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Bellefonte, Pa., August 24, 1923.
THE VALUE OF DAIRYING
TO THE FARMER.
In these times the “dirt farmer” is
suffering from the depression of
prices on farm products, especially on
wheat, corn and other grains. Many
men who have been raising these
crops are getting discouraged, and it
is said that there are in Centre coun-
ty a great many farms and farm im-
plements which are soon to be offered
for sale at auction. Men are trying
to get a living at other work than in
plowing and cultivating the soil.
With the price of labor on the high-
ways and the mills as high as it is,
and the apparent returns from farm-
ing being so nearly on the wrong side
of the ledger, it is not to be wonder-
ed at that the courage of men on the
farm is on the wane.
When prices are low it is usually
said that it is a good time to buy, but
not all men have the courage of their
convictions at such times. They hes-
itate and thus many good opportuni-
ties are lost.
In the stock market it is a well
known fact that men are crazy to buy
when prices are going up. When
prices begin to drop men lose their
enthusiasm and the market drops
still lower for lack of buyers. At this
time the men with courage to act
against the popular tendency, buy up
the low priced stocks which their rea-
son tells them are good, and then sit
tight till the prices go up again.
It is well known that during the
war, when the prices of food products
were abnormally high, there was a
rush to get hold of farms and the
prices paid for them were almost
fabulous at times . Wise men sold at
this time and waited. These are the
men who will take advantage of the
present selling panic, if it gets to be
a panic, and will buy up the farms
thrown on the market.
At such times it is well to stop and
think. So few of us really do think.
We know that the basis of all true
prosperity in this or any other coun-
try, is the soil on which we live. With-
out this there can be no wealth ac-
quired. All other kinds of business
may languish and disappear. Manu-
facturing of particular kinds of goods
may stop, because conditions change,
thus rendering the product unneed-
ed and therefore uncalled for. But
farming must continue, for without it
people cannot live at all.
So we can see, or we ought to see,
that the most sure thing to hold to is
agriculture. It is bound to come in-
to its cwn again. We may have to
change the methods of farming to
meet changed market conditions from
time to time, but the raising of farm
products is as sure tc be always a
basic business as it is sure that-men
are to continue to be born and to live
A PLEASANT RETROSPECT AND
CONGENIAL CONTROVERSY.
By L. A. Miller.
“Do you remember this evening five
years ago 7” Mr. Elmo said, half med-
itatively to his wife, who sat gazing
reflectively into the glowing, yet
blazeless fire. . ,
“Just what I was thinking, about,
and was in the very act of asking you
the same question in .the-same iden-
tical words. Until you had almost
finished the sentence, I was not cer-
tain that it was not myself speaking.
Wasn’t that funny ?” :
“Rather,” replied Mr. Elmo, as he
changed his position to accommodate
Mrs. Elmo, who had left the comfort-
able rocker in which she had been re-
clining to nestle down beside her hus-
band, on the ottoman. “Only rath-
er!” returned Mrs. Elmo, half pout-
ingly. “I think it was real funny. I
don’t mean funny to laugh at, but
funny to—well, you know what I
mean.”
“Yes, Flo, I know what you mean
by it, but ‘funny’ is not the word to
express it,” said Mr. Elmo tenderly.
“Oh, yes, now I know; it was a co-
incidence,” exclaimed Flo gleefully,
looking up into her husband’s face for
approval. He seemed to be absorbed
in deep thought, and did not appear
to notice her until she placed her hand
under his chin and turned his face
toward her. “Isn’t that it, dear-—a
ooindidenes ?” she repeated, quizzic-
ally.
“I suppose so,” he replied mechan-
ically.
“You may suppose so,” she ex-
claimed, on mock astonishment.
“Yes, dear, ‘coincidence’ is a good
word—better at least than ‘funny,’
vet it does not express it clearly,” he
answered cheerfully.
“Then my dear, wise, critical Fred-
die, what is the word that expresses
it?” said Flo, with an air of one
piqued.
“I don’t know, my dear.”
“Don’t know! Why, I thought from
the way you talked you knew some
big word that would just fit it. I
think I got it right and you don’t
want to admit it,” - she - exclaimed
tauntingly, at the same time snug-
gling the closer to him.
“It isn’t the word that I am think-
ing about,” observed Fred, arousing
from the mild abstraction in which he
had been since the conversation be-
gan, and, in fact, for some time be-
fore. ; : : :
“Then what is it?” she asked be-
seechingly, as she drew his face to-
ward her again.
“Just thinking of New Year’s eve,
five years ago. . It marked a most im-
portant epoch in my life, and now as
I recall how narrowly I escaped wreck
and ruin, I shudder. It was you who
swung the danger signal across my
path when I was on the very verge of
the declivity bordering the desolate,
dismal vale in which misspent lives
are dragged out. Oh, no, you needn’t
turn your face away, because you did
it with your winsome ways. Besides, |
it is not a thing to be ashamed of.”
by cating.
Farm products which depend upon |
export conditions for their high pric- |
es are beund to drop to a lower level |
when trade currents across the sea |
stop or become sluggish. Those pro- |
ducts for which there is a home de-
mand, however, are least likely to be |
affected when Europe and other parts
of the world find that they cannot buy
our products. .
The conditions following the war
being such that Europe cannot now
buy our surplus grains, of course the
prices are bound to drop. Especially
is this true now that Russia is getting
somewhat on her feet again, and is
becoming a producer of grains for
consumption outside her own borders.
But Europe has never been a great
consumer of our dairy praducts. Dur-
ing the war the tide of trade in cheese
was across the Atlantic as it never
was before, but the cheese was large-
ly used to feed the fighting men. Now
the foreign trade in cheese is almost
nothing at all, and it is likely that
there will never be a great export
trade in dairy products. But the home
markets are increasing all the time.
Cities are growing, and whenever
men and their families go to the cities
or tewns, they become active agents
in increasing the demand for butter,
cheese and milk. Not only this, but
the amount of these products which
the people are using per capita is in-
creasing. People are learning to use
more milk, especially for children.
Nothing has been found which so ben-
efits, children who are stunted or slow
in growth, and who are mentally de-
ficient, as a larger diet of milk. There
never was such a great demand for
ice cream as there is at the present
time.
There is this, also, to be said in fa-
vor of dairying. There are few if any
farm products which take so little
from the soil in proportion to the
prices obtained for them as does milk
and milk products. Corn, wheat and
other grains do take from the soil ma-
terial which must be replaced, some-
times at great cost. Most such pro-
ducts are sold when dry, so that all
the material hauled from the farm is
solid matter. When milk is sold, at
least 87 per cent. of the product for
which you obtain good money is the
water which the cow naturally puts in
the milk, and which costs you noth-
ing. Nature puts this back in the
soil. You do not have to buy it. Al-
so, the other material in the milk,
such as fat, the sugar and the casein,
are hydrocarbons which. do not im-
poverish the soil to any great. extent.
At the same time the fertilizer which
the cattle produce and which you put
back onto the land, is enriching the
soil and the farm is getting better and
better. As a result it can produce
more and more food which is demand-
ed by the cows in order to make more
and more milk.
“This class comprehénds the mean-
ing of words very quickly,” said the
Boston teacher to her visitors. “You
noticed we spoke of the worn ‘ran-
som’ a. few minutes ago. How many”
—turning to the children—‘“can think
of a senténce containing the word
‘ransom?’ Every one. Yes, Harold.”
Harold arose proudly.
“My sister’s beau ran some when
Pa. ale
And the children wondered why the
“Did I really save you from all
that?” interrupted Flo, her big round
eyes turned full into Fred’s face. i
“Did you? You know you did,” re- |
plied Fred, patting her cheek affec- |
tionately.
‘| cepted your decision.
“Yes, I believe I had something to
do with it. And, do you know, I often
wonder why I took so much interest |
in you. Father had you marked down |
among the utterly worthless young |
men, and my brothers were ashamed |
to be seen in your company. They |
said your family was good enough for |
anybody, but you, individually, were
a black sheep. I knew that you weie i
reckless, wild and dissipated, but |
some how there was something about |
vou that interested me, yet I could |
never tell what it was. Mother used |
to look so surprised when I would |
happen to refer to you in connection |
with anything decent and respecia- !
ble.”
“The dear old soul,” murmured
Fred. “She thought you didn’t know
what you were talking about.”
“I didn’t love you then. No, indeed,
I never thought of it; but somehow I
couldn’t help thinking what a great
pity it was for a handsome, young
talented man like you to go to the |
bad. When I would tell mother so she
would look so worried, and all I could
say wouldn’t convince her that I had
not more than a platonic interest in
you. She often told me that you lack-
ed some of the essential elements of
manhood, and that you never could
take yourself up and be a man.”
“Did you think I could?”
“No, I did not. Like all the rest, I
supposed you would keep ahead until
your money was all gone, and you
would be kicked out of good society,
and, and like thousands of others, go
to the dogs. Yes indeed, that is just
what I thought.”
“Then why did you retain an inter-
est in me?”
“I don’t know,
cause I was a silly goose.
what papa used to say.” a
“Goose isn’t the right word, little
darling. Angel is better.”
“It’s all the same; they are a bit
alike when in the guise of woman.
They both have wings but there the
semblance ceases.”
“I don’t care now what I was. This
night five years ago, you came to our
house with a party of young gentle-
men, and father set out the wine, as
he always did on such occasions. He
said that any one who couldn’t resist
temptation when set before him, had
not will power sufficient to keep from
seeking it. Something prompted me
to put you to the test that evening;
although I did not expect you to pay
any attention to me.”
“Then why did you do it?”
“I don’t knew, but when you hand-
ed me a glass of wine and proposed
my health, I let on that I did not hear
what you said, but asked you to take
a pledge with me. You gladly assent-
ed, but I thought you would back out
when you heard it.”
“But I did not, did 1?”
“No, but I think you hesitated a lit-
tle in repeating the words after me.
Do you remember them now ?”
“Do 1? Scarcely a day passes that
I do not repeat them, and bless the in-
spired tongue that gave them utter-
ance. Remember them! ever.”
“What were they?”
Lifting Flo to her feet, and draw-
unless it was be-
That’s
class was dismissed . three. minutes
early.
ing himself to his full height, Fred
placed his left hand on his heart and
extending his right as though holding
a glass, began: “Standing within the
departing shadows of the old year,
and looking upon the misty dawn of
the new, I join with you in a solemn
pledge that I will taste no intoxicat-
ing drinks henceforth except those
proffered by your fair hands.”
“Then you started to put the glass
to your lips and I took it from you
and placed it upon the sideboard.”
“Yes, and I said that this one does
not count; but you insisted that the
pledge was binding from the instant
it was uttered, and I graciously ac-
Something told
me that it was right, and, do you
know, that from that moment forth I
saw myself in an entirely different
light. For weeks and months I felt
ashamed to walk the streets.”
“Ashamed for having taken that
pledge with me?”
_ “No, no, darling! Ashamed of my-
self for having been such a fool as I
had been for years before. Previous
to that time I could not bear the least
bantering from my associates, nor re-
sist an invitation to drink; but after
that I rather enjoyed being bantered,
as it gave me an opportunity to show
that I had some manhood left. The
victory was not won, however, with-
out a struggle, because the fiends had
a good hold on me, but the thought of
you was sufficient to drive them off,
even when they came in force. My
high regard for you grew into sub-
lime admiration, then into love; I
don’t know how, but it did.”
“Say, Freddie dear, you are squeez-
ing me awfully hard,” exclaimed Flo,
between gasps for breath.
“Pardon me, angel, but I couldn’t
help it. In fact, I didn’t know that I
was holding you so tightly as that,”
Fred replied, as he released her from
his embrace.
“Oh, no, I don’t mean that. Put
your arm back again, but don’t be
quite so energetic,” said Flo, tiptoe-
ing to mingle her crumpled bangs
with his crisp side-whiskers.
“Oh, what long years were those
four that followed that evening, and
what a short one this has been, mus-
ed Fred, as he toyed with the vagrant
locks of brown hair that persisted in
curling around his fingers as he pat-
ted his new angel on the cheek. “Let’s
not bother about the past, but look
hopefully to—"” Bang, goes the big
bell. “Happy New Year dear Fred,”
“dear Flo another coincidence.”
NEW GAME LAWS.
Under section 603 and 703 of the
new game code. In the trapping fur-
bearing animals and vermin, the
spread of jaws of all steel traps is
limited to 6% inches, was formerly a
standard of 3, or the same size, all
traps must have attached to the trap
or the min a metallic plate or tag giv-
ing in plain English the name and ad-
dress of the ‘owner, and must be vis-
ited at least once every thirty-six
hours unless prevented by sickness or
storm. At the end of the season all
traps must be taken up or sprung.
Following places where the tags
may be obtained: Harr-Wright Co,
Inc., State street, Bangor, Maine;
Triumph Trap Co., Onedia, N. Y.;
Harrisburg Stencil Works, 132 Locust
St., Harrisburg, Pa.
The blue heron, the green heron
and the night heron are now protected.
Every hunter must first secure a res-
ident hunter’s license before he or
she can hunt any game or birds of any
kind or to take a gun into the fields
or woods.
All game excepting wild turkeys
may be hunted one-half hour before
sanTise and one-half hour after sun-
set.
Persons purchasing or receiving
raw furs for commercial purposes—
will hereafter be required to procure
a fur-dealers license costing one
dollar.
Male ring necked pheasants only
may be Killed 2 a day bag limit.
Bounties, Section 1001: —Wild cats,
$15,00, gray foxes, $4.00, red foxes,
$2.00, weasels, $1.00.
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Great Milton Fair
MILTON, PENNA.
August 28, 29, 30, 31, 1923
Running and Harness Races | DeDeas’ Dog and Pony Circus
Large and Attractive Midway | The Flying Wonders
Free Acts Before the Grand Stand | Several Small Acts
azzie Orchestra on the Grand Stand
and Eddie Calhoun’s Band on the Band Stand
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Open Day and Night .......Everybody Welcome
Look for the Cattle and Hog Exhibit
:
Where else, outside of very large cities, has
a store gone into such Varieties and Values in
Boys’ School Suits?
Mothers and Fathers who have seen this |
display have been astonished—and, sink-
ing our modesty—we will say that if you
have always purchased your boy’s clothes
in Bellefonte you hdve no idea of the size
of this new stock or what it offers.
This season we set out to upset every boys’
record—the result is that today or any time
up until school begins you'll see here, not
only clothes piled to the ceiling but Values
you will laud to the skies.
No obligation to buy, except for the obli-
gation you owe your own pocket. See them.
Two-Pants Suits .....$8.50 to $15
Single Pants Suits... $5.00 to $8.50
A. Fauble