Bellefonte, Pa., November 16, 1923.
EEE ——"
THE MAN WITH A SMILE.
It isn’t the fellow who has a smile
Because of the smile of others,
But the fellow who counts is the fellow
who smiles
In spite of his scowling brothers.
Or whether they smile or whether they
don't,
If he's true to his own soul's light,
He will keep on smiling through thick and
thin;
He will smile for the sake of right.
The old song says if you smile for them,
They will have a smile for you;
But the man who smiles, if they smile or
not,
Is the man who will put things through
The man who smiles because it's his heart
That brings to his face the glow
Of the peace and the power of doing his
part
In the great world’s daily show.
To do things just to gain in return
Some gift or some grace in life,
Is only a half-way style to win
In the toil and struggle and strife.
For the best old grace is the grace of joy
In doing and serving, along
‘With a smile that is sweet as the smile of
a boy,
Till your smile makes labor a song.
—Baltimore Sun.
ISABEL’S OWN IDEA.
By Ruby Douglas.
© 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
“I'm twenty-five years old,” began
Isabel. :
“Wait, wait, my dear; that’s not
being done, telling one’s age,” said her
chum.
Isabel was impatient. “I know it
isn’t. Neither is what I'm about to
do.”
“Then it can’t be getting married,
can it?” laughed Bess. “For assur-
edly that is being done hereabouts.”
Isabel dismissed the thought as
frivolous. “I was about to say that I
am twenty-five years old and that for
five years a persistent idea has been
pestering me with its presence in my
thoughts.”
“Don’t you perhaps flatter yourself?”
Her chum insisted on being facetious.
“No, I do have serious thoughts,
Bess. I have been watching mothers
and children. I have helped to take
care of two sisters’ youngsters and
scdres of neighbors’ bables. I find I
have great success with them.”
“Well, what of it? Did you think
of starting an orphan asylum? They
don’t start those; they just grow out
of a community of voters, and by law
and all that sort of thing, Isabel.”
. Bess was still unable to be serious.
“No, I am not going to have an or-
phan asylum, although you might be
interested to know that in the recent
reading of my vocational qualifications
by an expert analyst I got nearly 100
per cent in my ability to take charge
of groups of children, manage a home
for sick babies or some kindred job!
So now. Of course that only added to
the force of my persistent idea that I
could turn to practical account my
knack of keeping children well.”
“Some job,” remarked Bess.
“But I'm going to do it. I've made
my plans with father and mother, and
though neither of them is thrilled with
the prospect, they're going to let me
have a go at it,” said Isabel, earnestly.
In spite of her levity Isabel's life-
long chum gave her the greatest as-
sistance in carrying out her plans to
establish in her own home a center,
where mothers might take their chil-
dren, whom they seemed not quite to
understand, mentally or otherwise.
Isabel made a charge that could be
met by most families, and she took the
children at first only for a day in
order to study them. Sometimes she
watched them with other children.
Sometimes she played with them her-
self to find out how the child's mind
reacted to certain subjects. At other
times she left them alone to see what
they would choose te do voluntarily.
Thus she studied them. She was thor-
oughly practical, for she weighed and
measured them, found out what they
had been eating without offense to the
mother, ascertained the number of
hours they had slept and under what
conditions.
Children responded to the atmos-
phere of her big playroom and gar-
den with its adjacent sleeping porch
and rest couches. They drank milk
for her when they had refused to touch
it at home; they ate carrots and
onions or they slept or played just as
she wanted them to. She had a de-
cided understanding of children and
their needs.
it was not long before she found
that she had more than she could do,
even with the paid assistance of her
chum. She was neither a nurse nor
a doctor, but merely a stadent of
child life, and her scope, while consid-
ered limited by old-fashioned folks,
seemed almost unlimited.
Mothers were delighted with the
outlook the children got at life from
Miss Isabel's teachings. They went
to “visit” her every time they seemed
a little out of sorts and came home
bright and well and cheerful and up
to weight.
Isabel's idea was not to keep chil-
dren for a long time but to put them
as nearly right as she could in a short
time so as not to let the mother's
sense of responsibility be lessened.
She became great friends with the
visiting nurses in the various schools
in the villages, They were much in-
terested in her unusual plan and its
seeming success. .
“I know of a very pitiful case of
a father in our town who is trying to
bring up two little ones with the un-
satisfactory help of a mere girl who
doest housework. I wish you could
.don't you?”
have them,” said Miss Hecht, a nurse
in an adjoining district.
“But—why not?’ asked Isabel, in-
terested at once.
“It's a delicate case. The father
vants to do it. He doesn’t see how
‘nadequately he is succeeding. The
“ttle girl Is pale, thin. The boy
needs attention.” ;
“Perhaps T might talk to him,” sald
eae],
The nurse studied the young woman
‘for a few moments. A light came
‘nto her eves, “I believe you could,”
she said. “He means the best in the
world but—he’s not yet thirty and 1s,
perhaps, devoted to the memory of
the children’s Mother and hates to see
thern in other hands.”
“I'm going to try,” said Isabel,
By a strategic succession of ar
rangements, Isabel! and the father of
the children met. He did «ot know
who she was. She did know what he
was. Whether it was fate, whather
‘t was the guardian angel of the chil
ren or whether it was just plain o!¢
“nshioned Cupid's arrows, no one ever
ns heen able to determine. But Johr
cow was attracted of once to ft}
young woman who had not known
him a half hour before she was ask-
ing him gbout his children of whom
she admitted she had heard.
He warmed to the subject as she had
never dreamed he would and, as he
unfolded the inner man in his earnest-
ness and sincerity for the welfare of
his babies, Isabel began to feel a
keen interest in him. She felt that it
must be merely the interest kindled |
through her desire to see the children
taken care of. E
In less time than it took to bring
about the meeting of Isabel and John
Storm, she had the two children at
her home and was feeding them, play-
ing with them, making them rest and
gain and grow red cheeks.
John Storm, being a devoted father,
came often to the restful home of his
children. After they were tucked. in
bed with the other little ones and the |
temporary mother of them all was |
tired and ready to sit down, he fre- |
‘quently sat beside her. 5
“John Storm is a pretty good sized
orphan, Isabel,” chaffed her chum,
‘Bess, after weeks of observing which
way the wind was blowing.
Isabel blushed—in spite of her now
twenty-six years. “I feel so sorry for
him,” she said, lamely.
“You know what pity’s akin to,
Isabel nodded.
And that night she was forced to
‘admit that it was more than pity that
she felt for the father of John and
Hazel Storm.
“If you think it would not interfere
with my work I—I think I could man:
age you, too,” she said to him before
he left.
“On the contrary, I believe I could
help you, dear,” he told her. “I shall
spend my days in trying to show how
truly thankful I am for you—you,
yourself and your wonderful care of
my little ones.”
“Then—it’s a bargain,” said Isabel.
SECRET OF REMAINING YOUNG
Method of Postponing Old Age Lies
in Observing Moderation in Eating,
Sleeping and Everything You De.
Old age is as inevitable as death and
taxes. But the term “old age” is
elastic; some persons are old at fifty
years; some are young at eighty. A
witty Frenchman said once that a man
Is as old as his arteries, which is
partly true, since the condition of the
arteries is a pretty fair condition of
‘the state of the other tissues and or-
‘gans,
Many physicians believe that the de-
generative changes that are character-
istic of old age begin in the arteries
and appear later in the other tissues
as a consequence of the diminished sup-
ply of blood and of impure blood. One
theory is that the arterial thickeming
and hardening invariably found in the
-aged (the aged as measured by dimin.
ished function and not by years) are!
owing to auto-intoxication acting
through many years; the poisons in:
the blood cause degenerative changes
in the walls of the arteries. Another |
theory is that senility depends on’
changes in the cells and tissues caused
by a principle in them that leads in
early life to growth and in later life
to decay.
But whatever the theories, and there
are many of them, they all lead to the
same conclusion ; depending in the case |
of another on the mode of life he has
followes, the period at which old age
begins varies within the wide limits,
and. barring an inexorable inheritance,
the individual can do much to post
pone it. Unfortunately, the time to be-
gin is early adult life, just when old
‘age seems 80 remote as to be neg-
ligible.
The secret of postponing old age lies
in observing temperance in the broad
sense of the word—moderation in
everything; in eating, in coffee drink-
ing and tea drinking, in sleeping, In
exercising, in working and indeed in
every phase of human existence. Ath-
letes are not long-lived; neither are
those who are too streruous in busi:
ness, nor those who worry. The obese
are usually short-lived for the reason
‘that they are likely to be heavy eater:
or to have defective nutritive organs.
‘Breathing fresh alr day and night and
walking moderately without missing a
day are essential to long life, as they | my,
are essential to health,—Youth's Com-
panion,
Marriage Licenses.
Walter H. Young and Catherine E.
Packer, Howard.
Simon C. Rudy and Hilda M. Mec-
Clellan, State College.
AUTO ROAD TO RUN 125 MILES
OUT TO SEA.
Perhaps the most unique. automo-
bile road in the world will be that
which. was assured on October 16,
when Monroe county, Florida, of
which Key West is the principal cen-
tre of population, carried by a two to
one majority a bond issue calling for
an expenditure of $300,000 for roads
and bridges between Key West and
the main land.
The proposition had received the
enthusiastic moral backing of the At-
lantic Coast Highway Association,
which is urging the completion of a |
continuous. route between Maine and
Key West, and skirting the Atlantic |
for the greater part of the way.
The new auto road when completed
will be the longest and probably the
only extensive automobile road over
the sea in the world. At times the
motorist will be almost if not actu-
ally out of sight of land.
He will have the Gulf of Mexico on
the one hand and the Atlantic Ocean
TR
SHE SPANKS ERRING HUSBAND
He Acquiesces in the Punishment and
Declares They Get Along
Splendidiy.
We have with us a married man who
admits that his wife spanks him when-
ever he does serious wrong. They be-
gan their married career in a business
partnership and made money. When
the husband began to spend more tian
his share and ran around nights the
wife on one occasion tied him face
to a frazzle with a strap. The hus-
‘band accepted the findings of his su-
‘preme court in good faith. He had his
lesson and admitted thet it was com:
ing to him. Now when he does any-
thing to which the wife can honestly
take exception she takes him down
into the cellar and administers the
strap, says the Los Angeles Times.
The husband makes no attempt at
on the other. The scenery is extreme- !
ly picturesque. The Keys have been
compared to the South Sea Islands.
They are masses of bright green ver-
dure and contain many cocoanut
groves. The shoals along the route
reflect every color in the rainbow,
from the masses of pink and white
coral and white marl, and brown and
green sea weed on the bottom. There
are immense numbers of sea birds,
brown pelicans, heron, frigate birds
and others. There is cracker jack
deep sea fishing all through the Keys
and fine fishing facilities at Long
Key.
the. gap between the mainland and .
Key West was bridged by Henry M.!
Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad |
in 1912. The distance between Home- |
stead and Southern Florida, at which |
the railroad oversea extension begins, !
and Key West is 218 miles. Of this |
distance the railroad runs over deep!
water for a distance of 18 miles, the
.| concrete piers in severral places ris-
ing out of a depth of 30 feet of water,
though the average depth crossed by
viaducts and steel trestles is consid-
erably less. A large part of the dis-
tance between the various Keys or is-
lands that form a chain between Key
West and the mainland of Florida :
consists of shoals which have been
filled in with embankments along the |
railroad right of way. The shoals in!
the case of the auto route would prob- |
ably be crossed by bridges, although |
the automobile road, not obliged to |
take so direct a route as the railroad,
can use the Keys to a greater extent.
It is stated. that one-third of the
distance between the mainland and |
Key West is already covered by roads
: along the Florida Keys, and that these !
when improved can be used as parts |
of the proposed overseas automobile '
road. Key West is connected by
steamer ferry twice daily to Havana,
the run being made in eight hours.
Hundreds of good automobile roads
now radiate from Havana, and it is
possible to ride from Havana to San-
tiago, 2400 miles south of Philadel-
phia. 134
There were two measures submit-
ted in the Key West bond issue which
were voted on separately: “For roads
or against,” and “For bridges or
against,” and both carried unani-
mously. One of the issues voted on
was whether bonds in the sum of
$151,000 should be issued for the con-
struction of bridges and a roadway
from Stock Island (immediately ad-
jacent to Key West) to Saddle Bunch-
es, on the mainland journey, while
the other was for roads and the nec-
essary bridges at Key Largo and the
upper Florida Keys, calling for an ex-
_ penditure of $149,000, the total bond
issue being for $300,000.
Part of the route will lie in Dade
county, of which Miami is the princi-
pal centre of population. Announce-
ment is made that this country will
spend $100,000 in the construction of
a road to connect with the Key Lar- !
go road. It will be built under the ;
supervision of J. D. Read, and will |
join the road from Key Largo (on the
way to Key West), which will have a
viaduct connecting with the mainland.
The Florida mainland-Key West
auto road will form an extension of
the Dixie Highway leading from .
Waycross, Georgia, down the East !
coast of Florida through Jacksonville,
St. Augustine, Ormond, West Beach !
and Miami to Royal Palm State Park,
a distance of 519 miles. With com-
pletion through to Kew West the dis- |
tance from Waycross to Key West
will be 637 miles, or 1723 miles by au- |
to road from New York to Key West.
Weather Profit Says Winter Will be
Only “Ordinary” One. !
' William O. Altman, who has the na-
tion wondering how he can so accu-
| six months.
resistance. It is his medicine and he
takes it. He says that he and wife
get along splendidly together. Wheth:
er the lady ever gets spanked or not
the husband does not say. But he
does assert that the wife who spares
the rod may spoil the husband. If ali
husbands lined up for a spanking
whenever they stayed out after mid-
night or lost $4 at poker it would he
better all around. The husband would
prefer the strap to a tongue lashing
and the wife would feel better for the
physical exertion.
When wives get together for gossip
it would be proud matter for converse
when one could boast that she had not
had occasion to spank her husband for
Also it would be easier
for husbands to avoid the temptations
of bootleggers and other vicious per-
sons if they would take no chances of
being spanked by an irate wife.
CUSHIONS POOR TRAIN GUIDE
Man Finds It Hard to Explain After
Wife Has to Wait an
Hour. ;
The other evening a man and his
wife arrived from Albany by a day-
line steamer and as his destination
was Connecticut way he took a taxi to
the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street station, tells the New York Sun
and Globe. At that hour traffic over
the rails is heavy and a megaphoned
announcer calls out the trains as they
arrive,
| The man paid little attention to him
as train after train pulled in despite
his wife’s nervous questionings. “It’s
all right.” he said. *T'll know when our
train arrives. The upholstery of the
seats on the New Haven trains is dif-
ferent from that on the Central.”
The time passed and more trains.
Then the man himself began to get a
bit impatient. He went up to the an.
nouncer. “Your train.” said he, “came
in and pulled out five minutes ago
The next is in an hour.”
1
The following 60 minutes were spent
by the man in explaining to his wife
how things had changed in the running
of the roads since he had been there
before,
His Day to Celebrate.
Ephraim had put on a clean collar
and his best coat, and was walking
majestically up and down the street.
“Aren't you working today, Eph
raim?’ asked one of his acquaint
, unces,
! “No, suh. TI'se celebratin’ my goiden
weddin’, suh.”
“You were married fifty years age
today?”
“Yes. suh.”
“Well, why isn’t your wife helping
you to celebrate it?"
“My present wife, sub,” replied
Ephraim with dignity, “ain't got
nothin’ to do with it. She's de fo'th”
They Don’t Do It.
A furrier was selling a coat to a
lady customer.
+ “Yes, ma'am,” he said, “I guarantee
this 10 he genuine skunk fur that will
wear for years.”
“But suppose 1 get it wet In the
rain,” asked the lady, “what effect wil’
water have on it? Won't it spoil?”
“Madam,” answered the furrier, *1
have only one answer. Did you ever
hear of a skunk carrying an um-
, brella?”
rately forecast the winter months in |
advance, last week left his summer
' home in Kane, McKean county, north- |
. western Pennsylvania, for his cabin
in the wild woods near Westline, six-
teen miles from Kane, where he will
spend the winter.
er and trapper and has learned much
of his weather lore from close atten-
tion to the habits of the wild crea-
tures in the forest. He is also an in-
ventor of various clever devices for
making housework easier, his latest
being a pulley clothesline which will
ung to dry in a very restricted place.
Altman, who has attracted the at-
tention of the United States weather
bureau by the uncanny accuracy of
his predictions, says that we are to
have an “ordinary” winter, without
extreme cold or deep snows. The pre-
vailing winds this winter, he says,
will be from the south and southwest.
—Exchange.
Sr —————— pp rs as ness
Six Silver Foxes Bring $6,000.
Vancouver, Wash.—Three pairs of
silver foxes, raised on a local farm,
brought $6,000 from local purchosers.
e foxes were raised by Dr. R. J.
Mercer, of Vancouver, who has a ranch
district. The three pairs of young
foxes were bought by W. J. Knapp,
Braley & Kusick and Joseph Carter,
all business men. Dr. Mercer is
breeding the foxes on a commercial
scale and has had good success so far.
The three pairs he sold were of extra
good breed, he said.
~ Aside from being a premier weath- |
er prophet, Altman is a skilled hunt-
rmit a large family washing to be !
near the city limits in the Heights |
She Knew His Line.
“Mister Ticket Agent, Ah wan’s to
git a ticket for Florence,” said the
dusky colored woman as she stood at
the ticket window in the railroad
station.
i “There's no Florence on our line.
madam,” snapped the smart Alec
ticket agent.
“Well, fer the law sakes alive. Mis-
ter; there's Florence a-settin’ right
over there in that corner. You gimme
1 ticket.”
The Tragedy.
“Yes, Jones and his wife have sep
‘rated, and all on account of a dream.”
“What! Are they that supersti-
ious?”
“I dunno about they: but she is.
Jones called ‘Mabel, Mahe!!" a couple
of times in his sleep one night and
his wife was awake.”
“But what about the dream?”
“That's it; he was dreaming he
«ns in Chicago, and his wife's name is
Lucy.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch.
i No More Hunting.
A young Swede appeared ar the
| county judge's office and asked for a
Heense,
“What kind of a licence?"
the judge. “A hunting license?”
“No,” was the answer. "Aye tan“:
ave bane hunting long enough. Aye
want merriage license.”
asked
downward to the bed and lashed him |
CA
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
—French.
The return of lingerie neckwear is
another means of pleasing change, as
many will agree who know the value
of a touch of white about the face.
This new neckwear is developed in
lace, net and organdie, with the last
named as first choice, in the opinion
of the French, and in all styles of
neckwear both white and ecru are
found.
Hats large as well as small are in
vogue for the youthful, but unlike
girls of the past, who adored the large
hat with floppy or smartly upturning
brim, the present generation seems to
prefer a small, close-fitting hat. This
choice is undoubtedly influenced by
the fact that bobbed hair has taken
the place of grandmother’s luxuriant
abundance of curls or braids, of the
later upholstered hair arrangement.
In dresses for the youthful there is
a general and decided tendency to les-
sen the waistline length. Not by any
means does this mean that dresses
with natural waistline lacement are
seen except in rare instances, but that
the extremely long waistline .is slow-
ly giving way to a less exaggerated
length, in some cases a line not more
than two inches below the normal
waistline.
This change of the waistline place-
ment brings still another change,
which is no other than a tendency to
fit the bodice section more closely,
showing the figure more definitely,
and this in turn means a greater need
for careful corseting and the wearing
of a brassiere or a bandeau to hold
the figure trimly.
Nothing, surely, could be more wel-
come than a return to correct corset-
ing of the figure, be it slim or plump;
for we have certainly had sufficient of
the unsightliness of the uncorseted
figure, in young and old alike; and,
quite aside from the appearance of
the thing, I am convinced with rea-
son, and with facts to back up my
opinion, that the habit of going with-
out proper support for the body is in-
jurious to the health and future well-
being of girls and women generally.
You will note, too, that wrist-
length sleeves are a distinguishing
feature of fall styles in dress for gen-
eral wear, and here again there is rea-
son to applaud the new fashions; for
surely we have had enough of uncov-
ered arms, most of them having no
claim for their nudity save the much
abused excuse that it is the fashion.
Many and colorful are the new rib-
bons for wrist watches, which may
be purchased by the yard or in cut
lengths to fit the wrist. At present
the most favored are the combinations
of plaid and metal, either of silver or
of gold. Shaded grosgrain ribbons
and hand-blocked ribbons are also in
with the costume colors.
i Deep ‘bands, made of alternate
| strips of hemstitched bias double fold
(in delicate colors and nainsook gown
' materials, are used for the large arm-
i hole trimming and yoke of some re-
i cently designed nightgowns.
|
An attractive headdress is formed
with an oriental ornament in the cen-
ter of the forehead. From this three
narrow velvet ribbons spread out from
each side of the ornament, encircling
the head and tying in numerous tiny
bustle bows at the center back.
Be sure that the material of your
new clothes is soft. Don’t indulge in
fabric that has stiffness. The new
cloths for tailored frocks and suits
are as pliable as velvet. America has
produced some weaves of high merit,
wearable and not so expensive as the
French ones. Until the use of crino-
line becomes an established fashion,
thing quite harmless. The woman
with hips can feel that some one has
taken care of her in advocating it;
the woman who has the dimensions of
an eel will show herself off to an ad-
miring public in this latest silhouette.
So every one should go home happy
from a day of shopping. :
It is difficult to outline the various
methods which give to a sheath frock
sufficient width for easy walking, The
is the most frequent trick. Once it
went around the skirt; now it stops
short of the back.
The bustle bow, the ornate stream-
ers, that recently made their resting
place on the back of a frock, have
vanished. A small leather belt pass-
es around the hips on frocks of cloth
for the street, but this is the only
thing that has the temerity to leave
the front. Itis a singular fashion,
but it is prevalent and powerful.
By skillful cooking it is often possi-
ble to change the flavor of a vegeta-
ble in the kitchen so that it is not rec-
ognizable in the dining-room.
French-fried onions are delicious.
Large firm onions are needed. They
should be cut in fairly thin slices and
then the sections in the slices pulled
apart so that each piece is a string
about three inches long. These should
be dipped in egg white diluted with a
little water, and then in dry cracker
crumbs, and fried in hot fat and
drained. They seem like some deli-
cious new vegetable, though they re-
tain the onion flavor.
Cauliflower can be cooked in much
the same manner. First the raw cau-
liflower is pulled apart so as to make
separate flowers an inch or so across.
These are boiled until almost done,
then drained, seasoned, dipped into
egg and crumbs, and then fried in
deep fat. Celery tips can be dipped
in an unsweetened batter and then
fried in deep fat. Cucumbers can be
French fried in the same manner as
the cauliflower, only that they need
no previous parboiling.
A variation on ordinary cooked cab-
hage is made by chopping the cab-
bore fine and then putting into rap-
idl>- hoiling, slightly salted water. It
will cook in a quarter of an hour this
way. It should be drained and sea-
soned with a little pepper and butter
and more -alt if necessary. The wa-
ter in which it is cooked may be used
for vegetable soup.
Carrots are delicious when prepar-
ed like candied sweet potatoes.
evidence, chosen usually to harmonize
if it ever does, these fabrics will con-
vert the circular movement into some-
circular flounce placed at the knees
FARM NOTES.
—Initiate your scrub bull into that
fraternity whose emblem is the meat
axe and cleaver.
—New born lambs, pigs and calves
are only babies after all and need ex-
tra coddling to prevent chills and sub-
sequent losses.
—When the pullets are put into
their winter quarters, they should be
grouped according to their maturity
and ability to produce. Then each
group can be cared for according to
their special needs and requirements.
Preserving Eggs.—Mix one quart
of water-glass with nine quarts of
clean water. Place the eggs in a jar
and cover with the solution so that
the top row is covered about two
inches. These eggs may be used for
anything but poaching.
—Crude oil or waste oil from en-
gines are satisfactory for killing lice
on hogs. Apply with a sprinkling
can, brush, cloth, or with the aid of a
rubbing post. A standard two per
cent. coal tar dip in water is also ef-
fective. It should be repeated in ten
days.
—Where manure - must be stored,
acid phosphate added at the rate of
30 to 50 pounds per ton of manure is
satisfactory. Another method is to
add one or two pounds per head of
stock daily. Scatter the preservative
in the stable after cleaning or on each
day's manure, before or after remov-
ing from the stable.
—Before the snow flies the good
gardener, whether operating a home
garden or a commercial enterprise,
| will gather up all the refuse and de-
Stroy it. He will also have the frame
part of the hotbed or cold frame re-
paired and the glass stored so that
everything will be in readiness for
early spring operations.
—Leave the calf with the cow for
one or two days and then take it
away and feed from eight to ten
pounds of warm milk per day for
about two weeks. Then start substi-
tuting a little skim milk, increasing
gradually until at six weeks of age,
the calf will be on skim milk entirely.
From 12 to 16 pounds make a good
daily feed. Be sure to keep the pails
clean and feed regularly.
—Winter cabbage is now being cut
and put on the market. The price is
from one and one-half to two cents a
pound from the grower. If you have
a suitable place to store 50 or 100
pounds it is advisable to purchase
now. By December and January, the
retail price will be at least ten cents
a pound. Cabbage requires a cool,
slightly moist place. An unheated
cellar is satisfactory. Beets, turnips
and carrots may also be placed in a
cool cellar and covered lightly with
moist soil.
—A simple seed tester can be made
at home in a few minutes. Take a
dinner plate and cut a piece of blot-
ting paper or other thick, soft paper
without printing on it, to fit into the
plate. Cut another the same size to
cover over the first one. Pour on
enough water to wet both papers.
Take from ten to fifty seeds and place
them between the paper. Keep the
plate in ordinary room temperature
and the papers moist.
Some seeds will begin to sprout in
a day or two; others will take longer.
If the first lot does not sprout try
another lot. If you cannot make the
seed sprout in this way it will not
sprout in the ground, and you must
get another supply. With most seeds
at least three-quarters of them ought
to germinate.
For larger testings a pan or tray
may be used. Small lots of the larg-
er seeds, like corn and beans, may be
sprouted in the tester for planting in
the garden to save time. Some States
have a pure-seed law, which protects
the gardener; but try to purchase
seeds of a reliable seedsman,
—A new feature of the State Farm
Products Show at Harrisburg on Jan-
uary 22 to 26 will be the first annual
poultry show which will be staged by
the Pennsylvania State Poultry Asso-
ciation. In previous years, only a
single variety of birds were given
space, but the plans this year call for
. the entire first floor of the Emerson
Brantingham building to be given over
to the exhibit of the thirty most com-
mon varieties of fowls.
The judges of the show will be J.
H. Drevenstedt, Newton Cosh, and J.
Harry Wolsieffer, all nationally known
men in the poultry game. The entries
for the show will close on January
first and premium lists and entry
blanks can be secured from J. M. Mec-
Kee, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
at Harrisburg, or from H. D. Munroe,
of State College, who is secretary of
the poultry show.
In addition to the usual egg show,
the poultry exhibit will include; five
. varieties of Plymouth Rocks, four of
! Wyandottes, seven of Leghorns, three
"of Orphington’s, two of Anconas,
Rhode Island Reds, Rhode Island
White, Light Brahmas, Black Lang-
shaws, S. C. Black Minorcas, Blue
' Andalusians and Dark Cornish.
—Tests that are expected to show
that Pennsylvania grown wheats are
the best for quality bread making
purposes are being completed by mill-
ing engineers and agronomists at The
Pennsylvania State College. Data on
the experiments conducted with all of
the better known varieties of wheat
growing in this State will be availa-
ble in the near future, Piofessor B.
W. Dedrick, of the milling engineer-
ing department of the college, is su-
pervising the tests which are run in
co-operation with the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
“It is wrong to consider Penn-yl-
vania winter wheat flour as a strict-
ly pastry flour,” says Professor Ded-
rick. “To the contrary, it makes a
better flavored bread than spring
wheat, the loaf is lighter, more flaky
and therefore larger in volume in
comparison to weight.”
Early indications in the tests show
that “Red Rock” and “Pennsylvania
44,” the latter a variety of wheat de-
veloped at State Colles and now
grown on thousands of Penncylvania
acres, are the outstanding wheats
grown in the State with respect to
| Dillia and baking nualities. Many
bread bakers and St~te institutions in
Pennsylvania have already started to
use Pennsylvania wheat flours exelu-
sively on the strength of these and
previous tests.