The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-08-30

Wnere Cnere is no water unQer pres
sure to refresh the parched lawn dur
ing the dry midsummer weather it Is
best to fores,o cutting it with a mower.
| When the rains come on and the grass
gets a good start the clipping may be
| resumed
Residents Of New Zealand have the
privilege of placing their own valua-
ton on their property for the purposes
of taxation, but use Of this power is
seldom abused, for the government
has the right to buy the property at
valuation given by the owner.
The teacher in the town or country
school Is very human, after all, and
will appreciate more than boys and
girls usually realize kindness and
courtesy on their part. The according
Of this kind Of treatment is a great
help to the teacher and reacts whole
somely on the pupils who practice It.
1t is a mercy to the played out and
decrepit old family horse to end its
miseries with a rifle ball rather than
to sell 1t for $3.50 to some heartless
brute who will exact the last pittance
Of toll from It and then kill It to boot
We don't believe that man will get
to heaven who does a thing Of this
kind. no matter how long he has been
an elder or deacon in the church
The plow is probably the oldest ag-
ricultural implement. The first pillow
used away back in the distant years
was merely crooked stick with a
tough sharpened point. which just
scratched the ground. 1t is long
step from this to the four horse gang
pillow which will turn over three or
four acres per day and the steam or
gasoline traction outfit which will turn
over thirty acres.
A pretty good way Of ascertaining
whether the price asked for a given
piece Of land is exorbitant or not Is to
find out whether the value Of the an
nual product of the soil represents a
fair interest return on the stated val
uation after expenses, taxes, etc., have
been deducted. Viewed on this basis.
hosts Of supposed land bargains now
offered for sale can only be viewed as
largely speculative propositions.
Folks who live In town and have
never had mail delivered to them by
the rural carrier have little idea with
how much expectancy the daily visits
Of the carrier are awaited. It may be
the daily paper which keeps the men,
bers of the rural home in touch with
the outside world or the regular letter
from the folks far or near. The writer
has received his mail by carrier the
past few months and realizes more
fully what the service must mean to
all the folks on the 10000 odd routes
over the country.
The lemon growers Of California feel
pretty good over the decision of the
interstate commerce commission in the
lemon rate case. Shortly after the
Payne tariff bill was passed increas-
ing the duty on imported lemons the
transcontinental lines coolly advanced
their freight rate on lemons to the
point where 1t nicely absorbed the ad-
vance which would have come to the
growers as a result of the increased
tariff. The growers appealed. and as
result the rate will be put back
where it was-$1 per 100 pounds
The area over which alfalfa. the
most valuable Of all the legumes, is
being grown is slowly but surely in
creasing. and the limits are being
pushed gradually northward. This
seems to be due to a better under
standing of the conditions necessary
and favorable to the growth of the
plant including treatment of the soil
with lime. incubation with the right
kind of bacteria and the putting of
the soil in the proper filth before the
seed Is sown. 1t is thought that the
area of successful growing of the
plant will be still further increased
when some OF the hardy varieties
brought from Siberia have been prop
agated so that seed may be had for
general use
One hundred and sixty-five trees in
one OF the handsomest and best kept
orchards in the locality in which the
writer lives came to an untimely end
last spring because of an ailment
which is generally termed ''sour sap"
This is a soured or fermented condi-
ton Of the sap of apple trees result
ing from rapid flow Of sap induced
by bright warm days in the spring
followed by cold frosty nights. This
condition seems to set the sap, more
or less seriously interfering with it's
circulation, at times killing the tree
outright or greatly impairing it's vital
ity. The fact that thiS sort ~ DOM