FARM NOTES.
—When the atmosphere is moist
and heavy, one should work the horses
carefully.
—Good horses are the product of
nature, but the devil must have sent
the men who treat them roughly.
—Land too rough for cultivation
should either be seeded to good grass-
es for sheep pastures or be planted
with trees for timber or fruit.
—When growing timothy for market
it is advisable not to grow clover. Clo-
ver is a weed in timothy. Many mar-
kets do not desire clover in timothy
hay, and the farmer who bales clover
and timothy mixed usually has to ac-
cept returns that are equivalent to
giving the clover away in order to sell
the timothy.
—The tariff may help the potato
grower, but the short crop will have
a much more effective influence on the
price. Over-planting and a favorable
season will depress the price, tariff or
no tariff, and under-planting and an
unfavorable season will have the op-
posite effect. If the growers could
regulate the planting and the season,
much of their potato market troubles
would be over.
—The first requisite of a storage
place for fruit is absolute cleanliness.
This cannot be assured by soap and
water alone. Sunshine, fresh air and
whitewash are important aids. The
shelves should be washed clean and
then dried, but undue use of water
should be avoided, as moisture is one
of the chief requisites of mould
growth. A cellar must be kept dry
by placing in it dishes of unslaked
lime, which rapidly takes up the mois-
ture. When the lime crumbles apart,
losing entirely its crystalline charac-
ter, has become “slaked,” and will
take up no more water unless it is re-
newed. Growth of most moulds is re-
tarded by light, ventilation and low
temperature. A fruit cellar which
will successfully keep fruit must pos-
sess all three conditions.
—The flesh of very young animals
frequently lacks flavor and is watery.
An old animal, properly fattened and
in good health, would be preferable
to a young one in good condition. The
meat from young animals nearly al-
ways lacks flavor. The best meat will
be obtained from cattle that are 30 to
40 months old, though they may be
used at any age if in good condition.
A calf under 6 weeks of age should
not ‘be used as veal, and as it is at its
best when about 10 weeks old and
raised on the cow. Hogs may be used
at any age after 6 weeks, but the most
profitable age at which to slaughter
is 8 to 12 months. Sheep may like-
wise be used when 2 to 8 months of
age and at any time thereafter. They
will be at their best previous to reach-
ing two years of age, usually at 8 to
12 months.
—For some time past there has
been a growing tendency throughout
Pennsylvania to discourage the use of
native grown potatoes for seed pur-
poses. Under the erroneous impres-
sion that only large yields can be se-
cured from potatoes that are import-
ed from Michigan or Maine, the Penn-
sylvania growers are neglecting to
take advantage of the native seed
stock that compared with the best to
be obtained anywhere.
In Potter county, where many po-
tatoes were grown under the super-
vision of the Pennsylvania department
of agriculture, the seed this year pro-
‘duced an average of 380 bushels per
- acre, which is equal to any seed po-
tatoes that are grown anywhere.
These potatoes in Potter county
may be justly classed as domestic po-
tatoes and have been developed dur-
ing the past four or five years. Agents
of the bureau of plant industry of the
Pennsylvania Department of Agri-
culture for several years have been
carefully inspecting these fields, re-
moving all mixtures and unhealthy
plants and the results have been sur-
prising.
This seed stock is readily obtaina-
ble and the freight rates are much
less than on seed stock imported from
other States. The bureau of plant in-
dustry is ready to advise with potato
growers on the advantages of the do-
mestic seed and where such seed stock
as has been certified may be obtained.
—The value of an animal as a sire
or dam for breeding purposes should
not be based on its appearance or per-
formance, but on the qualities of its
offspring. If it is not “perpotent” it
is of little value. Mendelism explains
prepotency as well as reversion.
It may be taken for granted that
practical men recognize that certain
bulls have the faculty of producing
daughters giving a high yield of milk.
If that is so, it is poor practice to
send dairy bulls to the butcher before
the performance of their daughters
can be ascertained.
The Belgian and Dutch breeders of
milk cows recognize this fact, and
award prizes to bulls which can show
the best record of milking daughters.
The same idea is influencing the
American breeders who have started
the registration of bulls on the same
basis.
Mendelian ideas are not necessarily
derogatory to pedigree breeding.
After all pedigree is the best evidence
that the good qualities sought for are
likely to be found in the offspring.
Mendelism simply points to ways in
which this likelihood becomes a cer-
tainty. It proves a “proof” of pedi-
gree—a test justifying ancestry.
While the world knew a great
deal about breeding before Mendal’s
time, it remained for him to discover
facts that were not known. The
knowledge already possessed was not
sufficiently precise to be stated in the
form of laws; there was no science of
breeding or inheritance. It was wide-
ly known that “like begets like,” but
with many exceptions. is now
known for a fact why, in many cases,
there are such exceptions. It was
known that cross-breeding led to va-
riation to the production of mongrels,
“blended” and even new forms. Men-
del has taught us how, in the majority
of cases, the result of a cross may be
predicted with certainty. Mendel has
made the field of uncertainty smaller.
ADVANCING YEARS.
——
When first you find within your mind
For quiet joys a preference;
Or when, again, some younger men
First treat your views with deference;
When yeu’'ll confess to more or less
Political perplexity—
When first you gape adown your shape
At manifest convexity;
When first you choose some easy shoes
That strike your wife as hideous;
But with the care you give your hair
You're more, not less fastidious;
When first you feel your blood congeal
To hear an unlicked laddle call
“Old-fashioned guff” the daring stuff
That you considered radical—
But most of all, when first you call
Will “undermine society;”
When first you say some modern way
A new idea “impiety;”
You are not old—your Leart is bold—
You've courage, strength, ability—
Yet you have passed ihe peak at last—
You're headed for senility!
—Ted Robinson, in Cleveland Flain Dealex.
BAGGED BOTH FISH AND FOWL
Dover (N. H.) Man Shot Drake and
Got Pickerel That the Bird Had
Been Carrying.
George Hayer of Dover, N. H., tells
a remarkable hunting story, which is
vouched for by witnesses, says the
Manchester Union. Waiting patiently
behind a blind at Ayers pond in Bar-
rington, Hayer and his companions
saw a large shelldrake alight on a
rock just outside of gunshot on the
opposite side of the pond, and after
making quite a lively turn there took
to the air again and alighted in the
water 30 yards from the blind. Hayer
fired and killed the drake.
An abnormal bunch or swelling no-
ticed in the bird’s throat, which ap-
peared to have nearly shut off the
breathing, was not investigated until
the return to town, where it was found
that the drake had captured a large
pickerel and had devoured the head,
after which it had attempted to swal-
low the rest of the fish. The body
of the pickerel stuck in the drake’s
throat. It measured 14 inches In
length. The drake weighed, without
the fish, four and one-half pounds.
Hayer and his friends were served
drake with pickerel on the side at the
spread that followed the hunting ex-
pedition.
“AEROPLANE” NO NEW WORD
Was First Used by French Inventor
to Describe Flying Machine,
in the Year 1879.
The word, “aeroplane,” only recently
admitted to the dictionary, has been
traced back to the year 1879. In that
year a Frenchman named Tatin, ap-
plied the name “aeroplane” to a flying
machine of his own invention driven
by compressed air, fi
Possibly it was from Tatin that was
borrowed the corresponding English
word (similar save for the accent) by
Ella Merchant and Alice Jones, joint
authors of “Unveiling a Parallel”
(1892). The hero of this novel is a
birdman who soars in his “aeroplane”
to Mars, where, among other wonder-
ful things, he finds woman on terms
of perfect equality with man.
Fifteen years later H. G. Wells used
the word, “aeropile” in one of his
novels, but the term didn't become
popular. And nowadays the word Is
being condensed into the two-syllabied
word, “airplane.”—The Leatherneck.
swallowed Snake While Drinking.
A New Burnswick man while mak-
ing hay, took a drink from a spring.
Not long after he began to feel an in-
ternal pain which continued to in-
crease gradually until after a year or
so he was operated on in a New Eng-
land hospital, and a snake six inches
long was found in the lower part of
his intestines. He thinks that he
swallowed the snake, when it was
small, while drinking from the spring.
As he had no cup or other drinking
vessel he could not have seen the
snake. He has had the snake pre-
served.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED
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Finder please return case and keep
automobile. No questions asked.
Greedy Young Rooster.
On a farm in Nova Scotia where
chickens have a fine range, the family
was astonished one day to see a half-
grown rooster trying to swallow a
brown snake about 18 Inches long.
After many unsuccessful efforts he
succeeded in getting down the wrig-
gling and live morsel, much to the
jealousy of his brothers and sisters,
and giving himself a terribly overload-
ed appearance.
Mouse and Cat Comrades.
An Alberta reader of the Montreal
Family Herald states that at her home
in Yellow Head pass, B. C., she was sit-
ting one quiet afternoon, after putting
down a saucer of milk for her cat, when
she saw a mouse slip out from behind
the stove and drink at the saucer with
the cat, until the milk was finished.
They seemed to be on the best of
terms.
Corn, America is Burning Will
Save Starving Armenia
Burying the Body of Another Victim of Starvation in the Fields Near
Alexandropol, Armenia—Captain Paxton Hibben (insert at top)
The first complete semi-official ac-
count of conditions in Transcaucasian
Russia, contained in the Report of
the American Commission of five
members sent out by the Near Kast
Relief, and published in part in The
Nation, has been made public in full.
It states that in Armenia ‘‘conditions
have been found shocking, indeed far
worse than present conditions in the
Volga district of Russia.”
«The immediate cause for the pres-
ent acute famine situation in Arme-
nia,’”’ the Commission goes on to state,
«was the destruction of some 140 vil-
lages by the invading Turks, from
which the populations were driven and
whence all beasts of burden, agricul-
tural and household implements and
furniture were removed by the inva-
ders. The evacuation of this portion
of Armenia did not take place until
April 21, 1921, too late for any exten-
sive crop to be put in, even had the
peasants the draught animals and the
implements to plough and sow the
ground.”
According to this Report there are
“a rough total of about 400,000 home-
less refugees in Armenia now facing
winter without food. Of the 50,000
Armenians concentrated in cities and
towns by far the greater part were
‘actually starving, when observed by
this Commission early in August.
Children were lying dead in the streets
and the sick and infirm were dying
in great numbers daily. Cholera had
set in and was making havoe, partly
due to the reduced resistance to dis-
ease of those suffering from hunger.”
The Commission states that the
American Near East Relief is the only
agency which stands between the
whole population of this country and
death this winter.
“Two relief ships loaded with the
corn the farmers of the west are burn-
ing or feeding to the hogs would see
the people of an entire nation through
the winter,” declared Capt. Paxton
Hibben, secretary of the Commission.
«president Harding, in his message to
Congress, has said: ‘It seems to me
we should be indifferent to our heart
promptings, and out of accord with
the spirit which acclaims the Christ-
mastide, if we do not give out of our
national abundance to lighten this
burden of woe upon a people blameless
and helpless in famine’s peril.’
“We in America can save a whole
people without feeling it or missing a
meal, Will we?”
RELICS OF AGES LONG PAST
England Has Three of the Most Re-
markable That the Whole World
Has to Offer.
A loaf of bread more than 600 years
old, it is said, is to be found at Ambas-
ton, in Derbyshire, England. It was
included in a grant of land from the
crown in the reign of King John, and
has remained in the Soar family ever
since.
Almost as great a curiosity as this
is a house 1,100 years of age, and yet
fit for habitation. This old dwelling,
the oldest inhabited house in England,
was built in the time of King Offa of
Mercia. It is octagonal in shape, the
walls of its lower story being of great
thickness. The upper part is of oak.
At one time the house was fortified
and known by the name of St. Ger-
man’s Gate. It stands close to the
River Ver, and only a few yards from
St. Albans abbey.
A marriage proposal 3,400 years of
age is in existence in the British
museum. It is the oldest marriage
proposal of which there is any definite
record. It consists of about ninety-
eight lines of very fine cuneiform writ-
ing, and is on a small clay tablet made
of Nile mud. It is a marriage pro-
posal of a Pharaoh for the hand of
the daughter of the king of Babylon.
It was written about the year 1530
B. C.
Making the Hammer Safer.
The hammer is a useful tool, but its
use is not quite free from danger to
the user-.or from injury to materials,
The flat, highly polished surface is
likely to glance off the nail unless the
blow is squarely delivered; and when
the nail is of cast metal, its head
often flies off and inflicts quite severe
injuries.
One firm had innumerable accidents
. from this cause, and some of the men
| were permanently injured. Thereupon,
the managers tried hammer heads with
scored faces as an experiment, and
owing to the success of the experi-
ment, the polished faced hammer has
been abolished in that firm's factory,
except for special classes of work.
When the hammer’s face is scored
or roughened it is very much less
likely to glance off the nail head. The
fact that this type of hammer has
proved so conspicuously successful and
safe, has encouraged many manufac-
turers to place it on the market.
The Beaver.
A family that figures prominently
in the annals of New York owes the
origin of its great wealth to a hum-
ble but industrious rodent, the beaver.
. The same rodent has conferred its
name upon a downtown street in that
city. There survives the tradition of
a Beaver brook that once meandered
its picturesque way through what is
now the downtown section.
But the beaver himself is a van-
ished species in this country. The
' beavers that inhabit the little ponds
in the zoological gardens are immi-
grants from Canada.
In these restricted areas, surround-
ed by high wire fences, these citizens
by adoption are as busy as were their
ancestors who once ranged along
the streams that watered the woods.
—Chicago Journal.
—A silo on every farm filled to the
brim with ensilage means more mone
in, and less money out, for stoc
feeds.
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little children who, without this aid,
would be helpless and friendless.
They are now in orphanages sus-
tained by our contributions. Ameri-
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and starvation.
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