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2r/>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Kaiuwad Business.—I have uo doubt 
hundreds of people who road this have 
lind similar experionoe and wondoi-ed why 
big corporations make it so Imrd to set¬ 
tle small matters. I live on a branch of 
t lie Elio Railroad. For 30 years we have 
lived at various points, and during that 
time careful figuring shows that my fam¬ 
ily has paid for travel and freight at 
h ast .$11,000. It seems like a large sum 
V heu you get it all together, but we have 
had many visitors, and I am sure the 
Eric has had that much out of us. For 
the most part this money has been paid in 
advance—on demand. I travel on a com- 
miitation ticket and have for SO years. 
Now and then I forget or leave this ticket 
at home, in which case I .am compelled to 
)»ay full fare in cash—though all the 
eoiiductors know me and know that my 
ticket could' not be used by others. I 
siipi>ose it has cost me .$20 in this way— 
when by accident my ticket was left at 
home. I make no complaint about this— 
it is just to show that the railroad is 
prompt, exact and commanding when 
there is any money coming to it. Why 
should it not be as prompt and exact 
when it is clearly in debt to me or to any 
citizen ? 
1^■0KKIN0 FOR Money,—W hen the rail- 
j'oad owes you money it is never prompt 
or exact, and it gives you to understand 
that it IS trying to evade payment and 
dodge responsibility. I could use very 
much stronger language about th’^, and 
b<‘ justified in doing it. but this time 
b'up[)ose we turn the other cheek. Per¬ 
haps that will be the most effective treat- 
m. iit for the “cheek” of this railroad. 
Ill .Tune I bought .300 pounds of mixed 
ry.‘ and vetch s.>.h 1, in Virginia. I bought 
.thi.s for a cover crop, just as it came from 
lll<^ thrasher, for it seemed as if this 
ought to be about the right proportion of 
se<‘d. The shipment was made, but it 
was a long time on the road, and I had 
alamt given it up wlnm linally 200 pounds 
of the seed reached our station. The 
Erie or some other carrier had clearly 
lost 100 ivniuds of my .seed. The station 
agent told me to pay the full fi-eight bill, 
get his receipt, then make out a bill for 
the seed and give both documents to him. 
I (lid so, making out a bill for just one- 
tliird of what the seed cost me in Vir¬ 
ginia. 
beans a closer run, than I thought pos- 
sibl(‘. The vines spread out all over the 
gi'ouiid. That is one d'^sadvuntage, as it 
comes harder to harvest the vines. As 
a green or mannrial crop the cow peas 
are superior. On the light soils of South¬ 
ern New .Tersey or IXdaware they tvill 
work a miracb', and I believe there is no 
soil so light and poor that it will not 
grow a croii of cow jn-as. Inside of one 
year you can put under a crop of cow 
pea.s and a crop of rye. Then by using 
lime I believe you can gtjt Alsike clover 
going, jiiul wlnai you do that you can do 
whatever you like with the soil. I could 
run a ]K>rtable f(*u<o around the cow peas 
and turn in tlie pigs. By the middle of 
October the cow j>eas" would be concen¬ 
trated on the ribs of .Teremiah .Tersey and 
his companions, and then we could disk 
up the field and seed to rye. 
.Soy Bea.xs.—A ll that is true, yet I 
cmisider the Soy Ix'an best for our lati¬ 
tude. It gives a better jneld of vine and 
btamis- up so you can cultivate. Then 
the beans or seeds can l>e us(^d to ad¬ 
vantage for stock feed, and tliat is what 
most of u.s are after. Here is a note from 
F. K. Constance of Wisconsin : 
I was very much interested in what you 
say ^ about Soy beans. Wo have l>eeu 
raising them for a numlter of years, using 
Wisconsin Early Black, which is prol>- 
ably very similar to the Wilson Early 
Blaek to whicli you refer. We get g.K)d 
re.snlts planting iji the (V)ru, mixing the 
Ix'an s(i(Kl with the corn st'cd. We are 
this season trying out some of the 
Maucher variety. It is a brown bean, 
later than the Early Black, and also a 
heavier grower. After reading your 
iSotes I took a yaixlstick and went 
right out to measure those Maucher 
beans. I find the hills average about .32 
inches h’gh and about as wide across, 
many hills standing over -10 inches high. 
I am inclined to think now that this va¬ 
riety w’iJl be ideal to jdaiit in the corn. 
I find that the Wilson Early Black 
stand from ,30 to 48 iuclms high, and on 
September 1 they were w’ell podded out. 
With us they are likely to grow a month 
or 40 days longer. As for so'wiug them 
in the corn, that is out of my line. We 
have them in drills alone and that is evi¬ 
dently the best ivay to get a full st^ed ' 
crop. At any rate, I would ad\'«e all i 
fanners who need fodder or feed to try ! 
Soy b(,*ans. 
.September 15, 1917 
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Ix)No Stories. —The days went by and 
filially I received a letter from the Erie 
askiug hoAv I figured the price ou "rye 
and midds.” I wrote back and patiently 
told them it wa.s not rye and mvidlings, 
but rye and Hairy vetch. I explained that 
I had charg.Hl ju.st one-third of what the 
i-j-e and Hairy vetch cost me. I wanted 
t<> tell tluan that the account would 
probably be gray-baired before it was 
paid—^but what was the use? The days 
iveut by again, and then came another 
l(4ter from the Erie, a.skiug me to give 
the “file number” ou their former letter. 
Thus was done, but not a word has ever 
been heard siuev?. I have lost one-third 
of iny cover crop seed, have bothered and 
played for weeks over this bill, while the 
Erie is evidently trying to tire me out. 
If I, an old commuter of 30 years' stand¬ 
ing, forget my ticket and will not pay, 
they threaten to put me off' the train. 
When they lose my seed and I want pay 
for it, they still put me off’ with childish 
excuses. I shall get it in time or leave It 
as an asset for my heirs, but why should 
a. big corporation act in this way? My 
ease is only one of thousands and in all 
wo see the same tactics, evidently de¬ 
signed to wear out the patience of the 
man ■^bo is justly entitled to damages 
and thus got rid of him. Railroad men 
1(41 me I am wrong in this—that the dear, 
benevolent raih’oad is anxious to pay its 
hills—only it must be very sure. I know 
little about the anxiety, but I do know 
rliat getting money out of the Erie—or 
any other railroad—is so slow that a 
turtle can walk ai-ound it five times in 
Komg a yard. And there isn’t a thing 
you can do to hurry it up. Perhaps the 
host thing is to give up all hope of get¬ 
ting it, so as to have a pleasant surprise 
when it finally comesi 
Cow Peas.—O ur crop has made a fa¬ 
mous growth, and is giving the Soy 
OR-XIN SiCKDlNG.— Some one asks wliy 
we do not join iu tfie great luuTah over 
planting every acre iu grain. A man 
•struck me the other day about thi.s way; 
‘ How many acr.'s iu Hoim* Farm?’’ 
‘■.V bo lit TOO, more or less.” 
“l‘ut it all in wheat right away. I luive 
read that wheat average.s 40 bushels to 
the acre, and Burbank's* new wL(‘at will 
run 75 bushels. That means 4,0<X1 bushels 
at .$2 a luishel sure. Why, the Govern¬ 
ment is just throwing money at you. 
Fan’t you catch money?” 
“Hut .some of my land”- 
“Oh. don’t give me that talk—hustle 
and g(‘t it re.ady. 3'Lere never was such 
a chance !'' 
This man would uot let me .say that 
I havi! 35 acres of timber and nearly 40 
in orchards, and some too stony and wet 
for grain. What did he care about that? 
He had heard someone say farmers ought 
to seed wheat, and like a. pai*rot he went 
around repeating the cry. There is no 
u.se listening to such fellows,, but they 
will do us harm before they are done. I 
got through offering ad\’lcc to farmers 
some years ago. The real farmers that 
I know are far bi'tter pos-ted' than I am 
as to what their farms can stand. I iwll 
help give them tlic facts and thou trust 
them to go ahead. W'e .shall seed' t» rye 
ou all available hind, especially after po¬ 
tatoes and corn. The oats and: peas stub¬ 
ble has been plowed and will go into rye 
and grass this week, and a.S' soon as we 
can get the potato fields cleared they will 
go into rye. 
Wh.v not wheat? 
Rye is the safer crop with us. During 
the past few yeai*s I thiuk/the two grains 
have settled into their best “belts,” or 
localities. The best place for wheat in¬ 
crease i.s where that grain has proved 
successful. The safne of rye, and my 
idea i.s to put all available land into the 
grain which suits the locality best. Let’s 
try to keep cool over this big thing. W'e 
.shall all accomplish more and do onr 
work bettei' if ive kec)) fmm going crazy 
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