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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
Chinese Hand Irrigation,

In irrigating his land the farmer uses
many devices. Where running water
Is at hand he turns it to advantage by
directing it over his fields in large
channels. These are banked in with
clay and subdivided into smaller and
smaller streamlets until every part of
the ground has been reached. If no
running water is found, wells are dug,
and the water is drawn up by hand
and poured into the main bitches,
which are subdiyided into numerous
smaller ones. Holes are dug in which
-ainwater accumulates, which is baled
out when needed. The raising of this
water in most cases. especially in the
vicinity of Picking, is done very labori-
Susly by hand.-Forum.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
Candy For Bees.

Never use anything in making candy
but the best grade of sugar, advises
New England Homestead. Boil granu-
lated sugar to thick sirup and when
done so that it breaks like a pipestem
when dropped in water take it off and
as it begins to harden stir it until so
thick it will just pour and then pour
into pans or dishes so that it hardens
in cakes about an inch thick. A differ
ent candy can be made if you can get
good extracted honey, but it must be of
the best quality. Heat the honey until
1t is thin, but don't boil it, and then stir
tn all the pulverized sugar it will take
up. Then knead it with the hands and
work in more sugar until it becomes a
stiff dough.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
To Cure the stammerer.

1t is said that stammerers rarely if
ever show any impeachment of speech
when speaking in whispers. On this
fact a method of treatment has been
advocated, which is as follows: For the
first ten days speaking is prohibited.
This will allow rest to the voice and
constitutes the preliminary stage of
treatment. During the next ten days
speaking is permissible in the whisper
ing voice, and in the course of the next
fifteen days the ordinary conversation
al tone may be gradually employed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
Distance Between App1e Trees.

Instance between apple frees.
l would like to say word about the
distance between apple trees. Prac-
tically wherever the limbs touch we
fail to get any fruit; therefore it is
natural conclusion that they ought to
be far enough apart so that they will
not grow together. The cider apple
will keep at respectable distance. but
take the Baldwin or White Pippin, and
forty feet is too close for them to be
planted.-I. ]. Blackwell. New Jersey.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
THE BIG DIAMOND ON HIS HAT

while pretty thing to look upon, was of
no practical use. But Benson's Plasters
are supremely useful. They relieve and
cure govt, rheumatism, neuralgia, colds
on the chest, lame back, etc., so quickly
and completely as to make you wonder how
it can be. Better oao,-well to-m0rwoao;
that's the way they work. Get the genu-
inc. All druggists, or will prepay post
age on any number ordered in the United
States on receipt of Csc. each.
Seabury & johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
Nitrates In the Soil.

The continuous growing of wheat or
other grain or of cultivated crop not
only rapidly depletes the soil of organ
ic matter, but causes the rapid forma-
ton of nitrates, which are likely to be
washed down in the soil below the
reach of the roots of plants. In expert
ments by Professor Ladd Of North Da-
kota the largest amount of nitrates
was found at a depth of three feet in
bare fallow, while at a depth of seven
feet the amount of nitrates was larger
than at depth of one foot. It is evil
dent that the nitrates found were
leached down from above. The impor
lance of a proper rotation and of catch
crops to take up and hold the nitrates
is thus shown.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
TO CREDITORS.

John Riehl, executor of the estate of Freder-
icka Dehner, deceased, by direction of the Sur
rogate of the County of Gloucester, hereby gives
notice to the creditors of the said Frederick
Dehner, deceased, to bring in their debts, claims
and demands against the estate of the said
decedent, under oath or affirmation, within nine
months from this date, or they will be forever
barred of any action therefor against the said
Executor. JOHN RlEHL.
Dated January %. 1892 100
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

tachment detached from the pillow,
and if it is to be used for harrow or
other implement where there is no fur
row a larger wheel is substituted for
the small wheel, which would make it
run in leaning position. This wheel
is attached by set screw and can be
removed easily, and the shaft is long
enough so the large wheel may be put
on the extreme end and thus make it
less liable to tip over.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
The Strawberry supply.

Texas, Florida, Mississippi and other
states south begin in the winter to ship
berries north, and as the season adj
vances the growers farther north begin
to supply the demand, and as the sun
advances toward the north the berries
ripen until in the summer time the
northland comes up with its crop of
this delicious fruit. Strawberries grow
even as far away to the north as Alas
Ka. With the many good varieties any
given locality can be supplied with this
splendid fruit.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
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BOXED APPLES.

The New Method of MarIxeting-Items
From One of Its Advocates.
The boxing of apples for market finds
advocates nowadays. Fol-
lowing are some items CLEANED from a
lengthy communication on the subject
to Rural New Yorker by a successful
apple shipper. He has packed apples
as illustrated. The dimensions of the
box are liz by u by %. what is called
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
A New Specialist, the Corn Breeder.

-
Corn breeding has become a special
lied industry. The field for this branch
of farming is very great, as is shown
by the fact that the corn growers of Il
linois alone use over 100000 bushels
of seed every year. OF course it is not
necessary that this seed be secured
from the breeder fresh every year, but
seed will not as a rule remain pure
more than four or five years. 1t then
becomes necessary to again secure well
bred seed. AS yet the demand has been
but little developed. Farmers are just
beginning to realize the Importance
and benefit of improved seed, but even
now corn breeders are not able to sup
ply the demand. That this demand will
increase far beyond the capacity of
corn breeders to supply there is no
doubt.-A. D. Shamel in Orange Judd
Farmer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
A Convenient P1ow Attachment.

The device figured is a riding attach
ment for a plow, which an Iowa Home
stead correspondent says he devised
but has concluded to grant the public
the free Use of.
Fig. 1 shows the attachment attach
ed to a walking plow and shows how
it is attached. Fig. shows the at
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

How an Ohioan Handles Manure.
l have obtained the best results by
hauling out manure, and making i'll
piles in the fall when other work is
not crowding. | clean out my stables
thoroughly, adding all the loose chaff
and straw of the thrashing yard. 1t is
not at all necessary that the straw be
rolled when put out. l put five loads
in a pile. With a road scraper l go
over my barnyard and with the scrap
fngs cover the piles to a depth of about
six inches, leaving them fiat on top
that through the winter the water may
soak in and rot the manure, says an
American Agriculturist correspondent.
After blowing in the spring l run the
harrow over to level the ground, then
spread the manure and dirt from the
piles. 1t gets we'll mixed in the han
ding. l spread as evenly as possible,
then go over with a cultivator and fol-
low this with a harrow. This leaves
the ground in as fine condition as can
be desired. This past season on land
prepared this way l raised three acres
of as fine tobacco as | have ever
grown. The land was in corn the year
before and was not very good land at
that. l grew my tobacco one season
by putting the manure in the hill. 1t
did well. but the year following when
sown to grain the latter grew in bunch
es and was not satisfactory simply be-
cause the fertilizer was not evenly
spread. This trouble is obviated by the
method described.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Edmund Jones, executor of the last will and tes-
lament of Thomas Dubois, deceased, will be
audited by the Surrogate and reported for settle
ment to the Orphans Court OF the County of
Gloucester, on Friday February 2S A. D., 1902.
EDMUND JONES,
Executor.
Dated surrogate's Office, Jan. Is, 1902 100
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Annie M. Shoemaker and Joseph r. Kirby, Adj
mnistrators of the estate of Smith Shoemaker,
deceased will be audited by the Surrogate and
reported for settlement to the Orphans Court of
the County of Gloucester, on Friday, February
IS, D., 1902. ANNIE NJ. SHOEMAKER,
JOSEPH r. KIRBY,
Administrators.
Dated surrogate's Office, Jan. Is, 1902. 1-9O
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A friend writes US from New Jersey
that the bane of agriculture in that
section is found in selling milk at low
prices to city consumers and the pur-
chase of western dairy rations at ruin
ousIy high prices. Under these condi-
tons the producers of milk ought to be
able to command better prices for their
product. There is tremendous differ
ence between working the fertile soils
of the west and northwest and those of
many of the eastern states, where the
sum expended for commercial fertiliz-
ers amounts to as much in many cases
as the crop is worth. This difference
in soils and the ever decreasing freight
rates are bound to give the west almost
monopoly in the production Of the
cereals of the country.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Substantially is our silver wedding.
Don't you think we ought to kill the
pig and have feast?
He-Kill the pig? l don't see why
the poor animal is to blame for what
happened twenty-five years COLON
don Tit-Bits.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

tnSy nave HO
t i g h t founda-
ton. Such a
condition causes
much suffering
to the animals
confined inside.
The Farm Jour
n a ! suggests
that a simple
way to bank
SUCH Il DullulnS
is to lay down Il
S trip of the
stout, red build
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Augustus Theis, Surviving Executor of the
last will and testament of Joseph Hahn, de-
ceased, will be audited by the Surrogate and
reported for settlement to the Orphans Court
of the County of Gloucester, on Friday, Febru-
airy 2S, A. d. 1902.
AUGUSTUS THEIS,
Surviving Executor.
Dated surrogate's Office, Jan. 10, 1902 100
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
A UDITOR'S SALE.

By virtue of an order of the New Jersey Su-
prene Court in certain cause in attachmer
therein pending, bearing date the fourth day
January, A. d. 1902, wherein Henry Bernstein
and William Kaufman, partners, trading a
Bernstein, Kaufman & Company are plaintiff
and Julia X. Birdsall is defendant, will expos,
fn.n L., Ut L. dInnc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A country boy asks us why the tele-
phone wires sing so loudly in cold
weather. 1t is caused by the contrac-
ton of the wire by the cold. He can
readily demonstrate the truth of this
by striking slack wire, which he will
find will have no resonant quality
whatever, but when frightened up will
have. The wintry winds striking these
taut wires produce the singing effect
noted in an aolian harp.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

We are asked whether it is better to
cultivate a strawberry bed in the
spring or rake the mulching in be-
tween the row and not cultivate it. For
the purpose of securing the moisture
necessary to carry the berries safely
through the drought during the fruit
ing season, assuming that the space
between the rows was thoroughly cul-
tivated the previous season, we should
much prefer the mulching to spring
cultivation. We would further advise
the leaving of just as much of the COW
ering on the plants themselves as could
be done without injury to them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

We hardly know whether it is any
worse to sell your neighbor a cow
which does not pay her way in your
dairy herd or sell her to the local
butcher for all your neighb0rs to have
hand in eating her up. The principal
difference is that in the first case you
get the cussing, while in the last the
butcher gets it.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Milk dried and powdered is a new
product which is attracting some atten-
ton. 1t is claimed for it that it will
keep indefinitely in any climate, is cas-
lily handled and contains all the nutri-
tious properties of liquid milk.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
c,..n,,nes. the Prime Requisite.

CIeamIIness tHe y
writer says. "The prime requisite
n making good butter is cleanliness,
which must begin as far back as the
food for the cows, the water they
drink the air they breathe and the
place they live in"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A car containing 1900 bushels of
wheat was unloaded at a western flour
mill a short time ago. We can all re-
call the time when 500 bushels of
wheat was considered big carload.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
Good Absorbents For Hen Manure.

Hen manure quickly ferments and
will lose much of its nitrogen if not
preserved with absorbents. Lime and
wood ashes should not be used for this
purpose. Dry loan or muck, moss lit
ter from peat Dogs, road dust, are all
useful absorbents for the floor of the
poultry house.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

ly effective in decorative work. Some
times as many as $50 TO 200 flowers
are borne on one spike. a remarkable
product from so small plant. 1t re-
quires little room in house. doing well
in a basket suspended from the roof
of the greenhouse. and can be grown
in a comparatively cool place. 1t is
now grown by the thousand in the
neighborbood of New York.-Garden-
ing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

is now sold so
cheaply in the manner shown in the
cut. Tack the upper edge or put on
laths along the upper edge and lay
narrow strip of board along the edge
upon the ground. 1t costs but trife
to go all around building in this way.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

The prize winning Hereford beeves
at the Chicago live stock exposition,
which sold for $12 per hundredweight,
were Texas cattle finished off on Ohio
corn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
THE AMERICAN COW.
Hans Constant and Untiring Friend

Hans Constant and Untiring Friehd.
Treat Her Gently.
None other like the COW! There is
not thing from nose to tail but that
is utilized for the use of man. We use
her horns to comb our hair, her skins
are upon our feet, her hair keeps our
plaster on our walls, her hoofs make
glue, her tail makes soup, she gives
our milk, our cream, our cheese and
our butter, and her flesh is the great
meat of all nations; her blood is used
to make our sugar white, her bones are
ground to fertilize our soils, and even
her paunch she herself has put through
the first chemical process necessary for
the production of the best white card
board paper, and now they have dis
covered that such paper can be made
into the finest quality of false teeth.
No other animal works for man both
day and night. By day she gathers
food, and when we are asleep at night
she brings it back to rechew and con-
vert 1HtO all Inc lu1uSS VI WHICH, i
speak.
She has gone with man from Plym-
outh rock to the setting sun. 1t was
her sons that turned the first sod in the
settlers clearing; it was her sons that
drew the prairie schooner for the stur-
dy pioneers as, inch by inch, they
fought to prove that westward the
star of empire takes it's way" and the
old COW grazed along behind, and when
the days march was done she came
and gave the milk to fill the mothers
breast to feed the sucking babe that
was, perchance, to become the future
ruler of his country.
Who says that much of what we are
we do not owe to mans best friend,
the COW? Treat her kindly, gently, for
without her words fail me to describe.
Colonel +. NJ. Woods in Farm and
Ranch
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
A Popular orchid.

This beautiful orchid is one of the
most useful for florists use, being one
of the first varieties available in au-
tumn and its gorgeous branching pani-
cles of golden flowers being exceeding
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A grass fed Texas steer of the new
kind sold in Chicago in December for 81
per hundredweight. 1t weighed 1000
have known what to do with an ear of
corn had one been given it. Only the
very best Of the corn fed steers of
Iowa and Illinois brought as much
money the same day.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06


Just before that Griggs had IS and
Stokes and Dryden were tie with "a each.
The South Jerseymen had decided in con-
ference between ballots that they would
first unite on Stokes and then go to Baird,
Gardner and Gummere in the order named,
but before they got the chance to try that
the thing was done.
The Gloucester county members were
divided in their allegiance-Senator Stranger
voting for "Davy" Baird, Camden, and
Assemblyman Avis voted for Stokes. On
the last ballot, under agreement, all the
South Jersey votes went to Stokes and at
that signal all except two of the North
Jersey votes went to Dryden, and the fight
was over, with South Jersey defeated.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A buffalo bull recently slaughtered
in Iowa brought its owner nearly ST..
900. The head sold for 5000, the hide
for $500 and the meat for so cents a
pound. In the year 1877 drove Of
buffalo estimated at 100000 head
crossed the North Platte river in Ne
braska and were worth a dollar apiece
to the poachers who exterminated them
for their hides.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Several Elen whom we know are try
ing these freaks. the mule footed hogs,
hogs which have a solid instead of a
split hoof. The claim is made for this
breed that it is cholera proof 1t is best
to wait awhile and see, the chances be-
ing if the brute is a hog and not a
mule that it will go the way of all the
rest of it's kind when the epidemic
comes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A farm boy made openings in the
loft of a barn so that the sparrows
could find a sheltered place to roost in
cold weather. They quickly tumbled
to the snap, and after they We're once
wonted it was an easy matter to close
the openings after they had gone to
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Many farm buildings permit the
wind to sweep under them because
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Some wise man notes that high pric-
ed corn and healthy hogs almost al
ways go together, the inference being
that if the hogs were fed less corn they
would not be so subject to disease.
There may be something in this.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A western farmer suggests the re-
moval of the barb used on wire fencing
and the use of a mild current of cleo
tricity generated by dry battery as
substitute therefor, claiming that the
light shock produced by contact with
the wire would soon educate all kinds
of stock to keep away from the wire
fence.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06
John F. Dryden will be U. s. Senator.


The choice of successor to Gen'l VIM.
J. Sewell in the Senate followed so closely
on the Inauguration of Governor Murphy
that Trenton didn't have an opportunity
between acts to cool off last week The
choice was made after nineteen ballots near
6 O'Clock on Thursday, and the legislators
hurried to their homes. Dryden's choice
came actually as result of the influence
of United State: Senator Kean, who leads
one of the fighting factions in Union county.
Senator Cross, of that county, had been
voting for John W. Griggs, but so soon as
South Jersey solidified and Dryden got the
votes of Passaic county, which had also
been with Griggs but went to Dryden on
the nineteenth, giving hin total Of 81,
Cross sprang to his feet and shouted a
change of his vote from Griggs to Dryden.
That gave him the needed majority, and it
was all over. 1t is believed that Cross
reflected the sentiment Of Senator Kean
when he made the winning change. Con-
gresham Fowler, Governor Voorhees,, who
represent the other faction in Union county,
had been stanch supporters Of Stokes. The
last ballot stood, after the change:
Dryden ~
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

The aged farrow COW is a Gamer by
predestination, but sometimes fails to
work out her destiny, and lot Of kind
ly disposed persons in the community
are innocently compelled to eat her up
as prime steer fed beef. 1t does not
seem so bad when Chicago picnic
party works her up with beer and pref
Zels.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

A friend tells us that he successfully
fruits his strawberry bed for five years
in succession. This may be done posi-
bly, with a small bed, but where the
bed is large it is every way better to
fruit two years and then plow up. We
than renovate an old one.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Sheep averaged 60 cents lower in the
Chicago market for 1901 than they did
for 1900
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

The mounted head of an old fashion
ed long horned Texan steer will inside
of ten years be almost as difficult to
obtain as the head of buffalo bull. The
white faces and the doddies are driv-
ing the Texas steer out of existence.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

Sold in Woodbury. by Jos. w. Merritt. Call for
free sample,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

We saw stack of clover hay lately
80 feet in length, 16 feet wide at the
base and s feet in height from the
ground to the apex of the roof. Glover
hay in that locality was worth ST per
ton in the stack. How much did that
man lose by building his stack in this
manner?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-06

When clover will do so much to reno
vate and redeem the farm, why don't
many don't know and won't learn;
some get discouraged and quit because
their seeding fails; the few stick to it,
build their soils up and make money.