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•p 1 ' FOUR Conservation Unit Has Record Year District Prepares 239 Farm Plans; Map of Stow WatersKed Complete In 1952, Chautauqua County Soil Conservation Dis- trict tecnnuaana worked with more farmers than in any other year since its inception; and drew up conservation surveys on the largest number of acres for any year. The report for the calendar year 1952 was prepared iu ^T 1 ^ Kocher, unit conservationist, and approved by the directors at a meeting Friday afternoon at thedistrict office in the Phillips Building. The* report will be sent to the state committee, from where it will go to the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agricul- ture. - * « J?* 1 *" of a "solid" conserva- NCK ArtlVltV tion map of the entire Stow ****»# r^VUTIl J ^reeK watershed, which may M S W% I become a pilot- for conserva- TlltS KGCOTU tion work throughout the Chau- "*•» i^^wwi w tauqu a Lake shed. Assistance |„ /^^AA^-.-...-...- KL?5 TK^VI? i** n p rom in Cattaraugus f ised by the Soil Conservation - ._^_ A „ „ „ , ? v«»r Service, the report stated. Salamanca. - A record year The Irwin Roid Plan has had was reported by the Cattar- its effect on the work of the:•"«"» County Soil Conservation district, by keeping town earth- dl ? tric i; m Its , annual T€poTt working equipment occupied released recently. for a greater part of the year. Homer E. Stennett and How- The district is allowed to hire ar d w Welch are farm plan- town equipment to carry out ners, and directors are Charles conservation projects if the w - Nannen, Great Valley, equipment is available for use. chairman; Russell Young, Ran- This has been offset, the re- dolph; Roy Babcock, Ashford; port says, by the availability Marion Palmer, South Dayton; of more private equipment. and Byrne Halloran, Great Expenditures by the district for Valley. town and county equipment; Soil Conservation Service hired for the year were $12,- technicians in the county di- 021.74. Payment for work done rected planting of twice as . by privately-owned equipment j much hedge, the building of does not go through the district j many more ponds, and the treasurer, and is not recorded; i clearing of twice as much pas- and much of the work is done ture land as any year before, by the farmers themselves. the directors reported. They! 339 Plans Prepared also arranged for planting of j During,the year, the district more trees and draining ofi received 205 applications for more farmland. assistance, for a total of 1,487, Nine miles of diversion ditch-, to date. There were 239 plans jes were constructed, and 600' prepared, covering a total of acres of strip cropping was 23,337. acres, for grand totals started. Nearly three million! No 9 8 i n a Series of 1,125 plans including 124,006 trees and 300,000 shrubs WWP! M ^ " W U JCilc » acres. planted. The year's work, and the to- More than a mile of tile tal to date, on the various types drains were installed, and more of soil conservation work in'than 1,300 acres of brushland the county include: were cleared to provide pas- Contour farming, 539 acres, ture. About 300 acres of farm- total 4,283; cover cropping. 459[land were drained. and more acres. total 3,042; stubble than 300 acres were seeded mulch, 136 acres, total 430: with perennial hay. JAMESTOWN (N.Y.) POST-JOURNAL—Saturday Evening. January 10. 1953 Warren Chamber Of Commerce Honors FFA Boys the Rural Woman: Norman Kitelinger, Charles Camp Given Checks for Projects Some of These Villagers May Never See Summer County Soldier's Battalion Adopts Freezing, Starving Korean Refugees By SUELLEN SMITH People aren't funny. They're kind, generous and down- right swell! The response to last week's column about de- Warren The Warren Cham- serving D.P.'s was heart warming and inspires me to lay ^ m T ^ % o ^ C t Z l ^fore you another truly desperate situation Real life iBrasington, Floyd Carter, drama is occasionally so gripping that plain folk hesitate to IGeorge Frantz and William believe it. I assure you this story is as real as your last (Cannon, presented awards for mea j •—• -**-— 'achievement in Agriculture to v * Y0UR meal not theirs two area Future Farmers of America Thursday afternoon in manN : meals or ' clothes, the Chamber of Commerce of- homes, or beat, and often no fic . e - . parents. And their name is le- Wilham Cannon, on behalf of gj 0 n. They are .Korean ie- ...... „. « 6 ».^«».«.v .v, Y YOLK meal, not tneirs. J L I _• area Future farmers of F s e e t n e donl have M/Nf]p| MCCtinG i c 5_T!?! ir ^ a >.-^ ft i r _ noon J" many meals, or clothes, or ITlVUd ITlWW IIIIVJ Conducted at Grange School the Warren Chamber, present- fugees, the" ones that the First ed Norman Kitelinger, a senior Engineer vocational agriculture student adopted. ed Norman Kitelinger, a senior Engineer Battalion recently vocational agriculture student adopted. in the West Forest Joint School, A Chautauqua county resident Gerry A model Grange Tionesta, a check for $24 for, has asked for my help in pub- meet j n was conducted with having been selected to receive licising a pathetic appeal from ti * answered in* each the Keystone Farmer Degrees her son, stationed just behind questions ansuered in each next week at the annual con- the Korean battle lines. I could phase of the meeting, at the vention of the Future Farm- possibly open the emotional fau- Grange officers training school ers of Pennsylvania meeting In ceg^but instead. I give you a h } Monday evening at the Hnrrishnrcr <soldier s words verbatim.— ' " The Engineer Battalion is Gerry Grange Hall. Harrisburg. Two hundred and eleven V. IN PEDDLER'S PARADISE—Elijah W. Allen, earning a liviijg as an itiner- ant peddler out of Chenango County, found his paradise in the timbered valley be- tween Niobe and Bear Lake and there established a home for his family. Three generations have operated the farm which has been split into a number of others. Herbert Allen runs the old homestead (upper photo) and another farm, which his grandfather ran, and Ray E. Cross, another grandson of Elijah, runs the farm shown in lower photo. —Post-Journal Staffotos Family Century Farms About 118 years ago, an itinerant peddler, familiar I acres, total More han 2,000 rods of new! ^l^f 11 ^,** 01 * figure in out ' 3,272; pasture improvement, 690 fence were built to keep cattle! f J^way places, came upon acres, total 4,921 out of stream channels and to ! * valle y o n t h e N e w York Farm ponds, 50, total 292; protect 2.800 acres of woods tree planting, 619 acres, total from grazing. 1.967; woodland management, The pasture improvement 832 acres, total 5,798; wood- and management program in- land protection, 802 acres, total eluded more than 800 acres. 5.326; woodland improvement,! Nearly five miles of stream 239Nacres, total 538; woodland channel were improved to avoid ssrw-" none in a^js-rar-rsss S3rH? erb " rne '- . IS Miles of Diversions of outlets were built. i FH?",?° W "AI'IPH «,h^« Field diversions, 13.53 miles. Forty-one farm ponds were fo D 3 e a ara ^ame from KW total 122.19; farm drainage, 361 j constructed, and the State Con- ; Klland had wandered far acres, total 3.449; covered servation Department built six m n f he summer months so™ drains, 13.834 linear feet, total wildlife ponds with more than! 1 a Vf a ? w^tTnSin SP 65.357; open drains, 9.06 miles, 36 acres af water surface. a y a S )mo - He Pennsylvania line near what is now the community of Niobe. Covered as far as the eye could see with white pine timber, it struck him as just the kind of place he had been seeking to establish a new The Post']onrnal\ FARM FAMIL Y 'AGE total 78.7; windbreak planting, ,.47 acres, total 7.97; clearing and obstruction removal, 1,685 acres, total 6.560. Crop rotation. 1,176 acres, to- tal 8,908; establishing perennial hay. 800 acres, total 2,187; per.-i manent fencing, 1,543 rods, to- tai 14,397: fish pond manage- i ment, 8,350 fish in 9.85 acres! of pond, for totals of 36.460] fish in 32.85 acres of ponds. Hedges, 163,500 linear feet, Conservation Farm Visits By RALPH O. JECKERT Soil Conservation Service Warren, Pa. had provided housewives on isolated farms and villages with needles and thread and countless items from the pack on his back. Back to Chenango County he went for his wife, Purlin^ Brooks, whom he had married at the age of 25 on Dec. 30, 1829, and their children. Old almanacs, bound to- gether with a "waxed end" This week we look at the pic! or shoemaker's thread, con- 482,610; mulching. 108« tur e of progress of the SCS in tain * notes made in Elijahs acres, total 612; outlets and ° ur .°wn back yard, Warren hand 0ne note establishes farm watercourses, 33.990 lin- \ c 2*? y ' durm « the last flScal his trtne of arrival as Feb- ear feet, total 225,120; pasture t ye J r ' ; ruary, 1836, and another note, management, 523 acres, total' With the start of the 1952 year written across the page-, says 5,823. the new "progressive planning', he "settled on this place" in Streambank and shore ero-s system also got ander way. By ; March on what is now the sion control, 2,300 linear feet, using this system more farmers -Lottsville-Niobe Road. total 8.650; stream channel im-fare able to get immediate as- Niobe Area in Holdings provement. 10,450 feet, total 55.- sistance with their erosion prob- JJ OW large his holdings §10; structures, 78, total 475; lems. Dr. Salter, chief of the purch ased for $1.25 an acre wildfire area improvement, 55.5 ^oi. Conservation service, from the Hol i and Land Com . acres, total 125.5; wildlife bor- thinks this is one of the main w [ s n o t known to . ders. 23 acres, total 72; seed- reasons for the marked to- d but thev covered prac . ing pastures. 756 acres, total "ease in »^^ tically the whole area in and 2,842; and improved water ap- iess empioves man last >ear. | around Niobe. The original plication. 123 acres, total 650. The SCS cooperated with the homestead, now occupied by State Also Aids Warren County Soil Conserve. his gran dson, Herbert Allen, The New York State Conser- tion District in the completion a n d h l s wife> the f ormcr vation Department, in its ac- of 7,3o acres of soil conserva- Clara j 0 h n son, is on 100 companying report, noted that tion surveys, to obtain and de- acres of land Tne rest of 143 cooperators with the dis- velop the essential facts about the land was divided into trict had received 224,250 each acre of land. These ^ur- farms for lour gons or sold shrubs, of which 170,000 were veys then furnish the Jarmer tQ Qtners Qne porti0n o { t h e multiflora rose, and the de- with the basis for helping mm QW {arm - s nQW QWned and partment's personnel assisted make sound decision.._ when ne erated b Ra E Cross . them in-planting 91,400. shrubs -prepares.the basic faiun plan. also a grandson of E i ijah . and 346.600 trees. 1 A total of » •distrlet coopera his The state unit also tarnished tors were^ c ass ^ t ed in compleN cmld {. en: Abigailt tne old . 1.080 fence posts and 12 rolls ingr the basic'farm plan on 3,129 who * operate d the of barbed wire to 10 landown- acres of cropland. P^ture, nomestead farm: p Elijah vin- ers to fence off areas of wild- woodland and * u g»« " " ^ ton. DeWitt Clinton. Asel life value, and 1.285 rods of ^ P f ^ ^ n ^ e d i?aS for Dwight, James Horatio and fence were installed by seven, P^f"*" J?^ l ^f Jo^h^A ^ ^ I ' ^ o died in his cooperators to fence 276 acres erosion fonttol and Pjop-r wna * ° f Thr d ve a n r d ?S U S t .4 r unl?"re ' 1 ^ « . ^ ^ - ^ ^ S ^Herbert Allen is the son of This year, the state unit re- i? J?R Lrei when they became Dwight and Louisa Woodm Carl, who operates a truck- ing firm in Sugar Grove; Mrs. Pearl Allen Larson, who operates Probst's hardware store in Jamestown; and John Robert who was fatally injured in an accident 'in 1935. The Aliens also have five grandchildren. Oil Boom Aids Farm Elijah soon after his arriv- al had put up a house for his family and later, after build- ing a second house, turned the first into a barn. The second house also became a barn when the present 10- room house was built of hand-hewn clear pine timbers about 80 years ago. Some of the old hand tools used on the farm are still in the pos- session of the family. When Col. Edwin L. Drake drilled his first oil Well at Titusville in August, 1859 it horseback or k either rode walked. Dwight Aiten who took over operation of the farm from his sister^ also continued to market his produce in the ofi fields. Family lore contains a story of one of his trips and an early hitch-hiker. Pockets well filled, he was on the lonely trip home, when a rough-looking char- acter begged a ride on his sled, indicating a preference for ridhtg at the rear. Dwight, however, would have none of that, and informed the traveler that if he want- ed to ridfl it would have to be up front where an eye could *be -kept on him. Dwight, not long after es- tablishing his own farm and taking over his fathers, changed from Durham cattle to Devonshires and took Pennsylvania boys studying Vo-iadopting a Korean refugee vil- About 75 Grange officers at- cational Agriculture will re-Hagf and is going to try to sup-, lended ^ school conducte d by * C i e e^n h « WiUard ^ BUStK uc e a e tional th Bun°dng™ We^esda'y j c o M , ^ ce m ? 0 n r ey ^ d i ^l 1 ^ ^ T ^ ' " £ »vpni<ntr Tannarv 14th -bought some nee lor mem. meeting were Leo Lewis, Ark- evemng, January nth . .Thev .took two men out of each : wrifht master- Richard Lind Norman has completed ten . P(ltint1 tn a r t a s Santa and o• i \. n - o„ ^ !nrniPM« in hie farmina nro- I S - i0 H ° .7. :>dn . ia , a " u Sinclai'Vllle, Overseer Ralph leram Nine nurebred Aberdeen' ^ 1Ve them i, h ^ ! ^ e i nd onnth?;' Hulrtt . Slnclairville. lecturer; gram, wine purebred Aberdeen in g we collected. So another H ]d " Bovd Kennedv Slew- Angus beef cattle comprise his' gu * v from the office and myself "i. rJ??^ RVnJSon' Bus?i enterprise. He has been presi-, wen t. What a sight! ; ard : t Dona ; d B ^ ngs i°, ' Z \' jdent of his local chapter and! "Mom, if you have any old,£ ssl ?ant steward: Rose Kent. an officer in the area chapter, clothing, shoes or, anything. J,r e< nla -. chaplain: ** omer jHe has represented his chap- round the house please send; * »r l {*' Union, treasurer; Alber- Iter in local and state activities them to me. Everyone in the.ta Dennison Kennedy, secre- |on several occasions. j battalion is writing for clothing.; tary; Euland Greeley, Fana- A check of $12.50 was also These people don't have any- ma ga/e keeper: Jeanette j presented Norman by William thing. They live in dugouts in, Brainaru. Ellington, Ceres: iCannon for having been award- the ground covered with straw. Mae Whrtcome, Ross. Pomona led a gold medal in the state They have very little clothing Carolyn Cheney, Union, Flora; iproject contest on his Angus a™* some of them don't have ; Winifred Vail Ross, lady as- beef cattle proiect shoes. They were so happy sistant steward; Albert Nelson, Charles Camp, Jr., a seniorjwhen we pulled up in the^"i^;Union, flag bearer; and Flor- in the Brokenstraw Valley Joint ^ th 0 ^^Jj^^t/ clotnIngl ence Blackmer, Busti, pianist. ISchool. You-ngsville. was award- | son 2 P 7 h i hlttJiSS." r an v *t Hanover and Cassadaga ed a check for $12.50 from the pnouVh^^iothini throueh dona- Granges , su PP lieci three mem- Warren. Chamber of ^mmeree.5^V c ^^pX , £ goCfg ^ fn ° r f ft? Z Z V Z ^ ^ * for having been awarded a sil-U^ next summ er. P If not, they,^ f or the model session and ver medal m the state projection never i as t the winter So !Ross ' Fredoma and Niobe •coneest on his six-acre potato ; do V vhat vou can and every i Granges were represented on project. 'little thing will help. Unless the service and hospitality ! Nat Drake, secretary of the!y 0 u saw it. you wouldn't think committee. Chamber of Commerce, con- there were any people op this The. meeting included drap- gratulated the boys and their;earth that bad off. ing of the charter, balloting for teachers of agriculture, and ex- "Today is Christmas and we candidates and a short, model ; plained why the Chamber of only work half a day. This was program. The Pomona lecturer JCommerce is interested in their far from the best Christmas discussed program plans.- An- ! activities. The boys explained I've had. but these refugees are nouncements included another features of their training. so terribly worse off, that I Grange school, to be held Mon- Teachers and boys to attend won't complain." day at Chautauqua Grange, May- the Farm Show at Harrisburg ...Speaks for itself, does it viU Inext week are Robert Albright, not? A huge box of clothing Washbure iu- Clarence Benedict, D o n a 1 d and shoes from your columnist Mrs. M>r e ^ hbur g, and is well on its way and as for vemle ^ Neal Meabon, dis- Glenn, Charles CampjJr - vW'read"ers*rther"e isno "doubt cussed her phase of Grange lOUngfaVllie, ^ iv , j „c ,„ „„,,,. *«_ u/nrk anrf Mrs Maraarpf Tnl. Travers Stohlhera Alariln Ab i n m y mind as .to your re- work, and Mrs. Margaret Col- hott r«iPon nk Donald Vonts'sponse People are swell! venback, Fredonia, made a re- ?f', ,f £ ' T S i ** ' port on the Christian Rural Son 1 ^r ne rro?p n Farrn?ni Send packages by prepaid Overseas Program. to^ S Til G ^£lS&^l?"*- or donations ' di ': Members of Gerry Grange man Kitelinger, Dale McWil- ; rc ^ nl to n n n f l l f 1 r o l l l n s l2TfiS12 had charge of refreshments. liams and William Carll, Tio- jnesta. Cpl. Donald Collins 1216812 Hdqts. Co. 1st Engr. Bn. 1st Marine Div. F.M.F. c-o JFPO San -Francisco, Calif Grange Past Master Conducts M e e t i n g Chautauqua Scout Brocton Portland Grange Signs for Jamboree Pennsylvania Agents Elect Reber President brought on busy days for the % many prites at the James- sionary who died in India in and only to qualified coopera eK „«„ t n1 th( , va riou sionary *nu u^u ... mm. „, tors, and they must provide Establishment of the various J Ernest who died in their own posts and construct conservation practices will not JWH *"d trnesr, the fence. be listed in this report as they 1S *"; h Herbert M i ens Directors who passed on the will be included In the annual ^J n ^SdnnKr^ SSth report are Edward Beckerink. report of the district directory r r c B !lie a teacher at SBS- ££S£°- m -%J-Z U s P Sn slb oi e M£*5 « " iSi,c E r n the Farm Bureau- and Rav- o u t o f this oMlc€ a t o n e time ' "" mond Colbum, Kennedy, rep- Tnls >* ear there were only two . * J.'I:J... D'.~~*<~1- DAIKVIAI' resenting Pomona Grange. n a nd P art ° f ** S2£,,S!£! Illtertl iV DIQQeSl BCHTier Mr. Cowles* term expires ? ne -, However, on an individual' l w , u ' * / " " ._ this month, but no successor ? vel there was more conserva- has been named by the super- tlon work 1" ne in Dhases of . tne visors. The directors will elect ? roCTara than any previous Aliens. Supplies ior t h e booming oil fields were brought to the harbor at Barcelona and from there were hauled on ox teams and sleds through the wilderness. The Allen farm became a way station for the long haul and men and oxen and horses were put up at the Allen home and stables. The oil fields provided an- other boon for the Aliens. Farm produce was hauled there and brought good prices. Later, after construc- tion of the Nippanoe Rail- road, now the Erie, which had its Grant Station at what is now Niobe, Elijah hauled oil about 40 miles to the rail line on stone boats drawn by oxen. Imported First Durhams Elijah was also the first man in the area to raise Durham cattle, the first step in improving dairy breeds. He built up a considerable herd and after his death, his daughter. Abigail, ran the farm for many years, selling dairy products, chiefly but- ter, in Titusville and vicinity. It was no accident that Dwight Allen's daughter be- came a missionary. Her grandmother, in the days when the way to Panama was only a track through the wil- derness, was accustomed to taking her own children to church on Sundays. The fam- ily recalls stories of her go- ing horseback, putting one child before her and one be- hind for the long trip. Others town Fair, In turn, his son, Herbert, turned from the Devonshires to Holsteins for about 10 years and then switched raising Herefords, mostly grades for beef but using thoroughbred sires. At the time he operated his own farm and the one he took over from his sister, he had a total of about 350 acres and ran lO to 45 head. To- day, however, Mr. Allen has given up intensive farming, keeps only four head of cat- tle, including a Durham and a Hereford, and a few chick- ens- He also carries on some lumbering- but is chiefly in- terested, he says in "just making al livin^." Encounter With a Ghost " On another section of the original Elijah^ Allen tract, lives the Cross family on land given by Dwight Allen to James Hftratio Allen at the time of his marriage to Ellen Marshall. North Clymer, on Jan. 1. 1865. Their only child was Effif P. Allen who be- came the bride of Ola E. Cross on.Dec. 9. 1886. Thev had two children, Ray E. Cross and Clark P. Cross, who died at the s age of 5. Ray tci&k over the farm* about the time of his mar- riage in Harch. 1912. to Au- gusta M. Jacobs, whom he met at Ithaca while both were in the same department at Cornell University. They have three children. Rich- ard O. dross, postmaster at Niobe; Ellen, who lives at home: and Roger A. Cross, who lives,in another home on the farrft and conducts a trucking business. .Mr. Cro»s keens 33 head of cattle, milking 11. Mr. Cross added another anecdote ^ from the family ifhara f\ P 1—The president been bred artificially, accord- historv. The Cross forebears. met with George Erickson, past ^.„,»„„„. * CO ™„H o„ nIIf ; stat e College, Pa. Paul N. master presiding. , Chautauqua-A second Scout Refc Bradford Countv agent. P The lecturer, Mrs. Eva Blod-: ^ u t l u T u a CenTrafschool Va'r" haS be D en ^ ^ ^ ^ f gett, presented the program. _ \ a ^; a Xr A«n^It£,n will at ' lne Pennsylvania County deluded were readings by B Mrs.;?^^ Association to succeed Hazel Cranston, Albert Cranston ^" d ?* 19 S n ^ S™ 1 i ^?£' Eu * ene G ' Ifft ' Ven *ngo Coun- and Mrs. Grace Pierpont: and !re £, "ear banta Ana i was t y a t t h e group ' s annual mect- a quiz which was won by Clar-'f"^ J* 1 : ine here. ence Young. tenberg Jr., chairman of the. wmi A R McKean Several members of Westfield ff ^ f j r E " e ' S ' County, is vice president. Grange were present and played A ^ v ^ f T second class Scott* The state * roup wU1 be host dart ball with the Portland l?fl vll I e t ; o a H in» win HP S to the annual meeting of the team winning two out of three whfttinLtnn an Fvlrfr in Post National Association of County Mmp , Whittington, an txpiorer in £ost A arirulrural A^pnt«; at Phila- games. \~n -ic n cnon^orpri hv the P T A A e ricUJturai -ftrgenis ai t-nua- r ( ' also sP° nsoreq p y ine r.i.A. rip)nnia in October. man i C ^ f Q momhor of a n Mrs. Isabel B. Smith. Pitts- otner branch of Ihe family'. I Hanover Grange Plans burgh, was elected to a two- Grover Cleveland. 22d and iMeetina Game MondaV JK^O , . " A P f ^ L M 24th president of the United . M e e t i n g , K30mC IVlOnaay the Pennsylvania Association, of States governor of New York Forestville—Hanover Granges Home Economics Extension and mayor of Buffalo, got were in Westfield to play dart- Representatives. his start in life through the ball, winning one game out of Miss Mary Jane Mickey, Oet- help and advice of* an uncle, three. On Monday Fredonia will tysburg, was chosen treasurer, j Lewis F Allen a writer on be at Hanover to play dartball. also for a two-year term. She agriculture in mid-19th Cen- The program for that meet- has been extension representa* i tury Buffalo. Lewis AMen ing will be on "birds". A tu- tive in Adams county for five i was a cousin of Dwight Allen, 'reen supper will be served. years. To Growth of Artificial Breeding Breeding Schools Set Jan. 29,30 hi! bppn maV a PP° lntment In cooperation with the Pro- of ' the American Veterinary ing to the State Veterinary Col- he said, were named Howies duction and Marketing Admin- Medical Association said this lege. and came to Lone: Island istratioh, 97 ACP participants week infertility in dairy cattle More than 2o0 veterinarians f rom England. One male were contact?! regarding estab- i s the "most important barrier attended the three-day confer- member of the family, a lishment of permanent-tyne con- to further expansion of artifi- ence. small man. was unlike most servatlon practices. Of this cial breeding." - The mortality rate^ among o I h i s contemporaries of the I number 64 were district cooper- Williard L. Boyd, St. Paul, poultry pathologists who spend Colonial period who were ators and 33 were not. How- Minn., told the 43th annual con- their lives working with dis- f r j gn tened out of their wits The annual Farm Bureau dai ; ever before the end of the year ference of veterinarians at Cor-eased poultry is exceptionally bv B the witch scares , ry cattle breeding school will 14 of ihese non-coonerators had nell University that artificial low. a Cornell University vet- 0 n e nJ ht ^ 0 t n e storv be_ held Jan 29 and130 . Glenn become cooperators with the nomination methods had add- erinarian said. , >oes. he was'visiting a neigh- CHne assistant agricultural district^ , ed ^ over infertility. Dr P. ?•}**§* ?SS rt hr b o r a nd P tne course o f t he agent reported The place has M veterinarians, B©^.debunk statements that dhr- evenin - s , conve rsation ex- not yet been set. FIND RAISING PLANNED said, have found vibrionic eased birds are a senous pressed the wish that h e ^f M f^ w t ^^^^S t - ^otUvitlP - Freehold G?»„ge abortion disease of cattle to be source of ^^ a " ^ e c ct °^ might actually see a witch. °I d « tn t 5 c fc sta l e i°iJ?/.LK^ m e t l n t h e I-O.O.F. hall Wed- increasing. He added that one Chancers that public will He ha(] n o { J o n t Q wait for of time it has had these schools nesday evening with master Hoi- effective treatment for infected get a disease, as a result oi m w v home h e m e t a consecutively, more than 20 , is Morton presiding The^mpm- cows was the use of antibiotics, prenarme or ^mg meat irom _ Uule m m Qr n 0 M r years bers decided to hold some activ- He cautioned . tfeat hormones a bird that may ;De ^rryui}, ^ g ^ ^ handjest At the meeting a Cornel Uru- . J a n 24 t ^ . ^ ^ should be administered only by a disease arc quite remote, i d out him . vie . versity specialist will discuss * a veterinarian. " e said. ..„„,.,., *^ thp «host fled the aspects of breeding, includ- ! # , oaiu „. _ 1tMWWim Artiflrlal breeding of dairy He said there is no. relatton- orou-^ j n l toe ^ ^ ^ ing physiology, artificial breed- GRANGE TO MEET cattle now U, a multi-million ship between human chicken I,n J "^ ^^Jjy 80 ™^" 8 ng the choosing of bulls, and; Ashville The A«* He f-n« e dollar business in the United pox and fowl pox of poultry, David Bradley One-Man Reg. 259.95 r une-ivian A ^ A SAWS L JV Easy to use and operate, the husky engine develops almost 3 H.P.! And you can depend on it for faithful day in, day out duty—the simple construction means less repairs, less complicated adjustments. Equipped with automatic rewind, starter, throttle and clutch! Send This Coupon For FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION David Bradley POWER SAWS No Obligation I Sears, Roebuck and Co. . IS W. Second St, Jamestown, N.Y. 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Conservation Unit Has Record Year

District Prepares 239 Farm Plans; Map of Stow WatersKed Complete

In 1952, Chautauqua County Soil Conservation Dis­trict tecnnuaana worked with more farmers than in any other year since its inception; and drew up conservation surveys on the largest number of acres for any year.

The report for the calendar year 1952 was prepared iu ^ T 1 ^ Kocher, unit conservationist, and approved by the directors at a meeting Friday afternoon at thedistrict office in the Phillips Building. The* report will be sent to the state committee, from where it will go to the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agricul­ture. - * «

J ? * 1 * " of a "sol id" conserva- N C K A r t l V l t V tion m a p of the entire Stow * * * * » # r ^ V U T I l J ^reeK watershed, which may M S W% I become a pilot- for c o n s e r v a - T l l t S K G C O T U tion work throughout the Chau- " * • » i ^ ^ w w i w t a u q u a Lake shed. Assistance | „ / ^ ^ A A ^ - . - . . . - . . . -KL?5 TK^VI? i**n prom in Ca t ta raugus

f i sed by the Soil Conservation - . _ ^ _ A „ „ „ , ? v«»r Service, the report stated. Salamanca. - A record year

The Irwin R o i d Plan has had w a s reported by the Cattar-i ts effect on the work of the : • "«"» County Soil Conservation district , by keeping town earth- d l ? t r i c i ; m I t s , a n n u a l T€poTt

working equipment occupied r e l e a s e d recently. for a grea te r part of the year. Homer E. Stennett and How-The district is allowed to hire a r d w Welch a re farm plan-town equipment to car ry out ners, and directors a re Charles conservation projects if the w - Nannen, Great Valley, equipment is available for use. chairman; Russell Young, Ran-

This has been offset, the re- dolph; Roy Babcock, Ashford; port says , by the availability Marion Palmer, South Dayton; of more pr ivate equipment. a n d Byrne Halloran, Great Expendi tures by the district for Valley. town and county equipment; Soil Conservation Service hired for the year were $12,- technicians in the county di-021.74. Paymen t for work done rected planting of twice as

. by privately-owned equipment j much hedge, the building of does not go through the district j many more ponds, and the treasurer , and is not recorded; i clearing of twice as much pas-and much of the work is done ture land as any year before, by the farmers themselves. the directors reported. They!

339 Plans P repa red also arranged for planting of j D u r i n g , t h e year, the district more trees and draining ofi

received 205 applications for more farmland. assis tance, for a total of 1,487, Nine miles of diversion ditch-, to da te . There were 239 plans jes were constructed, and 600' prepared , covering a total of acres of strip cropping was 23,337. acres , for grand totals started. Nearly three million! N o 9 8 i n a S e r i e s of 1,125 plans including 124,006 trees and 300,000 shrubs W W P ! M ^ " W U J C i l c » acres . planted.

The year ' s work, and the to- More than a mile of tile ta l to date, on the various types drains were installed, and more of soil conservation work in ' than 1,300 acres of brushland the county include: were cleared to provide pas-

Contour farming, 539 acres, ture. About 300 acres of farm-total 4,283; cover cropping. 459[land were drained. and more acres . total 3,042; stubble than 300 acres were seeded mulch, 136 acres , total 430: with perennial hay.

JAMESTOWN (N.Y.) POST-JOURNAL—Saturday Evening. January 10. 1953

Warren Chamber Of Commerce Honors FFA Boys

the Rural Woman:

Norman Kitelinger, Charles Camp Given Checks for Projects

Some of These Villagers May Never See Summer

County Soldier's Battalion Adopts Freezing, Starving Korean Refugees

By SUELLEN SMITH People aren't funny. They're kind, generous and down­

right swell! The response to last week's column about de-Warren — The Warren Cham- serving D.P.'s was heart warming and inspires me to lay

^ m T ^ % o ^ C t Z l ^fore you another truly desperate situation Real life iBrasington, F l o y d Carter, d r a m a is occasional ly so g r i p p i n g t h a t plain folk h e s i t a t e to IGeorge Frantz and William bel ieve it . I a s s u r e you t h i s s t o r y is a s rea l a s y o u r l a s t (Cannon, presented awards for m e a j •—• -**-— 'achievement in Agriculture to v * Y 0 U R m e a l n o t t h e i r s two area Future F a r m e r s of America Thursday afternoon in m a n N : m e a l s o r ' clothes, the Chamber of Commerce of- homes, or beat , and often no f ic.e- . parents. And their name is le-

Wilham Cannon, on behalf of gj0n. They are .Korean ie-

— . . . . . . „ . «6».^«».«.v .v, Y YOLK meal, not tneirs. J L I _ • area Future f a r m e r s of F s e e t n e d o n l h a v e M / N f ] p | M C C t i n G i c 5 _ T ! ? ! i r ^ a > . - ^ f t i r _ n o o n J " many meals, or clothes, or I T l V U d I T l W W I I I I V J

Conducted at Grange School

the Warren Chamber, present- fugees, the" ones that the First ed Norman Kitelinger, a senior Engineer vocational agriculture student adopted. ed Norman Kitelinger, a senior Engineer Battalion recently vocational agriculture student adopted. in the West Forest Joint School, A Chautauqua county resident Gerry A model Grange Tionesta, a check for $24 for, has asked for my help in pub- m e e t j n „ w a s conducted with having been selected to receive licising a pathetic appeal from • t i * answered in* each the Keystone Fa rmer Degrees her son, stationed just behind questions ansuered in each next week at the annual con- the Korean battle lines. I could phase of the meeting, at the vention of the Future Farm- possibly open the emotional fau- Grange officers training school ers of Pennsylvania meeting In c e g ^ b u t instead. I give you a h } M o n d a y evening at the Hnrrishnrcr <soldier s words verbatim.— ' "

T h e Engineer Battalion is Gerry Grange Hall. Harrisburg.

Two hundred and eleven

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IN PEDDLER'S PARADISE—Elijah W. Allen, earning a liviijg as an itiner­ant peddler out of Chenango County, found his paradise in the timbered valley be­tween Niobe and Bear Lake and there established a home for his family. Three generations have operated the farm which has been split into a number of others. Herbert Allen runs the old homestead (upper photo) and another farm, which his grandfather ran, and Ray E. Cross, another grandson of Elijah, runs the farm shown in lower photo. —Post-Journal Staffotos

Family Century Farms About 118 years ago, an

itinerant peddler, familiar

I acres, total More han 2,000 rods of new! ^ l ^ f 1 1 ^ , * * 0 1 * f i g u r e i n o u t ' 3,272; pasture improvement, 690 fence were built to keep cattle! f J ^ w a y places, came upon acres , total 4,921 out of stream channels and to ! * v a l l e y o n t h e N e w Y o r k

F a r m ponds, 50, total 292; protect 2.800 acres of woods t r ee planting, 619 acres, total from grazing. • 1.967; woodland management, The pasture improvement 832 acres , total 5,798; wood- and management program in­land protection, 802 acres, total eluded more than 800 acres. 5.326; woodland improvement,! Nearly five miles of s t ream 239Nacres, total 538; woodland channel were improved to avoid

ssrw-"none in ™ a^js-rar-rsss S3rH?erb"rne'-. IS Miles of Diversions of outlets were built. i F H ? " , ? ° W "AI'IPH « , h^«

Field diversions, 13.53 miles. Forty-one farm ponds were f o „ D3

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a r a ^ a m e from K W total 122.19; farm drainage, 361 j constructed, and the State Con-; K l l a n d had wandered far acres , total 3.449; covered servation Department built six m

nfhe summer months s o ™ drains , 13.834 linear feet, total wildlife ponds with more than! 1 a V f a ? w ^ t T n S i n S P 65.357; open drains, 9.06 miles, 36 acres af water surface. a y a S ) m o - H e

Pennsylvania line near what is now the community of Niobe. Covered as far as the eye could see with white pine t imber, it struck him as just the kind of place he had been seeking to establish a new

The Post']onrnal\

FARM FAMIL Y 'AGE

total 78.7; windbreak planting, ,.47 acres , total 7.97; clearing and obstruction removal, 1,685 acres , total 6.560.

Crop rotation. 1,176 acres, to­tal 8,908; establishing perennial hay. 800 acres , total 2,187; per.-i manent fencing, 1,543 rods, to-tai 14,397: fish pond manage- i ment , 8,350 fish in 9.85 acres ! of pond, for totals of 36.460] fish in 32.85 acres of ponds.

Hedges, 163,500 l inear feet,

Conservation Farm Visits

By RALPH O. JECKERT Soil Conservation Service

Warren, Pa.

had provided housewives on isolated farms and villages with needles and thread and countless items from the pack on his back. Back to Chenango County he went for his wife, Purlin^ Brooks, whom he had marr ied at the age of 25 on Dec. 30, 1829, and their children.

Old almanacs, bound to­gether with a "waxed end"

This week we look a t the p i c ! o r shoemaker 's thread, con-482,610; mulching. 108« t u re of progress of the SCS in t a i n * n o t e s m a d e i n Elijahs

acres , total 612; outlets and ° u r .°wn back yard, Warren h a n d 0 n e n o t e establishes farm watercourses , 33.990 lin- \c2*?y' d u r m « t h e l a s t f l S c a l his trtne of arrival as Feb-e a r feet, total 225,120; pas ture t

y e J r ' ; ruary, 1836, and another note, management , 523 acres , to ta l ' With the s tar t of the 1952 year written across the page-, says 5,823. the new "progressive p l ann ing ' , he "settled on this place" in

Streambank and shore ero-s system also got ander way. By ; March on what is now the sion control, 2,300 l inear feet, using this system more farmers -Lottsville-Niobe Road. total 8.650; s t ream channel im-fare able to get immediate as- Niobe Area in Holdings provement. 10,450 feet, total 55.- sistance with their erosion prob- J J O W large his holdings §10; s t ructures , 78, total 475; lems. Dr . Salter, chief of the p u r c h a s e d for $1.25 an acre wildfire area improvement, 55.5 ̂ oi . Conservation s e r v i c e , f r o m t h e H o l i a n d L a n d C o m . acres , total 125.5; wildlife bor- thinks this is one of the main w [ s n o t k n o w n t o . ders . 23 acres , total 72; seed- reasons for the marked to- d b u t t h e v c o v e r e d p r a c . ing pastures . 756 acres , total " e a s e in » ^ ^ tically the whole area in and 2,842; and improved water ap- i e s s empioves man last >ear. | a r o u n d Niobe. The original plication. 123 acres , total 650. The SCS cooperated with the homestead, now occupied by

State Also Aids Warren County Soil Conserve. h i s g r a n d s o n , Herbert Allen, The New York State Conser- tion District in the completion a n d h l s w i f e > t h e formcr

vation Depar tment , in its ac- of 7 ,3o acres of soil conserva- C l a r a j 0 h n s o n , is on 100 companying report , noted that t ion surveys, to obtain and de- a c r e s o f l a n d T n e r e s t o f 143 cooperators with the dis- velop the essential facts about t h e l a n d w a s d i v i d e d i n t o t r ict had received 224,250 each acre of land. These ^ur- f a r m s f o r l o u r g o n s o r s o l d shrubs, of which 170,000 were veys then furnish the J a r m e r t Q Q t n e r s Q n e p o r t i 0 n o { t h e multiflora rose, and the de- with the basis for helping mm Q W { a r m - s n Q W Q W n e d a n d par tment ' s personnel assisted make sound decision.._ when ne e r a t e d b R a E C r o s s . them in-plant ing 91,400. shrubs -p r epa re s . t he basic faiun plan. a l s o a g r a n d s o n o f E i i j a h . and 346.600 t rees . 1 A total of » •distrlet coopera h i s

The state unit also tarnished tors w e r e ^ ca s s ^ t e d in compleN c m l d { . e n : A b i g a i l t t n e o l d .

1.080 fence posts and 12 rolls ingr the basic ' farm plan on 3,129 w h o * o p e r a t e d the of barbed wire to 10 landown- acres of cropland. P ^ t u r e , n o m e s t e a d f a r m :

pE l i j a h vin-

ers to fence off a reas of wild- woodland and * u g » « " " ^ ton. DeWitt Clinton. Asel life value, and 1.285 rods of ^ P f ^ ^ n ^ e d i ? a S for Dwight, J ames Horatio and fence were installed by seven, P ^ f " * " J ? ^ l ^ f Jo^h^A ^ ^ I ' ^ o died in his cooperators to fence 276 acres erosion font to l and Pjop-r wna *

° f Thr d ve an r d ? S U S t . 4 r u n l ? " r e ' 1 ^ « . ^ ^ - ^ ^ S ^ H e r b e r t Allen is the son of

This year, the state unit re- i ? J?R L r e i when they became Dwight and Louisa Woodm

Carl, who operates a truck­ing firm in Sugar Grove; Mrs. Pear l Allen Larson, w h o operates Probst 's hardware store in Jamestown; and John Robert who was fatally injured in an accident 'in 1935. The Aliens also have five grandchildren.

Oil Boom Aids F a r m Elijah soon after his arriv­

al had put up a house for his family and later, after build­ing a second house, turned the first into a barn. The second house also became a barn when the present 10-room house was built of hand-hewn clear pine timbers about 80 years ago. Some of the old hand tools used on the farm are still in the pos­session of the family.

When Col. Edwin L. Drake drilled his first oil Well at Titusville in August, 1859 it

horseback or k

either rode walked.

Dwight Aiten who took over operation of the farm from his sister^ also continued to market his produce in the ofi fields. Family lore contains a story of one of his trips and an early hitch-hiker. Pockets well filled, he was on the lonely trip home, when a rough-looking char­acter begged a ride on his sled, indicating a preference for ridhtg at the rear . Dwight, however, would have none of that, and informed the traveler that if he want­ed to ridfl it would have to be up front where an eye could *be -kept on him.

Dwight, not long after es­tablishing his own farm and taking over his fathers, changed from Durham cattle to Devonshires and took

Pennsylvania boys studying Vo-iadopting a Korean refugee vil- About 75 Grange officers at-cational Agriculture will re-Hagf and is going to try to sup-, l e n d e d ^ s c h o o l c o n d u c t e d by

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e y ^ d i ^ l 1 ^ ^ T ^ ' " £ »vpni<ntr Tannarv 14th - b o u g h t some n e e lor mem. meeting were Leo Lewis, Ark-evemng, January n t h . .Thev .took two men out of each : wrifht master- Richard Lind

Norman has completed ten . P ( l t i n t 1 t n a r t a s Santa and o• i \. n - o „ ^ !nrniPM« in hie f a r m i n a nro- IS- i0H ° .7. • : > d n . i a , a " u S i n c l a i ' V l l l e , O v e r s e e r R a l p h leram Nine nurebred Aberdeen' ^1 V e t h e m i , h ^ ! ^ e i n d o n n t h ? ; ' H u l r t t . Slnclairville. lecturer; gram, wine purebred Aberdeen i n g w e collected. So another H ]d" B o v d Kennedv Slew-Angus beef cattle comprise h i s ' g u * v f r o m the office and myself " i . r J ? ? ^ RVnJSon' Bus?i enterprise. He has been p r e s i - , w e n t . What a sight! ; a r d : t

D o n a ; d B ^ n g s i ° , ' Z \' jdent of his local chapter and! "Mom, if you have any o l d , £ s s l ? a n t s teward: Rose Kent. an officer in the area chapter, clothing, shoes or, anything. J , r e < J° n l a - . chaplain: * * o m e r

jHe has represented his chap- round the house please send; * »rl{*' Union, t reasurer ; Alber-Iter in local and state activities them to me. Everyone in the . ta Dennison Kennedy, secre-|on several occasions. • j battalion is writing for clothing.; tary; Euland Greeley, Fana-

A check of $12.50 was also These people don't have any- ma ga/e keeper: Jeanet te j presented Norman by William thing. They live in dugouts in, Brainaru. Ellington, Ceres : iCannon for having been award- the ground covered with straw. Mae Whrtcome, Ross. Pomona led a gold medal in the state They have very little clothing Carolyn Cheney, Union, Flora; iproject contest on his Angus a™* some of them don't have ;Winifred Vail Ross, lady as-beef cattle proiect shoes. They were so happy sistant steward; Albert Nelson,

Charles Camp, Jr . , a seniorjwhen we pulled up in t h e ^ " i ^ ; U n i o n , flag bearer ; and Flor­in the Brokenstraw Valley Joint ^ t h

0 ^ ^ J j ^ ^ t / c l o t n I n g l e n c e Blackmer, Busti, pianist. ISchool. You-ngsville. was award- | s o n 2 P 7 h i hlttJiSS." ran v*t Hanover and Cassadaga ed a check for $12.50 from the pnouVh^^iothini throueh dona- G r a n g e s , s u PP l i e c i three mem-Warren . Chamber of ^ m m e r e e . 5 ^ V c ^ ^ p X , £ goCfg ^fn°r

f ft? Z Z V Z ^ ^ * for having been awarded a s i l - U ^ n e x t s u m m e r . P If not, t h e y , ^ for the model session and ver medal m the state p ro j ec t i on n e v e r i a s t the winter S o ! R o s s ' Fredoma and Niobe •coneest on his six-acre potato ; d o Vvhat vou can and every i Granges were represented on project. 'little thing will help. • Unless the service and hospitality

! Nat Drake, secretary of the!y0u saw it. you wouldn't think committee. Chamber of Commerce, con- there were any people op this The. meeting included drap-gratulated the boys and thei r ;ear th that bad off. ing of the charter, balloting for teachers of agriculture, and ex- "Today is Christmas and we candidates and a short, model

; plained why the Chamber of only work half a day. This was program. The Pomona lecturer JCommerce is interested in their far from the best Christmas discussed program plans.- An-! activities. The boys explained I've had. but these refugees are nouncements included another features of their training. so terribly worse off, that I Grange school, to be held Mon-

Teachers and boys to attend won't complain." d a y a t Chautauqua Grange, May-the F a r m Show at Harrisburg . . .Speaks for itself, does it v i U

Inext week are Robert Albright, not? A huge box of clothing • Washbure iu-Clarence Benedict, D o n a 1 d and shoes from your columnist Mrs. M>r e ^ h b u r g ,

a n d is well on its way and as for vemle^ Neal Meabon,

dis-Glenn, Charles C a m p j J r - vW'read"ers*rther"e i s n o "doubt cussed her phase of Grange

lOUngfaVllie, • ^ i v , j „c , „ „„, , , . *«_ u/nrk anrf Mrs Maraarpf Tnl . Travers Stohlhera Alariln Ab i n m y mind as . to your re- work, and Mrs. Margaret Col-hott r « i P o n nk D o n a l d Vonts ' sponse People are swell! venback, Fredonia, made a re-? f ' , ,f £ ' T S i ** ' port on the Christian Rural S o n 1 ^ r n e r r o ? p n F a r r n ? n i Send packages by prepaid Overseas Program. to^STilG^£lS&^l?"*- o r d o n a t i o n s ' d i ' : Members of Gerry Grange man Kitelinger, Dale McWil- ; r c ^ n l

t on n n f l l f 1 r o l l l n s l 2 T f i S 1 2 had charge of refreshments.

liams and William Carll, Tio-jnesta.

Cpl. Donald Collins 1216812 Hdqts. Co. 1st Engr. Bn. 1st Marine Div. F.M.F. c-o JFPO San -Francisco, Calif Grange Past Master

Conducts Meeting Chautauqua Scout Brocton — Portland Grange S i g n s f o r J a m b o r e e

Pennsylvania Agents Elect Reber President

brought on busy days for the % many pri tes at the James-

sionary who died in India in and only to qualified coopera e K „ « „ t n1 t h ( , v a r i o u sionary *nu u ^ u ... m m . „, tors, and they must provide Establ ishment of the various J Ernest who died in their own posts and construct conservation practices will not JWH *"d t r n e s r , the fence. be listed in this report as they 1 S*"; h H e r b e r t Miens

Directors who passed on the will be included In the annual ^ J n ^ ° ^SdnnKr^ SSth report a re Edward Beckerink. report of the district d i rec tory r r c

B ! l i e a teacher at

SBS- ££S£°-m-%J-Z UsPSnslboie M £ * 5 « " iSi,cErn

the F a r m Bureau- and Rav- o u t o f t h i s o M l c € a t o n e t i m e ' "" mond Colbum, Kennedy, rep- T n l s >*ear there were only two . * J . ' I : J . . . D'.~~*<~1- D A I K V I A I ' resenting Pomona Grange. ™ n a n d P a r t ° f ** S2£ , ,S !£ ! I l l t e r t l i V D I Q Q e S l B C H T i e r

Mr. Cowles* term expires ? n e - , However, on an ind iv idua l ' l w , u ' * / " " . _ this month, but no successor ? v e l there was more conserva-has been named by the super- t l o n w o r k 1 " n e i n D h a s e s o f . t n e

visors. The directors will elect ? r o C T a r a t h a n any previous

Aliens. Supplies ior t h e booming oil fields were brought to the harbor at Barcelona and from there were hauled on ox teams and sleds through the wilderness. The Allen farm became a way station for the long haul and men and oxen and horses were put up at the Allen home and stables.

The oil fields provided an­other boon for the Aliens. F a r m produce was hauled there and brought good prices. Later, after construc­tion of the Nippanoe Rail­road, now the Erie, which had its Grant Station at what is now Niobe, Elijah hauled oil about 40 miles to the rail line on stone boats drawn by oxen.

Imported Firs t Durhams Elijah was also the first

man in the area to raise Durham cattle, the first step in improving dairy breeds. He built up a considerable herd and after his death, his daughter. Abigail, ran the farm for many years, selling dairy products, chiefly but­ter, in Titusville and vicinity.

It was no accident that Dwight Allen's daughter be­came a missionary. Her grandmother, in the days when the way to Panama was only a track through the wil­derness, was accustomed to taking her own children to church on Sundays. The fam­ily recalls stories of her go­ing horseback, putting one child before her and one be­hind for the long trip. Others

town Fair, In turn, his son, Herbert, turned from the Devonshires to Holsteins for about 10 years and then switched t© raising Herefords, mostly grades for beef but using thoroughbred sires.

At the time he operated his own farm and the one he took over from his sister, he had a total of about 350 acres and ran lO to 45 head. To­day, however, Mr. Allen has given up intensive farming, keeps only four head of cat­tle, including a Durham and a Hereford, and a few chick­ens- He also carries on some lumbering- but is chiefly in­terested, he says in "just making al livin^."

Encounter With a Ghost " On another section of the

original Elijah^ Allen tract, lives the Cross family on land given by Dwight Allen to James Hftratio Allen at the time of his marr iage to Ellen Marshall. North Clymer, on Jan. 1. 1865. Their only child was Effif P . Allen who be­came the bride of Ola E. Cross on .Dec . 9. 1886. Thev had two children, Ray E. Cross and Clark P . Cross, who died at the sage of 5.

Ray tci&k over the farm* about the time of his mar­riage in Harch . 1912. to Au­gusta M. Jacobs, whom he met at Ithaca while both were in the same department at Cornell University. They have three children. Rich­ard O. dross, postmaster at Niobe; Ellen, who lives at home: and Roger A. Cross, who lives,in another home on the farrft and conducts a trucking business.

.Mr. Cro»s keens 33 head of cattle, milking 11.

Mr. Cross added another anecdote ^ from the family

ifhara f\ P 1—The president been bred artificially, accord- historv. The Cross forebears.

met with George Erickson, past ^ . „ , » „ „ „ . * C O ™ „ H o „ n I I f; s t a t e College, Pa . Paul N.

master presiding. , Chau tauqua-A second Scout R e f c Bradford Countv agent. P T h e lecturer, Mrs. Eva Blod-: ^ u t l u T u a CenTrafschool Va'r" h a S b e

De n ^ ^ ^ ^ , ° f

gett, presented the program. _ \ a ^ ; a X r A « n ^ I t £ , n will at ' l n e Pennsylvania C o u n t y de luded were readings b y B M r s . ; ? ^ ^ Association to succeed Hazel Cranston, Albert Cranston ^ " d ? * 1 9 S n ^ S™1 i ^ ? £ ' E u * e n e G ' I f f t ' V e n * n g o Coun-and Mrs. Grace Pierpont: and ! r e £ , " ea r banta Ana i was t y a t t h e g r o u p ' s annual mect-a quiz which was won by C l a r - ' f " ^ J*1: ine here. ence Young. tenberg Jr . , chairman of the. w m i A R McKean

Several members of Westfield ff ^ f j r E " e ' S ' County, is vice president. Grange were present and played A ^ v ^ f T second class Scott* T h e s t a t e * r o u p w U 1 b e h o s t

dart ball with the Portland l?f l v l l I et ; o

aH in» win HP S to the annual meeting of the

team winning two out of three whfttinLtnn an F v l r f r in Post National Association of County M m p , Whittington, an txp io re r in £ost Aarirulrural A^pnt«; at Phila-games. \~n - i c n cnon^orpri hv the P T A A e r i c U J t u r a i -ftrgenis ai t-nua-

r(' a l s o s P ° n s o r e q py i n e r.i.A. rip)nnia i n October. m a n i C ^ f Q momhor of a n Mrs. Isabel B. Smith. Pitts-otner branch of Ihe family'. I H a n o v e r G r a n g e P l a n s burgh, was elected to a two-Grover Cleveland. 22d and i M e e t i n a G a m e M o n d a V J K ^ O , . " AP f ^ L M 24th president of the United . M e e t i n g , K30mC I V l O n a a y the Pennsylvania Association, of States governor of New York Forestville—Hanover Granges Home Economics Extension and mayor of Buffalo, got were in Westfield to play dart- Representatives. his s tar t in life through the ball, winning one game out of Miss Mary Jane Mickey, Oet-help and advice of* an uncle, three. On Monday Fredonia will tysburg, was chosen treasurer,

j Lewis F Allen a writer on be at Hanover to play dartball . also for a two-year term. She agriculture in mid-19th Cen- The program for that meet- has been extension representa*

i tury Buffalo. Lewis AMen ing will be on "bi rds" . A tu- tive in Adams county for five i was a cousin of Dwight Allen, ' reen supper will be served. years .

To Growth of Artificial Breeding

Breeding Schools Set Jan. 29,30

h i ! bppn m a V a P P ° l n t m e n t In cooperation with the Pro- of ' the American Veterinary ing to the State Veterinary Col- he said, were named Howies duction and Marketing Admin- Medical Association said this lege. and came to Lone: Island istratioh, 97 ACP participants week infertility in dairy cattle More than 2o0 veterinarians from England. One male were contact?! regarding estab- i s the "most important barrier attended the three-day confer- member of the family, a lishment of permanent-tyne con- to further expansion of artifi- ence. small man. was unlike most servatlon practices. Of this cial breeding." - The mortali ty rate^ among o I h i s contemporaries of the

I number 64 were district cooper- Williard L. Boyd, St. Paul, poultry pathologists who spend Colonial period who were ators and 33 were not. How- Minn., told the 43th annual con- their lives working with dis- f r jg n tened out of their wits

The annual Fa rm Bureau dai ; ever before the end of the year ference of veterinarians at Cor -eased poultry is exceptionally b vB

t h e witch s c a r e s , ry cat t le breeding school will 14 of ihese non-coonerators had nell University that artificial low. a Cornell University vet- 0 n e n J h t ^0 t n e s t o r v

be_ held J an 29 and130 . G l e n n become cooperators with the nomina t ion methods had add- erinarian said. , >oes . he was 'visi t ing a neigh-CHne assistant agricultural d i s t r i c t ^ , e d ^ o v e r infertility. Dr P. ?•}**§* ? S S rthr b o r a n d P t n e c o u r s e o f t h e

agent reported The place has M veterinarians, B©^.debunk statements that dhr- e v e n i n - s , c o n v e r s a t i o n ex-not yet been set. F I N D RAISING PLANNED said, have found vibrionic eased birds are a senous p r e s s e d t h e w i s h t h a t h e

^ f M f ^ wt ^ ^ ^ ^ S t - ^otUvitlP - Freehold G?»„ge abortion disease of cattle to be source of ^ ^ a " ^ e

cc t ° ^ might actually see a witch.

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s t a l e i ° i J ? / . L K ^ m e t l n t h e I-O.O.F. hall Wed- increasing. He added that one Chancers that ™ public will H e h a ( ] n o { J o n t Q w a i t f o r

of t ime it has had these schools n e s d a y evening with master Hoi- effective t reatment for infected get a disease, as a result oi m w v h o m e h e m e t a consecutively, more than 20 , i s M o r t o n p r e s i d i n g The^mpm- cows was the use of antibiotics, prenarme or ^ m g meat irom _ U u l e m m Qr n 0 M r years bers decided to hold some activ- He cautioned . tfeat hormones a bird that may ;De ^ r r y u i } , ^ g ^ ^ h a n d j e s t

At the meeting a Cornel Uru- . J a n 2 4 t ^ . ^ ^ should be administered only by a disease arc quite remote, i d o u t h i m . v i e . versity specialist will discuss * a veterinarian. " e said. . .„„ , . , . , *^ t h p «host fled the aspects of breeding, includ-!

# , o a i u „ . _ 1tMWWim Artiflrlal breeding of dairy He said there is no. relatton- orou-^ j n l toe ^ ^ ^ ing physiology, artificial breed- GRANGE TO MEET cattle now U, a multi-million ship between human chicken ™ I , n J " ^ ^ ^ J j y 8 0 ™ ^ " 8

ng the choosing of bulls, and; Ashville The A«* He f - n « e dollar business in the United pox and fowl pox of poultry,

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