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A penny stick of candy or a lolli-|
pop in America is a bun in Belgium
and France. Those are the countries
where there are hungry children who
need bunh worse than you need
candy. And if every little American
in every state in the Union would
not spend that daily penny for candy
ANY DAY, buns with sugar on them
could be given to the hungry children
over across the sea, and they would
become fat, and healthy and happy
like yourself.
Now that sounds like magic, and
magic it is—white magic, of the very
finest kind. As magic is quite diffi-
cult to understand, you will have to
read every word of what follows in
order to see how the trick is done.
You see, the story of how an
American lollipop can turn into a
Belgian bun—just like that—is very
much like the story that ends with
“dog won’t bite pig, pig won’t jump
over stile, and I can’t get home to-
night!”
Let's pretend that we have come
to nice part at the end, where the
pig finally jumps over the stile and
the old lady gets home, all because
the cat, way off yonder, began to
eat the rat. In this story it’s the lit-
tle Americans, who begin to save on
lollipops, and the
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lands safe in the hands of the boys
and girls over there. Here’s the way
it goes:
If American children say NO to
that lollipop that they used to eat
every day, the man who makes that
lollipop out of sugar will tell the
man who sells the sugar that he
doesn’t need so much next time; the
man who sells the sugar will tell the
man who brings the sugar from other
countries in ships, that he needn’t
bother to load up so much sugar next
trip; the man who brings the sugar
from foreign countries will soon find
that he doesn’t need so many ships,
and then he’ll say to Uncle Sam,
“Here’s a ship you DO need, and I
don’t need.”
And Uncle Sam wil take that ship,
and fill it with wheat, and perhaps
some sugar, and one thing and an-
other, and send it over to Europe
WITH war ships and destroyers, to
protect it, od the first thing you
know, sugar coated buns, made out
of American wheat, will be disap-
pearing into the mouths of little
French and Belgian refugees—
All because YOU little Americans
said “NONE TODAY” to the lollipops
and candy, and started white magic
reached across the Atlantic
ocean!
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Furniture
I will continue the furniture
business on the second floor of the
Engle Building, with a complete
and up-to-date line of all kinds of
furniture. Prices are very reason-
able. When in need of furniture
call and see me.
Repairing and Painting a Specialty
West Main St.,
MOUNT JOY, PA.
JOE
1101
Owing to the fact that two of my sons have been called to the
service, and the scarcity of help, | will, beginning Monday, July 29,
do business on a STRICTLY CASH BASIS ONLY.
F. B.
SADDLER
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MOUNT JOY, PA.
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Hunters License
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Opposite Post Office
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Carpenter
MOUNT JOY, PA.
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INFORMATION FOR
© OUR FARMERS
TRACTOR DEMONSTRA-
TION PROGRAM
The first State Tractor Demonstra-
tion which will be held by the Penn-
| sylvania Department of Agriculture
| on the grounds of the United States
[ Army Quartermasters’ Depot at New
Cumberland, near Harrisburg, on
{ September 19, 20 and 21, promises
to be the most exhaustive test that
| has ever been given tractors in this
country. It will serve manufacturers
a chance to show the thousands of
farmers who are expected from all
eastern States an opportunity to see
| farm tractors working under real
eastern conditions and records will
be kept that have not heretofore
been attempted.
Many tractor manufacturers have
already sent word that they will
participate and it is expected that
thirty or more machines will be en-
tered. There are over two hundred
acres that will be plowed, rolled and
seeded to wheat and the entire opera-
tion will be done with tractors and
tractor drawn machinery.
The plowing will start on Thursday
morning, September 19, at 11 o’clock
and continue without interruption
until 5 o’clock that afternoon, when
tractors will be taken to headquar-
ters for refilling of fuel and oil in
order to measure the amount con-
sumed. On Friday morning the
tractors will resume plowing at 8
o’clock and continue until noon, when
they will again return to headquar-
ters and be refilled, so that accurate
records of fuel and oil consumption
can be made. On Friday afternoon
starting at 1:30 o'clock the fitting of
the land will take place and at 5
o'clock the tractors will be called off
from work and the amount of fuel
and oil necessary for this work will
also be recorded. Official observers
will be assigned to each tractor to
follow it through the entire periods
of work. On Saturday the tractors
will be set to plowing at 8 o'clock in
the morning and continue until noon
with the afternoon period allotted to
fitting the land and seeding.
The tractors for each plowing
period will have land assigned them
according to their rated speed per
hour, number of plows and the width
of plows pulled. Most of the land is
level with sod, wheat, oats and corn
stubble fields to be worked. There
is also plenty of rolling land which
will give an excellent chance for the
tractors to show their efficiency at
this kind of work.
The executive committee in charge
of the demonstration consists of
Secretary of Agriculture Charles E.
Patton, E. K. Hibshman, State Col-
lege, and T. D. Harmon, Jr., of Na-
tional Stockman and Farmer, Pitts-
burgh. The Field Manager will be
David Beecroft, Directing Editor of
Automotive Industries, New York
and his assistants will be Professor
R. U. Blassingame, State College,
and W. R. Douglas, Chief, Tractor
Division, Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
The Bureau of Markets of the
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture has been receiving many letters
of late relative to the sale of farm
products to the Government and
many of these refer more especially
to hay, straw and grain. The Bureau
is getting a list of supplies required
by the Government each month and
will endeavor to keep farmers and
dealers posted as to the needs of the
Government. Steps are being taken
to put the farmer, firm or organiza-
tion in direct touch with the Quar-
termaster’s Division. At this writing
the Quartermaster’s Division is ask-
ing for bids on large quantities of po-
tatoes and onions to be delivered at
the various camps throughout the
United States and are to be put up
in one hundred pound bags or barrels
as specified by the Quartermaster
General. It will be necessary for
farmers, dealers and organizations
desiring to sell to the Government to
learn the requirements of the Gov-
ernment as to grades, standards and
packages. The Bureau will attempt
to get all of this information and be
pleased to furnish the same to anyone
who makes inquiry.
It is to be hoped within the next
few weeks to have something more
definite to offer the farmers relative
to the best plan for making sale of
farm products. In the meantime,
closer organization is urged. It will
be much easier both for the Bureau
and for the Government with an or-
ganization than with the individual
farmer.
E. B. Dorsett, the former Director,
has again taken charge of the work
and will be pleased to assist in every
way possible.
GETTING GOOD SEED WHEAT
Many farmers are now asking
where they can send and get a few
bushels of good wheat to sow. “To
such it is good advice,” says D. H.
Watts, farm adviser for the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture,
“just now with existing traffic con-
ditions, to go to their best local farm-
ers and secure needed seed of variety
already tested out as to soil and cli-
mate adaptability.
“If there is some cockle in the
seed it may be passed through a good
modern cleaner and greatly im-
proved, There is some hesitation as
to sowing wheat that is a year old,
but to this I would say that if well
kept in a dry bin, not too much in
one bin, and it was in good condition
when threshed, it will do to sow,
using slightly increased rate per acre.
We have just germinated old wheat
from two bing with a good showing
of plants.
USING
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BOYS AND GIRLS AT
HARVEST
“Just now much anxiety is ex-
pressed by many apple and potato
growers as to how they can gather
these crops in before bad weather
comes,” says D, W. Watts, farm ad-
viser of the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture. “The writer has been
advocating systematic and careful
utilization of the less muscular help,
women, boys and girls, in this work
that need not be so severe as to in-
jure health. There are some women
and boys and girls in the teens who
can do this work more cleverly than
the average man and often just as
rapidly, provided light, convenient
ladders and vessels are provided in
case of the apple harvest.
“A strong man should load and un-
load the tubers from the wagon and
keep empty vessels in the field for
the pickers. In apple picking the
wide-at-the-top ladder should be
avoided. The one where both side
pieces merge into one at the top is
best.”
GETTING RID OF FLIES
“The ugliest thing that I have
found around among the farm homes
this summer is flies,” says Mrs.
Eugenia G. Benn, farm adviser of the
Pennsylvania Department of Agri-
culture. “As a consequence I want
every woman to fortify her home
with an approved fly trap before the !
first fly comes out of its winter
quarters next March. The time will
come when flies are as much a dis-
grace as bedbugs. They only breed
in filth so their very presence indi-
cates unsanitary conditions. One of
the hardest things I have had to do
lately is to eat at a table where some
three to five hundred flies had come
in from the fifth outside and been
roosting on the eatables. The most
intelligent and thrifty farm women
do not allow such conditions to ex-
ist.
“Start now to get your trap made
of galvanized wire screen, made the
size of a piano stool, supported by a
galvanized frame whose legs lift the
screen frame from the floor one and
one-half inches. A galvanized wire
screen cone fits inside, with a small
hole in the top. The trap must be
large and attractive bait 1.,ust be kept
underneath or no flies a.e caught.
The fly goes underneath to eat and
when he is filled he does not know
enough to crawl back out but flies to
the little hole in the top of the screen
cone and is confined in the compart-
ment above. I have -caught easily
three quarts of flies in my trap in a
season. The early flies are the ones
to cateh, which prevents breeding.
Vinegar and molasses, cheese and fish
or meat trimmings or other ‘fly
relishes’ are the best bait and use
plenty of it. It pays. If you have
not one of these, plan now to have
one for your back porch in the early
spring. I will be glad to furnish
more detailed descriptions on re-
quest.”
A NEW INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Castor beans have not been
generally grown in the United States
but the present war has developed
this like many other industries. It
was found that castor oil, which is
extracted from the castor bean, is
the only lubricant that can be suc-
cessfully used on the aeroplanes. To
meet this important demand the
government placed contracts during
the present season with farmers thru
the Southern States for the planting
of 180,000 acres of these beans. The
minimum contract was for one thou-
sand acres but the contractor had,
the right to sub-let any portion of his
acreage to his neighbors.
The yield is usually from 15 to 30
bushels per acre. This crop can only
beproduced successfully commercial-
ly in tropical and sub-tropical eli-
mates. It is only grown for orna-
mental purposes in the North. It is
easily killed by the frost, but in warm
sections it is a perennial and grows
to the height of forty feet.
The government contracts are un-
der the control and supervision of
the Bureau of Aircraft Production,
War Department. A large corps of
inspectors have been appointed with
home offices at Jacksonville, Florida,
and inspection work will start at once
as the beans are beginning to ripen
and ready to be picked and hulled.
This is an infant industry and is
largely in the experimentai stage: but
the consensus of opinion is that cas-
tor beans can be grown successfully
in the South on ground that will
produce corn and cotton, and when
well understood, will be more profit-
able than either.
THE DOG FLEA
The human flea, dog flea and cat
flea, strichtight flea or chicken flea
and the rat fleas (which are carriers
of bulonic plague) are the principal
fleas with which we have to deal in
the United States. Of these the dog
Aea, which infects both dogs and cats
and sometimes bothers humans, is the
principal flea that causes trouble in
Pennsylvania. Many complaints ac-
companied by specimens are received
by the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture and almost without ex-
ception they are the dog and cat fleas.
There are four stages in the life of
a flea—the egg, the larva, pupa and
adult. The small, ovoid, creamy
white eggs are deposited among the
hairs of the host, but are not fasten-
ed. They fall out upon mats, rugs,
carpets, or material in the dog’s or
cat’s bed, and require from two to
twelve days to hatch.
The larva is a minute worn-like
creature, white in color, and active,
which feds upon animals and vege-
table debris, including the excrement
of adult fleas. They shed their skin
two or three times before becoming
full grown. Four days to several
months are required for this stage.
The pupal or resting stage is passed
in a silken cocoon, and the insect
may remain in that condition from
three days to more than a year, de-
pending on conditions.
The time required for the life cycle
varies from seventeen days to over
a year, depending on the weather.
The winter is spent in Pennsylvania
in the papal stage.
Control: Keep dogs or cats clean.
One way to remove the fleas from the
pets is to rub or dust them thorough-
ly with pyrethrum powder. This
must be thoroughly worked through
the hair. This stupefies the fleas, and
they will drop from the animal, and
can be brushed up and burned. The
bedding upon which they sleep must
also be thoroughly cleaned by sweep-
ing, shaking, or (better) soaking
with gasoline, so as to kill all stages.
Brushing and sweeping alone are in-
sufficient, as the insects burrow down
into the fabric and cannot be re-
moved easily. .
Washing the animal with a saponi-
fied solution of coal-tar creosote pre-
paration, several of which are on the
market under the name of ‘stock
dips,” will kill the fleas. Leave the
animal in this for five or ten minutes
before removing. In the case of a
cat, which has tender skin, wash the
dip out with plain soap and water
to prevent burning. Several strong
carbolic dog soaps on the market are
quite effective when used frequently.
Kerosene emulsion is also effective.
Shave two ounces of laundry soap in
one quart of boiling hot water, and
when the soap has dissovled, and the
water brought to a boil, remove from
the fire and add two and one-half
pints of kerosene. Agitate violently
with an egg-beater to thoroughly mix
it. If soft water has been used, and
the work well done, the oil will not
separate from the water. Free kero-
sene would burn the skin of the ani-
To use, dilyte to make five gal-
mal.
lons.
To clean the house when fleas are
abundant, as frequently happens, re-
move the carpets and rugs, clean
them thoroughly—collecting the dust
and burning it, because in this way
the eggs are caught and destroyed.
Serub the floors with hot soap suds,
or drench with kerosene or gasoline,
being careful to have no lights and
fires around. Use of quantities of in-
sect powder will aid in subduing the
pest. Strong sulphur fumes (which
tarnish metal surfaces) may be used
under certain conditions.
Another way. is to scatter five
pounds of napthaline flakes over the
floor of a room, and shut it tightly
another room. In this way the five
pounds can be made to treat a house
and will not be expensive.
STATE AGRICULTURAL NOTES
It is estimated that the sweet po-
tato crop in the State will be about
92,000 bushels as compared with
110,000 last year.
Pasture land is estimated at only
76 per cent. of normal condition as
compared with 83 per cent., the ten-
year average.
The apple production in the State
promises to be 4,000 bushels in ex-
cess of the crop last year.
The potato crop is very disappoint-
ing throughout the State and vege-
tables in general have suffered from
the extended droughts.
Three days of plowing, disking,
rolling and seeding wheat will give |
farmers a splendid oportunity to see
real tests of farm tractors at the
State Demonstration at Harrisburg,
September 19, 20 and 21. {
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Columbia National Bank, In-
dianapolis, Indiana _.
Says: We were bothered quite a
little” by rats in_ owr basement,
destroying your RAT-SNAP very
thoroughly, we ar€ pleased to report
that we are ne longer bothered with
them. Four sizes, 25¢, 50c, $1.00 and
$3.00, Brown Bros., Mt. Joy, Pa.; H.
S. Newcomer, Mt. Joy, Pa.; G. Moyer,
Mt. Joy, Pa. tf
ORPHANS’ COURT SALE
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VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
On Thursday, September 26, 1918
Will be sold at public sale, on the
premises of Tract No LErRy
Wednesday, September 18, 13
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With Good Stocks
Of Fall Clothing
When last Spring we came out in an extensive adver-
the
prudent
tising campaign saying that Suit-buying thens on
part of the public would be a most wise and
thing to do we were criticised by some ho “knew bet-
ter.” There would be no such advance and scarcity as
we predicted.
3ut our words HAVE come true— and those who prof-
ited by taking our advice are thankful, while those who
passed it by are regretful.
Prices have jumped, and, while we claim second place
to none in our ability to sell reasonably for good quality,
the figures on our Suits now run from $20 to $55.
It is no one’s fault in particular—but of the whole
war situation in general. And again we say that that
man is wise who BUYS NOW AND FREELY. Prices
have not reached their zenith, by any means.
Groff & Wolf Co.,
26-30 North Queen
Lancaster’s Fastest Growing Store
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sivuav€ 11 sald Kast Hanover town-
ship, adjoining lands of A. B. Shuey,
other lands of Isaac Hauer estate,
and Alvin Cassel. Containing about
six acres.
The improvements on tract No. 1,
consist of a two story frame dwelling
house containing nine rooms, thirty
by forty-five feet, in good condition;
a new frame Bank Barn, 45 by 76
feet with double wagon shed at-
tached; one pig stable with corn crib
attached; and other necessary out-
buildings. .
The buildings are located central-
ly on the farm, There is running
water on the premises that can be
reached from every field on the farm.
A good meadow for pasture contain-
ing about six acres; one well of nev-
er failing water, and one spring of
never failing water; a good orchard
and a variety of fruit trees; the soil
is fertile and in a high state of cul-
tivation. All the land of this farm
with the exception of the meadow is
under cultivation.
The improvements on Tract No.
consist of a two story frame dwelling
house containing nine rooms, with a
one story summer house attached;
one stable; one pig sty, wood house
and other out buildings. The land
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Sale to commence at two o’clock
p. m,, when conditions will be made
known by
ELMIRA HAUER,
HERMAN E. HAUER,
Administrators of the Estate of
Isaac Hauer, deceased.
R. J. Emerick, Auct.
E. E. McCurdy, Atty.
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for a date-keeper—and
if his wath doesn’t help
him keep his dates, he
doesn’t want it.
Our /watches are de-
pendable date-keepers—
they stay on time—and
will Help you keep your
date; whether it be with
the ' factory whistle or
the; President. They're
abgolutely reliable.
THey’re made by watch-
makers whose reputa-
tion for highgrade work
is well known.
Why not drop in and
let us show you one of
these guaranteed date-
keepers? We'll not ask
you to buy—you’ll ask
us to sell.
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J. B. BUSSER
Sales Agent For
Ford Cars
Two good second-hand Ford touring cars can be seen
at the Garage.
Rapho and Penn Townships
Garage and Salesroom
Manheim, Pa.
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they can’t be repaired at a nominal cost. Bring them here and
you'll be surprised how reasonable I can make them look like new.
That isn’t the only surprise you'll get either. My charges are very
OPEN EVENINGS,
reasonable.
H. Laskewitz
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
East Main Street
101 O10 D114
HOTT 10 1
Having re-rented the yards I now occupy: 1 will soon be ready
to serve you with
‘Good Clean Coal
At Kight Prices
Don’t get your next Winter's supply until you see me.
Albert StricKler
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Sop Ras
MOUNT JOY, PA.
Farmers!
Tobacco Growers
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We have for Sale a fine lot of to-
bacco rape. Cguld be bought for half
price.
Don’t fail to call at
The Columbia Junk &
Hide Company
715 N. 5th Street
COLUMBIA PENNA.
Also do not forget to bring along
your junk and hides.
for twenty-four hours. Then sweep
it up, and spread it over the floor of
sept.18-3mos.
£3
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Auto Repair Shop & Garage
510-12 N. Cherry St, Lancaster Pa, :
Two Good FORD CARS For Sale |
One Touring and a Truck
Also Extra Good Speed Roadster §
WE REBUILD TRACTORS FOR FARM USE OUT OF YOUR
OLD AUTOMOBILE AND CHARGE
OL GE YOU ONLY FOR THE
WHEN WE FURNISH THE MACHINE FOR THE TRACTOR
THE PRICE RANGES FROM $200 TO $500.
Bell phone 2227-J.
Ind. Phone Y