Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-03
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Col. Henry w. Shoemaker, of the
Governors staff. has written an in
teresting article in the monthly
Journal of the Wild Life League, In
me open, in which he discusses
game conservation in a very matter
Oh tact way. Col. Shoemaker does
not approve of what has been done
ana says so, but he gives credit to
the motives of the State authorities
and remarks that the number of ner-
sons who think that they can run
the state game business better thanA
the veteran secretary, DR.. Joseph
halbfus. grows less and less each
year Inc colonel also says that The
1ahe commission is not in politics
anu Is composed of intelligent and
unseIiish men. The Colonel says that
natures method is the best for Penn
savanna and says that the first stem
10 De taken must be the elimination
OF forest fires, which means giving
the state Department of Forestry
What II asks. and by preservation of
hatural cover. Col. Shoemaker would
end what he calls "the bounty scan
aal instantly and would let all ami
mals and birds live as thew did
petore the white hunters sought to
upset natures balance" Tile colonel
also makes the interesting statement
that weasels are not as bad as paint
eu ana that cats are worse. 'If the
deer OF Pennsylvania deteriorate as
iast IN the next fifteen years as they
nave IN the past century" says he.
and study of their horns and
weight proves this, they will be no
larger than sheep and subject to Ali
manner OF diseases" The colonel
says game protection must discard
what he calls "cobwebby' methods.
II 1t Is to bring results hoped for
oy many sportsmen.
The suggestion that farm tractors
pc used at night as we'll as in day
IN plowing for farm work, made
yesterday by the Governor, will fa-
cllltate preparation OF ground very
much II the owners of such appIi-
ahces Will give their use to their
nelshpors. In the last few years tha
tap iuiaUer p OF such machines has ma
terlally increased in the State and
mere are quite a few in the Cum
perland valley and some in the Ieh-
anon valley. The owners have been
renting their services, much as is
done with threshing machines, i'm
some cases. The Governors idea is
10 40 that still more extensively and
| tllttl ny Wlue use of such
hlachlnes, day and nIght, the short
age of farm labor and horses. which
Is worrying the farmers, will be
overcome to considerable extent
Mechancal cultivators, too, can he
made OF material advantage in farm
work TINS year If judiciously worked.
experiments made with them by DIR.
II. A. SURFACE and others have DEM
onstrated that they are very valu-
able.
Flowing by night is no lest in
the suburban districts, especially
some places where there have been
lot sales and the thrifty owners are
putting their home sites into gar
dens, The high cost of building ma
terlalS is preventing MANY, from
building but they are planting. Night
after night there have been men and
women planting until after dark and
on a couple of occasions they used
lanterns to finish up a row. But
: the pest or all was out near Paxtang
iast night when a couple of men
had what looked like locomotive
headlight and plowed by its rays.
The seat in the Senate occunied
: by Auditor General Snyder has fallen
10 the lot of Senator Mcconnell, of
, northumberland. Senator Semmeps.
| OF Allegheny, takes McConnenS,
: place. There are now two vacancies
IN the upper branch, one from Allie
gheny caused by the death of Sen
ator Charles j. Magee, and the other
: from Schuylkill by reason of the
elevation of Senator Snyder to be
Auditor General. There will he an
other face absent from the Senate
J after this week. Harmon M. Kephart
who becomes State Treasurer next
4 Monday, has been chief clerk of tho
Senate. He is from Connellsville,
fayette county, and has been pop
! ular with all factions in the upper
branch.
Starting of No. Paxton furnace
and the reports that LochieI furnace
may be put into operation have
rather livened up things in that part
OF harrisburg which years ago used
to be hive of ironworkers. The
old ironworkers' dwellings have dis
appeared from Lochiel and only the
foundations remain of the rolling
mills. The furnace stands out as a
monument of former industrial ac-
tvity and If 1t shall be started il
will add much to that section. The
Paxton furnaces were classed as
never likely to run again but the
newer one is now making iron as
fast as in the last boom time.
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Among Harrisburg visitors yester-
day were two men prominent on the
bench. one was Judge Isaac John
son, of the Delaware county coutrs
and the other Ex-Judge Harry
White, of the Indiana county courts
An interesting sdelight was
thrown upon the way the present leg.
islative procedure is regarded by a
group of students who sat in the gal
lery of the House yesterday and
commented upon the way things are
done. "They stick to the rules of or
der, but they do other things" was
the remark of one student. Yes,
said another, but the Senate does
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