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‘She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Owl OB Nightingai-e. —When I was a 
boy there was an old man in town who 
went about preaching what he called 
mental charity! Whenever he heard peo¬ 
ple running down any person or thing, or 
giving undue praise to another, he would 
point with his cane and say: “What’s 
one man’s owl is another man’s nightin¬ 
gale!’’ So I am not surprised to hear 
Prof. Blake of New .Ter.sey come up with 
a good word for the Wolf River apple! 
I note that your opinion of the Wolf 
River apj)le is not veiw high. I wonder if 
you know that the A\’olf River apple is a 
most popular baking apple in New York 
City, and that some of our fruit growers 
have a special demand for this variety 
for that purpose? The Alexander is a 
big, .spongy red apple of the same type, 
and yet it is also a very fine baking ap¬ 
ple. When properly baked both of these 
apples are very fine. A few weeks ago 
Mr. .Tohn Barclay of Cranbury gave me 
some fine specimens of both Alexander 
and Grimes, and specimens of each were 
baked. The Alexander was so much bet¬ 
ter that there was hardly any comparison, 
yet the Grimes is of course the much 
higher (juality apple. However, a good 
baking apple needs to have a certain tex¬ 
ture of flesh and degree of acidity to be 
ideal for the purpose. I also find the De¬ 
licious an exceptionally fine variety for 
baking; in fact, they are'very good baked 
even after they have passed their best 
stage of ripen««s for de.ssert. 
M. A. BLAKE. 
I know, of cour.se, tUc '’’cdi apples as 
Wiolf River, Alexander, xwenty Ounce 
and Ben Davis are wanted for baking, 
but I do not care for them. 
Form ob Flavor. —Several restaurant 
keepers have told me about this. Theii’ 
patrons want a good-sized apple, and one 
which stands up well in the dish. Bake a 
Baldwin or a ^Iclntosh i)roperly and 
they will go soft and jelly-like, just as a 
baked apple ought to be. Thi.s, however, 
would not satisfy the general public. 
They want .something which holds its ap¬ 
ple .shape firmly, and, as one man told 
me, looks like an apple. You see, the 
cities are crowded with people ^r/io enf 
with their eyes. I grant that Wolf Riv¬ 
er or Ben Davis will stand up and take 
a terrible baking. I know, too, that in 
many ca.ses this big coarse fruit is “treat¬ 
ed” with honey, vinegar, and sometimes 
stronger liquor, besides sugax’, to bring 
out a flavor. To my mind, the perfect 
baked apple should be peeled and quar¬ 
tered and cooked to a jelly mass, and the 
finer-flavored fruit will come out that 
way. Can anyone beat Sutton as a bak¬ 
er? It is firmer than McIntosh and more 
delicate than Baldwin. 
CiiARiTV. —I am glad Prof. Blake has 
brought this matter out so clearly. “Ev¬ 
ery man to his taste.” There are evi¬ 
dently people who raise WkxR River at a 
profit, and I have no wish to interfere 
with their trade. The variety docs not 
pay me. I once sold a lot to go to a 
great seaside i-esort. They were beauties, 
but no one would buy them the second 
time for eating out of the hand. There 
are mysteries of the kitchen which, will 
put all food into fairyland, and I will 
grant that a good cook can so handle a 
Wolf River that the diner will go after it 
as a wolfhound goes after a lamb. Not 
for me, however. We have started in to 
raise and sell fruit of the highe.st eating 
quality, and our customers seem to back 
us up in the effort. Wealthy and McIn¬ 
tosh come along at about the season of 
the Wolf River, and I .see no reason why 
the latter .should take their places. I 
have a few trees of Wolf River, but shall 
not plant any more. 
A Fair Show. —Prof, Blake’s note 
might well lead out to a pretty broad 
di.scussiou of a very big subject. Many 
of our discussions of apples and other 
things are apt to run into rather narrow 
and selfi.sh lines. A true discussion needs 
something besides wisdom and skill and 
energy to make it most effective. We 
must put into it a fair chance for the 
other fellow if we expect to put it over. 
If we know the .other side is all wrong 
our victory will be more complete if we 
give him every chance to put up the best 
he has. If the other side is right, we are 
foolish to deny his facts, because, sooner 
or later we will be forced to admit them, 
and the longer we argue against the in¬ 
evitable the more it will hurt us when 
it does come. WThat, then, is the use of 
arguing about these apple varieties any¬ 
way? Well, there are two reasons. It 
is a good thing for consumers to know 
one variety from another. They will then 
know what they want and will buy intel¬ 
ligently. Then, people who are planting 
orchards or gardens ought to know what 
they are doing, and they cannot know 
unless they see a sort of rough-and-tum¬ 
ble discus.sion. With all due respect for 
the champions of Ben Davis and Wolf 
River, they would do the begin tier great 
injury if they induced him to plant heav¬ 
ily of these varieties. Give them all a 
chance, .say I, but we .shall go on planting 
the highest quality of fruit that will grow 
in our locality. 
The Crop. —It is much lighter than 
msual, as this is the off year with most 
of our Baldwims. The quality is high, 
however, and iirices run well. It seems 
sometimes like highway robbery to charge 
such jirices when we know how the pub¬ 
lic are being forced to come up in order 
to live, yet a farmer must live as well as 
the re.st of them. He is held up like the 
re t, and his children are entitled to con¬ 
sideration as well as the others. It may 
be said that apples cannot be classed as 
food, but they have become a necessary 
part of the diet of our customers, and they 
are demanded. I came near having a riot 
November 10, 1917 
The Old Hope Farm Apple Tree 
over IMcIntosh. We had a fair crop, but 
not half enough to go around, and the late 
comers blamed us because we could not 
supply this beautiful fruit. One feature 
about this year’s trade is the demand 
for No. 2 size and for windfalls. These 
are good for cooking purposes, especially 
when, as- with u.s, the apples fall from 
low-headed trees upon sod. It is a sign 
of the times when families Avhich in for¬ 
mer years Avould not look at anything 
but the largest and best now order bar¬ 
rels of windfalls. In this way they get 
far more of the apples for a dollar and 
the tirade is better for us. As usual, we 
shall sell out our apple.s early. The Fall 
will probably be warm, and with common 
storage that means loss. One year with 
another, it has paid us best to get rid of 
the crop before Christmas. With better 
storage I should hold more of the crop 
and .sell in small quantities through the 
Winter. 
All Sorts. —I cannot say that the 
Hope Farm Reds have covered them¬ 
selves or their home with glory at the egg- 
laying contest. When the final egg for 
the j-ear is laid I will give their record 
and see what we make out of it. Our 
folks are good losers. That may be be¬ 
cause we have ixlenty of ])ractice in run¬ 
ning behind, but our turn will come yet. 
There is another year at this contest. 
Our hens at home are doing well this 
Fall. Most people say they are eggless, 
but our hens deliver 12 to 35 every day. 
The longer we keep the Reds the better 
I like them, yet I think, as is the ca.se 
with all now bi'oeds, there is a great dif¬ 
ference in families or strains. If a family 
wanted to insure a supply of eggs evei\v 
day in the year, a fair-.sized flock of 
Reds and lajghorns kept separately would 
fix it. The Reds, with u.s, are the best 
Fall layers we have found, while the Leg¬ 
horns seem to regard October and No¬ 
vember as true “melancholy day.s.” * * * 
Jeremiah .Tersey and his companions are 
making pork these days, and it is cheap 
meat, too. They get all they can stuff of 
cabbage, pumpkins and small apples, corn 
nubbins and oats or tankage. Not a 
fully balanced ration, perhaps, but it is 
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