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Oie RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
.TuiiP 1, 1918 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Turkey Raising. —Our Whito turkey 
Cn-illy laid 20 eggs, and then erawled un¬ 
der the big rosebush in front of the stone 
house and nominated herself for the posi¬ 
tion of incubator. There is no use reason¬ 
ing with a turkey when she makes this de- 
eision. Far better let her alone. I ran 
hardly think of a worse i)laee for a nest. 
It is within 10 feet of the road where 
cars go puffing by at all hours, while great 
rose canes ai’med with murderous thorns 
reach down close to this stubborn bird as 
she sits on her eggs. Rut tlie thing to 
do with a turkey is to fall in with her 
mood, so the girls gave her the 12 remain¬ 
ing eggs (eight were already under a big 
Red hen) and made the nest comfortable 
by clijiping off some of those briers. They 
built a sort of camouflage in front of the 
turkey by tearing up big jilants of Or¬ 
chard grass and arranging them in front 
of her. So there she sits, through rain 
and shine, dust or mud, waiting with the 
I-atience of instinct. Cars go dashing by 
with a smell of gasfdine, the lilacs around 
The corner shed their fragrance, the Ros- 
ton ivy climbing over the old hoiise slowly 
bursts into leaf, the apple tree across the 
road sheds its bloom and starts the little 
apples. It is all one to this wise old tur¬ 
key, She is there for a definite business, 
and no living thing in the country is at¬ 
tending to it with better spirit. 
Motor Trucks. —"VYe bought a tiuck 
this year, although I was not sure at the 
time how much business a farmer must do 
in order to make a truck pay. It has al¬ 
ready become a fixture. There have been 
several cases where it was necessary to 
get lime or fertilizer right away from the 
station. Freight cars ai-e in great de¬ 
mand now, and they cannot stand long at 
any siding. Tom and Rroker are capable 
of jiulliug a full load, but there have been 
several cases this year when, imll as they 
could, the horses could not have bandied 
the job short of two days’ work. In these 
cases the truck put that freight into our 
barn within a few hours. It carried a 
larger load and rushed off with a speed 
about four times as fast as the horses 
could walk. Not only this, but while the 
truck was hauling this freight the horses 
w«‘re at work plowing or harrowing. . In 
fonner years our weak spot has d('veloped 
in late .'Summer, when early marketing be- 
.gins. The perishable crops must go to 
market, and, with only one team, or three 
horses, there is no iiower left to cultivate 
or care for crops. Thus it hits always hap¬ 
pened that part of our crojis were neg¬ 
lected and filled up with Aveeds. AVith the 
truck to haul the market stuff Ave can keep 
the horses at Avork, clean up our crojjs and 
get our cover crops in on time. This is 
one 'if the things Avhich farmers must 
come to in the future. If a farmer does 
not have business enough to make a truck 
]iay, several farmei's in a neighborhood 
will have to combine and use a good truck 
on a co-operative marketing plan. On the 
great majority of farms a good truck is a 
far better inA'cstment than a car. 
A Tong Run.—AV e gave this truck a 
try-out <jn May IG Avhich ought to satisfy 
anyone. AA’e had about 2,000 tomato and 
].ei.j)er plants grown for us by J. A. Kemi» 
n< ar Red Bank, in Alonmonth Founty, N. 
J. To try to ship these plants by ex- 
jiress, in the pre.sent condition of traffic, 
Avould be a miseiw and a nightmare, .so Ave 
d'-cided to go after them. From our place, 
up close to the Rockland (’otinty (N. Y.) 
line, to Red Bank, is 70 miles at least, 
and, as Ave all knoAV, a tAvo-tou truck is 
i.ot built for speed. AYe got aAvay from 
the fariM at T) :o 0 , mav time. Thomas did 
the driving, AA"hile Cherry-top and I Avent 
along as passengers. AVe Avent on Avithout 
adventure, sto](i)ing once just outside of 
NeAvark for a su])ply of gasoline. At Fliza- 
t.eth Ave got onto the fiat car tracks on a 
liill, and, as the tracks Avere Avet, for a 
time the truck Avlnsds just revolved Avith¬ 
out taking tis iihead. A couple of cars 
hanked up behind us and a grouj) of ad¬ 
visers gathered around until avc finally 
got the hind Avheels on the pavement. 
Then, Avith a chance to dig in its toes, the 
big truck jumiied ahead and the trouble 
was over. At Keyport avc got off the 
track through the bad habit sonn^ men 
have of giving careless or lazy directions. 
AA’hen you stop and ask such men the way, 
they ihkI their head or point down the 
road Avhether they hear you or not, or 
even Avhen they knoAV nothing about it. 
Perhaps they are deaf men, or they may 
think you ai’C civil service detectives. At 
any rate, several of these felloAvs sent us 
some miles olT the track, but, in spite of 
all this. Ave turned up at Kemp’s place 
about 11 :.‘!0. After dinner the plants Avere 
loaded on the truck. A'ou see, we were 
able to ])ut the fijits in Avhich the plants 
Avere grown right into the truck. Had 
they Come by expi'ess these plants Avould 
have been pulled out and i)acked closely to 
.save space and Aveight. I had to go to 
Ncav York by train, but the boys got on 
the loaded truck, let on the gas and Avent 
pulling home. 'J'hey got to Hope Faian be¬ 
fore I did, Avith the i)lants in iterfect con¬ 
dition. AVe just unbuuled those fiats and 
))ut them in a shady ])lace. Avell Av.atered. 
fi'here they Avill keeji ))erfectly and Ave can 
get them into the ground in line shape 
Avithout the Avilting of a leaf. Thomas 
figured that he ran at least l.">0 miles on 
(hat trip, and Ave estimate that one gallon 
of gasoline carried us about 10 miles. It 
Avas a good test of efficiency. 
th:op.s.—^You Avill see that Ave are block¬ 
ing out more fai'in Avork than Ave have at- 
temfited in years. 1 do not think we shall 
)doAv (juite .so much land as in former 
yeai’s, but it Avill be land nearer the build¬ 
ings, Avhere it can haA’e better care. To¬ 
matoes, j)ei»j)ers and eggplants are to keep 
the truck busy, and Ave have blocked out 
about eight acres or more of .SAveet corn. 
I look for good i)rices on all such foods, 
and the sAveet corn can mostly be folloAved 
by turnii's and clover. The imtatoes are 
up and have been harroAved tAvice. They 
look Avell noAA’, but there is a rocky road 
ahead of them, Avell lined Avith bugs and 
blight and plant lice. The garden never 
Avas more promi.sing, and, let me add, AA'ork 
never loomed up before us as it docs right 
noAV. 
Du.Sting.— I became convinced early in 
the season that Ave could not hoi)e to cover 
our orch.ai'ds Avith the licjuid spray this 
year. So I determined to try dusting as 
a Avar labor measure. AVe have a poAver 
duster and an outfit of the du.st, AA'hich is a 
jnixture of lime, sulphur and drj' ai'senate 
of lead. AA’e bloAV this dust on, chielly in 
the morning or evening, working at the 
AvindAvard side of the orchard and letting 
the dust sift through Avith the Avind. It 
is quite surprising to see hoAv thoroughly 
this dust settles doAvn on the foliage. AA^e 
have no advice to offer anyone yet. AA’e 
do not knoAV hoAV it Avill turn out, and I 
do not Avant our people to try this dusting 
ju.st because avc have felt obliged to take 
it up. It is a matter of necessity Avith 
us this year, and it may proA'e a failure. 
So Ave just take our chances on it, though 
I feel quite sure it Avill j)ay. No matter 
Avhat haftpens, I Avill tell later just hoAV it 
turns out, but noAV I Avould caution you 
not to depend on the dust unless you are 
fully Avilling to take a chance on your 
fruit. 
Anti-i.oai'IN(J.— ’File hiAA’ in Ncav .ler- 
sey is not a farce at all. Alany a loafer 
Avill be forced to b<*come a loaf-earner, for 
the laAV is being enforced. Under it all 
males betAveen 18 and 50 years must AVork 
at least ;1G hours a Aveek. About the only 
exemptions granted are for students Avhile 
actually .studying or people Avho SAvear 
they are learning a trade. There is too 
much of a tendency in some j)Iaces to 
make this hiAV api)ly to bums and corner 
loafers only. I'liey should he made to 
sweat, but the rich young men Avho ijose 
as “lounge lizards” and “tango teasers” 
should also be chased out into the field. 
I favor putting them all to work—the rich 
first of all. Of course, you cannot hope 
to give any man an industrial character by 
laAV, but it Avill do a lot of them good to 
be made to understand th:it this is a Avork- 
ingman’s country! And, personally, 1 
Avould go further and compel a lot of idle 
Avomen to do useful Avork. The loafers are 
not all males. There are idle AV'omeu Avho 
set the Avorst possible example in the Itizy, 
selfish lives they are living. They are 
Avorse than drones, Avheu they might be 
(jueen bees. It would be hard to classify 
them, but I know a number of them Avho, 
fastened right doAvn to a Avashtub or a 
dish])an, Avould clean their souls of the 
crinst of selfish living as they could not in 
any other way. }i. w. c. 
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