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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
GREEN Forage CROPS.

Considered From the Eastern Farmers'
Standpoint by American Cultivator.
Eastern farmers have for years known
that, considered merely for economy,
neither pasture nor hay is SO cheap
feed as can be produced by cultivated
crops grown with greater labor. Consid-
cred merely as feed, the corn crop, either
grown for fodder or for grain, furnishes
nutrition in cheaper form than animals
can get 1t from pasture, considering in
both cases the interest on cost of land
and the cost Of fencing it. Where the
soiling system is fully adopted fences
are done away with altogether, and even
in partial soiling this great expense is
reduced to very small amount. Corn
is undoubtedly the staple forage crop
But it is not perfect ration alone, and
the growing or buying of something else
TO feed with it is always a necessity
Glover, whether the common red. the
mammoth or peavine or the alsike vari-
ETY., is the best supplementary food with
corn, because it furnishes the phosphate
and nitrogen which corn is most def
oient in. But there are other forage
crops that will bear sowing later than
fodder corn, and which it is possible to
put in when the failure of the hay crop
is known. It is possible to cut crop of
clover or of grass hay in June and i'm
mediately turn the sod preparatory to
seeding with millet and Hungarian
grass. II sown any time before the first
of July, both of these will ripen suffi-
GENTLY to make good hay, while corn
planted as late as this will be almost
worthless for feeding.
In root crops the white turnip and
beets may be sown even later than the
first Of July and make good crop the
same year. These late sown roots will
not be as rich in nutrition as will those
sown earlier, but it is succulency rather
than nutrition that roots are fed for in
this country. Great as may be the yield
of any root crop, it is SO largely water
that in nutritive value it is always in
ferior to corn grown on the same kind
of ground and the same season. For
this reason corn. must always be the
main crop grown for forage and other
crops be only grown to give variety and
improve the nutritive ration by adding
heterogeneous nutrition in which corn is
deficient
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
Sugar Beet Production.

There is a growing interest in sugar
bects among our farmers, and there are
many statements about sugar beet pro-
duction, some of which ought to be taken
with several grains of allowance. AS
The National Stockman says:
In the first place beets containing a
profitable proportion of sugar cannot be
produced on all soils. Further, if they
could be there is no market for them
unless a factory is at hand A sugar
factory is expensive. costing 5000, 900
and upward. Unless capitalists can be
induced to establish such factory there is
no use in farmers undertaking to raise
sugar beets as money crop. 1t is all
right to experiment, and, if conditions
are favorable, to do everything possible
to enlist capital in the enterprise. Such
action might be of great benefit ulti-
mately, but those who expect early re-
turns from sugar beets in the absence of
factories will be disappointed. Better
devote the efforts at present to getting
the factory than to raising the crop.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
IMPROVED BEEKEEPING.
In Methods and Appliances
Within the Last Half Centnrn

Within the Last Half Century.
In 1862 the movable comb hive was
given to the public, and that was great
leap in advance 1t allowed the beekeep-
er to examine infinitely just what was
going on in the hive, and in many cases
to apply the remedy where there was
trouble
At one time honey was obtained by
smothering the bees with birthstone, then
cutting out the combs, selecting some
of the best that contained nothing but
honey, making a grand mash of the rest
and straining out the honey, more or
less favored with bee bread and dead
bees. As great improvement boxes
were put on top of the hive, allowing
the honey to be taken away without
killing the bees.
Then the honey extractor was invent
ed, by which the honey could be thrown
from the combs, leaving the latter un-
injured tO be returned to the hive for
refilling. Even if the comb was partly
filed with eggs and partly developed
bees, the honey could be thrown out
without disturbing the baby bees. 1t is,
however, better to extract honey only
from those combs which contain no
brood Still later section boxes came on
the stage, in which shapely cake of
honey took the place of the irregular
combs to be found in the surplus boxes
that held from to % pounds. Sepa-
rators were invented to force the bees
to build their combs straight. Along
with this came the use of comb founda-
ton, for without foundation it would
be very difficult thing to get the bees
to build straight combs in the sections
Not only was the invention of comb
foundation great aid in securing beau
tiful surplus honey, but it was great
help in the brood chamber. The frames
could be filled with foundation having
imprinted on it the base of cells just the
right size for worker BROOD making it
impossible for the colony to rear large
horde of useless consumers in the shape
of drones.
Some think that the age of improve
ments in bee culture is about over, the
summit having been reached. But a
progressive apiarist, writing from Hi
nois to The National Stockman and
Farmer, tells in addition to the forego-
ing that it is now confidently expected
that instead of foundation having little
more than the septum or middle wall,
we will soon have comb as delicate as
that made by the bees themselves, with
cells three-eighth inch deep or as deep
as may be desired.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23

the war ana Prlnceton central point of
strategy. The dramatic winter of 17767
no Princeton man could ever forget, lived
he never so long-that winter which saw
year of despair turned suddenly into a
year of hope. In July there had been bon
fires and boisterous rejoicings in the col
lege yard and in the village streets at the
news of the Declaration of Independence,
for, though the rest of the country might
doubt and stand timid for little to see
the bold thing done, DR.. Witherspoon's pu-
pills were in spirits to know the fight was
to be fought to a finish. Then suddenly
the end had seemed to come.
Before the year was out Washington was
in the place, beaten and in full retreat, only
5000 men at his back, abandoned by his
generals, deserted by his troops, hardly
daring to stop till he had put the unbridg-
ed Delaware between himself and his enc
my. The British came close at his heels,
and the town was theirs until Washington
came back again, the third day of the new
year, early in the morning, and gave his
view halloo yonder on the hill, as if he
were in the hunting field again. Then
there was fighting in thegery streets and
cannon planted against the walls of Old
North herself. 1t was not likely any
Princeton man would forget those days,
when the whole face of the war was changed
and New Jersey was shaken of the burden
of the fighting .-Forum
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
CLOVER AND POTASH.

What Delaware Farmer Has Accom-
p1ished With This Combination.
Mr.. s. H Derby, one of the success
full crimson clover farmers in Delaware,
is also potash crank" He has insist
ed all through his farming that clover,
to do its best, must be given plenty Of
potash and that the best crop in the ro-
tation on which to use the potash Is
clover. Many farmers have urged that
the chemicals should be put on the crop
that is to be sold, like tomatoes, aspar-
agus, potatoes, etc. Mr.. Derby has al
ways held that the potash should go on
the clover. 1t is not lost in that case.
The following crops get it just the same,
and the clover crop is made larger and
stronger to pay for it. This means more
bumus and more nitrogen, which is just
what his light soil needs. Instead of 60
ing into the silo, the whole crop goes.
into the soil. 1t is plowed right under
for tomatoes, corn or potatoes. That is
what it is grown for, and his farm shows
that the object has been attained.
Mr.. Derby's successful and profitable
experience has been the subject of more
than one article in The Rural New York.
er, which strongly advocates clover and
chemicals on worn out Soils The au-
thority quoted says:
Mr.. Derby's experience clearly shows
the great value of crop like crimson
clover in improving the mechanical con-
dition of his soil, aside from any addi-
ton OF actual plant food. His soil is
light naturally, and when he began
with it strong wind would blow clouds
OF dust away from it. Year after year of
green manuring has changed the whole
aspect of affairs The constant addition
OF organic matter and the bringing Of
plant food up from the subsoil through
the clover roots have changed the whole
character of the soil and more than
doubled its capacity for retaining mois-
ture. The result is that the plants that
grow in it are able to consume plant
food enough to produce ten times the
crops of former years. The most eco
nomical way to fertilize is first to get the
soil itself into such a condition that
warmth and moisture are best under
control. Don't lose sight of the fact that
potash in this case served double pur-
pose-it produced the crimson clover for
the needed organic matter and also fed
succeeding crops through the clover.
Without potash the farm could not have
been improved because the clover could
not have been grown.
Among the reasons given by Mr..
Derby for preferring crimson to red
clover are: The red takes too long to
mature. The crimson makes a good
growth through the hot summer and
fall. 1t is just at this time that nitrifi-
cation is most active in the soil, and un-
less some thrifty growing crop were on
hand much of the soluble nitrogen would
be lost. The crimson clover is just the
crop to save this. 1t covers and shades
the ground, making quicker and more
profitable growth than any other plant
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
Given Away
These
Useful
Books

Mrs. Nella Dagget, of Boston, has recent
ly written book, Fancy Work and Art
Decorations" that gives practical instruc-
tions for making doilies, table-covers,
scarfs, tray cloths, pin cushions, ETC., etc.,
with fifty illustrations. This book, to-
gether with Successful Home Dyeing,"
will be sent free to any reader who will ad-
dress Diamond Dyes" Burlington, Vers
mont, inclosing 2-cent stamp.
The above liberal offer is made to adj
vertise the reliable Diamond Dyes, and to
get their book upon home dyeing into the
hands of women who want to dress well
by making their old clothing look like
new.
The fact that Diamond Dyes have been
the standard home dyes for nearly twenty
years, and that their sale increases from
year to year, is proof positive that they
have never had an equal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
SHOE EYELETs.
One of the Comparatively Few Things
That Are Sold by the Million.

One of the Comparatively Few Things
That Are Sold by the Million.
There are many things that are sold by
the gross, and not few that are sold by
the thousand, but there are not many that
are sold by the million. Among the things
that are so sold, however, are shoe eyelets.
Shoe eyelets are made of brass by ma
chimes whose operation is almost entirely
automatic. Three or four machines are re-
quired to produce the eyelet in the form in
which it is sold, the brass being fed into
the first machine in thin, flat strips AS
sold to the shoe manufacturer the eyelet is
turned down at one end only. The eyelets
look as much as anything like so many
little hats with narrow brims and without
any tops in the crowns. The upper end of
the crown, which is like the end of a little
cylinder, is put through the eyelet hole in
the shoe, the finished brim or fange of the
eyelet resting against the leather upon the
outside. After the eyelet has thus been put
in place its inner end is turned down up
on the leather by a machine made for that
purpose. In the manufacture of the eyelets
number of very slight vertical indenta-
tions are made at equal distances apart in
the outside of the eyelet around the smooth
straight end. When the shoe machine
smashes down the inner side of the eyelet
the metal parts at these indentations and
is spread uniformly, thus giving it Sc
cure hold.
Eyelets are made of various sizes in
diameter and of various lengths of shank
or cylinder, according to the thickness of
the material with which they are to be
used, and after they come from the ma
chimes they are finished in great variety
Some are finished white-these are silver
plated; some are gilt finished and some
are coppered. Eyelets are japanned in
black or in various shades of russell; they
are, in fact, made in any size and of any
color that may be desired. Sooner or later
the japanning wears off, exposing the
brass. There are now made shoe eyelets
that are covered with celluloid, which keep
their color, but these are much more ex-
pensive than the kinds commonly used.
Shoe eyelets are packed in boxes con-
tanning 1000, 10000, 100, 900, $50, eco and
100000 each. Eyelets of the kinds most
commonly used are sold, according to sizes
and styles, at prices ranging from $50 to
$135 per / 900, 00O Some of the celluloid
covered eyelets sell for as much as $500
per 1,000,0 900.
The sale of shoe eyelets depends, of
course, somewhat upon the prevailing
style of shoe. When button shoes are more
generally worn, not so many shoe eyelets
are sold, but the number sold is always
very large.
Eyelets are made for wide variety of
uses, up to the great eyelets that are sewed
into the corners of sails, through which
the sail is dashed to the end of the boom or
yard. Taking them all together, the num-
Der is enormous. OF shoe eyelets alone
there are sold in this country some thou
sands of millions annually.-New York
Sun
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
At the Rhode Island Station.

The growth of clover upon the plots
which had received no nitrogen in any
form, at least for five and probably for
a dozen years, was nearly if not quite
as good as upon those which had re-
ceived large annual application for
five consecutive years, a result decided
ly in contrast to those secured with In
dian corn and oats upon the same plots.
The injury liable to result to a clover
crop owing to the smothering of the
young plants by the lodging of the ac-
companying grain crop, the necessity
for thin seeding and care not to employ
too much nitrogen in such cases Is
pointedly illustrated.
1t appears probable that the chief
value of lime in Graduating sorrel is
attributable to the fact that it brings
about physical and chemical soil condi-
tions one or the other or both of which
are so highly favorable to the growth
of clover and many other agricultural
plants that they are able to occupy the
land, thereby preventing sorrel from
gaining foothold.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
The Campbell system,

The Campbell system of soil culture
consists of a complete Encouragement
and pulverizing of the top seven or eight
inches of soil, turning it as nearly bot
tom upward as is possible The plant
food is found at the end of each season
very largely concentrated in the top four
inches. This plant food must be plowed
down into the bottom of furrow seven
or eight inches deep. From this depth it
will be placed by the action of moisture
just where the little feeders of the plant
roots want it. Immediately after plow-
ing the lower four inches of the furrow
slice must be packed as firm as possible.
After the deep blowing and subsur-
face packing the next step is to keep the
upper two inches of the surface soil con-
stantly dry. This forms a soft mulch or
dust blanket, SO as to cut off the moist
earth below from the effects of the air.
Water cannot pass through loose, dry
soil by capillary attraction. Therefore
the dust blanket protects the moisture in
the root bed from evaporation and saves
all the natural rainfall for the use of
the plants. Strong capillary attraction
IS desired in the root beds, and therefore
the root bed is packed. No capillary at
traction is desired in the surface, and
therefore the dust blanket is formed
EXCHANGE
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
FEARS HE DREAMED TRUE.


Dagger End.
Here is story of a strange hallucina-
ton told by Arthur Mursell in The Tenn
pie Magazine: In good house in a north
west suburb few years ago sat hand
some man, about midnight writing at
MS, which, to judge by the drift of torn
paper all around, had not been an easy
task, and now he leans back in his chair,
waiting for the ink to dry and to rest his
cramped fingers and his heavy eyes. The
room is fitted as a library, with many
books on many shelves.
AS he pauses in his work the door opens
and stranger appears-a gentleman,
young, distinguished and imperious in
form and movement He beckons to the
writer, and, being disregarded, repeats
the summons with decision which com
pels obedience. Rising, his visitor leads
him down stairs, out at the door, through
street after street, and opening with a
latchkey the door of substantial bouse
passes up stairs into an elegant apartment,
and, turning to couch, shows reclining
upon 1t beautiful girl of about 19 or 20
summers. Her golden hair has fallen in a
rich mass about her, and one arm is left
bare by a falling sleeve and the other dain-
ty hand is nesting under her cheek.
For few seconds the stranger surveys
the sleeping form and then sheathes to the
hllt gllttering dagger in the snowy
breast. The deed done, he beckons as be-
fore, and again the journalist is forced to
follow By the same ways he is led back
to his own door, to his own room, where
the visitor vanishes as suddenly as he has
come, without sound or signal.
Looking at his manuscript, the journal
1st is amazed to find the ink still wet and
that this has all been but horrible dream
OF few seconds. Can it be possibleP So
VNlVlo, SO real, so tragic had it BEEN that
he turns even still to greet the stranger at
the door. Shortly after he went to a ball
at a friends house, where amid the dan
GERS he saw face whose loneliness seemed
wildly familiar to him. 1t was the face of
his dream.
soon gentleman approached the lady.
who seemed also familiar to him If was
the other figure of his dream, the murder
er OF the fair heroine He gained an inter
view with both, and shortly afterward he
learned they were engaged. They had
never met till that evening, and it was an
instance of love at first sight, and it was
thought 1t would be an early marriage II
was then the journalist told his dream in
explanation of his interest in couple the
course OF whose married life he watches in
the eager hope that its development will
prove that the dagger was but Cupid's
Dart which so suddenly pierced both hearts
on the night of their first meeting.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
Moisture In Celery Growing.

A New Jersey gardener gives his plan
of celery growing in The American Agri-
culturist. He says:
1 prepare the ground early in the
spring, sow the seed where the sun can
strike, and thus get healthy growth.
After sowing the seed cover up the bed
with old carpet or old bags and keep
moist. Moisture is an essential in celery
growing. Leave the covering ON the beds
until the plants are all up, then remove
and keep the ground moist and free from
weeds. The middle of July 1 prepare
the ground for the plants by digging
trenches about ten inches deep and put
In each trench three inches we'll rotted
manure and two inches soil. Take up
the plants and cut off the tallest leaves
and thoroughly wet the roots and set in
the trench. Do not puddle around plants.
1t is injurious. Keep free from weeds
and earth up, and you are almost sure
of success. raised the Giant Pascal
last year, and better celery 1 never saw.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
This, That and the other.

The first meeting of the new organi-
cation, the Hudson Valley horticultural
society, will be held at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, March IL and 10.
1t is reported that only Az per cent
of the cows of Vermont are found dis
eased, so far as the cattle commissioners
have inspected them.
Japanese millet, according to the
Maine Farmer, has been tested as fodder
for cattle and found inferior to corn.
Good oxen are selling we'll. That
farmer with some good steers growing
up is not far out of the way, says the
Maine Farmer
1t is told in bulletin that "no crop
grown in Rhode Island gives quicker
returns than spinach. .
The Pennsylvania legislature has ap-
propriated $1,000 to defray the expense
of holding farmers institutes under state
auspices in that commonwealth.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23

1t was on suburban train, and he was
hanging on to the strap in front of her.
The woman on the other side listened to
the conversation interestedly, and this is
what she heard:
did you see Jennie Van Arsden go
through the car? No? Well, she looked
awfully sweet. She's got new hat and
a new coat, and she looks just too sweet
in them. L think her father must have
been doing better in business lately, or else
that visitor of theirs is really boarder,
for She got lots of new things lately. And
she's as proud as proud can be- You never
saw such girl to be proud of her things
And boastl Why, she never goes near any
one without telling them just what her
things cost. You ought to have heard her
telling me about what those new clothes
cost.
My coat was $35, and my hat cost
$1S,' she told me the other day, when we
rode out of town together, and l Just
laughed in my sleeve. Just as if she was
the only girl in the world with nice clothes
Now, l wouldn't boast for the world 1
think it's the worst form in the world, but
this coat l have on cost $40, and mamma
paid $50 for my hat. But then l don't
believe in boasting. If l thought l should
ever go round telling what my things
cost, as Jennie Van Arsden does, L should
die
And then she wondered why he made
no answer, and the man across the car
laughed suddenly. Chicago Times-Her-
aid
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
Alfalfa at the East.

A New York correspondent tells in
the New England Homestead that alfalfa
does best with him on land that does
not pay to plant with anything else. He
has the best success with it on dry,
gravelly knobs. He considers it the
nearest to a perfect ration for stock of
any forage plant grown, fed either
green or dry. 1t is easier to cure than
red clover. All kinds of stock are fond
of it and do well on it. Cows will keep
in better flesh and give more milk ON
alfalfa than any other one thing 1t is
ready early in the spring and lasts until
freezing weather, and, when once seed
ed, is with you for term of years. He
can cut three crops per year.
In vacant lot farming around about
New York city it is the improved strains
of vegetables that bring the paying
prices.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-23
Criticism Doing the Business.

"Criticism tends to keep down book
making, l observed meekly. "Quite the
contrary. Criticism encourages it. Most
books are not read. Who can possibly read
ninety-nine of the worst hundred books
published every week? If they were not
even criticised, the writers would shut up
their inkstands Publicity is their aim,
but the publication does not supply it.
Most publishers are rather privateers. 1t
is the critics who supply fame to FOOLS It's
even worse with plays. Why should every
trumpery farce that can get itself badly
produced by moneyless manager, who de-
camps the day after be allotted a space in
every morning, evening and weekly news
paper, fame blowing simultaneously hun
dred trumps?" = Zangwill's without
Preiudica ,,