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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
THE wHEAT srE,1 MAGaoT

have been affected by this insect as
well as the pupa and larva form and
mature condition of the insect. These
are magnifed, and conception of the
real size may be obtained by the little
character placed beside each figure
which indicates their exact length.
The available remedies for this in
sect are preventive rather than cura-
tive. Wheat should not be grown con-
tinously on the same soil, and indeed
long rotation should be introduced in
which there are a variety of crops.
We have known many persons who
were troubled with this pest to burn
their stubble. thinking in this way
that they brought about the destruc-
ton of large numbers. Fortunately
there is fungous disease that attacks
this maggot and fly. so that there is
some likelihood of it's rapid increase
being prevented.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
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WHEAT STEM MAGGoT.
A Worm That Cuts the StaIk-Found
In Spring and Winter Wheat

A Worm That Cuts the Sfalk-Found
In Spring and Winter Wheat.
The wheat stem maggot, or, as it is
sometimes called, the wheat bulb
worm, has proved to be rather a Sc
rious pest i'll some localities, and we APP
prehend that some precaution must be
taken or it will greatly increase, says
the Iowa Homestead. Its presence
may be easily detected in crop. When
the maggot form of the insect enters
the stalk, 1t cuts off the stem just
above the upper joint, with the result
that the head takes on a ripened ap-
pearance while the crop is yet green.
1t seems to be more plentiful where
both winter and spring wheat are
grown in the same locality. In this
case the mature insects with wings de-
post their eggs upon the young plants
of winter wheat When these hatch,
the larvae feed upon the central part
of the plants on their course down.
ward. They remain during the win
ter in the surface of the ground and
appear in the spring in the adult form.
These in turn lay their eggs upon
spring wheat plants and cause the de-
struction of such plants as they feed
upon. However. the devastation Of
the first brood in the spring is seldom
noticed 1t is the second brood of
flies whose progeny brings about the
work of destroying the wheat beds. 1t
is claimed that even a third brood
makes its appearance and again de-
posits its eggs upon young wheat. 1t
is our opinion that grasses will furnish
the necessary breeding ground just as
well as winter wheat.
The accompanying illustration shows
portions of two heads of wheat that
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
SOME TIMELY ADVICE.
How to Avoid Danger During a
Thunderstorm.

How to Avoid Danger During a
Thunderstorm.
When a severe thunderstorm is rag
ing, the safest place is in the open,
close to the earth. If the body is erect.
it acts as an excellent conductor for
the lightning to find it's way to the
earth. For this reason it is danger
Gus to take refuge under a tree, says
the Buffalo Courier Doubtless most
of the persons who persisted while
under trees would be alive today
had they remained in the open. 1t is
also injudicious to huddle under
thrashing machines, sheds or in the
grand stands Of race tracks or county
fairs, especially under or near the flag
staffs which usually adorn such struc-
lures.
Avoid standing in doorways, near
chimneys and fireplaces, close to cattle
or near the ends of a wire clothes
line during a thunderstorm. On the
other hand, there Is not much sense
oneself in feather beds. Small articles
of steel or iron, as knife, kettle or
key, do not attract lightning, as 1t is
popularity believed.
If one has been struck by lightning,
the first thing to do is to go to work
to restore consciousness. as lightning
oftener brings about suspended ami
nation than somatic death. The con.
dition of person struck by lightning
is much the same as that of a person
rescued from drowning. Try to slim
ulate respiration and circulation. Dc
not cease in the effort to restore ami
nation in less than an hour, as you
value the life Of the sufferer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Ration For Laying Pu1ets.

Mr.. Twining's ration for his laying
pullets is certainly different from that
recommended by many of the writers.
He feeds all dry grain-in the morn
ing whole wheat, thrown in the straw
litter in the scratching pens, and in the
afternoon, about 80 o'clock, whole
corn warmed until some of it begins to
scorch and is scorched; twice week
a feed Of cut fresh bone and three times
a week a feed of boiled potatoes. warm,
but not mashed or mixed with meal
just warm boiled potatoes.
That is rather an odd ration. and yet
he was getting a 40 to 80 per cent egg
yield in February. when nearly every
body was getting no eggs at all. While
talking of the poor laying experiences
he told us Of two farms there in town
on one of which there were 200 Barred
Rock pullets which had been laying an
average of thirty dozen eggs a week
for two months or more. while ON the
other were 100 fine Barred Rock pull
lets that hadn't laid an egg. and, said
he: 'The 100 on the last farm are the
better looking lot of pullets. thrifty
looking, combs red, eyes bright, active
and CHEEKY. TO see them you would
say they were all laying, and yet not
IN egg"
1t would be interesting if some one
could tell the why" of this.-A. f.
Hunter in Reliable Poultry Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28

In preparing manuscripts use plain
white paper and good black ink. Don't
use paper that is fiimsy or transparent
or SO spongy that the ink is likely to
blur or sheets that are of different
sizes or that have been torn out of Il
notebook and left with the rough edges
untrimmed. The two sizes of sheets
that are most generally uscl are com
mercial note and letter paper. If you
have to send out hand written copy,
never write it In pale ink or in lead
pencil or in backhand. which us Il rule
is extremely difficult to make out. says
a writer in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Cultivate round clear. good sized. al
most vertical hand and form the habit
of leaving wide space between the
lines Write, of course on only one
side of the paper, and If you find near
the end that you are going to run a
few lines over what you thought would
be the last sheet don't squeeze the final
lines together at the bottom of the
page or write them on the back of it
in order to save another sheet. In
both handwritten and typewriter
copy leave a margin of at least an
inch at both sides of the sheet as we'll
as at the top and bottom.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Advantages of Geese.

Geese are paying investment. They
are free from many of the diseases so
common to other fowls, having no lice,
item-require but little feed until time
to fatten for market. There is profit
in both eggs and feathers.
l never feed the little goslings, but
they should have plenty of water and
access to sand and grit. For three or
four days they should be watched
closely, as the little fellows sometimes
get over on their backs and unless as
sisted to their feet will die The great
est drawback we experienced was that
the lots were inclosed with picket
fences. and they would sometimes get
stuck fast between pickets. The only
objection l have to geese is they will
kill the grass.
About time for Matching l take q
basin of warm water and put in two
or three eggs at time; can see them
kick If alive. 1t also softens the shell.
They are longer in coming out after
piping the egg than chick, generally
twenty-four hours. AS soon as shell is
pipped all around l take them in the
house and put in box and cover
warmly until dry. This necessitates
looking after them frequently, as the
hens are apt to mash them If left on
nest. On account of drought and hot
weather we lost several half grown
ones last year.-A. B. Gore in Farm
and Home.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
BLANCHlNG CELERY.

Quick Method of Tying and Earth
ing Up Used by Market Gardeners.
The most common method of all for
blanching celery on small scale is
that of banking with soil, and it is by
this method that the finest favor can
be obtained. Where the plants are
set in single rows the soil can often
be partially thrown up by means of
pillow, or, better, by celery hitler.
There are several forms of this ma
chine, but they all work on one prin-
ciple-that of a diagonally set surface
to throw up the soil Before the pillow
or banking machine is used a small
the plants by hand to hold them up in
position while the earth is being
thrown around them. This may also
be accomplished by tying up the plants
with paper Irvine.
Instead of tying each plant by knot
ting around it short piece of string
fasten the end of the string around
the first plant in a row, then pass to
the second plant without cutting or
breaking the string. While the out
side leaves of the second plant are
brought up together by the left hand
carry the string once around by allow
ing it to run between the thumb and
finger of the right hand and SO on
from plant to plant until whole row
is held up without breaking the string
and by tying it at the ends only.
This work is greatly facilitated by
strapping to the right forearm a tin
can in which the bali of cord is placed,
the inside end of the string being de-
livered through hole in the bottom
Of the can. Another very good method
of holding the celery up while the earth
is being placed around it is by tempo
rarily setting up boards, which are re-
moved as soon as the soil is in posi-
ton.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Nuts Mt the michigan station.

At the Michigan station last year
one American, three European and
four Japanese chestnuts fruited. Par
agon, one of the European group, was
the most productive. 1t is the most
promising variety on trial. Cosford
and Kentish Cob filberts fruited sparse
ly. They are valuable plants for orna-
mental purposes and can be expected
to produce some fruit under favorable
conditions. The Japan walnut jug
lans seiboldiD continues to grow thrift
lily and again bore, as for several years
past, full crop of nuts. Pecan seed
lings from Iowa, planted in 1890, have
grown vigorously, but have not yet
fruited. Three-year-old hard shell
almonds are making a strong, healthy
growth. Last spring they showed a
few blossoms, but set no fruit. English
walnuts, a n,&lber of varieties of
which are upon trial, still continue to
grow very slowly and show no signs of
fruiting.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
ARE you AOVANclNGY
a Timely Elaboration to the Butter
Makers by One of Them.

Timely Exhortation to the Butter
Makers by One of Them.
During a visit TO several poorly
managed creameries one may notice
poorly kept and untidy yards about the
factory, moldy walls, dirty milk and
cream watts, greasy floors, piles of old,
wornout tools, waste tin cans, etc,
leaky joints, badly running machinery,
untidy butter maker and things gone
wrong in general. Then, what a relief
it is to visit few we'll managed, up
to date creameries where everything
demonstrates the superiority of the
lawns and driveways around the
creamery, neatly painted walls, inside
and out, machinery running smoothly,
tidy, wideawake operator and every
thing denoting that man Is at the
helm of the institution who takes pride
in his work. The time a butter maker
consumes fixing up and decorating in
side and outside OF the creamery is
well spent, and the man who is oper-
ating creamery and who will not at
tend to these little matters has missed
his calling and may miss bis job some
morning. The butter maker who does
the best he CANAL that is expected of
any one-will reap his reward some
day, and he will not have to wait until
the day of the millennium either. Let
a butter maker fit himself for the best
creamery in the country, and he will
not be compelled to look for job ev
cry few months.
Brother butter maker, which class
are YOU to be enrolled in? You know
better than any one else whether you
art a good butter maker or poor one.
If you are not absolutely positive to
which division you belong, just ask
yourself this question: Am L satisfied
with my present conditions and envi-
ronments?" If you answer this inquiry
in the affirmative, you may rest as
sured that if you are not now one of
the has beens' you will be in the
course of a very few months unless
you mend your ways. Methods used in
buttermaking are continually chang
ing for the better, and the butter maker
who does not make the business con-
slant study. with Improvement as his
aim, will subsequently find himself
where he will not have to go away
back to sit down. He will already be
there. Just as soon as q butter
maker becomes satisfied that he
cannot learn any more about the
business Just so soon does he be-
gin to degenerate as a skillful crafts
man. Don't be a satisfied butter maker
whatever you do. Satisfaction is IA
tai disease. The boys who are making
a success of the butter making business
are the ones who look upon past &C.
quirements and present conditions as
only the legitimate outcome of an hon
est effort ON their part and instead OF
folding their hands in contentment
make more extensive plans for the flu
ture.
We as creamerymen need to better
appreciate the fact that we cannot re-
main at standstill as regards the con-
dition of our factories and our skill in
the work. 1t is an unbroken law of ma
ture that everything, animate and in
animate. is continually wearing away
or building up. Conditions are con-
stantly changing. - e. K. Slater in
Creamery Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28

The American ivy is at its best for
only few months of the year, and
mildews, blights and the untimely
frosts all combine to make it unsightly
for some weeks before the leaves have
fallen. Fewer objections of this sort
obtain with the Japanese ivy. for it's
foliage colors beautifully with crimson
and gold in the autumn, and in winter
it shows an interesting tracery of lace
work of stems and tendrils upon the
brick and stone. The English ivy re-
mains practically unchanged amid
summers heat and winters cold, a
perennial live cover that is particular
ly charming when SHOWS coming
through the leafiess trees find Judgment
in the greenery of the vine clad walls.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28

At the Cooper sale at Linden Grove,
Coopersburg, Pa, on May 30-31 T. w.
Lawson was a heavy purchaser of Jer-
seys for his great farm, Dreamwold,
Scituate, Mass. Among his purchases
was Flying Fox, the star OF the sale, at
$500.
Flying Fox has been a great star in
the cattle world since he was pro-
claimed champion winner over the Is
land'' in Jersey in August. 1899, says
American Cultivator. He was brought
here in January with about forty of
his older SONS and daughters. very
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Tbe Prof,tabIe se.son

An exchange reports one who has
long been in the poultry business as
saying that he has sold broilers all the
way from Is to 40 cents pound, and
the forty cent price looked like good
thing, but he could not make as much
money on them as on those he mar
keted In early fall and winter at IS to
20 cents The eggs cost more for those
hatched In winter. do not hatch as
well. the chickens require much more
care and work. and when they get this
the mortality among them is greater
and they will not mature as rapidly as
those Matched in warm weather. When
both sides of the account are carefully
kept. we think the chickens Matched
from June to September Will usually
show as much profit as the March and
April chickens If well fed and the
young cockerels and such pullets as
are not desired to be wintered are sold
as broilers.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Agricultural Notes.

Wheat ground should be plowed dur
ing August if convenient.
Let onions lie on the ground till well
cured. Spread them thinly on the
barn floor or in some other dry place.
Common drain tiles blanch celery
well.
Quick growing fat varieties of tur-
nip, such as purple top strap leaved,
are desirable for early August plant
ing.
Grand Rapids is popular lettuce
for greenhouse forcing in early fall.
Cabbages should be well hoed and
the earth drawn up to them. If lit
tie fertilizer is added, so much the
better.
Much hoeing almost equals much
manuring.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
A MENDMENTs TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF NEW JERSEY, PROPOSED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF 1qno

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate 1.-THE House of
Assembly conenrring that the following
amendments to the constitution of this STATE
be- and the same are hereby proposed, and
Of members elected to the Senate and House Of
Assembly. the said amendments shall be entered
on their Journals, with the yeas and NAYS taken
thereon, and referred to the Legislature next to
be chosen, and shall be published for three
months previous to the first Tuesday after the
first Monday of November next (being the
Iourtn DAY OF said month";, in at least one news
paper Of each county, if any be published there
in, the said newspapers to be designated by the
president of the Senate, the speaker of the
House OF Assembly and the Secretary of State
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
SUMNER DESSERTS.
How to Make Some Delicious Ho
Weather Dishes

Weather Dishes.
Frozen desserts are the only sort that
deserve recognition when the mercu-
ny is soaring toward the 100 mark, and
In them the housewife has wide range.
In all well ordered kitchens the freezer
y one of the indispensables, says the
New York Tribune, and housewives
and cooks have both learned that its
processes are more expeditions than
the ordinary ones Of cooking.
The blended juices of currants and
raspberries make a delicious sherbet
Boil together for twenty minutes a
quart of water and one and half cup
fuls of sugar When the sirup has
partially cooled, add to it one and a
half cupfuls of currant juice and one
cupful of raspberry juice. When it is
cold, freeze.
Frozen red raspberries and eurrants
are deliciously tart for hot day and
are easily prepared. Mash cupful
and half each of currants and rasp-
two lemons and pound of sugar and
let them stand an hour or two; then
add pint of cold water and freeze.
To freeze peaches peel, stone and
mash the peaches and break three of
the stones and mash the kernels. Boil
together pint Of water, cupful Of
sugar and the kernels for six minutes.
Then strain. and when the sirup is
cold add the peaches and freeze.
Tea ice cream is favorite in some
quarters. 1t calls for tablespoonful
of the choicest tea, four cupfuls of
cream, the yolks of half dozen eggs
and one and half cupfuls of sugar.
Scald the cream in a double boiler,
turn in the tea, cover and let it stand
five minutes. Then strain, and when
it is cold add the yollzs and sugar.
bring it nearly to q boil, then cool and
frnnzp
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
HOW IL WORKS.

what the inventor calls "bait box"
having a small quantity of grain
placed in fixed cups, which are covered
with glass or fine wire netting. In the
natural course of events the fowls
become hungry and. discovering the
grain in the "bait box" hop on one
edge of the tray and attempt to peck
at the covered kernels. The weight of
the fowl tits the swinging rod which
supports the tray, and this oscillatory
motion slides the shoot back and forth
beneath the opening in the hopper,
thus discharging the grain to the
ground, to be devoured by the fowls.
The quantity delivered at one time is
not great, but as often as hunger drives
the fowls to peck at the bait the grain
is automatically delivered, and as
fowls will make little effort to get
feed unless they are hungry it is pos
sible that there will be a saving in
the quantity consumed over that which
they might be given if fed by hand.
Zachariah Xevers of Santa Cruz, CAL.
is the inventor.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
IN CHANcERY OF NEw JERSEY.

To Hayne G. P; Parker, Emma Parker has tcife;
Joseph II. Bailey and HuJddh Strain:
BY virtue OF order of the Court of Chan
Gerry, made the day OF the date hereof. in a
cause therein pending, wherein Wilson Fitz-
gerald is complainant, and you and others are
defendants, you required to appear, plead,
demur or answer to the compliments bill on or
before the Ninth day of September next, or the
said bill will be taken AS confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a certain
mortgage given by Sarah E. Paul to Wilson
Fitzgerald, complainant, bearing date the thir-
teenth 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 AIayne O. 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 inchoate right of dover
in the said mortgaged premises.
And yoL, Joseph II. Bailey, are made defend
ant, because you hold a mortgage upon the
premises in the compliments bill described,
which is alleged to be lien upon the premises.
And you, Huldah Swain, are made defendant,
because you hold mortgage upon the premises
in the complainant's bill described, which is
alleged to be a lien upon the said premises.
WATKINS & AVIS, Solicitors
1873 $. Broad St., Woodbury. N j.
Dated July 8, 1902. Adv. fee, $3.50
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28

A good washing fluid is made by mix
ing five pounds of salsoda, one pound
of borax, half pound of fresh, I'M
slaked lime and four ounces of liquid
ammonia. Pour one gallon of boiling
water upon the soda and borax. Let
this cool, then add the ammonia. Pour
one gallon of hot water over the lime
and let it stand until entirely settled,
then carefully pour off the clear fluid
and turn it upon the dissolved borax
and soda. Add eight gallons of cold
water Six tablespoonfuls Of this
fluid may be added to tubful of
clothes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28

Sometimes an umbrella that begins
to show tiny cracks and pin holes may
be mended at home. Open the umbrel-
Ia and hold it up to the light. Mend
silk courtplaster cut slightly larger
than the holes. Sun umbrellas and
parasols are more effectively mended
in this way than umbrellas, which
sometimes require a repetition of the
mending after being thoroughly wet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
One of the Beauties.

The Mandarin duck is one of the most
beautiful birds among water fowls. 1t
Is sometimes called the fan winged
duck, from the peculiar shape of por-
ton of it's wings, which rises over the
back in the shape Of lady's fan. The
head has Il crest, falling gracefully
back on the neck. The color of the
body plumage is very fine and uniform
in this curious variety, considered III
China the prettiest of the duck class.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-28
Chenn siIo satisfactorx.


Plums differ much in their behavior
in cold storage. Robinson and Weav-
er, very juicy varieties. were kept
from three to four weeks. With such
varieties decay proceeds very rapidly
when once it has begun. Less watery
sorts, as Golden Beauty and Moreman,
were kept in the Kansas station cool
ing room, which had an irregular tenn
perature averaging about so degrees
f., for more than month. Weizerka,
a meaty, prunellke variety. kept for a
still longer time.