Bellefonte, Pa., july 28, 1916. :
A TRAGIC STORY.
There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much, and sorrowed more,
Because it hung behind him.
He mused upon this curious case,
And swore he’d change the pigtail’s place,
And have it hanging at his face, ”
Not dangling there behind him.
Says he, “The mystery I've found,—
T’ll turn me round,”—he turned him round;
But still it hung behind him.
Then round and round, and out and in,
All day the puzzled sage did spin;
In vain—it mattered not a pin,—
The pigtail hung behind him.
And right, and left, and round about,
And up, and down, and in, and out
He turned; but still the pigtail stout
Hung steadily behind him.
And though his efforts never slack,
And though he twist, and twirl, and tack,
Alas! still faithful to his back,
The pigtail hangs behind him.
—William Makepeace Thackeray.
The Diamond Fields of Damaraland.
The diamond deposits discovered in
Damaraland, German Southwest Af-
rica, three years ago, lie among
great sand dunes hundreds of feet in
height, which pass in continual mo-
tion across the granite plateau that
follows the line of the coast from the
Orange River to Walfisch Bay. These
deposits are a puzzle to _geologists,
since their place of origin is a myste-
ry, though there seems to be little
doubt that they are carried with the
sand by the heavy winds that. blow
from the southwest for nineteen hours
out of the twenty-four. The dia-
monds, which are found mixed _ with
garnets, agates, and other semi-pre-
cious stones, vary in size from one-
fifth to three-quarters of a carat.
They are almost perfect octahedrons,
and, though small, are of the purest
water. An extraordinary feature of
this discovery is that the diamonds
resemble the brazilian rather that the
African stone, although the Orange
River, which marks the southern
boundary of German Southwest Afri-
ca, has its source among the volcanic
cones or “diamond pipes” of the rich-
est diamond mines in the world in and
about Kimberley. There are no fis-
sures in the many miles of granite
floor of the new diamond country
through which these particles of crys-
talized carbon might have been forced
up from below, and geologists find no
suggestion of cones or of what is call-
ed “Kimberley formation”—nothing,
in fact, that will warrant them in giv-
ing an opinion as to the origin of
these traveling gems. The general
opinion, nevertheless, is that the pre-
vailing southwest winds bring the dia-
monds from the sea, and scientists do
not dispute this theory.
The discovery of diamonds in Dam-
araland, so far as the white man is
concerned, was first made about twen-
ty miles south of Luderitzbucht, the
principal port of German Southwest
Africa, whence the government is
building a railroad across to Keet-
manshoop, to connect with the propos-
ed road in British Bechuanaland that
will tap the markets of Kimberley
and Johannesburg. Here a native,
who had worked in the diamond mines
of Kimberley and had been impressed
into service by the railroad-builders,
on his return home picked up two or
three crystals from the sand and took
them to a station-master with the in-
formation that they were diamonds.
The station-master ridiculed the idea,
but eventually sent the stones to Cape
Town, where experts pronounced them
to be gems of the purest water.
It may safely be asserted that few
contraband gems have left Damara-
land since the government assumed
control of the fields, though they were
probably carried away in great quan-
tities before police supervision be-
came effective. At Luderitzbucht and
Swakopmund, the two ports of depar-
ture, all outgoing travelers are sub-
jected to systematic search. Not only
do the customs authorities require
that a passenger’s baggage be sent
to the wharf for examination three
days before the departure of the boat
by which he sails, but a thorough
search is made of his person and
clothing before he goes on board.
So careful are the Germans to pre-
vent precious stones being carried
away that a photographer, who was
recently leaving Luderitzbucht with a
five-ounce bottle of salicylate crystals,
somewhat resembling diamonds in the
rough, which he used in the develop-
ing of his plates, was arrested by an
ignorant official as a smugler and
thrown into jail. Investigation show-
ed that his diamonds might be crush-
ed by stepping on them, but his ship
had sailed before the discovery was
made. Many travelers are victims of
similar overzealousness at Luderitz-
bucht and Swakopmund. Last sum-
mer a former mayor of Cape Town, a
man of the highest stending in Sowvh
Africa, who had been on a visit to the -
diamond fields of Damaraland, sailed
from Luderitzbucht for his home. His
ship was scarcely out of sight of land
when the customs officials received in-
formation, which was afterward
proved to be false, that he had smug-
gled diamonds away. The ship was to
stop for a couple of days to unload
cargo at Prinzeburg, sixty miles
south, and a squad of soldiers mount-
ed on fast horses were sent along the
coast to intercept him there. The ex-
mayor was taken off the ship. with his
baggage, and everything was search-
ed with the utmost minuteness. His
clothes were examined with great
care, particular attention being paid
to linings and the padding of the
shoulders of his coats; his shaving-
soap was cut into small pieces, which
were crushed flat; the soles of his
shoes were probed; the lead was taken
out of the cartridges of his revolver
and the powder inspected. Nothing
remotely resembling a diamond was
found, but the ex-mayor was, never-
theless, taken back to Luderitzbucht
and thrown into priscn, whence he
was released without an apology a
month afterward.
Father Will Wear Youthful Clothes.
Father is going to cut a dash next
year. Just as mother has been dress-
ing like Susie, with stilted heels,
skirts almost to her knees, transpar-
ent sleeves and coquettish hats, so
alike that it is next to impossible to
tell 36 from 16, so will father emulate
John in his apparel next spring and
summer.
The National Association of Cloth-
ing Designers decreed it at the clos-
ing session of its annual convention at
fhe Royal Palace Hotel, at Atlantic
ity. ;
The trim effect, which has figura-
tively taken years from the shoulders
of men of mature years this summer,
will remain the vogue next year. The
popularity of the pinch-back coat has
been tremendous this year. Men of
40 and upward have donned the smart
garment and found themselves young
again. It would be madness, East
agreed with West in the designing
world today, to discard a style of such
tremendous possibilities, and so it is
to stay, with slight modifications.
Corpulent men and ultra-conserva-
tive men, while acquiescing in nifty
small plaits, which make possible a
trim waist effect, have balked at the
loose belt. Hence the belt next spring
and summer will be applied to the
garment for those who prefer it so.
The most conservative cut in the
ready-to-wear market will have a hint
of a waist line. Lapels are to contin-
ue narrow.
Nifty dressers will find a turned-up
cuff about two inches in width upon
their coat sleeves, open at the under
side and finished with button and but-
tonhole. Shoulders will continue
“natural,” that is to say, with little or
no padding. The breast pocket goes.
It serves no useful purpose in a sack
suit and is a blemish upon an other-
wise perfect contour.
Trousers will be trim, to coincide
with the form-fitting coat, and the
cuff is to stay. There was much de-
bate upon that point. A utilitarian
soul who pointed out that the cuff
saves wear and tear and causes trous-
ers to hold their shape longer than
the uncuffed garment, won the day for
the cuff.
Vests have become almost a negli-
gible quantity as style goes. Many
men insist upon having the plainest
vests possible. That garment next
winter, spring and summer, however,
will be trimly cut, like coat and trous-
ers, with one permissible fancy touch
—either two or three tiny little plaits
at either side, extending upward from
the low pocket. Pockets are to be
tabbed. The double-breasted vest is a
dead issue. It was discussed for five
minutes and ruled out of the game.
Overcoats are to be smart gar-
ments this winter. Plenty of box
backs will be worn because many men
like the looseness and comfort which
goes with them. But the real thing
in overcoats will look as if it were
boned, with plaits and belt in back,
either loose or applied to the fabric.
It will be short, with a collar some-
what wider than that of last winter,
with both patch pockets and set in; in
fact, a garment that will give the
head of the family the figure of a
youth in his early 20's.
Determined effcrts are to be made,
it was announced, to bring back the
surtout and the paddock coat because
these have the “youthful” effect so
much in demand. Few coats will go
below the knee line. The pinch-hack
garment will be decidedly short.
For Girls Who Travel Alone.
Stirred by the fact that 50,000 girls
are disappearing annually in the
United States the “Woman’s Home
Companion” has the following advice
for girls who travel alone:
“What to do: :
“l. Before starting to a strange
city, write the Travelers’ Aid Society
to meet you.
“2. If alone or your friends fail to
meet you, apply to the Travelers’ Aid
representative or a uniformed official
at the railrcad station or steamship
dock as soon as you arrive.
“3. If you need help of any kind,
find the authorized Travelers’ Alid
agent—a uniformed official at the
railroad station or steamship dock will
direct you to find her.
“4, Aim to arrive at your destina-
tion in the daytime.
“What not to do:
“l. Do not start to a strange city
or town, even for a night, withqut pre-
vious information about a safe place
to stop.
“2. Do not leave home without
some extra money for en emergency.
“3. Do not ask or accept informa-
tion, advice, guidance, cor direction ex-
cept from the Travelers’ Aid represen-
tatives or uniformed officials.
“4. Do not trust attentions on the
train, ship or elsewhere from men or
women,
“5. Do not accept offers. of work
either in person or through advertise-
ments without thorough investigation.
“6. Do not go to strange parts of
a city or town at night alone, or es-
corted by a public porter, or in a cab.”
A Potato Race on Horseback.
As played by the cowboys of the
southwest, the potato race is not the
mua affair we are familiar with at
evenmg socials. Down there the
game is played by eight mounted men,
four on each side, and each player has
an opportunity to display all his skill
in horsemanship. A small square box
is set at each goal. In the middle of
the field is a third box, filled with po-
tatoes. Each rider is provided with
a long, sharp-pointed pole, much like
the lances carried by the knights in
the tournaments of old. At the crack
of the gun, the riders dash at the box
in the center of the field, each rider
trying to spear a potato and carry it
to the box back of his goal. At the
same time, the guard on each side try
to prevent the scoring of their oppo-
nents by blocking them, and by knock-
ing the tuber off the lance when an
opposing player has speared a potato.
At the end of eight minutes the game
is stopped, and the side having the
greater number of potatoes in its goal
box, wins.—“Rformatory Record.”
——Read the “Watchman” to get
all the news that’s going.
IN. G. of
The present campaign of national
preparedness and the trouble with
Megxico which led the President to call
out the National Guard throughout
the United States naturally creates
considerable interest in all things mil-
itary. And the additional fact that
Bellefonte and Centre county are rep-
resented at the front by a Troop of
cavalry calls to mind the fact that
the sons of the county have always
been patriotic.
In 1858 or ’59, the old Bellefonte
Fencibles were organized and James
A. Beaver, then a law student, was
made first lientenant. Hardly had
the echo of the guns died away after
the firing on Fort Sumpter in the
spring of 1861 till the Fencibles re-
sponded to President Lincoln’s call for
volunteers and were sworn into serv-
ice on April 21st of that year. Up-
ward of 6,000 Centre countians saw
service during the Civil war, the
county being represented in every bat-
tle of any consequence. The same
spirit which induced those men to go
to the front has prevailed since, and
Bellefonte has always figured in the
National Guard of the State, as will
be seen from the following article
published in the “Bellefonte Republi-
can” of March 21st, 1912:
Bellefonte Fencibles of 32 Years Ago.
A good friend of “The Republican”
several days ago happened to remark
that he had in his possession an old
newspaper clipping which recalled the
days of “The Bellefonte Fencibles,”
and at our earnest solicitation it was
furnished us that we might reproduce
the article. Many of those who figur- |
ed in the old military company have
long since responded to the sounding
of “taps,” but there are today in
Bellefonte and in other places quite a
few of the survivors of what was in
its day a crack military organization
after the close of the Civil war.
Before the war there was organized
here what was known as the “Belle-
fonte Fencibles,” the members of
which subsequently performed valiant
service on the field of battle. After
the war a new command was formed,
also known as “The Bellefonte Fenci-
bles” and then mustered 'into the Na-
tional Guard as B Company, Fifth
Regiment Infantry. It was of this or-
ganization the article in question was
ed on May 21, 1880, or almost thirty-
two years ago, and also note mentally
the number of participants who have
since passed into the Great Beyond:
Since our notice a few days ago of
the disbandment of “B” company,
Fifth Regiment, N. G. of Pa., quite a
gratifying change has taken place in
Ye spirit of Bellefonte military cir-
cles.
A number of gentlemen met at the
office of Colonel Hastings yesterday
and resolved to reorganize the “Belle-
fonte Fencibles,” a military organiza-
tion of many years’ standing in this
At noon yester-'
place before the war.
day the roll of the Fencibles number-
ed thirty-five, the names being as fol-
lows:
Amos Mullen Wilbur F. Malin
H. A. Williams William Burnside
Harry S. Hale Harry M. Kephart
J. H. Crissman
J. L. Spangler
J. D. Geissinger Edward Powers
E. A. Smith Lewis Sunday
W. C. Heinle Geo. W. Eaton
Orris L. Hoover Edgar B. Greene
Wilbur F. Reeder Theo. A. Boak
George L. Potter W. Stewart, Jr.
W. A. Sweeny W. A. Lyon
R. B. Spangler B. Frank Keller
C. Burnside A. J. Cruse
W. A. Morrison A. A. Dale
Law’nce L. Brown John N. Lane
D. F. Fortney K. Williams
S. C. Harper E. L. Gray
Harry S. Sayres.
We learn from Colonel Hastings
that only a limited number will be
added to the above roll, as the compa-
ny will be complete with fifty-two
members. .
The papers will be forwarded to the
proper authorities on Monday next,
and an order for the election of com-
pany officers will soon follow.
The Fencibles will be assigned to
duty as Company B in Fifth regiment
a.
A short time later the same news-
‘division. Since the reorganization of
Scores of applications for member-
r ship have been refused. The best ma-
written. As you read the following, | terial in the State has been called
just keep in mind that it was publish- | from the old-time militia companies,
|and the young men of the State, untii
i the National Guard of Pennsylvania
ings was lieutenant colonel.
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paper published the following, telling
of the orders being issued for muster-
ing the company into the National
Guard: |
Orders from the Adjutant Gener-
al’s office were received at brigade,
headquarters on Saturdey last, signi- |
fying that the Bellefonte Fencibles |
lately recruited from about the best!
material in the neighborhood, would
be accepted and assigned to duty as
part of the National Guard of this
State. Accordingly the following or-
der was issued:
HEADQUARTERS 4TH BRIGADE, 4
N. G. oF Pa, }
BELLEFONTE, JUNE 7, 1880.
Special Orders, No. 15.
An election for officers of the com- |
pany lately recruited at Bellefonte,
Pa., by Amos Mullen and others, to be
known as Company “B” Fifth Regi-
ment Infantry, will be held at Belle- ;
fonte on Saturday, the 12th day of:
June, 1880, and will be conducted by
Major George F. Harris, Surgeon
Fifth Regiment, who is hereby au-
thorized to fix the hour at which the
same will open.
By order,
Brig. Gen. JAs. A. BEAVER.
D. S. KELLER, Asst. Adjt. General
Major George F. Harris has ad-
dressed the following circular letter
to members of the Fencibles residing
away from Bellefonte:
Bellefonte, Pa., June 7, 1880.
Sir:—In accordance with special or-
ders No. 15, Headquarters 4th Bri-
gade N. G. P., the undersigned will
hold an election for officers, and com-
plete the organization of the “Belle-
fonte Fencibles,” a military company
to be known as company “B,” 5th
Regiment N. G. P., in Bellefonte, at 2
o’clock p. m., on Saturday, June 12,
1880, at which time and place you are
requested to be present.
Very respectfully,
Your obd’t servant,
GEORGE F. HARRIS,
Major and Surgeon 5th Reg’t. N. G. P.
We learn that Col. Burchfield, of the
Fifth Regiment, with a number of his
staff will be present at the election;
and as there may be something of a
race for the various elective offices, an
interesting time may be expected. !
We congratulate the Fencibles on
their success in obtaining a position
in the National Guard. They take the
last and only vacancy in the entire
the Guard, and the passage of recent
legislation for its benefit, it has
grown to its maximum strength.
has become the peer of the citizen-
soldiery of any State in the Union.
We offer our congratulations to the
Bellefonte Fencibles.
Those whose names appear in the
list in the fist article reproduced
were not all who then became mem-
bers of the company. For instance,
Harry Green, the Bellefonte druggist,
was a member, as "was also C. U. Hof-
fer, now of Philipshurg. Another was
J. Cooper Dare, of Philadelphia, and
Walter W. Bayard, now located, we
believe, on the Pacific coast. A later
member of the company was George '
H. Waite. The late Amos Mullen was
elected the first captain of the compa-
ny. The late George L. Potter was
chosen first lieutenant, and the late
Harry S. Hale was elected second lieu-
tenant. Judge Beaver was brigadier
general of the old Fifth Regiment at
the time and the late Governor Hast-
Since the above article was publish-
ed there have been a number of
changes in Bellefonte’s military or-
ganization. The old, reliable Fifth
regiment, that could always be de-
pended upon in any emergency, and
which was called for service in the
Spanish-American war, was disband-
ed and the Bellefonte company at-
tached to the Twelfth regiment. And
under the reorganization of the guard
several years ago it was changed
from the infantry to the cavalry and
made Troop L, in the First cavalry.
William H. Brown was the first cap-
tain of the troop and he resigning
after being elected Recorder of Centre
county H. Laird Curtin was appointed,
and he is now in charge of his com-
mand on the Texas border.
Eleven Thousand Acres Reclaimed
From an Eastern Swamp.
One of the largest and most scien-
tific agricultural enterprises in the
eastern part of the United States is a
farm in western New York. The
“Popular Mechanics Magazine” tells
of the scientific methods used on this
big farm, which has been in the course
of development for the last three
years. This farm comprises 11,000
acres, and is two miles long and nine
miles wide. A trip of sixty miles is
required to pay off all the help. The
undertaking is backed by New York
financiers and is managed by a eivil
engineer, who is also a scientific far-
mer. :
The land comprising this farm was
originally a vast, undrained swamp,
and its reclamation was accomplish-
ed only by employing a dredge which
cut a deep main canal, with many lat-
eral branches, through the tract. As
the land was drained, lumbermen were
put on it to clear off the trees and
stumps with axes and dynamite.
These workmen were followed by oth-
ers with five-gang plows, etc.,, drawn
by caterpillar tractors of light con-
struction. These light engines have
almost wholly supplanted horses on
the farm, and are a source of special
interest to the boys of the farmers.
One tractor has eight times the pull-
ing power of a horse.
Of the 4000 acres of muck land in
the tract, only about 1000 acres have
been reclaimed and are now in use.
Much of the farm is devoted to truck
gardening conducted on a strictly sci-
entific basis. A cost sy.tem is main-
tained and it is possible to know just
what each crop cost.
All the produce is prepared for
shipment according to factory meth-
ods. The crates are made on the
farm, a special nailing machine being
one of the labor-saving devices used
in their construction. The workmen
are well provided for with bungalows
of modern type and with modern so-
cial conveniences, and such improve-
ments as telephones, electric lights,
etc. An evidence of the success of the
enterprise is that much of the land is
now valued at $500 per acre.
The Gentle Art of Smiling.
“A mother had a little girl, her first
child, who seemed to have been born
with a scowl. Perfectly well, still she
had a morose disposition which it
seemed as though nothing could altar.
When a second child was born, the
mother made a rule that no one should
look at the baby without a smile, With
the imitation of childhood the baby at
once began, even in her early weeks,
to smile back, and as she grew, and
the rule still held in the home, she de-
veloped into what everyone who knew
her called ‘the smiling baby,’ and
grew up with the sunniest disposition,
a joy to everyone. Now what that
mother did, any mother ean do. A
child may actually inherit a serious,
even a sullen disposition, yet these
may be crowded out while they are
undeveloped, by the habit of cheerfui-
ness.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
And as for me, let what will come, I can
receive no damage from it, unless I think it a
ealamity ; and it is in my power to think it
none, if I so decide.— Marcus Aurelius.
One of the best treatments for
moles, warts, and other pigmentary
or excrescent blemishes is electrolysis.
The manner of operation is to run the
tiny electric needle just under the top
cuticle of the mole and to turn on the
‘ current, thus destroying the discolor-
ed surface. A red scar remains for a
little while, then gradually whitens
and in a very brief time disappears
altogether. The use of strong acids
for the removal of warts and moles is
: very dangerous.
Giving the skin a buttermilk bath
may be disagreeable to contemplate,
but it will not seem so after a trial
has been given and the results mani-
fested. Buttermilk will make the skin
soft and smooth. It is nourishing as
well as whitening. When using have
at least a quart and lave it on the face
and hands just as if using water.
Then apply it to the neck and arms
with a sponge, letting it dry on. In
the morning wash the skin with warm
water and a little soap. :
No fruit jar that has been standing
for weeks is free from germs. Before
putting fruit in them they should be
thoroughly sterilized by boiling in so-
da water.
When marking linen handkerchiefs
with indellible ink, first starch the
handkerchiefs and iron them smooth.
Then you can mark them clearly with
ease.
When making egg custard pies al-
ways heat the milk to the boiling
point before mixing it with the eggs.
If this rule is followed the undercrust
| will always be crisp.
When you have no one to hold the
yvasn while you wind it, place two flat-
irons the proper distance apart, on the
table, stretch the yarn to them and
i wind it conveniently.
Short dresses are becoming more
popular every day. Those who first
frowned on them now admire them
and say that they are not only sensi-
bles but becoming as well as economiec-
al.
With a short dress a woman has
some liberty. She has her hands for
free use. She may look round about
her without the fear that while she is
doing it somebody will put a foot
through her two-dollar-a-yard lace
and tramp off with a couple of yards
of it. She may get out of the street
car without looking back to see if she
is clear behind and safe from being
dragged along and perhaps maimed
for life.
She can defy rain and mud. She
doesn’t have to go round a wisp. of
straw lest she take it up on her
fringes. She can cross a street with-
out stepping on her dress and falling
down in the mud for the nearest po-
liceman to pick her up and all the
boys to laugh at and watch to see her
‘do it next time.
If she has a pretty foot she can
show it, and if she has a homely foot
everybody knew it before, so there
will be nothing lost there.
Learn repose. In this you will find
a greater power than all the concen-
trated nervous tension in the world.
The woman who has mastered repose
will find that her nerves respond to
her bidding—not she to their whims.
To learn repose, practice sitting in
all kinds of chairs, letting the chair
do the work it was intended to do.
Few women sit gracefully and “un-
consciously.” They sit too far back,
too far forward, too straight, or on
the middle of their back-bone, and in-
stead of relaxing they are taut with
the tension of their nerves.
Practice lying in bed relaxed and
enjoy a restful sleep, instead of fa-
tiguing slumber so common to most
women of this country. Relax the
muscles absolutely when lying "down
and do not rest the head on a high
pillow. No pillow is best, but in case
you feel you must sleep with the head
raised the smaller the pillow the bet-
ter. Study the sleeping pose of a lit-
tle child and try to make yours as
natural as the child’s. If you succeed
in relaxing the muscles, the mind will
cease its activity and wholesome, un- |
disturbed sleep will follow.
Unnecessary force is used in talk-
ing. Repose wili conserve the sur-
plus energy wasted in this way. Once
the art of speaking quietly is master-
ed the entire nervous system will re-
lax and settle back into place—like a
rubber band that has been stretched
and then released. There is a close
sympathy between the nervous system
and the voice. It is a noticeable fact
that under stress of excitement, irri-
tability or any strong emotion the
voice even of a soft spoken woman
will become higher and more tense.
If your voice is loud, begin today to
practice speaking softly and quietly.
You will be surprised to note how
quickly your entire system will re-
spond in kind. It is a pleasure to be
in the company of a soft-voiced wom-
an.
Tight fitting ankle-height bathing
shoes of crinkled rubber are among
the seashore novelties this season.
The shoes have no opening except:
that at the top, and they are pulled on
as gloves are. They fit the foot
smoothly and close snugly around the
ankle. They come in several shades
and are trimmed with strips of rubber
in contrasting colors. Their advan-
tage is that they have no‘ribbons to
become untied, or to get so wet that
they are difficult to untie upon remov-
al of the shoe, and the shoes them-
selves are dry within a few seconds
after taking them off.
The new raim coats are made of oil
silk, and are transparent. Bright
reds, blues, lavender and green are
some of the hues.
Centre County Has a Wonderful Record for Citizen Soldiery
FARM NOTES.
—Oats and barley, or oats, peas and
barley, are excellent combinations for
dairy forage.
—Because the pastures are short in
summer it does not warrant us in neg-
lecting our pastures.
—To get rid of weeds manure the
land. Weeds occupy land because
grass will not grow on it.
—Corn, alfalfa, clover and grass—
these four plants furnish 90 per cent.
of the coarse food used for animals,
—Sore or chapped teats are due to
exposure or cold, wet weather and
rough handling. Treat with lard or
vaseline.
—If the farmer is slipshod in his
farm methods, it doesn’t make much
difference whether he has a high rec-
ord cow or a scrub, he is not going to
be very successful.
—There are many cows in this
country capable of producing 400
pounds of butter in a year, but not
one of them, so far as we have knowl-
edge, came from a scrub sire.
—Raise the collars off the horses’
shoulders frequently, and with the
hand rub down the shoulders well,
This may be done when allowing the
horses to stand for a breath of fresh
air. It will cool the shoulder, remove
the sweat and prevent, to a considera-
ble extent, scalding.
—Rev. V. B. Mayer, of Casenova,
Va., has wintered a flock of milch
goats in timber without bought feeds,
getting three or four quarts of milk
per day. He claims to have saved
several babies with goats’ milk, and
has demonstrated the freedom of
goats from tuberculosis and other
diseases.
—Spray pumps of many different
sizes and types will give good results
on the farm. Bucket pumps, knap-
sack sprayers and automatic sprayers
will be useful in the garden and orch-
ard, as well as in the hen house, al-
though a longer hose or extension rod
will be needed in the orchard. A bar-
rel pump or power sprayer may be
used with good results if it is already
on hand, but is more expensive than
the LYerage farm needs for hen house
work.
—It will be necesaary to plant a
succession of pasture crops for your
hogs if you do not have sufficient per-
manent pasture. Cheap pork cannot
be produced in pens; the hogs must
have pasture crops that supply plenty
of grazing of the right kind. Even
where one has but one brood sow cud
expects to raise two litters a year
some grazing must be had to give the
proper gains on the pigs. Make your
arrangements for pasture crops for
your: hogs.
—Don’t be careless about watering
the colt. He should be given water
just as often and as regularly as any
of the other animals in the barn, and
must have it if he isto grow as he
should. Better arrange it so he can
run in the open lot where he can get
at the watering trough whenever he
feels like it. The more of the better
weather he spends in the open the
better he will get through his first
winter. Of course in bad weather and
at night the place for him is in the
stall. .
—Thorough spraying is essential,
especially where the grapes have rot-
ted badly, to insure the growth of
good fruits.
It is the custom of some grape
growers to cut off the grape shoots
which have developed and formed a
dense growth above the grapes to let
in the sun. Some authorities, how-
ever, claim that observations have
shown that grapes will ripen as well
or better, even though heavily shaded,
than when exposed to the light of the
sun.—Philadelphia “Record.”
—My best small investment was the
sum of 90 cents spent for a pound of
Italian onion seed. I planted all of it
except about a tablespoonful, on a lit-
tle less than a third of an acre, and
gathered and sold 10,500 pounds of
onions at two cents a pound. Thus
my 90-cent investment returned $210.
But that was not all.
In August of the same year after I
had gathered my onions, I planted one
third of the same piece of ground in
black wax beans, and sold $85 worth
of those besides what were consumed
at home.
So my total returns were $295 from
a one-third-acre patch.
—A bright, green, smooth lawn
about a house is like a neat dress on a
pretty girl. She may be a nice girl
and not have it, but her niceness is
more noticeable if she has.
Most lawns which are made by sow-
ing the seed are better than those on
which sods are placed.
Use plenty of seed. Twice as much
as is necessary will do no harm. No
lawn was ever seen on which the
grass grew too thick.
Sow on a still day, and sow a sec-
ond time, walking at right angles to
the first sowing. This will = tend to
make the stand even. :
After sowing, roll the ground well
or beat it flat with a spade.
Spring sowing should be made as
early as possible: In the northern
States say from the middle of March
to the first of May. From the middle
of August to the middie of Septem-
ber is the best time for fall sowing.
Nurse crops may be dispensed with
unless the sowing is done in hot
weather. In’ the latter case a light
sowing of rye or oats will protect the
young grass from the hot sun.
Drain wet spots, but moist spots
will grow the best lawn.
The bare of the lawn is weeds. They
are of two classes—those which will
be killed by frequent clipping, and
those which will not. Dandelion and
plantains are the worst. They may be
killed by digging them up, and that
is about the best way. Another way
which is recommended by some ex-
perts is to take a wooden skewer, dip
it into sulphuric acid, being careful
not to drop any of it on the skin or
clothes, and stick it into the heart of
the cut-off weed at the surface of the
ground. :
It doesn’t thicken a lawn to let it
‘run up to seed. Keep it clipped, fer-
tilize it, and rake in grass seed to fill
up the bare spots.
The favorite lawn mixture is Ken-
tucky blue grass and white clover.
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