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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
How to Mnke burned Almonds.

These are always favorites. Take
pound of sweet almonds and wipe
clean: put pound Of graduated sugar
in saucepan with one cup of water
and stir until 1t comes to boiling; wipe
down the crystals from the side and
let the strip boil until clear and thick;
then throw in the almonds and Stir
with a wooden paddle until you hear
them crack. Take from the fire, still
stirring, and when they dry put them
on an oiled wire sieve. Take the sug-
ar that Sits from them, put back over
the fire, add very little water and
fruit coloring RASPBERRY is NICE, and
when it boils throw in the almonds
again and stir until quite dry; then
take from the fire and pack in jars or
boxes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
SOME HANDY PRUNING TOOLS.

hard wood. with narrow. sharp little
saw fitted firmly into one end of it.
Such saw can be made out of thin
strip of steel, or piece of an old mar
row saw can be utilized.
The other saw figured is an ordinary
handsaw, with a portion of the back
cut out to permit easy working where
the space for using saw is limited.
No one will realize until he uses such a
saw how much of a convenience it is
in this shape
The other device is used in cutting
out blackberry and raspberry canes. A
thin bit of steel or scythe point bent
into the proper shape by blacksmith
is firmly fastened to short wooden
handle. With stout buckskin or calf
skin glove or mitten on the left hand
and this implement in the right one is
well equipped to rapidly remove all I'M
desirable canes from the blackberry
and raspberry rows.-Farm, Field and
EireSide
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

educed Rates to San Francisco and Los
Angeles-Via Pennsylvania Railroad, Ac-
count Imperial Council, Mobiles of the Mys-
tic Shrine.
On account of the Imperial Council,
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, at San Fran
cisco, Cal, June 10 to IA, 1902, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell excur-
sion tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles
from all stations on its lines, from May 26
to June z, inclusive, at greatly reduced
rates. These tickets will be good for re-
turn passage within sixty days from date of
sale when executed by Joint Agent at Los
Angeles or San Francisco and payment of
fifty cents made for this service. For
specific rates apply to Ticket Agents.
5-15-2ts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
CARE OF TIE FEET.
low to Treat Tender Feet. Corn

How to Treat Tender Feet. Corns
and Improving Nails.
Tender feet are caused by wearing
Bookings too thin for the WIGHT of
the shoe, and of course an i'll shaped
boot or shoe or one not sufficiently
porous to admit of the escape of per-
spiration will also cause tender feet,
Bays the Philadelphia North American.
The best treatment for tender feet is
soaking them nightly i'll bran and wa
Ter or salt water. Let them remain in
the footbath fully half an hour. Moth
ing so rests tired feet as the salt foot
bath.
Goodness of the feet indicates deli
4 ate health and impaired circulation.
Cold feet are destroyers of complex
Eons. 1t is said that rubbing the feet
+ md ankles with the bare hands, press
ing just as strongly as the feet can en-
lure, for ten or fifteen minutes every
hight just before retiring will cure the
kaost stubborn cases of cold feet.
Corns are horny indurations with
ferry sensitive nucleus or base and ap-
bear on the exposed portions of the
Joints of the toes. They are certainly
caused by an undue and continuous
pressure and will usually disappear
with large, easy shoes; otherwise,
though frequently taken out, they
will reappear.
There are innumerable rer1eufes for
the removal of corns. The most COM
mon and popular contain extract of
cannabis indica and salicylic acid or
Tactic or acetic acid. The usual mode
of usage is to apply the remedy for
four or five nights consecutively. On
the fourth or fifth night, if the appli-
cation has been successful, after hot
footbath the corns can be picked out
with the fingers.
Nails that have tendency to grow
sidewise should be kept carefully par
ed. Where the nail grows into the
flesh it may be cured by making a V
shaped cut in the center, the broad
part of the V at the top of the nail.
For ingrowing nails Monin also adj
vises bandaging the toe with compress
es saturated with perchlorate of iron.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
PLANT TT TO ENERcREENs.

A friend who has a few acres of
quite sandy soil on a ridge on his farm
which was poisoned with sorrel wrote
us last year wanting to know how to
get rid of the sorrel He did it by
blowing twice during the drought of
last August and September and, now
wants to get the land into clover with
a view to enriching it, as the soil is
very thin and poor. This is a hard
proposition unless he is sure of abun-
dant moisture, for an August sun will
about cook clover, without rain, under
such conditions of soil. Instead of
clover for such a case we would try
cowpeas, and if we had such spot on
our farm we would give up the idea of
trying to make either pasture or
tillable land out of it and would set it
out with Scotch and white pine or red
cedars. 1t would then look nice and
cease to bother, even if it could only
be regarded as legacy for our grand
children.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

We have been feeding for some time
thirteen well grown and well bred
Barred Plymouth Rocks one quart of
oats, one quart of wheat bran aud one
pint of whole corn per day. Besides
these, the fowls have one or two feeds
of green stuff from the garden-chop-
ped beets. chopped turnips. turnip tops
and mustard. The results are entirely
satisfactory. for the hens are lively.
healthy and have been laying quite
well all the fall. We have been feed
ing the same rations to the same breed
of fowls for several years, and, al
though the fowls have been uniformly
healthy and vigorous. sometimes they
laid well in fall and winter and some
times laid not at all until February.
No: we can't account for the different
results from apparently the same
causes.-Farm and Ranch.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
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TOOLS FOR PRUNING.

Convenient Forms of Saws-Device
For Cutting Out Berry Canes.
Clippers and shears on long handles
so as to reach from the ground the top
branches of tree for pruning have
long been in use. In the pruning of
orange and lemon trees in Florida and
California these long handled pruning
tools are common. Mr.. FL. d. Becker Of
Michigan has suggested such long
handled saw, which is also common
rense tool and will work on the larger
limbs. We reproduce this and two 9TH
er pruning tools from a drawing made
by him and published in The Farm and
Home. Mr.. Becker mentions the cut
ting tools adapted to small branches.
but nothing of the nature of clippers or
shears will work with big branches.
Calling attention to the illustration,
Mr.. Becker describes the different de.
vices, first taking the long handled
saw, as follows; 1t is a square or
round pole of any desired length of
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
The Toulouse and the Embden.

The Toulouse and the EnDueH.
The two best known varieties of
breeds of the goose are the Toulouse
and Embden. The Emblem is without
doubt the best market goose. Its plum
age is white; bill. feet and legs orange
colored. They attain large size. Emb-
den ganders, standard bred. full grown.
haze attained to thirty pounds weight,
while gosIings have reached twenty
pounds each. when fed for exhibition
purposes. Males among this breed not
uncommonly weigh twenty pounds, but
ordinarily they range from fifteen to
eighteen pounds. Embdens mature ear
w, and the eggs are of large size. but
few in number compared with the pro
life China geese. but the latter are
much smaller in size than the Emb-
dens A profitable cross is given by
mating an african gander with either
Toulouse or Embden geese. The Tou-
louise Is gray on back. sides and breast
Stock geese should be fed shredded
hay. silage. etc. with moderate allow
nnce of grain daily during winter
months. Geese do not mate readily. and
consequently it is best to place all stock
together several weeks or months. so as
10 become acquainted with each other.
After mating strong attachment
grows between the sexes. -Four geese
may be allowed to one male. Shelter
ought always to be provided. While
the Embden lays fewer eggs at
clutch. yet it can be depended upon
TO sit if wanted. The goose should not
be allowed to sit. at least not until the
last clutch is laid. Better results are
obtained by employing hens as sitters.
The goose is readily cured of broodi-
ness. By combining a week she will
generally begin laying again in two
weeks afterward. After two weeks
incubation eggs should be sprinkled
three times a week until the hatch is
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
PLANTS IN WINDOWS.
How to Keep Them Thrifty Under
Various Conditions.

How to Keep Them Thrifty Under
Various Conditions.
Plants must be treated as individuals.
No two can be handled in exactly the
same manner, affirms Meehan's Month
ly in presenting some points of success
full plant culture in windows. We must
first know the probable needs of our
plants, then give regular care and ex-
ercise judgment in maintaining certain
treatment or suspending it for some
thing better suited to the immediate
requirements.
The conditions of the soil in the pots
is Of first Importance. Plants of sue
culent nature or with fieshy roots will
usually object to real heavy SOIL 9th
ers may find unsuited conditions in an
extremely light, porous soil. Where
doubt enters the mind be safe and
adopt medium grade of soil. loamy
and porous.
Naturally heavy soil is slow to take
up moisture as well as slow in yielding
it. Water poured on the surface of
such finds slow entrance and slow pas
sage The soil in the bottom of q pot
will rarely get any moisture, though
mostly needed there, unless it be given
by standing it for few moments in a
saucer of water. Such soil becomes
sodden and sour and will likely be
overwatered in the upper part.
The extreme of this state - light,
ALL 41x, s,%
once, and it almost as quickly passes
Off. In warm room the moisture will
evaporate so quickly as to require wa
tering twice a day and each time a
thorough soaking. Medium light soil
is seen to be the safest. Let it be just
so that the water will enter at once
and dampen the soil throughout the pot
without running off.
Plants in jardinieres sometimes suf-
fer by having water standing in the
latter-they are literally drowned. On
the other hand. if the plant is growing,
especially rapid growth, or Towering
an abundance of water is required, and
what would ordinarily be an oversup-
ply is then of great benefit.
Light and air are of very great i'm
portance. Plants should have both ev-
cry day. and this light must be dis
tributed equitably. This is accomplish
ed by turning the plants around, ex.
posing them to the light on all sides.
Some plants require more heat than
others, especially when growing and
receiving considerable water. Plants
practically dormant may be kept COO
and without much water and light.
But few persons realize what small
amount of soil is made to support q
plant and how inadequate the nourish
ment must frequently be. Food of some
kind should be occasionally added t.
the soil. Manure in liquid form will aid
strong growth. A few drops of house
hold ammonia frequently added to wa
ter is a good practice. Potash, present
in wood ashes or bonemeal. will some
times be acceptable.
| Plants in very hot room sometimes
suffer from dry atmosphere. and the
leaves should be lightly syri1ged occa
sionally.
Dead or dying leaves on plant are
useless membranes and should be re
moved and destroyed as soon as they
appear
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

Reduced Rates to Portland-Via Pennsylva-
mia Railroad, Account National Convention,
Travellers Protective Association of Amer
lea, and the Supreme Lodge, Ancient Order
United Workmen.
On account of the National Convention,
Travellers Protective Association of Amer
lea, June 3 to Z, and the Supreme Lodge,
Ancient Order United Workmen, June 10
to 20, at Portland, Oregon, the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to Portland from all stations on its
lines, from May 26 to June 7, inclusive, at
greatly reduced rates. These tickets will
be good for return passage within sixty
days from date of sale when executed by
Joint Agent at Portland and payment of
fifty cents made for this service. Apply to
Ticket Agents. 5-15-2ts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
FOR ORDINARY FARMERS.
The Claim That 1t Doesn't Pay Them
to Fuss u Lot With Hens.

The Claim That 1t Doesn't Pay Them
to Fuss Lot With Hens.
The ordinary farmer who reads the
elaborate directions for the care and
feeding of poultry which often appear
In print may be excused if he shows
symptoms of disgust.
For he is a busy man, his wife is a
busy woman. and help indoors and out
is busy too. He has no time for all this
fuss and feathers
Nor will so much of it pay him. He
cannot afford to spend so much time
and money, to the neglect o. other i'm
portant affairs, in caring fer his poul-
try. The returns do not and will not
justify it on the ordinary well conduct
ed farm.
This will provoke dissenting opinions
from many. but it is fact. But it is
equally fact that attention to the
chickens viii pay.
How to get the most from the flock
with the least labor is the problem for
the farmer.
One way is to save labor Iiy spending
little time in making things conven-
lent for the laborer.
Fix the house so that it is dry and as
warm as possible. If poultry must be
confined, put enough hens in it, not too
many.
Have the rOOStS SO arranged that
they will not become foul from drop
pings. Make them so that they can be
removed easily or so that they can be
painted frequently with lice killers
with little trouble.
Provide a place for the feed 1t is
not necessary for the ordinary farmer
to cook mashes every morning or warm
corn every evening for his chickens.
Just give them enough of some kind of
grain. wheat, corn CT oats. changing
occasionally. and let it go at that.
Waste vegetables are all right. Green
bone is good to increase egg production.
No poultry farmer should be without
them; even the average farmer may
find them profitable. If he cant have
them, he can worry along without
them.
If the chickens are all kept around
the barn. keep something handy for
them to eat. Barns are usually com
Portable places for chickens. and if
fed enough they will respond. The
trouble is that they are expected to
find their own living around the barn.
and they can't do it.
Never mind about cleaning out the
house every day. Keep it as clean as
possible, but no need to worry about
it every day.
Remember that poultry manUre
ranks high us a fertilizer. Try it once
and see. A little time spent in saving
it will be richly rewarded. RealiZa
ton of tae value Of poultry manure
will usually keep the houses clean
enough on the average farm.
No use to feed so many hens or any
cockerels. If they lay well. moder-
ate number will give enough eggs. If
they don't. more will not help much,
and the smaller the number kept to-
gether the better they will do.
Reasonable care and abundant feed
will usually bring the desired result in
eggs. Don't think because you can't
have fancy poultry or can't care for it
according to the fancier's standard you
must be without eggs. Do something
for the hens: they will return the fa-
yor.-National Stockman and Farmer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

Slip the glasses in sideways so that
the water touches the outside and in
side of the glass at the same time, and
there will be no danger of cracking
from unequal expansion. Wash one
at a time, rolling it around in the pan
with the ends of the fingers, or use a
dish mop kept specially for the glass
and silver. Wipe at once without rims
ing or draining. Before washing glass
that has held milk or glass milk bot
tie rinse first in cold water. A gener-
aus sized piece of old cotton cloth, neat
ly hemmed to avoid raveling and lint,
Is the best polishing towel for glass.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
NrutuaI Insurance.

The Mutual Creamery and Cheese
Factory Insurance company of Mime
sofa is now carrying risks amounting
to $263. 900. 1t has had but one loss
during the year, and that was only
1921. This company has made no as
Sessment above the 8 mills on the dol
lar charged on all policies to cover ex-
penses. Total receipts are $S12.22 and
cash balance on hand $648.1S showing
how marvelously cheap the business is
done. This is really mutual insurance.
the element of private gain being en-
tirely eliminated. This is class of in
surance that old line companies charg-
ed a high rate for carrying, because
the moral hazard is so great" as they
put it. But experience proves that there
is no occasion for such a conclusion
Dairy World.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
ONE WOMAN'S SUCCESS.
How She Made Good Money With
Her Flock of Hens.

Her Flock of Hens.
At recent farmers institute at
Avoca, N. Y, Mrs. Fillmore Billings, a
farm woman, read the following paper
on how she cared for her fowls and the
profit she realized from them the past
year:
II have had some experience with
poultry, as ! have had the care of
flock Of hens for the last twenty years,
with good success. We keep about 200
hens. l raise from 100 to 200 chickens
every year, Matching and raising them
with hens. My way of caring for the
chickens is this: | do not feed them
anything until they are twentyfour or
thirty-siX hours old and then feed them
bread soaked in water for about a
week. After that bake cornmeal in
johnnycake and soak that and feed
five times a day until they are about
five weeks old. Then I feed wheat
screenings or whole wheat, always Civ
ing them plenty Of fresh water Or
sweet milk to drink. In caring for
them in that way the loss from sick
ness is very small. Sometimes the
crows or hawks will catch some of
them.
My way of caring for the hens is:
In the winter | feed a warm feed every
morning of bran with some meat feed
mixed with it. either desiccated fish or
boiled beef and bone, using seven parts
of bran to one of the meat feed, mixed
with hot water ;.i.I fed while warm At
noon feed corn or wheat, and if they
need more feed corn again at night
Always have box with crushed oyster
shells where they Gun get them when
they want them, and give them all the
fresh water that they want. Two or
three times a week / feed some vegeta-
BILE food, cabbage or apples, if we have
them, OF potato parings. We keep our
hens shut in in the winter, unless it is
very warm. Don't forget that you
must have warm, dry place for them.
''In the summer they run where they
please, with the exception of the gar
den. They are fed every day of the
year all they will eat
"Here is what we did with our hens
last year: Jan. 1, 1901, we had 200
White Leghorn hens and eleven Plym-
Outh Rocks for sitters. We sold 1,506
dozen of eggs, which brought $29SS7.
We have sold seventeen BOOSTERS for
$7.30, which makes the sales amount to
$306.17. The eggs used in the family are
eightyfour dozen. Calling them worth
IS cents dozen makes them worth
$12.12. You will see that the eggs sold
brought almost 20 cents a dozen. only
lacking fraction of cent. The chick
ems used for meat are fifty at 80 cents
each. This is the lowest price that we
have sold any for; it makes them worth
SIS. Jan. 1, 1902. we have the number
of fowls that we had Jan. /, 1901, and
ninety-tive extra pullets worth 80 cents
each, which is $47.50 and twenty -four
extra boosters worth 40 cents each,
which is $500, which, by adding what
we have sold and used and the extra
fowls, is $39339. The cost of feed for
the year is $159.73, profit of $233.66.
If they had had more room, they would
have done better. l have had them do
better than this. shall continue in the
poultry business as long as they do as
well as they have the past year."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
How to Cure the Hiccouub,

Hiccough is usually sign of stomach
arrangement and is often caused by
babies being fed at irregular intervals,
either too frequently or not frequently
enough. In either case the child suffers
from repletion because. after too long
fast, it takes more than is good for it,
and this repletion results in indiges-
tion. Regular hours of feeding should
be strictly enforced; otherwise much
more troublesome symptoms will arise.
A teaspoonful of fluid magnesia should
be given once or twice, and this will
probably cure the hiccough. If it does
not, the food will probably need chang
ing, more especially if any farinaceous
food is being given. If hiccough per-
sists and increases. a doctor should be
consulted.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
Maud Mu11er.s Hen.

Maud Muller on a summers day
Set hen in brand new way.
MAUD, you see. was a city girl
Trying the rural life whirl.)
She covered a box with tinsel gay,
Lined it snugly with new mown hay.
Filled it nicely with eggs and then
Started to look for likely hen.
Out of the flock selected one.
And then she thought that her work was
done.
1t would have been, but this stubborn hen
Stood up and cackled "Ka-dootr' And
then
Maud Muller came and in hurt surprise
Looked coldly into the creatures eyes,
Then tied its legs to the box You bet
I know how to make you set
But still it stood, and worse and worse
ShrieAed forth its wrongs to the universe.
Kicked over the box with tinsel gay
And ANONYMOUSLY tapped away.
Then bad boy over the barnyard fence
Tee-heed. Say. Maud. there's a differ
ence
Tween hens. you know. and it is that
One says 'Ka-dootr and one 'Ka-datr
Then Maud recalled that the ugly brute
She tried to set had said. 'Ka-doot!'
And ever since that historic day
She bushes in an embarrassed way
To think OF the bobble she made once
when
She tried to set a gentleman hen.
Wichita Eagle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22
How to Make Apple Pan Dowdy.

Butter a deep, brown earthenware
pudding dish, peel and slice apples
enough to fill it. For two quarts Of
apples use teaspoonful each of pow
dered cinnamon and salt, half a pound
of brown sugar, half pint of cider or
water. Thoroughly mix the spice, salt
and sugar upon the apples and pour
the water or cider over them. Cover
with plain pie paste, place in mod
crate oven and bake slowly for three
hours, taking care that the oven is not
hot enough to burn the crust. This may
be eaten hot or cold, with sugar and
cream.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

Having busted and removed such ar
ticles as can be carried from the room,
wiring flannel mop out Of hot water
and wipe the carpet thoroughly, wiring
Ing the mop from clean water as often
MS it may become soiled. Then sweep
with new broom as You would ordi-
narily. and when you have finished
you will have bright. clean carpet,
with little or no dust and all at the ex-
pense Of a very little hard labor. Those
who have not tried this method may
be skeptical about its merits, but one
trial will convince.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-22

When washing table linen or any
cloth stained with egg avoid putting it
in boiling water, which will set the
stain till it will be almost impossible
to remove it. Soak the cloth first in
cold water. and then the stain may be
easily removed. The same rule applies
to egg cups and any dishes stained
with egg. If they are put with the
other china into hot water. the stain
hardens and requires considerable pa
thence to remove, but it comes off cas-
lily in cold water.