fr Tho cma py HAY » ? z + ’ : | — Deworvaiic; Watches | {, after Hed been made quite IN STATE FARM CROPS LOWER MILK PRICES BALLY TROBE? | otroig, aalfis | shows how He can keep His other] What is Pennsylvania's leading | Price cutting that threatens lo EASTER FLOWERS Soll, fairly uniform growing condi- == | promise and raise us up, too, and farm crop?” This question is fre- force another milk price reduction in ot thie: Wha: loved: the. lib tions, plenty of sunlight, temperature Bellefonte, Pa, March 25, 1932. | take us to heaven after we die, quently asked the Department of New York which will reduce farm-| A a Ey or oy {BOL 100 RiZH bY. daY ner too low at Mr ——| “So, ‘cause it means such lovely Agriculture. 5 | ers’ [hing to $1 or lear Nv We retin say {roe |e tiation, and clear i everybody, {| The Ke e State produces each pounds milk, was ead- a SIGNIFICANCE .. oF EASTER ins a lot "bout ale egen | year Row i) four PE valuable ing milk dealers today as creating A prayer for their repose. gay, when the surface will dry quick- opA fill the churches with flowers, An’ apple crops grown in the country, “the most demoralized condition the For those who left a violet, ly. Apply water only when n The mighty earth is breaking forth from they sing bee—u—tiful songs 'bout but the leading crop is not apples. metropolitan milk trade has known | For those whose dreams were and wet the soil deeply each time. prison house of death; (‘He is risen,’ and such. And the Pennsylvania was famous for more in " lost, ia a The sullen winter disappears with sound ministers preach 'bout how good it than a century as the * of “A group of dealers getting sup- | Somewhere upon the altar a —Chicks can be fed us soon as of bated breath. |all is for all of us, And everybody America” but the Department shakes plies from so-called ‘independent’ or! blossom has been tossed. they are well dried off, active and The violets have blossomed, and all the wears new, pretty clothes—" {its head again. The leading farm unorganized farmers are destroying And far in tne big hereafter, ready to be placed in the brooder birds are gay, | “O, my!” said Little Playmate, crop today is not wheat. the constructive work of organized With every breeze serene, house, say Penn State poultry spe- cialists. And it is springtime everywhere, for it looking down at her shabby skirts! is Easter Day. The faith of men quite dead because they turned away from God, And walked in pride and worshipped men, and thought religion odd, Has taken on a sudden life, and what we thought decay Is renaissunce of vital faith, because of Easter Day. Who wants to die? Not youth ‘tis sure, with all its life to live; Not middle age, in busy whirl of life so vibrative; Nor old age e'en, nor aught but and these are heard to pray That they may live their lives again in some great Easter Day. sick. The thing that made the gospel spread from shore to farthest shore; The energy of life and faith; the by which we soar; And that which keeps our world machine upon a higher way Is that men have a hope within born out of Easter Day. And this is what the mankind everywhere, Not what they have, not what they eat, nor even what they wear, But something down within which joy unbounded gives; It is a sinner's only hope. Christ lives! Christ lives! Christ lives! A —— A —————————. HOW EASTER CAME TO THE MOUNTAINS “And you don't just love Easter?” “Don't know anything 'bout East- er, 'cept it's a meetin’ an’ you have to sit perfickly still and can't speak a word. Haven't ever seen a Easter an’ don't know where they keeps em.” “0, my!" Lina gazed at her sinall companion as if she had suddenly changed from a very nice little play- mate into 5 creature from out the unknown, “O, my!” Little Playmate winced at this. “Well, you may ‘O, my! all you want to, I'm not te blame. If my papa were rich, like yours, I'd have Easters, too, Maybe I'd have one every day!” “0, my!" Little playmate began to look cross, and seemed on the point of springing up and running away-— which was her usual manner of let- ting Lina know that she was dis- pleased. But this time Lina leaned over and took both small brown hands in hers. while into her gentle eyes and over her dear fdce there came such a look of love and pity . that Little Playmate, Hannah. stay- ed. “S'pose we talk 'bout Easter,” she said, still holding the sun-brown hands. “You know 'bout Jesus, the Saviour?” Little Playmate nodded her bare head eagerly. Yes; she knew all about Him. “How He came as a little baby— such a wee baby and so sweet and dear; how He grew up to be a boy and then on, up into a man?” asked Lina Again the little bare head nodded. “How He loved the flowers— [Sptcially lilies, white lilies--and held little chillums on His lap; an’ cured more sick peoples 'n any doctor ever could, and--and cured a little girl after she was truly dead And a young man, too. O, and another man -—-Lazarus, his name was. That makes three. And how he knew that wings Easter means to the soul the wicked people, who didn't love Him, were to kill Him; but He wanted to comfort His—His dis- disteeples—" “What's that?” “That was twelve men and other folks who walked 'round with Him and-—and loved Him very much, All becept Judas. He sold Jesus and let Him be killed-—crucified on a cross, ‘tween two thieves. on two other crosses,” “Yes,” said Little Playmate. “I know all 'bout that time, My moth- er, she used to tell us stories once in a while, but she don’t like to bother ‘bout stories and such like since things has gone bad. It's orful t’ have things go bad on a farm, up in the mountains, 'way from every- 3 s'pose it is,” said Lina. “0 my!” said Little Playmate, “O, “Well,” said Lina, “Let's go on talking about Easter. It's nice to talk ‘bout Easter, isn't it?” The two children smiled into each other's faces and cuddled closely to- gether, “You see,” said Lina, “they called Jesus the Saviour, 'cause He came to save people from being bad and wicked. And He came to save them from dying forever—just going on staying dead always, know, So He told His—His disteeples, you remember ?” : * Little Playmate nodded. “Told them that He was going to be killed, but He'd come alive in three days—just in three days, early in the ! “But after He'd been killed and buried up in a tomb, why, they just went to feeling bad and not to look- ing for that third morning come, g seem different since your .|of syrup and sugar, ‘and bare little feet. | “And everybody sends pretty col- ored eggs 'round to folks they like, Some little children say, risen!" to their mamma and papa when they see them first that morn- ing. Then the mamma and papa kiss them and say, ‘He is risen, indeed! O, it's lovely. And we give Easter Blasguts—cards and books and can- jes!” ’ “0, my!” said Little Playmate, Just then the man came after Lina and when she reached her mother’s room she =at down upon the foot- stool beside her and together they planned--Lina and her dear mamma. The outcome of the planning was ‘ this: - The very next day Lina went to Little Playmate's log house with a very large parcel, which she gave to Little Playmate's mother, “Won't you please take it, Mrs. Grimes?” she said, “take it for Hannah to wear Easter Sunday? You see, and Uncle Henry, who is a minister, is coming up to be here over Easter with us, And we're going to have an Easter in the boarding house— | ‘cause mamma's getting well and everybody's so glad. “Uncle Henry's going to preach 'hout how Jesus rose from the dead, And there'll be flowers. And two ladies and the rest of us will sing, So we'll have a real Easter. And mamma's written a letter to you— it's inside the parcel—inviting you and Hannah and the rest to come over and help make our Easter church that we're going to have in the house” “0, my!” said Little Playmate, “And 'cause 'twas fifteen hundred years ago that people began to wear something new for Easter, mamma | always gives me something new to wear then. So she let me bring some of my new things over to Hannah, They're real pretty; I think you'll like them.” “0, my, my!" gasped Little Play- mate, “And in the letter mamma asks you to let her divide the new things that Aunt Helen has sent her with you. For she doesn't need them all. And she'll send Peter over with the buckboard to bring you all over to ‘our Easter church-in-the-house. Then she wants you all to stay to dinner!” We're going to have the loveliest din- ! ner!” Mrs. Grimes’ eyes were full. Ia bit of brightness,” she said. Things mamma came up here. Life is more —more humanlike 'Tisn't so much as if we were just beasts of burden and nothing more, Tell your mamma that the coming of Easter makes us glad once more, because somebody seems to care to have us glad.” “0, my!” said Little Plavmate, “I guess it does make us glad!” ————— A eee MAPLE SAP HARVEST NOW UNDER WAY According to reports received by the rennsyivania department of for- ests and waters from Warren, Tioga and Somerset counties, the sap has been rising in the sugar maple trees | early this year. the woods and along the Pennsylva- nia highways now see sap buckets | hanging from the trunks and smell the mingled odors of wood smoke and boiling maple syrup. Sugar, whose manufacture in the trees by the leaves is one of the mysteries of nature, is in constant movement in the growing twigs, trunk, and roots, The amount of sap produced by a tree in one season is | determined largely by the area of ‘the tree's crown, ‘much as forty gallons of sap in one season. Fifteen gallons of sap for each tree, however, is usually the | general average for groves in | the northern tier counties of Penn- { aylvania, though a season of unfav- | orable weather may result in a yield ‘as low as five gallons from e | single tree. The ordinary run of sap in average year contains about cent of sugar. From forty gallons of are required duce one f syrup, turn will a) and one-half jor one quart | maple syrup. . Although the | tapped in Pennsylvania, ' content is one-third less of the hard, or | The earlier the t better are the sweetness ii g¢ i ha ° BE g 1 : ; £53 i fl i FF Ed : : ; ‘ i i i | E g g § g 5% § Egz $2.25 per gallon for syrup and 25 35 cents per pound for sugar. Som- erset county leads in the production though the northern tier, including Susquehanna, Tioga, Bradford, Potter, Warren, and Erie counties, is the principal maple sugar and syrup region of the State. g | vania farms. mamma's getting better, | ‘It's | Travelers through the size of the. tree itself, and weather conditions.’ | Records have been kept of large su- ‘gar maples that have produced as Es § Just last year the Commonws | outranked all States in the val | potatoes raised, but the leading, ‘is not the indespensable spud. | Pennsylvania farmers grow .p- | proximately 50,000,000 bushels of | corn each year to feed 15,000 0 | chickens, 1,335,000 cattle, 347 0 | horses and mules, 655,000 swine, 491,000 sheep, but with the excep- tion of one or two World war years, | corn has not recently been the “King ' of the Field.” By process of elimination, hay takes first place. Three times as | valuable as the wheat crop, one-third more valuable than corn, worth five times as much as the apple produc- tion, and three times that of potatoes, hay is the leading crop on Pennsyl- It represents 40 per cent of the total cultivated acreage, and 35 per cent of the total value of crops harvested last year. Penn- sylvania produced the second most valuable tame hay crop of any State in 1930 and the third in 1932. While once principally the non-league tim- i | othy, an increasing proportion of the total is now made up of legumes clover and alfalfa. Statistics reveal some queer facts about this perennial campaign for leadership among the crops. For several years after the Civil War, the race was neck and neck with corn, wheat and hay of approximate- ly the same value. Wheat once fre- quently beat cut corn for second place but during recent years, the corn crop has often been twice as valuable as the wheat crop. In 1919 corn set its famous all time record value of §109,000,000, almost as much as the total estimated value of all principal crops in all sixty- seven Pennsylvania counties was worth three million dollars less than the tobacco crop grown largely in Lancaster county. The 1930 Federal Census gives some important data about the “dark horses’ among the Commonwealth's farm crops. For example, the farm woodiot yielded forest products in 1929 valued at $7,680,000, and the farm gardens produced vegetables totaling $8,380,000. And last but not least, Pennsylvania producers sold $3,313,000 worth of mushrooms in 1929. Of course, not all farm crops in Pennsylvania are cash crops, In fact most of them are not, The cash income from crops in 1930 was only $75,826,000, while for livestock and products, the total was estimated at $179,953,000. ake The leading farm crop is by no means the leading farm product. Hay surrenders immediately to milk. The 11930 census valued the products of Pennsylvania dairy farmers, not in- cluding the sale of animals, at ap- proximately $100,000,000 for 1929, and the products of the poultry yards at more than $50,000,000. Milk, cream, and butter, more than 80 per cent of which now come from cows known to be free from tuber- culosis, is and has been since the World War, the principal source of farm income in most Pennsylvania counties. A review of leading farm crops and products in Pennsylvania since Civil War days, reveals a Common- stressed by William Penn 250 years ago as means of alleviating hard times. BOXERS TO TRY OUT AT STATE FOR OLYMPICS, ing before State College will be in- | vaded by college boxers from every part of the country seeking recogni tion in the National Collegiate Olym pic boxing tryouts, Penn State ath- letic authorities are rapidly complet- ments for the two- day event, which is scheduled for | Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9. | The tournament will serve a two- | fold purpose, that of deciding | tional collegiate champions in eight | weights, and of selecting four out- | standing boxers in each class to rep- the college world in the final for the American Olympic team. The weight divisions 3 BE , 135, 147, 160, 175-pounds and 1 ta oo The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has ruled that the Pullman com- pany may not place an extra charge on sleeping berths which are occu- pied by two persons. The company last October applied tw, Ditty Conte charge persons a berth, arguing that the situation was comparable to the practice of hotels » more when two persons oc- cupied a room. rp wealth with a widely diversified agriculture—a system of farming. With less than two weeks remain- proper sex ratio will regulate mat- been designated as 112, 118, milk producers and their buying dealers,” said Henry C. Beakes, pres- ident of the Beakes Dairy Company. “Bottled milk is being sold to stores at 7, 71. and 8 cents a quart, whnen the standard price is 9 cents with a bottie deposit, or 10 cents without the deposit. Some of these price slashing dealers are furnish- ing stores with milk as low as 6 cents, but that is mostly in neighbor- hood price fighting. The ruinous price cutting is en- gaged in by dealers who are getting their supplies at low prices from un- organized farmers who are unable to demand adequate returns. These dealers are using the opportunity presented by this cheap milk to build up their own volume of trade regardless of the fact that this may lead to a collapse of all prices that will rob farmers of millions of dol- lars.” E., S. Poley, president of the De- lancey & Cream Company of Brook- lyn, declared that there is ‘grave danger that prices will be down to $1 or 90 cents per 100 pounds soon. “The market is becoming more de- moralized daily,” said Mr. Poley. “Dealers who are trying to withstand this price cutting cannot do so much longer. Sooner or later they must meet the competition. That can be done only by a general price reduc- tion, and that will mean reduced prices to all farmers. They will have only themselves to blame, for it is the unorganized producers who are responsible. They make it possible for these cut-throat dealers to carry on their ruthless policy of price cut- ting to the ruin of the entire dairy business.” A YP —————— INVESTIGATION PROVES TOO MANY DOE DEER Positive proof of the abnormality of the breeding season for deer, a condition which has developed as a result of the unbalanced set ratio, was borne out by examination or genital organs made during the past few months. These examinations were conducted by the State Bureau of Animal Industry, Dr. Norman H. Stewart, of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, and the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania, working in conjunction with the re- search department of the Game Commission. Of 247 sets of reproductive organs taken from doe deer during the past open season, December 1 to 15, only © 12 showed any indieation whatever of pregnancy. All but two or three of these twelve were re- ceived from Sullivan and Forest counties, where evidently, a more normal sex ratio exists. Under normal conditions the breed- ing season usually takes place in October and November, but a great many records secured during the past few weeks indicate that mating is likely to occur at any time. For instance, the Commission cites, the killing in Northumberland county on the first day of the past season, of a doe with an almost fully develop- ‘ed fawn. This fawn would have been born very soon. Under normal con- ditions, however, fawns are usually born in May and June. The Com- mission has several authentic rec- ords of fawns being born in middle September and middle February, two obvious extremes. Also, field officers have observed mating activities as late as April. During the past few vears it has not been unusual for hunters to observe verv voung snot- ted fawns during the deer season, An interesting record of how a ing activities was received recently from the superintendent of a large privatly owned tract of hunting ter- ritory in Canada. The deer in this area are kept properly balanced as to sex with the result that practic- ally an fawns are born within one week. ————————— ———————— EASTER IN VARIOUS LANDS the recurrence of Easter has been celebrated with various ceremonies part in the day's celebration. For | days’ before the holiday the Dutch barges laden high with fra- and showy masses of bloom. i Easier eggs boiled ‘so hard that you can play at ball | with various | with them, dyed and often ving insc ons landscapes traced upon iy ‘over the base of an inverted In the Netherlands, or Holland, a bear on their placid surfaces the son to retain the i til her death, to avoid confusion. | lettuce. 6 3 or! Lilies, Roses, Violets, Dreams In Gorgeous bloom will beam. —The blouse is certainly blooming as it becomes more and more the darling of the mode. No more do we sally forth to buy a blouse or so to wear with a navy blue tailor-made. We buy several blouses these days to wear with our sports, dress and utility suits and each blouse must be of highly original design, The fussy overdone type of blouse is definitely out. But just the same the new models are far from plain. In fact they are more decorative than ever, due to all sorts of tuck- ing and other clever effects. A smart blouse and skirt worn with a short fur jacket is splendid as an alterna- tive to the suit or the frock and coat combination that generally ob- tains in the Spring. It is a youthful, useful costume and one that appeals to almost every voman with a penchant for the practical combined with the pretty. Many of the new blouses are accent- ed with touches of fine embroidery with bits of fine lace used as edg- ing when there is a jabot or a rever effect. Pin tucking is used quite a bit, as is shirring. Satin georgette and crepe moro- cain are being much used for the newest blouses. For sports suits there are generally sweaters made for the model to convey the ensemble look that is so important these days. Certainly knitting needles must be working overtime these days since every house is showing quantities of hand-knit things. —-You may go in for a “little suit” to start the spring season, with fancy gilets and blouses. You will in- sist probably on a costume or two of the young prints that are blos- soming out like flowers right now. But whatever else you may or may not acquire, it is no year to be with- out a tweed sports coat. They are ravishing and flattering and fit your figure like a little frock. Unless you belong in the leisure class that need cast no thought to utility, one of the new soft tans or beiges is a useful color to have for this garment. If you have individ- uality and like to have folks know it, something different from the us- ual polo coat should be your choice, The French may dictate the world’s fashions. But when it comes to knowing sports things, tweeds and tailoring, it takes the English. Some of the pert country things London sends over this season, and the fresh out-door things for older women, certainly have that thing called chic. More than that. they are so correct. An exceptionally smart little Eng- lish tweed sports coat says all this in its lines. It undoubtedly gets its inspiration from the military coat, with its beautifully tailored should- ers and that tapering line to make a small waist look even smaller. The collar is brand new, a neat Prince of Wales one, and fine stitching and double rows of buttons and pockets with flaps all add their interesting detail. It is the kind of coat that gives you contidence, wheilier you really are as efficiently sportsmaniike as it makes you seem or not. —To dry curtains and do away with the clumsy curtain stretchers, when drying net curtains with no scallops, run rods in the top and bot- tom hems, hang the curtains at the allow to dry. Renovating Velvet. To remove the wrinkles from velvet, dampen the back of the velvet with a wet cloth, giving especial attention to the most crushed parts; and then hold it stretched taut, rub it back and forth continue to use the suffix Jr.? A.—Generally speaking he drops the Jr, but when the widow of the senior survives, it is customary for on un- RABBIT IN A NEST SALAD 1 small can pears. 1 small head blanched almonds. 9 white marshmellows. 2 table- ow for a little tail. Serve with mayon- naise on a cup of lettuce. —Contrary to ideas of former days, , chintz draperies are no longer con- | fined to the informal room. Now it's the fashion to use them in rooms And more formal designs have been de- | where formerly you would have ‘only more expensive fabrics. colors | veloped with these rooms in mind. | for the turkeys. —Flower patterns are especially flatiron —Big eggs pay better than little : parison —Inspect the hardy vines. All ex- cept the wistaris can be pruned now. Do not allow the vines to get too thick. Also, be sure that they are properly fastened to their supports. —Milk cooled by direct immersion cools more rapidly if the water is agitated. Milk cools more uniformly throughout the can when agitation is employed. Experiments at State College show that there is no ad- vantage in agitating the water if milk is not to be cooled below 60 degrees F. —Each member of the family re- quires two vegetables besides poto- toes every day. A leafy green vege- table should be served at least three times a week. Tomatoes can be used often in the diet. The well-planned garden will provide for these needs. —To reduce costs and improve the quality of market lambs, all lambs should be docked early and the ram lambs should be castrated soon after- ward. Most markets discriminate se- verely agains: the untrimmed lamb, ~—Sucker wood can be used for scions to be employed in grafting work this spring. ~It is a safe rule to allow one square foot of floor space for every three chicks. For best results not more than 350 chicks should be brooded together in one pen or brooder house. Forest tree-seealng orders should De led with the reunasylvania Le- parunent or korests ana wutiers by Jus time. rhe supply of the most de- sirable planting stock is low, ‘lo be certain of getting what you want, place your order immediately. A good farm garden will pro- duce a sufficient quantity of various kinds of vegetables for a 12 months Supply. Sucn a garden will be profit- able. supply an abundance of tasty healthful tood, and its management ' will prove to be a pleasure rather than a drudgery. Four important points must be ghworved i plapting trees and shrubs, ave ocation properly prepared with good soil. Do not plant Prepared ly. Pack the earth carefully around the roots. Water well in order to fill the soil cavities. — Alfalfa requires a sweet soil. Some soils are suitable for this leg- ume and others can be put in the proper condition. Your county agent will test soil samples and inform you of the amount of lime needed. | Early farrowed pi of good Droodine: Lo | be fattened for the early fall market (when prices invariably are higher ‘than later. y en -—-In looking over some poultry houses a few days ago, small cracks were discovered in the back of house just over the roosts. the enormous amount of heat is lost from the house, Also the large amount of cold air ‘will drive in from the north. crack may appear perfectly harm- less and yet it may be the source of much trouble later. Chickens can't production, but it is very apt to, it is best to give the fresh air in some other way where | the cracks are small. Plas- Patching | ter is very helpful, but with the layer ‘more strenuous measures must | employed, The moral is to chunk up the cracks. g of the dol- eggs (of $5 Ha | eggs Wo | worth $2.70, 55 cents, a difference in £8 5% ei gg a flock of 200 birds would lay | medium and | valued at $1084. A | size like 3 i : : Siig 4 Ze 1: “Bg 3 first flock would be ~The plan now is to raise the turkeys in confinement, The turkey hen with her poults is fenced in. A | small shed is used for shelter. The | reason for this is that the poults {get the blackhead from infected | ground over which the chickens have | been allowed to forage. The far end | of an orchard would be a good place A mash made of | oat meal, bran and middlings with |about 10 per cent of meat scrap Easter eggs symbolize the resur- | popular for summer draperies. They would make a good feed, Milk to rection. As one old writer says, “As have a sort of “bringing the garden drink would be all right. the bird imprisoned within the shell comes to life and liberty at the ap- pointed time, so did our Saviour on Kaster morning burst the gates of ‘the grave.” The eggs were at first | dved scarlet, in memory of the blood | of Christ shed upon the cross. inside” effect, Big boquets look al- most as though you'd picked them in your own yard. And these are par- ticularly smart used with 18 century type furniture. But They're so gay and lifelike thev can be used with | practically any kind of furniture. Do not feed corn and do not overfeed. When | the poults are old enough to fatten you can begin gradually on corn. Give the poults to the turkey hen, rear them in an enclosure on new {ground and feed them little if any | eorn,
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