Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-09

when this Sower went forth to SOW;
but, as be sowed clover seed on his rye
field, he was all right.
The Wealthy apple behaves remark
ably well in cold storage. On the last
of January a barrel taken from cold
storage gave but twelve damaged APP
pies and $50 perfectly sound ones.
The growth of the rural telephone
service is something remarkable. 1t is
reaching out in every direction and be-
fore long will have the farmers of the
country all linked together, to their
social and financial betterment.
Cornstalks returned to the soil give
a supply of humus and improve the
mechanical condition of clay soils, but
there is little or no fertility i'll them.
Light and sandy soils are better off
without than with them in dry sea-
son.
The value of speltz as crop for the
far north country was well illustrated
last year in northern Minnesota. A
very cold. wet spring delayed seeding,
and when the soil could be worked it
was late il the season. Speltz then
sowed yielded forty six bushels an
acre, wheat seven bushels and oats
eight bushels.
The vast glaciers of the mountain
regions of France have been lately
most felicitously referred to as the
'white coal fields" of that country, the
never failing streams of water fed by
these glaciers two miles up in the air
being now utilized in their fall to gen
crate an electric power which makes
black coal useless.
A convention of the Gamers and
packers of fruits and vegetables was
recently held in the city of Washing
ton. At this meeting there was illus
trated the wonderful advance made
during the past few gears in this line
of industry, machinery now accom-
plishing automatically nearly the whole
complicated process of preparing the
raw material. cooking. canning. seal
ing and labelling the cans.
1t is an important thing to procure
seed of any crop suited to your latitude,
and this is especially true of corn.
This is a large country, and the vary
en- ,Nf Iof do r.I- fln nd
aries of zones which define the limits
of successful cultivation of nearly all
our farm products as well as fruits. II
is well to study out those things which
are best suited to given ATTITUDES and
confine ourselves to their production.
In clover, corn and oats rotation of
crops, which is a common one in many
sections, it is often found that the oat
crop following but one crop of corn
will grow too rank and lodge and spoil.
This may be prevented by taking at
least two crops of corn from the land
before sowing to oats or a crop of fax
following the corn, which is warranted
to make the richest land poor enough
to grow crop of oats which will stand
up.
Science is touching agriculture anc
horticulture in many ways-in plant
breeding. cross fertilization, in the
spraying ard limitation of insect pests,
in analyses of all foodstuffs as animal
rations, in soil physics whereby the
soil is fitted for its work, in animal
husbandry, the feeding and breeding of
all domesti" animals-in fact, there is
no other business in which man is en-
gagged where science touches him more
helpfully or with which it works more
tremendously.
The central butter making station
supplied with cream from the farms
using the farm separator and shipped
in twice a week by rail from a terri
tory anywhere within 100 miles is be-
coming a disorganizing factor in exist
ing dairy methods in the west. 1t is
menacing the life of the cooperative
creameries working under the cream
cry system. The two things of thus
securing a better quality of skimmilk
for the young things on the farm and
the saving of the expensive haul on
the milk to the creamery are almost
insuring the sHccess of the innovation.
Great as are the wheat possibilities
connected with the Canadian north
west they are infinitely surpassed by
those of the Siberian country now be-
ing opened by the Russian government
The cows of any breed which have
made high butter records almost inva-
riably give over 5000 pounds of milk
during the year, and unless COW will
give at least this much it is useless to
expect her to show up in the 400 pound
class.
We have several reports of the value
of rape when sown in the cornfeld at
the last blowing The rape does not
interfere with the early husking of the
corn and immensely improves the feed
ing value of the cornfield, balancing
up the ration and wholly preventing
any trouble with cornstalk disease.
The general level of wages paid la
Dor in this country is at the present
time higher than ever before known.
and the curious fact is presented of the
products of such labor being sold in
successful competition with the prod
ucts of the lowest paid labor on earth.
Brains and machinery do the business.
We find the low down, wide tired wag-
on a most useful part of the farm equip
ment, and besides whenever it is used
on the road It always does a good job