The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
525 
A Farm Mother's Notes 
A Mild Winter. —Isn't it strange that 
we are so seldom satisfied with conditions 
as they are? Here I’ve been thinking 
that we've had an ideal Winter, and wish¬ 
ing that all up-State New York Winters 
would pattern after this one; just enough 
snow so we have had fine sleighing. And 
here today I was told of a man, lately 
from New York City, • ho has been com¬ 
plaining about the great amount of snow 
we have up here; says he “can’t run his 
car." It’s lucky for him that he didn’t 
live up here in the “frozen North" last 
Winter, when we were snowed in by bil¬ 
lows of white every day. and the men and 
teams breaking roads went floundering by, 
now up, now down. Well, he need not 
worry much longer, for our sleighing and 
snow will soon be gone. Every day we 
hear the birds. Last week a small flock 
of beauties (I think they were of the gros¬ 
beak family) paid us a visit of an hour 
or so. Their short little wings were a 
delight, and the beauty of their plumage 
kept us at the windows as long as they 
stayed in the dooryard. 
The Farm Garden.— The seed cat¬ 
alogues are arriving. I see some of them 
have taken up the Hope Farm man’s slo¬ 
gan and are preaching “100 fruit trees for 
every farm.’’ No doubt there will be a 
rush for orders. Those always having 
plenty of fruit miss it more than anything 
else when they move to a non-fruit region. 
The miserable little runts of apples that 
grow on these old neglected trees wouldn’t 
be tolerated a minute in a fruit-growing 
locality. But if our farmers set out 100 
fruit trees they should give them care 
worth while, else their time and money 
will be wasted. A fruit garden, with 
proper drainage, that could be added to 
every year as the farmer understood the 
care and value of fruit trees better, would 
be less risk and work at first. By and by 
all would come to the conclusion that the 
shelves of fruit canned and preserved were 
as necessary as the pork and sauerkraut 
barrels. The other day a man said to 
my son that when he was a lad all they 
had to eat was “meat, potatoes and kraut: 
no pie nor cake, no. sir." I was wonder¬ 
ing today why we humans had to have 
meat; not because of the strength it would 
give, for our grain foods and vegetables 
would do that. But just for the taste, 
the meaty flavor it has, its savory odor, 
we often eat more flesh than is good for 
us. and lots of it is not good for one at all. 
Wholesome Foods. — T remember hav¬ 
ing a friendly argument years ago with a 
farm mother who “put meat on the table 
three times a day" for her family; said 
they “had to have it." The years have 
separated us. and I had forgotten our 
little talk in which we both gave our de¬ 
cisions about children eating meat. But 
not long ago a mutual friend told me.that 
her boys were delicate, sick half the time, 
while my sturdy youngsters, who never 
get even a smell of meat from one month’s 
end to another, are tough and hardy. I 
feed them, as Captain Jinks fed his cav¬ 
alry mount, good corn (meal) and beans, 
with the Scotsman’s dish of oatmeal por¬ 
ridge every morning, or the tasty wheat 
foods, and bread (lots of it), butter, milk 
and cheese. And if we could have all the 
fruit we wanted of various kinds I would 
not care if I never saw a bit of meat in 
the house. 
Boy Scouts. —At last the chance I 
coveted for my boys has come to pass. A 
troop of Boy Scouts has been formed in 
the village, and they have joined. IIow 
often have I wished for this in the years 
gone by, and it seemed that because we 
lived away back in the country they never 
would have a chance at anything helpful. 
“But all things come to him who waits." 
and I have waited long for this, and am 
still waiting for other chances of develop¬ 
ment. 
Mending Old Stockings. —In these 
days of high prices we all try to get the 
last bit of wear out of everything, and I 
find the stockings need attention more 
than anything else. I used to cut off the 
worn part and round the lower part, then 
run it up on the machine, but that made a 
seam that hurt the toes, so I tried work¬ 
ing a buttonhole stitch around, and that 
does fine, joins both edges nice and 
smooth, with no ridge to hurt the foot. If 
cutting off the worn part makes the leg 
too short I add a piece at the top. and 
there—the boys and girls have a new pair 
of stockings for their old ones. Then, too, 
l use up old felt hats in making insoles 
for the children’s shoes and the boys’ 
boots. They make a big difference in 
keeping the feet warm and dry. 
High-priced Materials.— T wish I 
could forget that there is snow and ice 
outdoors, by hiding behind a pile of fluffy 
French ginghams and pretty lawns, as 
some of our farm women tell of doing. 
But for me those fluffy ginghams are far¬ 
ther away than the Summer days that will 
call them forth. As one farm mother 
writes, it must be “chop sacks” or go 
without. Bran sacks wduld do in a pinch : 
I have seen aprons and bedtieks made of 
them in times past. Well, don’t put up 
your parasol till the sun shines: maybe 
when the warm days come the price of 
those pretty muslins and calicoes will have 
dropped to our level. T haven’t a ladder 
that will reach them now, so I shall net 
worry trying. I have always had the 
worrying habit, and been told by my 
friends time and again to “throw it off.” 
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