“Bellefonte, Pa., November 18, 1927.
FA SSSR.
THANKSGIVING.
Suddenly over the border
That shelters night from day
The sun had dropped and as quietly
Sped on its ceaseless way.
But in the west there lingered
In dapper hues and fair,
A twilight which awakened
The watcher’s heart to prayer.
Ww
God, for beauties shown me,
The mauve, the crimson and gray,
That herald the advent of evening
And tell of departing day;
For clouds tinged with gold and silver,
For heaven's lanterns fair,
For all of earth and its wonders,
I offer this, my prayer.
I thank thee for friends who are loyal,
For dear ones, for love that is true,
For home and comfort it brings me
When day and my labors are through;
For victories won o'er the tempter,
For strength of my body of clay,
For peace in our land of freedom,
And hope—for the coming day.
—From the Chicago Tribune.
DEACON PEPPER’S TURKEY.
“Em,” called old Mrs. Tatem from
her bedroom adjoining the kitchen,
“Em, come here. I want to talk to
you.”
“Well, ma?” said Em wearily, sink-
ing into a chair near the window,
which overlooked the yard.
“Ain’t you heard from the company
about the dividend on that gas stock ?”
asked the pale, ill old woman.
“Not a word,” admitted Em faintly.
“Lordy me! I kinder wish your pa
hadn’t put all his money into Donalds-
ville gas stock. Why, he even mort-
gaged the house to buy more stock,”
went on Mrs. Tatem. “It was all right
as long as they paid dividends, but
now—why, it’s six months overdue!”
“Yes, ma.”
“Youre a wonderful manager,
to make that last money stretch
S0 many months.
some left?”
Em thought of her worn purse,
which contained one copper cent.
“Yes, ma, some,” she replied, get-
ting up and smoothing the big pil-
lows.” “I'm going out to get some
dinner for you. Could you eat an egg?”
“Yes, Emmy, I think I could relish
an egg.”
Em Tatem stood by the kitchen win-
dow looking out across the yard, now
brown and bare, swept by November
winds. She was a sweet faced, pa-
tient looking woman of thirty-five,
and her still abundant fair hair and
blue eyes added to her charms. Peo-
ple said that Em Tatem had faded
dreadfully the past year, but they did
not guess it was because Em was
slowly starving herself so that there
would be enough for the beloved
mother.
“If it hadn’t been for the gas
stock!” she murmured, with tears
filling her eyes. There came a knock
at the door. “Ma wants to know if
you can spare a dozen eggs,” said a
little girl. Em went into her pantry
and counted the eggs in the blue bowl.
There were exact fourteen. She
would save two for aer mother, and
with the 18 cents in hand she could
by some meat. Em did not dare tell
her mother that there now remained
in the poultry yard one lone Plymouth
Rock hen.
Em put the eggs in the girl’s bas-
et.
“How is your mother,
asked.
“She's pretty well, Miss Tatem.
She’s awful busy, though. You know
tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. And, oh,
Miss Tatem, she says she’ll pay you
2s soon as she gets some change.” And
Ma:y ran down the path.
Em stared after the child with hard,
resentful eyes.
“It’s wicked, downright wicked!”
she cried fiercely. “They’ve all got
money and food and everything. To-
morrow will be Thanksgiving day,
and not a thing to eat! I'll have to
kill Eliza. Maybe ma could eat her
if she was roasted with sage dress-
ing.
Em went down to the chicken house,
where the solitary hen, Eliza, had
wandered disconsolately about.
“It will seem like killing a friend
to harm Eliza,” thought Em. “Where
is the critter anyway? She's 1ata her
egg this morning, and—oh, Eliza!”
Em’s surprise and grief were justi-
fied by the sight of poor Eliza’s dead
body within the nest. Eliza had died
at her post of duty.
After Em Tatem had given Eliza’s
corpse decent burial she hurried into
the house and prepared a poached egg
and a cup of tea for her mother’s din-
ner. After the meal Mrs. Tatem
dozed off into her afternoon nap.
Em locked the doors and went up
the steep hill back of the house and
entered the little grove of locust trees
that separated her propery from Dea-
con Pepper's farm. She approached
the boundry fence and looked over
into the deacon’s lot. Here had wax-
dered Deacon Pepper's fine flock of
turkeys. All had been sold save two,
the giant of the flock and a small hen
turkey which no one wanted. or
course the deacon would kill the gob-
bler for his own table. Although he
was a bachelor, he often entertained
his many friends and relatives.
“I've got to look out for ma, and
they can’t want that little hen—and T
hope I'll be forgiven, but I can’t let
ma die!” With these mingled prayers
and excuses Em drew from her pocket
a handful of corn and tossed it to-
ward the turkeys.
They came running toward her, the
gobbler greedily pushing his small
companion out of the way. Em threw
anothér handful and another, gradu-
ally luring the birds toward the fence.
On her side she had spread an old fish
net on the ground.
But, to her dismay, it was the
bronze gobbler which came to her net.
The little hen wearied of the unequal
chase for grains of corn and wandered
Em,
over
I suppose you got
Mary?” she
off. Presently Em Tatem was muffing | SCIENCE IS PROBING
the violently protesting voice of the
gobbler with her knitted jacket while
she dumped him, his feet still entan-
gled in the net, into an empty sak,
It was Thanksgiving morning.
the darkest corner of the Tatem cel-
lar was a heap of bronze turkey
feathers. Up on the hillside was an
acrid smell of smoke from the bonfire
where Em Tatem had cremated other
evidences of her crime.
A delicious smell of roasted turkey
pervaded the Tatem house.
Em moved a little round table to
her mother’s bedside and spread a
snowy linen cloth. There were a
glass of grape jelly, some light bis-
cuits, a dish of boiled rice,.a pot of
fragrant tea and—the turkey.
“Em Tatem,” gasped her mother as
Em, pale and smiling, sat down at ta-
ble, “where did you ever get that tur-
key 7” :
“Never mind,” evaded Em mysteri-
ously. “All you've got to do, ma, is
to enjoy it.”
“You're not eating a mite, Em,”
protested Mrs. Tatem after awhile.
“That turkey’s better than the one
your pa bought from old Deacon Pep-
per for our silver wedding anniver-
sary. That was a delicious turkey.
Old Deacon Pepper always did have
fine turkeys. When Sadie Denton
was here yesterday she told me that
young Deacon Pepper has raised and
sold a fine flock. They said he made
$75 clear off the whole lot.”
“Yes,” murmured Em.
“I never hear you speak of Ned
Pepper, Em.”
“No, ma.”
Mrs. Tatem looked shrewdly at her
daughter, - It was something of a
shock to her to discover that Em look-
ed sick. “Like enough she’s worked
herself to death sewing for Mrs.
Meek, so’s she could buy the turkey,”
she told herself remorsefully.
“There, Em,” she said cheerfully,
“that’s the best Thanksgiving din-
ner I ever ate in my life!”
While her mother was taking her
after dinner nap Em cleared away the
dinner dishes and afterward went up
the hill to the locust grove. She was
heartsick and weary, and she threw
herself down on the dead leaves and,
putting her hands to her face, sob-
bed softly.
From the Pepper homestead came
trains of music. There was the sound
of laughter and presently a man’s
voice singing “Annie Laurie.” Long
years ago young Deacon Pepper—Ned
Pepper—had sung that song to Em
Tatem, but she had been shy and cold,
and somehow Ned had felt rebuffed
and drifted away to singe his wings
at other flames.
“I wonder what he would say if he
knew I was a thief, and I've got to
tell him,” whispered Em to herself.
step sounded on the frozen
ground and a big bronzed man with
troubled gray eyes leaned over the
fence and looked down at poor Em
Tatem.
“Em,” he ventured after awhile.
Em jumped up, her blue ‘eyes
drowned in tear. “Ned—Ned Pep-
per!” she cried in a frightened tone.
Then, suddenly recovering herself, she
said in a frozen voice:
“I want to tell you something. Dea-
con Pepper—no—no—please don’t in-
terrupt ‘me. You missed your big tur-
kev. didn’t vou?”
He nodded. “It disenpeared.”
“You don’t know where it went!”
she declared tragically.
I “Oh, but I did, Em,” he corrected
er.
“I stole it, and I came up here to
confess to you”’—
“You needn’t say a word unless you
want to, Em,’ he interrupted quickly.
“I happened to be up repairing the
arm on the windmill, and I had my
field-glasses along. I always like to
glimpse the distant view when I'm up
on the tower, and I happened to be
looking through the glasses when—
the turkeyvs—went up to yvou—and the
gobbler didn’t come back again; so
I knew that you had it, Em, and 1
guessed you needed it badly; so the
Story No. 8.
instant you took him I made you a
Present of him; so he was yours after
all!”
Em poured out the story of the de-
layed dividends and of their pinching
poverty and how she had stolen the
turkey for her mother. “I couldn’t
touch a morsel of it,” she shuddered.
Ned listened and offered to write to
the gas company concerning = her
mother’s stock. He was a director In
the Donaldsville bank, and his name
would give weight to the inquiry.
“You are too good to me,” faltered
Em looking very pretty and animated
with the pink in her thin cheeks.
“I couldn’t be too good to you, Em-
my,” he said soberly, his eyes fixed on
the distant horizon. “If Td had my
way years ago all that I had would be
yours. I wish you had cared enough.”
“Ned,” she protested in a frighten-
ed tone, “I did care—always. I
thought you didn’t.”
Ned’s eyes flashed dangerously.
“Then—he—lied!” he growled. And
at the wonderment in her eyes he add-
ed, “Some one who is dead now told
me that you couldn’t care for me, and
I—fool—believed!”
ere was a long silence. Ned star-
ed straight ahead. Em’s careworn
face had lost its anxious lines.
“It’s never too late to be happy!” she
whispered softly.
Mrs. Tatem is never tired of tell-
ing that the big bronze turkey was
Deacon Pepper’s engagement present
to Emmy. And Emmy and her hus-
band always exchange understanding
smiles.—By Clarissa Mackie.
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—Do you put away the farm ma-
chinery when you have finished us-
ing it? A good tool shed pays for it-
self in a short time if used. In every
community an economic tragedy is
being enacted in many farmyards.
Machinery stands helplessly exposed
to the elements when a few minutes
of time would see it under cover.
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——Industrial fatalities in Pennsyl-
vania decreased considerably last tag
month, but automobiles are keeping
up their worst record.
operate the loud speaker.
FOR THE ATOM.
Discovery of the atom is more im-
portant today than the discovery of
America was in 1500, and will have
greater consequences, declares Dean
Gerald L. Wendt, of the School of
Chemistry and Physics at the Penn-
found running at large unaccompan-
ied.
Police officers mean ‘any local police
or constable. tla fail
: person violating or ng or
Ar to comply with any of the
provisions of the Dog Law is liable to
fine of not less than $5.00 nor more
than $100.00 or 30 days in jail, or
sylvania State College, discussing the | both.
growing importance of the atom and
what it means to industry, in the cur-
rent issue of Nation’s Business.
Great industries have been found-
ed already on the discovery that the
atom is being turned into a scientif-
ic wonder worker. It has completely
revised scientific philosophy of na-
ture; offers numberless immediate
possibilities to the electrical indus-
tries, and has opened an entirely new
conception of chemical recations, ac-
cording to Dean Wendt.
“In the atom is the focus of light
and radiation, electricity and energy,
and matter and chemical reactivity;
by mastering the atom we matser
matter, too,” is the conclusion of the
Penn State chemistry and physics
dean.
It appears that others than modern
scientists—industrial and political
leaders among them—are showing
more interest in the atom each day,
because the atom is the basic unit of
matter and beacuse it is a unit of en-
ergy.
“If anything is more important to
industry than the materials in which
it deals it is the energy that makes
it go,” declared Dean Wendt. “This
tiny thing has insides. Chemists used
to think of it as ultimate, as indivis-
ible, the last word is smallness. Like
a billard ball, its insides were un-
known and ignored. It was excusable
since it takes about a billion of them,
side by side ,to make an inch.
“The atem doesn’t seem as small as
it once did because it is now fully as
complicated as the solar system and
has its own miscroscopic astronomy.
The sun is a tiny speck compared to
the enormous orbits of the planets
which revolve around it. So also
what once was thought to be the sur-
face of the atom turns out to be only
the orbit of some of the electrons
which travel around a very tiny nu-
celeus. Most of it, in fact, is empty.
“The nucleus contains the ‘matter,’
whatever that is—no one knows much
about it. But the electrons revolving
about in the distant outer parts of
the atom are well known and impor-
tant.”
Mercury misses out in being gold
by the absence of only one of these
planets, the Penn State
pecints out. Gold has seventy-nine
of these miniture plants and mer-
cury has eighty. It’s quite tempting
to pull out one “planet” and make
gold out of quicksilver, but no one
has succeeded which is not saying that
it can’t be done, he declares.
“Cheerfully I stake my job as pro-
phet on the prediction that it will be
done within a few years, though pei-
haps never cheaply or in large quan-
tity,” Dean Wendt continues,
“But suppose we do make gold from
quicksilver! It would be wiser and
cheaper to pay no attention to yeggs
who each day brought another pound
of TNT and placed it under the found-
ations of the United States Treasury
than it is for business to ignore what
the research laboratries in atomic.
science are doing. When the atom
can threaten to wipe out the gold
standard over night several of us who
do not attend the Institute of Politics
or the Institute of Chemistry have a
legitimate interest in it.”
Then, turning his attention to reali-
ties, Dean Wendt explains how the
electrons make heat in the radio tbe
filament and boil off other electrons to
He states
that those who developed radio had
to know the electron and atom inti-
mately. Similarly the electron tube has
entered the field of electric power and
predicts its use to transform direct
electric current to aternating and vice
versa.
Only a year ago
scientist predicted the transmission oft
vision by radio, when the term “tele
vision” had not been invented. Now
it is being done, and like the radio,
its heart is the electric tube. An
electrical “eye” sorts cigars as to
color and ball bearings as to perfec-
tion, the latter, a process patented by
the University of Michigan. The
same principle is used in one patent
for talking movies. It appears that
innumerable new processes as time
and labor savers are coming through
the harnessing of the electron,
2
Know Your Dog Law.
the Penn State;
The word “OWNER” when applied
to the proprietorship of a dog, shall
include every: person having a right
of property in such dog, and every
person who keeps or harbors such dog
or has it in his care, and every per-
son who permits such dog to remain
on or about any premises occupied by
m.,
It is unlawful for any person to
own or keep any dog six months old
or over unless such dog is licensed, and
unless such dog at all times wears the
collar and tag,
License and tag can be procured di-
rect from the county treasurer or
through a justice of the peace, alder-
derman, magistrate or notary public,
License fee—Male dog, one dollar,
spayed female dog when certificate of
veterinarian or affidavit of owner is
prodced, one dollar; all other female
dogs two dollars. County treasurer
allowed 10 cents additional. Justice
of the peace, alderman, magistrate
and notary public allowed 15 cents in
addition to license and county treas-
urer fee.
It is unlawful for any person to
place any dog button or any poison of
any description in any place, on his
own premises or elsewhere, where it
Pay. be easily found and eaten by
0gs.
It is the duty of police officers to
kill any dog which is found running
at large not bearing proper license
It is the duty of police officers to
take up and impound licensed dogs
scientist |;
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Hunters Should Study the New Game
Laws,
Following is the game law now in
force in this State. Dates given de-
note the time in which particular
game mentioned may be killed.
Deer (male with horns having 2 or
more points to the antler), bull elk
(with 4 or more points to 1 antler),
Dec. 1 to Dec. 15.
Bear (over 1 year old), Nov. 16-
Dec. 15.
Raccoon, Nov. 1 Jan. 15.
Hare rabbit, squirrels (black gray
and fox), Nov. 1 Nov. 30.
Red or pine squirrel, Nov. 1 Aug.
15.
Ruffed grouse, male ringnecked
pheasant, quail (bobwhite), and wood-
cock, Nov. 1-Nov. 15.
Duck, goose, brant, coot (mud hen),
and gallinule, Oct. 1-Jan. 15.
Cow elk and calves having less than
4 points to antler; doe, fawn, bear cub
under 1 year of age; wild turkey,
Hngarian partridge or quail; pheas-
ant hens, dove, swans, wood duck,
eider ducks, reedbird, auks bitterns,
little brown and sand-hill cranes,
grebes, guillemants, gulls, jaegers,
loons, nurres, petrels, puffins, shear-
waters terns and all shore birds ex-
cepting woodcock and Wilson snipe or
jacksnipe.
Game: Nonresident, $15. Issued by
commission of county treasurer. Resi-
dent, $2; through justice of peace,
magistrate, or notary. public, $2.15.
Licenses not issued to minors under
14 years of age, and minors between
14 and 16 must furnish written con-
sent of parent or guardian. Licensee
required to wear tag displayed on
middle of back.
Resident citizen and members of
family or employees residing upon
and cultivating land in the State as
either owned or leased may hunt dur-
ing open season on such land and,
with the consent of owner, on adjoin-
ing land with license, fee $1.
Licensed hunters, within 30 days af-
ter expiration of license, must report
amount of game killed.
Aliens not permitted to hunt or be
possessed of dog or fire arms.
One deer (6 to party camping or
unting together), 1 elk to hunting
party), 1 bear (4 hunting party), 30
rabbits, 15 hares, 20 squirrels, 25
quail (combined), 15 ruffed grouse, 6
male ring-necked pheasants, 20 wood-
cock, 60 ducks, 80 geese, 30 brant a
season. Five rabbits, 3 hares, 6 squtr-
rels (black, gray, fox), 8 qail (com-
bined), 8 ruffed grouse, 2 male ring-
neck pheasants, 4 woodcock, 5 geese,
15 ducks, 5 brant, 20 Wilson snipe,
25 coots, 25 sora, 25 in all other
rails and gallinules a day. Possession
of maigratory birds permitted during
first 10 days of close season; other |]
game during first 30 days thereof.
Export of all protected game taken
in State prohibited; provided, a non-
resident licensee may take out with
him on same conveyance 2 days’ limit
of game except elk. Small game
must be accompanied by owner, and
if concealed must be tagged to show
name and address of owner, county
where killed, and number of each
species in package. Large game may
be shipped by express when plainly
marked to show name and address of
owner and county in which killed.
Specimens of game legally taken may
be shipped to a licensed taxidermist
for mounting, but shipment of game
by parcel pest prohibited, except that
skins of raccoon, bear and trophies
to licensed taxidermists may be so
shipped, if marked to show contents,
but no such shipments may be made
to points outside the State without a
permit.
Game taken outside of State and
legally exported may be possessed at
any time, except that migratory game
birds may be possessed only during
open season where taken and first 10
days of closed season.
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Reveals Secrets of Better Ice Cream.
Better ice cream may well be ex-
pected by consumers throughout
the country following the use of a
new Manual for Ice Cream Makers,
written by C. D. Dahle, associate
professor of dairy manufacture at the
Pennsylvania State College, it was
said here today. The book has just
come from the press, and much of
the material in it is based upon ex-
periments performed here at Penn
State. Constant changes occurring in
the ice cream industry and the de-
mand for information regarding the
manufacture of ice cream prompted
the manual.
Professor Dahle explains that no
definite composition can be given for
ice cream. The United States gov-
ernment recognizes plain ice cream
as containing 14 per cent. of butter-
fat and nut and fruit ice cream as con-
taining 12 per cent. of butterfat.
Most States have their own standards
which demand from 8 to 14 per cent.
butterfat.
Among the other main constituents
of ice cream; he mentions serum sol-
ids, sugar, gealtine, and flavor. The
author tells how to prepare the mix
for freezing, how to standardize the
ingredients used, and gives a large
number of formulas for ices and sher.
berts and for various flavored ice
creams,
Real Estate Transfers.
Susan A. Jacobs, et bar, to Frank
Confer, et ux, tract in Howard; $1,100.
Francis Zerby to Pearl Barger,
tract in Gregg Twp.; $500.
Philipsburg Cemetery Association to
William Hessong Sr., tract in Philips-
burg; $38.40.
Elmer Breon, et ux, to John Gala-
dia, et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $1.
Ellen N. Heckman, et al, to A. C.
Confer, tract in Gregg Twp.; $2,600.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
THANKSGIVING.
Praise God for wheat, so white and sweet,
of which to make our bread!
Praise God for yellow corn with which
His waiting world is fed!
Praise God for fish and flesh and fowl
He gave to man for food!
Praise God for every creature which He
made and called it good!
Praise God for winter's store of ice, praise
God for Summer's heat!
Praise God for fruit trees bearing seed;
to you it is for meat! ‘
Praise God for all the bounty by which
the world is fed!
Praise God, His children all, to whom He
gives their daily bread!
—By Edward Everett Hale,
—Tradition says that Thanksgiving
isn’t Thanksgiving without cider; it
may be served all through the dinner
and the supper or after these meals,
and it may be served hot or cold.
Mulled cider is made by boiling the
cider with a little sugar, brown sugar
sometimes being used if the flavor 1s
liked, . with whole cinnamon and
cloves; it should boil fifteen minutes
and be served very hot. If the cider is
rather new, add sugar cautiously, as
it may already be sweet enough.
Cider jelly is a pleasant novelty for
Thanksgiving dinner. This is made
by boiling a quart of cider with a
stick of cinnamon, the juice of a lemon
and a small amount of su ar, depend-
ing on the sweetness of the cider.
Dissolve a tablespoonful of gelatin in
cold water and pour the hot cider over
it, strain into a mold and allow it to
stand over night.
THANKSGIVING FAVORS.
—An “early settler” with a turkey
in his hand and with enough embon-
point to accommodate many bonbons,
is one of the Thanksgiving emblems
encountered. This sells for 25 cents.
Basted turkeys which delay culin-
ary lore by a stuffing of candies.
A paper coop from which the head,
tail and wings of a turkey project
provides hospitable quarters for can-
Yootballs continue conspicuous in
the offering of Thanksgiving favors,
and may be had at various prices.
—For those persons confined to
their rooms,but whose condition al-
lows of their eating a moderate
Thanksgiving dinner, it may be served
more attractively in courses on {rays
than all massed on one tray at the
same time, gaining in zest by being a
series of surprises.
Heat a bouillon cup by letiing hot
water stand in it while you quickly
boil the soup from a small’ can, to
which add a good shake of celery salt
and other preferred seasonings.
Toast one cracker in the oven, Cov-
er your smallest waiter with a pretty
doiley; place on it the cracker laid
on a dainty bread-and-butter plate,
the cup of bouillon on a fine break-
fast plate, a thin tumbler of water
with a fresh chrysanthemuni lying be-
side it, and serve, having placed : the
arge. napkin under ; the ;; breakfast
plate. :
The next tray should be carried up
and set down outside of the invalid’s
room till the previous one is brought
out. On it have a small platter con-
taining what looks for all the worle
like a Liliputian tuurkey, beautifully
browned, stuffed and garnished with
parsley, and which is, in reality, «
plump partridge or a squab. To go
with this there is a spoonful ot cur-
rant or grape jelly.
But as this is posing »or turkey,
have a ilttle mold of cranberry jelly
turned out on a very small saucer,
and on a hot plate, covered, a slice of
sweet potato that has been baked in
the pan with the little “turkey,” with
some of the brown gravy on it, a tiny
ball of creamed white potato that has
been browned in the oven and has a
sprig of parsley stuck in it and a
helping of stewed tomatoes with a bit
of onion cooked in them, Southern
fashion.
This larger tray should first be
covered with a handsome napkin.
Garnish the edge of this all round
with green celery tops, having a crisp
white stalk lying beside a salt cellar,
With this a small wineglass ot
claret, sherry or champagne would be
appetizing and helpful, but if the in-
valid is opposed to wine, surprise and
please her with a glass of beady sweet
cider, for this will go delightfully with
her “turkey” and vegetables.
After this carry up a small tra
with a glass sherbert cup filled with
orange sherbet, and on a small plate
a crisp little lettuce leaf with may-
onnaise and a cheese sandwich made
with small crackers.
On the last tray carry up a little
old-fashioned “saucer Zen such as
the invalid had made for her in her
childhood, a pumpkin pie, and with it
a mere bite of preserved ginger and
an after-dinner cupful of clear coffee.
That will be enough for a convales-
cent, but not too much, as only a small
portion of each dish is served.
If the pmpkin pie is prohibited a
tapioca pudding, cooked with apple
and baked in a saucer, with meringue
on top, is a great invalid’s dish.
But better than either of these
would be frozen custard in the form of
tiny pumpkins,
In the Woman's Home Companion
Fannie Merritt Farmer, cookery edi-
tor of that publication, presented a
number of November recipes, among
which is the following for pumpkin
pie:
“Mix two-thirds cupful of brown
sugar, one teaspoonsful of cinnamon,
one-half teaspoonful ginger and one-
| half teaspoonful of salt, and add one
one-half cupful of steamed and
strained pumpkin, two eggs, slightly
beaten, one and one-half cupfuls of
milk and one-half cup-ful of cream.
Bake in one crust.”
THE BASIS OF THANKFULNESS.
—The unqualified acceptance of life,
with all its mystery and pain, all its
labor and weariness and vet with all
it sweetness and joy and all its latent
potentiality—that is and forever must
be the basis of true gratitude, the one
great theme for thanks.
Y Ibe the
- FARM NOT
—Make an’ analysis of your crop
yields with the idea of determining
why your yields are low or high, and
try to improve them another year,
—Remember that the flock is half
wintered if it goes into winter quar~
ters in a thriving condition. This
means keeping the sheep on good pas-
ture and feeding a little grain where
pasture is short, say Pennsylvaia
State College poultry specialists.
—It has been
customary among or-
chardists to take out undesirable trees
and set in new young trees in their
places and to set in new trees where
others have died. While it seems to
work out very well in many cases. it
1s not a very desirable practice when
the old trees are quite thick and very
old. It has not been proven that the
decaying roots of an old tree will
Seriously interfere with the growth
of roots of a new tree but in some
cases this may be true.
If the old trees which stand are
large and rather close together the
roots of the old trees will interfere
with the feeding roots of the new
trees, and they may not thrive well.
‘ne roots of most trees have about
the same spread of roots as they have
of branches, and unless there is a
good sized opening between the
branches of the standing trees it
would probably not be satisfactory to
expect newly set trees to thrive well,
If old trees are far apart it would
Probably be satisfactory to set in new
rees.
—With the approach of cool weath-
er which marks the beginning of the
dry or barn feeding Priod, the dairy-
man, should be interested in knowing
0S cows which will return the
greatest profit over the feed consume-
Each animal fed is a market for
the grain and roughage grown on the
farm, Nearly five million tons of hay
have been stored in the barns of Penn-
sylvania’s 200,000 farms during the
past summer and a large portion of
this hay will be marketed through
dairy cattle for on 8 of every 10 of
these farms some dairy cows are kept.
Some cows through their milk pro-
duction, return only $10 a ton for the
hay they eat, others return $20 and
through some the dairyman may mar-
ket his roughage for $30 per ton. The
same statement holds true for sitage
and the farm-grown grains, because
dairy cows differ in their ability to
convert products unsuited for human
consumption into one of the most
highly prized of our human foods.
The Babcock test and the milk
Scales are the judge and jury in de-
termining a cow’s production record.
The dairyman himself may weigh and
test the milk from each cow or, in co-
operation with his neighbors. he may
organize a cow testing association and
employ a man to keep the records on
kis herd.
increase of 150
bushels per acre is credited to spray-
ing by E. L Nixon, well-known po-
tato disease specialist: of the Penn-
sylvania State College. He asserts
that this record is a fitting culmina-
tion to 10 years of spraying practice
in this State,
One of the most
due to spraying is
a demonstration
—An average
spectacular gains
that established in
on the farm of John
R. Bachman in Northampton coun-
ty. Unsprayed rows in his 40-
acre field yielded at the rate of 229
bushels per acre while sprayed rows
beside them produced 657 bushels per
acre. This was the first year Bach-
man had sprayed and he is convinced
that the 428 bushels increase is an
exceedingly lucrative return on his mn-
vestment of labor and spray mater-
ials, His whole field is running over
four hundred bushels per acre. Be-
fore this year he was satisfied with
200, but never again,
A measured acre in the Bachman
field grew 621.4 bushels, which quali-
fied him for membership in the Key-
stone 400 Bushel Potato Clb. There
are 41 members of the club repport-
ed so far this year, and indications
point to a record membership of about
two hundred. This will double last
year’s record mark of 97.
Nixon states that spraying shows
up well this year because of the early
severe epidemic of late blight which
struck all fields not protected by ap-
plications.
Ra
—The Department of Agriculture
Predicts the apple crop this year to
smallest since 1921, and ex-
cepting that year, the smallest in
20 years. July 1st the prospects
were that the total crop would be
about 26,000,000 bushels. Early frosts
have reduced the expected total by
2,000,000 bushels.
“Apple scab was the cause of seri-
ous losses in many orchards last year.
In a number of instances trees were
completely defoliated by this disease.
The fact that the fungus causing the
disease over-winters on the fallen
leaves makes it a serious menace
again this year.
“In the old leaves, scab forms back
Spore-cases smaller than the head of
a pin. In the spring spores mature in
these and are discharged into the air
during periods of rainy weather. Fall-
ing on the blossoms or young leaves,
the spores germinate and produce the
typical scab spots.
“The fact that the spores are ma-
ture is of extreme importance to the
grower. He should be prepared to ap-
ply the pink-bud spray at once, espe-
cially in the southern counties of the
State. In making this application the
relation of rainfall to the discharge
of the scab spores must be kept clear
in mind. Without rain there will
be no spore discharge. For this rea-
son it is very essential that the first
applicatian be made before rather
than after rainy periods. If made
after the rain the treatment will be
too late to accomplish the best results.
The grower who applies his pink ap-
plication before a rainy period and
then maintains a protective coat of
spray material will have no difficulty
in the control of scab.”
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