Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-22
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Harrisburg because of the meetings of
the State Board of Agriculture and the
allied organizations and the launching
of the first midwinter show of farm
products. 1t seems rather odd to be
talking about raising apples and cora
and shearing sheep and the difficulties
of grass butter when there are snow
banks in the street and the sleigh bel
| echoes to the automobile horn and tho
trolley gong, but it seems that this :
week in January is always given UP to
the farmers and they will divide at
! tention with the legislators who come
| back to Harrisburg tonight to take
up the real work of the session of
1917. The State board has been meet
| ing in Harrisburg for over thirty
! years. according to George Hutchison,
of Warriors Mark, who is one of the
| few survivors of the first session. TSe
meetings have been held in various
halls and in the Capitol. Years ago
the board used to meet in the Senate
chamber and in the old Supreme
! Court room and once it met in the
| State Library. 1t has been an inst-
tuition that has been attacked and
gone serenely on. In recent years the
| livestock breeders, that horticultural
| lists, the sheep raisers and others have
| been meeting here at the same time
and having joint meetings at which
the embattled farmers "resoluted' to
| impress their desires on the Legisla-
ture. This year the State Vegetable
FGrowers and State Veterinary Medical
| organization have arranged to have
their annual meetings in Harrisburg
and there will be about five meetings
going on while the Legislature is in
session and the City Council is doing
business.
Tt seems that the snow which has
been falling the last day or so is
worth Il good many dollars to the
farmers of the State, especially in
this section, because the acreage de-
voted to wheat is larger than it has
been for years. The high price of
grain and the certainty that there
would be market for it as soon as
threshed caused good many farmers
to plant wheat in place of corn and
from all accounts that rule of the
land, rotation of crops, has been some
what tampered with. 1t might be re-
marked in passing that the general
experience of farmers with hay has
been that it has been very profitable
crop and there will be a large area
devoted to alfalfa next spring. Hay
will be given much attention.
"The worst thing I have to think
about these days is the coaster" said
a motorman last night. "The kids are
out in full force with their sleds and
every street that has an incline has n
bunch. We have to sound the whistles
more than we do for farmers wagons
and automobile trucks and we keep
cars ready to stop on the instant"
The snowbanks have been put to
use again. There were few in the
central part of the city that the alert
| Floyd Hopkins did not pre- empt for
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iect to it. 1t does not violate any or
dinance like tacking a poster on II
pole and it certainly does attract at
tention.
While railroading is nothing like
: as arduous as it used to be back in the
days when airbrakes were in use
only on passenger trains and the long
coal trains are controlled from the en-
gine, there is not much of snap con-
neeted with handling the big trains
that are seen passing through the
city. Yesterday work was a tough
proposition in the SnowStorm and theS
frequent blocks of traffic caused the
flagmen and the brakemen to be on
the alert and to do some tramping
over rough tracks in deep snow. The
wonder is that schedules are so well
maintained in the present rush of
traffic and weather.
fered with the demolition of the build
! ings in the Capitol Park extension zone
| bought for the expansion of the States
: park and buildings have been disap-
pearing like the snowflakes which
have been falling the last ten days
7 The people in charge of the work say
that the demand for building material
is great and that as fast as it is taken
out of the old buildings it is sold, some
times before.
r The midwinter mosquito, like the
l househy that lives near the stove and
l the radiator, is with us and the wise
sight 1t is astonishing, the number
in houses in midwinter They gen.
/ killing is not difficult matter. With
5 turn up at any time and while they
2 do not sting it is always the part of
safety to kill a mosquito.
9 Several third d-class cities are watch
l ing to see the manner in which Har-
3 risburg handles the vacancy in Council
which has resulted from the death of
city has taken the lead in regard to
$ municipal legislation in many ways
2 and it's tryout of the Clark act has
/ been awaited with interest in more
r places than one would think.
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