Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-01-09

full crop. In 1906 the yield was SO pei
cent. or just twice this years crop.
The average yield for the past ten
years has been 55.5 per cent.
While many residents of northern
states have lately emigrated to Canada,
there seems to be a similar exodus OF
ern states into old Mexico. Reports
from the City Of Mexico are to the eff
feet that within the last eighteen
months 10000 Americans have gone
into that country, mostly from Texas,
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, with
a few from some of the other southern
states
The time would seem to be not dis
tant when the farms of the country, in
addition to feeding It's inhabitants,
would also furnish the raw material
for the manufacture of large portion
of the coarser kinds of print paper and
furnish the alcohol needed for lighting
and heating purposes from inferior
fruits, vegetables, grain and vegetable
matter that under existing conditions
largely go to waste.
|. A perusal of the different instances
where little children are locked up in
the house while the mother goes to a
neighbours on an Grand and during her
absence the house catches fire and the
little folks are cremated would seem to
point out the wisdom of leaving the
house unlocked when 1t is necessary
for the elders to leave the children
alone. This would enable them to get
out Of the house in case it should catch
fire, while the chances are more than
equal that if they are allowed to run
outdoors the house won't be so likely
to catch fire.
If parents give their children the best
possible educational advantages with
In their means and strive to make the
home a place that is always whole
some and uplifting, they do them a far
greater kindness than they could pos
sibly bestow by scrimping themselves
and their young folks to the last notch
simply for the purpose of leaving
larger property to be divided at death.
1t is not what young people as they
start out in life have on their backs
or in their pockets that makes them
wealthy, but rather what they have in
head and heart This fact is one that
ought not to be overlooked
A reader of these notes who has
made somewhat of study OF the most
convenient and satisfactory scheme for
housing his hogs has lately constructed
hog house built along the following
lines: The structure is 16 by 4S feet,
made with three solid pens II by 16
feet or it can be changed by sliding
partitions into twelve pens 4 by IL
each. A four foot alleyway extends
the full length on the north side The
building has six windows and drop
doors on the south side to open in sun
shiny weather. 1t has a plank floor,
while adjoining on the south side there
Is concrete feeding platform 20 by 20
feet, with concrete trough on one side
While the growth of the sugar beet
industry is one of the undoubted de-
velopments of the near future, it Is
questionable If it is going to make ma
terial Roadway in localities where 9th
er farm crops are easily raised and
bring a generous return from the use
of the land. In irrigation districts,
where the weed problem is immensely
simplified, or in localities where foreign
help, which is used in the cultivation
Of the beet, is available beet raising is
sure to be extensively carried on, but
with the general farmer who has been
brought up with labor saving machin-
cry and has his riding planter, cult
vator, pillow and reaper and with whom
the hired man problem is a big one
the culture of the beet is likely to meet
with considerable opposition.
There is no tree, with the exception
Of the black locust, which is greatly
troubled with the borer pest, that will
the catalpa II any of our readers de-
sire to start a plot of this variety of
tree they should secure the seed this
fall, store them in dry place until
spring, when they may be sown in
rows one way, rows -four feet apart
and seed about foot apart in the row.
The young trees should be given thor
ough cultivation the first season. The
following spring they should be trans
ferred to their permanent location,