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VHEN GRASSHOPPERS
WAR ON HUMANITY
A black cloud at the horizon of
he deep blue sky. A faintly omin-
us sound.
That dark cloud Swope on, ap-
roaches with the fury a prairie
ire; the sound becomes more terri-|
ying. The cloud broadens and low-
rs; the steady hum becomes deaf-
ning. Nc es into a heavy
torm of black flakes, which sudden-
y becomes more defined in shape.
EEE: shining wings, long bodies,
egs.
Thus, the grasshoppers—the his-
oric scourge of the plains—invade
he Northwest and Central States.
lhey have been advancing their bat-
le-front at the rate of fifty miles a
lay.
We boil down this description from |
in account published in the Des
doines Tribune Capital, which makes
18 realize that a grasshopper scourge
‘an be more terrifying than any-
hing of the same sort imagined by
Arthur Machen, who once wrote a
tory of the insects declaring war
mn man.
How far worse is the dread reality
s attested by the Houston Post-Dis-
atch:
“Seared, brown fields, cut clean of
regetation as if by a giant scythe,
wre left inthe path of the destructive
nvaders.
“In a South Dakota field of 1,600
wcres, etomologists reported that the
segetation left behind by the grass-
joppers would not feed a single ani-
nal.
“Scores of farmers are wholly de-
sendent on the sale of eggs and poul-
ry. Their field crops have been de-
stroyed.
“Advancing like a
army, the grasshoppers are advanc-
pg in battle lines from the Missouri
River eastward.
“Etomologists are unable to say
where the insects came from or where
they will go.
“They seemed to materialize from
thin air.
“The experts say that during
similar infestations of the past they
disappeared as mysteriously as they
came.”
To combat this grasshopper plague,
the Federal Department of Agri-
culture is enlisting the cooperation
of the Governors of Montana, South
and North Dakota, Jowa, Nebraska,
and Minnesota, says an Associated
Press dispatch from Washington.
About $15,000,000 from the “farm-
rehabilitation fund” is avaliable for
loans in the present emergency. Thou-
sands of square miles in these five
States, the dispatch adds, have been
devastated. “Need for money to com-
bat them is said to be acute, espe-
cially if a similar outbreak next year
is to be averted.”
Dispatches from the afflicted States
speak
enemies by aerial warfare, with air-
planes spreading poisoned bran mash
over cornfields.
The Minneapolis Journal estimates
that 46,875 square miles in the five
northwestern States have been rav-
aged by the dark storm-clouds of
hoppers. Dr. L. D. Howard, chief of
Agriculture, is quoted by the Chica-
go Daily News to the effect that
even in the ave year the labor
of 1,000,000 men is lost through in-
sect pests, and that the money loss
exceeds $2,000,000,000 annually. That
loss, points out The News, is from
four to five times as great as the
annual fire loss in the United States.
Editors find no consolation in news
that in Kenya Colony, East Africa, it
took a whole day for a swarm of lo-
custs—insects of the same family as
the American grasshopper—to pass
a given point, or that thousands of
acres in Transjordania, north of Ara-
likewise devastated. The
Star analyzes the hab-
destructive
its of this insect “No 1 Public Ene- |
m ’
“Grasshoppers impose a terrific
handicap on their human enemies by
the ability of the female of the spe-
cis to lay 600 to 800 eggs at a time,
so that in one year’s time one grass-
Boppes may have from 150,000 to
,000 descendants.
“Remembering this, one can read-
ily understand the efforts of wheat
and corn raisers to wipe out the
1931 population, even after crops
have been destroyed by the pest.”
The present insects’ war strikes
not a few editors of philosophical
turn of mind as emphasizing the
rious nature of man's supre-
macy in the struggle for existence.
Tus the Minneapolis Tribune specu-
“There is something a little iron-
jcal in the
which can
of a grasshopper by wireless across
the Atlantic Ocean, and which could
bably put a gasstoppers heart-
ts on short wave-lengths and
send them scorching around the
world in split seconds, has not yet
succeeded in putting a definite end
to the ravages of this insect.—Liter-
ary Digest.
GREAT CORN CROP
The 1931 corn crop in Pennsylva-
nia will double last year's yield, ac-
cording to crop statistics made avail-
able today by the State and Nation-
al Agricultural De ents.
A yield of 60,360,000 bushels of
corn is anticipated this year as
against a production of 26,840,000
bushels for 1930.
Rye, buckwheat, tobacco, tame
hay, apples, peaches and grapes will
exceed last year’s totals, according to
the report.
Wheat will fall off 850,000 bush-
els to 21,080,000 bushels, and the
oats crop will also be reduced.
Potatoes, steadily gaining as a
main State crop, will advance to 24,-
125,000 bushels, a gain of 6,000,000
bushels for the year, the estimates
showed.
Customer: I'd like to see some
good second hand cars.
Salesman: So would I.
MANY
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of plans to combat the insect.
Thong that science,
t the photograph
QUESTIONS ON
many Hall?
A. Thirteen besides the Grand Sa-
chem.
Q. What is the title of the ruler
‘of Ab ?
Ao Bmperas.
G. Who invented the Stethoscope?
A. Rene ‘Theophile a
French physician in 1819.
Q. What was the
Waningloa, D. C. in 18067?
A 080.
Q. What is the oldest city in the
world ?
A. Damasvus, in Syria, is thought
to be the oldest city in the world by
scholars.
Q. Was General Pershing injured
in the World War?
A. No.
Q. What is Money?
A. Money is a measure and store
of value, and a convenient means of
exchange.
Q. How many farms were there in
the United States in 18507?
A. 1,449,073.
Q. How many steps are there in
the stairway of the Washington mon-
ument?
A. Nine hundred.
Q. Do more people die in the
United States of hear¢ disease than
of cancer?
A. There are 245,244 deaths in a
year of heart disease, and 111,569 of
cancer.
Q. What bird flies highest?
A. The Egyptian goose is said to
fly higher than any other bird.
Q. What is the name of the song
written by Phil Plant and dedicated
to his former wife Constance Ben-
nett?
A. “My Yesterdays With You.”
Q. Which three cities in the Unit-
ed States have the largest area?
A. Los Angeles, area 281,412 acres. |
area 191,360 acres.
New York,
Chicago, area 126,704 acres.
Q. What is the Nationality of the
name Aegerter, and the meaning?
A. It is a British family name, de-
rived from the Anglo-Saxon “agut-
ter,” meaning a sharp edge.
Q. How long has gold been the
basis for money?
A. For about 2000 years, silver
was the chief mineral, but by no
means not the only medium, gold
became the supplant some 200 years
ago, but the real swing toward gold
has come since.
Q. What is the largest specimen
of bear?
A. The Brown Bears of Alaska
are the largest. Cubs weigh more
than 209 pounds and adults weigh
from 800 to 1,000 pounds, a speci-
men of the brown bear in the Na-
tional zoological park in Washington
D. C. a little over 11 years old
weighs 1,090 pounds.
Q. Have any other
been used as money?
A. Yes; various articles that are
transferable and limited in supply
have been used. Oxens were a value
of unit some 3000 yars ago, and are
still used in some parts of Africa,
sheep at one time were “small
change.” Copper pots, beaver skins,
shells or wampum, and many other
objects have been used.
Q. Why is love represented by
Cupid with the bow and arrow?
A. Cupid is the name of the Latin
God of Love and comes from the
root word supido, meaning “passion”
or “cupid,” meaning “desire.” The
way depicting the god of love
with bow and arrow originated in
the fourth century B. C. when Par-
axiteles and Lysippus represented
him in statues.
Q. How much radium element has
been produced since 18987
A. Five hundred and seventy-five
grams.
Q. What is done to the
cremated persons?
A. The ashes are placed in a spe-
cial box and delivered to the family
of the deceased persons.
Sometimes the ashes are put in a
burial urn and buried in the ground
or placed on a crypt or mausoleum.
Others bury them under a tree, plac-
ing a tablet on the tree for a mark-
er. Some times they are scattered
commodities
ashes of
over the sea or to the four winds. |
Q. What is the one and only city
in the United States that has no
water port?
A. Indianapolis, Indiana. (From
Huntingdon Industrial School Record.
© ———— A — Si ————
OUR UNIVERSE IN MOTION
It is difficult to comprehend that,
in addition to the earth's motion
around the sun, the latter is also
moving tnrough space at the rate
of 160,000,000 miles in a year.
Astronomers of the last century
discovered that our sclar system
was flying through space in the di-
rection of the constellation Her-
cules.
In other words, if the spectator
were to take a stationary point in
the heavens, he would see our sun,
with its attending planets,
through at the rate of nearly
450,000 miles per day.
Six thousand years ago, it it com-
| puted, our solar was a mil-
‘lion millions of miles further off
| from the stars of Hercules than it
iis today.
| The region in which we are enter-
|ing is more thickly studded with
| stars—that is, with suns of other
solar s than the heavenly
ons we have left behind us.
it makes our head swim.
| But when we call to mind that
the earth revolves on its axis once
in twenty-four hours, and around the
| sun, 92,000,000 miles distant, in 365
| days, and that the sun is flying
| through space 160,000,000 miles ina
| year, human consciousness canno
| comprehend the mad whirl of worlds
| by which we are surrounded.
it the rate of fifty miles an hour,
She was telling an acquaintance fons are also being launched at the
about her girl friends.
“Yes,” she said, “my friend,
Maud, is only twenty-five, but she's
been married three times. And
all her husbands have been named
| William.”
—When you read it in the Watch-
man you know it's true.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Q. How many Sachems bas Tam-
population of
look
| wider. Which, when put together, culturists.
(has done the same thing.
| raglan or cut in one
and taller.
passing 4.
we travel on a railway car
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. FARM NOTES. GOVERNMENT BACKS charge of
DAILY THOUGHT | —There are very few kinds of na- RAPE GROWERS | odist BE EE EE ee ihe
To lend a hand is a good policy; you tive trees which wood that The Federal Farm Board has an- bie Merle broadens: oa
never can tell when you will need a lift Will last a long time when used as nounced new loans to the California attack last night u the Federak
yourself. fence posts. To use other than grape industry, but withheld action | Government and iy Willebrand
| ‘durable wood is a waste of timeand on the request of Fruit Industries, | for their connection with the
— You're going to look taller this material; it is a much better invest- Inc, for a loan. It is understood | concentrate industry, the former
fall if you want to. Which is cer- ment to buy and set steel or con- Fruit Industries, a subsidiary of the way of loans from the Farm Board
‘tainly good news for lots of short crete posts for the farm fences. California Grape Control Board, is|and the latter as counsel for Fruit
‘and stout women. Not bad news, The best species are locust, red ce- an advance from the Farm | Industries.
either, for the already tall—because dar, sassafras, heart cherry, and Board of $1,000,000 The amount advanced the grape
there are many tricks of dress to heart white oak. Farmers might Fruit Industries Inc, manufac- rs is believed to total $4,000
minimize neight if you don't want well grow locust on idle land. |tures and markets “concentrate :
eg | on , A
But most women like to look a — is ‘mer hy 1
little taller and slimmer, so farm
sure most of you are going te best
the new fall silhouette which makes .
you look this way. —
The way new fall dresses are made | SEpEUIL ml is Packed well will
causes certain parts of the figure to go through to market in better con- |
look longer, certain parts to look dition and will sell quicker for a
and certain parts to
gives an affect of added height and
slimness. i —If cultivation is to be effective
One reason why the neckline has against quack grass, it must be
become higher is that the waistline thorough, frequent, persistent, and
properly timed.
—Nearl
Safe “Deposit ‘Boxes
Shoulders are going to look wider
and more sloping this fall. That's
because of the way fashionable met at State College, August 12
sleeves are made. Many sleeves are to 15, for the annual Club Week of
with the bodice the Pennsylvania State College. Re-
and many set-in sleeves have deeper creation, instruction, ard judging
armholes. And this all slants and contests were the principal activities. ||
widens the shoulder line. | — |
- —Every community has some ||
When the waistline stepped up, it farmers who profit by the mistakes |
rested at a narrower spot in
the of the past because they attempt to |
body. This makes the waistline look make each year better than the past. |
smaller. And this is accentuated by They use experience as a building ||
the closer fitting bodice that fashion- stone.
able fall dresses have. —
Hips look narrower, smoother and —Potatoes should be sprayed with |
more rounded this fall. Last year the bordeaux mixture to protect them ||
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An old and often repeated piece of advice
is: Do not keep valuable papers and securities
where they are subject to loss by fire or theft.
A Safe Deposit box insures against this.
It puts them where no one but the owner has
access to them. It prevents loss through care-
less handling. It’s advantages are self-evident
fashionable dress usually had a pep- from late BHSUL The longer the
at this es are green, the more the tubers 3
lg i hei oi Tog ing og ed and they repay, many times, the small cost.
crop.
Top
lum that widened the body
point. This year the dress is
fiting through the hips.
Much of the flare has disappeared = —Divide the pours range in
from skirts. When there is a flare two, suggests the poultry depart- ||
it's way down low. This straighter ment at the Ohio State university, ||
line makes the body longer-limbed and rotate the flock with green crops. |
If the flock is permitted to cover
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
The wider shoulders make the the entire range all the time they
waistline and hips look narrower by Will soon kill all the vegetation
comparison, too. The higher waist- around the poultry house. This
line makes the top of the body look Will make it necessary to provide
shorter—another aid in making a gren feed from another source and
longer-limbed figure. at greater expense. The yard will |
You'll find these differences of sil- also become unsanitary and often a GRE
houette not only in dresses but in Sea of mud after a hard rain. } TE
coats, too. Waistlines are higher, Early fall sown rye provides an
sections more fitted, shoulders are ideal fall supply of green feed for [i Te
wider and fur is put on in ways to poultry. Rape, sown in early sum- gf
enhance this effect. mer, will provide succulence in the Lj
ration a large part of the summer.
There's another way you're going It can be pastured as soon as it is |
to look different, too. In the way three or four inches high. Half the
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you wear your new hat. Last fall it yard is given to range and pasture
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was smart to wear it pushed back for the flock while the other halfis WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor )
on the head. But this fall the smart in preparation for another crop. A 30 years in the Business
le is the down-over-the-right-eye Woven wire fence five feet high will Pe
ang guy serve to keep the chickens off the gi kk:
has recom-
ree ‘cause of toe-picking and tail-pick-
ling or cannibalism. This frequently
occurs when the brooder house is |
overcrowded or when it is necessa
to keep the ot |
because
So—if your doctor
mended a change, here it is!
you'll feel better—better dressed—
when you've made it.
rue
The old, stereotyped idea of a
straight fur collar, more or less vol-
uminous, and cuffs that could never
be mistaken for anything else, will
have to be forgotten. Advance fall
models show fur trimmings that were
never meant to impart any idea of
comfort or even warmth. They just
‘convey a prosperous, opulent look —
which can be taken as a direct chal- -——Capons are becoming an increas-
lenge to the present way of pessi- ingly popular branch of poultry
mism. keeping in some sections. According
Cloth coat dresses are a certain to the University of New Hampshire,
feature of fall fashions that no the most suitable time for caponizing
woman can afford to overlook. There is that which allows time to proper-
is something very attractive abouta ly finish the birds so they will be
beautifully tailored coat dress and ready for the Christmas holidays.
a judicious touch of fur at the neck Cockerels are suitable for caponiz-
or sleeves or in both places. The ing when they are one-half to two
first lightweight coats have bands of pounds in size. A bulletin on ca-
fur simulating a jacket. is put out by most state
Fitted silhouettes are a sure bet, colleges and may be secured free of
too, so far as fall coat styles are con- i
cerned, and this will create an alto-
gether different line. This fitted top
will be further accentuated by the
decidedly more voluminous sleeves,
‘a trend which started last winter
when much of a coat's detail was
| concentrated on its sleeve. And the
quaint, old-fashioned look of these
| styles will be further enhanced by
the reap ce on the scene of continues.
fashions of fabrics like ribbed vel. temperature of from 50 to 60 deg
eH silk, is needed to suspend incubation. If
vat hua 1k, heavy surahs and the egg Is held ai a temperature at
There is a very considerable change or above 70 degrees, the incubation
to be noted, too, in the nature of fur Will continue.
trimmings. All flat furs like galllac, _ ;, ,eain an equal distribution
broadtail, pony and shaved lambare .. 4 i; sowing a new lawn, di-
being superceded by the more ex-
pensive sable, lynx, fox and that new: ., “gq 0 pair of the
comer, leopard. As a matter of fact,
A. Higher neckline. growing crop on the range. The § ARC BLOCK JG
B. Wider sloping shoulders. ate sou be staked well at the [i BysH ADs T
C. Smaller, more fitted waistline. m, for usually more chickens go gf ELLEFONTE,
D. Rounder, narrower hips. . under fences than over them. i B PA. 5h
E. Straighter skirt. ~ Idleness is the 'moit common | Fj SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY SPECIAL ORDERS SOLICITED 7
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chicks closely confined
of cold or stormy weather.
‘Chicks invariably become ravenous HH
when they have had a taste of blood | §
and will continue pecking the injur-
'ed member of the flock until it has
been removed or completely devour-
Keeping the American Boy
BEST-DRESSED with ....
Eggs meant for hatching should
be gathered often enough to prevent
, for the reason that in the
rocess of formation the egg has
within the hen's body at the in-
to 107.
just as flattering an effect can be entire lawn and then follow with the
achieved with a mere touch of a half, sowing at :@ight an-
really high-class fur than with an Sles to the way the first half was
OyeE-aUNBlEaos i So, 8 second:vate Never be in a hurry to cut a new
he © ty and chicof oo "ris best to wait the
$7.50 to $15.00
a model will reside more in the oHE: |
suality of the trimming than in its/
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in the
r rdinary to, 3H
It 13 exiao how ‘At least 3 to 4 Wes before freez- {Hi
short lapse of a few weeks the whole
- ing weather, the lawn
of the happy-go-lucky, casual epoch |, M tinged Thi
as suddenly came to an end. Of |
{the long grass which remains to act Ji}
course the new hats are responsible | a winter Ich for the lawn H
and the fact that all women are in|
a perfect fever to adopt thei 2d
are wearing them shows t ey |
have been produced at a psycholog- Kansas experiment station brings
ical moment. Ostrich plumes gently Out some points on the of
making RiR Ww 9 . . «
silage which are of vital importance [Hf e’re helping to keep this reputation for
| waving Sue wind, eoque featyere to every farmer who has a silo I ||
eet Eibvon trimmings, Howers, all (ll. especially the man who is, fling | him—Ly featuritg Sonny Boy Clothes.
| tiene are features that call for and | one for the first time. The circular | jj suits and topcoats—in the new Fall -
hese are foo Ly ith pubis, mink |POInts out the fact that it is desir. || pat
and other rich furs. able to cut the crop for the silo ina | Jj terns, shades and styles.
| The evening, or restaurant hat, is Yo green condition, before the ear jj
| with us again and not in the shape stalks had matured, and a very | iil
‘of a bejeweled cap, more or lessdi- | Pou Siinge, gh in moisture, wala ob- I
| minutive, that has ben tentatively tained nT isle Yours She tend eno I
offered during the last two or three 4", more mature. The prop-
| seasons and very rarely seen, but 8 or time to cut corn for the silo is
real, formal hat, complete With 08 ,4,0.¢ 5 week or ten days .before it |
| trich feathers or the rare osprey. .
Al Sia of ho Burrs Tg wh Bet Sh fh
| moment, the trend being distinctly | lower leaves on the stalk dry, but
ai vi a ed betw een the semi-long adepts 1° stalk itself still full of sap.
and the short-hair effec wisps | __ Nearly half the world's popula-
of val le and patterns plas-
32 Varvig lengey 3nd palloms jas. | tion uses soy beans as a protein food.
|of the First Empire. Naturally, the| —The amount of oats that can be
new hats demand an impeccable coif- | fed hogs, sheep and chickens is limit-
| fure, especially on the side that is | ea. ts has a place in every lay-
| disciosd by the tilted brim effect. [ing ration.
The American boy has always been the
best-dressed boy on earth.
—A recent circular issued by the | HE
Best of all, this superior clothing is avail-
able at prices lower than ever before.
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