Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-08-22

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Paris green or other poisons should
not be put on cabbage to kill the green
worm after the plants have begun to
head.
One eastern poultry authority places
the income from the average hen at
| 1925, cost of keep $i.25, leaving clear
profit of 81.
There are portions of Colorado where
| during the past two years damage
from the potato worm has run as high
as 25 per cent of the entire crop raised.
A Pontiac (Mich.) man has this year
dug up an orchard of 500 twelye-year-
old plum trees which were completely
ruined by the ravages Of the San Jose
scale.
| Hired help usually earn the money
which is paid them at the end of the
month and prize just as highly words
of appreciation which may not be in
cluded in the terms Of the contract.
A paste made of fresh wood ashes
moistened with water is highly recon
mended by an eastern reader of these
notes as a cure for ivy poisoning. The
paste should be applied to the af-
fected parts ON the first appearance of
the eruption.
There is a distinct advantage in rails
ing hogs, cattle and sheep in carload
lots, as the stock raiser cannot only
better bide his time. but get the
freight reduction for carload ship
ments and go to market with his
cattle himself
Where it is obtainable there is moth
ing that surpasses a field of alfalfa as
a ration for the growing pig. A great
er boon could hardly come to the ag-
ricultural interests of the country than
a type of alfalfa which could be gen
orally and successfully grown
The proverbial bad boy who is IA
miliar character in so many neighbor-
hoods is not the harmless proposition
that he is so often considered to be,
In nine cases out of ten it is he who
fills the reform school, the penitentiary
and all too often winds up in the in
sane asylums
A good many Of the directions of
some of the high up farm journals
along the line of devices and improve
ments are just about as much too ex-
pensive for the farmers pocket book
as are the cooking recipes for his wife
which are contained in many of the
home journals. Both are badly in need
Of pairing and boiling down
An eastern florists journal is author
ity for the statement that common
SCOT contains valuable fertilizing ele-
ments for garden flowers, which may
be utilized by putting the SCOT in
close meshed sack and submerging 1t
in barrel of water. When it has had
time to soak thoroughly, the plants
may be watered with the solution.
He who sets out in life with the idea
that happiness is to be got by getting
merely is from the very nature of
things doomed to disappointment, for
his greed for things just out of reach
will increase in geometric ratio to the
things that he is able to acquire, keep
ing him always in hot water condi-
ton of discomfort from which he can
with difficulty extricate himself
While the raising of the hog is
profitable occupation from the financial
point of view and entirely commenda-
bic, it should never be carried to the
point where it results in a neglect of
the boy. The boy has a character, a
lifetime and an eternity before him,
while the best one can expect to do
with the hog is to get him to weigh
400 pounds by the time he is ten
months old and send him to the killing
pen.
With roses, as with many other
shrubs and plants which one desires to
keep through the winter, the idea in
covering them is not to keep them
warm, but to keep them from thaw
ing and freezing 1t is the rays of the
sun in the afternoons of the late win
ter and early spring days, with the
subsequent freezing, that do the mis-
chief With the rosebushes board
or slat covering will usually furnish