1043 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
(CJontiniiecl from page 1034.) 
would ride on saying—“It’s romantic 
enough, but oh, how those Avomen of GO 
years ago had to work! I am glad I 
did not live my life then!” 
Suppose we tided to “fix it up” Avith a 
moderate amount of money and perhaps 
not the best of taste with our bay win¬ 
dows and ells! Then people would look 
at it and say: 
“They spoiled that job Avheu they had 
a good chance to make it beautiful. 
Now if I could have done that—” 
There is nothing about any of this 
Avhieh will bring such people back after 
goods just because they come off this 
fann. When, hoAvever, they see the 
Avild green tangle on this old house they 
look at it until it lingers in memory 
and they talk about it. Some years ago 
mother Avent out to a gathering and met 
a city A\-oman Avho had been “touring 
the country.” 
“Why,” she said, “up among the hills 
Avo saAV the most beautiful old house, 
painted pearl gray and just overrun 
with vines!” 
It Aims our house, and that Avomau, 
like many others, talked about it wheue- 
ever she went. One would be A’ery fool¬ 
ish to claim that our peaches or apples 
or potatoes are any better than others 
in this ridge, but give them a mental 
frame of a Aune-covered stone house and 
]ieople Avant them. 
Be Natxtiiai;.—W hat I am getting 
at in all this is the thought that if 
country people expect to gain power or 
standing or business they must do it 
ii'ithbi themarlres and be natural. We 
have had too much of this trying to ape 
tOAvn people in all that Ave do. That is 
one reason Avhy in the show-doAvu be- 
tAveen town and country we have for 
years been taking a 35-ceut dollar! A 
big share of the Go cents goes to useless 
handler’s and pattern-makers for “show¬ 
ing us. hoAV to behave and do business.” 
We have paid a big imitation tax by 
trying to do what others do Avhen we 
Avould be ha])i)ier and stronger and more 
comfortable lif we kicked out the im¬ 
itative airs and practises and lived up 
to a natural standard of country living. 
It has come so that some people are 
ashamed of the lold days Avhen they 
toiled and slaved, went' barefooted, cold 
and hungry, in order to get their start. 
Why, I knoAV old friends Avho Avere boys 
and girls Avith me. IIoav they had to 
scrub and pinch, Avear cast-off clothing 
and do chores for the neighbors in order 
to live and get their schooling. It Avas 
the making of them, the- salvation of 
character, but now they are ashamed 
of it, and either deny that they Avei-e 
ever poor or put up some terrble bluff 
about it. They act just like the people 
Avho inherit one of these old-time houses. 
They are so afraid people will think 
they had to live in such a place that 
they tear it down or build these awful 
“trimmings” around it. It seems to me 
far better to let the old house stand as 
some fine old CA'idence of good and strong 
years, and let the vines creep over it 
to beautify and strengthen the memory. 
To apply the thought generally, I think 
our farmer’s should cut out most of this 
imitation of toAvn and city ways of do¬ 
ing things, and develop new standards 
based on what our fathers did in the 
country brought down to our modern 
Avays of farming. . ir. av. c. 
Notes from Department of Foods and 
Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York 
(Continued from page 1041.) 
rots —100-pound bag, $1.50 to .$2. Celery 
—New York State, $3 to .$3.50 crate. 
Cauliflower—Jjong Island, barrel, $1.25 
to $2.75. Corn —New York State, 109, 
.$1.25 to $1.50. Cuciinihers —Albany 
County, barrel, .$2.50 to $3; Maryland 
and Delaware, 50c to 75e per basket. 
JCgg Plant —Jersey, box, 50c to 75c; "Vir¬ 
ginia, 60-quart crate, $1.2.5 to $1.50. Let¬ 
tuce —Orange County, 2-dozen crate, oOc 
to $1.75; Orange County, basket, 50e to 
$1.75. Lima Beans —Jersey potato, $1.50 
to $2 basket. Okra —Jersey, bu., $1.25 
to $1.75. Peas —Buffalo, bu., $1 to $2.50; 
New York State, bu., $1 to $3; I.ong 
Island telephone, bag, $1.50 to $2. 7'o- 
matoes —Acme, 75e to $1.25 crate; Mon¬ 
mouth County, 75c to $1.25 crate; S. I., 
$1.25 to $2 bu; Maryland, 25c to 50c 
per 3-basket carrier. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Hudson 
Proves 
A Test That Never Fails to Reveal Every Weakness and Prove 
Every Strength of a Motor Car 
Stock Hudson Super-Six cars are deliberately 
sent through tests more trying, more destructive, 
than any the average driver could imagine. 
For one hour, a fully equipped phaeton with top 
and windshield up and carrying five passengers, was 
sent at top speed. It averaged 70.74 miles an hour 
and established the best time for such a perfor¬ 
mance with a stock car. The test, officially 
observed by the American Automobile Association, 
was one of the many similar tests to prove endur¬ 
ance. 
It was not a preconceived campaign of tests that 
we set out to make. Each test was thought suf¬ 
ficient in itself. But just as the giant is surprised 
as he realizes the ease with which he accomplishes 
each feat that he had felt would try his strength, 
so the Super-Six has so easily met every test that 
more trying and abusive trials have been devised. 
We were sure that in the 24-hour test a stock chas¬ 
sis would break all previous records. But no one 
thought it would go 347 miles farther than any 
other car had ever gone in 24 hours. The Super- 
Six covered 1819 miles. It broke all records for a 
traveling machine. 
So, too, when a seven-passenger Super-Six set out 
from San Francisco for New York it was with con¬ 
fidence that it would lower the time of all other 
transcontinental runs. It did so by 14 hours and 
59 minutes. Then because the run had been made 
so easily and without special planning, the car was 
turned around and raced back to San Francisco. 
In the return trip it also did better than any other 
automobile had ever done in crossing the continent 
in either direction. Hudson*s round trip required 
10 days and 21 hours. 
There is hardly any quality of a car that is so 
important to the buyer as that of endurance. 
Safety, comfort, reliability, low maintenance cost 
are all dependent upon endurance. 
Every quality of motor car satisfaction is depend¬ 
ent upon p>ower acceleration, speed and endurance. 
And every Hudson test proves that in these respects 
there is no car that equals it. 
Convincing as the official records are, there is 
still further proof that no other car has to offer 
equal advantages. These proofs are furnished by 
37,000 Hudson Super-Six owners. They have 
added their experiences to the official tests. 
Others Have Increased Their 
Prices—Not Hudson 
Other makers are now announcing price increases 
which bring the former $1,200 and $1,300 cars 
into the Hudson class. Until present material sup¬ 
plies are exhausted Hudson prices remain unchanged. 
So you can get for a limited time a Super-Six at a 
price not influenced by present high material costs. 
When the present allotment is exhausted then 
Hudson, too, must go up in price. 
There are eight body types. The 7-passenger 
phaeton sells at $1,650 at Detroit. 
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