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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
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FRUIT GROWERS, TALK.


Thin the Fruit on the Trees and
EverIaStingly Do 1t Too.
"The past season has demonstrated
more fully than ever to the progressive
fruit grower the fact that he must ever
be on the guard to fight insect and fun
gus enemies and make up his mind to
grow first class fruit or be content
with no profit from his work. After
he has overcome insect and disease and
has fine, healthy orchards then he must
prune his trees and thin the fruit ju-
diciously or the results will be unsat-
isfactory. Fruit thinning is of great
Importance, and without it is impos-
sible to have first class fruit, no mat
ter what the conditions are. When
fruit sets as full as peaches and Keif-
fer pears did the past season, it is i'm
possible for the fruit to be first class.
'There was a general complaint of
the rusting or clouding of the Kelffer
pear the past season, and this greatly
injured it's sale This was especially
bad on full bearing trees or where
they were crowded with branches and
foliage Fruit on the outside and the
top branches was not nearly as much
affected as on the inside. This shows
the necessity of pruning to make the
center of the trees open to let in air
and sunshine" says Charles Black of
New Jersey.
'We are growing better fruit all the
time. We have got to thin the fruit
on our trees, and everlastingly do it
too. We must thin our apples and
peaches and every one of our fruit
trees. l think the time is coming when
we will also have to trim our smaller
fruits" says j. H Hale of Connect
cut.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
THE HORSE TO RAISE.
The One Par Excellence For tn,
Farmer-Always Has Big Value.

The One Par Excellence For the
Farmer-Always Has Big Value.
Draft horses of good form sell al
most according to weight, except that
as weights increase prices rise at a
much greater ratio, so that extreme
weights bring enormous prices if only
the bone is satisfactory. Prices range
from $125 to $500, with an occasional
one higher and with an increase of
about 10 per cent when matched in
teams. These prices are sometimes
exceeded, and dealers insist that prices
were never SO low that a span of draft
horses would not bring 5000 if only
they were good enough.
This is par excellence the horse fer
the farmer to raise. Only the blood of
the best draft breeds and the heaviest
and best boned stations is suitable.
Even then the demand for extreme
weights necessitates the use of large
mares that are good mixers. In no
other way can colts be produced with
sufficient bone and feeding quality to
attain the size and finish demanded by
the markets. Even then the youngster
must be supplied with the best of feed
in large amounts from the very first.
Plenty of good pasture, clover hay,
oats and corn is imperative, and there
is no better feed for young horses than
green corn cut from the field and fed
whole. Only the best blood should be
used, and then every effort must be
made to keep the horse gaining from
the first If he is to top the market.
All this is much like growing beef,
and these are the horses to produce on
the farms. They can be produced no
where else to advantage, and when it
is remembered that the draft horse is
really the highest priced standard horse
in the market it Is easy enough to see
what horse the farmer should raise.
He not only sells for more average
money, but if bred with the same care.
there are fewer culls, and no training
is required beyond light COMMON work
to familiarize him with the harness.
and with drawing. The disposition of
the draft horse is so docile and his an
cestors have labored so long that he
works almost by instinct, and he re
quires no special training to go upon
the markets.-E. Davenport.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20

drin, are the best for the purpose, but
the dark bronze foliage of Bihorelli
purpurea, with brilliant crimson flow
ers, and the canary yellow blossoms of
Austria, borne on taller stems, make a
grand show also behind the rest.
With these richly colored plants a
few hydrangeas may be grouped. The
white hydrargea is one Of the very
best, being compact and highly florifer-
GUS, blooming even in a tiny pot during
its first year.
Hydrangeas are most accommodating
plants. only requiring shift into a
pot two inches larger in diameter after
blooming, unless of large size. and a
rich top dressing just as they start into
growth in the spring.
An abundance of water and biweek-
ly supplies of SCOT water should be
given directly the plants begin to grow.
In fact, when in flower they can scarce
ly have too much water, and any fail
ure in the supply will cause the floral
bracts, which are naturally of snowy
wniteness, to turn brown, thus spelling
the beauty of the plant
A special point in the cultivation of
these flowers is that they should stand
all the summer after blooming in the
full sunshine to ripen their wood, for
without this they do not bloom well.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
LATE POTATOES. j
Bugs Don't Trouble Them ana FAN
Rains Make Them large

Rains Make Them Large.
We think it always best to pillow early
for late potatoes and then work fire.
quently to Kill weeds and conserve
moisture and warm up the ground and
then not plant until about the middle
of June. The seed will have to be look
ed after to keep it from sprouting.
This can be done by spreading it out
thinly in light place and shoveling it
over about twice week. 1t will wilt
and shrink up some, but this won't
hurt it. 1t can be cut a few DAYS be-
fore planting If kept dry and protected
from the sun.
IL you have go regular potato planter,
furrow out deep with shovel pillow
and cover with something drawn by
the team. Ii the sun shines hot, the
seed should be covered as fast as drop
ped, for the hot sun will soon injure it
as it lies in the burrows. Run the har-
row over the patch once or twice be-
fore the vines come up, and you Will
get rid of nearly all weeds.
The potatoes will come up in about a
week if the weather is warm and the
ground damp and continue to grow
from the start. Planting at this time
of the year will bring it out of season
for the first crop of bugs, and by the
time the second crop comes on the
vines will not bother much. Bugs don't
like rank vines, as they don't seem to
be just suited to their taste.
The vines will be small without any
tubers on them in the dry part of the
season. and by the time fall rains come
the potatoes will be formed and large
enough to require all the moisture there
Is likely to be, and they will grow very
rapidly. They should not be dug until
the vines are killed by the frost, and it
is always best to let them remain in
the ground for some time after, as they
will ripen up and be of better quality.
They should be dug before too hard
freezing and before the ground be-
comes soft and muddy. Your judg-
ment must be used in these things.
If not muddy, they can be picked up
without waiting for them to dry and
stored as fast as dug. 1t won't hurt
them to store when damp. as they al
ways have to go through the sweat
when stored in large piles, concludes
|. u. Cowdrey OF Michigan, writing to
Ohio Farmer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
HIGH FARMING.
Things a Live Lad of Eighteen, Nc

Things q Live Lad of Eighteen, No
Brother to the OK, Can Do.
One of the most restless creatures in
existence is an ambitious farm lad of
IS who has not yet decided what he
will do for a living. Jacob Bicycle, in
Farm Journal, advises such lads that
it is very often the best way to settle
down at home and hew their way to
peace and plenty right on the old farm.
But Mr.. Bicycle very sensibly adds a
programme of some interesting and
profitable things live boy can do to
begin with:
First.-He can learn how to bud and
graft and always be ready to do such
work for the neighbors: also to supply
scions of valuable kinds of fruits. In
time many a dollar can be made in this
way.
Second.-He can learn all about in
furious insects and fungi that assail
the farmers crops and how to apply
remedies to their devastation. Get the
best sprayer, learn how to use it and
take contracts with the neighbors to
protect them at all seasons of the year.
There is money in it, and the neighbors
will be glad to be relieved of such re-
sponsibility.
Third.-Take a course in surveying
and learn to write simple legal docu-
ments and in time find that you are a
very important man in the neighbor-
hood. There will be plenty of business.
Fourth.-Learn about landscape gar
dening and take contracts for laying
out lawns. Get up clubs for trees,
shrubs, seeds. fertilizers, newspapers
and magazines during the winter sea-
son.
Fifth. = Grow rare strawberry and
small fruit plants, fruit and shade
trees and other things that no one else
has near by, so that the folks around
will know where to come for such
things.
Sixth. : Get a Babcock milk test
and be prepared to tell the neighbors
the individual standing of their COWS
at so much a head. There is room in
every dairy neighborhood for person
of this kind, and he will have plenty
to do.
Seventh.-A neighbours plum trees do
not bear, he has yellows among his
peach trees, his apple orchard is blight
ed, dying from some unknown cause
you can help him out of his troubles.
and he can afford to pay you for it.
Harriet" suggests that the proper
training of colts ought to have been in
Mr.. Bicycles list, and so it goes in.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Crowaing ON the perchea

Hens will crowd on the roosts even
when there is an abundance Of room.
| believe that this crowd;ng causes
them to rest less perfectly than they
would if not crowded, and thus their
strength and productiveness are lessen
ed. Again, think this crowding causes
them to overhead and thus become more
apt to take cold. To prevent these evils
bore holes five-eighths of an inch in
diameter, eight inches apart from cen
ter to center, for Rocks, seven inches
for Leghorns, in the upper sides of the
roosts and stick wooden rounds about
10 inches long in the holes. If the
rounds are only a few inches long, a
hen will sometimes fly up between two
hens and light on top of round.-Ste-
phen Barnsdale.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
A chance For the wide Awake.

Orris root. the rhizomes of Iris foren-
tina, has been singularly overlooked by
wide awake Americans who are ever
on the lookout for something on which
"a good snap" might be made, says
Meehan's. As it has long been grown
as an ornamental garden plant there
is no question about it's successful
adaptation to culture here 1t is one
of the staple bases on which many
popular perfumes are constructed and
would always find a ready market.
European papers tell us that the de-
mand there for it is SO lively that
prices have risen considerably, and in
deed it is believed that the stock in
hand is behind the probable demand.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Heat In Breeders.

In the past there has been quite q
controversy as to top or bottom heat
for breeders. This, believe, has beer
settled in favor of top heat. The heat
from the natural mother comes from
the top, which Is just sufficient to
warm the floor of the coop. A brooder
made so that the heat descends upon
the backs of the chicks will lend suff1-
cient heat to warm the floor and CORE
spends, therefore, with the natural
method. Breeders constructed so as to
have the heat come from underneath
the floor are very apt to keep the floor
too hot and consequently will overhead
the chicks and leave their backs too
cold, but whatever style of brooder is
used the chicks should be carefully
watched on the start to see that there
are not too many in together, for be-
lieve this to be the principal cause of
finding dead chicks in the morning.-V.
II. Crouch in Commercial Poultry.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
THE PIANO AT ITS BEST.


Four Times "A Year Nome Too Often
to Have a Piano Tuned.
'There are plenty of people" said a
piano tuner, "who let their pianos go
one, two, three years without tuning,
and in some cases pianos thus neglect
ed may not get very, very woefully off,
but piano should be tuned every three
months That would be none too often
to keep it in order
''As a matter of fact q piano begins
to get out of tune again at once after
it has been tuned. How could it be
otherwise? Nothing stands still. This
difference would at first be so slight as
scarcely to be perceptible to any but
the practiced and sensitive ear of an
expert tuner, but it is there. Doesn't a
clock begin to run down as soon as it is
wound up? -Four times q year piano
ought to be tuned, but only q compara-
lively small percentage of people give
their pianos that attention which is
needed to keep them in their most per-
feet loveliness of tone. Piano makers
and dealers of course are looking after
Inc tuulnS VI lhSlE pldiIoS III Stoch
scrupulously and carefully all the time
You don't hear pianos out of tune i'll .
piano wareroom. They never let them
get out of tune there. They aim, in
fact, at keeping them as near perfec-
ton as they can.
eve are pretty sure to find in every
new piano something pleasing and at
tractive. Some share at least of this
pleasing quality comes from its being
in perfect tune. In fact, to keep any
piano at its best it must be kept in
tune, and to attain'the results most sat
isfactory to all, to the owner and the
neighbers alike, a tuning tonic should
be administered oevery piano not less
than four times a year" New York
Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
The hymn was sung.
sccon.

1FcE Nl1OsS ACK0ESI 70 q
Who never knew our G
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
PROTECTION FOR HAY.
A Cheap Cover That viii Soon Pay
For ITSELF

A Cheap Cover That VIII Soon Pay
For Itself.
On the farm where hay is stacked
rather than stored in barn or NOW
there are tons wasted and spoiled ev-
cry season. In feeding. though the
greatest care be taken, it will be i'm
possible not to open a stack in some
weather that will ruin the exposed
hay. A cheap and convenient cover
can be made that in one season will
more than pay for itself in the hay it
will preserve, says an Ohio Farmer
writer.
Cut two 16 foot by As in two
pieces each, of equal length, which will
be eight feet. With some rough lum
Der board up a side by laying the stud
ding six feet apart and cutting the
boards of that length. When you have
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
A Useful Climbing shrub.

Lycium chinense Chinese Matrimo-
ny vine) is a graceful climbing shrub
which is very useful for covering rocks,
stumps of trees or anything else where
tall growing vine is not required.
Neither the leaves nor flowers are par
ticularly ornamental, but the graceful
habit of the plant commends it, to-
gether with the fact that in the autumn
the bright scarlet fruit gives it very
attractive appearance. There is q va
riety, macrocarpum, which is an i'm
provement on the ordinary form in
that the fruit is larger and hence more
conspicuous.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
STANDARD TIME.
A Table of the Hour Reckonings O
All Nnfanns

A Table of the Hour RecLOnings of
All Nations.
The difficulty of approaching the diff
ference in time that prevails between
different countries is very general, and
the following list is printed for the pur-
pose of a ready reference guide by
which to calculate the time of any oc-
currence in another country. All ma
tons except Spain, Portugal and Rus
STA calculate their time from the meri-
dian of Greenwich, accepting as stand
ard some even hour meridian east or
west of Greenwich. For instance:
Western European time, or that of
the meridian of Greenwich, is legal in
England, Belgium, Holland and Lux
emburg.
Central European time, or one hour
east of Greenwich. is legal in Germany,
Austria Hungary, Bosnia and Herzego-
VIVA, the IIongo Free State, Denmark,
Italy, Seryia, Sweden, Norway and
Switzerland.
Eastern European time, or two hours
east of Greenwich, is adopted by Bull
SdIldy bOuiHdllld, Ndldl anu turkey III
Europe.
Eight hours east of Greenwich ap-
plies to the Philippines.
Nine hours east of Greenwich is
adopted by central Australia and ia
pan.
Ten hours east of Greenwich is Off
cial in Victoria, Queensland and Tas-
mania.
Eleven and a half hours east has
been adopted by New Zealand.
The United States. Canada and Next
co have adopted the fifth, sixth, sew
enth and eighth hours west of Green
witch.
The Hawaiian Islands adopt the me-
ridian of 1917 hours west
In Spain the meridian of Madrid, ii
minutes 40 seconds west of Green
witch, is legal; in Portugal, that of Lis
bon, or SO minutes 80 seconds west,
and in Russia, that of st. Petersburg,
or 2 hours, minute and 10 seconds
east of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Free Press
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
BALCONY PLANTS.
Large Foliage Plants, Cannas and
Hydrangeas Are Effective.

Large Foliage Plants, Cannas and
Hydrangeas Are Effective.
The floral decoration of the balcony
is growing custom, and truly chang
ing gardens" are refreshing to the sight
of city dwellers. Vines for this purpose
go without saying, but there are other
plants which may be added to give dis
tinction to balcony, porch or piazza.
Large foliage plants such as Ricinus
gibsoni (the bronze castor oiD, Japan
csc maize and palms are some of these,
while other foliage plants, producing,
too, handsome flowers, are also desira-
BILE.
For the central group, or those ar
ranged opposite the windows, cannas
are very effective, for their foliage is
handsome and distinct, while their
glowing blossoms in crimson and gold
make fine display of color. The dwarf
large Powered cannas, such as Queen
Charlotte, Egendale and Hypolite Elan
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Artificial Bealss.

In times past when a valuable hen or
cock of first class breed happened to
lose one of the halves of it's beak by ac-
cident or in fight it was either penned
up and fed artificially or killed. Now
the missing part Of the beak, formed
Of hardened celluloid, can be grated
on, and the fowl lives and feeds as
comfortably as ever. From time to
time new beak has to be mounted,
but it is simple affair in the hands of
a good animal improver." A modern
way of improving turkeys. too, is to
split the wing and tail feathers. which
then gradually mott off, and much
finer crop takes their place.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20

gives the mother strength to nurse
her child. 1t cures diseases peculiar to
women and cures them permanently.
There is no alcohol, opium, cocaine or
any other narcotic in &c Favorite Prescrip-
ton" 1t is purely vegetable prepare
ton and cannot disagree with the weak
est constitution.
Mrs. Emerson Allen, of Dorset Ontario Co.,
Ont, writes: III can truly say that think DR..
Pierce's medicines the best have ever used I
was in very poor health for long time dating
from the birth of my little girl tried different
doctors and different medicines. derived very
much more benefit from your medicines than
from any other I have ever used. I took four
bottles of Favorite Prescription and three
bottles of Golden Medical Discovery and
always keep the Pellets in the house.n
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, paper bound, is sent free on
receipt of Fl one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address DR.
R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Dated April Is, 1901.
GLoucEsrER co. ORPHANS, COURT.

On the application of John F.
Truitt, Administrator of the o-5
Estate of Sampson Larring- c,, o lNe r. 20
ton, deceased, for an order to ono" Oause'
sell land to pay debts.
John F. Truitt, administrator of the Estate of
Sampson harrington, deceased, having exhib-
tied to this Court under oath, just and true
account of the personal estate and debts of the
said deceased, whereby it appears that the per
sonal estate of the said Sampson harrington,
deceased, is insufficient to pay his debts, and
requested the aid of the Court in the premises:
1t is on this twenty-sixth day of April, A. d. 1901,
ordered that all persons interested in the lands,
tenements and real estate of the said Sampson
harrington, deceased, appear before this Court,
at the Court House, in the City of Woodbury.,
on Friday, the ts0eatyeiglth dag of june neat at
ten O'Clock in the forenoon, or soon thereafter
as the Court can hear the same to show cause
why SO much of the said lands, tenements,
hereditaments and real estate of the said Samp-
son harrington deceased, should not be sold as
will be sufficient to pay his debts or the residue
thereof as the case may require.
By the Court.
WILLARD f. DU BOIS,
Dated May 10, 1901. SIG Surrogate.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
Tnhacca neeoctinn.

Tobacco decoction for use as an in
secticide can be made by reducing
some of the extracts now on the mar
ket or by boiling cut or broken stems
until thick brown extract is obtained.
One pound of tobacco stems should
yield one gallon of extract in two hours
boiling. If it boils down to less, add
water to make up before using.
Strawberry plants may remain in this
mixture for several minutes and need
not be washed off after being taken
ont
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-20
HAYsrAcK COVER.

the two sides boarded, place the two
ends of the sections together. This
will be the apex of the cover. The
by As should have been left projecting
a few inches in order to bolt the two
sides together at the apex. This cover
will form roof that will turn all
storm and preserve the hay as well as
though stored in barn. AS the COW
ers are made in sections of six feet
each, only that much of stack need
be cut down at time. In order to
hold the covers firmly in place bore an
inch hole in the lower ends of the 2 by
As and with piece Of smooth wire or
rope hang a heavy weight to it or stake
1t down to the ground.