Brwoniiaidn. Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1927. ca MYSELF AND L I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to know, I want to be able as the days go by Always to look myself in the eye. I don’t want to stand with the setting sun. : And hate myself for the things I've dob .' I want to go with my head erect I want to deserve all men’s respect But here in the struggle for fame and pelf, I want to able to like myself. I don’t want to look at myselfr and know That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show, I can never hide myself from me. I see what others may never see 1 know what others may never know I can never fool myself and so Whatever happens I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free. LEARN ABOUT WOMEN FROM ME. Sally Kennedy worked in laces, and Bella Grant worked in gloves. But don’t turn the page over! I promise not to limit myself to the purlieus of the poor. Almost any minute now ru bring in a millionaire. Yes, Sally and Bella worked for their living. Fancy! Amusing, what? Never went to Newport, and were ever so different from you who are reading this story. Except in one es- sential thing: like you, girls, they were hunting husbands. You see, the proper business of wo- man is marriage. What’s that you say? “Business” sin’t the proper word? All right, dance right back with me to Sally and Bella, adjust the ear-phones, and listen in. Learn about women from me. “When you looked at Bella, you knew that you were looking at the forty- ninth State in the Union, the State of Efficiency. From the back of her shingled blond head to the tops of her lizard-skin Perugia shoes, not for- getting the sheer silk stockings and the cunning little frock which hid the nu-form brassiere, she was one hun- dred percent lethal. For extra am- munition, for shooting on the wing, she carried, item, one pair fast black eyes; item, one fast red lips; item-- but this is no course in anatomy. ‘Across the aisle stands Sally, in laces. Sally wasn’t TNT, like Bella. She never tucked her victims away with one punch, as Bella did. But, by the same token, she dealt out more Punishment. ’ Black hair—you didn’t know until you saw it in the sunlight that it held a bronze shimmer; blue eyes that laughed at you until, silly you, you tried to make them laugh with you; lips that never said, “No,” but always said, “No-0-0,” ending with a rising questioning inflection that drove you daffy, a voice that was soft and coo-y. Thirty-two around the hips, twenty- four around the waist, thirty-four around the bust, and one-piece bathing suit, where is they sting? Girls, meet my readers. shake hands with Bella and Sally. “You always talk as though you ex- pect to wind up on Fifth Avenue,” Sally was saying. “Then I'd better correct my speech,” said Bella. “I don’t want any false impressions to get around about me. Park Avenue, Sally, Park Avenue.” “Well, it’s all the same.” Bella smiled pityingly. “I don’t think you’ve profited much by associa- tion with me.” “If you mean,” retorted Sally, with the least bit of tartness in her soft voice, “that I haven't a lot of silly ideas about where I belong—" Bella snapped her exquisitely mod- eled fingers. “Wake up, you're com- ing out of ether, dearie. Who ever told you that anyone belongs any- where they can get away from? guess that if a man can climb from office boy to head of the business, like men do all the time, a good-looking girl can step from a glove counter to a limousine.” : Sally shrugged her shapely should- ers. “Oh, if you mean——" “Pussy, pussy,” said Bella. “You know perfectly well that I don’t mean anything I'd feel like telling at a re- vival meeting. I'm just as keen for having the minister in on the ground floor as you are.” “But if you'll only marry a million- aire—" “He’ll have to have more than dough, asserted Bella. “I could have annexed a bank-account more than once. But the man I marry will have to know the right people.” “And all I want is to be happy,” de- clared Sally. “Well, a couple of millions needn’t add to a bride’s misery,” chuckled Bella. “Don’t be foolish, Sally. The wise girl looks upon marriage as a cold business proposition. You can’t be happy without dough. Don’t kid yourself. In marriage, as in every- thing else, the really important thing is money.” “I don't believe it,” said Sally stub- bornby. “Well, after you've seen me work, maybe you'll change your mind,” laughed Bella. “What are you doing tonight 7” : “Jimmy Prentiss is taking me to the movies,” answered Sally. “Who do you mean? The boy in the bookkeepers’ office 7” Sally nodded. she said defensively. “You aren't a bit soft there, are you?” “Not a bit,” replied Sally. “He just happens to be pleasant.” “Well, you quit being pleasant. Girls like us should only travel around with men who know the kind of men that would make desirable husbands; with men who take you to places where the husband kind can see you and be seen by you. Just send a note to the Prentiss lad and tell him that you'll have to call off the date tonight. _ Girlie, you're stepping out into so- ciety.” Have you ever had a dream come true? Unless 7% have, you wo all comprehend the thrill that experienced that night. For Sally was Readers, I! “He’s a nice boy,” at y has dreams in which luxury figures largely. Don’t think that Sally had never been to anything better than a movie, or that her swains dined her only at lunch-counters. Many a clerk, anx- ious to impress—clerks, you see, are just like you and me—had spent half a week’s salary on taxicabs, dinner and theatre. But when you know all the time thst the party is as unusual . the boy-friend as it is for your- ‘you lose a lod of kick. : nry Allex Sturtevant and Mabie ew class written all over ai neither of them felt that 2 a shop-girl out on a party was . .« pdecension. Much as 1 hate to ++ ite a canon of art, there will be no '* .ains in this piece. To begin with, there was the car. turn to the back of this magazine and | read the advertising pages, and you’ll mow about it. The chauffeur was in very. He was, if anything, better- jo 3 Mooking than his employer, Hunnewell, or Sturtevant, Bella’s gallant. The young men called at Bella's rooming-house, where the two girls had spent a delirious hour in prepara- tion. _ Two good-looking boys, well-man- nered, well-dressed; both of them proud of having such pretty girls to squire; and Sturtevant obviously head over heels in love with Bella. And young Hunnewell was properly im- pressed with the charms of Sally. An auspicious start. The liveried starter at Raoul’s, that most fashionable restaurant on Park Avenue; the quiet corner; the candles and flowers; the funny little round things that looked like the shot your little brother used to use in his air- rifie; the melon, the guinea-hen, the alligator-pear, the orchestra that was simply divine, the luster of the pearls, the hard brilliance of the diamonds, the signing of the check instead of the vulgar production of money. Then the big car again, with the handsome chauffeur, and the ride across town to the new revue. Sally couldn’t have told you a single thing that happened on the stage. Hunnewell managed to exchange a word with Sturtevant. “All that you said and more besides,” he whispered. And Sturtevant, immersed in love, grinned as he went down for the third time, Again the car, with the driver who so deftly held the door open; the sup- per ciub, crowded with celebrities who the boys knew. Introductions, vre- quests to dance, champagne. . In Bella’s room, the girls looked at each other. “Well, dearie, does it beat going out with bookkeepers?” asked Bella. Sally sighed dreamingly. tainly was a lovely evening.” “Luscious,” improved Bella. “And that Hunnewell boy was certainly sunk without warning.” ; “Myr. Sturtevant deesn’t dislike you much,” smiled Sally. Bella ceased manipulating the cold- cream.~ “While we were dancing the lad came through.” “Bella!” shrieked Sally. “You don’t mean it!” “1’d like to know why I don’t mean it,” said* Bella cooly. “I went after that boy with everything I had. He i knew right off that it was wedding | bells or nothing, and he didn’t want ‘nothing. That lad has almost a mil- lion of his own, and he’ll inherit six or seven more when a flock of invalid jaunts are gathered to glory. Park | Avenue, Newport—and, Sally, if you ‘play your cards right, there isn’t any reason in the world why you can’t land Mabie Hunnewell.” “Don’t be silly,” said Sally. “What’s silly about it? You don’t | realize what a little peach you are. | Mabie tumbled all the way. Henry | was laughing about it. Didn’t Mabie itry to date you up?” | Sally blushed becomingly. “Yes, he | did,” she admitted. Something in her voice alarmed Bella. “You weren’t dumb-bell enough i to turn him down, were you?” she de- manded., “No, not exactly. I said I'd love to | go motoring with him.” “Shrewd little girl,” complimented Bella. “That’s exactly how I got Hen- Ty interested.” | “Do you love Henry?” Sally asked. | “I'ma poor girl and there are cer- | tain luxuries I can’t afford,” chuckled Bella. “Henry has the things I want; | he wants me. It looks like a fair ex- ' change, doesn’t it?” “But how can you be happy if you don’t love him?” “Watch me,” said Bella. Two days later the department store was rocked to its fifth basement, tin- ware and notions, by the marriage of Bella Grant to Henry Allen Sturte- vant. And two days later Bella, now Mrs. Sturtevant, dropped into the store to say good-bye to her old friends, and also to accept that adulation which is a winner's meed. Bella was a living encouragement to all girls who by the accident of fate were de- nied limousines, royal suites on the Paris, and all the other things that go with wealth. “You look perfectly sweet,” said Sally to her former chum. “I ought to,” chuckled Bella. “The shoes cost sixty-five, the stockings twenty-four, the dress three hundred, and the fur coat seven thousand. “And you do look happy,” said Sally. “] am. That boy husband of mine gave me a check book this morning and told me when the first fifty thous- and was gone to let him know. Hap- py? Who wouldn’t be?” Sally shyly lowered her eyes. “And you love him, don’t you?” Bella tickled her on the chin. “I don’t mind him. I've made a most successful marriage.” Mabie Hunnewell was no slow work- er. On the day that the Sturtevants sailed for Europe, he dropped in at the lace counter and invited Sally to the theatre. She preferred a motor ride out into the country, she told him. It was an odd preference, for winter had not ended. However, the car was warm, and one could stop at a road- house for a bite and a dance. Every night for a week Hunnewell took her riding. Then he was called West on some business. Regretfully he told Sally this. Ae “It cer- ! { a normal girl, and any normal girl | i ey,” said Bella. “But I wish you'd consider my car yours,” he said to her. He spoke to the driver. “John, I want you to have the car around at Miss Kennedy's ad- dress every evening at six. On Sun- days be there at whatever time in the morning she wishes. Understand?” “You bet I do,” replied the chauf- feur, a trifie more enthusiastically than was becoming to a liveried ser- ant. The Sturtevants landed in Paris. But the Riviera, the new car, the jewels and the clothing didn’t seem as important as they had seemed at first. Of what charm was the daintiest apartment in the best hotel in Eu- rope if you shared it with someone you didn’t love? Quarrels followed upon disagree- ments, and intoxication followed the quarrels. “Why shouldn’t I drink?” demand- ed Sturtevant. “You don’t care a hoot what I do.” A nice boy, Sturtevant, a nice boy and a gentleman, but gentility will not stand the strain of deception for very long. “That’s right, accuse me once again of having married you for your mon- “What did you mar- ry me for? For my good looks, for my pretty figure. Well, you got them, didn’t you ?” “And you got my money,” sneered Sturtevant. “We might have made a deal and not bothered with matri- mony.” Soon the whole world knew that the Sturtevant marriage had gone on the rocks. But Bella, her face hardened, de- fiance in her manner, carried on. Des- pite her husband’s notorious infideli- ties, he was her husband. She made it clear that she would not divorce him, and that she would not permit him to get a divorce. Moreover, there was to be a child. The baby was born in Paris a year after the marriage. But its advent and the wave of love which went out to it from the young father did not reunite the couple. To Bella the child was an additional hold upon the mil- lions of its father. And she did nothing which could jeopardize that hold. A pretty cool proposition was Bella. She had what she had thought she wanted, money and a foothold in sciety. With each month she grew cooler and harder. At length they returned to New York. The week after their arrival, Bella went down to the department store. Sally Kennedy was no longer there, but one of the girls knew her address. Yes, Sally had married a few months after Bella had gone abroad. Her name was Jackson, and her address was away up-town. Half an hour later Bella stepped out of her car and walked up three flights of stairs to the Jackson apartment. ue rang a bell and Sally opened the oor. A little plumper than in the days when they had worked in gloves and laces was Sally now. Her hands, that had been so soft and smooth, were reddened and roughened now. But her sweet smile was as gently brave as ever. “Bella!” she cried. still in her voice. “Sally!” The gurgie had gone from Bella’s voice; it was coldly metallic now. “Why didn’t you teli me you were married?” “Didn’t know where you were,” re- plied Sally. “Don’t you ever read the newspa- pers?” asked Bella. “Except the bargains, not at all,” laughed Sally. “If you're taking care of two babies, doing the cooking and laundry, you don’t have much time for reading.” Bella sat down. “Babies?” she gasped. “Surest thing you know,” laughed Sally. “Two years old, best-looking twin boys you ever saw. Sound asleep now, but if you’ll tiptoe in I'll let you look at them.” Bella tried to be enthusiastic, but her voice, was dull, and she did not linger long in the room. Once again in the living-room she sat down. “Sally, why didn’t you marry Hun- newell? My Lord, with your looks and an opportunity like that, you should have made a wonderful mar- riage,” said Bella. She was not aware of her brutal implication; mon- ey has that effect, sometimes. “I did; indeed I did,” retorted Sally. Bella rose; she gesticulated im- patiently. “A walkup flat in the Bronx; no servants; your own cook- ing—" “And my own babies that I care for myself,” said Sally defiantly. “And my own husband, whom I love more than any woman ever loved a man, and who loves me—well, ask him.” A big, good-looking chap, in dark gray uniform, burst into the room. He flung a hat upon a chair with one hand, and with the other swept Sally from the floor. It was the embrace of lovers whose passion has not been cooled by domesticity, Sally, fiery red now, released her- self. “Jack, this is my old friend, Mrs. Sturtevant. She used to be Bella Grant, who worked in gloves when 1 was in laces.” The young husband smiled at the visitor. “What'd ever forget a peach like Mrs. Sturtevant?” he laughed. “And I seem to remember you,” said Bella. “Sure, I drove Hunnewell’s car. You were out in it with Sally a cou- ple of nights before you were mar- ried.” Sally stood close to her husband. “That’s why I accepted the use of Mr. Hunnelwell’s “car,” she explained. “The minute I saw Jack I fell in love with him, and I rode with Mr. Hun- newell so I could look at Jack.” Driving away from the apartment- house—call it tenement, if you will— Bella Sturtevant put her face in her hands, and the slim shoulders, still exquisite, shook with sobs. For she had found out that while the business of women is marriage, the business of marriage is love.—By Arthur Somers Roche.—In the “Cosmopolitan.” nmap ——_—— A ——— ——Save your tickets and get one of the free porch rockers given away by the Bellefonte merchants, 15-1 The coo gk ' SPRINGTIME--WHITEWASH TIME. Springtime is whitewash time, and with outbuildings that need a “dress- ing up” inside and out will find white- wash much more economical and often more practical than oil paint, accord- ing to the National Lime Association. buildings, the best results are obtain- ed when the work is done in clear, dry weather. The surface to be treated should be cleaned of dirt, scales or other loose material by brushing well with a clean, stiff brush, or by first scraping and then brushing. The fin- al results and the increased life of the new coating will more than compen- sate for the time and care required to be sure that the surface is in good aog- dition. Special care should be taken to re- move all loose material from the sur- faces of old buildings that have pre- viously been whitewashed, since if the old whitewash is scaly there will be no solid surface to which the new coat- ing can adhere. Before applying the fresh coat, dampened so that the fresh whitewash will usually chalk and rub off rather easily. In using whitewash for interiors, the walls and ceilings, if previously whitewashed or caleimined, should be washed off with a cloth or sponge and hot seraper if necessary, and the wall well washed. Nail holes and cracks parts hydrated lime, or lime jutty, and enough water to make a thick paste. flush with the rest of the plaster. Whitewash must be applied thin. application is so thin that the surface to which it is applied may be easily seen through the film while it is wet. The coating will dry opaque, however, and the thin coat will give better re- sults than a thick one. The whitewash should be spread on evenly and as quickly as possible. The Forest Fire is a Sure Sign of Spring—Gov. Fisher. Governor Fisher, upon having his attention called to the fact that sev- eral forest fires have occurred al- ready this spring said “One of the sur- est signs of spring is the forest fire. This is a serious admission to make at this stage of the development of the human race for most of these fires are man made. Pennsylvania is making rapid strides in the control of forest fires but much remains.to be done. The forest officers cannot be expected to watch each of the thirteen million acres of forest land nor to follow ev- ery one of the millions of people who go in or near the woods on dry, hot spring days. The prevention of forest fires is an individual respon- sibility laid upon each citizen by so- ciety and the sooner the individual be- comes fire conscious and assumes his personal share of the burden, the sooner will the problem be solved and the sooner will the hills of the Com- monwealth produce valuable crops of timber. Care with fire in or near the woods means more than care with burning elimination of careless handling camp fires, brush burning and every fire in the open. It means care in preventing the escape of sparks from engine stacks and ash pans. It neans care on the part of the farmer, camp- er, tourist, fisherman, lumberman, railroader and hiker. The control of fires means the prevention of forest fires. Each one of us can be more careful with fire.”—Houtzdalz Citizen. Black Walnut Lumber. With the growing popularity of black walnut furniture and the in- creasing use of ply wood or veneer by the manufacturers, the Forests Serv- ice, United States Department of Agriculture, points to the great de- mand for high grade walnut logs suit- able for this use. Logs suitable for cutting into ve- neer, to bring a price of from $150 to $200 a thousand board feet at the mill must be 18 to 24 inches in diame- eter at the small end and practically clear of defects. Larger logs of good quality naturally bring higher prices, but smaller logs of fair quality generally do not bring more than about $100 a thousand board feet at the mill, according to the department. Logs at the mills bring higher prices than logs in the woods or delivered at a shipping point, as freight is a very large item of cost. The value of standing timber, says the Forest Ser- vice, depends greatly on the distance from the mill to where it is to be con- verted into timber or veneer. The price for standing walnut trees is about $50 a thousand board feet less on the average than at the mill. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1459-F, “Sell- ing Black Walnut Timber,” gives more detail on prices and may be obtained from the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washing- ton, D. C. I ——— A ————————— Doom of Trousers Seen by Viennese. Adolph Loos, a Viennese Beau Brummel, believes that the days of the long trousers are numbered. He advanced his ideas befor= a large au- dience at a Berlin fashion show and got a big hand. He predicted that in the near fu- ture long pants would be replaced by knee breeches and that stiff collars would be relegated to the scrap heap. The speaker’s advecacy of a more colorful and variegated male attire, with even such 18th century furbelows as laces and embroideries, was also received with serious approval. Herr Loos explained how all men’s fashion had evolved froza 18th century England and had been greatly in- fluenced during the 19th century by the practical Scotch clothes, especially for walking and mountain climbing. The day was not far off, he concluded, when men would vie with women in tasty color schemes, graceful lines and claborate hosiery and footwear. many suburban and country places In whitewashing the outside of | the surface should be ; should be filled with a mixture of four | one part of plaster of Paris, with This paste should be forced well into the holes and carefully smoothed off ; FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. Awake, thou wintry earth— | Fling off thy sadness! ' Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth : Your ancient gladness. : Christ is risen. —When we see the two women to- ' gether and say of one, “She is a lady,” and of the other, “She is not a lady,” it is because of some elegant restric- tion in the movements or manners of ithe former that we have observed | that we compliment her thus. For a lady is recognized, not by the things i she does, but by the things which she i does not do. | Elegance, after all, is a process of | restriction and rejection, and the wo- man who is most elegantly dressed is cne who does few things in order to appear so. When one woman wishes to praise the elegant taste of another i [ “Mme. So-and So does not thus and | so,” rather than, “Mme. So-and-So does thus and so?” Simplicity is the best background for a woman’s own charms. It does . not compete with her; it cannot de- | tract; it is always there to confirm all that she does or says that is ele- gant and individual. It is true that simplicity is articulate in all my crea- tions, and I have found that the wo- | men with the best taste always pre- fer this note. “The skirts are from one to two , inches longer, lace is more in evidence and embroidery less, tucks and pleat- ing more and the waistline is certain- ly being slowly raised.” se —In a season when the silhouette i gree, when lines remain the same and the sports ensemble fills nearly every need of the elegant woman, one is amazed to find that even so there are more new things under the sun than ever before, for the eye of the coutur- ier has been turned toward detail, subtle effect of color and exquisite tex- | woman, does she not usually say, ! The best results will be secured if the | refuses to change in any marked de- FARM NOTES. —Stakes, trellises, plant supports, and such material for the flower gar- Jen should be constructed and paint-- now. —Cleanliness, sunlight, fresh air, and disinfectants are important fac- tors in farm sanitation. —Every Monday night at S o'clock: radio talks by agricultural specialists are given from the Pennsylvania State - College broadcasting station, WPSC,. 261 meters wave length. —The farmer who repairs farm ma- - chinery, cleans grain, shells sced corn, cleans and oils harnesses, and makes | portable hog houses now, nuts himself ahead of the driving duties of spring. —Apil 24 to 30 will be observed as: American Forest Week. Judicious plantings of trees should be made by" all and protective measures should { again be emphasized. Every tree is a precious possession. Let's treat it. as such. —The, spray machinery should be gone over and carefully inspected. Worn parts should be replaced or at least replacement parts secured. After - the sprayer gets into the field, it will be too late to order new valve seats, hose, nozzle discs, ete. —When the early warm days have cleared the snow off the ground it is time to begin cleaning up all rubbish accumulated during the winter months. Paper, broken limbs and twigs, old leaves, and other trash which may - have gathered on the premises should be cleared away. , —Cows about to freshen should be given special care and attention. A mash made with hot water and wheat - bran to which a little salt has been added is excellent just before and af- ter freshening. Feed the mash at blood temperature. For at least a day after - give only warm water to drink. 1 Re | —Depressions may be removed from ture of fabric; new combinations of lawns in two ways. In the first, care- texture, chiffon with kasha, jersey fully take up the sod for several feet with satin vary the aspect of the mode. beyond the limits of the depression, As many as three tones of the same Place good top soil in the depression, color are often combined in one frock, ' tamp it well and replace the sod. In and harmonizing shades of different the other method place not more than colors, rose with mauve, for instance, ' 8 to 3% inches of top soil over the ex- are seen in every type of dress from isting grass and sow grass seed. The- tobacco and matches, it means the of | the sports to the evening gown. The tuck and the pleat appear in many instances in the same model, the tuck running horizontally in the blouse, the skirt pleated vertically. Whole dresses are finely pleated. Worth shows an afternoon frock of navy silk mousseline, completely pleated from yoke line to knee in two tiers, the pleating made to conform to the favored silhouette by well- placed bonds of smocking. A pleated dress from Jane Rengy is shirred from the waistline to well be- low the hips and pleated the rest of the way. Flouncings remain in about the same degree of favor, beige is equally popular as a color, bois de rose more so and all the crepes hold their own bravely and beautifully, and silk mousseline is enjoying the most hon- ored place it has ever attained. The summer prints liant colors and large patterns and more often than not are bordered. A new and effective trimming is achieved by applique of tiny squares of crepe de chine in various colors in "a checkerboard design on a dress of neutral tinted crepe de chine, beige or gray. Applique of contrasting materials, satin on kasha, crepe de chine on jersey are zlso good. The ensemble grows in importance and is frequently made up of more . separate pieces than heretofore, one | costume consisting of skirt, blouse, sweater, topcoat and scarf. —When laundering doylies, lunch sets or any article with lace or scallop | edge, instead of ironing, pin each scal- lop (while wet) with discarded phono- graph needles as they neither bend dle would do. They can also be used for putting the back on framed pic- tures.—Philadelphia Record. The first important step in making a home beautiful is the selection of proper pictures for different rooms. The formal parlor has gradually dis- appeared from the average American companionable living-room, where the family congregate and receive friends. Pictures chosen for it should, there- fore, be of general interest. Family portraits and photographs of friends are decidedly out of place. The casual caller should not be re- quired to sit and gaze at intimate pictures; personal pictures have a more fitting place in the privacy of bedrooms. Reproductions of good paintings of the original paintings themselves are always in good taste for the living-room. Selections for the dining-room will readily suggest themselves; pictures of good cheer, of convivial gatherings, of animals and hunting scenes are suitable. —Far better than either the felt or quilted silence cloth is the one of as- bestos. This cloth protects the table top, not only from the spots made by hot dishes, but also from stains and damage done by hot liquids being spilled. The cloth is waterproof as well as heatproof. It is, of course, lintless and is finished with a neat binding. It is made. in halves, each consisting of three strongly bound and hinged sections. It ‘does not warp, and may be folded and put in the side- board drawer when not in use. GINGER SNAPS, One cup of molasses, one-half cup of butter, three and one-third cups of flour, two level teaspoons of baking powder, two teaspoons of ginger and one and one-half teaspoons of salt. Boil the molasses for about two min- utes and pour over the butter; stir well. Sift thoroughly the flour, bak- ing powder, ginger and salt and add to the melted butter and molasses, stirring carefully. Chill, roll on a well-floured board as thin as possible, using a small part of the dough at a time. Cut in shapes and bake in a moderate oven, bear in bril- nor break as any ordinary pin or nee- home, leaving in its place the mote’ oh, grass plants will grow through the soil. —Alfalfa seed is lower in price than. clover, so it is advisable to mix some with the clover this spring. Sow two- thirds of the regular rate of red clov- er with 8 to 15 pounds of alfalfa per- acre. Northwestern-grown seed is | good for most parts of the State, and . Canadian Variegated is adaptable to- ! the northern sections. Be sure ‘o in- oculote. —Without clean chicks at the start, one cannot expect to be successful in raising healthy birds to maturity, ev- en though every precaution is taken. to insure sanitary environment. , Chicks should be obtained from select- , ed, - disease-free flocks of hens, pref- erably those tested for baccilary white diarrhoea. Heavy mortality is- likely to result for the first few days if the parent stock is infected with this disease. —The broody hen loses a great deal” of time from her laying duties. Usual- ly it amounts to three or four weeks, and if not broken ip immediately she- wastes a lot more. The average num- ber of days lost by a broody hen runs: from 30 days for Leghorns to 58 days for Rhode Island Reds, according to- poultry specialists of the Pennsylvania State College. This loss may be over- {come by removing the hen the first ' night she gees on “he nest, putting her- in a coop either alon: or with other broody hens, and feeding her a l1ying mash, clean water, and green feed. { ll { —Rotted manure has its place in: certain forms of soil enrichment but- it should be remembered that manure- cannot rot without a distinet loss in: | fertility elements. A ton of rotten manure may represent anywhere from- a ton and a half to two tons of fresh | manure, depending on how long the , rotting has been going on. For the- quick starting and rapid growth of trucking crops farm waste in well-rot- ted form is commercially helpful sfnce a few days’ difference in getting the truck to market may make a great difference in the price received for it. But in the case of dairy and general farming the best place for manure to rot is under the soil. The fertility elements which the rotting releases: are then taken up by plant roots or otherwise conserved. There is never: any loss when manure rots under-- ground. —Rapid development has taken: place in the seed potato industry in: Pennsylvania in recent years and every sign at present indicates a con-- tinuance of this progress, stated W. A. McCubbin, Bureau of Plant Indus- try, before the Pennsylvania Potato Growers Association at its recent an- nual meeting. If our State is to take full advantage of this progress, he: continued, we must keep close touch with the trend of development and’ supply such help and guidance and foresight to, the movement as will’ bring to the State the greatest bene-- Among the points in seed potato: certification brought up in this con- nection for the consideration of the- Association were: the trend toward: the use of white-skinned Rurals (Rur-- al New Yorker); the need for the pro-- vision for breeding, of wart-immune- seed potatoes; the desirability of local’ sources of Spaulding Rose seed for: use in the potato wart quarantine dis- tricts; selection of the best strains of" Rurals from the standpoint of yield as well as disease freedom; the study" of potato virus diseases especially as: these affect the widely grown Rural types; methods for improvement of seed fields by the practice of some- form of systematic selection; the grad- ual improvement of seed certification standards; and the study of the most successful marke ting methods for cer-- tified seed.
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