Sonora
Bellefonte, Pa., August 6, 1920.
FARM NOTES
Standard bred fowls produce uni-
form products which bring higher
prices.
Green cut bone, when fed fresh,
makes an excellent substitute for
beef scrap in the poultry flock’s diet.
It must be purchased in small quanti-
ties, as it cannot be kept fresh for
any ’ength of time, especially in warm
weather, and when spoiled may cause
severe bowel-trouble.
Plenty of fresh water should always
be accessible to the hens. If supplied
irregularly they are likely to drink
too much at a time. It should not be
exposed to the sun’s rays in summer
nor be allowed to freeze in winter if
this can be avoided.
In very frosty weather it is often
worth while to give the flock slightly
warmed water two or three times a
day rather than permit them to drink
water at the freezing point. A flock
of 50 hens in good laying condition
will require four to six quarts of
water a day, say poultry specialists
of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
The cabbage maggot does serious
damage to cabbage, radishes and cauli-
flower. A poisoned bait formula
which will kill the adult fly before it
has a chance to lay its eggs will be
sent by th: Bureau of Plant industry,
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture, Harrisburg, to those who ask
for it.
To kill the maggots on cabbage zl-
ready infested use carbolic acid and
emulsion. The stock solution is made
as follows:
Dissolve one pound of soap in one
gallon of boiling water, then add one
pint of crude carbolic acid and churn
the mixture hard until all are thor-
oughly mixed. i
To use—Dilute one (1) part of the
above stock solution with thirty (30)
parts of water and pour half a tea-
cup above the stem of each plant.
Apply once a week until the four
aprlications have been made.
_ This does not prevent the fly lay-
ing eggs but it kills the eggs or the
young maggots. Use at once in an
endeavor to save infested plants.
Given free range, turkey hens us-
ually secrete their nests in obscure
places, such as patches of weeds, tall
grass, or bushy thickets, and often
wander a half-mile or more from
home before they find places that
suit them. To find these “stolen”
nests is often a long and tedious
task, the usual method being to fol-
low each turkey hen as she separates
from the flock and starts toward her
nest, taking care that she does not
know she is observed. A much easier
and quicker method than this is to
confine the hens early some morning
soon after they have come down from
roost and let them out late in the af-
ternoon. Those that are laying will
then head straight for their nests in
order to lay the eggs they have been
holding.
_ If attractive nesting places are |
prepared about the barnyard, turkey
hens sometimes lay in them. In the
North, where the laying season often
begins while there is still snow on the
ground, they are more likely to select
their nests near home than is the
case in the South, as they do not
range far during cold weather.
Nests are easily made from boxes
or barrels, or by scooping out a little
earth in the shape of a shallow bowl
and piling brush around it to satisfy
the hen’s desire for seclusion. Of all
nests, however, the one most prefei-
red by turkey hens is a barrel laid on
its side and a nest shaped in it with
straw or hay, according to the United
States Department of Agriculture
poultry specialists. When only a few
turkeys are kept it is the usual cus-
tom to allow them free range through-
out the breeding and laying season.
If many turkeys are kept, however, it
is usually found most convenient to
use breeding pens or inclosures, in
which the turkeys are kent until they
have laid their eggs for the day, let
ting them oul late on each afternoon.
When confined to a breeding pen sev-
eral turkey hens often lay in the same
nest, but on free range each hen u:-
vally makes her own nest.
The summer or early fall, soon ai-
ter the lambs have been weaned or
marketed, is the best time to dispose
of ewes that are not considered desir-
able for another years breeding, say
sheep specialists of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The
ewes that are to raise the next crop
of lambs can then be prepared for
fall breeding. Ewes of the mutton
breeds do not ordinarily breed well
nor keep .in good condition after 5
years of age. Their usefulness, ho.’-
ever, depends more upon the condi-
tion of their teeth than upon their
actual ge. Fine-wool ewes usua'ly
remain useful to a later age. It is
a good plan to sell aged ewes be-
fore 1hey become too run down to be
valuable to the butcher. The ewes
that give the most milk and 1aise
the best lambs are likely to be ‘juite
thin at this time and should not be
judged by their appearance.
Nonbreeding ewes, poor milkers,
light shearers, and mothers of infer-
ior lambs should be marked as their
defects are discovered, and should be
disposed of at this time. Their plac-
es should be filled by the best individ-
uals among the yearling ewes and
from the best breeding older ewes.
With our present knowledge of and
experience in sheep-scab eradication
work it is comparatively easy to re-
duce the infection to a point where
it ceases to cause economic loss, but
the complete eradication of the para-
site over such vast areas is a problem
requiring patience and diligence.
Where the eradication work is super-
vised by a well-organized force of
trained field men, the percentage of
‘infected flocks can be reduced very
rapidly until it reaches a fraction of
1 per cent; but to reduce that fraction
to zero requires very careful and
systematic work, with the full coop-
eration of the sheep owners. As soon
where the economic loss is little or
nothing, many sheep owners lose sight
of the importance of continuing erad-
ication. It is necessary, however,
for the protection of the sheep indust-
ry that the efforts be continued until
the pest is completely eradicated.
If lambs are sold at from 3 to 5
months of age they may run with
their dams until that time. The
lambs to be kept for breeding purpos-
es should be weaned at the same time
and put on fresh pastures where
there is no danger of stomach worms.
When the weaning is done at this
time the ewes can be put in better
condition for the fall breeding. Ram
lambs left in the flock worry the ewes.
When lambs are to be kept on the
to leave them on the old pasture for
three or four days and remove the
ewes to a scanty pasture to check
their milk flow. As soon as the lambs
cease fretting for their dams they
may be moved to fresh pastures
where the ewes have not been. Ewes
with large udders should be partially
milked once every three days until
they go dry.
New State Law Abolishes Little Red
School Houses.
All rural schools, the attendance of
which falls below ten pupils, are clos-
ed and the scholars are sent to an-
other school within a mile and a half
of their residence and if none are
within that distance, the scholars are
sent to other schools and the trans-
portation is provided for by the State.
The reasons for the new law are
that the State may save money on
education in that manner and because
of the scarcity of school teachers and
also there is an « lvuitage in schools
with large attenderce:.
The law refers to the past term and
not to the coming one. In some in-
stances schools are affected because
of the neglect of parents in sending
the children to school; thus lowering
the attendance. This new law will
save a large amount of money for
the district, on account of the smaller
schools costing more in proportion to
the larger ones.
This law has been passed and the
school authorities have no option in
the matter. It is hoped that the par-
ents will regard the matter in its tru»
light from the standpoint of better
educational facilities for their chil-
dren and that they will support the
school directors in their endeavor to
obey the law.
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A Singular Similarity.
“Sir, I am an uncompromising dyed-
in-the-wool Democrat! My father and
my grandfather were Democrats, and
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Fuller Gloom. “A clam is a clam be-
cause his father, grandfather and sun-
dry other ancestors were clams.”--
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played by Carl Flesch
as the disease is reduced to a point
farm the best method of weaning is |
in The United States.
This country has long recognized a
responsibility in the case of depend-
ent children, and has passed many
laws which provide for the mainten-
ance and safe-guarding of child life.
But the so-called “Mothers’ Pension”
movement, which provides care for
the dependent child in his own home,
has come into existence within the
last ten or fifteen years. These
Mothers Pension Laws, while new, are
not detached and unrelated to former
laws. They make rather a change in
method, and are in accordance with
the whole trend of modern thought
along the line of child conservation.
The earliest laws to provide for the
care of dependent children in their
own homes were embodied in the
school codes of several States which
provided that books and clothing
should be furnished to needy children
to enable them to attend school. The
laws of two of these States, Oklahoma
and Michigan, went further in pro-
viding in addition to books and cloth-
ing, for the payment of money for the
support of the children. The Okla-
homa law, enacted in 1908, provides
for a “school scholarship” equivalent
to the earnings of the child to be paid
by the county to the widowed mother,
when the earnings of such children
were regarded as necessary to the
support of the mother. The Michi-
gan law of 1911 authorized the pay-
ment from school funds of a sum not
exceeding $3.00 a week per child to
enable children of indigent parents to
attend school. For some years Cali-
fornia, in the absence of any law cov-
ering this point, had given such aid
under liberal interpretation of one of
its juvenile court acts. In this case
the dependent or delinquent children
were committed by the courts to a
charitable institution which accepted
the commitment, and whenever it
seemed desirable permitted the chil-
dren to remain in their own homes,
giving the mother the amounts order-
ed by the court. Wisconsin, also,
without definite State enactment, gave
financial assistance to the families of
dependent children instead of com-
mitting the children to a charitable
institution.
In 1909 the White House conference
on the care of dependent children
brought before the people generally
the need of providing something bet-
ter than poor relief and more cer-
tain than private charity in the
matter of aiding mothers with depend-
ent children. It also gave considerable
publicity to these new “Mothers’ Pen-
sion” laws. As a result, in 1911 both
Missouri and Illinois enacted laws
providing for the care of dependent
children in their own homes. Agita-
tion for the adoption of such laws
spread rapidly, and in 1913 out of 42
State Legislatures in session 27 had
before them bills providing for simi-
lar legislation. During that year new
“Mothers’ Pension” laws were passed
by Pennsylvania, New York, Mas-
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Violins differ subtly in tone!
New Edison Realism by that fact.
We have an ‘Ave Maria’’ Rr-CrEAaTION
played by Albert Spalding with his
This famous violin has a
brilliant, singing tone.
¢¢ Ave Maria’
Albert Spalding bimself recently
took part in a test of the New Edi-
son’s Realism, at New York City. He
played in direct comparison with the
Re-Creation of his performance by
the New Edison. Mr. Henry Hadley,
one of the jury of the three listin-
guished musicians who listened from
sachusetts, and many other States and
Hisory of “Mothers” Pension” Law | existing
laws were revised and
amended.
Both 1915 and 1917 were years of
great legislative activity throughout
the country along the line of providing
in some form for the care of depend-
ent children in their own homes. By
the close of the legislative session of
1919 “Mothers’ Pension” laws had
been adopted in 39 of our 48 States,
and Alaska and Hawaii. In the re-
maining 9 States, with several excep-
tions, bills are now under considera-
tion.
The United States is a pioneer in
“Mothers’ Pension” legislation, but
she is not alone in this work. As far
back as 1913 Denmark and New
Zealand were operating Mother’s Pen-
sion laws, and soon afterwards
Canada. Our method of administer-
ing this help, while varying in the
different States, is proving very sat-
isfactory, and it is interesting to note
that no less a country than Great
Britain has turned to us for guidan~e
in legislation of this sort.
No form of social legislation has
been more popular during the past 5
years than the so-called ‘Mothers’
Pension” laws. In neglecting to pro-
vide real constructive help for the de-
pendent mother with little children
society has paid a heavy penalty in
broken homes, sickness, child labor,
deliquency, and many other ills re-
sulting from the mother’s struggle io
give both mature and support of her
family. The mothers’ Assistance Law
is designed to prevent this breakdown
of the home and to supplement the
other laws for child welfare. “The
surprising rapidity,” says one writer,
“with which this provision has gained
recognition in American Legislatures
is a significant indication both of the
great need for public action and of |
the growing conception of the State as
having a duty towards its citizens.”
Difficult Impression.
The young man on the train, ob-
serving that the handsome girl across
the aisle was looking at him very in-
tently thought he had made an im-
pression and in a few moments he
changed his seat to the vacant one
beside her.
“Haven’t we met before
where ?” he ventured to ask.
“Well, I'm not quite sure,” she re-
plied, “but: I think you are the man I
saw hanging around the night our
automobile was stolen.”
The young man vanished into the
smoking car amid the snickers of
those who had overheard them.—Bos-
ton Transcript.
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From actual photograph taken in the Edison
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This violin has a rich,
Come in and compare these two RE-CrEa-
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makes clear the distinction between the
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