Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-24

half that price, it would revolutionizc
building methods in this country.
Even with an average crop Of corn
and other foodstuffs it will take over
nine months for prices of raw material
and meat products to get adjusted to
normal figures.
Corn sold higher than wheat the fore
pens, and when it does 1t Is an unnatu-
raj and unhealthy condition of things.
Forty cents is enough for corn for any
purpose.
Sunday has mighty poor show in
Kansas during wheat harvest. Catchy
weather, scant help and big crops keep
the men in the harvest field while the
women and children attend church and
Sunday school.
The Mount Vernon and the Candy
will be found two of the most desira-
BILE late strawberries to plant and will
carry the strawberry season over a
week or ten days later than can be
done without them
While the writer has a great respect
for any and all the improved breeds of
cattle, still for family use he leans to-
ward the Jersey COW. Her uniform
gentleness. the superior richness of
her milk and her good looks make her
an ideal family cow.
We notice in our travels that it is on
those farms where the Jersey Red hogs
are kept that there are the most little
pigs. This breed is about % per cent
more prolific than the Poland China.
This fact counts for something when
six-weeks-old pig will sell for 81 or S..
Barley is a safer crop to grow on
rich lands than oats. 1t makes less
straw, natures in a shorter time and
will produce as many pounds of nutri-
tious feed per acre as will oats. 1t is
besides much kinder to the young clio
yer and timothy if the field is seeded
down.
We have grown chard this year in
our garden for the first time and
find it the best thing to be had for
summer green's. 1t is relative of the
beet family, producing great growth
of large and tender leaves, which when
boiled are very tender and palatable
Try it next year.
The food at popular hotel where
we recently ate meal was all well
cooked save the oatmeal, and this was
the worst stuff to be found, and all be-
cause the chef did not know enough to
cook the cereal long enough. To be
rendered digestible oatmeal should be
cooked not less than four hours.
A friend of ours has quite a good
garden so far as the stuff produced is
concerned, but every row in it is as
crooked as a rams horn, making his
garden useful, but in no sense orna-
mental He is educated on this crook
ed line, for as we go by his house we
notice that the curtains are hung
askew.
A friend of ours recently had fat
cow to sell. Local butcher wanted her
and offered him 5 cents a pound for
her. The owner would not sell her by
weight, but insisted in Jumping her off
ut 1000 pounds. Butcher, with grin.
consented. Cow was a grade Short
horn, broad and blocky, and the owner
guessed just $13G5 out of his pocket
He should have weighed her before
guessing and will next time he has a
COW to sell by guess.
There are greater possibilities locked
up with the alfalfa plant than any 9TH
err known to modern agriculture.
Enough has been already demonstrate
ed to prove that 1t may be made to
bring wealth to millions Of acres OF
what is now almost unproductive land.
The natural stupidity of one hired
man was well illustrated by his tying
his team to valuable hard maple
shade tree for few moments, during
which the horses peeled the tree and
ruined it, Being one of row which
had taken seven years to perfect, 1t
became subject for remarks by the
owner.
The land for an onion crop should be
prepared the year previously by thor
oughly exterminating all weeds. Not
weed of any sort should be allowed to
go to seed upon it, and it should be
well fortified and got into good filth.
A big crop of onions can then be pro-
duced with minimum of labor and
bother.
Old maids are all right to help take
care of the children, but they don't
know how to bring them up. They try
to do 1t by theory when the truth is
that one has first got to find out what
kind of little animal he has to rear
before any plan can be formulated for
its training. No two kids want the
same sort Of treatment.
More use should be made of the COM
mon wild grape. It is one of the clean
est, hardest and most graceful vines
we have and. besides. will produce in
abundance the best jelly material to
be had. Then when in bloom 1t is one
of the most fragrant of any of our
wild flowers. Plant one to cover the
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tween the home lot and the yard,