Demorraic Walden, “Bellefonte, Pa., September 28, 1928. rama Your Health, The First Concern. — Vou have heard the story of the little boy who was asked by his teach- er how to spell a certain word? He spelled it correctly, and the teacher responded automatically: “That’s good’. The little boy tersely remark- ed: “Gee, teacher, that’s morn good; that’s perfect.” X. wants to know if the banana is a good food. I feel like answering her as this little boy did his teacher. Bananas have come into their own in recent years. They used to be in disrepute, especially for children, but that was because they were given in an unripe state and not thoroughly masticated. Thoroughly ripe bananas (when they are thoroughly ripe they have specks of brown on their skin) are not only very delicious, but they contain a carbohydrate or sugar that is one of the most easily digested, and they are a good source of lime and iron. In a certain inetestinal disease— celias disease—in which children can- not digest the usual starchy foods, it is found that they can digest ripe bananas, and these are given to the exclusion of all other starches. Chil- dren (and adults) suffering from oth- er intestinal upsets can also take ban- anas when they can’t take other starches. Infants as young as four or five months can take pureed ripe bananas. The caloric value of the banana, weight for weight, is higher than oth- er fruits, so it is a splendid gaining food. For example, one banana, weighing 5% ounces, is 100 C., as com- pared to one fresh apple weighing 73 ounces, same number of calories. —The hot water compress for the relief of pain is a well-known house- hold remedy, but it is sometimes in- convenient. Heat applied by an in- candescent electric light has the same effect as the hot compress, in that its heat rays are more penetrating; it has further advantage of the light rays. If you haven’t one of the therapeu- tic lamps which can be obtained inex- pensively, you can rig up a light with an extension cord, and a shade which will focus the light. It must always be remembered that pain is a symptom, merely, and should be investigated. E.—Water comprises about two- thirds of the body weight. It is nec- essary for all of the body fluids and secretions, and it is a part of every cell in the body; it holds the food elements in solution until they are de- posited where they are needed, and carries away waste products. About two and one-half quarts of water are eliminated normally from the lungs, kidneys, skin and intestines daily, and we must supply this loss. The normal person should take from four to eight glasses a day, in addition to that which is taken in food. Chil- dren’s bodies have a higher percent- age of water than adults’, so they need more water in proportion to their weight than do adults. It is a good practice to have regu- lar times for water drinking, say one or two glassfuls before breakfast (this can be taken moderately hot if . liked) and one or two between meals. Children should always have some be- tween meals, and especially during hot weather. Yes, water drinking at meals is all right, E., unless excessive amounts are taken and unless it is used to wash the foods down. Ice water and other iced drinks are permissible in ‘moderation; these should be taken slowly, for if taken too rapidly and in too large amounts, they may cause severe intestinal disturbances, both in «children and in adults. —Overweight, diabetes, certain forms of arthritis, many forms of skin diseases, and certain intestinal diseases are some of the undesirable things that may follow the prolonged excess consumption of starches and sugars. Now here is something else, which may prove to be very important. 1 get the data from a report given in one of the A. M. A. journals. Recently, before the Belgian Acad- emy of Medicine, Sloss and Reding presented researches which showed that there were changes in the sugar regulatory mechanism in the pre- cancerous stage in their cases. 1t was manifested by the considerable height and duration of the phase of hyperglycemia (over-sugar in the blood). In animals, experiments have shown that cancer may also have some re- lation to the vitamin deficiency. Those who have an unbalanced diet, especially one containing excess starches and sugars, usually take too little of the foods containing vitamins And even though they are getting a good supply of them, they are rela- tively deficient—or perhaps they are not absorbed because of the excesses. It seems to me that sooner or later .concer will be found to be a so-called deficiency disease. Now, please do not jump to the conclusion that I think there is some diet that will cure cancer. I do think that the right diet may prevent the disorderly chemistry of the body that apparently is necessary, with some other form of irritation, to produce cancer. But the only cure of cancer known now is the immediate attention of surgery or radium or X-ray, or other things that are used by the scientific surgeon. And naturally, if the diet is right, they will be more effective. PUBLIC HELP SOUGHT IN DRIVE FOR SAFETY. Secretary of Highways James Lyall Stuart today made an appeal to par- ents and motorists for the exercise of caution and safety on highways during the present school season. “School children of all ages return- ing to their desks after the summer vacation are called upon to run the gauntlet of traffic day,” Secretary Stuart said. “The two recess periods of the day increase the child hazard. It is the plain duty of every motorist to exercise the greatest caution during the periods these children are on the streets. “My appeal is based on the toll of : 143 children under 15 years of age killed by motor vehicles during the first seven months of 1928. same period, departmet records show, 2135 children under 15 were injured, many of them permanently,” the sec- cetary continued. “Parents have a duty, the impor- tance of which cannot be overempha- sized, and that is to teach children to cross streets at the corner, first looking to left and then to right for approaching automobiles. Teachers are making valiant efforts in this work, but the bulk of it must be done by parents, who are in a position to demand the respect and obedience of their children. “Let us trace this year’s list of pedestrian casualties on the highways and streets of Pennsylvania, which witnessed the destruction of 199 lives and injuries in varying degrees suf- fered by 2694 others. “Five persons were killed and six- ty-one injured at protected crossings when they crossed against the sig- nal. Six were killed and twenty-sev- en injured as they crossed at unpro- tected corners. “Short-cutting the intersection in a diagonal direction cost 125 injuries, but the worst habit of all, that of crossing between intersections, in the middle of a block, appearing in the street from behind parked cars along the curb, collected the heaviest toll. “In seven months forty-seven per- song were killed and 790 injured from this one cause, which cannot be laid entirely to the door of the driver, who is not expecting pedestrians to appear suddenly, and who seldom has a chance due to heavy traffic lanes, to swerve aside and avoid the pedes- trians. “Motorists are more directly to blame for the next item, namely, two deaths and forty injuries to persons leaving or boarding street cars and the same is true of one death and twenty-two injuries to persons stand- ing on safety aisles. in] “Parents must face part of the re- sponsibility for the loss of thirteen child-lives and 175 injuries to chil dren, all of them due to playing on the street. Riding or hitching on vehicles cost several little lives and 162 injuries. “When children see the example set by their elders and parents in defiance of all the laws of safety, there ig little wonder that an annual procession of white caskets fills the streets and highways, while clanging ambulances hurry to hospitals, where surgeons passa’ ‘sorrowing judgment—‘You are doomed to go through life a hopeless cripple, with none of the pleasures and advantages of your healthy, body- whole playmates.’ “Motorists and parents alike must strive to end this stream of blood. If you are appalled by the death and wounds of the World War, compare them with the nation’s traffic casual- ties of the past ten years, equivalent to several divisions of an army.” Farmers May Find New Revenue Source from Walnut Stumps. “T‘he pot of gold may be in, not under the old walnut tree stump. That is, if they are the right kind of stumps and if you have enough of them.” That was the information made public today by officials of the De- partment of Forests and Waters, who report a good demand for old walnut stumps that are suitable for veneer. A representative of the Depart- ment who is making special tree growth studies in Western Pennsyl- vania has reported that agents in some sections are willing to pur- chase all walnut stumps that meet the requirements. He told of one instance near Mt. Morris, Greene county, where a farm- er gladly accepted $10 for three stumps. The agent agreed to dig them out and haul them away. The best walnut stumps, officials said, are from large trees cut many years ago. The more aged and gnarled the stump, the better veneer it will make. Deer Damage Young Trees. Until damage by deer has been re- duced, employees of the board of game commissioners will curtail their annual reforestation work, in such sections, W. Gard Conklin, chief of the bureau of lands and refuges, says. Conklin cited two instances where persistent damage by deer has caused refuge keepers to declare that their efforts to reforest nearby land had been futile. George Ryder, keeper of Refuge No. 12, in Bradford county, reported that practically all of the 117,370 forest tree seedlings which he planted have been destroyed. The planting covered a six-year period and each year an increasing percentage of the seedlings which had survived were destroyed. Practically the same conditions {have been reported from Clearfield and Elk: counties. At one refuge Le- roy Jefferson, the keeper, planted 14, 885 seedlings in a three-year period. In a report to Conklin he said that scarcely one of them survive. —Pennsylvania’s death rate of 11.4 in 1927, was exactly the same as for the entire birth registration area of the United States, according to a re- port prepared by the bureau of vital statistics of the State Department of Health. The area includes thirty- seven States. four times each ; In the FARM NOTES. —It pays to hog down corn, but not "so well if you don’t give the hogs , tankage and minerals on the side. | Tests have shown that even when soy beans have been planted in the corn, or the hogs have the run of clover or alfalfa, they still need tank- age—and minerals always. “Let them help themselves to the tankage in a self feeder,” says Professor Evvard, of the Towa State College. But skim “milk or buttermilk will do well and iis not so expensive. | Stomach worms average about 1 inch in length, sometimes reach 1% inches. They have abont the thick- ness of a pin and are of reddish cop- ‘per color. The females are larger than the males and are spirally strip- ed with red and white. Here they ! may be seen in great numbers swim- ming around in the liquid or clinging to the stomach walls. There are quite a number of compounds on the mar- ket for the eradication of the worms, some better than others. —Cows that go into winter quar- ters in a thin condition cannot be ex- pected to do full duty at the milk pail. It will also cost more to bring them back to flesh than if they had re- ceived grain during the pasture sea- son says County Agent Ross. Dairy cows that have not been getting grain this summer will do better if they are fed extra grain at this time. This is especially true of cows that do not freshen until winter or next spring. When cows become reduced in flesh it is practically impossible to bring them back into production, Ross de- clares. Supplementing short pasture with extra feed is profitable to the dairyman. —1In the past few years plant breed- ers have aimed at reducing the labor of harvesting and increasing the feed value of roots. As a result mangels and improved feeding varieties of sugar beets grown from the higher quality of seed, grow largely above the ground so that the difficulty of harvesting, which applies to the poor- er, rooty strains of sugar beet, has been eliminated. The modern types of mangel now grow almost entirely above the soil and can easily be har- vested even when the ground is froz- en slightly. The feeding content has been greatly increased, the sugar mangels and improved varieties of feeding sugar beets being especially recommended in this connection. course, in this case, as with all crops, it is particularly important to use on- ly the very best seed procurable. —The supply of manure on some farms is wholly inadequate to the plant-food needs. Anything that can be done to increase the value and ef- ficiency of this manure means in- creased profits, or at least a lower fertilizer bill, which means the same thing. A ton of manure is equal in fertil- izing value to about 100 pounds of a 12:5.10 fertilizer; in other words, each ton of manure will contain 12 pounds of ammonia, 5 pounds of phos- phoric acid and 10 of potash. The weak spot of this analysis will be readily recognized as the low phos- phoric-acid content, as compared with and potash per ton of manure. This situation can be corrected by the addition of 5 pounds of 16 per cent superphosphate or about 40 pounds of 20 per cent. superphos- phate to each ton of manure. This addition of phosphoric acid will give an analysis of 12:13:10 to the treated manure, making each ton equal to about 100 pounds of 12:13:10 fertilizer in value. The practical ap- plciation of this treatment is that the available supply of manure on the farm, increased in fertilizing efficien- cy, can be applied less heavily with equal or better results than the un- treated, and can thus be made to cov- er an increased acreage of the farm each year. —Canker worms, variously known as “measuring worms,” span-worms or loopers are among the commonest tree insect pests reported to foresters of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters. The damage us- ually reported is done by two species commonly known as the spring can- kerworm. and the fall cankerworm. They attack shade, fruit and forest trees, and occasionally become so nu- merous as to completely defoilate for- est trees on large areas. Damage to the foliage of trees by the fall cankerworm, since it occurs after the growth of the season has been completed, is not usually so ser- ious, officials of the Department said. Healthy trees attacked by either spring or fall cankerworms will re- place their foilage. Repeated defoli- ation, however, especially upon oaks, leads to attack and injury of the weakened trees by bark and wood- boring insects. Cankerworms are the caterpillar stage of moths, and come from eggs laid by the female moths, which are wingless. The worms are smooth and about an inch long. The spring spe- cies is light mottled yellowish brown to black in color, and the fall canker- worm has a lemon-yellow stripe on each side, with three narrow white stripes along the back. The fall can- kerworm is chiefly a pest of fruit trees. The eggs of the fall cankerworm moth are fifty to a hundred in num- ber and arranged like little flower pots neatly placed together, in ir- regular bands that encircle the twigs near the end of the branches. Those of the spring cankerworm are egg- shaped and laid in irregular batches beneath the bark scales. Control of the cankerworm in the forest would not only be an excessive expense and impracticable, but is us- ually unnecessary. Natural enemies ordinarily afford adequate control in the forest. At least forty-two species of native birds feed upon canker- worms. Upon shade and fruit trees the can- kerworm may be controlled by band- ing and spraying. The kingless fe- males must crawl up the trees to de- posit their eggs, and infection may be prevented by banding the tree trunks with sticky substances that prevent ng to the limbs, branches and fo- iage. f | per hour, the Post Office department the relatively high supply of ammonia, 71-16-t LUMBER? Oh, Yes! Lumber, Sash, W.R. Shope Lumber Co. Call Bellefonte 432 Doors, Millwork and Roofing Heavy Toad Migration Due to Wet Weather. An unusual number of migrating toads is attributed by biologists of the United States Department of Ag- riculture to an extraordinarily wet season. There is on record a migra- tion of thousands of these little am- phibians along seven or eight miles of the Dalles-California highway on the east shore of Upper Klamath lake, Oregon. The toads were all moving in one direction across the road and automobiles were killing them by the hundreds. The live ones were hop- ping over the dead ones and contin- uing their journey. The dead toads probably furnished food for crows and magpies, as there was scarcely a toad carcass to be seen when the same re- gion was visited a day later. These toads, upon emergence from their winter hibernaton retreats, pro- ceed to the shadow edges of some lake, pond or stream, and the female begins laying from 4,000 to 15,000 eggs. The hatching period depends upon the temperature, usually requir- ing from three to twelve days. The transformation of a tadpole to a young toad takes place some time be- tween fifty and sixty-five days after hatching and under abnormal condi- tions has required two hundred days. The newly transformed toads leave the water and many of them perish | before they find some sheltered re- | treat. Under certain conditions lit- erally thousands of these young toads emerge from the water at the same time. Air Mail Planes to Pick Up Pouches Without a Stop. Despite the present record of trans- porting mail at the speed of 100 miles and operating companies are planning on even faster service, according to the American Air Transport associa- tion. i Successful tests of a device which | enables mail planes to pick up mail | while in flight is regarded by air | transport officials as an outstanding | development in the mail service. A mail plane, trailing a steel cable catch | line into a pickup shoot, snagged a 35 pound package without lowering the speed of the plane. Tests are to be made with the device on heavier loads. The mail sacks on the ground dur- | ing the tests that have been made | were held in a large V-shaped metal : trough with sides eight feet high. | The steel cable from the plane is drag- ged through a sand approach into | this trough which narrows down to a slit and there connects with a ring, jerking the sack upward. End of French Deam of American Empire. Miquelon and St. Pierre, two rocky . islands off the southern coast of New- foundland, are the only possessions of Franze in North America, says the Pathfinder Magazine. The National Geographic society says these tiny is- lands are now peopled by about 4,000 sturdy fisherfolk of Breton and Nor- man stock. These islands were first occupied by the French in 1660. The British cap- tured them in 1702, but gave them back to France in 1763 as a fishing station. Thus they are the sole rem- | nant of the great empire which | France once had in North America. Their importance is due to their proximity to the Great Banks, which makes them the center of the French fisheries. These fisheries are kept up by an elaborate system of bounties by the French government, which con- siders them important for training sailors for the navy. Metaphysical Problem. The doctor entered his reception room and found a typical old maid and hard-boiled gentleman awaiting his ministrations. Turning to his attendant, the phy- sician asked, “Which came first—the hen or the yegg?”—Judge. Look for this packag It contains the original SHREDDED The whole wheat, nothing added, nothing taken away—made digestible and ready-to-eat with : milk or fruits. ounces full-size biscuits 12 J | trusteed to hiis care. | Bellefonte ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices im all courts. Office, room 18 Crider's Exchange. b1-1y KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at- Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt at- tention given all legal business em- Offices—No. 5, East 57-44 High street. M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law and Justice of the Peace. All pro- fessional business will receive prompt attention. Offices on second floor of Temple Court. 49-5-1y G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con- sultation in English and German. Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belle- fonte, Pa. 58-8 PHYSICIANS R. R. L. CAPERS. OSTEOPATH. State College Crider’'s Ex. 66-11 Holmes Bldg. 8. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, State College, Centre county, Pa. Office at his residence. D. CASEBERER, Optometrist.—Regis- tered and licensed by the State. Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg. High St., Bellefonte, Pa. -22-tt VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by the State Board. State College, every day except Saturday, Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op- posite the Court House, Wednesday after- noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40 Feeds WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF WAYNE FEEDS IN STOCK AT ALL TIMES Wayne’s Egg Mash - $3.25 per H. Wayne’s Calf Meal - 4.25 per H. Wayne’s 32% Dairy Feed 3.10 per H. Wayne's 24% Dairy Feed 2.80 per H. Wagner's 30% Dairy Feed 2.70 per H. Wagner’s 22% Dairy Feed 2.50 per H. Wagner’s Pig Meal - 2.90 per II. Cotton Seed Meal, 43%, 3.50 per H. Oil Meal, 34% - - - 3.00 per H. Gluten feed, 23% - - 2.50 per H. Alfalfa - - - 2.25 per H. Tankage, 60% - - 4.25 per H. Meat Scrap, 45% - - 4.25 per H. Wagner's Egg Mash, Wagner's Scratch Feed, Cracked Corn, Chop, Bran, Middlings on Hand at All Times, at the Right Price. With the large crops of corn and oats let us grind your feed and make up your mixtures with cotton seed meal, oil meal, gluten and bran. 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