Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-05-14


/ reason. The joy which child expert
ences in earning and receiving a few
cents is greater than such feeling ever
experienced afterward
We sometimes find that wells can be
contaminated by underground streams
quite as effectually as by the seepage
which goes down from the surface.
! The drainage from the barnyard often
gets In in this way Investigate and
save doctor bills.
Reports on the sheep industry are to
the effect that there are 100000 600
less sheep IN the world than there
We're in. 1873, thirty-fve years ago
This shortage, coupled with the enor-
mousIy increased demand for wool and
wooden products, would seem to be
sufficient to account for the prevailing
high prices of the present
While they now and then commit
depredations in the poultry yards.
hawks and owls are rightly classed as
benefactors rather than enemies of the
horticulturist, farmer and gardener
The good these birds do as destroyers
of mice, rats, gophers and rabbits more
than offsets their sins in the manner
mentioned Everything should be done,
therefore, to protect these silent, sharp
eyed feathered friends.
| 1t beats all how tight some folks
hang on to the almighty dollar and
even smaller denominations here on
earth when there is not ghost of a
show that they can take penny along
with them when they die. Money only
possesses real value as it Is put to
some good use here below. While we
are told In sacred writ that the abode
| OF the blessed is paved with gold and
| has jasper walls, there is no intimation
| that medium of exchange will be
needed to buy bread and meat or pay
coal and ice bills.
With the average yield of corn the
country over but twenty-six bushels
per acre, there would seem to be all
kinds of room for the continued
preaching of the new "corn gospel.
If the yield for the country could be
doubled-that is, put up to fifty-two
bushels per acre-there would be added
to the value of this one cereal crop an
nually in the neighborhood Of $1,000
100000. Considering the fact that
many pieces of land have produced
hundred bushels of corn or better per
acre, a fifty bushel average would seem
to be within the limit OF possibility.
If one is OF that precise, neat dispo-
sition which looks with disfaver upon
leaving the leaves on the lawn through
the winter. an excellent disposal of
them il they are not used for covering
flower beds or banking the house Is to
use them for bedding for the horse or
COW. In this way they go out on the
compost heap and are returned to the
land as fertilizer, where they rightly
belong. The common method of burn
ing them along the roadside is one that
has the least to commend it, for there
Is no return to the soil Of the fertiIiz-
ing elements which the leaves contain
The department of agriculture at
Washington prints and distributes an
nually 100000 pieces of literature
OF this number 100000 ave farmers
bulletins, which treat directly with
problems having to do with the various
agricultural and stock raising activi-
ties. Most of these may be had for
nothing by applying to ones congress
man at Washington or may be secured
at small cost by sending directly to
the department at Washington Some
one has suggested that the benefit of
these bulletins would be vastly in
creased If they were placed on sale at
the different postoffices of the country,
a plan that it would seem worth while
giving a trial.
While half crop which sells at
twice the price which prevails in sea
son of full crop has this to COM
mend it-that the work of securing the
smaller crop is not so great-such
crop condition nevertheless has decid-
ed drawbacks. Among these may be
mentioned the fact that the grain sell
ing tendency, which with most farmers
does not need any encoi1ra qaInpnt is