Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
EVENING CHAT


IF the people who are thinking OF
setting out acres in fruit trees would
give their thoughts to raising live
ing In an enterprise that promises
more IN the way of early returns, but
Wouid add to the wealth of the State
as wen, said DR.. II. A. Surface, the
state zoologist, in talking about num-
srous applications that have come to
nhim Ior aavice about planting or
charos The trouble is that this State
is being overstocked with orchards.
Everyone seems to be wanting TO SET
out orchards Last year was an un-
usually good one for fruit but the re-
turns were small. What the people
want TO do is to plant fewer trees and
10 cultivate those they have and then
to keep the trees low SO that thew
can DC thinned out. IL the fruit grow
! ers or this State will thin ont their
crops they will be surprised at the
fine fruit that can be raised. We
raise now in our apple belt as fine
looking and as finely formed fruit as
Is better. here. We have enough new
trees Tor while. Because of the war
there is demand for livestock,
horses cattle and everything that fur
nishes food and animal products. The
war VIII not only create demand for
.he 1000 products. but think of the
feather that will be required and of
the draught animals that will be
needed. Turn some of the land on
which it is planned to set out fruit
trees into clover or grass and feed
1t to livestock The returns will be
as certain on the products as they will
De on wheat for a while. This State
it." "a
The demand for the States book
on the Gettysburg reunion has proved
source of embarrassment to many
people at tho Capitol because the sup
ply mas run out and people in every
State in the Union are writing to Har-
risburg asking for copies One of the
surprises has been the number of re-
quests from Pacific States where
former Pennsylvanians are living and
they have offered to pay whatever
price the State demands for it. Many
southern veterans who participated in
the reunion. The bill now pending
In the Senate will provide for the
further publication of the book.
In the office mail the other day Miss
Maude Miller, clerk and stenographer
to City Commissioner Harry II. Bow
public improvements, found a deli
cately tinted letter addressed to her
self, very personal and important"
Miss Miller promptly applied a hair
pin to the usual service and slit open
the note. The missive was signed
with some sort of nom de plume and
was postmarked Middletown. This
is what it contained:
Dear Miss Miller:
Here is a very important uues-
ton which I think you could an
swer better than anyone else I
Know. Please answer soon be-
cause. / am very anxious to
know. Here's the question:
Under the present conditions
and all things being equal, how
long will it take jeff to grow as
tall as Mutt?
Do answer soon.
Lew r. Palmer, chief inspector of
the Department of Labor and Industry
and an old Princeton football player,
has been in Pittsburgh preaching the
gospel OF clean pavements. Mr.. Pal
mer is one of the foremost workers
for safety first, and his ideas have
been told all over the State. Out in
PITTSBURGH he said that the greatest
menace to the public IS an icy pave
ment in much Travelled street.
The meetings of the various agricul-
tural organizations held in this city
last week have attracted national at
tention. Men identified with the ma
tional government and a number ofI
State governments have asked for in
formation on the proceedings and the
topics discussed. For an industrial
State, Pennsylvania seems to be at
tracing much attention in an agri-
cultural way.
Talk about Lochinvars comm out
o. the west?" said an Allison Hill man
the other day, there's a cat out
our way that has anything beaten |
ever saw in the feline realm. We
have a pretty maltese cat" he eX-
planned, ''and she has a host of ad-
mirers, but there's only one yowler in
the lot she seems to care a meow
about. He's a great big black fellow
and he pays our back yard a visit as
regularly as clock work every after
noon at 4. Sort of an afternoon tea,
as it were. And do you know where
that cat lives? Exactly four squares
away from our house"
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