Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-24

1 into the earth at the lowest point. The
/ success of this method all depends
! upon whether the right sort of sub
4 soil strata can be found
| We are asked how much honey will
a good strong hive Of bees secure in
day when the bee pasture is at its
best. We do not know, but we have
friend whose bees have made three
pounds day when the white clover
] was in bloom.
It is telling very old story, but
there is nothing which is worth so
much in August for the dairy COW as a
patch Of sweet corn upon which she
can draw literally during the dry dog
days. So fed, she will hold up her
flow of milk instead of shrinking.
Some one fond of statistics has fig
ured out that If the Chinese consumed
as much meat per capita as do the
Americans there would have to be in
that kingdom 100000 cattle, 415,-
0000 GOO hogs and 40o,O00,000 sheep, but
the Celestial has rats and dogs, which
we do not use.
The black eurrant is seldom grown
in this country. In England it is con
sidered the best Of all the currants and
the jam made from it is considered
standard delicacy. We do not know
that there is any reason why it can
not be raised just as well as the other
varieties, though it is a somewhat shy
bearer
1t is one thing to raise big crop of
clover and another and much harder
one to secure it in good shape. Where
the writer lives one of the biggest
crops of clover ever raised has been
damaged 80 per cent by the almost
daily rains and By the rotting of the
clover before cutting by its forming a
mat on the ground.
A pair of registered draft mares
could be made a very profitable in
vestment on almost any farm, where
horses are kept. There is no reason
on earth why nearly all the high priced
sires should be imported from Europe.
We no longer import many bulls, hay
ing just as fine animals here as there
are to be found in any country. We
might just as well raise our own
horses.
On general principles 1t is always
unsafe to hire tramp for farm
hand In the first place, they will not
work If they can help it; then they are
almost sure to quit you just when you
need them the worst and are quite
likely to make off with some of your
property at that. Then it is an I'M
position on the wife to take one Of the
dirty brutes into the house. No tramp
labor for US at any price.
Mourning doves, meadow larks and
robins, which are protected by law at
all seasons in the northern states
where they breed, are common game
birds for the southern states where
they winter. This Is unfair. II it Is
right to slaughter these birds for food
in the south, the north. which raises
them, should have the same right. As
matter of fact, it is all wrong to
kill them at all, as each variety does
most valuable work as either weed
seed or insect destroyers.
We have discovered two leaks which
explain some of the economic poverty
of the masses in our cities. Twelve
hundred and fifty dollars was dropped
into the slot machines of a western city
on one Saturday night. A druggist
IN the same city told us on the fol
lowing Monday that his sales Of cigars,
pop, ice cream and this sort of stuff
were $50 on the sunday No wonder
some people have holes in their stock
ings and have to pawn their overcoats.
This, mind you, is respectable foolish
ness. There is the saloon and gam
bling crowd BESIDES Poverty comes
as the most natural thing IN the world
under such conditions
This man thought a great deal Of his
wife. and she got a fit to Keep poultry,
SO the hens We're bought, the yard fixed
up and great care taken IN feeding the
fowls. Still being III the winter season,
no eggs Wife feeling very bad. Man
goes uptown and buys some eggs and
slips at first one or two eggs In the
nests: Wife. oh-be- joyful; hens begun
to lay. More eggs so into the nests.