Pemorealc Watcpane
Bellefonte, Pa. April 23, 1909.
FARM NOTES.
—Try baking the earth to kill insect life
and weed seeds before you start seeds in
the window box.
—Both sweet peas and vegetable peas
like deep, cool soil. Plant them just as
early as you can get them into the ground.
—1If the horses are taken off dry feed, al-
lowed to ran to grass and work bard on
hot days look out for colic. The horse
that sweats freely is in good condition.
—By placing a ball barrel with top and
bottom removed over clumps of rhubarb
will give you early pie-plans for the table.
Superphosphates work best in the garden.
—Don’t bein a burry to remove the
mulch from the strawberry patch. Wait
until all danger of early frost is past.
When yon do remove rake it between the
rows.
—The world’s production of sugar within
the last 20 years hos nearly doubled. In
1887, 17,000,000,000 pounds were pro-
duooed, while in 1807 32,000,000,000
pounds were placed on the market.
—Plant potatoes as early as possible for
the early crop. A friend of ours in Maine
writes that he pus in his potatoes last year
before the frost went out of the ground,
and *'T got a big crop and was first on the
market to boot.” .
—New York alone has nearly 5,000,000
actes of meadow land npon which upward
of 6 000,000 tons of hay are raised every
year. In the United States approximately
60,000,000 tons of timothy bay are grown
on about 40,000,000 acres of meadow land.
—Coburn, Agricultural Commissioner of
Kansas, declares thas the Kansas hens pro-
duced more money than those of Oregon,
Vermont, North Dakota, New Hampshire,
Florida, Colorado, Delaware, Rhode Island
and nine additional States and Territories.
—Professor R. A. Moore says that pains-
taking in breeding corn has raised the
average corn production of Wisconsin from
25 bushels per aore in 1901 to 41.2 bushels
per acre in 1907. This increase is worth
striving for in every State and on every
farm.
—The average dairy cow is at her best
between she ages of 7 and 10 years. There
is a gradnal increase in the milk yield up
to about 7 years of age, and a slow, gradoal
decline after the ninth or tenth until the
twelfth year. After their period of profit.
able milk production has passed dairy cows
should he kept dry and fattened for heel.
—Do not dehorn dairy stock after the
middle of March in central latitudes. As
800 as green hees come they are almoat
sure to lay eggs in the wounds which batch
maggots. The dehorning itwell is a severe
enough shook to the cow, avd the ravages
of maggots will almost finish the animal.
Dehorn as cold weather comes on, rather
than at its close.
—Start sweet potatoes in hot beds this
month.
There's a heap o' satisfaction in knowing
that you've done your best, even if the
thing didn't ‘pan out’ well.
Don't he ina hurry. When ground is
wet it i= not good to work it.
The first seeds to grow in the garden are
weeds. Get alter them early.
—It is hess to prune shade trees in
summer. Never leave a ragged wound.
Such is likely to canse decay. Sommer
pruning includes fruit bearing, while win-
ter praning encourages a heavy growth of
wood.
To hasten germination, make the soil
very fine and compact it well about the
seeds for close moisture contact.
—Anpimals of the same variety are not
alike, and scarcely any two will do equally
well on thesame food. Each animal's wants
should he well supplied, it possible. Cat.
tle of different ages should be separated for
feeding, as the weak ones will not do well
with the strong. Cows are weak and shy ;
it takes them longer to eat their reals and
they should therefore be pus where they
oan not be domineered by superiors in
strength.
—1# has been found by practical experi:
ence that properly fertilized land will con.
sinae to grow large crops of hay for many
years. Professor Voorhees says that an acre
at the New Jersey Experiment Station has
been treated to 100 pounds of sulphate of
potash, 100 pounds ground hone aud 50
pounds nisrate of soda, each year since
1890. This acre yielded one ton of hay in
1890. In 1908 it yielded three tons.
—State Economic Zoologist Surface, of
Harrisburg, bas received reports showing
that the San Jose rcale is working its de-
gtruotion in every part of this State, and
in sone distriots the infection is so great
that scarcely a singie tree has escaped. Yet
he has proof that where intelligent spray-
ing bas been tried the pest bas been
checked. It would seem that ordinary
sell-preservation ought to be sufficient in-
centive to urge the orchardists to spray
their trees.
—Representative Scott, of Kansas, is
aathor of a hill which provides for Govern-
ment inspection of nursery stock at points
of entry to he designated by the Seoretary
of Agrionlture. An spproptiayionof $100,-
000 is oarried by the bill, which aleo
authorizes the Secretary to establish a
quarantine against the importation or
transportation iu interstate commerce of
diseased or infected nursery stook. The
bill bas been favorably acted upon by the
House committee.
—I¢ is not to be wondered that there are
so many failures made in preparing tar-
keys for market, when it is taken into con-
sideration the course so many breeders take
in Iabtening Shei ind, n is 3 mistake to
pen up a r or the purpose
ol Son them. Turkeys are By wild
natare, and as soon as they are cooped be-
gio chasing one another about and constant-
worrying for freedom. They soon tire
and will, when
killing time comes, weigh less than when
first cooped with the expectation of fasten-
ing them.
—Carelully-conducted experiments at
several different experiment stations show
thas an sore of rape, when grazed by
will eave from 1500 to 2500 of
gre and some oases have been reported
n which the amount saved was even
greater than that last mentioned. With
grain ata cent a pound. as is will ave
sow, ac acre of rape this spring and the
com
when to pigs. The cost of producing
the aore of aod harvesting it is less
than that of almost every other crop grown
on the farm.
summer will he worth about $20
Forty Years in Iowa.
[Written especially for the Warcumax.|
CHAPTER IX.
A six weeks’ vacation for an Iowa farm-
er of twenty-five years ago, and more es-
pecially of one in the prime of life, and
not endowed with a surplus of this world’s
goods, was considered in the nature of a
blessing, and he who could afford to leave
his work and stand the expense, was look-
ed upon gs a favored one ; as much so as
the ordinary eastern man that could take a
similar advantage and make a tour of the
*‘west ;"’ and to the Iowan, who not only
appreciated the respite from care and labor,
bus added thereto the real enjoyment and
pleasure of personal contact with friends of
boyhood days, the satisfaction that came to
the writer, when again on his own camp
ground, can be made known to none but
those of like experience, and the irksome
aud laborions pars of the farm operatious
were greatly appeased by the memory of
recent associations.
During the months’ of September and
October the Iowa farmer shoald be all ac-
tivity. The stubble ground should all be
tarned over after the manure spreader has
disposed of everything of the uature of fer-
tilizing that bad, during the year, accum-
ulated about the yards, barn and etraw-
piles. Forty years ago the idea prevailed
among the first settlers that the soil need-
ed no replenishing, and in fact did produce
heavily from year to year, with no fertiliz-
ing whatever and when on our arrival we
baaled 125 loads of manure from about the
horse stable alone, done in the process ola
general olean up, were told that the crop
growth would be so rank that it would fall
over before maturing. To some extent and
to some kinds of planting this was true,
but we followed up the practice from year
to year and were well repaid in increased
production, and better still, the Baker
farm has always been keptina high state
of cultivation and never failed to givea re-
munerative reture. Today fertilizing is
hauled and in some cases shipped from the
barue in this city.
The potato crop, not a ‘‘patoh’ but a
field, bad to be taken care of before frost,
nos by a digging process but with a wa-
ohine drawn by four horses, the steel point
of which passes under the row, raising both
ground and tubers above the surface and,
by a sprinkling device leaves the crop soat-
tered over the ground and the labor is in
picking. ff not marketed from the field
she cellar or cave protects them from freez-
ing. They are always free from dirt. If
the ground is not wes they come out clean |
and if wet, an hour in the air pulverizes
whatever olings fass.
Frost usually gets down to business
ahout November first, when corn picking
or husking begins and continues up to
Christmas or later. The old way of three
or more hands around one wagon has been
abandoned and now each man has his own
team aud wagon, the latter of sufficient ca-
pacity to hold a half day’s work of twenty-
five to forty bushels of corn, (not corn and
oobs,) and with such an outfit to every
thirty or forty acres. Today, with the
price at 75 cents, the old practice of hav.
ing the horses on the unhusked row they
are placed to one side, the workman tak-
ing two rows, workiog around the field as
in plowing. With plenty of barn aod
eribroom, the old practice of using uncov-
ered rail pens bas been abandoned, yet in
mauy places huge piles may be seen in the
hoskiog season, but merketed as soon as
the field work is completed. Horses and
cattle are turved into the stockfields and
to the strawpiles from which they feed al-
most entirely, except through March, when
they are yarded and fed bay and corn.
Stock should not be permitted in the fields
when the fross is coming ont. The only
oloddy ground Iowa has is when such care-
lessness is practiced.
The winter months are by many oconsid-
ered as a recess or time of leienss, but the
suocoessfal farmer cau always find plenty of
vecessary work to ocoupy the time, and the
village store never finds him swapping
‘yarns with neighbors or discussing the
political issues of the day. This leisurely,
and to some extent, not a very uuopleasant
way of ‘‘visiting’’ during the winter, has
been almost entirely relegated to the past.
The telephone in the larger percentage
of the farm homes enables him to converse
with nos only his oeighbor but with all
cities and towns within his territorial scope
when clad not beyond his slippers and
“‘wamus,’’ and with the R.F. D. depositing
his mail and daily paper at the door, six
days oat of the seven leaves the need of a
spool of thread, a pound of coffee or nails,
too flimsy an excuse to be gone every day,
especially when his horse must be satisfied
with post hay. It is not a misnoner,neith-
er is it idle talk to say that the Iowa farm-
er of today is a king in bis own right.
With the price of every one of bis products
soaring almost out of sight, raising three-
fourths of his own requirements, be can well
afford and in some instances does sit back
in his automobile and look on at the ef-
forts of we town people striving to make
both ends meet. Fortunate is the man
with an Iowa farm. Gettiog up from the
breakfast table, the morning of January
28th, 1903, a glance through the morning
paper gave us, in the head lines, “Death
of an aged couple within an hour,” the
pews of the passing away of two well
koown Centre county people ; Daniel W.,
and Lucinda Kiive Hall.
born in Bellefonte, November 7th, 1821,
and the latter in Union county, October
8ib, 1824.
They died at their farm home two miles
south of West Union, Towa, at 6:10 and
7:00 p. m., January 26th, 1903.
They moved west from Howard in the
! tall of 1864, and though living but a halt
The former was |
day’s ride distant, no visits bad ever heen
exchanged. An hour after reading the
pews of the death of these two people, who
were schoolmates and associates of his par-
ents, the writer boarded a train aod was in
attendance at the double funeral of the
parents of nine grown children who in
turn were schoolmates and bad partially
grown up side by side with the Baker boys
and girls. A peculiar coincidence was the
parallel that existed in the two families.
There were first, two boys, then two
girls and again two hoys. George K. Hall
and Samuel W. Baker, first opened their
eyes within two months of each other and
the succeeding five, in each family appear-
ing simaliaveously daring the following
ten years.
The entire family o! nine ohildren all
grown to mao avd womanhood were at the
old home. Though in their caskets side
by side, and with a lapse of thirty-nine
years, the faces of uncle Dan and aout
Lucinda were still familiar and thoogh
glad to meet again it was sorrowfalfas the
six men and women associates of younger
days gathered around and shook hands
with their unexpected and almost stranger
guest. Six boys of! the family were the |
pali-bearers. As fate seemed to carry out
the parallel ic these two families inside of
ten years, a like bereavement came %0 our
own family, though their demise were
separate and to which we will refer ina
fature article. Mrs. Hall was a sister of |
former sheriff D. Z. Kline, while Mr. Hall |
was a brother of Mrs. Klive. {
While on this visit we were entertained
at the homes of John Bower and N. B.|
Schoeck, formerly of Ms. Eagle and How-
ard.
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8. W. BAKER,
Des Moines, Towa, April 12th, 1909.
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borne the signature of
and has been made under his personal supervision
CHAS. H. FLETCHER since its intancy. Allow no one to deceive
you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations, and “Just-as-good" are
but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Chil.
dren—Experience against Experiment.
WHAT IS CASTORIA
Castoria is & harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing
Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine aor other Narcot-
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ness. It cures Diarrhea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures
Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach
and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The
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GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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THE KIND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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Bellefonte Shoe Emporium.
WALK-OVER
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YOU CAN TELL
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WALK OVER wearers find
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Prices $4 and $56
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE,
successor to Yeager & Davis.
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
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KIDNEY TROUBLES MAY BE SAPPING YOUR
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HAVE LEARNED THIS FACT.
When a healthy man or woman begins
to run down without ap ne cause, be.
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backache, headache, Ylusy Spells and
urinary disorders, look to the kidneys for
the cause of it all. Keep ihe kidneys
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For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
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Remember the name—Doan's—and
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SAVED
MONEY
IS MONEY MADE
Reduced in price—horse sheets,
lap spreads and fly nets—for the
pext thirty days. We have de-
termined to clean up all summer
goods, if you are in the markes for
this class of goods you can’t do
better thao call and supply your
wants at thie store.
We bave she largest assortment of
SINGLE axp DOUBLE DRIVING
HARNESS
in the county ana at prices to suit
the buyer. If you do not have
one of our
HAND-MADE SINGLE HARNESS
you have missed a good thing. We
are making a special effort to sup-
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bave no concern about any
parte breaking. These harness
are made from select oak stock,
with a high-grade workmanship,
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with each set of harness, We have
on haud a fine lot of harnees
ranging in price from #
$25.00
We carry a lar) line of oils, ¢ «le
grease, whips, on
combs, sponges, and ever; thing
vou peed about a horse.
We will take pleasare in showing
you our goods whether you buy
or not. Give us a call and see for
yourself.
Yours Respectlully,
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
Spring street,
BELLEFONTE.
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