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Pebrnary 2, 1918 
tShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
A Wkakv Wintkk. — If you wero to 
look out of our sido Avindow today you 
would hardly sco the Kroup pictured at 
Fig. (>i). This was taken last .Tune when 
the little girls wei-e playing out by the 
roses. Lixik (tut there now and you see 
great heaps of snow with the wind whirl¬ 
ing and dancing the light flakes here and 
there. Raise your eyes and you will see 
tlu' hills stretching away cold and bleak— 
drifted with snow. The trees in the hill 
orchard stand in deep drifts, and I imag¬ 
ine the rabbits and mice are at them in 
spite of our care. There-are very few 
pines iind hemlocks in our country, so the 
landscaite has little of the cheerful giaxui 
to relieve it. The ..-hole asjject is dull 
and criud, though tin* sun is shining and 
the ice in the brook and the little jxuids 
is sparkling. Purely this is no tinu' for 
the girls to sit under the rosebushes. If 
tlu'y go out at all they ^ ill b(‘ muffled uj) 
in the warmest clothing they have. 
Looking Ahead. —Yet 1 think this pic¬ 
ture suits January rather than .Turn'. If 
some of us were shut in with no hope that 
Si)ring will ever come .again life would 
in this book which will make you shiver, 
(larland’s father was an old soldier who 
came back from the war with the roving 
spirit of the pioneer fastened uixui him. 
lie had a good farm in >Visconsin close to 
old fi-iends and la latives. but he could not 
be satisfied—so he went roaming off to 
the W(‘st—to Minnesota, Iowa and North 
Dakota. There came one terrible blizzard 
in Iowa. The family liv(‘d in a small, 
thinly built house with sheds and barns 
built Jiiostly of poles and straw. The 
blizzard swept across the plains and tore 
and bit at that frail hou.se in which par¬ 
ents and children vainly tried to keep 
warm. While it la.sted this fierce cold 
nearly discouragc'd the ijioneer. but with 
warmer weather and Spring he was ready 
again to go on furtlx'r to the sunset. This 
farmer would never go Fast ui the direc¬ 
tion of the sunrise. lie thought that 
would be “taking the back trail”—which 
he never would do. In North Dakota 
Garl.and took up a s('ction of (lovei'iinumt 
land, and he tells how one night he went 
out to sh'ejt in tlu* shanty so as to hold 
his claim. A blizzard struck him there 
and he found that a neighbor had com(‘ 
and tak(‘n all his coal 1 This neighbor 
finally saw his light and came across the 
A Couple of the Cherry-Tops Under the Roses. 
Fig. 65 
hiirdly he worth living and many lonely 
farmhousi's would s('em like risons. Rut 
the beauty of it is that we are not shut 
in with any such hopeless proposition. 
Spring is coming once more. Already the 
diiys are growing longer. .Just as sure as 
anything in life Spring will finally come 
dancing up our valley greatly surprised 
that we ever for a moment doubted her 
coming. The girls will go out under the 
roses once more and we shall not enjoy 
them half as much as we may now enjoy 
thinking about them while the storm roars 
outside. Oh, lif(' is not to be one long 
perpetual snowdrift—there will be enough 
of that to make June seem a fit daughter 
(if January. So while.the body may be 
a temporary slave to this awful weather 
the spirit may be fri'C and we may let it 
lead us back to June. 
Silent ('omi>anion.s. —I have spoken of 
them before. J'hey are the people who 
ste)) out of good (dd books and go w.alk- 
ing with us through hours which might 
otherwise be lonely and cheerless. The 
reading habit conu's as a great blessing 
during these wild days. Surely everyone 
who ever lived in tlu' country during any 
part of youth ought to read “Snow 
Round” over and over. Some of us know; 
that by heart and still we ix'ad it. for as; 
a picture of old-time country life it will 
last for at least one more century as a 
masterpiece. Many of us thought we were 
many years away from any such con¬ 
dition, but this Winter, with its long con¬ 
tinued cold and snow, the lack of fuel andj 
high food cost and the shadow of the war 
have carried us back a long way to primi¬ 
tive conditions. You notice that is where 
most of us go when the artificial thing.s 
of modern life are taken from us. They 
say a man never gets very far from the 
first 2,5 years of his life, and sometimes, 
without knowing it. he goes back to the 
early habits of his ancestors. Another 
good book to read this Winter is “A Son 
of the IMiddle Rorder.” by Hamlin Gar¬ 
land. I have spoken of this before. It is 
a great study of life on a Western farm 
and shows why .some boys leave the 
country. There are some Winter pictures 
pi'airie carrying a sack of coal on his back. 
It is a great book and you should read it, 
if for no other reason to realize what such 
life meant to mother and her daughters. 
Garland gives a powerful description of 
the way his mother was stricken as the 
result of overwork and lack of proper 
care. This is only one of dozens of books 
which will make the finest of silent com¬ 
panions this Winter. 
The War Shadow. —We all feel it and 
it seenis i)eculiarly near in these times of 
cold and dei)ression. We must not let it 
swamp us or take the energy and hope, out 
of us, for farmers are facing the biggest 
job they have ever undertaken. Most of 
us must change cur plans and drop some 
of the work which seemed necessai’y in 
former years. I shall be obliged to give 
up nio.st hoed crops and potatoes and put 
in barley, oats and Soy beans. Much of 
our rye and vetch will not be plowed 
under, but we shall seed to clover and 
turn in the hogs to eat the gn'en down. 
This is not the best way .To handle such 
cover crops, but it seems the best we can 
do this ■y’ear. This promises to be our 
bearing apple year, and we shall care for 
the orchard first of all. After that will 
come the production df such food as our 
labor can handle.' and I think most of it 
will be corn and broadcast . seeding of 
sm.all grain." T^*' contimu'd (-(.(Id has. I 
think, killed the peach buds and also badly 
injured.many of the peach tix'es. On the 
other hand, this snow will help the grain 
and grass crops. Our plans are not all 
made yet. but we shall cut out all the hoed 
crops i)ossible and stay hy the fruit and 
grain. While this war is a horrible thing 
and hardly begun for us. we must not let 
it shadow us too much. Th(‘ farmers, and 
especially the “one-man farmers.” have 
always been the true conservative element 
in American society, and they must con¬ 
tinue to be in the future. Let us not get 
“rattled” or despondent. We are going- 
through a hard campaign. We shall get 
what is coming to us before long and we 
must stand up and take our part of the 
conflict with good .spirit. 
Make Him Work.—O b, these are great 
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