Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-29

ureds or thousands of young fish and
IL is the plan to start shipment OF
trout, yellow perch. bluegills, catfish
and frogs These fish will be a year
old so that they will be able to take
care of themselves. The output of all
OF the hatcheries has been larger than
usual.
Since the State has remodelled most
OF the hatcheries a plan is being con-
sidered for the establishment of a
school for fish culture at Pleasant
Mount hatchery in Wayne county and
commissioner n. R. Butler will ask
the next Legislature for an appropria
ton. He says that the department
has had much trouble in getting suit
able persons to take charge of the
rapidly expending fish culture work
and school would enable men to be
trained in handling fish of every spe.
cies planted" in State waters.
Settling Taxes.-Settlemen of State
taxes involving many thousands OF
dollars are being made at the Capitol
daily and it is expected that sixty
days hence when the taxes are due
that there will be large receipts at the
state Treasury. Approximately co.
600 settlements are made by the fiscaI
officials during a year and the mum.
ber made thus far at the Auditor Gen
erals Department is larger than here.
tofore. In the next month large ap-
preparations for schools and hospitals
will be in order and efforts to make
collections of State taxes are under
way
Granery Moth.-Dr. H. A. Surface
the state zoologist, has issued a warn
ing to farmers to be sure that barns
and granneries are free from the gran
cry moth before storing their wheat
The moth has been reported from
Lancaster county.
Mfr. Elliott In Charge Investiga-
ton of the tracts of property offered
to the State for the auxiliary forest re-
serves is now being carried on by For
estry Commissioner S. b. Elliott OF
Brookville, who was instrumental ir
getting the act creating the preserves
introduced. Under the statutes of 1918
lands may be placed under State con.
troll while timber is growing and sew.
eral dozen properties have been of.
fered to the State for supervision
while reforestation is under way
Steps are being taken to determine the
value of the properties and what work
would have to be done and also tC
work out a system whereby the auxil
liary reserves can be administered anC
the cost collected when the timber is
cut. 1t is expected that large acre.
age will he added to forests on wa.
tersheds as a result of the auxiliary
reserves.
Coal in Feed.-A cattle feed found
to have been adulterated with ter
per cent of coal dust has caused the
arrest of a dealer in farm supplies il
Armstrong county and officials of the
State Department of Agriculture la.
boratory are wondering what caused
the manufacturer to use such a singu.
lar means of adulteration. Analyses
of various cattle foods made at the
Capitol lately have disclosed the use
of seeds of various weeds, of chaff anC
other plant materials used as adul.
terants, but this is the first time thai
mineral has been found. The feed
in question was for calves and was
thoroughly mixed with the meal.
Abandoned Farms.-Long investi.
cation by officials of the Department
of Agriculture has shown that there
is no such thing in pennsylvania as
an abandoned farm. Every farm re.
ported as in that class was investlgat.
ed and it showed that everyone had
an owner who was rather particular
about the title and who had pro.
nounced ideas on taxation of unprofit.
able land The bureau of statistics oi
the Department of Agriculture found
that there were 106 farms in all the
wide area of Pennsylvania on which
farming operations had been given uT
and which could be bought at bar.
gains. There were a number of other
tracts of land found which were moi
under cultivation and which had beer
cleared and it was found that they
were not even being reforested. The
suggestion Is made by State officials
that such idle land be used for cattle
raising, which would be extremely
profitable in this State If it could be
revived.
Repairing Roads.-Very rapid prog.
ress on the repair of State main high.
ways which are much travelled has
been made and officials of the depart.
ment are commencing to get compli.
ments where a few months ago they
were getting brickbats. The depart.
ment has over 1000 men at work
with a large amount of equipment anC
the maintenance is teing pushed or
roads connecting county towns.
Big Increase Filed.-The Curtis
Publishing company, of Philadelphia
to-day field notice of increase of stock
from $4,000 to S25, 100000
Investigating Outbreak - State
Health Department medical inspec
tors and engineers were hurried tC
Luzerne county to-day to make an in.
vestigation into an outbreak of epide.
mic dysentery in Foster township
Freeland, Upper Lehigh and Drifton
Twenty eight deaths have been report
ed in that district. The outbreak ot
| typhoid fever in Warren has beer
found to be due to milk.
Bell Starting Home.-Attorney Gen
eral John c. Bell and his son will sal
from Rotterdam for home to-day.
POmp Must Go Back.-The state de
partment to- day honored a requisi
| tion from the governor of Alabama
for return to that state of Pomp Dick
erson, under arrest in Pittsburgh OF
| a charge of murder in the first degree
Rush of Visitors.-This week brok,
| records for crowds at the capitol
Every day there was a rush of visitors
and the guides were going all day long
| The Waynesboro excursion caused
| rush to-day.
Public Service List-The Publ,
| Service commission will begin IT.
| first September meeting on Tuesday
| but 1t is not considered likely that an!
action will be taken in rate cases o
the industrial railroad actions. A few
complaints about rates are scheduled
| for Tuesday and on Wednesday eigh
| teen contracts between public servic,
companies and municipalities includ
ing the Bell Telephone and Highspir,
are scheduled to be taken up will