Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-17

The entire hay crop Of the central west
was saved this year bright and fra
grant and entirely unchanged by rain,
no insignificant item when in some sea-
sons 1t is more than half spoiled.
AS it looks to us, what with Uncle
Sam taking in n revenue of $4,000 a
month from the makers of adulterated
and bogus butter and engineering a
lation Of the law which he has made
for the government of his big FAMILY,
1t would seem that he needs the serv
ices of an evangelist, for he certainly
Is in no shape for the undertaken.
Try some forage crop on the small
grain stubble. Pillow the ground as
soon as harvest is completed. Sowed
corn, millet, cowpeas, turnips, give ex-
cellent satisfaction II there is sufficient
moisture to start them. Pastures will
be short in many places. and unless
stock will have to be disposed Of be-
fore cold weather. Don't permit this.
Farm animals will be profitable next
year.
The greatest foe to a well stocked
tool chest on the farm Is the propensity
Of improvident and careless neighbors
to borrow and never return. An oblig
ing disposition is doubly valuable In
rural community where stores are dis
tant and ready money scarce, but the
farmer who would not see his stock of
tools reduced to the vanishing point
would do well to follow Shakespeare's
advice Neither a borrower nor
lender be-"
When the public health and the pri-
vate pocketbook run counter Of each
other, the dear people had better be
looking after their health, for private
greed, unchecked, would kill off whole
communities If it could make dollar
head doing it. The adulteration Of
food products is big enough question
to Justify the serious attention and
radical action of the United States
congress. Because the fools will buy
and eat adulterated foods it is still no
reason why the rascals should be al
lowed to sell them.
A Jersey cow in Wisconsin consumed
the following amount Of food during
a period of one year: Bran of the value
of $12.7O; hay, 81; ensilage, so; oats,
$1,000: gluten meal, $40; pasture, SIS;
total, $49.95. She gave 1914 pounds
Of milk, which made TAO pounds of
butter, which sold for % cents per
pound, amounting to $148, leaving
net profit of $9875. This is interesting
as showing what COW is capable Of
doing when of the right breeding and
given proper care.
An aged farmer of a western state
sent the following pathetic inquiry to
the census Office lately: "Our boy went
away nineteen years ago, and we have
not heard from him since. guess am
to blame for it ALL l worked him too
hard, and we often had words about 1t
until one day he told me he was going
to be his own master, and / guess he
has. for he went off, and we have new
er heard from him since. Could you
help mother and to find him?" Every
father can apply this to his own case.
A farmer coming into the house at
evening picked up his year old baby,
when the house cat jumped up in his
lap beside the child. Taking one of the
baby's hands in his, he stroked pussy's
fur the wrong way, SO charging the
child with electricity that when the
mother took hold of the child it dropped
over insensfble and apparently dead.
The aid of a doctor was required to re-
store the child to consciousness. 1t is
far better to let the baby pull the cats
tail than stroke her back.
A green, raw country boy, the son of
German parents, who lived ON a farm,
was given at the age of twenty-one a
in cash to start him In life. We met
this young man five years later, the
other day, and he told us that he owned
40 acres of fine land for which he had
refused SEQ per acre and $1,000 worth
of personal property and owed only
$4,000, all told, which debt he would
wipe out this year. When this can be
done. it is folly to say that the day Of
opportunity is past for the American
boy.
The stubble fields where the chinch
bug or any other insect pest has been
very troublesome should be burned
over when dry enough to destroy any
eggs they may have left there or that
may intend wintering there. Then let
the weeds get good start on the burn
ed land, but not go to seed, and pillow
them in. Most weeds can then be kept
down by narrowing about once in two
weeks. but we would prefer to put on
some crop TO remain the winter and be
plowed under to furnish vegetable mat
ter for another season. This will pre-.
vent loss by washing or by the mineral
matter teaching down into the soil.
The stomachs and craws Of 800 spar
row hawks were dissected and exam
ined by the experts Of the agricultural
department at Washington. In but one
was the remains of a game bird found.
Fifty-three contained other birds, most
~ English sparrows; SO contained
mice and II other mammals. IL had
frogs, Fl snakes, 20 spiders, and the
balance of the hawks had empty stom-
achs. This surely is an argument
against the killing Of this kind Of
hawks.