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HOW WE TREAT OUR
ARMY HORSES.
Few people know that army horses
—and mules, of course—are the best
cared for of their kind. The army
now has its own breeding stations
where the horse is in a fair way to be
born right.
The very great majority of army
horses, of course, are bought by the
‘ government. They almost at ence up-
-on entering the service find their per-
~ manent home. A horse is to
a soldier and every effort is made to
make that association permanent.
Only soldiers know how lasting and
dear these relations become between
the soldier and horse. The soldier
comes to his horse the first thing in
the morning, waters him, feeds him,
and then gets his own breakfast.
The morning drill furnishes the
horse with the exercise necessary to
his good health, usually about two
hours in length, always under control.
Abuse is unknown. Heavy punish-
ment would follow any infraction of
the regulations in regard to this.
After the morning drill the soldier
grooms his horze thoroughly, always
under supervision of an officer, and
that job is not done till all dirt is re-
moved, coat well brushed and shining,
feet cleaned, eyes and nose and dock
attended to, mane and tail brushed.
Then the army horse has a drink, per-
sonally . given to him by his master.
He can then lie down and roll. - Soon
he gets his lunch, after which his mas-
ter takes his noon meal. Usually in
the afternoon the army horse rests
while his master works. :
About four o’clock the soldier comes
down to the corral ‘and ties up his
horse preparatory to feeding him
again. After this the soldier gets his
supper. The horse then is ordinarily
left to himself, with plenty of hay, for
the night. And he gets a ration of
twelve pounds of oats or its equivalent
and fourteen pounds of hay per day.
The soldier loves his horse. The
horse is his first care and duty. The
horse always comes first. :
During his whole service the army
horse has first class veterinary atten-
tion. He is inspected every day by
several non-commissioned officers and
at least one commissioned officer. His
food, too, is inspected, as well as hig
living quarters.
My own personal horse and I have
an acquaintance dating back seven
years, five of which I have owned
“Koon.” We get along better every
day. We have served together on the
east coast, on the west coast, on the
Mexican border and in Hawaii. Koon
will likely never have another owner.
There is no better cared-for horse
in the world than an American army
Borge Casta G. A. Moore, Cavalry,
Predicts Airplane Speed of 1,200
. Miles an Hour.
Flights between Europe and Ameri-
ca in two hours at an altitude of 10
miles with 2,000 horsepower motors
are forecast by S. Lindequist, a well
known Swedish airplane constructor,
in a statement published by a leading
Stockholm paper.
One of the great aims in aviation in
the immediate future should be to cut |
down the flying time between conti-
nents, says Mr. Lindequist, and this
probably can be done by flying at ex-
tremely high altitudes. The effect of
gravitation decreases with the in-
crease in altitude, and it has been es-
timated, he says, that a plane which
has a speed of 100 miles an hour near
the surface of the earth can attain a
speed of 1,200 miles an hour at an al-
titude of about 10 miles.
At such a height the rarity of the
atmosphere would constitute a disad-
vantage both to the ordinary motor
and to the ordinary propeller. But
this difficulty can be overcome, de-
clares Mr. Lindequist, by using a pro-
peller with adjustable blades, so that
the pitch of the blades could be alter-
ed with the density of the air, and by
using special compressors for the mo-
tor which would compensate for the
decrease in barometric pressure at
high altitudes. Such a motor would
probably have to develop about 2,000
horse-power. Mr. Lindequist declares
that the problems of the adjustable
propeller and areal compression mo-
tor can be solved.
Srp pss fp fists
Help at Hand.
Gerald had just bought a car, and
he was taking the girl of his heart for
a spin.
Proud of being able to turn a cor-
ner without seriously ' damaging the
hedges, he was letting the car out a
bit. Up hill and down dale they tore
at a gallant pace.
“Oh, Gerald, isn’t it lovely?” said
the girl, as they topped a hill and be-
hind the country spread out far below
them. :
But she got no answer, for they
were already dashing downward like
the stick of a rocket. Gerald, with a
moist forehead and bulging eyes,
shouted in her ear:
“The brakes have given way.”
“Oh, Gerald, how awful!” shrieved
the girl. “Can’t you stop it? I'd give
all the money in the world to get
out!”
“Don’t part with a penny!” gasped
Gerald, who was of Scotch descent.
“We’ll both get out for nothing when
the car hits that gate down there!”—
Edinburg Scotsman.
——Pnecumonia promises to be de-
rived of its annual toll of 45,000
ives by the serum developed by Dr.
Lloyd B. Feldon, of the Harvard Med-
ical School. The substance is a white
powder or antibody against pneumo-
nia. It was discovered after five years
of work following the influenza epi-
demic of 1918.
Not Categorical Enough.
How dare you, with your scandal-
ous past, propose to me? It wouldn’t
take much for me to throw you down-
stairs and turn the dogs on you!
Am I to take that as a refusal
then ?—Lemberg Szczutek. |
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Only love makes live.
Oh, why was woman made so fair.
: —J. P. Bailey.
Although she has no intention of
wearing them for six or eight weeks
yet, milady is intensely interested in
furs. Perhaps this is because there
are so many strange species this sea-
son that it will take her so long to get
acquainted. Saas AA :
Who would think, for instance,
when she sees the lowly little chip-
munk scampering along the top of a
rail fence on some hillside farm that
it would shortly become known as the
fashionable “baron-duki” which is
used either as a trimming or as whole
wraps? This is its Russian name and
it made its debut in society rather late
last season. We saw little of it at
that time with the exception of a
jacquette or two on display for intro-
duction purposes. This season, how-
ever, it is a topnotcher as far as
trimming is concerned, and if the fur-
rier is daring enough he uses it for
the whole garment.
Even tinier and even more disguis-
ed is the frisky little dormouse, which
is now known by the French name of
“loir.,” This is also used mostly as a
trimming and masquerades in compa-
{ny which the dormouse of Alice in
Wonderland would cousider very aris-
tocratic indeed.
And as for the humble rabbit, who
could ever hope to recognize it under
the various aliases? Clipped rabbit is
well liked by many French houses and
os often used for full-length coats.
One of the most amazing things in
furdom is the vogue of the pelts from
the under side of rabbits. This belly
fur, once discarded or used only for
linings, is now considered very smart,
especially for the new tuxedo models.
Its rather uneven surface and its
varying color is played up until we
have come to look upon its disadvan-
tages as a decided advantage.
Leopard, which leaped to popularity
last season, is still a leader. It is
perhaps the favorite for the younger
set when it comes to coats. There is
a dash and individuality about it
which suits them exactly. And moth-
er likes it quite as much for collars
and cuffs either on her cloth coat or
her smart ensemble suit. It is ultra
smart with seal. There is a noticea-
ble liking this season for plaid effects
in furs, accomplished by working the
same pelts in different ways. More
sensational than this is the plaids
wrought by totaly different kinds of
fur. This latter will be a bit extreme
for the average wearer, but it is very
striking and very smart.
Hudson seal, which never has and
probably never will have to take a
second place for anything when it
comes to general utility wear, is still
one of the best pelts a woman can
choose when she is to have but one
fur garment. It is always in good
taste, always distinguished and al-
ways smart. Skunk is still liked as a
trimming for the dowager type of
person, while gray squirrel imparts a
youthful touch.
Alaska seal, which has been stead-
ily gaining in favor for the past few
seasons, is shown in a much lighter
weight than formerly and is well
liked by many who claim that no oth-
er fur ever has the sumptuousness of
genuine Alaska fur. It’s like the tra-
ditional black taffeta and diamond
eardrops of a past generation.
Among the aristocrats of the sea-
son we note the regal cape of ermine,
sometimes scalloped at the lower edge
and collar and drawn closely in about
the figure; queenly wraps of chinchil-
la; sable, worth a king’s ransom, and
mink with pelts so exquisitely match-
ed and worked that it is only a
thought behind sable itself.
As usual, there is a strong liking
for the brown tones in fur, strength-
ened by the smartness of sable and
mink. If you care for imitations, you
may have mar-mink, which is ex-
tremely inexpensive.
about raccoon and muskrat than usu-
al at the opening of the season. But
these pelts are able to stand such hard
wear that they will never be ousted
from favor. Russian pony and ga-
zelle, both new this year, are inexpen-
sive furs which are being pushed for-
ward for general wear, but it is doubt-
ful if they can replace muskrat or
raccoon, especially with the sports-
woman and the college girl.
Vaseline has quite a number of do-
mestic uses. When the brasses are
cleaned it is little extra work to rub
them over with vaseline and polish
with a soft duster; but this will save
much work ultimately, as, after this
treatment, they will not readily tar-
nish.
The charm of woman lies not in
beauty but individuality—if she could
but be brought to understand that
fact. It isn’t the details that count.
It is, as Trilby says, “the altogether”
—her carriage, her manner, her voice,
her expression; in short herself—that
makes or unmakes her charm.
It is the woman, then, who has the
courage to be herself who attracts.
Originals are much more desirable
than copies, no matter how accurate
the copy may be. If it be natural to
wear one’s hair in a careless fashion,
by all means do so—nature is never
mistaken.
But let the admiring sister whom
that same autocrat intended to be a
tailor-made girl beware of disorder;
in her it would cease to be artistic, it
would simply be untidy.
Let every woman dare to be herself,
develop her own individuality, not
blindly copy some other woman,
whom it may be, her husband hap-
pens to admire.
Let her think for herself, act for
herself, and express her own honest
opinion. Individuality when combined
with that nameless something called
manner is the most potent weapon in
the possession of the sex. It is this
which has given many a homely wom-
an a reputation for beauty which a
bona fide beauty with faultless face
and figure has sighed in vain to at-
tain.
Sponge Cake.—Beat two eggs with
a cupful of sugar. Add half a cup of
milk, one a of flour and a tea-
spoonful of baking powder sifted with
flour. Bake in a hot oven.
We hear less.
- FARM NOTES.
—Fowls often become partly
paralyzed, due to lack of exercise.
t these birds out of doors and scat-
for their scratch grain in a deep lit-
«Keep a close watch on your birds
for the appearance of lice and mites.
Lice can be controlled by using equal
parts of blue ointment and vaseline.
Rub a small quantity below each wing
and under the vent. Paint roosts with
-carbolingum to control mites.
—1Is your fruit picking and packing
equipment in shape to handle the
crop? With the shortage of labor,
good equipment is very necessary. Be
sure and have a good supply of boxes
on hand. Incidentally, don’t forget
the local market is the place to sell
your fruit.
—There is nothing’ that shows the.
benefits of tile drainage more than a
dry spell following a very wet spring.
Crops grown on poorly drained soils
do not develop a deep root system.
Crops grown on tile drained land send
their roots deep into the soil and
gather their moisture from sub-soil
when the rain fails.
' —If grain has not been fed while
the cows have been on pasture, start
now before they start to shrink in
milk production. After milk produc-
tion drops, it is impossible to bring it
back.
and oats are sufficient. If pasture is
poor, some protein feeds such as glu-
ten, cottonseed meal or linseed oil
meal should also be fed with the corn
and oats. Feed one pound of grain
to each five or six pounds of milk
daily.
—Hundreds of millions of dollars’
worth of feed is consumed annually
by our dairy cows. The net income is
large or small, according to the way
that feed is used. When production is
increased through feeding and breed-
ing, the income rapidly expands, yet
a few real scrubs on any dairy farm
will deflate the net income.
Farmers of the United States fur-
nish feed and care for 23,000,000 dairy
cows. Begause of low-producing cows
a large part of that feed is wasted.
Weighing out expensive feeds to a
low-producing® cow is like shoveling
costly coal into the fire box under a
leaky boiler; and the farmer who
keeps such cows seldom has to pay
any income tax.
Like a factory, the dairy cow trans-
forms raw materials—silage, hay, and
concentrates—into the finished pro-
duct, milk, In this way she furnishes
a market for the feeds. Whether that
market will be good or bad depends in
part upon the way the cow is fed, and
in part upon the cow herself.
There is no better way to market
the feeds grown on the farm than to
feed them to a herd of high-producing
dairy cows. The cow takes corn si-
lage, grain, and hay and converts
them into a product for which there
is always a ready sale.
It is much easier to send the milk
or cream to the creamery than to haul
the hay to town. In the long run it is
generally much more profitable, be-
cause it keeps the soil fertility at
home.
~In selling feeds to dairy cows the
farmer has a wide choice of markets
—bad, good, and very good. Few
men discriminate closely enough be-
tween ~ these markets. If a wheat
buyer offers 1 or 2 cents a bushel more
than other buyers he gets the wheat;
if a wool buyer offers half a cent a
pound more he gets the wool. But if
one cow returns $3 from a dollar’s
worth of feed and another only $2, it
is scarcely noticed. Here is a differ-
ence of a dollar in the income every
time each of these cows eats a dol-
lar’s worth of feed.
According to estimates of the Unit-
ed States Department of Agriculture,
the average dairy cow in the United
States produces annually about 4,600
pounds of milk and 160 pounds of but-
ter fat. According to 40,000 yearly
individual cow records recently tab-
ulated by the department, the average
cow-testing association cow produces
5,980 pounds of milk and 246 pounds
of butter fat a year. The world’s rec-
ords are 37,381.4 pounds of milk and
1,205.09 pounds of butter fat in a
year. There is plenty of room for im-
provement, it would seem, in the av-
erage production. 2
The keeping of individual cow rec-
ords is easy. To test a half dozen
samples of milk for butter fat re-
quires about half an hour. Weighing
the milk, estimating the weight of
roughage, and weighing the concen-
trates requires but little time. The
testing of a composite sample of each
cow’s milk from two consecutive milk-
ings once a month furnishes the fig-
ures from which the yearly production
records can be computed. Any man
competent to care for a dairy herd
can easily learn to make the butter
fat test and to keep feed and produc-
tion records.
There are several ways of improv-
ing a dairy herd. Elimination of low
producers increases average produc-
tion. It may decrease total produc-
tion, but usually increases net profit.
The experience of successful dairy-
men and of the Department of Agri-
culture has shown this. Better feed-
ing of the cows already on the farm
increases average and total produc-
tion, and may increase net profit. Use
of better sires increases average as
well as total production, and always
increases net profit, it has been found.
All dairy herd improvement due to
better breeding tends to increase prof-
it to the producer and decrease cost
to the consumer. It is one of the
ways by which the world may become
richer without decreasing the prosper-|
ity of any individual in it.
Well-formed, registered bulls from
proved sires and advanced-registry
dams are usually fit to head even high
producing dairy herds. When such
bulls have proved sons and advanced-
registry daughters, their value be-
comes exceedingly great because of
the certainty that they will transmit
in large measure to their offspring the
high-producing qualities of their an-
cestors. So far as possible only such
bulls should be chosen to head herds
of selected, high-producing, registered
dairy cattle. In ordinary dairy prac-
tice, however, the bull goes to the
block before the production records of
his daughters are available. In that
way many excellent bulls every year
are lost to the dairy business.
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Real Estate Transfers.
tract in College township; $2,800.
Michael Droschek fo Mark Clenors-
ki, tract in Rush township; $4,500.
Hester S. Christ to J. Earl McCord, |
tract in State College; $6,000.
J. D. Keller, et ux, to Francis J.
Fleming et ux, tract in State College;
$6,500. :
. Amelia C. Bowersox, et Yar to
Ame
lia C. Bowersox, et bar, tract in |
Millheim; $1.
N. E. Yearick, et ux, to Mrs. Clara
A. Beck, tract in Marion township;
$49.62.
Catherine N. Kemmerer, et bar, to
Clarence A. Saulters, et ux, tract in
College township; $1,000.
Jessie W. Ferguson, et bar, to Ann
Adelman, tract in Philipsburg; $6,000.
R. B. Harrison, et ux, to Rhoda M.
Hartson tract in Harris township;
Robert E. Williams, et al, to Anna
B. Williams, tract in Philipsburg;
$1,500.
Edward M. VanSant, et ux, to J. D.
Keller, tract in State College; $15,000.
Daniel B. Weaver to Harvey E.
Klinger, tract in Miles township;
$2,500.
J. W. Henszey, et ux, to Claude G.
Akers, tract in State College; $14,-
Joseph E. Witherite, et ux, to Un-
ionville Cemetery Association, tract in
Unionville; $100.
D. D. Ritter, et ux, to L. B. Cox,
tract in Howard township; $340.
Marriage Licenses.
John H. Dyke, Milesburg, and Ma-
ry A. Rote, Bellefonte. :
Charles H. Wagner, Bellefonte, and
Fae Kisling, Snow Shoe.
Aaron Kyler, Martha Furnace, and
Nora Rebecca Biddle, Bellefonte.
Clarence D. Blair, Tyrone, and Irene
P. Wagner, Bald Eagle.
Russell I. Lucas and Bernice Diehl,
Howard.
Chester Emel and Eleanor Bach-
man, Bellefonte.
Calvin F. Robb, Howard, and Ra-
chel M. Fultz, Axe Mann.
Ralph W. Sweeny, Potters Mills,
and Pearl E. Fishburn, Bellefonte.
Moses F. Cowley, State College,
and Ruby Hale White, Philipsburg.
Robert P. Clark and Bertha C.
Haverstine, Chester.
Roland W. McDowell, Woodland,
and Isabel E. Meader, Clearfield.
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Stude—Say waiter!
this bean soup ?
Waiter—The cook does sir.
Stude—Why, the bean in this soup
isn’t big enough to flavor it.
Waiter—It isn’t supposed to flavor
it, sir, It is just supposed to christen
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