Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-01

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The more hay. particularly. clover
hay, can be cured under GOVERN the
cock, in the field or In the stack or
mow--without damage by heating, the
sweeter, more nutritious and better will
it be. Hot suns, dews. winds and rains
make short work and bad work with
what might be good hay.
Twelve hundred registered Here
ford cattle have been sold since
Jan. at an average price Of $240 per
head. Good cattle have never been in
greater demand than at the present
time. Stockmen are getting on to the
fact that 1t costs no more to keep a
well bred animal than scrub.
The ignorant, dirty, slouchy butter
maker is fast finding that he is out Of
a Job. The man who has taken a spe-
cial training at our agricultural schools
and understands the science of milk is
the man who Is wanted to make the
butter. Good butter may be made by
guess, but mighty little nowadays.
At this season of the year. the last
of June, house and barn cats are busy
foraging in the fields and groves. They
are after the young birds, which for
day or two after they leave the nest
are an easy prey for these providers.
We sometimes wonder which Of the
two is the bigger pest-cats or rats and
mice.
1t is quite likely that the fuel sup
plies of this country will undergo
very marked change should the recent
discoveries of fuel oil prove to be per-
manent in their supply. Oil as a fuel
has many advantages over coal In that
it costs far less to transport it and pro-
duce it, is smokeless and self feeder
for all furnace work.
Here is a fashion note for the young
man on the farm: If you are a hard
worker and are we'll tanned up. as you
are quite likely to be, you will look bet
ter dressed if you wear colored rath-
er than white shirt and collar, and
mind that you let gaudy neckwear
01nnn White oYaI OF
or purple and brown never harmonic.
Foreign nations are willing that
America should feed the world and fur
nish cotton to clothe 1t, but are most
vigorously kicking when we propose to
furnish them all sorts of manufactured
goods at prices less than they can pro-
duce them for and of better quality.
1t will do them no good to kick, for
they are dependent upon us for their
bread and butter.
There has been evolved this year O
very distinct and marked advance in
the science of roadmaking by the use
Of the traction engine as motive pow
er for graders. Wherever tried it has
proved a most marked success Why
not go one step farther and use the EN-
CINE to haul the gravel to make a fin
ished highway? We look to see this
the next step.
The work of many a housewife is
greatly increased just because the fam
lily is addicted to depraved use Of
the frying pan and the baking powder
biscuit Young lady, If your lover tells
you he wants hot biscuit twice day,
don't you marry him. The chances are
STA or Brights disease before he is 40
and be so ugly you will want to go
home to your ma.
We note with good deal of salts
faction that a grain and stock buyer of
a certain western state who for some
time had been menkeying with his
scales and Offering to sell to other buy
ers device which would make it easy
for the buyer to rob the farmer has
been rounded up by Uncle Sam and
made to ante up $1,000. He ought to
have been given u chance to have re-
pented of his meanness In the peni-
tertiary.
When q fat hog year old sells for
$50 in the cora belt. as now, it is no
wonder that grangers pose as presi-
dents of national banks. The $50 hog
is In the same class, OF wealth pro-
ducers as oil wells and pay dirt in a
gold mine. The rrunt Of satisfaction
given by the hog us he lies down to
snooze is moi to be compared to the
grunt of satisfaction on the part of the
granger as he cashes the check received
for the hog.
The average creamery will disburse
to the farmers which patronfze 1t
about $4,000 q year. This sum is
about equal to that which 25 average
quarter section farms will produce one
year with another Where there is
help to milk and care for the cows the
dairy business is the safest foundation
for all northern agriculture, and, If
anything, this statement will apply
with more force to the farms in the
eastern than in the western states.
Clover suffers far less from drought
than timothy or blue grass, as it is a
deeper rooted plant. We noted two
fields the other day, one of clover and
one of timothy, on the same sort of
soil and lying adjoining each other.
The drought had been almost continu-
Gus for two months. The timothy was
not worth running the mower over
would not make fourth Of a ton to the
acre-while there was good crop Of
clover, good for a ton and half to the
acre.
If you did not set out new straw
| berry bed this spring (as you should
have done), you may do something in
the way of renoyating the old bed thus: