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Bellefonte, Pa, November 28, 1930.
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IN THE KILN.
“We shall have to refuse the. or.
der, Mr. Bolton. You know whata.
mass that stock-room is since the
fire, and with Williams sick and
Johnson with a broken leg, there
isn’t’ a man in the place that can
grade up the stapk.
Mr. Bolton, president of the Bol-
ton Emery-Wheel Company, nodded.
He did not like to decline an order
from abroad for three thousand
dollars’ worth of wheels. But a re-
cent fire which had burned out the
stock-room, and the wheels, which
fire could not hurt, were now heap-
ed in confusion in the basement,
awaiting sorting and storage in the
new racks. The wheels on hand
could not be sorted and graded, or
new wheels made in time, for they
had to be shipped within four days,
if at all, to catch a steamer.
Returning to his office and calling
his stenographer, Mr. Bolton began
his distasteful task. But he had got
no further in his letter than “We
regret exceedingly—" when his office
door opened, and a boy in dirty and
tattered overalls entered.
“Well!” said Mr. Bolton.
“I heard what you said to Mr.
Eatner, sir,” said the boy. “I can
grade those wheels if you want me
to. I know how.”
“You can grade wheels!” repeated
Mr. Bolton, amazed. “What do you
know about that work?”
His tone was hostile and im-
patient. “Grading” emery_-wheels
calls for a skilled touch, much
knowledge of the degrees of hard-
ness in material, of the work which
emery-wheels are required to do,
and of the sizes of emery used in
making them, Of these there are
many, and they run all the way
from a coarse emery, screened
through a large wire mesh, to the
finer “flour” emeries, obtained by
the settling in water of an emery
so fine that the individual grains
cannot be seen.
Ellis, the boy, flushed. “Mr. Wil-
liams taught me, sir,” he said.
“I've been practicing. He said that
he was going to ask you for an
assistant, and was training me so
that I could help. I've graded for
two months, evenings, and he’s gone
over my work, and says that I
know how as well as he does.”
“You don’t say so!” said Mr. Bol-
ton. “If you can grade wheels,
why—but you can’t grade twenty
thousand wheels in four days, boy!
It can’t be done!”
“I can try, sir. If you will give |
me some men to help lift and stack |
the wheels, buy me some gloves, |
and have my meals sent in here
Tl work night and day, and maybe |
you can get that order out. |
Mr, Bolton rose, pressed a button, | thought that the bricks beneath the: What would Le a fiery furnace be-
put. his hand on Ellis’ shoulder, sud
said: ;
“We'll try it. And if you can do |
it so that this order goes out on |
time, you won't lose by it.” i
Ellis found that he had embarked !
on no small undertaking. To sort!
out a heaped up pile of twenty,
thousand emery-wheels, ranging in
size from the inch cylinders used by :
jewelers to the huge “rims,” that.
is, emery-wheels with a hole almost .
as large as their total diameter
late, when he got through, he would
be able to finish the task.
At eleven o'clock that night there
remained less than eight hundred
wheels, mostly small ones. All but
one of the men then went home, as
Ellis had said he could finish _ with
one helper. At three o'clock the
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“Good night, Tim,” Ellis said,
sleepingly. “It’s . too late to go
home—too far. I'll sleep here, some-
where.” hry re x
Tim, who lived near, took hisde.-
parture. Ellis. intended to find a
warm. spot in the engine or the
boiler room, but both rooms were
locked, And the reaction setting
in, and his laber. over, he began to
shiver with cold.
“No use being cold, when there's
a pile of hot bricks there.” he said
to himself. He left the factory to
go the short distance to the kilns,
where the emery-wheels were bak-
ed.
Here were four huge brick ovens,
for all the world like great bottles,
twenty-five feet high. They were all
built alike. Over the hearths where
the fires were built there was a
single circular chamber, roofed over
about twelve feet from the floor by [
a dome-shaped ceiling of brick with Ellis had not
a round opening in it, through which make. e
a smaller , be thrust into the mortar on the
the smoke passed into
chamber. above, and out through the ' other side of the chimney as
neck-like chimney overhead.
Emery wheels are baked or vitrified | yet not too high for him to step
very much. as is pottery, by being !upon it; and he realized that if he fell,
placed, after moulding and drying,
in saggars,—hard earthen ware
rings,—surrounded with sand, and:
these saggars piled one on another
in the main chambers of the kiln,
| But the need of haste was urgent,
; landing with one foot on the grader,
'neath him, held.
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which is then “fired” and heated to
an intense degree. Flame, smoke
and heat alike “draw,” by means of
flues, through the kiln and out at.
the top.
It was to one of these kilns that
Ellis, tired out and sleepy, went. A
kiln is emptied as soon as its
charge is cool enough to handle,
but it remains warm for a long time
after the fires are drawn, And so
when Ellis cuddled down among the
piles. of saggars, full of wheels
ready for firing, he felt a pleasant
warmth which cured his shivering,
and which quickly sent him to sleep.
It is not to be wondered at,
therefore, that he slept long and
‘NEW-FANGLED’ IDEAS AIMED
mre
“Now for it,” he said to. himself.
There were ten feet of brick wall
to climb:-a brick wall that sloped
rapidly inward, then rose almost
straight, in a cylinder of brick four
feet across, forming the short chim-
ney. But in his two grades he had
two possible steps; he was strong,
and his four days’ strenuous toil had
taught him how his graders could
most easily be forced-into solid ma-
terial.
Climbing to the crown of his
curving floor and standing in the
smoke, Ellis, with all his strength,
drove the largest grader deep into
the mortar between the bricks. Then
coughing, choking, blinded, he stag-
gered back to the wall to get his
breath.
Ankle high radiators, aluminum
instead of structural steel for use
in framing tall buildings, imitation
lava to take the place of
cinders for interior concrete floors,
places like Death Valley to substi-
tute for concrete aggregate, heat-
supplying rugs and tapestries and
glass brick to make hung buildings
the ‘“new-fangled” ideas for
costs that men of science
have made or are.t to make
E. Beals in the current Dow Service
Daily Building Reports.
While there are at least
Slipping the other grader inside his
Ring 2 “hung” buildings already in
shirt, he took a long breath and’
climbed agail to the crown and
‘ straight up into the chimney,
ang Fa y trying to develop is different.
which, although it gave a little: be-
With his hands
already in the chimney, he manag-
ed to keep his footing, slowly middle of it from bedrock, thus
straighten out his leg, and stand saving the cost of foundations. In
upright. construction the “Dymaxion” house
Then began a struggle such as is encased intransparent walls made
believed he could
The second grader had to
; lightweight concrete, the aggregate
of which is pumice stone found
deserts,
Heat, artificial light and refriger.
ation are supplied by Diesel engines,
and the mechanical housing of the
structure will not be in the cellar,
but in the roof. These buildings,
the inventor says, can be fabricated
in factories and assembled on the
sites.
high
above the first grader as possible,
when he was on the chimney with
his hands, he was doomed. There
could be no second attempt. The
smoke was filling his lungs, and in
order to get as littie of it as pos-
sible, he breathed in little, tiny
gasps. His blood was pumping
through his veins; a roaring sound
filled his ears. =
iors on New York's newest build-
ings are causing manufacturers of
{| “Here is—the place—mustn’t— facade material some worry, lest
drop it—in—go —in—there— now & new form of competition arises to
then — careful —” Cough, cough, Vie with them for their markets here.
cough. “Air—I must have air—" The use of bright, shining’ alloys for
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soundly, and that Mr. Bolton, when
in the morning he failed to find him
on his achievement, supposed that
he had gone home to much-needed
rest.
When Ellis awoke, it was dark
in te kiln, although a little light,
coming through the chimney and
the draft-hole in the
ghostly columns.
forgot where he was.
membered.
“Funny it’s so dark—why—they’ve
shut the door!” .Then he knew he
Then he re-
was so frightened, why his heart |
was beating so fast. A slight, acrid
smell of smoke was in the air. He
sand at his feet were warmer than
they had been. :
“They’ve shut me in—and the kiln
is being fired! I've got to get out
of here quick!”
Ellis’ first thougmt was of the
door, and in a moment he was bang- |
ing on it with all of his might, It
was of iron, and only when he re-
membered. that it was the inner
door which he was hammering on,
and that another, also of iron, was '&
two feet beyond, and deadened the
which are used by knife-grinders, sound, did he desist.
was a tremendous task.
Mr.
Bolton provided him with |
wore out at the rate of a pair
every half day, for the emery cut
them to pieces—and men to carry
and stack the wheels. Ellis work
was to take his grinding-tools—
blunt, chisel-like instruments—and, '
with a peculiar grinding mo.
tion, dig one of them into the side
of a wheel, and call off the grade
and the number of emery to one of
his helpers, who promptly daubed
on it with paint, “E-120,” or “D-200,”
or “A-IF,” according to a system in
which letters represented the degree
of hardness of the emery, and the
numbers its degree of fineness. Af-
ter being thus labeled, each wheel
was carried to its proper stock.
After working all the day and
half the night, Ellis stumbled home
at twelve o'clock, thoroughly wearied.
In the fourteen hours that he had
been working, he had graded less
than four thousand wheels, a rate
not fast enough if the job was to
be done on time.
So the next day he worked even
harder, and dug and examined and |
called off wheels so rapidly that
his helpers first growled at the hard
work, and then, catching something
of his enthustasm, raced him to
see if he could get ahead of them.
At’ the end of the second day’s
work almost but not quite half the
wheels had been graded, marked and
stacked. But Mr. Bolton shook his
head when he saw what had been
done.
“You've accomplished wonders, my
boy,” he said. “I don’t question it
for a moment, but I'm afraid you
won't get through.” :
“Yes, I will,” said. Ellis. ‘This
job is going to be finished on time.”
But the end of the third day
found less than fifteen thousand
wheels graded. Ellis had encounter.
ed an almost solid mass of large
wheels, twenty inches in - diameter
and four inches thick, which were
heavy and hard to handle. They
had, moreover, to be graded careful-
ly, because four customers of the
firm use wheels of this size, but
different grades.
So the men waited for Ellis rath-
er than Ellis for the men, and hy
the middle of the night, when they
stopped work, the men were com-
paratively fresh and Ellis worn-out,
Nevertheless, he was back at
work when the whistle blew the
next morning. He was sleepy, So
. Sleepy that his eyes: would
close while he was waiting; for a
new lot .of wheels to be brought to
the grading-table; but he never fail-
ed to wake up when they came, and
to grade them with accuracy. And
he saw with increasing satisfaction
that although it would be late, very
, unbaked emery-wheels—which
The smell of smoke was stronger, {Will tell you that he would much
and the heat more perceptible. The | Yather Jonign and £9 to reaking
several pairs of gloves,—which he Smoke was thickest near the center : Ston B ever enter a kiln,
b g 3 of the kiln, for there it rose to go! Or cold, again!—Youth’s Com
through the smoke hole into the
smoke-chamber above, and from
there through the sloping chimney
into the open air.
Ellis was frantic with fear. Great
beads of perspiration stood out on
his face, and he trembled from head
to foot. For a few moments he
was fairly paralyzed with terror.
Then came the reaction.
“Being scared won't
he said, aloud.
way out.” ;
Then he remembered his grinding-
tools, and groping for them, found
them-—two heavy chisels with blunt
points and heavy wooden handles.
He had put them in his pockets
when he had finished his work, His
first thought was to dig his way out
of the kiln with them, but a des-
perate Junge or two at the mortar
between the bricks showed him that
although it could be done, to make
a hole big enough for him to go
through might take hours.
“And I've only minutes,”
to himself.
A sudden fit of coughing seized
him; the smoke was getting heavier.
There was but one other way, and
Ellis, even as he coughed, turned to
the piles of saggers about him. Go-
ing. to the piles nearest the center
save me,”
There must be
he said
of the kiln, he attacked one savagely, .
and with saggars, emery.-wheels and
sand flying about him in confusion,
he soon brought it down to five feet
in height. Upon this he climbed, re-
gardless of the fact that his feet
crushed through the
top one contained. From this point
he threw down the top saggars of a
second pile, and again ruining ‘bis-
cuits” ruthlessly, climbed up on
that. As he raised himself to the
top of the second column, he stood
upright, and grasped the
the smoke-hole above him.
Of course the smoke was at
thickest here,
Ellis paused long enough to tie
his handkerchief about his face.
Then, first throwing his grading-
tools through the hole, during which
he could not breathe, drew himself
up and over, on to the outside of
the dome_shaped roof, Rolling over
and over, down the sloping floor, he
brought up, a huddled mass, where
the floor = joined the sides of the
kiln: But :the air here was com-
paratively pure, and ‘he filled his
sorely tried lungs with it.
' He knew: that every second : the
smoke would grow: thicker.
got:up and groped; around until he
found his grading tools. Some
light came through the chimney
opening, ten feet above him.
its
edges of
the deposition” of copper on a plate.
‘climbed a foot more than he need-
domed roof, | grader w
made. the piles of saggars resemble been a simple matter.
For a moment he Was nearly unconscious
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building exteriors, like that used in
the Chrysler and Empire State build-
ings, are giving bolder folks an urge
to see how the all-metal building
would appeal to office space renters
and multiple dwelling habitation
buyers.
Quickly he put his other foot on
the second grader, ana slowly, care-
fully, trusted his weight to it. Like
the other, it bent beneath his weight,
but as he had thrust it to the
handle into the mortar, it held.
With his arms pressing each side of
the chimney, he steadied himself,
then threw both up—and felt only
empty air. For a dizzy moment he
did not understand; then, with a
cry of joy which ended in a cough,
he brought them down on the
brick edge of the chimney, He had
there is coming’ onto the New York
market a metal-covered wood that
can be nailed up, and when in place
presents all the possibilities of im-
itating wood, marble, fancy plaster
effects, and it is going to be ever
S80 much cheaper from a labor point
of view, according to those trying to
introduce its use here.
The ankle high radiator, with its
greatly increased power of radiating
warmth over the old-fashioned cast
ed, on his graders, and his hands
had gone beyond the edge.
To draw himself up from the
would, in fresh air, have
But Ellis
with the iron radiator, common to most of.
smoke, with exhaustion, and with fices and homes, is already on the
the terrible nervous strain. For ¢ market. The claims made for it
moment he thought that his strength are light weight and small size, the
was unequal to the task.
But the same courage which had
enabled him to finish grading the
wheels in time, and the thought of
having been shrunk to units
inches high, three and one-half inch-
es tick, and either
eighteen inches long. :
While -this device: may be in stalled
in single. units; or hooked up so as
low, gave him energy. He raised:
himself painfully on the edge, thet
rolled, ‘unconscious’ to the ground.
Luckily, he landed in a pile of sand.
The startled furnace: tender thought
that he was a ghost.
radiating. frieze,
office, another
has an entirely different idea about
for bed-room or
For two years afterward Ellis how buildings ought to be heated.
work was that of assistant stock Somebody conceived the idea that
clerk, later, when Williams was If an electric pad could soothe tooth.
ache or restore circulation to a frost-
nipped human, the same principle of
threading insulated incandescent
wires through a parlor or office rug
ought to give sufficient heat to sat-
isfy the average apartment dweller
or office occupant.
By extending the idea to draperies
or tapestries, the floor could be
kept at a temperature
promoted, he became chief of stock.
And chief of stock he remained, at
ood wages, until by the aid of the
night school, he earned a position .
as salesman on the road. But he
hot
panion.
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ORIGIN OF THE .eries, which have no other excuse
ELECTRIC METER in the world but to look pretty and
= ir stay put could take on the job now
The New York Herald-Tribune of almost exclusively held by a furnace
November 10, published an amus-
) S- or, hoiler in the cellar, to the
ing story in connection’ with = the
ners where they are.
first electric meter constructed by There are already several
Mr. Edison. It seems that in the in operation throughout the
early stages of electric lighting, try manufacturing what in
Cornelius Vanderbilt was among the amounts to imitation lava to
first to have his house wired. The the place of the steam boiler cin-
service charge for lighting in those
ders that before the days of the oil
days was based entirely onthe num. burner used to be gathered during
ber of lamps installed,. and not in
, the beauty sleep hours of apartment
terms of the actual amount of ener- dwellers by husky, shouting can-
gy consumed. Mr. Vanderbilt did
1 wrestlers = so ~ that the concrete
not think this was fair, and, send- masons in big office buildings and
ing for Mr, Edison, he poured forth
new apartment houses would have
his woes. The conversation, accord-
the requisite amount of aggregate
ing to the Herald, was as follows: with which to follow the steel work-
“I believe that I am being over-
er skyward.
charged for the amount of electricity They are getting ready to build
that I use,” ventured Mr. Vander- a plant near New York to meet
bilt. , the growing demand for that ma-
“How so?” asked Mr. Edison. terial here, This imitation lava
“Why. you charge solely on the when mixed with concrete makes a
basis of the number of lamps that floor slab light enough to float,
I had installed and I rarely have which is an important factor in this
more than half of them turned on day when buildings are attaining
at any one time.. Besides, I don’t quarter-mile heights and occupying
see how you can tell how many
whole square blocks.
hours I have had any of them burn- | Out in the West “covered wagon
ing.”
i traders,” backed up by geologists,
“Quite so; but suppose I install
have found the remains of a. great
an apparatus that will tell me how
volcano that poured out vast quan-
many lamps you have used and how tities of mineral which, when ground
coun-
long they have been burning?” ,up and mixed with oil, makes an
“Impossible,” retorted Mr, Vander- imitation red lead that, as far as
bilt. i price is concerned, knows no near
relative.
And so goes the
newer things, bidding for popularity
and catering to that always un-
satisfied. appetite of big-city popu.
used.” lations for newer and more service-
The wager was made and Mr. able building material always at
Edison devised the first convenient lower cost.
electric meter, which made usr of |
“Well, Ill" make a wager with’
you,” persisted Mr. Edison, “I'll
bet at the end of next month I will
be able to tell you the number of,
lamp hours of electricity you have
The plate was weighed before the HOTEL MEN TO MEET
So ‘he |)
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IN PHILIPSBURG TODAY.
and, knowing the electro-| The Pennsylvania State Hotel As-
chemical equivalent of copper, the Sociation will hold a two day's
amount of electrical = energy con- meeting at the Hotel Philips today
sumed could be accurately calculat- and tomorrow. The association in-
ed. : : | cludes the proprietors and landlords
Mr. Vanderbilt instructed all of | of most of the hotels in the State
the servarits in his house to keep a and landlord Shuck, of the Philips,
Bo ng | a eo
shocked. when he discovered - that | entertain the gathering.
both results were almost identical.
test and then again after the test. |
mined,
| Iddings—I hear that Scribbler’
| latest poem is called “Ode to a Fair
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Tedchet'i—*'Give an illustration of ady.”
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Br refrain iddines Huh! He is far
using imaginary brakes when bone 2 Th SoH
sister is driving the car.” Wea 0.2 Lendadgy,
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TO REDUCE BUILDING COSTS
steam
pumice stone retrieved from desert
absolutely all-window are a few of
build-
ing construction designed to cut
either
commercially practicable, says Allen
two
exist-
ence in New York city, the type of
suspended dwelling that one man is
of glass brick already in production
in this country, and the floors are of
in
group of scientists
ce not too un-
kind to the feet, and yet the drap-
FOR AMD ABOUT WOMEN
—Neglecting that last-minute peep
“into your mirror may make all the
According to models, the house
hangs suspended from a fabricated
steel pole running up through the
Recent examples of metal exter.
Instead of painted partition walls
difference in the world between
stepping forth in all one’s glory and
just reaching the street hit-or_miss
fashion.
Careless adjusting
of one’s hat rati
FARM NOTES,
“Adding cod "liver oil to the poul-
try ration will help to maintain the
health of the flock and also to im-
prove the texture of egg shells.
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—Cattle need roughage in the
on. Where the supply of ha
frequently accentuates the jaw line and silage is limited the amount fe
or makes an unattractive
across the back of the neck.
angle may be somewhat less than usual
| but’ substituting concentrates for a
Sometimes just an eighth of an ; large part of the roughage should
inch change in line drops ten years
from one’s appearance! Then, too,
some hats and some faces look
prettier if no hair at all shows.
Other women simply must have
at least a suggestion of hair peep-
ing from under the hat. These
are points which you can find only |
by experimenting: a bit yourself,
turning your head this and that in
front of the mirror, watching the
results of your experiments.
—In dressing your hair, remem-
ber that it is important to prepare
ahead of time for your hat and to
know whether the hat is to be
worn during your entire time away
from home or whether you are go-
ing to take it off. :
Wear your hair in the most at-
tractive fashion for the hat, then if
you do take it off, rearrange it
again for the time being. Coiffures
today permit for these necessary
changes without marring the wave
and every woman should take ad.
vantage of this.
— After you've solved the hat prob-
lem to your satisfaction, look care-
fully at your make-up again in
natural daylight.
Perhaps the lines of the hat or
its coloring necessitate a bit more
rouge on cheeks or lips, or these
may need subduing the color a little.
Or, the eyebrows may seem inef-
tectual without a little more ac-
centuating with the eyebrow pencil.
Perhaps an eye shadow which
seemed perfectly blended when your
hair fell softly around your face
has become harsh andloud with the
definite lines of the hat shutting out
the hair. If so, the shadow must
be softened.
—Gloves must not only blend with
the ensemble, but they must be ab-
solutely clean and in good conditon.
A loose thread or tiny rip often be-
comes very untidy within a few
hours if left unattended.
—A final adjustment of the stock-
ings to see that the seams run di.
rectly up the back center of the
old-fashioned “snap dragon” radiator ;
eight
thirty_six or!
to form a base-board or a heat-
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legs, a final dusting off of the foot-
wear. Heel caps must be straight
and free from ragged edges,
gesting too much wear.
—Have you sometimes passed a
woman on the street and thought,
“How smart looking! I wish—"
Well, you can! It's easier than
ever this Fall to look smart. Be-
cause these good-to-look-at women
you see have worked out a plan for
dressing themselves that’s practical-
ly mistake_proof.
Their ideas are to be kept secret.
As we fashion-analyze, here's how
these smart women do it.
The first thing they do isto make
up their minds that their whole
costume is to be correctly ensem-
bled. Meaning that every single
thing is to go with every other
thing—and in a harmonious way.
So they begin by thinking of
their coat—just what kind and color
Coat first, notice. Not
dresses.
—Dresses come second. And they're
doing one of three things. The
most popular of which is to choose
a dress to match the coat color—but
also have it trimmed in some con-
trasting color. This contrast helps
to keep the scheme from becoming
monotonous.
Or they choose a dress in the
cor- same color as the coat, but a shade!
lighter. - A light navy dress . to go
ark: navy coat, for instance,
the third way is to have the
contrast with the coat. But
Harder, that is, to
choose a contrasting color that looks
well. That doesn’t clash as
as contrast.
And
sug- !
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not be attempted. It is better to
make use of the straw stack or to
buy hay, oat feed, or beet pulp.
—Cut down the insect popula-
tion in 1931 by cleaning up the gar-
den and burning all infected vege-
tation this fall. Winter quarters of
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stroyed in this way.
—Cows will produce more milk
if they can get clean drinking wa-
ter when they want it. Heat the
water in tanks in the winter to
remove the chill.
—A coat of grease on the plow
shares and moldboard, cutivators,
shovels, and other farm implements
of similar nature comes off easily
than a coat of rust.
—Take an inventory of the farm
property before starting the record
book. It is well to be informed as
to what equipment and supplies are
on hand for the year’s operations.
—Artificial lights will stimulate
the egg production of normal hens,
Many poultrymen prefer to turn on
the lights early enough in the morn-
ing to give the hens a 12-hour day
|in which they may eat and lay.
—Fruit growers who spray con-
sistently harvest uniformly clean
crops of a high grade product. Omit-
ting one or more applications is a
costly practice, say State College
entomologists.
. —Wheat m¥kes a good dairy feed
In amounts up to one-third of the
entire grain mixture. It should be
rolled or coarsely ground and mixed
with bulky feeds, such as bran or
oats, in addition to enough protein
feed to balance the ration.
—Allow at least three square
feet of floor space for each hird of
the light breeds and four square
feet for the heavy breeds. Seven
inches of roosting space are requir-
ed for birds of light breeds and
eight inches for the heavy breeds.
—Correspondence courses in agri.
culture and home economics are of-
fered free by the Pennsylvania State
College. Write for a catalog to the
director at State Collége and then
select a few subjects for winter
study.
—This is a good time to house
any farm machiner
still be. exposed to the forces of rust
and rain. A little grease put on
the running parts will prevent
trouble "when the implements are
put into use next year.
y which may
—Twenty-six cows in the Penn
State herd in 1891 averaged 4801
pounds of milk, Last year 71 cows
produced 9426 pounds each. Better
breeding is primarily responsible for
the increase.
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—Next they look for a hat. Usual.
:ly these fashion-wise women choose
it to exactly match—or at least
closely blend with the color of the
coat.
The reason is obvious.
A hatis:
worn with a coat more often than |
just with a dress.
Another smart thing. to do is to:
have the hat match the fur
ming on the coat.
cially good thing to do when
fur is a different color and
up dround the face.
Sometimes for a special costume,
the hat contrasts with the coat but
trim-
the
comes
This is an espe- |
—Boxes of leaf mold, rich gardygn
soil, and sand may be placed in the
basement now for use next spring
when seeds are planted in flats and
—A good farm record book ac-
curately kept will enable a farmer
to really know his business.
. —Sugar syrup, made by dissolv-
ing 212 parts of sugar in one part
of water, is a good food for bees.
-——The best treatment for sick
turkeys is the ax. Ordinarily there
is little that can be done affer tur-
keys become affected and run down
physically.
—Turkey raising .in the United
States has been regarded as a side
issue and : gamble, but increasing
knowledge of parasitic diseases and
their control is putting the industry
on a more stable basis, says A. R.
Lee, poultry husbandman of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. “There are now more than
3,500,000 turkeys on farms in this
country, and they constitute 115 per
cent of all poultry, The 1929 crop
of market turkeys-indicated a de-
cided advance in the business as
compared with 1928. The estimate
increase was about 9 per cent.”
matches the shoes and handbag. And
oécasionally it is matched
dress and hat are apt to be worn
without the coat.
—What do they do about shoes?
Well—when the coat is dark, they
most always match or closely blend
with it,
For
special accent—particularly
are chosen to go with the handbag.
It makes an interesting twin color
accent. :
And sometimes, too, the shoes
blend with the fur trimming on the
coat.
—Handbags are usually tied up
with the shoes, you'll find. So
if shoes match the coat—and conse-
quently the hat—handbags do too.
But suppose yours is a light coat
trimmed with dark fur. Then
you're very smart if you match the
fur and handbag.
—Fashion-knowing women think
of gloves and stockings together—
and match them as closely as pos-
sible. And they choose a shade that
blends with the color of the coat—
that is inconspicuous—that doesn’t
add a noticeable extra color to the
ensemble.
For fall this means that most wo-
will rheaee atnerleinee and ~louea
in shades of brown nnd the darker
shades of beige and taupe.
"yas
to the
—Good Christmas turkeys are
well fed and fattened. A fat tur.
key carries a great deal of flesh
cand the meat is of higher quality.
. venture to recommend one
{ when the coat is an odd shade and
mrelte Goward (hard to. mateh or blend with—shoes
—There is so little difference in
the merits of the White Rocks and
Barred Rocks that few experts would
in pref-
erence to the other.
—Egg size can be increased quite
often, by feeding milk in some form.
If skim milk is plentiful on the
farm, it is advisable to mix a wet
mash with milk instead of water.
Milk may also be provided in the
drinking fountains.
—Thick cream on the head of a
poult as a deterrent of head lice is
better than grease, for grease will
also kill. Camphorated oil applied
very lightly between the quill feath-
ers with a fine paint brush will do
the work, but it must be used
economically. Poults must not be
confined at night in a newly paint-
ed coop, painted either with paint
or lice killer,
Another essential “must not,” if
one would have thrifty poults—they
must not run on a chicken range.
—Every separator owner should
test the skim milk regularly to de-
tect any loss of butter fat. Most
ecreamerv onerators are gldd to Jo
Plater £o thet “ Eros Fr ry, { 1¢
mutter needs constant attention.
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