CAPE MAY COTTHTY TIMES. FRIDAY, APBIL IS. I»28.

Four

Cape May County

Of Interest To The Farm and Home

E/tiled by W. COLLINS THOMAS

Cumberlati County

Thomas ’Column

Better Lawns The same preparation should be used in preparing a lawn a.> that in planting a field crop. The seed hed should be thoroughl? prepared and the seed sown as soon as possible. We should start our grading operations immediately arid have a level, mellow seed bed. For soils that are low in humus content, a half ton to a toi of stable manure should be applied per thousand aquaic Icct. Th« best plan is to plow or fork it under with manure. It a persoi is willing to delay his sotting it is often a good plan to grow green manure crops for halt a tear or a year. When the lawn is to be established on excavated land perhaptbe best plan is to apply good top soil to the greded surface to ; depth ot four or five inches. In addition to supplving organic niatrr> or humus to poor soils, he should also apply a grx>d commercial fer tilim such as 4-8-4 or 4-8-7 at the rate of twenty-five pounds t< a thousand square feet. After the soil bed has been completed anti Wt hate taken care of the humus and plant food we must considei the kind ot seed to aow. This is a many sided problem and difficult to discuss briefly. There is some diflercnce of opinion as to what is a good lawi grass mixture. These opinions change from rear to sear. Oui fgHtt'Wt '* that a mixture of the following is a gtxsd all around Wimtla: Kentucky blue-grass, four parts by weight. Krdtop re cleaned, one part by weight. No white clover need be included un lett the person is desirous of having white clover in his lawn. It is ju®t a matter of taste. For the man in town who is not st particular and is only going to plant a small area perhaps his be» plan is to buy one of the lawn grass -fixtures sold by a rrliabh

local dealei.

The question of seeding is again a matter of opinion but we fee! that four pounds to a thousand square feet ur about a hundred and seventy pounds per acre will give

good results.

Clean Range or Close Confinement "Wage war on norms and diseases in poultry by raising th« clicks in dean environment." Tnis is the third rccomrorndation ii the health) pullet campaign which is being conducted in Cumber land County n:»h more than 200 poultrymen. The experts in charge of outlining the program for the paign realize that much of the chick troubles come from taminated runs or houses where old birds has* been kept. To avoid this trouble the range should be entirely separate from the premise* Where the laying stock is kept. Many good poultry iarnn in thi Vineland tract arc so arranged that there is a drive-way wit tight, high fence on each side separating the growing range f rhe old stock. On the*c plants the old birds art never allowed to on the pullet range. Having separated the pullet range from the prcmi'Cs of the old stock some poultrymen tollon the practice ot routing the position of the brooder houses on the range. The houses are in these cases portable and arc moxed to different poMtic.u the range each year sc that the growing stock has fair!) r ground to travel each year. The ground immediately in front oi the houses is kept plowed during the season that the stock is on it Liberal applications o lime are made to the ground that i- most

contaminated.

For those poultrymen who do not have sufficient room to tumish the growing stock with a dean range the practice of close confinement is advocated. By following this practice the stock can be reared in quarters where contamination from the old stock is reduced to a minimum. Domestic Clover Best In buying red clover seed tor spring sowing, farmers arc confronted with the question of whether to get imported vred with one pir cent, green stain or domestic seed w ithout any stai.t. The seedsman is apt to refer to the green-stained product as adapted seed.' Ti.n omething ot a misnomer. About the be»t that can be said of such seed, is that it has not been definiuiy proved whether or not it is adapted to our conditions. Most of the green-stained ared comes from Franc*. In the tests in which f rench seed has feeti compared A-rth domestic seed it has performed m various way*: sometimes it a " a* as good, sometimes not as good, and occasionally a little better, it he price difference is txrt as good, and occasionally a little better. It the price difference is not more than rhree dollars a bushel it woulo seem that the domestic seed . to be preferred to the green-stained seed for use in this section. If the green-stained seed is ured. it is well to sow it at a little heavier rate than the ilomcatk. Factor* in Successful Brooding What success Cape Max and Cumberland Count)’ poultrymen haxr with raising chick* will depend Izrgeix upon the attention they give to maintaining cleanlines*, plenty of room, and proper feeding equipment according to J. C. Taylor, assistant State poultry

Comments

On 1928 Planting

A Few Sidelight* in Addition to Those Given Here Two Week: Age

Largest Strawberry Acreage

The last issue of the monthly 'Kconotnic Review” issued by the State College of Agriculture con.nins a summary -of the Intended u-reage of New Jersey truck crops which should bo of some Interest

local growers who are still somewhat undecided as acreages they will devote

various crops- The Review shows (here will probably be an Increase >f 2 |>er cent, of tomatoes for market. However, the acreage of tomatoea for manufacture will be reduced about 8 per cent. With some if the small canners out of busi-

ihls year, this reduction can have much effect on the marThe sweet corn acreage

»hows an Increase of about 2 per

.-ent and the acreage of cabbage 1 discussion

Does April 22-28 O American Forestry Week ^ Mean Anything to YOU Read President Coolidge’s Proclamation

On This Page

! Ocean County Milk Dealer Convicted

Case Should Serve A Warning to Other*

Doings of Your Neigh 1 Farmers in this territory are j far advanced as he j making use of the sssh house for j at this time ot the y starting early plants, to a greater, • • • extent each year.. While the sash Theodore Crofter J bouse is not of as an elaborate ha* his apple orchi

construction «s the modem green - * - . v. v . . ! house. It serves the same purpose.

Conviction , of a high nusde-1 ^ fBr M starting early plants is

American Forest Week From A pril 22 to 28

A Proclamation to Thu Effect by the Prexident of the

United States U Given Below—One-Fourth of Soil in United States Best Suited to Forests

President Terms Forestry a

meaner *fn the recent case of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture against Keteel Dairy Co.. oi Occ-i; CcffiEty. rreoHed from the filing of a false affidavit tc evade the bonding feature of the milk dealers' licensing and bonding law. The case was tried at Toms River .in Monday. April 2. and followed closely after a ftne of 8200 had been Imposed on t >e same firm In a suit brought by farmers from whom milk had been pu.chased. The tatter conviction was based on the charge of securing money under false pretenses, due to tbe statement to the farmers that a liond bad been Wed with the De-

partment of Agriculture.

•These convictions should serve as a warning to all milk dealer*." said Seeretarr William B. Duryee.

i “to observe accuracy In tbe filing at ,* . o ! of Ihelr amdavlts. which the law National Responsibility u , t* none by June i of

each year The law U Intended to

up-to-date, and In * tkm. No doubt be Route IS who will

!» cement toad, a tbe dirt road great nuisance b_ ri~. irepes and t

concerned. ('baric* Creese, of Rio Grande., la the SEP farmer »" Cape Mav County who approaches nearest to using a green-house for early plants. In fact, his house la a small green-house, heated by a hot water system. Moat of the sash-houses are constructed, xs the name Infers, from regular hot-bed sash, at sash houses are heated by meat of the smoke pipe from a w«jd-

stove.

Mr. Creuse had quite a Urge number of fine, stocky tomato plants growing in his green-house two weeks ago. as well as peppers and egg plant* He Is sowing

cantaloupe seed in small clay, pots, as he prefers these to tbe]until Ute fall.

brooder house < this year by V Flshm. Clowe. From early i. fall, there are alwi shrubs In bloom i of Evans G. r

which Is one

along the Shore hyacinth* and ear

Slaughter's

Mrs. Slaughter < have a succession c

For several years a special week , nlng I- forest renewal; but 1 Industry for tbe is Wen set apart for public u»k Is stupendous, and we shouldi ? r farmrrr B-lnt In t*»scusslnn of our forests and of, permit no satisfaction over what, A [v ^ rt .

Increase o, ,o ,»».«« must be done ^^ «o fbe ^ !u £Kba* been a steady growth In the! and r«t»re Uj,®* Among the of wh * t rra * lr * 10 ^ m^nt It Is our Intention to pro**icresge of the latter crop and it V«cles racing ^for^p^rmt^n done. ___ cut,, every case where fraud I

well i

Mr. C rbi’barb. which he started under cold-frames. It was very Interesting to see rhubarb advanced as far as Mr. Crease had It two weeks

ouwT seem that an Increase UtUjfbla direction. American For«*t year would have a peer effec, on; Week has proved Its usefulness prices A. to be expected the In-i ond 1 am gladTo proclaim H again crease in string Wans Is per and announce that ‘f^da Is rent. Even though seed Is -ome- «**'“ concurrently ol-servin*

what ncarce and high In price the

good prices obtained from this crop las; year account for the big Increase In .acreage. IJma beans show an Increase of 3 pet cent, whereas green peas drop 5 per cent. Thl| is probably due to tbe Increase In the acreage -* *

similar week.

The rehabilitation of our forests demands first of ail that the fore*t fire evil W suppressed. Many of tW forested States, with the cooperation of tlmberland owners,

have undertaken organized protecbean* tion against forest fires; and In

Now. Therefore. I. Calvin t'onlldgr. President of the Coiled States of America, do hereby designate and set aside as American Forest Week the week beginning April ii and ending April

»nd the difficulty that some grow- ^ recent year*, under the Clarke-Mc-•rs have In producing a crop of [Nary law. tbe Federal Gox-eroment pea*,. The reduction in acreage hat given IU support to the mo eof peas should make this crop] menl. This great co-operative enprofitabie for those who are terprtee must be extended and

strengthened unUI every forested

28. in this year of 1*28.

mend to the Governors of the xa* rkms States .hot they also designate this week for special observance by' all our people; and that where practicable and not In con- i filet with law or custom. Arbor Day W observed during the course of the same week, i urge that during that week alt citizens and appropriate organlration.* —including public officials, legislators,

. business organizations, educators. count v in the Culled Slate# i* editors, clergymen, landowneis and safeguarded against forest fires, j qther»—Kl'e thought to the preserBut we -re still far from the; 'atlon and wise use of our forests,

goal of complete protection. Every

vble to grow

Peppers, cucumbers, spring lettuce. asparagus, and nrawbcr.de*

all show ( per cent Increase in oui *<«*•■* «••• •— •■*—■ •—

acreage Federal irporta on the goal of complete protection. i “,,‘^L " intention* to plant show that the j year, on tbe average. 80.000 fire»_ be ariopte<1

acreage of stre Wrrtes to be har-1 scourge our woodlands, siewtfly commyllle*^

vested this year Is the largest that undermining their vitality. Per ‘ ,1,, round y b.. CT.r »»o* » I Ihl. .iln.lk,b. lh- bl*. II. »*;•“» •* ”» »"» Whether the good prices in the| equally on us all. Public agencies ‘** 1 ot thc United State*, t" w past few year* will continue is ajraiely provide adequate protection ” - Wa.hinvlnn

question with, the big Increase In sgalnst fire, the timWilsni.owner U tbt acreage. Onions and cantaloupes u often Indifferent to his pApert*. ***** ^* r are among those crop* that have tbe forest worker la too often ne-j taken quite a decrease; onion*. 12 giectful to tbe future forwat. .the per.cent, an^cantaloupes a 30 average ^tlaw b •Hxr.edkS* “*

cent. drop. The onion derrrasJ IP less witli fire In me ItoAc’-

probably JiiaUiied In view of the n, UR t nil gain such reaper! for t^e fact that there will undoubtedly Wi forest that Us destruction through s larger shipment of Egyptian I indifference or carelewmeM shall

onions In ISIS than In 1S27 and i*- unthinkable,

an Increase in the acreage of We cannot ix-rmanenlljr abuse Southern grown onion* Those who; our forest* with Impunity, The are able to grow cantaloupe* well \ BO U Is the ultimate soukt* of all -homd be able lo realize bettwr ■ „ ur wealth and ot life lt*.-If. Oneprlct, with the heavy decrease ln!f 0ur ,h of our American soil l* ari '-age The Kx*onomlc Review j (l ,tted for foresl*. Much of also reports a 3 per cent, drop in' ,1,^ land U already WBe. More of the acreage of carrots and beets. | t | B he,-* made idlq by de*vtruc-

tlve loggl ag and fir*. Yet we can-

:• ; not safel) permit our foreat land

j to lie fallow and uselres any more

i.lttle Ilia, renc* 1 than we car permit our term* and

‘ factories to lie idle. '

To make our vast empire of forest land full) productive of continuous crops of limiter will have momentous consequences in oui national life. 11 wlH give agriculture the advantage of a new and valuable crop. It will allcird permanent employment to millions of men In the foreat Industries, l! will provide raw materials for many industries It will furnish traffic for our railroads. It w ill maintain foreign and domestic commerce. It will rescore our forest* as conserves of soli and water, and as givers of health and

pleasure to our people

Weal ready have made a begln-

l,ord one thousand

Kl nlhe hundred and twenty-eight, and of the Independence of the e rfifted'’States of America tbe one

, hundred aud fifty-second.

CALVIN COOLIDGE. I By the President: FRANK B. KELLOGG. Secretary of State.

Oh. the girlie* In Venice they never walk home. But they keep their Uihc figures

In trim.

When ocexalon den-ends it—lefi

pot li that way—

They Indulge in a vigorous swim

The re* —ctlvc values of thr need and at. m ends of seed potatoes have Jong been a matter of controversy among potato grower*. A study by the O. S Department of Agriculture, based both on practical experiments and ci literature n the subject. Indicates that there la little. It any. difference In the value of the two

sets for seed purposes.

SEMESAN BEL. a premier disinfectant for potatoes. Vineland Farmers’ Exchange. Inr., East Ave. and C: R. R.. Vineland. N.

J. —Adv.

bren practiced."

Early Planting Increases Yield Toms toe* PLnted May 1 to 15 Averaged 9.1 Tons

A surrey made with a number of prominent groweni of the canhouse crop last year showed that It coal an average of lllt.00 an acre to grow a crop. The survey also brought out the relation of thc yield to date of setting thc plant.-, in thr field. Tbe results o’ thin survey and thc experience o' many local gfowerv all point toward the possibility of tnercapIng the yield by early plo- Ung The survey showed that Soutl. Jersey growers who planted In the field between May 1 and M .y 15 got an average yield of k.l tons per acre; those who planted between May 15 and 31. 7.1 tons; those who planted after June 1. which Is the usual time of ’ planting In Cumberland County, averaged from 5.8 ton* for those who planted during the first ten days of June, to ions for tboee who planted las: ten day* in this month. Many of tbe leading growers In the county are making some plan to get at least part vl their plant* set In the field before thc first ‘ June. Other grower* who i Interested In raising at least eight ton* per acre should fall In line and make some r *paration tot setting the plants i.i tht field early.

Mrs. Slaughter. .’ to say. likewise

amount of i

of people who drt This should be. i an . uplratlc.it • t along the Shore their places clean i to beautify them Bowers. lawn .and as tbefr finance* wl reminds ns that said that "I do

Harold Hand, also of Rio Grande, has a very small house built on the order of a greenjse Mr. Hand prefers tbe solid ih-bar construction to tbe use of hot-bed sash, as he find* this type of construction admit* more

light. The glass Is supported by | having - —--rt. -. pipe standard*. ** they also ex-1 with ttie accuzto-—i

chide less sunlight than If he ' used wood for the same purpose. The house Is built on a brick foundation, which certainly adds considerable to its appearance. If nothing to lu usefulness. Mr. Hand grew some stocky tomato plants In this house, most of which he ha* * polled out In cold frames

sent.

Linnaeus Townsend, of Palermo, -has planted sweet corn. exrWeSU) going on the theory that the ’’early bed catches the worm.’ The experience of roost of <u In growing sugar corn la saCc 'ent to make us wish that w. uaght have more "early birds" —*11 of them expert worm catchers with enormous appetiller Walter Hand, of Burleigh. Is making excellent progress with his new home, which will be a very

when he i

:t i

gprtulix!

Keep

brooder no wrerp the patly coal.

chid i week*

'iouv dean at all rime- Attrr the tcurth week, thc ] hould be cleaned every fir day*. Remove rhe litter i and put in dean litter. Chick hoxr*. Iced hagt., other equipment should not he in the lk<»*icr house i is common to many poultry -arm*. It is safe to I cent, of the poultrymen crowd their chicks. Allow

Start Your Chicks Right BEACON

Fed Chicks

Become bigger and healthier hens, which lay more

and larger eggs.

Beacon Starter

pleted Mr. Hand M putting tbe ’'finishing touches” on the Interior of the bouse, and expects to move

In before many weeks

In spite of having spent considerable tithe building bis borne. Mr. Hand says that be hag bis spring work on thr farm Just abcut as For Sale—Salt Hay and

Red Skin Potatoes. ELLIS THOMPSON Dias Creek. N. I.

Bell Phone: C. H. 37-R-I5

rubbish piles

etc., which moat of i to confess we allow I S. B. Taylor and ■ May. are planting C acreage of early * ‘

(Continued on

- SEMESAN. I

Vineland 1

East Ave.. and land. N. J -J

I Farmers’ !

J. L. Dansenbi

LARGEST 1 Farm Machine! Repair Pai IN SOUTH J—' YinelaAd Faram' I East Ave. A C. R. I

Day Old ( Eight Weeks f 8. E. White I Pedigreed ! PINEHUBST PODLTBl A. G. WHETSET Chestnut Ave.. East o Vineland, H. j Phone—1831-R-2

sS \

f floor >

allow one ch

con£in

t of floor space alter rule* eliminates era

uipment i* essential. Moi

x ate lour to quarc foot of! ill allow one i ■ brood is *i\ !

Come and See It Plow STANDARD TRACTOR New Models Now on Duplay Both Riding and Walking Models Lots of Pep and Power 1 It plo*»—discs—harrows—seeds—cultivates—digs potatoes— * insts orchards or row crops—mows lawns or hay and weeds. Write or cuU for fiee catalog and demonstration. ARTZ C. KELLY • BK.U THOSE Weatwood Farm, Rio Grande, N. J. k

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AN ALL MILK RATION For further information see

M. COHEN—WOODBINE, N. J. FAGAN & FLEETWOOD. PORT NORRIS, N. J. T. C. FOX 6 SONS. Newlcld. N. J.. Sell lot. Agents.

r Mitall chicks, to! ks are oldrr. lYir

Sweet Potato Seed Sterilization

Better Baby Chicks S. C. While Leghorns Exclusively N. J. Certified and Blood-tested From rugged range-reared stock. Mature Hens of Proven Laying Ability Pedigree Males of High Production Lineage Develop Into Pullets That Pay. ELGROVE FARMS dmer-Willow Crow Wwa. Salem County P 0- Newfletd vvEG**ER BROS.

Bolen’s Garden Tractor

Which Will You Sa Y OU can save pennies or save chicks. F. tty yard facts show that ordinary untcj radons and mixtures such as hard boiled < and oatmeal iavc pennies but not chicks. aUy 5 o< c , of them die. Poultrymen who, making money invest one penny more per c« amdsixe 9010:00% ofUictr chicks. Th. 2 1 unna Chick Startcna, :hc buttermilk c

ration containing

Learn how to save time aun , erg)' in garden plowing, aeeili rultivcllcg. spraying and lawn mowing. Important new tool attaebments instantly Inirreturn, able. Snappy, powerful mot

Cod Liver Oif. We’ll be glad to tell you of a feeding plan that’s as simple as A B C. It saves chicks and brings them through to early

maturity.

paymen

plan

Wt

for

J. L. Danzenbaker and Son

FARMERS' SUPPLY of Cape May, Inc. WOODBINE, N. J. CAPE MAX" BOTH 1’HONES

CEDARV1LLE, N. J.