Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-07-16

Maine ate up DOA WHICH, cOHtdlncu |
$3.50, and it was regarded as a calam-
ity. Out in Iowa nothing is thought of
a farmer putting $500 into hog.
We note eeur things which are COM
mon to all sections of the country, |
whether north or south the box elder
tree. the Virginia creeper, the fool girl |
hanging around the depot and the
beer key.
Crops which may be planted as late i
as July / are buckwheat, millet tur-
nips and corn for fodder. If the land |
cannot be planted to something by |
that time plow it and fit it for great
crop next year.
Men who try to raise corn along the |
northern limit of the corn belt should |
remember that they are better off with |
forty bushels an acre of good, sound, |
well matured early corn than they are
with fifty bushels of soft late corn.
OF all the improved breeds of cattle
the Jessey has become the most gen
orally introduced in this country. 1t
matters not whether one goes north,
south, east or west, wherever cows are
kept there will the Jersey be found.
We watched the birds as they for
aged on our lawn one day recently. In
side of twenty minutes four blue jays,
three robins, two sparrows and three
fickers went over it hunting for grubs,
and they each seemed TO get something |
too.
We never saw outside of an English |
park a fairer bit of rural landscape
than we saw recently near Joliet ILL.,
large pastures of the most yelvety blue
grass dotted over with thrifty bur
oaks-a fit subject for a painters
brush.
A German professor confound him,
has now knocked out all the delightful
romance and sentiment connected with
the sweet girl and the four leafed clo
yer for he has bred and developed
clover which always produces either
four or five leaves instead of three.
Fifty years ago steamboats, used to |
traverse the minor rivers of the west
which were tributary to the Missis
sippi, and many of the present resi-
dents of that territory have never been
able until this year to realize how such
a thing were possible. Now they know.
If the Lord had given the eastern
states the rich and fertile soils Of the
prairie west and had given the west
the mountains, hills and stone heaps
of the east there would never have
been much scrapping with the aborigi-
nes to dispossess them of their land in
the west.
We are asked whether the cement
ing of a cellar wall and floor will keep
the water out. 1t will not There is
something curious about the fact that,
while cistern sunk in the earth and
cemented$will hold water perfectly, it
will not, if empty, prevent the water
from coming in from the outside.
Hay sold In the field at 81 per ton is
as well sold as it would be from the
haymow next winter at Sc. Potatoes
sold in the field at 35 cents are as well
sold as they would be at 30 cents the
following spring. The labor of har-
yesting and storing, the shrinkage and
the interest, more than eat up the diff
ference.
We are asked whether it is better to
remove the clippings from the lawn or
let them remain ON the ground as they
fall That depends. If the lawn Is very
thrifty and plenty Of water is availa-
BILE we would remove them, otherwise
not. We think it is good policy to set
the mower knives up after the middle
of June and not shave the lawn too
closely during the hot and often dry
season.
1t is probably true that as the condi- |
tion of farmers becomes improved |
financially they become more careful |
in buying. Under the old credit sys-
TEN, when big account was run at |
the store to be settled once a year |
when the wheat was sold, much was |
bought and charged which now when |
cash is paid for goods is not purchased.
A man will always care better for his |
cash than his credit
If every family in America was as
busy from daylight until dark as the
pair of wrens which have a nest in |
box over our kitchen door there would |
be something doing in this country |
and no mistake. These birds raise |
Rooseveltian families, anywhere from |
eight to twelve at time. and it is a
literal case of hustling for grubs from |
the time the young birds are hatched |
until they can take care of themselves.
On nearly all the rights of way of |
the northern railroads sweet clover |
grows in the greatest luxuriance and |
profusion. 1t will grow on the clay
sides of the deep cuts, on sand and |
among rocks and gravel where scarcely
any other plant can sustain life. On
the slopes of the cuts it must form a
valuable binder to prevent washing
and sliding The curious thing about
this plant Is that it seems to gain no
footlold in the pastures or cultivated
fields adjoining the railways We term
1t very useful weed.
AS an illustration of the damage
wrought by the late June floods in the
west we cite the case of single tract
of the choicest agricultural land in the
west, ten miles wide and sixty miles
in length, lying in northeast Missouri,