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LOVE'S ANCIENT OATH.
When I am old, and can no more re-
member
How water gleams beneath a golden
moon;
How coldly blue are shadows in De-
cember,
And how the bees hold carnival in
June;
When faintly sounds half-recollected
thunder,
And pale has grown the flame of sun-
set skies;
I shall recall, with all my old-time
wonder,
The dark, breath-taking beauty of
your eyes.
‘When I am old, almost too old for sor-
row,
Too weary from the burdens of each
day
To dream of joy
morrow,
Or overmuch to care for work or play;
When, chilled by age, I have forsworn
in some remote to-
all passion,
All anger, pity, rapture or desire,
I still shall love you after my old
fashion,
Still hurn for you with all my an-
cient fire.
—By Paul Dillingham
HELPING HORTENSE,
Margaret had never seen Hortense
Dana’s husband, but she knew he
existed. Somewhere in the back-
ground was a pompous, but inoffen-
sive, little man with a long bank
roll who financed the productions
that Hortense graced with her
sparkling volatile presence, and whom |
the rest of the company called the
star’s “sugar daddy.”
Hortense wore his picture in a
locket on a platinum chain, and an
enlarged photograph of him always
rested on her dressing room shelf,
So Margaret was familiar with his
features; his bald head, rather pro- |
truding light eyes, wisp ofa mus-
tache and round bulging cheeks. Hor-
tense made a great pretense of
adoring him, pausing now and then
in her makeup to place a feathery
kiss on the glass covering the card-
board, or hugging frame and all
with an outburst of affection against
her bare bosom, but no one was de-
ceived, not even Margaret, who was
very new in the theatre.
For Hortense was nothing if not
indiscreet. In the two months since
Margaret had become a member of
her company there had been at
least six men who had followed the
star from city to city and upon
whom she had lavished smiles and
favors in return for much more
substantial tributes than photo-
graphs and lockets on platinum
chains.
Margaret had at first been amaz-
ed, then shocked, then sickened.
After all, Hortense was the star of
a dignified drama, and Margaret,
playing her first part, had been
vastly flattered at the friendship
the older girl offered her. But when
she realized that Hortense had chosen
her from among the others merely
to use as a blind, she had recoiled
in disgust.
Now, as she unpacked her suit-
case in a second-rate hotel in Cleve-
land, Margaret found herself puzzling
over Dana's latest flame. He had
been down to the station in Detroit
to bid Hortense goodby, and Mar-
garet had seen his embarrassment
when Hortense had flung her arms
about him and kissed him in the
presence of the company.
He_was such a clean-looking boy,
with clear gray eyes and a whim-
sical mouth that indicated a sense of
humor, a general air of wholesome-
ness that smacked of the outdoors
and had nothing in common with
stage door johnnies. Where had
Hortense picked him up? Did he
know she was married?
A knock on her door made her
pause abruptly in her unpacking
and inquire, rather breathlessly,
“Who is it?” She knew no one in
Cleveland, so the knock was startling.
“Unlock your door,” answered a
faminine voice, unquestionably be-
longing to Hortense.
For a second Margaret hesitated
before obeying the command, then
she crossed to the door that sep-
arated her room from the one ad-
joining and shot the bolt, Hortense,
like a huge poppy in a flame-col-
ored negligee, her black hair hang-
ing in thick, lustrous waves over
her shoulders, stood smiling at her.
Margaret made no attempt to hide
her surprise at seeing Hortense in
such inferior quarters, but she step-
. ped aside to permit the star toen-
ter.
“Some dump,” Hortense drawled.
She blew a puff of smoke from the
cigaret she held in her nicotine-
stained fingers. “My Gawd! I must
be in love to spend a week in a
joint. like this.”
«1 don’t quite undestand,” Mar-
garet stammered. Her fearless eyes,
as blue as the other’s were green,
looked steadily at the petulant face
turned toward hers. “There's no
reason you should come here if you
don’t like it.”
Hortense laughed, “That's all you
know about it. Didn't you see my
sweetie at the train? That blond
sheik who came to see me off?”
Margaret nodded, a wave of
shame for the woman's brazenness
causing her to avoid her glance.
“Well, I'm expecting him here
tonight. Likewise Friend Husband
is due to arrive sometime this week
—so—now do you get me?”
“Not quite.”
Hortense dropped on the sagging
bed and hugged her round knees.
“IT see Tl have to draw a map.
Daddv. meaning Hubby, has a nice
little habit of dropping in unan-
nounced, but he'd never look for
me here. I always live the best,
see? And I've had my hotel trunk
sent to the theatré, and as you're
the only one of the company stop-
ping here, hell have to surprise
me at the show shop or not at all.”
She giggled at her own cleverness.
“But the boy—"” Margaret asked in
a choked little voice.
“Oh, everything's set for him.
he a love? Honestly, I've an awful
crush on him.”
The curtain had just rung down
on the last act and the orchestra
was playing the exit march when
and Hortense Dana flung herself
into the overcrowded space, cosmetics
and theatrical paraphernalia.
was very pale and Margaret
see that she was trembling.
“Listen,” she gasped in a throaty
whisper, “I know you've®' got no
time for me, none of this
really has, but you've got to help
could
“Ben Wilcox is here. He's out on
the stage now waiting for me. Darn
him! I knew he was coming some
time this week, but I didn’t expect
him so soon.”
A revulsion of relief swept over
the younger girl. ‘“Ye—es?” she
queried.
between trains
Chicago, taking
on his way to
that kid—he’s waiting for me—in
my room at the hotel. I registered
for him—man and wife—understand?
He was to take the key and go
right up. I can’t phone him—andI
can’t shake Ben. What'll Jimmy
think or do? My head's splitting—
you've got to help me out on this
whether wou want to or not. I'm
batty about him. I don’t give a
mustn't know about Ben. -
“Go to the hotel. Tell Jimmy
—that my manager—understand—
my manager came totown and that
I have to go to supper with him.
Lie like a trooper!
“You want me to spend three
hours or more alone in a hot€l
| room with a strange man!” Marga-
| ret said slowly. “I'm afraid I can’t
do that.”
“Oh, don’t be such a prude. He
won’t hurt you. He'll be more
scared than you. Just this once—
T'll never forget it as long as I live.
Perhaps if Hortense had given her
time to consider she would never
have consented, but the star was
gone before Margaret could frame
a refusal. She was in for whait-
ever might follow.
Her heart was pounding wildly as
she timidly opened the door ad-
joining her own in the hotel. A
young man sitting by the window
with a magazine in his lap, sprang
to his feet with a cry of welcome
that changed to amazement when he
saw a total stranger.
“I am Margaret Annesley,” the
girl managed to say. “Miss Dana
sent me to tell you—"
“Has something happened? An
accident?” he interrupted.
“No. Her our—manager stopped
over on his way to Chicago—she
had to see him—on business—she
—she’ll be here presently.”
“Won't you sit down?” he
fumbled,” seeing she had no intention
of leaving immediately. “Take a
chair, please, I'll—TIll sit on the
bed.” !
Margaret thanked him. What
could she say to him. She looked
nervously at the magazine in his
hand and forced a casualness inher
manner as she asked if he was fond
of reading.
He leaned forward rather eagerly,
«II saw youin the play last week.
I thought you were bully.”
“Yes?” Her lips parted in a
pleased smile that made her very
lovely. “I have a very small part,
you know.”
“Have you had any supper yet?
Mayn’'t I order something up for
you? I'd take you out only—" He
glanced at his watch.
“Yes. She'll be here soon.”
She heard a key turn. Ben
Wilcox had insisted upon coming to
the hotel with Hortense after all.
They were in her room. She could
hear the floor creak under their
feet. In spite of herself a shiver
shook her.
“What's the matter?” the boy
asked solicitously, “chilly?”
“No. Nothing's the matter.”
“Your room, is it near this one?”
the boy asked quietly.
She looked at him, startled for
the moment at the question. But
there was nothing subtle in hs ex-
pression. “Yes, on ithe same floor,”
she answered.
“Perhaps you are tired. I'm
keeping you. Don’t mind me, please,
I can wait alone for Miss Dana.”
“Am I boring you?”
If Hortense didn’t suppress her
laughter, he'd recognize it. It had
a brassy ring, individual, shallow
like the woman herself, Didn't she
realize how thin the walls were,
how penetrating her voice?
Margaret raised her own voice,
speaking in a much louder tone than
before, hoping to drown the sounds
in the room adjoining. She was
conscious of the boy's surprised look
as abruptly she began an anecdote
about the stage that was not apropos
of red hair or anything that they
had been discussing. She had a
feeling that she was improvising
lines.
Pausing a moment for breath she
heard Ben Wilcox say distinctly,
“Sounds like the little Annesley girl;
are you sure she isn’t stopping
here?”
Margaret half started to her feet,
then dropped back in her chair
again. She knew her face had
whitened, for the boy came towards
her.
What Hortense replied to her
husband she could only vaguely
surmise, for the next moment there
was ‘a distinct knock on the door
and’ Ben Wilcox inquired, “Hey,
Annesley, is that you?”
Margaret ‘tried. to answer, but her
lips: did: not move... The boy, now
puzzled, baffled, a trifle suspicious,
‘stared at her. There was a rattle
of the door . knob, the sound of a
| scuffle, then the door opened and
Wilcox, in his shirt sleeves, his
He knows where I'll be. Say, isn't |
her dressing room door burst open |
me out of a tight hole. If you
don’t, I'm done for!”
“What's happened?” Margaret
asked coolly. |
“Thank Gawd, he’s only stopping
the three o'clock
train, butit’s just 11:30 now—and—
damn for Ben —but— Jimmy —he
flesh oozing over his collar, stood
framed on the jamb. He was
grinning benignly, holding his wife
| draped in Margaret's only negligee,
by one slim arm.
«Wanted to know you ever since
you signed up with my wife,” he
chuckled, “but somehow I never
turned the trick. Wonder if the
‘old gal's jealous and afraid I might
fall for you?”
«Wife!” gasped the boy, his eyes
wide and fastened on the face of
Hortense, who was trying to shield
She ' herself behind her corpulent mate. _ entered
| «Oh exclaimed Ben, seeing the
stranger for the first time, “didn’t
know you had company—’scuse me.
Right . again, Hortense.
. right.”
| He backed out ungracefully, draw-
Shouldn't |
bunch have butted in. Hortense usually iS making a grand total of 137,502,303.
NATION GAINED 17,000,000
IN THE PAST TEN YEARS.
Pacific Coast States Lead in Popu-
: lation Gain Change. Change in
Congressional Representation Will
be Great.
The first complete preliminary cen-
sus figure was compiled last Thurs-
‘day and showed continental United
States to number 122,729,615 in-
habitants. :
Four months after the enumerators
the field the first
country-wide compilation from offi-
cial announcements of supervisors
.was made.
Outlying possessions add 14,772,688,
{ The total population increase of the
i forty-eight States and the District
ing the livid-faced star with him, | of Columbia was 17,018,995. The
and closed the door with a slam,
Boy and girl stood silent.
"he spoke: “I thought you said her
—manager.”
“He is.”
! “And her husband?”
| “Yes.” Suddenly she reached out
and caught his coat sleeve. “Don’t
feel too terribly—it’s lots better you
| should learn just what she is before
' —you married her—than afterward
—she isn't worth suffering for—
really—"
His lips twisted in a pathetic
smile. “Where —how did you get
in on this?”
Her cheeks flamed. “It was rot-
ten—but I have to work and—and
—if I hadn't I’d have lost my job.”
Silence again. He withdrew his
hold of her clinging fingers. Cross-
ed to the bed, and lifting his coat
and hat turned to her. “Still
hungry?” he asked, squaring broad
shoulders.
i “Why—why, yes,” she flashed.
“Come on then, we'll see if there
isn’t a decent beanery open some
place. I'm about starved.
Margaret found the expected two
weeks’ notice on her box the next
morning. Hortense smiled wisely,
shrugged silken shoulders, and left
the girl alone until the last day
of the engagement.
{| Then she walked into Margaret's
room unannounced and gave a
throaty, sarcastic laugh.
“it isn’t so nice to be without a
job, is it? Next time you want to
pull a trick like that make sure
you pull it on someone who hasn't
been around much!” She drawled her
words carelessly. “What are you
going to do now?”
«Look after the job you gave me.”
“The job I gave you? But you're
fired!
“Not the theatrical job. The oth-
er one.” Margaret's eyes and lips
laughed together softly. “You told
me to keep Jimmy interested until
you got there, and since you didn’t
arrive, Jimmy says that makes the
job—permanent!”
PHIL PARDEE TO RACE
IN ALTOONA CLASSIC
You may never have heard of
Phil Pardee, for his activities in the
east have been confined to the brick
Indianapolis speedway. But take it
from those who know racing, Pardee’
is the closest replica of the late
Frank Lockhart to come out from
the west in recent years.
Perhaps it’s the promise of!
championship recognition, or the
urge to try something mew, for
Pardee has signed to start with 11
other “big time” speedsters in Al-
toona’s 200 mile title race Septem-.
ber 1. His entry was received at the
speedway offices yesterday.
Tt will be a new venture for
Pardee when he begins the Labor Day
chase, for he has never rounded the
speedy Altoona boards, in fact, he
never rode a plank in his short ca-
reer on the gas trail.
But about that Lockhart connec.
tion Pardee was heralded by race
experts just before the start of
the 1929 Indianapolis grind as a
second Lockhart when he qualified
the Buckeye Special after veterans
who had “gone through the mill”
were unable to make the mount
“talk.”
Dave Evans, one of the real vet-
erans of the game, was slated to
pilot the “job.” He attempted Ito
qualify but time after time the
Buckeye Special refused to speed up
for him. Then when he gave up
hope Pardee jumped behind the
wheel and turned the two and a half
miles the fourth fastest of a field of
32 starters, His clever driving
startled the experts who just a few
moments before had whispered that
Pardee was “just another foolish
kid.” But shortly after that qualify-
ing ride he was the toast of all the
fraternity and newspapers heralded
him in blazing headlines as a sec-
ond Frank Lockhart.
GLASSES. FITTING LIKE
FALSE TEETH, WIN FAVOR
Eyeglasses that become as much
a part of the wearer as do a set of
false teeth received their first clin-
ical demonstration in this country
yesterday. They were shown at a
meeting of the New York City Op-
tometri¢c Society in the Hotel Penn-
sylvania.
The glasses fit in direct contact
with the eye and are held in place
by capillary suction. They are de-
signed to replace the more cumber-
some ordinary eyeglasses,
Grace Robin, stenographer, who
suffers from nearsightedness, showed
the new lenses to the optometrists.
She said her vision was greatly im-
proved and that the lenses caused
no discomfort.
Each lens is about the size of a
penny. One 'side is concave curved
to conform to the curvature of the
eye. The outer side is convex. Solu-
tions of butyn and saline are inject-
ed into the eye and the lens is then
placed in position.
At first the glasses are worn on-
ly about an hour and, asthe wearer
becomes accustomed to them, the
time is gradually increased.
Dr. William Feinbloom, chief of
the society's clinic, conducted the
| demonstration. He said the cost.of
the mew lenses is about $50 a pair.
"They are a German invention.
percentage of increase over the last
Then | census was 16.1 per cent.
The two States topping the list in
numerical gain were: New York,
with an increase of 2,224,328, and
California, with an increase of 2,-
215,421. Three others gained more
{than a million each: Michigan, 1,149,-
, 959: Texas, 1,147,455 and Illinois,
1,145,003. Only one, Montana, show-
‘ed decrease —a loss of 15,370 people
.in the ten years.
| California was the fastest-growing
State, showing a 64.6 per cent gain.
Florida was her only close contend--
{er —increasing by 51.4 per cent.
Michigan is given third place in this
regard with a growth of 31.3 per
cent. New Jersey, next in line, add-
ed 26.8 per cent.
{| The Pacific States proved the fast-
_est-growing geographical division—
i Washington, Oregon and California
averaging 46.4 per cent increase.
| The “center of population,” mythi-
cal balance point, located near
Whitehall, Indiana, in 1920, was
pulled West and South by the West
Coast increment. Just how far, the
census experts have yet to figure
out.
The census clock, that constantly
clicking electric calculator of ithe
country's population, maintained by
the Census Bureau, was proven
somewhat slow by the first total re-
turns. At midnight April 1 it said
but 122,186,893.
By the new totals, twenty States
probably will lose Representatives in
Congress, while ten States will gain
them. That's another problem for
the experts—reapportionment by the
method of major fractions.
The just completed census showed
this country to be more citified than
ever before. In 1920, there were but
sixty-eight cities of more than 100,-
000 inhabitants. Now there are
ninety-four cities of more than 100,-
000 inhabitants.
The cities numbering 10,000 in-
creased from approximately 700 to
about 900 in number.
Of the many fact-finding phases
of the census, only the population
count is complete. No nation-wide
totals have been compiled on unem-
ployment, nor on classification by
racial groups, sex and occupation.
PENNSYLVANIA GAINS BUT LOSES IN
CONGRESS.
The Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania has a population of 9,638,841,
according to the unofficial complete
returns,
Boggs Township, Clearfield county,
the last municipality in the United
States to complete its count, was re.
ported last Thursday morning and
gave a population of 1545. This
brought the Clearfield county total
to 86,711 and the State total to 9,-
638,841.
Loss of two members, instead of
one, by Pennsylvania from its pres-
ent delegation of thirty-six in the
House of Representatives was in-
dicated today when the preliminary
announcement of that State’s popu-
lation became available.
The twenty States that will lose
seats have 191 of the 435 members
of the House at present constituted.
The twenty-seven seats from the
losing States will be transferred to
eleven winning States. ‘
When the December session of
Congress convenes, Secretary Lamont
will submit a statement showing tthe
population of the States and the
number of seats to which each
State is entitled.
Much discussion will be heard on
the method of major fractions
through the use of which seeming in-
consistencies apparently are brought
about in the tentative reapportion-
ment on the basis of preliminary
census figures.
These include a situation whereby
Pennsylvania, with a gain of 1,973-
730 persons in the twenty years
since the last reapportionment, will
lose two Representatives, while Tex-
as, with a gain of 1,914,141 in the
sappe period, will obtain three new
members; Michigan, with a gain of
2,008,198, will be entitled to four ad-
ditional Representatives, and New
Jersey, with a gain of 1,465,401, will
be given two new members. Illinois,
with a gain of 1,091,692, will neither
gain nor lose in the reapportion-
ment.
MRS. ALDEN, 88 YEARS OLD,
FAMOUS WRITER, DIES.
Isabella M. Alden, author of the
“Pansy” books, died recently in
her eighty-eighth year. In her life-
time she published more than 120
books. She had been ill since 1926.
Mrs. Alden was born in Roches-
ter, N. Y, Nov. 3, 1841. She was
educated at Seneca Collegiate In-
stitute, Ovid, N. Y., and the Young
Ladies Institute - at Auburn. She
married the Rev. Gustaysu R. Alden,
of Auburn, May 30, 1866.
Recently she finished a book,
“Memories of Yesterday,” which will
be published soon. Her works were
translated in many languages.
PENNSYLVANIA GETS
FIRST WOMAN JUDGE
Miss Carah M. Soffel, of Pitts.
burgh, was today appointed by Gov-
ernor Gisher to a judgship in the
county court of Allegheny county.
She is the first woman to get such
‘an appointment in Pennsylvania.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DALY THOUGHT.
Little grains of powder
Little dabs of paint,
Makes our darling daughter
Seem like what she ain't.
—Art-in-breakfasts bids fair to
become one of the most popular of
all the modern American movements.
Everyone joins the great crusade
this spring to help the housewife
jazz up this all important first-meal
of-the-day. With gay cloths, lively
new china and a couple of dozen or
so ingenious new electrical gadgets,
breakfast now can be stimulating
enough to whip the most jaded ap-
petite into ravenousness.
The first noticeable thing about
new breakfast equipment is that
pink is the most popular color for
breakfast dishes. Not a pale, ef-
feminate pink. Rather, rich beige-
rose tones, appealing gray-rose ones,
deep, satisfying crushed raspberry
tones or ruddy rose ones, Plain
beiges, grays, soft blue-greens and
tans follow.
And second, the first choice for
breakfast china is pottery.
Some of the pottery china is
plain, when the matter of square or
other unusual shape is of paramount
interest and the way handles join
cups, spouts of creamers are formed,
and covers fit sugar pitchers in-
creases the genuine charm.
—Others of the new sets have
faint design in modernistic concep-
tion, but quite subtly so. A single
blue-green tulip, against a green-
gray background backed by indefi-
nite plaids in soft tans and a very
fine line of blue; a spring green set
has a plaid of red and black; a
square set of soft lavender has a
broken line of daff yellow; a bright
yellow set has orange and lemon
design and a gray set has a mod-
ernistic fruit design in brick redand
pewter gray. =
Inexpensive new cutlery comes in
colored handles, like the china. And
all the gamut of electrical appli-
ances flaunts a bit of colorful dec-
oration that also may be matched
up with your general breakfast tone.
The well-equipped breakfast table
nowadays should have an electrical
percolater, a toaster and perhaps
one of the new egg-boilers. If your
family comes of hardy stock and
likes an early American breakfast
of “ham an”, there are cute grills
that brown the ham, cook the eggs
and toast the bread on one good
current. For Sunday mornings, or
any other time when the press of
business does not tear you from the
table, waffle sets are in place. These
come with the iron’s handles match-
ing the china and modern pewter
sets of batter jug, sugar sprinkler
and syrup pitcher complete the ef-
fect.
—For small-space apartments
there are now breakfast cabinets
that are really a table on top, with
electrical connections beneath and
all appliances fitted into space un-
der the table. For individual serv-
ice there are percolators and all the
other utensils in individual size.
Covers ‘that go on these modern-
ly appointed tables are varied in
materials and in colors take their
cue from china. Some of them re-
peat the decorative plaid, figured,
floral or other pattern of the china,
in identical color. Basque break-
fast sets are new, in natural heavy
homespun crash with a few vivid
stripes in red, blue and black, or
other combinations across the center
of the table, Napkins repeat the
idea of having color only through
the center. All edges are fringed.
Another innovation this spring is
the colored washable table cloths
that look like figured fabric which
have flannel backs and non-stain
surfaces. Mothers with young chil-
dren will welcome these.
—Another thing featured this
spring that is especially apt right
now is the individual breakfast tray.
Why not have one in the home?
Having a guest down to breakfast
often breaks up the routine, the chil-
dren invariably misbehave, father
gets a late start to work, and moth-
er is more or less strained. Fixing
up a breakfast tray is little work.
Giving the guest the privilege of
eating luxuriously in bed treats her
to a psychological uplift. Eating in
one’s room, after all, is a luxury.
New individual trays come in all
the colors, in wicker, plain wood, in
fancy modern combinations of metal
and wood. Dishes for the tray are
just too lovely! Soft yellows, red
and white gingham patterns, black
and white stunning sets and a
tremendously wide range of designs.
—Most boys’ pyjamas come in
broadcloth, oxford, madras and flan-
nelette, the last giving warmth and
therefore useful in winter, as well
as in summer for camp wear.
One way of telling the better
qualities is by looking at the bult-
tons. Ocean pearl buttons are first
quality; there are also Jap pearl
buttons. The ocean pearls are al-
most transparent; the Jap pearls
are second quailty and are not so
well finished on the back of the
buttons; while the fresh water pearl
buttons look milky and are the
poorest quality.
Boys’ pyjamas are piece-dyed and
yarn-dyed, the latter being the bet-
ter. Solid colored pyjamas are us-
ually piece-dyed, except when the
cloth is oxford or madras.
Two-piece pyjamas come in sizes
from 8 to 18, whereas one piece
pyjamas come in sizes from 6 to
16. i
—Banana Salad—Peel, scrape and
cut three very ripe bananas in halves
crosswise. Sprinkle with lemon juice
and roll in chopped nut meats.
Dip into a cream salad dressing
and lay carefully on a lettuce leaf.
Use a few chopped nuts as a gar-
nish.
— For a home county paper the
Watchman excels any other newspa-
per in the county.
| FARM NOTES.
—Laying houses should be venti-
lated as well as possible to prevent
any sudden and unfavorable change
when pullets are moved from colony
Houses or trees to permanent quar-
TS.
i =
—-Short pastures in late summer
call for more grain and an increase
in percentage of protein in grain
i mixtures for dairy cows, say State
College specialists.
—New queens can be introduced
most successfully to colonies dur-
ing a honey flow. If introduced at
cther times, great care should be
exercised to prevent robbing. There
is less danger of robbing during the
latter part of the afternoon,
| —-Hardy climbing roses can be
used for arches, fences, gateways,
trellises, and any places where a
rose can be induced to climb. They
bloom only once a year but form
good shrub'ery material.
—Personal preference is the first
factor in selecting a breed of live-
stock. This does not prevent a
farmer picking good individual ani-
mals.
—August is a good time to clean
up the pasture fields and get ridof
weeds and brush.
—Every farm woman should keep
household accounts. They help to
keep track of the home expenses as
related to the farm business and
therefore, supplement and round out
farm accounts.
—Cut your flowers freely, partic-
ularly the annuals. Do not permit
seed pods to form if you wish to
prolong the flowering season.
—Dairymen often can save $10
on the price of a ton of dairy feed
by buying winter supplies in the
summer.
— Every colony of bees should be
requeened each year to get rid of
the failing queen and to provide a
queen capable of building up a
strong colony of bees for winter and
spring.
—An application of peat moss,
grass clippings, or buckwheat hulls,
to a depth of one-half to one inch
should be given the rose bed for a
mulch during the summer months.
—Dairy cattle selected for exhibit
should be well fed, fitted, and taught
to lead. Condition and behavior
count tremendously in the judge's
estimation.
—F'ruit that is packed well will
go through to market in better con-
dition and will sell more quickly for
a higher price.
—Fair time is coming, Alert
farmers will advertise their busi-
ness by exhibiting some of their
best products.
—Cheap wheat is an economical
feed for dairy cattle, swine, and
poultry, say State College specialists.
Best results are obtained by grind-
ing or cracking the wheat and feed-
ing it in combination with other
grains. Wheat is a palatable and
nutritious feed.
—Chrysanthemums require much
care now. Keep the plants well
watered and fertilized. When the
buds begin to appear do not apply
any more fertilizer.
—1It is poor economy to spend $10
worth of time to repair a machine
which is not worth that much when
the job is done.
—Large, rectangular fields are the
easiest to plow, for less time is lost on
the turns and in plowing the head-
lands.
—A point to keep in mind in
feeding mash to the turkeys is that
they need the vitamine D _provided
by a good high-grade cod-liver oil
just as badly as do chickens.
— Most turkey raisers will wish to
hatch the eggs in an incubator and
brood the poults artificially. By doing
this they can keep the turkey hens
in production almost continuously.
—There’s no better feed for young
poults than plenty’ of sour milk.
Feed five times daily at first, but
don’t overfeed, and be sure to keep
grit, charcoal and clean water be-
fore them at all times.
__Build open sheds for turkeys to
roost under as soon as they begin
to want to fly up to roost.
—Keep young turkeys shut up un-
til one week old, Then turn out for
a few hours each day during the
warm part of the day until they
are two weeks old.
Each turkey egg is worth a
great deal more than a single chick-
en egg, and because of this fact the
loss is greater when the eggs do not
hatch or when they hatch into weak
turkeys.
Start birds on bran and clabber
mash if possible; otherwise, use corn
bread.
—Don’t try a late hatch unless
you have separate enclosure for
these late turkeys. Two ages of
turkeys don’t mix any better than
two ages of chickens do.
— Usually it is necessary Ito use
one gander to every three or four
geese. A young gander will do
provided he is fully matured. Geese
may be turned out in any moderate-
lly cold weather.
__Liver troubles in hens are diffi-
{cult to treat, as they are seldom
discovered until the bird becomes
i sick and dies suddenly.
— Read the Watchman.