Bellefonte, Pa., November 14, 1919.
PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT
OF FORESTRY. FALL PLANT-
ING OF WALNUT AND
HICKORY SEEDS.
The walnut family, which comprises
the walnuts and hickories, contains
some of the most important trees na-
tive to Pennsylvania, Two species of
walnut and six species of hickory are
native to Pennsylvania. All reach a
large size, are attractive ornamental-
ly, produce valuable wood, and yield
delicious nuts which are used by man,
and furnish food to many wild ani-
mals, especially squirrels. Because of
these attractive qualities, they have
been cut so extensively that nature’s | n
supply of them is now waning rapidly.
Hence, it is imperative that vigorous
efforts be put forth to propagate these
valuable timber and nut-bearing
trees, by planting their seeds on a
large scale and by methods which will
insure success.
The black walnut is one of the most
valuable timber trees native to Penn-
sylvania. It yields delicious nuts
which are produced in large quantities
annually. Black walnut is a very ex- in
acting tree as to soil and location,
preferring rich and moist soil, and
rather warm and low situations. It
requires plenty of light, but will en-
dure some shade while young. It don’t
thrive in the colder part of Pennsyl-
vania, nor on dry situations. Hence, |
great care should be exercised in se-
lecting a suitable site for planting the
seeds.
The butternut does not attain so
large a size, nor produce so valuable |
timber, as the black walnut, but bears
nuts which contain delicious, sweet
and oily kernels. The nuts are fre-
quently preferred to black walnut by
man, and by the animals of the field
and forest. It is found locally
throughout the State in rich bottom
land, and on moist, fertile hillsides,
and will thrive better than the black
ENOCH’S THANKSGIVING.
bowlders in her yard at the foot of
Big Laurel Mountain, and sighed lu-
gubriously.
“David’s a-goin’—a-goin’ soon!”
“Where’s Davy goin’ ?”
«I didn’t know you was around, Ab-
igail Seal!” Paulina frowned a bit
resentfully. “You always did have
the softest steppin’ pair of feet—for
all the world like a cat’s.”
“Or a thief’s!” muttered the hard-
visaged old man sitting near the
spring, mending a bridle. .
The blooming young girl, looking
over the low stone fence, reddened at
this covert thrust.
“Davy’s goin’ to take his $200 rail-
road tie money and go to the preach-
er college after Thanksgivin’. I
thought he was goin to marry on it,
but he says he ain’t,” went on Pauli-
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“Oh, Pauliny, I wasn’t meant for
David!” Abigail raised propitiating
eyes to the old woman's censuring
ones, then they deepened and dark-
ened solemnly. “Folks has got a heap
to think about besides marryin’ these
stirrin ‘times, Pauliny.”
“David knows that,” his grand-
mother drawled defensively; “a-bein’
lame is all that’s keepin’ him from en-
listin’, but it won’t hinder his preach-
“Two hundred dollars is a lot of
money—I wish I had the half,” ob-
served Abby wistfully. “Where does
Davy keep it, Pauliny ?”
“He’s got it in my little beaded
sack a-hangin’ in the loft. He's
afraid of banks.”
When the girl was gone the bridle-
mender, Cleophas, rebuked Pauliny.
“Laws,” Paulina tossed her head—
“Abby’s honester than you, Cleophas,
You are a-holdin’ spite foolishly. Ab-
by’s got her woman’s right to prefer
Enoch Dawn to our Davy.”
Abby, walking with light swiftness
destitute of limbs and punctured by
} Yoodpeckers and ants, hung over the
! path.
“I'm goin’ to axe that poplar!”
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through the reddening woods stopped |
when she came to a dead poplar that, |
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walnut at higher elevation, and in the ' cheerful voice sounded behind her, ;
northern part of the State.
The shellbark hickory attains the ' sid t of th f the leaning |
largest size of the native hickories aside gub. of the Say of the leaning)
and produces the delicious nuts of
commerce. It prefers rich, moist soil
such as found along streams and
about borders of swamps, but also
flourishes on relatively dry, fertile
soil. It is light demanding and will
not thrive in dense stands unless it
dominates the neighboring trees.
This tree is a prolific seeder and may
be propagated extensively, but should
not be planted in the colder and
mountainous parts of the State.
The Mockernut hickory is a medi-
um-sized tree which produces a fruit
similar in appearance to the shellbark
hickory, but upon opening the nut one |
always finds a small kernel. It is rare
or absent in the northern part of the
State and should only be planted in
rather low, fertile situations in the
valleys and about the foothills of the
mountains. The fruit is practically
valueless to man, but furnishes satis-
factory food for the animals of the
forest.
“The Pignut hickory is the only im-
portant species of the native hickories
which thrives on dry ridges, hillsides,
and mountain slopes. It will grow in
| and a sunburned young man lifted her
tree. “It shan’t fall on my girl while
I'm fightin’! Yes, I'm goin’, Abby.
Something in me says: ‘Enoch, don’t
stay here takin’ it easy makin’ ex-
cuse your mammy’s got but you.”
She raised glowing eyes. “Oh,
want to go! But I—Oh, Enoch, you
might not come back.”
Enoch kissed her paling cheek.
“There’s worse things could happen
us, honey.”
“1 know,” she whispered; “sin
brings folks the worst griefs.”
“Im not goin’ to enlist until
Thanksgivin’ day, three weeks yet,”
the boy said presently; “I've got to
get the corn in and leave things in
shape for winter first, for mammy.”
The next morning when Enoch met
Abby in the woodland path and bent
joyously over her she seemed scarce-
ly to sense that he was kissing her.
“My silver breastpin you gave me
is gone,” she told him nervously. “I
could not find it anywhere this morn-
Enoch, I couldn’t stand it if you didn’t.
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in’. I'm afraid losin’ it'll bring us
bad luck.”
“Let’s walk as far as Cleophas Dot-
son’s and look for it,” Enoch suggest-
all parts of the State on a great vari- ed
ety of soils. The fruit is variable in
form, small in size, and the nut con-
tains small, bitter kernels. This spe-
cies may be planted in the mountains
where no other hickories or walnuts
will thrive.
The best time to plant the seeds of
the walnuts and hickories is in the
autumn, as soon as the fruit is ripe
and falls. The seed should be planted
at once, for their vitality is impaired
or destroyed if they are allowed to
dry. If fall planting is not possible
or not rcommendable due to possible
damage by squirrels or nut-eating an-
imals, the seeds may be stratified in
moist sand and kept until spring when
they may be planted.
Seeds should always be planted
where the trees are expected to re-
main, for both hickories and walnuts
are difficult to transplant on account
of the long tap-roots which they de-
velop during the first year. Even if
great care is exercised in transplant-
ing, the tap-root is frequently cut or
injured to such an extent that the fu-
ture growth of the tree is exceeding-
ly impaired. The hulls of the seeds
should be broken open or entirely re-
moved.
The best places to plant walnuts
and hickories is in old abandoned
fields, along fences, about camping
sites, in by-places, and open spots in
the forest. It is recommendable to se-
lect moist, fertile, and open sites. The
latter condition is imperative.
Method of Planting.—By means of
a pick or similar implement, make a '
hole in the ground two to four inches
deep. Space holes about 6x6 feet; y
drop one seed in each hole, and cover
dropped nuts with about two inches
of ground.
By Vote of 74 to 16 Adult Members of
Church Favors Daylight Sav-
ing Law.
The adult members of the Trinity
Reformed church Sunday school, Lew- |
istown, last week voted upon the
question of a local municipal ordin-
ance to re-establish daylight saving
during the summer months. The vote |
was T4 for and 16 against daylight
saving legislation. ;
A special committee of Lewistown
borough council was appointed one
month ago to investigate the propo- |
sition of enacting an ordinance to pro-
vide earlier time for the borough dur-
ing the summer months. The com-
mitte is Messrs. G. B. Keim, L. R.
Peck and O. O. Orner.
Holidays Should be Combined.
Speaking of Armistice day, the sug-
gestion to make Thanksgiving day
fall on November 11th each year, in-!
stead of the last Thursday in the!
month, seems to be sensible. There
are many holidays and according to
accomplish anything at all, it will be
necessary to double up some of them.
With Armistice day and Thanksgiv-
ing day, with five Sundays, there re- | §
In the inter- |
main few working days. ]
est of efficiency these twe holidays
should be combined, and it would seem
they cam be appropriately.
“I wasn’t in Pauliny’s yard yester-
day,” she demurred fretfully, as they |
walked along.
there, Enoch.”
“I don’t- want to go
Pauliny ran out to meet them, her
“David’s
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eyes wide with excitement.
money’s gone! Been stolen
“And nobody knew I kept the mon- :
ey in the loft,” David
mournfully.
observed
“Only Abby!” old Cleophas mutter-
ed. “Pauliny told her but yesterday.”
“Here’s the ladder settin’ outside
the window just like it’s been all sum-
mer,” David went on.
“Yes, and them that climbed that
ladder and stole that hard-earned
money ought to be made to suffer, be
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it man or woman!” Cleophas remark- :
ed, and Enoch felt that he knew what
{ was in his suspicious old brain. Then,
in the grass at the foot of the ladder,
| his troubled eyes fell on Abby's
; brooch.
beat again he set a cautious foot over
the pin, and, unobserved, stooped and
"transferred the trinket to his pocket.
«1 wish I could know where my pin
iis!” she murmured on their way
‘home. Enoch’s hand, pressing the
breast pocket, felt the uncomfortable
| roughness of the brooch within, but
' he grew cold at the thought of restor-
{ing it to her. Had Abby been tempt-
ed to take David’s money? He recall-
ed that she had been unaccountably
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Old Paulina Dotsan stood beside the , wanted to go in the direction of Pau-
spring welling out from between two lina’s to look for it.
Enoch knew that,
gone, leaving Abby with no men folk
to defend her, old Cleophas would not
hesitate to accuse her. But if he stay-
ed, the cowardly old man would not
make trouble. Could ke stop his ears
to the call of the flag and stay behind
with Abby?
For three weeks Enoch worked and
suffered. Two days before Thanks-
giving day, the day he had set to pre-
sent himself for enlistment, he met
Rate Owens, a neighbor lad.
“Cleophas says he believes - he
knows who got Davy’s $200,” he re-
marked, “and wind and weather per-
mittin’, he’s goin’ up town Saturday
and notify the sheriff. Who do you
reckon the old cuss has fastened it on,
Enoch?”
Enoch shook his head, but when
Bate left him he sank on the fallen
leaves and raised beseeching eyes to
the November sky.
“Hear me, Lord!” he cried. “If she
—if my girl never done that wrong,
send me a sign, and forgive me for
thinkin’ she might have! And if she
did sin, show me what to do between
now and Thursday!”
“Bring me the axe, honey,” he re-
quested Abby. “I’m goin’ to cut the
old poplar. I was about to forget it, .
and I'm goin’ day after tomorrow—
at least I ought to. Stand out of the
way now.”
Presently Enoch, examining the
fallen tree’s top, gave a joyous cry.
On the ground lay some red string, a
door key, a safety-pin and Paulina
Dotson’s little red and yellow beaded
pouch.
Enoch opened the bag and took out
David’s four fifty-dollar bills, “I saw
a crow fly up there—a tame one, I
reckon. He must have had a habit of
oin’ in houses around here, and he
ancied the beads on Paulina’s pocket-
book.”
Abbie smiled in his radiant face.
“Your worried look’s gone, Enoch!”
He threw his arms about her and
held her so close she eould scarcely
breathe.
once he were
| “Oh, Abby!” he cried, “that little
worry pressed me hard, but it’s gone
now forever!”
When he was alone again in the
wood he fell on his knegs by the felled
dead tree.
“O God!” he cried out, “day after
tomorrow is the world’s Thanksgiving
day—but today is mine, today is mine,
blessed God!”—By S. B. Hackley.
Twenty-five Years.
more wild turkeys now than in twen-
ty-five years, according to Seth E.
Commission. He has just returned
from visits to central and southern
counties. The weather conditions
have been favorable for propagation
and the State authorities have bought
numerous turkeys and then turned
them loose to breed.
In some sections where turkeys had
been almost extinct this plan has re-
sulted in noticeable increases. Flocks
of as high as twenty-five birds have
been reported from some counties.
The wild turkey season opens tomor-
row and lasts fifteen days. 4
Super-Hen is Coming.
Super-chickens and eggs, two or
three times their present size at a
cost not much greater than present
prices, was predicted by Alton E.
. Briggs, of Boston, president of the
National Poultry, Eggs and Butter
Association, in an address to the 1000
delegates attending the opening ses-
sion of the thirteenth annual conven-
tion. Mr. Briggs said a new type of
super-hen is being bred and in the
near future would reach the public,
thus doing mueh to lower the cost of
living.
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Trust Company
Bellefonte, Penna.
SOME OF THE
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count.
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Pay your bills with a check which will be
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Bring in a $1.00 or more and open a Savings Ac-
Get a little Savings Bank for the children to
We pay 3% yearly, compounded
January 1st, and July 1st.
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We issue Certificates of Deposit at six months or
one year and pay 3% interest, per annum.
TRUST DEPARTMENT
In our Trust Department we will manage your pri-
Make your will and name the Belle-
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THINGS WE DO
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Secy-Treas
Wild Turkeys Abound More Than in
Pennsylvania is believed to have
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