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Bellefonte, Pa., March 15, 1918.
—To effect a saving of 150,000,000
| eggs for the food supply in the Unit-
led States, poultry specialists of the
| United States Department of Agri-
"| culture are making every effort to en-
| courage farmers to keep their hens
{until after the spring laying season
| rather than send them to market at
{this time. Figures compiled by the
| specialists show that more than 5,-
{000,000 hens, each capable of produc-
| ing 30 eggs, on an average, are sent
|to market from the Southern States
| alone in the winter and early spring.
{ The “Save-the-Hen” message is being
sent by the Department broadcast
through press notices and posters and
through its county agents, especially
in the southern poultry raising sec-
tions, where the practice is more com-
mon.
February, March and April are
the best months to hatch chickens, but
the sooner it can be done the bet-
ter. Hatching should be complet-
ed if possible by the first of May.
Chickens hatched before this time will
have a good chance to mature and be
in laying condition as pullets before
the cold weather of fall sets in, and
Living in Trenches as Man of should, in consequence, be producers
60 in Civil Life. during the entire fall and winter. This
|is one of the chief reasons poultry |
Published by request of J. S. McCargar. | specialists of the United States De-
Th ality rate from all eanves | partment of Agriculture are urging
. The mortality rate iro | the importance this year of the early
in this war has been less than that of | patch. Early hatched chickens are
al great wars of the past, of hich also casicr to raise, as they lve and
A woods © Er own stalistician | thrive better than those which are
of Pittsburgh Wide repetition of a fii small when the hot weather be-
false statement to the effect that an | Ins
FARM NOTES.
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THE GRAND REPUBLIC.
By Alfred Beirly.
Live on, O grand Republic,
Beloved United States,
Thy valiant sons and daughters
Defend thy peerless gates;
Shine on with crowning luster,
Great refuge of the world; .
Thy radiant starry banner
Triumphant wands unfurled.
Live on, thou Queen of Nations,
Most wonderful and fair;
A peaceful land, and plenty
That everyone may share.
We love thy precious freedom,
Our heritage so grand;
Oh God, Thou strong defender,
Protect our glorious land.
SCIENCE HAS CUT WAR’S DEATH
RATE.
American of 20 Has Same Chance of
BE ———
War Toll Enormous in Men and
Money.
Washington, D. C.—Should the war
continue until August 1, as it gives
every promise of doing, the cost to
the nations involved will reach ap-
proximately the staggering total of
$160,000,000,000. This is the estimate
of Representative Frederick C. Hicks,
of New York, who has compiled a
mass of interesting data on the war
in response to inquiries from his con-
stituents as to the resources and fight-
ing strength of the nations at war,
and as to the number of killed and
wounded.
According to the figures of Mr.
Hicks, 15,116,000 men had been killed,
seriously wounded, captured, or were
missing on all sides up to August 1,
1917. Of these 8,827,000 were on the
Allied side, and 6,289,000 on the side
of the Central Powers.
The cost of the war to all nations
was $98,500,000,000 on August 1,
1917. To convey an idea of the im-
mensity of this outlay, Mr. Hicks fig-
1 257 Panama canals;
i railroad which
ures that this amount would construct
would build a
would encircle the |
earth at the Equator 56 times, and
many other things. That stupendous |
sum represents an expenditure of |
$138,240,000 for every day of the war. |
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CHILD’S WAR PRAYER.
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Now I lay me down to sleep, \
I pray the Lord my soul to keep. |
God bless my brother gone to war i
Across the seas, in France, so ar. |
Oh, may his fight for liberty i
Save millions more than little me
From cruel fates or ruthless blast, |
And bring him safely home at last. !
—Leslie’s.
Got Her Money’s Worth.
a dollar on a fortune teller.
Wife—It wasn’t wasted, dear. Now
that we are out of coal, it was so com-
forting to be told that a dark man
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Hub—I'm surprised at you wasting |
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would cross my threshold.
American soldier sent to France has
only one chance in two of returning
indicates, according to Mr. Woods,
that its spread is largely pro-German
propaganda, assisted by thoughtless
Americans with the object of causing
discouragement among American par-
ents. The fact is, according to Mr.
Woods, who has made an exhaustive |
study of the subject in a statement
for the New York Times, that the
American soldier of 20 years of age |
who is now in the trenches has the
same chance of being alive at the end
of the war, if it lasts a year or so |
longer, as a man of 60 in civil life has
of living the same length of time.
Mr. Woods wrote:
“As a matter of fact, strange as it
may seem, the total mortality rate of
this war is the lowest of any great
war ever fought; less than one-half
that of our Civil war, where there
were seven deaths out of every hun-
dred per annum, whereas on the west-
ern battle front there are less than
three per annum.
“The most reliable data on the war
mortality is that of the French army,
which has certainly not lacked expos-
ure to all kinds of danger, and is suf-
fering particularly from the enormous
spread of tuberculosis, before the war |
very prevalent in France, which was
behind in tuberculosis work. The de-
finitive casualties—including not only
deaths from battle, but from wounds
received in battle—in the French ar-
my have been officially stated as fol-
lows::
Per Cent.
Iirst tive months of 1014.............. Of}
Whole. of 1015....cseesivcresrnaniasens
Whole of 1016.......caverassnssvsavisios 2.75
“Assuming that the American ar-
my, certainly more free from tuber-
culosis, has as great mortality as the
last available figures from the French
army, profiting by the experience of
the British and French armies, and
after far more .preliminary training,
it means that the chances of dying
from battle or from wounds received
in battle by the average American
soldier are about the same as the
chances of the average man of 60 dy-
ing during the next twelve months.
It is about three times normal mor-
tality of the average man at ages,
say 30 or 40. It is not greater than
the mortality of many hazardous ci-
vilian occupations.
way, the chances are greater that a
man of 40 will -die in the next three
years than that his son in the service
will die from the casualties of war in
one year.
The average soldier in the Ameri-
can army runs very little more risk,
if any, of dying than the average coal
miner, city fireman, electric lineman,
brewer or stonecutter of the same
age. One explanation of this is the
successful effort of the French and
British armies, and it will certainly
be at least as true of the American
army, to obliterate abnormal deaths
from disease, which formerly was the
greatest cause of war mortality. In
the Civil war there were about twice
as many deaths from disease as there
were killed in action or died from
wounds received in action. The fol-
lowing are the official figures:
Killed in action 67,058
Died from wounds received in action 43,012
OAL os ve soon ie eam 110.070
Died rom disease..........coooeeen .224,586
“In the French Madagascar war
there were fifteen deaths from disease
to one in battle. The Japanese inthe
Japanese-Russian war first taught the
world how a prepared country by the
aid of modern science and medicine
could reduce mortality from disease.
They did it so successfully that the
disease mortality of the Japanese ar-
my was reduced from fifteen from
disease to one in battle to two and a
half from disease to one in battle.
“In the present war among the
British and French troops there have
been twenty deaths in battle to one
from disease. Dr. Woods Hutchinson
has said the doctor’s control over
wound infections in the present war
is so masterly that of the wounded
who survive six hours 90 per cent. re-
cover; of those who reach the field or
base hospitals 95 per cent. get well.
Anaesthetics and antiseptics have not
only enormously diminished pain and
agony, but made amputations rarer
and grave cripplings fewer than ever
before in war history. Barely 5 per
cent. of the wounded are crippled or
disabled. - We have, therefore, revers-
ed the mortality from disease chang-
ing it from fifteen from disease to one
in battle to one from disease to twen-
ty in battle.”—New York Times.
; The Oonly Way.
Pat—Well, no man can prevint
what’s pasht an’ gone.
Mike—Ye could if ye acted quick
enough.
Pat—Gwan now! How could ye?
Mike—Sthop it before it happens.
| Whether the backyard poultry
| keeper should try to renew his flock
| either by hatching and rearing chicks
jor by purchasing and rearing day-old
| chicks, is an open question. Raising
| chicks should not be attempted unless
| a plot can be provided separate from
| that to which the hens have access
land upon which there is grass or
| where a supply of green feed can be
| furnished. Hatching under these con-
| ditions can be best done with hens.
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— To be successful with setting hens
: Re-establishing A
requires careful and faithful atten-
tion to their needs, and above all, pa-
Interrupted Connection
To put it another
!tience. Even with the best of care
| some hens prove to be fickle mothers
{and cause trouble and loss in hatch-
ing by breaking their eggs, leaving
| their nests or trampling on the chick-
| ens when first hatched. Most hens of
{the general-purpose breeds, such as
| the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes,
| Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons
| make very good mothers. The heav-
| ier class or meat breeds, including the
{ Brahmas and Cochins, are good set-
| ters, but are inclined to be clumsy on
| the nest. The Leghorns and other
| Mediterranean breeds are very ner-
| yous and usually do not make good
mothers.
{| —If it is desired to substitute cot-
| tonseed meal for beef scraps in the
i dry mash for hens the feeder should
{be careful not to replace more than
| half the beef scrap with this substi- |
| stute, as the result in egg production |
| and in the quality of the eggs will be!
may require.
A telephone “cut-off,” as it is called, may be due to the
temporary disarrangement of signal mechanism at the switch-
board, or just a plain human mistake by an operator at
“Central” or at a branch exchange board.
In either event, it is a source of no less regret to the oper-
ator than disturbance to the persons talking. And the con-
nection may be re-established with maximum promptness if
the person who was called will hang up his receiver, while
the person who called him works his receiver-hook slowly
up and down, advising the operator what has occurred and
considerately furnishing her with such information as she
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The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Bellefonte, Pa.
| unsatisfactory. Chopped green bone, {
| available at the butcher shop, is an
excellent substitute for beef scrap
| when fed fresh to the hens. Buy it
'in small quantities as it does not keep |
fresh very long, and when spoiled it is !
likely to be harmful. |
W. S. Mallalieu, Local Manager
DAIRY FEED
{| —If milk is 10 cents a quart it is |
las cheap a protein food as sirloin |
| steak at 22.9 cents a pound or eggs at |
27.9 cents a dozen. At 12 cents a;
i quart it is as cheap as sirloin steak |
i selling at 27.4 cents a pound or eggs |
| at 33.5 cents a dozen. To supply en- |
| ergy at equal cost when milk is 10
| cents a quart, sirloin steak must not
be more than 14.2 cents a pound, and
| eggs not more than 13.3 cents a dozen.
| _Follow the manufacturer’s direc-
fiers ih siping up and operating an Crude Protein 17.50 %
|" See that the incubator is running Crude Fat L300
steadily at the desired temperature Carbohydrates 45.00
before filling with eggs. Do not add Crude Fibres . 15:00
A Balanced Ration and a Milk Producer
Consisting of Cotton Seed Meal, Wheat Bran, Alfalfa
Meal, Molasses, Gluten Feed, Fine Ground Oats
and Salt.
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:
The “Youth” of The
Land Goes Up
To Sixty
That a man is no older than he feels
is an expression that applies equally
to the matter of his appearance.
The models on exhibition and oth-
ers in our stock will go far to prove
the correctness of this assumption.
We take it for granted that when
we tell you they are
“HIGH-ART CLOTHES”
Made by Strouse & Brothers, Inc., Baltimore, Md.
you'll know besides that they are
“hest”---if not, a visit to our store
will convince you.
FAUBLE'S.
Allegheny St. »x« BELLEFONTE, PA.
fresh eggs to a tray containing eggs
{ which are undergoing incubation.
Turn the eggs twice daily after the
second and until the nineteenth day.
Cool the eggs once daily, according to
the weather, from the seventh to the
nineteenth day.
Turn the eggs before caring for the
lamps.
Attend to the machine carefully at
regular hours.
Keep the lamp and wick clean.
Test the eggs on the seventh and
fourteenth days.
Do not open the machine after the
eighteenth day until the chickens are
hatched.
— One of the biggest hindrances to
the farrowing of good, strong, vigor-
ous litters is lack of exercise for the
sows. During cold and snowy weath-
er hogs like to lie around the sleeping
quarters and’ be comfortable. That,
however, is not what they should do
all of the time. The proper exercise
for a brood sow is that which she will
take voluntarily and not through
force. She should get her corn ration
by hustling for it in the stalk fields
and not by getting it around the sleep-
ing quarters, on feeding floors, or in
troughs. Protein feeds in the form
of shorts, tankage, oil meal, or alfal-
fa hay should be supplied.
— Screening out the shriveied grains
from wheat seed before planting will
remove one cause of spreading the
new bacterial disease of wheat which
has been discovered in many States of
the Middle West. This has been
learned by specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture
who, in co-operation with the experi-
ment stations of Kansas and Wiscon-
sin, are studying the problem of con-
trolling this disease. Wheat kernels
that are plump do not contain bacte-
To cavities, but shriveled ones often
0.
—Candy is a concentrated food, and
should be eaten with moderation. It
is always best to eat candy as a part
of the meal to replace some other
food. Eating it between meals not
only means needless use of sugar, but
often causes a loss of appetite for
other foods. Apply this suggestion
to the children. If they are to eat
candy it should be a part of the meal.
Between meals let them have bread
and butter, a cracker, or fruit.
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
TRY IT AND BE CONVINCED.
WASTE PAPER BALERS—Save waste paper. Waste Paper is worth more
money than you have an idea of. Get a BALER to-day and save BOTH.
Soon pays for itself and is a constant source of profit.
DON'T feed 6 cent milk to calves. Sell the milk and feed the calves
“RYDES” CALF MEAL. Is less expensive and better for the calf.
BEEF SCRAP—55% Protein, 10 per cent. SCRATCH FEED—Lay or Bust.
Grit, Oyster Shells, Charcoal, Linseed Meal, Old Process Oil Meal. Wag
ons, Sleds, Sleighs, Pumps. Etc.
Dubbs’ Implement and Seed Store,
62-47 BELLEFONTE, PA.
STYLE, POWER, EFFICIENCY, DURABILITY.
Shug?
CARS
Series 18 and 19.
12 DIFFERENT BODIES
Prices Range from - $895 to $1,800.
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GEORGE A. BEEZER, AGENT,
North Water St. 61-30 BELLEFONTE, PA.
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FINE GROCERIES
LL GOODS in our line are thirty to sixty days late this sea-
A son. Prices are somewhat, but not strongly above the lev-
el at this time last season. It is not safe to predict, but it
does seem that prices are just now “passing over the top” and may
be somewhat more reasonable in the near future.
We Have Received
New Evaporated Apricots at 25c and 30c a Ib. Fancy Peaches 20c
and 22¢c 1b. Very Fancy Evaporated Corn at 35c a 1b. or 3 cans for
$1.00. Fancy Selected Sweet Potatoes 5c a Ib.—some grades at 3c
to 4c a Ib. Very Fancy Cranberries at '18c per quart or pound.
Almerin White Grapes, Celery, New Paper-shell Almonds, California
Walnuts, Finest Quality Cheese.
INCLUDE OYSTERS IN YOUR ORDERS
We Mi deliver fresh opened, solid measure at cost with other
goods.
+ WE MAKE OUR OWN MINCE MEAT.
No item is cut our or cut short on account of cost—it is just THE
BEST WE CAN MAKE and is highly recommended by all those
who have tried it. If you have used it you already know—or try it
just now.
Bush House Block, -
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
NWI
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THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
BELLEFONTE