Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-03
DUTY OF PENNSYL VANLANS TO
DEFEND STATE FROM ISLANDER
State Highway Department
Not Responsible For Tie-up
of Road Funds
Pays High Tribute to National
Guard; Revenues in Good
Shape

farms. This led to the establishment
or schools of agriculture, but the great
oody of men occupying the farms of
our State could not drop the impor-.
SanI work OF providing food products
lor our people to enter these schools
as students. and so one of the first
mes or educational work to which the
department turned its attention was
the institute. The farmers
institute work has recently been sup
Plefnented by the work done by a
corps or well-qualified farm advisers.
Another form of educational work ia
uone by the bureau of economic zool-
osy. which also has charge of the
horticultural work of the department.
n agents of this bureau go into
every county of the State for the in
spection of orchards, reporting to the
owners the presence of diseases or
pests that are injurious to fruit trees.
at the same time reporting conditions
as found to the chief of the bureau
VINO mails to the owner of such or
chards instructions for the treatment,
ol tne u~htaVorable conditions reported.
me most important duty of the de-
partment is the enforcement of the
pure food laws. Our people spend an
nually about $50 per capita for food
making a total of S720, O0O, 900. Large
as this sum is, the valu of public
nealth n business morals to the
10 NoSllN EIedler. \ slim
mary of the operations and cost of this
branch of the public service from 1907
10 1918, inclusive, shows that the cost
OF the service is about ~ cents for
each $1,000 worth of food
Whlle the receipts from licenses and
uies are ABOUT twice the amount of
Tue expenditure, so that there is no
direct tax upon the consumer. In the
year 1913 the receipts of this dena IT.
nlent were $173, 500; $4,000
we therefore must realize that orr
A~srlcultural Department is awake to
~ necessary OF encouraging quantity
IN production and guaranteeing the
quality of hat which is produced
CLOSELY connected in interest and
Importance to our agricultural work
IL our Department of Forestry orc
ated In the year 1901, although the
state established its policy of land
purchase in 1897, since which tive
there has been bought 1902 acras
at an average price of $2.27% per
acre. Receipts from water rents. for
est products, mineral royalties and
from other sources now aggregate
So4'OOO, which amount is being SLOWLY
put surely added to and will eventuallv
constitute a fund in the earnings from
W.hlch our public schools will he tbe
ulrect benefciaries. This great work
mas cost the State to January I 1914
slightly less than 81, 900. 600 and renra'
sehts an asset of more than Sc, O0O. 900
IN ADDITION to the inestimable indirect
value to industries. agriculture. water
supply and the health of our citizens
cad in Conservation
Remember, therefore, that our
state leads in the work of forest CON
~serVation; that the State owns more
IMAM a million acres of land: that II
pIotects nature in her work in the
forest: that we are clothing with q neu.
growth of trees our denuded hilIsideS
thus cleansing and healing the scars
made upon the landscape by the hand
OF man that they may enhance in
beauty and in value to the ioy and
peneht OF the coming generations.
Not only is the State ever heInfuI
To u people who are engaged in apri-
cultural pursuits with respect to the |
treatment of the soil in order that the
value may be enhanced. but she as
wei Keeps a watchful eye on the live
STOCK reared or shipped within the
boundaries of the State. and to the hat~
ter systematizing of this work tba |
state Livestock Sanitary Board was
created for the purpose of sunervising
the treatment of transmissible dis
eases OF animals and to formulate the
pest plans of controlling and eradi-
eating such diseases. This board uas
the first state organization in America
to establish a laboratory for st1Idvine
the diseases of animals and man,
featuring and distributing, free Of
charge, v~accines, serums. etc. orr
meat hygiene agents examine the ami
mails before they are slaughtered. GER
Trying the fit and condemninp tho
unit for food. During the mast two
years the meat hygiene agents also
inspected $4,000 diaries and found
some 5000 of them in a dangerousiv
u~nsanitary condition. The great vaine
of this work. Therefore, must be mani
fest to all. ~
When we speak or reflect unon
country life, the farms, the brooks and
the forests, our thoughts naturaIlv
turn to the songbirds in the omen. the
fish in our lakes and streams and the
wild life in our forests, and It is he
u of the great interest taken hv
u splendid citizenship in the prona,
cation and protection of our fish. wild
birds and game that a Department of
Fisheries was established in 1903 and
a Board of Game Commissioners an
pointed. Because of the protection
given through the Board of Game
commissioners more deer run through
u forests now than fifty years ago
and hunters in the open season have
killed some 1000 bucks within the
past two years. We last fall issued
in this State more than 500. 900 resi-I