The Furrow

News and Views Ahoui the Farm

FRUIT DISPLAY AT SHOW and twenty-five plates. Premium: TO BE BIG FEATURE fir*. $2000: second. $10.<K>: third.

ISM.

With a record breaklm: apple crop in Penney I van la. thU year, and with STATE ADVERTISES FOR

other fruit crops showing considerably above the average, the display of fruit at the Fifth Annual Farm Product*

SEEK PEHN. AID IN FIGHTING BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS

Other States in the Union are rapidly feeomixiny the advanced position occupied by PenuryIvania fa the eradication of tube'culotis among the cattle of the State, through the operation of the accredited herd plan. The authorities in Ohio recently sent their •xperts to Pennsylvania to study the

meth-Mis obtaining here.

The latest request has cone from

MMEN8E AMOUNT OF SERUM j ^ S** 1 ® of losra. Direcu r T. E.

of the Bureau of At Smal In

_. .. The Bureau of Animal Industry, sho» tu, «n b. t h , c a „, A ^

eotlee In f V .i QfntA I'll r tore, has a*ked for bids on l,00Qi>0o cc. of bog cholera serum, to be used In the treatment of hog choiera in P* sylvania during mi. The depe.rtaem will awi d the contract to the .’oweet responsible bidder and the serum con-t-acted for will be the only kind used by the Bureau In its field wedt. By securing bid* on great quantities of the srrum the price is considerably lower than any Indlvual farmer stock man can secure. The serum Is furnished to the bureau from time to time and every lot is thorough’y |H, t '■d Tbe tested serum is then kep; i c cold storage in the bureau’* offices and sub-ataiioos. and when a farmer wishes hi* hr«* treated. bU veceri narian secures the serum from the

State.

The Burtne of Animal Industry notifies the manufacturer of the amount of serum used by tbe fanner and the latter is sent a bill direct from the offi cea of the manufacturer, obtaining the -••rum at the price contracted for by the State. In this way the Bureau of Animal Industry does not handle an- money, the manufacturer being paid by the farmer a* the arrum is used, while th- arrangement provides the farmer with Tirol>-nt serum, without Jos* of time, the latter factor being highly lm port not to the treatment-of cholera

gotten together in the State farm products show will be held ‘a Harrisburg. January- 24-28 and it will bring into competition the fiarer ftciU grown in every section of the Slate. More than twice the space available at the shows in former years, will be devoted to frail this year, and already many grower* have stored away their

entries.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has arranc-d for cold i-tor-age facilities for the fruit entered in the show, and th*- fruit may e sent to the show in cs—the department at Harrisburg .nd it will b< ,.-op< r!y cared for ia storage until the show

opens.

In addition, cold storage facilities have been orovided at Blglerviilc. Adams County, in the heart of the apple belt, and fruit for display at the show may be forwarded at any time ia care of H. F. Hershey. care of Biglervllie IV The fruit will be stored without

oost to tbe grower

The first exhibit at the show will t» ojvn to all Pennsylvania grower* no entrance fee is charged. The fudging will be done In accordance with the approved scorn card of the American Pomologies] Society and the following clsssee and prized have been an-

nounced:

CLas 1—For ths best barrel of apple* of each of the following varieties: Baldwin. Grimes Golden. Jonathan. Not th<TO Spy. Slayman \V‘ne*ap, York Imperial. Premium: first. $5.00; second. $2.00. Ola** 2—For the best exhibit of three barrels of apples, any three tarietles. Premium: first. $15.00: second

$s.oo.

Class 3—For the best collection of five barrels of apples, .-my one ereial variety. Premium: first. $V.£H>; second. $15 M. Class 4—For the beet exhibit of one box of any of the following standard commercial varieties: Arkansas Black Twig. Baldwin. Bea Davis. Delicious. G«ao. Grimes Gs.defi. Hubbanlston. Jonathan. McIntosh. Northern Spy. Rhode bland Greening. Rome Ho-.uly. Si-iokehouae. Stark. Slayman V .nesap. King. Winter Ha nan. York Imperial. Premium- firs*. $100: second. $2.00. Class 5—For the best single box. any variety not mentioned in Class 4. Prumittm first, $4.00: second. $2 00 Class 6—For the beat three boxes of apples of any three varieties Premium: first. $10 00; second. $5.00. Class 7—Per the best five boxes of apples, any oce variety. Pretn’um: first. $20.00: second. *10 00 Clans 8—For the best plst» of five specimens of any variety. Premium: first. $'..00; second, 50 cents. Class t-A—For the best unnamed seedling of Pennsylvania origin. The fruit must be accompanied by a description •! the original iree shewing where it is 1 seated, age. perc-nVye if known, productiveness, freedom of disease and other Information that will indicate Us value Silver cup, offered by S W. Fletcher. State College. Pa. Class »—For the best three pistes of apples, any three varieties Premium: first, $3.00: second. $1.50. Class 10—For the best collection of five plates of each of the following varieties: Baldwin . Grumes Golden. Jonathan. Northern Spy. Stxyinar. Win reap. York IniperiaL Premium firrt. $3.00: second. $2.00. Ctaas 11—Fur the best oollection of pears in good marketable condition. 5 specimens of each variety. Premium first. $5 00: second. $2.50 Class 12—For the best single plate of epars in good marketable condition, any variety. Premium: First. $2 00: second. $1 •• Claas 13—F*»r the largest and best individual display of fruit no*, in any other class Premium: find. $25.00: second $12.50 ( lass 14—For the beet plate of any named variety of quinces. Premium: first. $1.00: second. 50 c«s>ls. Class 15—Section A. for the best piste of English walnt Section B, for the best plate of black walnut*. Section C. for the best plate of native chestnuts. Section D. for the best plate of European cbestnutsSection B. for the best pUt< of Japanese chestnuts. Section F. for the bmrt plate of shell-

barks.

Premium: first, $!.•*• tt>r each section: second, 50 cents for each sec Clasd IS—County As icciation Exhibit. A certificate of merit wili be awarded for the finest display of fruit of any County Fruit Growers' orrmlution. not more than fifteen boxes

CO-OPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS TO RECEIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION T «• development of co-oj-eraMv*- association* among toe farmers of Pennsylvania will receive special attention from the Pitmsylvanla Department of .‘grienlture during the coming winter. Secretary of Agriculture Fred Rasmussen has announced the appointment of Howard A. Macrae as assistant In co-operation, in the Bureau of Markets, and Mr. Macrae will have i barge of the co-operative work throughout the stale. 5 r. Macr: e comes to Pennsylvania from M.^sachusetta. where he was manager of the Hampden County Farmers’ Exchange. Previous to that time he was employed as county farm agent In Rhode Island. There are 150 co-operative organ!lions among the farmer* of Pennsyi.aria at the present time, a majority of these having been organized for tbe purpose of hand wind and disposing of the crops of the members. Many of these organizations have been formed under the recently enacted la* which afford! greater advantages to farmers desiring to market their crc,» collectively. During the Fifth Annual Farm Product* Show to be held in Harrisburg. January 24-28. a meeting of tbe managers of the various co-aperative organizations in the Stale win be held, at which time problems of organization. financing and management win be taken up.

DISCOVER MINUTE MITES IN FEEDING STUFF AND GRAIN Agents for the Bureau of Chemistry. Pennsylvania Ilepanroen! of Agriculture. are selecting samples of feed'ng stuffs, recently found home feed, the grain 'n which apparently kept moving about of Its own volition No 1: rrae or insect could be detected In the feeds and samples were submitted to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Penn-

sylvania Department.

It was found that the grain was infested with minute motes of the family Tyroglyphidae. of a pale color. The mites are the same that attack choose, flour, grain in mills and cereals It has definitely been determined by the Bureau of Plant Industry that these mites will not live in any substance containing less than 12 per cent moisture. Most of the mixed animal feed contains 7 to 10 per ceet of moisture and these are never attacked by the mites. Feeds containing molasses or feeds that are kept in a damp place often cental: 15 per cent moisture and these are readliy attacked by

the mites.

Gossip in Foreign Capitals

By Prince** Catherine Radxiwill The last foreign mail Drought me fire letters—two from Paris and three from London—v hich one and al! tainod the same question "I* tbe Duchess of Marlborough going to marry Jacques Balsan. and what have you heard about it in New York?" which I could easily hare replied by

dustry. Pesmsylvania Department of another question which indeed would Agricubure, has received a request k**® been more appropriate. “What from Iowa aulbcriUes raking 'or tho have you beard about It in EnropeT" if "loan” of one of bis experts, or the “T correspoudeuts had not answered purpose of introducing the P -unsyl- ** spontaneously by relating eo me all vania methods in that State. the gossip which it seems is very scDr. Munce ha* complied and has di- Ore on this burning subject in tbe reeled Dr. Hcary W. Turner, a field fashionable circle* of Mayfair -»s well representative of the Pennsyb anln de- as in the French-Anglo-Americar. to partment. to go over the field with ciety that lives around the Champs the Iowa authorities and gl e them Elysees quarter* in Paris. It seems such assistance and instruc Jon as that it was there the gossip has starithey may deatre. ed. and it had originated in the fact of Moufiec' Baisan appearing in deep Rio Grande Boug.it was cel<-brated in the American

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which was immediately commented upon as extpress.ng more than his

• Uol Representative; of the sympathy for the deceased’s daughter. Western Pacific Railroad hour:' ’he the Docbeaa of Marlborough. But properties of the Denver aid R:o some generally well Informed persons Grande Railroad at fore-jo- sale had reminded those other well Inhere for $5,000,000 cash. The 1 formed ones that M. Balsan had rechaser* also agreed to aasume $141.- j ceeiiy lost one of his own near re la175, (<00 obligations of the Rio Grande tires, and that the black band or his Tbe purchase price was the minimum ^ arm and hat and his black glares set by the court. j might very well hare been worn for Efforts of the minority stockholders -hat relative, and not for a hoped-for

to have a postponement of the sale i father-in-law. Coancort™,:;™! * M , nL „ aonMC , Kr „^,^„

of <*. fom, OP o» D^oobor m .,. , n , or

^ r cooJd <*

C^. “ * “ < mr “ 1 ,t “ ,h ' '‘“o'"*' “D

...... herself to any one before her divorce

it was announced that there Is no v,. . , . . ... , ., . had been made absolute she would definite plun to combine the Denver v.„ .w— . _ . , _ L. have run the risk of that divorce be-

and Rio Grande and the W estern Pa ing ^ eifle properties and that they may be wobM ^

operated as separate lines.

No provision was made to take care

of the stockholders of the Nurer and . . . , . . .

had helped to spread the report so as to make her position very difficult in the coming action: and this may be

Annapolis Plebes Avoid All Friction

who bear* the beat reputation in Parisian society as well as in hi* native Berry, where hi* cloth factories, situated near Chateau roux. have brought prosperity to thousands of

workmen.

He wooli no doubt make an excellent husoand for the p’etty and amiable duchess, but then English pride and British prejudices will not admit that a woman could make up her mind to abandon her position and title, when this title is among the few great ducal ones of the United Kingdom, where the common saying is “once a duchess, always a duchess.-. So there the matter begins and ends, and only the future win prove whether all the gossip rolng shout in the two great European capitals, reposes on some I foundation or is oniy the product of those fertile imaginations, which, unfortunately. are to be found everywhere in the world. America not ex-

cepted

> her. which she surely ire to incur. In fact,

ousybodles have declared that ierv probably It was an enemy of hers .. ho

ii Grande Railroad.

Annapolis—Despite the fact that the separation of the plebee. or fourth-

* men. at the Naval Academy,

from the uj-per class men has prevented any coercion on the part of the latter, the plebes are keeping all fourth class ’rates’ religiously and the majority say they would like to be th -k under the old conditions and are ready to stand whatever hazing or

•running” falls to their lota.

Many of these youths were In the city. Under the present route the plebe* and member* of the other classes alternate la the pri-ileges of Saturday liberty and it was the lot of the plebes to leave the academy and the others stayed in. A few said they liked conditions as they are now. but the majority Insisted they were willing to stand contact with tbe upper classmen. Some said the- feared hazing would be more severe If the seggre-

gatkm ordered was abrogated.

It B also known that the plebes are carrying out all of the ”rate«" Imposed upon them by academy customs. Plebes required to visit any pert of Bancroft Hall, except the portion in which they are quartered, march on- tr.-hlnd the other and directly in the middle of acorridor. They never cut corners, but turn them at sharp right angles. They are also keeping dear of “lover's lane” and all other prescribed [•orttona

of the academy.

All Pastry in Germany Under Ban This Winter

The “Kucheu Krieg.” or pastry war. which the food police have been waging for weeks against cakes and pastry containing more than 10 per cent of white Hour, wili become a war of extermination. with no quarter even for

10 per cent delectable*.

Cakes and pastry o fevery sort will this winter be placed under the ban in Germany, owing to the shortage in Hour, eggs and sugar. The budget commission of the Reichstag ha* Just asked the food minister to issue a general prohibition against the baking of any of these luxuries except In the home. The minister has prom is: ed to

act upon the request.

The 10 per cent regulation has been in force for months, but has been

Heat will effectually km tbe mites. | honored more in the breach than in The ’ sst method of preventing •lam- j the observance, although the police age to grain* or feed, when the pres-, for week* have made a practice of ence of the mites are discovered, is to confiscating the stocks of certain cater heat the grains or feed to a trnnpera-, and restaurants for Sunday trade ♦ure of 125 degrees and drive out the j every Saturday. moisture. j one leading offender, ’o Justify his Fumigation or hrat alone will not ylra that "everybody's doing it” and suffice. Tbe material infested must be that he was singled out for unjust it the moisture content Is perseruiiont arrnged an exhibit!'-n for 12 per cent or lee* For further iufor- the police and the public of namplra tloa wrte the Bureau of Plant Industry, of illegal ware* purcl-ased In 180 -tfte Penrsylvania Departn:-nl of Agrtrul- and rtatauranU of Berlin the name ture, Harrisburg. day ax hi* stock was seised.

Otherwise the last week has been rather qu!*L Some shooting parties have been given here and there, but three have been of a mild order, especially in England, because in France a few of tbe great country bouses which I to entertain so lavishly before tbe war. have once more open'd their doors, though, of course. }n an informal kind of way. Among others, the Doc de Brissac. for the first time since by his mother's death be became the owner of the historic castle of Br1*nac Maim- et Loire, has entertained there some of bis old friends. Of course, it has bren nothing like those large parties which used to be river fo aerty in the wonderful residenc every autumn, b- r all of the name people have et Joyed seeking each oiher once more under the hospitable roof. Brlsaac hzs been In poKsesaion of the family of its present >wner since 400 years, and escaped in some extraordinary manner being plunged durin,- the great revoluttion. thanks to the fact that the Doc de Brissac of that time bad the sense to dose the huge place, hide awny his valuables and retire to a small cottage belonging to one of his tenants, where he lived peacefully together with his wife until the proclamation of tbe first empire allowed him to resume possession of his ancestral home But he was entirely ruined and hi* descendant* had to scrape and economise and be very uncomfortable generally but refused to sell the old mansion until about the ytar 1865 or 1866. when the then Imke of Brassiac. pursued by angry creditor*. saw the place seized by the sheriff and put upon the auction Very probably he would hare lost *t if an immensely wealthy fadree*. Mademoiselle Say, t^e sister of the pres-nt Princes* Amedee de Broglie, had not fallen in love with hie eldest non. th* Marquis Roland de Brissac. and after marrying hum had not bought the Castle i-f Brissac from her father-ic

law. or rather from the latter'* creditors. whom the pa*d In f ail This waa lor the creditor* and rnboped for stroke of luck, which they had never expected. Tbe family then began repairing the magnificent rreidcnce_ and the old duke continued to reside there until hi* death. The Marquis Roland was hilled dunnh the war of 1878. and his widow married the Viscount de Tredera. a union which was by so mean* no happy a* her first one had been. It was after she had passed away that the present duke, her eldest son. became In reality the master of the place. Beside* these at Brissac there hare been house parties at the Chateau de Main tenon, where the handsome Duchess de Noailles gare a big dance in honor of her daughter in-law, the young Duchres d'Ayen, and in several other place*: but the hospitable gaie* of Dampterre have remained closed ever since the death nf the heir to this lordly place, the Duke de Chevreuse. and so indeed have been those many other historic residences, the ounces of which are mourning some member or ether of their family, fallen on tbe field of glory. Franre is still lamenting over the grave* of so many of her bravest children that It* entertainments have acquired a shade of gravity unknown before the war. Conversation* have become more serious, and lately people have talked of nothiar but cur presidential election, which bas been watched nowhere with greater interest and even anxiety than in French society. So I am sure that Senator Harding's rlctuty and the triumpn of the Republican party will have been received with wild acclamation of delight. Everybody had been hoptr.; for their success. It Is no longer a secret that President Wilson s long sojourn in Paris did not improve FrancoAmerican relations, and It seems that one day during a political diaenrrion on the subject, somebody haring said that It was a pity the President had not been Induced to stay at home, another man noted for hi# wit In Palis tan Jouranlistic circles bad exclrLaed that ought to have culled America’s chief executive-, not Woodrow, but Would Go. T1 e word took, and v aa widely repeated, whfoh serious persons thought, of course, a great pity. Winter fashions have appeared, and from ail 1 hear are not pretty, but she r some return of common sense. Tbe skirts are decidedly growing loncer. the sleeves Idem, though those show an cx-sggregation in that direction which t* neither convenient nor becoming, and probably will not endure. because no one cares to have one’s hand covered down to the finger tips, which the ultra smart sleeve* are doing Just at present. Materials are lovelier than ever, and there are some new brocades which are said to be more beautiful than anything that has been seen before. As for hats, my correspondents all declare that to describe them is (jaite Lnprosible because for one reason among many other*, no one would believe the tilings told about them, if one bed not seen them.

First LaiSies of

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or»«« March fourth . -

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; Warren Q. Harding 1

Tbe flm mistress • ' ,,

House was Mr*. Ablg-: ■ of Jofca Adams The. •, 2l '' House «>S called the ’ • .wJ- 11

Mrs. Adam* carted . v

horh aicbe In th( hall o< fu r being tbe only Flm Lad, ,. f .r*

to hang out the family

East Room of the White Kou**

Mr*. Grover Clevebri Vil

first First Lady of the .

“he now is Mr*. James t Mr*. Rutherford B. H»y t ^

first Flm Lady to refuse to u

toe at White Hons* dinner. The first Flm Lady. V- Wyi

ton. never lived to the wj ;j built after her kujoard t

Style Tips About Town

The bird dance frock is Polret's latest sensation. From a bodice made of a strip of tissue embrodered with seed pearls and supported by bead Shoulder-straps, defends a Cuffy »klrt In panels of ostrich an dtrantbou. the ostrich, rose pink, the marabou white. A sash of deep rose velvet ribbon ties around a low waistline, with loop* and ends at one hip. The h.own-spangled and beaded fabrics are wonderful and have come forward to supply the need of rich materials in a season of brown fashions There are brown nets encrusted with brown spangle* or with embroidery in gold and copper beads, or bronze and gold beads. Big brown Galallth bead* come in ovals and oblongs and are sewed on In panel or ladder effect E'en brown wooden beads are used on the brown coe^une* of the season.

Advice To » need not fear what others say If 'OuTl do Just your work each day. Just daily keep on sawing wood. Behave yourself the way you should. And you will find that this Is true The gossips cannot injure you. Just when the coffee thinks tt bas good grounds for complaint the egg drop* in and settle* the whole buri-

NIGHT GOWNS

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amu-hu urr-. e

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Three ex-widows hsve p: 1Jt nent role* as Firs; u ■■. Washington. Mr*. Madiof the \v: -,

who

chief <

The only living wotr.-r > been Flm Ladies of th- Laud W H. Taft, Mrs. Jan,.- y l7 , (Mrs. a< reland). Mr* TV, Roosevelt and Mrs. B^E. 4 n::ii H

Such is Life By O. B. JOYFUL “Her eyes dropped." say. Si. “That must have been vtface fell." says I. “Yea." says S.. -and h<r spoke" “No doubt.- say* I, “1- w:if her ears burner.” "And his tongue Dote o the i his mouth.- says So. “No wonder." ssy* I. ’ he: was cold as ice." -Which” says Si. "ebos- *. have been reading the Ut-s- j. fiction." Squire Abner Hsrpmc r. : notion that Rip Van Wiail-. waking np after his rath-.r l-Bjl sleep, first asked: Have the retail dealers learrei wholesale prices have fr." One of the brighter' po«ed legislation is the fc!!! «sr by a newly elected assemtCyr^sr is going to make it il!<*c fo: graph operators to read a ther in sending or rec- ' r.r will he s great victory f r tr - To begin with you » understand that Bill B’. ^ ' • light, middle and heavy* r pion of the sixth grad’ So then when the tench": y *- following problem on th- t-ta: paper: If there were 16 *pi •- smoung you eight boy. ' •* apples would each boy r ■ • ■ It was to be expect.-! • M the ’ boy in the class should mri : following answer: Bill Bliffins would ge- !- eat and four of us would £>•’ loft, and the other tho-.- *' left.”

“I believe." says Si. "t

lug population of the » larger tl an It ever has !•

"How do you figure ti once the proportion latlon was 100 per rent* When was thair **:• When the Nosh fam:

art." says L

flna’it

Over 2.000.000 eliildren ages of ten and sixteen * United Stales.

OCR WEEEY LEPfE*

PRICE, GUARD & lU <30 Widencr Bcild” 1 : Philadelphia Pa ^ I.ocusi 5316.7-A»