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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE sILo.
How an III oils Farmer Prepares
His Corn Fodder.

How an Ill ois Farmer Prepares
His Corn Fodder.
1t will be long time before the silo
becomes common among ordinary
farmers, says ]. A. Milne in The Breed
er's Gazette. The large first cost, ex-
ira force of men and great power re-
quired to fill it and some uncertainty
as to result are all arguments against
1t. The small farmer is naturally con-
sentative and slow to adopt innoya-
tons.
/ have plan, simple, practical and
tested by the experience of several
years, which, while do not claim it is
superior to the silo. will perhaps rec
ommend itself by those very qualities.
The plan is this: Drill corn as thickly
as possible in single rows feet 2
inches apart. Cut it with corn har
vester and set it up in large shocks,
20 to % brndles in shock Stack if
possible after Nov. l. If it is stacked
earlier, it may heat. When needed, it
is passed through feed cutter run by
horse power and handled by my own
help. There are q great many nubbins
on the stalks, and altogether this
makes the best and cheapest feed /
have yet found. This season my fod-
der, part of it stacked in November
and part of it drawn from the shock
only last week, is in excellent condi-
ton, and my 40 milk cows are doing
nicely with no other roughness. Any
lone can try this plan without extra ex-
Ipense or a radical change Of plans,
which is not true of the silo.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
1.-THE FRENCH SHORE"
Where Mtsery, Squnlor, Hunger and
Cold Rule In Newfoundland.

Where Masery, Squnlor, Hunger and
Cold Rule In Newfoundland.
Misery, squalor and Indebtedness,
struggle with hunger and cold, are the
portion of the inhabitants of the
"North Shore" in Newfoundland.
Their little hamlets are perched in the
riffs in the almost unbroken hills, and
the fierce storms sweep the surface
almost to their doorsteps, while for
seven months of the year their coast
is blockaded with ice and they are cut
off from all communication with the
outside world.
The only industry is codfishing, and
cod is the sole medium of exchange.
The people rarely see money, and bar
ter is the system of trading, quintal
of cod being the unit of value. The
needs of the fisher folk are only sup
piled by the itinerant trader, his
schooner being laden with provisions,
clothing and fishing appliances. Thus
have these people lived for generations.
They are ignorant, for the means of
education are noneXistent, the children
being content with what satisfied their
fathers. The common objects of every
day life are unknown to them. They
have neither horses nor cattle. Only
q few of the older folk who have ven
tured south have any knowledge Of
these things.
There are no roads and therefore no
vehicles. Travel is by boat during
the summer and over the ice foes dur
ing the rest Of the year. The few let
tiers for the clergy and others who can
read are conveyed to the settlements
by dog teams during the winter, and,
save for the fortnightly visit of the
mailboat during the period of open
navigation, a steamer is never seen
by the residents.
With such marvels as electric tele-
graphs, telephones and electric light
they are of course unfamiliar, and
their standard of intelligence is best
indicated by stating that it is not I'M
usual to find a justice of the peace who
cannot write his own name.-Cham-
bers' Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11

cepting games. No wonder they were
so honored, for, taken as full embodi-
ment Of all essential parts Of fully
developed fowl, what breed can equal
them? For size, long full bodies,
broad deep breasts ample close feath-
ering, rich plumage and well proper
toned comb there is no other breed
that surpasses the Silver Grays. They
are the largest of all breeds of poultry
without Asiatic blood. pure or mixed,
in their composition. Dorkings were
known in America long before any 9TH
er of our large breeds were introduced
and were distributed wherever the
English language is spoken. -Poultry
Monthly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11

and is made three inches wider than
the lining at the bottom and one inch
at the shoulders. This is then gathered
at the center of the bottom of the back
and basted down to the lining firmly.
The fronts are treated in the same
way, only three inches should be al
lowed on each side. A fold one and a
half inches deep is to be laid along the
fronts at each side. The whole is to be
basted together and gathers run in at
the bottom Of the waist and this basted
firmly. If the waist is to be bloused,
the bottom of the two fronts should be
sloped down from nothing to three
inches at the front. This is then
brought up and basted to the lining
This has to be done on the lady or on
ner nodded form.
The waist is now ready to sew up,
and all the side seams are soldly done
and boned Some dressmakers put a
line Of the special featherbone around
the bottom, as it holds it firmly and
smoother than any amount of stitching
could do. OLIVE HARPER.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11

APPLE THREE MONTHS AFTER GRATING.
summer afterward they may be bud
ded, or they may be grated at the be
ginning of the third season. To illus
trate: If an orchard is planted in 1901,
it may be budded in the summer of
1902 or grated in the spring of 1903
Grating is done in the spring just
as the leaves are pushing forth. 1t
may be done for month longer,
though the scions will not then grow so
large. The scions are inserted on three
to five branches in top working. or
sometimes they are inserted in the
central leader alone. Care should be
exercised in selecting the branches that
they are we'll distributed on the trunk
no two being closer together than four
or five inches. On all branches less
than a half inch in diameter the whip
or tongue graft is used; on larger limbs
the cleft graft is employed.
As soon as the scions begin to grow
in the spring all theremaining branches
of the stock should be cut off.
The first season that the scions grow.
except in June budding the orchard
should be gone over two or three times
and all water sprouts removed. and it
may be necessary TO head in many of
the scions about the middle of July or
LIST of August. for they often grow SO
large that there is danger of their be-
ing broken off.-G. H. Powell. Della
ware
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
Too Muc1, Fat

Texas Farm and Ranch says: 1t is
our experience that chickens cooped to
fatten, if literally fed, soon begin to
lose appetite and will eat less and less
the longer they are confined, just as
! man would, or any other animal
The hens will remain In the condition
they are In when the appetite fails, but
will hardly take on more fat. By the
way, fowls can be made too fat, lust
as hog can or a beef can. This is
all right If grease is what is wanted,
but all wrong if flesh is wanted. Here
after we shall not coop fowls to fatten.
but place them where they can have
ample exercise to insure good digestion,
good health and good appetite. When
an animal is too fat. it Is diseased.
Without exercise the effete matter can
not be eliminated and passed off, the
pancreas are oyerstimulated, the liver
overworked and congested, and we
don't want that sort Of animal food.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
THE 200 EGG HEN.
There Are Not Many of Her, and she
Doesn't Always Transmit.


Doesn't Always Transmit.
I have owned one Barred Rock hen
with record of 211 eggs in one year.
She was to me wonderfully prolific
fowl I never saw a bird that was
such restless, active forager. She
could outscratch and outrun any Leg
horn l ever owned. l bred from her,
and while many of her chicks inher-
tied her disposition none Of them
was her equal in egg production.
After her laying qualities became
known she was fed from my hand
and given about all she would eat three
times a day. The feed consisted of a
mash in the morning composed of two
thirds wheat bran and one-third corn
meal, wheat at noon and whole corn
at night, with one ounce of green cut
bone per fowl every other day through
the winter.
Owing to the prominence given the
utility fowl by Farm Poultry and aft
erward by the poultry press in general
the 200 egg hen is much sought after,
and probably thousands of records
have been started with what were
supposed to have been phenomenal lay
ers until that idea by an honest count
and the cold logic of figures has been
proved delusion.
Numberless hens have laid at that
rate for eight or nine months, but when
k1,A hne ,+oi,
full year they have fallen short of the
mark.
The absence of the 200 egg hen from
most poultry plants has made her con-
spicuous.
do not believe the 200 egg flock Of
any considerable size exists. Small
pens, under favoring conditions and
scientific feeding, have reached the
mark and even exceeded it, but they
are the exception and not the rule.
The 200 egg flock is a possibility of
the future and will be owned by the
careful breeder who mates his prolific
layers back to their sons and by a judi
cious system of inbreeding fixes this
desirable trait in his fowls.
People who are not up to date in
their poultry information look on the
200 egg hen not as a reality, but as a
product of the hen mans imagination.
After my hen had finished her year /
pointed her out to friend and said she
had laid 211 eggs in the last year. Aft
er gazing at her for full minute and
inquiring who kept tab on her he turn
ed to me with look that all but said,
"Well, George, l didn't know before
that you had reached such a depth of
depravity, for compared with you
Ananias was but weak and feeble
liar.''
I have mated my Rocks six years for
exhibition pullets, giving those hens
the preference that have demonstrated
their laying capacity, and now have a
flock handsomer from standard point
Of view and satisfactory as utility
fowl. In closing will say my record
hen was very ordinary layer i'll her
2-year-old form.-G. A. Cleveland in
Farm Poultry.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
The Early shrubs.

The season of hardy shrubs begins
almost before the snow is off the
ground and some time before the leaves
put in an appearance with the for
sythia, with its bell shaped flowers of
clear yellow. which are in strong con-
trast with the green branches. This is
followed closely by the Towering aim
ond and its near relative. the Towering
plum. and then. as the season fairly
opens. comes a profuslou of desirable
plants, ali eager to show their beauties
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
HOMEMADE DRESSES.
THE PROPER WAY TO CUT WAISTS
AND SKIRTS.


Utensils Necessary For Successful
Home DressmaIing = The Innings
Should BE New-The Material Re-
Quired.
copyright, 1901, by American Press Association
The home dressmaker must have the
same utensils as the regular dress
maker If she would have the same
success. No one can cut right with
out good scissors nor measure without
a tapeline, nor can she make the seams
look right without heavy pressing
iron. A low table to bring up in front
of her and even over her knees in bast-
ing and laying of trimmings is neees-
sary; also one of those funny little
things more like half barrel stave
than anything intended for pressing
sleeves and collars. The most of our
home dressmakers have dress forms,
made of tin covered with black cloth,
and these are great help, as they can
be adjusted to each figure much as
shoemakers make a last. This does
away with much wearisome fitting, as
the form takes the place of the woman
for whom the dress is being made, and
it can be stood on low table and
draped and finished without firing the
dressmaker.
To have a waist or skirt look just
right all the Innings must be new 1t
is false economy to try to save by
using an old lining, even if it does look
strong. 1t is like putting new wine
in old bottles.
For waists there is pretty lining,
white or light gray on one side and fig
ured on the other. Also this comes
with the outside black. Mercerized
sateen is used now almost exclusively
for skirts and sleeves, except where
silk is preferred. But cloth or other
heavy wooden material wears so much
longer than the taffetas that it is far
better to use one of the cotton Innings.
Then one can have silk petticoat
which can be worn with all dresses.
The mercerized Innings have been
brought to great perfection.
1t requires one yard and three fourths
to make a tight waist of any goods A
inches wide. Many of the woods are
now produced in 60 inch widths. This
is to allow of cutting skirts in three
pieces.
In these days of excellent patterns, to
be found in every village and city, it is
not necessary to tell how to draft a
waist lining, and SO only reference will
be made to the diagram in this column.
1t consists of four pieces-viz, front,
side body, back and underarm piece.
The line across the bottom shows
where it may be shortened if neces-
sary. All the seams can be made to fit
by taking them in" as the case may
demand. All the fine silk separate
waists have tight lining, and all the
seams are staid with featherbone
castings. These are ready to sew to the
seams and are covered with silk ribbon
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11

taken, we gather. concerning canned
meats, that among them are the fol-
lowing: Corned beef. pigs feet, gela-
tin, boar's head Oxford sausage,
tongue, roast beef, boiled beef, chip
ped beef, deviled ham, potted ham and
tongue, minced ham. chicken, turkey,
pork and leans, OK marrow, etc. In
addition to all this, there are soups of
many names, all of which are found on
the shelves of groceries everywhere
throughout the land.
1t is reasonable to suppose that men
will "learn war; for many years to
come; also we may depend on the no
mad in man to cause him to travel
whenever his means will justify. He
will crisscross the continents yet I'M
explored until he will know them thor
oughly. He will probably in due course
Of time find the north pole. Already
he is feeling around the antarctic re-
gions and thinks he will set his foot
on that pole also. The qualification of
this restlessness in the race is made
possible and with comfort by these
canned meats.
"Gather up the fragments, that moth
ing be lost" From the standpoint
herein set forth there is no greater
economist among men than the pack
ing house, concludes Iowa Homestead.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
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UlTsSE1oVERl
6GAADSSS sEE9 Ssa-
GARDEN FLOWERS.

From April to November, Inclusive,
Twelve Best For the Amateur.
To name the u best herbaceous plants
for the amateur is a difficult task. 1t
would be easier to name so. But a
Pennsylvania grower makes the fol
lowing choice:
Arabs Albida. = This pretty rock
cress is of the easiest culture, grows
only about five or six inches high and
puts forth its fragrant white flowers in
April so profusely as to completely
hide the foliage.
Iberis Sempervirens. = This pretty
candytuft has clean, evergreen foliage,
which is completely hidden with large
white flowers early in May.
Iris Germanica.-The German iris is
very satisfactory plant in every way.
Papever observation-disclosures beautiful
snowy peoples have handsome foliage,
are very hardy, produce their gorgeous
flowers in May and will sow them
selves.
Veronica Rupestris. This pretty
creeping speedweil flowers late in May,
makes beautiful sheet of blue and is
exceedingly pretty among rocks.
P@omia Officinalis Rubra Plena.-lm-
proves with age and is perfectly hardy.
1t bears double brilliant crimson flow
ers in great profusion in May.
Corcopsis Lanceolata. A mass of
golden yellow flowers in June; will
seed itself if soil is not too heavy.
Delphiniums.-The hardy larkspurs
flower in June, and if the flower stalks
are removed a second crop may be ex-
pected late in summer
PhloX.-The dwarf perennial phloAcs
are very beautiful and desirable. a
slight covering after the ground is
frozen in the fall will insure their re-
appearance in the spring
Alphabetically raised from seed,
and young plants not so subject to dis
ease as older ones. The Allegheny hol-
lyhock is a beautiful, fringed semidou-
BILE flower and does not seem to be af-
fected by disease.
Redbeckia Golden Glow.-This plant
is of vigorous growth and produces
great quantities of golden yellow dou-
BILE flowers, making beautiful sight
late in the summer.
Anemone Japonica Queen Charlotte.
One of the last plants to bloom in the
garden. 1t begins early in September
and puts forth its large, semidouble
white flowers tinged with pink until
knocked out by hard frost.
These II plants cover the season from
April to November, inclusive. Seven
are good for cutting, none is rare
enough to cause much expense or trou-
BILE in procuring it, and all are entirely
hardy.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
TOP WORKING.
Hastens the FruitinG of Young Az
ME Trees-How to Do 1t,

Hastens the FruitinG of Young APP
pie Trees-How to Do 1t.
Top working is thought to hasten the
fruitfulness of young orchards. AS or
dinarily planned, a young tree of most
varieties does not bear barrel of ap-
pies before it reaches the age of II
years or more. Scions on old trees bear
in three or four years. We have seen
many 4-year top worked trees bearing
bushel of fruit and 6-year-old trees,
top worked after two years in the
orchard, with a barrel or more of APP
pies on them. The buds in all of these
cases were taken from bearing trees.
and this hastens fruitfulness.
Well grown, medium sized 2-yearold
trees with well developed roots and
tops should be set in the orchard for
the permanent stock, and the second
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
REAL ESTATE
that is to say:

All that certain farm, tract of land and prem
Uses, situate in the Township OF Deptford,
County of Gloucester and State of New jersey,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at stone on the Northerly side of
the Egg Harbor road, corner to Samuel Sharps,
late Gibson's farm thence by land formerly
Amos Canpbell's and David Roes ~ South six
degrees and thirty minutes East, thirty-niue
chains and sixty-three links to stone corner in
the line of lands late John Tatum's; thence by
the same (2l South eighty-five degrees and
TWENTY-FIVE minutes West, twenty-eight chains
and thirty-four links to stone corner thence
by lands late of William Tatum deceased, (3)
South eghty-five degrees West, sixteen chains
and eiglty-nine links to the middle of the road
leading from Woodbury. to Glassboro thence
10 Northerly along the middle of said road six
teen chains and ninety-three links to stone
corner TO land of George q. Green formerly
the Joshua III. Dilks land; thence thereby (5)
North thirty-five degrees and fifteen minute
East twenty-five chains and fourteen links to a
stone; thence still by the same in part and part
by Griscom's land (6) North, seventy-six degrees
East, twenty-eight chains and fifty-eight links
to a corner in the middle of the Egg Harbor
Road aforesaid thence along the same(7) South,
thirty-six degrees East, one chain and nine links
to corner; thence (S) still along said road
North lightweight degrees East, eighty-eight
links to the beginning.
Containing $50 61100 acres of land be the same
more or less.
Subject to the operation of a certain lease or
license bearing date the thirteenth day of No
yember, A. d. 1879 and recorded in the Clerks
of Deeds, page AL &c. made and executed by
Joseph b. Roe and Mary K. Roe, his wife, to
George q. Green to lay, alter and repair a single
line of water pipes, and to lay, alter and repair
buildings, machinery and works the said
mortgaged premises, for the storage and supply
of water, as in the said lease license particu-
larly mentioned and described.
Excepting thereout all that certain-part of the
said premises conveyed to s'The Mayor and
Council of the City of Woodbury. by deed
dated March Goth 1886, and recorded in the
Clerks Office of Gloucester County in Book
No. 141 of Deeds, page 433, &c.
Containing 2 S07- 1000 acres more or less.
Being the same land and premises that Frank
lin ID. Springer Sheriff of the County of Glou-
cester, by Deed dated February 18th, 1896 and
intended to be forthwith recorded, granted and
to the said Mary X. Roe.
Seized as the property of Mary X. Roc, ct al
and taken in execution at the suit of
Lydia Il. HazeIton, complainant, and to be sold
f. D. SPRINGER,
Watkins & Avis, Sol'rs. Sheriff
Dated April 8, 1901. PRS fees, $3.50 IA
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
MAYDOLE'S HAMMER.
(Ransan's plasfar Is Pains Master

When Maydole was told that he made ga
pretty good hammer" he said, No, I don't
make a pretty good hammer make the
best hammer that ever acds made"
Every carpenter who saw MaydoIe ham
mer wanted one. It was of the best ma
terial, perfectly balanced, and the head
never few off. Hammers were divided into
two classes 1st, Maydole's; I'd, all the rest.
Plasters are separated by the same line
of cleavage; 1st. Benson's Porous Plaster;
I'd, all the rest. When, for rheumatic pain,
a cold, a cough, kidney trouble or any
other disease or ailment that may be treated
externally, you ask for plaster, any hon
est, reputable druggist will give you a Ben
sons. He knosos it is incomparably the
best, and he assumes that you know It too.
As the name of Maydole stood for hammers
the name of Benson stands for plasters-
the ''real thing" All the medicinal poten-
cies that are valuable in plaster are in
Benson's. Capsicr1n, Strengthening and
Beliadonna plasters are out of date
An army of physicians and druggists, and
millions of the people, have written of
Benson's Plasters as aremedyto betrusted.
Benson's Plasters have ffty-fye hsqAest
awards. Accept no substitute.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of 25c each.
Seabury q Johnson, Mfg. Chemists. NY
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
Many Varieties.

How many poultrymen could give
from memory complete list of the
standard varieties of poultry? How
many could name without an error all
the numerous varieties. standard and
nonstandard, Of the Wyandotte? When
the first standard was published in
1875, there was just one -Wyandottc,"
the Silver variety, and that was classed
US "The Wyandotte." just as the
Barred Plymouth Rock was classed as
1.-THE Plymouth Rock" Now we have
the Silver Laced, Golden Laced. White.
Black. Buff. Buff Laced. Blue, Column
bian, Partridge and Silver PenciIed
and Barred Wyandottes. These we
name from memory. If we have omit
ted any variety, will some one kindly
correct us?-Farm Poultry.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-04-11
BEEF AND OTHER MEATS.
Cut Up In Scores of Different Ways.
Fifty-seyeu Kinds of Sausage

Cut Up In Scores of Different Ways.
Fifty-seven Kinds of Sausage.
Like every other business, the pack
ing companies do their utmost to cater
to all manner of tastes. These likes
and dislikes they gather from the de-
mands of the retailers and consumers.
1t is through this channel that they
keep in touch with every possible de-
mand. Beef is cut up in SO different
ways, pork 20, mutton II, veal 5. Boil
ed ham is prepared in six different
ways OF ordinary sausage there are
43 varieties, of delicatessen sausage
IA, making total of 81 kinds.
Dried salt meats are prepared with
1G different cuttings, the bacon meats
also with 16. From the packing house
report, from which the foregoing is