" Bellefonte, Pa. December 1, 1922.
FARM NOTES.
—A thousand chickens, represent-
ing the blue-bloods of the wyandotte
breed in Pennsylvania will be shown
in competition at the seventh annual
State Farm Products show, in Harris-
burg, the fourth week in January. It
will be the first poultry show ever held
in connection with the annual farm
show and this feature alone is ex-
pected to attract poultry fanciers from
all parts of Pennsylvania.
Each year a different breed of chick-
ens will be selected for the poultry
.show. A spacious room has been se-
«cured in one of the two large show
halls for the staging of the poultry
show and prizes aggergating $1,500
will be awarded the winners. All six
types of the wyandotte breed will be
shown.
The Pennsylvania Poultry Breeders’
Association is backing the show and
will have active charge of the man-
agement of the show which, however,
will be a part of the general show.
An unusual feature of the poultry
show will be the fact that no admis-
sion will be charged. Since the State
Farm Products shows were started,
seven years ago, no admission charges
have been made and the show in its
entirety is open to the public, without
cost.
_ Thirty thousand reduced fare cer-
tificates have been sent the county
agents of the State for distribution to
the farmers and members of their
families who will attend the show, the
reduced fare rates having been grant-
ed by every railroad in the State, east
of Pitsburgh. The reduced rates are
also effective in New Jersey, Delaware
and Maryland.
—Recent changes in the regulations
covering the quarantine and safety
zone areas in the districts where the
potato wart has been found, have
tended to confuse the minds of some
growers.
The following explanation covers
all the regulations that have been is-
sued:
I. Two Quarantines. There are
two kinds of quarantines now in ex-
istence (a) a drastic measure applying
to all localities where wart has been
found. For ordinary purposes all
these towns and areas are often called
the “Quarantine Area” to distinguish
them from (b) which is a limited
quarantine applied to certain agricul-
tural sections adjacent to the main
infected areas in the Anthracite coal
region, and which have aptly been
called the “Safety Zone.”
II. Quarantine limits. The “Quar-
antine Area” or area of close restric-
tion includes the following:
Luzerne county,—Hazle and Foster
townships including the city of Hazle-
ton and boroughs of Freeland, West
Hazleton, Jeddo, and White Haven;
the farm of Michael Becker in Butler
township.
Carbon county.—Banks and Lausan-
ne townships in Carbon county, includ-
ing the boroughs of Beaver Meadow
and Mauch Chunk.
Schuylkill county.—McAdoo, Hon-
eybrook No. 1, Honeybrook No. 2,
Sheppton, Oneida and Jackson.
Lackawanna county.—The Third
and Fourth wards of Moosic borough.
Cambria county.—Dunlo, Llanfair,
Lilly, Vintondale, Nant-v-glo, Beaver-
dale, Lloydell and Onnalinda.
Centre county.—Snow Shoe, Clar-
ence and Newtown.
Huntingdon county. — Woodvale,
Robertsdale.
Clearfield county.—Smiths Mills,
Osceola.
Armstrong county.—Yateboro and
Rural Valley.
The “Safety Zone” is made up as
follows:
The townships of Dennison, Butler,
Sugar Loaf, and Black Creek, in Lu-
zerne county: the townships of North
Union, East Union, Mahanov, Delano,
Klein and Rush. in Schuylkill county,
and the townships of Packer and Le-
high in Carbon county.
III. Quarantine Area Regulations.
The essence and purpose of the re-
strictions lie in our hope of starving
out the wart fungus in the soil by
growing only immunes, and in the
mean time preventing the disease
from spreading to other places by po-
tatoes and soil carrying materials tak-
@n out of the Area.
‘Stripped to essentials and leaving
out the permit system which is the
only way in which the quarantine can
be carried out in a legal wavy, the reg-
ulations for the “Quarantine Area”
require:
(a) That all potatoes grown must
be immunes.
{b) _ Where seed is not saved from
a previous immune crop a stock must
be obtained from some source which
the Department knows to be immune,
~and which contains no mixtures
¢ (which might not be immune).
“(e) All potatoes which are not im-
munes may be condemned to be de-
stroyed bv the inspectors. This av-
plies to single hills as well as to the
whole planting.
(d) TFxcept for potatoes merely
passing through the area mo notaftoes
may leave the area. This prohibition
also applies to root crovs, vegetables,
plants with soil abont the roots, or anv
material which is likely to carry soil
and thus spread this soil-borne dis-
ease.
(e) Mannre from sources not re-
garded as dangerous -bv the Depart-
ment mav he removed from the area
to the Safety Zone under nermit dnr-
ing Januarv. Febrmary, October, No-
vember and December.
TV. Safety Zone Reculations.—
These formerly reouired the growing
of certain specified immune varieties
anlv, the «eed to he obtained from an
anthorized souree go as to insrre mnv-
itv and immunity and to avoid mix-
tures, The main infected aveas for-
tnnately ave well isolated from onr
1avee farming districts excent for the
adisrent agricultural valleys, and to
avoid the real danger of asnread by
wav of these valleys the Safety Zone
was instituted.
THEORY ADVANCED BY MANY
What Might Be Called the Evolution
of Evolution as Explained by
John Burroughs.
It is interesting to note that the doe-
trine of evolution itself has undergone
as complete an evolution as has any
animal species with which it dews.
We tind the germ of it, so to speak, 1n
the early Greek philosophers and not
much more.
Crude, half-developed forms of it pe-
gin to appear in the Eighteenth cen-
tury of our era and become more and
more developed in the Nineteenth, till
they approximate completion in Dar-
win. In Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1795,
there are glimpses of the theory, but
in Lamarck, near the beginning of the
Nineteenth century, the theory is so
fully developed that it anticipates Dar-
win on many points; often full of crud-
ities and absurdities, yet Lamarck hits
the mark surprisingly often.
In 1813 Dr. W. C. Wells, an English-
man, read a paper before the Royal
society in London that contains a pas-
sage that might have come from the
pages of Darwin. In the anonymous
and famous volume called ‘“Vestiges
of Creation,” published in 1844, the
doctrine of the mutability of species
is forcibly put. Then in Herbert Spen-
cer in 1852 the evolution theory of de-
velopment receives a fresh impetus,
till it matures in the minds of Dar-
win and Wallace in the late 50s. The
inherent impulse toward development
is also in Aristotle. It crops out again
in Lamarck, but was repudiated by
Darwin.—From ‘The Last Harvest,”
by John Burroughs.
AFTER A VISIT TO DENTIST
Writer Recalls Some Impressions That
Some of Us Can Shudderingiy
Indorse.
The only person who seems to pay
any attention to the “smile” sign in
a dentist's office is the dentist him-
self.
Oddly enough, dental chairs are de
signed with a view to the patient’s
comfort,
You never realize what a big mouth
you have till the dentist begins lay-
ing his scaffolding in it.
There is nothing so unnecessary as
his preliminary announcement, “Now,
this may hurt a little.”
The first step in painless extraction
is the injection of the anesthetic into
the gums.
The phrase, to take someone's head
off, undoubtedly originated with a den-
tist's efforts to get the better of a
stubborn wisdom tooth.
The sweetest words that ever fell
on your ear are: “That will be all
for today.”
You never had so much fun with a
glass of water before.
Getting . outside, you feel
stranger in the world.
The worst pain of all comes when
you get your bill.—Edmund J. Kiefer.
in the New York Sun.
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Hailstones Formed During Heat.
It is during summer-time that hail-
stones occur most frequently. It is
the heat of summer that gives rise to
them, for they can be formed only in
thundery weather,
When there is thunder about there
are always very strong upward
draughts of air. As raindrops begin
to fall they are caught by these cur-
rents and carried to great heights,
where they freeze solid. If they now
fall to earth they arrive in the form
of the small hailstones that are usu-
ally seen. Sometimes, however, after
falling through the clouds and receiv-
ing a coating of moisture, they are
carried up again by other currents.
The moisture freezes upon them, in-
creasing their size.
The process may go on for some
time, in which case the hailstone re-
ceives coating after coating of ice un-
til it becomes as large as a marble or
even an egy.
“ghished” the Tiger Away.
It was a frequent occurrence for
a tiger to carry off a Chinese coolie
in the Malay peninsula, according to
a traveler who spent some time in
that country. These persons, he said,
could seldom be brought to believe in
the reality of dangers from animals
that they looked on as only cats of
abnormal dimensions. I saw this
valor of ignorance tragically itlus
trated one day when I toek some po-
lice out to help me track a tiger re
sponsible for the loss of many lives.
From a too distant eminence we soon
caught sight of a Chinaman slowly
strolling along sucking a piece of
sugarcane. Out sprang a tiger, but
missed his mark, the back of the man’s
head. Without any acceleration of
pace, the coolie, merely withdrawing
the cane from his mouth, waved at the
tiger and “shished” him away.
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Not the Same Poincare.
There is growing up a distinct Ein
stein tradition concerning the great
mathematician’s habits and personal
ity. The following is the latest addi
tion to the collection: Einstein was
walking bareheaded across Bavaria
square in Benlin. One of his friends
hailed him: “Well, what do you think
of Poincare?’ “I think he is a very
talented man.” “Yes, but what dar
ing!” “The daring of genius.” “But
what a frenzied fury against his an
tagonist!” “Oh, no, not at all. You
don’t know him.” “Well, but at least
professor, you won't deny that his de
termined enmity of Germany, and thai
his megalomania—" ‘‘Oh,” said Ein
stein, “you're talking about Raymond
Poincare, the premier. I was thinking of
Henri Poincare, the mathematician.”
LANDED BEFORE COLUMBUS
Every Reason to Believe That Lief
Ericsson Was Real “Discoverer”
of America.
Who may have been the first dis.
coverer of America no ene knows, but
Leif Fricsson visited it over 400 years
ahead of Columbus. A recent writer
on this matter has said: “The evi-
dence that Lief Ericsson came to the
North American coast in the year
1000 and that he returned to Europe,
making his discovery known to the
world, is clearly authentic.” Ericsson
is defended against the charge of be-
ing a “barbarous Norse adventurer,”
though he might have been all that,
and also the discoverer of America. It
is maintained that he represented the
highest type of the Scandinavian civ-
{lization of that time which had risen
above the decadent Roman culture of
southern Europe. The Sagas sav that
Ericsson was a large, powerful man of
most imposing bearing, “a man of
sagacity and just in all things.” Be-
fore his discovery of America he had
been converted to the Christian faith, |
and had been commissioned by King
Olaf to proclaim the faith to the people
of Greenland, which the Scandinavians
had settled a considerable period be-
fore that time. It is quite reasonable
to believe that the Norsemen who had
settled In Greenland had made voy-
ages to America in advance of nrics-
son,
ONE OF EARLIEST OF ARTS
Embroidery With the Needle Has
Been Practiced as Far Back as
History Records.
Embroidery is the art of ornament-
ing cloth and other materials with the
needle. Most of the embroideries made
today are usually copies of the an-
cient ones.
Embroidery is believed to have been
applied to skins almost as soon as
needle and thong were first employed
to join pieces of skins together into
garments. In Lapland the natives em-
broider their reindeer-skin clothing
with a needle of reindeer bone, using
reindeer sinew and applique of strips
of hide.
Travelers say that in Central Africa,
among the primitive tribes there, the
girls embroider skins with figures of
flowers and animals, supplementing
the effect with shells and feathers.
Among the ancient Greek textiles
exhumed from Crimean graves are
both tapestries and embroideries now
preserved in the Hermitage at Petro-
grad. One of the embroideries is at-
tributed to the Fourth century, B. GC,
and is in colored wools on wool.
Colonists Suffered Cold.
The houses of the early colonists in
America were not proof against the
bitter cold of winter. One volume
tells of icy blasts that blew down
Cotton Mather’s great chimney so
fiercely that this noted divine record-
ed the fact in his diary. He speaks
of a “great Fire that the Juices forced
out at the end of short billets of wood
by the heat of the flame on which
they were laid, yet froze into ice on
their coming ont.” Judge Sewell
wrote 20 years later: “An Extraor-
dinary Cold Storm of Wind and Snow.
Bread was frozen at the Lord’s Table.
Even though it was so Cold yet John
Tuckerman was baptized. At 6
o'clock my ink freezes so that I can
hardly write by a good fire in my
wives Chamber.” Cotton Mather tells
in his pompous fashion of a cold win-
ter’'s day four years later: “is
dreadful cold, my ink glass in my
standish is froze and splitt in my
very stove. My ink in my pen suf-
fers a congelation.”
Old Flour Makes Best Bread.
Flour (according to scientists) im-
proves with age, the older flour pro-
¢acing a larger and finer loaf. Freshly
milled flours do not produce the best
of which they are capable. A great
advance was made in the milling art
by the introduction of a method for
treating flour in the mill whereby such
freshly milled flour at once took eon
the properties of a properly aged flour,
so that the flour could then go to the
consumer in eondition to render at once
its highest baking value. This state
of affairs is brought about in flour by
treating it with chlorine, and the gen-
eral result is known as “maturing”—
i, e., the general effect of “maturing”
flour—a whitening effect, together
with greatly improved baking qualities.
The yellow coloring matter of flour is
carotin, which is also what gives car-
rets their color. Chlorine oxidizes the
carotin, which then loses its color.
A Word in Extenuation.
A man who had several times sought
the help of his minister to secure em-
ployment was lounging near a railway
station as the pastor was hurrying to
cateh a train,
“Iixcuse me, sir,” said the unem-
ployed in a trembling voice.
“So you are out of work again,”
said the minister severely. “It seems
to me you get tired of a new employer
very quickly.”
“Don’t misunderstand me, sir,”
nleaded the man. “It can never be
truthfully said that I get tired first.”
Sad Memories.
“Ah,” sighed the serious-faced pas-
senger, “how little we know of the fu-
ture and what it has in store for us.”
“That’s true,” another passenger sald.
“Little did I think when some 30 years
ago I carved my initials on the desk
in the old country school that I would
some day grow up and fail to become
famous”
| FIRST COUNTY FAIR AT JUNEAU
| SHOWS POSSIBILITIES OF
ALASKA.
| “The First Country Fair of South-
| eastern Alaska,” held in Juneau dur-
ing the last week in September, was
successful in- demonstrating that that
| section of the territory has import-
| ant possibilities in the way of agricul-
| tural development. Although Haines
| strawberries and Skagway celery have
! enjoyed, for several years, at least lo-
i cal fame for their excellent qualities,
many still think that successful farm-
ing is not possible in southeastern
Alaska.
The “country fair” has done much
to remove this erroneous belief and to
arouse new interests. While hereto-
fore it has been the accepted opinion
that this section of the territory must
depend entirely on its mining, fishing
and timber for future development
and growth of population, it now has
been demonstrated that an abundance
of nearly all agricultural crops can be
produced for home use, with some to
spare for export.
It has been estimated that Alaska
i imports from the United States an-
i nually more than $1,000,000 worth of
farm products, which can be grown at
home and be of better quality. Ju-
neau is elated over the success of the
fair and is forming an association to
make it an annual event.
i Southeastern Alaska is that portion
of the coast section extending from
Portland Canal on the south to the in-
ternational boundary line on the north
and to the one hundred and forty-first
, meridian where it joins the main ter-
ritory. This “panhandle of Alaska,”
as it often is called, is almost entirely
within the Tongass national forest re-
serve, and for this reason, many have
been deterred from investigating the
possibilities of farming. Neverthe-
less, homes have been established
throughout the entire region and the
soil has responded in a satisfactory
way.
The exhibits at the fair consisted
largely of vegetables grown in the
temperate zone, of a quality that
would bear comparison with those of
any section of the United States.
From Ketchikan to Skagway and
Haines, from Sitka to Glacier Bay,
every settlement and hamlet made a
creditable showing, the standard of
which was so nearly uniform that the
judges had much difficulty in awarding
prizes.
| One of the most interesting exhib-
‘its was the apples grown near Haines
“in the Chilkat River Valley. Farmers
from Strawberry Point, in the Glacier
Bay section, displayed fine oats and
| barley; also timothy and red clover—
all of good growth and excellent qual-
(ity. A small group of farmers, estab-
lished in this section, also is engaged
in dairying and stock-raising.
Other attractions at the fair were
exhibits of native handwork and pho-
tographs of Alaskan scenery, the
most ‘notable of these being the small
collection of Merrill water colors.
Field Agents on Sheep Claims.
There are eleven field agents in
Pennsylvania, and the remarkable in-
formation gathered from their reports
is that a large portion of their time is
spent upon the settlement of sheep
claims, for sheep killed, maimed and
injured by dogs. It is almost incon-
ceivable that any citizen of Pennsyl-
vania would neglect or fail to co-ope-
erate with the department in its en-
deavor to augment the number of
sheep raised in the State.
Once a dog gets into a flock of
sheep, even though they may be only
chased and frightened, that flock of
sheep is done for—it had better be
gotten rid of. Therefore it behooves
every good citizen to see to it, so far
as possible, that the root of the evil
is gotten out, namely, by looking after
the dogs which get the sheep.
Some farmers declare that they
have gone entirely out of the sheep-
raising end of farming for the reason
that the number of sheep-killing dogs
is increasing so rapidly that it is no
longer a profitable business. We
should, therefore, see to it that we
protect our sheep industry to the ut-
most.
The Ruling Passion.
Six men, sole survivors of a wreck,
were cast upon a desert island where
they abode for some months, till a
man-of-war took them off. In his log
the captain of the warship noted the
racial characteristics of the six thus:
The two Irishmen had fought every
day for the whole time of their so-
journ.
The two Englishmen had not spoken
Daily Motor Express
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We Make a Specialty of Moving
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to each other because they had not
been properly introduced.
The two Scots had started a Cale-
donian society.
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.
The Economy of
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Appeals to every family in these
days. From no other medicine can you
get so much real medicinal effect as
from this. It is a highly concentrated
extract of several valuable medicinal
ingredients, pure and wholesome. The
dose is small, only a teaspoonful three
times a day.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a wonderful
tonic medicine for the blood, stom-
ach, liver and kidneys, prompt in giv-
ing relief. It is pleasant to take,
agreeable to the stomach, gives a
thrill of new life. Why not try it?
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consistent with the class of work.
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Nash Four Carriole $1275
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