SENRSHES RR RAR RRR ERR ER ARS R SE AR AR RRA SAAS AERA ARGH . SE Ase ie L THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. rT TS GE OBER a amt RE AER NE MMII TM aor = * LOOSE SMUT OF : OATS mature. the disease makes its appear- | a. DISTRIBUTION. ance and the spores for the next ger- : The common oats smut or the loose smut of the oats (Ustilago avenae) is one of the most common fungus di- peases that effects the oats plant. This disease is not confined to any particular area, but is quite commonly distributed over the entire country. wherever the growing of oats crops 4s largely darried on. The fact that is widly distributed makes it practisal- By impossible to secure seed free from this disease unless some measure fur control is taken. ECONOMICAL IMPORTANCE. The importance of this oats smut £o the farmes from an economic stand. point is far greatér than we are com- monly led to beliéve, This write-up deals practically with - ghe conditions as they exist in Som- Rerset county, but 4d order to show the $mportance of this disease the gov- @rnment reports Show that the loss from the oats stiut in the United States is 8 per cent of the entire crop, or in round numbérs $20,000,000. As this disease relates to Someset coun- iy we have some definite information ¢hat can be used to show the loss that thas been caused by this disease dur- ing the past growing season. Last year a study or the oat smut was made in the connty. Tn 4f favma visited the percentage or smut from nothing to 37 pei cen. fam wherc O° ce. the average percentage ¢ent, On 11 farms where the forma- lin treatment was used less than one per cent wos found infected. The di- wease will recur if no method of era- dication is used. LIFE HISTORY. In order to compete with any insect or fungus disease it is necessary that we know the life history of the insect Or the disease that is causing the loss. In the case of the oats, the boring spores are carried over under the seed covering, or as we know it, the chaff of the oats. These spores find lodge- ment under the seed covering, either Svidle the oats is in the stack or in the field or at threshing time, The sporeg will remain dormant during ihe winter and at Beeding time as the oats grain germinates, and grows the germinatoin spores of the smut will begin their growth also. The spread- ing of this disease through the tis- sues of the growing oats plant is a very easy process and the germ is Ull. 0d run ' was 17 per mination are again carried to the suc- ceeding crop; thus we see that if no continue from year to year and may be greatly injurious, or less so as the climate conditions are more or less favorable to its devedopment, HOW TO CONTROL THE OATS SMUT. There are two common methods of controlling the oats smut; the hot wa- ter treatment and the formalin treat- ment. The hot water treatment {is much more complicated as well as more expensive, than the formalin treatment. For this reason the for- malin treatment only will be explain- ed, which is as follows: Secure a solution of 40per cent commercial for- malin, take one pint of formalin to 40 gallons of water; take the grain to be treated and spread it out on a grain proof floor or a piece of canvas. and sprinkle the seed with the dilut- been dampened; turn the same by shoveling and sprinkle again, contin- uing until all the seed is Soaked. When enough solution has béen add- ed cover the pile of seed with a blank- e: cr old sacks and let it remain in | at condidion six or eight hours or Jano ie the hismlat and eprerd out to dry; be ure . the grain is thoroughly dry before us- i'm. Or e.se the grains may be swvol- feed freely enough. control is practiced, the disease will- ed solution until all of the seed has | sacks or, lon from water that the seed will not | As a precaution, oats that have tou | | ireited usually swell and thus will | »ct run through the drill as fast as | { niher oats. From a peck to a half | bushel more seed per acre is usually | required. Procticaly all of the druggists of the county have been interviewed with regand to the price and supply of for- malin. The formalin will be put vp in pint bottles and can be secured at thirty cents per pint. Here is an opportunity tot the Bon. erset county farmers to inéreasé their crop return. There is one polit Liat should always be born in mind, that, in a problem of this kind; for the con- trol of such disease, is for the eo-op- eration of every farmer. An effected field in a community may spread the disease to a number of others. Every farm is asked to see that his neigh. bor will make an effort to control this disease on his farm, and in this way CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION The Second National Bank : OF MEYERSDALE, PA. © RESOURCES Loans and Investsments .......... $540 536 26} U. S. Bonds and premiom Real Estate, Furn. and Fixtures. .... Cash and due from Banks.......... Total Resources ...... «..veeesese 70 179 378 63 374 50% 101 908 16} 775 998 328 © LIABILITIES 8 Capital Stock paid in...... ....... $ 65000 oof Surplus Funds and Profits ... ...... Circulation........... Deposits ...c....... Total Liabilities . . 775 998 35 Growth rs Shown in the following statements made to Comptroler of Currency. September 12, 1916 io December 27, 1916 . March zx, 19'7 ses ssw $674 227 19 731 569 48 775 998 32 “es sia me san Net Gain ‘in Six Mouths $101 771 13, or L5 per cent. ingredients. 1 cup brown sugar 1% cups water 1 cup seeded raisine 2 ounces citron 14 cup shortening DIRECTIONS — Put the first three minutes. When cool, add the sifted together; mix well. hele in center ie best Booklet of recipes whi ! No Aum No Eggs, Milk or Butter The following recipe shows how an appetizing, wholesome cake can be made without expensive In many other recipes the number of eggs may be reduced one-half or more by using an ad- ditional quantity of ROYAL Baking Powder, about a teaspoon, in place of each egg omitted. EGGLESS, MILKLESS, BUTTERLESS CAKE The old method (fruit cake) called for 2 eggs t ing saucepan d boll nt and baking phi which Bri been Bake in moderate over in loa best) for 35 or 40 minutes. Ice with which economize in grpensive ingredients, mailed frce. A Baking P owder Co., 135 William Street, N BAKING POWDZ R Made from Cream of Tartar, derived from grapes, adds none but healthful qualities to the food. 1 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon teaspoon salt 2 cups flow 5 a Royal Baking Powées redients int { pan (round white icing. s and other ens Royal York. No Phosphate "NURSERY STOCK AT ONE-THIRD AGENTS PRICES bhi spiliion trees an Se inoat it. Your rider ge eatin er order a sing: . pruning, Spray! THOMAS E. SHEERIN, NURSERYMAN, 10 RIVER ST., DANSVILLE, N. Y. always thrre. As the seed beging to can we hope to keep thé disease un- der control. Ld Possible Substitute. “Ngthing can ever take your place.” tooéd the bride. % “Nothing. dear?” “That is, perhaps. exe pt adequate alimony. v ~ Kansas City Aa tiFtal.e Something * Acsomplished. “My wife went to a beauty doctor to have her complexion cleared.” “Well, was it?” “No. but my pet was." timore American. @ —Bal RANA AAGANYYN RRR RR I have your style— spring styles for young men in we have never with style such them—then we HAT we are exult- ant over what we are certain is the most comprehensive and bril- liant assortment of new does not prove anything. Your opinion is the de- ciding factor and since a policy of exaggeration, we know that you who seek new spring togs sway in the big metro- politan centers, least pass judgment on men and the city pursued ; as holds will at arc saim- guine your our views will coincide. Every type of ‘build— every fancy must surely be met in this vast army of models and fabrics that we have so pains- takingly arranged for the spring season. HicHARTCLOTHES MADE BY STROUSE & BROTHERS, INC., BALTIMORE, MD. are of such high standard that the mere incident of your seeing them stands between their being our - property or yours. 2 MILLER & COLLINS Department Store, Myersdale, . . WF UR AU U6 6 6 OR ROR OU OR RO ORR We . can : fit 4 you— CL views and 5 RR ae - HRB IFRW +18 BK: EL : Hihndihahithh th fF Penna. Sy honey saving ' scure little point in technic. game?” Pl et Rose ed pas Ty pled Jou Spel .or vari ame On a ng wate BE it free. Wri A" GREAT AUTHOR'S CREDO. Robert Louis Stevenson's Stery of His Writing Methods. I have a vivid recoliectio. of a most interesting shop talk with Robert Lou- is Stevenson which occurred duripg a long walk to Fontainebleau. As we tramped along under the shade of the tail poplars he outlined fo me the writ- ers credo as he knew it and explathed his own methods of work. “You painter chaps make lots of ptudies, don’t you?" he exclaimed. “And you don't frame them all and send them to the salon. do you? You just stick them up on the sti.dio wall for a bit. and presently you tear them up and make more. And you copy Ve- lasquez and Rembrandt and Van Dyck and Corot, and from each you learn some little trick of the brush, some ob- And you know very well that it is the knowl- edge thus acquired that wil; enable you later on to deliver your own message with a fine and confident bravado. You are simply learning your metier. And, believe me, mon cher, an artist in any line without the metier is just a blind man with a stick. Now. Iu the literary line I am simply doing what you painter men are doing in the pic- torial line—learning the metier.” “Yes, but how do you wo k the I inquired. “We artists use paint and canvas and brushes precise- ly as the masters did.” “Well, 1 use pen and ink and paper precisely as did the masters of the pen,” laughed Stevenson, ‘‘only a pen- cil is quite good enough for me at pres- ent. Just now I am making a story a la Balzac, with a French plot. French iocal color and every little touch and detail as close to the old boy as I can possibl ly make it. ' And aren't his works just marvels of literary perfec- tion! Really, I believe that Balzac held up to nature a more wonderful mirror than even the great W. 8S. kim- self. His dear old Pere Goriot—don’t you jst know him better even than if you bad met him right here on the grande route and had an hour's chat with him? “I like to«swallow a great master whole, as it were, to read everything he's written at one go and then have a try myself at something in his man- ner. The only way to become a master is to study the masters, take my word for it. It’s all one whether it’s in paint or clay or words. And then if you are humble enough and keep an open mind you may one of these long days learn how to say it. I have at various periods thus sat at the feet of Sir Wal- ter Scott and Smollett and Fielding and Dickens and Poe and Beaudelaire, and the number of things which 1 have written in the style of each would fill a clothes basket.’ —Birge Harrison in Century Magazine. Tiny Jethou lsland. J ethou island is not only the smallest of the Channel islands, but also the smallest inhabited island in Europe. In all its little length and breadth there is only one inhabited house. Jethou lies midway between Guern- sey and Sark and affords a perfect re- treat from the world. It has a popula- tion of about seven, is without roads of any sort and has no post. Being surrounded by submerged and partly submerged rocks, it is impossible for the island to be visited by vessels of any size, so all communication with the outside world is carried on by means of a tiny sailing cutter. In winter the good folks of Jethou sometimes have no news of any of the happenings of the outside world for weeks at a time, and yet Guernsey is only a couple of miles off Mail. At The SUMMER GARDEN Week Commencing, March 12th. en AMUSEMENTS with Bessie Love, in “THE HEIRESS OF. COF- FEE DAN” The Triangle progrom for thig coni- ing Saturday, March 24th is another that can’t help please you, Bessie Love is a Mttle waif and she slings “ham and” at Coffee Dan’s until a buneh of crooks discover she ig an heiress. The story involved from this situa- tion is one of comstant suspense, fun and excitement, - Full of incidents, full of plots and full of character, also a two part Triangle Keystone Come- dy making a big Saturday seven reel program, : : be. PARAMOUNT PROGRAM & with Blanch Sweet, in “THE DUPE” The program for Monday, March 26th, brings back tg the Summer Gar- den patrons the old Triangle favorite in Blanch Sweet, who will be seen in the Lasky Paramount feature “The Dupe” also two other reels, Bray car- Cartoon and Paramount Pictograpn, making another seven reel program. TRIANGLE PROGRAM with Dorothy Dalton, in “FEMALE OF THE SPICES” Dorthy Dalton again appears'in a Vampire role in the Triangle Kay-Bee production, Tuesday, March 27th, ia “The Female of the Spices,” all we can say, don’t miss this. Special mu- sic by the orchestra, also a two part comedy. FOX FEATURE with Virginia Pearson, in “THE WAR BRIDES SECRET” “Molly Make Believe.” See her Thus | ‘drLction.”’—Motion Picture News.” Summer Garden showed two weeks William Fox presents Virginia Pear ‘son in a wonderful role in the six part production of “The War Brides Secret” which comes to the Summer Garden Wednesday evening, Marchi 28th. “A wonderful picture, is the best report that we can give this pro- PARAMOUNT FEATURE with Margaret Clark, .in “MICE AND MEN”. Foy ‘The same little Margaret that the ago with the Paramount progu tio} 4 day, March 29th in “Mice and Men" another of her out of the ordinai pictures. Episode numbes 14 will b shown in connection with the above < raking a seven reel program, two big features in one program, no lin in price, PARAMOUNT PROGRAM with Donald Brian. in “THE SMUGGLERS” The progham for Friday, March 30th will be an interesting one, and of a variety. A big basket-ball game with the local Broadway team, a Para. mount feafure and woller skating, watch for further announcements o this program. . COMING ATTRACTIONS June Caprice, in “The Ragged Princess;”Wm. S. Hart, in “Truth- ful Tulliver.” Theda Bara, in “Ro mec and Juliet.” Dustin Farnum, in “Davy Crocket.” Mary Pickford, in “Poor Little Peppina.” Bertha Ka lish, in “Love and Hate.” BANISH CATTLE PESTS. Method of +roatment to Eradicate Lice on Farm Animals. This is the time of year when lice begin their worst work. Live stock, especially calves and colts, suffer tor- ments and grow thin and rough look- ing when much of their grief is due to the unchecked ravages of lice. Many a cow has struggled through the win- ter trying to furnish milk and feed an army of crawling, blood sucking pests besides. Lice can be got rid of without much expense or labor. The sheep dips on the market mixed to a strong louse so- lution well warmed and sponged on to the animal, going the wrong way of the hair, will do the business. Don’t just dampen or wet the animal in a few places, but soak every inch thoroughly. Do this in the sunshine on a warm day and provide shelter until dry. Repeat again in ten days and wash mangers, posts and rubbing places around buildings with the same solu- tion. Marketing Winter Tomatoes. Especial care must be given hot- house tomatoes produced during win- ter, says Professor A. E. Wilkinson. In January aid February the market is at its best, but the highest price is oniy paid for special tomatoes. They are carefully graded as to size, only those of the same size being placed in the receptacle. Each fruit is wiped. It is a decided advantage to wrap each frult in soft tissue paper, and on this +73 {-ondony tissue paper many growers are placing \ { t J i a trademark. The tomatoes arg packed firmly. { neighbors,” said the child firmly. ® Water a Cheap Hog Feed. | The average farmer has a V shaped trough which he fills for his hogs twice a day. This is by no means sufficientd A hundred pound shote requires three galions of water per day, and wheng watering in troughs some of the pigs being more aggressive than others, get what they want and then lie in the trough, while the weaker ones must go without. Arrangements for getting 4 constant supply of pure water are es: sential if live stock is to be produced economically. 3 A Scandal Averted. Little Gertrude had been very naught} and had been severely slapped, first by the nurse and then by mother, with &% promise of another dose from fathef when he came home. : She sat on the floor, her eyes filled} with angry tears. Suddenly she rosé with a determined look upon her li face, and seized her hat. “Where are you going?” asked het . mother. “Out te tell the family secrets to t But she didn’t go.—Pittsburgh Chro! icle-Telegraph. What She Asked For. Jack, who was visiting the from the t, wished to talk to Eliz te.a’s father at his office. He co not find, the telephone directory a thus appealed to three-year-old kili% beth for information regarding the phone number: “Elizabeth, what does mother ask for when she talks to dadd at his office?” 3 Elizabeth was wise for her days. “Money,” she lisped. Uncle
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