The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
What the American public school means 
to that family, you realize the immense 
responsibility that goes with education. 
"We can hardly be too careful about what 
our schools teach and how they teach it. 
I wonder how many of us, if we were 
transplanted to some foreign land, would 
lie willing to turn our business over to 
our children and let them conduct it as 
they learned to do it from the schools! 
I think we would all be more tolerant 
and reasonable if we would let our chil¬ 
dren bring to us more of the spirit of 
youth and more of hope of the future. 
The rain had stopped, the sky had cleared, 
the wind had dried the grass, and on the 
lawn in front of the house our great army 
of children were dancing and playing as 
if there were no such thing as tomato 
rot, wet corn and low prices. I think 
that these handicaps would have seemed 
much lighter if we could have gone out 
and danced with the kids. I wonder 
where, along the road, we gave up doing 
that. H. w. c. 
Home Methods 
I am much interested in the Hope Farm 
methods of agriculture. The method is 
this: When general disaster seems to 
reign and the heavy downpour has gullied 
out the hill field down to bedrock, when 
the hay has become soggy in the cocks 
and the whole family in nervous tension, 
why they just leave dull care, the auto¬ 
mobile is brought out and they hie away 
to the “movies.” There is a pleasant 
evening, hearty laughs, ice cream, a trip 
home under the stars, a good, sound sleep 
for each one at the end. And, strange to 
relate, each found his task in the morning 
just where he left it. 
But what shall we say about father 
and mother sticking in with the young 
folks on this evening ride? They were 
tired, and might have been content to sil 
on the front porch. But I think I heai 
one of the young Hope Farmers say: 
“Why, there wouldn’t, be any fun at all 
if father and mother were left behind.” 
One of the great dailies, in a recent issue, 
in its artgravure section, pictures for us 
a Russian experiment. A lordly mansion 
lias been confiscated, the owner told to 
leave for his betters. Aud here are the 
boys, under masters, in the fields, being 
taught gardening and agriculture; in the 
shops taught manual training; in the 
classroom given a general education. All 
this is under the caption: “The Rol- 
sheviki’s Effort, to Eliminate the Home as 
the Unit of Social Life.” As I under¬ 
stand it these boys have been “national¬ 
ized.” They will never know a father, 
and will have indistinct memories of a 
mother. Twice in the Bible is the term, 
“without natural affection,” used to char¬ 
acterize a time of extreme degeneracy. 
Illinois. w. j. r. 
Late Strawberry Setting 
I read with great interest the editorial 
article upon this matter, and can endorse 
it in all but the impression left that old 
plants should not be used. I and quite a 
few others at my suggestion have repeat¬ 
edly moved old plants from April to Octo¬ 
ber. and with the result that the following 
season we had a profitable and productive 
bed. when we would have had none had 
we attempted to depend upon new run¬ 
ners. If one has a Spring-set bed. then 
it is easy to get runners in sequence, pro¬ 
vided the plants were set early and the 
season favorable, with the added requisite 
of rich soil. 
At this writing I have about 900 plants 
set early in April on ground heavily ma¬ 
nured for cabbages and set in the row 
with cabbage, tin' rows being ,‘10 inches 
apart and the plants '22 inches. There 
will be a very crowded condition, as we 
are having a wet midsummer, if all the 
runners are allowed to thrive, so I have 
an excellent opportunity to follow the 
1 lope Farm practice and use the surplus 
to plant 23 new rows on ground recently 
plowed and planted to Early Valentine 
and Ward well beans. T am placing the 
bums in rows three feet apart, and will 
plant the stra wherries v in rows midway. 
The beans are partly an experiment, and 
will probably be cut with frost before 
September 30. and will not interfere at 
all with the strawberries before that. The 
only trouble ensuing will be trampling in 
picking th(» beans, should I have a crop 
and a market. In setting runners in 
midsummer it pays to shade with a 
sprinkling of rowen grass or weeds im¬ 
mediately after setting. This withers at 
once and leaves a slight covering that 
keeps the ground moist. If the location 
has been subject to a drought, it is abso¬ 
lutely necessary to water, and tin' dried 
grass mulch prevents baking. In the 
absence of grass or weeds, an excellent 
shade may be had by sticking pieces of 
green boughs a few inches high just south 
of the plants. 
Now in regard to moving old plants. 
In digging first make a furrow six inches 
deep alongside the old bed. Then with 
a spade or a short-handled ax cut lines 
at right angles to the furrow, six or seven 
inches apart. Then run a spade under 
und lift chunks out, placing on a wheel- 
harrow, and trundle to the new bed. Be¬ 
fore setting see that all weeds are re¬ 
moved. and also the dead leaves and old 
muleli. If the weather is dry it will pay 
to drench the old lied thoroughly the night 
before.. The pieces of strawberry sod will 
take kindly to the moving, and in a month 
will show a ready-made bed of great vigor 
and throw, out some runners that will 
make additional bearing plants for next 
J un«. L. B. PIERCE. 
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