> SECTION 3 E MAY I COUNTY

CAFE MAY COUKTY TIKES. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1327.

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OF INTEREST TO THE FARM AND HOME

Edited by W. COLUNS THOMAS

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

[OMAS’ COLUMN The Highway Sign Nuisance LTSliTrtf T I ? f,, p' arr !r' Wrfk - W nati ^ that comI*!.?-? *'J/ U P™ were very conspicuous It was indeed a pleasure to drive alone this bv mmi^i \° n0, h 7 Vr i, ,hr vir "- oi ‘he landscape , by commercial s.Rns ot all condition, sir^-. color and sudj as Rreet our summer visitors when drivine ghways to visit the seashore resorts. ... *K° V «*>'«?«»* of ape May called our attention £!'°w * S " rX, ‘“ * lon K J br Shore Road. leadinR from ■pe May. We agree w-,th h,m that it i> nv>«t unfortunate. 1 u 00 E Co ' mty " i,h "“^"ful bathing beaches. Wight by hundreds of thousands of people each year tanty cannot boast of such beautiful natural scenery as » many other sections of the country. We should not J Undscape. attraction as the County may possess to be L, racc ^ commercial concerns to out-sign each other, ■d Win possibly greater favor by spending their sign |row bushes and shade trees to help beautify the highway. • w-e venture the guess that their praises will be sung wr signs have faded, rotted and blown down, thing. Several weeks ago County Agent Stabler pointed lone of the prettiest shade trees along the Shore Road, ““t Rio Grande, and deplored the fact that it was all c -» with *' n «8 n ‘. tacked on it. He said that he thought « mould be a movement started to prevent such abuse o s which remain along the highway. We thoroughl' “ *tim, as do many other people in the county. » condition, together with the butchering of the i trees, prompts us to ask: why cannot Cape have a County Shade Tree Commission, as 1 of the resorts have, and as has been provided for in fttte Legislature?

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Treat Peach Trees Now For Borers l trees may be treated with p-c-benzene to control peach ^_ . e from now until about the fifteenth of October. J to the state experiment station. As all experienced peach • know, the borer attacks the tree near the base, causing an t loss of tree sap. If the insect is not controlled in some ■ the tree eventually may become almost completely girdled

I result die.

» were once killed with a stiff wire run up under the bark, t with a knife. The use of p-c-benr-ene. which gives off 1 exposed to the atmosphere, has highly simplified control . The method recommended by the station, and now I by orchardists. is to apply p-c-bcniene about the tree r conrinuou- ring, approximately two inches from the N allow the chemical to touch the tree. Cover the h three or four inches of dirt, free from trash, aboo' the tree. Pack the dirt with a hoe or with the titcs are heavily infested with borers below and above I, divide the application into two parts. Apply half ounce I level and mound with dirt to a level even with the highest S of the borers. Then apply half ounce at this levrl.- Cover per application with three or four inch* of soil. The usual f application is three fourths to one ounce per tree when th> I ate trom three to five years of age, or older. If the trees an r small, use half ounce. When p-c-benzenc (paradichlorobenzene) is used on jf trees between three and five years of age. remove the K mound after the worms are dead and throw fresh earth Cbbou, the trunks. It usually takes three weeks to kill the

About Those Pullets and Breeders t will not be long before all of the pullets on range will have moved into permanent quarters. Thuae coming into production | be gathered up from time to time and placed in the laying ~ • loses the phief value of early hatching if the birds are i remain on range alter they come into production. Good acttces can be followed to best advantage after the birds td, and the chances of avoiding a fall molt enhanced. 1 greatest problem of the poultryman will be to get the i consume sufficient scratch grain to maintain their body . If barley can be obtained, it can often, be included in the > good advantage. About one-third of the scratch gram i be made up ot barley . Use good wholesome grains and w a good system of daily management to encourage maxir consumption Electric lights from five in the morning until k should help to increase scratch consumption.

Success with chicks next year is dependent upon the f'-type of birds entering the breeding pen and the method 1 of handling the breedris. After a year of production, the birds selected will be in a run down condition It mil take at least three months to rebuild them and dunng tha - time \ . no eggs should be expected. Allow them to molt, and. if •*£ wceiaary. force rh<n, into it by taking away the mash, or by discontinuing the lights. Through the rest period, house rScm comfortably. Feed growing mash with cod liver oil ‘ and plenty of green teed and allow free range. Care at thus ' •easoo. will'be wflectcd in next spring's hatches. F Growers Find Hill Selection of Seed Pays

Fortunately there ;

wee: potato rai‘*e .serious pe Miy and Cumberland : several available means : this I os*. And the nre■d to their value is saving e an excessive amount of

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of the Storage house, the promt, hill selec Kato seed should he > ie best yielding hills.

t certified seeds, sterilizaticn

d in the field at di the stems down t It the stem is blac

Planting of Trees and Shurbs Timely

Many Authorities Agree

That Fall Is Good Time Many people are no doubt woi dering If it Is nafe to plant trn and nursery stock at this time • the year. According to many at ihorlties a tree or shrub planted In the tall has as equally good chance of living as one planted

In the spring.

Each root that has been during the process ot transplanting has had an opportunity to heal over properly, and the plant Is all ready to put forth first opening of itprlng. Another great. item In favor of (all planting is time. people there Is generally Hme In the fall of the yeat for planting nursery stock than there Is In the spring. There Is so much to be done around most farms and homes in the psring that the planting of nursery etock and tree* Is postponed, and as a consequence the planting of new ■lock 1* often neglected until a couple of months of the best growing weather have gone by. It Is perfectly all right to plant fall fruit tree* and nursery stock. If the planting l« properly don*- in the rase of trees and shrubs, it Is well to draw up a small mound of earth around each of them about ten Inches high, this to lie removed In late spring.

Peaches Rot In Storage At Glassboro Growers Will Sue the Plant Unless Settlement Is Made Compromise Being Sought

Jersey Produce Goes to Canada and 29 States 734,483 Packages Certified During the Month of August Alone Shows Wide Distribution

Growers who had stored Iheli peaches In the Itepp Storage riant at GlasHboro estimate their losses to be between *100.000 and f125.000. most of the fruit

having spoiled.

The growers contend that the orage plant was not at the proper temperature when the fruit The -storage plant maintains that the peaches wer entered so that It was impossible to get

temperature down to the

proper degree of coldness to pre-

- :nt the fruit spoiling.

There are about Otteen men j Rhode Island and Virginia, who have been mainly affected | Fourteen thousand bushels of •y the loss of their fruit, several, ^ plants were distributed, f them suffering the xreatesl. „ lons consunn.r* | n Connecticut.' losses are Howard Porch. James! i||i n< „. Massachusetts. .Michigan. Kincaid. Edward Miller and Wll- f York. Ohio. Pennsylvania.

Rhode Island, and Canada.

Poppers totaling liS.OOO bush-

During August alone. 731.483 packages ot produce were certified. as being free from Japanese beetles. 4or shipment to points outside of the State, according to a report from the State Department of Agriculture. These shipments went to twenty-eight

States and to Canada.

Nearly 109.000 bushels of New Jersey peaches were shipped during the month to Connecticut. District of Columbia. Indiana. Kentucky. Massachusetts. Maryland. Maine. Michigan. Missouri. | New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania.

State Poultry Banquet Oct. 13' Elaborate Preparations Are! Being Made One of the most fe* casions of rhe entire State Poultry Convention that Is to be held at Atlantic City October 11-15 Inclusive. will be flu- banquet that Is ncbeduled (or Thursday evening. October 12. at the Ohalfonte. The committee In charge are elaborately preparing to make this one of the best gatherings of chicken men and their friends ever held In New Jer-

sey.

Entertainment, gool speerhen. and dancing are In order in addition to a splendid bill of fare. Tickets for the banquet are now being sold and can be secured trom any member r>i the committee In charge of the ronvendon or at the Countr Agents office.

liam Kincaid.

Porch estimated his loss at 110.000. George Marshall.

College Makes Plans For Its Winter Courses Cost Estimated To Range Between $170 and $193 Each Graduates Are In Demand

torney. Is representing the growThe growers’ attorney Is attempting to effect a compromise I “tween the storage plant and the growers. It Is Indicated that the growers do not desire to bring suit if they ran agree on some rea-sonahle basis of reimbursement, with the storage plant. Mr. Maishail. who is looking after the interefts of the growers, said that unless some terms were arranged immediately, a damage suit covering the entire amount of tne estimated loss would be

Olcd ‘n court.

Plans for the winter abort courses in agriculture, a regular part of the instruction at the State College of Agriculture at Rutgers I’nlverslty. New Brunswick are completed. They Include live special and one general j According to the printed announcement now being dlatrlbuted i.e college special courses are offered in dairy (arming, dairy] manufacturers, fruft growing, i vegetable gardening, and poultry husbandry. Graduates at these courses are ‘.rained for actual practice on their own farms or to fill responsible positions in specialized fields. The course In general agriculture covet* a wide range of sub Jects Intended to give the student a broad knowledge of advanced farm practices and Is designed for persons who have not had much farm experience or for those wfvo do not care to spe-

cialize.

It Is stated that, although the college doe* not guarantee positions for Its graduates, those who have adequate training and ability are always In demand. The Institution has not been able to supply the demand for welltrained orchardists. poullrytnen. dairymen, vegetable grower*, and general farmers. Tuition in the winter courses Is free to resident* of New Jersey r 16 years old and who have I a grammar school education its equivalent. Expenses for books and room, and Incidental* are borne by the student. Figures compiled by the college indicate that these range between »1 To and $193 for an individual.

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Grange Calendar Cap* May Granq*—Meets every Tuesday ereninz I. O. M Hall Di Creek Francis Douglas*. Uaau: Newton Schellenger. Secretary- • range—Meets first and Mechanics Halt. Tucita- - L Yerkea. Maatrr Mrs. Rebecca Gandy. Secretary. uth Seaville Grang*—Meets *ecand fourth Tuesday evenings of month in the P. O. S. ot A. . South Sea villa S E Slone. I«r. Mrs Melvin Abbott. Secretary. Cold Spring Grang*—Meets every Monday evening In Cud Spring Grange ". K. Reele*. Master Otway Secretary ig In ?hc" Grange H»fi *o r ed Eutrtken. Stcbbtns. Sec-

firandi Mrs. Utlh

Sweet Potato

Seed Selection Important To Select Seed As Vines Are Cut Good seed, (etrllizer. and cultivation are all necessary for th • growth of a good crop of sweet potatoes. "All thi* is in vain If we do not have the proper seed." ray* C. H. NtaBley. Vegetable Specialist, of the New Jersey

Agricultural College.

Several of our Important field diseases can be controlled by treating the seed before planting In the beds, but stem-rot. one ot our most prevalent disease* in

potatoes, cannot

Connecticut.

Illinois. Mamachusett*. Michigan. New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. Vermont. West Virginia and Canada. More than half of New Jersey's Augu.-: shipments of 145.000 bushels to tomatoes were sold In Marylaipl. while the remainder w-a. sent to Massachusetts. Illinois. Connecticut. Maine. New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania and

Rhode Island.

Twenty thousand bushels of a .total of 131.40U bushels of apple* went as far west as Michigan in August. 33.000 bushels to Pennsylvania. and the remainder was distributed among ithe States of MaasarhUM'tt*. Maryland. Kentucky. Indiana. Illinois. Georgia. Florida. Connecticut. North Carolina, Ohio. Rhode Island, neasee. Virginia. West Virginia and the Dominion of Canada. Massachusetts received 92.000 bunches ot New Jersey carrots, while Pennsylvania received 28. 000 bunches and New York 4. 910 bunches during the month.

Uses For Sandpaper

A package of gmonted -andpaprr is used by one housewife' in numerous ways. She says: "Now that canning time is li re and the now tops are hard to tighten. I find a piece of sandpaper plao-rl over the top and used as a cloth Is n great aid. It doesn't slip. It is also good for sticky Irons. Rub the iron over it a few times and thr iron w-ill become shiny and Fmi.*‘*.ili I use a fine grade to clean the brown stains on enamel ware and

glass baking dishes."

In marketing fruits and vegetables no one factor is more important than careful gradinc It constantly adhered to It builds good will and create* confidence.

Mike Piccolo. Three Keys Farm Shore Road, has some extra fine quinces. Quinces wake excellent Jelly, and we wonder if they couldn't be more extensively grown in this section and a ket for thorn developed. I

doesn't already exist.

S. E. Stone. Courety Vocational Teacher. Is away on his vacation at the present time. County Agent Stabler and Vocational Teacher Reeve* spent Monday of this week at Trenton arranging the Cape May Pomona Grange

exhibit at the State fair.

William Congezer. Shore Road farmer, had a whopping big cantaloupe on exhibit at the county fair held at Wildwood. We presume he raised it from seed he obtained from California this spring. We expect to have a report in next week's paper on the success Mr. Congezer had with Uhls variety of cantaloupe. "Apropos of a recent article In the "Times” suggesting owners of gas stations and road stands makg their places neat and attracve. WUHani Dahl, of Eldora. rely deserves commendation In ils respect. Motorists stopping j at his store and gas station on j the highway all remark about the beautiful mass of cosmos and zln- ' nia- Dlanted so attrnrtlvelr mak-

Quinces For Sale Extra Good Quality. Fine for Jelly and Preserving $1.50 per Vt bushel basket Three Keys Farm Shore Road. Two miles north Cape May Court House

Ing It a pleasure to stop there." Arlz Kelly. Rio Grande, had a patch of early potatoes which yielded 300 bushels per acre— and then some. He would not permit us to publish the "then some." for fear that someone might doubt his word. But it was a yield that was very creditable to Cape May County and we are sure that Artz has never

given us any reason for thinking he may have slipped a few baskets over from an adjoining Even though condition* for ualryinx may not be as good In the nor.hern section of Cape May County as In the lower part, we have often wondered why someone bos not established a retail route In Ocean City. Can any ot our reader* tell us why there i* not a good field for a real dairy' farm in the upper section of the county? We presume there Is some reason, otherwise it is more than likely that there would be one there. Two domonstratlons of the selection ot sweet potato seed to precent stom rot were held In Cumberland County last week. One was held at the farm of Phillip Caocamo at South Rnsentaayn and the other was held at East Vineland. Planning Trip to West Howard B. Hancock, prominent fiatimer a:;d agricultural lender of Oumtierland County, and Mr*. (Continued on Page Three)

Wholesale Retail FRESH FISH and Clams Caught Dally Bivalve Fish Mkt. Phone 85 Bivalve

Of Interest To Farmers! We still have a fall line of Farm and Garden leidi All stock fresh and true to name. Peas, Beans. Onion Sets, Grass Seedy, and all other seed varieties. Come in and look ns over. HARRY SOLOF, Inc. Farmers' Supply Store 21 E. Main Street Millville, N. J. Bell Phone: 386

A good condition powder for horses consists of 1 pound rosin: 1 pound of sulfur:

con- pound gentian root; Vi pound

trolled by this method. The ape-, saltpeter. One tablespoonful in clallst suggests that the grower feed once dally,

select bis seed from the field

the vines

do thi*. rhe grower should spilt the stems .and If zhere l* any discoloration in the stem, the whole hill should be discarded for seed. This method of selecting seed potatoes has been practiced for the last seven yearn and Is the only method that we have at the pr*2<ent 'time that la showing any results. A number of East Vineland grower* are using this method ard it is expected that there will he an Increase In the number of men using thi* method this season. Any grower contemplating using it in the selection of his seed can secure aiwistance and information from hi* County,

Agents office.

To remove chocolate or cocoa stain, sprinkle with borax and

soak In cold water.

A 100 bushel crop of corn (grain) to the acre removes from the soil 148 pounds of nitrogen, equivalent to almost one-half ton of nitrate of soda; 23 pounds of phowphorou*. equivalent to 400 pounds of aoid phosphate and 71 pounds of potassium, equivalent to 166 pound* of muriate of A 300 bushel crop of potatoes remove* from the soil 63 pounds of nitrogen, equivalent to 400 pounds of nitrate of soda: 13 pounds of phosphorous, equivalent to a ’mle over 200 pounds of

scrubbing the front porch acid phosphate and 90 pound* of put out a "smallpox ' sign so] potauwium. equivalent to 222 people won't track it all up I pounds of muriate of potash.

-i«P, Gran^t— Meet* first Tu»*d»y Hopewell. Kinest *P* I1 f>rrr. Ms»trr *tmr> D. Mil'er. Secretary. Ccdarvtlle Grang*—Merit first and uvu* T !!, UT OM l^wla Iiaroea!. MaMrr. Laren Clunn. Sec-

E. J. RUBRIGHT SOUTH SEAVILLE, N. J. Won the Poultry Display Prize at the Cape May County Fair. He has been feeding Beacon Feeds exclusively to both growing and mature stock for the past four years. RESULTS obtained by actual test ing BEACON FEEDS against his own mixture, and other special rations, governed his choice of BEACON FEEDS. RESULTS COUNT. Try your pullets on BEACON EGG MASH and be convinced by the RESULTS obtained — not by high powered salesmanship

tributor M. Cohen Woodbine, N. J.

Fagon and Fleetwood Port Norris. N. J.

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