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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19
DELEGATEs no CoNEERENCE

New Cumberland, Pa, Feb. 10
Julius B. Kaufman and j. A. Spren-
kel were elected delegates at the
fourth quarterly conference in the
Methodist Church on Tuesday night to
the Laymen's conference at Shamo-
kin the second week in March.
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FARMER HANGS HIMSELF
Sfeeial % The Tclecrnhh

ofttIuI 70 7 nc 7 cIeGTdHH
Sunbury, Pa, Feb. 19.-EIenry Wolf,
aged Sc years, married and having a
family consisting of his wife and sew
eral sons. ended his life by hanging
in the barn at his farm at Mandate,
Pa.
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BURNED BOY IMPROVING
Sbecial TO The Teleerab,

0PttIuI TO 7 Wt IttSTupN
Sunbury, Pa, Feb. 19.-William, son
of James Leeser, who was seriously
burned yesterday, is greatly improved
to-day. He is two years old.
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Ex-GovERNoR TO LECTURE


SPccidt 10 ! nc ctegFdPH
Waynesboro, Pa, Feb. 19.-EN-Gov-
ernor G. Fl. Hodges of Kansas, will
deliver temperance lecture in the
high school auditorium this evening.
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! Hill: Possible Business Development
of the Association" the Rev. ID. w.
Allison. Shippensburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-19

and Pruning" f. C. Bowers, State or
chard inspector East Petersburg;
"Growing Cherries" Jacob Rife, Camp
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Special Sale
Mems Medium Weight Suits SIT 90

so Suits of tweeds, worsteds tartan plaids,
plaids, cassmeres in grays green's browns, tans,
pencil stripe, chalk stripes sizes 80 to A; few
shorts and stouts. These Suits formerly sold at
$3.50, $40 and $22.50;
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
WINTER FEED FOR THE HENS
Almost Any Cover Crop viii Answer,
But There is Nothing So Easily
Produced as Rye.

Some kind of green food is neces.
sary for the hens in winter, and some.
times 1t is little difficult to know
just how to- provide it. BLUEGRASS
pasture usually affords green grass al.
most all winter, but not all of us can
have good large bluegrass range.
Most everyone who has hens has a
garden that they can use for provid-
Ing green for them. Not only do you
get value from your garden in the
winter when 1t would be lying idle
otherwise, but you are benefiting the
SOIL at the same time. Almost any
winter-growing cover crop will an.
swer, but there is nothing so easily
produced or that provides green go
quickly as rye. In the spring It will
make mass of foliage to be plowed
under to enrich the soil and place It
IN q splendid mechanical condition.
When you plow for the rye do not
make the seed bed level. but leave
1t as rough as you can. This will
cause 1t to gather the rain and hold
It, and In the spring the soil will have
stored good supply against the sum.
mer droughts.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
USEFULNESS OF THE CROWS
Single Bird Dectroys More cEt-Worms
in Day Than Ten Men Could Dig
" and Kill in Week.

To those who know how difficult It Is
to kill the wary crow, this will sound
laughable, but it is a fact that thou
sand of crow are killed every year by
farmers, either by traps or shooting or
poison. But experts, who have made a
thorough investigation into this. de-
clare that wl'lle the farmer is justified
in soaring the crows away from his
grain and corn fields, he should not
kill the bird, because a single crow can
and generally does destroy more cut
worms in day than ten men could dig
up and destroy III a week
Man cannot locate the wiry, soil-col-
o.ed little cut-worm; he can only find
1t by chance while the crow can locate
them with ease and locate their tiny
holes In the soil, and with one bang
of their strong beaks drag Mr.. Cut
worm forth from the ground to add
him to the daily repast.
A crow weighing two and a half
pounds was experimental upon, and it
was found this bird actually ate his
could have eaten more. The
crlw. therefore, can save more crops
from the ravages of cut-worms in a
day than he can destroy in a week.
Crows are heavy eaters. 1t is true
they will pull up tender shoots of corn
If they have the opportunity. but they
VIII also eat the worms. and apparent
|. prefer the worms /
A very young robin was also expert.
mented with. He ate 6S earth worms
[r a day, these making a bulk larger
than the bird. Robins will strip a
Cherry tree of its fruit in few days, !
but, with netting over the trees these
robins will $50 denude garden of in |
'ects that would have otherwise pre-
vented at least half, if not all, of the
things from growing to matur-
ty.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

40 attention beyond the daily turning
and airing of the eggs. AS conse-
lucnce of the automatic heat regula-
tion by the shutting off of the current
when the desired temperature is at
tained. the consumption of electricity
Is reduced to a minimum. and since
the energy is calculated according to
power and eating charges. the ex-
pense is very snail.
The brooder, like the incubator, is
built on the principle of making the
most economical use of the heat of the
current, thereby keeping down the cost
OF operation. In combination with an
electric lamp the brooder keeps the
chickens comfortable and warm and
consequently very large per cent of
those hatched can be reared, whether
in winter or spring.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
METHOD OF USING i,urr.
Housewives Have Different =.
Both Of These Are Decia ~
edIy Good.

What is yoIr plan for us,,.
linens? There are two ways q! 'oa
to select a certain proportion wv y. y
articles and give them constan. 'as
leaving the others untouched ma, uss
frst lot wears out. thus rendo,,. @s
sure that you will always hava a i
Perfect articles Oh hand. Wha. 'as y
FIRST supply begins to show s;sa us
bard usage new ones can he toheN.
service. laa
The other plan is to use vou, u
evenly, keeping them all in .a.a a
and employing them in rotstion
order to do this with the least tro,,, =
you may either put the fresh sas ~.
which comes from the wash at tha ~. :.
tom OF the pile or you may each sSss ~
take the articles you need from W.. ~
lo~ermost layer. placing the c,..s
pieces on the top. This insures evs.
wear for the whole stock. If vou ,.s.
your towels, for instance, from y.
bottom OF the heap, you are sure n :"
those which were not last used a..
each towel has its share of service
Christian Science Monitor.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Three EXTRA GOOD sAll
Considered by Chefs of the R.s,.....
Countries to Be Among tn. ).
Best Possible,

Mexican SaIad.-Cut one alHo,..
pear in half, remove the pit and n.,.
1t. Fill 1t with heavy mayonnaiae !.
which plenty of chopped walnuts h,,.
been added to make it thick. Law =
white lettuce leaves and garnish IA
segments Of grape fruit and heap Am,
mayonnaise in the center.
German Salad.-Boil and dice ,c.1
toes for salad in the usual way ~
two tablespoonfuls of minced onie
and a tablespoonful of chopped mn
ley. Make boiled salad dressing ~
when cool, add the juice of an ouin
and a small cucumber seeded ~
chopped fine. Boil hard and cut !
slice six eggs. Mix the salad, line IN
bowl with lettuce leaves, put in sahl
and garnish the edge with the en-
that have been dipped in some Of -
dressing. Put an olive ring on each
French Sa!ad.-Stuff stalks Of !.
dive with roquefort cheese, let mai
nate in French dressing 20 minutx
slip a red pepper ring around eacA
stalk and lay on green lettuce leayef
Add a little OF the French DRESSING y
fore serving.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Chicken
The Chickens Must Have Mo in the Winter

Roup Is menace to the chicken
business; lice suck your profits from
the laying hens and the growing cock.
erels and cholera wipes out whole
years profits In a week or two. Yet,
none OF these enemies are quite so
dangerous as the musty. frowsy, ILL
smelling, dirty henhouse, because dirt
is the beginning and end of disease
A clean henhouse Is an insurance
against fowl disorders, says an Indiana
writer In Farm Progress. Many of us
sort OF grow accustomed to dirt. It
grows on us and the first thing we
know 1t has become SO familiar, so
much a part Of the everyday sur
roundings that we simply pass it by.
we simply become unable to perceive
dirt when it is all around US. We put
on the cleaning-up process little too
long and the first thing we know we
nave millions Of lice or an epidemic
OF cholera in the flock.
y Where the chicken house is to be
cleaned once a week in winter it will
require three times as much attention
IN hot weather. The piles or droppings
Will decompose in the heat and the
interior of the building will be well
nigh unbearable to the birds. They
are forced to breathe and live in an
atmosphere created by their own filth
and unless the building is very open
the evidences of such a condition can
soon be seen in the appearance Of the
flock.
Cleanliness pays. not only in free
dom from disease, but in increased
production. 1t will take time to keep
tNs chicken house and the yards free
from filth. but 1t is something that
must be promptly attended to in sr-.- |
mer especially.
l have seen so1Se he'1ouse floors
that were mass o. manure, feathers,-l
sand, ashes, cha and dirt. The hens
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
HATCHING OF CHICKENS
German Incubator and Brooder
Finding Much Favor.
Heat Produced by Electric Current Is
Made to Regulate Itself to Frac-
ton Of Degree-Chicks Arc
Kept Comfortable.

An electric incubator and brooder
which is finding much favor in Ger
many is described in Mitteilungen, the
publication of the Berliner Elekricitats-
Werke. With this incubator it is pos
sible to approach very closely the re-
suits Of natural incubation, and thus
reach very favorable result $50 per
artificially incubated eggs.
The heat produced by an electric
current is maze in this apparatus to
regulate itself to fraction of degree.
In this way a practically uniform
Matching temperature is maintained,
which is seldom reached by other arti-
fetal methods This incubator requires
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
FALL-RAISED:, CALF IS BEST
Young Animals Will Have Attained
Sufficient Growth by Midsummer
to Withstand Flies.

There may be several reasons fol
raising calves. First. the dairy prod
ucts are a better price during the
winter months. Then the farmer has
more time for the care of his cows,
besides the average COW will give milk
longer for the reason of the spring
grass. Another thing, the calves COM
ing in the fall makes them old
enough to wean in the spring and
turn out on the pasture. They will be
old enough and growing sufficient that
by midsummer the flies will not
bother and injure their growths so
much. Spring calves will not do so
we'll. as the heat and flies are not in
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
'zW22oGEMl1JERAL
EARM;N0HS
Market only strictly fresh eggs

Market only strictly fresh eggs.
The brood sows must have exercise
every day.
How Is 1t that 81 few farmers have
potatoes to sell?
An acre Of 12-inch ice usually will
provide a harvest of 1000 tons.
Water in the swill adds bulk To the
mess buv puts no flesh on the hogs.
The fact that a man keeps a cow
does not prove that he is a dairy
farmer.
The gooseberry requires less prun.
ing than almost any other fruit-bear.
ing bush.
Dairy farming calls for close atten.
hoa to details and for gooc manage.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
USES OF SALT

Salt is a splendid cleanser. NfeeY
used in the kitchen, it keeps sinks aal
vessels clear from grease and smell
The best place in the pantry for n
egg is in the salt jar.
Salt cleanses and brightens carpets
Sprinkle salt on an ostrich feath9
before recurring 1t before the fire viii
knife.
When a fruit or wine stain Is msds
on the white tablecloth, cover 1t imne
diately with salt.
Wash wickerwork in salt and vsta.
stand the stalks of flowers in 1Mn
and salted water to revive the BIZ
SONS.
Put salt on the stove when rsaDs
has been spilled and raises a disagree
able smell; on the sink If vegetablD
water has been poured down.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

/ were alive with lice and were dying
off nightly from one disease or an.
| other.
They were being kept at loss, and
that loss must have grown heavier the
longer they were kept. The owner
complained that there was nothing in
the chicken business No wonder!
Dirty houses are the cause of many
hens leaving them in summer and TAX
ing to the other farm buildings. the
trees and even to the fencetops as
roosting places They rarely 60 back
to the house when they have once left
it. and this leads directly to losses by
night birds, prowling animals and cas-
ual chicken thieves. 1t is better to
keep the house as clean as possible,
and by doing this insure the roosting
of the birds on their accustomed
perches.
'Limbe- neck" is a very fatal dis
ease that flourishes in warm weather
around the dirty chicken house or the
yards that are carelessly kept. Leaving
a decaying carcass around where the
chickens can find it is the surest way
Of killing off a bunch of them by
means of this disease. The green fly,
the larvae of that fly and the dead
carcass are all that is necessary to get
the epidemic well started
The fly lays the eggs, the egg or the
larvae are eaten by the birds and the
cases Of Timber neck" develop with
certainty and dispatch. Every bird
that dies from any cause at any time
should be burneS, but this is doubly
true in hot weather. When you con-
slider ile number of dead hens, little
chicks and the cefal from dressed
chickens thrown in a fence corner or
tossed into the weeds where the re-
mainder of the flock can get at them,
you wonder that every chicken is not
dead OF Timber neck" on some farms.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
SELECTION OF BEST LAYERS
frapnestine is Best Method Known,
But Not Practicable Where
Large Flocks Are Kept.

While trapnesting is the best meth
cd known of selecting the best layers
and building up laying strain. 1t II
hardly practicable to use 1t in large
flock, unless goodly number OF nests
are provided and one person can give
q large amount of time to attending
them and recording results.
1t is better and cheaper to buy male
birds from trapnested stock and to
begin the work Of sorting out the
drones by disposing Of every pullet in
the fall that has not begun to lay
within few weeks Of the time the
nrst ones began laying. The non.
laying pullets are easily detected by
their undeveloped combs, and their
separation from the flock is simple
matter at this stage.
Every pullet that is worth keeping
for the production of laying flock
should be laying by the time she is
eight months old at the latest. Sort
out the others relentlessly and give
the good ones all the room and feed
through the winter. II 1t is possible
to have separate house for them, by
all means do so. for they cannot do
their best when "bossed" and driven
BY older hens during the weather
when they must be shut in.
In the spring keep the best Of these
pullets yarded with your new male
bird that has been guaranteed to be
from high-producing mother, and
hatch these eggs early-in March and
April II possible. Give the chicks
plenty Of room and good care until
they begin to mature, then 60 through
the culling-out process again. culling
out this time all pullets that are not
laying by the tirne they are seven
months old at the latest Pay NO At
tention to their breeding or their
other good points. Get rid Of the
drones and give your attention to the
otherx Keep this up and you will
Aayo . dock Of layers.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Baked Apple and Rice SPuddina

oNeo apple ana icoSPuoolHo !
Two cupfuls of rice, pint Of MILL
lemon, small piece of cinnamon. ID
ter. brown sugar and three or four =
pies will be needed. Boil the rice =
the milk with the cinnamon and whe1
1t Is quite soft stir in small piece q
butter and enough sugar to sweetea
and remove the cinnamon. Have resdJ
some stewed apples, sweetened nd
favored with the lemon rind, butter :
pie dish, scatter some sugar over +
and then fill With alternate layers q
rice and apple. beginning and endf1e
with the rice. Put few pieces Of b.
ter on top and bake the pudding y :
fairly quick oven until 1t is hishg
Drowned. Serve hot or cold. II co.,
turn out the pudding and put onenaR
pint of thick custard around 1t.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

ment all along the line but II navs
for both.
II you have not already attended to
1t, see that your poultry house is pre-
pared for winter.
Millet, barley, oats. wi eat and corn
are good poultry foods. What the
hens want is variety of feeds.
1t is said that about forty per cent
OF the well developed working horse
is muscle and not over fifty DER cent
is fat.
Fresh blood in your f1ocks ia necos.
sary II you expect to raise strong
chicks next year. Inbreeding will soon
ruin a flock.
Potato experts in Minnesota are dig.
ging 100 to 200 bushels per acre A
farmer Of Anoka county reports 241
bushels OF one acre.
The fodder that does not find
place In the silo should be shredded
and then the part of 1t not used for
feed becomes excellent beddias.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
To Cook a Merinuue.

Remember that what makes
meringue fall is a sudden dram -
cold air. Brown meringue slovV
and do not let it cook until It beg
to blacken at the tips and POM
Then pull it to the edge Of the o.
and leave 1t there. in the open doA,I
for a minute or two. Then remove
to a warm spot in the kitchen ana -
1t cool slowly and thoroughly. II g
then be chilled in the refrigeratoE
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Baked Bean Soup.

Put in saucepan three cupfuls g.
baked beans, three pints of watef, ~
slices Of onion, and two stalks OF -
cry; bring this to the boiling po.
and simmer 80 minutes. Rub tnfo5
q sieve, add one and half cupfan 3
stewed and strained tomatoes,
blespoonful of Worcester or
sauce, season to taste with ssst
pepper. and bind up with two
0poonfuls -four cooked togethsr'
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

their favor and they have not grown
enough to make them strong and
hardy for the summer months.
The fall Of the year is the time
when the farmer may use his spare
time to good advantage taking care
OF calves. 1t is unwise to have them
come too late in the fall, as the winter
Will be against them. Too much care
cannot be given that they have a clean
place and dry bed to sleep on. With
little care and work 1t Is possible
that the farmer may add several dol.
lars to his purse at this time. It ia
Ike all other farm work; 1t demands
careful attention and at the right time
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Remove All Weak Fowls.

Remove from the breeding flock all
birds that show signs Of weakness or
lack OF inherited vitality. Such birds
are also Improbable for meat and
should be disposed of early in their
lives.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Rhubarb Plants.

New rhubarb plantations may be
started in the fall Of the year If the
soil Is well drained. It is customary
to use the smallest and healthiest
roots of plants. which are dug and
divided. II the hills can be covered
this fall with rotten manure winter
protection will be given and the added
fertility will be of great value to the
young plants when growth starts next
spring.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23
Keep a supplx Of Dust

Do not fail to keep the hens sun
piled with box Of dust. Place It
where the suns rays will strike It and
watch them enjoy getting It among
their feathers. It ought to be renewed
at least every week
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

XIII 0sformed chIcks.
Al ueformed chicks should be
Killed as soon ~ hatched. II n a
waste OF time to try to raise them.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

Keep the SOW that did good service
the past season. The swine man should
have big boot" when he trades
certainty for an uncertainty.
The St. Mary banner., 1915-01-23

Some sort Of green food is absolute.
ly necessary to the health Of the Law.
Ing hen.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
FOUND DEAD.

Last Tuesday morning section men
found the body of a man lying beside
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad near the Wabash Railroad
crossing; there were no marks of
Identification on the body. Coroner
Hartmann was called and held an in
quest on the body. and it was taken
to the undertaking rooms of Ives
Edgar Pike where later it was identi-
fed by Mr.. Waldvogel of Archbold
as the body of Joe Biles a man who
has been working for farmers in the
vicinity of Archbold. Later~it was
learned that the mans real name was
Henry Builhot and the body was
claimed and taken Wednesday morn
ing by Mrs. Fred Dome of Stryker,
who is a sister of the dead man.
Only one mark of an injury that
would prove fatal was found on the
body, that was a cash in the side of
the neck that had penetrated the jugu-
lar vein. While there is room for
many suppositions in regard to the
manner in which Builhot met his death
there were absolutely no clews that
might lead to the discovery of the ac-
tual facts in the case and it is likely
to remain mystery. The Coroner's
verdict was death by accident" The
men who found the body said that
there were marks in the gravel of the
railway embankment which showed
that the body had slid some twenty
feet after striking the ground. The
man had been dead for some time
when found.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
THE HAND OF DEATH

Again this week the hand of death
rests heavily upon this community and
the trite saying that "Death is no
respector of persons" is again proven
true. Tuesday morning there were
SIX persons who lay in the embrace
of death; they were Mrs. Eta Losure
McCafferty, Mrs. F. E. Ludeman,
Mrs. Abe Hogeboom, Mrs. Wilson S.
King, Mary the little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. L. S. Williams and one un-
known man found dead alongside the
railroad tracks east flown. Youth
and old age alike were represented
in that list; but all of them have left
the sense of desolation and bereave-
ment in the hearts of those that loved
them and our sympathy goes out to
these friends who have been called
to walk through the valley of the
shadow of DEATH tt is not Sc much
for those who have gone rs for those
who are left behind and who loved
them, that our hearts go out. Surely
if The Eternal Goodness has supplied
so beautiful place as this earth for
us to live in for Il few years of life
He must make the permanent abiding
place infinitely more beautiful and
pleasant. The hand of Death has but
ushered these who have gone into that
"Great Beyond" where God himself is,
but that same hand lies heavily upon
the hearts of those who are left. The
hand of death rests upon us all; it
draws US closer together in human
sympathy and fellowship; it reminds
US that what we do here we must do
now while we have the opportunity
and that the words of cheer, of en-
G luragement, of helpfulness and Of
love, should be spoken now ere it is
too late for ears to hear or lips to
sueak.