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Bellefonte, Pa., November 2, 1923.
—
“ THOU SHALT NOT KILL.”
Stokes Anthony Bennett.
Shame to the man who kills for sport,
And takes what he cannot give;
Who, gun in hand, would e’er disport.
With only himself to live. :
Shame to the man who's quite content
With a bird or beast at bay;
And who, it seems, is always bent
On taking their life away.
Shame to the man who has no heart
For the creatures that he meets;
Who lets destruction play chief part
In the things called hunting feats.
Shame to the man who cannot go
On a stroll through wood or plain,
Except he wield a fatal blow,
And boast of the creatures slain.
Shame to the man who kills for sport,
And takes what he cannot give;
Whose very thoughts and acts impart
That only himself shall live.
—OQur Dumb Animals.
THE MISSES STEVENSON WRITE
OF THEIR TRIP TO JAPAN.
Saturday a. m., Sept. 22, 1923.
On board the boat somewhere on
the Pacific.
Dear All!
Have just finished breakfast of two
fried eggs, French fried potatoes and
toast. I will start my letter from the
Thursday before we left San Francis-
co. We were told about 10 a. m. that
we would sail Saturday noon, so you
can imagine our excitement.
Upon being relieved from duty at
noon Sara and I flew down town to
the bank to look after some business
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there, then to the photographers to |
see if they could rush our pictures
through; as we had them taken only
the Tuesday before; then to several
stores, and home to pack.
Friday there were a million things
to do, and that evening the girls gave
us a farewell dinner. Although they
took our trunks Saturday, we were
told that we would not sail before
Monday, so after dinner Miss Ballard
and I went to the hair dressers, where
we made an engagement for three
o’clock, going on from there to a
show. Upon our return to the hair-
dressers she met us at the door say-
ing, “call the hospital; the boat sails
at 4 p. m.” Well, we were so excited
we could not think of anything to say
over the phone so rushed out and call-
ed a taxi to drive us to the docks.
In the meantime, ‘before I went
down town I put some ointment on
Sara’s hair intending to wash it when
I got back; consequently, when she
was told at 2 o’clock that she would
sail at four her hair was to wash and
both our bags to pack; but a lot of
the girls came in and helped her. One
washed her hair, others packed the
bags, while others addressed some of
the pictures. So she arrived at the
boat a half hour before we did.
We did not sail until about 8:30 p.
m., and one girl was left as she was
visiting in Berkley and no one knew
her phone number. She, however,
will sail today oh the “Thomas,” for
the Philippines. We are on the
“Somme,” pronounced Psalm; with us
are six nurses, eleven medical officers,
three or four other officers, forty-one
corps men and about one hundred and
fifty of a crew. We should have ar-
rived tomorrow, Thursday, September
27th. I will try to finish this in the
morning to send to a ship that is
going to Seattle in a few days, that
you may get it earlier than if we
mailed it in Japan.
We saw land about 10 a. m. and
landed last evening about 5:30
o’clock, and I'll say we were happy
girls, as I know I vomited everything
in me every day but about four; then
had to almost put a trap door on my
throat to keep it down.
We passed two islands with forti-
fications, that were all wrecked and
mostly under water, and all of the
city that we can see from the boat, is
wrecked; as we are lying ‘right off
Yokahoma. We will work from the
ship, expecting to go to Tokio in a
few days to help establish a hospital,
but as soon as it is finished will turn
it over to Jap doctors and nurses.
The night before we landed a ty-
phoon struck us and at 4 a. m.. we
were told to get dressed and get our
life belts ready. We were not scared
but could scarcely hold up our heads.
The ship bobbed like a cork and you
could hear the dishes, chairs and
everything that happened to be loose
falling all over the place.
I think we will land in Manila
about October 15th, and will be glad
to put our feet on land. We have
been watching the Japs unload the
ships; some have lumber and others
boxes of supplies. Numbers of wom-
en are working just like the men.
How I wish you might have seen
the lights from all the ships in the
harbor last night, with the moon shin-
ing over all.
Well, I guess I will close and try
to get a little sewing done. Write to
Sternberg General Hospital, Manila,
P. I. Will write as soon as we land
there. With love,
BETTY.
“Somme,” Sept. 24th, 1928.
On board the U. S. A. T. (U. S. Ar-
my Transport.)
Dear Ones at Home:
Betty in her letter tells you the be-
ginning ond I am right here to tell
you, I'' ° aan haw #iad 49 my apron
string until I get back to the States;
then you can take care of your own
kid, I've had my share. I looked like
a Chri~*mas tree when I boarded the
boat; "all her thines and mine
too, the that long
wiv tO see if she
would get there—when I saw them
step out of a taxi, I was about ready
to collapse.
Miss Ballard, Betty and I have heen
sick pearly all the way. The first
morning I crawled out, sat on .the
floor and held to the side rail, and I
said to Betty, “I believe if I can get
to the port-hole for fresh air I'll be
all right.” Well, I got to the port-
hole, but never saw so many things
moving in my life. I then decided it
wasn’t fresh air we needed. I called
across to Ballard “are you going to
breakfast?” and she answered, “no
Honey, ah just don’t feel right.” By
that time we all three were hard at
it. In a few days we were pretty well
straightened up when we struck a
rain gale and went for three hundred
miles through that; consequently we
went back to the bowl. Then when
we thought all was well a typhoon
played with us for about twelve hours.
At 4 a. m. we were told to get dress-
ed at once and get our life preservers
out, but we were so sick already that
it made little difference to us whether
the ship went up or down. However,
today the sea is fine and so are we.
Have seen a few ships in the distance
and a faint shadow which they say is
Japan; we are due at Yokahoma
about 6 p. m.
Our ship is loaded with enough
supplies for our base hospital and
twelve field hospitals, but as yet we
have no orders as to what we are to
do there; think possibly it may be a
refugee camp of some sort.
The steering wheel and the boilers
went bad during the storm, conse-
quently we are behind time, but guess
we are lucky to be getting in as well
as we are.
We have with us a newspaper man
from the Associated Press, Mr. Peeke;
also, Mr. Stone, from some of the
New York papers, who puts out a dai-
ly paper called “Somme News, copies
of which are enclosed. There is with '
us also, a Pathe News man, Mr. Puck-
er, who has taken some pictures of
the relief squad, so if they run the
films in Bellefonte you may see us.
We had been hoping this would be
a long rest, but when we were so sick,
I told Betty there would be nothing
left but “a rag, a bone and a hank of
hair” by the time we reached Japan.
We would swallow a teaspoon of soup
and up would come a whole bowl full.
Miss Ballard says she is going to buy
a hut in Manila and spend the rest of
her life there; for the life on the
bounding waves isn’t just what we
had pictured it.
I think if I get a chance to “hide!
away beside a babbling brook” Tl
take it; for I’ve had enough excite-
ment to last for a while.
Japan at last!
THE GIRLS.
——Vote for Dale for District At-
torney.
WHAT HAPPENS TO SUGAR.
Not more than half the sugar we
Americans consume is used in our
homes. The rest goes into manufac-
tured products. The estimates of the
quantities used in manufacture run
this way:
Our candy makers alone use more
than 350,000 tons, and 130,000 tons
more go to sweeten chocolates and
ice creams.
Every year the bakers dip into the
national sugar bowl for well over 45, |
000 tons for bread, 55,000 tons for!
crackers and 90,000 tons for pies and
cakes. A mere 10,000 tons goes every
year into frostings and odds and ends
in the bakeries. i
Fourteen thousand or more soft
drink makers hit the nation’s sugar
bin for at least 135,000 tons for their
concoctions and another 100,000 tons
goes into condensed milk.
Twenty thousand tons of sugar is
chewed up each year in gum; and,
less aesthetic jaws worked on anoth- :
er 15,000 tons that goes into the na-
tion’s “eatin’”’ tobacco. This not in-!
cluding about 6,000 tons that goes to
smoking tobaccos. i
The country’s pill and potion bill
disposes of about 6,000 tons of sugar
each year, and the druggist uses an
unknown quantity in filling what the
doctor ordered.
Even sticky fly paper and roach,
ant and rat killers draw from the su-
gar supply to the tune of hundreds of
tons.
And nobody knows how much has
gone in bootleg and home-brew.—
The Nation’s Business.
The Origin of Postage Stamps.
The manner in which the first post-
age stamps came into being has a
tinge of romance to it.
It was about the year 1840, that
Rowland Hill, while crossing a dis-
trict in the north of England, arrived
at the door of an inn where a post-
man had stopped to deliver a letter.
A young girl came out to receive it;
she turned it over in her hand and
asked the price of the postage. The
postman demanded a shilling, which
to the girl was a large sum, as she
was poor. She sighed sadly, and said
that the letter was from her brother
and that she had no money, so she re-
turned the letter reluctantly to the
postman.
Touched with Fw, Mr. Hill paid
the postage and gave the letter to
the girl, who seemed very much em-
barrassed. The postman had scarce-
ly gone, when the young innkeeper’s
daughter confessed that it was a trick
between her brother and her. Some
signs on the envelope told her all that
she wanted to know, but the letter
contained no writing.
“We are both so poor,” she said,
“that we invented this method of cor- |
responding without paying for the!
letters.” i
Rowland, continuing on his journey, |
asked himself if a system giving rise
to such frauds was not a vicious one?
Before sunset he had planned to or-
ganize the postal service on a new ba-
sis—with what success is known to
the world. ;
—Vote for Hoy for Recorder.
BSR PRS
LIVED LIFE OF LONELINESS
Naturalist Isolated Himself That He
- Might Have Opportunity to
4 Study Habits of Birds,
On a lonely isiand cff the acast of
Queensland for twenty-five years, Mr.
E. J. Banfield, naturalist and author of
“Confessions of a Beachcomber” and
other books, has died at the age of
seventy. The crew of the steamer In-
nisfail, passing the island, saw a wom-
an waving on the beach. A boat was
landed and Mrs. Banfield was found
to be the only inhabitant of the island.
Her husband was dQead. The crew
made a coffin out of ship’s timber and
the chief officer read the burial service.
Mrs. Banfield refused to leave the is-
land, and the captain called for vol-
unteers to stay with her. Every man
offered, and the captain selected one
to remain. Some twenty-five years
ago Mr. Banfield acquired under the
land laws of the Queensland govern-
ment Dunk island, off the coast of
Queensland. This was an islet rather
more than three square miles in area,
inhabited till then only by the rapidly
dwindling remnant of a once consider-
able native population, which has since,
it would seem, entirely disappeared.
There, with his wife, he settled down
to live the simplest of lives and in-
dulge in his cherished pastime of ol-
serving the ways of birds, beasts and
fishes, and, while they remained, his
black fellow men.—Montreal Family
Herald.
KNOWN AS ‘ELECTRIC GHOSTS’
Scientist Explains Action of Electrcns
Fastest Moving of All Ter-
restrial Objects.
In an address to electrical engineers
in London a distinguished scientist
thus defined an electron. An atom is
ordinarily associated with a charge,
and force is required to separate the
charge from the atom. The atomic
charge when separated is called an
electron. In an electrolyte—i. e, a
substance decomposed by an electric
current—there is a bodily transfer of
atoms with their charges; in a metal
lic conductor the charges are handed
on as electrons from atom to atom.
In the discharge through highly rare
fied gases the electric current is in
its most simple form, for here there
is a flow of electrons, traveling by
themselves, of disembodied charges o1
electric ghosts. Electrons, it should be
added, are the fastest moving of all
known terrestrial objects, their speed
being one-tenth that of light, which
is 186,300 miles per second.—Washiug:
ton Star.
Is Separation Right?
The French senate has voted tc
transfer to the pantheon, France's hall
of fame, the remains of Renan, Edgar
Quimet and Michelet. This is a high
honor from the state. But in 189§
Michelet’s wife opposed the transfer of
her husband’s body. She had been the
historian’s intimate literary helper—
almost a collaborator—and knew all
his thoughts. When the proposition
was made to her she said: “No! He
would not have wished it. He chose
his grave himself—in Pere-Lachaise
beside his son’s. Let him sleep there
in peace.” But there may be no one
teday to interpose a veto on the sen
ate’'s resolution, if it also passes the
carter of deputies.
Biggest and Best.
The annual meeting and banquet oi
the Men’s Social club had not provec
successful. The committee in charge
of the arrangements, however, wert
more hopeful of a better conclusion
as the guest of honor was introduce
by the chairman,
“Gentlemen,” he said in a genial
voice, “we have with us tonight on¢
whom you all know very well, Profes
sor Piffle, who has promised to tell us
some of his biggest and best after
dinner stories.
Amid tremendous applause from the
guests, the professor rose from his
seat.
“Mr. Chairman and gentlemen,” he¢
said, when he could make his voic¢
heard. “To begin with my bigges
story, let me tell you how thoroughly
1 have enjoyed your banquet.”
Black Rain.
One of the services of science is in
destroying superstition, and a notable
example of this was afforded not long
ago in Ireland. On an October nighi
a fall of black rain, leaving inky pools
in the roads, occurred in many parts
of the island. It was noted at the
famous observatory at Birr castle, and
an investigation of the meteorological
conditions prevailing at the time fol
lowed. The result was to show that
there had been a movement of the
air all over the central part of the
British isles such as carry soot fron
the manufacturing districts of Eng
land over the Irish channel. Exam
ination of the black rain showed thal
its color was due to the presence of
an extraordinary amount of soot.
Soya Bean Br:ad in Austria.
Austria’s experiments with soya bea:
flour in bread-making have proved suc
cessful, and this bread has become s
popular that, according to the Depart
ment of Commerce, the output has in
creased to 10,000 loaves dally.
Three months ago the first experi
ment was made by a Viennese baker
who put out a loaf of wheat brea(
with a 20 per cent mixture of soy:
, consarn moved,”
| woman,
PLAN TO HARNESS VESUVIUS
Italy Would Direct Flow of Lava and
Utilize Heat of the Big
Volcano.
In the future great volcanoes cam
throw out molten fire and lava and at-
tract no more attention than the pass-
Ing of a motor car, if plans now being
considered by scientists of Italy are
carried out.
After the gigantic accomplishments
of the engineers in the World war such
a scheme does not sound impossible
and plans are being seriously consid-
ered to tunnel mountains known to be
dangerous in such a manner that a
sudden voleanic activity will only re
sult in the gas and lava being carried i
away from settled sections and val-
uable property.
Especially are such plans being
worked out for Etna and Vesuvius,
the two most destructive volcanoes.
And with the plan goes another pro-
viding for harnessing the heat for in-
dustrial purposes.
Premier Mussolini has been investi-
gating the plan and now, it is said, no
obstacle remains except the expense.
It is hoped that some way may be
found whereby Italy will be relieved
from dependence upon the outside
world for fuel and the power that fuel
produces.
If experimental boring is tried it
will probably be on Etna, because that
volcano, being on an island, can do
less damage than Versuvius if stirred
| to unusual activity by man’s efforts.
Cutting tunnels through the moun-
tainside would be simple in its earlier
stages, and would become complicated
only when the heat, on approach to
the eternal fires, became unendurable
to the workers. Explosives might do
the rest.
SWEETS FOR THE CHILDREN
Moderate Allowances of Sugar, Candy
and Ice Cream That Keeps
Them Healthy.
The following may be regarded as a
moderate allowance of sugar or candy
for a healthy child of nine or ten
years: Of sugar on cereals, one even
teaspoonful at breakfast or supper and
not more than this amount on fresh or
stewed fruit; of candy, one piece with
the midday meal ; of ice cream or fruit
ices, one good tablespoonful once a
week, possibly twice a week in sum-
mer; of ice cream sodas, not more than
one a week
Besides these things a child will get |
in his other food, such as gingerbread
cookies and plain cake, and in his cus-
tard and puddings an additional
amount of sugar, so that his total daily
allowance will probably be equal to
two tablespoonfuls of sugar. So long
as this is not exceeded it is not likely
tham any bad effect will follow. But
when a child is allowed to help himself
the constant tendency is that the
amount is gradually increased to two
or three times the quantities specified,
and. even then the child is no better
satisfied—often less so. He has ac-
quired the sweet habit and food does
not taste sweet unless these larger
amounts are constantly added.—Dr. L.
Emmett Holt in the Delineator.
Chapels in Hotels.
Many years ago, a group of com-
mercial travelers called “The Gideons”
organized a movement for placing
copies of the Scriptures in the guest
rooms of hetels. .It was from the start
a very real missionary enterprise, and
has been productive of excellent re-
sults.
One of New York's leading hotel
men, the owner of a number of big es-
tablishments, announced a few days
ago his purpose of going even a step
further. Observation during many
years of experience has impressed him
with the fact that strangers who put
up at hotels in our big cities are at a
disadvantage as far as church-going is
concerned. He has, therefore, decided
to erect, in each of his large establish-
ments, a chapel as a place where his
guests may worship. “If the patron
will not go to church,” he urges, “we
shall bring the church to him.”
All Is Vanity.
“Now, just as I was beginning te
think that I could become a raving
beauty by spreading clay on my face
once or twice a week, here comes a
writer in a magazine who says the
claims for it are absurd, and it does
no good at all to the skin,” said a
Columbus beauty who likes to keep
up with all the fads for improvement.
“Oh, well,” said her companion,
“there is one comfort: You can save
the money you have been spending on
clay and buy face creams.”—Columbus
Dispatch.
A Trusting Nature.
She was a countrywoman, and trav-
eling by train was something new to
her. She sat down on a seat in the
station, and after waiting for two
hours was approached by the station-
master, who inquired where she was
going.
“But the train’s just gone,” he said
when she told him.
“Dear, dear! I thought the whole
replied tle old
Handy Man.
An inmate of a certain penal insti-
tution recently received a call from
the warden, who said:
“I understand you got in jail on ac-
count of a glowing mining prospec-
tus.”
a - a ge Js LD “Yes,” admitted the gentlemanly
” | ”»
2 tent | prisoner, “I was quite optimistic.
inetd asso . Dm “Well,” continued the warden, “the
q | governor wants a report on conditions
agreeable, The flour is produced un In this jail. Write it."~-Harpers
der a secret process, ? * .
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
There are no really good manners
without Christian souls.—Spanish
Proverb.
The new way to do the hair is to
eliminate the permanent wave. Shin-
gled is the term for short locks.
‘Through the spreading influence of
this revived fashion we may be spared
the pain of gazing at the uncombed
mass of short hair that would be fit
for an Abyssinian bride; we may not
have to struggle to see the actors on
the other side of the footlights
through something that looks like a
mattress without ticking; we may be
free from having that same mass
combed into our faces at public plac-
es.
must be sleek and as short as a boy’s
' at the back, even though it fluff over |
' the temples. It may be parted on the
side or in the middle. It must look
i wet, an effect obtained by brushing it
| with brilliantine.
. The school-girl can wear her hair
in this manner better than most of
our sex. She will find it far more
gracious than the frizzed, outstand-
ingZ mop of burned locks. If she wants
to be very French, she will search for
a round comb such as her grandmoth-
g2 wore to push back the front of the
air.
Short curls are good at the temples.
They should not be ragged and jag-
ged, but smoothly curled, in the Vie-
torian manner. The two flat locks,
carefully plastered into an interroga-
tion above the cheek bones, should be
left to older women. It is fashiona-
ble to copy this coiffure of a man in a
more romantic generation when straps
were put on his trousers to keep them
snugly fitting over the instep. If
American women like the fashion it
will be found difficult to adjust it to
their faces, but the school-girl should
let it alone.
| Possibly there is only one costume
on which the finger can be put when
one searches for girls’ clothes which
few, if any, adults can wear. This is
the Spanish bolero, the frilled blouse,
the pleated skirt in bright plaids.
Such as assembling makes one of the
smart costumes that leaped into the
limelight when school days came over
the horizon.
. The designers of clothes are turn-
ing to Spain for inspiration. Once
that country led the world in fashions
for women and men. France took the
lead away from her in the sixteenth
century, but she is returning to the
Spanish fashions of the era when Se-
ville and Madrid had the first and
; final say in wherewithal we should be
' clothed. She returns to Chinese fash-
ions, also, after the manner of her
seventeenth century allegiance.
The school-girl can adapt many of
these ideas to her juvenile costumery.
The brilliant shawl is not for her, even
in the evening, but the bolero, the hat
with a pointed crown, the broad sash
about the diaphragm, the sleeveless
jacket, the frilled white blouse, the
wide skirt, the flounces of old Spain,
suit girlishness and youth. There-
fore, she has a wide are from which
to pick what she likes.
The new middy blouse smacks of
China. It is somewhat of a tunic, mi-
nus the gay embroidery or fanciwul
brocade. There’s one of red serge
that reaches the knees; it is straight
and unbelted; the sleeves are long and
tight at wrists, the neck opening is
_boat-shaped. Its glory or adornment
| lies in the cravat. And such a cra-
vat! It is of green ribbon, mind you,
i and runs through a large decoration
In green embroidery. The skirt be-
low the middy is pleated at the sides.
_The Chinese tunic is suitable for a
girl. It has become an established
garment, but it swings around so
large a circle in its various forms that
it can be anything from a street jack-
et to an evening wrap. It is of bro-
cade or cloth, of crepe satin or Chi-
nese embroidery of the kind one buys
for a table cover. It can be shaped
like a sandwich, in two panels that
cover the back and front to show
. brightly colored chiffon or georgette
sleeves after the manner of the Mah
Jongg gowns invented in Pekin. It
can be as sober as a glass of lemonade
for contrast, with serge or kasha as
the material and red or green buttons
down the front for the Chinese touch.
3 Unless a girl is unduly matured, it
1s wiser to choose any of these cos-
tumes rather than the severely tail-
ored skirt and jacket. The O’Rossen
style is the best, if she adopts this
kind of costume. It has a short nar-
| row skirt and a partly fitted jacket
: fastened with one button a trifle high-
waisted. It flares a bit from the
waist and ends at turn of the hips.
The edges are bound with black or
gray braid.
Step-in corsets that are little more
than girdles are made of brocade and
elastic entirely without boning. Strap-
less brassieres and corset and bras-
siere combinations are among the new
developments presented to give the
figure the necessary support and
trimness that new fashion demands.
It is predicted that the summer
vogue of red hats will extend into the
fall and winter season, and this is ev-
idenced by the number of hats of this
| Solor seen developed in velvet and of
elt.
Blouses of two colors of georgette,
the darker color veiling the lighter
color, and richly embroidered in
beads, are very lovely to complete a
three-piece costume effect. Frequent-
ly metal lace on a bright-colored
georgette is the foundation for a veil-
ing of black or darker colored geor-
gette, and this combination is excep-
tionally handsome and dignified.
~The trend of fashion toward things
Chinese is emphasized in costume
jewelry, there being any number of.
articles of adornment; bracelets, neck-
laces, earrings, buckles, hair and hat
ornaments—made of imitation jade
and ivory that depict the character of |
the nopular Chinese game that seem-
ingly has largely replaced social
hridee., Tre Minar “rmhale arp
traced in gold or silver, and the wear-
ing of sets of this jewelry is very ef-
fective with a large number of the
reason’s modes in apparel.
Sheriff,
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——Vote for Taylor
To be smart, says Paris, the hair |
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| FARM NOTES.
—Salty grease and bacon rinds do
more harm than good when used on
‘ saw blades.
—At the present price of feed, skim
: milk is worth about fifty cents a hun-
dred to feed pigs as a supplement for
the grain feeds.
—=Sort the apples as soon as they
are picked. Cider apples and canning
: factory stock should be disposesd of
at once and not be put in the cellar to
fill the storage space and contaminate
the good fruit. ,
i —Peach Borer—Don’t forget to re-
‘move the P.D. B. chemical from
i around the trees about a month or six
weeks after the trees have been treat-
ed. It may cause root injury if al-
| lowed to remain in the soil.
—A large number of pullets are
| suffering from an attack of mites.
This causes them to become thin and
' extremely white in the legs and beak.
| Be sure that your roosts have none
| of these insects on them before mov-
ing the pullets into winter quarters.
—~Shredded corn fodder makes ex-
cellent litter for the poultry house.
On many farms, this material is wast-
ed when it might be used in place of
straw in the poultry house. It is
clean, does not break up as badly as
straw, and makes just as good ma-
nure.
—Don’t wait until freezing weath-
er to pick the seed corn. There is a
lot of moisture in the corn this year
which must be dried out. Select the
good ears and hang them in a dry,
well ventilated place. Corn, well
dried, will stand a lot of freezing be-
fore the germ will be injured.
—Get the fall litter eating as soon
as possible. Help to satisfy the cu-
riosity of the little pigs to know what
the mother is eating by supplying a
low trough for the old sow. Then
provide a creep for them with shelled
or coarse cracked corn available. Add
Some middlings and tankage a little
iater.
—It is reported that red ants are
doing considerable damage in wood
lots and forests. Fill up the open-
ings in the ant hills with mud and
then pour carbon bisulphide into the
hill and seal the opening with mud.
A single treatment will not destroy
all of the ants but will kill many of
em.
—Feed grain sparingly to the cow
for a few days after freshening and
gradually increase the amount as the
milk flow increases. When she seems
to have reached a full flow of milk
and does not respond to increased
feed, reduce the amount slightly. This
will avoid over-feeding and getting
the cow off feed.
_—Now is the time the grain wee-
vils and small beetles start working
in stored wheat. They can be de-
stroyed by the same treatment that
is used to control the grain moth.
Treatment should be made before the
temperature gets below 60 degrees
F. About three pounds of carbon bi-
sulphide will fumigate 100 bushels of
grain.
—Where potatoes are blighted, it is
advisable to dig them at a time when
the soil is dry. When potatoes blight,
spores wre formed on the leaves which -
drop down and mix with the soil. If
the spuds are dug in wet weather, the
spores are taken into the cellar on the
potatoes and are likely to cause rot.
A cool, well ventilated cellar will help
to prevent rot.
—Growers are warned not. to pile
apples under the trees after picking.
The earth is warm, the pile of apples
holds the heat and moisture, and de-
cay often results. Apples piled un-
der trees for a week will not keep
nearly as well as those which have
been picked on to a sorting table,
sorted and removed the next morn-
ing to a cool storage place.
—About 45 pounds of honey is re-
quired to carry a colony over the win-
terand spring. Colonies having less
than this amount after the fall honey
flow is over should be fed with either
sugar syrup or honey from a healthy
colony. A mixture of 2% parts of
white granulated sugar with one part
water, heated until all the sugar is
dissolved, makes a satisfactory syr-
up.
~ —The raspberry industry of Penn-
sylvania is seriously threatened by
diseases. Planting disease-free plants
and controlling the raspberry aphid
are possible remedies. The aphid may
be controlled by spraying with one
pint of nicotine sulphate in 100 gal-
lons of water. Five pounds of lump
lime should be slaked and added to
the above spray before making the
application.
! —Forcing the pullets to lay too ear-
ly is like driving a car with the choke
pulled out. In cold weather, we pull
| the choke out to start the motor;
however, if driven too long this way,
the motor soon stops. If we feed the
| pullets mash with lots of meat scrap
or milk in it, they will start laying at
between four or five months old but
soon stop, molt and take a long rest
during the winter months.
.—A group of women of Augusta-
. ville, in Northumberland county, have
! organized a women’s pig club and are
caring for “porkers” according
; 1923 methods. Incidentally, the pigs
i will be sold at a round-up and show
{and one-half of the proceeds will go
| to the emergency buildine fund of the
Pennsylvania State College.
The club has eight members and
each woman was furnished a pure-
i bred porker by breeders in the coun-
| ty. If friend “hubby” gets jealons
and refuses to allow his wife’s pi~ to
be rirchased by another man, bidding
is likely to be lively.
—Coclusive evidence that the cost of
| producing wheat is considerably high-
‘er than the present selling »rice is
fornd in a survey conducted by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture and in figures secured by the
i State College agricultural extension
farm accountant in Lancaster county.
Reports from 2000 farms in all
parts of the country show that on the
average in 1922 it cost £1,23 per bush-
el to produce wheat. Figures obtain-
od in Lancaster county showed ar av-
erage cost of $1.28 per bushel. Thege
! cost records come from 85 farms on
, which over 800 acres of wheat were
i raised. The cost per bushel varied on
oy individual farms from 95 cents to
2.17.
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