davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
-. = -
MILK FEVER.
A Disease to Which Pampered Cows Are
Peculiarly Susceptible.

DAbCOU0
Peculiarly Susceptible.
Milk fever, writes the veterinary ed
itor of The Breeders Gazette, is pecul-
iarly disease of the pampered, closely
confined COW of the dairy breeds, and
Jerseys under such conditions seem to
be particularly susceptible. 1t is a rari
ty among cows exercised daily during
winter and equally SO among cows fed
on sloppy food which keeps the bowels
open. From an extensive experience
with the disease we can confidently as
sert that no man need lose COW with
this disease if he carefully follows out
the preventive measures now to be set
down. Bear in mind that lack of exer-
else, rich foods and constipation render
the heavy milking COW that has had
three calves susceptible to the disease.
See then that each pregnant COW is al
lowed or even forced to take ample ex-
ercise during the winter months, for
mastication and digestion cannot be
considered sufficient exercise, although
nonexerciSe advocates claim that they
are At least six weeks before calving
(and service and calving book should
be carefully kept in every herd) the ra-
tions of the COW should be cut down to
simple hay (sour and sweet and bran
mashes containing sufficient oilmeal to
keep the bowels freely open. The COWS
should also be dried off at this time, and
if after drying off milk forms in the
udder prior to parturition portion at
least should be extracted daily to pre-
vent the udder from garget.
If in spite of exercise and this feed
ing the COW continues fat and shows
tendency to constipation, increase the
amount of linseed meal daily and add
few ounces of EPSON salts. A few days
Immediately before calving the tendency
to constipation increases and the allow
ance of meal should be doubled, and if
when signs of calving appear costiveness
continues lose no time in administer
ing pound of epson salts, two ounces
of ground ginger root and one-half
ounce of pulverized saltpeter dissolved
i'll two quarts of hot water. The drench
should be given slowly and very care
fully from long necked bottle or
drenching horn. Do not hold head high.
Keep it straight with the spine and quit
drenching should the COW cough and
allow 10 minutes to pass before giving
more of the medicine
After the calf arrives and before the
afterbirth is expelled give the COW
warm mash. nearly as thin as Cruel,
made as follows: -Four quarts of coarse
bran, one-half pint of fiaxseed meal,
one tablespoonful of salt, one table
spoonful of tincture Of arnica and warm
water to suit. If the COW does not clean
readily, give her from four to eight
quarts of whole oats dry, and if after
ward there are premonitory symptoms
of "milk fever such as restlessness,
stepping up and down with hind feet,
unsteadiness of gait, etc, give rectal
injections of soapy warm water and 20
drop doses of tincture of aconite every
hour with strong stimulant as whisky
and coffee, until symptoms cease. Let
the calf suck for four or five days, and
also hand milk if bag is congested at
any time
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
GRASS FOX HOGS.
Two Ends Accomplished by Furnishing
Swine With Pasturage.

Two Ends Accomplished by Furnishing
Swine With Pasturage.
The hog by nature is grazing ami
NAL. and l believe that pasturage for
him is not only luxury, but a necessi-
ty. By a succession of blue grass, clover
and rye we can at all times have good
pasturage for our hogs, and by furnish
ing them with pasturage we accomplish
two ends-we harvest the crops with
out any expense or labor, and at the
same time the hogs in harvesting it take
the necessary exercise and become fully
developed in bone and muscle. | believe
that the failure of many breeders is due
more to this one fact than to any other
the lack of pasturage. Some breeders
feed what is called properly balanced
rations, feed regularly two or three
times day, rations that contain bone
and muscle producing elements-the
hog eats and lies down and repeats this
as often as he is fed scarcely ever tax
ing any exercise, as he soon knows that
there is nothing for him III his lot ex-
cept what is put in his trough by his
naster-and then the breeder can't I'M
derstand why he has failed to raise a
properly developed hog. You might just
as well attempt to get a race horse or to
make an athlete by feeding only. While
nature demands certain feeds, she also
makes other demands. AS to the cheap
ness of pasturage there can be no doubt
By late experiment made by the Wis
consin station an acre of rape was found
to be equal to AZ bushels of grain. Just
how much grain an acre of clover or
blue grass is equal to am not prepared
TO say, but we all know that when we
feed grain in connection with good pas
tuIaRe we save much grain, and the
hogs are healthier and better.
don't believe the most ardent advo-
Gates of rape claim for it superiority
over clover and blue grass, and / hope
some of our stations will give us the
full feeding value, as they have done in
the case Of rape. In the fall, when we
generally have drought, artichokes
come in well to fill the gap between the
summer grazing and the rye. With plen
ty of good pasturagew need to have very
AAt1Ao 1Cal VI 1OoulAS wv HuCn VI tHne
cheapest of all grains-corn. With good
llasturage you can safely feed freely of
grain. In fact, it never pays to feed
sparingly. Hogs should always be fed
literally. The stingy feeder and the
Log are not very good friends lately
listed two different breeders. One of
them had his hogs on good grass and
plenty of grain, and there saw a SPLEEN
did lot of youngsters and the breeding
stock. including 500 pound boar, were
as active as kittens. The other breeder
Lad some fancy bred stock, bought at
l.igh prices, with plenty of bran and
ship stuff. but no sign of grass of any
Lind, and be had hardly single good
Individual L. Lisle, Before Ken
tucky Swine Breeders.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
LIGHTNING STROKE.
The Many Things 1t Did Besides Curing
Dads Rheumatism.

The Many Things 1t Did Besides Curing
Dads Rheumatism.
"a few years ago Dad Wright of Sal
visa, this state, had a very remarkable
experience with lightning, said gen
tleman from Garrard county, whose
stock of good and true stories is always
large. Ellis escape from instant death
at the time was miraculous. While
Fastening on foot through an open field
toward his home during terrific thun-
derstorm he was struck squarely on the
head by an electric bolt. 1t stripped the
hair from one side of his brainpan, tore
the clothing from his body and made a
crooked black stripe an inch wide down
his left side from head to foot When
struck, he bounced several feet in the
air and fell back upon the ground as if
dead The shaft entered the earth,
throwing up shower of mud.
SAT the time Wright carried in his
hip pocket a loaded revolver. Every
chamber of the weapon was discharged,
the woodwork was burned. and the
metal partially fused by the heat. His
left shoe was ripped from his foot. The
unfortunate man lay senseless and
naked for several hours in the drench-
ing rain, but, incredible as it may seem,
finally regained partial consciousness
and began to stagger uncertainty about
over the field. He was in this pitiable
condition when discovered.
He was soon recognized, taken in
charge and conducted to his home,
where he was clothed and given proper
attention.
GAS result of the stroke his teeth
and toe nails were loosened, his scalp al
most denuded of hair, and his hearing
permanently impaired On the other
hand, he reaped an unexpected and de-
oided benefit. For years prior to the &C.
currence here outlined he had been a
great sufferer from muscular rheuma-
tism, but never afterward felt twinge
of pain from that disease, being COM
pletely cured of it by the terrible shock
''The dark, zigzag streak along the
left side of his body, indicating the
SCARED path of the electric current,
could never be altogether removed, al
though various methods were tried for
this purpose. In very short time
Wright was up and around and as cheer
full as bird. From that time forth he
was famous in that section as the hu-
man lightning rod louisville Post.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
CHERIFF'S SALE.


By virtue of writ of fieri facias to me direct
ed. issued out of the Supreme Court of the State
OF New Jersey, win be exposed at public sale, on
Monday, the Twelfth day Of September, next
between the hours OF IL and o'clock. to wit, at
2 o'clock In the afternoon OF SAID day, at the
Court House In the City OF Woodbury.. County of
Gloucester, and State OF New Jersey, all the fol-
loving described real estate, that is TO say;
All those two certain lots, tracts or pieces OF
land, situate in the County of Gloucester and
State of New Jersey, bounded and described as
First Tract. Situate in the Borough of weno-
nal. b ginning at the southeast corner OF West
Jersey Avenue and Cherry Street.. and extend
Ing ~ In sontherly direction along the east
line of West Jersey Avenue ono hundred and
fifty feet; thence q in an easterIy direction at
right angles with said West Jersey Avenue
northerly direction parallel with said West Jer-
sey Avenue one hundred and fifty feet to the
south line of Cherry Street and thence (4) in a
westerly direction along the same a seventy Aye
section NJ as marked and numbered on map
of Wenonah. on file in the Gloucester County
Clerks ofhce. st Woodbury.: (Being the. same
deed bearing date March lAth, A. D., 1894, OF
record in the Gloucester County Clerks Office,
In Book 1865 of Deeds, folio 486. &C., granted and
conveyed to the said Samuel Irwin Middleton.
Second Tract. Situate in che village Of Man
tua. Beginning in the middle of the public
road leading from Carpenter 5 Landing to
Barnsboro and corner to John Heritage's lot,
snd running from thence ~ by said lot south
eighty degrees west three cnAins and seventy
Ave links 20 corner in the line OF late Thomas
Carpenters land; thence % along the same
north nine and 0ne-haif degrees West, one chain
to a corner to Thomas McIlyain's land; thence
90 along thesame north eighty degrees east
three chains and sixty three links to the middle
OF the aforesaid public road; thence % up said
road south ten degrees east one chain to the
place of beginning. containing thirty hun
dredths OF an acre, be the same more or less.
(BeiDg the same premises which Samuel ID.
Lodge. administrator, by deed bearing date May
10Th, A. D., 1888, Of record in the Gloucester
County Clerks ONCE in Book 1863 OF Deeds, folio
S88, &c, granted and conveyed to the said
samuel Irwin MiddlstOn)
seized as the property OF Samuel Irwin Mid
dleton, defendant, and taken in execution &C the
suit of sundFy plaintiffs, and TO be sold by
WILLIAM COLLINS,
Jos. ]. summerill. Atty. Sheriff.
Dated Aug. 10, 1873. PRS fee $ii.70
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
& HERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of arit of fieri facias to me di-
rected. issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State of New Jersey, will be exposed at public
sale, on
Monday, the Twenty ninth day Of August,
next. between the hours of 12 and O'Clock, to-wit
at O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
Court House in the city Of Woodbury., County of
Gloucester, and State of New Jersey, all the fol-
lowing described Real Estate, that is TO say:
All the following described lot, tract, or piece
OF land. situate in the City of Woodbury. in the
bounded and described as follows: Beginning
at point on the North side of Cooper street,
eastwardly from Broad Street, and extending
thence northwardy along the east line of land
and premises now owned by George G. Green to
corner in the southerly line of lands of Asa
Colson (now occupied by C. T. Bennett; thence
eastwardly along the southerly line Of said Asa
COlson's land, and parallel with Cooper ST. afore-
said. to q corner In lands now belonging to the
Friendship Fire Engine Company; thence south
wardly along lands of the said Friendship Fire
Engine Company to a corner in the nOrtherly
side of Cooper st. aforesaid; thence westwardly
the place Of beginning Containing within said
bounds a two-story brick stable fifty feet in
front or width on said Cooper street. by forty feet
in depth. (Being the same premises which John
twenty-fi day Of May, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one of
record in the Office of the Clerk in the said
County Of Gloucester, at Woodbury., in Book 159
the said Lewis ID. Dilks under the name of Lewis
D. Dilks, in fee.
Seized as the property Of Lewis D. Dilks, ct
Tx ct al defts., and taken in execution at the
suit Of Joseph S. Taggart and John R. Whits ELL
Guardians &C., compIaina is, and to be sold by
JOS ]. Summerill, Solr Sheriff
Dated July %, 1898. Prs fee $780,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
BITS ABOUT PORTO RICO.

Porto Rico was discovered by Columbus
in 1893
In 1855 cholera carried off 10000 of the
inhabitants. Still it's healthy.
Porto Rico ranks fourth in the Greater
Antilles, having first place, however, in
density OF population and general pros
perity.
The San Juan drainage system is thor
ough The houses are all connected with
sewers, which go underground, and all
empty into the sea. so that there are even
no cutters
The city of San Juan, of perhaps 10000
population, is Situated on an island con-
nected with tho mainland by n bridge. Its
harbor is one OF three only which are safe
at all times from "a ground swell, which
often breaks against the island cliffs with
great violence
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
THE MERRYMAKERS.
A Conservative Patniot.

A Conservative Patniot.
don't heed half the ravin
Bout war, with thunders dread,
But the ole flags jest a-wavin
An ripplin down its red,
An folks that talk O. fightin
Must be kecrful how they tread,
Fer we're ready when the worst comes
In the mornini
don't heed half the buster,
/ don't keer fer the brag,
But we're ready here ter muster
An rally roun the flag,
An folks that talk O. fightin
Should set steady ON their nag,
Fer we're ready when the worst comes
In the mornini
Amt marchin or a-ridin,
Amt dodgin roun the stump.
keeps my faith abidin
Till see the rabbit jump,
An then raise my rifle,
An make that rabMit hump,
Fer we're ready when the worst comes
In the mornin!
Atlanta Constitution.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
TO Kill Canada Thistles.

In regard TO killing Canada thistles
a correspondent Of Farm, Field and
Fireside says: Imanured the patch very
heavy in the fall, SO it would raise
about IS bushels of corn to the acre.
Then I plowed it up very early in the
spring and narrowed it till it was fine
and nice. Then l sowed it to hemp and
narrowed it i'll we'll. 1t soon came up
and grew right along. When about five
feet high, it completely smothered the
thistles out, as there was not particle
Of vegetation OH the ground but the
hemp. One good crop of hemp will to-
tally destroy them if the ground is
made rich.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18

1t is not good economy to give two
pounds of cheese for one 1t is not good
business to depress prices by reducing
quality. 1t is not good sense to insist
on forms that are not popular or to re-
fuse to adopt those that suit the public
taste and command the highest prices.
We sell less domestic cheese and buy
more foreign makes year by year. 1t is
time to reverse the operation Country
Gentleman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
HAWAII.

A cable to Hawaii will be necessity if
for no other reason than to satisfy public
curiosity on election night Syracuse
Post
The Hawaiian alphabet has but ~ let
tiers, and now we've got to go to work and
teach them IA more That's one of the
drawbacks we encounter by taking them
in. Montgomery Advertiser
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
TI,a Limo sulphur Din.

Some Of our valued exchanges are
again Publishing the old lime sulphur
formula for sheep dip and advising its
use We do not. 1t is not satisfactory
dip to the wool manufacturer, and the
woolgrower cannot afford TO neglect the
requirements of the man who furnishes
him market For the average man the
best plan is to buy good dip and use
ii according to directions. It may cost a
little more in cash, but it will save
time and trouble. and it will kill the
ticks and the scab without hurting the
sheep or the wool.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18

To William FL. Hughes:

TO WllEtdHt II. HUGHES.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry of New Jersey, made on the day of the date
hereof. wherein Anna HugbeJ il complainant
and you. William H. Hughes are defendant, you
required to appear, plead and answer or de-
muir to the COMPLIMENTS BILL on or before the
t.Usnty fourth day of August nexto the said bill
will be taken as confessed against you, and the
Chancellor will make such decree as he shall
think equitable and just.
he said bill is filed against you for divorce
from the bond of matrimony.
WILLIAM j. KRAFT,
Solicitor of complainant.
No. lib Market St., Camden, N. J.
Dated June 23d, 1898.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
ERFyM ~ Z
lE::EDG
assg AKPEN
-. LINING THE SOIL.
When Lime Is IDjurious-The Only Way
to Use 1t Successfully.

When Lime Is Injurious Only Way
to Use 1t Successfully.
Excessive amounts of lime, especially
on light soils. may have an injurious
action. The instances in which lining
is undesirable are stated as follows by
DR.. H. j. Wheeler, who has thorough
ly investigated the action of lime in the
soil at the Rhode Island station:
Freshly Stacked lime upon light sandy
soils containing but small amounts of
organic matter hastens unduly' the de-
composition of the organic matter apd
thus renders the soil more open and less
retentive of fertilizers and moisture
than before. If freshly Stacked lime
must be used upon such soils, it should
be applied in small amounts and at not
too frequent intervals. Clay marls are
much better adapted than other forms
of lime for the improvement of such
soils. In lieu of such mari, wood ashes
or lime which has been exposed to the
action of the air for long time might
be preferable to lime freshly prepared.
Before the advent of complete ferti-
lizers VI was common adage Inat linn
ing makes rich fathers and poor sons. y
If lime is used alone, it serves to liber
ate potash, nitrogen and perhaps some
times phosphoric acid, and the extra
drain of increased crops on the soil nat
urally leaves it finally in worse con-
dition than at the outset. In other cases
the soil reverts after many years to its
former state of unproductiveness with
out appreciable injury.
Continued success from Lining can
only be obtained by the use Of the other
essential manurial fertilizing constitu-
ents in connection with the lime. Few
if any cases are on record where soils
originally in need of lime have failed
to continue to give good results from
lining when care was taken to main
tain supply of the other essential con-
stituents and where lime was applied
in moderate amounts.
There are impure forms of lime which
after burning will harden like cement
and which on this account may have an
injurious action upon the soil. If pull
verified without burning, they are capa-
BILE of yielding good results.
Dolomitic (magnesian) limestone con-
tains widely varying percentages of
magnesia and lime. Such stone if con-
tanning high percentages of magnesia
may sometimes prove Objectionable if
used exclusively. When such material
is applied to soils, the lime is removed
by crops and the drainage water more
rapidly than the magnesia, and if the
lime thus becomes practically exhaust
ed the residual magnesia in the soil may
have an injurious action. This can.
however, be overcome by adding more
lime. Rather than use such lime for
long periods of years on the same land
it would be preferable to alternate fire.
quently with lime containing little or
no magnesia. Some magnesia i'll lime is
by no means Objectionable and may on
certain soils prove positively beneficial.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
Dated surrogate,s once, July IS.
TO CREDITORS.

Robert s. Clymer, administrator of the estate
Of Eleanor Ware, deceased, by direction of the
Surrogate OF the county of Gloucest r. hereby
Ware, deceased, to bring in their debts claims
and demands against the estate of the said de-
cedent, under oath or affirmation, within nine
months from this date, or they will be forever
barred of any action therefor against.the said
administrator.
ROBERT S. CLYMER,
Administrator
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
NOTICE TO CREDTTORs.

Joseph H. Master, administrator OF the estate
of Joseph T. Kelley deceased, by direction of
the Surrogate Of the County of Gloucester, here
by gives notice to the creditors of the said
Joseph T. Kelley, deceased, to bring in their
debts, claims and demands against the estate of
said decedent. under oath or affirmation, within
nine months from this date, or they will be for
ever barred of any action therefore against said
administrator.
JOSEPH H. MASTER.
Dated August 3, 1s9S--l1
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
Trnnhla

DO you think the United States will
want all our colonial possessionsg" asked
one discontented Spaniard.
No, replied the other. "4hcy II leave
us just enough islands to keep us in con-
tinual hot water over naval appropria.
tions, Washington star.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
Dated July Q, 1898. TIA s..
4 Office TO CREDITOR RS.

Sarah Ann Chew. executrix of Samuel
Lewallen, deceased, by direction Of the surro-
gate OF the county of Gloucester. hereby gives
notice to the creditors Of the said Samuel Lew
allen, deceased, to bring in their debts, Gains
and demands against the estate of the said de-
cedant. under oath or affirmation, within nine
months from this date. or they will be forever
barred Of any action therefor against the said
exeeutrix. SARAH A CHEW,
Dated July IS, 1858 7-2l-98 Executrix.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
No Escape Possible.

When the iceman brings h4s bill,
Though we try with all our skill
To avoid vituperative
Phrases limiting that his native
Talents fit him for horrid
Place VIGOROUSLY torrid,
We protest in accents frigid
Phat his figures are too rigid
And his life is one long vice;
Then we
Bug
More
Ice.
chicago RECORD
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-18
GLoUcEsTER COUNTY ORPHANS

In the matter OF the Es-
tate of Catherine Am Order to Show Cause.
bruster. deceased.
For an order to sell lands to pay debts.
VIM. G. Cowgirl, Elk cutor of Casharine Am
bruster, deceased, having exhibited to this
Court under oath just and true account of the
personal estate and debts of said deceased,
whereby it appears that the personal estate of
said Catherine Ambruster, deceased, is INSULT
ne ~ P5y uea anu ~ te s sis Coz 81
day of April, A. D. 1898, ordered that all per-
sons interested in the lands tenements and real
estate of said deceased, appear before the Court,
at the Court house in the City of Woodbury.. on
Friday. the 9Th Day of July, next, at ten
clock in the forenoon, and show cause why so
much of the said lands tenements and heredita-
ments and real estate, should not be sold as will
be sufficient TO pay her debts or the residue
thereof as the case may require.
By the Court MILLARD F. DUBOIS,