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WEDNESDAY, JULY
3rd, 1935
Bucktail Trail . . .
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“Penna. ‘Department of Highways
THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, LANCASTER CO. PA.
Typical scenic vista unfolding before motorists in northern central Pennsylvania. Rocky walls of the
Allegheny Plateaus tested engineering skill in carving 2a roadway for famous Bucktail Trail between Lock
Haven and Emporium. More than $3,000,000 was spen
dise.”
This is the thirteenth of a series of
articles prepared under the direction of
Warren Van Dyke, Secretary of High-
ways, in a campaign to stimulate in-
terest in the tourist and recreational
advantages of Pennsylvania. Today’s
story deals with the vacation possibili-
ties of the Keystone State in northern
central Pennsylvania.
The Bucktail Trail, connecting Lock
Haven with Emporium, St. Mary’s and
Ridgway and providing a favorite route
for travelers between Buffalo and Har-
risburg, runs through picturesque val-
leys and hills, rich in historical back-
ground and tradition.
The first purchase of forest land by
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
for reforestation purposes, was made
along this trail in 1898 and since then
the Forestry Department has added
thousands of acres, through which
numerous forests are maintained by the
State. Wild life on these forest pre-
serves is plentiful, and the counties
through which the Trail passes, Clin-
ton, Cameron and Elk, are favorite
hunting areas.
great scenic highways of the East. The
crews that constructed the highway,
which was opened in 1930, met a
ber of mountain families who had nev-
er seen an automobile.
Though the lumbering days are gone
the forests through which the Bucktail
Trail passes are regaining their old
grandeur. The Trail is one of the few
highways of the state which passes
through country abounding in moun-
tain peaks and far-flung forest areas.
Within easy access of the Trail are
3,000 fishing and hunting camps and
about 12,000 miles of trout streams.
These facilities will be expanded rapid-
ly in the near future, it is expected,
with the development of the Bucktail
State Park and Pleasureland, a long
stretch of forest and farm land from
Lock Haven to Emporium, in which
recreational facilities will be cultivated
under the regulation of the State De-
partment of Forests and Waters.
Just west of Lock Haven, the Buck-
ail Trail passes through lands which
have produced coal, oil, and gas, as
ll as timber. Near Queen's Run and
Farrandsville, on the opposite side of
he river from the highway, lie the al
t to tap “North Woods” and “Sportsmen’s Para-
four rafts at Driftwood. They floated
down the river to Harrisburg, gather-
ing recruits as they went, their woods-
men’s garb, featured by the bucktail
insignia on their caps, giving them their
name. They formed the nucleus around
which was organized the Bucktail Reg-
iment of the Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps, attached to the Army of the
Potomac throughout the Civil War. A
monument to these unique riflemen is
erected at Driftwood, Pennsylvania.
Construction of the Trail, which is of
concrete and macadam, started in 1926
and continued for four years, capping
almost forty years of effort on the part
of the inhabitants of central Pennsyl-
vania to bring about construction of
a road to connect towns which were
almost neighbors, so far as the actual
distance between them, but were far
apart by highway. In Clinton County,
for instance, the county seat at Lock
Haven could not be reached by the
residents of Renovo, 27 miles away, by
any highway route except a narrow,
rough road which almost doubled the
distance.
Eleven different contracts were in-
Ie:
DISEASE IS FOUND
IN POULTRY YARDS
Rotation .or Cropping Will
Prove Helpful.
By Dr. Robert Graham, Chief in Animal
Pathology, College of Agriculture, Uni-
versity of Illinois —WNU Service.
Disease organisms, worms and coc-
cidiosis germs which are found in con-
taminated and constitute the
greatest menace to poultry produc-
tion can be controlled only by proper
management, including the rotation or
cropping of poultry yards.
No medicine will correct the ail-
ments caused by “chicken sick”
ground, notwithstanding the claims of
remedy venders to the contrary.
All intestinal and parasitic diseases
of chickens, as well as contagious
germs such as coccidiosis, are spread
by the droppings of Infected fowls.
Thus the soil of many poultry yards
becomes an incubator or seed bed for
the propagation and spread of these
diseases.
To overcome the development of dis-
ease germs, poultrymen who hope to
reap a profit from their efforts must
rear their chicks on clean ground and
plow, cultivate and crop the old chicken
yards. Rotation of the poultry range
so that it is used but once in every
four years is a profitable practice on
farms where this can be done.
In cases where extensive rotation of
the poultry range is not possible, keep-
ing the chickens out of the yard until
the ground can be plowed and a new
seeding gets well started is helpful.
For summer planting, a combination ot
oats and rape makes a satisfactory
mixture. An ordinary farm disc is
probably the most satisfactory tool to
use in working the poultry yard, al-
though a plow may do just as well.
The latter implement, however, tends
to bring to the surface the contamina
tion which has been plowed under the
previous year,
soil
Clean Incubator Before
It Is Placed in Storage
At the close of the hatching season,
when we are in the rush work of car
ing for brooder chicks, feeding the
growing flock, with possibly garden
work or perhaps bees to care for, we
are apt to overlook the necessity of
PAGE SEVEN
Lancaster
Stock Market
CORRECT INFORMATION FUR-
NISHED WEEKLY BY THE PA.
BUREAU OF MARKETS FOR THE
BULLETIN
every month, when bills fall due, you begin -
ing out—the y ey
company, and a doze
thers get their share. When you are through,
As usual, not much trading in the
cattle yards Saturday, asking prices
are steady with Friday on all grades
of steers, heifers, cows, and bulls.
Prospects for Monday are for another
liberal run of local fed steers.
Stockers and feeders in light re-
ceipts past few days, prices holding
steady.
Calves steady with light receipts.
Hogs in fair supply with little de-
mand, indications will have an active
market Monday.
you have paid everybolly but yourself. Try this plan instead—pay
yourself first.
manage without cheating
and economical way and
Southern lambs selling 9.00-9.50;
locals 8.25-8.75. Supply light.
Receipts: 616 Cattle, 18 Calves, 11
Hogs, 60 Sheep. .
To Finance Your Home
Choice 9.50-10.00 Under supervision of state Banking department
Good 9.00-9.50
Medium 7.75-8.75
Conon HEIFERS 7.00.5.73 Jno. E. Schroll, Pres. Henry G. Carpenter, V.
Choice 8.00-9.00 E. M. Bomberger, Sec. R. Fellenbaum, Treas.
Good 7.00-8.00
Medium 6.00-7.00
Common 4.50-6.00
Cows
Choice 6.75-7.50
Good 6.00-6.75
Common and medium 4.50-6.00
Low cutter and cutter 3.00-4.50
BULLS
Good and choice 6.50-8.50
Cutter, common and med. 4.00-6.50
VEALERS
Good and choice 8.50-9.50
Medium 6.50-8.50
Cull and common 4.50-6.50
FEEDER & STOCKER CATTLE
Good and choice 7.00-8.00
Common and medium 5.00-6.25
HOGS
Good and choice 10.25-10.50
Medium and good 7.00-8.00
SHEEP
Choice lambs 8.25-8.75
Medium 7.00-8.00 Phone 5-W Mount Joy
Common 6.00-7.00
Yearling wethers 5.00-6.00
Ewes 1.50-3.50
mnt enn
Cultivate Carefully
Deep cultivation close to the row
of vegetables destroys many surface
roots, and ridging against the row
Wise Buyers Read
lle, Those who travel over the Bucktail rolved in th tructi d the to-| cleaning and properly caring for the |ea th f. oots between
: t v ! oS astle | volved in the construction an e to 3 exposes e surface roots
in Trail cannot help being reminded of nos Tori i A Susie tal cost was $3,800,000. The expense Incubator before storing it away. A |the rows. Level culture and shall-
0 fie venisied lumber ota, during which oe ago Y ren Spanish royal | Was vastly increased by the necessity | little carelessness at this time may |ow cultivation does much good and
lumbering operations in this section HY go here to make real es- of excavating the side of the moun-| mean delay and expense at the bee [5 danger. One hoeing or cultiva-
excelled those in any other section of tate investments for the throne. To the | tains between Lock Haven and Renovo | of next hatching season, says | tion each week is enough to control
fhe state. Winding fos the Wate 4 thor He lie the oltes of to cut through the road. 3 in the Indiana Farmer's | weeds and maintain a shallow mulch.
the Susquehanna, the highway looks 5 b Erg oe : Guide. ree A rere
8 - YOZ Ph tourist 3 § as i ; 3 :
down upon a stream which once bore | settled many years ago by Eng For road condition and free As soon as the last hatching is over : th. Advertizets.
ey of lumber rafts on its spring | Sh and Welsh miners, sent here by |map of Pennsylvana write the Bureau | it is time to prepare the Incubator for Patronize Bulletin vi {
FE currents to the booms at Lock Haven |Peers of England to develop mines |of Publicity and Information, Pennsyl-| storing. Drain the pipes, if the in-
and Williamsport. Until the opening which were worked out years ago. vania Department of Highways, Har-| cubator is a hot water machine; and
y of the Bucktail Trail, the river and thie| The Bucktail Trail was named from | risburg. The Department of Forests and| pe sure that all the water drains out.
railroad were the only means of trans- | the rifle regiment which gathered from | Waters will supply information con- Clean the lamp flues, and boil the
portation through much of the wild Cameron, Elk, and McKean Counties |cerning camping facilities and forest| burner in soda water. Brush out the
our territory now traversed by one of the {on April 27, 1861 and embarked on parks. egg trays and the nursery trays, clean
ing them thoroughly of down and dirt
Wire screen may be washed in luke-
warm soapsuds. After the machine
has been thoroughly cleaned inside and
ad 9 7 outside, spray ali the interior parts
with some good disinfectant, then store
72 2 e v i in a dry, safe place until needed again, 8 us Cc al i
- 5 when it will be ready for duty without
CURRENT EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHED FOR 4 delay or unnecessary expense. i
iH r B U ! i = i i N Using Feed Troughs 3 ®
| Small feed troughs are more desir & &
able than the large hopper-type of > &
2 feeders. With the small trough-type Ck
* of feeders fresh feed is put out sev O
eral times a week, which the birds will . . . ie
{ a aa ee 2 Every advertiser likes to believe that his advertising
: type of feeder. Plenty of feeding and *
STOP - GAP NRA watering space is conducive to good O will be seen—uwill be read.
¥ Te NRA production. A trough 4 feet long at
While the ) ) . .
will be extended WE Joe aie on Toad fun fos gd But how many readers of a given medium actually
until next year it sides will feed 30 hens. At least three 2
will be codeless feeders 4 foot los should be allowed read the ads? How many, for that matter, even so
and a fact-finding or each 100) birds. ne-half inch o
body only, Presi- drinking space is allowed per hen. much as see them?
dent Roosevelt Grain can best be fed in a trough
announced. Mean. when trouble is experienced in keep- : *¥y2 * -
Woah Ly Circulation figures, milline rate computations, how Q
tration is consid- and dual purpose breeds are trough ever impressive do not provide the answers
ering what other fed thin grains at the University of ’ , .
steps can be taken Arkansas College of Agriculture at o . . .
— nn Fayette. The grain is fed twice a day The clue is in time. Meaning—the more time the
N Deal. regulating the amount of grain given. * : :
ew De Ie reader gives to the reading of a publication the great-
satisfactory than feeding grain in : :
I er the certainty that he will see the ads—and read
Nr them.
Poultry Notes
In the summer tine, geese must have : > » >
i 7 access to shade and plenty of water, Recently, 0. B. Winters, vice-president, Erwin Was-
p.S., THEY GOT THE JOB—First as they cannot stand the hot sun. > J. 66
PS A i Fister Boy Hoa ey & Co., said: “I know from experience that a good
’ i f Sov} NTO. it 3 y
Guild to graduate om ALMA MATER HON Georgla figures its annual poultry country weekly is read from cover to cover by literally
college found good jobs 390 ng } ORS SON—M. Sayle production at $40,000,000, live stock i . . 9
Gi AAA nations $2.20, and rg mates 42.000, evvery one in the community it serves. 8
will join ,000.
eral Motors, and Raymond Doerr, U. # of Experience,” re LE o .
Ee of Mich., the G-M proving grunge ceives an honorary de- People of the United States eat Why? The answer is—time. Country newspaper 2
staff. Left to right are Fischer, Gui gree of doctor of laws about an average of three-fourths of ° 9
Secretary W. S. McLean, Doerr and from William Jewell an egg apiece each day, while Canadi- readers find the time to read their local papers. They Ey
Guild President W. A. Fisher. College, Liberty, Mo, ans average one egg a day.
OE rr Dn 75s can be depended upon to see ads—and read them.
Taylor delivered the From five to five and a half months +
commencement are required for a Leghorn to reach ; ha
eh Re People never read a large daily paper as carefully or %
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owas | If one is feeding milk (liquid) to as thoroughly as they do a good weekly. +
S his chicks he must be careful about h hs
flies. Flies are the intermediate host y 7 1 i Tr i)
. for Lapeworts, and witers there” are Let us serve you in placing your advertising where 2
flies there are apt be tapeworms. it is read. A
Hatcherymen pay $15,000,000 for the dp
E eggs they use, 6,250 carloads of them. EY
This price represents a premium of
lle) $6,000,000 over the price of regular é @ +
ey market eggs.
ve 4 “AY GO HOME"—Greta Garbo, i
io famous screen fan 32/3 “she Save Beans From Beetles
ho 2 Was tifed of Jt 8 woh for a There are a number of dusts and
o1- for her home in Swe 2 sprays for use against the Mexican
n't five months’ rest. bean beetle. Consult your county agent
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ts } ING about the time and method of applica- .
). i FIGURATIVELY sagale = Nn tion.
a 4 : igures, Ge
11 This is the figure, and fig NOW THE “KITCHEN TROUSSEAU"—Colette d'Ar :
Miss Sally O'Brien of Chicago, who 5 ) Avoid Poi
ss y ide contest to select a ville, pretty French star of the Opera Comique, is so: void Poisoning
med wona yw 8 combined a per enthusiastic about American kitchen devices, she Is! Rose chafers are poisonous to young
Po in rd body, health, taking back a complete “kitchen trousseau” assembled; chickens. The birds should be kept
ost - praportio » Bo by Hammacher Schiemmer., away from the insects by housing or
a ‘beauty and comp yarding until chafers disappear. 1