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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
CUTTING HAY WITH BINDER.
Progressive New York Farmers Find Little
to Commend the Practica

to Commend the Practice.
There are farmers who cut their tim
othy hay with binders and report good
results. According to correspondence in
the columns of The Rural New Yorker,
there is little to commend the practice.
A farmer writing from Schuyler coun-
ty, N. Y, says:
| have never used my binder for cut
ting timothy hay. can see no advan-
tage except in the way of storage. 1t
seems to me that the outside of the bun
dies must be weather beaten before the
inside would be cured enough to keep
when packed in the NOV. One of my
neighbors used his binder for cutting
ripe timothy hay for seed, and claims
that it was very successful way of
handling this crop.
J. S. Woodward of western New York
writes:
have never seen binder that would
cut close enough to the ground to get
all the grass. like to cut timothy not
more than two inches from the ground.
The stalks Of timothy shrink very much
AL SdAAAAS, anu uAi4Cbb DOulA fC1J
ly the bundles would ''spill out" when
being handled If bound sufficiently
tight, the green grass would take long
time to dry out, and the outside would
suffer from weathering before the in
side was fit to put in the NOW. / like
to cut timothy for hay, if for home
feeding, when just out of the first
bloom. Even little before does no
harm. When cut at this period, it con-
tains so much moisture that think it
would be slow, expensive process to
get it we'll cured 1t is possible, if
allowed to stand, as many practice
when expecting to sell the hay, until
nearly ripe before cutting, and it had
but little bottom, +" that it might be
cut and bound and made into fair hay,
but even then the expense Of Irvine for
tying the bundles would be too much
to make the practice commendable.
! like to put timothy, when thor
oughly wilted, into good sized cocks,
and let it do most of its curing while in
these cocks, as hay cut green and SO
cured will be greener, brighter, sweeter
and more palatable and digestible than
that allowed to get more mature before
cutting / am aware that the weight of
hay cut from the same ground, when
cut SO early, will be less than when
standing to mature stage, and as the
market calls for this ripper hay it is pol
icy to let it stand when to be sold, but
when to be put into the home market"
fed ON the farm-the net result in
growing stock is in favor of early cut
ting.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Trial of Hay Cans.

The frequent and extended use of the
three styles of hay caps-viz, the
Symmes' paper board, oiled cotton and
cotton impregnated with tannin, has
led to the following conclusions at the
Massachusetts, hatch experiment. station;
/. Caps of some sort are extremely
useful. especially with such crops as
clover, millet, oats and peas and other
slow curing crops, especially those
much injured by excessive handling.
2. The Symmes' cap is most quickly
applied-an important point-and is
best liked. 1t appears to be wearing
very well. 3. OF the two styles of cloth
caps in use, those impregnated with
tannin are most durable. The oiled caps
are more widowed than the others and
have become much more torn. 4. 1t
has been found that in some cases,
where clover has been cooked quite
green and covered with the three kinds
of caps and allowed to stand for some
time with frequent rains, it has kept
better under the cloth than under the
Symmes' caps The porosity of the for
mer in such cases appears to be an ad-
vantage.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Carelessness in girlhood causes the
greatest suffering and unhappiness in af-
ter life. Little irregularities and weak
nesses in girls should be looked after
promptly and treatment given at once.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription pro-
notes regularity of all feminine functions
makes strength and builds up a sturdy
health with which to meet the trials to
come. The Favorite Prescription is not a
universal panacea. 1t is good for but one
thing. 1t is directed solely at one set of
organs.
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser, 1908 page medical work, profusely
illustrated, will be sent free on receipt of
q one-cent stamps to cover postage only.
Address Worlds Dispensary Medical AS
sociation. Buffalo,N Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
A FAST COLT.
Cyclone Was the Youngsters Name and
He Richly Deserved 1t.

Cyclone Was the Youngsters Name and
He Richly Deserved 1t.
Several men gathered about a horse
near the western market commenting
upon the prominence of the beast IS
ribs and general lankiness. The ami
NAL belonged to farmer living near
Ypsilanti, and, it was said, never per
mitted grass to grow under its feet on
the road. The farmer was not pleased
with the remarks and the strong in
ferences that the poor thing had never
realized the sensation of corn and oats.
What do you call your horse?'' was
asked.
Cyclone, and don't he look itP'' re-
piled the man from the rural districts.
"Cyclonel What a namel He certain
ly looks as if one had struck him. "
"That's what happened to him, my
friend. 1t was just like this You re-
member the awful breeze we had out to
Ypsilanti about three years ago? This
Teller was sucking colt at the time
and was in the barn with two horses
The cyclone, regular old hummer, came
along and thrashed the barn off it's legs
and dropped it nigh on to 100 yards
away After the twister had raised all
the hob, fences and sheds it could we
went out to look things up The two
horses were stone dead and the colt
would you believe itP-was nowhere to
be found.
Next day l turned over the hen
coop, which lay in the field half mile
away. Right in that coop and laying
on the door which faced down was the
colt. He commenced kicking when he
heard us, and we took him out in a
hurry. He wasn't scared bit, | tell
you, and was cool as cucumber The
neighbors say they saw the coop goin
through the air and the colt after it.
The little Teller caught the coop and
got inside of it to save himself that's
what be did. That's the plain truth,
and if you don t believe it ask the colt
Good day, strangers. Detroit Free
Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.
Things Farmers Ought to Know Before
Applying Them.

Things Farmers Ought to Know Before
Applying Them.
The principal featurs of farmers
bulletin on commercial fertilizers by E.
B. Voorhees, are brought out in the fol-
lowing summary:
Commercial fertilizers are mainly
valuable because they furnish the ele-
ments-nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash-whieh serve as food, not as
stimulants. The kind of farming in the
past and the demands for special prod
ucts in the present make their use neces-
sary in profitable farming,
In order to use these commercial fer
tilizers proftably the farmer should
know, first, that nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash are the essential ma
nurial constituents; second, that the
agricultural value of these constituents
depends largely upon their chemical
form; third, that these forms are con-
tanned in specific products of we'll de-
fined character and composition, and
may be purchased as such from dealers
and manufacturers, and may be mixed
successfully on the farm.
The agricultural value Of fertilizer
bears no strict relation to the CONNER
cial value. The one is determined by
soil, crop and climatic conditions, the
other by market conditions.
The variations in the composition and
value of manufactured fertilizers which
contain the three essential constituents
are due to variations in the character
and in the proportion of the materials
used.
The ton basis alone is not a safe guide
in the purchase of these commercial
fertilizers. Low ton prices mean either
low content of good forms of plant food
or the use of poorer forms. Fertilizers,
high grade both in quality and quantity
of plant food, cannot be purchased at a
low price per ton.
The best fertilizers cannot exert their
full effect on soils that are too dry or
too wet, too compact or too porous.
They can furnish but one of the condi-
tions-fertility.
The kind and amount of fertilizer to
use should be determined by the value
of the crop grown and its power of ao-
quiring food.
A definite system or plan should be
adopted in the use of commercial fertil-
izers. Hit or miss methods are ex-
pensive.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Importance of Regular Living.

ACQUISITION has lately arisen as to the in
crease or the reverse in nervous diseases,
some arguing that the cause of the sup
posed increase in such nervous diseases lies
in the increased demand made by the con-
ditions of modern life upon the brain. 1t
is quite true that the conditions of life are
very different nowadays from what they
were a few years ago. We now live in high
pressure age and in one of keen competi-
ton, when greater effort is needed in every
branch of life to attain successful posi-
ton, when the brain is always working
and there is constant tension. Such con-
ditions, it will be perfectly obvious to all,
are not favorable to diminution of nerv-
Gus diseases, but rather the reverse At
the same time, 1t cannot be denied that
the comforts of life have increased. We
have better sanitation, cleaner houses and
fresher air.
There can be no question that men of
regular habits are healthier, happier, live
longer and do more than those who obey
caprice and impulse. The adoption of
hygienic habits saves the nervous system
an enormous amount of friction and waste
1t preserves vitality. Regularity econo-
mixes not only physical stamina, but time
as we'll The man who knows no system
in the details of his life, who exhausts ma
ture at the instance of passing within,
who drinks and smokes to excess, who
wastes the talents bestowed upon him, is
the one who must sooner or later fall vic
tim to disease. Regularity and modera-
ton In all things should be the motto of
life, and it should be remembered that
regularity does not necessarily preclude the
enjoyment of variety A certain amount
of variety prevents man from becoming a
mere machine, but variety should not in
terfere with those regular habits of life
which are necessary to the maintenance of
health.-New York Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

The morning of opportunity passes the
day of accountability never.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Experiment with nitrogen.

The editor of The Rural New Yorker
is experimenting with the new bottled
bacteria of leguminous plants He Sc
cured bottle of the special bacteria Of
red clover, and the plan is to work a
poor, sandy field well and add good
lressing of basic Stag and kainit. The
clover seed will then be soaked in So
luton of the nitrogen and sowed in the
usual manner. The theory is that these
bacteria will at once begin their work
on the clover plants and enable them to
absorb nitrogen from the air. If this is
what really happens, such seed ought to
produce a good crop without any nj
trogenous fertilizer. 1t is an interesting
experiment, and will be watched with
interest
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Uncle John-Well what do you mean
to be when you get to be mani
Little Tommy (promptly)-A doctor,
like pa.
Uncle John (quizzcally)-Indeed and
which do you intend to be, an allopath OF
homeopath
Little Tommy don't know what them
awful big words mean, Uncle John but
that don't make no difference, cause /
amt goin' to be either of 'em. I'm Just
goin' to be family doctor an give all my
patients Hoods Sarsaparilla, cause my pa
says that if he is doctor. he's 'bliged to
own up that Hoods Sarsaparilla is the
best family medicine he ever saw in his
life.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Bob Jolly of Cave City has hand
saw purchased in 1896 in Virginia. It
was bought in that year by the grand
father of the Otter brothers, the well
known Louisville merchants, who are
no spring chickens at this writing
themselves Mr.. Otter, the grandfather,
shortly after moved to Kentucky and
brought the saw with him. Mr.. Jolly
has ov ned the saw for 43 years. The
rear wheels Of the wagon in which Mr..
Otter made lis trip to Kentucky from
Virginia are sill to be seen on the place
of bifs Caleb Freeman in the Cave
City country. These are about 100 years
old Glasgow Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
TIE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS

Are features peculiar to Hoods Pills. Small in
size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. AS one man
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

and you will have to pull out the inner
tube and make an old-fashioned repair
by putting patch of rubber on the
outside of the inner tube.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Hires Rootbeer Cannot be Initiated.

Its doubtful II any modern commodity ex-
cept money has been counterfeited more than
Hires Rootbeer. By progressive and covert
advertising this article has attained a trade
mark peculiar TO itself and its wide popular
lty and immense sale is an irresistible attrac-
ton for the INSCRIPTIONS lnlitator. Justice
however is beginning TO realize that the pub
lie must be protected from such practices as is
evinced by the decision just rendered by
Judges Finletter ana Gordon in Philadelphia,
Court of Common Pleas No. 3, restraining
George A. Hires, namesake of Mr.. Charles &c.
Hires from man featuring and selling prep
This is a move in The right direction, US this
superior article should not be substituted by
inferior stuff.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
The grand SPECIFIC tor the prevailing

The grand specific Tor the prevailing
malady of the age, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plant, Rheumatism, Costiveness, General
Debility, etc, is Bacon's Celery King for
the Nerves. This great herbal tonic
stimulates the digestive organs, regulates
the Liver and restores the system to vigor-
GUS health and energies. Sample free.
Large packages SOC and 25c. Sold only by
Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickitt,
Mount Holly; W. c. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and H. H.
Leeds. Raneocas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Japanese journalism, says mission
ary's wife, sis singular profession in
many Of its features. There is practically
no such thing as freedom Of the press In
Japan. Whenever newspaper publishes
something unfriendly to the government
1t is suppressed and the editor is sent to
prison. The real editor is never impris-
oned, though. Every newspaper has what
the Japanese call dummy editor, and it
is his sole duty to go to Jail every time the
paper is suppressed for offending the
mlkado. Then the real editor changes the
name Of thepaper aud keeps on publishing
It, Dummy editors spend most Of their
time in prison"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Last summer | was feeling weak and
tired. l had taken medicines without
any benefit, and friend called my atten
ton to Hoods Sarsaparilla. After l had
taken the second bottle felt its good eff
fects, and after taking the fourth bottle !
was as healthy as ever" II. KELLER, 1O2
West oath St., Wilmington. Del.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

Land which grows strong crop of
clover will, if rightly managed, grow
good corn, wheat or potatoes after it.
Maine Farmer says: Without question
this is the cheapest way to maintain
fertility and to save labor and money.
We should make the best possible use
of clover as fertilizer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
FAITH AND THE UNIVERSE.

A trembling star that steals along,
Vast nights belated wanderer;
A pale ghost by the splendor strong
OF Venus and of Jupiter
A world forlorn, with one sad moon
To light across the unsounded deep
Her clouded orbit and, the swoon
OF Der dream shaken, shuddering, sleep
Is this the place where one should say
Was found a creed for all the spheres
That truths sole sun is the weak ray
That fits thro our embarrassed yearsf
No thought of God august, benign,
Born Of hopes, reason s, puzzled strife,
May fully the yelled force define
Which feeds the roots of boundless life.
Joseph Truman in Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
A Smart Mtn,star

"Yardsley donated caster worth 81
cents to the minister and put tag on
it marked $16."
"YesI"
Well, the parson took the article to
Yardsley's store yesterday aud traded it
for dry goods. Yardsley's smile won +
be able to be out again for six weeks. :"
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
HIS RECOMMENDATION.

Bannister, the comedian, was present
ed to proud old Scotch dame. "'Who
are the Bannisters?" she asked peevish-
ly. II do not recollect meeting with
them before. . Madam, replied the
actor gravely, 1--WE are closely connect
ed with the Stairs " "Ah, there is
good and ancient familyP' cried mad
am. Mr.. Bannister, l am delighted to
make your acquaintance. "-Household
Words
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
ISlants h,rnnn Rnda

There are certain varieties of noun
tain plants which have singular pro-
vision of nature for perpetuating their
species. The duration of summer in
those elevated regions is too short to
permit of the ripening of seeds, and the
top buds fall off and take root as would
the seeds,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
Woodcock Eggs.

Owing to the inhabitants of Sweden
being very partial to the eggs of the
woodcock, it is more than probable that
the breed will be greatly diminished, if
not at last totally extirpated. The eggs
of the above species are to be seen for
sale in large numbers in the various
markets in Stockholm.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
A Summer Cure.

In a news item in The Sun doctor
is quoted as saying that days Austen
ton from food will cure summer COM
plant. Some years ago the writer cured
dysentery of several weeks duration by
taking few wineglassful doses Of the
following formula at half hour intervals
viz, tablespoonful of table salt and
two of cider vinegar in a pint of water
The relief was permanent. The remedy
was recently used by person suffering
from a customary summer complaint,
and two doses effected cure of the
complaint e r. d. in New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10


have made in a number of years of
ardent collection quite library of my
own notes, and the fact that l have al
ready lived two-thirds of my probable
tether of life and am ''buccaneer" of
the newspaper world by stress of cir
cumstances sometimes gives me a pang.
l recognize the righteousness of my col
lection for an impossible future of com
fort and leisure, for even one possible
posthumous work l have never had
leisure to produce one whole or COM
plete piece of literature and probably
never shall have days leisure in my
life, but this irony of fate does not de-
ter me.
am like collector of specimens of
butterflies. He will never learn to fly,
or the secret of it, or anything in par
ticular, but he goes on collecting.
shall never write the books of the
sketch skeletons in my imagination, but
l shall certainly continue to make end
less preparations for posthumous Ii
brary of, according to my schemes and
plots and themes, some 1000 sturdy
volumes.
The world of readers may thank God
perhaps that these books will not APP
pear in print, but am just mad
enough to get some zest in life out of
making, in imagination, these schemes
for books that can never be written.
Perhaps it is as sane an occupation as
old china collecting, stamp collecting,
button collecting and, to jump to the
extreme Of Philistinism, the collection
of dubious old masters, mostly daubs.
| confess this speculation seems to me
to be fad no wiser. Looking at it from
my point of view, as book lover,
think what a library these daubs would
buy.-Lotus
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10

They were out driving and had come
upon fine stretch of shady country
road.
DO you believe in palmistry," he
asked-"the reading of ones FORTUNE
by the lines in ones handP''
u believe" she said, that if
could see the lines in only one of your
hands l could foretell that we would
have very pleasant drive.
He immediately caught on and
grasped the reins with one hand and
the situation with the other.-Comic
Cuts.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
DESCENDANTS OF PILGRIMS.
Sir Walter Besant Figures That There
Are 10000 In America.


Sir Walter Besant Figures That There
Are 10000 In America.
Many people in America claim descent
from the pilgrim fathers There might
be a very considerable number, if we
come to think of it. For instance, let
us assume the number of married peo-
pie among the first hundred who sur
vived the first winter as 20 couples. We
will allow them three children apiece.
We will give to each Of these children
two-a large allowance, it is true. Then
we have for each married couple, for
the first generation, 8 descendants; for
the second, 6; for the third, IL; for the
fourth, "a; for the fifth, 48; for the
sixth, 90; for the seventh, 1879; for the
eighth, 1884; for the ninth and the pres
ent generation, 768, and for the orig
inal 20 married couples, 1890 So
that the living descendants of the May
flower pilgrims can hardly be more than
about 10, 900. Out of these a great many
have probably clean forgotten their de-
scent. Probably there are not anything
like 10, 900.
If were an American, ] should GER
tainly like to be one Of that 1000.
Not that feel the least attraction to a
narrow and fanatic religion, but be-
cause the pilgrim fathers made SO fierce
a fight for existence and a PLACE where
they could think as they pleased and
allow no one else to think as he might
please. Ancestry, in this country at
least, is chiefly a matter of selection.
The people who keep up their geneal-
ogies drop out as they go along num-
berless branches. People who wish to
recover their genealogies have got to
'hitch on" at one of the dropped
branches. Every marriage in geneal-
ogy is kind of junction, where many
lines may meet. Now, the business of
the genealogist is to look up all the juno
tions, to follow up each one and to
choose the line which offers the most
desirable alliances. Some years ago an
ingenious gentleman offered to find roy
al descent for any one for e7O down.
He did it, too, quite honestly. He said
that if you could only get back 100
years or so it was perfectly easy to con-
meet with Edward or Edward Ill
Sir Walter Besant in London Queen.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-10
There Is a Olass OF peanle

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in ali the grocery stores
a new preparation called GRAIN-0, made OF
pure grains that takes the place OF Coffee
The most delicate stomach receives it without
distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. 1t
does not cost over Il as much. Children may
drink it with great benefit 10 cts. and 20 cts.
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.