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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Pastoral  Parson  and  His  Country  Folks 
By  Rev.  George  B.  Gilbert 
Real  Apple  Sauce. — The  Parson  went 
over  to  the  open  shed  the  other  day  to 
pare  some  apples  for  apple  sauce.  The 
Parson  certainly  loves  apple  sauce.  We 
have  about  40  quarts  put  up,  and  if  the 
Parson  can  get  a  little  time  he  will  make 
it  a  hundred.  We  pare  the  apples  with 
an  apple  parer,  which  is  a  wonderful  lit¬ 
tle  machine,  and  every  woman  on  a  farm 
ought  to  have  one.  They  do  not  cost 
much,  pare  the  apple  in  a  second  and  do 
it  a  great  deal  better  than  it  can  be  done 
by  hand.  Well,  the  Parson  went  over  to 
get  some  apples.  It  takes  but  a  few 
•minutes  to  pare  and  core  a  mess  over  by 
the  brook  and  saves  a  lot  of  litter  about 
the  house — then  Mrs.  Parson  does  the 
rest.  The  Parson  took  a  kettle  along 
that  was  out  on  the  stone  where  Mrs. 
Parson  gives  many  of  the  dishes  a  good 
sunning.  It  was  good  enough  although 
it  looks  a  little  oldish.  The  Parson  put 
water  in  it  and  put  in  the  cored  apples. 
Mrs.  Parson  cooked  the  sauce.  You  know, 
it  had  the  queerest  taste.  A  liberal  dose 
of  nutmeg  did  not  improve  matters. 
Strange  it  didn’t,  for  Shelly  calmly 
informed  us  that  he  used  that  kettle  to 
get  gasoline  in  the  other  day,  and  it  had 
never  as  much  as  been  rinsed  out. 
Spraying  Apples.  —  There  is  a  man 
down  below  here  who  has  a  standing  of- 
day  Sunday  and  not  take  the  family  off 
r-ivwbere  or  ever  go  to  church?  Does  it 
pay  to  let  the  moral  education  of  chil- 
i  ren  go  by  the  board?  Aren’t  boys  who 
drudge  and  work  all  the  time,  and  their 
father  goes  nowhere  with  them  for  a 
hunting  or  fishing  trip,  pretty  .apt  to 
escape  when  they  get  beyond  the  licking 
stage  and  make  up  for  lost  time?  A  man 
was  telling  the  Parson  that  the  greatest 
surprise  he  had  when  talking  with  the 
Parson’s  boys  was  that  they  seemed  so 
interested  in  their  father’s  work.  But 
how  can  you  expect  a  boy  to  have  inter¬ 
est  when  things  are  never  talked  over 
with  him  and  you  sell  the  calf  and  pig 
you  gave  him.  (when  they  were  sick!) 
without  even  telling  him,  any  more  than 
you  can  expect  the  boy  to  have  the  milk¬ 
ing  done  when  you  get  home  if  it  is  a 
dark  nasty  stable  where  the  cows  are? 
►Same  in  the  House. — The  Parson  has 
just  heard  of  a  woman  who  wants  help 
on  the  farm,  and  she  needs  it  very  much. 
She  has  oue  big  light  nice  airy  kitchen 
and  another  little  narrow  cluttered-up 
affair  in  back.  But  she  insists  on  this 
last  kitchen  being  used  in  the  Spring, 
Summer  and  Pall.  The  other  must  be 
saved — probably  for  the  second  wife? 
Then  too,  the  Parson  believes  there  is  a 
great  need  of  the  gospel  of  easy  chairs  in 
The  Pond  and  the  Geese 
fer  to  give  a  dollar  to  any  customer  for 
every  wormy  apple  that  can  be  found  in 
any  of  his  apples  that  he  puts  on  the 
market.  The  Parson  would  be  pretty 
safe  in  making  another  offer — that  he 
would  give  a  dollar  for  every  apple  any¬ 
one  would  find  on  his  farm  that  was  not 
wormy.  Some  few  years  ago,  when  this 
sprayer  was  first  agitated,  the  Parson 
bought  one  of  these  hand  barrel  spray- 
pumps,  as  did  thousands  of  others  around 
here  and  everywhere.  The  Parson  never 
could  see  much  results  from  such  sprays 
ing.  and  now  it  appears  that  it  needs  the 
extra  force  of  p.  power  spray  to  get  at 
J:he_£9tUin2  moth.  So  all  this  effort  and 
money  has  been  wasted.  (The  pumps  are 
good  to  spray  henhouses.)  Of  course  the 
small  farmer  cannot  afford  power  sprays, 
and  there  you  are.  It  would  seem  as 
though  about  everything  nowadays 
worked  to  crowd  out  the  little  fellow.  It 
is  just  that  way  with  the  milk  business. 
What  with  being  licensed,  and  inspected 
and  tested  and  tasted,  the  cows  acting 
outside  and  reacting  inside,  it  finally  re¬ 
acts  on  the  small  farmer  and  he  gets  out 
from  under. 
Getting  On. — For  some  eight  years 
now,  an  Italian  farmer,  who  lives  way 
out  on  the  hills,  nearly  four  miles  from 
the  city,  has  gone  by  here  with  his  milk 
at  almost  exactly  three  o’clock  in  the 
morning.  In  the  dead  of  Winter,  snow¬ 
ing  and  cold  with  an  open  wagon,  it  is 
always  the  same.  The  Parson  has  never 
known  of  his  being  sick  a  day  or  missing 
a  trip.  Often  in  the  dark  and  cold,  you 
can  hear  him  singing  as  he  goes  by. 
There  is  a  large  family  of  little  children. 
The  mother  and  little  girl  get  up  at  just 
two  o’clock  every  morning  and  help  about 
the  milk  and  get  him  off ;  then  they  go 
back  to  bed  again,  getting  up  and  doing 
all  the  morning  milking  and  chores  while 
he  is  still  in  town.  A  beautiful  farm, 
right  on  the  .State  road,  was  sold  last 
week  for  $9,000,  and  who  do  you  suppose 
bought  it?  This  same  milkman.  Farm¬ 
ers  about  here  almost  gasped  when  they 
heard  of  his  buying  it.  Not  a  cent  had 
he  ever  put  in  autos  or  in  gas  except  to 
saw  wood  and  fill  silo. 
Does  It  Pay? — Yes,  this  family  has 
come  on  wonderfully,  but  the  Parson 
wonders  if  it  has  paid.  You  can  tell  bet¬ 
ter  in  10  years.  That  little  girl  who  has 
been  getting  up  at  two  o’clock,  will  she 
want  to  stay  on  a  farm?  And  how  about 
the  boy  that  passed  4-ft.  wood  up  to  the 
saw  when,  as  father  would  say,  lie  wasn’t 
bigger  than  a  pint  of  cider?  With  drive, 
drive,  drive  and  save,  save,  save,  you 
can  get  along,  but  what  will  you  do  when 
you  are  old  and  the  children  all  left  for 
the  city?  Does  it  really  pay  to  work  all 
the  home.  What  easy  chairs  there  are, 
are  probably  away  in  the  parlor — too 
good  for  the  men’s  dirty  overalls  at 
night.  Just  change  those  chairs  around. 
Put  a  coat  of  mahogany-colored  paint  on 
those  hard  -  bottomed,  straight  -  backed 
chairs  and  put  them  in  the  parlor  for  the 
company,  and  bring  out  the  easy  chairs 
for  the  home  folks  to  use.  Will' they  be 
worn  out?  Good,  by  the  time  they  aire, 
the  children  will  love  their- home  so  that 
they  will  get  some'  iriore. 
7  The 'Autos. — The  problem  of  the  auto 
in  a  family  of  just  ordinary  circumstances 
is  serious.  The  boys  think  they  cannot 
live  without  one.  And  about  everything 
now  in  the  way  of  conventions  and  meet¬ 
ings  presupposes  the  car.  A  young  fel¬ 
low  could  not  think  of  taking  his  girl  any¬ 
where  with  a  horse.  We  all  want  to  go 
as  fast  as  the  other  fellow  and  it  is  per¬ 
fectly  natural.  The  horse  stands  in  the 
barn  eating  its  head  off,  while  the  car 
goes  to  town.  The  horse  would  do  just 
as  well,  but  the  boys’  faces  look  a  mile 
long  if  you  mention  taking  Jim.  In  so 
many  families,  it’s  oats  and  gas  both, 
where  it  used  to  be  just  oats.  And  then 
there  is  the  repair  bill — this  is  the  bane 
of  the  motor  car.  The  Ford  is  the  poor 
man’s  car,  and  many  a  rich  man  or  a  man 
well-to-do  comes  to  the  Ford  for  every¬ 
day  wear  and  tear.  If  you  cannot  do 
your  own  repairing  largely,  never  buy  a 
second-hand  Ford.  But  if  you  can  and 
have  some  spare  time,  it  is  often  .  the 
very  best  buy  for  the  average  family. 
The  amount  of  use  we  have  got  out  of  a 
Ford  that  was  put  out  in  1918  and  came 
to  us  in  1921  is  simply  amazing  with 
such  little  expense.  But  the  boys  have 
done  the  repairing  and  Ford  parts  are  so 
reasonable. 
^  The  Big  Car. — After  you  have  had  a 
Ford  a  while,  then  you  begin  to  talk  big 
car  with  shift  gears.  Dear  brother,  go 
slow  on  the  big  car.  Especially  the  sec¬ 
ond-hand  big  car.  If  you  have  to  get 
the  garage  to  do  the  repairing  and  buy 
the  parts,  you  must  have  money  and  then 
some  more  money.  Better  fix  up  the 
Ford.  Paint  it  over  yourself  and  put  on 
a  new  top  and  buy  some  new  linings  for 
the  doors,  and  put  a  good  battery  in  her, 
and  go  out  as  proud  and  happy  as  though 
it  were  a  big  car.  The  Paison  has  no 
complaint  against  his  big  car,  and  it  has 
been  a  great  pleasure  and  comfort— but 
parts  do  cost.  To  reline  the  transmission 
on  the  Ford  costs  the  boys  just  $1.25, 
rivets  and  all.  We  bad  to  get  two  new 
gears  and  a  bearing  for  the  big  car  and 
of  course  get  a  garage  to  put  them  in — it 
Out  of  one  of  their  flat  packages  the  wo¬ 
men  provided  a  thick  beefsteak.  That  ia 
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