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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

Front elevation and ground plan
pen, although it is, in fact, not round,
but twelve sided. 1t is owned by an
Iowa breeder of Poland Chinas.
In addition to the increased amount
of room it affords as compared with a
square house it has the advantage that
the pens are grouped around short
alleyway, so that in feeding and car
ing for the hogs the work can be done
with a minimum amount of travel.
The panels which form the wall of the
house are eight feet wide, making a
structure ninety-six feet in circumfer
ence. 1t is divided into ten pens, the
dimensions of each being marked on
the ground plan given, and each pen
has a sliding door through which the
sows can go outside. Access to all the
pens is by means of six foot alley, as
shown in the plan. The height Of the
house is six feet from the stills to the
caves and fifteen feet from the ground
to the cupola. This steepness of roof
gives a commodious second floor for
the storage of feed and bedding, and
over the doorway, as will be seen in the
illustration, is dormer window which
opens to its full extent as a door and
which is provided with hoist to raise
the feed and bedding for storage in the
second story. The floor of the hog
house is made of railroad ties, and the
second floor is Slated instead of being
laid close, so that from any pen the
herdsman can reach up and pull down
bedding as needed through the cracks.
1t is provided with chimney, not
shown in the elevation, but indicated
in pen No. of the ground plan. A
stove can be put up In the alleyway
during cold weather and any desired
temperature maintained, and the early
filters when they come into the world
during the severe weather will be made
comfortable. The house is a very con-
venient one, and the designer ascribes
much of his success especially with
February and March pigs, to the aid
which the possession Of such house
gives him when handling them. Its
cost is about $500.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
gloucester County Orphans Court.

Watkins & Avis, Atty.
Dated Oct. 2s, 1902 1l-6.
Prs. fees, $3.50.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
The Kind of Cattle to Feed.

The kind of cattle to feed depends on
circumstances As rule the good well
bred steer will make the most money
because he makes the most of his feed
that is. he puts it where it ought to
go, into the high priced cuts of beef.
But sometimes it pays best to feed
common cattle and very common ones
when they can be bought at CORE
spondingly low price. They usually
make good gains. and. having been
bought very low, they may sell ut a
big advance over their cost to the feed
er, though still away below the top of
the market Common light feeders are
selling in Chicago at $3.50 to So and
good ones at $4.75 to 1926. There may
be more money in the stuff costing
$3.50 than in the five dollar stuff. be-
cause when fat a bigger advance may
be secured for 1t. This is year when
good feeders are hard to secure at
reasonable figure, and hence attention
is called to the cheaper and commoner
kinds. But the feeder should remem-
Der that the common cattle must be
bought very low. There Is no pleasure
In their company, and 1t is only justi-
fable when they make good money, to
do which they must be laid In cheap
National Stockman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
SHERIFF's SALE.
Monday. the 18th Day Ct December, next

| By virtue of writ of ieri facas, to me d.
Tected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
state OF New Jersey, will be exposed at public
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

vat coils in motion and ran water
through them until the cream was
cooled down to 66 degrees, at which
temperature it was held until it
reached IS degrees acidity. Then it
was cooled down to SO degrees and
held there for three and a half hours,
after which it was churned. 1t took
forty-fve minutes to churn. l drew
off the buttermilk and washed butter
once, temperature of the water being
40 degrees. Then drew this water off
quickly, sailed the butter in the churn
and gave the churn four revolutions
without the rollers in motion. Then
put the rollers in motion and revolved
the churn twelve times, which finished
working. / filled twenty pound tub
out of this churning, set it on ice,
packed ice all around it and left it in
this condition until Friday, when it
was expressed to the state fair grounds.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
NEW DECORATIVE FER.i.
A Handsome Sport of the Boston.
Likely to Be Very Popular.

A Handsome Sport of the Boston.
Likely to Be Very Popular.
A new decorative fern and one of
most handsome appearance is now
being introduced to notice under the
name of NephroIepis piersoni. Its his
tory as given in American Gardening,
which illustrates it, shows it to be a
variety of the well known Boston fern.
In decorative effect the new sport so
far outdistances the original variety
that there is positively no comparison
to be made, according to the authority
mentioned. The picture gives a good
idea of the character of the fronds.
The new fern has all the characters
tics of the Boston fern as far as ease
of growth, general hardness, useful
ness, etc, are concerned, but is much
more graceful and is entirely different
from any other fern in general cult
walton, the whole effect of the frond
as it grows being something like moss
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

II we are to invest in fowls instead
OF eggs, fall is the time to buy. con-
slider 1t a better plan to buy stock rath-
er than eggs. Then we are better able
to know just what we are getting,
while II we wait until spring and buy
eggs it viii be nearly year before we
can tell what kind Of birds we have.
Breeders do not keep over more than
about enough to complete their breed
ing pens and will dispose OF their sur
plus stock at fair prices. 1t viii be
cheaper In buying to procure five or six
birds, say male and five pullets, as
they viii cost less proportionately, and
with good housing and care they should
lay good many eggs. large number
of which may be used for. Matching, and
In this way the owner viii be able to
make good beginning from his new
stock during the following year.-PouI-
try Monthly.
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

This fowl occupies foremost place
as table poultry They are most deli
cate and fine favored fowls, well
known fact to those who have Toasted
on what we call pit game. In fact, it is
said that they outrank the pheasants
In delieacy when served ON the table.
They grow very fast and are always
plump and ready for the spit any time
after they are six weeks old.
The colors bred are black breasted
reds, brown breasted reds, duckwings,
blue reds. piles, black, white and span
giles, the latter the most popular. As
shown by the illustra ton, these fowls
are beautifully built and free from the
long shanks of our standard games.
They have full. plump breasts and lon
ger bodies than our exhibition games
In fact, they are the same as our pit
games. only they are bred to exhibition
form and color and not for the pit
Country Gentleman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
HOW He MADE IT.


All About the Butter That Was TOH
NOtcher at Iowa Fair.
From his home at Strawberry Point
Ia, P. H. Kieffer writes as follows to
the Creamery Journal:
The tub of butter that exhibited at
the Iowa state fair was made of milk
received ON the Wednesday before state
fair week 1t was an ideal morning
for good milk because Tuesday after
noon we had hard shower which laid
the dust and purified the air. Tuesday
night was quite cool for an August
night On Wednesday morning it was
cloudy and damp, just the kind of
weather for good milk
put thirty gallons of starter which
contained 40 degrees acidity (Mann's
test into a 400 gallon Boyd vat, to
which l added twenty gallons of fine
favored mornings milk. 1 then
skinned $50 gallons of cream which
contained about 80 per cent fat into
the vat. AS soon as / commenced run
ming cream into the vat 1 started the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
Effective Foliage Plants.

The richly colored and variously
marked foliage of erotons renders
them quite as attractive as towering
plants. The compost they thrive in
best is a mixture of rich loan. peat,
leaf mold and sand. three parts of
loan to one of each of the others
Crotons require abundance of water.
so the pots should be thoroughly
drained. They can stand lots of syring
ing. and Indeed 1t is necessary to keep
In check red spider and thrip.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
How to Clean a Felt Hat.

A light colored felt hat-gray, or
fawn, for instance-may be made as
good as new by being carefully cleaned.
Make paste Of fullers earth or pipe
clay-that is, mix the powder just
enough with water to give it the con-
the hat and allow it to dry, then brush
it off afterward, and it will answer
perfectly. The whole process must be
gone through as neatly and quickly as
possible. care being taken that not
more water than is absolutely neces-
sary be used. so that the hat may keep
Its shape intact
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
For Sale by ]. ". Merritt
Opp. Court House.
breed to-.
SID FOS Err
The greatest bred Stallion ever
located in New Jersey, and with
more natural speed.

Bay horse one inch short of 16 hands, weighs
100 lbs, foaled August 20, 1891. Bred by Count
Valensn, Pleasanton, Alameda Co., California.
Sire: Sidney Alto; record, 2.l94 Dam: Dell
Foster, by A. W. Richmond, l,6S7; second DAM
daughter of George Nj. Patchen, Jr, 81; record
2.27.
Now is the time to breed, as there is very
as wel-bred horses always in demand at
fancy prices. 1t is the horse smooth at all gaits
and that carries himself like a gentleman and
who is balanced at all rates of speed that is com
ing in vogue. If you raise a colt raise one that
the people want the later in the season the colt
is born the more work the mare can do. 1t IS
better for the colt to come after fly time. Work
does not injure the colt, in fact it is
beneficial, but judgment must be used. Go
long way to avoid dung-hill sire. Don't raise
a colt from grade or dung-hill sire il you can
have it as a gift 1t will make you dollars
poorer for you can never get for 1t what 1t VIII
cost to raise it. 1t will be misfit on the farm
sire of pure blood. The market is getting more
particular every day about looks and style OF a
horse. Even truck horses must be handsome
to bring good prices.
SERVICE FEE-Sid Foster will stand for the
remainder of the season 1902 at the stables OF
the owner, ~ of mile east of Wenonah, and
will be allowed to serve only limited number
should she not prove with foal; SIS for the sea
son, So for single service.
Special rates for mares with marks OF 2.5O
Special dates for service at the home OF the
owner, near Wenonah, may be secured by cor
reSpondence.
Address communications to
T. T. COSTELLO, Owner,
e1sleo22m. WEN0NAH. NJ.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
Crop Items.

The governments October estimate
of the average yield per acre of oats is
34.5 bushels, the highest estimate of
yield ever reported by the department
of agriculture
The corn condition Oct. was re-
ported at 79.6 as compared with 77.7.
the mean October average of the past
ten years.
The preliminary estimate of the av-
erage yield per acre of spring wheat is
14.4 bushels; average quality, 81.
All of the important sugar cane pro-
ducing states except Texas report con-
ditions below their respective ten year
averages for October
The estimated average yield of hops
in pounds per acre is 1867 in Washing
ron, 1,400 in California, LOO in Ore
gon, 1900 in Wisconsin and 325 in New
York
Texas reports II points above the
average for rice. Georgia about the av-
erage and other states from / to %
points below. the latter being the esti-
mate for Louisiana
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

curled parsley The fronds, on account
of their subdivisions, are very full and
broad, and owing to their breadth and
weight they assume much more
graceful appearance than the Boston
fern, dropping low down on all sides in
arching curves.
Like the Boston fern, it is suitable
for house culture. 1t is magnificent
plant for greenhouse and conservatory
decoration; in fact. it is a plant that
appeals to every one, and on that &C.
count is likely to be considered more
valuable than the Boston fern, plant
which has had the most phenomenal
sale of any one plant that has ever
been grown.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

Put three pints Of bran in two quarts
Of cold water and boil it. Take off the
fire and when it is nearly cool wash
the mating with it, wiping it after
ward with clean dry cloth. A little
salt may be added to the water for
white mating and vinegar for red.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

Don't feed strip to bees in winter.
Use the combs of honey and the candy.
1t is just as well. If not better, to feed
right away. Very quietly remove the
outside comb or combs at one side, SO
that you can put the frame of honey
or candy right next to the bees. The
bees will do the rest. OF course you
will not use any smoke. If your work
is carefully done. you will have no
trouble. advises the American Bee
Journal In regard to colonies that are
too light for winter and need feeding.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
Animal interests.

The Maltese milk goat is the latest
candidate as money maker
To grade as baby beef steers should
be choice or prime, between one and
two years of age and weigh from 800
to 1000 pounds.
Breeding pigs should be fed largely
on vegetable and bulky diet rather
than on concentrated grain diet.
1t is said that grain ration that is
suited for COW serves very well for
hens supplemented of course, with grit
oyster shells. bones, etc.
"Contentment is fat" and every little
thing that adds to the comfort of the
steer or makes him more contented in
creases the gains which he makes from
each bushel of grain.
Where animals have not had free
access to salt it is best to work them
up to it gradually, as they are apt to
overeat and produce securing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
TO CREDITORS.

Maria E. Burke and Richard F. Burke, adj
ministrators @. I. A., of Richard Burke, de-
ceased, by direction of the Surrogate OF the
County of Gloucester, hereby gives Notice to
the Creditors of the said Richard Burke, de
ceased, to bring in their debts, claims and de-
mands against the estate OF the said decedent,
under oath of affirmation, within nine me nths
from this date or they will be forever barred of
any action therefor against the said administers
tors, G. " "A.
MARIA e. BURKE,
Dated Sept. q, 1902 RICHARD F. BURKE.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble. because the heart is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
1t used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-ROot, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits Et
by all druggists in fifty $: :eesEs
cent and one-dollar siz
es. You may have sssazs. as!.s -
sample bottle by mail Home of swamp Root.
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if YOU have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dr.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton. N. \.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

A girl who wishes to expand her chest
can do SO if each morning after her
bath she will stand erect, feet together
and shoulders back. arms straight
down and take twenty-five full, deep
breaths. 1t is perhaps best to begin
with fifteen for the first week and grad
ually increase to twenty five II one
desires to 60 on to fuller perfection, in
crease until fifty full breaths can be
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

An excellent furniture cream is made
as follows: One ounce of CASTLE soap,
one ounce of white wax, two ounces of
beeswax, half pint of turpentine,
half pint of soft water. Shred the
soap and white wax into the water
and boil it in the water till dissolved.
Melt the beeswax in the turpentine.
When nearly cold mix all the ingredi-
ents together, and the cream will be
ready for use.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

Grass and milk contain pound for
pound the same identical digestible
constituents. says Dairy and Creamery.
A hundred pounds Of good pasture
grass or freshly cut good green food
contain about the same animal nour-
ishment as 100 pounds of milk, so that
if milk COW consumes 100 pounds of
pasture grass, giving a good flow of
milk of, say, twenty-five pounds, she
is practically taking into her stomach
daily the essential elements of 100
pounds CT milk in order to give through
her udder twenty-five pounds of milk.
OF the 100 pounds pasture grass eaten
daily seventy-dve pounds are used for
her own support and twenty-five
pounds for product. These seventy
five pounds used for support are not,
however, wasted; we get it back again
in the form of manure, which, applied
to the same land whence came the
grass eaten. will in course of time re-
produce itself in an equal weight of
grass.
Adulterated Stock Feeds.
The New Jersey experiment station
has found two things that are being
used to adulterate stock feeds. The
hard, fiinty hulls of the rice kernel
are sold as "rice meal" and the inner
bulls of the coffee berry are known as
"cornaline." When some fraud mixes
this 'cornaline" with good corn and
oats and sells it as horse feed, he is not
trying to give the horse cup of coffee
he is just trying to palm off worth
less stuff for the horses ribs and the
owners purse alike to grow thin on.
What a shame that the food frauds
can't let even the dumb brutes alone!-
Rural New Yorker.
Waste of Foodstuffs.
Perhaps the most stupendous waste
occurring ON the American farm today
is that of the corn fodder crop. Some
thing like 100000 tons of fodder are
annually produced on the 100000 to
100000 acres normally planted to
corn in the United States. In the corn
belt in the middle west, where about
rs per cent of all the corn of the cOun-
try is grown, there is prodigious and
profigate waste Of foodstuffs. In this
same region valuable land is annually
used for the production of timothy hay
on every farm to be used for rough
ness, while acres Of corn fodder are
allowed to go to waste.-Exchange
Feed Calves Dry Grain.
The best way to feed grain to calves
is to give it to them dry. Grain put
into the pail with milk and gulped
down does not serve the purpose as
well as if the calf took it dry. moisten-
ing it as it goes along with saliva. That
aids digestion and adds pounds to the
weight of the calf.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
TO CREDITORS.

David Van Hook, administrator of the estate
Of William Brant, deceased, by direction of the
Surrogate OF the County of Gloucester hereby
gives notice to the creditors of the said William
Brandt deceased, to bring in their debts claims
and demands against the estate OF the said de
months from this date. or they will be forever
barred Of any action therefor against the said
administrator. DAVID VAN HOOK,
Dated Oct. %, 1902. 11-6. Administrator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

Foreign fruit tablets are made by
boiling down the pulp mixed with
sugar until the desired consistency is
reached. The residue is then pored
into pans and spread about one and a
half centimeters thick, after which 1t
is dried slowly. ten hours being about
the time usually required When fin
ished. the mass is cut into circular tab
let's, which, it is said. will keep ten
years, When the tablets are 10 be
used. they are soaked in warm water
from one to one and half hours be-
fore cooking.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
gloucester County orphans Court

On the application of
James w. Hughes, Ad-
ministrator of the estate Order to Show
of Emeline Van Leer, de Cause.
ceased, for sale of lands to
pay debts.
James w. Hughes, Administrator of the estate
of Emeiine VanIeer, deceased having exhibited
to this Court, under oath, just and true account
of the personal estate and debts of said deceased,
whereby it appears that the personal estate of
said Emelne VanIeer is insufficient to pay her
debts, and requested the aid of the Court in the
premises. 1t is on this twenty-sixth day of
September A. D., nineteen hundred and two,
ordered that all persons interested in the lands,
tenements and real estate of said Emeline Van
Leer, deceased, appear before the Court at the
Court House, in the City of Woodbury., on Fri
day, the twenty-eighth day of November, next
at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, to show cause
why SO much of the said lands tenemeRts,
hereditaments and real estate Of the said Eme-
line VanLeer, deceased, should not be sold as
will be sufficient to pay her debts, or the residue
thereof, as the case may require
BY the court WILLARD #. DUBOIS,
lO-l902. Surrogate.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
In the matter of the estate On Petition cts,
OF Sam'I Richards, decd, Order.

In the matter of the estate On Petition ets
of Sam'I Richards, dec'd., Order.
Sarah A. Richards. executrix of etc, the es-
tate of Samuel Richards deceased having made
and exhibited to this Court under oath, just
and true account of the personal estate and
debts of said decedent as far as she can discover
the same, whereby it appears that the personal
estate of the said Samuel Richards, deceased, is
Insufficient to pay his debts, and requesting the
aid of the Court in the premises. 1t is there
upon on this Thirty-first day of October, Nine
teen hundred and two, by the said Court, order
ed that all persons interested in the lands,
tenements, hereditaments and real estate OF said
Samuel Richards, deceased 1.-THE same being
more fully described in said application) appear
before this Court. at the Court House, IN the
CITY of Woodbury., on Friday, the Second day
of January next at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
to show cause why much of the said lands.
tenements. hereditements. and real estate of the
said Samuel Richards, deceased, should not be
sold as will be sufficient to pay the debts OF the
said decedent or the residue thereof as the case
may require. ,.,e,,,
WILLARD F. DUBOIS, Surrogate.
11-61902.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
How to Freshen a Garnet.

To freshen a carpet put teaspoon
full of ammonia into pailful Of warm
water, and wipe the carpet with a
cloth wrung out in it. The dust is
thereby removed, the colors are bright
ened, and any insect lurking in it is
speedily killed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20
HOW 10 Destroy water Rings.

Carbolic acid may be used to destroy
water bugs. that pest of many apart
ments. Two tablespoonfuls of the
melted crystals should be put into
pint of water. Place 1t in sprayer
and use in the cracks and crevices
or three days. in two weeks the bugs
will entirely disappear. Remember
that carbolic acid is corrosive acid
and should be carefully handled and
kept from children. In using, should
any drop on the fingers rub the spot
with sweet oil, which will allay the
burn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

OAOV Ia IA tAO
cut. The remain
ing seven feet
tie to the center
of the short rope
b Q t W cen the
loops. Place the
loops over the
hind feet of the
hog and draw
the long rope be-
tween the front
feet and over
the nose. then
elk gal in
t b r o u g h the
short rope. Pull
forward more
over nose. then