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The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14
THE PIONEER HOME.

With all our modern improvements
for the farm home we still look long
ingly back to the home of the pioneer
days-a double log house, big fire.
place, hewn joists and rafters over
head, from which depended home
cured hams and bacon and dried beef,
the quality of which could put to
shame the best products of the modern
packing houses; strings of onions and
popcorn and the Indispensable rife and
shotgun, the furniture, much of it
homemade; the only carpet a rag car
pet which covered the floor of the
mothers room, ladder to reach the
attic bedroom, where the boys could
see the stars through the chinks of the
ter blizzard would cover them with a
white blanket in a night; very few
books and weekly paper which was
a week old when received; the root
house well stocked with vegetables and
in the winter a quarter Of beef or may
be whole deer hanging up frozen in
the woodshed, to be used from ad
libitum. Neghbors in those days, too.
were the right kind, who would share
anything they had and come visiting
for two or three days at time, bring
ing their bedding and something good
to eat with them. There were bees to
help raise the house for the newcomer,
to husk the corn and build the log
barns, and while 1t was all In a sense
homely, plain and rough, there was the
charm of neighborly good will which
is nowadays all too rare.
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COMPANY MEALS.

There is no sort of sense in preparing
Il meal for even the most distinguished
company for the housewife putting on
the table two kinds of pie, three of cake
and cookies, two or three sorts of
pickles and lot more of indigestible
stuff. The best rule in getting up what
may be termed Il company meal is to
treat your guests Just as you would
like to be treated If at their homes
You see, when you prepare so much
stuff your guests have either got to pile
their plates with what they cannot and
will not eat or by refusing the food
when passed to them incur the sus-
picion of thinking you are Il poor cook.
One kind Of meat. preceded by a soup,
seasonable vegetable. simple des-
sert, good coffee, bread and butter,
daintily served, is lots better than IL
four ring circus of meal such as
many women prepare. and then if the
old man can't ask blessing at least
make him serve the guests. Simplicity
in this eating business never conflicts
with real gentility.
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SnET CORN.

The fine corn crop Of large section
of the north, during the month of Sep
tember when the temperature is high
enough to mature it as rule, has this
year stood still and made no progress
whatever owing to the persistent low
temperature. AS a result that section
of the country is full to overfiowing
of soft corn, the profitable disposal
of which is putting the growers to their
wits end. 1t may be said here for the
benefit of all concerned that the crib
bing of soft and immature corn always
has been and always will be a failure,
and that it should be carefully sepa-
rated from that which is ripened and
disposed of in some way. Such soft
corn makes pretty good feed for milk
COWS and steers in the feed yard, and
may be fed to the pigs in moderation.
The silo would have been the best
place for it, but so very few have them.
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MASTERS SALE OF LAND.
In CHANoBRY OF NEW JERsE'

In CHANCBRY OF NEW JERSEY.
Between Jessie A. Woodruff and Andrew
Woodruff. comnlainants, and Mary O.
Drake ct ais, defendants. On bill for narti-
ton. Order for sale dated August 18th l9O2.
EUGENE j. COOPER, Sol'r.
TN PURSUANCE of the aforesaid order. the
Il SUBSCRIBER. one OF the Special Masters of
the Court of Chancery, oe the State of New
Jersey, will sell at public vendue o th~ highest
bidder or bidders: at the Court House in Nor
ristown. Morris County, New Jersey, ou
SATURDAY. THE ed DAY OF NOVEMBER,
a. D.; 1902, between the hours of l3 M. and 5
O'Clock p. NJ, that is to say. at O'Clock In the
afternoon of said day.
All that tract Of land situate In the Town
ship OF Roxbury, County Of Morris, and State
of New Jersey.
Beginning at a point at the outer edge of the
sidewalk on the south West side of the street
leading through Succasunna. being the most
Easterly corner of lot of land conveyed by
George @: Eyland and wife to Joseph Davis
and Norvis Levi. and runs thence III South
fOrty-fOur degrees East fifty feet along the
edge Of said sidewalk, CD South forty-six de-
grees West two hundred and three feet. %
North forty-slx deRrees West fifty feet to q
corner of eaid lot OF Davis and Levi (4) along
their line North forty-six degrees East about
two hundred and Ave feet to the beginning.
containing ten thousand and two hundred
square feet Uo2O0) of land mort or lees; ''the
said party OF the second part, her heirs and
assigns to maintain a fence on the South East
premises convened to Margaret u. Fritts by
deed from Elizabeth K Dell and Silas Deli
hor husband. and recorded In the Morris
County Record of Deeds In Book L. IL, pages
$50, &c., and the estate and interest OF James
3. Drake as tenant by the courtesy, together
with all and singular the hereditaments and
RppurtenAnces to the said premises belonging
or In any wise appersaining.
Dated October 18th. 1909;
Spectaa Master. &C.. Morristown. N. J..
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TRAIN THE HORSE.

No animal on the farm can be more
easily trained than the horse, and when
we consider how much the horses may
be taught we often wonder why so lit
tie pains are taken to teach them. The
horses used in the city fire departments
are good illustration of how easily a
horse may be trained, while the marvel
Of the trained horses Of the circus Is
always a wonder. Instinctively the
milkman's horse will go to each pa
tron's home with unvarying regularity,
as will the horse Of the rural mail car
rier. The constant use Of raw, un-
trained horses Is needless when they
may be 30 very easily trained In almost
anv line
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HOGS roR THE NORTH COUNTRY.

In the north country, and by this we
mean that portion Of the country
where corn cannot for climatic reasons
be made staple crop, there is no good
reason why the growing of pork can
not be made very profitable part Of
the farm production. The growth of
the Poland China hog in the state of
Iowa has done more to make the state
rich than any other one thing. The
north country is naturally a better
clover country than Iowa; the farmers
can raise peas therein Iowa they
can't; they can raise better and bigger
crops of barley. rye and wheat, and
twice as many potatoes to the acre.
Any of these foods is better than
corn to build up the frame, the bone
and muscle of the pig than Is corn,
while a ration of cooked potatoes and
barley and pea meal will put fat on q
hog equal to any corn that ever grew
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Sunday Trains.

Through service West---No. ail, at SIS am
connects at Netcong with train for Branch
Vile; connects at Denville for Boonton branch
No. 4O8 leaves s:ss a. M. run.
as Central to kssoa kssi.oa c ss~ sss ass
and I.ehigh Valley Railway; connects a.
Denytlle for Boonton Branch; at Dover fos
Binghamton and intermediate points; at Net
cong for Sussex Branch; at Washington with
the Lackawanna Limited for Buffalo and all
points West. Sleeper on this train rune
falo; dining car to Buffalo.
No. 3S5 leaves $40 .. m, runs through to
Chester.
No. $50 leaves 1:S p. m, runs through tc
Branchville on Sussex branch; connects 81
penville for Boonton Branch; at Dover fos
termediate stations.
No. s, si5ep. M. stops on signal for pas
Egns through to Chicago: Dining car to to
Binghamton. Parlor car 10 Binghamton.
No. S6l, s:Se D. M. runs to Dover.
No. 4o5 leaves 4:4O p. M, runs through tc
Easton; connects With Central Railroad Of
connects at Dover with train for Scranton and
intermediate points. at Netcong with
Sussex branch train.
No. sss leaves 6:s4 p. M; runs to Dover
connects at Denville for Boonton Branch
No. 361 leaves 6:4s D. m. runs to Chester;
connects at Dover with fast train for the
West; through sleeper to Chicago; sleeper t.
Buffalo; passengers can remain in thit
sleeper until 8 a, M; dinlne car to Strouds
burg.
No. S69 leaves 7:28 .. M. runs to Hacketts-
town. Connects at Netcong for Newton.
No. 81 leaves $50 p. M; connects al
Dover with solid vestibuled train for the West
having throueh sleepers to Utica, Oswego,
Ithaca and Buffalo.
Tickets to all points In the United States Oh
sale at Morristown Ticket Office.
For furtherinformation call on d. J. White
Ticket Agent, Morristown, NJ; Guy Adams
Division PASSENGER Agent. Newark. N.J.;T.w
Lee, General Passenger Agent, 20 Exchange
Place, New York.
T. w. LEE
General Passenger Agent
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Then it is unlikely that hogs so fed and
raised in this north country would ever
be afflicted with the diseases which
sweep them off periodically by the mii-
lion in the corn states. One year with
another wheat will bring more than a
dollar a bushel converted into pork,
while the profits connected with max
ing pork on clover, rye, barley and pc
tatoes are too evident to need elaborat-
ing. You north country fellows, try
the hog and get rid Of your farm mort
gage, just as the farmers have In Iowa.
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SHOULD PLANT TREES.

A friend who owns a nice prairie
farm, well Improved, persists in try
ing to cultivate the sides and crown Of
quite a bluff that borders a stream
which runs through his farm. We
hardly see why he tries to raise crops
Oh this hill; for in dry years they per
ish from drought and I'M wet ones are
washed out by the roots II we had
that bluff. which is about ten acres
In extent, we would set 1t out TO trees
apple trees preferably-and If not fruit
trees, then eyerSreens. Planted to trees
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Notice to Creditors.

ESTATE OF FRANCIS c. HOWELL DECEASED
DURSUANT to the order of the Surrogate OF
J. the County of Morris, made on the 18th
day of September, A. d. one thousand nine
hundred and two notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against the estate OF
Francis Q. Howell late of the County of Nor.
Tis, deceased, to present the same, under oath
or affirmation to the subrcriber on or before
the nineteenth day of June next, being nine
months from the date of said orders and any
Creditor neglecting to bring In and exhibit
his, her or their claim under oath or affirma.
ton. within the time so limited will be forever
barred OF his, her or their action therefore
against the Administrative.
Dated the nineteenth day of September A.
D., 1909.
HENRIETTA D. HOWELL,
Administrators,
$3.50 Whip any, N. j
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FROST ALWAYS HURTS CORN.

A September frost this year which
came when the corn as whole was
immature and very much behind time
in ripening dropped on some fields and
skipped others and left abundant evil
dence Of the folly there is in claiming
that frost can ever under any circum-
stances be of any benefit to crop Of
corn. The smitten fields soon dried up,
and, while only the leaves Of the corn
were touched, the stalk remaining
green, the ears shriyeled up and be
came well nigh worthless, while that
not touched, though badly set back by
the cold weather, has gradually ma
tured good ears Hereafter when any
body claims that frost is a good thing
for corn tell him he does not know
what he is talking about.
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All through the section of the coun-
try where the Poland-China hog is pro-
duced in it's greatest excellence it is
tened, and then the hams, sausages, ba-
con and fresh loins into which it's car
cass is partly converted are shipped back
to its old home and sold to the man
who raised it, the buyer thus paying
three profits to middlemen-the local
buyer, the Chicago packer and the To-
cal butcher, besides two transportation
charges, when if the man who raised
the pig only knew how to dress and
cure his own meat he might have bet
ter and much cheaper meat to use.
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Notice to Creditors.

Estate of SUSAN A. KENNEDY deceased.
pursuant to the order of the Surrogate of the
l. County Of Morris made on the 18th day
of Sept A. d. one thousand nine hundred and
two, notice is hereby given TO all persons hav-
ing elaine against the estate of Susan A. Ken
nedy, late Of the county of Morris, deceased.
to present the same. under oath or affirmation,
to the subscriber. on or before the twelfth
day of June next. being nine months from the
date of said order; and any Creditor neglecting
under oath or affirmation, within the time 81
limited will be forever barred of his. her OF
their action therefor against the admiAistra-
tor.
Dated the twelfth day of September, A. D.,
1909.
GEORGE FL. KENNEDY,
Administrator.
:3eiS Morristown, N. ].
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One of the warmest and most bitter
political scraps we ever knew was be-
tween two men, farmers, and their re-
spective adherents over the question of
which should be elected road super
visor, an Office which paid the man
who held 1t less than 500 per annum.
Things could not have been more live
ly and interesting had the governor
ship been at stake. The worst of it was
that the man who was beaten would
never after speak to his old neighbor
who laid him out.
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We know of man who has splen
did spring of water boiling out of the
rocks in side hill pasture, and he
either does not know how or does not
care to utilize this rare possession. He
could at a small expense put in a ram
and SUPP On his house with spring wa
ter under pressure, running the over
flow down to his barns and yards for
his stock, and then at very small ex-
pense he could dam up the run through
which the brook made by the spring
flows and have model fishpond in
which trout or black bass would thrive
and prove profitable. 1t is too often
true that the best things in life fall to
the lot of those who cannot appreciate
and use them
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

Mining and agriculture do not go well
together. Here is farmer in Missouri
suing smelter company for destroy
ing eighty acres of fine clover for him
by the poisonous gases and fumes Of
the smelter. The best combination Of
the two industries of which we have
any knowledge is in Iowa and Illinois,
where the land is worth 500 an acre
to raise corn and another $100 per acre
for the coal strata which underlie the
cOrnfieldS.
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ROckaWay Valley Railway

Leave Morrlsrown, for all stations to White
house. D.. I. 81 W. Station, $40 a. M; sos ..
Watnong Station, 9. 10 a. nj and 6. 80 p m.
Leave Brookside for Mp& E4stown, 7.15 a. m
and .20p m; for WhitehDuse, $50 a. m. anc
5. p. m.
Leave Mendham for Morristown. I. .06 q. m
and LOS p. M; for Whitehouse, 1905 a. m. and
SIS m.
Leave Whttehouse for Morristown, 500 a. m
and 30 p. IN. Arrive at Whitehouse from.
Morristown. II. 40 a. m. and 100 D. m.
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To Cement a Broken Cup.

Sift some unslacked lime through
book muslin. Brush some white of egg
over the edges of the china, dust the
lime rapidly over them, put the edges
together and tie string round the cup
till it is firm. Isinglass dissolved iA
spirits of wine in the proportion of one
ounce to two wineglassfuls of the spirit
is also good cement.
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Notice of Settlement.

NOTICE is hereby given that the accounts OF
IN the subscriber. administrator OF Aaron
w. Smith. deceased, will be audited and stat
ed by the SURROGATE, and reported fer settle
Morris, on Wed dnesday, the seventeenth day
OF December next. and application made to
have said estate dRcveed inaolvent.
Dated November 10th, 1902.
GEORGE NJ. LANNING,
Administrator.
ssBs Florham Park. N J.
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or running stream. Then we don't
like this picking the birds for their
feathers while they are alive, making
the dignified old gander look like the
head of the house turned loose in a
ragged nightgown; in fact, it was al
ways puzzle to us how woman who
will make an awful fuss if a fellow
steps on her cats tail can deliberately
sit down and peel the feathers off an
old goose without any compunction.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

We have an inquiry from Arizona as
to where the Colorado blue spruce can
be obtained for planting. Most Of the
up to date nurserymen offer this tree
for sale, though there Is much differ
ence in the individual merit of the
trees. Only small per cent Of the
trees grown from the seed show the pc
culiar color which makes the best
specimens Of this variety of confer SO
very attractive.
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1t is the deficiency of humus in the
soil which explains the impacted con-
dition of so much of the arabic fields
as result of the heavy rains of the
summer. The easiest way in which to
remedy this trouble is to give the land
a two years course in clover.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

The gang plow is gradually super
seding the sulky plow simply because
by putting on the extra horse more
plowing may be done in day. The
necessities of the case are compelling
the substitution of horse and machine
work on the farm wherever it will
lessen the need of hired help.
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Notice Of Settlement.

NOTICE is hereby given that the accounts Of
n the subscriber. executor OF Kese, Burr
Osmun, deceased, will be audited and stated
To the Orphans Court OF the County OF
Norris, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day OF
December next, and application made to have
said estate decreed inHOlvent
Dated Nov 10th. 1902.
ALBERT BROWN osMUN,
Executor,
1851 Morrtstown. n. J.
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Try baking the pumpkin in preparing
the material for pumpkin pies. 1t is
said to be just as good as boiling the
fruit down and far less trouble, as the
pumpkin can be quartered and baked
and the cooked pulp dug out with
spoon, no pairing or cutting up being
required.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

If one wants June results from the
cow in January, June conditions must
be provided. This is the key to sue
cess in winter dairying. June furnish
es an abundance of succulent milk
making food, genial temperature and
plenty of sunshine. Provide these
things in January and you will get
June returns from the COW.
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Referring to an item which appeared
in these notes recently commencing
the use Of horse to tramp and pack
the center of hay or straw stack
while it was in process Of building, we
are asked to explain how the horse
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We have packed lot of nice, sound
Wealthy apples in oats to see If they
will keep longer than they would in
the barrel. We have no faith that they
will, but some who have tried it claim
success for this method.
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the bare blotch on the landscape would
soon become a thing Of beauty and of
far greater profit than to attempt to
do the impossible by making corn
field of It
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ding the base of the trees.

There will probably not be much
complaint this year of loss Of stock
from the cornstalk disease. There is
so much green and immature corn that
the stalk ration will be better bal
anced.
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could be got down from the stack
when it was finished. This is easy
enough. A pile of loose straw or hay is
left at the end of the stack, and he just
slides or tumbles down to the ground.
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There is always this to be said in
honor of agriculture-its products are
always honestly earned, no man en-
gagged in it has ever cause to have a
tussle between his avarice and his con-
science or study to see how nicely he
can violate the intent of law without
breaking its letter. Its rewards are
never deftly fllched from some other
mans toll.
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1t is a good idea to let the pigs run
through the orchard and pick UP the
worm eaten windfalls, but they should
never be fed or herded in it.
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The grass and weeds should be
cleared away from around the fruit
trees before the snow comes to prevent
the mice from making nests and gir-
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The corncob can hardly be depended
upon to take the place of coal this win
ter, for it is doubtful if the cobs can
be got dry enough to burn at all.
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Whippany River Railroad

Time table for passenger service In effect
March 20, 1899.
Trains leave Whippany for Merristown, T5(
a. M; 542 p. m, except Saturday; $40 and
$50 p. m, Saturday only.
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HORSES wlMTERED.

A few hOreea wanted 70 winter at DunTobtn
Farm. Stanley, N. ]. First class AOeommOda-
ton and cares guaranteed. Fer particulars
address
ALBION L.. PAGE,
NJ MAaiDOn, N. }.
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Rabbits are very fond Of blackberry
canes and will eat them up clean to
the ground. The only remedy is to get
rid Of the rabbits.
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If you like pork for your own use
which has a streak of lean and a
streak of fat, you do not want to raise
the pig on a corn diet, because it can
not make these streaks out of that sort
of food. Feed skimmilk, potatoes, clo-
yer, peas, bran, barley--things which
make lean meat and not fat.
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The very meanest work which there
is to be found on the farm is to have
to dig potatoes where one-half Of them
are rotten, and that is the fix this fall
through much of the country.
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If we ever buy seed corn from seed
house again it will have to be sold to
us in the car or we shall not want it.
There is almost as much chance for
fraud in this seed corn business as
there is in the maple sugar trade.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

Ducks and geese are not nice sort Of
fowl to have around the farm home
stead unless they can be assigned a
lot by themselves and pond Of water
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

If you turn over the nice heifer cab
to your wife to raise, she will be almost
sure to get 1t too fat.
The Morris County chronicle., 1902-11-14

New Jersey produces two things
which are the best Of their kind
peaches and sweet potatoes. If she
would raise more peaches and potatoes
and fewer trusts, we could love her
better.
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A prominent fruit grower and apple
raiser tells us that he would rather
have the pigs clean up the windfalls
in his orchard than spray his trees if
he wanted to secure fruit free from
blemishes.
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Corn may be king; but, like other
reigning monarchs, he has good many
soft spots in his makeup this year.
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The crow as a carrier of hog cholera
germs should not be overlooked. This
bird has great liking for feed yards
and dead hogs, and as it goes from
one farm to another it would be very
easy for it to spread this disease.
Doves and dogs are also agents en-
gagged in the same line of business.
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We know of several farmers who are
now getting their fuel supply from Il
ten acre grove set out twenty years
ago. More of this work should be done
on all the prairie farms. 1t is neither
fair nor right to expect woman to be
sweet and good natured all the time
when she has nothing but soft coal to
burn
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More and more farmers are getting
into the habit of wearing gloves while
doing their rough and hard farm work.
or course some will call this fad and
dandyism, but there is much good
sense connected with the practice. If
it can be avoided just as well as not.
where is the sense in having ones
hands become so horny and cracked
that they resemble the hoof OF some
wild beast? The rough, calloused and
dirty fist may be in one sense the in
sigma of hard toll, but such pair of
hands are Inean things to carry around
and take care Of