A —— ad = — Pennsylvania Bureau Will Keep the Public I “arm Prod of Markets nformed Regarding Local Markets ucts Branch offices of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Markets, Pennsylvania De- partment of Agriculture, have been , These market reports will be issued | / | to {tion | and everyone in the district all of the newspapers in each sec- opened within the last few days in Erie |chould receive the information with a and York. Each office will issue a market re- port, which is designed to put before the public information regarding the local market for farm products. In addition, reports on the large mar- kets which are of particular interest in each district will be furnished by the United States Bureau of Information covering the Harrisburg territory will be issued directly from the main office of the bureau. The fssceptibility of minimum loss of time. | | ports will be | grape market. issued at Erie on The same will be true lof the peach and apple shipping points | s te, {of Adams and Franklin counties. { With the establishment of these of- Lancaster, Allentown, Scranton, Erie and York, to the main office at Harrisburg. the Hog; Markets. | fices, the bureau now has branches at Wilkes-Barre, in addition Opens Branch Offices at Erie and York During the fruit season, special re- the Protect Against Cholera Few Survive the Ravages of the Contagious Virus of the H the very consideration given to disease control is The problem of often the factor which determines the profit realized or the loss incurred in swine-breeding, or swine-feeding ac- tivities. Of all ihe diseases of gwine, the most widespread and the most de- structive is hog cholera. The United States Department of Agriculture es- timates that hog cholera destroys 90 per cent of all hogs that die from dis- ease in the United States. No section of the country has remained uninvaded by the disease, outbreaks of which may occur at any season of the year. The financial losses sustained by the swine raisers have totaled as high as sixty: five million dollars in a single year, and the average animal loss for the last forty years has been more than thirty million dollars. These figures represent only the direct loss and dc rot include the many indirect losses accompanying and subsequent to each outbreak. In certain sections of the country outbreaks have been so se- vere and widespread that at periods hog-raising operations have been para- lyzed. It has been setimated that in New Jersey 7000 hogs have died from hog cholera in a single year. If 7000 of the 175,000 raised annualy in the State are sacrificed to this disease, the ne- cessity for controlling or limiting this factor of "loss can readily be seen, if pork is to be profitably produced, especially from high-priced feed. To achieve success in the control ¢f any contagious or infectious disease, the herd owner or breeder must firs! thoroughly acquaint himself with all phases and characteristics of that par- ticular disease. He cannot intelligently prescribe ond effectually enforce meas- ures to prevent the introduction of a disease into his herd, stud or flock, un- less he is familiar with its cause, method of spreading and the most practical and effective means which may be employed for its prevention. This principle applies particularly 19 hog cholera as the responsibility for its control or eradication rests very largely upon the way in which the in- dividual hog owner manages his hera The livestock sanitary officials mey advise concerning the vaccination oi exposed hogs, the quarantine and dis- infection of premises, but unless these instructions are conscientiously ried out, all efforts to protect other hogs from cholera and to free the premises from disease-producing ma- terial will have been lost. It must be clearly understood that hog cholera is a very highly contagious of infectious No other animal can contract the disease, but other animals may carry the dis ease-producing material on their feet or bodies from sick hogs or infected pens to healthy, susceptible hogs or uninfected premises. Cause The disease is caused by a germ or microorganism which grows and mul- particularly in The germ car disease of swine. tiplies in the bodies, the blood, of affected hogs. is so small that it cannot be seen with the powerful passes the strainers used to gems from blood or whicitphey are found. Because of the fact that it it through filters, it has been termed “the filter- able virus of hog cholera,” or is com- to as ‘“‘hog cholera microscope. I finest filters or collect ordinary other fluids in most through passes these monly referred virus.” The nature of the disease, the meth- ods by which it spreads and the fact that the blood of the cholera-infected hog will produce the disease in a sus- ceptible animal, all prove that the dis- og Cholera its general systematic resistance to h. mal. (worms), improper feeding, an ity of the animals. Spread of the Disease The virus of hog cholera may carried from farm to farm on the wheels of vehicles and upon the feet of animals such as horses, cattle, dogs, chickens, pigeons and buzzards. Streams running through premises where the disease exists or into which carcasses of cholera-infected hogs have been thrown, will carry infection to hogs having access later in their course. The improperly buried of incomplete- ly burned carcasses of higs which have died of cholera constitute one of the munity. Dogs dig these carcasses out of the ground, contaminating their feet and bodies and then drag through the neighborhood, spreading ral, including those occupied by sus- ceptible hogs. Prevention of Hog Cholera The factors involved in preventing the introduction of hog cholera into a herd may be classified precau- tionary measures, sanitation and vacci- as nation. Precautionary Measures Precautionary include a'l of those which in any way prevent the coming of hog cholera the herd or premises. The location of the hog lots should be some distance from the public highway and from streams of water. No trespassing should be permitted in the hog lots. Unnecessary should be avoided. . If a neighbor has hogs sick frem any cause, do not visit his farm, or per mit him to visit yours, for the disease may later prove to be hog cholera. Never permit hogs to run at large on a public highway. Never corral a stray hog and con- fine it with the herd. Do not introduce recently-purchased hogs or returned exhibition stock into the herd until they have been isolated and observed for a period of three weeks at least; even then they should be dipped in an before are measures virus to visits to other herds antiseptic solution permitted to mingle with other hogs, as they may carry in fection on their feet or bodies. they Do not purchase or keep on the premises an unthrifty, unhealthy o} “runt” pig. Do not drive into the hog lots from the public road. Confine your dog and insist on your neighbors doing likewise, especially if Log cholera exists in the neighbor: hood. Keep the hogs free from worms and lice, and remedy any insanitary condi- tions which reduce their vitality and resistance. Jeware of the “community boar” and other exchange of stock. Keep butchers, dead animal lectors and stock buyers away the hog lots. If an outbreak of cholera occurs in vour community, protect your own col from ease is due to a germ. Conditions Which Invite Hog Cholera There are many factors or influences which predispose or render a hog more susceptible to cholera, but the disease itself cannot occur in an animal that has not come’ into contact with hog cholera virus. Any disease, surround- ing influence or condition, which re- herd and your neighbors’ by reporting to the State Department of Agricul- ture, Bureau of Animal Industry, Trenton, any violation of quarantine by the owner of quarantined hogs. Jt he is not agiuainted with the danger to which he exposes the hogs of the 'community, he should be informed. . by the maple aphids. Sometimes it is Aphis Causes Sticky Maple Foliage produced in such large quantities that the ground or walks under the trees will be damp. Badly infested trees will drop as goodly proportion of their leaves so that the owner of the tree The sticky material on Norway | maple leaves is “honey-dew” secreted becomes excited and runs to the secd store for a cure. Ants go up the trees : - * ’ The most common of these predis- posing factors are intestinal parisites be duces the vitality of a hog or causcs lowered, invites the attack of apy dis- ease to which it is exposed, and hog cholera, because of its almost univer- sal prevalence, is usually the disease that makes its appearance in a herd in which there are many hogs whose health and resisting powers are abnor- unbal- anced rations, insanitary surroundings, attack of some other disease, or any condition which reduces the vita!- greatest menaces that can bé encoun- | tered by the hog raisers in any com- | them | the infection about premises in gene- | and feed upon this honey-dew. The bees also collect and store it, but it makes a very poor quality of honey, greenish in color and when extracted full of black matter. Such honey can not be sold unless marked honey-dew is not upon such honey. honey. It good to winter bees To control the maple aphid spray tha leaf 40 diluted one part to 600 parts of water and to each trees with black 50 gallons of the diluted material ada two or three pounds of laundry soap as a sticker and a spreader. Owners of Dogs Are Given Warning It is reported that a number of the delinquent dog owners prosecuted for the the Dog Law of 1917, have failed to carry ou: violating provisions of the warning issued by the committing magistrates at the the tions were adjudicated, and are open- ly defying the law. Inasmuch time prosecu “first of- fenses,” the suggestion of committing magistrates was to be lenient with the defendants, as these were and caution them to im mediately secure their licenses or dis pose of their dogs and the imposition of light It is disposing of penalties. that method of prosecutions had been appreciated by the defend- ants charged with owning and harboring dogs in violation of this Where this leniency is abused, the magistrates ia- these defendants are liable to when apparent this these not who are law. and nored, warnings of additional prosecutions maxi- | mum penalties will be recommended, which are $100 fine or three months’ imprisonment at the discretion of the court. The dog must be kept under proper control at all times. Failare to carry out this provision means loss and an- noyance to both the owners of stock ant the owners of dogs. Leading Apple Varieties in Pennsylvania Five hundred and twenty-one commercial apple growers in Penn- sylvania. report to the the Penn- sylvania Department of Agriculture their leading varieties as follows: 155 Stayman’s Winesap. 132 York Imperial. 122 Baldwin. 34 Northern Spy. 15 Ben Davis. 11 Jonathan. Rome Beauty, Smoke House. King. Stark. Greening. Grimes Golden. NN Ag Ye Delicious. a 521 Three hundred commercial peach growers in Penn report their leading va- riety as follows: 270 Elberta. 30 Belle of Georgia. 16 Carmen. 11 Champion. 6 Hale. 4 Crawford. and thirty-seven sylvania a ) y= ool Electrical Helps A device for lighting and magnify- ing the copy being read by the type- writer operator is being by a Rochester concern. developed The device | illuminates one line of copy at a time. cartridge fuse made of an extremely tough insulating material and resembling a pair of pliers in design, has been invented to replace cartridge of a half to one and a half inches in A. safety remover, remove and diameter. There are fifty or more household devices that can be used on the house lighting system, such as electric irons small stoves, toasters, chafing dishes, percolators, washing pumps, grinders, bread water heaters, machines, water fans, sewing machines, ers, buffing and grinding machines. meat mix- The guest-room should have the ball the end of the pull-chain painted with radium paint will adyer- tise its presence to the guest who gets up ih the night ‘to close the window and then cannot find his or her way back to bed. Other thoughful hosts see that the switch button is so treated to save embarrassment and annoyance | to the paw- | ing around in the dark in search of the on so it guest, so there is no light. An electric wrench has been dé- veloped for speeding up the work | around automobile garages and shops | where most of this work is done. | This appliance may also be used as a portable drill, screwdriver, buffer or grinder, and costs from two to five | live- | fuses | | compact of the note writers. short of scientific truth in the line of | The Furrow News and Views About the Farm tilizers is 12 food, Protect Tomato Plants; cent of either Vegetable-a Household Stand-by per total plan including nitrogen, or With Pennsylvania's acreage of to.|PhOsPhoric acid or potash, separately matoes smaller than usual this year, |°F I combination. The spring inspec- i d \ do vivanis vere on account of the shortage of farm: tion of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Chemistry indicates the tion of high-grade that fertilizers labor, the Bureau of Plant Industry. Dropor Department of Agriculture, warns the growers of the State, both commerciai and the small truck gardner, to pro- on sale in the State has greatly increased over the low-grade brands. | tect the tomato plants against de.| The unsuccessful farmer is the one structive diseases. There are several | WNO Purchases the low-grade ferti- diseases which attack the tomato plan: lizers, because the product is cheaper and these can be largely overcome hy |ANd then applies from 10¢ to 200 spraying the plants at intervals of ten |POURds to the acre. Plants do not have the power to walk around the days or two weeks, with bordeaux farm seeking food and on such an in- sufficient mixture. diet the they do not thrive. in some of successful potato, onion and the State as high as 1500 pounds of high-grade fer- tilizer are used to the acre and the ve- sults obtained fully justify the expendi- ture. The growth of the tomato appetite, not only in Philadelphia, but the entir: United States, is one of the romances of the dinner table. Up until 1830 the tomato was believed to be poisonous |although the were grown ornamental and the was known as the “love apple.” About 830 the vegetable was first eaten, but not until after the Civil War that it set out upon its conquest which tobacco districts of plants for purposes tomat) What Makes the Peaches Wormy Did you ever split a peach open andi it was find a worm curled up close to the pit and wonder how it That the beetle, a little dark about one-fifth of an inch long with a came to be there? | has placed it in one form or another, worm is larva of the snout on nearly every dinner tdble in Amer- ica. The tomato is of South American origin and is a member of the Solan- family, of which the poisonous [for digging holes in the fruit in which belladonna, to the tobacco and the po The first to: is country and colored beetle snout that is half as long, that is used ceae ithe eggs are laid. proper The plum curculio name, and it matoes grown in were | peaches, plums, cherries and apples little larger than only in our fruit gardens and some wild through the application of science has plants. the vegetable reached its present high | standard. | tato are also members. this cherries its infests It is too late now to stop this year’s damage, but get ready for next year. Eliminate the Use of Low Grade Keep all ground in orchard clean culti- Fertilizers vated until August 1st. That will That the farmers of Pennsvlvania break up the cells in which the worms transform to adults, so lessening the number to emerge next year. are losing thousands, of dollars each [month through the purchase of low- grade fertilizers, is the warning sent| The Bureau of Plant Industry, Penn out by the Bureau of Chemistry, Penn- 'sylvania Department of Agriculture, |sylvania Department of Agriculture |Harrisburg, will gladly send spraying | The usually accepted line of demark- schedules to tell when to spray to |ation between high and low-grade fer- [catch those not killed by cultivation. Can Spirits Speak To Us ? | Some of the most noted scientists then to Bucknell University, Pa.,_as |of America attended the funeral of | tutor in philosophy, ethics and psy- | Prof. James Hervey Hyslop, secretary | chology, and finally as professor of of the American Society Psy- | logic and ethics in Columbia Univer- | chical Research, who died from blood [sity in 1895-1920, from clot, in Upper Montclair, N. J, re- | tired to repair his broken health. | cently, after several months’ illness. Founds American Institute of Research Sir called Prof. Hys Meanwhile, in 1903, he had founded |iop “the chief representative of ey he American Institute for Scientific |chical research in America.” Believ- |Research. In that undertaking he had lers in the power of the disembodied | the co-operation of such men as the [ spirit show unusual interes. in his | Rev. Dr. Minot J. Savage, the Rev. |death because as founder and spoices [Dr. R. Heber Newton, the Dr. | man for the society he worked out hy Isaac K. Funk, then at the head of the | study and had published the belief in publishing firm of Funk & Wagnalis. spirit contact and he printed an ac- | Henry M. Alden, late editor of Har [count of a personal Magazine, the project his | which he said he had talked with for which he re- Oliver Lodge lev. gave quest in experience, in !per’s his approval, as a science, al- wife, who had been dead some years. Thus both reason and practical result | | | | confirmed him in the assurance that a AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL | { Consult the Old Reliable DR. LOBB Forty Years’ Continuous Practice 1209 Race St., Phila., Pa. Guarantees to Cure Special Diseases Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Write or call for free book | spirit could talk with the living. | Spirits Fail to Carry Out Stipulations Early in the life dozen years ago or more, at a gather |ing in his house of member friends land investigators, each of those pres- | ent wrote a note, its to the others, sealed it and placed it in a special compartment of of his society, a nof disclosing | contents MORE? $1.75 New Model Shee Repairing Co. South Fifth St WHY PAY For Full Neolin Soles | the society safe, at the residence. | A mutual stipulation was that none |of the notes should be disturbed or | unsealed until the departed spirit of |cne of the writers should appear fc | | cne or more of the survivors and re-| and Rubber Heels Sent by parcel post 8 PHILADELPHIA, PA. veal the contents with the message | from the spirit world. 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Some of the note writers have died, 2306 S. 23rd St. Philadelphia, Pa. and no sign has been reported frem them. | Prof. Hyslop made light of this ap- | parent neglect, he {merely negative testimony and worth- implication being that per haps the writers, in their lifetime, ha: lost interest in the matter, or at mosi, that they could not break the restraint of their control.” As it was |the purpose of the writers to see what Millions in Fertilizer FINE COOPERATIVE PLAN FOR DEALERS Write Today DuBois Fertilizer Works 411 Perry Bld., Philadelphia which, said, was less, the ‘spirit their spirits might do without invoking the help of a medium, Prof. Hyslop regarded the failure of the spirits thus to any of the KNOW the FACTS In making market commitments it is to your pecuniary advantage to know such details as par value, divi dened rate, price, range, etc. Al] this information is contained in ouy Curb and Mining Stock “Quotation Booklet” released to reappear party as merely an incident in a scien- tific inquiry, nowise affecting the power of communication in some form. Survivors of the note-writing parcy have felt, through all the intervenin2 years, that the real test would coms: with the spirit Prof. Hyslop, for while others might slip or yield to re straint, his spirit—in the interest anc for the credit of the cause to which his high talents had been devoted— would make special effort to keep th= That is the test which will now be awaited. Prof. Hyslop undertook psychical research trained student, pro- fessedly unwilling to accept anything which is now ready for free dis- tribution. Write for your FREE COPY of Our Unlisted Deparment Invites Inquiries on |.ehich Valiey Coal Sales Co. I.ehich and Wilkes Barre Coal Fajardo Sugar. Knox Hat Co. PRICE, GUARD & CO. 32 BROADWAY as a his inquiry. He has supplemented did himself with it. specialist in though he not further identifv Dr. Weston D. Bayley the medical aspects of psychology, was keenly interested. He wrote long reports of seances for his journal which seemed out of keeping with his own high profes- sions. Among them was the interview with his wife's spirit, in which the name of a living woman of means, who was represented as more than willing to marry the professor, figured gro- tesquely. That Vacation Problem This is the season of the Year when everyone is discussing vacations, and the Medical Department of the New York Telephone Companuy offers these suggestions. From a medical standpoint a vaca- tion is something more than merely time. A vacation should not only provide pleasure, but a good successful should also afford improvement of the health. This year the high price of every- thing may limit the field of selection of a spot for the summer sojourn, but no matter what place may be chosen, relaxation and sought. change should be A person anemic, under weight and below par physically, will usually find the stimulation of mount bene- ficial. High altitudes increase the force and frequency of the heart beat, and produce deepened breathing. The abundant supply of oxygen will “build up the blood,” and the vital resistance air of the body become stronger. While the mountain air is excellent, long walks and mountain climbing must not be attempted by those who are not strong. Such improve while living a lazy life, in the open, take plenty of food abundant sleep. persons best nourishing and A person who is strong and vigor- ous, inclined to over weight, ordinar- ily does well at the seashore, where salt water bathing may get rid of extra pounds. “Living in the Water liv- ing in the water” is very harmful, as few can resist the depression incident However, the practice of “just to prolonged exposure to cold water. The effect of the bath hilirating, and a warm glow felt over all of the body. If, on the contrary, the skin is blue and cold, and a sense and depression enced, then either the bath has been the sufficiently strong to react properly to should be ex of chilliness experi- too prolonged, or system is not Poor reaction demands a in the habits of bathing fol- the cold. modification or dangerous consequences may low. Corks as Stoppers The casks, When primitive ancients kept their wines in and it was drawn off as wanted. bottles first into use a material used as stoppers consisted the root of liquorice, which was cut and formed to the shape of corks. The roots are still often used in this country for the making of bottie stoppers, and it was not until the manufacture of glassware became gen- eral that the practice arose of storing wine in bottles, and then the value of cork as a stopper for bottles became acknowledged. Then came the “The wine is corked”— meaning it tasted of the cork. Imper- vious to air and water is a rare quality which cork possesses over any other known material, and it conveys no dis: agreeable taste or flavor to the liquid. came of generally saying. Freaks of Lightning standing storm, it was on medical examination that body was marked with the imprint of the tree. Such a freak is not uncommon. The markings on the skin reddish brown in color, and photographic imprints shrubs. Lightning, how- many strange tricks. A girl was once crossing a meadow dur- Killed by lightning while under a tree during a found, the victim's are resemble of trees or ever, plays ing a thunderstorm when she was struck by lightning. Although every shred of clothing was torn from her, che herself merely experienced slight giddiness. In another extraordinary case a man was killed by lightning while riding a horse through a storm, but. the untouched and unalarmed, and carried his dead mas- ter home at a gentle trot. animal was This is the Life That's what many people think about camping out in the summer. And there are certainly all sorts of contrivances and arguments for the camper’s comfort. For the motor camper there are automobile beds, with waterproof in closures which fold up and fit on the running boards. Or you may have automobile tents of good size that are not too expensive for consideration. 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