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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
USE or SOFT COAL.


CeABIUAkys
William s. Essick, secretary Of the
Reading Pa.) Stove works, states that
In view of the fact that there have been
SO many inquiries as to the use of soft
coal and coke as a substitute for an
thracite coal he had secured all the In
formation that he thought was sufi-
cient to assure people that coke or soft
coal can be burned successfully, says
the Coal Trade Journal
"When fire is started with bitumi-
nous coal in the ordinary cooking stove,
all the hampers must be open. The
coal will then kindle quickly. Put the
coal on in small quantities or the fire
will be smothered. Keep the firebox
pretty well filed and free from ashes
"In range be careful in starting a
fire not to fill the firebox too full, as
the bituminous coal will swell or ex-
pand and raise the lids. Coke can be
burned In precisely the same manner
I'm fixing the fires for the night in a
stove or heater observe the following
rules:
AS Law q SOOu, StIOuk AEe.
"Second.-Put on fresh coal.
''Third.-Let the draft on long enough
to burn off the gas. This requires but
few minutes.
"Fourth.-Close all the hampers or, in
other words, take of all the draft.
I'm the morning stir up the fire well
with poker, put ON the draft, and a
good, quick fire will soon be secured.
"The smokepipe In a range should
not be less than six or seven inches In
diameter. When less than that, the fire
is apt to be sluggish.
"The hues, smokepipes and chimneys
must be cleaned from time to time and
the SCOT removed. The accumulation
of SCOT in stove or heater where soft
coal is used is much greater than when
anthracite is used.
Experiments have shown" said Mr.
Essick, ''that soft coal can be used as
successfully as anthracite and at less
| cost"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
One Mans Method,

We have eleven cows in full flow and
find ready sale for all our milk in
town, says Jesse B. Hastings in Amer
lean Agriculturist. Our main standby
in rough feed is cornstalks cured into
fodder. with hay once a day between
tue noon and night feed. We cut our
corn fodder with cutter and crusher
into one-quarter inch lengths.
After this we steam it until it is
quite soft and feed balf bushel three
times day mixed with two quarts Of
bran and middlings each meal. We
lid feed bran and meal, but found that
the meal caused dysentery and so cut
it out and find that bran and middlings
are as good. If any one has like COM
plant, use a couple of spoonfuls of
charcoal in each mess until the cow is
in condition again. This will be in two
or three days.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

fair, and in his five years of exhibition
has been beaten only by one bull, a
Jewel bull with which he has ex-
changed honors.
On the dams side he is equally well
bred in blood of the great imported
COW Zwoan, through Virgo Beauty and
Virgo Beauty ". also prize winners.
These cows have large private tests,
but excepting the last none official.
yet their great prepotency is manifest
in the get of this sire. His stock. 80
per cent heifers, have won many prizes
and been in great demand.
Forgetting the Cow.
Perhaps it is not altogether to be re-
GREETED that when prosperity comes
and nature smiles man is apt to forget
the times of adversely, says Wallace's
Farmer. At the same time it is I'M
grateful. to say the least, to forget
the fundamentally that pulled him
through, and it is foolish to suppose
that adversely is banished for good and
prosperity will continue forever. 1t IS
not many years since the dairy COW
stood between the western farmer and
very hard times indeed. Money was
scarce. Prices of grain, of beef cattle
and other stock were low. Prospects
did not seem very bright to the farm
er. In this emergency the dairy COW
stood between many a farmer and
hardship. She brought in cash every
week or every month. She bought
shoes for the children, dresses for the
women folk and-well, in some cases
perhaps tobacco for the men. She ena-
bled some farmers to float over the pc
Rod of depression comfortably and
many to swim where without her they
would have sunk.
The hard times have gone. The pig,
the horse, the steer, grain, are all
bringing good prices. Money is plentl-
full and cheap. Bank accounts are car
rying a comfortable surplus. Under
these conditions many farmer is for
getting the good old COW that pulled
him through. He is allowing the calf
70 rim with her. He is forgetting and
his children are not learning now TO
milk. The usefulness of the COW for
the dairy is being destroyed. When the
h,rn of the tide comes and the farmer
must ,turn to the COW again, she will
not be able to serve him as she did be-
tore, not through any fault of hers but
because of his neglect.
Men cannot farm high priced land on
horseback. Neither can they always
afford TO sit on the fence and watch
abe calf do the milking.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
A BOVINE EVANGELIST.

He lived in scrub community, nice
people enough-honest, industrious and
all that-but way back on modern
methods of farming, prone to follow
grandfather's way and stick to old
precedents and customs. One man in
the community by some chance attend
ed a state fair, where for the first time
in his life he saw herds of fine blooded
stock, and this set him to thinking,
and the result of his thinking was that
he slipped off one day and bought a
Shorthorn bull, for which he paid $3.50
The bringing of this animal into the
community created a great sensation.
His wife called him a fool and his
boys said he needed guardian, and
all the neighbors, who considered $50 a
big lot of money for an animal of the
sort, said he was headed for the Insane
asylum. The results were that that
bull worked a reformation in that COM
munity. reconstructed all the prevail
ing notions about stock and placed
hundreds of dollars in the pockets of
the scoffers and unbelievers. There is
no more scrub stock raised in that
community.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
How to serve . rsneaDpne.

Select large pineapple, cut the base
off square and take the crown out.
Then with a thin bladed, sharp knife
cut around under the peel, SO as to re-
move the entire meat and leave the
peel intact. Cut or shred the meat into
suitable shapes for use and sprinkle
thoroughly with sugar. Set the cylin-
der made by the peel in a large plate,
right end upward. Put the prepared
pineapple into this cylinder and place
the crown in position until ready to
serve. This makes very pretty orna-
ment on the dinner table, and it looks
like whole pineapple. To serve, the
crown is taken off and the prepared
pineapple taken out with fruit ladle
or large fruit fork.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
oats as a Feed For Laying Hens

The majority of farmers consider oats
a dangerous feed for chickens. The
sharp points sometimes pierce the lin
ing of the chickens crop, thus produc-
ing a severe Inflammation, usually re-
sulting in death. Some varieties of oats
are sitter and sharper pointed than
Others. Then we believe there is more
danger when the fowls are allowed tC
gorge themselves than where given a
limited quantity.
All the cases we ever knew of where
disease was caused by feeding oats the
chickens went to the field or garden
and ate all they wanted. We have fire.
quently fed oats to our laying hens
with the best results.
We feed at the rate of about two ia
blespoonfuls to the hen in the morning
the hens having access to plenty of wa
ter and grit. When oats are fed extra
care should be taken to provide the
fowls with an abundance of grit and
pure water The water softens the hull
of the oats. while the grit grinds it.
Oats are bone and muscle making food
and an egg producer National
Stockman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
cHERIFF, SALE.
Monday. thA eth Raw of March naxt

By virtue OF writ Of fief faeias, to me di.
rected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State Of New Jersey, will be exposed at Public
Sale. on
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
CHERIFF,s SALE.
Monday. fhA Sixtaanth dav 81 March.

By virtme of a writ of fieri facias to me d.
rected, 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, 1903-02-19

1t has been clearly demonstrated that
a roomy middle piece is the unfailing
index of large feeder and that the
weight of an animal measures the re-
quirements for food of maintenance
that the greater the amount of food
consumed over and above that needed
for body support the greater the pro-
ductive capacity, says Professor Z. L.
Hacker of the Minnesota experiment
station. 1t therefore follows that the
two essential and vital points in the
dairy COW are large middle and light
quarters. From an economic point of
view it does not matter what the color
markings are, whether her back is
straight or sways, whether her tail is
long or short, her horns straight or
crumpled, her hook points high or low,
her body cylindrical or fiat. These are
mere fancies and are not essential
points. Having secured the deep
bodied, spare COW there is no objection
to the fancy points, provided they do
There are, however, a few desirable
points in the dairy cow. She should
have a good disposition. since this also
has to do with food of maintenance.
Other things being equal a COW with
a docile, contented disposition brings
better returns than will one restless or
vicious. To this end the eye should
have placid, mild expression. A nerv
Gus, high spirited, notional COW, as a
rule, has the requisites of d profitable
dairy cow, but she requires skillful
handling, and since this qualification
is lacking in the average farmer we
must adjust the COW to her master,
since we cannot persuade the average
man to adjust himself to the COW. We
also desire an easy mixer, with long
but not cone shaped teats, and they
should not be punched too closely to-
gether. The size or shape of the udder
counts for but little from an economic
point of view. since n large udder is
not an index of large producer of
milk solids; neither is a small udder
an index of a light yielder. Cows with
large udders as rule are deep milk
ers, but they in turn may not be per
sistent. A small udder generally de-
notes a light mixer, but, on the other
hand, the milk is generally very rich
and the COW may or may not be per
sistent mixer.
A Fine HoIstein Bull.
Hoard's Dairyman prints this pic
ture and description of Virgo Beauty
Duke, No. 24.52S. the property of John
B. Irwin. Minneapolis, Mimi;
AS a show bull and sire he stands
very high in the west and contains
probably more Jewel and Jewel II.
blood than any bull now living. He
has three times carried off the cham
pionship at the Great Minnesota State
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
FIGS. / AND 2.
CONCLUSION tn

to prune too much and that it requires
the greatest good judgment to prune
just enough.
How to Prune.-1. Never cut away
more wood than is necessary to obtain
the end in view. Err on the side of cut
ting too little rather than too much,
for if too much is taken off it cannot be
replaced i'll many years. Large crops
of fruit cannot be grown on trees
with a few exposed branches. 2. Cut
out all dead wood as soon as it is dis
covered. Summer is a good time to do
this, as dead branches can then be seen
at glance.) 3. If two branches rub
together so as to injure one anoth-
err, the weakest should be cut away.
f. If one branch rests on the top of
another, as in Fig. /, one should be
removed. 5. Head back and thin out
the top rather than cut off the lower
branches to bring the fruit as low
spraying and harvesting (see Fig. p.
6. Never remove side branches if it
can be avoided If it must be done,
cut as shown at B, Fig. 3, and cover the
injured parts with two coats of lin
seed oil paint gas tar or grating wax.
Cover all wounds over half an inch in
diameter with one of the above pre-
servatives. Z. Remove branches that
are too low or resting on the ground.
When to Prune.-The winter is gen.
praIlv n timp of most leisure to the
farmer or orchardist, and it is a good
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
INSTRUMENTATION.
Talk of Making 1t Compulsory "a
New south wales and New Zealand.

Talk of Making 1t Compulsory II
New south wales and New Zealand.
In an address before the eastern On
tario dairymen's convention j. A. Rud-
dick of the Dominion department of ag-
riculture dwelt upon the need of pas
teurization. Late in the fall the ''weedy
TASTE in butter has always been a
source of complaint, for faint in the
milk usually means faint in the butter,
and in no other way is this so satisfac-
torily obliterated as by the process of
pateurization.
Mr. Ruddick drew attention to the
fact that Danish butter makers have
all but universally adopted the prac-
tice, and the Danes have the reputation
of making the best butter in the world.
Many of the leading creameries of
Australia have also adopted this
course. The majority of the New Yea
land creameries are equipped with pas
teuriZing outfits. 1t has been proposed
i'll both New South Wales and New
Zealand, for the benefit of the export
trade in butter, to make pasteurizing
compulsory.
I'm this country" said MIR. Ruddick,
''some of our very best and most sue
cessful creameries have adopted pas
teurization with every satisfaction to
themselves and to their customers.
There are, however, many who do not
believe in pasteuriZation from the but
ter makers standpoint. Some hold that
it is only a substitute for carelessness
and that it would discourage cleanli-
ness in the handling of milk and thus
prove barrier to real progress along
the line of securing better butter. 9th
ers think the flavor of butter is injured
by pasteurization, claiming that the
butter never has the fine, delicate aro-
ma which unpasteurized butter may
have.
The object of pasteurizing is to re-
store the milk or cream to its normal
condition as regards bacterial content
by destroying those undesirable germs
which get into it after it is drawn from
the cow and thus prepare the way for
the butter maker to control the flavor
by introducing the right kind of fer
mentation through the medium of pure
culture 1t is true that proper precau-
lions taken at the time of milking and
in handling the milk afterward would
obviate the necessity for it to a certain
extent, but in ordinary practice it is
not possible to exclude from the milk
all the injurious bacteria, and this may
be secured by pasteurization.
'For pasteurizing cream the tempera-
ture should be raised to 15S or $50 de-
grees and as much higher as the cream
will stand without taking on a perma-
nent cooked flavor. Just what point
that will be depends somewhat on the
temperature of the cream as it enters
the machine and also upon the eficien-
cy of the machine itself | should not
recommend temperature over $50 de-
greeS in any case"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
tn SION Feather Eating.

When the fowls get to picking the
feathers off each others neck, take a
piece of raw, fat salt pork a piece with
a good rind so it will not come down
in the dirt-and, driving nail through
the rind, nail it to some part of the
building in easy reach of the hens and
let them work at it all they please.
When this is gone, if they still contin-
ue to pick off the feathers, give them
another piece. There is something lack
ing in their food when they pick off
and eat each others feathers, and the
raw, fat salt pork supplies the defcien-
cy and stops feather eating. Josephine
M. Davis in American Agriculturist.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-aoot, and the address, Binghamton,
N. Y, on every bottle.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

Glassware should be washed in hot
soapsuds and well rinsed in clear wa
Ter, then wiped with fine linen towel.
In washing cut glass lay three or four
thicknesses of a towel on the bottom
of the pan, which will make soft sup
port for the glass and render it less liza
BILE to be broken than when it comes in
contact with hard substance. Use a
brush to remove particles of dust from
the deep cutting. A little bluing added
to the water in which the glass is
rinsed will enhance the brilliancy Of
the crystal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
TN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY

To Beck MedUedossky and Mrs Beck Medvedos-
sky, his s0ite, Simon Blum and Annie Blan his
t0tfe:
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey, made on the day of the date
hereof, in a cause wherein Alfred B. hickman Is
complainant and you and others are defendants
you are required to appear. plead, answer or de-
muir to the bill of said complainant oil or be-
fore the fourteenth day of March next, or the
said bill will be taken as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose mortgage
given by Robert G. Bloomingdale and Marga-
ret L, Bloomingdale, his wife, to Richard g.
Souder dated the eighth day of March, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six on lands in the Town
ship of Franklin, in the County Of Gloucester,
which said mortgage was assigned to .the COM
plaintant; and you Beck Medvedossky, Simon
Blum and Annie Blum are made defendants
therein because you own said lands or some
part thereof and you Mrs. Beck Medyedossky
are made defendant because you are the wife
of Beck Medvedossky, and as such have an
NEGOTIATE right of dover in said lands or some
part thereof.
A. H. SWACKHAMER
So1'r. OF complainant, No. Cooper ST., Wood
bury, n. J.
Dated January ID, 1908. 1903 SITS.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
How to Clean cretonne Chair Covers,

How to Clean CretOnne Chair Covers.
If the coverings cannot be taken off
and washed, have them well rubbed
with cloth wrung out of cold water
and ammonia, two teaspoonfuls to a
pint. Keep turning and rinsing the
cloth as it gets soiled, or the cover will
look streaky when dry, and have fresh
water when the first lot begins to look
dirty. Soap should never be used when
washing cretonne. Bran should be
boiled in the water to soften it, and no
soap will be needed. The best plan is
to tie the bran in bag. Unless this is
done the water must be strained.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

How to Waterproof Boots at Home.
have for the last five years used
successfully a dressing for leather
boots and shoes composed of oil and
india rubber, keeping out moisture and
uninjurious to the leather applied,
leaving the same soft and pliable, says
writer in the Scientific American.
To prepare the same heat in an iron
vessel either fish oil, castor oil or even
tallow to about 250 degrees f., then
add cut into small pieces, yulcanized
or raw india rubber, about one-f1fth of
the weight of the oil, gradually stirring
the same with a wooden spatula until
the rubber is completely dissolved in
the oil. Lastly, add to give it color a
small amount of printers ink. Pour
into suitable vessel and let cool. One
or two applications of this are suffi-
cient to thoroughly waterproof a pair
of boots or shoes for a season. Boots
or shoes thus dressed will take COM
mon shoe backing with the greatest
| facility.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
Likes MIX Kept In water

Contrary to what might be expected
by one not acquainted with the han
ding of milk. the average butter max
er enjoys having the milk cans come
to the creamery with the ice frozen
around the handles, says Creamery
Journal. While they are handled with
difficulty the butter maker enjoys the
satisfaction of knowing that the milk
has been kept in the water where it
belongs, and he therefore has good
material to work with.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

The reason for not disturbing milk
after it has been strained and set away
for the cream to rise is that the cooling
of the milk causes currents in the fluid,
the end of which is to deposit the fats
on the surface. When these are dis
turbed in any way, these currents are
broken and the particles of fat go float
ing aimlessly about and some others
never reach the top.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

1t is the custom of many farmers to
give their geese nothing but grass be-
fore they are put on the stubble fields,
says B. White in Poultry. In conse-
quence of this when first put out they
are very thin, but it is great mistake
after the stubble has been cleared to
return them to that diet, for they will
lose almost as much in weight as they
have previously gained. After the corn
has been cleared from the stubble
fields the geese should be given a feed
of corn once day to keep them in good
condition.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
CHERIFF's SALE.

MILLARD F. DUBOIS surroga
2-h7t
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
10 coMsL,rapTl

The undersigned having been restorcdto health
by simple means, after suffering for several years
with a severe lung affection. and that dread
disease Consumption, is anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means Of cure. To
those who desire it, he viii cheerfully send ffrre
Of charged copy of the prescription Us, i, wi b
Asfhnsa, Cafarrh. Broncitis and a Shr a.
lung MaLadies He hopes a Il sufferers viii ny
his remedy, as II is invaluable. These drs'r;,' {.
the prescription, which will cnss II nari :.
and NAV prove blessing, will please aditess
RsM EDWARD A,WILS0E, Bfookiyn. Ns~ Ys.x
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

By virtue of writ of fieri facias, to me d.
r, ected, issued out of the Chancery Court of the
s ate of New Jersey, will be exposed at public
sa lie,
Monday, the Ninth Day Of March, next,
between the hours of II and o'clock, to-wit, at
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
Coz ut House in the City of Woodbury. County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey all the
following described real estate that istossay:
All that certain tract parcel of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described
situate in the City of Woodbury., in the County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey:
Beginning at point in the Easterly line of
Washington street. distant one hundred and
forty-one and ninety-six one hundredths feet
Southerly from the Southwesterly corner of
Park Avenue and Washington Street and ex-
tending thence Southerly in said line of Wash
ington Street tTlirty-thee feet in front or width
and having a depth of that width between
parallel lines running South sixty-three degrees
nine minutes East, of one hundred and thirty
five feet.
Being part of the same premises which
Belmont Perry and wife, by deed dated June 4
1896, and recorded in the Clerks office of Glou-
Deeds, folio $50, and also by deed of correction.
dated November Is, 1885, and recorded in the
Clerks office aforesaid, in Book No. 172, folio
$50, granted and conveyed unto the said Septi-
mus A. Chew in fee.
Seized the property of Septimus A. Chew
ct. ux. ct ais, defendants, and taken in execu-
ton at the suit of Isaac Haines complainant
and to be sold by
WILSON T. JONES,
ERNEST REDFIELD, SoPr Sheriff.
Dated Feb. 3, 1902. Prs. fees $3.50
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19
TO CREDIToRs.

Charles E. Elliott and William E. Elliott. ex-
ecutors OF William Elliott. deceased, by d.
rection OF the Surrogate Of the County of Glou-
the said William Elliott, deceased, to bring in
their debts. claims and demands against the
estate OF the said decedent, under oath or
affirmation, within nine months from this date,
or they will be forever barred of any action
therefor against the said executors.
CHARLES E. ELLIOTT,
WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT.
Dated December "a. 1902 I-0S