Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-12-06
BOARD OF AaRrcuf3
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BOARD OF Adk1cuL Monde,
a meeting Of the Gloucs
Board Of Agriculture was held 2 10 p
in Patrons hall, Mullica Hill meeting
The meeting was called to OF ninatlnl
m. After the minutes Of the ers wa
were read and a few bills paid er, Nm
committee to nominate new Kelley
chosen, as follows: Joseph H.
Gleason, Aaron W. Borton, 81 est meek
and John c. Heritage. eet witt
The question, tWhat is The aid tina
of the present timer" did III greatest
general discussion, but one we
good health and honesty were souid %
needs. source
The question, What adyani abor 2
derived to farmers, and from W q paper
by adopting ten-hour system & system
was discussed. Belle stewar Q more
on the advantage of the ten led ten
showing how hired man coul9 nat ht
time with his family if he onl let and
hours. George II. Homer fslid ~ the
could not find anything on this SUD
would be glad if some one would #ectlon
advantages Of that system. Enough
John G. WhitalI said that in hisEand q
the farmers considered ten hours Sin ten
for man who was a good worker many
man that could not do days work long,
hours was not much good, and no hours.
farmers wanted them to work tlaWofked
some men not working over 6ght 5 work
One person remarked that if nan kchores
ten hours and considered that aday BIT if a
and went home, who would do thel some
around home9 Mn Whitali sad tIbrk ten
man wanted to hire team fronser that
storage place he expected them ) w4lS.
hours and take care of the horse : 81 II the
time and not in the ten hours Of ii S work
One gentleman wanted to ktd that in
dairy work was included in the d.aded the
A Salem county man arose and s7sl ing at
his section the days work inci, sila or
dairy work and they stopped wop at 6
6 o'clock, or il they were filling II all the
some such work they did not
O'Clock, but stopped in time to give cons
dairy work done at 6 O'Clock. three
The question, What is the rel; rs, but
dition of farming to-day to that 5leoInlr-
years ago, = met with many ansY
most of the time was taken on the exDec-
geEine question, IeniarlSs
Mr.. So1nmers said that he was gard to
ted by the committee to make any It what
but he would say few things in Iars ago
it. He said, Farming to-day is NE crops
it was three years ago. Three y9lace.
wheat and potatoes were the prineii gestern
but now they have taken a second saving
Wheat has mostly gone to cur arms
brothers who make business Of gfod at
this crop. He also said that the fago.
that were for sale to-day sold easier almer
a better price than they did three yelrs few
Theodore Brown said that if anY8fa4his
would look over his records OF the last tile
years and compare them with those Of 10
year he would find that there has been lifor
or no increase over those Of three years I'D
He said that if you would take onionsere
example you would find that they We
hardley. sell and when they did they weT
not worth much. bis
Another gentleman said that he neld
knew a better time to sell onions than an
year, and Mr. Brown replied that ic y ole
liked to have known where the gentlen
sold his before this as he would have mag
some money on them. ali
a postal was read before the meeth-
warning the farmers against the Grout Bat
which relates to the coloring of oleomsf 60
rine John G. Whitall arose and said IbrI
he thought a person had as much rigiS if
color oleo as any butterman had to soir,
butter. He said that oleo was clean aldo.
a person wanted to eat oleo as bCttet-
colored as butter, they had a perfect right te
Mr. WhitalI said that most all the Arid
ers who made butter, colored it and
asked if there were any present who I'D
not color it. Many said they did. he
Mr. Brown said that any one who wa ne
to eat mule grease that did not hayes&ot
feathers picked off were perfectly well I'D
to do ii, but he thought that it shout gat
be colored and put on the market and e
as butter 50 that people who wanted biz
butter ate that stuff instead One gd8ed
man said that when it was not color
was worth J to J a cent a pound but col i
it was worth as much as butter.
A petition was sent to Senators s.
and. Kean to have the Grout bill put IN
hands of the committee of AgrieHlt
when it reached the Senate so as to prohilI
oleo's sale as butter. The officers chosen w
President, Aaron W Borton; v. Presidef
John Tonkin; Secretary, Albert Herita.
Treasurer, w. H. Borton; Executive Co =
mittee, J. II. Brown, Wn, T.;,,.a
Iebecca Parker, Belle Stewart and John & /
Heritage Delegate to The State Board5
agriculture, Asa Moore; delegate to III
State Board of Horticulture, Benz. H9
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