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Zshe RUKAJL NEW-YORKER 
March 16, 1918 
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HOPE FARM NOTES 
Better Weather. —March came upon 
«a looking like a lamb. The mercui’y 
clrm1>ed in the thermometer, the snow 
faded aw.'iy and the rye took on its green 
coat. As I write the ground is nearly 
bare—just a few remains of snowdrifts 
on the noi'th side of the stone walls. Now 
a high, chilly wind has started, but the 
lion of Winter has gone back to his cave 
and the lamb is hunting for iiasture. At 
least it looks like a lamb, but we have 
been in this business for some years, and 
decline to play the part of Tattle Red Ilid- 
ing-hoo<l. I think it is a wolf well dis- 
gtiised as a pet lamb, and there may be 
.several blizzards yet. I will take no 
chances, but it does seem gnod to get one 
more look at the bare ground. We had 
forgottim what it was like. 
WjtAT We Find. —As Winter fades 
away we may take account of stock and 
see what the lion has left after his long 
pawing. The i)each buds seem to be most¬ 
ly killed. There may be a few left, and 
I shall Hot give the crop up iintil the 
bloom .actually fails. We have never lost 
an entire crop yet. There seems to be no 
loss in the apple orchards due to the <-old. 
The mice and rabbits have done some 
damage, but not as much as I feared. We 
took time last Fall to hoe around all the 
young trees, and clean out the trash 
around them. This has helited keep the 
mice away, iind our losses have been com¬ 
paratively small. These hateful vermin 
work in a strange w.ay. Where we most 
expected to find the damage, luirdly a tree 
has been touched, while in one block of 
fine McIntosh, just ready to bear, they 
have ruined entire rows of trees. In a 
Winter like the past one even the wire or 
lath i)rotectors will fail to keep off the 
rabbits. They will work on toi> of the 
drifted snow, above the protectors. The 
best wtiy is to satisfy them by spreading a 
feast before them! Cuttings and trim¬ 
mings scattered over the snow around the 
trees seem to satisfy the vermin. I hey 
will gnaw’ these twigs bare and usually 
leave the trees alom*. 
Wei.l Wixteuei). This can be said of 
the straw’bei-ries .and the cover crops. The 
btu’ries had .a good coat of manure just 
after the ground froze last Fall, and the 
snow just tucked an extra blanket over 
them and kept them from harm. Now’ 
they begin to wake up, and though the 
snow has gone the mulch of manure pre¬ 
vents freeze and thaw through these 
changeable days. There ought to be a 
good crop of berries. The cover crops this 
year are rye alone or rye and vet<’h. As 
usually happens after a snowy WiiUor, 
they strike March in fine condition, and 
immediately start grow’ing. AVe never 
had a finer showing of grain. Fast F.-ill 
I expected the situation which now con¬ 
fronts us, and so seeded rye or rye and 
vetch in every gi-owing crop, or on all 
vacant fand. Thus we have nearly Ho 
acres in these croi)s—-mostly among the 
fruit trees. AA’ith the great shortage of 
lalmr which now confronts us, this grain 
situation will help out. AA e (;an let it go 
and cut for grain, turn in pigs to eat it 
dow’n .and m.ake pork, nr cut and pile 
around the trees as a mulch—in either 
event saving much labor at plowing and 
cultivating. The soil will be full of mois¬ 
ture after this long and snowy A\ inter, 
and the cover crops can he bandied so as 
to hold this moisture in the soil for the 
trees. AA^e shall seed to clover all over the 
rye and vetch which is not to be plowed. 
The combination I Kke is'-Alsike, Sweet 
clovei' and a little Allalla. ^I'he .Alsike is 
sure with us, and the other will help. I 
think the apples and the cover crops alone 
w’ould give us a fair income this year, but 
we shall, of course, j)ut in some other 
croiis, like potatoes, cabbage .and corn. 
This, however, is a year when farmers 
must consider their labor supply, and not 
put in more than they can care for. 
Frozen Pii’ES. —AA^e have them. Our 
water supply comes from a spring on the 
hillside, the pipes being far underground. 
It did not seem possible that frost could 
get in deep enough to stop them, but dur¬ 
ing the terrible weather of late January 
we suddenly found our tanks empty and 
no flow through the iiipes. The pipe from 
the well is also frozen, so that every drop 
of water needed in the house must be 
brought in buckets. This does not seem 
so bad when it is the regular practice, 
but when you have had, for years, a full 
and constant supply of pure, soft water 
under good pressure, every bucket that 
you are forced to carry seems to w’eigh a 
full ton. You never know how useful 
water is until the pipes freeze. AA’e have 
tried to thaw these pipes out without suc¬ 
cess. The plumber advises us to let them 
alone and wait until AA^inter relents and 
s.ays “Hands off!” The electric company 
men say they can connect the current 
with this long pipe and roast the ice out 
of it. It is a great nuisance, but. like all 
the rest of war and AA'inter measures, we 
must stand uj) lik(> pati-iots and face the 
music. 
“Do A'our Bit.”—I could easily fill a 
page with comidaints and criticisms which 
could be fully justified, but at heart we 
all know that we must endure many sac¬ 
rifices and i)rivations in order to carry 
this country through its trial. I like the 
baby’s spirit better than I do that of 
nnuiy grown-uj) men. This baby is per¬ 
haps three feet long and weighs about 30 
pounds. She sleeps in a good-sized bed 
with a laige bed-fellow. On one of the 
coldest nights when the frightful north 
wind shook the house and sent terror to 
the stoutest heart, this little tot crept into 
bed, and, after a little snuggling down, 
called out: ‘'Come on to hed now; Pve 
fiot the hed all warmed up—as far down 
UH I (jor 
Now. 1 like the spirit of little Rose in 
her attitude toward life as represented by 
that big bed. She did not stop to consider 
the tremendous difference between her 
own little body and the cold depths of 
tlnit big bed. She warmed it “as far 
down as T <io!” Tlmt was her little duty 
in the household, and she did it cheerfully 
and as well as her little share of human 
heat woujd jiermit. She did not worry 
about the rest of the bed after she had 
done her own duty. That trouble could 
be safely left to a larger body than her 
own. I like that spirit. It is a good 
lesson foi* many of us who cannot see our 
way clearly. AVhen they told me of little 
Rose and the big bed there came into my 
mind an appropriate text: “Oh ye of lit¬ 
tle faith." Let’s all sail in and warm up 
the bed of life —as far down as wc go! 
Trust and Plow. —That is what the 
child may teach us in this hard situation, 
and I met a man in Pennsylvania who 
gave me another version. The boy has 
been drafted and father is left on the farm. 
Thi.s man’s ancestry a.s an American runs 
way back to earliest times. Duiing King 
Philip's AA^ar one of his ancestors marched 
away to round up the enemy in Rhode 
Island. Later, in the French and Indian 
AA’ar, the Revolution and the Civil AA’ar, 
this man’s father and other ancestors took 
their guns and marched off to fight for 
their country. In every case they left 
wife and children at home to work and 
serve as best they could. Such men have 
this idea of patriotic service right in their 
blood. AA’hen the Civil A\’’ar broke out 
this man was a boy of about IG years— 
olde.st of a large family. One day, on the 
news of a great battle, father came in 
from the fi<‘ld, put up his horses, walked 
into the house and told mother he was 
going to volunteer. He did so at once, 
and the boy was left as head of the fam¬ 
ily. He went to his mother in some 
trouble and said : “Alother, what can I 
do to take father’s place?” 
^^other looked off aciaiss the s\inny hill 
slope, put her hand on the boy’s shoulder 
and said: 
“My hoy, trust in God and plow close 
to your fence rows!" 
\\diat mothei- ever gave her boy finer 
advice than that? It meant for him the 
’’double power of manhood” and utilizing 
the waste and latent forces of the farm, 
and that is about all there is to it this 
year. AA’e have now come up to the bat¬ 
tle line for this year’s work. There are 
many discouragements. AA’e have been 
jioorly led, badly organized, patronized, 
scolded and made to stand for blunders 
and mismanagement. But we have got to 
put up the best fight there is in us, and I 
can think of no better .slogan than the 
words of that Pennsylvania mother: 
“Trust in God and ploio close up to 
your fence roirs.” n. w c. 
New York Farm Lands 
I would like to say in regard to M. B. 
D.’s article on page 68, entitled “From 
Iowa to New York,” that I cannot agree 
with him. I lived in Lyon County, Iowa, 
for some time, which is probably as good 
.a section as any in the State, came to 
Tioga County, N. Y., and punchased a 
farm with w-hich I am well satisfied. Of 
course we have some poor steep hill land 
in this .section. However, I have talked 
with a number of men from Iowa and 
other parts of the AA’est who have settled 
here, and they generally seem to be well 
satisfied, and think the opportunities here 
better than in the AA’est 
If a man intends to purchase a farm I 
would advise buying from owner to save 
agent’s commission, and buy what one can 
pay cash for. M. B. D. recommends 
small horses, where I differ with him. as 
I think there is where the old settlers fall 
down. They do not have power enough, 
and I notice that practically all of the 
successful farmers have large horses. 
M. B. D. says: “Don’t get an idea 
that our lands are cheap,” I think that 
the lands are vei’y cheap compared with 
AA’estern lands, but I should purchase the 
better grades and less, rather than the 
cheap grades and a large tract. Our land 
is not all hills, neithm- is Iowa all flat. I 
think our land values are as good as any 
in the State, and better than Iowa where 
price is concerned. 
A neighbor of M. B. D. purchased a 
farm of 40 acres for less than $4,000 
within one-rjuarter mile of an excellent 
village. The land would compare with 
most of (’entral Iowa land. Compare this 
with values in that section, and I thiidc 
you will consider it very cheap, but it is 
a fair price here, and above the average. 
w. J. R. 
“How did you first learn that you 
loved me, sweetheart?” *T found that I 
got very angry whenever I heard any¬ 
body calling you a brainless idiot.”— 
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