The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-06-07

one acre or l6nQ.
A certain railway company of
western state is fortunate enAaNh to
OWN gravel pit where tho gravel Is
If such a make up and teGtuee that
when it is used for ballastinG the road
bed it gradually settles into an almost
solid cement, making the most perfect
natural material we have ever seen for
his sort of work.
Fourteen million three hundred and
twenty-five thousand hogs were sold
and slaughtered in the packing house
markets between the list OF March and
the LIST of November last year. Allow
ing 20 hogs to occupy one squire rod
Of ground, this total number would COW
ar ATTY acres, or % farms of 100 acres
each. This is q big lot of grunt and
grease.
The man who owned a good quarter
section farm in any Of the northwest
ern states during the past year has
made over $1,000 in the rise in the
value of his farm. In very many cases
It has been more than this sum. Such
1 farm is still good proposition to
stay by, and many man selling out
ut the advanced prices is finding it q
hard job to better himself.
We passed over four miles of graded
recently left so full of holes
md ruts that it was almost impossible,
md we just wondered why the road
supervisor of that district did not have
sense enough to have run a drag over
the road a couple Of times There is
no tool so effective for improving the
condition of our dirt highways as a
drag used at the proper time.
Fifteen or 20 boxes a foot square and
six inches high, without top or bot
tom, covered with piece of mosquito
netting, will protect the squashes, mel
ons and cucumbers of any family gar
den from the striped bugs better than
it can be done in any other way. A
pane of glass laid over these boxes will
be great help to the young plants dur
ing the cool days of the early summer.
1t is rather diScouraging to learn that
the man who made the prize tub of
butter exhibited at the National Dairy
association meeting at St. Paul was
fired by the board of directors of the
creamery which he managed while he
was looking after his prize tub at the
This would seem like base
ingratitude and strange lack of ap-
probation on the part of the men who
him.
There are certain plants and grains
which are of great value in the semi
arid section of the country which real
ly have no place at all III all those sec
tons where the rainfall is reliable and
plentiful, where clover, corn and blue
grass will grow. Among these may be
Kaffir corn bronze grass
and speltz. Where they will grow there
is nothing on earth that will beat clio
yer, corn and blue grass.
With the most abundant crop of cher
ries we ever saw set on the trees we
are right up against the problem of the
birds and the cherries. There are but
few cherries raised where the writer
lives, and we expect to have all the
birds we want about our place during
cherry time We will protect some of
the trees with netting and divide with
the birds on the rest, for we win not
shoot these our best friends.
1t is queer how the vendors of GER
ain patent medicines maintain their
lold on certain territory among the
'armers. OF course some of the rene
lies sold are good-good as any-but
he fact remains that a world of good
money is worse than thrown away in
looping up with patent medicines.
When your case is beyond the reach Of
hot water and yarbs, you
lad better call in skilled physician.
Instead Of letting the rossbushes
grow straight UP bend ever the Larger
,anes and hold them down with a hook
ID peg OF wood When - tyeRtsd, new
shoots viii start from the wh0le length
If the cane, and IL il on this new wood
hat the flowers will be produced Even
he hybrid, or June, roses, whi@h bloom
cut once during the season, H@ated IN
his manner can be made to produce
lowers through a much longer season
We notice that the agricultural de-
)artment is making a special effort to
ind new markets for our dairy prod
lets. This move is much to be COM
but it will prove almost use
ess unless some method of govern
nent inspection of the butter and
,heese exported is rigidly enforced,
American dealers in dairy products not
being wise enough as yet to see that a
good name Is rather to be chosen than
great riches.
The week in which this is written is
week in the orchard, and
the air is fragrant with the delicious
odor of cherry, plum and apple bloom.
And the bees have had a busy week.
all over the trees, performing
heir delicate and mysterious work Of
fertilization. Only one specter arises
o mar all the beauty and pleasure con
lected with this fascinating part of