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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
CONVENIENT sILos.
The Question of Food and Its Prepa-
ration For Dairy Cattle.

The Question of Food and Its Prepa-
ration For Dairy Cattle.
Since dairying has become one of the
principal agricultural pursuits, espe-
cially in the east, the supply of fodder
or the raising of forage claims almost
the first consideration of the farmer,
says T. H. Mitchell of Cayuga county,
n. Y, in American Agriculturist. We
have tried on Oakland farm the vari-
Gus forage crops recommended and
have come to the conclusion that they
are all too expensive OH account Of the
necessary labor. We except rape for
pigs and sheep and ensilage, which we
have for some years past used practi-
cally the year around. Ensilage is just
as valuable in the heat and drought Of
summer as in the winters cold. If
when you cut your new crop in the fall
any is left i'll the silo, cut right on to
the old. We are now feeding out of the
smaller of our two silos shown In the
illustration corn put in in 1900, and it
is just as good as that put in last fall.
When building the first silo, place it
convenient for a second one. You may
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
Less Cheese In Canada.

At meeting of the Montreal Dairy
and Cheese association a resolution
was adopted authorizing a circular to
the dairymen of Canada strongly adj
yising them to turn their attention to
butter more generally and to discontin-
ue the manufacture of cheese entire
each year after Nov. 1. The reasons for
this course are that fodder cheese on
the market reduces consumption, and
it is only grass goods that are of a
quality sufficient to increase demand;
that the consumption of cheese is di-
minishing, while that of superior
creamery butter is increasing; that the
price of butter is higher on an average
all the year round than that of cheese;
that the manufacture of butter is more
profitable than cheese. These are all
good reasons why the Canadian dairy
men should make less cheese and more
butter.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
After
Dinner
Speeches
[ Volumes
I, III. I'M

These three volumes of the Library con-
tain the most uniquely comprehensive col
lection OF the thoughts and words of post
prandial orators ever published. About the
Banquet-Board, no less than in the Forum,
the great thoughts of the masters of the
world have been given expression. By
them parties and policies have often been
made and unmade. By them also the diners,
and later the world, have been given the
inside view of gigantic enterprise. herculean
effort and sublime achievement. In periods
scintillant with wit, Choate forged new
and stronger links in English and American
unity. The silver-tongued Grady rent the
curtain OF sectional prejudice, and brought
the Puritan and Cavalier into common;
eongenial brotherhood. In these pages liy-
ing men speak living thoughts in living
tongue. We sat at a banquet-board loih host
Of speakers the like Of ioltich the qcorld has
Meier seen. AS Congressman Lands, of In
diana, says of these volumes: 1--WE behold
the galleries radiant with fair women We
hear the shouts, and the air peals with
laughter-then comes pause-a shoek-the
lightning of wit, and the thunder of APP
plause; men and women rise, sparkling
glasses soar-Modern Eloquence transports
us, and we are there.''
Every speech is reproduced as given, with
all the Introductory remarks. We hear the
applause" the CHEERS and the laughter
of the guests
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
CORN AS HEN FEED.
1t Is Not q Good Eggmaker End
Should Not Be Fed In Excess.

Should Not BE Fed In Excess.
One reason why farmers do not real
ize more from their poultry, | believe,
is because they make corn the main
diet. Corn is considered by them to be
the cheapest feed and the handiest to
feed, for by throwing it out on the ear
the hens are given more or less exer-
else in picking it off; hence the owner
is saved the labor of scattering grain
in the litter for the fowls to scratch
out. But have little faith in this plan
of exercising and feeding fowls. With
good many farmers corn is probably
cheap food, but even this depends
somewhat on the season of the year,
the climate and whether the hens have
free range or not. In cold weather
corn may be fed quite literally to lay
ing stock without injury, and also to
fowls having farm range, but when
given in the way that many feed it, by
spreading it on the ground before the
hens three times a day, all they will
eat, I believe that it is expensive hen
feed
Very many attribute the increase of
eggs to corn, when in fact the corn has
produced eggs more by keeping the
hens warm than through the supply of
egg elements afforded. Eggs cannot
be made to any great extent by corn
alone, or for long time, for the reason
that a hen fed nothing but corn will
be unable to supply the mineral ele-
ments of the eggs. and while she may
by eating largely of corn find sufficient
nitrogen for an egg, she will sooner or
later become excessively fat from too
much carbon. A very economical and
good feed for winter egg production Is
a mixture of clover, cut in half inch
lengths and scalded, with cornmeal
and bran. This is very complete ra-
ton on all the elements necessary for
eggs. 1t supplies bulky food, promotes
digestion. affords a variety and costs
less than any other food that l have
been able to get.
When a hen leaves corn for other
feed, it means that she wants some
thing not fully supplied by corn.
Without exception the best results
may be had from a varied diet. and,
while hen may do very well on corn,
she will do better on variety. 1t is
not an easy matter to make up per-
fectly balanced ration for laying
hen. While she is producing eggs she
will use vast amount of raw mate
rial, but if she stops laying corn
diet will soon ruin her. A concentrat-
ed food for hens should be avoided.
largely in supplying many needed ele-
ments not easily obtained from other
sources. Glover. vegetables, milk, meat
and corn or wheat are better than any
single article.-V. M. Couch in Poultry
Monthly
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
FouR HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR

We are asked by a man aged thirty
five who has wife and four children
whether we can suggest any way
whereby he can get start when his
income from common days labor never
exceeds $500 per year. Not possessing
the wisdom of King Solomon, we feel
like letting this job out; still perhaps
we can offer a suggestion, even if we
cannot give advice. The $500 year,
as most laboring men live, will do very
little besides providing food, raiment
and shelter for the family. Even with
good health and no bad luck the mar
gin of surplus is very small. There
fore, in order to get the small start
which may lead to better conditions,
there is involved a limited period of
self denial for both the man and his
wife such as most people would shrink
from. A man, his wife and four chill
dren can and do exist somehow in
England and ON the continent on an
income of $3.50 a year and even less.
Oui LAiSAd WAL nave ~ StuuH ILLS
way of living, which involves a bill of
fare wherein oatmeal and potatoes fig
ure very conspicuously. To accomplish
anything in the way of making the
start desired there must be at least
500 saved from the living expense ac-
count to begin with. Then, as soon as
possible, a good cow should be secured
and some poultry kept and a small
patch of land procured for a good gar
den. These three things will at once
make the saving of 500 from the liy-
ing expense comparatively easy. When
the first 500 is saved, ways and means
to add to it will readily suggest them
selves, and little by little a more desir-
able condition may be brought about.
In this connection we might add that
any attempt to work out of the hole
is useless unless a man has a wife
who is willing to fully cooperate with
him. We wish that we could offer
better solution of this economic prob
lem, but it is the only way.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
CpEcIAL MASTERS SALE.

By virtue of decreeof the Court of Chancery
of New Jersey, bearing date on the eighteenth
day of November, A. D., 1901, in a certain cause
therein pending wherein George Plat, is COM
plainant, and Thomas X. McClong and others
are defendants, the subscriber will expose to
sale at public vendue, to the highest bidder, on
Monday, 3lst day Of March, A. D 1902
At the Sheriff's Office in the Court House at
Woodbury. New jersey, at the hour of two
o'clock in the afternoon, all that certain tract of
land, situate in Logan Township, County of
Gloucester, and State of New Jersey:
Beginning at stone in the middle of the
public road leading from Bridgeport to Rcpau-
pc, the said stone being the Flax pond,
and at a corner of Freeland Hurff's land thence
along said Hurff's ~ north eleven degrees east
ten chains and lightweight links, thence W
still along Hurff's land north ffty-five degree
east fourteen chains and sixty-eight links to
cedar post in the moss, corner to SAID Hurns
land and in the line of land OF the heirs OF
Rebecca Ann Cooper, deceased, thence ~
north thirty-five degrees west eleven chains and
thirty-four links through the swamp to stake
on the fast land thence ~ north one degree
east three chains and sixty-eight links to
cedar post at a corner OF Anabei Brlghts cedar
swamp, thence (5) partly through the swamp
and partly along fast land south seventy-three
degrees west six chains to a stone at the LoD
Folly Landing, being corner also TO Johh Bun
din's land; thence (6) south sixty degrees ana
fifteen minutes west eighteen chains ana forty
seven links to stump in the middle OF thesroad
thence az along said road nearly south eigh-
teen chains and fifty-four links to corner in
the middle OF the road leading from BrIdgeport
to Repaupo; thence (S) south seventy-eight de-
grees forty-five minutes east fourteen chains
and twenty-six links to the beginning corner.
Containing ffty-one and forty-four one-hun-
dreths acres, be the same more or less
To be sold in the presence and under direction
of HARRISON FL. VOORHEES,,
Special Master.
VIM. j. Kraft, Solicitor 2-2F'925ts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
Monday, the Thirty first day Of March

next between the hours of 10 and o'clock, to
wit at Q o'clock in the afternoon of said day at
the Court House in the city of Woodbury.,
County of Gloucester and State of New Jersey
all the following described real estate, that is to
All that certain tract or parcel of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described, sit
uate in the Township of Harrison, in the County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey, and
bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at stake
for corner in the middle of the public road
leading into Barnsborough and Pittstown Turn
pike from the Union road, which stake is now
made a corner to the parties respectfully, and
from thence running by said Wares other land
and north twenty-six degrees west, twenty-seven
chains to a stake corner thence south eighty
one degrees west, twenty-four chains to a stake
in the line OF Kier's land; thence by the same
south seventeen degrees and three-quarters east
twelve chains to a stone corner to said Kier's
land; thence by lands of said Ware south forty
degrees and thirty minutes east fifteen chains
and fifty links to a stone corner to Hamptons
land; thence by the same and crossing the public
road aforesaid south sixteen degrees and ten
minutes east twenty-four chains, forty-eight
links to corner thence north sxty-six degrees,
fifteen minutes east seven chains thirty-eght
links to the middle of the turnpike aforesaid:
thence along the same north twenty-nine de-
grees east twenty-nine chains seventy-one links
to a corner where the middle Of the public road
aforesaid intersects with said turnpike and
thence along said road to the beginning Con-
tanning one hundred acres exclusive of fifty
three hundredths sold to Thomas Simpkins.
Being the same premises which Samuel IT, Sooy
and Harriet Sooy his wife. by deed of convey
ance bearing date the seventeenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and intended
to be forthwith recorded for the consideration
therein mentioned conveyed to the said Edward
e. Sharp in fee, and this mortgage is given to
secure part of the aforesaid consideration
money.
Seized as the property of Edward e. Sharp
ct ais, defendants, and taken in execution at the
suit Of Samuel T. Sooy, complainant and to be-
go = F. D. SPRINGER, Sheriff
Dated Feb. 20, 1902.
H. H. Swaekhamer Solicitor. 227
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
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tEE 4E ElN SILAGE".J
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We do not think that those who have
had most experience with silage con-
slider sweet corn materially better than
any other variety of corn, says Hoard's
Dairyman in answer to an inquiry.
They think the most important consid-
Grafton is to plant that kind of corn
which will certainly mature and, one
year with smother, yield the largest
amount of forage. 1t is claimed that
sweet corn is little mere disposed to
make an acid silage than are other va
rieties, but this acidity is not very
serious objection. All silage is more or
less sour. The principal distinction be-
tween what is known as sweet silage
and that which is known as sour silage
is in their respective feeding values.
Unripe corn makes a so called sour 81
Iage, and at the same time unripe corn
contains less nutriment than mature
corn. When silage is especially sour,
we conclude that it is made from i'm
mature corn and therefore carries less
nutriment than the same amount of 81
Iage made from corn more mature. 1t
is now the universal opinion that the
hest silage frcm flint varieties of corn
is made when the ears are fairly well
glazed and from the dent varieties Of
corn when the kernels are pretty well
denied. the lower leaves of the stalk
commencing to turn and some of the
husks of the more mature ears getting
approximately dry and hard.
SiIage Butter Satisfactory.
The silage butter question will never
he settled, as some claim it is tainted
no matter what preeaution is exercised
in its production. H. B. Gurler states
that he has had Silage butter tested
for weeks at a time by experts, who
were unable to tell whether it came
from silage fed cows or not. He thinks
tbe trouble comes in exposing milk in
omen vessels near fresh silage. This is
about the only way silage will injure
milk or butter.
That CornstaIk Disease.
Wide is the discussion and much is
the study concerning the cornstalk dis
ease: still no one has found a cure, al
though many experiments have been
made. No one really seems to know
the cause of the disease, writes B. e.
Synder in Prairie Farmer Some think
ii is caused by a too sudden change
from green pasture to the coarse dry
feed which forms compaction in the
stomach or intestines or causes indiges-
tion. Others claim that it is due to
smut or blight. and still others, good
authority on the subject, assert that it
is not contagious | was told not long
since by man who had made an ex-
animation Of some cattle that he had
lost that he had found on the second
lining of the stomach black coating
resembling smut. Some will turn their
stock out in the fall. Do not make too
wldden a change from grass to stalks
and keep plenty of salt on hand. have
noticed that the man who is fortunate
enough to have a meadow near his
sfalkfeld or feeds other green feed In,
connection with the stalks until the
cattle are used TO the dry feed seldom
loses any form from this disease.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27

A visit to the old home is one of the most
delightful experiences of old age. In New
England more and more has been made
each year Of the feeling for the old home
stead, and it is only natural that the "old
home" paper The Youths Companion, should
participate in this renewal of "old home''
acquaintance.
Last week the publishers of The Youth S
Companion enjoyed visit from one of their
seventy-fve year subscribers, Mr.. R. w.
Peabody of Chicago, now ninety-one years
old, who had been spending few weeks in
New England. He is one of the few SUBJ
scribers on record who has taken The
Youths Companion continuously since its
first issue, April II, 1927. The letter in
which he sent his original subscription was
one of the first he ever wrote Through
Young manhood, maturity and old age,
through times Of war and times of peace,
in New England and in the West, through
all the last seventy-fve years of his life,
his one constant companion has been the
old Youths Companion.
The growth of TIE Companion itself from
the first small four-page issues to the great
family paper OF the present is merely typiss
cal of the growth of the country during
MI. ItseUouy iucbiHle Inc WONDERFUL
triumphs of steam, and electricity; the
great inventions that made the nineteenth
century what it was, nearly all occurred in
the period through which Mr. Peabody
and The Youths Companion have passed side
by side.
The regard Mr.. Peabody holds for the
paper is not because of its age, but because
the paper, although the same in purpose in
its last issue as in that of seyenty-five years
ago, has kept pace with all the extraor-
binary developments of these three genera
tions, and instead of growing old has grown
young in enterprise, in originality, and in
the ability to know and supply the literary
wants of the American family.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
Great Addresses
(Holumes VI. KIIL. Ky

These three volumes contain one of the
most unique features of this most unique
work. Phillips Brooks, the well-beloved,
brings the Great Emancipator home to us in
the character of Abraham Lincoln:" Henry
Van Dykes Books, Literature and People,
and Balfour's ''The Pleasures of Reading"
would alone be sufficient for the bookman,
but there are a score or two just as good
The range of this work is the marvel of
those who read it, For here we have Newell
Dwight Hollis 1.-The Pulpit in Modern Life;''
Cardinal Gibbons Supremacy of the Cath
olic Religion" while Cardinal Manning,
with his fine, broad view, discusses the
Persecution of the Jews;' Blaine, in one
OF his creates inspirations, gives his grand
delineation of Garfield, the Man and the
Patriot, while few pages further is found
Choate's immortal epic, ION the Death of
Daniel Webster" So on-and on-until we
had named the major part that is conceded
great and worthy in our national literature
Every address is complete.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
The Steady Mixer.

From testing the best milking cows
are found out, and it is wonderful how
animals are discovered to be good milk
ers when a whole twelyemonth is taken,
which yet have never yielded very
large quantity at one time, while, on
the other hand, animals which have
yielded an enormous quantity over a
short time and have had great notice
taken of them are really poor mixers
when their total yield for twelve
months is summed up. The cow that
yields a moderate quantity over nine,
ten or eleven months is the sort to have
and breed from, and it is only by rec
ord that this is found out. In addition
to this, the quality of the milk must be
taken into account, and it is desirable
to test this from time to time also.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
Early Native Spring Flower.

One of the most beautiful early ma
tive spring flowers of North America
is the pasque, or Easter flower, Pulsa
tilla hirsutissinla, perhaps more famil
iarly known as Anemone nuttalliana.
1t is a native of the praires of Illinois
and the northwest territory. extending
from British Columbia into Nebraska
and Texas. inhabiting dry soils. An in
teresting character of the plant is when
the fruiting stage is reached. The silky
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
La Crime Quickly Cured.


In the winter of 1898 and 1899 1 was
taken down with severe attack of what is
called La Grippe" says F. L. Hewett, a
prominent druggist of Winfield, Ill. ''The
only medicine I used was two bottles of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t broke up
the cold and stopped the coughing like
magic, and have never since been troubled
with Grippe" Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy can always be depended upon to break
up severe cold and ward off any threaten
ed attack of pneumonia. 1t is pleasant to
take, too, which makes it the most desirable
and one of the most popular preparations
III use for these ailments. For sale by A.
S. Marshall, Woodbury.; G. A. Smith. Man
tua 3-6- 1872 I'm.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
HOW TO CURE THE GRIP.
A Remedy Which, 1t Is Said. VIII
Bring Prompt Relief.

A Remedy Which, 1t Is Said. VIII |
Bring Prompt Relief.
A not infrequent symptom of grip |
will be general aching in all the mus
cles, joints and bones, suggesting the |
old fashioned .tbreakbone' fever. This |
group of symptoms may be the expla-
nation of ''only cold,' as it is fire. |
quently expressed, or it may be the |
announcement of a well defined at |
tack of grip, which now is well known
to everybody. 1t may be interesting
to recall that the grip, or old time Gin
fluenza," is due to a specific poison,
the bacillus Of Pfeiffer, which, while it
is asserted by some to be uninfluenced
by soil, climate, season or atmospheric
changes, yet. these conditions do mate
rally affect the individual as related
to susceptibility.
Careful physicians who have studied
this disease and allied conditions are
uniformly of the opinion that it is one
Of tie severest tests of the equipment
of the individual, particularly one who
has reached forty years of age, says
Popular Science News. These so call
ed colds, catarrhal fevers and infiu-
enzas are not only in themselves often
OF serious import, but doubly so in
that they put the individual nervous
system below par, figuratively speak
ing, reduce the power of resistance,
render the air passages sensitive and
susceptible to other infections. In 9th
er words, their victim is in a condition
to yield readily to all forms of disease.
The all important thing, then, is for
the invaded person to institute at once
treatment favorable to prompt relief
and cure. Fortunately synthetic chem
istry has given us a remedy in phe-
nalgin, which can be absolutely relied
upon. In adults doses of ten grains
washed down by good hot toddy at
night, to be repeated in an hour if
necessary, will afford prompt relief
to all discomforts. The action Of
the phenalgin is not only to relieve
pain and distress, but to open up the
excretory organs and correct the gen.
eral perversion of secretions as indi-
Gated by the bad taste in the mouth,
etc. In the morning, unless the bow
els have sufficiently moved, teaspoon
full or two of sulphate of soda may be
given in a glass of hot water to flush
them more thoroughly. 1t may be well
to continue the phenalgin in five grain
doses every three or four hours for
several days, to be followed later by a
tonic composed as follows: Capsicum.
one grain; quinine, two grains; strych-
nine, one-fftieth of grain. in a pill or
capsule three times a day.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-27
The DAIRY cow.

Illustration Showing the Proper De-
velOpment In Posterior Regions.
This illustration and accompanying
description of the proper development
of posterior regions of the dairy COW
are taken from farmers bulletin No.
143 issued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture: The figure shows
the proper formation of the hind quar-
tiers and barrel of the dairy COW. She
should be cat manned and thin
through the lower thigh. She should