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Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1923.
FARM NOTES.
—Judging from the amount of seed
produced, it is safe to say more seed
peas are sold than any other crop.
—A few minutes spent each morn-
ing in brushing the cows will keep
them clean and comfortable and the
milk correspondingly good.
__ Where the average cellar condi-
tion prevail and modern incubators
are used, it is not necessary to cool
eggs. After the eggs are turned, put
the trays right back in the machine.
—_Your farm machinery—is it
standing out in the field where last
used or is it safely under cover where
you can oil it and get it in working
order for spring and summer duty?
—Plan to give a little more atten-
tion to the improvement of your pas-
ture lands this coming year, Lime
spread this winter will be worked in-
to the soil by the winter rains and
freezes. Fertilizer can be applied in
the spring.
—An ample supply of ice should
have been put up for dairy purposes
next summer. The speed and the
thoroughness of the milk cooling pro-
cess during the hot sultry weather has
much to do with the keeping quality
of the milk.
—1It is commonly believed that if
hatching eggs have been shipped very
far it is necessary to let them rest be-
fore putting them in the incubator.
The eggs will rest as well in the ma-
chine as they will on the table, so set
them at once. :
— Rabbits and mice will not attack
trees in the orchard if they can get
something else to eat. If no protec-
tive covering was placed around the
trees in the fall, girdling may partial-
ly be prevented by scattering loose
brush around near by as a side attrac-
tion for the rodents.
—Milking machines should be kept
clean so that they do not become a
source of contamination for the sup-
ply of milk that passes through them.
The heat method, in which steam and
hot water is used, has been found by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, to be the best by test.
—Self-feeders are all right for pigs,
and fairly good results have been ob-
tained in their use for beef steers, but
for dairy cows they are not adapted.
Cows are not apt to gorge themselves
or become foundered when permitted
to eat at will, but they eat more than
is necessary to produce the amount of
malk they give.
—Summer forage crops should be
taken into consideration this month.
Set aside a suitable piece of ground
for the forage and give the pigs a
treat. The spring crop of pigs will
fare much better on the rape forage
and the feeder will gain more satis-
faction from their greater growth and
thriftier appearance.
—1It is advisable to reduce the sow’s
rations several days before she is due
to farrow. The amount of corn should
be cut down, and wheat bran substi-
tuted for the greater portion of the
daily feed. Good judgment must be
used in reducing a ration because it
is unwise to attempt to starve a large,
rugged sow that is accustomed to lib-
eral feed.
— Especially in the selection of the
vegetables to be planted, the home
gardener should consider the wishes
of the family and their likes and dis-
likes for the various vegetables. Seed
is often bought in combination offers
to take advantage of reduced costs,
but such group offerings often include
too little seed of favorite vegetables
and still others that are not wanted in
the garden.
—This is the time of the year when
the dairy cow appreciates a bucket of
water in her stall. Driving her out
in a blizzard to drink ice water, means
a decrease in the flow of her milk. If
individual water buckets cannot be
provided, it may be possible in install
a trough under shelter, from which
the cows can drink. Warming the wa-
ter slightly when the weather is cold
might prove to be of benefit.
—TFor home garden purposes, a
green-house grower can usually grow
better spring plants than the man
whose place is not equipped to han-
dle the early planting. There are a
number of these growers located in
every section of the State, growing
plants that are later sold to commer-
cial vegetable growers and home gard-
eners. The plants include chiefly ear-
ly cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers,
and egg-plants. Get in touch with
one of these men for your spring
plants.
—Garden tools quickly pay for
themselves if they save time and la-
bor. One grower has very aptly said
that he pays for the tool he needs
whether he buys it or not. It is im-
portant that every grower study the
implement catalogues closely and se-
cure such tools as he needs to get the
most out of his garden. A big factor
in the production of vegetables this
coming season will undoubtedly be
that of labor, for industries are con-
stantly taking on more men and leav-
ing fewer unemployed.
—The continued high quality of ihe
milk produced in the dairy barns of
The Pennsylvania State College, and
which is sold under certification in
State College, Bellefonte and Altoona,
has gained deserving favor in the ex-
pansion of its sale and demand in
those towns. The certified product is
well within the strictest regulations of
the State Department of Health, and
shows a very low bacterial count even
thirty to thirty-six hours after pro-
duced. The cleanliness and the desir-
able composition of the milk is main-
tained through the observance of pre-
cautions which reduce to a minimum
the possibilities of contamination.
Clean cows, clean stables, and clean
attendants are the rule in the college
barn. Plenty of fresh air and sunlight
is insured for each cow. The milk, as
soon as drawn is cooled to 45 degrees
and kept at or below that tempera-
ture until delivered to the customer.
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PANCAKES PAST AND PRESENT
Comparison Made That Is by No Means |
Flattering to the Delicacy
Today.
The pancake of our fathers was a
noble circular structure, spreading its
wrinkled suburbs to the edge of the |
plate where the potter had wisely pro- |
vided terraces. The radius must have |
been all of three inches. Within the
area, duly buttered and sweetened, was
gustatory poetry, such glory and won-
der and delight and smacking savor
that the hired man, facing the break-
fast table, ceased altogether to grumble
over a fate that got him out of bed be-
fore dawn. Appetites in the good old
days were magnificent Institutions, the
finest products of open-air living and
service at the plow handles. But for
all these grand proportions, no one
could eat more than eight or ten pan-
cakes at a sitting. The things were
filling. They took up room like a good
farm horse in his stall. At a quarter
past the zero hour everyone at the
table cried “Enough,” even the hired
man. The pancake of our fathers was
no fluffy affair, after the manner of
our modern desserts, that made a man
ask what he'd eaten after he’d eaten
it. In a contest between neighbors in
a Long Island village some time ago, a
native consumed 73 pancakes 8o-
called. The Incident adds to the sorry
evidence that this Is a decadent age.
1t is proof that the pancake of the
day is some miserable travesty of the
honest, whole-souled pancake of
blessed tradition.—Toledo Blade.
INSOMNIA CAN BE BANISHED
Trouble Is, With Too Many of Us,
That the “Prescription” ls
Hard to Take.
There is a cure for insomnia, but it
is likely to be something awful—a ten-
mile walk in the country or sawing
wood for four hours. One has to give
up all other activities, it seems, when
one “rassles it out” with insomnia.
Nobody has time for sawing wood
for four hours except deposed Euro-
pean monarchs—favored ones of earth
whom even a revolution gives leisure.
Theodore Roosevelt, who enjoyed so
amply all that the world had to give,
cut down trees for purposes of bodily
invigoration ; but then he had the trees
to cut down; so also, Gladstone.
Hard, physical labor these great
ones considered necessary for their
well-being ; and it is thoroughly estab-
lished that it is the best lure of sleep,
“halmy sleep, tired aature’s sweet re-
storer.” The point in that quotation
is that one has to be tired; not tired
in the cares that “.afest the day, but
tired in the legs, arms and dorsal
muscles. One can chase away insom-
nia if one gives his undivided atten-
tion to it. ‘That's the difficulty.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrart.
The Ungainiy Flamingo.
The flamingo, so beautiful in color
ing and graceful in flight, is not espe-
cially beautiful in bulld. In shape it
is midway between a goose and a
stork, ranging, when full-grown be-
tween 5 and 61% feet in height. Its
humped body is supported on legs
amazingly long and thin, while its
slender neck curves upwards like a
big letter 8, and ends in a small head
with a great flat, down-curving beak.
The lower part of this beak forms a
deep, broad box, into which the upper
part fits like a cover. When the bird
is feeding on shellfish or water plang
in the shallows and flats the neck is
twisted like a corkscrew until the
head is upside down; then the top of |
the beak is pushed along through the
wud like a scoop shovel, gathering in
ihe food morsels. During the nesting |
period the female builds a curious
mound of mud like a tiny volcano, in |
the crater of which a single egg is
laid. On this the mother is said to
git with legs drawn up Itke a gro-
tesque statue on a pedestal.
remem cnt eter.
Oldtime Pharmacies.
Many ancient wood cuts show the
pharmacies of the day—usually a mor-
tar and pestle occuny a table in the
middle of the room and many shelves
on the walls are filled with bottles.
Before the introduction of chemistry
into pharmacy, a juortar was almost
all the equipment that was needed.
There were no complicated pills or
ointments to be made, In the place
of labels the botties or containers
bore the coats of arms of titled fam-
flies and the badges of cities.
In the Sixteenth century there was
a reformation in pharmacy. Labels
appeared on bottles, and every kind
of drug or preparation was carefully
preserved in a fitthg container. In
England Paracelsus simplified the art
of preserving by the discovery of
tinctures, extracts and metallic salts.
Handel Expurgated.
The following ancedote is given in
the preface to a copy of Dr. John
Mark's edition of the “Messiah,” the
testimonial of which is signed by
Henry R. Bishop, William Parsons,
John Braham, and Muzio Clementi.
“Being on a visit to a friend in a
country place the inhabitants of which
were more primitive than scientific,
Doctor Busby, on his way to church on
a Sunday morning, overtook one of the
ehoristers with a bundle of music books
under his arm. ‘What have you got
there, my man? said the doctor. ‘Zum
of Handel’s music, zur, that we're goin'
to zing at church today,’ was the re
joinder. ‘Handel, said the querist,
gomewhat astonished, ‘don’t you find
his music difficult? ‘Why,’ said the
countryman, ‘we did at fust, zur, but
we altered un a bit, and he goes very
well now.’ ”
| marked of this progeny were again
NOT A HERC TC OLDTIMER |
Veteran of Hannibal Could Nct Be
Forced to Admit Greatness of
Mark Twain,
A scribe in search of Mark Twain
material was pestering some of the
gray-heards of Hannibal. He found
cne who confessed to being a few
years older than the famous humorist,
In their boyhood days they had at-
tended school together, foraged about
cn Pirates island, climbed Holiday
hill and pushed big stones over the
brink, and earried out pretty faith-
fully the program as described in
“Tom Sawyer.”
But while the visitor was asking
questions he noticed the old timer was
rot impressed. So he asked:
“ ‘Innocents Abroad’ was a great
book, don’t you think?”
“I reckon so—I never read it.”
“And everybody says ‘Huck Finn’
was a masterpiece?”
“Uh-huh!”
“And “Tom Sawyer, the visitor
sold, “was practically a story of Han-
nibal—you certainly liked that?”
“Oh, I guess it was all right for
kids,” admitted the boyhood chum,
“but grownups don’t see so awful
much in it from what I hear.”
“Don’t you think Mark Twaln was
a great man?”
“They say he was,” evaded the old-
timer. “But I beat him once in a
spellin’ match.”—Kansas City Star,
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PROTEST MADE BY MUSCLES
Important Parts of the Human Body
That Occasionally Cause Trouble
by Going “On Strike.”
When the brain calls upon any par-
ticular group of muscles to perform
the same action over and over again
they are apt to show their dissatisfac-
tion by declaring a strike.
A typical case in point is “tennis
elbow,” from which complaint most
ardent devotees of the game have suf-
fered at some time or other.
The symptoms vary from mere stifi-
ness of the elbow joint to severe
cramp, culminating in some instances
in temporary inability to use the arm
for any purpose. Sometimes, too,
there is a painful swelling of the fore-
arm.
A kindred complaint is “tennis leg,”
which affects in a somewhat similar
manner the muscles of the calves and
the knee joints. Another example
where the leg muscles are the victims
is afforded by “riders’ sprain,” a com-
plaint to which polo players are found
to be peculiarly liable,
Then, again, there is a complaint |
which is called “bowlers side,”
brought about through straining the .
abdominal muscles.—Cleveland Plalr
Dealer.
Modifying Goldfish.
Many of the grotesque forms which
mark some of the popular types of
goldfish are the outcome of centuries
of laborious work by the patient, per-
severing and ingenious Japanese, in
taking advantage of some curious
freak of nature. It is a well-known
fact if fish eggs be given a jarring at :
a certain stage, or, more specifically,
about the “eyeing” period, monstrosi-
ties may be produced. This occurs fre-
quently among brook trout, the most
common irregularities being hump-
back and looped. It is said that when |
the Japanese discovered this peculiar- |
ity they selected from their golden |
camp a pair of the most pronounced
monstrosities, similar in form, reared
them and bred from them. The most
selected and bred, and this process con-
tinued until a desired type was pro-
duced and fairly fixed by hatching
without the jarring. Thus were pro-
duced the fringetails, the balloon
shape, the telescope, and some other of
the outlandish forms seen in aqua:
riums.
Severe Chinese Punishments,
It is enacted in the laws of China
that “If a mandarin, on the strength
of his power or credit, steal the wife
or daughter of any freeman, he shall
be imprisoned for the usual time, and
then put to death by strangulation.”
The poor man so sinning is beaten
and imprisoned only. The heaviest
punishment that can befall the woman
{s castigation and sale. And In no
Instance can she be sold but to a man
who binds himself by the most sacred
of all Chinese oaths to treat her
kindly. In some provinces she may
be sold, not by her husband, but by
the judge before whom her offense is
proved.
A Chinese who forgives a wife who
has not kept her marital vows, re-
celves 20 strokes of the bamboo. A
man who connives at his wife's frailty
1s most severely punished.
New Use for Flivver.
The Buffums are great tourists. Dur-
Ing the summer there isn’t a week-end
they miss going out in thelr little open
car. They never miss a bet. There
lsn’t one of the better-known week-end
resorts they fail to visit. But as soon
as the cold weather comes the car is
drained of water and the storage bat
tery is put in the cellar until spring.
Neighbors of the Buffums have no-
ticed Mrs. Buffum making frequent
visits to the garage of late, bearing
covered dishes and paper packages of
food. One neighbor was finally con-
strained to find out what these proces.
sions meant. Mrs. Buffum explained:
“Our house is so hot,” she said,
“that we needed more ice than in sum.
mer, so I'm using the car as an Icebox,
And I’m saving the price of five gallons
of gas a week on my ice bill.”
TABLE MANNERS IN ARABIA
£3 Might Reasonably Bz Expected,
They Are Primitive in tne
Extreme.
Manners vary according to time and
locality, so they say. Kor instance,
in Arabia a young woman's table eti-
quette is judged by the skill with
which she scrapes the dish with her
finger and conveys the results to her
mouth, _ American relief workers,
writing from Ismid, Turkey, give an
account of a family luncheon party of
a half-dozen Armenian girls who had
been rescued from Arab harems that
is a most enlightening glimpse on man-
ners of the Near East.
“It was during some games we held
that the girls who had been in captiv-
ity among the Arabs acted out the na-
tive customs of their former masters.
They ate without fork or knife or
spoon from a common dish placed on
the ground in their midst. One girl
showed us how the Arabs eat hot food.
With her finger tips she smeared the
food around the edges of the plate with
a circular movement, blowing her fin-
gers from time to time. When the dish
was well smeared, she scooped up the
food with the same circular movement
and carried it into her mouth. She
can eat thick soup thus, and more
quickly than you could with a spoon.
The soup running down her wrist was
licked off hurriedly and another scoop-
ful taken, for there was a circle of
girls around the dish, and the slow
ones lose out.”
BEAUTY THAT IS PERENNIAL!
According to Medical Writer, It Can
Only Be Destroyed by Incor-
rect Mode of Living.
There is a beauty which cannot be
destroyed by time.
perennial, youth carried through mid-
dle age and the later years of life.
Wise women are commencing to learn
that year by year tliey are making his-
tory and writing it in themselves, in
the pose of the head, the contour of the
body and above all in the revealing
presentation of the face. C. Ward
Crampoth, M, D., writes in the Health
Builder. The telltale years will tell
their tale with inexorable certainty. It
may be of wholesomeness, even tem-
per, good digestion and trained nerves
and these will show in the beauty tem-
pered, matured and refined by time in-
stead of made gross. The radiance of
wholesomeness may rival the brilliance
of youth. Or, instead, the history writ-
ten may be revealed in a leathery
facial hide, hardened by alcohol, tanned
by cigarette smoke and discolored by
the unneutralized toxins of dinners
large and late, wrinkled into permanent
ripples, the traces of a thousand nerv-
i ous storms and sagging under the fat:
of a thousand excesses. No amount of
application from without can change
the exhibition of the
relics within.
Fierce Wars Over Cinnamon.
For over 200 years wars raged and
nation succeeded nation in possession
of the island of Ceylon, in their greed
to obtain the fragrant cinnamon.
Finally the land fell to the lot of the
Portuguese, who so cruelly treated
the natives that they appealed to the
Dutch, with whom they were on
friendly terms, to come to their aid.
This nation for seven months laid
siege to the island, carrying on a
fierce warfare in which many persons
perished.
Finally in possession, the Dutch
were hardly less cruel to the natives
than their former rulers. They tried
to keep the monopoly of the trade of
the world; not a single cinnamon
plant was allowed to leave the island.
If the crop was larger than that de-
manded by trade and the price in dan-
ger of being lowered, all that re-
mained was burned or thrown into
the sea.
Cinnamon is now grown in many
tropical countries, and much im-
proved by cultivation.
Fig-Tree Emblem of Home.
The fig tree, from earliest times has
been a garden tree cultivated for its
shade and general usefulness. “Be-
neath the vine and fig tree” is used
more than once in the Old Testament
to designate “home.” For centuries
the fruit, fresh or dried, has made
up a large part of the food of the na-
tives of Western Asia and Southern
Furope. Its juice is used to make a
drink, and also to dye cloth. Its leaves
polish lvory, and the bark makes cord.
The sap of one species is poisonous.
The fig tree, in climates congenial to
its growth, produces two and some-
times three crops of fruit the same
year, on distinct shoots. The trees
grow -rapidly from cuttings, and are
propagated by budding, grafting and
seeds. The large, beautiful leaves are
deciduous, palmately veined, three-to-
five lobed, wavy-margined, and some-
what rough and leathery.
The Claim of Columbus.
“Oh, no,” said Columbus, calmly, as
he sat down to dinner with the other
shades on board the houseboat in the
Styx. “I don’t feel jealous of Wash-
ington. He is the Father of His Coun-
try, and I am not. I only discovered
the orphan. I knew the country be-
fore it had a father or a mother. There
wasn't anybody who was willing to be
even a sister to it when I knew it. But
Washington took it in hand, groomed
it down, spanked it when it needed it,
and started it off on the career which
has made if worth while for me to let
my name be known in connection with
it. Why should I be jealous of him?"
—Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Old Silverware, Tea Sets,
Tableware, Etc.
Old Clocks and Old Jewelry
Made New Again
At Very Conservative Prices...
We will be very glad to furnish you an estimate
for the work.
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
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may feel assured of a friendly, sympa-
thetic interest in their affairs.
The desire to help—to be of service—
is always present here; and the ser-
vice given is not always measured in
terms of profit.
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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