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.
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i Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
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| 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
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Handling Your Funds.
A Business Manager who disburses
funds at your direction, a secretary
who keeps your accounts, a sleepless
sentinel guarding your funds, a car-
rier who delivers to all corners of the
country—all these and many other of-
fices are performed by the bank.
Money which you wish to send with-
in this city or to distant points is con-
veyed by your check simply, safely
and cheaply. :
The checking account is only one of
the many mediums through which this
bank serves its customers. There are
many other ways in which we can be
helpful to you and it would be our
Destine to serve you in any or all of
them.
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.
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