Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-06-29


While nature IS working overtime
putting fruit on the orchard trees these
days insetts are Just as busy taking I
nice farm, well kept, bordered by
a poor road, is very like a pretty wom-
an with q silk dress and dirty white
petticoat.
Squads ana Belgian hares as bust
ness propositions have much ia com
mon. It will be found safer for most
men to stick to raising forty cent corn.
There is no question about the pro-
likeness of the Jersey red hog. Our ex-.
perience with them is that they will
average at least two pigs to the litter
more than any other breed
The cutworm at work on a corn
field can make a man feel almost as
sick as though he had planted poor
seed. Only June planting can head
off this pest. 1t is the plague of sod
land
After all the experimenting during
the past twenty years in the line Of i'm
proved butterrnaking, the fact that alb
solute cleanliness is Of more i'm
portance than any other one thing is
fully affirmed and established. The
buttermaker who can make gilt edged
butter out Of dirty or tainted milk has
not yet been born.
Colors have more significance per
haps than we know Of, for it is now
claimed as the result of a series of ex-
periments that water tinted yellow
color win be stunned entirely by mos
quitos as a breeding ground and that
If a person is dressed in yellow the
pests viii not touch him. If this the
ory be correct, it will be quite boom
for rather unpopular color.
In all of Japan there are only 10000
square miles of strictly arabic land.
How such a people could ever develop
on such a very limited area Of produc-
tive soil is the wonder of the century.
It goes to prove, however, that great
results may be obtained from little
land well titled. The most highly de-
yeloped agriculture of Europe and this
country may learn much from these lit
tie Yankees Of the far east
When men can see the wonderfully
enriching effect of clover ON wornout
soils it seems strange so very few will
avail themselves of this cheap fertiI-
izer. There are thousands Of acres of
corn land now yielding about thirty
bushels per acre which if seeded down
to clover would after two years when
again planted to corn easily double
this yield, and. what is more, the good
effect of this clover treatment would
be manifest for five years after.
The prejudice against the use Of
silage as dairy ration has entirely
disappeared AS silage used to be put
up ten years ago, made from sIushy
and immature green corn and thus
fermenting and souring badly in the
silo. there was no doubt some cause
for complaint, but with the better
methods now employed of using well
matured corn for silage there is no
reason whatever why it should not be
one of the very best dairy rations avail
able
There is some peculiar quality about
the soils of new countries when first
brought under cultivation which is fa-
yorable to the production of wheat and
oats, while it is at the same time not
SO well adapted to the growing of corn.
In the course of twenty years or SO
this condition is reversed, and the. corn
one year with another will do better
than the small grains When the land
is new the straw of the small grains is
stiff and bright and seldom subject to
rust or blight troubles. which later on
are only too common.
When a man holds place of power
and influence in a community by virtue
Of his money alone be has but slim
hold, for banks may break, stocks de-
cline in value crops fail, investments
go to the dogs, and when his money is
gone it is all day with him and none so
poor as to do him honor But if his hold
on the community is based on moral
worth, on kindness and sympathy for
his fellows. upon good common sense
and worldly wisdom in the affairs of
life, then he enjoys legacy which
money in no manner affects.
We shall soon have the cement silo
us common thing on western farms.
The cement floor for barns and stables
is already here and is now being used
at a lesser cost than floors made of
plank, while infinitely more durable.