The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1483 
lias been tied out. She is a very proud 
little cow, for just inside the barn her 
yellow daughter lies in the straw—pre¬ 
tending to chew her small cud. We shall 
have to call this young lady Sippi to 
complete her mother’s name. Missy has 
given us a taste of real cream already. 
But here is a pull at my shoulder, and 
little Rose, her face washed and hair 
brushed, comes to lead me in to dinner. 
There will be 14 of us today. I wish you 
could make it 15. The food is all on the 
table, so we can see what there is to start 
with. Have some of this soft hash. That 
means a hash baked in a deep dish, with 
considerable liquid in it. You may think 
we live on hash, but a busy Saturday is 
a good time for working up the odds and 
ends. Then you can have boiled potatoes, 
boiled beets, sweet corn, tomatoes, bread 
and butter, baked apples and all the milk 
you want. We are all hearty eaters, and 
I figure that if I took my family to the 
restaurant in the city, where I sometimes 
have my dinner, the bid would be about as 
follows:: 
Hash . 
Potatoes . 
Beets . 
Sweet corn. 
Tomatoes. 
.. 1.40 
Milk. 
.90 
Bread and butter. 
.. 1.40 
Baked apples . 
.. 2.30 
$16.60 
That is a very low estimate of •what 
this dinner would cost us. Now what 
would a farmer get at wholesale for what 
we have eaten? Not quite $1.30 at the 
full limit. Last week I ordered a baked 
apple and was charged 30 cents for it! 
But no matter what this dinner would 
cost elsewhere, it is free here, and I hope 
you will have another baked apple. Try 
another glass of milk. Our folks have a 
way of pouring some of that thick cream 
in when they drink it. 
# * * * * 
That dinner provided heart and sub¬ 
stance to all of us. I am back at those 
berries, and Philip has come to help me. 
Our folks have stopped picking apples 
for the day and will cut sweet corn fod¬ 
der—where the ears have been picked off. 
That will have to be our “hay” this 
Winter. The women folks and a couple 
of the boys have started for town to do 
a little shopping. Philip and I have a pile 
of weeds here as large as a henhouse, and 
the strawberry plants as they come out 
of the tangle look better than I expected. 
A car has just rolled in with a family 
after apples. One well-groomed young 
man is viewing me appraisingly over his 
glasses. He is talking to the soft, fluffy 
young woman at his side. “Is that the 
Hope Farm man? A rather tough-look¬ 
ing citizen! Why does he do that very 
common work? He ought to hire that 
job done and get up out of that dirt!” 
This young man will never know what 
it will mean next Spring when the vines 
are full of big red berries to know that 
he saved them and with his own labor 
turned them from failure to success. He 
probably never will know any such feel¬ 
ing—and that is his misfortune. This 
weed-pulling gets to be mechanical. It 
doesn’t require much thought and I have 
a chance to consider many things as we 
work. A short distance away is that 
patch of annual Sweet clover. The plant 
we have been measuring is now 60 inches 
tall and still _ growing. The plants are 
seeding at different dates—some of them 
earlier than others. What a wonder this 
clover will be for both of us who have 
the vision to make use of it. 
Put my day’s work is over—I’m going 
to adjourn. I am quite sure that I could 
have picked 50 hushels of Gravensteiu 
apples from those low trees instead of 
working here, but this seemed to be my 
job for the day. What now? I’m going 
to make an application of hot water and 
get this soil off my hands and arms, shave, 
put on some clean clothes and take my 
book out on the front porch until the girls 
come home. What book? Well. I found 
ui an old bookstore a copy of James G. 
Blaine’s “Twenty Years of Congress.” 
As I had just read Champ Clark’s book I 
wanted to read Blaine’s. I can well re¬ 
member when about 40 per cent of the 
people o£ this country considered James 
i ^’bune a hero. The trouble was that 
about GO per cent thought otherwise. His 
eork is a sound a "• 1 -erious discussion of 
1 ‘■'g'sir"ion .eh covered the Civil 
" CT ar-d 20 ye;.: - after. As I worked 
today 1 liave been thinking of what 
luaine says of Senator Matt Carpenter, 
t his man was a brilliant student, but 
suddenly went blind. For three years he 
sat in darkness. Yet this affliction proved 
si great blessing, for he forced himself to 
review and analyze and prove what he 
had read, so that when sight came back 
m 11 m ml s ' reasonin £ Powers were remark- 
aDIe - fhis book contains the best state¬ 
ment I have ever read of the reasons for 
y.viMg to impeach President Andrew 
.lohnson. and how and why the effort 
[nlv ' J\ ,at ’ s *bat got to do with farm- 
”Vy, ^ oil. I think the political events 
vuucfi clustered around that incident came 
fj b n °„ ut „ a8 , near to smashing the Constitu- 
* * ? ,ul ' vr< 'oking the Government as 
anything that has yet happened. But 
me comes Cherrv-top on his new wheel, 
te actually got home ahead of the car. 
hurry, or our folks will not find 
f,!i . 1 ,! lterar '.v reception committee waiting 
1 them. Better come along with me. 
s, uno other books that will make 
and ri1 guarantee that think- 
_ ao , you more good right now than 
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D ISCARD knife and saw and paint 
as a remedy for fire blight. You 
can control fire blight, collar rot 
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Scalecide kills the hold-over cankers that 
cause twig and fire blight. It cleanses and 
disinfects the canker; it causes the old, 
blackened bark to peel off and new cam¬ 
bium to form. No other spray does this. 
What Scalecide Does 
Scalecide kills scale, insect eggs and fun¬ 
gous spores that winter over on the bark. 
It cleans up the trees so thoroughly that 
their increased vigor is strikingly notice¬ 
able the following season. The Fall ap¬ 
plication kills the adult Pear Psylla before 
it lays its eggs. A Spring spraying, just 
as the buds show green, kills aphis. Either 
of these applications controls blight. 
Penetrates and Invigorates 
Scalecide is a soluble and miscible oil — 
not only an insecticide for scale, but it 
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they are able to penetrate the diseased bark 
and tissues, and thus reach the bacteria 
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penetrates and invigorates the plant^tissues. 
Saves Labor 
One barrel of Scalecide does the work of 
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Lime-sulfur eats out the valves and other 
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Pleasant To\Use 
Lime-sulfur burns the hands and face, 
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For ten years we have been conducting 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
