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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
THE ONION THRIPs.
ssWhite BInst" Is Its Worthwhile
Oil Soap the Remedy.

ssWhite Blast" Is Its Worthwhile
Oil Soap the Remedy.
The onion thrips CThrips tabacD has
been found to extend from the Atlantic
to the Pacific oceans. The effect of this
insect upon the onion is known as the
white blast" from the fact that the
tops are prematurely whitened and be-
come wrinkled and shriyeled. The
rasping of the leaves is done by such
slender mouth parts and the insect is
so small that the injury has more the
appearance of a fungus or bacterial dis
ease than of insect work.
Recent investigations have shown
that the insect passes the winter
months in matted grass, among old
weeds and other rubbish as well as
among Gull onions and refuse that have
! been left over in the fields in the fall.
Onion growers are familiar with the
fact that the depredations of this in
sect appear earliest and are the most
emphasized along the margins of fields
or plots or in spots over the fields. The
reason for this is that the insect win
tiers over in these places. 1t makes its
way from the grassy margins or from
the grassy banks of bitches to the rows
of onions adjoining. 1t winters over in
the piles of culled onions and refuse in
the fields and begins its work there,
spreading from thence outward.
Wherever the grass and weeds along
bitches can be rooted up and destroyed
it prevents the harboring OF this pest.
Wherever the old. dry grasses and
weeds along the margins of onion plan
tations can be burned the effect will be
to destroy myriads of the pest and to
prevent their breeding the next season.
With frequent drenching rains there is
not much likelihood of severe out
break. but in case of drought the insect
is likely to work more or less serious
injury in extensive onion fields.
A spray of one pound of whale oil
soap dissolved in eight gallons of water
will destroy the pest, and the use of
this mixture is recommended on the
first appearance of the insects in the
fields. At time of first appearance it
will probably only be necessary to treat
very small areas along the margins of
fields or the small. isolated spots previ-
ously mentioned in order to permanent
ly check their increase.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
SHERHFF'S SALE.

By virtue Of writ of teri faeias, to me di
rected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State of New Jersey, will be exposed at public
sale,
Friday, the Twelfth Day Of July, next,
between the hours of IL and 5 o'clock, to-wit, al
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
following described Real Estate, that is to say
All that certain tract piece of land situate in
the Township of West Deptford, in the County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, bounded
and described as follows:
Beginning at stone in the centre of the pub
lie road leading from Woodbury. to Woodbury.
Dam, and also corner to lands of Harry w
Budd, thence ~ by lands formerly belonging to
Henry Finger deceased, South thirty-one de
grees and forty-five minutes West, ten chains
and four links to a stone in said line, also cor
ner to land now or formerly George K. Shoe
Makers thence (2) by said Shoemakcrs land
North, sixty -eight degrees and thirty minutes;
West, seventy-two links to a stone, corner to
lands of said Shoemaker and one Mary Budd;
thence (3) by lands of said Mary Budd North
thirty degrees; West, seven chains and eighty
nine links to a stone, corner to Hughes land;
thence (4) by lands of said Hughes, North, forty
two degrees and fifteen minutes; East four
chains and forty links to point i'll the centre of
the aforesaid public road leading from Wood
bury to Woodbury. Dam; thence TO- along the
same, South, forty-nine degrees and fifteen
minutes East, four chains and forty-four links
to the place of beginning.
Containing three acres and eighty-two hun
dredths of an acre, more or less
Being the same premises which were conveyed
to the said Sarah w. Budd, by w. Harrison
Livermore, ct ais, Commissioners by Deed
dated July 30th, 1891, of record in the Clerk S
Office of Gloucester County, at Woodbury. in
Book No. 1871 of Deeds page 173 &c.
Seized as the property of Charles S. Densten,
ct ux ct ais, defendants, and taken in execution
at the suit of the Woodbury. Real Estate Mutual
Loan Association, complainant, and to be sold
by +. ID. SPRINGER,
Watkins & Avis, Sol'rs. Sheriff.
Dated June 6, 1901. Prs fees $3.50.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
HESSlAN FLY.
No Damage Where Medium Grade
Fertilizer Was Applied.

No Damage Where a Medium Grade
Fertilizer Was Applied.
1t appears from the letter of wheat
grower to The Ohio Farmer that many
farmers of that state, expecting the fly
last fall, deferred seeding until late. but
the fly anticipated the wheat grower
also, for it did thorough work on all
wheat sown In this farmers section up
to Sept. a, but after the 2Sth none of
its work can be found. These dates
have reference to the time of sowing
and not when eggs were laid.
Where a medium grade of prepared
fertilizer was applied GOO pounds per
acre) no appreciable damage was suf-
fered by the wheat plant last fall. Its
effect was to stimulate the shooting of
new plant from the root below the
larvae, which were generally several
in number, and a spring examination of
the complete stool showed the insects
in q small, dead branch which was
really the main plant at the beginning.
On some drill widths where no fer
tilizer was applied the wheat died en-
tirely. 1t lived long enough. however,
to nurture the larvae it contained to ma
turity. These, in many places where
the dead plant heaved out and become
disintegrated by decay. lay about upon
the surface of the ground, every one a
thing of life. The first. adults. accord
ing to this mans observation. issued
forth May to soon go to work deposit
=
to supply larvae for each joint above
ground, which sap the life of the plant
and cause crinlled straws and empty
chaff next harvest time. unless Profess
or Webster's parasite comes to the res
cue.
Professor Webster's parasite is fun
gous or parasitic infection similar to
that which is destructive to chinch
bugs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
Agricultural Brevities.

In orchards badly infested with can
kerworm late spraying with some form
of arsenic, which is most safely used in
bordeaux mixture, may do good if the
worm is still feeding.
Bone is the thing to use on peach
trees every time, says one grower.
A great deal depends upon how water
is put on. If you begin your irrigation
before it is very dry, you don't need SO
much water, but if you let your ground
get very dry and then put on your wa
ter you need a great deal more of it.
For field culture for the canneries
good strong tomato plants should be
ready for the field from the middle to
the latter part of June, the time which
they are usually set in New Jersey and
Maryland.
Dig out the peach tree borers and jar
the curculio.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04

WHEN FOOk DEAR CdAhLlE WAS ALIVE.
mothers. They are the worst sinners
on the planet in the outlines of hold
ing fast to dead things. A woman has
perhaps lost by death child she loved
dearly. She no doubt thinks she is n
Christian and that she believes her re-
ligion. She does not Christianity ex
pressly commands us to rejoice and be
glad-eXpressly holds out the sure hope
that we shall regain all that we have
lost of good-yet this infidel mother
mourns.
Sometimes q widow wears mourning
for husband 40 years. and he not
much of husband either. if the word
of those who knew him can be trust
ed. But with that sweeping black veil
and widows cap she reminded every
body who saw her of death and fu-
nerals. Instead of making herself beam
with joy and gladness or ell around
her and getting blessings ii return, she
persisted in depressing clothing and in
melancholy and down at the mouth
expression of face. This Is never true
love. True love. whe. her for those here
or gone before. gives happiness to those
who know it. The trH'y loved are never
lost.
Women are verse sinners than men
in respect to carrying corpses. and this.
perhaps. is tile only respect in which
they are worse WHEN man meets
with financial losses. if he has the heart
of a man and not of chicken in him.
he at once pulls himself together and
goes to the task of redeemng himself.
A woman is apt to sink into the dumps
and wall the rest of her life. though it
be 80 years, over that money she lost
or about how some scoundrel had swim
died her. She tells every stranger she
meets of her losses, tells her family of
it three times n day at mealtimes and
makes of herself SO great a nuisance
that we could even wish the bad luck
that took her property had brought
good luck for US by taking her too. A
woman can pull herself together finan-
cially as well as man, and there never
was Il loss that cannot be made up.
There is not a more outrageous false
iOOu ludii tue StItclIelL llldL we
cant control our thoughts. We can.
We can at least think of something
else and return to it again and again
when the dumps oyerwholm us.
The trouble with women Is they don't
want to get away from their sorrows.
They actually take a morbid, CHASTITY
delight in hugging to themselves the
sorpses of their lost satisfaction. Take
away old Mrs. Grumpy's grievances,
and she would certainly die. There is
not enough. else left of her to individu-
alize q radiant, happy. immortal soul.
doubt If there would be enough left
of her to go to heaven. for in heaven
we are expressly told there is no sor-
row. And old Mrs. Grumpy could new
er be happy. never. without her griev
ances. But for all the rest of you who
don't wish to be old Mrs. Gruinpys:
Let go of the corpses! Out with them!
JANE STORY.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
Our Country's Flag.

The idea of expressing the union of
the different colonies by stripes in a flag
became familiar to every one very early
in the history OF the Revolutionary war,
and in ITS and 1T76 flags were used
bearing Is stripes; but the first legally
established national emblem was that
adopted by congress June II, 1ITI7, which
provided that the flag of the 13 United
States should he 13 stripes, alternately
fed and white. and the union of IL stars,
white in blue field This form was al
tered by act of Jan. IS, 1894, which pro-
vided that after May l, 1875. the flag
Of the United States should consist of
Is stripes, alternately red and white,
and Is stars, white in blue field. In
1918, however, act of April 4. the flag
was restored to its original form of 10
horizontal stripes. alternately red and
white, the union to consist of 20 stars,
white in blue field. one star to be add
ed to the union en- the admission OF ey-
cry new state, the addition to be made
on July following such admission. This
flag went into effect July 4, 1913. and is
the present prescribed national emblem of
the United States Of America Chicago
Times Herald.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
Infusing New Blood.

Those who sell seed corn in large
quantities seldom take the care in Sc
Letting and tipping that the farmer
does who has but a few bushels to pre-.
pare for planting. but this should not
deter US from occasionally "Infusins
new blood" Many seem TO think that
In order to do this it is necessary to
mix the corn by crossing with another
variety. Does the Shorthorn breeder
buy a Holstein bull for the purpose OF
improving his herd of Shorthorns? No,
He buys one Of a family or strain diff
ferent from bis own, but of the same
breed. So in infusing new blood into
a pure variety we simply procure from
a careful grower in another locality
seed of the same variety to mix with
our own. We believe it pays to do this
occasionally, for continued inbreedina
is bad in corn or CATTLE Ohio Farmer,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
Homemade MIX strniner.

For milk strainer take a board the
right size to lay nicely over the pan,
bucket or can in which you set the
milk. Cut round hole in center a lit
tie smaller than the top of can. Place
at each corner small nail which has
the head cut off and filed to a point on
which to hang the cloth. This does
away with the extra trouble of wash
ing and securing the ordinary stFainer,
in which it is necessary to use a cloth
Ii order 20 insure perfect cleanliness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
AN oRa.NANCE

To author the South Jersey Telegraph Com
pany to e. st and maintain poles and to place
and maintain wires thereon, in the Township of
Washington, n. J.
Be it ordained and enacted that the South Jer-
sey Telegraph Company be, and they are here
by authorized to erect and maintain poles in,
along and upon any road, street, lane or alley
in the Township of Washington, n. j.. and to
place and maintain wires thereon.
Provided however, that the erection and To-
cation of said poles shall be under the super
vision of the Township Committee
And be it further ordained that the South Jer-
sey Telegraph Company shall pay all the ex-
penses of publishing this ordinance.
And be it further ordained that this ordinance
shall take effect Immediately.
Ordained and enacted into an ordinance on the
sd day of May, 1901
CHARLES H. DORIAN,
ALLEN T. HURFF,
Attest COMMITTEES.
CD. DAVENPORT, Township Clerk.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
HALAMLEL
= EasSZ.as.s ssz@claS EDEN
500 NKS'

Below are given two rationS for 800
pound cows which are exactly alike
except that one contains ordinary mix
ed hay with little or no clover and the
other clover hay. 1t Is particularly in
teresting to notice the influence of clio
yer hay in raising the absolute amount
of digestible protein and in narrowing
the nutritiye ratio. The farmer who
grows large amounts of clover needs to
buy less grain than the neighbor who
ignores the virtues of clover: No. L,
pounds cornmeal, 2.5 pounds bran.
1 pound cotton seed, 10 pounds mixed
hay, 10 pounds corn stoyer, containing
22.90 pounds dry matter, Log pounds
protein, 1880 pounds carbonaceous; nu-
tritive ratio, lis. No. 2, 8 pounds
cornmeal, 2.5 pounds bran, pound cot
ton seed, Is pounds clover hay, 10
pounds corn stover, containing 22.S0
pounds dry matter, 20S pounds pro-
TEN, 1850 pounds carbonaceous; nu-
tritive ratio, 1:6.0
Feeding For Profit.
A balanced ration is one that makes
a COW do her level best producing milk
and butter fat and, while maintaining
the health of the COW, leaves a balance
for the profit of her owner, says a
dairyman in National Stockman. That
is the proper kind of balanced ration
and the one the farmer is interested in.
1t is easy enough to balance the ra-
ton according to the feeding standards
and entirely nbalance the profit, even
when the ration is given to good COW,
and If by some unwisdom on the part
of the cows owner the COW should be
a poor one the lack of balance in favor
of the dairyman is still more manifest.
If silage is cheaper than dried corn
and cheaper and better than roots. If
clover, soy )eans and the peas and all
the other possible leguminous crops are
rs valuable sources of protein as the
5yproducts of the mills and trusts and
they will balance the ration to the full
est requirements of the good COW and
do it more cheaply than the feeds of
commerce. then why should they not
grow on all our farms? Then the bal
ancing may be done at home.
Value of balanced Ration.
Milk and butter were produced more
economically in some New Jersey tests
from we'll balanced rations than from
the rations containing sufficient guam
tity of food, but not properly balanced.
Feeding irregular rations caused a va
ration in the yield of milk, with u
tendency toward a decrease.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
THROWING OFF THE YOKE.
The Resolution In Congress That
Led to Our independence.


Led to Our independence.
1t was on June I, 1776, that the dele
gates from the colonies sitting in congress
iii Philadelphia considered the following
resolution introduced by Virginia's states
man, Richard Henry Lee:
Resolved, That the United States colonies are
and ought to be free and independent states, and
their political connection with Great Britain is
and ought to be dissolved.
The resolution was Endorsed by the
majority of one. Thirteen colonies were
represented. Because seven Of them vot-
ed and stood for independence the Unit
ed States is today what she is. Suisse
quent developments prove that had the
action taken been delayed the question of
independence might have slept in peace
until the herald of the people, no one
knows how many years after, sounded
the tocsin of revolution. The delegates
thought it wise to defer the question of
final consideration to July /, 11T6, by
which time they believed there might be
a more united feeling among the people.
Thus it was that on June II that IA
nous committee was appointed to frame
the Declaration of Independence. Note
the names, and if you are a student of
the history of the United States conceive
if you can of a better quintet to have rep
resented the American people: Benjamin
Franklin. John Adams. Thomas Jeffer-
son, Roger Sherman, Robert r. Living
ston.
The first was the man whose fame is
licked into our ears every time we hear
a telegraph instrument, whose genius is
placed in broad light whenever we enjoy
the illumination of electricity. The sec
ond rose to be president of the nation he
helped to form. The third is the father of
what the world knows as Jeffersonian de-
mocracy. The fourth, Puritan. patriot,
leader, gave more in moral force and de-
termination, in knowledge of the law and
its common sense principles than almost
any man who assisted at the birth of the
nation. The fifth was a man of whom
the majority Of people know comparative
~ little, and yet there was none who bet
ter deserved place of honor in the pub
lie mind. Eminent as a fnancier, a
shrewd judge of human nature. his touch
on the helm of state was exactly what
was needed TO keep the young craft on
her course.--Detroit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
THINNING FRUIT.


Profitable but Unusual Practice.
Done After the "June Drop"
This operation is much recommend
ed, is favored by many of the growers,
but as a matter of fact is not generally
practiced, though it is done more in
some sections than in others.
A peach tree under normal conditions
will assimilate certain quantity of
food material during the time it is de-
veloping crop of fruit.
Peach trees are inclined to overbear
that is, set-more fruit than they can
properly mature with the amount OF
assimilate. Hence 1t is that the fruit
all remains small, not reaching the size
that will bring satisfactory prices in
the markets.
Thinning the fruit will reduce the
strain upon the tree. There will be, SO
to speak, a smaller number of mouths
to feed, and the remaining fruit will be
CORRESPONDENCE larger.
AS the seyerest strain upon the tree is
occasioned by the development of the
seed the thinning should be done before
the seed begins to harden. This will
be while the fruit is still quite small
1t will be safe to begin as soon as the
'June drop" is passed.
The objection that many hold to
thinning is the expense of the opera
ton. But unless there are severe
storms very little of the fruit which re-
mains ON the tree after the "June drop
will fall off. 1t then follows that it is
only question between picking the
fruit off in June and throwing it on the
ground and picking it off little later
and putting it in basket
If the fruit is thinned to from four to
six inches apart, it will be better than
if it is closer. 1t is a common expert
encc that trees so thinned will actually
produce a greater bulk of fruit than I'M
thinned trees, and the fruit from such
trees Is practically all first grade. Even
If the bulk of fruit is somewhat less
than from unthinned trees the amount
Of high grade fruit is sufficient to com
mend the operation.
The fruit may be thinned considers
bly, by keeping the tops properly prun-
ed, but much of it must be done by
hand. In this way the imperfect fruit
can be removed, leaving only that
which is likely to develop into the best
specimens. This method will greatly
lessen the work of grading the fruit
when 1t is marketed.
AS rule growers experience consid
cradle difficulty in getting their men to
thin their fruit sufficiently, but it is i'm
portant that the matter be followed UP
closely.-H. P. Gould. Maryland.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04
SPOTS AND STAINS.
How They May he Removed without
Injuring the Fabrics.

NOW 4Aty NAby dc EtCmOVcu WIIAOUt
Injuring the Fabrics.
Stains upon silk or stuff or fancy
frock beyond laundry possibilities may
be got rid of thus: Fold cheesecloth
square thickly and lay it smooth upon
the board. Over that stretch the stain
ed stuff smoothly, right side down. If
there is lining, rip it SO as to get at
the underslde Eut first brush, not
only the stain, but the whole garment
thoroughly, so as to remove all the in
visible dust and prevent the cleansing
from leaving an ugly circle, worse than
tie spot itself Pour little alcohol
through the spot and dab the place
hard with soft, clean rag. Shift the
spot over q fresh place ON the cheese
cloth and pour on more alcohol, using
just enough to drcnch the spot itself
without spreading. Do this two or
three times, then hook on the right
side.
Greasy and resinous spots, as those
Of machine oil, wagon greese, tar, pine
and cedar resins, ought to be also
cleaned right side down on the folded
cloth. Wet them first with the alcohol,
next very plentifully with turpentine
and last of all with benzine. Between
each wetting shift the spots over a
clean space. Pour everything in very
small but steady stream, SO it shall go
right through the spot, but not much
outside it. After wetting rub hard
minute with soft rag. When the
cloth underneath shows white, turn
the spot over and wipe the right side
quickly with clean rag wet in alco-
hol. Dry quickly in the sun If posi-
bic. Let the garment air for six hours,
then cover the spots, upon the wrong
side, with damp, not wet, cloth and
press with very hot iron. If the
spots want stiffening, dip toothbrush
lightly in gum arabic, hold it six
inches above the wrong side of the
cloth and pass the finger across it. so
as to spatter the gum in fine spray
where it will do the most good; then
let the garment lie few minutes be-
fore ironing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-07-04

make these a fine general purpose fowl
for farmers. Weights and points are
the same as for Barred Plymouth
Rocks, but the plumage should be an
even shade of golden buff.
Golden Wyandottes are newcomers
and very popular, not in such numbers
yet as the whites or silver laced. Their
characteristics are much the same as
those of the other Wyandottes and
standard weights the same.
The bluffs are probably the most nu-
merous and best liked of the Cochin
family.
Buff Leghorns. comparatively new
but very popular variety, have taken a
foremost position solely on their mer-
its. The eggs of the hens are large and
white; chickens are quick growers.