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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
POTATO PLANTING.
How to Do a Neat and Thorough Job
by the Hand Method.

How to Do a Neat and Thorough Job
by the Hand Method.
While the improvements in potato
planting machinery offer the cheapest,
quickest method, there are many
growers who do not own nor have ac-
cess to the use of a planter and there
fore the ancient but always reliable
hand planting method is described by
an Ohio Farmer writer. With mark
er line out the field in rows three feet
apart, the straighter the better, for
after cultivation aside from the pride
that should be taken in doing a me-
chanical piece of work by any grower.
Next use a large single shovel plow
and open up a furroW along these
marks six or eight inches deep, going
twice in row if necessary to get an
even furrow and to take out any
crooks. In this furrow the complete
fertilizer is scattered by hand from
pals or, far better, with hand bar
row fertilizer drill, which every ferti-
izer user should have, as they will
easily pay for their small cost in half
days use.
The amount of fertilizer applied in
the furrow should range from 1000 to
800 pounds per acre, depending upon
the natural fertility Of the land and
whether or not a broadcast application
has been made This is stirred into
and mixed with the soil by passing
along the furrow with a small toothed
horse cultivator, closed tightly to ad-
NIT it well into the furrow. Following
this, the single shovel is again used to
reopen the furrow, and this still fur
Their mixes the fertilizer with the
earth.
Into this furrow the seed pieces are
dropped at from 10 to 16 inches apart,
and the greater distance is recommend
ed as more conducive of early and rap
id maturity. The seed is covered either
by the single shovel throwing the ridge
between the rows back into the furrow
or with horse hoe with the wings or
hoes set to draw the earth from each
side to the center, the horse walking in
the furrow.
Make it a point to leave as high
ridge as possible directly over the cen
ter of the row. This serves to shed
heavy rainfalls, usual at this carly sea-
son, into the gutter between the rows
and exposes at least twice the amount
of soil surface to the warming and dry
ing rays of the sun. These ridges are
readily leveled by one OF two passages
of the heavy harrow.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
Floral Notes.


The Star petunia is new variety
worth looking after.
The pompon and cactus varieties Of
dahlia are fine.
Hardy phlox makes one of the best
of garden flowers.
Few plants have as pronounced an
effect when in flower as the Crimson
Rambler rose. with its thick set cluster
of crimson bloom.
Weigelia rosea is the best known of
the weigelias Its flowers of rose color
have character enough to please all
Ligustrum japonicum macrophylidm
is a foliage privet of Japan type foil
age rich coIored, with gold and leaves
arge. an exceedingly handsome plant.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
COMPACT AND CONVENIENT.

square Single SASH and is placed about
two feet from the floor and hinged at
the bottom, so it may swing open any
width for ventilation. 1t should be
covered with one inch mesh wire net
ting to keep out vermin while open.
The little entrance is by IL inches
and has a slide door on the inside to
shut over 1t. would have little door
on the back side next to the floor about
ten inches high running the whole
length of the back and hinged at top.
Instead of mailing the floor to the sills
1 would nail it to three strong cleats
and hinge 1t to the sill on the back. SO
it could be raised in front Thus the
whole contents of the floor could be
dumped out back side. leaving the floor
as clean as If it had been swept In less
time than it takes to tell it, Poultry
Monthly.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
American Forestry.

Indigenous trees are easily recognize
ed by the observing inhabitants of any
locality as belonging to certain general
classifications. Pine, oak, elm, maple,
chestnut and some others are so COM
mon in most temperate climates that
they are familiar to every one. That
these distinct divisions have been sub
divided into hundreds of minor CLASH
fications is not SO well known.
1t will be in the province of the ex-
hibit at the Pan-American Exposition
to demonstrate in this connection some
exceedingly interesting peculiarities or
seeming mistakes in nature.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28

Iowa Homestead says roup is in
4ufahle in all of its stages. 1t is very
dangerous in sts worst stages. 1t is
fatal when bad and transmissible in
its nlilder' form even to the offspring.
It is a blood disease, and the best way
to eradicate it is to kill all the affected
fowls and either burn or bury them.
All sick fowls should be isolated from
the well ones, and those having it
lightly may be helped by remedies. but
should never be bred. as it will reap
pear in the offspring. IL they have 1t
mildly ard can be helped by remedies
SO they can be put on the market that
Is the best disposition to make Of then,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
EARLY MUSKMELONS.
Transplanting From Thumb Pots
and From Hotbeds


and From Hotbeds
Experiments in transplanting musk
melons for the purpose of securing ex-
ira earliness or increased yields have
been conducted at several of the ex-
pertinent stations. At the New Hamp
shire station transplanted plants OBJ
tanned by starting seed in thumb pots,
transplanting to four inch pots and
hardening off in cold frame were set
In the field June / alongside of hills of
the same varieties planted from seed
on the same date. The largest total
yield of each of the three varieties
tested was obtained from the vines
grown from seed planted in hills. The
transplanted vines ripened their fruit
earlier than the vines grown from hill
planted seed.
At the Colorado station a test was
made to note to what extent hotbed
propagation may hasten maturity and
how successfully it may be performed
The seed was put in hotbeds April g.
Some seed was put in cans so arranged
that the plants could be taken from
them without disturbing the roots.
Other seed was put in the hotbed with
out any support. 1t was found quite
difficult to transplant them when the
roots were at all disturbed Fully %
per cent of those set out from the cans
grew and about 50 per cent of those
taken from the bed without support
The first planting in the field was on
April % and the next on May 10. The
first ripe melon was taken from the
transplanted vines Aug. II, only one
day ahead of the plants grown OH al
falfa and manure and only four days
ahead of those grown with no fertiliz-
err. They ripened in quantity, however,
faster and for the next ten days gave
more ripe melons than any other plant
ing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
gs s.ss.se 49,
AGARMs F0gAD
~ aND GARDEN
SPRAYING IN FULL BLOOM.
What Zee Men and Others Have to
Say About 1t.

What bee Men and Others Have to
Say About 1t.
At the recent New York state con-
yention of beekeepers Professor Beach
of Geneva made an address on the
matter of spraying trees ''while in full
bloom" and of this E. R. Root, the
bee man gives a resume III American
Bee Journal:
In the experiments conducted it was
found that the blossoms that were
sprayed inst at the time they We're in
full bloom were either killed or injured.
If the spraying were administered only
during the blooming time, the poison
Gus mixtures did not go the right spot
in a good many cases, for the simple
reason that no cluster of apple blcs
SONS, for example, opened out at one
and the same time. Some blossoms
would be closed and impervious to the
effect of the spraying liquids, and if no
more spraying were administered after
blooming time then these blossoms
that were not open would not receive
the benefit, and the fruit eating insects
WOuIu lIcll get III llittI NOlA n. L liz plO
fessor brought out the point clearly
that if spraying were applied before
blooming and after the leaf eating in
sects in the other would be destroyed.
He further showed that the spraying
mixtures are exceedingly harmful to
the development and growth of the
delicate pollen.
A certain set of trees was set apart
and sprayed while in bloom, and only
then, and others were not 81 Eyed.
Even though the bloom was exceeding
Iy abundant, it was found that those
trees that were not sprayed during
blooming time yielded from third to
bushel and a half more of fruit. In
some cases they sprayed half of one
tree several times during blooming
time, leaving the other side of the tree
not sprayed. There was a marked diff
ference in the setting of the fruit on
the two sides of the trees, and that diff
ference was decidedly in favor of the
side not sprayed.
A certain fruit man who believed
that spraying during blooming time
was the right thing to do estimated,
after he had sprayed his whole orchard
at such time, that he had lost near
ly a thousand dollars. He had had
enough of that business.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
The Three greatest Jerseys.

Mrs. e. NJ. Jones of Brockyilie, Ont,
the well known breeder of high grade
Jersey cows. says that she thinks the
three greatest cows ever owned in
America were Jersey Belle of Scituate,
owned by Mr.. Elms; Ida Marigold,
owned by Mr.. Sweet, and Massena,
owned by herself. They were sll three
of broken color and so similar in form
and color that they would have passed
for sisters. She knows nothing about
Ida's feed. but Jersey Belle aid Mas
sena made more butter of finer quality
and from less food than any cows she
ever heard Of.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28

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There is also no room for argument as
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Inflammation and ulceration,g and cures
female weakness It is a purely veget-
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Sick women suffering from chronic
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said had liberation and falling of the internal
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the Golden Medical Discovery and one vial
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DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets keep the
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
CONCERNING PLuMS.
The Japanese Head the List-Clea
Culture and Mixed Planting.

The Japanese Head the List-cIean
Culture and Mixed Planting.
The conclusion drawn by the Kan
sas experiment station from its OBJ
servations on the Japanese plums is
that they rank with the peach in hardi-
ness. They head the list for table and
market qualities. Their habit of early
blooming makes the crop uncertain.
Burbank is perhaps harder than
Abundance, and it is nearly equal in
quality. Ogon is harder than either,
but not nearly so good in quality of
fruit.
OF European plums Communal. Early
Red and one called 10 Orel are at the
head of the class, but all European va
rieties have been uncertain bearers.
The fruit is of good quality for use
fresh and for canning.
The most promising varieties for
general planting are those which have
been developed from our wild fruits
All varieties of the species alneri-
cana have proved hardy. While they
retain in varying degree the astrjngen-
cy of the wild plum. most of the varie.
ties produce desirable fruit for can
ming. marmalade and jelly, Quaker,
Wolf, Weaver and Wyant have the
best record for regular bearing and
general good qualities.
The varieties Of the species anguish.
folia, commonly called Chickasaw
plums. have been somewhat injured
by extreme cold Robinson has proved
most nearly hardy and regular and
heavy bearer, producing fruit Of good
quality.
Most of the class known as hortuia
ma have proved fairly hardy Golden
Beauty and Moreman have been the
heaviest and most regular bearers
Moreman is rather small. red plum,
red flesh. small pit. and especially fine
for jelly. Golden Beauty is medium
sized yellow plum of fine flavor when
fully ripe and favorite for marina
lade. Wayland, Wild Goose and Gin
ton are larger plums of good quality
and fairly regular in bearing.
Eighteen or 20 feet is recommended
as good distance for planting Clean
culture is an important factor in fight
ing curculio and fungi. Mixed plant
ing increases the chances for pollina-
tion.-A. Dickens.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
ZIG PRODUCERS

294 bushels 81 pounds an average DIFF
ference in favor of the best II sorts of
81 bushels 8 pounds per acre.
Some of the heaviest yielding pota
toes, average of six years trial. are:
No. 1, Everett, early, pink; ., Carman
No. l, medium early, white; 3, Roches-
ter Rose, early. pink; 4. American
Wonder. late white; 5, Late Puritan,
medium late. white; 6. Empire State,
medium late, white.
If farmers would choose the most
productive sorts for sowing, such a
practice generally followed would no
doubt result in material increase in
the average crops of the country.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28

Onions For Marketing In Spring.
Onions should be kept in dark, dry
cellar with temperature below 40 de-
grees on open Sat platform; in tiers,
the layers of onions to be eight or ten
inches in depth a thermometer and
kerosene stove should be kept in the
coolest part of the cellar, and when the
temperature falls to 81 degrees the
stove should be lighted. As warm
weather approaches air the cellar by
night and close it during the day. For
marketing in the late spring onions
may be kept frcm freezing. They may
be stored in any convenient outbuilding
in layers eight or ten inches deep and,
after being solidly frozen. covered
with layer of waste hay. They
should not be handled while frozen.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
Cheese Manufacture.

Mr.. Simon, the expert who scored the
cheese at the convention of the Ohio
dairymen, is a large Wisconsin dealer
and was struck by the irregularities in
the Ohio product. The size is not uni
form, and IA or 1415 inch cheese is
recommended. The buyers want to
handle big lots of near the same size.
Flats 81 to 81 pounds and Cheddars As
to so pounds suit best. Bandages were
also criticised as too loose, allowing
mold to work in. He voiced the senti-
ment of the association when he de-
clared that it does not pay to make
skim cheese, as it always hurts the
trade in the end.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
A Handy Little House.

One of the most handy and useful ap-
planes have found about the poul-
try yard is the little house shown in the
accompanying illustration. 1t is feet
square, 5 feet high in front and feet
high in rear. The door in front is 2
feet wide, A feet high. and II inches
above the bottom of coop. There should
be wire door inside of one inch mesh
wire netting, SO that the main door
may be left open in hot weather. The
window should be about two feet
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
Very Like a Scandal.

'sThis dollar that hold in my hand,''
he said, reminds me of deep, dark
scandalous secret"
"Oh, Georgep' his wife exclaimed,
dropping her hands in her lap and
bending forward eagerly, tell me
about it"
Eyes," he went on, sit reminds me OF
secret Of that kind, because it's SO
hard to keep"
And then she refused to speak to him
for three hours. Chicago Times-Her-
aid,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
SOWING CLOVER.
Success With Glover Means a Suffi-
cheney of Soil Moisture.

Success With Glover Means Suffi-
cheney of Soil Moisture.
As to time of sowing clover do not
think there is any sure time, although
it may be called very reliable crop if
good seed is sown on good soil any
time between February and April
Early seeding favors deeper roofing
before dry, hot weather. In fact,
have found that clover will grow at
any time on good soil where the sup
ply of moisture is ample. The pres
ence of plenty of moisture in early
spring makes this the most reliable
time. 1t is with red clover as with
crimson, necessary to consider well the
conditions of soil that favor germina-
ton and growth.
1 have sown crimson clover at seven
different times in the season and find
it very sure crop sown the latter part
Of June, as the soil moisture is then
ample to favor termination and strong
roofing. Common red sown beside it
does as well whether sown in June,
July, August or September, but sown
ldleF lIdu August UeltllcT EctS SlfOuS
enough, even in very favora BILE seasons,
to survive the winter, and both are al
most sure to fail if the season is dry
and hot. Success with clover means
sufficiency of moisture.
Because of the need of moisture we
must put the ground in tilth to retain
moisture. Farmers have so long trust
ed to getting the seed covered by the
frost or rains that they have not given
it as good chance as they have their
oats, wheat and barley. This trusting
to nature to cover the seed has led to
the custom of sowing only in the freez-
ing and thawing season. A friend
asked me why we cannot SOW medium
red clover after we lay by corn and
have clover to turn under the next
spring told him that we could if we
secured the moisture and then covered
the clover seed. He claims that clover,
thus tried, is as sure crop as wheat
or barley. Just how deep clover will
bear covering l do not know, but to
get stand in June or July it is as nee
essary to cover medium red as crimson
and for the same reason.
These unusual notions On clover seed
ing are advanced by a we'll known
Ohio farmer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
WeHs' Hair. Tone.
Home for The RaId.

The elite toilet requisite superb, hisi
class preparation A new, delightful, wonder
full and only successful preparation in the pres
ervation and inauguration of shaggy. brittle
hair coming out in one application Puts ncv
life and gives a vigorous, growthy, health.
look to hair, whislzers and moustaehc. Free
head from dandruf. Dries quickly so thai
hair glossy and clean, and the scalp free from
disease. C1canly, cooling and refreshing il
use; no oil, no grease. harmless. indispensable
on any well equipped toilet stand. SOC. and s
bottles at Druggists, or large size prepaid by
express on receipt of S10O. E. S. WELLS
Chemist, Jersey City, N. 7.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28


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form Of kidney trouble.
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
A MISSOURI HOLSTEIN.
This Fine Animal Won Many Prizes
During Past Seasons.

Theaccompanying cut is from Hoard's
Dairyman and is picture of the Hol-
stein Friesian COW Shady brook Gerben,
owned by NJ. Z. Moore of Cameron,
Mo. Her winnings have been every
first prize in the butter test, beginning
at Iowa, Aug. p, and ending at Attain
ia, Oct. 81. The latter place saw her
in her greatest victory. At Iowa she
won first in the butter test, open to all
dairy breeds; also first and sweep
stakes in class. At Lincoln, Neb., she
won first in butter test, open to all
dairy breeds, and first and sweep
stakes i'll class. At Springfield, Ills,
she won first and sweepstakes in class;
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
POTATOES THAT PAY.

Heavy Yielders, Including Carman
No. L and Empire State.
Sixty-two varieties of potatoes have
been under trial for five or six success
sive years at the Canadian experiment
tai farms, and, while the II most pro,
ductive sorts have averaged during
that period 352 bushels per acre. the
remaining so have given an average Of
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
CUPID SWEET PEA.

fusion of delicate blossoms of which
the rose pinks furnish some of the most
charming. Others of unusual brillan-
cy are Countess of Raduor Qavender).
Borealton (rich maroon) and Firefy
dazzling scarlet. They are all great
favorites for low beds. edglngs and pot
culture.
The new bush sweet pea grows in
perfect bush form. 1t requires no trel-
lis, like the tall sweet peas; neither does
it hug the ground, verbenalike. as
does the Cupid race. An average bush
grows 16 to IS inches high by from II
to IA inches wide. All the flowers are
borne on top of the plant, and the prop
err way to treat this new type will be to
plant the seed in a row to make neat,
even hedge, when no supports whatev-
er will be required.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
An Attractive Flower.

No plant can excel Drummond phlox
in giving life and brilliancy to the gar
den. The many colors IT can be pro
duced in allows of its use largely for
bedding, and it is a universal favorite.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
AN OHIO PLANT.
Where Geese, Ducks and Turkeys
Share Lots with ChicEens

Share Lots With Chickens.
Arriving at the farm, one is made to
feel shs.. as IL ct home, perfectly vel
come, turned loose, as Il were Lin.
wood poultry farm is located three
fourths of mile south Of New London,
o., and the same distance from Here
ford, on an elevation overlooking the
town, and contains 1G5 acres Of land
which is entirely devoted to poultry,
water fowls and pet stock. The build
ings consist of three residences, four
barns and % poultry houses of vari-
GUS sizes and styles. At the present
time, after the rush of the season was
over, we found over 1000 of stock, to
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28
Rolling wheat.

Wheat that has been heayed out to
some extent by frost is greatly benefit
ed by rolling. 1t presses the roots
both wheat and grass-back into the
soil and gives them a chance to take
hold again. a good stand of wheat does
not i,sed rolling, says an exchange.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-03-28

One Of the most satisfactory shrubs
| ever grow on the lawn is Spirna
van houttei. When in full bloom. it
looks very much like a great bank of
snow The flowers are small and borne
in great clusters. SO great in fact that
they bend the long slender stems al
most to the ground 1t truly is a beau
tifui thing. hardy as an oak and does
not sucker. IL could have only one
shrub on the lawn, it would be Spiraa
van houttei. says writer in an ex-
change.