Bellefonte, Pa., April 30, 1920.
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DID YOU!
Did you give him a lift?
of man,
And bearing about all the burden he can.
Did you give him a smile? He was down-
cast and blue,
And the smile would have helped him to
battle it through.
Did you give him your hand ? He was slip-
ping down hill,
And the world, so I fancied,
him ill
Did you give him a word?
him the road,
Or did you just let
load?
Did you help him along?
like you, 2
But the grasp of your hand might have
carried him through.
Did you bid him good cheer? Just a word
and a smile
Were what he most needed that last wea-
ry mile.
He's a brother
was using
Did you show
him go on with his
He's a sinner
Do you know what he bore in that burden
of cares @
That is every man’s load and that sympa-
thy shares?
Did you try to find out what he needed
from you,
Or did you just
through?
leave him to battle it
Do you know what it means to be losing
the fight, 3
When a lift in time might set everything
right?
Do you know what it
clasp of a hand,
4 man’s borne about all a man
ought to stand?
means—just the
‘When
Did you ask what it was—why the quiv-
ering lip, ,
And the glistening tears down the pale
cheek that slip?
Were you a brother of his when the time
came to be? ;
Did you offer to help him, or didn’t you
see ?
Don’t you know it's the part of a brother
of man
To find what the grief js and help when
you can?
Did you stop when he asked you to give
him a lift,
Or were you so busy you left him to shift?
Oh, I know what you say may be true
But the test of your manhood is: What
did you do?
Did you reach out a hand?
him the road,
Or did you just let him go by with his
load?
Did you find
—J. W. Foley.
THE PLAIN KIND.
There was no question about it,
Martha Bain was not beautiful.
Freckles are not necessarily rocks on
the road of romance. I
pug nose nor stringy hair of a rusty
hue. : all
was not given a part in Cupid’s dra-
ma. That is, she had no part in it un-
til—well, this was the way of it:
Neither is a:
But Martha had them all, and:
the hotel, greeted Harold with an em-
i brace and a kiss, and complained be- !
emg the best room already was oc-
cupied and she had to put up with the
second best.
She was a pronounced blond, with a
clear, olive complexion and dreamy
gray eyes.
Harold, and, if anything, slimmer.
the lady clerk had all she could do to
she meant it so much she broke the
point of the pen when she jabbed it
into the potato that served as a hold-
er.
Martha’s feelings toward Elizabeth
Ross were not improved by an inci-
dent which took place the day after
the latter’s arrival. Knight, the ter-
rier, liked to be friendly with all the
guests, and he tried to be with Miss
Ross when the latter ascended the
steps to the veranda.
Did Miss Ross stoop and pat Knight
as he frisked about her? Decidedly
she did not. Instead, she kicked him
with her dainty foot, and Knight went
away with his tail between his legs,
surprised and mortified. E
Came the day when Harold and his
bride-to-be were to leave. Martha had
her eyes open for a last glimpse of
him, and she finally spied him through
a window, coming toward the hotel, in
company with Miss Ross. They were
talking earnesily—at least, the girl
was—and Martha rejoiced that there
might be some kind of a dispute.
Slowly the sun crept out of sight
behind the rim of Walloon lake, leav-
ing a streaked blaze of blended red,
gold and blue. In a secluded dell,
fringed with faintly rustling maples,
stood a freckle-faced, pug-nosed girl,
one arm against a tree, her gaze fol-
lowing a little steamboat that was
lazily puffing a path through the pla-
cid waters.
The girl stooped and patted the
head of the white dog, which stopped
snapping at a fly long enough to ca-
ress the hand with his tongue.
‘“He’s gone, Knight,” she said. “He
is on that boat, see?” And she turn-
ed the animal’s head toward the ferry,
which just then uttered a hoarse blast
and glided behind a point that shut it
from the view of the watchers. Tears
could not be kept from Martha’s eyes,
and Knight sniffed as though he were
crying, too.
told the dog.
Something rustled behind them and
the dog growled as he sprang toward
the sound; but the growl was smoth-
ered in his throat and his tail began
to wag furiously.
Martha looked and her eyes met
those of Harold Kingsley, standing
with his hands in his coat pockets, a
queer little smile curving his mouth.
For a moment Martha was too as-
tonished for words.
“Why—why—I thought you and
Miss Ross left on—left on that boat,”
she finally managed to stammer.
He reached and picked a leaf from
a tree, and crumpled it in his hand.
“You thought right, partly,” he
said. “Miss Ross is on that boat, but
we—well,
| after she made a show—after she
She was nearly as tall as |
Watching from behind her desk,
keep the tears away when the new-!
comer assumed possession of Harold. |
“I hate that girl!” said Martha, and
“Now, you're my only Knight,” she
we had a disagreement |
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Out of the dusk a shadow,
Then a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then a lark;
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then a pain;
Out of the dead cold ashes,
Life again.
—John B. Tabb.
WATER GLASS BEST EGG PRESERV-
i ATIVE.
Egg production is not uniform. It
never will be uniform, unless per-
chance the seasons undergo a miracle
and winter weather is eliminated, and
unless the nature of the fowl is rad-
ically altered. Half of the yearly sup-
ply of eggs is produced in three
months—from the iniddle of March
until the middle of June. Spring is
| the natural period for laying. Condi-
tions are all favorable. Anything that
resembles a fowl lays at this time.
Spring is the season of over-pro-
duction, in that more eggs are laid
than we manage to consume. During
the remainder of the year production
is slight; in the fall and winter
months it is almost nil, except for the
specialty poultry plants, where the
hens are cajoled by more or less arti-
ficial means into making a fair show-
ing. Such plants, however, do not
represent one-tenth of the poultry in-
dustry The backbone of the industry
vidually, but impressively large col-
lectively.
The consumption of eggs is virtu-
ally uniform throughout the year.
And the only thing that makes this
possible is the fact that we are far-
sighted enough to store the surplus
production against the time when
there is an underproduction. The
same idea holds true of most food-
stuffs—cereals, vegetables, fruits and
the like. Except for the storage of
food we would have very slim diet for
six months of each year.
PRESERVING EGGS IS SIMPLE TASK.
Preserving eggs is not so well
known as canning and preserving
fruits and vegetables, though it is
just as reliable and a lot simpler. It
is unfortunate, perhaps, that it has
not been given more prominence, be-
cause just as much of a saving can be
made by preserving eggs as was ever
ig by canning fruits and vegeta-
es.
Strictly speaking, the whole idea of
preserving eggs consists of precau-
tions, because the actual task is as
simple as placing pickles in a vat of
brine. It is nothing more than that,
anyway, only a different preserving
liquid is substituted for the brine.
The precautions consist of provid-
ing clean containers for the eggs,
storing these containers in a clean,
fairly cool place, such as a cellar, and,
most important of all, to see that the
eggs are strictly fresh to start. No
difficulty attaches to the latter re-
| quirement if the eggs are produced
| by the home flock.
In order fully to appreciate the
need for these precautions a little
! should be known of the structure of an
egg and its susceptibility to deterior-
ation. When an egg is laid it is com-
Perched behind the desk in Eagle kicked the little dog, and so things are . paratively free from any bacteria or
Heights Hotel Martha watched the
summer lads woo the summer lassies,
| not—they are different now. You see,
' she’s one of the artificial kind; and 1
‘life which might cause decomposition.
, It spoils quickly under certain circum-
and her little heart, which really was | rather prefer girls like—well, the nat- ' stances, such as dampness and dirt.
very big, thumped away unnoticed
oir Se loetod Perhaps if she had
obtained a polished personality at a
finishing school she might have made
herself interesting to the knights
from the big town;
father considered a High school edu-
cation sufficient for his hotel clerk.
specially since people went there in
quest of the rustic.
Nevertheless, Martha often dreain-
ed when she cat at the edge of Wal-
loon Lake in the light of the moon,
that she had a knight of her own—
sometimes two of them.
Harold Kingsley came to Eagle
Heights for a month’s recreation from
his literary labors.
When he came along the beach
Martha was throwing sticks into the
water for a white fox terrier to
chase. Harold stopped and watched,
standing some distance behind the!
girl, so she did not become aware of
his presence.
“Come on, Knight,” she admonished
and the dog emerged from the water
holding a jagged stick, which he
dropped at the girl’s feet. Then
Knight spied Harold and went to him
just as a shaking spell seized him.
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” Martha
exclaimed, when she turned and saw
Harold brushing drops of water from
his clothes. “That is. Knight begs
your pardon.”
“Don’t bother about the apologies,”
Harold remontrated. “I can dry out
again. Besides, this is not my best
suit. I have another—honest.”
From that time they were friends,
the three of them. Nearly every even-
ing they were together, walking along
the tanbark paths in the woods or
seated in a secluded nook on the lake
shore.
One night Harold grasped Martha's
hand and told her:
“Martha, somehow, I’ve come to
care for you a lot.”
“Why?” she wanted to know.
“Why do you like me? I know I am
not good looking, and I have just
loads of freckles.”
“Because you are so natural,” he
finally said. “You're not the least bit
artificial, like most girls I know. You
are not tainted from contact with the
world. You are just yourself, and
you don’t try to be anything else.
And do you know, I'm rather fond of
freckles, particularly that one on the
end of your nose.”
The next night—it was nearly a
month since his first appearance at
Eagle Heights—his manner was en-
tirely different. He answered her in
monosyllables and appeared wrapped
in thought.
“Why are you so different to-
night?” she asked. They walked on
and came to the steps of the hotel ve-
randa before he answered:
“I'll tell you. Today I received
word that Elizabeth Ross, the girl 1
am engaged to marry, is coming here
tomorrow. She expects to stay sev-
eral days, and then I am to go back
with her. I hated to tell you.”
Elizabeth Ross took the place by
storm. Attired in clothes that were
the last word in style, she swept into
but Martha's’
| ural, the plain—yes, the freckled
, kind.”—By R. Ray Baker.
| Beaver for Pennsylvania.
More than 150 beaver will be dis-
tributed in State game preserves in
| Pennsylvania as soon as the weather !
conditions permit them to be shipped
and
‘from the province of Ontario,
| State Game Commission officials are
i now making up the list of places to
{ which the animals are to be sent. Ex-
‘ periments made in Northern Pennsyl-
{ vania the last few years have shown
! that it is possible to stock this State
! again with beaver, and it is planned :
| to distribute a number of the animals
in the Allegheny valley and in north- '
| eastern counties, where conditions
i have been declared favorable by per-
sons conversant with the hubits of
the beaver.
Seth E. Gordon, secretary of the
State Game Commission, says that
the reports he has received from game
wardens and sportsmen show that the
activities of people in feeding game
during the recent snows have saved
many birds. In some of the southern
counties, where the State distributed
wild turkeys, the birds were found
close to settlements, and recently
have been found very active.
dreds of quail have been kept alive by
being fed by farmers, arrangements
having been made with game officials.
rp.
Legion Fighting Plague.
American Legion posts throughout
the country,
United States Public Health Service
in efforts to locate sanatorium accom-
modations for the thousands of for-
| mer service men who have returned
from the war afflicted with tubercu-
I losis. Acting on the suggestion of
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, Ameri-
can League posts are endeavoring to
locate suitable sanatoriums where war
ing the wish of the Public Health
Service to care for tuberuclar patients
in sanatoriums
where the patients se desire.
The old idea that tuberculosis pa-
tients ‘must seek high altitude and a
dry climate has been found to be
wrong,” said Dr. Rupert Blue. “It is
to make a radical removal. A patient
gressing disease should never be sent
to a distant place.”
earar——— etter.
Balked His Desire.
A gentleman and his wife were ad-
miring some college buildings erected
by wealthy alumni. Presently they
came to a noble hall, over the main
entrance of which was a tablet read-
ing, “Erected by John C. Black, as a
memorial to his beloved wife.”
“Ah,” he said with a sigh, “that is
what I should like to do for my col-
lege.” And for the life of him he
couldn’t understand why his wife sud-
denly became cold to him.
Hun- |
now numbering more :
than 7500, are co-operating with the !
risk patients can be accommodated at .
rates not to exceed $3 per day, it be-'
near their homes
generally necessary or even desirable
with far advanced or rapidly pro- |
| WATER GLASS SOLUTION Is BEST.
Of the numerous experiments con-
i ducted by agricultural colleges, chem-
‘ists and others, with the view to de-
| termining which method of preserving
' eggs gave the best results, the water-
glass treatment stands at the top, and
is to be recommended for all-round
use.
Water glass, or soluble glass, tech-
.nicaliy known as sodium silicate or
potassium silicate, comes in two forms
—a thick, syrup-like liquid of about
the consistency of molasses, and as a
powder. Both forms are sold by lead-
ing druggists, though the liquid ma-
i terial is probably the most popular.
It is not expensive if bought direct
from the manufacturers. Properly
diluted, a gallon of water glass should
make sufficient solution to cover and
store between sixty and seventy dozen
| eggs.
Dissolve one part liquid water glass
in ten parts water. If the powder is
cused a slightly smaller quantity of
the chemical may be employed. Only
. pure water should be used, and if
there is any question as to its purity
the water should be boiled for about
| twenty minutes. Allow it to cool be-
i fore adding the water glass. Stir the
| mixture thoroughly, and when the
{ glass is entirely dissolved the solution
| 1s ready for use. The water glass is
i heavier than water, and will go to the
| bottom unless thoroughly dissolved
| and mixed.
| Almost any sort of a container will
| do for packing the eggs, though large, !
earthenware crocks which have a
glazed surface, such as butter crocks,
are preferable. Crockery, glass or
wooden containers are better than
, metal receptacles.
1
i HOW THE EGGS ARE PACKED.
If the eggs are carefully placed in
the vessel on end and stood close to-
gether, more eggs can be stored in a
given container and less solution is
required to cover them. This is not
essential, however, and sometimes, as
in the ease with most backyard and
farm flocks, it will not be possible to
store the eggs in such large quanti-
ties.
| The eggs can be added, a few at a
‘ time, as they are gathered each day
fresh from the nests. Simply place
the eggs in the solution and see that
they are covered by the liquid to a
depth of two inches. If the solution
| evaporates, add more; the eggs must
be covered by the water glass as long
as they are in storage. A good plan
| is to cover the containers with lids to
| prevent evaporation and keep out
I dust. If tight-fitting covers are not
| available, secure a layer of tough pa-
| per on the top of the vessel.
| Store the containers in a cool, well-
ventilated, clean cellar. Examine the
| containers about once a month to see
i that the eggs are submerged. Do not
attempt to keep the eggs indefinitely;
| no method of preservation will do this.
, The eggs should be consumed within
| nine months.
|. Remove the eggs from the solution
as they are desired. Do not keep the
eggs out of the preservative for any
is the farm flock; a small unit indi-
considerable time before they are to
| be used—a week is all right.
; When preserved eggs are to be boil-
! ed, stick a needle through the shell in
: the large end to prevent the shell from
' breaking.
Do not replace the eggs in the solu-
i tion once they have been removed. To
do so may influence the other eggs.
; BE SURE OF FRESH EGGS.
Strictly fresh eggs are necessary to
| assure success. Use infertile eggs
! whenever possible. Test the eggs by
| the candling process if there is any
{ question as to their quality.
{Scrub and scald the containers to
| insure cleanliness. Dirty eggs or eggs
which have been washed should not
be preserved. Remember, one defect-
ive egg may render the entire lot un-
fit for food.
Do not use any preserving solution
more than once. Make a fresh
each year.
ORIGIN AND FUNCTIONS OF
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
What is the Electoral College? The
constitution of the United States re-
cites that for the purpose of the elec-
tion of a President and a Vice Presi-
dent of the United States each State
shall “appoint,” in such manner as
the Legislatures may direct, a num-
ber of electors equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representa-
tives to which the State may be enti-
tled in the Congress. The word “col-
lege,” not mentioned in the constitu-
tion, came into use later, possibly for
the first time in 1845, when Congress
provided for the filling of vacancies,
“which may occur in the college of
electors when such ccllege meets to
give its electoral vote.”
There is no uniformity in the man-
ner of nominating electors to be vot-
ed for at the ensuing election. Prev-
ious to the election of 1912 no few-
er than 30 States yet adhered to the
old custom of naming them in party
conventions. Fifteen States made
their nominations, as does Pennsylva-
nia, ip primaries by popular vote.
Virginia and Wisconsin nominated for
the districts in district conventions
and for electors-at-large in State con-
ventions.
Returns of the results of the elec-
tions are made to the clerks of the
various counties within two days, and
these officials must within eight days
certify the returns to the Governors
of their respective States. The can-
didates having the highest number of
votes in his district or in the State is.
declared to be the elector, no matter
to what party he may belong; and it
has happened that the electoral vote
of a State has been split between can-
didates for the two leading parties. If
there be a tie vote the Governor of the
State must notify the Legislature and
that body shall decide the matter,
choosing one of the persons involved
in the tie. The Governor must notify
the persons declared elected and order
the preparation of three lists of the
electors to be printed and delivered tc
them previous to the date appointed
for their meeting. :
The electors must meet in their re-
spective States, at such places as shall
be designated by the Legislature, the
second Monday of January following
their notification of election, and
there, as provided by the constitution,
“yote by ballot for President and Vice
President, one of whom, at least, shall
not be an inhabitant of the same State
with themselves. They shall name in
their ballots the person voted for as
President, and in distinct ballots the
person voted for Vice President, and
they shall make distinct lists of all
persons voted for as President, and all
persons voted for as Vice President,
and of the number of votes for each,
which list they shall sign and certify,
and transmit sealed to the seat of
government of the United States, di-
rected to the president of the Senate.”
After they have cast their votes the
electors must make and sign three
certificates of all the votes given by
them, each of which certificates must
include two distinct lists, one the votes
for President and the other the votes
for Vice President, and to each of
these certificates they must annex one
of the lists of the electors given them
by the Governor. The certificates are
now sealed, have the endorsement that
they contain all the votes given by
them for President and Vice Presi-
dent, and that is the last that will be
seen of them by the electors as a
body, though all may take a pleasure
trip to Washington to witness the cer-
emony of the counting of the votes,
which will take place the second Wed-
nesday of February succeeding the
ceremonies of the electors in their re-
spective States.
On that day at 1 o’clock p. m. the
Senate and House of Representatives
must meet in joint session, in the hall
of the latter, according to act of Con-
gress of February 3, 1887, and then
occurs one of the impressive formali-
ties associated with the choice of a
President, though the result has been
known by everybody for fully three
months.
The president of the Senate sits in
the chair of the Speaker of the House
and the Speaker sits at his left hand.
The Senators occupy the section of the
hall to the right of the presiding offi-
cer, with the members of the House to
{ the front and left. Two tellers have
| been selected by each branch of the
| Congress. The President of the Sen-
i ate opens the votes as certified by the
| electors of the various States and
passes them to the tellers to be count-
ced in alphabetical order. Objection
‘may be made to the counting of the
vote of any of the electors, and in
, that case the two bodies must confer
| separately in their own halls and in
| the event of agreement or the oppo-
| site in regard to the challenge the |
{vote or votes shall or shall not be
‘counted. Finally the complete vote is
“announced to the president of the Sen- |
ate by the tellers and that presiding
! officer announces that Mr. Smith, or
‘ Mr. Jones, as the case may be, “ap-
| pears by the vote to have been elected
President of the United States,” with !
similar solemn words in relation to
the Vice President. That ends the
grand formality and the statesmen |
and visitors who crowd the galleries |
scatter.
Prior to the act of February 3, 1887, |
the president of the Senate opened
and counted the votes. That method
was virtually ended early in 1877, in
the heat of the Hayes-Tilden contro-
lot
- a
versy, which was the gravest political
crisis that had occurred since the
days of the secession. For years the
entire matter of transmitting and
counting the electoral vote had been
a subject for heated discussion. As
to the method of transmission, one of
the three certified copies of the vote
is sent to the president of the Senate
by special messenger and another is
sent him by mail. The third is depos-
ited with the judge of the District
court in the district where the elec-
tors assembled. In case the first two
certificates disappear a special mes-
senger is sent from Washington to re-
ceive the certified copy left with the
district judge.
Dispute of the right of the presi-
dent of the Senate to count the votes
was argued for political reasons with
much heat at the beginning of the
Hayes-Tilden ruction. Tilden prepar-
ed a brief in which he showed that the |
‘ president of the Senate’s legal duties |
ended with his reception and opening
of the votes, but that he had no au-
, thority for counting them. The law,
however, providing for tellers, was not
made specific until 1888, with the pre-
scription cited above, according with
the Tilden view.
$300,000 is Demanded for Mark Twain
Home.
Lovers of Huckleberry Finn and the
other creations of Mark Twain, who
manifested interest in a movement to
preserve the historic home of the
writer, literally took the count when
the officers of the Hartford Art Soci-
ety announced that the present own-
ers demand $300,000, while they ac-
quired the property a few months ago
for $55,000.
The owners, Francis Ahern, an un-
dertaker, and James J. Wall, a real
estate promoter, admit, according to
the officers of the art body, that they
are not in business for their health
or for any sentiment about Mark
Twain.
Since
building is threatened with destruc-
tion, offers of financial aid have been
received from all parts of the coun-
try.
“Innocents Abroad” was written in
the house, which is one of the oldest
residences in New England. The
kitchen is on the top floor on the
street side so, as the humorist ex-
plained, “the servants would see the
parades and funerals without running
through the house.” All the stair-
ways are on the outside.
An appeal to the State Park Com-
mission to condemn the property for
a State park has been suggested. If
this were done, officers of the art body
say, the present owners would receive
only the appraised value of the land
and buildings erected thereon.
— et
Trip to Panama Canal for Penn State
Entertainers.
Arrangements have just been com-
pleted whereby a group of six Penn
State student entertainers will be giv-
en a trip to the Panama Canal Zone
during the next Christmas vacation
period. The invitation has come from
government officials at Washington,
and as a result of the splendid records
made by similar parties from Penn
State that appeared in the Canal
Zone in 1914 and 1915. While the
time for the trip is too far distant to
select a personnel of the party, it will
‘include a male quartette, a pianist
and a reader. They will be accom-
panied by C. C. Robinson, head of the
college department of music, who is
largely responsible for securing this
unusual trip. Several members of the
present Freshman quartet who have
made that organization famous during
the present year, are certain to be in-
cluded on the trip. Concerts will be
given for the benefit of government
employees and army men in Panama.
State College Students Earn $60,000
in Year.
Estimates supplied by the employ-
ment bureau of the college Y. M. C.
A., indicate that earnings of Penn
State students this year will aggre-
gate more than $60,000, and for the
first time in many years there is a
surplus of jobs on hand at the bureau.
During the present year there have
been 220 applicants for work as
against 340 jobs that could be sup-
plied those who want to earn a little
money towards paying their college
expenses. The bureau states that 170
applicants have received work that
will bring them an average of $3 per
week, or a combined total of $18,560
for the yar. More than 150 men earn |
their board through “waiting table”
in boarding and fraternity houses,
is a total saving to them of
$32,400 with board at $6 per week.
Scores of other students have regular
work in stores, some as sales agents,
stenographers and clerks, their com-
bined earnings totaling several thous-
and dollars in the course of a year.
A Stayer.
Two Irish business men were chat-
ting together when an elderly man
passed by.
“That’s Brown; he works for me,”
said one of the two.
“He’s an honest looking chap,” re-
marked the other. “Has he any stay-
ing power?”
“He has that,” replied the first. “He
began at the bottom of the ladder in
’76 and he’s stayed there ever since.”
The Poor Married Hick.
/ “Before marriage my husband was
so susceptible to flattery.”
“Yes?
“And now he is susceptible to noth-
ing but fresh cold.”—Florida: Times-
Union.
He Didn’t Mind, Oh, No!
Wife—Jim, I've invited one of my
old beaux to dinner. Do you mind?
Hub—Why, no. I always like to
meet lucky people.—Boston Trans-
cript.
The Heartless Monster!
“She accuses the defendant of
taunting and teasing her by refusing
to buy her only one suit and one pair
of shoes a day.”-—Steubenville Ga-
zette.
it became known that the |
FARM NOTES.
—Field peas sown at the rate of
2 bushels per acre with 1 bushel of
oats are largely used by dairymen.
The combination is cut when the peas
begin to pod and used as hay. 1t is
the cheapest food that can be raised,
and means a big increase i il ¢
butter fat. hil ang
—You should plan to have a better
garden this year than you did last
year. Plant on generous lines. Plan
that the rows may be straight and
long, so as to admit horse cultivation.
See that there is nothing in the gar-
den but vegetables; fruit trees have
no place in the garden; they belong
in the orchard. Nothing larger than
currant or gooseberry bushes should
be allowed a place in the garden, and
these shduld be placed in one side of
the garden and in long rows.
—If there were no bees fruit trees
and other plants could not produce
any fruit. Apple, plum, cucumber,
clover, alsike and alfalfa are fertiliz-
ed by bees. Honey is the bait with
which the bee is induced to perform
this task. The colored, fragrant pet-
als of the blossoms are the advertis-
Ing signboard, telling the bee where
the honey may be found. If the blos-
som Js to “set fruit,” the bee, with its
fuzzy body, must brush some of the
vellow dust called pollen from the
male organs or anthers at the bottom
of the blossom, and, flying away to
another blossom, deposit the pollen on
the female organ, called the stigma.
The blossoms are so arranged that to
get at the honey the bee must first
brush, with its pollen-covered body,
against the stigma, thus completing
the polination. As soon as it has per-
formed this duty it may draw a check
for the work in the form of a drop of
honey at the bottom of the blossom.
While drawing this pay the bee is in-
voluntarily covered with pollen again
and made ready to proceed to the next
blossom and repeat the process.
.—Soy beans are more than three
times as valuable as corn when com-
pared in their protein content. The
two feeds are hardly comparable on
the basis of total digestible nutrients,
the one being a nitrogenous feed and
the other a carbonaceous. Corn con-
tains in each 100 pounds 7.8 pounds of
digestible protein, 66.8 pounds of di-
gestible carbohydrates and 4.3 pounds
of digestible fat. Soy beans contain
in each 100 pounds 29.1 pounds of di-
gestible protein, 23.3 pounds of diges-
tible carbohydrates and 14.6 pounds of
digestible fat. Oats contain less car-
bohydrates, but about the same
amount of protein and fat as corn,
and while shorts are higher in protein
than corn they contain less than half
as much as soy beans. Experiments
have shown that soy beans when fed
to hogs have a feeding value 10 per
i cent. higher than shorts and much su-
| perior to oats. They are fed as a sup-
plement to corn, and as such are equal
lin feeding value to linseed meal.
| When properly used in connection
| with corn and other feeds one could
| well afford to pay $1.50 per bushel for
soy beans to feed to hogs.
| —The amount of silage which may
i be stored in a silo depends upon the
depth, the diameter and the amount of
water in the silage. A silo 36 feet
deep will store nearly five times the
amount of feed that one 12 feet deep
will. Doubling the diameter increas-
'es the capacity four times. A silo 30
feet 1n diameter will hold more than
nine times as much as one 10 feet in
diameter and at the same depth. The
| late Professor KF. H. King, the author-
ity ior the above statements, worked
out a table showing the capacity of
‘silos of various sizes. ‘his table
. shows that a silo 10 by 28 feet would
{hold 42 tons of silage, and it would
i require 2.8 acres or corn, producing
15 tons per acre, to fill it. A silo 10
by 40 feet would hold 70 tons and re-
quire 4.6 acres of corn to fill it; a si-
ilo 14 by 28 feet would hold 83 tons
, and require 5.5 acres of corn to fill it;
a silo 12 by 40 feet would hold 101
tons and require 7.3 acres of corn to
'fill it. A cubic foot of silage in a si-
ilo one foot deep weighs 18.7 pounds.
I'ln a silo 20 feet deep, a cubic foot of
| silage, taking an average of the whole
depth, will weigh 83.3 pounds. A
i deep silo will hold more in proportion
than a shallow one and the silage will
| keep better. The height should be at
| least twice the diameter.
—The economy of pasturing pigs is
shown by the results of thirty-three
| forage crop demonstrations conducted
iin fourteen counties of this State last
| year by the animal husbandry exten-
| sion service of The Pennsylvania State
College. A summary of these demon-
| strations shows that it required 475
{ pounds of grain to produce 100 pounds
‘of pork when pigs were fed in the dry
! lot, while 312 pounds of grain produc-
, ed the same amount of gain when pigs
were on pasture. The saving in grain
| bill was 34.3 per cent. There is anoth-
ler phase to be considered: Health,
{vigor and rapidity of growth are val-
{ued by experienced swine raisers as
I much as the saving in feed cost. They
‘mean an efficient herd and one in
| which disease is not liable to gain a
i foothold.
| Over 1000 pigs were used in these
! demonstrations, which ran 114 days.
: The quality of the animals was that
of average feeder hogs found in Penn-
| Sylvania farms. At the beginning of
| the period they averaged 45 pounds.
|The average tinal weight was 134
' pounds, making a daily gain of .79
pounds. Cost of producing the forage
crops was computed from man and
horse labor, rent of land, seed, fertil-
tizer and fences. This amounted to
+ $2.43 for each 100 pounds gain in the
| herds. Labor in feeding and interest
lon investment came to $0.84 per 100
pounds gain, Grain cost is the deter-
‘mining factor, amounting to over 75
i per cent. of the total cost of produc-
(tion. Thus a saving in the amount of
| grain used goes a long way toward
| the efficiency of producing pork. Un-
‘der present conditions it often means
' the difference between profit or loss
on the year’s work for the swine grow-
ler. Nothing makes a better hog pas-
| ture than alfalfa or clover. Rape is
{good and may be sown early enough
| to make pasture for spring pigs as
' soon as they are ready for it. A suc-
| cession of various crops planned to
| take care of the herd all summer is
| the only way to obtain all the advan-
|tages of this method of feeding
, swine.