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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
FEEDING THE FLOCK.
IrreguIarity In This Work Means Loss
In Fat and Flesh.

IrreguIarity In This Work Means Loss
In Fat and Flesh.
A good observer of sheep and lambs
has made the remark that sheep are
excellent timekeepers. They have no
alarm clocks of their own, but seem to
keep the sense of time very clearly in
their minds. so clearly, in fact, that if
you are disposed to be somewhat ir-
regular in your hours of doing your
farm work it would be best for you to
invest in an alarm clock for your own
use. In such case you can safely
charge the investment which the clock
represents up to the flock.
1t will pay you back with. interest.
In other words, there is perhaps no
other animal that is more sensitive
about being fed on time each day than
is your fattening lamb or sheep. Noise,
confusion anything, in fact, which an
noys and distresses the flock means
the loss Of good money making fat and
flesh to you. No one should be al
lowed to have any part in the handling
of the flock who is in the habit of los
ing his temper or who is rough in man
ner or speech when working about the
flock
AS matter of fact. so important Is
this matter of sheep feeding thai you
cannot so much as show a stranger
about the shed where the sheep are
being fed without the act costing you
in good hard money from the loss of
flesh which the distraction of the SEN
sitive animal will produce
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
DoN'TS.

Don't crowd stock in pens. Feather
eating.
Don't make roost Stats too wide.
Crooked toes.
Don't watch the spigot with both
eyes while profit from the bunghole
files.
Don't market the old ragtags of your
flock and get mad if customers quit
and knock.
Don't knock. The man who contin-
ually knocks is nuisance and STUN
bling block.
Don't think the cold is any excuse
for you to neglect regular feeding
hours and cleanliness.
Don't resent advice or the opinion Of
others. Give your own views calmly
and be watchful for information.
Don't get into a big squabble over
small things. BY such present indis-
erection you may lose future profits.
Don't neglect to follow up an ad.
query with second or third letter.
Perseverance is the business getter.
Don't have loose lime around for
-fluttering wings to send flying into the
air. 1t ulcerates the throat and wind
pipe.
Don't forget that skimmilk, butter
milk and the separated product are
better than meat preparations when
mixed in mash.
Don't stick the puff on the turkeys
face with pin or attempt to lance 1t.
Press it gently and the water will run
from nostrils. Give two grains of
quinine at night and put fowl in dry
place.
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inch groove, cut three-eighths of an
inch from the edges of sash, catches
any water that may blow under the
battens, and the same is carried down
on the lower sash. 1t is needless to
say that this house should have a
good foundation and all woodwork
kept well painted Curtains must be
so arranged under the glass that the
operator may at will exclude the SUMS
rays. If not SO arranged the tender
vegetables are very likely to be burned
up.
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front end, however, must be made of
brick and also covered with brick at
least eight feet from the outer end.
The inside dimensions are about II by
IA inches. A tight fitting iron door is
bricked in and the remaining portion
of the trench finished with stone or
cement. Thin stone may be used to
cover the top, or cement slabs may be
nodded A galvanized iron or brick
smoke 1ue is built at the rear end
and must be provided with good,
tight damper. The doors may be Sc
cured of any foundry and are not at
all expensive. The furnace and smoke
flue must be as near air tight as posi-
BILE, and no trouble will be found in
holding the heat at almost any tenn
perature between 70 and 1903 degrees.
A stick of cord wood placed on a live
bed of Goals will hold the heat at 100
for twelve hours or more.
For a dollhouse fifteen to eighteen
feet wide two of these furnaces are
used, and the fire doors may be outside
or have a roof over them, as suits
your fancy. Compared to steam or
hot water heat, the cost to install this
system is very small, and the expense
to operate will be still smaller. The
south, east and west sides and ends
are of glass. The north side is board
ed up and down with boxing or stock
boards, these covered with two or three
layers of tar building paper, and the
paper in turn covered with drop sid
ing. The gable ends are finished in
the same manner. The north ends,
also the gables, have several nail ties
for the boxing not shown in the draw
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
Tightening Fences.

For tightening barbed or other wire
In long lengths the farm wagon is a
very handy and efficient tool. One of
the rear wheels is, raised from the
ground, and the wire is passed once
around the hub and fastened to a
spoke Of the wheel. The wagon is
then braced by any suitable means
and the wheel turned in the manner
Of the mariners wheel. In this way a
pull Of hundred pounds on the tire
WIN exert force Of 40 or 500 pounds
on the wire.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
The Costly Scrub.

1t costs no more to support the well
bred animal than the scrub. and a
well bred animal, be 1t either for milk
or beef, will render better returns for
the food consumed than the scrub.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
Treatment of the HOG.

No animal of the farm will stand as
poor treatment as the hog and thrive
as well, says breeder. 1t can be said
with the same degree of truth that no
animal will respond more quickly un-
der good treatment By treatment l
refer to good breeding as well as good
care.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
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Garden
INEXPENSIVE HoTHoUsE.

Practical Structure For the Farm or
Suburban Residence.
ALI farmers and their families, as
well as people who live in the sub
urbs, are interested in .hothouses. The
illustrations in this article are nearly
self explaining, the principal feature
being the heating system. The cut
showing the exposed framework also
shows two trenches excavated the en-
tire length of the house. These
trenches are walled with stone, brick
or portland cement concrete. The
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-04
THE JAcoBIN.

When you sang,
Dove, doYe, sweet dove, fly down to me,
Fly from the housetop, fly from the tree,
you would surely have been startled
had Jacobin fiuttered down to your
shoulder. How dignified, how pretty,
they are in red, white, blue, black, dun
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

The business office equipment lacks moth
ing that could be thought OF.
Anything lacking? Someone replies:
What about dormitoies7 Why not have
sleeping accommodations2 One answe is.
is this a business building, with wide
spreading activities, small enough, and
too small in very truth. for all the duties
of daily life It aims TO discharge. Another
answer Is, to give up space to sleeping ac-
commodations that would be at all ade-
quats to the possible demand would mean
the abandonment OF much practical pub
lie service. Long and prayerful considera-
ton was given to that feature, but as real
work for a very large clientele was the
prime object OF all the striving that went
to the erection Of this home and school
and business building for women, sleeping
rooms had to be left out. 1t is a complete
structure for a large purpose as II stands.
solidly built on a commodious plan, very
tastefully and very substantially furnished,
and throughout gives to all who may enter
the feeling embodied in a couplet printed
in the report OF the association for 1895:
Home not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung and gilded;
A home whore affection calls,
Filled with shrines true hearts have
Duilded."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Hot Hunt for a Wedding Ring

he would try to find one in Chicago II
the bride would await his return at the
restaurant. He left his overcoet as a
guaranty that he would come back.
ONeill was unable to find any all-night
jewelry stores, but he found several
liquor emporiums. When he did not re-
turn to the restaurant at the end OF
two hours his bride reported her fears
10 the police that he had been murdered
and robbed. She said he had a wallet in
the inside pocket of his vest that con
tanned over $500.
In his fruitless search for a jewelry
store OMEN drank several highballs
and for a time ne forgot all about being
married.
An engine company responding TO a fire
passed him on the street and he tried to
follow the apparatus, He abandoned the
chase after running two blocks.
In the meantime the bride had been taken
In charge by the police. She was given
shelter at the Harrison street anncx-a
strange place to spend ones wedding night.
A description q the missing groom was
sent TO all police stations and before 10
O'Clock the entire night force was on the
lookout for him.
Some time before midnight OMEN wan
dered into a Clark street secondhand store
and bought a wedding ring.
The policeman recognized him as the
missing groom and took him TO the Central
station, where his bride awaited him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

Duffie. The republican mayoralty candi-
date Is self reliant. as his life long struggle
to make something Of himself would indi-
cate.
OF club life, as commonly understood,
John p. Breen knows little or nothing
When he plays golf he soes to the Field
club. and is considered a genial man to
play with on the green. BY right OF
ancestry, he has a sense Of humor that lie
not slow 10 bubble up. and can tell a
story. when in the humor. as effectively
as the average man. He canpot be called
a politician, because there is hat In him
that does not permit CHASING him with the
hail fellow well met bunch; but he Is
never unsociable. ana can be called John
Paul by any acquaintance who knows him
fairly well without the familiarity
%ruffling any feathers. He is no genius,
and does not pretend to oratory or claim
any of the ornate grace hat sits m
on some studious people; but he can be
called a solid man of excellent training
as to mind. and il a clean. earnest man in
all the relations Of life. He ought to make
a good mayor. and wants 10 make such
a record as will fit in with and fin out his
past years.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
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and a smaller room for the ordinary
group of contestants, there Is an audi
tOrium h is a real gem in the line Of
theatrical architecture. II will seat com
fortably, on the main floor and in the
balcony, 900 people, and Mr.. Thomas r.
Kimbali, the designer, has full reason to
feel proud Of the remarkably beautiful
place he has set in the interior of the
building for lectures, reoitals and club
meetings. 1t delights the eye, fills ones
ideal Of what such a hall should be, and
the acoustics are pronounced perfect. BY
a clever arrangement the auditorium can
be shut off from the other parts Of the
building, with an entrance from ST. Mary's
avenue, and thus shut off 1t has ticket
office and everything complete for the use
of those why may rent 1t from time to
time. The association expects substantial
revenue from this auditorium as its beauty
and hardness becomes known.
Women may bring their men friends to
eat In the cafe, but the cafetena Is for
women exclusively. In both rooms mem
bers Of the association are allowed a %
per cent discount. There are writing and
reading rooms, and magazines and news
papers OF current dates, and an employ
ment bureau that gets busy In a hearty
directory is also kept for strangers seek
ing places 20 live. and a check room Is
set apart on the main floor for packages.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

previous administrations. BY pushing and
planning and getting action in court
studying, trying cases as fast as they
could be reached, he managed to make
such a clearing OF suits against Omaha
on The various dockets that his successor
was made heir to but eighty cases, includ-
ing all the new ones that had not been
reached on the calendar. II is fair, too,
to say that several Of the cases in which
the city was interested took many days,
and some OF them many weeks. TO try.
His record as city attorney bespoke the
earnest nature Of the man. for he was al
ways at work.
Il play at golf" said Mr.. Breen, and
! Ikea game OF billiards. with an &C.
easionaI try at the tenpin alley. No. l
have never beaten DOGGY. and am not much
OF a success at the ether gaines, but / en-
Joy active exercise, and Il does me good"
One can easily believe this, for there is
no noticeable swelling Of the waist line
on the man.
MI. Breeh has been going Il alone In
other respects than as a bachelor. Single
harness fits him naturally. II appears. for
he has never INDUCED in a law partner
with the exception Of one year with Judge
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

The japanese farmers seldom live on
their farms. They have little villages of
wooden houses matched with straw.
Here they come at night and from here
they go out in the morning to work. The
people generally work in gangs. You sell
dom see a nan alone in the fields. A whole
fanily-father, mother, boys and girls-all
work together. There are many hired
hands, and the wages paid are exceedingly
small II is a poor part of the United
St0tes where a farm hand is not worth so
cents "a day and his board, or where he gets
less than SIS q month If employed the year
ound. The wages here without board are
16 cents per day for men and 10 cents for
women, with much less for children. The
work goes on from sunrise to sunset, and
ii is fully as hard as any on our farms at
home. Hands employed by the year re-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Educating the Farmers.

Indeed, the farmers of japan are rapidly
changing. There are public schools every
where and the boys and girls of the coun-
try communities attend them. Nearly
every man can read and write, and most
of the landholders know what is going
on as to scientific cultivation. The gov
eminent is doing a great deal along the
lines of agricultural education. 1t has
big agricultural colleges at Toxic and
Sappora, and there are thirty-six smaller
colleges which are teaching theoretical
and practical farming in the towns and
procedures. There are special colleges
in Kyoto devoted to the art of silk cul-
ture, and instruction is also given in tea
raising and in the other specialties of
Japan.
The government has $40 travelling lectur-
ers, who go from town to town and from
district to district preaching advance
agriculture to the farmers and instructing
them as to insects, fertilizers and various
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

tened to a piece of wood about the height
OF a table, so that all the grains are torn
off, you will have a fair idea of how the
Japanese get their rice from the straw.
The grains are still in the husks, and the
husks have to be taken off before it can
be used. This is mostly done by hand, the
grains In the shell being put in a mortar
and pounded with a wooden pestle until
the kernels are free. Some of the farmers
have rice mills. worked by water, and 9TH
ers hulling machines, worked by hand.
Much of the rice Is winnowed by machin-
cry, small hand mills being used.
A good rice field ought to produce forty
bushels to the acre. and some of the best
lands here produ,r more. Japan has al
together almost 200 different kinds of rice,
and it raises some of the best rio of the
world. Its finest varieties are so valuable
that much of them are exported to other
countries, the nation importing poorer kinds
at lower prices for its own food.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Among the Farmers.

] can give you no idea of the intensive
cultivation which Is going on here. The
whole country Is divided up into patches,
hanging In size from that of a bed quilt
10 tracts of an acre or so, and every bit
OF II Is as clean OF weeds as a government
How bed. There are no fences and one
looks ever n crazy quilt, made UP OF
patches Of many colored crops, bound to-
gether with the green grass which forms
the boundaries CT the fields. The Japanese
farms are, on the average, not more than
two acres in size, and only Is per cent Of
all the holdings are OF more thar four acres.
The ownership is widely scattered. There
are. altogether. about 5000, 900 families en-
gagged in agriculture, and many Of these
ave their whole living from two acres
OF ground. Others have small tracts of
their W and rent more. AS 1t Is today,
only about one-half Of the land is worked
by the owners. The rest is farmed by
tenants who pay a proportion of the crops
or high money rents.
But come with me and take a look at
the farming country It is nothing like
that Of America. There are no barns nor
haystacks. There are no big fields and no
cattle nor horses. The ordinary Japanese
farmer would look upon a Pennsylvania
bank barn as a temple and worship in 1t
" he saw It. He would look upon our
sheep as so many wild animals, and a
Pereheron horse or a Shorthorn COW would
be as much out Of pace on his little tract
as The traditional bull in the china shop,
This 10 30, Notwithstanding there are some
thing like 100000 cattle and horses in
Japan. Most OF them, however. are used
for freighting or as draft animals to carry
goods over the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

n melodrama that might appropriately
be called Fireman O'Neills Wedding
Day"
John M. O'Neill and Julia Williams are
the leading characters, relates the Chi
eago Tribune. Each is 20 years cid.
o'Neill. who prefers to be called Jack
is connected with the Boston fire depart
ment az the Bullfinch station.
II matters not how Jack wooed and
won Julia, as that has no part in the
story. Like Mary and John OF whom
the serio-eomics used to sing a few years
ago. they were in love with each other"
ana they decided to get married.
While dining after the ceremony the
bride CHANGED TO look at her left hand
and saw Il was devoid Of a wedding ring
She spoke TO the groom about II and he
said II had slipped his mind. The waiter
was called over and o'Neill asked him
" there were any jewelry stores in Chit
cago.
u don't mean a junk shop" said the
man from Boston. 81 want TO get a
wedding ring. DO they keep them for
sale in chicago?"
II was then 7 o'clock and the jewelry
stores were closed. O'Neill said jewelgy
stores kept open all night In Boston and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

ceive proportionately less. Including board,
men are paid about S5s a year, or less than
s. a month; the women get about "a a
month. In a government report of 1905 1
see that male farm laborers we're getting
less than $40 a year, and females less than
$40. There is a steady rise going on in
wage Of all kinds, and these cannot re-
main as they are.
In some cases farm laborers hire out to
work only On alternate days, devoting them
selves to their own little tracts of land
during the rest of the week. Boys are
often bound out to farmers for terms Of
from five to seven years. their pay being
little more during the time than their
board and clothes. OF late, 1 understand,
there has been a considerable movement of
the farming classes to the cities, and just
now there are many who are emigrating
TO Korea and Manchuria.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
stock Farming.

Within the last few years Japan has
done a great deal to improve it's live
stock. 1t had practically none of much
value at the time that Commodore Perry
came here. 1t has now 1000, 900, 900 cattle
and 1000, 900, 900 horses, and one can
buy good beef at all of the ports. When l
first came to japan it was impossible to
get anything else but timed butter. There
are now numerous diaries and fresh but
ter, unsalted is sold in most of the cities.
The masses of the people use neither but
ter nor meat. They live upon fish, rice and
vegetables, which they eat with a sauce
called soy.
The most of the soldiers who went from
the farms in Manchuria to fight the Rus
slams there made their first acquaintance
with beef in the consumption of canned
meats from America, and IL is probable
from this that a demand for meat may
spring up.
As to cattle, the government has now
an imperial breeding farm which is sup
piled with animals purchased by experts
who were sent abroad for the purpose.
The favorite cattle are Ayrshires and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

Mamma" said small Gregory, who had
been reading proverbs. II know why a
burnt child breads the fire"
why. dear2' asked his mother.
Because when he gets burned once, the
burn makes him smart enough - keep
away from the stove again.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

crops. Some of these men are present at
every agricultural show. and attend also
to the experimental farming carried on
at the public expense.
Japan has now more than 300 expert
mental stations, and there are other ex-
perimental stations established by the
farmers themselves. The first Of these
stations were organized by men from our
Agricultural department. and there have
been many American professors in the
colleges. Among the experimental sta
tions is one for the study of the tea
plant and of all modes of curing the
leaves and preparing them for the market.
There is also an imperial silk farm end
imperial cattle and horse breeding estab-
lishments.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
Banks for Farmers.

One feature Of the government help is
a part of the Japanese banking system.
There is one big bank, the Hypothec, with
a capital of 5000, 900. which loans out
money to farm districts and to farmers
associations and even to individuals upon
real estate security. 1t gives long time
loans, payable by installments and at a
low rate of interest. and 1t also issues
savings bonds, in denominations as low
as $3.50, for the encouragement Of thrift.
And then there is the Industrial Bank
of Japan, with a business of somewhat the
same nature, which has a capital OF about
Ss,OCO.OO0. and a number OF agricultural and
Industrial banks, each of which has a capt.
tai Of 500, 600 or more, which work in COM
bination with the Hypothec bank in loan
ing to farmers and to the cities, towns and
villages upon long time and at low interest.
All OF these banks pay good dividends
and are adding to their surpluses.
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
All Hand Labor.

on the other land the American farmer
would be lost II he came to Japan. II he
brought along a reaping machine, his
horses would trample down his neighbors'
crops while turning 1t around in his fields;
and, as fer a thresher, the people would
mob him for taking away the work from
the labor.ng classes. He could not use his
plows without he bought up a whole
county. and his fences would be useless, to
say the least. He would be surprised at
every step at the methods of good c%ultiva-
ton. He would see wheat, oats and bar
ley planted In series and transplanted
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04
harvesting Rice.

The harvesting OF the rice is even more
difficult than harvesting wheat. After the
grain is cut it has to be pulled from the
straw and be husked before 1t can be used.
II you win take a sheaf of ripe oats, and
then pull them over a cross-cut saw, fas-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

again in rows a hands breadth apart. He
would see these crops weeded as we weed
onions and would eventually see them
reaped with sickles close to the ground.
After cutting, the straws are laid end to
end in little sheaves and tied with a wisp
at the bottom. Each sheaf is then pulled
apart and hung over a rope or a pole, like
washing, to dry. Later on the heads of
the grain are cut off with a knife and
threshed out with a fail. In many places
the grain is winnowed by throwing it up
into the air, and in others the farmers use
separators or hand tanning mills turned
by a crank.