PoUto Bugs. To destroy potato bugs without pot-' ■oe, Attach a heary rope to the riding cultivator. In snch a way that the loop will drag along over the rows of potatoes. striking each Sill with enough force to cause the bugs to fall to the ground In front of the cultivator shovels. where the greatest number of them will be buried In the soil, which will cause the tiny bugs to perish in a short time. Even the old fellows will bo off for quite a »hlK\ and many of them wll never go back to the vinos again. It may require'very frequent cultivation to destroy all the bugs, but the Increased yield of potatoes grown on account of frequent cultivation will more than pay for this.

Forcing Crops. When the farmer has a desire to force a crop, he must*Oil the soil with manure to such an'extent that It will furnish a continuous supply of material. so thoroughly decomposed that the soil may be kept Oiled with atoms of plant food that have united with both air and water, ana this formed molecules that are ready to be absorbed by the plant foods as fast and as long as needed. When plowing or clearing Gelds for spring, the most Important matter Is to clean out the fence corners. This should be done even If It . entails an extra Job after the plowing Is performed; they are sure sources from whence come most of the crop of weedo and seeds, which spread over the flelds and cause endless labor throughout the entire growing season. Farmers should plow as early as the soil will permit and keep It loose by harrowing, no farmer can harrow his ground too much. Harrowing adds to the expense of labor, but the crop Is better enabled to derive plant foods, moisture and warmth. as the One soil stores water that would be lost In summer on bard soils, and gives It to the plants when It Is most needed.

. Natural Swarming. .The swarming season is one of uniysual Interest. During May and June. If natural swarming is permitted, the apiarist Is kept busy hiring and caring for swarms. In a great many placee. July Is also a busy montu in the apiary. Some of our most prominent apiarists do not allow their bees to Increase according to nature, but make artificial ircease. They con be Increased In thirway at a time most convenient for the apiarist. Where one has out-yards to claim a share of their attention, this is sometimes quite an Item. The novice; however. If he Is keeping them for a living, had bettor let the bees do their own swarming. as artificial swarming requires the skill of an fexpeffefcced hand to make It a success- The. apiarist even If he has but a single' colony, must not wait till it casts a swarm before mak- * Ing some preparations for its coming. Hives-should be lu- readiness and everything which will be needed In the work of caring for the swarms should be gotten ready and on hand some weeks before swarming begin*, i -is will lessen the labor of the swarming period considerably. Many times a _ swarm will come out on Sunday, and In such an Instance one does not care to work hiving them longer than neceasary.—!>. E. Kerr. In the Epitomlst

Keeping the Dairies. Is It better to buy the cows we need to keep up our dairies, or shall we depend on raising our own calves? This is a thing which interests most of us. for In some way or otner we must have cows from time to time to replace such as are taken out for one reason or another. One man will tell os that he can do better to go out and buy his cows, without being to the trouble and expense of raising them. By watching his opportunity he can pick up here and there such stock as his dairy requires. But It Is to be noticed that men who depend on thla way of getting their cows are almost always changing their stock. • Perhaps they would rot sdralt that the reason why they do this is because they have not succeeded In getting as good cows «s they want, but far more often than we suspect this Is really the cass.fThe man who selects calves from his best cows, from sires of known good qualities. and carefully rears them, knows about what he may expect. Now and then be may be disappointed, but the chances are that be will get what he seeds oftener than he would If he went out and bought of strangers, n It not often a man will sell the best cows out of his dairy. If be does, he expects a good price; and It Is better to psy that for a good cow than to give a low price for a poor one. Then, there is a pleasure In seeing on«V own calves grow up. From the start It to a

This ptoasure increases as tl lee. Everyoilag coni ered. toll not better to grow our o

cent, la New York Tribune Fanner.

Killing Peach Tree Borers. Uy experience with cool Ur to prevent the Injurious-work af the peach tree borer extends over a period of u years. I was -am Induced to fry this remedy by a frteod. *

trees every year and I never fall to make a thorough applloattou of the Ur. With an old paint brush I put It upon the trank of the treea before setting. spreeding the Ur from the roots up the trank from • to 11 Inches. I am careful to remove any borers that may be In the trees as they come from the nursery. I keep In mind this tact that the coal tar will not kill the borer deeply furled under the bark, but will prevent me moth from depositing Its eggs at the base of the tree. Tho application of the Ur must be made an nually thereafter, being sure to flnlsb the work, before the moth begins to fly. which I believe Is from June 1 to IS usually. In making these annual applications It to necessary to Insure success, that the earth be removed down to the roots. The bark from the roots up 8 to 1! Inches must be ccm pletely covered with tho Ur. in case the tree is sufiering from the effects of the shot hole borer at fruit bark beetle. 1 know of nothing that Is equal to the coal tar as a remedy. In case of mechanical Injury to s tree, the tor to hotter than any paint or wash we have ever tried. We have used It so many year* under varying conditions with such good results we are unable to appreciate the stale ment that Prof. M. V. Sllngerland always make* when writing or speaking on this subject, “to be careful In the use of coal tar. for we have heard that It will kill peach trees." In reviewing the experience that I have had In using coal tar, I feel that I have the right to say that we have proved that coal tar will not kill peach trees when properly applied. It to ihe best appll cation to prevent the ravages of the peach tree boro known to me.—S. W. Wadhams, In American Agriculturist.

SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS-

In the PIJa moon tains. Honduras grow vines varying in diameter from four inches to two feet, and attain ing a length of 100 feet, from which can be obtained a gum resembling .that yielded by the India-rubber trees Benor David, the governor of Comaya gua. recently visited the region where the vines abound. He says they thrive at great elevations as well as at lower levels In the valleys, and In hie opln Ion the rubber produced from tuem to superior In quality to the Para aril-

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS.

Westville and )fc’oodbury people are petitioning the gat company to lumitn lollar gat. Rudolph Sever* and Jo*ei>h Johnton ttxve been elected corporal* of Com-

cle.

For forty years physicists bare bees Booking some substance to servo a* a Bergen, cutting off all the light and beat-giving rays of the spectrum, while allowing the Invisible ultraviolet rays to pass. Finally. Prof. R W. Wood of the Johns Hopkins unlver ally has discovered the long-sought substance, which boars tile unpopular name of ‘'nltroso-dlmethylanlllne.' When combined with cobalt glass, tots substance furnishes a screen which allows only ultraviolet ray* to. poar through. The dtoeoverey is of Importance for some difficult scientific Investigations.

, . —-war mstche* arc a nightly ocI rurrence in fr6nt of the Shiloh post(office. The home team ha* a ‘'pull" hard to beat, and team* come from s • distance to give them a ■'tug." ! The' Williamstown Board of Educa[lion ha* purchated ton* of coal, and I tebool children feel that no vacation

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Three OootUCrop*. # Alfalfa. Canada peas and clover have become generally recognlxed as three American crops at the foundation of all good farming, and without them It would be difficult Indeed to keep up the full fertility of our soils and provide good food for cattle. Canada field peas In the more northerly tec tlon of, states when sown with oats and cut' for hay. make moat excellent returns to the acre. Canada field peas furnish a good crop on fair soil, and they help greatly to make a good crop of winter food In the form of hay. Alfalfa has such • reputation In parts of the cattle raising states of tbs west that nothing but praise to generally beard of It. But one should be a little cautious In experimenting with this crop in .’sections where It bar not . proved its worth. A goofi many lands and climates appear unsulted to alfalfa. Just as they are to Canada

field peas.

It must be remembered that these two crops hare been produced In theli Ideal condition In states where dove! was either consider*! unsuitable or too expensive and difficult to catch. Unquestionably alfalfa would succeed on many soils where today it Is unknown, but wisdom requires that one should be satisfied that his fo-m vs adapted to It before plunging In too heavily. One of the mistakes made In modern farming Is to attempt the Impossible; that Is. try crops that have proven successful In other parts of the coun try. but not yet tried at home.. A good deal may be said In the same vein about clover. There Is no question in the minds of eastern farmers about the great value of this crop, but southern and western farmers will cot have clover as a part of a system of rotation where they can use alfalfa or southern cow peas. Clover cannot be abandoned today any more than many of our other old crops, but It has lu particular territories, and » should not be the part of any Judicious farmer to condemn all farming where it is not used as the foundation of all other crops. Our agrlcul tural experts are gradually expert meriting with the different crops and tin specified territories

One of the carious things that men of science have discovered In their Innumerable efforts to measure and map the earth with the least possible errot to the fact that there are places where the direction of a plump-iine to not vertical. Irregularities of density In the crust of the globe may produce thla phenomenon. A remarkable la stance has been found In our new Island of Porto Rico, where the deviation from the vertical to so great tbot, | la mapping tue Island, the northern and southern coast lines, as shown on the older mat*, has each to be moved

Inward half a mile.

Gloucester i joisnty would now be in operation. Pittman cottagers arc now planning for a large casino to be built between

i now and next summer.

Cape May Court House people were all excited a few mornings since by the finding of some dynamite cartridge* and fuse* bidden in the cedars near the | road to Benny’* Landing. Joseph Douglas* explained that he had been using them to blow up stumps. A hickory that had stood the storms of ■ hundred vears at Dias Creek is no more, having been felled by high winds. After a woodbine man had scoured

the country buying up eggs at a high

to thorn. When we know exactly where to limit the clover line, and where the alfalfa and Canada field peas and t£>e southern com peas, there will be leaa haphazard recommends tlon of crops for parts of the country where they will not prove successful.—Dr. A. T. Morse, In American

Cultivator.

A doctor writing from Port of Spain. Trinidad, to a medical Journal, tells, of his experiments with mosquitoes | He says that one of hU chlldtaLamusements, when playing with hit, companions la the early evening, wai to strike a note that would attract' the Insects. As he remembers, tbs most alluring sound was a continuous | "oo," sung In a medium key. which was quickly changed to "ah." in a lower tone and dwelt on In the sami way. The effect on the mosquitoes j was magical. Their singing wroul^J quickly Increase In volume, and the) would Immediately attack ihe^face^ei the children, who. strange to say. en I joyed the e-port. But the mosquitoes did not enjoy It long, for their lavs of music afforded an excellent oppor

tunity of kming them. ^

cd them in every direction. Some farmers in Gloucester county whose cornfields were levelled to the ground by the rcccnl storm have sold the entire fields as they see to partie* who are buying up corn. Pcnnsville farmers are cutting immense quantities of second crop grass. The Elmer Board of Education ha* found that it is necessary to increase the school room capacity, and will fit up another room somewhere as soon as it can be obtained. The Mantua township Board of Education has yet been unable to secure a principal for the Pitman school, since the death of Professor Stratton, wh was killed by a train recently. Walter Rammel, of. Williamstown expects to^lear $iaoo from his fifteen acres of late tomatoes if the frosts hold off. , W. H. Charles, who for several year* has been secretary of the P. R. R. Y M. C. A. of Trenton, has resigned to accept a similar position in Cincinnati. Desoite the fact that many new employes have been taken' on the pa»t week, the plant of the Welsbach Light Company at Gloucester City is working

Professor O. Darwin give* hit sanction to the calculations of Mr J. H. Jeans of Trinity college. Cam bridge, on the changes of figun through which our earth has passed It gradually reaching its present shape At one Interesting stage In Its devel , opment from a nebulous mass iht globe was probably pear-shaped, anf the transition tolls present form too)_ place through a, series of ruptures. It' spite of the consequences of these ruptures. It is suggested that the aortl still retains traces of a pear-shape* configuration There are Indication! that the axial point at the large enf of the pear was situated in the neigh borhod of England, and that the stall i end was In Australia. Along whs* would have been the equator of the pear now runs a circle of volcanoei and earthquake centers surrounding the globe, and this to accounted tot by the consideration that the equa to rial tone of the pear-shaped figure must have been the region of the greatest displacements and change* of curvature during the transition la

a spheroidal shape.

Al the annual meeting of the W'om sn’s Christian Temperance Union in Millville the following officers were elected to serve for the coming year; President. Mrs. Sue Ireland; corresponding secretary. Mrs. Hcttie Torrens; recording secretary. Mtp. Sanh Barnes; treasurer. Mrs. Rhoda M. See-

well.

Albert Graeff Shafer is a musical prodigy of the Txrst order. He is only four years of age. yet he can sing the most difficult pieces of music- He has been spending the summer at Pitman with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W'illiam A. Shafer. He get* up in the morning singing and sings himself to sleep at

light. Ray

lying with his pet dog. little 2-

Poultry Not**. Dry coops, air stoked l!m'\ and a dry yard will promote health and

Evaporltlng eggs and camphor balls are being used in nests to keep out

The wisest time to market poultry early, before the market to forced down by the rush. Poultry raisers and the poultry business In general are said to be gaining In profits and popularity. Chickens are the beet foragers. They will, eat many things bogs will not If cut and fed to them. Don’t overcrowd a boa in setting. From U to 18 to enough, owing to the hen and the time of year. To follow gcod methods to one of the The off-

on the Boor. Rub off the perches with cool oQ. . Scrub poultry Is as unprofitable as h to a to the moot

they top while taking care of their brood. It to Bet always a sign that

The Harm the Sheep Dolt has followed Inevitably that the forward lapping tide of settlement

, the''animal into the street. where he was .run down and instaptly killed by a trollev car. his body being horribly mangled. The dog ran baek to the mangled corpse and tried to resist the efforts of men to get it from under the car. Garfield Chamberlain, the motonnan, was so overcome by the accident, that he was unable to rcsunir

work.

The building of a four-track trolley

line from Gloucester to Atlantic City, with a line of ferry-boats to connect the first-named place with Philadelphia, is the purpose of Wilbur F. Sadler. ,o( Trenton, one of the most successful ind active railroad promoters of the East Mr. Sadler outlined his plan by saying: “The road will be used for both passenger and freight service. Two of the tracks will be for passengers and two for freight. The comS my will carry hs passengers from loucestcr to Philadelphia by the means of three handsome ferry-boats, which are now being designed for that

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TEE PRESENT DAY Embracing An account of the Aborigine; The Dutch fa Defanvare'Bay; The Settle* ment of the Count]*; The Whaling; The Growth of (he VHiagea; The Revolution and Bafiiots; The publishment of the New Government; The War of i8is; . The Progress of the County; and ^ The Soldiers of the Crvil War BY

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on the western ranges. Now it to a curious tact that the very odor of sheep drives cattle from a good range to a poor one, even though the sheep may etlll be miles away. The fundamental trouble to that sheep ore destructive to the range. They eat a country bare, and In a bad oe^pn will even crop down a forest of young pines. The well known explorer John Molr, hit on an apt phrase when he dubbed them "hoofeh locusts.” They

sharp, chisel feet 'driven by a hundred weight of solid flesh and bone, cut out evqiy- blade of grass, roots and all. The vegetation to killed for years to come, the ground often being ■tamped into a rock-like cement Now In tbe arid lands every bit of vegetation, whether It be trunk, leaf, bough or root, nerves ns a conductor of water through the hard afrface. The conaer ration of the water supply depends on vegetation. Just aa vegetation la turn depend* on It Failing water finds no

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ground without seeping In. In a coontry ahere the vain* of land may be stated la tanas of water this to aoth-

used to be a level country, these being fine to the rainfall running off last and

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purpose. Tbe whan at Philadelphia sill be between the present wharfs oi ie Pennsylvania and. Reading fer*ies. The road will be fitted out with nod"ra automatic electric signals, and die company will have its own telegraph and telephone system along the jne. Tbe cars will be of the Pullman type and will be capable oi running lixty miles an hour. It is yropoied to •un the entire fifty-two miles between be two terminals in lest than an hour. It is proposed to run both exprest-and iccommodation trains for passenger*. Phe former will make no *top* between Gloucester and Atlantic City. Tbe toiler will stop st stations to be built Uong the line. A big powerhgnse wifi be built half way between the two cities, with a capacity of 20,000 horse-

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