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Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
VALUE OF POULTRY MANURE
The Hen should Have Credit For the
BusheI She Furnishes Annually.


The Hen should Have Credit For the
BusheI She Furnishes Annually.
Did you ever stop to think what pro-
portion of her keeping hen pays in
fertilizer? From each pen Of fifty hens
/ gather each week good, big bushel
of droppings- that is, f1fty-two bushels
per year for fifty hens, or little over
a bushel per hen This bushel Of drop
pings is well worth 25 cents. 1t would
sell for that In almost any neighbor-
hood, or if you raise your own grain
1t is worth more than that for your
own use. Now add to this the amount
of droppings in litter, which should be
saved, and we have at least cents
more, or 80 cents per hen each year.
Allowing that it costs 81 to keep a
hen a year, our hen has paid us near-
ly one-third Of her keep in the best
fertilizer on earth. What other live
stock on the farm will do this?
Now as our hen has paid us 30 cents
in fertilizer and it costs us 81 to keep
her, we must get 70 cents from her be-
fore we make any money. Let us fig
ure eggs at 20 cents per dozen, which
is fair average, and we must get
three and a half dozen of eggs from
each hen before we begin to realize
profit AS we are figuring on a basis
of eggs. let us say that our hen is
I.eghorn. The average Leghorn will
lay twelve dozen eggs year, and after
deducting the three and a half dozen
we have left eight and half dozen
eggs at 20 cents per dozen, or $1.7O as
net profit But wait a minute. Re
member our hen is a thoroughbred
Leghorn 1--WE would keep nothing but
thoroughbred BIRDS, so we may sell
dozen Of her eggs at 81 for Matching,
thus increasing our profit $3.50, maxi
ing 1t $3.50, or she might hatch US
brood of ten chicks worth at least 81
and give us the same result.
know that under ordinary circum-
stances 1t does not cost dollar to keep
a Leghorn hen year, and know that
If one is careful in selecting his breed
ing stock he can build up strain Of
Leghorns that Will lay fourteen or fif-
teen dozen eggs year instead of
twelve and that by catering to a fancy
trade he can average 25 or 30 cents per
dozen instead of 20 cents, but only
wished to take fair average to prove
that "biddy" is a money maker when
properly cared for and given due credit
for what she produces.-S. q. Smith in
Reliable Poultry Journal
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

The following contribution to historic
literature on the American Revolution
was made by little lady to short sto-
~ competition in Philadelphia news
paper. The writer, a schoolgirl Of ten
years, epitomizes the whole Valley
Forge experience in the following terse
sentences:
'There was a Revolutionary war. The
British revolutioned Philadelphia. So
Mr.. Washington took lot of soldiers
to Valley Forge Mr.. Washington
haden't eny thing for the soldiers to
eat, SO they had to go barefoot. Mr..
Washington. felt very bad, SO he asked
Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Frank
lin felt bad, to, so he asked the king f
France. The king Of France sent a lot
of soldiers, so we licked the British"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
A TEMPEST OF BATTLE.
Stirring Description of Cavair,
Charge nt Gettysburg.

Stirring Description of Cavalry
Charge nt Gettysburg.
A cavalry charge met by counter
charge of cavalry is still perhaps the
most terrible spectacle witnessed in
war. If the reader has never seen such
q charge he can form little conception
Of its awe inspiring fury. Imagine
yourself looking down from Gettys
burgs heights upon the open, wide
horses are marshaled in battle line.
Standing beside them are 5000 riders
armed booted and spurred and ready
to mount The bugles sound the
"Mountr' and instantly 5000 plumes
rise above the horses as the riders
spring into their saddles. In front of
the respective squadrons the daring
leaders take their places. The fiutter-
ing pennants or streaming guidons, ten
to each regiment, mark the left Of the
companies. On the opposite slope Of
the same plain are 5000 hostile horse
men clad in different uniforms ready to
meet these in countercharge. Under
those 10000 horses are their hoofs, iron
shod and pitiless, beneath whose furi-
Gus tread the plain is soon to culver.
Again on each slope of the open field
the bugles sound. Ten thousand sabers
leap from scabhards and glisten in the
sun. The trained horses chafe their re-
straining bits, and as the bugle notes
sound the charge their nostrils dilate
and their fianks swell in sympathetic
impulse with the dashing riders. "For-
wardv shouts the commander. Down
the lines and through the columns in
quick succession ring the echoing COM
mands, forward, forwardw AS this
order thrills through eager ears sabers
flash and spurs are planted in palpitat-
ing f1anks. The madly flying horses
thunder across the trembling field, fill
ing the air with clouds of dust and
whizzing pebbles. Their iron trimmed
hoofs in remorseless tread crush the
stones to powder and crash through the
flesh and bones of hapless riders who
chance to fall. AS front against front
these furious riders plunge, their sweep
ing sabers slashing edge against edge,
cutting a way through opposing ranks,
gashing faces, breaking arms and split
ting heads, it is a scene of widest war,
a whirling tempest of battle, short
lived, but terrible.-General John b.
Gordon in Scribner's.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

This is to be reproduced by the method
of successive Trimmings The picture
was taken Immediately after the first
thinning.]
chantable stand by a series of rather
heavy trimmings. A period of ten to
twenty years elapses between the first
thinning (see the first cut and the
time when the last old trees are cut
away from above the new crop of seed
lings. 1t is a good method for those
woods clear at one time, but prefer
gradually to transform them into a
new and thrifty crop of desirable trees.
The method of successive Trimmings is
also applicable to stands of such kinds
of hard woods as bear heavy seed,
like hickory and oak, because the seed
will then be dropped in abundance all
over the ground, whereas, if the land
is cut clear, the seed must be brought
by animals, and a longer time will be
required for reproduction.
This method is well suited to tracts
belonging to water companies, where a
constant forest cover is required for
the protection of the watershed. 1t
may be used also by owners of country
estates who maintain woodlands as
parks, and therefore prefer, as soon as
the woods become mature, to have
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
The usefuI Gander

Keep an old gander If you would pro-
tect young chicks from their enemies
in the shape of dogs. cats. crows and
magpies. The gentleman will be found
of great use, shifting all Objectionable
characters with commendabe prompt
ness. Not only will intruders be smart
ly looked after, but the gander will
make as much noise as possible while
performing his duty, thus giving the
poultry keeper and game rearer warn
ing when all is not right.-Excbange
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

One of the biggest bells in the world
is in Cologne cathedral and is known
as the "Gloriosa." 1t was cast from
twenty-five French cannon captured in
the Franco-Prussian war and was pre-
sented to the cathedral by the kaiser
scriptions. One, in Latin, expresses the
emperor's gratitude for the divine mer-
cy in granting him victory. The other
in German, declares: 81 am the emper-
or's bell, and l proclaim his glory.
fill sacred post, and pray heaven to
grant peace and prosperity to the Ger
man empire"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.

To Samuel g. Wallace and Mrs. Samuel G..
Wallace, his wife, Thomas w. Curry and Mrs.
Thomas w. Curry. his wife, Mrs. Zebulon w.
Garwood, Elizabeth Tacy, David Wolf and
his heirs, devisees and personal representa-
tives; Zebulon Wolf, -and his heirs devisees
and personal representatives; Thomas Wolf
and his heirs, devisees and personal represen-
tatives; Jane Garwood and her heirs, devisees
and personal representatives: Zebulon w.
Garwood and his heirs, devisees and personal
representatives:
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry of New Jersey, made on the day and date
hereof in a wherein John D. Norton is
complainant and you and others are defendants,
you are required to appear, plead, demur or
before the third day of September next, or the
said bill will be taken as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed for partition or sale of
certain land situate in the Township of Logan
in the County of Gloucester and State of New
Jersey of which David Wolf died seized, and
you Samuel G. Wallace, Thomas w. Curry,
Elizabeth Tacy, David Wolf and his heirs,
devisees and personal representatives, Zebulon
Wolf and his heirs, devisees and personal rep
resentatives; Thomas Wolf and his heirs,
devisees and personal representatives, Jane
Garwood and her heirs, devisees and personal
representatives, Zebulon w. Garwood and his
heirs devsees and personal representatives are
made defendants because you or some of you
are tenants in common thereof or have some
estate or interest therein power of sale there
of and you Mrs. Samuel G. Wallace, Mrs.
Thomas w. Curry, Mrs. Zebuon W. Garwood
are made defendants because your husbands
are were tenants in common thereof.
SAMUEL H. RICHARDS,
Solicitor for complainant.
p. o. address, LOG Market St., Camden, New
Jersey. 7-9-1903-5w.
Dated July 2, 1908.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
CHEREFF,s SALE.

By virtue of a writ of fieri facias, to me di-
rected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State Of New Jersey, will be exposed at Public
Sale, on
Friday, the 2sth Day Of August, Next,
between the hours of IL and O'Clock, to-wit, at
2 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 say:
All that certain frame dwelling house and lot
or piece of land, situate in the City of Wood
bury, in the County of Gloucester, and State of
New Jersey, and bounded as follows:
Beginning in the Red Bank turnpike road,
at a corner of late Jonathan Pickering's lot, and
from thence, running by the same, south thirty
four degrees and thirty minutes west five chains
and sixty-one links to stone for a corner in
the line of late William R. Tatums, now Henry
Tatums land; thence by the same north fifty
five degrees and thirty minutes west fifty-two
feet to stake for corner to said Tatum's land;
thence by the same north thrty-four degrees
and thirty minutes east five chains and sixty
one links to a corner in the Red Bank turnpike
road aforesaid, and thence along the same
south fifty-five degrees and thirty minutes east
fifty-two feet to the place of beginning.
Containing lot of land ffty-two feet in front
and running southwesterly, that width, until it
meets with the range OF the line OF the late
Jonathan Pickering's lot, be the contents more
or less, and is the same land and premises
which Sarah Ann Sleeper, by deed dated March
Goth, A. D. 1855, and recorded in the Clerk IS
office of Gloucester county, at Woodbury., N. j.,
in Book B5 of deeds, folio 4S3, etc. granted and
conveyed to Deborah w. Cooper.
Excepting, however, all that part Of the said
mortgaged premises lying southwesterly of a
line two hundred feet from and parallel with
the front line of the said mortgaged premises
on Red Bank avenue.
Seized as the property of Samuel L. Sweeten,
ct. as. defendants, and taken in execution at
tn an:s u Eannah H. Jones, complainant, and
WILSON t. JONES,
~ = 2 .7eAsyl.p, Sol'r. Sheriff.
81 rag i5s. 1880 Dated July 9th, 1908.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
Three Important Points.

Poultry houses can be built in many
ways, can be made cheaply or at great
cost, just as you like. but there are
three important points which should
never be lost sight of: The open or par
TALLY open side should face south, they
should be on high ground so as to hare
dry floors, and they should admit the
suns rays during a considerable part
Of the day.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
s-ssezls5 .s;.E7.assA

No crop is giving as good an account
of itself all over the country as alfalfa.
Hitherto generally supposed to be only
suited to the semi-arid sections where
irrigation was possible, : it is being
found out that it adapts itself kindly
to general conditions both east and
west, great success being had with it
in Iowa. Minnesota, Texas and New
York. 1t is well worth any mans
effort to try it in nearly all soils and
nearly all states
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

Partisan consumers in as pure condi-
ton as possible is applied on the Hugot
farm.
The milking machine, cut of which
is reproduced from LIE Monde Illustre,
is one of the most ingenious inventions
of modern times and is operated under
the special direction of its cOntriver,
DR.. Chateau, nephew of the owner
Of lie de la Loge. The apparatus con-
sists of a cone shaped receptacle of
brass, to the top of which is attached
a number of rubber hose, with hermet-
ically closing suckers at the end, which
are attached to the breasts of the cows.
The suction Is induced by means of an
electric motor located in a distant cor
ner of the vast stable. In milking
the cows the sucking methods of the
calf are carefully initiated.
Eight cows are milked simultaneous
ly by one machine, and one of the chief
advantages is that the milk is not ex-
posed first to the air, where dust and
other foreign matter find their way into
the milk OF course the entire method
is great labor saver.
stirring Up Illinois.
The Drover's Journal of Chicago is
calling loudly for thorough awaken
ing on the part of the dairymen of Illi-
nois. 1t declares the state is running
clear behind in everything pertaining
to dairy progress. Young men are sent
to the dairy schools of other states be-
cause they have none worthy of the
name at home. The Journal demands
that a radical change be made in the
creamery management of the state. 1t
points to Minnesota for an example of
what first class dairy state should be.
Minnesota grants a liberal appropria-
ton for special dairy education and
keeps up a first class dairy commission
and a number of inspectors, who travel
the state constantly.
Learn on the Scrub Cow.
Professor Hacken cautions every man
who would be a dairyman to first
learn how to properly care for scrub
cow, and after you have thoroughly
leaxnedA this it will be time enough to
think o1Akettfae better cows Serve
your dairy apprenticeship with the
the scrub COW; then you will not make
a failure when you employ the dairy
grade or thoroughbred"
The Increase of MIX.
The late milk Increase all over the
country has been little less than re-
markable Nearly every creamery has
prospered by 1t, and we learn of sew
eral localities where the receipts have
actually doubled, or more than
doubled, within the past few weeks.
This is a great year for dairying.-
Creamery Journal.
Dafryfng In Minnesota.
The biennial report Of the Minnesota
dairy and food commission has been
made public and covers 400 pages. At
the close of the year 1902 there were
100000 cows in Minnesota, 3S2,355 OF
which contribute milk to the cream
cries. the product of which places $14.-
100000 annually In circulation. There
are 500 creaneries and cheese factories
in the state, with an output 20 per
cent larger than ever before. In 1902
the creamery output was $14,000,000.
an increase of over 100000 COM
pared with two years previous. These
creameries ship 5o,Ooo,ooO pounds
annually.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

[About forty years old and in need of
Improvement cuttings
them cut gradually rather than all at
once. After the first thinning a young
growth of new seedlings and sprouts
from the stumps of the old trees will
come in. AS soon as the ground is well
covered with this young growth the
remaining trees can be removed in sew
eral successive cuttings, stretched over
period of ten to fifteen years This
methcd is particularly applicable to
hard wood stands which are relatively
even aged. like old sprout woods. sixty
to eighty years old.
The woodsman would make the cut
tings in the following way: In the first
thinning he would take out the dead,
dying and defective trees Defective
trees include those having frog stools
or canker scars on their trunks, hollow
trees, those partly girdled at the base
by fire, those whose trunks have been
attacked by borers, top dry trees and
those badly broken or bent by ice and
snow. Suppressed trees and those
crowding more thrifty trees are also
cut, just as in improvement cuttings.
Very small trees are cut because they
are usually suppressed SO badly that
they would never recover, and it is
therefore better to remove them and
make way for new crop. The largest
crowned trees are also cut, because
later ON they would injure the new
seeding underground much more than
the trees with smaller crowns. The re-
moval of all these classes of trees
would take away about 80 per cent of
an average second growth hard wood
stand and leave about 125 to $50 trees
per acre.
The woodsman would make the sec
ond thinning as soon as the young
growth is well established and begins
by retarded height growth to show the
need Of more light. In the second thin
ming some small growth would neces-
sarily be broken. but with care the
damage would be very slight and un-
doubtedly would be remedied by new
growth from seed of the trees still
standing The young growth might be
so fur advanced at the time of the sec
ond thinning out that the whole stand
could be cleared. On the other hand it
might be desirable to make a third
thinning before the removal of the
last old trees.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

If something less expensive than a
dress suit case, but equally capacious,
is required, make linen or denim
cover for one of the oblong pasteboard
boxes SO much used in delivering goods.
Tan colored linen, dark red denim,
brown hollands any one Of these
makes stout, serviceable cover. Stiff
en- two straps with an interlining of
canvas. stitch many rows on these to
make them strong and fasten with
small metal buckles. This travelling
case will cost so little that you can af-
ford the working of your initials on
one Of the sides.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
RecinrOcity.

Sure" said Patrick. rubbing his
head with delight at the prospect of a
present. 81 always name to do me
duty
81 believe you," replied his employer,
"and therefore I'shall make you.a pres
ent of all you have stolen from me dur
ing the year"
"Thank yer honor" replied Pat, "and
may all your friends and acquaint-
ances trate you as literally y."-London
Telegraph.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

If your flock of hens is yarded you
can give them a little outing occasion
ally by opening the house door after
they have gone to roost They will
come off their perches. take a run on
the lawn or In the street or over the
barnyard without doing damage to any
thing or bothering any one. and. it be.
Ing bedtime. they will soon return. Try
it and see how they enjoy it.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
Hatching and Brooding rurke.

Can turkeys be Matched in an incuba-
tor and raised in a brooder?
To the first question answer yes.
have always had great success hatch
ing turkey eggs in an incubator. To
the second l answer emphatically no.
Turkeys cannot stand the handling nee
essary to brooder raised stock. The
turkey hen is really the best mother
for turkeys, but have a daughter
who succeeds as well raising them
with a Light Brahma hen as I can
with turkey hen, so know the Brah-
ma makes a good mother--Mrs. Bette
Glover Mackey.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
no CREDITORs.

Isaac T. Haines, Charles r. Haines and
Joseph B. Haines, executors of william G.
Haines, deceased, by direction of the Surrogate
of the County OF gloucester hereby gives notice
to the creditors of the said William G. Haines
demands against the estate Of the said decedent,
under oath or affirmation within nine months
from this date, or they win be forever barred of
any action therefor against the said executors.
ISAAC T. HAINES,
CHAS. T. sHAINES.
J. BURTON HAINES
Dated July 2Sth 1903. $50 Executors
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

Extremes of climatic conditions,
whether of drought, food, cold or heat,
seem to develop in marked degree
special types Of parasitic life and of
weeds. A dry year is always conducive
to great growth of purslane and Of
chinch bugs, while a wet season pro-
notes blight in the apple and pear
trees, and this season. an unusually
wet one where the writer lives, has de-
yeloped tremendous growth of sheep
sorrel in all the low spots in the pas
lures and meadows, a pestiferous weed
fore No matter how the season comes,
it may be depended upon that there
will be full complement of parasitic.
insect and vegetable pests to fit it.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

F We are asked to answer a hard ques-
ton : how to rid a pond of water
used as watering place for stock of
the lizards, crabs and other animate
things which keep the pond muddy and
do it without rendering the water unfit
for the stock to use. A small meshed
seine would no doubt clean out much
Of the Objectionable matter, provided
the pond is not too deep or too large
The explosion Of dynamite in the water
would also destroy most of the in
habitants and perhaps prove the most
effective remedy.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

How to Fry Soft shelIed Crabs.
Lift the side points of the crabs and
remove the fringe under them, cut off
the eyes and pull off the sand bags un-
der the stomach. Wash the crabs, roll
in salted -four and fry in Kissing butter,
turning them frequently.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

Frozen milk and dried milk which
will stay frozen or dried and keep in
definitely viii be the common forms in
which milk and cream will be sold
some day, and each and every dairy
man or some central station for them
will freeze or dry the milk, is the opin-
ion Joseph L. Hills expresses in the
columns of American Cultivator. The
immense amount of energy and money
spent in transporting dilute products
will be incidents of the past. Edison
has made millions from concentrating
low grade iron ores.
Milk will be concentrated some day.
Freezing and drying will be done by
the use respectively of liquid air and
perhaps the heat of the interior of the
earth. Milk thus dried will be sterile.
Being dried in a vacuum, its albumen
will not be so much coagulated as to
lessen its digestibility.
Unique Milking Machine.
The most up to date dairy farm in
the world is perhaps the one conducted
by NJ Hugot in the suburbs of Paris.
On the lie de la Loge, famous in his
tory as the rendezvous of Charles TX.
and the notorious Marie Touchet, cows
are actually MIXED by electricity, and
everything that science offers to bring
dairy products on the tables of the
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

and cheerfulneSS soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is notuncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. If the child urin-
ota- 80 Ito IS <EA
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06

Deliberate with caution, but act with
decision; yield with graciousness or op-
pose with f1rmness.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
THE WOOD LOT.
Farm Forestry In Southern New

Farm Forestry In Southern New
Eng1and-Successive Cuttings.
The method of successive cuttings
for the reproduction of timber de-
scribed by Professor II. S. Graves of
the Yale forest school in the Woodlot,
a handbook for owners of woodlands
in southern New England, holds points
of interest for any one interested in
good forestry This method consists in
cutting and at the same time provid-
ing for the reproduction Of a mer-
Gloucester County Democrat., 1903-08-06
A NEW GRAPE.
1t Closely Resembles the Concord,
but RiDens 2a I,cr.

but RiDens Ens Her.
The Wolden variety OF grape was
originated by S. Worden q New York
state and is a seeding Of the Concord.
says American Cultivator. 1t is spe-
cially valuable for nortEcra climates,
where the Concesd is rigensd VITA Cliff
Guilty during the short seasons, because
it ripens about Il week earlier than the
Concord. AS an Offset to this adyan-
tage it has rather tender skin. Which