Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-07

Great meat country this; S,000,000,-
600 pounds of pork and S,6O0,000,000
pounds of beef and mutton killed and
disposed of last year and at the high
est average price known for twenty
years.
If man of good standing and offer
ing good security wanted $1,000 on
long time where the writer lives, he
would have dozen men after him to
lend him the money. This is a good
way to have it.
After paying $1.50 bushel for Col
orado and North Dakota potatoes all
winter there is solid comfort in taking
a basket and digging from ten to fif-
teen fine Early Ohio murphies from
your own garden.
The high prices of beef and pork are
likely to induce the keeping of more
sheep and the eating of more mutton,
which meat can be produced more
cheaply on the average farm than Ell
Their beef or pork
Two thousand dollars will build a
good residence for the average farm,
modern in architecture and equipment.
When man puts more than that into
house, he is doing it for looks and
style and not for utility.
1t is claimed that 1000 men are
thrown out of employment by the op-
GRAFTON of the new oleomargarine bill
No need to weep over this, for every
one of them is wanted in the legitimate
dairy interests of the country.
A friend paid 500 for a Shorthorn
COW last fall and was laughed at by
his neighbors for throwing his money
away in that manner. In May he sold
her two-months-old calf for $50, and
then they did not laugh any more.
The crop developing power of two
inches of rain and three days of 80 in
the shade is simply marvellous. Ma
ture will do more business under such
condition in three days than she will
in month with mean temperature
of GO.
We had a man work for us once who
used up fully half an hour each work
ing day running his old corncob pipe,
filling up, relighting and all that. He
would not work unless he could smoke,
and he would smoke whether he
worked or not.
Extremes in weather frequently fol-
low each other. The great northwest
suffered last year from excessive heat
and drought. This year unreasonable
cold and excessive rains are doing
more injury to the crops than the heat
and drought did:
The land craze has reached a point
where suckers are paying Sc, So and
$40 an acre for western range lands
where, taking an average of seasons,
it will take from six to twelve acres to
keep the breath of life in one steer.
Oh, there'll be mourning by and by!
Different seasons bring different field
and garden and orchard pests. This
year there are no potato bugs, no aphis
on the plum trees, no butterflies in the
cabbage patch, but there is the most
widespread attack of blight among the
apple trees which we have ever known
Through large part of the country
today it is on the poor and sandy soils,
worked by the shiftless and lazy own
er, where the most productive crops
will be produced. The good farmer on
rich land has produced too heavy
growth of straw for the good of his
small grain crops.
The man in the smaller towns is now
kicking and growing because he has to
pay $3.50 per year for a box at the
local postoffice and run after his mail
four or five times every day, while the
old granger eight miles out in the coun-
try has his mail delivered right at his
door. These kickers should move out
into the country.
The increasing productiveness of the
agricultural sections of the west and
northwest is taxing the carrying ca
pacity of the existing lines of railway
to the limit during the crop moving
season, and the time is not far distant
when the main arteries of such rail-
way systems will all have to be double
tracked in order to do the business Of
fered them
If you are fool enough to bite at
proposition which proposes on its face
to give you something for nothing, you
deserve to get stuck, as you most sure
ly will. and yet ten such suckers can
be found in every civil township in the
country. If you are one of the ten,
don't solicit sympathy when you get
pinched, but take your medicine and
profit by the experience.
The state institutions of Iowa-the
reformatories, insane hospitals and
asylums are being supplied with
large farms lying adjacent, it having
been found that the labor needed to
carry on such farms can be obtained
from the inmates of such institutions
under skilled superintendent and util-
lied to the profit of the state and the
marked benefit of the inmates
TO CONSERVATIVES.
The undersigned having been restored TO health
by simple Means after suffering for several years
with severe lung affection. and that dread
disease Consumption, is anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To
those who desire it, he will chcerfully send free
OF charge) copy of the prescription used. which
they will find sure cure for Consumption.
asthma, c1tarra, Bronchitis and allthroat and
lung MaLadfes. He hopes all sufferers will try
his remedy, as it is invaluable. Those desiring
the prescription. which will cost them nothing,
and may prove blessing, will please address,
Rev. EDWARDA.WILS0E, Brooklyn, New York.