Sr
Bellefonte, Pa., December 25, 1903
EE ESSAI ES.
FARM NOTES.
—Neglect and carelessness cause disease
among chicks.
—Over-fat hens lay small eggs and but
few of them.
—Feed regularly; give the hens good
food and they will pay.
--White-washing the poultry house is
seasonable at any time.
—The cheapest ration for a horse is 10
pounds hay, 1 pound cotton seed meal, 2
pounds bean, 8 pounds corn, which costs
17.4 per day. The feed bill and shoeing
should cost for the average horse $100 per
year.
—The hog is not able to endure severely
cold weather, yet it is kept in the most
uncomfortable situation of any other ani-
mal. The pig pen should be well littered
and dry, and the shelter should contain no
cracks or openings for draughts of air.
—Cowpeas are being generally recog-
nized by fruit growers as the ideal orchard
crop.” Is furnishes humus aod traps
nitrogen. In a young orchard she vines
should be worked into the soil with a cat-
away barrow in the spring.
—.-Strawherries will grow on almost any
kind of soil, but they prefer a location on
which the soil is a deep loam, with a com-
pact subsoil. As weeds do great damage,
especially during the second year of the
crop, much time can be saved by selecting
the location a year or two in advance, and
cultivating such crops as corn and potatoes,
which clean the land and leave fewer weeds
when the ground is occupied by strawberry
plants.
—--Diseases of animals are more easily
prevented than oured. Hog cholera pre-
vails in all directions, but it is more fre-
quently due to the condition of the herds
and mismanagement in feeding than to
any other cause. It is essential that hogs
have green or bulky food; also salt and
charcoal. These substances are not pre-
ventives of cholera, in a direct way, but
they keep the animals in a more thrifty
condition and render them less liable to
disease. :
—Straw is relished by stock at times, as
may be noticed when cattle have access to
a straw stack, even when they are well
fed. Straw alone is not of value as a food
to any great extent, but it becomes serv-
jceable when it is made a portion of the
ration. No kind ef food is, suitable when
it is given every day with nothing else.
Many foods consist largely of water, con-
taining but little solid matter, but such
foods became more valuable when given as
a variety because they promote digestion
and prevent waste.
— Disease in flocks is easily communi-
cated. The disposition of some fowls to
pick at anything on the ground renders it
necessary that all sick birds be removed
from the flock on the first appearance of
illness, as the droppings, the drinking at
the fountain and the contamination of the
food may induce the spread of disease. In
cases of roup the discharge from the nostrils,
which is one of the indications of the dis-
ease, is sure to come in contact with the
birds, either from the ground or the drink-
ing water, no matter how clean the water
may Seem. ’
—The principle test of whether the sow
is a good milker or not is the condition of
her pigs and her condition while sackling
them. If they do well, and she eats lib-
erally, keeps up good health and diges-
tion and at the same time gets a little thin
while nursing them, it is pretty good evi-
dence that she is a good milker and will
do to keep as long as her usefulness lasts.
But look out for the sow that fattens be-
tween farrowing and meaning time. Her
pigs either die off or become 1uuts, for she
is not making the use of her feed that a
good mother should.
—The farmer’s living-place should be a
home to him. He should plan and calcu-
late thas there be will become a citizen, a
factor in his community, a part in the
civic life of the State and nation. There
he will rear his family ; there he will plant
and sow, and expect to harvest as he has
sown; there he will do the full labor of his
mature manhood; there he will enjoy the
fruits thas come to labor well done, there
repose in the blessings of a life well lived.
There are many details for making the
"house of the home a livable place that will
be studied aud woiked out by a home-
loving hushand and his home-making wife,
bus there are features that belong to the
landscape that are too often overlooked.
There should be tréed’and vines around the
home, to contribute beauty and shade.
There may be no money value, bat there is
a value none the less, ina shady place
where the birds may build and the chil-
dren play.
Mauch of the life of the busy housewife
on the farm is spent in her kitchen, and
many a wife and mother has made such a
kitchen a hallowed place—a place that
children grown big have loved to remember
and look back to as one of the sweet things
of childhood. The outlook from this
-kitchen shonld not be to a pile of old lum-
ber, a pig-pen or a waste place of weeds,
but there should be a grape-vine here, a
flowering shrabthere, a stretch of good,
wholesome green grass, a cherry-tree, a
plum-tree that will bloom early and an
apple that will bloom later, and as the sea-
son advances will bring forth fruit that
shall ripen, and suggests to the worker in
the house that the time of the falling leat
is not wholly a time of sadness, but more
gloriously a time of fruition.
When these trees are to he planted,
don’t crowd them or plant them so they
will crowd each other in a hundred years.
Let the air and sunshine get in around
them, and the eye see far beyoud them to
other trees in clumps in the pasture—see
the growing, waving, ripening fields of
grain, the marvel of the growing corn.
Don’t be stingy with the land when the
trees that are so make the home beautiful
are planted. Land is not so scarce as all
thas, and perbaps if one hasless land he
will find the greater profit in working it
better. These trees and vines are for eye
and soul rests for the busy, patient kitchen-
worker. She deserves the best the home
can give her. Les her have is.
There are other trees to be planted—for
shade, for fruit, for profit. All she untill-
able places should have them in abundance
_—at the drinking-places, along the lanes,
where the land washes, where the stream
runs through the meadow, they all should
bave their trees. They shonld be for
beauty, for fruit, for lumber, for renewin
fences, for the winter fire, and for the
uty of the home and the farm, and for
the enlargement of the life of the man who
plauts them.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
To-day the fashionable girl coils her hair
low on her neck, and it is especially with
this style of coiffure that she needs some
dainty ornament as a finishing touch for
the top of the coil. The very latest novel-
ty of the moment is a graceful feathery
spray in the form of an open pond lily and
a bud. At one side of the coil of hair the
lily and the bud are caught, while at the
opposite side is a smaller bud and a leaf.
Contentment is a valuable gift when
there is really no reason why one should
be discontented. But quite frequently
contentment is merely a prettier name for
laziness.
Dyed lace is now a feature of many of
the smartest gowns. Worth is using a good
deal of silver with blond lace, and. the
heavier makes are dyed to match the new
shades of royal blue, golden brown, etc.
Fancy applications—squares, lozenges,
rings and diamonds—ate in great demand,
and into these are introduced touches of
turquoise, pale green, poppy red and silver.
Shirred effects are becoming more and
more popular and are adding to the full-
ness of the skirts.
A woolen cloth wet with gasoline and
rubbed on porcelain sinks, bath tubs and
marble bowls will remove the dirt, leaving
the surface clean and bright.
If your little child is just recovering
from some ochild’s disease and does not
grow strong rapidly give him a salt bath,
recommends a Rural New Yorker corres-
pondent. This may be prepared with the
sea salt purchased from your druggist or
from superior dairy salt. The water must
be as warm as possible and a good sized
handful of salt added. Rinse off in clear
water and rub until the body is in a
healthy glow. The bath should be taken
immediately before retiring for the night.
Much originality is possible in designing
the table decorations for a Christmas din-
ner.
The character of the trimmings will de-
pend to a certain extent upon the nature
of the hospitality itself. They will be dif-
ferent for a formal and an informal feast;
for a large family reunion and a small
guest affair.
A generous bowl of shining apples is
sometimes as beautiful as costly lace or
satin and American Beauty roses at this
season.
Another effective table has for a centre-
piece a Jerusalem cherry tree, with many
berries, the earthen pot being concealed by
tissue papers matching the red fruit, bound
in place by a bit of green ribbon.
This, in turn, is practically concealed by
a mass of fruit, oranges, apples, grapes and
raising, with green leaves at intervals, all
so arranged as to form a kind of pyramid
toward the top of the plant. Another dec-
oration, very suggestive for an evening
dinner, is a tiny tree, whose many candles
furnish the entire light for the table, and
whose branches bear nuts, bunches of
raisins and crystallized fruits, the whole
made glittering by the use of a very little
cotton sprinkled with diamond duss.
At a more formal dinner a slender glass
vase, whose base just fills the centre of a
holly wreath, may stand upon a white
damask cloth. The branches of specially
chosen holly which fill it are so high shat
they do not interfere with the guests seeing
one another. Four candles in glass candle-
sticks are shaded by green shades,to which
tiny bunches of holly are fixed. In and
out around the central vase and the four
lights graceful curves are traced on the
cloth in holly leaves, gathered at the con
ners in festoon fashion, with a stiff rosette
of scarlet ribbon.
at table, is in this case quite justified by
the results, and the effect is further en-
hanced hy the use of name cards to which
sprigs of holly are attached hy ribbon
knots. An amusing feature of this dinner
wight be the serving of the Christmas
goose, accompanied by av appropriate verse
for each guest from the nursery Mother
Goose bouk.
A very artistic Christmas dinner table
is one in which mistletoe is prominently
used. The table linen is of ecru tins, and
the round table accentuated by dividing
off its centre from the edge, where the
utensils are set, by a wreath effect, exe-
cuted in the wine-colored shades of galax
leaves. >
These are sewed flat on a piece of tape
and sceured to the cloth by occasional pis.
As fous equally distant parts of this circle
are placed cups, seemingly of mistletoe.
but really of ssiff paper. to which the
mistletoe is sewed. In each of these is
placed a candle *of: ecru wax, unshaded,
like those of our ancestors.
A delicate line of mistletoe leads from
these caudles to the centre of the table,
where is placed a flas bed of the same wax,
like flowers, from which rises a highly
polished brass loving cup.
This, in turn, holds roses of deep cream
color, the edges of the petals just touched
with dark sints suggestive of the galax
coloring, and so few in number that the
beauty of each rose can be fully appre:
ciated.
While a little late to have pictures taken
for Christmas, the suggestion of a well-
known photographer iu regard to the dress
thas should be worn in having a picture
taken is well worth considering for future
occasions. The most elaborate dress, he
says, unless artistic—which the ‘atylish”’
dress never is—is bound to look queer and
old-fashioned in the lapse of years. Study
old pictures that are famous and have stood
the test of time. In almost every case the
bair dressing is simple and the dress such
that *‘style’’ has no part in. Avoid bows
in the hair, exaggerated sleeves, tight,
high collars, an overplus of jewelry. Try
the effect of a shawl thrown over the head
and shoulders, or an ordinary dress with
the collar tucked in and a soft fichu hung
loosely round the neck. The uses that a
piece of soft muslin or woolen shawl may
be put to in photography are infinite, and
many up-to-date professionals now declare
that these simple little properties often
produce thie’ most charming effects when
photographs taken in elaboiate dresses
Lave been discarded.
A charming candlestiok for decorating the
table for Yuletide festivities is in the shape
'of a rose, holly red in hue, made of some
composition that is firm enough to hold a
candle securely. This rose ie set firmly on
a rose stem wound about to make it wtiff,
and foliage naturally arranged. Half a
dozen of these with red candles would
‘make the prettiest possible decoration for
the table as Christmas time. 3
An: appropriate and suggestive deco-
ration in a tiny Chiistmas tree, made of a
{ =p11g of cedar planted in ewall pots of real
The use of ribhon, not usually desirable :
earth, for each place. Cover the pots with
red paper or with green, and a rope of
holly. The name card can be stuck up-
right in the pot, just as you have noted
the name of a plant on stiff paper.
—The town of Karthaus is soon to have
a large fire brick works the matter hav-
ing been consummated whereby Lock
Haven and Karthaus capitalists will go to
work erecting same at once. The Clear-
field “‘Spirit’’ says the moving spirits in
the subject at Karthaus are S. J. Briel and
Dan Reiter, who have purchased the site
of the left bank of Mosquito creek atthe
upper end of town and within gun shot
fire clay and coal have been purchased
from S. J. Briel to operate same. Mr.
Briel. however, reserved the potter’s clay
and other clay on this tract, the purpose
being to erecta red brick works in the
very near fatare.
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