Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-18

terms. He has finally adjust
ed himself to the bike and will in time
to the devil wagon. The existing fric-
ton is largely intensified by the reck-
less foolishness of chauffeurs.
- sAm-.
April 70 marked the beginning of a
good part of the year-the date when
the fine strawberries from the south
country hit the northern market at 20
cents a box Three months in sight for
this best of all fruits, better than ever
when one can gather them from his
own garden.
The spring wheat territory Of Amer
lea is fast passing from the United
States into western Canada. Spring
wheat is a rare crop now in Iowa,
where once it was the leading one.
Minnesota is also letting go of this
crop. Spring wheat seems to go with
new land and pioneer conditions.
There is much difference in the quail
ity of corn so far as its market price is
concerned. Scrub corn-that is, mixed
colors-always sells for less than corn
of uniform type and color The south
prefers the white corn, the east the vel
low corn. 1t pays just as well to grow
pedigreed corn as it does to raise pedi-
greed stock.
Cucumbers, melons, squashes and to-
matoes may be greatly helped by max
ing a box nine inches in height, Just
large enough to take 10 by II light of
window glass for a top and with no
bottom The plants referred to can be
thus grown safe from frost and bugs
and made to get a two weeks start of
such things planted in the usual man
ner.
The value of any farm is enhanced
by having a well kept public highway
passing by it, and still there are few
men who rather than do any gratuitous
work on such a road for fear their
neighbor may profit by it will let such
highway become disgrace to them
and to their community. A well at
tended public funeral seems the best
remedy for this trouble.
A COW has been made to give enough
milk to make 1000 pounds of butter
in year, and hen has been made to
lay $50 eggs in one year. These rec
ords mark the limits of productiveness
Under natural conditions the COW would
give just enough milk to raise her calf,
while the hen would lay but one set
ting of eggs. The difference marks
what man has been able to do with
the COW and the hen.
The secret of securing the large yield
of fifty-five bushels of corn to the acre
on a 1000 acre cornfield in Iowa last
year is found largely in the fact that
a perfect stand Of corn was secured,
and this stand was secured by the most
thorough and careful work in the mat
ter of testing the seed corn and the
proper adjustment of the plates in the
planters. An examination of this field
showed that nearly every hill had just
three stalks, no more, no less.
Most English municipalities are mod
els of civic administration. There
seems to be an entire absence of that
grating spirit which is so common in
American cities. The men who fill the
various offices accept them and admin
lister them with nice sense of honor,
and the public ownership of municipal
franchises gas, water, transportation
lis there being most successfully ex-
plotted The United States has every
thing to learn and nothing to teach in
the way of municipal administration.
A man never feels more like kicking
himself than when he has planted a
big field of corn and finds out that on
~ so or GO per cent of the seed planted
will grow. Lots of men get in this fix
every year, and this thing more than
any other accounts for the low average
yield of corn in the great corn growing
states. This trouble may be avoided
by taking proper precautions. 1t sure
" pays as well to take the time to
properly test the seed as it does to pre-
pare the field in which to plant It