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Bellefonte, Pa., February 4, 1916.
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IN THE END.
The road is rough and the day is cold,
And the landscape’s sour and bare,
And the millstenes, once such charming friends.
Half-hearted welcomes wear.
There's trouble before and trouble behind,
And a troublesome present to mend;
And the road goes up and the road goes down,
But it all comes right in the end.
The heart is sick and the heart is sore
For a heart to call its own;
And we scramble hard for the precious crumbs
Amongst the heaps of stone.
For a love’s love, and a man’s man,
Our gold’s gold would we spend;
And the heart goes up and the heart goes down,
But it all comes right in the end.
The road goes up and the road goes down
To a desolate depth below,
And there’s never a shred of the meanest robe
On the naked ones to go. 1
There’s a Heaven above, and a God of love,
And a Father who will defend—
And life goes up, and life goes down—
But it all comes right in the end.
— Westminster Gazette.
Out-Door Sleeping.
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel
G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D., Commissioner of
Health.
That which is looked upon as a fad
today becomes the necessity of tomorrow.
This is largely the case with out-door
sleeping.
With the beginning of the active cam-
paign against tuberculosis but a few
years or so ago, out-door sleeping was
recommended for those suffering from
tuberculosis and others whose general
physicial condition seemed to warrant it.
These pioneers were looked upon by
their friends and neighbors with interest
and they openly expressed belief that if
they survived this exposure, which was
doubtful, they would soon tire of the ex-
periment anyhow. As a matter of fact
there are a hundred open air sleepers to-
day where there was one a decade ago
and it is no longer limited to those who
are in ill health.
- All who have tried open air sleeping
are enthusiastic about it and they con-
titute an ever growing group.
A sleeping porch is coming to be look-
ed upon as an essential part of the home.
Whole families have taken to sleeping in
the open and have been so benefited by
it that they would never consider any-
thing else.
The proper garb to insure warmth
despite the temperature is essential.
With a warm room for dressing accessi-
ble there is no reason why this invigor-
ating custom should not continue to
grow in popularity. :
Many men and women who of neces-
sity must spend their working hours in-
doors can obtain during their rest at
night, at least a portion of the out-door
air that Nature intended us all to have.
Sleeping porches can be constructed
on the most modest homes at a compara-
tively small cost and in the majority of
instances they can be guaranteed to save
their cost in doctor bills. The change
from sleeping in closed warm rooms to
out-door sleeping must be brought about
gradually, giving Nature time to meet
the new conditions. The very old or
very young demand more protection than
the adult in the prime of life.
Fertilizer Treatment in State College
Gardens.
Home gardens should be carefully fer-
tilized. The student gardens at the
Pennsylvania State College furnish an
example of a systematic and standard
fertilization that is giving excellent re-
sults. A similar treatment could well
be more universally used in vegetable
production.
The treatment consists of an applica-
tion of 10 to 15 tons of partly rotted sta-
ble manure broadcast and plowed under.
The furrows are edged up so that ma-
nure is not left in a cantinous mat un-
der the seed bed to interfere with the
free movement of the soil moisture.
After the first harrowing 1700 pounds of
fertilizer consisting of 350 pounds of ni-
trate of soda, 1000 pounds of 16 per
cent. acid phosphate, and 250 pounds of
muriate of potash per acre are applied
broadcast and thoroughly mixed with
the surface soil by several subsequent
harrowings. This is approximately
equal to a ton application of a mixture
analyzing 3-8-10 °
This year on account of the potash
shortage, this mixture cannot be secured.
The acid phosphate and nitrate of soda
should be used as usual. Increasing the
rate of application of manure would fur-
nish more potash. A top-dressing of ni-
trate of soda—100 to 200 pounds per acre
—is frequently applied to such crops as
lettuce, spinach, cabbage, cauliflower,
and celery, but this is at the option of
the individual student. These gardens
are intercropped with rye and vetch.
With such treatment excellent’ results
are obtained, the yields are large, the
quality excellent, and the appearance
satisfactory for the most exacting mar-
ket.
This treatment is conservative, it tends
toward soil improvement, and there is
absolutely no danger of the development
of soil conditions unfavorable to vegeta-
ble production. This method of treat-
ment is universally applicable. If every
home garden could be similarly treated,
soon we should no longer hear of the
“unproductive garden soils.”
Oyster Catches a Duck.
A sheldrake duck, diving into the
bay at Smith’s Point, L. I.. varied life’s
monotony by capturing an oyster and
being captured in turn.
Of course all that the residents of
Smith’s Point know about the remark-
able catch is what they heard from
‘Will Murdock, who tends the draw at
the Tangier bridge, and who admits he
has an excellent reputation for verac-
ity. Will took duck and oyster to
the Smith’s Point Coast Guard station
and exhibited them to prove the story.
Where did he get them? Oh, he
caught the duck after the duck had
caught the oyster. The fowl pushed
its bill into the shell of the oyster,
Murdock said, and the bilk stuck fast.
-——=They are all good enough, but the
FARM NOTES.
—A horse will live 25 days without
solid food, merely drinking water; 17
days without either eating or drinking,
and only five days when eating solid food
without drinking.
—When you see an office-seeker cross
plowed fields to shake hands with the
farmer you may know he is campaigning.
While you are shaking hands, tell him
what you expect him to do at the next
Legislature.
—In the Northern States color is of
little importance, but in the South a
large number of pork growers prefer a
black hog, as being less susceptible to
heat and sun. However, some Southern
hog growers still cling to white hogs and
seem to experience no trouble from that
source.
—It map be gratifying to lovers of Lim-
burger cheese to know that practically
all the Limburger consumed in the
United States is made in this country,
and the war need have no effect upon
the supply. Camembert, Cheddar and
other cheeses bearing foreign names are
also made in this country.
—Concrete sidewalks, floors,
posts: walls, foundations for sheds or
larger buildings may be made by any
farmer at small expense. A good mix-
ture for tanks consists of one part Port-
land cement, two parts clean,coarse sand
and three parts screened gravel. Before
water is added the cement, sand and
gravel should be thoroughly mixed.
—A large and valuable wheat yield, the
same as with other crops,can be harvest-
ed from a small acreage if good seed is
used and sown in good soil. To make a
success with wheat, even in a small way,
seed, soil and fertilizers for small grain
must be made a careful study. Make
wheat your special study, always prepare
and fertilize your soil heavily, use the
very best of seed every year, feed and
sell the harvested grain, keep and use
every pound of the straw, and you will
find that wheat stands along at the top
of the list of the most valuable farm
crops.
In order that they may be highly pro-
ductive for the majority of crops, soils
should be neutral, chemically speaking.
By this it is meant that they should be
neither acid nor alkaline. While a few
plants will grow on a soil that is slightly
acid, the legumes are very sensitive and
will not thrive or use free nitrogen if the
soil has an acid reaction.
Soils become acid when they are low,
wet or badly drained, and the only way
to remedy this is to drain off the sur-
plus water. Old soils that have been
farmed many years are apt to sour for
the reason that alkali has been used by
the plants. Again the soil may be sour-
ed by turning under green crops. Lime
is one of the alkalies that is likely to be
washed from the soil. It is readily com-
bined with carbon dioxide, and is one
among the first constituents that culti-
vated soil losses.
Speaking on the subject of painting
fruit trees for borers, State Zoologist Sur-
face, of Pennsylvania, says: “A paint of
pure white lead and linseed oil is all right
on apple, pear and quince, or what are
known as the pome’ fruits; but I do not
recommend it on the ‘stone fruit,’ or
peach, plum and apricot, although I have
used it successfully and without any in-
mma
! the litmus paper test:
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jury whatever to the trees in my own
peach orchard. Itis necessary that it be
raw oil and pure white lead. Ordinary
paint will not serve the purpose. Paint
with drier in it will be especially liable to
kill the trees. I have never recommend-
ed it for use on peach trees, notwithstand-
ing the impression that has gone out to
this effect. It will not kill the borers
that are in apple, pear and quince trees,
but it will be effective during the sum-
mer in preventing the borers from enter-
ing. Some of our pratical growers claim
that it will be effective during two sea-
sons, and they certainly find it efficient
in protecting trees from rabbits and mice
for two seasons.”
—Many fields can be found that are
too sour to produce normal crops. Some-
times this sourness occurs in spots,
which may be discovered by the growth
of the plants. The plants that do thrive
on sour soil are such as sorrel, redtop
and plantain.
A simple test of soils can be made with
the use of blue litmus paper. This pa-
per can be purchased at drug stores.
The Louisiana Experiment Station
thus describes the method of taking sam-
ples of soils to be tested for acidity by
“Turn up a
spadeful of soil, take some soil from the
top, middle and bottom of the spadeful
and mold it into a ball, adding water, if
necessary. Next open the ball and in-
sert a strip of litmus paper, after which
press the ball firmly together so there
will be good contact between the soil
and the litmus paper. From time to
time the ball can be opened to observe
the litmus paper. The test should be
continued for 15 to 30 minutes. A good
plan is to go over the field, and as each
ball of soil is finished stick a stake so
that the balls can afterward be found
easily; in this way one can go over the
ground rapidly. The soil should be
moist and the tests can be conveniently
made after a soaking rain; common
stream or well water should not be used
to moisten the soil since it may be slight-
ly alkaline and so interfere with the test.
If the blue litmus quickly turns red it is
an indication that the soil is too sour for
clover and most other legumes to thrive.
If the blue litmus paper turns merely to
a light pink, the acidity is probably slight
and not enough to prevent the growth
of legumes. A red litmus paper treated
in the same way will change to blue if
the soil is alkaline.”
Should the soil be acid, a liberal ap-
plication of lime is required to neutralize
it. Just how much lime should be used
cannot be set down, as a rule. Samples
of the soil should be sent to the chemist
in the State experiment station who
will be able to tell, relatively, the amount
of lime to use.
A good time to apply lime to the soil
is immediately following a green crop
turned under. The lime hastens the
decomposition of the green crop, corrects
the sourness or acidity and sweetens the
soil. The green crop is thus made much
more effective in increasing the yield,
and the application of a liberal amount
will suffice for several years.
Most authorities recommend the use of
ground limestone where it can be obtain-
ed. It takes more ground limestone than
quick lime, but it is less caustic and not
so hard on vegetable matter in the soil.
Ground limestone is generally cheaper.
When rock or quick limeis used it should
be air-slaked. Fortunately, agricultural
lime can be obtained reasonably in most
localities.
Shoes.
Shoes.
store, as they
Bush Arcade Bldg,
WATCHMAN is always the best.
$3.50 SHOES
Reduced
to $2.25
NOW ON SALE
Ladies $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes
Reduced to $2.25 Per Pair.
ALL NEW GOODS,
Latest Styles, Good Sizes and
Widths. This sale is
FOR CASH ONLY.
Shoes must be fitted in the
will not be ex-
changed.
H. C. YEAGER,
THE SHOE MAN,
58-27
BELLEFONTE, PA.
RAY-0-LIGHT OIL.
RAY-0-LIGHT OIL:
Sewing can
be either —
‘Work or Play
It all depends on the light. Sewing by the glimmer
of the ordinary flickering, smoking, smelly lamp is
work, difficult work. Hard on the eyes, ofttimes
the real cause of throbbing, nervous headaches.
But it's a real pleasure to pick out the finest
stitches by the radiant, soft, white light of a Rayo
mp burning
ATLANTIC
Rayolicht
A Rayo Lamp makes a heap of difference—the dif-
ference between work and play. And it’s beautiful
—actually improves the appearance of a room.
Your dealer can show you special designs, specially
made for your very parlor, sitting room or kitchen,
and inexpensive, too—from $1.50 up. Cleans easily
and lasts for all time.
Gives the best light when filled with Atlantic
Rayolight Oil —the kerosene that burns without
smoke or smell, that does not char wicks, but that
—
useless Question.
“Would your wife vote for you as a
candidate for office?”
my bothering my head about that,” re- |
plied Mr. Meekton. “I don’t believe
Henrietta would let me run in the first
place.” }
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Meat Market.
Get the Best Meats.
You save nothing by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats. I use only the
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, best bl
ood and muscle mak-
ing Steaks and Roasts. My prices are no
higher than poorer meats are elsewhere.
I alwavs have
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want. -
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
0——A SPECIALTY—o0
AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE
There is no style of work, from the
Cha, hedgers to the finest
BOOK WORK,
that we can not do in the most satis-
i? manner, and at Prices consist:
Tl I a A ooo
communicate this office’
High Street.
Flour and Feed.
CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hand at all times the
following brands of high grade flour:
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
The only place in the county where that extraor-
dinarily fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
and feed of all kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at the office Flour
xchanged for wheat. gh
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
719 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
does yield a marvelous white, soft light and un-
usually intense and economical heat.
And thousands and thousands of knowing house-
wives say money can’t buy anything as good as
Atlantic Rayolight Oil for whitening clothes (one-
half cup to the boiler), and for cleaning stoves, hair
brushes and combs, for dusting, brightening faded
carpets, polishing furniture, etc.
Buy it by name—Atlantic Rayolight Oil—from any
dealer who displays this sign:
Costs no more than the unknown, unreliable kind.
ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia Pittsburgh
Compare this issue of the “Watchman” with other county
“I don’t think there’s any use of PAaPErSs, and note the difference.
Dry Goods, Etc.
LYON & COMPANY.
SHOES. SHOES.
Special sale of Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s
Shoes at big reductions.
Ladies’ Gun Metal laced or button Shoes,
value from $1.50 to $4.00. Sale price $1.25
: to $1.95.
Men’s Shoes that sold for $2.50 now $1.75.
Boys’ Shoes from $1.25 up.
SPRING GOODS.
We are receiving daily new arrivals in Spring
Goods, and have on display all the most up-
to-date materials with the gold and silver
binding and edging to match.
LADIES’ SUITS.
For the next ten days we will make sale of
one lot of Ladies’ Suits at $5.00. These gar-
ments must be seen to be appreciated. Come
early and secure your bargains.
Lyon & Co. «, Bellefonte
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