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“Bellefonte, Pa., April 13, 1928.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
CHRONIC JOINT INFLAMMATION
(ARTHRITIS.)
- Please imagine your chronic inflam-
mation of the joints (chronic arthri-
tis) as a safe, and on the dial lock, in-
stead of numbers, have infected teeth,
overweight, underweight, unbalanced
diets, chronic constipation, lack of ex-
ercise, infected nasal sinuses, chronic
infection of the ears, and other chron-
ic infections.
Now in order to open a safe, you
have to twist the dial around to dif-
ferent numbers. Perhaps turning the
dial to one “number” will open the
safe of your arthritis. Perhaps you
may have to turn it to several before
it will open.
This illustration is used by Dr.
Hench, the physician in charge of
the arthritis patients at the Mayo
Clinic. He speaks of overweight as
a double factor; the unbalanced diet
which causes the accumulation of
weight lowers the resistance; and
then the physical drag on the joints
and muscles, by the weight of the
fat, making the joint trouble worse.
While the chronic joint inflamma-
tions are due most often to bacteria
or to their poisons, from infectious
spots elsewhere in the body, perhaps
most often in the tonsils and teeth,
the evidence shows that in many cases
the lowered resistance due to unhy-
gienic habits, especially improper di-
et, is the factor which allows these
germs and their poisons to settle on
the joints and elsewhere. It is es-
pecially the unbalance of the diet by
excess starches and sugars which
seems to cause this lowered resist-
ance. It has been found in many of
these patients that there is what we
call a lowered sugar tolerance (sug-
ars include starches, as these are con-
verted into sugars before being ab-
sorbed). But not to the same degree
as in diabetes. So, in these cases,
aside from finding the original focus
of infection and treating that, a diet
which limits the starches and sugars,
is indicated.
GETTING MOST FROM SUNSHINE.
Recently the outdoor temperature
was 85. I pulled down a window and
let the sun shine on the thermometer,
and it soon stood at 120 degrees. I
then put thes window up and let the
sun shine on the thermometer and it
went down to 110 degrees. Ten de-
grees was reflected or absorbed. Now
in order to get the most heat -one:} )
g Su -about* $1.25 each. All eggs will be
hatched under domestic hens, this
should sit on a stool and let the sun-
light strike the body at right angles.
If you lie down you get the rays at
about 45 degrees and a large amount
is reflected away and lost.
In order te get 120 degrees the sky
must be clear and free from little,
white misty clouds. This condition
will run the thermometer down to 90
or 95 degrees and no heat will be
felt. But when the sky gets clear,
then you will know you are getting it
and no imagination will be needed.
FOR A COLD.
At this time of the year most all
of us find ourselves seized with a bad
cold which oftimes remains stubborn-
ly with us. Here is a remedy which
the writer has found a most potent
preventative of taking a cold:
Purchase a ten-cent bottle of vase-
line and two ounces of oil of euca-
lyptus; remove lid from vaseline, jab
four or five holes in vaseline, pour
these full of the oil of eucalyptus,
cover, let stand awhile; take a strong
wooden toothpick, twist some cotton
on one end, dip this end into the mix-
ture after thoroughly stirring and
swab into the nasal passages up as
far as you can. It has been found
that goose grease or bear oil mixed
and used in this way have proven
more quickly effective and penetrat-
ing. After using, note the free and easy
breathing. It is suggested to use the
above three or four times daily and
especially before going to church or
the theatre or any place where a
crowd is apt to be assembled these
winter days. An “ounce of prevention
i$ worth pounds of cure.”
3 REDUCING DIET.
There are two ways to grow slim.
One is to eat what you want but very
little of it; the other is to eat all you
want but choose the right things.
Calories, those little enemies which
make you tip the scales at an embar-
rassing figure, lurk in such foods as
butter, cream, cheese, bacon, eggs, fat
- meat, cakes, potatoes, cereals and
bread—-all foods which are rich in!
She who | maintaining an adequate game sup-
.starches, sugars and fats.
covets the bean-pole silhouette should
avoid them like poison. In middle
age, it is dangerous to be fat. If we
subtract the calories, we will add it
to our vitality.
But there is no necessity for going
around hungry. We may eat gen-
erously of fruits and green vegetables,
with an occassional egg or helping of
lean meat, and two or three cups of
whole milk, or better still of butter-
milk, daily.
Fruits and vegetables tone the sys-
tem, provide corrective mineral salts
and vitamins, their bulk encourages
elimination. If you feel hungry be-
tween meals, drink a glass of water
It will fill the stomach and make you
forget your discomfort.
To keep the teeth, mouth, stomach
and alimentary canal clean and free
from the poisons likely to accumulate
around and in them, use plenty of
fruit. Before you go to bed, brush
the teeth thoroughly, then drink a
glass of water into which has been |
squeezed the juice of half a lemon.
In the morning repeat the process
with the other half.
RING-NECKED PHEASANTS
AND WILD TURKEYS.
The Board of Game Commissioners
is taking an important step toward
perfecting Pennsylvania’s system of
game managment in deciding to ex-
periment with the rearing of ring-
necked pheasants and wild turkeys
within the confines of the Common-
wealth. An ideal game State furn-
ishes its own game without depend-
ing upon outside sources. Large
game within the State, such as the
white-tailed deer and black bear are
holding their own; cotton-tail rabbits
may be purchased outside the State
at reasonable cost; but ringneck
pheasants and wild turkeys may be
purchased only in limited numbers
and excessive prices. The game com-
mission proposes, therefore, to use
money heretofore devoted to purchase
of game, in rearing these game birds
on such refuges as are suited to the
development of game propagating
plants.
Ring-neck pheasants have become
very popular as game birds in Penn-
sylvania. They are not only hand-
some as trophies, but their flesh is
delicate in flavor, and as they learn
the meaning of dogs and guns they
become very clever in evading the
hunter. The presence of ring-neck
pheasants in Pennsylvania, in reliev-
ing the burden of shooting from other
game birds, accomplishes more in the
way of saving our grouse, bob-whites
and wild turkeys than ony other sin-
gle feature of our game management,
and the hunter is satisfied to pursue
the ring-neck, realizing, as he does,
that it is a worthy game bird. By
rearing her own birds Pennsylvania
will be assured of health, acclimated
stock, and will not be embarrassed by
difficulty in locating birds suitable for
her uses. She will have a constant
supply with which to stock depleted
areas whenever such kestocking is
necessary.
The game comimssion plans to dis-
tribute eggs among the various ref-
uges where there is open ground
sufficiently extensive for establishing
propagating plants and where the
refuge keepers can handle this work
along with other activities. Arrange-
ments are now being made to equip
these game refuges with hatching
coops and exercising pens. About
500 of these pens will distributed
shortly. Later on breeding pens will
be provided for a few of the refuges
where some of the adult birds will
be held for the production of fertile
eggs.
The New York State conservation
commission is so much interested in
the success of this undertaking, that
she has offered to donate 5,000 pheas-
ant eggs for Pennsylvania’s use. New
York’s State game farms have been
successful in rearing ring-necks, and,
in the co-operative spirit which char-
acterizes the conservation movement
throughout the country today, she
generously gives the aid. An addi-
tional 5,000 pheasant eggs will be pur-
chased at a cost of about 25 cents
each. New York’s $1,250 gift is evi-
dence of the friendliness of that great
State. Two hundred wild turkey eggs
have, .been ordered.. They will cost
method having been most sucecssful
in other States.
Rearing ring-necks and wild tur-
keys is not an easy task; but the
Board of Game Commissioners knows
that what has been accomplished by
others can also be accomplished with-
in Pennsylvania. . A capable man has
been placed in charge of propagation
work within the Bureau of Refuges
and Lands. He has made a careful
study of several large game farms in
the east and will travel from refuge
to refuge instructing refuge keepers
as to how to set the eggs and care
for the chicks. Written instructions
from the Bureau of Refuges and
Lands have already gone out to ref-
uge keepers, and it is expected that
shipment of materials required for
propagation plants will be made with-
in a few weeks. The game commission
expects to spend about $12,000 this
spring in providing equipment, pur-
chasing domestic hens and game bird
eggs, and so forth, in inaugurating
the game-bird propagating program.
: This is a very small amount of money
to devote to a project which prom-
ises to furnish sportsmen a great
amount of outdoor pleasure in hunt-
ing, at an eventual saving of funds.
It is barely possible that a few of
the 10,000 eggs which will be avail-
able this spring will not be allotted
to game refuge keepers for hatching.
Should there be a surplus these eggs
may be distributed to trustworthy
sportsmen’s organizations and indi-
vidual farmers and sportsmen who
will co-operate with the game com-
mission in the work of hatching and
rearing the young birds. All of the
will turkey eggs will be cared for by
refuge keepers. Pennsylvania may
eventually rear a sufficient number
of ring-necks rom her propagating
plants on game refuges to distribute
eggs to farmers and sportsmen with-
in the Commonwealth for hatching,
and thus help in the pleasant work of
ply.
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Reforestation by the State.
The department of forests and wat-
ers is planning a large scale plant-
ling ‘on State owned forest lands this
spring. Last year the department
placed approximately 650,000 young
trees on lands owned by the Common-
wealth.
Six species of trees will be planted
from stock raised at the various State
owned nurseries. The varieties to be
planted include white pine, Scotch
pine, Norway spruce, larch, red oak
and white ash.
Since the State began its refores-
tation program it has planted more
than 40 million young trees. At the
present time the Comomnwealth has
title to about 1,143,000 acres of for-
est land. It has contracted for the
purchase of about 68,000 additional
acres.
Next month the department ex-
pects to ship from its nurseries ap-
proximately 12,000,000 young trees to
individuals and companies.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
I know there are no errors
In the great eternal plan,
And all things work together
For the final good of man.
And I know when my soul speeds on-
ward :
In its grand eternal quest,
I shall say as I look earthward,
Whatever is—is best.
—Ella W. Wilcox.
I’m almost dizzy looking at dots.
Yes, they’re on everything, it seems.
The first use I noticed was in a short-
coated ensemble in red and white
dotted silk, and the clever feature of
this model was the use of the reverse
eolor combinations. Champ commun-
al sponsored this particular outfit, but
they're all doing it.
Dots were prevalent on many of
the afternoon frocks, and Yteb is
combining the dotted satins with plain
satin in some of the most charming
effects you can imagine. Regny,
Marthe et Rene, Redfern and Lelong
dot their newest models, and the dots
are of all sizes and combinations of
color—sometimes they're graduated,
but they all look smart and jaunty.
To be in the forefront just now, it
seems, you must be feminine but not
fussy. The best houses are using ruf-
fles, jabots, bows, cascades, drapery
and panels, and yet somehow they
achieve dignity and charm. Perhaps
it’s the subtle way they do it—-I know
the effects are not going to be easily
copied by any but designers with real
style sense.
Gingham will be more in evidence
this year than ever before. The new
designs are even lovelier than last
year, which is saying a great deal.
Tor every design there comes a plain
one-tone gingham tc match the pre-
dominating color in the design, or the
background into which the design is
woven. Beach coats of gingham have
already become popular. The colors
are guaranteed not to run. Some
women, who do their own house work,
have taken up the fad of wearing the
three piece sleeveless shirt and coolie
coat, for housework clothes.
There are some charmingly small
patterns in bright colors, especially
adapted to children’s wear. Some of
the new gingham frocks for children
seen in the smart shops are hand em-
broidered, or smocked. One of a fine
blue and white check was smocked
into a yoke at the neck, and into cuffs
at the sleeves, in red silk. . The neck
was fastened with a red and blue silk
cord ending in tassels. A little frock
like this could be duplicated for a dol-
lar, if made at home. The exclusive
shop price was ten times that.
Trim tailor-made suits change but
little as the season’s fashions come
and go. Skirts drop an inch or two,
a coat may he wider at the shoulders
and the number of buttons may vary
from four to six. But these are real-
lv nothing but trifles. The best fea-
tures remain the same, a perfect cut
and trim smartness.
Some of the severe suits are
adapted to car, deck or train, and yet
retain their trimness and indivi
ity. Others of a more decorative
character are pretty and practical
enough for the average woman in all
circumstances.
Most of them have the skirt and
jacket of the same material, although
this arrangement may be varied and
a skirt of striped or checked suiting
worn with a plain coat. A chic model
has a brown and fawn-checked cloth
skirt with a plain brown coat. A hy-
acinth-blue and white jacket has a
plain blue skirt. Another striking
model has a pleated skirt in black and
white plaid with a band of both black
and white around the short jacket of
black with a narrow leather belt.
Light tweeds in tones of biege,
brown and grey are used as well as
fine black and blue hopsack.
Skirts show box-pleats all around
with the waists box-pleated in front,
or with three or four pleats at the
sides. Some have two panels overlap-
ping at the back and in front. Now and
again one finds an advanced model cut
with a trouser skirt, the trouser por-
tion being obscured by groups of
pleats in front and a plain panel at
the back.
Rasmus, who certainly makes some
of the loveliest tailor-mades in Paris,
puts the skirts low on the hipline
where they stay “put” and the blouse
then really blouses over.
The return of taffeta into full fash-
ion leads one to think that all women
will be rustling into church this sea-
son. For the new variety is really
the old one our great grandmothers
used to wear, the very crisp and
stand-up-alone kind.
Taffeta comes for morning, noon
and night wear. Black taffeta is good
for town wear and there are some
delightful tailor-mades in navy-blue,
the skirt cut lightly on form, the
coat short and semi-fitting with a long
scarf collar which ties in a bow. Un-
der it is a white lingerie blouse with
embroidery and frills down the front,
Afternoon gowns of taffeta often
have short capes which tie in the
front with long scarf ends. Some
have gathered yokes on the shoulders
and sharply-scalloped hems; others
are flatly flounced. Sleeves may, be
long or to the elbow with frills and
there are often fichus or organdie,
net or ochre lace.
You can remove pecan meats whole.
Just pour boiling water over the nuts
and let them stand until cold, then
hold the nut on end and with a ham-
mer strike the small end of the nut.
You can clean windows and mirrors
beautifully with thin cold starch?
Rub it on and when dry wipe off with
a soft cloth. The glass will be clear
and have a brilliant polish.
If you place some thin pieces of
raw beef along the inside of the pot
—between the pot and the soil—your
ferns will grow better.
A bsuy man’s vacation should be
taken in broken doses; a safer plan
than a prolonged one taken after ex-
haustion develops.
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FARM NOTES.
Actual needs of the garden should
govern the purchase of garden tools.
Small gardens need fewer tools than
large gardens.
Feed early lambs grain so that they
will grow rapidly. They should be in
condition to market in June before
western competition begins.
Spring is the time to locate wet
spots that need draining. They show
up at this time. Map out the drains
and dig them when opportunity of-
fers.
Valuable farm and garden items
are broadcast by specialists every
Tuesday night, 6.30 to 7.30, from the
Pennsylvania State College radio sta-
tion, WPSC.
Now is the time to start hotbeds
for early vegetables if not already
started. They should be placed in a
sheltered corner where they will re-
ceive plenty of sunlight.
Go over all the harnesses, make re-
pairs and grease them thoroughly.
See that the harness fits the horse
which is to wear it. An ill-fitting
set of harness lowers the efficiency of
the animal.
Are you sure your seed corn will
grow. If not, test it. The work will
not take long and you then will know
whether your supply of seed is sat-
isfactory or whether you will have to,
seek elsewhere.
The butter should be reasonably
well drained in the churn before salt-
ing. Then take one-half ounce of
salt for each pound of butter, and
sprinkle the salt over the butter.
If you have a litter of pigs or sev-
eral litters nominate one or all for
the 1928 Keystone Litter Club. Your
county agent will help you and will
give you some good feeding combina-
tions for profitable pork production.
For hogs, alfalfa is the best pas-
ture obtainable, furnishing a maxi-
mum of ideal forage throughout the
season, even in dry weather. As many
as 20 shoats can be carried on an
acre. Try to plant some alfalfa this
spring.
Shrubs and trees grown for their
flowers should not be pruned until af-
ter flowering. Spring flowering
plants form their buds during the pre-
vious season so that they will be
ready to burst into bloom with the
first few warm days of spring.
One of the most important consid-
erations in building up a soil for fu-
ture vegetable growing is that of
improving the phvsical condition by
the addition of organic matter or hu-
mus, This is done by turning under
manure or other vegetative material.
Be sure to rake off the mulch on
shrubbery borders and flower beds be-
fore active growth starts. If this is
left on too long it softens the plants.
Do not remove the mulch, however, on
a bright sunny day, say landscape
architects of the Pennsylvania State
College.
The owner of a cow which produced
10,5684 pounds of milk and 542.6
pounds of butterfat last year was
asked, “What is the cheapest and best
form of food for dairy cows?”
“Pure water,” he replied; “only be
sure that the water is put in the cow
and not in the milk can.”
Farm management specialists of
the Pennsylvania State College de-
clare that a few days taken off for
trout fishing after April 15. when the
season opens, will do any farmer
good. After the rest and relaxation
cf such sport more work can be donz
than if no vacation were taken.
Early spring days can be used for
cleaning up the trash, sticks, and tin
cans accumulated around the yard
during the winter. With flytime not
far away, this is a gocd time to re-
pair and paint screens. The garden
tools also can be repaired and the
lawn furniture and trellises given a
coat of paint.
In cornstalks remaining on feed lots
the corn borers usually stay in them:
throughout the winter. Where the
stalks are completely trampled under
the surface of liquid manure or mud
the borers are destroyed, but if any
parts of the stalks remain protrud-
ing from the surface the borers take
refuge in them and may survive.
In answer to the question, when do
corn borer moths fly, State College
entomologists say that they fly most-
ly in the dusk at evening or at night. ;
The moths are not attracted to lights |
in sufficient numbers to make them
effective for trap purposes. Many
kinds and colors of lights have been
tested but none has proved effective.
Rivers and streams may carry:
plant material containing live corn
borars.
quantities of old cornstalks are car-
ried downstream from infested areas
and lodge on banks in clean territory.
It is important, therefore, say State
College entomologists, that all corn
refuse be kept away from the
streams.
If sown early in the spring, cover-
ing alfalfa seed seems no more neces-
sary than for clover. The inoculating
bacteria also seem able to withstand
freezing and sunlight at this season,
although the greater number of hac-
teria and the slight protection iur-
nished by some system of soil inoe-
ulation is probably advantageous
when the seed is not covered.
Successful growers of alfalfa find
that lime and inoculation are very
important in the growing of this val-
vable legume. Where more than a
ton of lime is needed, however, farm
crops specialists of the Pennsylvania
State College suggest that part be
put on two or three years before
seeding and then another test be made
and the remainder applied the year
befora seeding.
Old lawns should be carefully gone
over at this time. Unsightly depres-
sions that cannot be removed by roll-
ing can be eliminated by uplifting the
sod, filling with good soil, and replac-
ing the sod. Where this is not prac-
ticed fine loam to a depth not exceed-
ing three inches can be filled over the
existing lawn and the surface seeded.
The existing grass will force its way
through the new soil.
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Photo taken on farm of J. C. Seabrook, Rockville, S. C. DIPDUST ireated
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Frome seed f
TREATED WITH
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seed yielded 26 bushels more per acre than same seed not treated.
Increase Your Potato Yield
15 to 25 Bushels per Acre
with This Instantaneous Dip
Treat your seed potatoes as fast you can scoop them up. Just dip
them in DIPDUST solution and out again—all ready to plant.
DIPDUST protects the seed and insures a heavy, profitable yield.
Tt is much more effective than the old-fashioned “two-hour soak”
treatment—besides there is not the slightest danger of injuring the
sprouts or even cut seed.
After one trial of DIPDUST you will never again waste two hours
treating seed potatoes or spend two weeks worrying about your stand.
Compare this New Treatment with the older ones:
THE NEW WAY
Dipdust Organic
Mercury Disinfectant
1. Requires less than 1 minute.
One man can easily treat from 200
to 400 bushels of potatoes per day.
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%.
GUARANTEE
Plant a few acres
of DIPDUST treat-
ed seed in alternate
rows with untreated
seed. If, at digging
time, you are not
satisfied, return the
empty DIPDUST
can to us and we
refund price paid.
ment.
THE OLD WAY
Formaldehyde or
Corrosive Sublimate
1. Require from 13% to 2 hours.
Ore 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
Votore 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
yield by preventing many of the diseases which
cause poor germination, weak, spindly plants, and
poor quality crop.
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. 2
Simply use as a dust treat-
One pound of DIPDUST
The Bayer Company, Inc., Agricultural Dept., 117 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y.
&DIPDUST
4 ounces - 50 cents
1 pound - $1.75
5 pounds - $8.00
RUNKLE’S DRUG STORE
BELLEFONTE, PENNA.
Bush Arcade. Next. Door to Bell Telephone Office
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
THE FAMILY HEALTH
is guarded by the butcher; for
the quality of meats and their
proper refrigeration go a long
way toward keeping the family
in good health and vigor. When
you buy from us quality is as-
sured, for we handle only the
choicest cuts, the kind you enjoy
eating. Let us prove to you our
ability to serve you better. \
Telephone 667
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
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