Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

Good seed will not always insure a
good crop, but the first step to insure a
poor one is to use poor seed.
The beet sugar business is developing
rapidly through the irrigated sections
| of the west, but is not meeting with
much success where it comes into COM
petition with corn, cattle and hogs.
We notice that most of the special
lists who go into the squad raising
business soon give it up. 1t seems tc
be one of those things which figure out
well on paper, but rarely pan out div
| idends.
| This is the season of the year when
the hired man gets his fingers trimmed
up in good shape with the corn shelter
| and shredder. Some men are totally
| unfit to have anything to do with ma
chinery, being either SO careless or SO
| foolhardy that it is wonder that they
| are not all killed off.
There will be but little improvement
| in agricultural methods the country
| over until in some way the one year
| renter is disposed Of. From the very
| nature of things his methods and prac-
tees place a ban on all good farming.
| Being here today and gone tomorrow,
he can play nothing but skin game,
! and he always does it to finish.
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The yellow refrigerator car which is
SO common a sight on all our railroads
| represents one of the greatest eco
nomic changes which ever came to the
country and at the same time repre-
sents the concrete economic rascality
| of the country as WELL 1t represents
| the wealth and greed Of the trusts and
| the financial hides Of the little ship
pers.
a reader in Indiana wishes to know
| the best remedy to prevent worms on
| grapes. This trouble may be prevent
| ed by spraying the vines at proper
times. If he will write to the director
Of the Indiana experiment station he
| will, be furnished without charge with
a bulletin which will cover the whole
| question Of spraying time to spray,
nature of solution used, etc.
One of the most successful stock men
whom we know got his start twenty
| five years ago as result of his father
| giving him calf. 1t is proper to note
| here that when the calf grew into fat
steer the old man did not sell it and
| pocket the money. A good many gen
erous fathers do things this way, and
/ their sons do not grow up to be success
/ full stock men. There ought to be law
to give boys their rights in matters of
this sort.
| Where the large dent varieties Of
corn are grown it quite often happens
that the cribs will be empty along in
August, when a supply of corn is need
| ed to finish off lot of hogs. We have
a friend who cleverly provides against
| this contingency. He plants few
acres of the early Yankee corn as early
in the spring as he can and has this
/ crop all ripe by the fore part of August,
| just when he needs it, nearly two
months in advance of the maturing Of
his field crop. This plan is well worth
| trying.
The raising of 100 bushels of corn on
one acre of land is by no means so diff
| ficuit proposition as many men think.
| OF some twenty or more boys, mere
| lads, who formed a corn club to see
what they could do in raising each
| one-fourth of an acre of corn none OF
| them raised less than at the rate of
| 100 bushels per acre and many went
much above this figure, one raising as
much as 1877 bushels per acre. The les
| son afforded by this experiment is that
| men who raise but thirty or thirty-fve
! bushels per acre can easily double their
| yields If they will put more work on
less land.
There should be two days sacredly
/ set apart on every farm for special
work. One day should be devoted to
| tree planting, the planting Of trees IN
waste hooks and corners all over the
| farm, eyergresns on the knobs too bar
/ rem or too rough for cultivation, will
lows along the runs and draws. shade
/ trees at intervals along the highway,
and then another day should be devot-
| ed to a general clearing. picking up day
around the homestead. These two days
| properly used would do more to i'm
| prove the looks of the average farm
| than any other one thing we know.
| A very common mistake which we
notice all over the country is the eff
| fort of city councils to. start public
| parks in sod ground, planting the
| young trees in the tough sod. If It is
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