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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

OEMAND IN
The scandal Of the State Reformatory
for Girls at Trenton and the management
of the Asylum for the Insane in the same
city have been shock to the State. Not
withstanding these disclosures the chief
offenders are retained in their high Office
unmolested and in high esteem.
We demand rigorous investigation of
all State institutions that the people may
know whether their servants in these posts
OF honor and profit are faithful officials and
worthy OF the great trust reposed in them.
AGAINST FEE SYSTEM.
We believe that the fee system should be
paid in salaries, thereby saving to the
people large sums of money annually,
which will be paid into the public treasury
instead of being retained in the pockets of
the office holders of the State.
DEMAND EQUAL TAXATION.
We again declare for equal taxation and
again demand thorough revision of the
tax laws of the State. All property, real
and personal, not used for religious, chart
table or educational purposes should be
assessed at its true value in accordance
with the constitution, which says:
Property shall be assessed for taxes
under general laws and by uniform rules,
according to its true value
REPUBLICANS FOES OF LABOR.
Every attempt on the part of organized
labor to secure legislation in its interest
has been defeated by the Republican party.
1t has shown that it is hostile to the wage
workers of the State. Every important
act on the statute books in the interest of
labor was placed there by Democratic legis-
latures. We believe that the true interest
of labor and capital lies in a complete COM
prehension of their respective rights and
duties and common desire to have COM
plete understanding between them. They
are friends and not foes. Great loss has
fallen upon the industrial interests of the
State by bitter struggles, which have re-
suited in strikes and discomfort.
WILL PRESERVE FORESTS.
The preservation of the forests of the
State has become pressing question, af-
fecting vitality the welfare of all our citizens
and should receive careful consideration
from the Legislature.
The cities and towns Of our State, with
their rapidly increasing populations, must
depend for their water supplies upon the
Of our forests.
REPEAL OBNOXIOUS LAWS.
We favor the repeal of all laws abridg-
ing the rights of juries to fix the amount
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

wPain in the head and back is a form
of suffering with which SO many women
are familiar. Often this pain is asso-
ciated with nervousness, sleeplessness
and loss of appetite. The cause of such
suffering is generally to be traced to
arrangement of the womanly function,
or diseased condition of the delicate
womanly organs.
In such cases the action of DR.. Plerce's
Favorite Prescription is marvellous in
the prompt relief of pain and permanent
cure of disease. 1t regulates the peri
odic function, dries disagreeable drains,
heals Inflammation and liberation, and
cures female weakness. 1t cures when
all other means have been tried in vain.
Sick women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence is held as strictly private and
sacredly confidential. Address DIR. R. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
In little over thirty years DR.. Pierce,
assisted by his staff of nearly a score of
physicians, has cured more than half a
million women.
81 was a great sufferer for six years and doc
tored all the time with number of different
physicians, but did not receive any benefit"
writes Mrs. George Sogden, of GAL Bonda Street.
Saginaw (South), Mich. UOne day as l was
reading paper saw your advertisement, and,
although had given up all hope OF ever getting
better, thought would write to you. When
received your letter, telling me what to do, I
commenced to take your Favorite Prescrip-
ton and follow your advice. have taken ten
bottles in all, also five walls OF the Pleasant
Pellets Am now regular after having missed
two wears and suffered with pain in the head
and back. 1 was nervous, could not eat or
sleep. Now thank you for my recovery"
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure bill
iousneSs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
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In a paper read by DIR. Leonard
Pierson before the New Jersey Agri-
cultural society on the subject Sow
Health" he said in part:
The subject of COW health includes
everything that influences in any way
the functions of an animal, the work
ings of any organ or any set of or
gans. Under that head, you see, we
will have to include breeding and rear
ing and feeding and general stable
management and care, and, in fact, the
subject of COW health includes the
whole subject of animal husbandry.
1t is manifestly useless to attempt to
cover more than a small corner of this
great field, so l shall confine my re-
marks to stables and stable conditions
and the influence of those conditions
upon the health of the cow, and / be-
Heye that of all the things bearing up
on the health of the stabbed COW light
is the most important. But it is very
difficult to select. There are so many
things that are of high Importance,
though if we weigh them carefully we
will find that light is fully as impor-
tant as any and perhaps of the great
est importance. All higher animals re
Quire light.
One would think that the fact is SO
perfectly manifest that it would not
be necessary to mention it, but that 1t
is necessary to mention it can be prov
ed to any one who visits a number Of
dairy farms In this vicinity and on Ell
Their side of the state line. You will
find cattle that are housed in dark sta
bles. Sometimes there are few win
dows, sometimes no windows at all.
Sometimes these windows are piled full
of manure or hay in order to keep the
stable warm.
Light promotes the nutrition of the
tissues and organs Of the body, and it
helps to bring about the chemical
changes in a normal way. At this
time q great many diseases are treat
ed by light, and especially diseases of
the skin that can be reached most
directly by light. DR.. Finson, a DAN
ish physician, has discovered that
many diseases of the skin and even
some cases of leprosy can be cured by
light. In order to do this a large lens
is used that concentrates light from
which the heat rays have been alb
stracted upon a small area. Either
sunlight or the light from an arc lamp
can be used for this purpose.
Then light is an antiseptic. We have
found that the lower forms of plant
and animal life live in the dark. If
you put them in the light, they will
die. So that stable flooded with light
not only promotes the health of the In
mates. but it also helps to shield the
cows from disease by acting as an anti
septic and by destroying germs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
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When the COW is about seven months
gone with calf, cut her feed down to
small amounts of clover hay, bran and
silage, says Evan B. Sharpless in Ma
tional Stockman. Try to have her dry
about one month prior to calving. Two
weeks before her time is up, should she
be in a plethoric condition, give her
a pound of epson salts, and each week
she is given teaspoonful Of saltpeter.
She is not allowed the run of the yard
or pasture for fear some accident may
befall her. Very often a dam loses her
calf or has trouble calving because of
an accident which could have been
avoided had she been fastened up.
When fresh, a pound of epson salts is
given from a long necked drench bot
tie. The salts are dissolved in three
pints of boiling water and then allow
ed to cool to 100 to 105 degrees f.
There is no better time to rid our
herd and stables of every germ Of abor-
ton and contamination than at calving
time Every birth should be treated
as an abortion, and dairy barns would
soon become free from the dreaded
trouble. AS soon as the calf is born it
is removed from the sight of the moth
er and wrapped with an old blanket in
a comfortable bed of straw and allow
ed to remain until dried off. While it
is drying off return to the cow and
give her one quart of bran to two or
three quarts of cold clean water. This
should be repeated five or six times
daily. Give little and often, as too
much cold water at one time might
bring on chill, and cold water is pref
cradle to warm, as the cows system is
feverish enough. Don't give too much
hay or it will have a tendency to pack
the fourth stomach and bring on that
most dreaded of all diseases, milk fe-
ver
The cows headquarters, hips and
tail should be scrubbed off with warm
water and soap and then be gone over
with a brush dipped In a mixture of n
pint of water containing tablespoon
full of creoline. The whole of the hind
quarters should receive an application.
The uterus should be also flushed out
with a gallon of warm water contain
ing four tablespoonful of creoline.
The stall where the cow calved
should be thoroughly cleansed and dis
Infected, fresh earth sprinkled over
wet places and stall replenished with
fresh straw. If you have things
handy, these operations are soon gone
through with, and should they require
a little time it is profitably spent.
The portions of cold water given the
COW are to keep the udder from be-
coming hard, but if the dairyman gives
large quantities of cold water and lib
eral feeding Immediately after calving
he may expect trouble and perhaps
death.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

similar to that described by the meth
cd hereinafter recommended and there
fore is able to speak about it intelli-
gently.
Provide good heavy yoke of oxen
horses or mules can be used, but they
are not entirely satisfactory. Two log
chains seven to ten feet each, a driver
and a grubber will be required. If the
tree is somewhat large, the grubber
cuts off one or more of the roots.
The oxen are started and the opera
tor readily sees where the roots rise
on the opposite side. While they are
under strain one quick, well directed
blow with the sharp ak end of the
grubbing hoe will sever the root. The
smaller roots will be dragged out. If
the tree should be taprooted, a little
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

Those of us who have been under the
necessity of buying poultry feed OF
grain recently have been painfully con
scious of an unprecedented rise In
prices. The tendency of prices has
been upward for a long time. Part OF
this advance is attributable to partial
failure of or reported damage to some
grain crops and part to speculation on
the part of the grain gamblers, who
exaggerated the actual conditions. Poul-
trymen and others who are obliged to
buy have been robbed of hundreds OF
thousands of dollars within the past
few weeks. But we seem to be helpless
in the matter. 1t is time for studying
economy in feeding and for testing the
possibilities of cheaper substitutes fol
standard feeding stuffs. 1t is also q
time for getting rid Of the drones and
the unproductive stock. = Poultry
Monthly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

PLAN OE IWO NOV ELL E1OM ElS bEDSs
E. G. Hill, single salmon; 90 S. A. Mutt.
double crimson; a. Mrs. Francis Per-
kins, a very superior double pink, and
% Athlete, fine, vivid, single scarlet.
A very snowy and fioriferous gerani-
um bed, rod in diameter, was of the
variety Dryden. 1t is a single flower,
the petals being scarlet and white in
about equal parts or stripes. l return
ed three times to have another look at
it, it was so striking and peculiar. A
Long Island florist had an oblong bed
of the new scarlet geranium Pasteur.
1t is brilliant scarlet, of gigantic size
of truss and a very free boomer.
A very peculiar bed was a small oval
one of giant leafed, copper colored CO.
leus. The leaves were as large as large
plantain leaves. The prevailing color
was copper, with dull markings of
lighter shades. In contrast with gaudy
colors around the bed was pleasing,
and have no doubt this strain of CO.
leus will find a useful place in artistic
planting Of lawns.
A large oval bed of cannas attracted
my attention by the way it was plant
ed. 1t was in rows, gridiron fashion,
diagonally across the bed, one kind in
each row. This was q great improve
ment over the concentric ring form,
where an exhibit of several varieties
was made in one group. The bed was
large enough to show twenty or more
kinds. The arrangement is shown in
the cut.
l am not sure but a geranium or CO.
leus bed planted in this way would be
more pleasing as a change than the
concentric form.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
The Cream scparator.

In all other branches of farming we
use the most approved machinery, but
the skimming of milk is largely done in
the same way it was hundreds of years
ago, and we suffer heavy loss thereby.
| can speak for the cream separator,
as l am using one on my place, says
an Illinois farmer. 1t takes all the
cream out of the milk when yet in it's
natural warmth. 1t enables one to
feed the SKINNED milk in it's most IA
vorable condition to his stock. By TAX
ing all the impurity out of the milk it
renders the milk as well as the cream
and butter made out of the same a
perfectly healthy food for the human
family and for live stock. 1t raises
the keeping quality of the butter to
high degree, and it reduces the work
of the farm dairy in a great measure.
Butter made out of separator cream
commands the highest market price
everywhere. Besides the cost of a
milkhouse can be saved, the erection
of one coming higher than the price of
O separator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
horticultural Breyities.

A lecturer on Japanese horticulture
claims that many of the dwarfed
Japanese trees are not SO old as they
are said to be. Close inspection will
often reveal the places where they
have been grated.
The beautiful auratum lily is ma
tive plant of Japan. and it is said that
the supply of bulbs. which are found in
pockets in the mountains, is becoming
exhausted, and the prices for the Japa-
nese bulbs are likely to become very
high.
Experienced New Jersey growers
pick Kieffer pears. destined for cold
storage, when they are fully developed,
but before they begin to color.
Hyacinths are perhaps the best
known of winter bulbs and can be
grown in dirt or glasses of water, but
dirt is perhaps the more satisfactory.
Crocuses can be forced in dirt, moss
or water and are very desirable.
The Otaheite orange is beautiful for
house culture.
For northern exposure, with poor
light, aspidistra and bowstring hemp
are fine foliage plants.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
Testing the Eggs.

The testing Of the eggs has nothing
to do with the result of the hatch. Peo-
pie test the eggs to find out whether
the eggs are fertile or not prior to the
term they are due to hatch. This en-
ables them to select the clear from the
fertile eggs. These clear eggs are just
as good for cooking or any use that
other eggs of the same age can be put
to, as they would be if never placed in
the machine. Being in the machine for
a week or ten days has no more infiu-
ence on clear eggs than the summer
weather would have on them in bas-
ket in the house. Clear eggs will keep
good longer than will the so called fer
tile eggs.
When you have several incubators, IL
two are filled and started at the same
time, when they are tested it often hap
pens that one machine will hold all the
fertile eggs, thus saving the time of one
of the machines, that can be refilled
and no time lost working to keep clear
eggs warm for three weeks. This is
also true when you put your eggs I'M
der several hens. These are the rea-
sons for testing the eggs. You then
know in advance what the prospects of
q hatch are
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
Butter For British Markets.

The package in which it is best to
send butter from the States in order
to secure favor in British markets is
subject of investigation by the de-
partment of agriculture. II. e. AL
word believes that if reputation can
be won for a certain butter, or line of
buffers, it will eventually be possible
to send American butter to British
buyers in the orthodox American
creamery tub and suffer no loss by
reason of using this package.
Small family packages of butter for
delivery unbroken and one pound and
one-half pound bricks or prints were
tried, but found to be regarded as an
innovation. Buyers at London and
Manchester do not yet want butter in
these forms. although every piece or
package is closely wrapped and pro-
tected all the way from maker to
consumer. The latter prefers to see
the quantity desired cut from the big
lump which stands Oh the retailers
counter for hours, exposed to dust, flies
and the impurities of air.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
SLIDING THE SUGAR BEET.
II Carefully Watched, Beets VIII
Keep For Some Time In Kicks,

If Carefully Watched, Beets VIII
Keep For Some Time In Kicks.
1t is the custom in some localities to
haul sugar beets to the factory if pos
sible when harvested, and if it is not
possible to do this they are gathered
and placed i'll long ricks or piles on the
surface of the ground. The base of
these ricks or piles is from to 31a feet,
with height of 3 to feet, tapering to-
ward the top. Along each side of these
ricks several burrows are run with a
stirring plow in order to loosen the
dirt. The ricks are then completely
covered with this dirt by the aid of
shovels.
This covering is put on to the depth
of about six inches, occasionally air
spaces or ventilators being left on the
tops of the ricks, which are usually
made by the use of thing or small elon-
gated wooden boxes or simply straw,
the purpose being to prevent fermenta-
ton.
Storing the beets in this way is call
ed SLIDING, and the ricks or piles are
called silos. These silos are closely
watched, i'll order that no heating may
occur and cause fermentation, which
lessons the sugar content Of the beet,
and they are opened occasionally for
this purpose.
1t is the aim of the grower. as al
ready stated. to get his beets to the
factory as soon as possible, but this
will depend on This turn"
In case he is delayed in this way I'M
til cold weather comes on, these silos
are covered with straw manure, straw
or something of that sort. and then an
additional amount is thrown on the
straw covering.
In this way it has been found that
the beets will keep in very good condi-
ton until the last Of January if neces-
sary.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
KEEP THE CATTLE.
5etter Prices Probable-Wintersn
on Straw and a Little Grain.

@etter Prices Probah1e-Wfntersn
on straw and a Little Grain.
Apropos of successful experience In
feeding wheat straw, with the addition
of enough ground wheat to secure a
maintenance ration, d. II. Otis of the
Kansas station says:
This experiment indicates the posi-
bilities in wintering cattle. When
wheat straw, doubtless the poorest
roughage on the farm, can maintain an
animal with a small outlay for ground
wheat, it ought to encourage farmer
to hold his cattle. Straw is abundant,
especially in the western part of the
state. In many places it is being burn
ed in order to get rid of it. Where
straw can be had for the hauling and
wheat at 90 cents per bushel the feed
cost of keeping a 1000 pound cow on a
maintenance ration need not exceed
$1.25 per month. Suppose the straw
costs So per ton, the feed cost would be
only $3.50 per head per month, or $1.5O
more than it usually costs in years
when feed is plentiful.
Most every farm produces rough feed
considerably better than wheat straw.
Prairie hay, corn fodder, Kaffir corn
fodder, sorghum fodder or hay can be
fed either alone or in combination with
each other and the amount of grain re-
quired for maintenance reduced. Where
red clover or alfalfa is available little
or no grain need be fed.
The present low prices Of stock cat
tie, with every prospect of high prices
in the spring, and the cheapness with
which the cattle can be wintered, as
shown by the above experiment, should
induce farmers to hold their cattle even
though they could be sold at fair prices.
When the cattle have access to a
straw stack, they get considerable chaff
and more or less shriveled or waste
wheat blown over with the chaff. IN
der these conditions cattle would need
less of the ground wheat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
HESSIAN FLY.
Interesting Observations by the New
York State EntOmOIOgist.

Interesting observations by the New
York State EntOmOIogist.
Discussing the Hessian hy in New
York, DR.. Felt, the state entomologist,
says in Country Gentleman:
This pest caused considerable injury
in New York in 1899 and 1900, but the
damage inflicted last spring appears
from all accounts to have been much
greater than in recent years. Wheat
passed the winter in excellent condi-
ton, and the remark was made in my
presence that farmers would have
hardly thanked any one for a guaran-
tee of full crop, so promising was the
situation early in the spring. The sea-
son was exceptional and rains follow
ed each other in quick succession, pro-
ducing vigorous growth of all
grasses, so that the hay crop was an
enormous one So far as could be
learned, there was little indication of
the spring advanced the grain suffered
more and more, till the latter part Of
June or early July, when reports of
the true condition of affairs began to
come in. A personal investigation Of
some of the infested localities has con-
WINGED me that many of the reports
made to me were literally true.
Among preventive measures DR.. Felt
advises the following:
1. Grow resistant varieties. No. 8 in
the sections investigated withstood at
tack exceedingly well. Dawson's Gold
en- Chaff, White Chaff Mediterranean,
Red Russian, Prosperity and Demo-
crat have also been recorded as fly
proof.
2. Give good culture and endeavor to
get rapid growth of firm straw.
Some of the worst injured fields were
low and moist, and a rank growth OF
succulent straw was produced.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
How to Make Tomato pilou.

Skin enough ripe tomatoes to make a
quart when pressed through a fine
sieve; add an equal quantity of good
broth; chop fine two onions and fry
them a golden brown in a little oil;
drain the onions and add them to the
tomatoes and broth; add salt to taste;
place over the fire and when it b0ils
add pound of well washed rice; cover
and allow to simmer gently until the
rice Is tender and the moisture absorb
ed; then add two tablespoonfuls Of
butter. cover again and let stand on
the side of the range for twenty min
utes; turn out into hot dish, sprinkle
with paprika and serve at once. This
makes good luncheon dish or hot side
dish to serve with cold meat or fowl
for dinner.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31

Houses and runs should be In proper
ton. It is seldom that the yards are
large enough for the houses. In cities
and villages it is no unusual sight to
see good sized house and run no
larger than the house In the area COW
cred. The result is perfectly bare
and often dusty ground plot. The area
of the yard should be at least ten times
that of the house in which the birds
are kept, and If the yard is still larger
it will not be of excessive size. In
fact, it is best to have the area Of the
run SO large that it will remain green
through the entire growing season.
Exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
Agricultural Brevities.

Bermuda, Spain and faraway Egypt
all contribute to New York's onion sup
ply.
New Jersey cornfields have suffered
from the blackbirds. They rip open
the ears with their sharp bills; then the
rain and dew rot the grain.
Master Market pea, a novelty Of this
season, is very favorably reported up
on.
The Delaware tomato crop has been
light.
The clover seed crop is short owing to
deficiency in the second crop.
An abundance of grapes is reported.