Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-16
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If there is any doubt about Penn
sylvania railroad employees doing
their bit with gardens take a trip
east, west, south or north. One need
not travel far from Harrisburg to
be convinced that there has been un-
usual activity in raising vegetables.
ON the Northern Central branch, bA-.
boro, there are fourteen big truck
patches belonging to Harrisburg
shopmen and other employees. Raj.
ROAD men spend many evenings loun-
Ing after these gardens. With the
present system of working there =
scarcely day that the gardens ara
not looked after. On Saturday after
noon When the shops are closed
down there is generally a big reunion
OF garden owners. Between HARRIS
burg and Losh's Run, railroad men
control no less than fifty vegetable
gardens. OF this number more than
thirty per cent. are Harrisburgers.
Between Harrisburg and Millers-
burg there are at least a dozen; and
eastward as far as Middletown Juno
tion, large crops of vegetables are
being raised. These gardens are
owned by Philadelphia division men
residing east of Steelton, who are
employed as trackmen.
Local gardeners who have been
digging into their potato hills are
hlghly gratifled with what they have
round. One West Shore citizen, who
never knew what a garden meant
unul he began to plant potatoes last
spring, put in a half peck. To-day
ne Is the most delighted man in his
secilon' Last evening he took a
tork, went into the garden and
tossed out bushel and q half of
ine nnest kind of potatoes; big fell
lows nearly all of them. Which is
pretty fair yield for beginner.
Sweet potatoes also will be n
bumper crop hereabout. Not yerv
many Harrisburgers raise sweet po-
tatoes' but more have rows of this
oeilclous vegetable this year than
ever before. This is not easily ex-
pIalned for sweet potatoes are cheap-
er to plant. easier to grow, almost
Tree from pests and more expensive
on the markets than white potatoes.
Bugs do not bother sweet potatoes.
and only one or two CIVILIZATIONS are
necessary. They grow to large size
ana are of fine flavor in local ground,
Notwithstanding the old notion that
the home product is not up to the
Jersey standard.
One of the most extensive and sue
cessful sweet potato growers in this
iocallty Is Robert j. Walton, whose
Dig vegetable and fruit farms near
Hummelstown will be the scene of
an outing of the Rotary Club of Har-
rlspurg early in September. 1t is
Mr.. Walton's custom to entertain
the Rotarians and their ladies the
hrst meeting night in September.
when they partake of roast corn and
paked sugar cured ham, for which
the walton farms are famous.
The Pittsburgh Press. of August 1
contains extensive mention of the
work Captain James NJ. McCalley, of
TINS city, Is doing at Dayton, o.,
where he Is in charge of the train
ing of about 100 candidates for the
aviation crops of the United States.
There is a big aviation school at
Dayton and the hum of dozens of
Dig machines is music night and
DAY over that city. Captain Mccall
ley when first commissioned as can
tain went to Mineola, N. Y, where
he aided in drilling the recruits
there and learned all of the latest
stunts In military flying from men
who had experience in France. Aft
er completing this course McCalley
was sent to Dayton in command of
a company. 1t is his ambition to
60 to France but at present the
government is using every expert
enced aviator at its command for the
work of instructing the recruits who
are fiocking by the hundred to the
various centers. Captain McCalIey
has been of more than ordinary serv-
ice in this duty for the reason that
he has had extensive experience in
the infantry and artillery branches
of the Pennsylvania National Guard,
retiring from captaincy of artillery
to take the aviation commission and
has a knowledge of military map
making: He served with the artillery
at the border last fall.
"Harrisburg's busy place, but you
people up here at the Capitol would
| not be happy IL things were not
busy" said Representative I. X.
Urich, of Lebanon county, who was
here on a visit yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Urich says he /likes to attend
legislative sessions.