2 POULTRY NE HEN PRODUCTS MADE RECORD DURING YEAR little Less Than Wheat in Value and Better Than Oats by Millions The crop report for 1913, Issued by the United States Department of Agriculture the early part of the week, puts the work of the busy American hen in the running with all other sources of revenue from the six mil lion farms of this country. In 1912 the poultry products of this country valued $570,00,000: in 1913, $578,000,000. For the past year the value of the poultry products equal three-flfth the value of the cotton crop proper. In 1912 the poultry products were worth nearly $15,000,000 more than the wheat crop of that year and in 1913, with the wheat crop the largest in the hlßtory of the country, the value of the poultry products was only $32,- 000.000 less than that of wheat. The amount of the value of the 1913 poultry products exceeded the value of the oats crop by-$134,000,000. It was more than ten times the value of the wool crop. It was two and one-half times as great as the value of the potato crop. This year's report give no figures on the value of farm livestock but In 1912 poultry and eggs exceeded the value of the swine of the entire coun try by $47,000,000; they exceeded in value all the mules of the entire coun try by nearly $45,000,000, equaled 70 per cent, of the value of all the milch cows and the figure also equalled quite 73 per cent, of the farm value of nil "other cattle ' in the land. Second Perry Show Will Attract Many "Duncannon is all ready for the sec ond annual exhibition of the Perry County Poultry Association to be held In that town next week, January 6 to 9. Inclusive. The entry list will close to-night and there are indications that double the number of birds will be ex hibited that were shown last year. The official premium list of the as sociation shows plainly that the Pern county organization is on the job. That the business men of Perry county and n»arby territory have the interest of the association at heart is shown by the large amount of advertising car ried in the catalogue. The association has become a member of the American Poultry Association and announces that marked catalogues will be mailed January 7 to those subscribing for same. In fact the Perry countlans are running things much after the fashion of the top notchers in the show busi ness and their enterprise deserves rec ognition. Many Harrisburg fanciers will at tend the show at some time during the week: it would be neighborly if Harrisburg fanciers were to turn out together on any evening that might agreed upon. Leghorns Out of First Place in Egg Contest The eighth week of the Interna tional Egg Laying Contest at Storrs. 'Cmfn., saw the Leghorns lose first place. For the first three weeks after the competition opened on November 1, Neale Bros. White Wvandottes from Apponaug, R. 1., held the lead, but In the fourth week the Wyandottes gave way to the White Leghorns of Francis F. Lincolum, Mt. Carmel, Conn., which maintained the lead from the fourth week until the eighth. The honor of first place goes back again to the Wyandottes, but this time to the English pen owned by Tom Barron. An unexpected development in the eighth week of the contest WHS a slight slowing of thr pace, the net produc tion of 975 eggs for the week is a loss of twenty-nine eggs as compared with the proceeding week. This is the first week that has not shown a steady, persistent gain in the egg yield since the opening of the contest. REASON WHY NO. 14 Reasonable Building Re Protect Your Home The disadvantage of having another home built against your own is unknown here. Hershey is built on the Garden City Plan and P such a plan does not permit of overcrowding. Every home is set back from the curb line twenty feet, giving harmony to the outline of the street. Trees and grass plots enhance the beauty of the home. And a broad boule vard of macadam lends a touch of beauty and bigiess to it all. HERSHEY . asks only the building restrictions which every prospective builder will heartily en dorse. For beside enhancing the beauty of his home, they add to its value. Building restrictions which are within reason is all that is asked of home builders here. Hershey has every civic and social con venience to offer home-seekers. Here are the graded schools, parks, theaters, shops, churches; in fact everything that the city can offer. Lots range in price from S6OO upward for 40 feet frontage. Reasonable restrictions for building—protect your home. | Representative always on the ground. Phone or write. Hershey Improvem ent Co. HERSHEY, PA. SATURDAY EVENING. INCUBATORS MAKE THE BREEDERS WORK Never Use a Cheap Machine as They Are More Expen sive in the Ead Plans now for the 1914 flock. Make It a point to hatch early enough to have pullets laying next Fall when the price of eggs Is high. May hens be depended upon for early hatching? Hardly. The next beat thing is to in stall a "wooden hen," one that will in cubate hundreds of eggs at one time and show none of the perversity that the feathered variety is apt to show at any time. Before installing incubators, one must consider that the operator is not relieved to any great extent. The work becomes more exacting than with hens; the result depending very much upon the operator's good judg ment, and a great amount of careful regular attention, even with the best of incubators. Do not invest any money in a cheaply constructed ma chine. There are a great many good machines on the market; in fact most of the low-grade machines have been forced oft the market or improved. When it comes to capacity, consider a long time before purchasing a small machine. Nearly all incubator firms manufacture small machines, not be cause they possess any special merit, but because some people demand a small one or none. There are no great advantages in buying a 60 or 65- egg incubator. Incubators holding from 180 to 200 eggs are most com monly used, but a 400-egg capacity in cubator will produce just as good re sults, with not a great deal more oil, and only a little more labor. Some machines will work well and hatch a good per cent, of chickens under cer tain favorable, conditions. The ma chine to buy, however, is the on® that will bring out all healthy chickens pos sible, almost anywhere and at any time with the least possible care. The value of a machine should not he measured by flashy advertisements but by the results. Properly Fed Hen Is Egg-laying Machine On the opening day of Farmers' Week at Pennsylvania State College. Professor E. L. Anthony used five fine Guernsey cows from the college farm to demonstrate the way to judge a good dairy cow. "A cow must be con sidered as being nothing but a ma chine to convert feed Into milk," said Professor Anthony. Professor Anthony might have "told the thousand farmers assembled that what he said of the cow applied equal ly well to the hen. A hen should be regarded as a machine to convert feed into eggs. A hen bred to lay, that Is, with the propensity to convert feed In to eggs and not into fat, will produce eggs In direct proportion to the amount of food she is able to digest and assimilate. There is much in the shape of a hen that will indicate whether or not she is vigorously con stituted throughout. The hen that [ does not or cannot consume large quantities of food is unprofitable in- I variably. There are also chance heavy I eaters that are unprofitable because of a lazy, inactive disposition a born I tendency to idleness and unproductive ness. Sunbury Trolley Car Gets Mixed Up With Mummers and Wins Prize of 30 Cents Special to The Telegraph Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 3.—When a trol ley car interfered with a mummers' parade at Sunbury on New Year's day and broke up the ranks temporarily, the judges awarded it a prize of thirty cents. The car was designated as the poorest float in line. The crew was censured by the owners of the trolley line when the judges made their an nouncement. NEXT SUNDAY'S 9 PUBLIC LEDGER S3 ff A Newspaper, a Magazine and Two Notable 11 Supplements—a great big value for five cents Next Sunday's (January 4th) issue will include the fourth instalment of the superb supplements reproducing in full color Violet Oakley's Paintings The famous William Penn pictures in the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg, Five more Sundays will complete the series of 15 pictures. Order early to make sure of obtaining a complete set of these wonderful paintings, now reproduced in color for the first time. Copperplate Pictorial Section, 16 pages, reproducing on coated paper many interesting photographs of persons, places and things prominent in the week's news. Magazine Sections, including notable articles germane to the news of the week, Woman's Interests, Sporting News, Theatrical and oocial News, Foreign News and General News — all together comprising a comprehensive Sunday newspaper of the highest order. I PUBLIC fiiiI&LEDGER JsSSSg DAILY TWO CENTS SUNDAY FIVE CENTS £S3 | | | First Thing in the Morning Since 1836 | | Agent for Harrisburg, Pa. LBRODW fk .DM-) BH FROM Tjßt PLAY Or ■■■ GEORGE M.CO/iM /■ ED\vARm*IARSHALL | \wim PHOTOGRAPH TROn <SCCNE3Ift THE PLAY Robert Wallace was his guide, hi* mentor and his friend for some four weeks. After that he was his friend and mentor, hut resigned as guide, for Broadway took the reins. He had a passion and a genius for investigating metropolitan affairs of lightsome na ture. The business marts of Gotham were offensive to him. He thought it silly for mankind to waste its time in work and said so. The teeming fas cination of the far sides of the town, so dear to sociologists who love hu man nature beat after it haa sweated or suffered off its varnish, found no devotee in him; he could not under stand why entire families should live in huddled rooms on Essex street when there were large apartments vacant ID the great hotel flat house next door to the vaat mansion Inhabited by Mrs. Jack Gerard on Seventy-second street. Mrs. Jack Gerard was an old lady of incredible wealth, who tried to hold Time's hand in pause. That she bad failed had been no fault of hers or of the beauty parlors or cosmetic makers. "Thoy would be so much more com fortable If they would go where they would have more room," Jackson con tinued, in further comment on the very 1 ~ ■ • - - ■' . HARRJBBURG tfjfa TELEGRAPH poor, and would not listen to the ear nest soul which tried to offer explain tlona. A year passed. Broadway carried three bank accounts, two of them not very large and seldom checked upon. The third was In New York's all-night bank. He kept busy. "I feel as If I ought to see the sun rise often," he explained. "Sunrises are BO beauti ful." He seldom heard from Joneßville in these days. Judge Spotswood some times wrote to him, his uncle never. For a time he had endeavored to keep up a correspondence with the girls, but this had languished through his own exceeding occupation at more pressing matters and Josle Richards' sorrowful conviction that he did not tell her, in his brief, Infrequent let ters, about all the girls whom he was •meeting In New York. His first shock came when the All- Night bank wrote him a letter, asking his to call and talk of his account, and this did not occur until four years had vanished In the haze of Broad way's lights. It made him sit straight In his chair and blink as a cold dasl^ from a seltzer bottle sometimes had when he had needed It. Rankin, en tering, asked him If he had a pain. "You bet I hare," said he. "And I'm afraid It's serious." "Shall I call a doctor, air?" "No, call a banker." Rankin, puzzled, withdrew carefully. He had learned to step with catlike tread when he discovered that hia master was in serious mood. He had no wish to anger him. No butler in the history of bulling had ever had a place so utterly ideal. Pickings plentiful; work trivial; all life had been congenial for Rankin since he had encountered Broadway Jones. The day of the bank's letter was the first after he had reached New York when Broadway did not go about hia Kay and simple routine of up Broad way in the afternoon and down Broad way at night, with movements so timed that they mado long pausea neai ! the Circle and near Forty-second j street seem natural. He went home I before five. When Rankin ventured to expresa j surprise at his return to the apart I ment at that hour, he snarled at him j "Go to the devil, Rankin!" he sug ; gested when he lingered. "Yes, sir; thank you, air," said Ran j kin and withdrew. He reached the kitchen with a face ao troubled that the Japaneae boy, wbc had Bought domeatic service here with (Judging from his wages) the com ! mendable intention of patriotically sending home, each year, enougb American money to build a warahlt for hia nation's navy, showed interest "Wat iss matturr, Ranekeen?" th« sympathetic Oriental queried. "I know men," aald Rankin, "and it I didn't know that Mr. Jonea ia reallj a millionaire —made it out of chewini gum, his family, I'm told—l ahould eaj he was hard up." The Japanese boy stared politely; he did not underatand at all. "Of courae he'a not hard up," Ran kin continued. "No hard-up man could have aworn at me as he did Just now , can't ba money, ao it must be JANUARY 3,1014 ■women." "Llmmin," said the Japanese, whc had not mastered w's. "lemons," Rankin granted. "Tou'r« almost right. I never saw a man more popular. He spends his money like he didn't care for it, and does 11 well because that is the fact. Hi doesn't care for It. I never saw a human being who cared less. Why, he never counts the money on hla dresser in the morning. Just throws it there when he gets into bed, and—" The Japanese laughed merrily. "You gettln lich!" "No; you little heathen; I only know he does it, that is all. I stack it up for him. Sometimes he throws it all about—that and his clothes and fur niture. He's often merry that way He threw me about one night. A fine, atrong youth! I thought it better not to say much till he went to sleep, and then, as I crawled out from under th« bed, I had a chance to see his arm Quite muscular it is—just as it felt when he was Joking with me." The next day, by chance, while visit ing the kitchen, Rankin had a sudden inspiration. "I wonder if he is in love?" he pondered. "That Mr. Hen riot that I attended just before he married that grass widow was as ab sent-minded—oh, quite absent-minded, quite! Now, which one—" Rankin suddenly came to a stand in horror. Even to the small and very yellow cook It was plain that tragie thoughts had flashed into his mind. "I wonder," he soliloquized if it could possibly be that terrible Gerard old woman. She's had her eye on him ever since the first night that she got a glimpse of him." As he spoke his master, as request ed, was talking with the first vice-pres ident of the bank. The man seemed rather aerious-minded. although on that previous occasion when he had .marked the beginning of their ac quaintance, when Broadway had gone to open his account with just two hundred thousand dollars, he had been geniality itaelf. ITo Be Continued.] Effort to Prevent County Controller Taking Office I Special to The Telegraph i Sunbury, Pa.. Jan. 3.—Learning that I County Collector-elect Aaron Haker, of Shamokin, did not receive a com ! mission from Governor Tener, when I the commissioners for the recorder, prothonotary and Justices In North ' uinberland county arrived this week. 1 the old board of county auditors, who I claimed that they were legislated out ' of office by the new controller's act, ! arc preparing to have an injunction served to prevent him from taking office and auditing accounts next week. i They claim that they have another au- I dit to make and that the court,, by ■ law, must appoint them again to make ' the 1913 audit. TROLLEY CAR STRIKES ALTO ' j Special lo The Telegraph 1 i Sunbury. Pa., Jan. 3. —The automo l.blle in which J. M. Stohler, a cloth l , Ing man, was riding, was struck by a j trolley car yesterday morning. His j !car was damaged and he was Injured. BETTER THAN SPANKINO 1 Spanking does not cure children of bed -1 wetting. There ii a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Box ! W, Notre Dame, Ind., will send free to • any mother her successful home treat ment, with full Instructions. Send no ' money, but write her today if your chil dren trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child — the chances are It can't ' help it. This treatment also cures adulta ' and aged people troubled with urine dlflt oultles by day or night, t ' | Harrisburg Academy Reopens ;| Tuesday, January 6th !i New Pupils Admitted 1 FOR CATALOGUE, RATES AND 1 j GENERAL INFORMATION ' Phone or Write 'j ARTHUR E. BROWN, j HEADMASTER J P. O. Box 617 B«n J.
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