Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-11-14

leaves or pass the time with rod and
gun.
Hog feeding experiments carried on
In Nebraska show that where an al
falfa pasture is available and corn is
worth 80 cents bushel pork can be
produced at a cost of $243 per hum
dredweight.
1t is a matter of consolation to many
a young housewife that now and then
IN older woman who as grown gray
headed in the culinary department has
not mastered all the inlicacies of
cooking wSsfh sour milk and soda.
An abundance of fresh water and
salt should be provided for all of the
farm animals The fact that cows and
hogs will drink filthy water should not
be taken to mean that they prefer this
to that which Is fresh and CLEAN
1t is pretty safe to say that well adj
justed storm windows will pay for
themselves during period of two
years simply in the amount Of fuel
saved, letting pass entirely the ques-
ton Of physical comfort involved.
The good housewife who uses sugar,
eggs and flour to make a cake in order
that she may save a cup of sour cream
and later throws the concoction into
the alley may consider herself eco
nosnical, but she is certainly not
thrifty.
In all cases where the floors Of the
barns and sheds are not earth or ce-
ment and are raised from the ground
a great deal can be added to the COM
fort of the farm animals by giving
such buildings thorough banking
with straw, litter or manure
Typhoid fever Is a filth disease, usu-
lily the outgrowth of a contaminated
milk or water supply. For this reason
these two sources Of supply for the
family should be carefully guarded.
and should the malady break out they
should be most carefully Investigated.
A change of occupation after one has
reached the age of forty years is as a
rule pretty risky proposition. The
man who has lived in the city up to
this period and has been trained to
clerical work usually encounters hard
shedding if he starts in farming, while
the farmer who sells his broad acres
and embarks in the grocery or other
mercantile pursuit fares even worse.
The Pennsylvania railroad is soon to
plant the largest artificial forest in the
history of the United States A tract
of land has been purchased on the
slope of the Allegheny mountains be-
tween Altoona and Hollidaysburg, and
on this plot of ground seeds will be
sown which at the end of forty years
are expected to yield an annual har-
vest of more than 100000 railroad
ties.
There are scores of communities in
the country where through failure to
harness the running streams thousands
of horsepower in motor force go to
waste every year. Water power is at
once the most economical and prac-
tical motor power, and in view Of the
ease with which it is transmitted into
electrical energy it is strange that COM
munities do not more often avail them
selves of 1t.
As the result of test conducted by
the New York agricultural experiment
station it was found that in herd of
ordinary dairy cows there were sew
eral members whose feed bill for the
year was $3.50, while they produced
milk that sold for just $25. The farm
er in question had his. labor for moth
ing and donated $3.50 apiece on each
COW to slipshod and careless sys.
tenn of husbandry.
While 1t is true that much of the
misery that folks-bOth men and WON
en- and sometimes children
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lot with that Of more fortunate friend
or neighbor, it is likewise true that
consolation and comfort can often be
derived from the contemplation Of the
lot of another who Is not so happily or
fayorably situated-in short, through
realization of the fact that ones lot
might just as easily be good dea'
harder and more trying.
While cattle and hogs and some 9th
err animals are subject to the inroads
Of tuberculosis, it is q noteworthy fact
that goats are entirely immune. A
French authority states that ont Of
over 10000 goats and kids that are
annually brought to- Paris for slaugh.