Bellefonte, Pa., September 25, 1925. ——————————————— FARM NOTES. : —Surplus vegetables can be cann easily. They will be an appetizing ad- dition to the menu during the winter months. —Spring is usually the time to plant forest trees. Fall and winter are the seasons for thinning young stands. Plan now for both of these pieces of work that will make the wood-lot a paying proposition. —Four year courses are given in the school of agriculture at The Penn- sylvania State College in agronomy, animal husbandry, horticulture, land- scape architecture, botany, farm for- estry, poultry husbandry, agricultur- al economics. There is also a two- year course in agriculture. —Have you inspected your fruit picking and fruit packing equipment ? It is very important that everything be in tip-top shape when the fruit is ripe. See that you have a good sup- ply of packages for packing the fall and winter fruit. A good grading and packing table will save labor and will result in better product. —Hog comfort is essential for greatest pork profit. Where practic- al, hogs should be given a clean, san- itary wallow to keep them cool dur- ing the hot part of the summer. They should have plenty of cool, fresh wa- ter before them at all times as a large part of the grain is built up from the water they consume. Shade should also be provided. —The unusual cock bird that is kept over for the next breeding sea- son should be taken from the laying flock, and either put in a pen with the growing cockerels or confined by him- self in a small inclosure. The pen may be made of wire and so construct- ed that it can be moved around from place to place. This will keep the pas- ture in good shape, and the male will be content throughout the summer. A few boards over the top of the roost- ing pole will furnish adequate protec- tion from the weather. —Buy Eggs Now for Winter Use, Local Housewives Urged.—Eggs bought now and preserved for winter use means approximately a five dollar saving on this one item of food alone to every family in Centre county, ac- cording to the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. This statement is based on figures showing that the price of eggs is generally twice as high from No- | vember to February as it is in June. The practice of putting away eggs | for winter not only bespeaks economy | but should also induce a greater con- | sumption of this almost ideal food, | states the Institute in explaining the preservation process. lon stone or earthenware crocks, ca- pable of holding twenty dozen eggs, Two four-gal- will be found sufficient for the aver- age family. They should be first! cleaned and scalded with boiling wa- ter. The eggs are then placed sma!! end down and a cooled solution oy! water glass (sodium silicate), one | quart to nine quarts of water that has been boiled and thoroughly ‘cooled, is poured over the eggs to close up the pores in ; liquids from evaporating. The top- most layer of eggs should be kept cov- ered with a solution to a depth of at least two inches at all times. The crocks are then placed in a cool dry place after being tightly covered with waxed paper to prevent the evapora- tion of the solution. ] ; Eggs preserved in this fashion can be kept in perfect condition from six to ten months and used for every pur- pose, according to the Institute. They will appear more watery when broken out of the shell, but the flavor and nu- tritive qualities will be very satisfac- tory. When the eggs taken from the crocks are to be boiled, a small hole should be made in the shell with a pin at the large end of the egg before placing it in the water. This permits the air in the egg to escape and will. prevent it from cracking. — Cows properly fed will not show a decline in their milk flow in sum- mer, according to a statement of Prof. A. O. Reed before the Radio Farm School of the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. While hot weather and flies are a great discomfort to the animals, they practically have no effect on the quantity or quality of milk they pro- duce. “If cows show a tendency to lessen their volume of milk in hot weather, it is almost certain that they do not get enough of or the right kind of food. In hot weather the grass ‘dries up’ with the result that the cows do not consume all the succulent, palata- ble food that they require. whose milk production has dropped are almost hopeless so far as bring- ing tnem back to normal is concerned, and it is therefore important that the dairyman make every effort, through good care and management, to keep it up. Fhe farmer who has silage on hand can readily check or prevent the de- cline in the volume of milk by feed- ing them silage with a small amount of grain. If he has sweet clover available as pasture, he can easily provide an abundant and palatable ra- tion. ‘The same is true of alfalfa and green corn. In each of these instanc- es but little grain is needed except in the case of cows giving more than the average flow of milk. Where these feeds are mot available, however, enough grain and dry roughage should be introduced to supply the necessary nutrients the cows being fed just enough grain to keep up their produc- tion to a profitable point.” Lack of sufficient feed or the right kind of feed is responsible for the low average milk and butterfat produc- tion per cow in the United State, ac- cording to Prof. Reed. In fact, he says, the average cow suffers more from the lack of feed in summer than during the winter feeding, for while feed is provided for the herd after the grazing season is over, the cows are expected to get what they can from the pasture that is available. An abundance of palatable food at all times is the first rule of the success- ful cowman. the shell to prevent the egg | Cows Teo Many Words Are Given New Meanings One wonders where language will bring up one of these days. Every new dictionary is thicker than the last. Is it that there are too many new words, or is it that people are using words in so many various ways that note has to be taken of all of them? There are a few newspapers that are still sticklers for the use of words. One of them, for instance, will not permit any- of its writers to use the word “secure” for “obtain,” The news- paper is right and yet it seems to be dipping back the sea with a teaspoon as against the flood of use. More people, more newspapers appear to be using “secure” where they mean “ob- tain” than otherwise. The lexicon makers have surrendered to use and they have listed “secure” as meaning “gbtain.® So It goes, many more words are being used in their figura- tive sense until the usage becomes matter of fact. So one may ask, where Is our lan- guage tendency finally to bring up? The final effect may be that we shall cultivate the use of so many words and - cultivate some of them so far from their original meaning that ob- scurity rather than clarity will result. —Lansing State Journal. “Rocking Stones” Are Credited to Glaciers How did the Bowder stone in Bor- rowdale get to its present position? How did the many “perched bowlders” and “rocking stones” hundreds of tons in weight, yet poised so lightly that a human hand can move them, get into these peculiar positions? They were gently deposited by melting ice, as gently as ever mother laid her baby to rest in its cradle. For ice is the king of dumpers, and the former presence of glaciers ac- counts for all the erratic bowlders in the world, says London Answers. Some of these curious rocks are of tremendous size. The biggest in Eng- land is the Bowder stone, but there is one in Switzerland, far away from any present-day glacier, which weighs 8,000 tons and contains 45,000 cubic feet of rock. : And visitors to the Alps can see the same processes at work today, as huge rocks, which no traction engine could haul, are borne along very slowly but nevertheless very surely on the sur- face of the glaciers. Removing Temptation A friend tells me that he attended church the other night where the pas- tor delivered an interesting lecture which was illustrated by stereopticon slides in the darkened auditorium. At ; a certain point in the lecture the col- lectors received the offering, the room | still remaining quite dark. The nar- rator says when the collection plate reached him—after having been hand- ed along by fifty or sixty persons—it had only about 19 cents in it, and he held back the silver dollar which he had expected to give and fished out a nickel for the plate. He said: “If forty or fifty folks, after listening to that splendid lecture, couldn’t contrib- ute more than 15 or 20 cents, my sil- ! ver dollar might tempt some one to steal it from the plate, so I chipped fn a nickel and played safe.”—Polf Daniels in Howard Courant. | Introduction of Straw Hats The recent heat introduces the sub- ject of straw hats and straw-hat stories. In 1796 a chancellor of the exchequer imposed a duty on hats.: All headgear made eof “felt or wool or beaver or any leather or japanned hats,” came within the scope of the tax. But an Edinburgh merchant, astute enough to observe that straw was not included in the legal enumer- ation of materials used, introduced straw hats to Scotland for the first time, early in the summer of 1798. Unfortunately for the enterprising hat- ter, an amendment to the act, within a few weeks, rendered the popular tdx-evading novelty liable to payment. The act, which remained in force until 1811, allowed exemption to nightcaps. | Beat Everything in Sight Here is a good one about a little lad who was given his first watch the other day as a gift on his ninth birth- day. His aunt tells the story. “Although he seemed pleased,” she | sald, “when he first opened the box his enthusiasm was quite restrained. But he dashed Into the house on his | _ return from school that day, and ex- claimed jubilantly. : “‘My, but I've got a dandy watch! “Pm glad you lke it’ said hls mother, duly pleased at his pleasure. “ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘It's half an hour ahead of Jim's watch, and it's a whole hour ahead of the clock in the drug store! Gee, it beats them alll’ "—8t. Paul Dispatch. Wax Effigies of the Dead It was once the curious custom in England to carry wax effigies of the dead—if they were distinguished enough—in their funeral processions, 1¢ was also customary to leave the effigies near the grave for some time lin the United States. Pumpkins and Squashes are Easily Stored. : Exhibits of pumpkins and squashes at Pennsylvania county fairs and com- munity farm product shows indicate that the crop this year is fine and there is a large variety from which to choose. In a few weeks the squash and pumpkin harvest will be here and each family, in city, town or village should lay away a supply for winter use. The method of storing is so sim- ple that each family can provide the necessary pumpkins for winter use. ‘Here are a few things to keep in mind in holding squashes and pump- kins for winter use. First select ma- ture and well ripened specimens. Im- mature and partially grown specimens will decay. Never store a bruised specimen or one that has been rough- ly handled. Second, store in a warm, dry place. Living room temperature is fine, or a little below 60 to 70 de- grees. The boiler cellar is a good place or any other room that is heat- ed will do. Bees Demand Comfort and Feed in Winter. Honey bees in Centre county prefer cozy homes and plenty of food during their long winter months. From the middle of September until the first of november, depending upon the locali- ty, is the time to prepare them for their long winter rest, according to G. H. Rea, bee extension specialist of State College. This should be done with several thoughts in mind. Bees need food, and the quantity is as im- portant a point to be observed. They also must be properly insulated from freezing. Every colony should have 45 to 60 pounds of honey and if possible they should be in a two story hive. It has been demonstrated that this amount | of food and room is necessary in or- der to give opportunity to build a large colony for honey production in the early part of the honey flow next season. It has also been found that the apiary should be located where it is well protected from the prevailing winds. Newspaper Advertising. Newspaper advertising is the most effective method of reaching the larg- est number of people in the shortest space of time and for the least amount of money, according to Sir Charles Higham, well known English adver- tising expert, in a recent treatise on advertising in general. Newspapers are never likely to be displaced as ad- vertising media, he says, because of their wide distribution and the differ- ! ent varieties of people who read them. For the quick distribution of informa- tion, for an appeal to the millions, for the marketing of national commodi- ties, no medium is as valuable as the newspaper, he declared.—Ex. - —Pennsylvania leads in the num- ber of bull associations, 39 in all. Among these is the largest Holstein bull association in the world and the first Ayrshire association organized The State also has the only Shorthorn association and the only active Brown Swiss as- sociation. ee ans Why Horses Eat Bark. The bureau of animal industry says that the habit that horses have of eat- ing the bark from trees is probably due to the fact that the diet of the [3 horse does not contain enough miner- al matter such as salt. If this is the cause, the animals should be given |i this substance frequently. This habit may also be due to the condition of I= the teeth. MEDICAL. Get Rid of that Backache |E Bellefonte People Point the Way. The constant aching of a bad back, The weariness, the tired feeling; Headaches, dizziness, nervousness, _ Distressing urinary disorders— Are often signs of failing kidneys And too serious to be neglected. Get rid of these troubles! Use Doan’s Pills—stimulant diu- retic to the kidneys. . Hosts of people recommend Doan’s. This is a Bellefonte case. You can verify it. Samuel Weaver, S. Water St., says: “My kidneys acted irregularly and I almost got down with backache. Mornings I felt so lame and stiff, I could hardly bend to put on my shoes. After using Doan’s Pills, from Run- kle’s drug store, I was benefitted in every way.” (Statement given April 5, 1922.) On July 22, 1925, Mr. Weaver said: “Time hasn’t shaken my faith in Doan’s Pills. This confirms my state- ment of 1922.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Pills—the same that Mr. Weaver had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Se 2 7 A ire ow Fre Tee eer Jo WELL ==An NR Tablet (a vegetable aperient) taken at night will help keep you well, by toning and strengthening your di- TE a fr 77077 2 72 TBR 3 R TABLETS Na SALA itozs, VAY, Chi the Old Block NR JUNIORS~Little NRs i EE en ts c ‘8 ic Por Pehildren ov adults, : SOLD BY YOUR DRUGGIST C. M. PARRISH BELLEFONTE, PA. SCIENCE SAYS Tuberculosis Must. Go ome Months Ago we Distributed a Pamphlet entitled “The Cow the Mother of Prosperity.” It con- tained information of great value to those en- gaged in the business of producing milk. We now are giving away another pamphlet called “ Tuberculosis Must Go,” containing full directions as to the proper care of stock and poultry. It will prove of value to those engaged in dairy- ing or poultry or stock raising. We Shall be Glad to Send Copies, on Request The First National Bank BELLEFONTE, PA. thereafter, and the mourning friends of E& the deceased used to compose elegies, rhymed laments and similar produc i = tions, which they would write out on paper and pin to the clothing of the effigy. A number of the quaint old [Uc effigies are still preserved at West ff minster abbey, where they are stored in the Islip chapel, and one at least that of Frances, duchess of Richmond is still to be seen beside her grave ir Henry V1i's chapel—Family Herald R. J. GREEN, Licensed C. 0. Radio Sale & Supply Co. Authorized Radiocla Distributors ~ BELLEFONTE, PA. 70-38 | § The Greatest, Assortment, of Suits and Overcoats All-Wool Suit with 2 pairs Pants at $25.00, that are full Ten Dollars ever shown in Central Pennsylvania. under price. Others at $30, $35, $40, that are by far the Best Clothes Ever Shown. Over-Coats at $20 and $25 that will surprise you. LET US SHOW YOU. A. Fauble Lyon & Co. 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