l*Uns for tho InMttv.r* | The Mato department U now en tn IVnnryUanU for IS^VSI are rapid- ln bo " kln S *P«*ker* for the ly brine completed by the Pennsvl- ,com,n * *" u ' loM mnd ,n «“ ch !n ' l, “ ce - , ,, . . , . . ithe department will furnish speakem ranla IVpartment of AKrtcultare Ac-| . ...

I qualified to discus!, the subjects sc!

cordins to the prerent plans, insti by lhe county Institute* chair tutus will N- conducted in sixty-six men. Only one day institute* will

countie* of the state dutlnc the cornins winter and In each county the arranser ents will be in chair* cf the county institute chairnan. the members of the committee and the county

farm amm:.

be bt id in each community this year and the morning sessions will be eliminated. the poor attendance at iha morning sessions last year making It advisable to hold only afternoon and

I even In. see ions this season.

Eliot Raps West Point

Teaching Methods

. Bojton-7-Tf.e Vnited States Military Academy at West rotnt was crinetted recently by l»r Charles W. Eliot. presideM emeritus of Harvard fn t. letter to Brigadier General John W Rucki-an. C S A., commander of the North Atlantic coast artillery district iKneral Ruck man had written IVictor Hilo; to ascertain whether celtain comm-nts on West Point teaching, which he was reported as hating made la an address before the Harvard Teachers' Asu'-latlae. were correct. ' In the published report of his remarks, Doctor Eliot was quoted as saying: "1 hope we shall never take

Farmers May Make

Cider In Pennsylvania

Har-isburg. Pa - Farmers in Pennsylvan a who grow their own apples may make their apple* into «idrr un til it h-o> fermented ln»o eider vinegar with in seeming any kind of a license or permit from 'he Federal prohibition o internal revenue authorities Tills inform at ioa is contained in a letter 3 Ihrector James Foust of the Pureau if Foods. Pennsylvania IVpart tnout «f Agriculture, from John F., of Was hington. IV C . prohrtn ommissioner for the Vnlteo

States.

Recently a number of technical and conf> sing rulings on the cider situation were issued from the prohibition

Will Enforce State Packing Regulations

our example for public school admin-!enf.>rcetnent offices at Washington, t.-iratioa front West Point It is a good These rulings ere confusing to the

example of >ust what an educational i institution should not be. This was ! shown by the ineAcieecy and fxtiurc

Of its graduates in the war."

Doctor Eliot replied to General Rucknan that this quotation, while no: in his exact words, was substanti

ally com-.• He continued.

"In my opinion no Ametican school or college intended for youths of be tw<-en 1$ and -- years of age should accept such lllpre-ared material as West Point accepts." No school or college. Doctor Eliot declared, should have a completely prescribed curriculum or have its teaching done almost exclusively by recent graduates of the

same school or college.

The graduates of West Point during the World War .both in the Held

tanners and In many sections of Pennsylvania fanners were permitting their apple* to rot on the ground, rather than take chaaces of running afoul the prohibition laws by cider the impression that it was ne< aary to secure a license or permit. Director Foust in calling on the farmer* of the State - o make their surplus apple* into cider vinegar, points out that by making the apples into cider and sn.nng this cider away their own premise? until it become* vinegar they may reallae a good profit and run no risk - -atever of violating the prohibition laws. The fanner may do this without securing a permit of

iy kind

In selling sweet cider, lb-' farmer run.' a chance of selling a beverage

rnd in business office, did not escape— : containing more than one b»if of with a tew exceptions—from the meth- ’per cent of alcohol, in which case, he od? which they had been taught and |U liable to fine and imprisonment. By drilled in during peace The red-tape holding his cider until it is vinegar.' methods prescribed to the American according to IHrector Foust, be runs Regular Army in peace time* and the absolutely no risk and secure* an exrequired habit among American regu- ceilen; return for hi* fruit and his

lar army officers of 'passing the buck* labors

were very misclaevou* ail through the Farmer? desiring Mill further tnforactual fighting, and remain a serious m»iw>e on the cider sttuatioo should irapevimjeu: in the efficiency of the write to John F. Kramer. Prohibidon War IX-par-.ment to this day " iCommissioner. Washington. D. C.

Fish Worms

Come fellows, let's go behind the

bsru and dig some fish worms."

Equipped with a spade and a tin car the boys repair to their favorite strip of ground ard soon have their im- * .shed hat-box half full of wrigg ]

n;ng cream:**, the sole ex-

cuse for existence- of which, as determined by the average ’uvonile mind,

is summed up in the word "bait "

But impairment on the fishhook .* only an Incident in the me of ti.*

ling :

ate cant of moisture, and. indeed, hare been known to 11 water, whereas exposure to dry t»r H fatal to them within a few hours. Th«-y have an aversion to the eold. and this is why they are general!; found during the summer seas* near the surface of the ground J examination of their burrows will oft* disclose the fact that the worm iia Us barrow with dead leave* to p-evei i*s body coming in contact with the

ceM groemt

Eanh worms are not at all parties lar as to diet. Their sutrenanct is ob-

eanh worm generally speaking: for.

in the underground world, it* activities are not limited to the narroa province which the requirements of the fisherman would seem to indicate Men of science have carefully stnd led the earth worm and its habits, and the results of their research** prove beyonti a doubt that to the work of these hamble creature* we owe in large deg*ve the fertility of th soil and '.heconricuaBce of Its frurfnlness. Have you ever examined an eanb worm carefu'-ly* The body const*-3|

tamed chiefly from half-decaye*. leaves

Vole for Protection

of Motherhood

do they fertilise the *oU? --law »j J g The earth worm is an indefatigable WOtDCD UI^6(1 10

worker. It is cons tan ly plaining new

pwa." tn an-acre of ground ft tr

one of a vast colony of nearly 65.000 earth worms whose aggregate weigh'

estimated at 365 pounds. When - burrow they swallow the mould, ne to the surface, discharge It. and

then return to their labors only to repeat the operation u-occasingly. The amount of earth thus voided would In the course of a year form a layer averaging one-eighth of an inch In thickness. and the weight of earth swallowed and brought to the surface

Id amount to ten tons. The mould is thus exposed to the action of thsun. the air and the rain or dews 4

little calculation will show that but a short period of time is required for

the entire upper layer of the pass through the worm's body. And ".ow. boys, when you stamd with your rod in hand and watch the cot

tort km? of the worm upon the hook. :htnk of the fragment of natural fcis-

ory and of the important pan your

"bait" plays in the economy of the

world —Kxcbang*.

The Bureau of Market*. P«®n?vjvanla Itepartment of Agriculture has aken step* to provide for a thorough enforcement of the Apple racking Law of 1J1T With the season's crop rapidly n^arirg time to harvest, an inspection system will be Installed in the growing sections on or before Sep-

mbev 1.

The law provide* that all apples grown tn rennsylvnein and packed In closed containers, shall be marked in a specific manner. The cover of each mus. contain four different The** marks must be the name and address of the packer, the na-ie of the variety of applee In the package, the minimum sisr of the fruit and the ca.adty of the package. The law was passed at the instancy of commecctal growers of the State and was designed to protect the public against fraud and to protect the orchard 1st from the fair competition of the unscrupulous The Bureau of Markets has been eonducting a number of demon *trations before grower?' organizationabout the State and with the inrpectton een-lce maintained in the growing sections during the time of hnrvesting and in the larger markets of the Slatafter November 1. It is believed that a general enforcement of the act will

Special Market Reporting Service

Four million women voters la 191C were able by concerted action to make the national Woman Suffrage amend meat a political Issue in the last Presidential election, with the result that has lately been passed by Congr**ut fifteen million women voters hi the present year be persuaded to unit* in behalf of governmental protect loo of maternity and Infancy? Anne Mar tin. the Woman Suffrage lender of Ne rads, raise* the quest icm in Good

eeptnr and urge* that

ment be started to educate A

public opinion in the matter. It *<ttne That Jeanette Rqnkla Introduced in the Sixty-flf-.h Congress a bill providing

for "Instruction In the hvgten* of me

terulty and Infancy" and for “proprcare of maternity and infancy In rura' district?." but that it died through lack of public interest. A new bill has

introduced in the Sixty-sixth

Senator Sheppard, ot

Texas It is sponsored by Julia La throp. of the Children's Bureau, and approved by the Life Extension Institute of New York. MU? Martin calls “the most far-reaching conserva lion measure befotv the American people." Good Housekeeping express*, its interest in the following terms "Last year our government spent 547.000.009 to protect farmers against avoidable losses of bogs .corn and tie. In the same period it spent, an effort to prevent the avoidable loss of mothers and babl«*. ‘us: I47.O0O.AOO ind we lost 250.000 babies, and 23.000 mothers died In child birth. Such discrimination tn favor of hogs and corn should cease A Ml! before Congress (Senate House BUI 109251 will stop it if it U enacted Into law. The bill is sponsored by the Children's Bureau: it Is a god bill and should pass." Investigation carried on by the ChUen'f Bureau in rural areas of Wi»msin. Kansas. North Carolina and ontana have revealed a higher tevnal mortality rat* than In United State* as a whole. “Hie rural district*." Miss Martin observe*, “are in the greatest need ot help." Imagination easily supplies picture* of who have no trained attendance of any kind at the birth of their

who are compelled

until the last moment before a birth

every conceivable six* and «hapc Chicago, U American's principal

piano market.

The best grape* for champagne arc own on chalky soli. Baby carriages which are propelled by electricity are now to be had. A French inventor's decoy duck contains clockwork that makes It swim with its feet in a life-like way. Women buy 90 per cent of the commoditie* used tn the American borne. From time Immemorial the size of the circus ling has always been 42 feet 9 Inch** in diameter THe mo*t costly map In the worlu , one of France, and It U In the

o are

BREVITIES

Up '

, 17*5 handke-chiefs were of lajurre.

-J

' J**!*

tlvMuji

During the five and one-1

ftMwi.nni^.aim

tile waa sold to a prlvat-

ln that country.

Sufficient potass:«m salt. . . , discovered to deep salt wei: f , r ' a '' to promise a new source of At Alto Cruoero. , n ^ free*** every night through’, - your, while at noonday . hot enough to cause actual .•uacrisJ An ocean steamer of the fir • going at full speed, cannot t„. b-ox-J to a hah in lees tl:an *hre. : |,. In France noted critnira. . r . hua. to speak and sing Into a before their discharge from p-,.,. n

Peach Growing Industry - Threatened

Will history r-peat Itself In the destruction of the peach growinr Indus

try in Pennsylvania

The Bureau of Plant Industry. Penn sylvan:a Department of Agriculture is bending all its energies to save the peach orchards of the State from de-

Probibltiofi has reduced - .

of Jewelry sale*, but it ha. r .rr, 4

s generosity with hi? 4

children." he added T vent . . . that nine out of ten’wiv. - » : you that a sober husband i« : ... t ,

ms than one maddled by

An annual bill of *3w - Vf - r email to a drinking man v. • ;

eliminated from his expcount a man has more niunwhich to carry out bis gm-r stlncta. The JSOO will bu> t

War On Gypsy Moli

title* of

although they consume earth, out of which they

ever digestible matter It may can-

tata

Raw mea: is attractive to theta, and they can also be Justly areuaed of preying cpoc the dead bodie* of their

A daily fruit market reporting service for the peach and apple grower? of PcnDsylvaala will be inaugurated by the Bureau of Markets. Pennsylvania Department of Agricshur* about September 1. This will he plemeetnl to the regular market re 'ire of the Bureau whies practically every reef the State. Durmg September all market tafor mat:on concerning peaches will he telegraphed to Ham«borg by the mar keg report".« tn the various part* of the Mate am. by noon of the day the report? are received .thi? infonaattoa w ill he in the hands of the growers tn the peach growing sections Later in the season, the same aewtor wSl be for the benefit of the appl •

Vamps Can’t Lure

T*js information will enable the fruit growers to ship, each day. to those markets where '.here is the greatest demand for their products.

Care for the Bees

these being arm*

rtth

Ordinary earth zboaada with organic matter—such as ;be egg? and larva of insects and the myrads of animate

hicfc only a tstcrxaccpe enn

cal —and throe all coatribe:* to-

= £ jward the support of the earth worm. The sever km* of her? la*-, winter Enccnspaased by each a vast storv- ‘ ows: a« be repeated this coming ficcae of fixx! supplies, the animal t- winter. Each colony must consist r.e»-- without the vitalixing forcro |»f several thousand young, vigorous :hai aseist him in the execution of hi? worker*, a young vigeroa? queen, and work, of which we will .peak furth#.-. «* !**• than than thlny-fve pound?

their households within two or

thre- weeks after a birth.

The tu:' Introduced by Senator Sheppard and seconded by Representative

of the House i? entitled "A

Bill for the Public Protection of Ma tentity and I aary. aud providing a Method of Cooperation between the Government of the United State* and

Several States' Unlike Mlsc

Rankin's bill, it furnishes help to mothers in Industrial, as well a* in rural, districts—to all mothers. In far' It create* a Federal Board of Maternal and Infant Hyglea . consisting of the Secretary of lAbor. who sha’I be "hair man. the O.'-- f of the ChBdren's Bu roan, who shall be the executive offi- -. the SkTgeon-Geaerai of the United

Public Health Sertvre and the

United States Commission* r of Edu cation. The Federal Board is to act through Stale Bocrda appotated by the various 1-gialaturoe The benefit? ex-

- of two kind* First, popu

lar Instruction tn the hygiene of infancy and maternity and related subjects is to he applied through publKheulth purse* and ooosultation centers and through qualified lecturer* in extension coarse*. Secvod. medical and nursing care for mothers and infanta a: borne or at a hospital, when neors

sary. will be supplied

Practically all the lending eountnei.

with the exception of the United ta mi. praace In 1913. Statro. now furnish some kind of gov squarrlv pr**<wii*d to

id to mother* Germany

18*4. was the first

nroctlon by Peach Yellows A ppe- ( carat diamond ring."—Ex-

rial surrey of the Industry ha* been undertaken in an effort to save the thousands of farmer? and orrhardisLcrowinr peaches from puffering a

heavy loss

A score of year* ago the Peach Yellows swept over New Jersey. Delaware and Pennsylvania and destroyed prar tically every peach orchard in thes< States. It has only been within the past few years that the Industry has recovered from thi* blow. The disease is now sweeping ore* le State again and unless it is checked, the peach orchards of the be destroyed within the next year or two Peach Yellows * an Infectious disease and scientists have not ben able to isolate the organism of the disease The only known and sure method ot fighting the disease is to destrtrv the tree* when the disease first appears. On account of the nature of the disease it to impossible for the average layman to detect its presence until the advance stage* ha* been reached, by which time the entire orchard has probably become affected. To detect Peach Yellows in the early stages special inspecti-m service to required and there is a possibility that such a service may be instituted by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture The disease has only been effectually fought la States where a State inspect»cn service is conducted and the remits of the survey now being conducted may result tn such a service being established in this State

The creat urro excav .' ross with rotavrkab - i pushing the earth aw»

etr bar-

wen coasec tt Vsa m ro be avoided

.ptdity by . V»ny ookoutoa have ansaliv starved all sldea to death for want of suffiewn: food. It

r; .; Throe harrow?, j t* tm-nateetn! how protect,on •? pro ty near the surfaev v.ded—tf oasdoor wkuertnc is r 1 -*-— 1 i down as far as etgfc: 1 protected ctrie* for the aptary most

be "elected—protection from wad is

tfiv tu-i-strioos wc.-m ; quite a? import* it a* case* and doable with dead leave* aad|wn.icd t ies B dJdings. wvoc- »hrob-

Eatomologtots from th-- P« nta Department of Agricultur. as from the Stale Depart tr : - - :s Ve York. Nev Jersey and other ing Staten have eatimaud require |5,*00.0d0 to sum:

gypsy moth menace.

The Bureau of Plant Indu?Pennsylvania Departmetr of Aev: tore has every avaUatl- man os field force at work running d- vs »! menu of infected anrser- • *ck » Into this Stale recently, frtm Xey. The gypsy moth ta? I*n found In only one place in thi? S on an estate in Cambria Count been stamped out there bt vigilance will not be relax- ! ant hel'eved that through this wort sylvani* will overcome the pe?fraction of the cost that a cue: the States will have to pay

Apple Prospect Gw:

According to inform*t:::: otb by the Bureau of Statistic? Pee vania Department of Agricu'.-are outlook for apples in the eight Bt ern der counties of Penn?:Angus* first, was 1*2 per err t pared with a normal or full crop ‘ indicate* an abundant err p Th? ? pect of the eieven somherr. ?r« ties waa 50 per cent of norm! 1 percentage should be weighted < what due to the fact that the oc: in Adams was 90 per cent -—! FB

Un &5 per cent.

Looisvi.;, Ky.—"Love need no liquot • make it generous." Jorepfa Mazer. New York told delegates to the Nx tlocal Railway Jewelr*’ Association In convention here last week. tUancing casually at approximately *1.0-00.000 worth of diamonds on di* play he reflected further: "Prohibition has given the Jewelry

trade a boost.'

"Men in liquor spend money like: water." Mr. Mazer pointed out. "Th.- ; world look? rosy A pretty f — ' prffiticr than ever. A ?mU* 1? wortli

a Jewel "

— The “rnirp." according

Manhattan Jeweler, won her place I". „ rr ^ ^ < •ae social scheme because of tncbnvty Noeirctnc nerdto. bom:r-f c*- 1

“She and her sort wiU he far lewor, li * rt w-

under hone dry laws " l - >n * applicstioo at kl*-K “

TMIte^aa*

^|}

MI RITA SUPLKKUOt HAIR REMOVE* The c- - -ro^ that -• ^

‘-j

ibU-i

aad corr.picwl;

leaving the akta sotl and «r

took action in 1910. Great Britain tn ■- w| _ . | a m 1911. Russia. Sweden and Australia C.ncut ban know

“BTven tt 1? permaneiMlT dmroy th to them." Miss ff-r*** 1 ^* 4 **

American women

initiate legtsto voters srtll unite upon this grea'

tion of this sort. Austria and Hungary human issue. They will insist that i followed. Italy and New "eaiand Congress take instant action.

and fence* often afford Men!

,'wtsd screens Mere and more be* .

keeper? are wintering their bee* tn j ' cellars It takes less honey to f*ed i the bees and they cotae knwsgh the : a st*r la better shape than when win

•rred cotdoor*.

:ng be-r* srrtte to the Bu-eun Indastry Fecjasyfraaia DrpaJ Agnculture Harrtobnig

kxs head that aaxd

? Arctic ;of thetr IS ts nC up tr i

l tint ts bat a |

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