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Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1928
MORE GAME, LESS VERMIN IN
PENNSYLVANIA.
More game, less vermin was the
sword of all sportsmen while in
ow hunting camps. Hundreds of
them took that slogan for what it
meant and started a campaign
against those animals in that class
which we call vermin, such as wea-
sel, red and grey fox, wild cat and
stray domestic cats. The sportsmen
realized that to have more game for
future sport and recreation they must
assist in controlling vermin. They
realized that the weasel and fox with
other destructive animals and agen-
cies were daily taking a great toll
of wild life, in fact, more than the
legal hunter who had a right to a
daily limit of legal game. The de-
structive animals do their hunting
twenty-four hours daily, and 365
days per year, and there is no limit
to their daily slaughter. Not only
did the game birds and animals suf-
fer from destructive modes of vermin,
but the little song and insectivorous
birds also lost a daily toll from their
ranks, slaughtered to feed some hun-
gry cat or to fill the bloody lust of
a weasel. Those two are by far the
most destructive of our vermin. We
can not feel that way to the stray
domestic cat when we take a stroll
out into the forest on a fresh light
snow and find where it had killed a
Junco, we see where the little bird
had been feeding in the tall grass and
the cat had found the scent of this
useful bird. We see where the feath-
ers of this bird had been scattered to
the four winds and find parts of its
body that had been torn to shreds by
the cat. Some distance away we find
where a Snow Bunting has met the
same fate as his friend the Junco.
By this time we feel like wishing
all cats in Hades. Finally we ex-
plode and lose all faith in our pet
cat when we see where Tommy had
entered a feeding shelter where you
had been feeding quail for the past
month. The evidence on the snow
and scattered about that feeding
place tells you that the quail were in-
side feeding upon the mixed grain
that you placed therein on your last
trip and Tommie in his sneaking
disposition had quietly inch by inch
found hiz way to the opening and
landed in their midst. He probably
killed a quail but from the evidence
you feel that he killed every bird in
the covey. Right there you swear
that cats are a menace to wild life
and from then on every stray domes-
tic cat will not be safe around you.
The weasel like the cat sometimes
kills only for the lust of killing and
in following a weasel’s trail it will
take you for miles and every here.
and there you will find evidence of a
bird being killed, then a rabbit, then
again a grouse. We also find where
r. Weasel had entered several dens
but cannot see where he had killed
anything, but by his former tactics
we certainly believe he has. We ex- |
amie the dead birds closely and fin
that everyone has a little hole eaten
into the underside of the neck and
the blood sucked out. Very rarely we
find where after killing his prey he
like the cat rends it apart and scat-
ters the limbs and feathers to the
four winds.
Foxes and several! of our birds of
prey, goshawks, coopershawk, sharp-
sbinned hawk and barred and great
horned owls chiefly prey on grouse
and ‘rabbits and in many places you
will find tell-tale evidence where some
hawk or owl had landed upon a rab-
bit or a grouse and carried it away.
You see some feathers or fur scat-
tered about and you know that a
grouse or cottontail had a scuffle, but
you find no trails that prove that a
cat- or weasel or fox was the killer
and you cannot believe that was the
cguse, but after a little thinking you
finally decide that a bird of prey car-
ried the body away. However many
times we find where foxes kill grouse
and cottontails and carry them to a
large stump where it is eaten.
All these destructive animals were
eonsidered by the sportsmen and ev-
erywhere anyone was hunting and
trapping, as vermin so the result was
that during the month of December
1927 the Board of Game Commission-
ers through the Bureau of Vermin
Control paid out $23,319.00 in boun-
ties for the destruction of predatory
apimals. Bounty claims to that Bur-
eau showed that 64 wild cats, 1366
grey foxes, 1251 red foxes and 14,393
weasels were killed in this Common-
wealth. Imagine the wild life these
predatory animals had killed in their
lifetime. Suppose they had not been
hindered and had been left alone to
breed and rebreed, the increase of the
predatory animals would quickly clean
out all useful wild life.
At the close of the fiscal year end-
ing May 31, 1927 bounties were paid
for the killing of 353 wild cats, 6,648
grey foxes, 4,437 red foxes and 37,-
868 weasels for one year. The boun-
ties amounted to $78,627.50. This is
a. great amount of money to be spent
out of the game fund for this purpose
and this deprives the Game Commis-
sion from using the money for game
propagation. However, the law calls
for the payment of bounties and I
Believe it is well spent. What would
be the use of spending money for
game restocking and game protection
if we were to allow vermin to exist.
We should all get together and put
all shoulders behind this wheel of ver-
min control and clean out these pred-
atory animals as soon as possible. It
would, of course, cost some money for
bounties but some would be saved ev-
' ery other year.
During the past many complaints
were received from trappers that they
are having their traps stolen and the
furs taken out of these traps. This
is: one of the dirtiest tricks that a
person can do. After a trapper has
worked hard to put out his trap line
intending to catch vermin and some }
dirty skunk comes along and steals
the traps or furs it is almost heart-
ing to the trapper and he feels
liké “quitting. You cannot: blame him
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for feeling hurt, as traps cost money,
and many hours of hard work is
wasted in setting a line of traps. If
he catches several weasels, a fox or
two and by chance a wild cat, under-
stand that this means a great deal to
game protection. There is a law upon
our statute books making the steal-
ing of traps larceny and such persons
responsible can be prosecuted by the
owner and also can be prosecuted un-
der the game laws for interfering
with the trap line. Every person who
has knowledge of anyone stealing
traps or animals out of traps shouid
report same to the game protector.
This practice should be broken up
when started and it will mean a great
deal to trappers and game conserva-
tion.
WORTH KNOWING
New York City has seventeen wom-
en architects. :
Man’s vision, as well as his voice,
has spanned the ocean. Trans-At-
lantic television and telephony are es-
tablished realities.
Two persons sat before an electric
eye in a London laboratory Wednes-
day night and watched a group of
people move in New York.
{Secretary Hoover has announced
that a passenger-carrying airship
will depart from London for New
York within three months.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was
twenty-six years old February 4. He
celebrated his birthday by flying from
Porta Rico to the Dominican Republic.
Miss Mitchell, an English typist,
won the international typewriting
competition which was held in Paris,
her speed being 12,000 letters in 20
minutes.
Two of 682 Belleville, New Jersey,
boys who were asked who they would
rather be than anyone else in the
world said, “Dad,” while 363 picked
Lindbergh and 110 Coolidge.
There are more than 30,000 men
and women in New York City em-
ployed from 9 to 5, who have enough
grit and ambition to attend school
from three to five nights a week.
Queen Elizabeth boasted 300 gowns
in her wardrobe, embroidered by her
own fingers. Her daughter-in-law,
Mary Queen of Scots, brightened her
dungeon by working fine embroider-
ies silken stuffs.
Although originally there were but
two varieties of oranges, sweet and
bitter, there are now eighty, ranging
from the little tangerines to the big
fruit from Java. Some of the latter
are as large as melons.
Once a telephone in every room was
a sign of modernity for a hotel. Now
it is announced that in a chain of
hotels throughout the country every
guest-room will be supplied with
means of radio entertainment.
A giant sequora 308 feet high near
Crannell, California, has been pro -
claimed monarch of the California
forests by the State Department of
Natural Resources. The tree contains
enough lumber to build 32 average
size houses.
The nation’s candy bill for 1926
totalled $258,251,526 of which New
1-¥ork “State alone ‘bought $36,483,273,
the Department of Commerce reports.
The average per capita consumption
of every man, woman and child was
nine pounds of candy in 1926.
For the first time in histery a dir-
igible has landed successfully on the
flying deck of an aircraft carrier. The
T.os Angeles, 680 feet long, met th=
delicate test involved in coming to
“est on a deck of the Saratoga which
's only 200 feet longer than the Los
Angeles itself.
Field Marshal Earl Haig, one of
the outstanding military leaders of the
Vorld War, his heart weakened by
war strain, died at his home in Lon-
don, January 31. As commander-in-
“hief of the British Armies in France
and Belgium his name is linked with
that of Marshal Foch, of France, and
(General Pershing, of the United
States, in the victory over Germany.
Real Estate Transfers.
Toner R. Robb, et ux, to Ciyde J.
Blackford, tract in Curtin twp.; $3000.
W. J. Emerick et ux to Charles
Saxion, tract in Bellefonte; $1.
Bellefonte Cemetery Association to
John F. Smith, tract in Bellefonte;
$50.
Benjamin F. Sheetz, Rec., to Ton-
ar Robb, et ux, tract in Howard twp.;
$5690.
John Lawrence et ux, to Andrew
Uylak, tract in Rush twp.; $1.
Andrew Uylak to John Lawrence,
et ux, tract in Rush twp.; 1.
William J. Bair, et ux, to Mifflin
R. Moyer, tract in Miles twp.; $450.
Jacob Winkleblech, et ux, to Mifflin
R. Moyer, tract in Miles twp.; $450.
John L. Holmes, et al, to Robert T.
Hafer, tract in State College; $500.
Charles J. Stover, et ux, to John
H. Brindle, tract in Haines twp.; $2,-
200.
Philipsburg Milling and Lighting
Co. to John A. Erb, tract in Philips-
burg; $1.
Trustees Unionville M. E. church to
Treasurer of Milesburg M. E. church,
tract in Milesburg; $1.
Samuel Kreamer, to William Mil-
ford Kreamer, et ux, tract in Haines
twp.; $4000.
Arthur K. Anderson, et ux, to O.
W. Houtz, tract in State College; $1.
Esther E. Sellers to Minnie M.
Stine, tract in Patton Twp.; $5200.
reas fl reese.
Marriage Licenses.
John J. Shedlock, of Ramey, and
Elizabeth Andrews, of Ginter.
Mike Kachovik and Susie Almashie,
both of Clarence.
George A. Holt and Vena E. Dick-
inson, both of Altoona.
Alexander Pietuswski and Kazime-
za Pietuswski, both of Osceola Mills.
Chester E. Tressler and Ruth M.
King, both of Bellefonte.
Chester Morris Lutz and Alice M.
Mattern, both of Port Matilda.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT
No wise man ever wished to be young-
er.—Swift.
As you have doubtless discovered
the well-dressed woman is not the
one who spends th~ most money, but
the one who has learned the secret of
buying the right thing, which may at
times be remarkably inexpensive.
So many women have a waist which
is smaller in proportion than their
hips. For these the dress which
blouses slightly is excellent. Two-
piece models which end at the hips,
or those which are trimmed with
pockets at this point, are bad for the
large-hip, narrow-waist type.
For the woman with a large bust, a
surplice closing is excellent and a ves-
tee breaks the line. If you are fiav-
breasted, jabots will be very becom-
ing to you and they are shown in
many of the newest spring models.
As you grow older you must watch
a tendency to stoop in the shoulders.
Few figures are as erect after 40. By
placing the shoulder seam a little far-
ther back than usual this is hidden to
a large extent. And any model which
is cut a bit too high in the back, mak-
ing the collar set above the fold, will
accentuate this defect.
Practically everyone now wears col-
larless frocks, but the woman with a
long angular neck never should. Her
dress may be cut in a V at the front
very attractively, but it should have
a rolled collar across, the back. Al-
most any face, unless the neck be
short and fat, is the better for a col-
lar rolled across the back. Over-
prominent collar bones at the front
may be smartly concealed by a crew
neck sweater, a daytime frock with a
modified or Peter Pan collar, a dressy
afternoon model with a wired stand-
ing band away from the neck, about
an inch and a half wide or an evening
gown with a filmy scarf or tulle.
If you are short-waisted never
choose a waist and skirt of contrast-
ing materials and always carry any
trimming downward. Place the belt
as low as possible, and, if you are
tall as well as short-waisted, put the
belt across the back only. Or, per-
haps, you may look better with it
across the front only.
It is not every girl who dares to
look different. Here and there we
encounter brave spirits, and admire
them for their determination in
launching out upon unusual and often
rather startling styles. We have to
admit that the clothes suit them.
Hats, too, should bz carefully chos-
en. When buying a hat, it is advis-
able to inspect the full-length effect,
for a hat which may suit one’s face
may not always suit one’s figure. For
instance, a tall girl may admire a
very small hat which seeris to be just
“her” hat, and yet feel disappointed
with the whole effect when she gets
it home. She should avoid anything
brimless, just as the small girl should
avoid too large a brim, which will
“dwarf” her.
The most accomodating of all the
little bulbs for garden use are the
squills orscillas, and of these the Si-
berian squill, Scilla 'siberica, i
finest. “They are permanent decora-
tions once planted, as they self-sow
and soon establish large colonies.
They are the most intense blue in the
garden, an intensity reproduced later
in the year by the algarets or an-
chusas and their relative, the cyneg-
losum or Chincse forget-me-nct. The
entire garden may be carpeted with
Siberian equills without interfering
with other plants, as the bulbs are
small and die down so early in the
season that their foliage does not in-
terfere with other plants, and being
overgrown with other foliage doses
them no harm.
Large patches of these littie zcillas
make vivid displays in late April and
carly May and they are being used
more and more lavishly. There is a
white variety, but it is rarely sean.
Other scillas of value are the “blue
bells” of England, Scilla nutans, and
the Spanish hyacinth, Scilla campen-
ulata, the latter being the best known
of stronger growth and later bloom,
with spikes of miniature hyacinth
bloom in blue, pink and white. It
makes effective groups in shady cor-
ners, and is now being used with fine
effect to naturalize in woods. It is
cne of the very attractive early spring
bulbs, coming into bloom early in May
just as the Siberian squills are pass-
ing out of the picture.
Most gardeners like the blue form
best, but the pink gives a fine effect
in quantity. They are best planted
in colonies of separate colors, as they
do not appear to good advantage in
mixed groups.
. They should be planted about three
inches deep while the little Siberians
needs to go down only two inches.
Tulip beds carpeted with Siberian
squills give two seasons of vivid dis-
play as the sheet of blue is at the
‘height of its beauty before the leaves
of the tulips have expanded sufficient- |
ly to hide the lower growing bulbs.
Plans insuring an adequate supply
and pleasing variety of fruit and veg-
etable foods for the winter months
have been worked out by women in
many States who have acted on the
advice of home demonstration agents.
These take the form of canning bud-
gets which often include meats and
poultry products and fruit and veg-
etables required during the winter
months for well-balanced meals. By
following such a budget a housewife
has the satisfaction of a wisely
stocked pantry, and she saves time,
energy, and money. The budget used
in Arkansas provides fruit and vege-
tables for a family of five for six
months. Under this plan the house-
wife would can 72 quarts of tomatoes
to be used three times a week; 12
quarts of carrots, 24 of beets, 48 of
string beans, 24 of okra, and 24 each
of sauerkraut, corn, English peas, and
soup mixture. The fruit would be di-
vided into 72 quarts each of peaches
and blackberries, 48 of apples, 24
each of plums, pears, and fruit juices,
and 12 quarts of huckleberries. An
allowance of 1 pint of preserves and
two glasses of jelly per week com-
plete the canning budget.
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home garden.
FARM NOTES.
The first step in pruning is the re-
moval of all dead, injured or diseased
canes.
Paint makes buildings last longer
of the farmstead also is enhanced by
well-painted buildings.
The Premier strawberry is very
much liked at the present time. Big
Joe, Glen Mary, Stevens and Dunlap
are also worth considering.
Pruning of currants and gooseber-
ries before the first of April is rec-
ommended by the New Jersey State
College of Agriculture, New Bruns-
wick.
This is a good time to look over
fences and buildings for repairs.
Complete hauling out all manure and
clean all buildings so that you may
have clean storage for crops.
Early estimates indicate that over
a half million chicks will be brooded
this year in the clean chick project
of the agricultural extension service
of the Pennsylvania State College.
Last year 101 farms in the State
brooded 67,224 chicks by the healthy
chick method.
Reports from 2228 eggs producers
in Pennsylvania indicate eggs are sold
to 15 different types of buyers. Net
prices received by those selling di-
rect to consumer are approximately
ten cents a dozen higher than those
selling to county stores receive, seven
cents higher than those selling to
New York wholesalers get, and six
cents more than the hucksters pay.
In answer to the question, “Why
is not poison used to combat the corn
borer?” entomologists say that the
insect spends nearly all of its life
hidden within the corn stalks where
it cannot be reached by poisons. The
moths deposit their eggs over a per-
iod of three weeks, so that newly
hatched corn borers are present
throughout a similar period. Some
of the borers can be killed by spray-
ing or dusting at this time but the
expense of several applications is too
great to make the method practic-
able,
The acreage of barley in Pennsyl-
vania is increasing steadily, especial-
iy in the northern section of the State
where corn for grain is somewhat un-
certain. In the grain feeding ration
barley takes the place of corn, states
county agent, R. C. Blaney, and many
farmers prefer it. Yields varying
from 40 to 60 bushels were obtained
during the past year. Barley should
not be sown on poor land or on soil
that is very acid. Wherever clover
will grow the soil is sweet enough
for barley. On poor, sour land oats
give better results than barley. While
beardless barley is desirable from the
standpoint of comfort and conven-
ience, it is a very low yicider. It av-
erages 10 to 20 bushels an acre be-
low the bearded varieties. Barley is
one nf the best nurse crops for al-
falfa, clover, and grass seeding. It
does not shade the ground as much
as oats and is harvested earlier.
Early vegetables may be started in-
doors on a very small scale for the
County agent, R. C.
Blaney, says you will need a warm
room, not too cold at night nor too
warm in the day; a sunny window,
preferably south or east; a shallow
wooden box, which has shallow holes
in the bottom or cracks between the
boards for drainage, and in the box
about three inches of good garden
soil, not toc rich and not too stiff.
Sow the seeds in rows about two
inches apart, he states. The soil must
be kept moist, but not too wet. A
newspaper spread over the surface
keeps the soil from drying out before
the seeds begin to come up, but the
paper must be removed promptly af-
ter the seedlings begin to break the
soil. Tomato seeds should be planted
eight or ten weeks before the plants
are transplanted into the garden.
Early cabbage plants require from
six to eight weeks. Tomato plants
should be thinned about two inches
apart each way. Better plants, es-
pecially of tomatoes, may be grown
by setting them singly into flower
pots, berry boxes, paper boxes, or tin
cans with drainage holes punched in
the bottom.
Orchards may be pruned any time
during winter or early spring, accord-
ing to the State College of Agricul-
ture at Ithaca, N. Y. Although mn
some winters the wounds may dry
back, it is seldom serious.
In pruning apples trees, the aim
should be to get rid of old and weak
wood. To do this, cut only such large
branches as interfere with other ones,
and thin the smaller branches all ov-
er the trees, particularly on the out-
side. Pruning the small branches aids
the fruit spurs and thus increases
the size and quality of fruit.
Pear trees, particularly young pear
trees, should be pruned lightly. Since
an epidemic of blight may seriously
damage a pear tree and shorten its
life, as much fruit as possible should
be obtained early in the life of the
orchard. Experiments at the state
college show that light pruning re-
| sults in early development with quick
commercial returns. Less blight is
also encountered where the pruning is
light. In view of this it seems best
to give pear trees light pruning the
first ten years, rather than heavy cut-
ting back as is sometimes practiced.
Sufficient pruning to avoid rubbing
limbs and weak crotches is desirable,
however. A careful watch should be
kept also for blighted branches and
these should be removed.
After the trees are well in bearing,
such varieties as Kieffer and Anjou
are benefited by heavier pruning. An-
jou, which frequently fails to set
fruit, may often produce a crop in
this way; the size of Keiffers may
also be improved by heavier pruning.
The trees should be kept reasonably
low and moderately open by sufficient
cutting back to laterals in the top and
around the outer margin. Large main
limbs should not ordinarily be cut
out unless they are blighted.
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slightest danger of injuring the sprouts or even cut seed. This season
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1. Requires less than 1 minute.
One man can easily treat from 200
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2 Can be used on cut or sprouted
seed without the slightest injury.
3. After cutting, protects the cut
surfaces from seed-rotting organ-
isms in the soil. This insures a
better stand of stronger plants.
4. Controls surface-borne diseases,
such as Rhizoctonia, scab and
black-leg.
5. Improves the stand and growth
of the plants, and thus increases
the yield 10 to 20%.
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Plant a few acres
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THE OLD WAY
Formaldehyde or
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1. Require from 1% to 2 hours.
One man can treat only from 50 to
75 bushels per day.
2. Can not be used on cut or
sprouted seed without injury.
3. Before cutting, give no protec-
tion to the cut surfaces. The seed
frequently decays in the ground
Deion the young plants get start-
ed.
4. Although effective against Rhiz-
octania, and scab, do not control
black-leg.
5. Frequently decrease the stand,
and therfore the yield, to a ser-
ious extent. .
One pound treats 15 to 20 bushels of seed potatoes.
Treat your Corn and Vegetable Seeds too
You can now also disinfect your seed corn and
vegetable seeds with DIPDUST and increase your
vield by preventing many of the diseases which
cause poor germination, weak, spindly plants, and
poor quality crop.
Simply use as a dust treat-
It is easily and quickly applied and costs
but a few cents per acre.
will treat six bushels of seed corn, or from six to
eight bushels of vegetable seed.
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RUNKLE’S DRUG STORE
BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
Bush Arcade.
Next, Door to Bell Telephone Office
thing in our store.
Costume Jewelry
in all the latest modes and fancies.
All the newest and latest on hand.
‘Remember “This
You can gather together your OLD DIS-
CARDED JEWELRY—watches—rings
—chains, etc., and we will allow you its
ACTUAL WORTH in exchange for any-
F. P. BLAIR 8 SON
BELLEFONTE, PA.
34-34
SELECTING YOUR MEATS.
When you enter our butcher
shop be sure to scan our display
of choice cuts leisurely before
you make your selections.
there is anything out of the or-
dinary that you want and it is
not displayed you may be sure
we have it in our refrigerator, so
please ask for it.
the choice meats that are in sea-
son.
If
We carry all
We solicit your patronage.
Telephone 667
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat
Market