Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-07-31


water are required to produce one ton
of dry matter
The best strawberries are produced
on the year old plants. The two year
| plants will bear some fruit, but the
three-year-old plant is worth nothing.
Where there is a growth of daisies,
goldenrod and sorrel the soil is quite
| likely to be sour, condition which
may be remedied by the application of
! lime or ashes.
| The high price of corn has not affect
ed the price of whisky, 20 cents worth
of corn juice now having the same
power to raise the devil as when corn
was 10 cents bushel
| By sinking bored well foot in di-
ameter in d slough it can often be as
| effectively drained as though it were
tiled. If after penetrating the clay
| subsoil a gravel stratum is reached,
! such Il well will be a success as a
| drainage system.
The growing of the legumes-clover,
beans, peas-and the plowing under of
such crops in a green state furnish
] nitrogen to the soil. Common wood
ashes are about the only home supply
of potash, while phosphates must be
secured from outside the farm.
Western Canada produced last year
96,000.000 bushels of wheat of the
very best quality, and not a twentieth
part of its wheat producing area is
under cultivation. Western Canada
can easily furnish the mother country
with breadstuffs for years to come
1t is estimated that the enormous
sum of $150OO0,OOO will be available
in the next thirty years for irrigation
| works under the new law without
| further appropriations. The wealth
contingent upon the expenditure of
this money for this purpose can hard
| ly be estimated.
Many so called impoverished soils
are poor because of lack of proper till
age, whereby the plant food contained
| in them may be made valuable, and
they really need proper mechanical
| treatment rather than forced stimula-
tion. The plowing under of some green
crop in July and a later plewing in late
| August will often renovate such fields.
| Hambletonian was the most noted
sire America has ever produced. OF
his 1888 colts 40 were in the 2:30
class, $50 of his sons produced 1,47S
| trotters of standard speed, so of his
! daughters produced 110 trotters in the
2:30 list, and it Is estimated that $4,000
of the 17,625 trotters now in the 2:30
| list trace blood back to this famous
horse.
/ We have found this season the Gan
| dy strawberry to be valuable variety
| to have in connection with others. 1t is
not heavy bearer but the berries are
| very large and of the very highest fla
vor and what makes it worth more
than all else is that it is late berry,
coming on just as the other varieties
are all gone and when every one has
got an appetite sharpened up for
| Strawberries.
We know of a man who has thrown
up good farm and rented it and taken
rural mail route to run at 5000 per
year; this because of the trouble In
| getting hired help on the farm. We
| would not have done this. but would
| have seeded the farm down, put some
! Angus COVE in the pasture and let the
| calves do the dairying. A man with
! good farm is a simpleton to run mail
| route unless he wants Office very badly.
| So long as a man Is going to the eX-
| pense and bother of feeding and caring
| for an animal of any kind why not
| have a good kind? This applies to all
| kinds of farm stock and crops as well
| In no line is there so much possible i'm
| provement and increase of profits as In
! this. The difference in the price be-
tween the best things and the average
| things is so great that with high
priced farm land only the best can be
| profitably produced.
The writer's strawberry bed was not
q large one covered only seven square
rods of the garden, but it furnished an
unlimited supply of the finest fruit for
nearly thirty days, all that was needed
| for canning and enough berries were
| sold to more than pay for all work put
upon the bed four times over. This
very satisfactory experience is possible
with any man or woman who can con-
| troll that much garden space
| A milk dealer arrested in one of the
| large cities for selling milk testing be-
| low the fixed standard in the matter
| of butter fat sought to make a good
| defense in court by introducing as evil
| denee ten babies which were regular
| patrons of his milk cans. The kids
were lusty and thrifty, but did not
count with the jury. as some Of this
body were raising equally lusty and
thrifty calves on separator milk.
There is likely to be before very
long sharp competition between the
COW on the farm and the paper maker
| as to which shall have the heretofore
wasted stalks of the great cornfields
| of the west. The silo and the shredder
have solved the problem of the conyer-
sion of these stalks into palatable
ration for the COW. and the paper man
has found out how to convert the dry |
stalk into an excellent quality Of pa
per.
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