Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-08
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People who have been lamenting the
conditions attending Dauphin countys
wheat harvest because of the cool
Spring and the Hessian fly are COM
mencing to feel better since the cutting
has been under way, as they are find
Ing conditions not as bad as painted
and are also able to note that there II
going to be corn crop that will 60
even better than that of last year,
which was somewhat noted for its size.
The wheat conditions hereabouts are
said to be about 5 per cent. below the
average for the last ten years, but
when one considers the immense crop
harvested all over the Keystone State
last FAN Pennsylvania has not much
| room for complaint as a matter of fact.
AS to corn, it can fairly be heard grow
ing at night and some of the fields
along the Reading railway and down
around Mtddletown are we'll worth
| watching, ride out the Linglestown
line or over the Valley Railways will
show some splendid fields of corn. The
stalks are strong. thick and of that
! splendid deep greeIi which means Wig
| ofous vitality. In some sections the
corn is blossoming.
A good many farmers in this section
| Of the State are taking steps to get rid
| OIL the Hessian fly, WHICH has been
annoying many growers of wheat and
| which, as a matter of fact, is not hard
to exterminate. The way to handle it,
| says DR.. H. A. Surface, the state
zoologist, and other authorities on the
subject, is to burn all the wheat stubble
| and ruined wheat as soon as the har-
| vest is ended, disking it where burn
ing IS not safe. Then everything should
be plowed under before August 15 and
all what is known as volunteer wheat
| should be destroyed. The sowing for
| next year should not be until after
September 2S or October 1 about here.
| Where possible, crops should be
rotated.
| The prohibition order out for the
| encampment of the national guards
men beginning at Mount Gretna to-
| morrow is causing much merriment
among the soldiers and their friends.
The men In khaki are being ''kidded"
! unmerclfully about the dry" time they
are going to have in camp. In turn
the men from this section are having
fun with their fellows from Berks and
Lehigh. AS a matter of fact, there is a
very general disposition among the
| soldiers to not only uphold the order
among themselves, but to see that
others do 1t. Medicine chests will have
TO be stocked only so far and no more.
|
There have been stories of snakes
on Capitol Hill during legislative sea-
| sons, but the other day a snake was
found on the lawn not far from the
conservatory How it got there no one
| knew and there was all kinds of specu-
lation, one being that it might have
gotten in through fertilizer or been
dropped by a bird. But they were all
given up. The snake was dead and it
seemed that it had been killed along
the river shore and dropped in the
park by some youngsters to see what
would happen.
Few hearings held in the Capitol
| nave been more impressive than that
| OF yesterday when representatives of
| the State of South Carolina formally
asked surrender of a colored man
! charged with murder, while the plea
was made that If the man was given
up he would go to certain death, pes-
| sibly lynching. The Attorney Ger !
eral or the Palmetto State sat beside IL
! colored Philadelphia lawyer and. as
one man aptly put it, presented the
law, while the other presented the
| gospel. The hearing recalled a similar
proceeding, originating in the very
southern county as that interested yes
terday, in 1889. James A. Beaver was
| then Governor and w. S. Kirkpatrick
Attorney General. The man who re-
pOrteu Ine nearing was Howard M.
Hoke. who reported yesterdays hear
ing.
A Harrisburg minister was urging
his congregation not to give up church
attendance during the vacation period.
Said he:
While you are in the city, be sure
To attend your church regularly. When
| out of town. go some place else"
And he is still wondering why GER
tain OF those who heard him smiled
broadly.
Thomas A. Baldwin, one of the
members of the Engineers Society of
Pennsylvania, has contributed an in
teresting account of the Cumberland
Valley Railroads various bridges
across the Susquehanna to the Journal
OF the society. The article, which is
illustrated with some fine photographs,
gives the history of the bridge from
the late thfrties when 1t was protected
to the present operation, which has
attracted much attention in engineer
ing. The article is replete with val
liable historical data.