Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-05-01

Another improvement is the INSTALL
ment of a telephone in the country
schoolhouse connecting the children
with their country homes.
The best hay when made and the
most difficult to make is clover. When
it gets to be worth So to $40 per ton,
we will make it in the right way-in
the cock.
A spring chicken weighing two
pounds sold in July will bring as much
money as the same bird weighing four
pounds sold in December. Does it pay
to keep it?
A good bathroom should have place
on every new farm home built, even if
not more than $1,000 is spent on such
a home. 1t is not in any sense lux
ury, but an absolute necessity.
While a possible crop of onions is
800 bushels per acre under exceptional
conditions, an average crop may be
placed at 800 bushels, or about twice
as many bushels per acre as of pota-
toes.
The old man runs a good deal of
risk with either a young, spirited
horse to pull his buggy or young and
spirited wife to keep house for him.
He is liable to have a runaway in
either case
A scoIdiEg wife in the home is not
pleasing thing, but if a man makes her
gather her own fuel, won't furnish her
soft water and takes the egg money to
buy his tobacco she has a right to
scold all she wants to.
Men who have tried the White Hol-
land turkeys tell us that while they
will stay at home and bring more in
the market than the bronze birds they
are too tender and lie down and die
without any provocation at all.
If English farmers can keep sheep
profitably on land valued at 5000 per
acre and upward, surely the western
farmer can keep them on land worth
one-fourth as much.
The general use of corn fodder in it's
various forms the past winter proves
that stock seem to relish it much better
in cold than in warm weather and will
then eat the fodder up much more
closely.
Unless the oleo bill passes compelling
oleo to be sold for just what it is and
not as butter, it will be nip and tuck
between the COW and the steer as to
which shall run the dairy business of
this country.
A bull calf of fine Hereford blue
blood recently sold for $4,995, and still
we know of plenty of men who say
they want to improve the quality of
their herds who will not look at sire
that costs over $40.
Pound for pound, bananas are said
to be twenty-five times as nutritious as
white bread and forty times as nutri-
tious as potatoes. If this be true, it is
no wonder the child of the tropics can
live easy and cheap.
We are pleased to note recently the
fact that in an audience of over 100
ladies, all well and fashionably dress
ed, not one, so far as we could see,
had bird on her hat. We hope that
over
Skunk farms are a failure, the two
or three which were started in this
country having been abandoned for
the rather curious reason that when
these animals are raised in captivity
the quality of their fur so degenerates
as to become almost worthless.
We incline to the opinion that it is
all right that our nice girls should get
married after they have taught school
| two or three years. Teaching wears
! out woman faster than maternity.
We cannot pension our wornout teach
ers, and it is better for them to quit
the business before they become bro
ken down.
1t has generally been supposed that
| where the cornstalks were cut up and
then fed to the stock no harm would
come to the cattle so fed, but we have
900.
| where the stalks were so cut and fed
where several head of cattle died, with
all the symptoms of the so called corn
stalk disease.
If you have drove of hogs to feed
this summer, plan to have an acre of
rape for each thirty hogs. Plow up the
old hog pasture and SOW to oats one
bushel, rape six pounds to the acre
and turn i'll when the growth is six
inches high If the hogs don't keep the
field fed down, turn in the cattle once
in awhile. This makes the cheapest
and best summer hog feed to be had.
While many men think that they
cannot farm successfully unless they
have at least eighty acres of land, it is
still entirely possible for a man to
farm very proftably on five acres pro-
vided he is located within easy reach
of any large town, and il he works his
five acres in the right manner he will
sugar off at the end of the year with
better profit than most men with eighty
acre farms.
DON'T PLANT CORN TOO EARLY.
1t is well to remember that corn will
do little in the way of terminating
and growing when the temperature is
below So degrees f. For latitude Al
and north April planting of corn is
usually a blunder. cold weather and
possible frosts icing almost sure even
If the plant does get out of the ground
to give it setback from which it new
er RECEIVERS. Our own experience and
observation prove that corn planted
not earlier than May Is will. taking a
series of years, make a better crop
than that planted earlier.