12 STATE AHEAD IN MOST OF CROPS Unusual Conditions Found in Regard to Foodstuffs in Other States In every major farm crop, except ing potatoes, the Pennsylvania farm ers excelled the general average yield to the acre obtained by the farmers of this country, says the bulletin of the State Department of Agriculture. The United States figures of crop production show that the average yield of potatoes to the acre for 1916 ■was 80.4 bushels while the average shown by the figures of the depart ment show sht average yield in this State of but 70 bushels to an acre. The average last year was low for Pennsylvania but the average for the entire country was also reduced from 96.3 bushels to an acre in 1915. Pennsylvania ranked third in the total production of potatoes and the 265,200 acres harvested represented 7.47 per cent, of the total acreage of 3,550,000 devoted to potatoes. The yield represented 6.5 per cent, of the entire yield of tno country. It is in the raising of buckwheat that the Keystone State can shine. Al though the year was a poor one for the buckwheat crop, Pennsylvania easily retained its place as first among the buckwheat growing States. The 279,970 acres devoted to buck wheat represent 33.13 per cent, of the 845,000 acres planted to buckwheat in this country and the yield repre sented 37.84 per cent, of the entire crop of the country. The average yield for an acre in the State was 1G bushels compared to 14 bushels for the entire country. The Pennsylvania average of wheat to an acre was 18.8 bushels against a general average of 13.8 bushels. The acreage of the State was 3.83 per cent, of the total of the coun try but the yield represented 5.20 per cent, of the total yield for this coun try, thus showing that over one twentieth of the wheat grown in the United States comes from Pennsyl- Pennsvlvania farmers averaged 37 bushels to an acre for corn against the national yield of 24.4 bushels and the acreage devoted to corn in the State was 1.38 per cent, of the total acreage. The total yield of the State represented 2.09 per cent, of ttie coun try's crop. Almost 10 per cent, of the rye grown in the United States comes from Pennsylvania and is raised on an acreage representing 9 per cent, of the total acreage. The yield for the State per acre is 16.9 bushels as com pared with the national average yield of 15.3 bushels to an acre. The oats figures show that Penn sylvania devotes 2.53 per cent, of the total acreage and that the crop repre sents 2.J0 per cent, of the total crop. The State average yield per acre is 31 bushels to an acre against a yield of 30.1 bushels for the country. The acreage for hay is 5.81 per cent, of the total and the yield is 5.83 per cent, of the total yield of the United States. The State average yield is just a slight fraction above the coun try's average yield of 1.6 4 tons to an acre. Don't Let Soap Spoil Your Hair When you wash your hair, bo care ful what you use* Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is just plain mulsifled cocoanut oil, for this is pure and entirely greaseless. It's very cheap, and beats the most expensive soaps or anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it In, about a teaspoonful is all that is required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to handle. Besides, It loosens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt and dandruff. fionffi THE ~ BEST LIVER AND BOWEL MEDICINE Says glass of hot water before breakfast washes poisons from system. Physicians the world over recom mend the Inside bath, claiming this is of vastly more importance than out side cleanliness, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood, causing ill health, while the pores in the ten yards of bowels do. Men and women are urged to drink each morning, before breakfast, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it, as a harm less means of helping to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day's indigestible ma terial, poisons, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and 1 purify ing the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Just as soap and hot water cleanse and freshen the skin, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the ellml natlve organs. Those who wake up with bad breath, coated tongue, nasty taste or have a dull, aching head, sallow complexion, acid stomach: others who are subject to bilious attacks or constipation, should obtain a quarter-pound of lime stone phosphate at the drug store. This will cost very little, but is suf ficient to demonstrate the value of in side bathing. Those who continue it each morning are assured of pro nounced results, both in regard to V health and appearance. Bet- sth Are. & Broadway. Fireproof—Modern—Central.. II 300 ROOMS WITH BATHS, j Meali: Table d'Hota aid ala Carta 1 WBITH FOR BOOKf.BT. T>. P. WITCHKT. PHDP. I \ , v ' f V ' WEDNESDAY EVtHMTNG, ffARRISBURG SNN& TELEGRAPH MARCH*I4, 1917. BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT f itoOStf \V\ fMANCtPiUy DEPRESS&D NOW, LAPy ) f V CAN WELL REMEMBER THE TTMES WE WftPE ) Vf\fW A fW CREATED MANY A Stfß tt* J BUT DID ITv FRUIT GROWERS TO GET BENEFITS Extensive Plan Undertaken to Rid the State of Many Voracious Pests Fruit growers of Pennsylvania will be greatly benefited by Investigations which are planned by Zoologist J. G. Sanders of the Department of Agri-, culture during the coming season. The plans call for investigation for the control of fruit tree borers, and the manufacture of a cheap, effective paint to protect fruit trees from bor ers, rabbits and mice; control of the apple worm or coddling moth and the curculio; and the control of the apple aphlds and the apple red-bug. Probably no other type of injury to fruit trees causes so much loss, espec ially in young orchards as the borers, rabbits and mice. At the present time no materials that have been tried out seem to be entirely effective as controls, but Zoologist Sanders be lieves that investigations that he has planned will in a few years solve one of the biggest problems that confronts Pennsylvania fruit growers. Under the direction of the Bureau of Zoology experiments will be carried out in several orchards in the State near Harrisburg and combinations of cheap materials that have been tested in the laboratory will be applied to the trunks of trees and will remain on 'the trees during the growing season and through the winter. The tests will be to find effective repellants against the borers, rabbits and mice and to determine the permanence of the materials applied. Prominent orchardists predict that within the next ten or fifteen years the apple crop of the State will be worth more than fifty million dollars annually. Apples of special importance in the York, Adams, Franklin and Bedford county lruit belt are the Stayman Winesap, York Imperial, Rome Beauty and Grimes Golden. For long succession a list of apples recommended for the northern fruit sections of the State are: Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, Olden burg, Gravensteln, Wealthy, Smoke house, Mcintosh, Wagener and Bald win. Reports from Somerset county in dicate that the maple sugar supply Will be exceptionally good this year. Somerset /anks first in the maple sugar industry in the State. To Study Possible Danger of Poison in Canned Foods New York, March 14. Tt is an nounced here by tne National Re search Council that an exhaustive in vestigation is to be undertaken to de termine to what extent, If any, the danger of poisoning is involved in the use of canned goods. The National Canners' Association, representing practically all producers of canned foodstuffs in this country, is to bear the entire expense of the investiga tion, which will be conducted entire ly independent of the association ex cept in the matter of the financing of the work. A sum of over SIOO,OOO will be appropriated by the Canners' Association, should the work require so large an expenditure. The proposal to make such an in vestigation was brought forward by Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory and chairman of the National Research Council, who there was widespread interest in such an Im portant subject as the danger of poi soning from the use of canned goods. Approaching the National Canners' Association, Dr. Hale found that or ganization eager to have such an in dependent investigation made, firm as it was in the belief that canning methods as generally used in this country thoroughly protect the public from the danger of poisoning. Many cases of illness that have been at tributed to poisoning from eating canned goods are believed by the can ners to have resulted from entirely different causes or from disregard of the ordinary precautions, such as not allowing goods to stand in a can after being once opened. The Canners' Association itself has for years maintained its own labora tory in Washington, adequate to con duct its own investigations, but has, nevertheless, thought it wise to put Its case into the hands of an inde pendent research board, for although the subject is one that has been in vestigated to some extent before, there has as yet been no complete survey of this problem. With a view to supplying this deficiency, the Na tional Research Council has appoint ed a committee to supervise the' In quiry, which will be undertaken by the Harvard Medical School in Its de partment of preventative medicine and hygiene. The work has been en trusted to Dr. M. J. Rosenau, of Har vard, who Is one of the most eminent pharmacological chemists In the country. The results of the research will be published through regular sci entific channels from time to time, but it is expected that it .may bo a matter of three years or more before the ground is completely covered. PAPER SCARCE IN GREECE Athens, March 12. The paper scarcity in Greece has extended to cigarette paper. ZUhe foodstucs com mission has extended Its powers to the control of cigarette paper, seized the entire stock in private hands in Athens, and redistributed it pro-rata to all the manufacturers of cigarettes in the capital. This action was taken, the government explains, not in dis crimination against any manufacturer of cigarettes who might have had a reserve stock on hand, but that the men and women in the factories where the stock had become exhaust ed might not be thrown out of work. MITE SOCIETY ENTERTAINED Dauphin, Pa., March 14.—The Mite Society of the Presbyterian Church was entertained last evning by Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Grenawalt, at their home in Juniata street. After the regular business meeting, refresh ments were served to the Rev. and Mrs. R. P. Stirling, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Gerberich, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Forney, Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams, Mr. and Mrs. William Lyter, Mrs. J. D. M. Reed, Mrs. Blanche Robinson, Miss Annie R. Miller, Miss Annie M. Web ner, Miss Ethel Forney, Charles Shaf fer, Russel Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Greenawalt. BtJRIAD OF MRS. HYDE Dauphin, Pa., March 14.—Funeral services of Mrs. Jennie Gllday Hyde, who died at Philadelphia, will be held -to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Gilday. The Rev. R. T. Stirling, pastor of the Presby terian Church, will officiate and bur ial will be made In the Dauphin cem etery. . IVINGSTON'QIHT <%r IVINGSTON'Q 9S. MARKET,) Da y J These are not legal holidays, but to cele- 1 This* 5 I 9 S. MARKET m SQUARE U Work THEY* OUGHT ToIbE * I Event U SQUARE _ During this style show of ours, instead of informing you what we have to show, (as is the custom), we are going to have (Three) Bargain Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Our stocks are right now over flowing with beauty. Men's, Women's and Children's Clothes of every description, and to inaugurate a dif ferent sort of a style show, we offer these remarkable values. Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Spring Suits Spring Coats t Spring Spring New Navy, Copenhagen,brown, A remarkable collection of DreSSCS SliirtS black, tan, apple green, Spring models; we are . < Spring Jtl&IS mustard, in fact any shade placing on special sale 50 ~r al , new s *y les ; The best selection of Skirts you could possibly think Sample Coats—2odifferent Silk, Serge, laffeta. Crepe j n town; Silks, Taffetas, Hats to suit almost any of—and all the leading ma- colors and the very latest de Chine, etc.; 300 Dresses Serges and Poplins; new one —and we are ffoinj? to terials Special prices for in style. wmn"! Spring modes. offer you special ' vakles three days. $6.85 Coats $3.98 $9.00 Dresses q4.98 <j, onr . C 1 . oc , , ... $16.85 Suits $10.98 $8.85 Coats $4.98 $12.50 Dresses .... $7.98 g.OO Skirts .. .. y .. JBg during this event. SIB.OO Suits $12.98 SIO.OO Coats $6.98 $15.00 Dresses ~.. $8.98 g.OO $1.50 Hats . 98<? $20.00 Suits $14.98 $12.50 Coats $7.(18 SIB.OO Dresses .. .$11.98 54.00 Skirts $2.49 -$22.50 Suits $16.85 $15.00 Coats $8.98 $20.00 Dresses .. ,$r4.98 *>•< Skirts $2.98 $2.00 a s $ .4. $25.00 Suits $17.98 $20.00 Coats .... $14.98 $25.00 Dresses .. .$16.98 g.50 Skirts #3.49 .its $1.69 $27.50 Suits ..... $18.98 $25.00 Coats $1(5.98 $30.00 Dresses ...$19.98 Nj|! r [ s oc $3.00 Hats $1.98 $30.00 Suits $19.98 $30.00 Coats .... $19.98 This is your opportunity * 11 s ' $3.50 Flats $2.29 This includes our entire This selection will do to get your new Spring Sizes range from 24 to $4.00 Hats $2.(59 stock— your eyes good. Dress and save money. 36 waist. $4.50 Hats $2.98 Children's Men's, Young* Men's and Silk Chain, a Boys' Spring Clothes Sweaters 1,000 Dresses at Bargain ———-r -'SSSL'.T'fS, Men ' s Boys' Suits Men's Pants T.lI'S SS£::::::: 490 Spring and New sp™* r.u purple . trimmed in 11:50 d""" ::::::: lit Suits Top Coats $4.00™^52:49 different colon and c c . , $5.00 value $2.98 sasll6S! new SDfin? RlmiVCXl All the leading shades and Spnng Styles sasne, DeW a P rln S UIUUC styles for young and old. $3.00 T o| > Coats.. ..$1.49 U.-V WftlWfnV y,eS * New Spring Waists, $3.00 Suits $1.98 lflCll * Ol "imHWI $ , , „ Lawns, Silks, Crepe de $15.00 Suits •>•• • • $4.00 Suits $2.49 Pain ft A3 to $5.00 sWeitefSs2.9B si ww si, w $5 -°° Suits s7.soSweaterss3.9B SZSO Waists .'.'.'.'.'.'sl49 S2OOO Su,ts f 14,98 *6.50 Suits $3.49 $5.00 Coats $2:98 CO cnc*..!.-00 s£oo Waists ,$l!98 , $22 ' 50 Sults $16.98 $7.85 Suits ... .. $4.98 $6.00 Coats .$3.98 " . ' $5.00 Waists $2.98 $25.00 Suits ..... .$18.98 $8.85 Suits ....... $5.98 $7.50 Coats $4.98 #lO SWeiterS $6.98 L) h m ■ - . ■ / • * * . \ . . '.. A t , • • -A FAKE VINEGAR MEN MUST LEAVE STATE Activity of Dairy and Food Commissioner Beginning • to Tell Now Fraudulent vinegars that have ap pealed on the market in various sec tions of Pennsylvania are being sought by the agents of the Dairy and Food Bureau of the Department of "Goldsmith Furniture Makes the House A Home" | Make This a Year" ¥ ¥ OME! A place to rest in; a place to play in; N year this is to make better homes. And right O a place to love and a place to work for! now is the time to begin—HEßE. = What a wonderful meaning the word "Home!" p has. Goldsmith's have on display for you, just the || lar m . ATT things you'll need to make your home a more te| To some it means ALL to all it means SOME comfortable and livable place. The new Spring of these things. stocks of Furniture for every room in the home || The "Better Home" Movement is spreading —the newest creations in Rugs, among which are §to every city—every village—every hamlet. Who the unique Chinese designs—beautiful and artis- ( p started it, where it began, how it came about no tic Curtains and Draperies are all here. H H one seems able to tell. Women's Clubs are dis cussing it. Magazines have given it large space You are cordially invited to make your plans H and people are realizing the absolute necessity of amid our stocks. g better homes. NOW, during the Spring Fashion Show see With such unprecedented prosperity in every our windows and acquaint yourself with the new nook and corner of the country what a splendid est and best furniture styles. |= SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY North Market Square | laiiii Agriculture and recently a dozen have been ordered. Vine gars that are sold as pure cider vine gars have been found to be distilled vinegar colored with some artificial coloring matter with the acidity addi ed by some chemical. Apples are lacking in many of the samples while others are watered and below the State standard for acidity. In some cases a fermented syrup has been used to make the distilled vinegar. Prosecutions have been ordered for eight violations in Allegheny county, two in Washington county and one in Philadelphia. Other infractions of the pure food act have brought about prosecutions in Philadelphia for the sale of rotten potatoes and in Heaver county for adulterated sausage. There liave also been a number of milk and cream cases where the samples did not meet the requirements for fats and solids. The tlrst year of the enforcement of the limo law by the department showed that 219 brands had bedn reg istered for sale for agricultural pur poses. The agents of the department collected 188 samples for analysis and there were forty-one private samples sent to the department laboratory for analysis. The lime and lime products were registered by 136 com panies and individuals of which 100 were in Pennsylvania. The results of the analysis are now being printed in bulletin form and will be ready for distribution to the farmers of the State within a few weeks. MKXICO TO OPERATE RAILWAYS Mexico City, March 14. —The de partment of communications has an* nounced that In future it will be tho policy of the government to control or supervise the management of oil railroads. It also is announced that the policy of the government will be against giving subsidies or special privileges to railroads In the future. Tho government supervision of tlie railroads will be In the hands of % commission of technical inspection and auditing. Hereafter no franchise for a railroad will be given for more than seventy-flfive years. It former ly was customary to issuo franchises lor ninety-nine years.
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