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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
FOOD OF AMERICANS.
An English Woman Tells of the
Strange Things She Ate Here.

An English Woman Tells of the
Strange Things She Ate Here.
An English woman who visited Amer
lea a short time ago has been telling
her country women about the strange
food across the water" OF course she
discovered green corn, but she had been
prepared for that. Oyster crabs were
quite new to her.
''They look like Boston baked beans"
she explains. 'sbut they taste much bet
ter
An oyster cocktail filled her with awe
and enthusiasm. She tried it at Del
monico's and thought it was soup. OF
course in England one didn't serve
soup in a glass; but, then, neither did
the English serve boiled eggs in a
glass. One could never be sure Of
Americans.
OF canvasback duck she has poor
opinion, but thinks she might like it
better if Americans would have it cook
ed or even warmed. AS for terrapin,
she sings its praise. She found it much
like calfs head, and she always liked
calf's head. Shades of Maryland gour-
NETS, what slur is there!
"All the buildings in America are pie
or ice cream" she says, but it must be
understood that pie does not mean
game pie. The Yankee pie is a tart
and is ubiquitous, she explains.
She sat next to an American man
who ate lump of cheese with his
strawberry pie and turned a plateful Of
ice cream over both, but she doesn't
know that that is a general custom.
The oysters were good, but had most
impossible names, and the cookies
(meaning clams) are excellent. On the
whole, Yankee food and cooking are
good, but there is too much of the food
on the table at one time.-New York
Sun
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
THE BEAN CROP.
a Decline of Production Has Caused
Imports to Largely Increase.

a Decline of Production Has Caused
Imports to Largely Increase.
From an interesting and suggestive
review by the government division of
statistics of the United States bean
crop it is learned that with reference to
weight the commercial bean crop of the
United States is more nearly compare
bic to that of rice than to any other
domestic food crop. 1t is possible that
the rice crop just harvested will prove
to be the record crop of this country,
and commercial authorities estimate it
as high as 300,000,00O pounds. The
bean crop is somewhat more important;
for, excluding the important producing
state of New York, for which no recent
statistics are available, the production
of beans in the principal producing
states in 1896, the record year for
that crop, was also about 300,00O,000
pounds. Moreover, the average annual
production of beans, exclusive of New
York, for the five calendar years 1895
20 1899 inclusive, has been about 1885,
100000 pounds, exceeding the annual
average production of rice for the same
period by about S5,000,O0O pounds. AS
in the case of rice, also the production
of beans is insufficient for the country's
needs. Excepting for a short period in
the past decade imports of beans and
peas have exceeded the exports by
quantities ranging from 100000 to 3d.,
100000 pounds annually.
Beans in great variety are produced
in a small way in gardens and truck
patches and for consumption in both
the green and dried state in nearly if
not all the states of the Union, but the
common dried beans of commerce, to
which the above statistics refer exclu-
sively, are the product, as is the rice
crop, of a comparatively small number
of states. AS is well known, the impor-
lance of dried beans as an article of
food in this country dates from the civ
IL war.
The adoption of this vegetable by the
United States government as a part of
the army ration created for it an ex-
tensive demand, and upon the disband-
ment of the forces the use of this ac-
customed article of diet naturally be-
came popularized throughout the coun-
try. Production on a large scale, how
ever, became localized in a few states,
and at present Michigan. New York,
California and Wisconsin may be re-
garded. from a commercial point of
view at least, as the only important
producing states. Recent statistics of
production, however, are also available
for the comparatively unimportant pro-
ducers, Minnesota and Illinois.
The production of beans reached its
maximum in each of the four states
given during the period from 1895 to
1897, and since 1897 production in each
state has steadily declined. The in
crease in production during this peri
cd resulted in an excess in 1897, for the
first time in the history of this trade,
of exports over imports, but the subse-
quent decrease in production has again
turned the tide, and imports for the
past two years have been in excess.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
Onion Growing.

Farmers in central New York are
realizing good profit in their onion
crop this year, as they are selling at
$130 bushel at retail and dollar at
wholesale, according to the American
Cultivator. Some have grown 500
bushels to the acre and do not esti-
mate the expense at over $50 per acre.
Those who had them on upland were
the fortunate ones, as the heavy rains
drowned out nearly one-half the crop
on lowlands. The crop on lowlands has
averaged from 200 to $50 bushels an
acre, and the cost of growing them was
increased to 25 cents bushel, leaving
q profit of but about $3.50 an acre. A
Syracuse capitalist has lately bought
tract of 400 acres and is clearing up
the land. He will build five or six ten
ement houses and lease the land to
onion growers. There is vast tract of
muck land well adapted to this crop,
as it is among the most fertile and pro-
ductive land in central New York. The
owner of thirty-two acre farm on the
edge Of a swamp says his crop brought
Hill pO.OOO CtSu ldSl ScdSOL- I1C udu
seven or eight acres of onions on which
he grew $500 bushels, which were
worth $500. He had two acres of
peas that he sold to the canning fac
tory and then grew second crop of
canning beets, for which he received
$125. He has $500 to $500 worth of
sugar beets for the sugar factory be-
sides a good crop of sweet corn, hay
and other products.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
BROWN LEGHORNS,
4 Breeder of the Single Comb vari-
ETY. Sings Their Praises.

ETY. Sings Their Praises.
The single comb Brown Leghorns
have earned the right to be classed
among the best utility fowls since they
have attained sufficient size to make
them valuable as d plarket and table
fowl. This quality, combined with
their great ability as layers and their
beauty, places them in the front rank
as favorites of the farmer as well as
Of the fancier. They have been con-
sidered a nonsitting variety, but that is
not fact. In an experience extending
over twenty years / have found them
to make excellent sitters and mothers.
Pullets hatched in May or June or
even so late as July will begin laying
by November or December, and they
need not be affected by cold weather,
but should continue to lay throughout
the season. Those Matched in Febru-
airy or March will begin to lay in the
carly fall and when the change from
warm to cold weather takes place they
usually cease laying and perhaps mott.
Consequently the early Matched birds
v
as the May or June Matched chicks.
These two months seem to be the nat
ural months for Matching, as the
weather is suitable for incubating the
eggs and raising the chicks, and at
that time nature provides the yege-
table and animal food that is neces-
sary for the rapid growth of the birds.
Gal, 81 T
horn female as an egg producer ex-
tends through period of three or
four years without any apparent fall
ing off, and some birds five or six
years of age continue to lay well. l
have bird of that age in my yards at
present that will lay as well as the
younger birds, but as a rule three to
four years is their average length of
usefulness.
1t is claimed by some that pullets
which develop large combs are better
layers than those with smaller ones.
My experience is that the chick hatch
ed earliest develops first, consequently
she lays sooner and naturally has a
larger comb, but so soon as develop
ment takes place in the one with the
smaller comb she will lay equally well.
1t is also claimed that certain types Of
females will lay better than other
types l cannot see any difference in
the laying qualities of the stout, short
hen and the more rangy one. The con-
dition of the stock is the main factor,
because unless in prime condition you
certainly cannot get the best results
therefrom.
The single comb Brown Leghorns
have taken their place among the gen
eral utility fowls because they produce
more eggs of larger size than the Ash
atics and most other breeds and be-
cause they begin laying sooner, do not
consume so much time in sitting, are
hardy, easily raised, do a lot of hus-
Ting and consequently can be raised
at much less expense. = William f.
Brace in Reliable Poultry Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
Feeding Bran.

Bran is excellent for poultry, and one
point in favor of bran is that it con-
tains much larger proportion of lime
than any other cheap food derived
from grain, and, as the shells of eggs
are composed of lime it is essential
that food rich in lime be provided. 1t
may be urged that the use of oyster
shells will provide lime, but it will be
found that it is the lime in the food
that is most serviceable because it is
In form that can be better digested
and assimilated than carbonate of
lime.
Glover is also rich in lime, and when
mess of cut clover and bran is given
the fowls they will need no oyster
shells or other mineral matter Do not
forget that in summer, however, all
kinds of foods should be used with
Judgment. If the hens have a free
range, give no food at all as long as
they are laying, but If they begin to
fall off let bran be the leading ingre-
dent of the foods allowed. In winter
the bran and clover are even more es-
sential, as the fowls cannot tnen secure
green food on the range.-Poultry
Keeper.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
PERMANENT PASTURES.
How to Make Them More Productav
at Small Expense.

How to Make Them More Productive
at Small Expense.
There are many sections where such
a thing as permanent pasture is not
known. The land all being alike suita-
BILE for tillage, a rotation of crops is
the usual practice perhaps of three or
five years, of which one year or two it
may be used for pasturage.
But here in New England, says
American Cultiyator. we have much
land that is unsuited for any other
purpose than pasturing and often
scarcely fit for that 1t may be that
, the soil has washed from hillsides to
the lowlands until there is scarce
enough to furnish root hold to a scanty
growth of grass and bushes, or it may
be so filled with stone below the sur
face as to resemble only a poorly
cleaned street with an inch or two of
soil on the surface and a sort Of bro
ken pavement under it.
The problem that often confronts the
farmer is how to make such land fur
nish summer feed for his stock with
out greater expenditure for labor and
fertilizer than the food will be worth.
Many of these old pastures have for
years had their crops grazed off and
nothing returned but such grass and
roots as have decayed on the surface
or below it or the droppings of the an
imals as they roamed over the field in
summer. They are not lacking so
much in vegetable matter as in the
mineral elements of fertility. They
may have a greater amount of root
growth than the crop upon them
would lead one to suspect-that is, they
are what is often called rootbound, and
| this must be remedied in the first place
| by breaking up these roots.
A good harrow run over these fields
will do this. the cutaway or disk har-
row being the best, but a sharp tooth
| ed and heavy spike harrow will do
| very good work if it is run over it sew
eral times. Barely scratching the sur
| face is not enough, but it needs to be
scarifed as deep as it will allow, and
| if it is gone over five or six times the
| last narrowing will be of more benefit
l lltslu dll llldl nav Z DccA given OSIOlC'
For the New England climate and
| soil we think the best time to do this
work is in the spring, while the ground
| is yet soft from the spring thaw. Far
| Their south or on the clay soils of the
| west it may be done in the fall, but
| in either case we would SOW upon it
clover seed in the spring, using ten to
| fifteen pounds of the small red clover
| and about one-half that amount of the
white clover. The coming in of other
| grass we should trust to the seed al
| ready in the soil of the grasses that
are already there, though certainly it
would do no harm to add blue grass
and red top seed if one feels warrant
ed to pay the expense.
We started to tell how permanent
pasture may be made more productive
at small expense, yet we think that the
| improvement would warrant an ex-
penditure for fertilizer to the extent
of 200 pounds of acid phosphate or of
fine ground bonemeal and 100 pounds
of muriate of potash to the acre when
the seed was sown, and if the soil is
very light this amount might be con-
siderably increased, or doubled at least,
to the advantage of the owner.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30

| BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias, to me di-
rected, issued out OF the Chancery Court of the
sale, on
Monday, the Seventeenth day Of February
next, between the hours of 10 and o'clock, to-
wit, at o'clock in the afternoon OF said day, at
| the Court House in the city of Woodbury.,
County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey,
all the following described real estate that is to
| "All the two tracts of land and premises stu
ate in the Township of Logan, County of
Gloucester and State of New. Jersey, and
| bounded as follows;
| First Tract Beginning in the middle of the
| old Ferry Road in the line of Francis M. Daw-
| sons land and runs thence bounding on said
! Dawson's land south tifty-nine degrees west
| twenty-six chains and ninety links to the line
| of Benjamin Weatherby's land; thence bound
| ing on said Weatherby's land south twenty-five
| degrees and thirty-fve minutes east thirteen
chains and seventy links to the middle OF Beaver
Run; thence up the main water course OF Beaver
| Run, bounding Josiah r. Becketts land ~
| south seyenty-three and fourth degrees east
eighty-six links (2ed)north eighty-three degrees
east three chains and forty-eight links to
ner lin said Rum of said Beckett's land; thence
| vet along said Beckett's land three courses as
| follows: G) south ten degrees and ffty-five
minutes east fifteen chains and eight links to
small dead white oak, (2) south eighty degrees
and twelve minutes east seven chains and
eighty-four links, (3) south eighty nine degrees
| and eight minutes east sixteen chains and sew
enty-two links to corner of other land of the
| said Thomas HI. Black; thence bounding thereon
ID north tWenty-tnree degrees west eleven
chains and seventy-two links (2ed) north eighty
one degrees and ffty-five minutes east five
| chains and four links to old white oak
stump; (3l north seventy nine degrees and
twenty-eight minutes east seven chains and five
links to the middle of the old Ferry Road;
thence along the middle of said Road north
thirty-six and fourth degrees west thirty-six
chains and forty-six links to the place OF begin
ming. Containing one hundred and six acres
and ninety-two hundredths of an acre. more or
less said tract of land conveyed to the said
Benjamin H. Black by Thomas H. Black by deed
bearing date March 4, $780, and recorded in the
Gloucester County Clerks Office in Book No. 127
of Deeds, page $50.
Second Tract Beginning in the middle of the
old Ferry Road at corner of the said Benjamin
H. Blacks land and runs thence along said land
~ south seventy nine degrees and twenty-eight
minutes west seven chains and five links to an
old white oak stump; (2) south eighty-one de
grees and fifty-five minutes west five chains and
four links to corner Of said land, (8) yet by
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
Hard Boiled Eggs For Poults.

notice in some of the poultry papers
a sharp criticism on feeding hard boil
ed eggs to turkey pouIts. Now, feed
certain per cent Of hard boiled eggs
with most excellent results. Years ago,
before l adopted my present way of
feeding, lost fully half that hatched
Since adopting my present plan raise
05 per cent. barring accidents. Last
year / had fifty or more killed on the
railroad or by dogs. This year | have
been fortunate enough to prevent any
being killed and have large drove.
have lost some, hardly know how.
There were no sick ones. 1t was after
they were turned on the range, and
they just came up missing. AS turn
ed them out to run before the hay and
oats were cut I think they probably
got tangled in the long grass. Only a
few from each flock We're missing.
/ think persons who condemn the hard
boiled egg imagine that it is made an
exclusive diet, when it only makes per-
haps one third OF meal twice a day.
green food one-third, oatmeal or millet
the other third. Eggs put in cold wa
ter and boiled a long time are very diff
ferent to digest than eggs put in boil
ing water.-Mrs. Charles Jones in Poul-
try Keeper.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30

age of olein in the fat. If these grains
are used, they must be fed judiciously
if first class pork is to be produced. If
fed in conjunction with skimmilk, it
has been shown that considerable
proportion of Indian corn may be used
in the grain ration without injuring
the quality of the pork.
That grain ration consisting Of a
mixture of oats, peas and barley in
equal parts gives firm pork of excel
lent quality.
That skimmilk not only tends to
thriftiness and rapid growth, but coun-
teracts in a very marked manner any
tendency to softness.
That rape, pumpkins, artichokes,
sugar beets, turnips and mangels can
be fed in conjunction with good ra-
ton without injuring the quality of the
pork.
That the fat of very young pigs and
animals of unthrifty growth is softer
than that of finished pigs that have in
creased steadily to the finishing
weight.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
The Girane,s Timidity.

A giraffe is very timid on hearing
slight sounds, but is Indifferent to loud
ones. A writer in The Leisure Hour
says: s'Noisy sounds. like a man walk
ing by with hobnail boots, it does not
notice. but a lady coming in with hard
ly more sound than the rustling of her
dress makes it start, with pricked ears
and eyes distended. We remember
well, after terrible explosion of gun
powder on barge on the canal, ask
ing the keeper Of the CRATES Of that
day how they had taken it, and he said
he was surprised how very little notice
they took. They jumped to their feet,
but almost at once lay down again
when they found nothing happened.
But he added, ''if l were at night
time to creep along that gallery in my
socks they would be so scared that l
believe they would dash themselves to
bits" They fear the lurking foe. and
a bing bang scares them less than q
faint. rustling sound. They are in that
respect very deerlike."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30

SOFT PORK.
Indian Corn as a Cause-skinmi1IS
the Great Corrector.

Indian Corn as a Cause-Skimmi1lS
the Great Corrector.
Many theories have been advanced
to account for softness in pork. Some
nave ascribed it to the character of the
food, others to undue forcing Of the
pig in the earlier stages Of growth, to
killing while still immature, to the
breed of the pig, to the locality in
which it is grown, and even the phase
of the moon when the pig is slaughter
ed has been assigned as a cause. +. T.
Shut of the central experimental
farm of Canada has made study Of
the character and causes of soft pork.
Mr.. Shut finds that softness Slight re-
sistance to pressure) is nearly always
accompanied by oiliness, and he draws
the following conclusions from series
of experiments in feeding:
That the one great controlling factor
in the quality of the pork of finished
pigs lies in the character of the food
employed.
That Indian corn and beans tend to
softness-i. e.. to increase the percent
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY.Ys
i Series OF Orders That ReJuvenated
tAs Ailing Slaves.

! Series Of Orders That ReJuvenafed
tAs AiIing Slaves.
A correspondent sends the following
story of an old Virginia gentleman:
Some years before the war gentle
man of large landed interests counted
among his possessions a plantation on
the James river, an estate Of consider
able dimensions. Other interests kept
him away from the old place for some
years, during which time there was a
marked decrease in the revenue. Upon
his return to the plantation he discov-
cred that many of the slaves were laid
up with rheumatism and other miser-
les, the farming implements were in
bad order and the old homestead was
fast going to rack and ruin. Calling
his overseer he said:
Anderson, / notice great many old
wagons, plows and harrows about
the place. Have them brought and
piled in front of the house, and on
Monday next order all the niggers on
the place to be present"
At the appointed time they came.
The pile was set on fire and the imple-
ments destroyed. The following week
he called the overseer's attention to the
sick and infirm horses, hogs and cattle
and gave the same order. When the
negroes had assembled all the animals
were knocked in the head. The Fri
day following the landlord again called
his overseer.
Anderson, see a great many sick
niggers around here-many who seem
to be laid up with rheumatism and are
good for nothing. Give orders that on
Monday morning at 10 o'clock they all
appear in the front yard"
The effect on the slaves was magical.
On Saturday men who had been IN
able to walk were skipping around like
children; the sick grew well suddenly,
and from that time on the plantation
was most prosperous.-Exc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-01-30
Friday, February q, 1902

Between the hours of twelve and five O'Clock
the afternoon of said day, to-wit at the hour o.
two fifteen o'clock, at the Sheriffs Office, at thu
Court house, in the City of Woodbury., in the
County of Gloucester and State Of New Jersey
| all that certain lot Of land situate at N bold
in the Township of West Deptford, N the
County of Gloucester, and State of New Jersey
and designated as lot number 242, on a plan Of
Newbold, made in 1887, and recorded in the
Clerks Office of said county, at Woodbury., New
Jersey. bounded as follows:
Beginning at point in the southerly line of
Highland avenue, at the northearterly corner of
lot number 244; thence ~ along the easterly
line of said lot number pa, south forty-eight
degrees and fifteen minutes west one hundred
and fifty feet to the northwesterly corner of lot
OF said lot number 24l, south forty-one degrees
and forty-ive minutes east, fifty feet to the
southwesterly cotner of lot number 240 theI
(3) along the westerly line of said lot ra9.
240, north forty EIGHT degrees and fife Il
utes east, one hundred aud fifty feel
southerly line of Highland avenue afore
thence (4) along the same, north forty-C u
grees and forty-hve minutes west, fifty f. n
the place OF beginning.
Being the same premises as Charles G.
sey and Anna P, his wife, by deed bear
the thirtieth day of September, in the
our Lord one thousand eight hume
ninety-seven, and recorded in the offis
Clerk of the said county of Gloucester,
No. 177 of Deeds; at page 207, &C., gra s.
conveyed unto Julia K. Birdsall in fee.
At the same time and place, will also
for sale at Public Vendue, all the right
interest, estate, claim and demand OF b
Julia K. Birdsall of, in and to the eign
shares of the seventy-sixth series OF the caT
stock of the State Mutual Building and Loan
Association, issued by the said State Mutual
Building and Loan Association to the said Julia
X. Birdsall, and issued in her name, and by herr
subsequently assigned as collateral to the said
State Mutual Building and Loan Association,
and all moneys paid by the said Julia K. Bird
sail to the said State Mutual Building and Loan
Association on account of said eighteen shares
of said stock.
Conditions made known at the timer place