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December 21, 1018 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Some of our people have no doubt seen 
a copy of the new magazine, ‘'Carry On." 
It is published by the American Red 
Cros« and edited by the Surgeon General 
of the Tbiited States Army. It is devoted 
to the “Reconstruction of Disabled Sol¬ 
diers and Sailors,” and is one of the most 
interesting and suggestive magurines I 
have ever read. As we all must realize, 
this war has left the natio: full of dis¬ 
abled men. There are thousands of blind 
men—with flight destroyed by the hateful 
poison gas. Tlie great guns which bat¬ 
tered down the fortresses ..nd blasted a 
passage to the Rhine have destroyed the 
hearing of thousands more. Then there 
are millions who must live out their lives 
with part of tho body gone—crippled in 
body or broken in nerve and spirit. This 
magazine .stands for the reconstruction of 
this human wreckage. It seeks to buil , 
these men up and fit them for nei? jobs, 
so they may have an honest share in the 
world’s work. I do not know' of any 
finer p.art of “I'econstruction” than this. 
In former wars the cripple was very 
largely neglected. They gave him a .small 
pension and a sort of perfunctory sympa¬ 
thy, but, unless he happened to be a man 
of very strong w'ill and character, he be¬ 
came more or lesc of a mendicant, and 
was forced into a position which broke 
his spirit 'and clouded his self-respect. 
Now “reconstruction” for suc.i men means 
retraining—teaching them some new' trade 
or profession, and thu.s permitting them to 
hold their Self-respect. It is great work 
—one of the finest things growing ou' of 
this war. 
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During my life I have seen hundreds of 
men and women rise up above misfortune 
and affliction and put the foot of spirit on 
the neck of material handicaps. You 
may cut off a man’s hands, then cut off 
his feet, then put out his eyes and destroy 
his bearing. Each one of the.se afflictions 
alone would, if the man were willing, de¬ 
stroy his usefulness and make him into a 
machine for pouring gloom and discour¬ 
agement upon all who come in contact 
with him. If the man have the uncon¬ 
quered will in him to fight and never 
yield, all these afflictions may fall upon 
him and still leave him useful and true 
if he can only have a chance. So long a.s 
mind and faith are left they will still 
glorifv the crippled body and keep it in 
use. 'There are two things in human life 
which seem to me to strike just about the 
limit of ijitifu: failure. One is the spoiled 
child. Father and mother could not or 
w'ould not teach that child self-denial, in¬ 
dustry and honor. When that child groiys 
up to measure himself with other men in 
the hard battle of life he knows he is a 
failure, and that father and mother made 
him what he is. The other sad object is 
the man who has lost part of his power 
through an effort to help others, and must 
now' do inferior w'ork or accept a form of 
charity. Perhaps you can understand 
how galling it must be to a high-spirited 
man who has fallen under the sheai-s of 
fate to feel himself set aside by the care¬ 
less and busy world because no one has 
the patience and sympathy to help him ad¬ 
just his life to new conditions. I imagine 
there will be close to half a million 
men, before this war is over, coming back 
to America w’ith some part of body or 
mind or nerve cripped. The work of “re¬ 
constructing” them so they may become 
honestly .self-supporting is about the fin¬ 
est w'ork to come before our people. 
Some of the work these crippled and 
blinded men are doing is wonderful. We 
never knew before the w'ondeiful power 
of the human will to force the body to 
perform miracles. 
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Something over three years ago the 
British and Canadian soldiers in their 
trenches saw' what seemed like a thick, 
green fog, approaching. It came slowly 
over the ground dow’ii a little hill, unlike 
anything they had ever seen before. Not 
knowing what it was they waited for it. 
It rolled in upon them, and almost before 
they knew' it hundreds W'ere blinded, 
w'hile hundreds more lay on the ground 
coughing their lives away. The Ger¬ 
mans had let loose the horror of ijoison 
gas A new and terrible side of warfare 
had been started. When that first wave 
came the English did not even know w'hat 
the gas w'as. In order* to fight against 
it they first had to know' what they 
were fighting. It was necessary to catch 
samples of the gas in bags, take it to the 
laboratory and analyze it before any de¬ 
fense cou'ld be made. Then they had to 
devise some practical plan for keeping the 
gas out of the eyes and lungs. After 
many experiments they found that a very 
hard' form of carbon would absorb the gas 
when packed into a gas mask. Then they 
found that such carbon could be made 
from peach and cherry pits, shells of nuts 
and similar products. Thus one thing 
led to another, until this new plan of war¬ 
fare was met and conquered. 
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The point is this. The scientific men 
had to go ahead and find the way. They 
found it by utilizing products •..'hich for 
years had been considered nothing but 
wastes. After finding these thin .s the 
scientific men wore powerless until the 
practical soldiers made ijse of the inven¬ 
tion. in the future I think most changes 
in war or industry will have to be met in 
just about that way. This war is sure to 
bring great changes to farming. Some of 
them will come sweeping in upon us as 
unexpectedly as that cloud of gas first 
.appeared to the soldiers. When the army 
comes back from Europe, and the men 
now in the camps are di.schargetl, new' life 
and new methods will be forced into every 
country neighborhood. These young men 
have seen something of life. They will 
have broader views, and will not be satis¬ 
fied with a narrow life which denies them 
action or fair opportunity. It will require 
the wisest men in the world to analyze 
the feelings and ambitions of these young 
men, and help sort them out into indus¬ 
try so that agriculture will not be c<alled 
on to carry too heavy a load. I notice 
that most of those who offer advice turn 
to farming or to the land to find a place 
for absorbing the army. 
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We do not w'ant any one-sided discus¬ 
sion about this. Most people seem to 
think that farming can stand any amount 
of expansion—that it never can be over¬ 
done. The land policy of this Govern¬ 
ment practically ruined the farming of 
New England and other Eastern sections 
after the Civil War. There can be no 
doubt that for years there was too much 
food produced. Distribution did not keep 
pace with production, and the flooding of 
the Western land with new farmers did 
untold damage to Ea.stern agriculture. 
This surplus of food is responsible for 
many w'asteful and uneconomic habits 
which we now must “reconstruct.” Given 
fair labor service and reasonable distribu¬ 
tion, the farms now under cultivation 
can supply all the food this country needs. 
It would be easy for anyone to see the 
folly wf sending too many workers into 
manufacturing or tran.sportation service, 
but few seem to realize that there will 
be a similar danger from putting too 
many people on the farms. We do not 
need increased jiroduction as much as 
we need more eflicient distribution and 
marketing machinery. 
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I think many of us will have to go back 
to old-time methods of saving and spend¬ 
ing in order to hold our own. This war 
experience with knitting yarn is a small 
thing, but it is an indicator. Thousands 
of w’omen will in the future keep a few 
sheep and use the wool for yarn or cloth. 
I have found a jilace where .small lots of 
such wool can be cleaned and carded. I 
know of cases where the old-fashioned 
spinning wheel has been brought down 
from the attic and put to use. The ash 
sifter is earning money in many a house¬ 
hold and the ash heaps lose their black 
color*. A pig or a small flock of hens 
will take care of the household blunders 
•shown in the garbage pail. Many a fam¬ 
ily is now operating a small grinding 
mill and sifter so as to make their own 
meal and flour. That is pai't of what our 
ancestors did. We have picked up the 
habit of selling our entire products for 
about 40 cents and then paying a dollar 
to buy them back again. Many of our 
young people have been brought up to 
live out of a grocery store, and rarely 
keep a week’s supiily of food in the house. 
Now I think one lesson from war econom¬ 
ics is that we must go back more and 
more to old-time customs and habits. I 
told a man that the other day, and he 
laughed at it. “Why,” he said, “suppose 
I went out with grandfather’s long-tailed 
coat and my wife undertook to wear 
grandmother’s hoopskirt and flounces— 
how far would we get?” 
No one asks or expects him to do that, 
but if he could take the same sort of 
.sound, honest cloth which the old folks 
wore and have it cut to suit modem CU-s- 
tom or fashion, he would be better off 
than with the present shoddy goods. That 
is about the idea of it. I think we must 
revive some of the economical old habits 
and bring them down to date. The nation 
will have a groat task in “reconstructing” 
the phy.sical cripjiles, but tbe work will 
be done. A harder and yet more neces¬ 
sary task will be making over the eco¬ 
nomical cripples who have grown up with 
habits of waste and useless luxury. “Let 
George do it! “Do it yourself!" The 
road between the two is paved with tears 
and sweat and trials. AVe must not give 
all our thought and pity to the cripples of 
war. There are many of us who are crip¬ 
ples of peace without knowing it. AA’^e 
have developed habits and ways of think¬ 
ing which have grown upon- us like use¬ 
less barnacles in the big strong new life 
which is to follow this war. AA’e have all 
got to be “reconstructed” if we are to do 
our full work for the family and for farm¬ 
ing. n. w. c. 
Care of Milch Goats 
AA’’ould y'ou give me .some information 
about the feeding and care of milch goats? 
Rochester, N. Y. L, s. 
The feeding of milch goats is simplicity 
itself. AA'hen confined, they need hay. 
oats and a few* vegetables. If you have 
plenty of cornstalks, you can cut them 
fine and save on hay, while increasing the 
yield of milk. Some breeders feed leaves 
to a large extent during the Fall and 
AA’inter, storing them for that purpose. 
Feed a generoiiL, handful of oats to each 
animal, morning and night, with .some 
hay. At noon give chopped corn fodder, 
hay or vegetables. Give jilenty of water 
and provide .salt as for milch cows. 
There is one point that must not be 
overlooked. Goats are extremely partic¬ 
ular about the cleanliness of their food. 
Hay that has dropped onto the floor will 
not be eaten unless the animals are ex¬ 
tremely hungry. Grain will be wasted, 
therefore, unless fed in clean receptacles, 
and hay must be fed in racks. The 
water pails must be kept clean, and fresh 
water provided freely. 
Alilch goats can be kept in very small 
quarters, but these quarters must be dry 
and free from drafts. The goats cannot 
endure dampness. You can keep them in 
small stalls and u.se a stand or box for 
them to mount at milking time. The 
better plan, though, is to have the stall 
floor elevated a foot or more and made to 
.slope a little to the rear, so that it will be 
kept dry. AATien this plan is followed the 
milker usually seats himself on the side 
or end of the elevated floor while he 
milks. 
In Rummer goats may be allowed the 
run of the pasture or field if a high stout 
fence is jirovided. Otherwise they must 
be staked. They must be kejit away from 
small trees, or they will strip down the 
bark. Goats will get most of their living 
by grazing when pasture<l, but need a few 
oats to keep them looking well. 
E. I. FAimiNGTON. 
A COUPEE of boys stood watching a frac¬ 
tious horse .snort its disapproval of an 
approaching motor car. “AVhat make a 
horse do that when he sees a motor car?” 
asked one. The other replied : “It’s this 
way. Horses is used to see other hoi-ees 
pull carts, and they don’t know what to 
think of carts going along without a horse. 
If you saw a pair of trousers walking 
down the .street without a man in them 
you’d be scared, too I”—London Farm and 
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