Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-01
EVENING Chat

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Bees. do not sting grapes, declares
| DR.. Fl. A. Surface. the State Zoologist
in answer to some complaints made
| by people that bees have ruined their
crops and asking what should be done
| to stop ii. The zoologist springs to
the defense of the bee in characteristic
fashion. Bees do not destroy grapes
/ and other fruits. There Is a mis-
taken impression about that all over
| the country says he, ut is true that
after holes are made they suck out
| the juices, but they do not have teeth
adapted to making the openings in
fruits and they do not do this mis-
chief. The fruits or grapes are really
| opened by wasps. hornets and the
| like. as well as by birds, or even by
| disease germs causing them to break
| In certain spots. Sometimes a grape
will become dead ripe and split. But
the bees do not open them" DIR. Sur
| face says that he tried the experiment
| of placing bee hive over a bunch OF
grapes that were sound and found
| that they were not touched, while
hive placed over a bunch that had
been puHctured resulted in the bees
| sucking the grapes dry. Hornets and
wasps, he says, often sting fruit, but
bees. never.
This is the time when the young
man raised on a farm has a chance
of getting a job when the mills and
factories are forced to run on reduced
scale or shut down and he has to
hustle to find the wherewithal to live.
One of the York county farmers who
attends market in the city came here
last night and was talking about the
conditions in the country. I'VE have
had good year and We are looking
forward to a better one. but we have
credit us with by a long shot" said
he. I'VE have had ready sales for
grains and fruit. up to certain point,
but we have had to let fruit go to
local buyers at very cheap rates. One
thing the farmer will not have to
bother about and that will be the sup.
ply of labor. We can get all the hands
we need and in the last week l have
picked out three good husky fellows
who were raised on farms and who
were laid off in the city. There's no
| reason why any farmer should want
for help this year."
Another man from over the river in
commenting upon the conditions con-
fronting fruit raisers said that the big
crops this year would do a lot toward
putting a damper on the planting of
commercial orchards. Orchards are
commencing to be so thick that they
are crowding each other in the Cum
berland Valley and some people are
going to lose money" said he. This
year we had the greatest yield and it
was also the best because q lot of
people applied scientific methods in
treating the fruit. Consequently, we
all had fine crops. But everyone else
had them, and peaches and pears, for
which we should have gotten top
notcher prices. we had TO sell low. In
fact. people who came to the farms in
49, ~I.sI i IT,
their own got bargains that they will
talk about. What we need is some
place to sell to, or if we cannot find
the market we ought to have a good
cold storage place near here"
Applications for permits to hunt on
state lands have been filed at the
rate far exceeding anything ever
known up to this time. The hunting
season really does not get started
before the middle of the month, but
applications are coming in by the hun
dreds for permission to esta ablish
camps or state forest reserves and to
hunt thereon. The state has a million
acres of reserves now and six game
preserves have been established on
them. Six more are to be created.
Men over at the Harrisburg pipe
anu pipe DelulUS WOThS nave Deen
having fun with the foreigners There
is much interest among the night
force in the comet which appears be-
fore daylight and every morning men
go out to hunt. The foreigners be-
came interested and one Bulgarian
said that there was no comet. He was
told to get smoked glasses and look
in the east He informed his friends
and they all got smoked glasses to
find the celestial visitor. They have
not found anything up to date.
Tt is a matter of interest to many
Pennsylvanians to know that Lieu
tenant Wedingden, who commanded
the German submarine U9 which
sunk three British ships, is a nephew
of prominent resident of Williams
port, Fred Wedingden. He has vis-
tied in this country and has a number
of friends up the state.
Some people still have the habit of
going into the old Post Office building
Notwithstanding the fact that it is in
the hands of the enlargers, and dear
knows when they will get through
with it. Almost any day you can see
men walking up the street thinking
about something and turning in at the
Third or Walnut street entrances and
then sheepishly backing out. Force
of habit clings.