2r/ie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Farmer of Fifty Years 
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What Shall He do with Himself? 
I’ART IT. 
T-!ie Def.ayki) Tree I’i.axttxg.—’P ht* 
wry first thing I did iift(>r tlio contract 
for the new farm was signed was to i)lant 
a row of shade trees along the roadside. 
This farm has only 20 rods of higliway in 
front of the buildings, and I wanted the 
man that I rented tin* farm from, nearly 
.‘>0 years ago. to let me j)lant some trees 
there. The house stands well back from 
the road on a good (devation. iind a row 
of stately elms is just what is needed to 
make the place look tine. This ueighlxir- 
hood is noted for its great beautiful elms, 
and while .some i)eople do not like them, 
they always seem to me to be the kings 
.among trees. P.ut to go back ‘50 years. 
‘Phe (>ld man sai<l the tia'es would .s^^oil 
manly an .aci’e of lai'd. So he would not 
I t nu* jdant them. .lust as if an acre 
ar.’ounted to so mmdi wlnm he had rearly 
a hundred of them. You see. this old fel¬ 
low considered a farm just a i)Iace to 
make money from. lie never made so 
many dollars, but. when lu' did get one, 
he was a dollar richer. It went over to 
the bank, where thei-e was no chance for 
it to get back into the fai-m again. But I 
think that the planting of the shade trees 
would have been good business, even from 
a money standi)oint. If he had let me 
riant them 2S years ago, I w'ould wdllingly 
have given .$50 a))iece <‘xtra for them now. 
(If cf»urs(‘ they will not get very big while 
I live, but the ne.xt fellow will have them, 
and he may say “I am glad that obi man 
set them out.” 
The Or.!) Lo.ne Tree.—'P hei-e is just 
one triH* neai’ the hous<'. and that tree has 
a history. The old couple went to 1‘hila- 
delphia to th(> ('(‘utennial. "While thei-e 
the old lady heard a speaker say that 
everyont' ought to plant a centennial tri'c*. 
So, when she got home, she lemembered 
th(‘ tree, but was too caiade.-s about it to 
dig one ui) and jdant it iigain. but she did 
break off a willow b’Miich and stick it into 
the .soft earth just south of (he house. 
That willow -now measuia's ram* feet in 
ciiaaimfei’ema* and shades (he houst* nicely 
on a hot Summer afternoon. How many 
homes do you suiJjrose there are in (he 
bnid that owe their shade trees to that 
man who made that sjieech. 
IlAUt.lxo MANUKE.--I’erhaps you begin 
to (hiidc that I am sentinamtal. But the 
lu'xt job was not sentimental at all. It 
wiis just plain hauling manure. 'Phe 
lii‘oi)Ie who owned the farm W(>re not 
.si)endthrifts as the term is generally used. 
V< t they ])aid arouml $()() for commei'cial 
fertilizers last Spring, ami h't a big |»ile 
t)f stiibh* manui'e stay wlau'e it was. 
'J’his farm has a ‘‘backbone” in the sha|)e 
of a good-sized hill across the middle of it, 
and but little manure has got over the 
other side of that hill. So w(‘ hauled it 
u{» there and made a big pile to be scat- 
t(‘r(‘d with the Sjireader. I don’t believe 
that it pays us to pile Uj) manure for the 
sake of using the .s])r(‘ader as a general 
thing. Ou. the home faimi we s[)read the 
manure din'ctl.v from tin* sleigh to the 
ground which we will i)low for <‘orn in 
the Si)ring, and only u.se the sju'eader 
wluMi there is no snow to bother. But, in 
the case mentioned above, w(‘ wish to seed 
a certain i)iece of ground th.at has been 
run pretty hard, and we shall first i)low 
it and then scatter the manure on toj) 
w here the young grass plants can get hold 
of it while they are little .and weak. 
Xo Woonr.ANi).—Another drawback to 
this farm is that there is no woodland on 
it. The old man, ,‘50 yeai’s iigo, said that 
an acre of cleared land would j)rodnce 
(•roj) enough to buy the fuel. Maybe he 
w.as right, but I like a farm with woods. 
The kids begin in March to talk .about 
when they can go up in the woods and 
jack dowers, dig “crinkleroot” and hunt 
for ‘‘sijuawherries.” Besides, woods are 
mighty handy for the cattle to hide away 
from the flies. To say nothing of the fire¬ 
wood, i)o.sts and sawlogs that they fur¬ 
nish. No. a farm without woods isn’t 
what it should b«“. But our home farm 
has two woodlots, and I shall changt* the 
fenc(‘s so that the “backbone” of tlu' new 
faian will be tnrmal into i)astnre and make 
a connecting link between one of the 
woodlots and the i)asture of the new farm. 
The “Homey" Oi.n lIor.SE.—I wanted 
to move over to the new house, but Mrs. 
Morse wouldn’t go. By the way, do you 
know what is stronger than a woman’s 
will’? It is her won’t. .Vnd what do you 
su|)i)ose was the lady’s reason for refusing 
to mov('’t Sh(> was willing to admit that 
it was a better hou.se, but she said it was 
not a “homey" i)lact*. She called my at¬ 
tention to the fact that there was no old 
orchard jtist iij) back of the house where 
she could wander around at sundown and 
l)ick an ai)ple here and there, and not 
ev(>n a few cherries, plums or pears. 
I’hen. Iniw could she sit out in the swing 
that hangs between the two old maples, 
and sway gently to and fro at twilight, 
when thei-e were no old majjlcs to hitch 
the swing to? No. sir; she wouldn’t 
budge an im-h—and I don't know as I 
blann* her so vt'ry much. So it is uj) to 
me to make the place “homey.” I can’t 
jjroduce the big majjles for the swing, but 
I can build a wide veranda across the 
fi’ont of the house. And a young orchard 
will at least be somethnig to look after 
and be solicitous about, while the old one 
bears the fruit. Then there is a big spring 
Uj) on the hillside, which, pii)ed to the 
house, will send water clear uj) to the 
roof. I think that a good furnace and a 
bathroom with hot and cold water will 
hclj) to m.ake the wife forget some of the 
attractions of the old i)lace. Besides, the.\ 
are only 20 ro<Is ajiart, anyhow. 
.T. GRANT AfOUSE. 
Fruit Crop Prospects in Western New York 
The jiast Wintei’ w.as very severe in 
this i)art of New York State. It seems 
jirobable that the temi)er.atui‘e was the 
lowest and that the cold was the most pro¬ 
longed that has been known here since the 
country was settled. From the middle of 
I)<‘C('mber to the middle of February there 
w<‘r(‘ only .about seven or eight d.ays when 
it was M.arm enough to thaw in the sun. 
Wlnua' theia' was any shade it did not 
thaw .at all excei)t for one day. early in 
.Tanuary. The temperature was at least 
1(1 degrees lowin' , than in the memory of 
most !)ersons living here. There were also 
m.any days of bright sunshine with wind. 
It was to be expected that such extreme 
conditions would c.ause great damage to 
the fruit croi)s. and .some growers have 
thought that some of their trees were en¬ 
tirely killed. \'ery early in the cold 
weather it bec.ame assured that thdre 
would be no i)eaches this yinir and man.v 
thought the trees had been all killed. 
Now that the buds are ojiening it seems 
that som(‘ treesJ have l)een killed; that all 
have been siwerely injured ; but th.at some 
h;ive live buds enough to make new tops 
this year and |)('rhai)s bear next season. 
Bartlett pears were also hurt badly. In 
tiamming the trees the latter ])art of the 
Winter it was found that many limbs two 
incln's or more in diameter h.ad the wood 
and bc.rk :ilmost black from frei'zing. 
Some of these trees will blo.ssom a little 
this year. Some more will leaf out and 
.Some are dead. In inaTiy ca.ses the nmin 
buds on a twig are dead, but growth is 
starting from dormant buds along the 
sides. A\'(' c.annot tell how much ilamage 
has bemi done until well into the Summer 
and |)erhai)s not entirely this year. The 
d.amage to ai)i)les is mostly on the young 
trees. Many which were apparently 
healthy when we tilled in our young or- 
clnii'd.'V last Fall are now killed down to 
the level of the snow. The ai)i)earance is 
almost ex.actly like tire blight, but it can¬ 
not be that because it has come since last 
Novembm-. (Jri'ening and Baldwin have 
suffered tin* most. ()ther vari(*ties liardly 
at all. It seems that the combination of 
zero weather, bright sun and strong wind 
was more than the trees could stand. 
F.irly in May there was much ice in 
the lake just north of us. A floe about 
ten miles wide and forty mile.^ long was 
right .along shore from Sodus Point to 
Oak ()r(d)iird and only a mile or two from 
shore. This ke|)t the weather cool and 
held back blossoming even longer tlian 
usual. In the past week the buds have 
advanced very rai)idly, and three or four 
days more of warm weather will ojjen 
many .api)le blo.ssoms. Most varieties are 
promising to blos.som full, but Baldwin is 
re|)ortcd as “streaky” or “patchy.” In 
oni' orchai'ds the prospi'ct is for enough 
bh)sosms to givi* a good croj), and it seems 
that there should be at least a fair croj) 
in central Wayne County. During the 
AN'inter there was much fear that the 
Baldwins might not blossom. Some even 
thought that their trees had been killed, 
but now it appears that the jirobable dam¬ 
age is less than was expected. Sour <dier- 
ries seem not to have been hurt .at all. 
and not all tin* buds on tin* sweet cherry 
tre(*s were killed. ai.ered c. WEED. 
Wayne County, N. Y. j 
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