The Monitor-register. [volume] (Woodstown, Salem Co., N.J.) 1892-1972, 1896-11-20

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and early spring, aud proper cultivation,
SO as not to stimulate fall crop, was
advocated by Mr.. Roberts. AS fertilizer,
Ground Bone and Kainit were recon-
mended, and he advised against raising of
crops on orchards, except in very young
orchards.
THE RAISING OF STRAWBERRIES.
t. F. D. Baker, the we'll known truck
grower of Bridgeton, read paper on
| 1.-THE Growth of Stra W berries" He said
that an experience of twenty years had
taught him that the greatest care must be
exercised in fostering the plant. Special
fertilizers must be used Oh certain plants
to meet the requirements and furnish the
adaptability for the soil. The indiscrimi.
nate plal ting of various plants under the
same conditions, and in the cult
waited soil, will rarely result profitably.
| Proper knowledge as to how to fertilize
and set out plants was deemed essential
| to success in raising the straw berry. A
| plant must adapt itself to conditions or it.
will be a failure and a detriment to the
propagation. It was advi.e1 that every
plant variety not suited to the conditions
be discarded but not condemned, for in
most instances it will be found that the
/ fault lies In the grower or the soil he
conslgns the plant TO.
| Nearly all the plants show a constitu-
tional weakness which we are unable to
determine as to it's direct cause. 1t might
be induced by the treatment of the grower
or the soil, and fertilization, but science
has not advanced us far enough to any
| more than conjecture the cause of these
disastrous. The Pride of Cumber-
land, new candidate in the berry field
is considered rust proof, and besides
being a strong grower, brings splendid
market prices and needs but little spray
ing. In Cumberland county 5000 acres
of cultivated ground yields little over
$500 quarts per acre, and the average
(! price received is cents per quart. We
have acres that produce 10, 900 quarts If
| berries, and some growers realize 500
| per acre, " bile others cannot realize over
$50 per acre.
THE TOMATO CROP.
| In speaking of tomato growing, Mr..
Baker said the price per ton had decreas-
ed during the last few years from $12 to
Sc, and the profits were exceedingly
small The farmers experience losses
| from their failure to care for their plants
and, consequently, with the closing of
| the canning houses, hundreds of tons of
tomatoes, unripe, are left on the vines
The aver age yield per acre is about seven
tons. although some growers have pro-
| duced twenty tons to the acre. The
early tomato crop has ceased tc be very
| profitable, as is shown from our ship
ments of last year. We cannot compare
With the Southern covers, who food the
markets with canhouse tomatoes early in
June, when our first crop is ripening, and
thus we put them Ou the mark ct at 30
and 40 cents per basket.
| POULTRY KEEPING.
Hon. F E Dawley, Director of the
New York State Faru ers' Institute.
spoke at length on 'Poultry Keeping. "
W 18th special reference to profits to be |
derived from egg production, He said to |
be successful the fundamental principle |
in maKiog profit out of the egg business
was to secure egg producing fowls of a 4
| standard bread. A wind proof building. |
| was thought to be the best chicken house /
| that could be erected withou t too an uchzi
| light in the coop, and movable Z, fl Dor |
| for the droppings, some distance above /
the floor, under which place the nests, the
| dropping, TO be removed at least once |
| week The feeding of the fowls was dis
cnssed at length, and it was thought |
| advisable to feed the chickens three times
day. using corn, Indian meal, plenty of /
| water and wheat. In fact use balanced
| ration, the same as for the dairy COW. As
to lice, he recommended an application
| to the hens in the early spring of sulphur,
three or four times, and gave method
of how to do it, by taking the ends, of
barrel, stretching canvass or burlap in
place of the slaves. putting on strips
outside to stay it. with gudge9As in the
| 4 60 y a xa,ars v,lo
it on two uprights and wiSH acrafiks give /
it few turns, and the work is done. AS /
to roup, he said it was contagious, aud
advised killing the fowl as soon as the |
disease was noticed.
| At the evening session Secretary Dye |
answered a number of questions, and |
Mr.. Dawley, in speaking OF the growing |
| of the sugar beet, thought this soil was |
| adapted for it. He then spoke on the |
"Fertility of the Soil, and recommended |
| feeding such foods as would return to the |
soil the manurial value that the crops |
take therefrom, and which the farmer is |
now obliged to furnish at large expense |
in buying chemical manures,
Hon. John Gould. of Ohio, and editor
uuthe, Ohio FarQsg, II spoke On /, The |
| ''Changes in Feeding the Woriu. show
ing that to the Introduction of improved
methods as well as improved machinery. |
the greatly increased area under cultiva
ton, not only IN this country, but |
throughout the world, was due largely
the vast difference in prices over half a
century ago. Then, too, the farmer had
virgin soil, which now begins to show
the effect of years of constant farming.
He also alluded to the advantage that
the lowering of the tariff had given to
the foreign producer, withsoheap&lab Dor.
as against the American farmer. The
farmers, as we'll as other business
interests, must adjust themselves to the
new conditions, and more prosperous
times were just ahead. This closed the
first days session.
SECOND DAY.
The second days session opened with
a good attendance, many being ladies,
and with increased interest.
Hon. F. E. Dawley was piled with
questions at the morning session concern
ing the raising of chickens. He advised
the destruction of all henneries where
the vermin infested the building, and
where they could not effectually be
stamped out by other methods
The subject of good roads was first
discussed, being presented in paper by
Elmer Smith, of Salem, as follows:
GOOD ROADS AND THE FARMER
We, of this generation, hear much about
| "good roads, and as it is question that
| vitality affects our welfare and costs much
hard-earned cash to construct them, it will
pay us well to thoroughly study the subject.
We don't want to rush into the thing blindly,
burden our municipalities with debt for our
children to pay, only to find that we have
succeeded in getting just what we do not
| want.
There Is a heap of difference between a
good and bad road. Everyb body comedies
that. Bu5 n0tyz4sG1ake the bad roads equal
the good at the least cost is the real ques-
| ton. II is true that the degree of civiliza-
ton of country is judged by the character
i of Its highways but it is also well to remem-
f'bef= fAatsit is only its principal highways
that are brought to such degree Of per-
fectjon.
You have probably all heard the story of
the traveller in the bottoms of Arkansas,
| when he came across teamster sitting on
a fence by the roadside, cracking his whip.
Thinking the man was crazy, the traveller
i watched him awhile in silence and then ven-
tured to ask him what he was doing. son.
said the teamster, 81 got couple o. yoke o.
Ioxen in there some'rs, and thought mebbe
the pesky brutes would founder out, arter
4 while.'' Now these are not the kind of
roads we are looking for.
Let us look, for moment, at the history
of this good roads movement, and see what
4 force gave it its impetus and what forces
ISare; behind it. Fifteen or twenty years ago,
the bicycle, then great high-wheeled. I'M
practical. neck-breaking affair, was just
being made and used a little on. our public