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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 30, 1921.
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FARM NOTES.
— How about winter quarters for
the pullets? A clean house, fresh lit-
ter, mash hoppers and appliances will
save a great deal of hurry and worry
later on.
__If the wheat to be used for seed
has been affected by loose smut, it is
advisable to use the hot water method
of treatment. The county agent will
furnish information.
— Warm fall days will give trouble
with milk souring. Keep the cans
covered on the delivery wagon with a
piece of canvas thoroughly wet with
water enroute to the creamery.
— Clover that was seeded in wheat
last spring and has made a rank
growth since wheat harvest may be
pastured lightly where the ground is
dry and firm, without injury to next
year’s hay crop.
If frost catches the cantaloupe
crop before the largest of the fruits
have been used, a good way to realize
a return is to market them for frying
purposes. Sliced and fried, green
loupes are relished by many people.
—The dairy cows will need shelter
from bad weather. They are very sen-
sitive to cold, and a cold norther will
often cause them to fail in their milk.
See that the cows are comfortably
sheltered and protected and feed them
plenty of roughage and concentrates,
sufficient to maintain their flesh and
to produce milk.
—If potatoes have been severely at-
tacked by late blight, it is advisable
to allowe the vines to dry thoroughly
and dig under the driest possible con-
ditions. Allow the rot to run its
course and keep the potatoes dry,
avoiding bin sweating. Do not injure
your reputation by selling potatoes
that will soon rot. If there has been
no frost, an application of Bordeaux
will save great loss.
— Every boy or girl having poultry
naturally wishes to earn as much mon-
ey as possible. To do this every hen
should be a good layer. All cockerels,
except those kept for breeding. pur-
poses, as well as pullets that lack vig-
or and vitality, should be eaten, can-
ned for home use, or sold as soon as
they are large enough, says the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture.
Selecting or “weeding out” the hens
that are poor layers and picking out
for market the cockerels least likely
to develop into good breeders is com-
monly called “culling,” or culling for
eggs and for market.
The best time to cull the hens is dur-
ing August and September, usually
from August 15 to September 15, for
at that season it is easier to determine
which are the good layers and which
are the boarders. At that time of year
hens which show signs of laying or
are laying and have not molted usual-
ly are the ones that have been the bet-
ter layers during the entire season,
and the hen that lays best during her
fast year usually will lay best during
her second and third years. She is,
therefore, the one to keep. It is not
often advisable, however, to keep hens
of the heavier breeds, such as Plym-
outh Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and
Brahmas, beyond their second year, or
the smaller breeds, such as the Leg-
horns and Anconas, beyond the third
year, as they seldom prove profitable.
You can learn all about the various
tests necessary to pick out the good
and the poor layers by reading Farm-
ers’ Bulletin 1112, which can be ob-
tained by writing to the Division of
Publications, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.
— Three methods of fattening poul-
try are used in this country—pen fat-
tening, crate fattening, and machine
cramming. The first two are the most
common; the third is used only where
but a few birds are to be fattened.
Pen fattening is practiced by many
persons who do not have the time and
inclination to use other methods. The
essentials of pen fattening are quiet,
darkness, except at feeding time, and
plenty of soft feed given at regular
intervals, usually - three times a day.
Birds may be kept in flocks of 15. or 20,
but the sexes should be separated.
In crate fattening a few chickens
are kept in crates and fed from a
trough. A crate 6 feet long, 18 inches
high, and 18 or 20 inches wide is suit-
able and is large enough for a dozen
birds. Sometimes the crate is divid-
ed into twe or three compartments,
four to six birds being kept in each
compartment. Little room is desira-
ble, for the less exercise the birds have
the more readily will they fatten. If
the crate is to be left outdoors the top
should be covered. The sides should
be made of slats about 2 inches apart
so the birds can eat from the trough
which is hung just outside the crate.
The bottom of the crate should be of
slats about an inch apart, to permit
the droppings to fall through, or drop-
ping pans may be used and the crates
arranged in tiers. In indoor feeding
the crates should be put in a well ven-
tilated room. Uusally the birds are
fed three times a day and are allowed
to eat for half an hour at a time, when
the uneaten feed is removed.
Crate and machine cramming are
described in Farmers’ Bulletin 287, is-
sued by the United States Department
of Agriculture, and it would be advis-
able to procure a copy.
Crate fattening birds should always
have soft feed. As they have no ex-
ercise they require a feed that can be
digested easily and quickly. This mix-
ture is used on a New York poultry
form: 100 pounds finely ground bar-
ley, 100 pounds finely ground corn, and
100 pounds finely ground oats (with
hulls sifted out). Buttermilk or skim
milk is used for mixing to the consist-
ency of thick cream, the buttermilk
being preferred. A little salt some-
times is added. In this instance the
birds are fed twice a day at intervals
of 12 hours and are fattened for about
three weeks. It is important that the
intervals between the feedings should
be as nearly equal as possible.
An other ration is: 100 pounds of
ground oats, 100 pounds ground corn,
50 pounds low-grade flour, and 4
pounds tallow.
VE WAS JEALOUS
Kabyles’ Version of Tragedy in
the Garden of Eden.
Induce Woman to Partake of
Forbidden Fruit.
The Kabyles of northern Africa are
an independent people—as mountain
climbers are apt to be. They are not
Arabs, and are far superior in hon-
esty and integrity to the Arabs of
Algeria.
Kabyle women go unveiled and en-
joy -considerable freedom. The peo-
ple as a whole are said to be de-
scended from north European races,
perhaps reinotely the same from
which came the ancestors of our own
Pilgrim Fathers. They are white,
tresh-skinned folk, often blonde.
At one time they were Christians.
New, although they are nominally
Mohammedans, they still retain many
Christian customs, and tHeir legends
abound in curious distortions of Bible
tales.
! They have a peculiar version as
to how Eve came to eat the apple.
The serpent asked Eve if she knew
the real reason why the fruit of the
apple tree had been forbidden her.
She was all curiosity at once. “Be-
cause,” explained the serpent, “the
‘apples are wanted for Adam’s second
wife.”
Eve was sure he was lying—for was
not she the only woman in the world?
“No,” said the serpent, “you are not.
Come to the corner of the garden to-
morrow sng i will show you another
woman.” The next day she came to
the place appointed.
The serpent held up the world’s first
mirror and Eve looked through the
bushes into the wiirror and saw what
she supposed was another woman. In
a rage of jealousy Eve went and ate
the apple.
Such warped versions of .the Bible
are slowly being corrected nowadays
ierpent Said to Have Used Mirror to
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' and manner bespoke thrift.
by all too few Christian missionaries. |
One athletic, cliff-climbing preacher
has told the story so constantly that
he has been called the “Lord Jesus
man”—or “Lord Jesus” for short.
In a certain village he has a special
Kabyle friend called Moses. So when
he visits this particular village, ev-
eryone calls to him, “Hello, Lord
Jesus, are you going to the house of
Moses?”
He is a good tooth puller and &
fair . physician and combines these
arts with his preaching.
Although a learned man, he makes
himself a friend of the people and
will help a man catch an errant goat,
or sit down with a family in a cobble- |
stone hut and eat with them a meal
of cous-cous, acorns and thrushes’
brains as easily as he will lecture be-
fore a learned society on the enty-
mology of the Berbers.—Willard Price,
in the Christian Herald.
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First Phonograph Disk.
The first phonographic disk is still
in existence, in the Smithsenian in-
stitution at Washington. It was
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made in 1887, by Emil Berliner, and |
the first song sung on a phonographic
disk was “The Sweetest Story Ever
old.”
The original disk that Berliner ex-
perimented with is of glass. A coat
of soot was rubbed over the surface.
The revolution of the machine caused
the needle to scratch the scund into
the glass, and thus make lines. Thus
tlie voice of a person singing into the
horn was recorded. From it a zine
disk was then made, and a copper
matrix was the next step. From the
matrix all records were cast. Thirty-
four years ago all finished records !
were of rubber. Today the finished
record is made of various chemical
compositions, with a good proportion
of rubber.
There were five steps in casting the
first disks, whereas today only three
steps are necessary. First, there is
the wax disk, which records the voice.
Then’ the matrix is cast, and finally
the complete record.
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To Increase Goats’ Milk.
Milk goat experiments in grading
up from native and grade Toggenburg
and Saanen does with purbred Swiss
bucks, begun in 1911, were continued
last year by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, at the govern-
ment experimental farm at Beltsville,
Md. The flock comprises 20 does and
eight kids of one-half, three-fourths,
seven-eighths and fifteen-sixteen¢hs
blood. The average daily milk yield
per doe in 1919 was 3.92 pounds, an
increase of 2.42 pounds over the yield
of the ten selected native does which
formed the foundation stock of the
herd. The highest milk yield for an
individual doe in one day -is 86
pounds. For 1919 the flock showed
an average of 3.7 per cent butterfat.
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Never Waste.
Caution against wastefulness as
practiced by many persons is apt to
show itself regardless of time or
. place. Pedestrians attempting to round
one of the busiest dewntown street
corners in Indianapolis recently
found their path blocked by a little
shawl-clad woman whose very dress
She was
picking up a pin.
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Crusoe’s Island to Be Park.
The island of Juan Fernandez. situ-
ated off the coast of Chile and popu-
larly supposed to be Robinson Cru-
soe’s island. is to be converted into a
national park and touvist resort by
the, Chilean. government.
Improved. Fuel Oil Engine.
A Louisiana inventor has succeeded
in developing a new fuel oil engine of
semi-Diesel design, in which the ex-
cessively high compressions of this
type are eliminated, says Popular Me-
chanics Magazine. Owing to the use
of an improved fuel-injection jet and
a method of preheating the oil, it is
claimed that the power impulses are
«smooth expansions rather than abrupt,
racking explosions, and that, for this
reason, the engine can be built light-
er than existing models of heavy oil
burners, making it suitable for in-
stalldtion in passenger automobiles
and motortrucks.
Schools and Museun: Co-operate.
Natural history study in Cleveland,
0O.. will be enhanced oy affiliation of
the public schools. with the museum
of natural history to be established
in that city.
museum director, the superintendent
of schools and the staff of each. ten-
tative plans were formed by which
the resources of the museum may be
utilized by the school children. The
probably will not be builz
for two or three years.
Dismisses Women Teachers.
Women: teachers are no longer em-
ployed in French schools for boys.
The authorization to employ them,
granted during the war, has been with-
drawn, because the return to nortaal
life has rendered men teachers avall
able. ’
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
SEDAN.
At consultations of the .
GREAT TUN OF HEIDELBERG
Constructed in the Middle Ages, Mon.
ster Receptacle Held 528 Hogs-
i heads of Wine.
The construction of the great tun of
Heidelberg, in the castle of the Princes
Palatine of the Rhine, was begun in
1589 and was not finished until more
than two years later.
It was composed of beams twenty-
seven feet long and had a diameter of
eighteen feet. The iron hooping was
1,100 pounds in weight, and the cost,
ficured in our mopey, was nearly
€12.000. It could hold 528 hogsheads
and the value at that time of the wine
It contained was in the neighborhood
of $10,000. .
When the cellarer drew wine out of
the cask he ascended several flights of
wooden stairs leading to the top;
ahout the middle was a bunghole, into
which was inserted an instrument
made in the form of a spout, with
which the wine was drawn up and
placed in a vessel provided for the
purpose,
There was another tun built, evident-
ly succeeding the one just described,
fn 1751: this was 36 feet long and 24
feet high. with a capacity of 800 hogs-
heads. or 283.200 hottles. This cask
has not heen in use since the latter
part of the Eighteenth century.
Intelligent Geese.
© Many are the cases on record of
geese whose masters or mistresses en-
deared themselves to them and as a
result were followed about everywhere
by the geese just as-they might have
been by dogs, and dogs are supposed
to be the most intelligent of animals.
There is the historical case of the
aged hlind woman who was piloted to
church on Sundays by her goose. The
little old lady would totter along, and
when she would be on the point of
taking a misstep the silly goose would
pluck her by the skirt and guide her
in the right direction. In the steps
of the church the old woman would
be guided to her pew by her neigh-
bors, while the goose retired to the
near-by cemetery to nip grass. :
service was-over the goose would be
beside the church steps waiting to
guide its mistress home again.
MEDICAL.
It’s Surprising
That So Many Bellefonte People Fail
To Recognize Kidney Weakness.
Are you a bad back victim ?
Suffer twinges; headaches, dizzy
spells?
Go to bed tired—get up tired?
It’s surprising how few suspect the
kidneys.
It’s surprising how few know what
to do.
Kidney trouble needs kidney treat-
ment.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for the kid-
neys only. .
Have convinced Bellefonte people of
their merit.
Here's a Bellefonte case; Bellefonte
testimony.
Kidney sufferers hereabouts should
read it.
Mrs. L. A. Hill, E. Bishop St., says:
«I am bothered by backache occasion-
ally. I keep Doan’s Kidney Pills in
the house, however, and the benefit I
derive from their use is very gratify-
ing.”
Price 60c, at all = dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Hill had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. 66-38
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The famous Ford engine provides more than sufficient power
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We will round out this service in the car itself by keeping your
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equipped repair shop handles repairs promptly and well. Let us
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