Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 25, 1893.
Farm Notes.
The waste occurring from fodder that
is left standing in the fields is equal to
an equivalent waste of hay, as it could
take the place of hay. If it isto be
used as food it should be kept bright
and clean, and every portion may be
utilized if it is passed through a cutter.
As soon as the winds, frosts and rains
of winter come the fodder shocks are
turned over to cattle to pick, the result
being that only a portion of the fodder
is used and a large proportion is
trampled. It is as important to pro-
vide a shed for corn fodder and straw
as for hay. There is greater bulk in
the fodder, which is an obstacle, but
there is no reason why this may not be
overcome by cutting up the todder and
storing it in bins, as is done with ensil-
age, or cutting it during the early por-
tion of winter, before the winds strip
the stalks of its leaves. In fact, any
method but that of leaving the fodder
in the fields, as is practiced by many
farmers, will be an improvement. A
trip along the line of any railroad in
winter shows hundreds of shocks of
corn fodder going to waste. Straw
will aleo be serviceable as food if cut
up and made palatable, with an addi-
tion of ground grain, as well as being
more serviceable as bedding it passed
through a cutter.
THE WASTE OF STRAW AND FODDER.
Experiments made at the stations
demonstrate that farmers do not ap-
preciate the value of fodder, and that
they could save a large proportion of
their hay by making use of both fodder
and straw as food for stock. Horses
that have been given no hay, and
which were kept on cut fodder, have
come out in the spring in excellent
condition for work, the only addition
to the fodder being a small allowance
of grain. Steers that were fed on a
mixed ration of fodder and straw,
which was first cut with a fodder cat-
ter, and the mixed ration sprinkled
with ground grain, have fattened and
greatly increased in weight, the cost be-
ing less than when hay was allowed,
owing to the greater value of the hay.
Every pound of bay or fodder that can
be utilized as food takes the place of
something more valuable, and this is
equivalent to an increased value of the
articles used. Ihe practice of using
straw for bedding the animals only are
not wise. By the use of a fodder cut-
ter the straw may be made palatable,
and the waste portions, or that which
is damaged, will answer for use in the
stalls. ?
VALUE OF CORN FODDER.
The value of straw and fodder is
more generally overlooked than that
of any other crop. With the prospect
of a short hay crop in Europe and a
possible demand for a supply from this
country, the straw and fodder that will
be stacked this fall possesses a greater
value than for several years. The far-
mers waste an enormous quantity of
their fodder by leaving it in the fields
during the winter. They take extra
pains to cure their fodder, and the
shocks are carefully made, but after
that the winds and rains have full
sweep until spring. Straw is stacked
carelessly during the hurry of thresh-
ing and left to become injured when
but a few hours of extra work would
enable the farmer to cap the stacks
properly and have the straw bright and
clear for winter feeding.
In arranging a poultry house the
roosts may be omitted altogether, or
should be very low. High roosts
compel the fowls to jump off atthe
rigk of injury, and at night, when get-
ting on the roosts the heavy fowls are
sometimes crowded off. High roosts
are unnecessary, and as roosts provide
harboring places for lice they may be
dispensed with and the fowls provided
with straw, which should be cleaned
away every day or.two.
When a cow or steer refuses food
there is a loss which will required quite
a time to regain. It is much
more difficult to get a cow back to her
quantity of milk than to keep her
there. By feeding the animals a variety
of food they will be so liable to loss of
appetite, and during the warm days
green food is more important than
grain.
Stacking the hay hurriedly does not
pay. Each stack should be carefully
topped to shed water. It is also of
importance to so stack the straw as to
have it clean aud bright instead of
damp or musty. At this season of the
year much loss occurs from careless:
ness or lack of experience in stacking.
If it can be done all hay should be
under shelter.
A Suffolk ewe was shown at the
Royal show the past season which had
five living lambs at her side 12 weeks
old, all her own, and having had no
other nourishment than that supplied
by the dam.
Reduce the winter stock of poultry
as much as possible to layers. These
will pay their way and leave you a
profit, whatever the cost ot feed may
be. Get all other stock ready for an
early market.
Every precaution should be used .at
this season of the year to guard against
fire. Accumulations of waste, greagy
rags, or of any material that may
cause spontaneous combustion, should
not be allowed.
The results of experiments made in
detasseling corn do not seem to justity
a farmer wasting much time in that
way. He can employ himself more
profitably.
Professor Henry shows by experi-
ment that it costs $2,61 to produce 100
pounds of grain with lamps, and $3,03
to produce the same gain with pigs of
about the same age.
London’s Great Buried Station.
The most remarkable piece of under-
ground London will ere long be found
beneath the most crowded of all spots
in the city. We refer to the large
space in front and about the Mansion
House, including in this the wide
entrances to Queen Victoria street and
Mansion House place, together with
the corners of Prince street, Lombard
street, King William street and Corn-
bill, and the paved open ground with
the trees in wooden boxes, and the
statue of Wellington, in front of the
western portico of the Royal Ex-
change.
Here will shortly be commenced a
vast excavation of oval form to make
way for a great underground electric
railway station, an extensive and
complex system of underground ways,
lighted and all hours, for the use both
of railway passengers and pedestrians,
and a still more elaborate system of
what are called ‘pipe subways,”
destined to receive our extensive and
over-growing lines of gas and water
mains, pneumatic tubes, electric wires
and like services.
There was a time when the engineers
of the Central London railway, which
is to run from this congested spot right
away west to Shepherd’s Bush, thought
it possible to coax the directors of the
Bank of England into yielding a little
space, for a consideration, out of the
somewhat extravagant slice of our
crowded city that their establishment
which has swallowed more than an en-
tire parish, now enjoys. But, as with
M. Jules Favre on a memorable histori-
cal occasion, their reply was, “Not an
inch of territory.” The city authori:
ties on the other hand, recognizing the
paramount and increasing importance
of rapid communication between the
city and suburbs, have extended to the
scheme a helping hand, only stipulat-
ing for certain things which they have
judged it right to secure in the interests
of the public.—ZLondon Nems.
An Emperor at the Plow.
In order to emphasize the importance
of the cultivation of the soil and to
‘encourage his subjects to follow agricul-
tural pursuits, the Emperor of China
sometimes performs certain rites at the
“Emperor's Field” and goes through
the form of plowing and other work of
the husbandman. One day recently the
Emperor set out at daybreak from his
palace, with a numerous and magnifi-
cent train of courtiers and others.
Before breakfast the Emperor arrived
at the shrines of deity presiding over
agriculture, and his majesty stopped
to offer up his thanksgiving and
sacrifices. After changing his dress,
the morning’ repast was served, at the
end of which the Emperor proceeded
to the field, at the four corners of which
were erected four pavilions, where the
seeds of wheat and other cereals were
placed.
In the center were numbers of mag-
nificently attired courtiers, each holding
aloft a many-colored flag, while on
the side of the passage were scores of
aged and white-haired farmers, each
having in his hand some agricultural
implement. Placing his left hand on
the plow and holding the whip in his
right hand the Emperor began the
ceremony of the occasion. By prear-
rangement the officers did their allotted
share, some wielding the agricultural
implements, while others scattered
seeds out of the baskets as if sowing,
while the Emperor was busied with
the plow, which was hitched to a
caparisoned bullock draped in yellow
and led by two of the Emperor's body
guards. On the Emperor finishing his
round at the plow the three princes
were ordered to go through the per-
formance, and after them nine hich
courtiers had their turn.—Pall Mall
Budget. :
Hardships of Life in the Polar Region.
The whole region is one of severe
cold, and the sea is frozen for the
greater part of the year, land and water
becoming almost indistinguishable,
but for the incessant movement and
drift of the sea ice, says McClue's
Magazine. In summer the sea ice
breaks up into floes which may drift
away by the wind against the shores of
continents or islands, leaving lanes of
open water which a shift of wind may
change and close in an hour.
Icebergs launched from the glaciers
of the land also drift with the tide,
current and wind through the more or
less open water. Possibly at some
times the pack may open and a clear
waterway run through to the pole, and
old whalers tell of many a year, when
they believed that a few days’ steaming
would carry them tothe end ofthe
world, if they could have seized the
opportunity.
At other times routs traversed in
safety time after time may be effectively
closed for years, and all advance
barred.
Food in the form of seals or walrus
in the open water, reindeer, musk ox,
polar bears or birds on the land, may
often be procured, but these sources
cannot be relied upon. Advance north-
ward may be made by water in a ship,
or by dog-sledge, or on foot, over the
frozen snow or ice.
Each method has great drawbacks.
Advance by sea is stopped when the
young ice forms in autumn, and land
advance is hampered by the long Arctic
night which enforces months of inac-
tion, more trying to health and spirits
than the severest exertion.
A Kindness,
“I did your book a good turn in
last week’s paper,’ said the critic to
the author. :
“Indeed ?" said the author,
“Yes,” returned. the critic. “I didn’t
mention it.)'— Puck.
——“Well, Willie, how did you like
it ?’’ asked the fond mamma when her
angel child returned from his first day
at the public sehool. “Bully I"
ejaculated the cherub with a new light
in his eyes; “but, say, ma, don’t call
me ‘ Willie; my name’s Bill.”
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LA GrippE.—During the prevalence
of the Grippe the past season it was a
noticeable fact that those who depended
upon Dr. King’s New Discovery, not
only had a speedy recovery, but escaped
all of the troublesome after effects of
the malady. This remedy seems to have
a peculiar power in effecting rapid cures
not only in cases of La Grippe, but in
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and has cured cases of Asthma and Hay
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——The watering-place girl says that
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time and tried many different remedies
without benefit, until Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy
was used ; that relieved him at once.
F. Potts Green.
A man never discovers how hard
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spade into it and make a garden.
——When weak, weary and worn
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Are ahead of them all, chief among them
is the display of pure liquors manufactured in
the state. It is conceded that no rye whiskies
made inthe world can, equal those made in
Pennsylvania, more especially Silver Age,
Duquesne or Bear Creek. These three brands
head the list of pure Ryes, and sre so well
known that every reputable dealer sells them.
North, East, South and West they Jead all
others, because they are pure ; because they
are reliable,and because they are stimulants
that strengthen and invigorate. They are
sold at prices within the reach of all, and are
sold upon their merits for purity and strength.
Silver Age, $1,50 ; Duquesne, $1,25; Bear
Creek, $1.00, full standard quarts. Ask your
dealer for them ; Insist on having them, and
if you cannot be supplied, send to Max Klein,
Allegheny, Pa. Price list of all liquors sent
on application. All goods packed neatly and
securely. Max Klein, Allegheny, Pa.
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BeLLEFONTE, PA.
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—[AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE{—
J CHOPIELDS NEW
HARNESS HOUSE,
We extend a most cordial invitation to uo
patrons and the public, in general, to witness
one of the
GRANDEST DISPLAY OF
Light and Heavy Harness
ever put on the Bellefonte market, which wiil
be made in the large room, formerly occupied
by Harper Bros., on Spring street. It has been
added to my factory and will be used exclu-
sively for the sale of harness, being the first
exclusive salesroom ever used in this town, as
heretofore the custom has been to sell goods
in the room in which they were made. This
elegant room has been refitted and furnished
with glass cases in which the harness can be
nicely aisplayed and still kept away from
heat and dust, the enemies of long wear in
lesiner. Our factory now occupies a room
16x74 teet and the store 20x60 added makes it
the largest establishment of its kind outside
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
Weare prepared to offer better bargains in
the future than we have done in the past and
we want everyone to see our goods and get
prices for when you do this, out of self defense
Jou will buy. Our profits are not large, but
y selling lots of goods we can afford to live in
Bellefonte. We are nol indulging in idle
philanthropy. It is purely business. We are
not making much, but trade is growing and
that is what we are interested in now. fits
will take care of themselves.
When other houses discharged their work-
men during the winter they were all put to
work in my factory, nevertheless the big (?)
houses of this city and county would smile if
we compared ourselves to them, but we do not
mean to be so odious, except to venture the as-
section that none of them can say, as we can
say “NO ONE OWES US A CENT THAT WE
CAN'T GET.” This is the whole story.
The following are kept constantly on hand.
50 SETS OF LIGHT HARNESS, Yee from
$8.00 to $15.00 and upwards, LARGE
STOCK OF HEAVY HARNESS per
set $25.00 and pans, 500 HORSE
COLLARS from $1,50 to $5,00
each, over $100.00 worth of
HARNESS OILS and
AXLE GREASE,
$400 worth of Fly Nets sold cheap
$150 worth of whips
from 15¢ to $3.00 each,
3 Horse Braghescuy Sombs
onges, amois, ING
SADDLES, LADY SIDESADDLES
Harness Soap, Knee Dusters, at low
prices, Saddlery-hardware always on hand
for sale, Harness Leather as low as 25c per
ound. We keep everythingto be found in a
TRST CLASS ARNESS STORE—no chang-
Ing, oyer Zo ysars indie sate room No two
sin the same town to cal trade—NO
SELLING OUT for the want of trade or pricet-
Four harness-makers at steady work this win-
ter, This is our idea of protection to labor,
when other houses discharged their hande,
they soon found work with us.
JAS. SCHOFIELD,
33 37 Svring street, Bellefonte, Pa.
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