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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 22, 1918 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
I’KiccocToi's Yorx(iSTKKS.—Out ou the 
lawn, as 1 write, the big Red heu is pa¬ 
rading her brood of six little white tur¬ 
keys. As usual iu all large families there 
are various types and contrasts of char¬ 
acter. One is a slow, feeble little fellow, 
lagging behind, a little dull and stupid. 
Two seem to l)e downright lazy. You see 
them sitting down iu the warm soil or 
stretching out in the soft grass waiting 
for their nurse to find some fat worm for 
them. Then there are two timid charac¬ 
ters. They stick close to the hen and 
attend to every cluck and call. The last 
is an adventurous little fellow, full of 
life and spirit. He is a pioneer ;ind runs 
ahead of the rest, disreganling the Red 
hen’s warnings. What does he care? 
The outside of his head has been well 
greased with lard and the inside of his 
skull has been greased with lightning 
straight from .some wild old ance.ster who 
was quite capable of caring for himself. 
So, while the hen scolds and increases her 
blood pressure with worry and trouble, 
this youngster runs out to act for him¬ 
self.■ Last night while hoeing 
in the strawberries I came upon another 
pi-ecocious youngster. A Marshall ])lant 
had started in to produce some big ber¬ 
ries, but through some freak of nature 
four big runners have already run out and 
taken root. I never saw such growth on 
larger plant.s. Instead of permitting their 
mother to ))roduce a bunch of great ber¬ 
ries in comfort they are draining her and 
preparing for croi)s of their own ! . . . 
Last year we i)ut some ILildwin grafts 
in an old apple tree ou the hill. Several 
of them started, and this Spring one of 
them has niiide an astonishing grow’th. 
'I'he old ti’ee has started its own wood out 
for a few iuche.s, but this precocious thing 
I)lanted on her own arm, has made five 
times as much growth and is still growing. 
. . . One of the lilac bushes this 
Spring i)ushed out a limb or twig which 
outgrew all the rest and produced the 
must wonderful flower, full of a new and 
delicate fragrance. . . . Thomas came 
to me .some time ago and said he Avanted 
to plant an acre or more of the “Shee- 
miny” sweet corn. He claims that it 
gives the largest ear of any variety and 
that farmei-s prefer it. \Ye went after 
every seedsman, but not one had ever 
h(*ard of any such corn. Finally Ave 
found it Avas a local name for a “.s])ort” 
of Rarly iMammoth which a farmer found 
in his field. He kept the ear and lias 
saved all the sec'd through several gener¬ 
ations. Thus “Sheeminy” was .iiist a 
local name for another of those* precocious 
youngsters Avhich nature for some Aviso 
purpose, is ever i)i-oducing. 
Stronu Ri.ooi).—X ow I have no doubt 
that the hen. the strawberry jilant, the 
old tree, the lilac bush and the corn plant, 
all. if they are caieable of feeling, express 
themselves much the same Avay : ‘AYhat 
.s7/u// I do with this abnormal child? He 
is unlike all his ancestors. There never 
was anything like him in our family, and 
he Avill, most likely, bring di.sgrace and 
ruin upon us. I tell you, this young gen¬ 
eration is a great menace to the future. 
We never had any 'such performances iu 
my day !” 
.\t least that is about what an old man 
I knoAv says about the young people of 
today, and I imagine that much the same 
si)irit runs thrmigh all nature. • We all 
seem to forget that there can be no im¬ 
provement in matter or mind unless some* 
one breaks away from “safe and sane” 
methods and conventions and runs the 
risk of being called precocious or some¬ 
thing very much Avorse. If you and I 
Avere looking for improvement Ave AA'Ould 
select that fearless little turkey for breed¬ 
ing stock. 1 should certainly select all 
the runners I could from that berry plant, 
and you would want grafting wood from 
the Baldwin shoot and the lilac. We 
surely Avanted that “Sheeminy” corn. 
There would be little satisfaction in 
farming if each generation of seeds or of 
stock remained on a dead level Avith its 
ancestors and developed no precocious 
youngsters to make the next generation 
better. 
Young People.— My old friend is very 
bitter against this “rising generation.” 
Fvery Fourth of July this breaks out 
Avorse than ever Avith him, because he 
says there is no one coming up to take 
the places of the old-time characters. I 
think this feeling grows upon many of us 
as we get older. The trouble is that Ave 
do not realize Ave have, perhaps, held too 
fast to some of the old-fashioned things 
so that modern life has sAvei)t on past us. 
Bring back the men Ave called “great" 50 
years ago and it is very doubtful if they 
could handle our modern affairs. Just 
.stop and consider that your boy and mine 
live in an age Avhen the flying machine, 
the telephone, the gas engine and its ap¬ 
plications are as common as sunlight and 
air. The men Avho founded the nation 
and kept it going could not even imagine 
such things. Bring them back from the 
grave today, and they Avould be abso¬ 
lutely lost, both in trying to comprehend 
our industrial development or the common 
I»itint of A’icAV of the men and Avomen of to- 
da.v. When j'ou are temi)ted to find fault 
Avith this “young generation” Avhy not 
think back to the time when you repre¬ 
sented that same class of .society. It is 
more than likely that your “elders" in 
those days j)ointed ynn out as a “pi'e- 
eocious youngster" ftliat is if you amount 
to much today) and Avorried over the fu¬ 
ture Avhen you and similar thoughtless 
boys and girls took charge of things I 
.\re you Avilling to admit that the old 
folks Avere right, and that your genera¬ 
tion has ruined the country? That is 
what they .said you Avould do. Has it oc- 
eurred to you that perhaps you are just 
repeating an old idea of 50 years ago 
Avithout inventing a new one? 
Hoon Breeding. —And here is another 
side of it. If you find fault Avith your boy 
or girl in this Avay. haA-e you thought that 
you are finding fault Avith yourself? If 
your children are inferior and not capa¬ 
ble of coming up to do their part. Avhose 
fault is it? Of course, you may. perhaps, 
get around that by talking about “the 
Smith family.” out of Avhich mother came, 
but that is dangerous business because 
ofttimes these criticized children groAV up 
into fine men and Avomen. and then “the 
Smith family” have you on record and 
can i)oint to .Tohn or Mary as a fine ex¬ 
ample of Avhat the Smith blood can do, 
OA'en Avith the handicap of Bi-oavu I No, 
you cannot make me think that this com¬ 
ing generation of boys and girls is .so lazy 
.and dangerous as sonu* people claim. 
J’hey confuse me a little and I cannot quite 
grasp their point of view at times, but I 
think my children are going to make a 
better and happier world than I have ever 
seen. It Avill be different, and i)erhaps, 
as a man never gets very far from the 
fir.st 25 years of his life. I Avould not be 
contented to share their future, but it Avill 
be a good Avorld. and they Avill Avork out 
the future better than I could. I believe 
that just as I belieA’e the daughters of 
our Red hens at the egg-laying contest 
Avill come back and discount their moth¬ 
ers. 
WuAT About It?— There are tAvo 
things. In the fir.st ])lace, all over this 
country^ men and women of middle age 
are trying to organize and i)ut through 
certain i-efo^-ms. Most of them huA'C boys 
in the army and these parents Avant to do 
something to improve conditions here 
Avhile their boys are at the front. This 
moA'ement Avill gain great poAver during 
the Summer, but it mast not he a move¬ 
ment of gray-haired men! At most of the 
meetings thus far the majority of those 
Avho attend are men of 40 or oA-er. The 
moA'ement has not yet appealed to our 
younger people as it should. It must be 
presented in the language of youth, or the 
.vounger element Avill drift to the other 
side. The mov»>nieiit against slavery Avas 
put ov<‘r by young men. 'J'hey made uj) 
the driving force, and Ave need every one 
of them. Let us all get aAvay froiii the 
idea of the “ini<iuity of the rising gen¬ 
eration” and consider more of its jmAver 
and pos.sibllitie.s. We need right here'in 
XeAA' York 10.000 men and Avomen Avho 
represent in the spirit of their lives the 
little turkey, the straAvberry runner^ind 
the liliic shoot. We must enlist them be¬ 
fore the other side does. 
A Young IMan’s War. —i[y father Avas 
over 40 Avhen he Amlunteered in the Civil 
War. A great majority of the soldiers 
Avere no longer young. This Avar is es¬ 
sentially a young man’s conflict. We 
have sent the floAver of our youth. In tln^ 
(^ivil War Ave sent more of the grain. 
“Y'outh must be served !” The Avay these 
boys are going into battle disproA-es any 
thought we may have had that they are 
soft-handed or lacking in spirit. They 
are part of the finest aimiy this Avorld has 
ever seen, and you Avant to realize AA’’hat is 
to happen Avhen these boys come home 
once more. I think they AA'ill have a per¬ 
fect right to reason this way: 
“We Avere taken aAvay from all the op- 
jiortunities of youth in trade, business or 
education, put iu a strange laud and lined 
up to fight for a i)rinciple. We Avere 
given no choice iu the matter. Our coun¬ 
try needed u.s. It could not exi.st as a 
democracy unless we obeyetl orders and 
risked all AA'e had—life, youth, opportu¬ 
nity. Noav that Ave liaA'e Avon and made 
democracy safe, avc have the right to de¬ 
mand that the nation pay us Liirly for 
Avhat Ave have done. Having saved de¬ 
mocracy. it belongs to us. and Ave Avill ac- 
cei)t nothing but a fair chance for all.” 
Noav I expect those young soldiei's to 
come home talking like that. My boys 
already feel that Avay. Some of them 
Avill be too old to finish their education or 
start ncAV trades. They AA'ill want land — 
the ultimate desire of every normal hu¬ 
man being. It will do no good for my 
sour old friend to find fault with this 
“young generation.” It aauII not be a 
“generation of vipers,” but rather one of 
Avipers, since they Avill have Aviped Kaiser- 
ism off the earth. They will be the ruling 
force in this nation and hence in the 
Avorld. and they deserve to be. The Civil 
War veterans might have been the ruling 
cla.ss after the Avar, but they Avere .scat¬ 
tered iu an eager search for land. The 
present great army cannot be scattered in 
that Avay. This is the thought for the cel¬ 
ebration of this year’s “Glorious Fourth.” 
Whether Ave like it or not. Ave men of 
middle years must realize that our boys 
cannot be denied. They Avill dominate 
Avhen this AA-ar is over. Let’s get in with 
them and clean things up at home against 
their home-coming n. AV. c. 
How One Woman Will Help 
I cannot take up a gun to fight, like 
my brother. Avho Avent over there'. But I 
am sure I can help. The cry for Avheat 
is a houscAvife’s battle. What wheat you 
use, make into good bread. One' sour 
batch thrown out to the <logs will waste 
more Avheat than the bread-crumbs you 
save Avould amount to in fii'e years. I 
have found my past troubles AA’ith bread 
Avere because I failed to boil all the' liquid 
that I used, and second, because I did not 
alAA’ays Avarm the flour slightly ; also that 
I did not make the sponge a large one, so 
that there was so much Avater neede'd 
when I kneaded in the flour. To keep the 
dough Avarni, place it uiion a large Avarm 
pillow and cover very closely. 
Corn Bread.— I have alAvays used a 
certain re'eipe, and as I make it every 
morning now, the milk Avhich Ave have to 
buy became an item, and being out of milk 
one morning I decided to try Avater in its 
place, and increased the amount of corn- 
meal. ()urs is ground nearly as fine as 
Avheat flour. I use four-fifths of a cup of 
cornmeal, one and a quarter cups flour, 
one-quarter cup sugar, four teaspoons 
baking soda, salt, one egg. Sift all dry 
ingredients, drop in the egg, add Avater 
enough to make rather thin batter, and 
beat Avell. Have good-sized pan Avith 
about five tablespoons melted lard or 
drippings real hot in the oven, pour this 
Jn last, sloAA'ly, and stir Avhile pouring 
this on. Gorn bread needs a good hot 
oven. 
Me.nding Oa'ERALL.s is tedious, to say 
the least. I luiA'e ahvays done' all other 
mending on the machine. )>o one day a 
hai)])y thought struck me. Why not rip 
that inseam and scav tluit patch on Avith 
the m.'ichine? Noav I buy the material, 
make one long, neat patch, and it Avears 
as long as the overalls last. 
Le.ssening Work. —In Summer I help 
l)ick our fruit and also pack it, and haA’- 
ing chickens and gard(>n and tAvo children 
under five. Avith all my oavu sewing, I 
find the folloAving A'ery helpful: In AVin- 
ter I use uj) all the half-Avorn outer gar¬ 
ments. as I can mend them easier then 
than Avhen the’ rush is on, and then I have 
the new ones to use Avhen I am .so A'ery 
busy outdoors. This applies to stockings, 
too. 
Cracked Fruit Jars. —Perhaps this 
might Avarn some Avho have had frozen 
cellars. In the February cold snap I 
found three cans of fruit'frozen at night, 
and brought them up: in the morning I 
looked at first jar before I jiicked it up 
and failed to see where it had cracked iu 
the night, and as I Avalked to a side table 
it broke in my hands and caused a 
dreadful gash in my finger that the doc¬ 
tor says should have had a stitch iu it. 
It Avas too late Avhen he saAV it a Avee'k 
later. Noav 1 am cautious to take hold of 
jar cap only. 
Rai,sing Chicke.ns. —^AVe jilAvays had 
trouble Avith some chicks being killed in 
the nest before all Avere hatched. AA'e 
now set tAvo he'ns. Avhen eggs hatch Avell, 
three hens at a time Avheu Ave set very 
early in the Spring. AA’heu about one- 
fourth of the chicks are hatciied, Ave take 
the best he'n, place her iu a barrel, Avith 
Avater and grit (road gravel), giving her 
all the dry chicks. As they h.-iteh and 
become dry under the other tAvo hens, Ave 
remove them to the barrel, cover barrel 
Avith two AvindoAv scre'ens to keep out 
inA'aders of any kind. AA'e keep hen iu the 
barrel about three days. Barrel should be 
jilaced Avhere light Avould be afforded to 
reach bottom enough for chicks to be 
able to eat after ,4.S hours. 
AA'omen A'oters. —I hope 4' he R. N.-Y. 
Avill ahvays continue to expose frauds and 
the farmers’ enemies, and also let the 
Avomen know Avhat they can do to better 
things, and I feel sure they Avill be more 
responsive than some of the men. I don’t 
believe money Avill buy many Avome'ii’s 
votes, and I hope they keep the carpet 
Avell dusted as iu cartoon in The R. N.-Y'. 
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