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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11
Turner Has Taken Charne.

Memphis, Tenn, April 10.-Willis H. Turner, former managing editor of the Chicago Journal, will assume the gen. eral managership of the Evening Scim- itar, beginning Monday next. MT. Fur ner is a native of Kentucky and a life- long democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 Man seeks approval; woman praise.
 You can tell a great deal about a wo- man by the color of ribbons she wears and where.
 There's no use trying to save money by stopping drinking because of the smck- ing it makes you do.,
 A woman cant help feeling it's un- friendly of the postman to leave mali on the days 1t contains bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Judge Emmons of Boston says the ideal policeman must be honest, young, cour- ageous, trustworthy, muscular, active, light, ambitious and contented. If he has these qualities he need not bother about inc rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11
IS WELL QUALIFIED.

From the Washington Post
 A Richmond youth who was severely burned has been saved by the grating of pig skin upon his body. He will pre- empt the end seat in the open car as soon as he Is convalescent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The Headlight Is the name of a new paper started at Lineville by Messrs. Mc- Cain and Weaver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

A Chicago preacher announces that the end of the world will come in the year 1894 Those who have outstanding notes should begin to call them in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Pennypacker goes into private life and obscurity, while the press of Pennsylva- mia wags along as free as before he be- came governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The burnt district in Baltimore is be ginning to hustle, now that the building season is fully opened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The Mormon church should go a little further than mere paper renunciations of polygamy It should prosecute a pol sgamist or two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

In the stress of a political campaign the public is apt to think that Chicago is called the Windy City on account of the hot air produced there, but the laurel goes to the Hearst factory in New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

raise in rents in New York has ere ated a new Eastside party and that par ty is preparing to take a hand in the coming campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Appendicitis is strictly confined to the who cannot pay for an operation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Carnegie and Rockefeller, so the story goes. have underwritten the republican campaign fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

So far the artillery employed in the far eastern war seems to consist largely of typewriters and white paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Straw hats are beginning to appear, but they give the wearers a frigid look.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Congress has no time for impeachments in season in which political fences must be looked after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

King Christian of Denmark is the dean of the old world monarchs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

New Jersey Is so busy trying to stop the slaughter of pigeons that mosquitoes have been forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The Filipnos at St. Louis who ate dogs at home can eat sausages here, and never know the difference in rations at home and here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The members of the cabinet are now hedged about, not by divinity, but by beer r-drinking detectives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Senator Burton has accumulated more trouble than Senator Dietrich, or even Senator Shoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The stock market seems to have no at fractions for the public these days. Bulls and bears are forced to fight among themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Visitors to the St. Louis fair should take their hotels along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Tn the old days wind was raised to sail ships but now the trust raises wind to build them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Peace talk is out of order until Russia or Japan is more or less licked on land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Our four ballots are about two feet long all told, and they should be well shaken before taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Earnest W. Thompson has sold the Tuskegee News to Hunter Johnson, who will conduct the paper in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

We will never know how the election will go until Prophet Grosvenor speaks He is said to be full of figures of the latest pattern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Mir. Baer's divine rights did not im- press the United States supreme court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

David Bennett Hill is roofing for Par- ker. He learned the trick in the grand stand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The census bureaus estimate of Bir- minsham is too ridiculous for sober com ment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Too much culture nowadays is based on patent medicine almanacs, including Pe- runas peerless pamphlet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

President Joe Smith has all the wives he wants, and now he says the rest of the Mormons shall have but one apiece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

Delegates are budding out as well as other posies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11
Adjournment of Congress.

The dates of summer adjournments of congress in presidential years have been as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-11

The voter in this city at the primary will be confronted by four official bal lots, as follows:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
Questioning the Soil.

The farmer may question the chemist
or he may question the soil. l believe
it is usually more satisfactory to ask
the soil questions providing it can be
done in an intelligent, systematic man
ner.
If an old, rusty SAT-, with doors lock-
ed, fell into the hands of farmer and
if he knew that this safe contained
$4,000, it would be great incentive
to try to unlock the safe and utilize the
money. SO also if a farmer has his soil
analysed and finds that it contains 3d.
900 to 10000 pounds Of plant food per
acre. even if not available, this fact
should be worth much to the farmer
because it should give him strong in
centiye to try and farm in such a way
as to gradually make available for his
crops this vast amount Of plant food
which is locked up in his soil. This
plant food in the soil is the farmers
capital, or money, just as much as the
$4,000 in the old, rusty safe.
A farmer can tell if his poor crops
are due to lack of available plant
food by questioning the soil in the fol-
lowing manner: Suppose the farmer
plans to grow a cultivated crop in a
ten acre field. In the spring lay out
several experimental plats on typical
part of the field. Let each plat be one
rod wide and eight rods long-that is,
one-twentieth of an acre. Apply the
different plant foods to these plats and
study the effects.-A Il. Knisely, Ore
gon.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
An All Round Fertilizer.

s2Although there is no such thing as an
all around fertilizer which will give
equally good results on all crops, new
ertheless it many times happens that
we wish to use a little fertilizer or
stimulant about some of the plants in
the dooryard or garden.
Light applications of wood ashes,
never piled at the base. but spread
broadcast about the plant and spaaed
into the soil, are very beneficial espe-
cially If they are followed by a light
coating of chicken manure or well de-
composed stable manure. A desirable
mixture of commercial fertilizers con-
sists of one part nitrate of soda, two
parts fish guano, six parts acid phos-
plate, six parts ground bone and three
parts muriate of potash.
Apply this mixture at the rate of
two or three pounds for each 100
square feet and if convenient work
into the soil Applications every two
or three weeks of smaller or larger
amounts may be beneficial Deep
green, luxuriant foliage indicates plen-
ty of nitrogen. Poor growth and vel
low foliage indicate either lack Of
nitrogen or else "a poor physical eonsli-
ton of the soil.-9IA. &. Knisely
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
a Perfect ROCKY Ford cantaloupe.


According to p. K Blinn of the Colo
RADIO experiment station, perfect
Rocky Ford cantaloupe should be
slightly over four inches in diameter
and about four and fiye-eighths inches
long 1t should have silver gray net
ting that stands out like heavy lace,
practically covering the entire melon
save the we'll defined slate colored
stripes; these should run the whole
length of the melon, clear cut as if
grooved out with round chisel and
terminating at the blossom end in a
small button. The interstices in the
netting should be light olive green that
turns slightly yellow when the melon
is ready for market. The flesh should
be thick and firm. OF smooth texture
and free from watery appearance, rich
and melting in flavor. The shipping
and keeping qualities depend largely
on the solidity of the melon, so the
seed cavity should be small and per-
fectly filled with seed. The color of
the flesh near the rind should be dark
green, shading lighter toward the seed
cavity, which should be salmon or
orange in color. The flesh is often
notified with salmon, and not uncom-
monty the entire flesh is of that color.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
A GREAT FERTILE FARM.
Argentina as Producer of Cereals,
Meats and Wool

meats ana WOOL
The possibilities of agriculture in
Argentina and the rapidly with which
they may be utilized are problems that
interest both exporting and importing
countries. Mr.. f. W. BicknelI,
special agent of the department of ag-
riculture has presented in recent re-
port a remarkable collection of facts
bearing on the production Of wheat and
on farm life in Argentina OF the ag-
riculture in general Mr.. Bicknell says
that Argentina is sure to take higher
rank as a producer of cereals, meats
and wool. Conditions are changing for
the better Elevators are being built,
the milling industry is being reorgan-
lied on sounder basis, and large pro-
duction for export is anticipated, trans
portation facilities are being improved,
the right localities for raising wheat
and corn are being more certainly de-
termined, and improved methods are
slowly being adopted
With his great natural advantages
of climate and short haul to the sea
board the Argentina cereal producer,
when he makes the best use of his OPP
portunities, will be a very strong COM
petitor in the worlds markets. The
most important question to be answer
ed is, How soon may he be expected
to develop his country fully, and when
he does will the price of land increase
to balance his natural advantages?
Probably it will, but it is going to take
many years at the present rate of in
crease of farming population to reach
that point At present, however, Ar
gentina farmers who are well located,
near to market, with cheap lands in a
mild climate, are doing very well.
Some unfavorable as well as many
favorable statements are demanded
from the truthful, observer in Argen-
tina, and many unjust as well as just
criticisms of the country have been
made by visitors who have taken a
hasty superficial view. Several Euro
pean governments, including Russia
England, Germany and France, have
had or have now commissioners study
ing Argentina conditions. It's rapidly
growing Importance as food producer
and as a market for manufactured
goods has drawn the eyes of the world
to this great fertile farm on the other
side of the equator.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
POINTS IN FEEDING.
Interesting Conclusions For Dairy
men From the New Jersey station.
PIC D r Nv17

Interesting Conclusions For Dairy
men From the New Jersey station.
BY C. B. LANE.
1t is profitable for the dairyman to
produce such crops as cowpea hay,
alfalfa hay and soy bean silage and to
utilize them in rations rather than to
depend entirely upon purchased feeds
to supply the element protein.
A home grown ration composed of
seventeen pounds of cowpea hay and
thirty-six pounds of corn silage pro-
dueed milk for 2O.7 cents per hundred
and butter for 3.7S cents less per
pound than a ration in which two
thirds of the protein was supplied in
the form of purchased feeds.
When milk is selling for 81 per
hundred pounds, the grain from feed
ing the home grown ration to thirty
cows one month would amount to
$3.50 more than the feed ration.
Cowpea hay was worth $11.75 per
ton when fine feeds were used In the
proportion and selling at the prices
quoted in the experiment.
A ration (which can readily be
grown on most FARMS composed of
thirty-six pounds of soy bean silage,
eight pounds of alfalfa hay and six
pounds of cornmeal produced more
milk and at cost of S.5scents less per
hundred than a ration in which the
protein was largely supplied by wheat
bran, dried grains and cottonseed meal.
A ration supplying protein in the
form of cottonseed meal produced milk
for 11.9 cents less per hundred and
butter for 3.3 cents per pound less than
when protein was supplied in the form
of wheat bran and dried grains.
On the basis Of the results obtained,
the grain from feeding cottonseed
meal in the place of bran and grains
would amount to $500 for thirty COWS
sixty days.
Cottonseed meal is worth $40 per
ton, when bran and grain can be pur-
chased for S21 and $40 respectively.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
THE BRACES IN POSITION.

be driven in tight. These posts should
be seven inches square, or eight to nine
inches in diameter if round
The horizontal brace should be placed
one foot below the top of the post for
a four foot fence and fifteen inches be-
low for a five foot fence. have used
this kind of bracing for fifty eight
inch twenty-three strand woven wire
fence, top strand No. s and bottom No.
8 wire, intermediate No. IL and each
strand drawn very tight.
have never had occasion to do any
anchoring of posts and have had no
trouble with wires getting slack. These
posts should be tanped from the bot
tom to the top Of he ground, so the
ground will be as til 1t as before it was
moved. Cor Orange Judd Farmer
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
Toll Roads.

Mt. Holly Herald" Another one of the
few roads left in New Jersey has been made
free. The old Burlington pike, in Camden
county, has been bought of its owners at a
cost Of $32, 203, and open to the public free
of toll There are several others in South
Jersey, but they are being bought as fast
as the counties can pay for them, and the
tolls abolished. The figures quoted give
some little idea of what thoroughfares are
worth, even before they are improved with
telford or macadam. 1t does not take
much of a road to be worth $50, 900 or $50
600 in these days. and company that
owns such thoroughfare not paralleled by
a free road, and keeps it in good order,
easily makes big returns for its investment
by taxing every passenger and vehicle
passing over it. The modern policy, how
ever, is for the county to own the public
roads, open them to all and meet the ex-
pense of keeping them in repair by general
tax. This system has so long been in oper-
alton that very few toll roads remain in
this state, where nearly every main thor
oughfare was formerly owned and operated
by corporation The same policy ought
to be extended to the bridges across the
Delaware river, but has not been as yet
A glazing inequality now existing in
counties that have county roads is permit
ting the existence Of toll roads. We are
not sure that the first step in the direction
of county roads should not be to purchase
the toll roads.
To require all the people to pay taxes for
free county roads, and portion be re-
quired to travel toll road, is double taxa
ton. Toll roads should not exist in
counties that are heavily bonded for free
roads.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25

THE FLOWER GARDEN.
Timely Care In the Present and
Preparation For the Future.

Timely Care In the Present and
Preparation For the Future.
Water plants in the August garden
Freely. using a spout instead of sprin-
.-ar digging u hollow 81 holes in the
round about the larger plants. Wash
the dust from the foliage Night wa
tering will prevent evaporation. Sup
port dahlias and heavy plants by strong
stakes
Roses should be weeded, watered and
mulched with grass clippings to pro-
duce later blooming and Iarkspur and
geraniums pinched back and trimmed
with the same object.
ANIMALS not intended for seed
should have the flowers removed each
day. When seed pods form, dry, full!
and just ready to burst open, gather
and dry on glass or papers, shaded out
of doors Collect in small envelopes
and label each sort. Spade about plants
that are soon to be replanted to check
the growth of roots.
Prepare the beds for new borders
and bulbs by spading foot in depth
and mixing with sand and manure the
original soil Move the pansies that
they may get a good start
Plan your window garden. South
windows: Geraniums, heliotrope, mi
gnonette. roses and oxalis.
East windows: Begonias and retu-
Mas, trained ON rack and set in a
wooden box
North windows: Primroses. cyclamen
and large plants.
West windows: Protect with a thin
muslin curtain, and in them place
chrysanthemums and bulbs of later
growth.
In August repot fuchsias, begonias
and so on Set out the slips started
early in the summer.
Wash fowerpots inside and out and
soak new ones. Put layer of stones
or broken bits of croekery in the bot
tom, and fill with equal parts of leaf
mold. garden soil and sharp sand
Household
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25

ed gives his method of attaching the
dust board to the pillow. The part that
holds the board is made of wagon tire
Zone horse size and is represented in
Fig. /. The longest part (A) is 1914
inches, and tile drop OBJ is 8 inches,
while the part to which the board dig
p is bolted is 4 inches. The part A is
secured by bolt through the end and
lies fiat on the beam of the pillow Gig
-, between the handles, while the drop
B is bent 2 inches past square
and hole punched through, as shown
by crossmark, for the purpose of bolt
ing weight should it be needed.
While the part G, to which the board
is fastened, is bent to hold the board at
proper angle the board is secured by
only one bolt, so that if it hangs
against anything it pulls around and
does not break. / believe this is al
most if not quite perfect. 1t automat-
ically adjusts itself, letting the pillow go
deep or shallow 1t will slide over
rocks without raising the pillow and is
not in the way at all if set right, al
though it looks as if you would step
on it,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25

and. best of adj, under lock and key in
a receptacle that is used for no o$ler
purpose, says American Gardening.
The cut shows such receptacle
made from dry goods box of the size
needed to accommodate pals, spraying
pump, etc, fitted with stout lock
Such box may remain in the orchard
or near the garden, fastened as sug-
gested to keep it from being overturn-
ed, or it may have handles at the ends
and be carried to the field or orchard
when needed
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
san Jose Scale Destroys Peaches !.

Freebooter S. S. Ledden, who lives about
mile below Glassboro and who had one
of the finest peach orchards in this county
is having only one half crop this year.
The reason for the shortage as given by Mr..
Ledden is that the San Jose scale is in his
orchard Of 1000 trees.
Mr. Ledden is an interview in his orchard
on Monday said "About fifteen years ago
nearly every farmer in this county had a
fine peach orchard. The 'syellows' came,
however. and nearly all of the orchards
were ruined. / cut all of my trees down
and burned them. Several years later
started new orchard with several hundred
trees. In two years I had very fine crop.
Since that time I have been gradually
adding new orchards and cutting down the
old ones when they were worn out
Two years ago became troubled with
the scale which completely destroyed a
splendid young orchard. Since that time
have been compelled to grub up about
thirteen hundred trees, of the best variety,
and next Spring this orchard will be dealt
with likewise.
Mr.. Ledden says that he has ieen very
successful raising peaches. Last year two
hundred people went to his house in one
day to get the fruit. But few trees in the
whole immense orchard are free from the
plague. The infested trees can be easily
marked The peaches on these trees are
about half grown, and are all shrivelled up.
Some are rotten and many have fallen off.
The trees on which the peaches are best, are
more or less affected with the scale By
taking knife and pearing the bark from a
limb, red and brown sores, as it were, can
be seen in the wosi Mr.. Ledden tells us
that he has never sprayed his trees, but he
says that he hears shat the scale is dying
out and when it dos he expects relief from
the tree destroyer
There is smallei orchard short distance
from the infected ices which will be in its
prime next year if the scale does not spread.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
Farm Products of 1903.

Five hundred million dollars is Civ,
en- as a conservative estimate by G. K.
Holmes, chief of the division Of for
eign markets, of the farm products of
this country not fed to live stock in
1908.
The value Of the exports of 1908 Is
reckoned as cotton, 36 per cent; grain
and grain products, 25 per cent: meat,
meat products and live animals, "a per
cent. Tobacco exports are valued at
S35,000,00o oil cake and oilmeal at
nearly S20,O00,00o, fruit and nuts over
$1S.000.000 and vegetable oils over &c.,
100000.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
Angora Goats.

Angora goats at the Maine expert
ment station required no extra food
during the summer when given an am
pie range of young woodland or brushy
pasture, which should contain a shed
as a shelter from storms. They were
" entered on 750 pounds of hay per
head The goats were regarded as eff
fective for clearing underbrush in
woodland covered with birch or ever
green. They would doubtless kill other
varieties excepting the very large trees.
They also cleared bushes and other
waste growth from pastures, Oh feeds
being eaten in preference to grasses.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
The Newer Gai1Iardia.

The newer compact form of the well
known perennial Gaillardia grandifora
Is an improvement over the old form
In this new plant nothing Of the old
form is changed but the habit. which
is noticeably neat and the flowers more
erect. The constant summer blooming
character insures the gaillardias' popu-
larity, and the compact form makes 1t
available for almost any purpose and
especially for bordering
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25
Pretty Hardy Ferns.

Poem in green" is what one bright
woman styles the hardy ferns. Exqui
site grace and beauty of form and tex
ture are theirs by heritage, and, though
they may not possess brilliant color.
ings or own a fragrance worthy OF
mention, they can hardly be equaled
for certain positions Most gardens
have spots under a north wall or some
shaded place where the sunshine sci
dom fingers in which the ordinary
Towering or foliage plant will not
thrive. In such situations the fern is
home and will do well with minimum
amount of care.