The News-Chronicle from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania • Page 9

FRIDAY, JULY 19, iw THE SHIPPENSBURG. PA, 1 Of Interest To The Farm And Home Franklin County Tractors Hay Harvesting Machinery The other morning while Samuel StaufTer, of Jefferson, York county, was helping to harvest wheat on the farm of his son, Edward Stauffer, near Jefferson, he hung his coat on the fence surrounding the field. The coat hung there all day. In the evening Mr. Stauffer went for his coat.

He wanted to put it on, when to his amazement he found a bird's nest built in the sleeve from the cuff to the elbow. After removing the nest, Mr. Stauffer found his coat unharmed. Springs. The meeting which was under the auspices of the Cumberland County Agrlculturul Association was started at 7 o'clock.

This demonstration which consisted of a study of six varieties of oats was conducted with the co-operation of Clinton Stam-baugh. Many farmers who were interested in growing oats found good comparisons throughout the demonstration. The oats for this demonstration was grown along the road just south of the Meixel dwelling. the Country provcment project shall be carried out under Grange leadership; this to be a motnoriitl to William Saunders, first maHter of the National Grange, who was a landscape artist of note and who won distinction as the designer i of the beautiful National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Oliver Bittinger was assisting Bruce Gochenauer of near Mowers-ville in cutting hay.

While going the rounds he stirred up a bees nest and an eye darter found his eye and stung him on the eye lid. It was a real ting and swelled enough to entirely close the eye. Harvesting is made easier by a good working binder. The McCormirk-Decring contains all the good features of the and Deering combined with improvements. The Farniall tractor with cultivating and mowing attachments will do more work in a day than two or three teams at less expense.

You can then in harvest pull jour binder with the tractor and cut from thirty to forty acres per day and save your horses. Save delays in the harvest field by insisting on McCormick- i Deering or International Standard 1 strength and weight. C00VER binder twine guaranteed for length, BROTHERS II Get More Keep Pullets growing rapidly NOW to insure Eggs for the higher market! A survey reports that at a certain period of the 1924 season large peaches returned to the grower about $1.25 a crate. Medium-sized peaches made a corresponding return of about a dollar and, the smaller sizes only 70 cents a crate. After deducting transportation and commission charges the returns on the three sizes were about 80 cents, 55 cents, and 20 cents.

The study also indicated that the cost 1 of picking, crating, and delivering the peaches to the railroad car amounted to about 53 cents a crate. So the large peaches would return about 25 cents a crate above the cost of har- vesting and transportation. The medium size would only just about break even, and the smaller size would return to the farmer less than half the cost of the crates and the harvest labor. Under such a market situation the peach grower would find it more advantageous to pick and pack only the largest of his crop, leaving the remainder to drop as not worth picking. He Gets an Esrful A citi.i-;) returned from the Anile region, where lie had heeii liviiiy with the KslJinos N(i years In that time he 1 1 a had no news ol the out'iiile wor' IMPORTANT! We will pay $2.00 cash or a box of Soap for Old Jisabled Or Dead Animals Call A.

F. REES SHIPPENSBURG, PA. Robert L. Shaffer, Manager C. V.

Phone 49-X Bell Phone 77 James Watson who lives on the Aughinbaugh farm just north of Shippensburg has an unusually fina stand of torn. This field does not seem to be affected by the dry weather at all. This is probably due to flowing springs located in the field that supply natural irrigation and furnish vnough moisture to overcome the drought. A July potato situation somewhat like that of 1925 seems to be working out. Total production and the progress of the shipping season appear much the same in both seasons.

The 12 per cent larger production compared with that of 1925 is partly balanced by a population probably 5 or 6 per cent greater. Virginia, with a crop much like that of 1925, seems likely to rule the July market again, Kaw Valley having a crop even lighter than in 1925. If market history should repeat itself, the July price would advance sharply from the low point of June. The prospect for August will depend more on mid-season crop sections, including New Jersey and others where production is not yet linsd up. The general potato-crop report of July 10 will be likely to throw light on this part of the situation.

So far as weather reports go, the excess of rain in the Central South and Middle West during the spring months, and some recent lack of moisture in various eastern potato districts, suggest growing conditions to that extent less favorable than those of last season. The shipping movement has been orderly for the most part. Now that the North Carolina output is disposed of, there should be little overlapping during the rest of the season. In June this year, prices moved up promptly when total daily shipments fell to about 700 cars, but market declined sharply following a few days' shipments of around, 1,200 carloads. Betty Hoover, 8 years old, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Hoover of near Scotland, was cut and bruised Saturday afternoon when struck by a truck of the Grove Ice Cream Waynesboro. According to information furnished police, the child was sitting along the curb attaching a roller skate when struck by the truck. The driver of the truck took her ta the Chambersburg hospital for treatment. It was said at the hospital that that no bones were broken.

55 I will pay the highest 'Wayne "All Mash" Grower saves much time and labor over other feeding methods. It builds plump, uniform pullets that develop into early fall layers. Ask us for the new FREE Wayne Booklet on "Summertime Feeding." It's filled with helpful information. Sold by Wadel Pinola Elevator R-4, Shippensburg, Pa. Phone 217-3 CZall and "Winter cA Cumplete Ration in every mouthful Much depends upon the intelligent use of proper fertilizer.

We make our own fertilizer and use only those ingredients that are pure and proper. In addition we are in a position to give you the benefit of expert knowledge on just what your land needs. C30 I Plan Now For Good Crops Next Year CHOOSE XII I Eloper fgrHilizgr FARM EDITOR Pennsylvania farms produced milk, eggs, wool and honey valued at 944,090 in 1928, according to the Bur- eau of Statistics, Pennsylvania De-i partment of Agriculture. The five leading counties, each producing more than $5,000,000 worth of these products are Lancaster, Chester, York, Bradford and Bucks. Franklin county ranked sixteenth in the stute with a total valuation of almost three million dollurs and Cumberland county followed Franklin with a valuation of only $23,000 less.

i Poultrymen, by careful attention to the breeding and management of their laying flocks, have effected a definite change in the egg market and this is evident as to both seasonal and annual production. The market receipts of fresh laid eggs during the late summer and fall months have been increasing the last few years. This means that the pullets are being hstched and are maturing earlier, but it also denotes improved efficiency, because the birds are laying more eggs when prices are highest. From the standpoint of the consumer this tendency is of definite value. It has already been noticed that the increased production in the season when eggs were formerly scarce has prevented prices from soaring to extremely high levels.

Prussic acid as it is commonly called, or hydrocyanic acid, is one of the deadly poisons. It is used as a fum-igant. In nature it occurs in small quantities in many plants, bitter almonds, and arrow grass. It is not so generally known that wild cherry leaves contain traces of this poison that makes them dangerous to sheep if eaten in quantity. C.

Dwight Marsh of the United States Department of Agriculture, a specialist on poisonous plants on the livestock ranges, tells' of a mysterious series of poisonings along a sheep trail much used in driving the animals to a corral. Some bands would pass through safely. Other owners would lose many sheep. Investigation showed the trail was bordered with wild cherries. When plenty of grass was present the sheep would disregard the cherry leaves, When the grass had been short, the sheep would eat cherry leaves and die.

When the trees had been stripped as high as sheep could reach the poison would cease. Deadly as the poison is if the quantity is sufficient, there seems to be no injury from small amounts. Sheep may eat small quantities of cherry leaves every day without injury, and if other forage is ample the sheep will rarely eat too much of the cherry foliage. The danger comes when the sheep are close herded in the vicinity of wild cherries or chokecherries, and eat their fill. Wild cherry leaves are especially dangerous when partly wilted.

More than a hundred Japanese beetles a day are now being collected in the traps recently placed on public and private grounds in Washington and vicinity, according to tne uepart-ment of Agriculture. "The purpose of the says a statement issued by the department, "is to attract and capture as many as possible of the beetles following their emergence, with the hope of reducing the spread of the pest, or possibly although this is scarcely to be hoped to effect its eradication in the vicinity. Such trapping in a new and isolated area of infestation should be of special value, because there are no beetles in surrounding territory to replace those caught and killed in the traps. Therefore reduction of the future beetle population will be in direct proportion to the efficiency of this method." Similar trapping operations are under way in a number of other areas where a few beetles or only one in some cases were found last year. The trap looks something like a tin pail with a small fruit jar screwed into the bottom of it.

It hangs from a support or from a limb of a tree a few feet above ground. Inside the pail is a funnel-shaped bottom leading down to the glass jar. The trap is baited with geraniol, a substance with something the same odor as geraniums. This is particularly attractive to the Japanese beetles and not or much less so to other insects. The beetles fly toward this odor, so delightful to them, slide down the sloping sides of the funnel, and are then unable to escape from the jar.

A movement is on foot among the Granges to establish "Saunders Day" in April as an annual event, when some definite- local community im- WITH THE jVlarkets FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929 WHOLESALE Wheat $1,30 Rye .80 Bran 1.D0 Corn $1.00 Oats .50 Middlings $2.00 Hogs 9 to 10 Beef Cattle 11 to 12Vi Lambs .11 Calves 13-14 Eggs 3U' Eutter, good 35 and 40c Fowls 20c White Leghorn Fowls 22l Springers 35c Leghorn Springers 22-25c The harvesting in the Cleversburg district is somewhat delayed on account of threshing out of the fields. Some farmers are still making hay. Among the first to cut oats in this district was Mr. Karper who lives on the former Ira Long farm. Lumber for repairing buildings on the farm is always needed.

To go out to the market and buy this costs you money and eats deeply into your yearly farm profits. To have a wood-' lot which has your timber require-' ments in it will mean much to you in keeping dawn farm cost3. There are no better trees than red and white pine in Pennsylvania for the growth 1 of construction lumber. They will do very well on the thin poor hillsides found on many farms. In fact they seem to produce and thrive better on the poor soil than in the rich bottom land so valuable for agricultural use.

To plant a waste acre of farm land with either of these trees costs $2.00 plus 'postage (for 1000 trees enough for an acre) and the labor of one man for two days to set them in the ground. To be sure, you cannot harvest sawlogs the same year they are planted, not even in ten years, but your boy who will take over the farm will have timber for building from the forests which you have planted. Before you die you will experience the satisfaction of seeing a young forest develop on otherwise worthless land. These seedling, trees are cheap and much in demand for waste land plantings. To insure yourself of a supply for planting next spring see County Agent W.

I. Gait within the next few weeks and get him to assist you in filljng out your order. If you wait too long the supply of these kinds will be exhausted. It is too dry for farmers to plow. This is true in both the slate land and limestone sections.

William Clip-pinger of north of town tried to plow last week and said that it was too dry to make a good job of it. The continued dry weather is retarding the- growth of corn. Some of it is tasseling out now and that is when it needs moisture. Rain is needed badly and it should arrive soon else much of the corn will not come up to expectations. The Paxton Run north of town is dry.

This, residents say, is unusual and shows the continued lack of moisture in that section. The run has its source near Roxbury and empties into the Conodoguinet near the Newburg bridge. The county commissioners of Franklin County have put ten jail prisoners to work on the Leitersburg road. The experiment was tried for the first time last week with three prisoners and worked out satisfactorily. William Clippinger was cutting hay for L.

Paxton at Mowersville on Tuesday. Everything was going along fine and dandy when about half way around the first trip, a noise that sounded almost like an airplane flying overhead was heard. Glancing back, the workers saw a sight that froze their hearts. Bumble bees and darters filled the air. iney were su Nhick that they obscured the sun.

Paxton says he has seen bees before but never before had he seen anything like these. It seemed as though all the bees in the world were holding some sort of a convention in the Paxton meadow. The hay cutting ended up by Mr. Clippinger getting stung once on the forehead and Mr. Paxton getting into contact with the business end of a stinger on the end of his finger.

Former Assemblyman James A. Pryor of Lemoyne was visiting in Cleversburg the past week. Clevers- burg was the scene of the boyhood days of Mr. Pryor. 1 i A recent meeting of Susquehanna County Pomona Grange in Pennsylvania was featured by a "Camp Fire Program," held out of doors in the evening.

An immense camp fire was lighted in a grove and in this unusual environment the program was staged. All the Granges in the county were divided into four groups and the two hours program comprised all sorts cf stunts and unusual features, one of which was the competitive singing of "America the by each group of singers. Delightful refreshments were served after the program and extreme reluctance to go home I was manifested by all the assembled Patrons, who represented nearly ev-I ery township in Susquehanna county. The light of the big fire, the great crowd and the singing and merriment attracted wide public attention and proved highly desirable Grange advertising. Few organizations exhibit so much originality in their work a3 does the Grange, and it is by such unique methods, constantly being featured, that it interjects so much interest into rural affairs and is thus able to retain its hold upon the country people.

Great joy prevails among the Granges in Pennsylvania over the completion of the new girls' dormitory at State College, which represents the gift of the Granges of Pennsylvania and which is to be opened for use at the beginning of the college year in September. During the month of August formal dedication exercises of the dormitory are to be held, with the attendance of many prominent in Grange activities, state and national. An appropriate program will be carried out and all over the Keystone State great satisfaction is felt at the consummation of this practical educational project. More than $100,000 has been raised in voluntary contributions by the Grange members of Pennsylvania for building this new dormitory, the first one on the college campus available for the use of girls. The movement was started in the Grange five years ago and all sorts of local projects have been carried out to assist in raising the money.

This start toward girls' dormitory facilities on the campus of the state college is expected to be the beginning of an extensive building program to furnish such accommodations for girls who have heretofore been almost en tirely prevented from attending the institution because of lack of housing facilities. While no restrictions are included in the Grange gift as to who shall use the new dormitory, it is hoped that its erection will tend to greatly increase the number of girls from the rural districts going to State College. In connection with the session of the National Grange to be held at Seattle, Washington, next November, a party is being made up in the Eastern States of Grange leaders and other active members that is expected to number at least 300, who will be conveyed to Seattle on a Coast-to-Coast trip, with special train making the entire 10,000 mile journey. Thirty days will be allotted to the trip, which includes the 10-day session of the National Grange at Seattle and side trips covering some of the most outstanding scenic attractions in America. A similar Coast-to-Coast special was run from the Eastern States to the National Grange session at Sac ramento, California, in 1925.

J. R. B. Dickey, of State College, was in charge of the oats demonstra tion meeting Wednesday evening at the farm of Jacob Meixel, of Boiling PURINA FEEDS Can't Be Beat! H. C.

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NICKLES SON PUBLIC SALE At A. B. Cressler's Sale Barn, Shippensburg MONDAY, JULY 22 1 carload of South Dakota Horses from 4 to 6 years. 22 Good Broke Horses and Colts, all gentle, from 1300 lbs to 1700 lbs; few-good brood mares. Five mated teams, Gray, Bay and Blacks, age 2 to 4 years.

Have bone, foot and quality that belong to a good Draft Horse, the best that grow. Farmers who need any Horses should not miss this sale, it is the only time to buy, Horses are wanted. Horses are getting old and scarce. All broke to work. All must be sold at the High Dollar.

A pair good, big, 4 year Gray Colts, weigh 3370 Broke. Be in Cressler's Sale Barn Thursday, July 18th. At same time will sell one car load of 50 Wisconsin Heifers and a few cows. 8 bred, are registered. They consist of Holstein and Guernseys.

Real Dairy stuff. These cattle come from a clean state and can go in any credited herd. Will be O. K. with our state.

Sale starts at 1:30 P. rain or shine. CRESSLER KAXX Purchases will be delivered by truck on State Highway. Shippensburg, Pa. Quality Service Coal Feed Grain Phone 51 SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS-CHRONICLE.