FARM NOTES. A VISIT TO A GLASS FACTORY. | 24 in the jrrniaile i? glass but- ons and glass jewelry. For the imi- — Heavy clay soil produces slowly One of the most interesting of all! tition ae us emeralds, until the vegetable matter increases. factories to visit is a glass factory. and diamonds a very fine quality of Sandy soils, unless well supplied with About the first thing that eatches the glass is needed, and this must be col- vegetable matter, permit the fertiliz- | stranger’s eye on such a visit is the ored with great care. In one of the er to filter away beyond reach of plant mixing room, where may be seen large store-rooms thick pieces of glass are roots before the plants get all out of | boxes or troughs on rollers, each con- to be seen. These are used in the it. Ci a free quantity of white making of railway signal lights. . s sand, or silica, lime, soda, and potas, | e annealing, or tempering Oo HE ALTH SCHOOL ==Thero Is N10 Yeason Sg with the various metallic substances, ' glass is hed by ange: in ing manures in the vege > garden. | such as lead, iron, copper or gold, re- ovens, where it is slowly heated and BR It is wasted energy. tay Sonar quired to produce the different colors then as slowly cooled. Small articles, to each hill oF Yow, With 1 hi e Noo —amber, blue, green, or ruby—that such as lamp chimneys, are some- it and the seed. This gives the Fron ~ | glass is to have. times annealed by being placed in wa- est results for he least expen iu re In this manufacture great quanti- ter, which is gradually allowed to be- of time and money. No need to feed | ties of red lead are used, and the come very hot, and then permitted weeds. preparation of this metallic oxide, slowly to cool. —Loamy, or so-called rich, soils | which is brought to this country in its ~~ The peculiar ribbed or corded ap- hold their nutrient part in readiness | crude state, is an important depart- pearance that some kinds of glass because there is sufficient vegetable ment of the manufactory. The cars present is obtained by winding the matter to make it light. This gives a containing the materials of which half-completed vessel rapidly with a chance for the air to aid the germs of | glass is to be made are rolled out at thread of molten glass and then re- fertilization to increase and multiply, intervals to the hungry mouths of the heating it. The cord or thread melts to prepare the substances to be taken | great furnaces, which contain the partly into the surface of the glass. up by the plants. fiery molten mass, and with great —Exchange. — Michigan is the first State to of- fer a reward for planting nut trees beside highways. In Europe the prof- shovelfuls the furnaces are fed. | Before the mouths, or Openings, it from roadside nut trees assists in maintaining roads. Roadside nut stand the glass-blowers, with their | A Watch and its Idiosyncrasies. trees abroad are protected from van- long hollow tubes, or pipes, to the end An old jeweler, who has handled of which, as they plunge them into thousands of watches during his life- be hore Ymid, adheres a quantity of time, and has observed a few of their : ; 3 us mass. ; ih ! dalism by public sentiment, and this | No more interesting sight can be si ae yo talking is true of the nut orchards in the prin- | witnessed in an industrial establish- | of his conversation he said: cipal centers of production in this | ment than that of the glasshlower, as “Watches, all joking aside, are re- country. | he stands with inflated cheeks blowing ally almost human, sometimes. They —Recoveries by the government, | into the end of his tube, and causing take cold readily. 'Never lay a watch during the first fiscal year, for tres- |the mass of rapidly cooling glass to on a cold marble table or near an open passes on the national forests amount- | grow larger every second, or else as window all night, after you have worn ed to $87,082 in damages and $3,225 | he plunges it into the cast-iron mold it next to your warm body all day; it in fines. These included grazing, tim- | at his feet to take out presently a well ill contract a sort of pneumonia and ber, fire, game, and occupancy. shaped bottle or drinking glass. “ten to one it will stop before long if —Do not follow the idea that when planting trees you should put fertiliz- er at the bottom of the hole. Plant your tree, and when within about two "Bellefonte, Pa., January 21, 1921. Don’t. Overlook Our Wonderful Pennsylvania State Department : of Health, Overcoat, Sale Ques.ions, (1) What variety of mosquito is responsible for the spread of ma- larial fever? (2) Where do mosquitoes deposit their eggs? (3) How may mosquitoes be elim- inated? Remember, your pick of an Overcoat MOSQUITOES your y Madame Anopheles, pronounced (an awful ease), yawned and stretched, then with characteristic abandon pro- ceeded to stand on her head—-rather unladylike, but Madame Anopheles was a mosquito and after all that position was natural to her special family, thus differing from her cousins, the Culex’s, who always stand with their slim bodies parallel to the object upon which they are resting. Madame Anopheles had subsisted for in the store, regardless of former price, for i These molds are of every conceiva- the practice is kept up. The cold con- ) e shape and size, and one great tracts the metal pivots, which, small room is generally utilized to store as they are, must not be smaller, and them as well as to contain the ingen- they shrink. Thus the wheels cannot .... $23.00... the first two days of her life upon vegetable diet; when her instinct warn- ed her that the eggs which were al- ready forming in her body, would not develop unless she had a meal of blood, she sallied forth to find a victim. She floated through an open window and softly settled on the cheek of a man wrapt in the profound sleep of exhaus- tion following a par,xysm of the chill, fever and sweating of malarial fever. Only a few drops of blood served to fill her stomach to distention, yer those | few drops, drawn at the favorable time, contained numbers of the two clements which, enly in the stomach of the Ano- pheles Mosquito (according to present knowledge) can combine to reproduce the Amebulae which are the active causes of malarial fever. Soon in her body thousands of new born Amebulae were ready to be car- ried into the blood of the next person whose skin she punctured. In a week Madame Anopheles, be- fore, simyily an annoyance, had become a carrier of malarial fever and « grave menace te public health. All mosquitoes deposit their eggs in either stagnant or very slow moving water. A rain barrel—an unturned tin can—1 water huckei{—opiteher, anything which will hold water. A few days later the eggs split and wrigglers ecunierge, fuzzy, squirming, thread-like they dart about erratically, now and breathing tubes aloag the rear portion of the back. As they thrust their air tubes through the surface they are forced to assume a position almost parall2l with the top of the water. Other varieties of Mosguitoes have much longer breathing tubes situated at the extremity of the back, which cause them to hang with the head downward when taking air—irc way the Anopheles way be distinguish- ed cven in the larvae or (wriggler) state. Next cowes the pupal stage when the larvae changes its form somewhat and floats av the surface looking something like » curled up catfish. After a few days of this life, the skin splits and the full grown nwsguitv cerges. Male mosquitoes do not bite, it Is not at «ll a matter of preference, but because they are not so constructed that they can. Anopheles Mosgititoes ure found in all hot countries, they abound in our own southern states. They are also found in Pennsylva- nia. There is no malaria where there are no Anopheles Mosguitoes. The Ano- pheles can not give malaria unless it suck biced from a malarial patient. The Anopheles may be distinguished from other varieties of mosquito by their characteristic posture, standing almost on their heads and by the black specks on eneir wings. patlonts with tualaria screened agalust mosquitoes. Mosquitces can be exterminated in any locality by Gesiroying thelr Lreed- ing places. oh Marshes should be drained, pools of . standing water which cannot be drain- . ed should be covered with a thin layer of oll—kerogenia oF a crude oll dilution. A smail quantity of oil soon distributes itself evenly over a large body of water. When mosquito larvae come to the surface to breathe, the oil fills the breathing tube and they die from suf- focation. Small receptacles about the must be this | inches of the top place your fertilizer and cover over with soil. The rain will wash the essence down to the roots. The same practice can be fol- lowed with established trees. Care should be taken that the fertilizer does not touch the bark or roots. Re- member, trees take up food with their fibrous roots, and fibrous roots usual- ly are near the ends of big supporting roots, and tree roots usually go as far outward as the branches extend. mer selected a piece of steep hillside land, unsuitable for regular cultiva- tion, and set out a grove of young chestnut trees. The trees are now giving him as good an income as some farming land, and practically without attention. Chestnut blight, which has destroyed most of the na- tive chestnut trees in the east, has not yet done material damage to chestnut iand plantings west of the natural ! distribution of the American chest- nut. Blight resistant varieties are now being developed by the United | States Department of Agriculture and i by associations of nut growers. | —Milk is at the best temperature | for a complete separation just as soon {as it comes from the cow. At that | time it is also at the best possible tem- | perature for bacterial growth. Since i ferraentation always occurs in milk ' that is kept any length of time and : glace milk is apt to gather in large numbers of dizeased germs or bacteria | : ; : Vat all forms adsl ; aeain coming to the surface tor air. |) afl Soren Snmigung io then The Anopheles wire equipped with short | 16 79080 SHANE Ca ions Zor api: | growth, it is of great importance that ‘some precautions be taken to prevent | cure a good product and in cleanliness . rests the entire secret—first, preven- ! tion of infection; sccond, prevention of the growth of germs already pres- ent, and third, the destruction of those already present. | Tests made by the United States Department of Agriculture (in co-op- | cration with the Pennsylvania State { Department of Agriculture and the | Pennsylvania State Experiment Sta- | tion) in 1919 and 1920 to determine { the behavior of American varieties of | potatoes in the presence of the wart | disease, a serious Kuropean troubic | racently found in this country, have | shown that 26 named varieties of | American origin are immune to the | disease. These are: Irish Cobbler, | Flouerball, First Early, Early Eure- | ka, Barly Petoskey, and New Early | Standard, of the Cobbler group; Eh- | nola, Extra Early Sunlight, White | Albino, and Early Harvest, of the Ear- {ly Michigan group; Spaulding Rose, Northern King and White Rose, of the Rose group; Burbank of the Burbank tain Junior, McKinley, New Oregon, McGregor, Norcross, and Gold Coin, | of the Green Mountain group; Round Pink Eye and McCormick, of the Peachblow group; and Keeper, Suec- cess, and Ursus, which are unclassed. In addition, 12 new, unnamed seed- ling varieties developed by the depart- ment were alsd found to be immune, as well as 24 English and 5 Bcotch va- rvieties. Seven of the English varie- ties, namely, Edzell Blue, St. Malo Kidney, Majestic, Arran Rose, Great Scot, and Irish Queen, gave good yields, but only one, Edzell Blue, gave a yield that compares favorably with that of the best American commercial sorts. : ; Potato wart has been a serious dis® ease in northern Europe for many years, and in 1912 the United States placed an embargo on potatoes com- ing from countries where it was known to exist. Shipments received prior to that date are considered re- sponsible for its introduction into this country. It was discovered in 1918 in — Fifteen years ago an Illinois far- | this bacterial growth that we may se- group; Green Mountain, Green Moun- | ious little presses that are used to tighten them about the glass. Close together stand the makers of small and large bottles, cruets, lamp chimneys, vases, ornaments, and the like, and the thousand aud one other glass objects that are to be seen in the household. The best work is molded with the simple glass-maker tools, and is not run into the iron molds. A pair of scissors, or nippers, a pair of tongs, and a few other small instruments are all the tools used to fashion our most beautiful glass vessels or ornaments. A water carafe is formed by the skilled glass-maker from the little mass of molten glass in an incredibly short time, and the addition of a han- dle to a pitcher is one of the simplest things in the world. The visitor will, perhaps, see an am- ber handle on a rich ruby pitcher, and be surprised to learn that the differ- ence in color is produced simply by the reheating of the part now a ruby color. There are, however, few col- ors that will change in the furnace. the off, do, one move. “Watches are magnetized, too, by persons who wear them. I have seen the statement that watches vary in time-keeping with the health of the wearer, and that, if changed from one person to another, they will also show slight variations. All of that is true. The static electricity of a person may effect the watch. All of us throw this some more than others. Dark persons give off more than light ones and a dark woman more than any else. The oil dries in the morning. No, not at . From the blowing and molding gives it the full spring to work on i room one passes to the cutting room, where the difference between pressed and cut glass is quickly learned. The , common pressed glass, which beside | cut glass, looks so cheap, is wholly fashioned in the mold; but glass that is to be cut is taken to the cutting room perfectly smooth and plain and there marked with a red lead, accord- ing to the artist’s design. Then a cutter, who sits before a little rapidly revolving iron wheel, presses the article gently against the wheel and soon the symmetrical lines and cross lines appear in the glass, as “engraved with a diamond. | For the finer parts of glass engray-" , ing a stone wheel is used, and for still | more delicate work a copper wheel is employed. | For “ground glass” the principle | tools are a wire brush and fine sand, . which secon produce the desired effect. | When the cutting is all donc the | | glass is polished carefully and is! ) It should be added | etched with ‘the i ready for sale. | that glass is sometimes | acids. | In one part of the furnace rooms : | there will be seen men drawing out | glass and laying it down on the floor iin long, round, black or dark-brown | bars, or in rods. This is to be utiliz- don | Gen. Pershing to Succeed March as during the day, when the jars and jolts are more numerous. your watch still when you wind it, and wind the key.”—Lookout. And hold . Chief of Staff. General John J. Pershing is to be next chief-of-staff of the United | States army, according to informa- | tion in high army circles at Washing- i ton. i or General cease automatically to be entitled to that rank or position, and will send his resignation to President Harding probably on March the fourth. The present chief-of-staff, Maj}- Peyton C. March, will For Sale.—Sixty houses and lots.— J. M. Keichline. Natural Question. Jimmie—“Mother, who is that man ' with long hair who is waving a stick _in front of all those fiddlers?” Mother—“He is the conductor, Jim- | Well, where | mie” Jimmie—“Oh, is he? do they keep the motorman ?”—Lon- | Answers. E i i *ALGOMOL- 3 PER GENT | | Ve efable Preparation bras fod Food by Regula®t nachs and Dowels of (x Thereby Promoting Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest. CoplaitSg Opium, Morphine nord yoT NARGOTIG ——— # a | i i For Infants and Children. i Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria { Always a Bears the | Signature Dark women should have rubber cases for their watches, if they wish to have them keep perfect time. “Never lay a watch flat at night, after it has been worn in a veritcal po- sition all day. It throws it off its base, so to speak. If the pivots be worn, it will not run level. “A’ watch should be fed or oiled every eighteen months, even if run- ning in the best of time. in that time, and the wheels are like- ly to wear one another. watch bed-time, but when you get up. That Wind your 65-40-3m | Sale Positively Ends January 22 Don’t let this Big Money-Saving Opportunity slip RAFT Handling Your Funds. 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CENTRE COUNTY BANKING CO 60-4 BELLEFONTE, PA. house containing water may prove ex- gardens at Highlan d Pa., in the ¥eart cellent breeding places for mosquitoes. of the anthracite mining district, an d| } The grip foam the hack yards hy- | subsequent surveys have shown that {rant, the clogged rain spout, the horse | its occurrence is restricted to-a lim- trough are all favorable to mesquito | ited number of mining villages in breeding. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and In long continued dry seasons the | Maryland, inhabited largely by for- ; surfac eigners, from which its spread has water traps between surface drains and : 1 en 4 ent in towns and cities afford excel- been restricted by prompt and rig lont breeding places for mosquitoes. State quarantines. i ed upon as one of the Such traps should either be oiled after A 1 each rain o- routinely flushed once & ly infected gardens in Pennsylvania week to wash out the larvae before practically the entire crop was found they have time to develop into moS- {to be destroyed by the disease. iow. quitoes. ever, the discovery that a number ot Witl. r » Anopheles Mosq itoss there | the best commercial American varl can be iio malaria—with no srunding ties of both early and late potatoes water there can be no mosquitoes. are immune to wart offers an 1mpor- tant means of control. These varie- ties are so generally grown that it will not be easy for the disease to gain a foothold in our important potato- growing districts even if it should es- cape from the areas to which it is now confined. > Ap Use or debaker SPECIAL SIX SERIES 20 Satisfying Performance Economy of Operation Power Durability True Value eT bY veeevasessrasesese $2050.00 1785.00 em ——— For Over aoa | Thirty Years | NEW YORT og BR CT Le pL - RIE ai CASTOR Exact Copy uf Wrapper. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NCW YORK CITY. gi 8 IRL yb BIG SIX..coceves SPECIAL SIX..... crndossnssvensee LIGHT BIX..ocvovceccacssccscnnce 1435.00 Cord Tires on all Models—Prices f. o. b. Factory—Subject te Change BEEZER’S GARAGE North Water St. ELLEFONTE Pr YY YY LY ——Sorely pressed as average hu- man nature is by life’s limitations it is possible that constant prosperity would prove a dangerous thing. p Za HE RIERA (ON a v "EER An 3 avs hw catia
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