Gloucester County Democrat., 1904-11-24


in the season. and a tremendous
growth of rape results.
The beef producers of fs corn belt
have come to the conclusion that they
cannot profitably raise their own feed
ers on land worth 500 per acre. These
feeders must be grassed to finishing
age in some locality where land is
cheaper
The best and most productive and
profitable orchards are the cultivated
ones east, west, north and soUth. Cul-
tiyation is the best substitute for the
leaf mulch, which is natures method
of insuring a healthful, vigorous tree
growth.
The Mexican boil weevil while seri-
ously injuring the cotton crop of 1904
has still permitted crop worth $780,
000,000 to be secured. As this is a
cash drop and confined to only a few
states of the south large measure of
financial prosperity is in sight.
There is no question about the fertil-
ity OF the soil in western Canada and
the wonderful yield of the crops and
their excellent quality. The only draw
back to locating there is that a fellow
has to say "God save the king" when
he tumbles out of bed in the morning
and has no Fourth of July.
We notice that the president is the
recipient each year of a thirty
pound turkey for Thanksgiving, sent
by some man in New England. If his
excellency has cut his eyeteeth he viii
let the members of his cabinet work on
this tough old tom, while he and Mrs.
President will return thanks over a
nice little ten pound hen turkey.
The addition to the corn crop of Ne
braska of Just one btlshel per acre
would add S2,500000 to the agricultur-
al wealth of the state. In Iowa it
would add S3,0o0,000. Surely here is
great field for agricultural missionary
work In both states some corn is
yielding eighty bushels to the acre, but
more acres are giving but twenty
bushels.
we hear Il good deal in praise of the
forehanded man, but for every one of
him there are six fellows who are al
ways behindhand This behindhand
chap is always in a peck of trouble, has
his farm and stock and crops mort
gagged, runs bill at the grocery store,
moves his barns to get shut of the ma
nure piles, burns his straw, keeps two
or more dogs, gets small cream checks,
lets his wife cut the firewood to get his
meals with, tells big yarns of what he
did down in '.Wisconse' and absolutely
knows Just how the government should
be run When he has a good crop
prices are low, and when prices are
high his crop is a failure, and between
loafng, whiting and cussing the ad-
ministration he manages to keep mid
ding busy most of the time. He has a
consuming jealousy Of his forehanded
neighbor and cannot be made to under
stand that his bad luck and ever pres
ent hard times are the result pure and
simple Of his own laziness and shift
lessness. He sows and reaps and kicks
at the harvest of his own folly.
Skim milk and cornmeal make an
admirably balanced ration for the
young calf and may be used by the
housewife in pleasing the palatable
~, S1o
of fare as an equally well balanced
combination for growing boys and girls
as well as the old man. Corn is pc
culiar in this-that no plug cook can
successfully handle it. 1t takes the
expert and well trained cook to draw
out it's delightful gastronomic posi-
bilities. There are Il hundred ways to
prepare the most dainty and nutritious
dishes from it. What nicer than
golden brown johnnyeake, bowl Of
puddin' and milk, an iniun puddin'
stuffed full Of fat raisins injun bread,
rye and injun corn fritters, corn pan
cakes, hulled corn, samp and all the
rest? The corn kids always have red
rosy cheeks, while the corn fed maid
Always udS Tie CAO1CG VI q 1etAA oo<-SAA
beaus. The country needs evangelists
to travel up and down and preach the
gospel of corn, its scientific culture, its
beneficent and multifold uses. The
corn fed steed and the corn fed pig
represent the very highest types in
their lines, and the corn fed man will
beat the steer or the hog. Talk corn,
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your wife. Rob Tic pigs and calves
and work more skim Inilk and corn in
to the children Use corn this year to
save money. On this diet you will not
need a patent medicine dope or an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis. Eat corn and
be happy.