driver for old Jennie and Bob. 
ITe delivers messages and fruit, and is gen¬ 
erally on call. Then there -were two orders 
for strawberry plants to fill, and quite 
unexpectedly a customer drove in for 100 
potted Marshalls. By the time that order 
was cared for there came a man who 
wanted three baskets of peaches and half 
a barrel of McIntosh apples. Merrill was 
away at market, so Redhead acted as 
man of the house and took care of these 
orders. He worked in the customer to 
help pick and gave good measure and 
good fruit. It was a hot day, and he 
was “tired as a dog.” A smart dog acts 
as if he were “tired” all the time, but 
you must remember that he “works” or 
watches through the night and must sloop 
whenever he can get a wink. Every 
night you will find Airedale and her big 
son on our front porch with an eye open 
for all intruders. Redhead was surely 
tired, but when we came to settle up 
and he got his share of the money it 
was remarkable how that tired feeling 
disappeared. Putting a well-earned and 
sweat-stained dollar in your pocket is like 
drinking the elixir of life when you are 
around 10 years old, and certain wants 
loom large on the horizon. So Redhead’s 
spirits left the dog and entered the eagle, 
and he went to bed hoping there would 
be other good jobs on the morrow. 
Ax Important Purchase. —As I have 
told before, when our children are large 
enough to work at profitable tasks they 
are paid for what they do, and are ex¬ 
pected to buy certain things with their 
own money. I find that a good way to en¬ 
courage industry and business habits. In 
the strawberry plant trade these boys 
have half of the proceeds when they pot 
and dig and pack the plants. They must 
be responsible for a fair count and a 
fair pack. I settle with them promptly 
when the money is paid. They bank 
their money except when they are saving 
it for some particular purpose. They 
have been saving up to buy a pair of 
bicycles, and last week they counted up 
and found they had more than enough. 
They had about worn out a couple of 
catalogues studying the descriptions of 
wheels and figuring on prices. They 
finally found what they wanted and 
ordered the goods themselves. I made 
out a check to each boy, and they en¬ 
dorsed them, and it was a very serious 
occasion when these boys laboriously 
wrote their names on the backs of these, 
checks and gave me their hard-earned 
dollars in exchange. I think it came 
hard for them to realize that this little 
slip of colored paper was as good as 
the money, but they knew I would not 
sign it unless it had value. The boys did 
their own ordering. I think more and 
more that this plan or some modification 
of it is the way to handle the mon«y 
question for boys — and no less so for 
mother and the girls. I would encourage 
all of them to. have separate bank ac¬ 
counts even if these are very small. This 
individual responsibility for money is 
one of the best ways for developing char¬ 
acter and business ability. 
The Canning Problem. — When you 
see a sensible woman like Mother, of 
somewhat mature years and a varied ex¬ 
perience, hold up her hands in fair 
imitation of that celebrated picture, “The 
Maiden’s Prayer,” and say, "Oh, it /•> 
fine!” you may know some blessing has 
fallen upon the household. The good lady 
was simply expressing her opinion of the 
new sterilizer or canner. It works like 
a charm, and the jars of preserved fruit 
and vegetables are piling up until the 
pantry walls are in danger of bursting. 
This household silo is surely a wonderful 
thing, and we shall think even more of 
it next Winter when snow flies over the 
frozen hills. AVe have not thought much 
yet about the commercial side of can¬ 
ning, except to realize that on our farm, 
as on most others, there are often great 
wastes which can only be saved in cans 
or jars. Thus far we are planning to 
take care of our own needs — possibly 
the commercial side will come later. 
This home sterilizer, treating 14 glass 
jars at once, is a vast improvement over 
the old kettle plan, and I wish there 
could be one on every farm where fruit 
and vegetables are grown. I think my 
young folks will take this work up later, 
and make something out of it. 
Strung Together. — Every now and 
then an incident occurs which shows us 
how with the telephone and other con¬ 
veniences mankind is strung like a col¬ 
lection of beads. I have to use an elec¬ 
tric contrivance for hearing. It is like 
• a personal telephone, and I carry it in 
a small black case. Among strangers 
this case may mark me as a famous cor¬ 
net player or some skilled surgeon— 
until the case is opened! At any rate 
one Saturday night I came on the train 
with this case. In some way when I 
got off: the train I took all my other 
packages, but forgot this case, and I did 
not think of it until I got home. The 
train had gone on up the country. Twenty 
years ago there would have been nothing 
to do but wait. Longfellow wrote “The 
Psalm of Life” long before these mod¬ 
ern telephone days. So we went after 
this artificial ear with a wire for a fish 
line. In a few minutes we caught the train 
and had a warning out, and within half 
an hour the instrument was located with¬ 
in two miles of the farm. The conductor 
found it and a neighbor had carried it 
home. So after supper the Hope Farm 
man and the three Redheads took old 
Jennie and drove through the darkness 
over the hills to get the black case. I 
could write an entire chapter about this 
journey for an ear. The boy was very 
important as driver, the little girls kept 
sharp eyes on the road and the Hope 
Farm man played the part of advisory 
passenger. The shadows were thick and 
dark on the hills, and at times we could 
only see a few stars, but Jennie trotted 
on with sure feet through the darkness, 
and we all agreed that it is great to live 
in an age when people are pulled so 
closely together that they go out of their 
way to find and restore “that which was 
lost.” 
Farm Notes. —As you know, I have 
told how we plowed up the old straw¬ 
berry bed after fruiting it five years. Of 
course, such a field after being mulched 
for years with manure will be very rich. 
As soon as it was plowed—in late June 
—we seeded buckwheat and turnips. This 
crop shot up like magic. I meant to 
plow it under when it reached two feer, 
but in some way it got by, and by late 
August there was a thick mass standing 
four feet and more. Then came a wind 
which beat the buckwheat down so that 
it was impossible to get it under fully 
covered. AVe were finally obliged to cut 
it with the mower, let it wilt a few 
days and then~send a man ahead of the 
plow to rake the “hay” into the furrow. 
In this way we got it all under, packed 
it down and now have strawberries grow¬ 
ing once more. AVe put out strong layer 
plants and they have started off in great 
shape. Thus we shall have a small crop 
next year and can, if we like, run a 
row of lettuce or even dwarf peas be¬ 
tween the rows of strawberries next 
Spring. Since the buckwheat was plowed 
under a volunteer crop has sprung up. 
At present there is enough moisture in 
the ground to take care of the plants 
and also push this buckwheat along so 
as to make a crop for a AVinter covering. 
AVe are eating Superb strawberries right 
along—large, well colored and well flavor? 
ed. Every garden should contain some of 
these everbearers. Our Japanese millet 
was ready to cut by Sept. 10—a rather 
light crop. The second crop of grass is 
good, especially where we used nitrate 
of soda after the first cutting. The use 
of this nitrate has, without question, 
paid well this year of unusual rain. That 
fodder corn planted where we plowed the 
old sod was nearly three feet high (the 
best of it) by Sept. 15. Give us three 
weeks more of fair weather and it will 
pay well. The peach crop was large this 
year, but we had much trouble with 
brown rot. The quality was fine, but 
prices ruled low. Most of our peaches 
were sold in the local market. AVe did 
but little skipping, as our experience in 
that line has not been very pleasant. 
One man in Vermont wanted us to send 
peaches in barrels. Shipping even in 
crates is a precarious task in a season 
like the present, when brown rot pre¬ 
vails. I never intend to plunge in the 
peach business. It is all right for those 
who like to do it, but it seems better 
for us to stick to a few hundred trees 
and put our chief push into apples. AA'e 
are attending the public market in our 
county town regularly. It is a good 
feature. The nights grow longer, and 
there is a feeling in the air which makes 
us feel that Summer is packing up for 
her journey. AVe do not expect killing 
frosts before Oct. 10, but the wise man 
will begin to plan for cold weather. Time 
to have the stoves or heating plants over¬ 
hauled. AA r e wish you could all have 
an open fireplace in the house this AVin¬ 
ter. It is a fine gathering place for 
the family, and it compels the household 
to have fresh air, for that roaring fire 
sucks in the old air and drives it up 
the chimney. The girls will soon go 
back to college. Mother wall start her 
little school. The rush of apple picking 
will be on, and some fine morning we 
shall wake up and find a smear of frost 
over the earth — a farewell letter from 
Summer to tell us she was called away 
very suddenly. AA r cll, let AA 7 inter come. 
AA 7 e shall be ready. H. w. c. 
The Business of Dog Training. 
Since the note about dog training was 
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dogs taught. AVhat is such success 
worth? A dog trainer who has consid¬ 
erable experience at this writes the fol¬ 
lowing. It seems that training a dog is 
about like the business of training a child : 
My charges for training and handling 
a dog run somewhat according to the 
breed, age and what purpose this dog is 
to be trained for. My special line is the 
hunting dog. Suppose a well-bred pup 
about six months old is sent to be broken 
for hunting this Fall ; my charges would 
be boarding .$5 per month; training for 
field work and stand on point, steady 
training, and that including home-broken, 
yard broken and street broken ; in fact, an 
all-around gentleman dog. I have no sheep 
on my farm, so it would be impossible 
for me to give a dog any actual work 
among sheep. To sum up it would be 
impossible for me to give any terms till 
I knew what was expected in a dog. 
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