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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
Keen the Lice Down.

In the care of young chicks it pays
to be liberal in the use of insect pow
der. 1t is not an expensive article,
but is a necessity in the work of rails
ing chicks. Keep a good stock of it
on hand and apply it often to each
brood of young chicks. This may be
done by thoroughly busting the mother
hen or by blowing it over chicks when
under hen. To do this wait until even
ing, when young chicks have retired
for the night, and then by placing the
left hand under the hen and raising her
little the powder may be blown over
the chicks in a very thorough manner
and will not injure the chicks. At
least we have never had one injured
in this way and have followed this
plan for years But it kills the lice
and gives the chicks chance for their
lives, a thing that the lice will not do
If allowed to have full sway. 1t is
only a question Of killing the lice or of
their killing the chicks, as they certain
ly will if allowed to live and feed upon
the vitality of the chick. Keep the
lice down. Don't give them chance
at your chicks. Better raise the chicks
and eat them yourself rather than let
the lice kill them.-Poultry Herald
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

There is no doubt about meat being
good food for making hens lay; but, as
an exchange puts it, when feeding
meat to hens do not use that portion
which is fat. The object Of feeding
meat to hens is to supply them with
nitrogen and not fat, as the grain con-
tains all the fat and starch required by
them. If the fat is fed, it does not as
sist in any manner to provide material
for eggs, but rather retards than as
sists laying. The cheap portions Of
beef, such as the neck, are better for
fowls than the choicest fat and lean
steaks. Blood is excellent for fowls
and can be easily fed to them by mix
ing it with their soft food. The or
binary ground meat contains both fat
and lean and sells for about 3 cents
per pound, but as the meat is subject
ed to heavy pressure at a high temper
allure most of the fat is removed.-A
v. Meersch in Western Poultry Jour
nal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to Test Ventilation.

A very simple way to tell whether
your room is properly ventilated is to
place a wide necked bottle of water
into which you have put half an ounce
of Imewater somewhere in the room,
letting it remain there uncovered over
night. If in the morning the limewa-
ter is milky the, ventilation is very bad
indeed If the limewater becomes
milky on your covering the bottle
mouth with your hand and shaking the
vessel the ventilation is not sufficiently
good. If the limewater remains clear
the air of that room is pure.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to whiten the Throat.

Here is an excellent formula for TAX
ing the stain from the neck which has
been left from wearing high collars
and stocks: Take fresh strained cucum-
Der juice, boil it five minutes. and for
every five ounces of juice add pulver-
lied borax, IT'S grains; acetate of soda,
90 grains; tincture of quillaja, 21a
ounces; tincture of benzoin, 4 drains;
rose water, pint Mix thoroughly and
apply two or three times day until
the stain is removed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
WEST JERSEY & SEASHORE R. R
On and after June 25, 1904, trains vii
le.ar.<- ELc,e.1 o. 1,ll..x1.e-.

IN ana Hfber JuUe Sd. 15V4, trains Will
leave Woodbury. as follows:
For Phila 555, $50, 7.15, 1872, 7.4s, 1853, 500
9.17, HOOP, lily a. M; LOO, ll2 POS Saturdays
only, 800, 404 AS, 49, 4.59 SIS, COL 6.53, l3
1922. II 03 p m. weekdays. Sundays, 6 AZ, 500
SIS, $50 M; $685. 549 500, 6.22, lbs, SOS and
For Glassboro, 6.s2. 65l, 500, s.I9, s.4s, 1901,
11.32 IL 80 103( Saturdays only 2o5 3.22, AZ
5.o4, 5.26, 5.4s, 632 702 500, 9S9. 11l2 p. M;
1922 night weekdays. Sundays 72s, sos, 500
a. M; 53i, 6.10, 61s, and 1882 p. m.
For Swedesboro, $685. s.55, II. 35 a. M; 202 4.34,
6.I2, 7.05 p. m. weekdays. Sundays. s.5S a. El.;
652 p. M
For vineland and Millville, 6.51, and s.l9 am;
1888, 3.47, SAB, 7o2 p. ~. weekdays. Sundays,
7.28, sos a. M; 6.10 p. M.
For Maurice River and points the Maurice
River Branch, $40 a. M; u. 33, 5.43 p. week
days Sundays, 6.10 p. m.
For Sea Isle City and Ocean City, 7.26 10 am,
$40 p. M, week days. Sundays, sos a. m.
For Cape May, 7.26, $40 a. M; and 3.47, $40 p.
M, weekdays. Sundays 7.2S, SOB a. m.
For Atlantic City sos a. m. 3.47 p. ma, week
days Sundays, SOB a. M. and 6 10 p.
For Salem (via Glassboro and Elmer) 8.48 a.
M; BAT p. M, weekdays. Via Swedesboro, e.36,
s.55, 1l35 a.. m; 2.o2, 4.54 6.12 p. weekdays.
Sundays, 8.53 a. M: $50 p. m.
For Bridgetons 6.32, 84S a na. 1888, BAT, 5.26,
702 p. M weekdays. Sundays, s.29 a. No.; Sis
d.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
Poultry Pointers.

Keep the chicks in. the house in the
morning until the dew has dried from
the grass
Do not forget that the fowls in warm
weather must have shade, even if it is
necessary to build lean-to for them.
# you Will keep fair chicks put them
by themselves where they can have a
chance to grow and not be trampled
underfoot by stronger birds.
Young ducks should be kept away
from swimming water until they are
well feathered
AS an egg producing grain oats
hasn't an equal among cereals.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
WELL TO REMEMBER.
How to Wear a Life Preserver to
Prevent Drowning.


The quality of the life preservers
was not alone responsible for the
drowning of the passengers on the
General Sloenm, says the New York
Tribune. Ignorance as to the method
of wearing them probably caused many
deaths
The name of 'life belt'' applied to the
preseryers has proved a source of con-
fusion in other marine disasters Be-
cause the circular life preservers are
called ''belts" many people have the
idea that they are worn around the
waist When the person has adjusted
it around the waist and jumped over
board, the buoyancy of the belt has
thrown his head under water, and
drowning has resulted.
Life belts are generally either COM
posed of from six to eight blocks of
cork sewed together in canvas or small
pieces sewed into a circular belt. To the
backs of the first described belt are
affixed two strong canvas straps, which
cross the wearer's back and which but
ton in front The belt should be placed
directly under the armpits, and the
straps brought over and across the
shoulders and fastened The buoyancy
Of twentyfour pounds, which is fixed
by Jaw, is then sufficient to support the
head of Il person above the water.
The other style of life preserver, the
common tubular form seen hung along
seawalls and other places, is adjusted
similarly. 1t lacks the straps of the
Jacket form, but if placed under the
armpits, being passed first, like the
other, over the wearer's head, it as
easily supports him. Around the outer
circumference of most Of these there is
loose cord. Two persons holding this
cord, one on either side, are easily sup
ported by the belt, if it is in good con-
dition.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
The Egg Producers.

Egg production should be one of the
essential things to learn about before
admitting a breed or variety to the
Standard, says o. P. Green in CONNER
in feather, if they are poor layers they
should be condemned. Good layers are
born, not made. If a hen does not
trace back to a good laying ancestry,
she will not be good layer, no differ
ence what she is fed. Hens get their
good laying qualities by inheritance,
the same as good cow comes by her
milking qualities. These good quail
ties. however, may be changed by
wrong treatment. The chicks must be
rightly reared if the distinctive virtues
Of Their family are to be preserved.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to Remove pust From the Eve,

How to Remove Dust From the Eyes.
Any foreign substance in the eye is
very painful, but to remove it is, after
all, an easy matter. If the dust lodges
on the lower lid press the finger gently
but firmly against the eyelid. pulling it
down and telling the victim to look up.
This exposes the inner lid, and the
dust can be removed upon a toothpick
OF hairpin, about the end Of which a
bit of cotton has been wound to avoid
a scratch or bruise. II the upper lid is
affected take the eyelashes firmly be-
tween the forefnger and the thumb,
ask the patient to look down and with
a quick movement turn the eyelid up
over the point of a pencil, which
should be pressed against the eyelid
just above the stiff part. This causes
no pain. and the dust can be wiped off
as from the lower lid. a bit Of steel is
more difficult to remove. If magnet
IS at hand it Is sometimes easily drawn
Oft by the magnets attraction.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
TIE MARKET DuckLlNG.
Helpful Hints For the Guidance OF
the Breeder.

the Breeder.
July and August are good months to
get out market stock
Fresh drinking water must be given
the stock three times q day.
Having lights burning in the duck
runs keeps the birds quiet at night.
Clean out the duck houses every week
Each day put fresh bedding upon the
used litter
Unless you market the ducklings
when ten weeks old you will be each
week more at loss.
The drinking vessels should be deep
enough SO that the duck or duckling
can get its head in the water.
In driving ducks 60 about it slowly,
as they are weak in their legs and can
not stand undue excitement
Ducks allowed bathing water are not
so apt to oyerfatten on account Of the
exercise they take in the water
Allow no excitement about the duck
runs, as both old and young are of a
nervous disposition and easily frighten-
ed.
The duck runs should be diSinfected
at least once a year. This is best done
by growing a green crop in it while the
ducks are occupying an alternate run.
At seven weeks of age the duckling
should be fattened for market and fed
only three times day. A good fat
tening food is three-fourths meal, one
fourth flour and 10 per cent beef scraps
and all the green food they can eat
once day.
The cause of mortality among young
ducks may be traced to overhead,
dampness, getting wet, lack of grit.
gray head lice, sudden showers, delay
ed matches, exposure to sun, lack of
fresh water, drinking vessels too shall
low and breeding stock out of condi-
tion.-M. K. Boyer in American Poultry
Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
IN TIME OF FIRE.
How Safety May Best BE Sought.
Rules For Protection.

How Safety May Best BE Sought.
Rules For Protection.
Fire Chief Baxter and Building In
spector Hill Of Philadelphia have for
INFLATED fire rules for the householder,
snlling what to do in case of fire and
how to prevent fires The rules of
Chief Baxter follow:
In case of fire first of all sound the
alarm.
Close the door and open the windows.
A closed door is a wonderful protection
against fame, and an open window let's
out the heat and the smoke.
Do not fear thick smoke too much.
A stairway that is a mass of smoke is
not necessarily impossible. Go down
on your hands and knees; you win find
no smoke near the floor. Try to de-
seend the stairway in this way, and in
nine cases out of ten you will descend
in safety. Many have been burned to
death because they thought smoke
filed stairway meant an impossible
one and because they did not know
that there is always plenty of pure air
to breathe down near the floor.
If there is a skylight, break it open.
The smoke then will disappear through
the opening rapidly.
Should the fire have gained such
Roadway that all exits are blocked,
shut yourself in front room and lean
far out of the window so that the fire.
men may see you. Once they see you.
it is reasonably certain that they will
rescue you.
Above all things keep cool. The ma
jority Of deaths from fire would have
been averted if the victims had not
lost their heads.
Inspector Hill gives these rules to
prevent fire: Do not put ashes in
wooden boxes or barrels. These wood
en- receptacles are frequent cause of
fire. In every kitchen and cellar there
should be an ash box of iron or tin.
Keep the cellar clear of heaps of
refuse-of old newspapers. rags and
broken wood.
Cobwebs on cellar beams and walls
should be carefully guarded against,
and every cellar should receive at least
once a year a complete coat of white
wash or of fireproof paint.
Line all fues with terra Gotta.
Keep wood away from the chimneys.
Where chimney lathing is necessary,
use lathing of metal.
Never hang lace curtains near gas
jets. Let your windows be bare of
lace or else move your gas jets to an
other part of the room. In private
houses there are few causes of fire
more frequent than lace curtains.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Sept Is, 1903 First car leaves Camden for
Woodbury. at $50 a. m. Last car H. Is a. M
First car leaves Woodbury. 5,45 a. M. Last car
leaves Woodbury. 1890 a. m. Cars leave Wood
bury every 10 minutes for Camden. Leave Cam
den every 10 minutes for Woodbury..
Leave Woodbury. for Mantua A. NJ, 5.45 Is.
7.50, 500 900, $50, 1000. 1885, II IS 1900, P NJ,
l2z5 I80. 200, $50, 800 345 AIS, 500. $50 500,
$50, us, 8.l5, 9.15, 1870, 1905 Camden car
Leave Mantua a. NJ, 600, $50, 7.45, SIS, rs,
9.45, 10. u.s. HOO. ll45 P NJ, $780, LIS, Las, 2l5
245, $780, 400. AS, SIS 5.45, els, 700 7.3o $780,
$50, l0.45, 1920 AN.
Leave Woodbury. for AImonesson A. NJ SIS,
$50, mail; $50, 10.15, 1100 1145 P NJ II 80 lis
200 230 BIS. 3.45, 43o mail; 5.l5, $780, 645, 745,
S.45, 945 HOO, city line.
Leave Almonesson for Woodbury. A. NJ Is,
mail s.45, 9.45, 1890, 11.I5 1900 P NJ 100, 80,
-, 245 mail. 33o 400 500, 545 $780, us, 90,
800, 1000. 11.07, city line.
First car leaves Woodbury. on Sundays for
Mantua at 615
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
Feed al Fenthering Time.

Many chick dies at the feathering
period from lack of variety of food and
especially a meat protein food. Yes,
by all means procure some meat and
bone meal for them and feed once per
day. Protein graiA food or cheese will
not take the place of animal or meat
food at this time, yet no one has as yet
told why. Experiments at Geneva and
other places have borne out this fact.
National Stockman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to BroiI a chop or steak.

How to BrO1l Chop or Steak.
Few housewives understand the art
of broiling, and consequently chops and
steaks are often robbed of their deli
cate favor by frying in pan. A steak
or chop properly broiled should have
a thin, we'll Drowned crust. Beyond
this crust the meat should be red and
juicy, hardly shade less done in the
middle than near the surface If the
broiling is to be done on a range have
the fire very bright and clear. Open
every draft that smoke and fame may
be drawn up the chimney. Place the
piece of meat in the double broiler and
hold it as near the Goals as possible
until the surface is brown, turning fire.
quently. 1t will take three or four
minutes for this. Now raise the broiler
several inches above the bed of Goals
and continue the cooking until the
meat is done The broiler must be
turned often. A good rule is to count
ten slowly then turn the broiler. A
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
Delaware River Branch.

Leave Pennsgrove for Philadelphia, 4.55 6.35,
7.4o, 1920 a. M 1905, 3.o5 500, $50 p. M {Satur-
days only. Sunday, 6.52 a. M. $50, 6.55 p. m.
a. m; 2 50, 40s and 600 Il50, p. M. Sunday,
$50, a., M, go, 1000 p. M.
Leave Woodbury. for Pennsgrove, sos, $50,
ll.3S a. M; 3.25, 4.35, 635, p. Sunday, 1928,
500 am: 6.54, 1874 p. IN.
For time tables and further information apply
10 ticket agent at the station.
w. w. ATTFRBURY, j. B. WOOD,
General Manager. General Passenger Ag't
GEO. W. BOYD,
General Passenger Agent
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
RETuRNING TRAINs-

Leave Phila. for woodbury., 600, 6.24, 7.32, 7.48,
8.24, sS2, 9.s2 11Oo a. m 1900 noon; 1890 {Sat-
urdays only 100, $50, 3.25, 40S 4.32, 800 $40
$40, 500, CPS 79o, 800, 10 40, II. 50 p. m. week
500, $40, 500 go, $50. and 1000 p. M.
Leave Swedesboro for Woodbury., 5.2s 6.5s
SOC. 934 a. M; 1929. 4.46, $40 p. M. week-d avs
SUNDAYS, 7l2 a. M; s. 10 D. m.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to Keen Butter Firm.

Place your butter in basin and
cover it with water to within an inch
or two of the top; add piece of salt
the size OF hazel nut; cut off por-
tons daily. Butter treated in this way
will keep firm and fresh for days.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Hay is worth Sc per ton, yet one man
knew no better than to put his nice crop
of sixty tons in six little dinky stacks
eight feet high, one-third to be wasted.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
Are You Innocent.

search yourself. Innocence so far as harmful
results are concerned, is attained in Parola
Cream. It prevents all that is good for reliev-
ing the irritation from summer vacation--it
is specific. Renders the skin soft and smooth.
Take it with you as an important requisite For
sale BY ] N Merrits, Woodbury n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
How to Protect Valuable Lace.

Remember that valuable lace should
always be kept in blue paper. White
paper is very often bleached with
chloride Of lime and injaires any del
icate fabric that lies for any length Of
time against IT.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

The crop situation is being evened
up in Kansas, for the rains which so
seriously injured the wheat crop have
been the making of the corn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Because of the packing house strike
a porterhouse steak at a city restau-
rant has come to look like $1.75.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

The best thing about the silo is that
1t may be filed with the best of food
independent of the weather. The rains
which spoil the hay never hurt the
silage. A man is absolutely sure Of the
quality of his winter forage supply
when put in the silo.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Whenever a dog, bull or horse
begins to show signs of yiciousness the
sooner one is rid of it the better. 1t
furnishes risks which it does not pay
to run.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

A sheep man writing for prominent
agricultural paper advises that no
sheep be allowed to die on the farm Of
old age. We are satisfied that very
few are, judging from the quality of
some of the mutton passed off on us
for spring lamb
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

The best ideas are often of humble
origin. Here is an old Missouri farm
er winning national reputation, all
because he took notion to split box
elder log in two pieces and fasten them
together fat face to the front, hitch
ed on his team and tried smoothing
the clay roads in front of his place aft
er the rains. Out of this very crude be-
ginning there has been established the
theory that such treatment of the dirt
highways will immensely improve
them at most trifing cost.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

A friend wants us to send him some
strawberry plants to be set out during
August We have found that straw
berry bed set in the late summer, even
If the plants can be made to live, which
is no easy matter, has no advantage
over the same bed planted next spring,
for 1t will produce no crop to speak of
next year. This applies to the. north
country. Farther south fall set berries
do well, for they have chance to grow
all winter
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

So far as it is possible to do it pays
to have the cows take their annual
vacation during August.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Because of the high prices demanded
for labor, every mine owner, manu-
facturer, railway corporation and farm
er seeks in every possible manner to
substitute some sort of machine for
a man. While almost compelled to do
this now, the time is coming when be-
cause of it the unskilled laborer may
not find it easy to get work.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

After seeing, we are firmly Of the
opinion that it will pay any man to
scrimp himself next year for the priv
ilege of spending ten days at the st.
Louis worlds fair. One cannot af-
ford to miss seeing it if it is a posi-
bic thing to go.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

Women always. or nearly always,
have to work harder to earn a dollar
than a. man does, and when they have
it earned they will always make it
go further
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

If you arrange to thrash from the
shock during August, as so many farm
ers do, and wish to save the straw
in the best possible condition, just get
a small boy and a pony and let them
tramp the center of the straw stack as
the swing stacker distributes the straw.
A stack so tramped will settle in per-
feet semicircle and be almost rainproof.
This is no experiment, but practical
suggestion worth needing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

John Ruskin, studying some of the
social problems of his day, says that in
view of the restless and almost revolu-
tionary attitude of mans social and
economic existence in these latter days
the principle is good that each man
shall possess the ground he can use
and no more This would be social
leyeler, for modern aristocracy is most
~ based upon land ownership.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

The finest wheat raised in America is
In danger of being pinched by a Sep
TENDER frost-the crop in the great
northwest county in western Canada.
The crop is unusually late this year,
much of it not headed out Aug. /.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

There are plenty Of men who think
they have done a smart thing when
they can cross railway track and
have the engine skip their rear wheels
by couple of feet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

1t costs from so to go cents a rod
to lay 311a inch tile, and there is more
money in the laying of it on thousands
of farms than in feeding twenty cent
corn to seven dollar hogs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

It has been our ambition to have a
beautiful home, says writer in Good
Housekeeping, and when we moved to
our present one we found a row of
maple trees, all perfect except one, and
that, former tenant told us, had been
dead for year. We disliked the
thought of having to cut one out and
decided to try what a little nursing
would do. We loosened the dirt about
the roots, put wood ashes around them
to kill any destroying insects, filed in
the dirt well up around the trunk and
awaited results. In the spring the
leaves came. Very few at first-per-
haps all summer it was not half full,
but enough to encourage us. We con-
tinuedbur petting, with the result that
the second summer gave us a tree
equaling the rest in it's abundant foil
age.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

If there was no laziness in the world
there would be mighty little poverty.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18

cures made BY Or.
Kiluer' S Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
It is the great medi-
caltriumph Of the nine-
teenth century; dis
covered after years Of
scientific research by
Dr.. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der specialist, and is
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-18
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney TroubIe Makes You MISERABLE.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know Of the wonderful