Bellefonte, Pa., January 16, 1919.
‘How Centre County May be a Banner |
County in the Modern Health
. Crusade Contest.
Four banners will be awarded to the
four counties in Pennsylvania making
the best record in the Modern Health
Crusade during the last half of the
school year of 1919-1920.
This announcement was made re-
cently by the Pennsylvania Society
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
under whose auspices the Modern
Health Crusade is conducted in Penn-
Sfivania There are several hundred
ousand school children in the State
enrolled in the Crusade. This is a
system of health education that se-
cures and grips the interest of the
child by having the boy and girl prac-
tice simple health rules daily.
For the purposes of the contest the.
counties have been divided into four
divisions, one banner going to each
division. Those having a population
up to 50,000 are in the first class;
those from 50,000 to 100,000 are in the
second; the ones from 100,000 to 200,-
000 are in the third and those above
200,000 are in the fourth.
The counties are divided as . fol-
lows:
First class: Adams, Bedford, Cam-
eron, Clarion, Clinton, Elk, Forest,
Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Juniata,
Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Perry,
Pike, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Sus-
quehanna, Tioga, Union, Warren,
Wayne, Wyoming. v
Second class: Armstrong, Beaver,
Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Carbon,
Centre, Clearfield, Columbia, Craw-
ford, Cumberland, Franklin, Indiana,
Jefferson, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lycom-
ing, McKean, Mercer, Somerset and
Venango.
Third class: Blair, Cambria, Ches-
ter, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Fay-
ette, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery,
Northampton Northumberland, York
and Washington.
Fourth class: Berks, Lackawanna,
Luzerne, Schuylkill and Westmore-
lands.
Records made by children in every
kind of school, including public, pa-
rochial and private, will be used. In
the Modern Health Crusade records
of excellence can be made in several | Y
ways. The record to be used in
awarding these banners will not be
announced until the end of the con-
test. This method is followed in or-
der that one feature of the Crusade
shall not be neglected and another
emphasized in order to win the ban-
ner. The awards will be based on
some feature of the regular record the
boys and girls make during the fif-
teen weeks they do the Crusade
chores. . ‘
¢ Records made from the opening of
school work after Christmas up to
June 19th will be used. The awards
will be made by July 15th. The ban-
ners, suitably inscribed, will be placed
in the custody of county school super-
intendents in the counties winning,
and during the next school year will
be circulated among the schools that
were enrolled in the Crusade.
May Grow All Our Figs.
It isnot improbable that this country
try will soon produce all the figs it
needs. This statement is made by the
Chief ‘of the Bureau of Plant Indus-
try, United States Department of Ag-
riculture, in his report on the prog-
ress of Smyrna fig culture in Califor-
mia. Much of the success of this en-
terprise has been due to the fact that
the department has been able to main-
tain a caprifig orchard at Loomis,
from which caprifig s have been dis-
tributed free to growers. Before this
distribution was arranged for many
Small growers of Smyrna figs became
discouraged and some even dug up
their orchards. The relationship be-
tween these two varieties is that the
Smyrna fig is fertilized by an insect
which lives on the caprifig. When
Smyrna figs and caprifigs are planted
together the caprifigs do not bear
enough fruits to caprify the crop
properly until several years aftcr the
trees begin to bear. lor this reason
a young orchard is dependent.on im-
porting the needed caprifigs during
the first few years. It was to supply
this need that the fig orchard at
Loomis was leased by the department.
y new varieties of caprifigs have
been brought to light, some of them
very important in commercial Smyr-
na fig culture. Many thousands of
seedling figs have been distributed to
co-operators in the fig-growing re-
gions of California, Arizona, and Tex-
as, and some promising new varieties
have been originated by a proper se-
lection of male pollen.
4n the fall of 1917 the fig insect
was established in some old seedling
caprifig trees in Brunswick, Ga., and
since then a number of caprifig treis
have been similarly treated. The re-
sult is that it has been possible to
caprify and bring into bearing many
sterile. Smyrna fig trees growing in
the southwestern States. Some of
these trees bear a very high grade of
fruit, promising for use as fresh fruit
or for canning. It is still doubtful
whether figs can be grown in the
southeastern United States to advan-
tage in a commercial way, but it is a
matter of much interest and of some
economic significance that many old
sterile fig trees in this region are re-
ally Smyrna seedlings. Approximate-
ly half of the trees are Smyrna figs,
and the others are caprifig varieties.
Same to You.
*Sure,” said Patrick, rubbing his
head with delight at the prospect of
a present. “I always mane to do me
duty.” -
“I believe you,” replied his employ-
er, “and therefore I shall make you
a present of all you have stolen from
me during the year.”
“Thanks, yer honor,” replied Pat;
“and may all your friends and ac-
graintances trate you as liberally.”—
ouston Post.
—— “When I sing, the tears come
into my eyes. What can Ido for
this?” “Stuff cotton in your ears.”—-
Winter Rations for Cows are Sug-
gested by Dairy Experts.
Suggestions which may help far-
mers in lowering the cost of milk pro-
! duction, are offered by the dairy ex-
' tension service of The Pennsylvania
| State College.
Based on lowest pos-
sible cost per unit of protein and en-
ergy, several rations have been work-
ed out, due consideration being given
to palatability, bulk, variety and
physiological effect. = When the
roughage consists of hay, or hay and
stover and silage, no legume being
used, any one of the following three
grain mixtures will be found satisfac-
tory: (1) one part corn-and-cob
meal, one part wheat bran, two parts
cottonseed meal and two parts linseed
meal; (2) equal parts of wheat bran,
cottonseed meal and linseed meal; (3)
two parts wheat bran, one part glu-
ten feed, two parts cottonseed meal
and two parts linseed meal. These
three rations are also good for late
spring, and summer pasture. If the
roughage used is half legumes, such
as clover of alfalfa and silage, or mix-
ed or clover hay and stover, any of the
following three grain mixtures
will make a balanced ration: (1)
equal parts corn-and-cob meal, wheat
bran, cottonseed meal and linseed
meal; (2) equal parts ground oats,
wheat bran, cottonseed meal and lin-
seed meal; (3) three parts wheat
bran, two parts hominy feed, three
parts cottonseed meal and two parts
linseed meal. If the roughage is en-
tirely legumious, such as clover or al-
falfa hay, three other rations of grain
are suggested: (1) two parts corn-
and-cob meal, one part ground oats
and one part gluten feed; (2) two
and one-half parts corn-and-cob meal,
and one part each of wheat bran and
gluten feed; (3) five parts corn-and-
cob meal, four parts ground oats, one
part cottonseed meal and one part lin-
seed meal. This last group is also
recommended as a grain mixture to be
used with early spring pasture.
In addition to all the roughage a
cow will eat, a Jersey or Guernsey
should receive one pound of grain for
each 3% to 4 pounds of milk; a Hol-
stein, Ayreshire or Shorthorn should
get a pound of grain for each 4}
pounds of milk. :
Cost of Sickness.
It is computed that the average in-
habitant of the United States is on
the sick list for nine days during each
ear, making a total of approximate-
ly 900,000,000 days, or nearly 2,500,-
000 years of illness for the entire
population each year. The ‘cost of
this aggregate of illness, for doctors
and medicine alone, will run some-
thing over $1 per day per person, and
amounts, therefore, to at least $1,-
000,000,000 per year.
Besides the direct expense involved,
there is an enormous industrial loss
occasioned by illness. If but one-
third of the total number of persons
ill arc earners, averaging $3 per day,
the time lost amounts to another
$1,000,000,000 ‘ per year. This indus-
trial loss is, of course, shared by al}
the people, so that even if an individ-
ual has not himself been ill a single
per yeat, and another $10 for each
member of his family. The person
who is an average earner and who is
[ill the ‘average number of days, pays
for his illness $9 for doctors and med-
icine, $27 for time lost, and $10 as
his share of the industrial loss, or a
total of $46 per year.
At least one-half of this illness is
preventible through reasonable pre-
cautions, these precautions including
the abstaining from harmful self-in-
dulgence, and another 25 per cent. or
more could be prevented by improved
working conditions and the enforce-
ment of more rigid sanitary regula-
tions. A vast number of illnesses and
deaths originate in dirt, pure and
simple, in homes that are, superficial-
ly, kept fairly “clean.” The cure is
in a wider spread of simple sanitary
cducation. Of all persons now alive
in the United States; 10,000,000 will
die of tuberculosis, and another 10,-
000,000 of pneumonia. In each in-
stance, intelligent care of the health
and reasonable precautions would
save at least half of these who are
otherwise condemned.
Rabbits Supply Fur.
Rabbits, through a great agricul-
tural misfortune “to ‘' Australia and
New Zealand, fetch to those Common-
wealths a very considerable annual
revenue from the sale of their pelts.
The latter furnish the bulk of the
commercial material for felt hats, and
are largely used for fashionable furs.
There is hardly any fur in the mar-
ket that is not imitated by the skill-
ful preparation of rabbit skins, the
art having attained so high a perfec-
feit even seal, otter and ermine.
Two New Vegetables.
Two new vegetables have been dis-
covered at the Missouri botanical gar-
den at St. Louis, Mo., it is announced
by Dr. George T. Moore, director of
the garden. One has been named the
“arracacha,” and the other the
“dasheen.” Both resemble the potato.
tion that they are made to" counter--
day, illness costs him, indirectly, $10 |
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Co-operation in Potato Spraying is
Profitable.
That co-operative potato spraying
is profitable in Pennsylvania is shown
by Dr. E. L. Nixon, plant pathologist
at The Pennsylvania State College
who gives the following figures from
the co-operative spraying demonstra-
tions which were carried out in this
State last year. Eleven organizations
in six counties sprayed 1018 acres at
an average cost per acre of $9.65,
which includes man and horse labor
materials and depreciation on the ma-
chine. The average gain in yield per
acre from spraying was 37.6 bushels.
Sprayed potatoes averaged 191.7
hushels per acre, while unsprayed
ones in the same fields yielded 154.1
bushels. The greatest gain was 61.5
bushels per acre at a cost of only
$8.45; the lowest was 18.8 bushels at
a cost of $8.03.
Five such demonstrations were con-
ducted in York county, two in North- |
ampton county; and one each in Pot- |
ter, Lehigh, Carbon and Berks coun-
ties. Each organization employed a |
student from The Pennsylvania State !
College to do the work. From 8 to 22
farmers were represented in the asso- |
ciations, the average number being !
12.6 and the average number of acres !
per demonstration being 92.5. The
larger the number of growers co-op- |
erating the smaller should be the to-'
tal acreage sprayed because of time :
spent in moving the machine from one
farm to another and in mixing a!
greater number of stock solutions. It |
has been found wise for each group
to elect their own officers and to han-'
dle the purchasing and financial mat-
ters through them.
Under this co-operative plan, each
grower secures disease and insect con-
trol at minimum cost and with little
labor or trouble on his part. Interest
in the use of better seed and in the
importance of disease control is stim-
ulated. However, each farmer must
wait his turn, which may be undesir-:
able sometimes because of weather or
disease conditions in his field.
, Couldr’t Get Em.
A small Williamsport boy recently
helped his mother peel potatoes. When |
she inspected his work she found the
eyes of the tubers had not been prop-
erly removed.
“Why, Billie,” she reported, “you
have not cut the eyes out of the pota-
toes you peeled.”
“Well, mother, I just can’t help it,”
wailed Billy. “Their eyes were so far
back in their heads 1 couldn’t get
em.
Those Girls!
“Tell me just what sort of a man
your fiance is.” i
“Oh, he’s everything that’s nice.”
“I'm so glad. You know I have al-
ways said that people should marry
their opposites.”
! fault.
. ered very poor that does not own at |ffj
2,000.
Dogs in Red Cross Relief.
In its task of relieving suffering
throughout the world, the Red Cross
has had frequent occasion to rely on
the sagacity and loyalty of dogs. In
the mountainous regions of Bohemia,
dogs are used to transport goods, be-
ing harnessed to small carts like the
chiens de trait of Belgium. In carry-
ing the food and clothing and medi-
cines into those almost accessible
mountain villages where the suffer-
ing was so intense, the Red Cross
workers made frequent use of these
carts.
In America, too, dogs are used.
Last winter, when the epidemic of in-
fluenza was at its height, word came
to the Red Cross Chapter at Anchor-
age, Alaska, that an entire village of
Indians was down with the flu. But
the village was fifty miles from a
railroad. To reach it, the party of
seven Red Cross workers who went to
the rescue were obliged, after leaving
the railroad, to cover these fifty miles
by dog team. When they arrived, the
situation was very serious. Of a hun-
dred Indians, fifty were sick and nine-
teen were dead. The relief party set
to work, established a hospital, fed
and cared for the sufferers. Only
five more lives were lost—thanks to
the dogs.
Recently, Captain Howard Arm-
strong, of Buffalo, was in charge of a
trainload of Red Cross supplies bound
to relieve the serious condition of the
hospitals in Budapest. One night,
while in the yards of Zurich, in
Switzerland, Captain Armstrong was
patroling the Red Cross train. A
Swiss police dog was performing the |
same duty for the government. In,
the darkness it was impossible to dis- |
tinguish the American uniform, and |
the guard in charge of the dog, seeing
a shadowy figure near the train, or-
dered his dog into action. Captain
Armstrong was attacked and after a
sharp scuffle, during which he was
bitten several times, managed to get
his raincoat over the dog’s head and
shouted to the guard to call him off. |
This was an instance where the Red
Cross did not profit by the dog’s loy-
alty, but it was not the animal’s
It seldom is. He simply
obeyed orders; the mistake was his
master’s.—W. R. B.
We Advise
that. you buy your
next, Spring or Win-
ter Suit, and Over-
coat,
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RERER EREREAET
An Independent Wife,
Flatbush—And your wife writes to
you on postal cards?
Bensonhurst—Oh, yes.
“I shouldn’t think you’d allow her
to do so.”
“Oh, she’s very independent. She
doesn’t seem to care who knows what
she says.”—Yonkers Statesman.
——A family in Lapland is consid- |
least 25 reindeer. A few of the
wealthier Lapps own as many as
Fauble’s
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The Kind You Have Always
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of -
and has been made under his per-
IIe ©. Allow no one to deccive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opjum, Morphing mor other narcotic substance. Its
age is'its guarantée. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea;
therefrom, and by regulating
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The
GENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
Bears the Signature of
Children Cry for Fletcher's
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In Use For Over 30 Year
The Kind You Have Always Bought
rife CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY,
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Do You Have
a Bank Account’?
If you don’t you are depriving yourself of
the advantages that the splendid banking in-
stitutions of Centre County offer you.
,Any one of them will open an account
with you for what might appear to you as
only a trifling deposit, because bankers know
that small deposits often grow to become
large ones, as people discover what saving
means to. them. There is a lot in that old song about -
a little bit added to what you've got makes a little bit
more. - And when you put a little bit in the bapk in-
variably you commence to get interested in seeing it
grow. :
The Centre County Bank
at Bellefonte will be glad to open-an account
with you to prove how easy and beneficial to you'it is"
to save.
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Bought, and which has been
supervision since its infancy.
and‘ Just-as-good ”* "are ‘but
It is pleasant. It contains
allaying Feverishness arising
the Stomach and Bowels, aids
Mother’s Friend.
60-4
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Positively not a worm or cog gear on the machine.
levers. The lightest, easiest running and most practical Spreader.
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