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Hope -Farm Notes
FARM Norzs.-The warm weather has
kept up ‘well to Thanksgiving. l.Ve did
a little plowing late in November. ‘ This
was a piece of ground used fora mixed
garden this season, -Next year.I want
to try my hand at 3 prize strawberry
patchj So we tool: the cutaway and
chopped this garden over, breaking up
the vines and stirring the surface. Then
it was plowed witlrthe furrows left
rough;-as the place 15 level there will
be no serious washing. Thus It Will
stand rill Sprrng; when we shall put on‘
a coat of manure and plow once more’
and then make as Erie as possible before
setting ‘out, ‘our plants,"I shall follow
this up to see Just what‘ we. can make ‘
the llla.rsha.ll strawberry,do. .. . .
fear this warm Fall will ruin many of
the apples in cellarstorage. Several
years ago this same-thing happened-
thousands of barrels were lost, and the
effect of this was ‘shown later when
these cellar apples would naturally have
been sold.- very year adds iorceita
the argument in favor of good storage.
The ability to hold back the apple crop
until prices go up is justapabout as nec-
essary as -spraying. , .' Farmers
want to ‘know if the Eureka corn pro-
u s a crop of grain with us. No;
you could ‘hardly call it a crop, though
we have lruskrd off a good many ears.
VVith two weeks more to grow the
Eureka would have made a fair yield of
grain, it is not intended to rank
with other Varieties in this respect. It
is 3 corn for the silo and will, I be-
lieve, make more silage to the acre than
any other plant I have yet seen There
will be many soft ears to work into
the silo. It still remains a debatable
question whether these immense stalks
of Eureka give more actual food to the
acre than other varieties which ripen
the grain. The argument for Eureka is
that it gives great bulk, so that we can
use cotton-seed meal or some other
strong concentrate to balance it. There
are two sides to this. but for dry -fodder
I prefer a smaller stalk, for the tough
Eureka stalks are not eaten readily
when dry and hard. A medium grow-
ing flint variety makes better fodder.
. . . lVe maybe able to spray the
peach trees this Fall after all. The
leaves are now mostly fallen, and if
the weather continues right we may get
the oil on. ‘ e apple trees are still
well covered with leaves. The only
reason for Fall spraying is that we get
the job 05 our hands and save Spring
work.
TAKING A Cmi.o.-At this season we
have letters from people who ask about
children. Probably the coming of Win-
ter, with its feeling of loneliness,
- prompts much of this inquiry. Let me
give a typical case. The man who comes
this time says: “lVi‘fe and I are on the
sunny side of 50-that is, we are about
7.”. They have reared a good-sized
family, and all but the younger ones
have gone from home and have, appar-
ently, done well. Now these good peo-
ple are capable of providtnga home for
a child, and this is that they want:
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I do not know where such a paragon
can be found. I fear we could not sup-
uly him from llope Farm. Our friend
expects too much from a child who
would be given away, and I fear he
will be greatly disappointed if he tries
his experiment,
' 3 want to talk plainly about this. for
it 15 one of the saddest things in life to
see people of middle years take a child
and feel that it has proved a poor in-
vestment. I know what I am t ' g
about,‘ for I was “put out" in this way
as 3 little child. and we have had years
of experience Most people expect too
much of a child. So them have
forgotten all about their own child-
ood, and regard the little one, when
he comes, as a small old man. Thus,
whenever the question of working such
a child comes up as part of the bargain,‘
l lrnow from sad experience what it
means. It is true that every child
Should be taught to work and have
some duties to perform, but it is too
easy to overdo this when you start out
with the proposition that the little thing
must earn his board and clothes from
the slart.- it is too easy to continue on
and ‘argue that he must pay imcresz on
the investment also. First you know, the
child is regarded as a little drudge, and
still expected to "head his class" and
‘sympathy. it may be considered a hard ,'
THE RURAL NEVV-YOR1CER>
do a.lot of rimpossible things. While
we may read pf such children in novels, 11 N-E ind you'll get a quick reply and 3‘
"square deal." See guarantee editorial page.
, nevcrgot near one, after trying the
‘job myselfaud workingwith a dozen or
jso here, The fact is ‘that 'EYBl’y child
‘has the God-given" right to a happy
childhood.’ I do not care what“‘marks"
-he may make, how much work he does
,or where he stands in the class; unless
he can have the early years which right-
fully belong to a child he-will never
-measure -up to something really “worth
looking at." ' " ‘
‘ Our friend says he wants ‘a child
-who is‘ ‘worth giving a chance." That’
is‘ what I ‘do not like about it. .lVhy
-‘man, every ‘child is worth “a chancel"!
Think what would happen to the world.
ifonly the strong and promising were,
given opportunity. lllhat would happm
to the’ backward and defective among
us, who cannot hope to head our class,,'
ifvsnch ruling were tovbe made uni-
versal? In the course of time withpthat
.rule strictly‘ applied there could be not
true religion in the world, because there
would be no personal sacrifice or kindly‘
doctrine, but I would not advise .a.nyone'
to take a child unless he can give up
e hope of great personal satisfaction
to himself, and do it for the child and‘
for humanity. You ought to read the‘
pitiful letters we get here from d.isa.p-.
pointed men and women who have taken
children either to work them -or to pet
them foolishly as playthings. There are ‘
very few of what one may -call human
prize packages in the children who are
denied homes of their own, yet that is
all the more reason why they should,
every one of them, have the fair chance
of childhood. I wish I could locate 100,-
000 children in farm homes, if I could
only get the farmers who took them to
realize just what they were doing;
what a blessing it would be to the chil-i
dren and to many a weary man and
woman, if this Lbing could be done with
the true motive. And what is this true
motive? Taking the child not because
e is smart or handsome or superior
and will become a credit to you, but be-‘
cause he may ‘be quite the reverse. so
that you, through your love and sacri-,
lice, may become acredit to him. I have
tried to bring out this idea in the little
book, “The Child,” which I would like
to have you think over.
As I hnish writing this I glanced .up
from my desk to find that visitors had
come upon me. It is a dark. wild night‘
outside, with rain and high wind. My
open fire is burning brightly. One of
the boys is l'tI3d.l.I1g before it. The girls
are singing in the f-rim: room. Mother
has come in with three of the little
boys. he two smaller redheads are
asleep upstairs, and these three little
fellows are listening to the Erst chapter
of “Pilgrim's Progress." I wish I had
never progressed so far that I could
walk with the pilgrim as they are doing.
1 have little thought that either of these
youngsters will ever head their class or
become governors or president. On the
whole, I rather hope not, but one thing
is sure-they shall have as good a child-
hood as New Jersey can give them
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