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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

1t is the pride of every gardener oc-
casionally to give a bunch of flowers
of his own growing to friends who
come to visit him, but unhappily both
flowers and bunch are often spoiled
in the course of preparation. Flow
ers should never be broken off from
plants with the fingers. If the stem
is at all tough the plant is dragged at
and injured. Neither is the use of scis-
sors desirable, says Home Chat. The
best method of plucling is with the aid
of sharp knife, and the stem should
not be cut straight across at right an
giles, but in slanting direction. In
making up the bunch, too, the best
and most striking blossom or blossoms
should form the center and they
should be added to from outside, the
bunch being turned around at inter.
walls
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
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1t is not profitable to have COW or
a breed of cows which runs dry for
three or four months. There is a good
deal in habit. If you start a young
COW right. you may keep her along, and
progeny also, so that she will go dry,
say, for a month or six weeks. This
will do very well for a rest.
1t will pay to give extra feed and ex-
ira care in every respect, keep off the
flies, see to shade in the pasture and
plenty of good water, save from all
possible worry. You can in this way
not only keep up the milk for period
of a month or two, but also prevent
the bad habit of going dry so long and
prevent the passing on to the calves
this tendency.
In purchasing a dairy COW of course
this habit is an important considera-
ton. 1t makes simply the difference
between a profitable and an unprotit-
able cow-Farm, Field and Fireside.
To Step n Sucking Cow.
II. f. Cook in Rural New Yorker Of
fers this plan of keeping a COW from
sucking herself: Take Il piece of half
inch Eastwood six inches long and four
inches wide and cut into the shape
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
r,ap mn coon yEaps

The farmers of the country have had
three prosperous years. Aside from the
actual profits derived from farm prod
ucts raised and sold, there has been
very large increase in the value of the
land itself, equivalent to over $1,000
per year for three years for every man
who owned hundred and sixty acre
farm. This increase of wealth has been
variously used. Much of it has gone
to clear off the old parasite mortgage;
much has gone into better houses and
farm buildings; some has gone to help
the boys and girls through college;
large sum for more land; some to give
the boys a start; some into home Sc
curities and bank stock, and altogether
too much into wildcat schemes-min-
ing, oil and real estate fakes. The
present good times will continue an
other year at least-perhaps longer.
The wise man will improve his oppor-
tunity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
ONE OF MIR. HAYwARD's HOUSES.

ground outside and in front of each
house, and persistently broody birds
are put out in these coops for a few
days until broken of the desire to in
cubate, then returned to the house
again.
The houses are all alike as to plan,
being eight feet square on the ground
and built exactly like the "a" tents
that some of us slept in in 1906. The
floor is of two thicknesses of boards
laid so as to break joints, and there is
no frame whatever. There is square
base some fifteen inches high made of
two inch thick planks; then the roof
boards, cut eight feet long, are nailed
to the base and the inch board ridge
pole. The back (north) end is boarded
up solid, while the front end is boarded
up about fifteen to eighteen inches and
down from the apex of the roof about
eighteen inches to give sufficient stiff
ness, and the balance is just sufficient
boarding to make door with frame
to hang and hasp it to. All the open
space is covered with inch mesh wire
netting, which effectually excludes
"varmints," but freely admits the air.
back walls shingled.
The houses rest upon four small
stones, one at each corner, to bring the
floors up from the damp ground. In
that country there is much frost, and
the freezing and thawing of the ground
cause these foundation stones to sink
into the ground gradually.
The inside furniture of these houses
is of the simplest. At the back and
about three feet above the floor two
roost poles are set, about a foot of
space between them, and the rear one
about six inches from the wall. There
are two small nest boxes, one in each
front corner; a small box about 10
inches square by 6 inches deep for the
food, another for crushed oyster shells
and a dust box about feet square by
inches deep. The water pan is out
side at the back corner, with small
gutter to convey the drip from one cave
to it in rainy weather. and an aper-
ture 2 by 4 inches gives the fowls room
to put the head out and drink. The
pan is of cast iron, is about 10 inches
square by inches deep and is emptied
and carefully rinsed out once a week.
This arrangement of water pan and
gutter entirely avoids watering in rainy
weather
The droppings are cleaned out of the
houses twice a year, fall and spring;
once a week Tor thereabouts) shovel
full of dry earth is scattered over the
droppings in each house and the piles
left to accumulate till the next clean
ing
The question will naturally arise. Is
this close confinement plan, with de-
cidedly small profits, an improvement
on the semiconfnement plan, with it's
goodly egg yield in the months of high
prices and two to three times the profit
per fowl kept?
We think the question will be-in-
deed is already-answered in the mega
tive. We think the advantage is all ON
the side of the semiconfinement and
eggs all the year around plan; that
getting practically no eggs in Novem-
Der, December and January is ire
mendous tax. AS one of the men with
whom we talked remarked, ut takes
nerve to feed out two carloads of grain
month for three or four months. with
substantially no returns for it,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18


heals inflammation and liberation and
cures female weakness It is a perfect
tonic and nervine, tranquiliziug the
nerves, promoting the appetite and in
ducing refreshing sleep.
rWhen first wrote you had been to three
different doctors and two of them said I would
never get better without going to the hospital
for an operation, :" writes Mrs Selma Erickson,
of 4o6 Rice Street St. Paul. MINI. vWas not
able to do anything. If would get up and walk
to the kitchen and back would have to lie in
bed for day sometimes two days Now
have used six bottles Of DR.. Pierce's Favorte Pre-
scription and six of the Golden Medical Discov-
cry and the result is just wonderful was so
nervous had to have some one by my side ali
the time i'll day time, and I could hardly
eat anything. 1 took treatment from doctor
twice week and every time would go there
felt sick, but since quit all the doctors and
began taking your medicines gained right
along. weighed I25 pounds, when began
taking your medicines Gin August and now
/ am up to my usual weight los. am as well
and feel as good as ever.n
FREE. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt
of stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
Send ri one-cent stamps for the book in
paper covers, or 81 stamps for cloth
bound volume. Address DR.. R.V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
APPLE SCALD.
The More Highly CoIored and Ma
fI1ra EN..1rit Len 81 Susnar,4iI,lcs 41, II

The More Highly COIored and Ma
ture Fruit Least Susceptible to 1t.
The scald is one of the most serious
difficulties with which the handlers of
apples in cold storage have to contend
Professor G. FL. Powell has the follow
ing to say about it in Rural New York
er: All varieties of apples do not suffer
alike. The Rhode Island Greening and
York Imperial are the most seriously
affected of the great commercial sorts,
the trouble appearing about the first
of the year and progressing rapidly.
Winesap, Baldwin and Ben Davis are
often injured later in the season, and
of the less important varieties Smith
Cider, Grimes, Wagner, Huntsman,
Minkler, Landlord, Arctic, Arkansas
(Mammoth Black Twig), Stayman,
Paragon, Maiden Blush, Nero, Salome,
Sharp and Pride of Texas are often
badly scalded
The causes of apple scald are not
known. Through the genealogical in
vestigations of the bureau of plant in
dustry the question has been systemat-
1CdIty 0IQulOtl llOlH luetuy SldDQDOlnlS.
There has been tendency among ap-
pie growers and handlers in recent
years to pick the fruit a little earlier
each season, believing that the fruit
that has not quite reached it's highest
color has better keeping qualities. 1t is
not improbable that this practice partly
accounts for the increase in scald in re-
cent years and especially during the
last season.
There seems to be a direct relation
ship between the degree of maturity of
the fruit and its susceptibility to scald.
The most mature, most highly colored
apples Of the same variety appear to
soald least, or, to apply the principle to
an individual apple, the scald is worst
on its less colored side. 1t, was OBJ
served about Feb. that Rhode Island
Greening from the same orchard in
New York and kept in the same room
developed four times as much scald in
hard, grassy green fruit as in more
mature fruit picked two weeks later;
that light red, well grown York Impe-
rial Jan. 20) from Virginia developed
about nine times as much as later
picked redder fruit; that light red. well
grown Winesap (March 15) from ILL
nois developed more than thirty times
as much as darker colored fruit; that
light Ben Davis March 15) from Hi
nois developed four times as much as
the darker colored fruit.
1t has been shown further that the
lower the temperature in the storage
room the less the scald. For example.
there has been from five TO twenty
times as much scald in different varie-
ties in a temperature of SO degrees as
in 81 to 80 degrees.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

has devoted nearly all his time for the
past three years to the movement to
place legal restrictions on the fraudu-
lent sale of oleomargarine. The sue
cess of the Grout bill is unquestiona-
bly, due to the strenuous effort able
management and tireless energy put
forth by Mr. Knight, who was the 'la-
boring oar" as Governor Hoard says,
at every stage of the work. testi-
monial fund is now being raised for
Mr.. Knight-Creamery Journal.
Butter That Will Keep.
If butter is desired for long keeping
or for export purposes in ordinary cold
storage, it will be found better to work
the butter very slightly after the addi-
ton of salt than reworking the fol-
lowing day, says w. L. Carlyle of the
Minnesota Dairy school. This gives a
much drier butter and insures an even
admixture of salt. If, however, the
butter is for immediate consumption
by customers. one working after the
salt has dissolved will be sufficient.
Weight of Milk.
The average specific gravity of milk
is 1892, water being 1000. There is
no legal standard of weight for milk,
and ordinary scales are not sufficiently
delicate to determine the different
qualities of milk by weight. Average
milk weighs S.66 pounds per gallon.
II it should weigh appreciably less
than this, the indications would be
that it had been more or less watered;
if it weighed more than this, it would
indicate that more or less cream had
been removed.
The Cows Delicate Organization.
The condition of the cows blood ma
terially affects both the quality and
quantity of the milk she gives; SO does
the condition of her nervous system.
A brutal mixer can easily kick all the
profit out of very good COW. Neg
lect, exposure and excitement affect
the yield adversely, and so do bad
feeding, bad water and the absence of
salt The man who expects to get
cows to do their best must like them
and treat them kindly, for they are as
delicate in organization as woman.
Our Butter Trade In the Orient.
The dairymen of the Pacific coast are
alive to the Importance of capturing
the rapidly growing dairy trade in
Honolulu, Manila, Japan and China.
Most of the butter now supplied to
those countries is made in Sweden and
Denmark. In Japan butter from Swe-
den in one pound cans retails for 40
cents gold per can. 1t is reproach to
American enterprise and skill not to
capture a great portion Of that trade,
says Hoard's Dairyman.
Train the Heifer.
1t seems to be small item, but
when every item is to be considered it
is one that should not be overlooked,
and that is when heifer is trained to
be a mixer teach her to allow any one
to milk her without worrying or ex-
citing her. If this is not done and it
becomes necessary to change mixers,
there viii be shrinkage in the amount
Of milk.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

There is more to encourage one to
take up the poultry business today
than there has ever been before. Hav-
ing the use of an acre or SO of land,
almost any one, using ordinary intelli-
gence, can take up this business and
be reasonably sure of profitable one.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
How to Repair a Mackintosh.

To mend macintosh procure a
small tin of india rubber cement or
dissolve some strips of pure india rub
Der in naphtha or sulphide of carbon
to form Il stiff paste. Apply little of
the cement on the surface of a strip
Of the same material of which the
macintosh is made, which can be
purchased by the yard or in remnants
from the Interpreters also apply a
little cement to each side of the torn
part, and when it begins to feel tacky
bring the edges together and place the
patch nicely over, and keep in position
by putting a weight over it until quite
hard, which will be in few days
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
CREATING WEALTH.

When a farmer from his eighty acre
farm produces and sells produce and
stock to the amount of $1,000, the
world is the richer by that amount,
for he has created original wealth;
when the miner digs out and sells
$1,000 worth of ore he has done the
same thing; when the factory takes
the farmers corn or cotton or wheat
or the miners ore and by manipulate
ing it gives it an added value the same
wealth creating process is repeated,
but when a man buys a horse or
farm or any other commodity and
sells it for more than he paid, while
he may have made money, the world is
none the richer, for he has created no
new wealth.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
SUGAR BEET ACREAGE.
The Area This Season Nearly Doubles
That of Last Year.

The Area This Season Nearly Doubles
That of Last Year.
According to the Crop Reporter, the
area sown to sugar beets in the United
States in 1902, as estimated by Messrs.
Willett and Gray, New York, is 1885,
513 acres against 1895 acres sown
in 1901 and 10000 acres in 1900. Out
of the eleven states enumerated as par
ticipating in this industry in 1902 eight
show an increase and one only a de-
crease in area over that of the preced-
ing year, the aggregate increase for
the entire country amounting to 121,-
5SS acres.
The most notable increases in area
are in four states, which are credited
with about So per cent of the aggre-
gate area of the country-viz, Michi-
gan, California, Colorado and Utah.
Michigan. with an area in the present
year of $4,000 acres shows an increase
over the area of the preceding year of
upward of 10 per cent, and for the
first time in the history of the industry
takes rank as the leading state in the
area devoted to this product.
California, which has heretofore been
the foremost state i'll respect of sugar
beet area, is this year in second place,
with an acreage of 1924 acres, the
largest area. however, ever sown in the
state and one showing an increase of
about 10 per cent over that of the pre-
vious year. Third in Importance in
this industry is Colorado, with an area
Of 39,449 acres in 1902 against 23,70C
in the preceding year, an increase OF
66 per cent
In Utah the 1902 area is $4,000 acres
against 1850 acres in 1900, showing
an increase of 40 per cent. The other
states Of smaller production which
show increases in area are Washing
ton, Oregon, Nebraska and Ohio.
Wisconsin and New York are credit
ed with the same area as last year
The only state which shows a decrease
is minnesota.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
WON'T HURT THEM,

Where there are more women and
girls around the farm home than there
are men and boys it is all right for the
women to take a hand in the lighter
forms of the teamwork. We have seen
as nice and pretty Il girl as there could
be found i'll whole county, big sun
bonnet hiding her beauty, seated on q
sulky pillow, driving three big Perche-
ron horses and doing as nice job of
blowing as any man could do. This is
lots better than for her to have laced
herself up tight as a drum in a spring
corset and be working a blue yarn dog
barking at red moon on canvas while
her mother was peeling potatoes i'll the
back kitchen for the family dinner.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.

To MayRc G. p Parker, Emma Parker, his seife ;
Joseph II. Bailey and Haiddh SWaia5:
BY virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry, made on the day of the date hereof in
cause therein pending, wherein Wilson Fitz-
gerald is complainant, and you and others are
defendants, you required to appear, plead
denur answer to the compliments bill on or
before the Ninth day of September next, or the
said bill will be taken confessed against YOU
The said bill is filed to foreclose certain
mortgage given by Sarah E. Paul to Wilson
Fitzgerald complainant bearing date the thir-
tecnth day of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred, on lands in the Town
ship of West Deptford, in the County of Glouces-
ter and State of New Jersey
And you the said Mayne g. p. Parker are
made defendant because it is alleged that YOU
are the owner of, and claim title to the mort
gagged premises.
And you, Emma Parker are made defendant
because you claim an inehoate right of dover
in the said mortgaged premises.
And you, Joseph H. Bailey, are made defend
ant, because you hold a mortgage upon the
premises in the compliments bill described
which is alleged to be a lien upon the premises
And you, Huldah Swain, are made defendant
because you hold a mortgage upon the premises
in the compliments bill described which is
alleged to be lien upon the said premises
WATKINS & AVIS Solicitors.
l3s S. Broad St, Woodbury., N. ].
Dated July s, 1902. Adv fee, S6Sol
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

Crop experts place the value of the
cereal crop alone of 1902 at the enor-
nous sum of $2,000,000.O00 for the
farmers of the United States. This is
all new created and original wealth.
No other country on earth ever before
made such a showing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

A farm typical of the better class of
those found in New England is known
as Norway Hill farm. the residence of
C. II. Duncan of southern New Hamp-
shire, says American Agriculturist.
Mr.. Duncan, who has been prominent
ly identified with the milk producing
interest for the Boston market, is a di
rector of the New England Milk Pro-
ducers' union and keeps about twenty
COWS, whose milk is shipped to Boston.
AS in most of the northern New Eng
land states, the house and barns are
connected by a covered passageway
through the shed, carriage house and
stables. This is done to avoid shovel
ing through the snow in early morning
in winter to get to the barn and to ia
cilitate work.
The farm consists of about 200 acres
besides out pastures and woodland and
cuts annually fifty tons of hay. Zoe
tons of Silage and a few acres of oat
fodder, Hungarian, etc. The barn IS
what is commonly called a double deck
err The hay goes in on an upper floor,
the cattle are underneath this, and be
low all is the cellar. The cattle are
fastened with patent swing stanchions,
and the stable is fitted with a water
ing device, with running water before
the cows. Twelve horses are kept, part
of them being boarders. Very little
commercial fertilizer is bought, but sew
eral breeding sows are kept, and use is
made of every available source Of plant
food about the farm. Mr.. Duncan is
a firm believer in large manure pile
and through making the most of what
has been produced on the farm has
been able to maintain and increase the
fertility of his land.
The Laborfng Oar.
Charles Y Knight is editor of Chi
cago Dairy Produce. AS secretary of
the National Dairy union Mr.. Knight
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
How to PICKLE Cucurnsers.

Gather small cucumbers while dry
and while fresh and crisp pack in two
quart glass jars and cover with a
brine made with quart of water and
half cup of salt. and let them stand
over night Then pour off the brine
and pack the cucumbers as closely as
possible in the jars. Make a pickle in
following proportions: a cup of strong
cider vinegar, third of q cup Of water,
half cup of sugar, two sticks of Gin
namon broken into bits and dozen
whole cloves tied in a piece Of muslin.
Let the vinegar come to a boil, then
pour over the cucumbers, filling level
full; seal at once, and they will keep a
very long time or can be used in few
dayS
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

We wish that every man on the farm
who reads this would just ask his wife
what he could do to make the home
work easier and the home itself more
attractive. If this were done, a whole
lot of funny things would come to the
front. One woman would ask for q
woodshed, another would want soft
water, another one place for the men
to leave their dirty barnyard clothing,
another cleaned up dooryard, another
a better chicken house. another a more
convenient water supply, and not one
in ten of these women would want any
thing other than that which was SEN
sible and practical and which almost
any man might furnish. The Egyptians
required their bondsmen to make bricks
without straw. and there is just lots
of the same sort of business going on
in many a farm home today.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18

Schools for the special teaching of
women in the art of cutting and fitting
women's clothing are being established
in many parts of the country and are
doing a good work. The education
which the average girl is given has
never met this need, and she is turned
loose on Il world which demands that
she be well dressed and leaves her at
the mercy of some other woman to do
it. AS between a smattering of music
and the know how to cut and fit ones
own dress any wise girl will choose the
latter. Her chances of marrying we'll
are better if she knows how to dress
well than they are if she does not and
can only pump an organ or pound o
piano
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
How to Clean a straw Hat.

To clean a white straw hat buy q
small quantity of salts of lemon and
dissolve it in pint of boiling water.
Then take soft brush-nailbrush will
do nicely-and wash the hat with the
liquid. When clean, rinse thoroughly
in cold water and put in the air to dry.
A sailor hat should be allowed to dry
on board or table, for thus the brim
will be kept fiat, and, of course, the
drying must be in the shade, since wet
straw very easily becomes sunburned.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-18
Stray Petals.

Phloxes give abundance of gay color
to the garden from the first of July to
quite late in September.
Spraying with bordeaux mixture is
recommended as the remedy for holly
aock rust.
The mock orange, sometimes called
syringa, is one of the good old fash
Toned shrubs of which one never tires.
Flower seeds may be sown in Sep
TENDER for winter bloom in the win
dows. Petunias. phlox and many other
ANIMALS are all good
In the south perennials and biennials
should be sown early in September.
Peony roots may be lifted, divided
and replanted any time from the mid
die of August till stalks appear again
in spring