Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-06
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The Hessian fly has not been able
to render much assistance to the
Fatherland by attacking the wheat
of Pennsylvania. this year because of
the offensive defensive undertaken
by the farmers last fall and main
tanned this spring. Reports coming
to the State Department of Agri-
culture show that late plowing and
the turning down of volunteer
wheat last fall and the attention
given to wheat this year prevented
the usual ravages of the pest that
takes ltS name from the German
principaltty. From some sections of
the state where the fly caused loss
last year there has not been q COM
plant, while the fly seems to have
peen pretty well checked in the CEN
tral wheat growing counties. Very
favorable reports have come from
farms In the northeast and northern
sectlons. where more wheat was set
out, especially in anthracite counties.
Wnere grain is reported as getting
attention again. According to the
reports coming here. the threshing
season is getting into it's stride, al
tnough late, due to the unfavorable
weather, which harmed the crop as .
much as the Hessian fly did last
year. In some counties, notably
northern, farmers have adopted the
western plan of allowing their wheat
70 settle in outdoor bins formed
py temporary roofing over in the field
te petoTe threshing. This plan, which
mas peen urged lately, got its first
i tiiai III some counties this year and
the "eather operated against q fair
test. state officials are urging in the
mass OF correspondence which the
agrlcuitural activity has brought to
Capltol Hill that the greatest care
be devoted to seeing that Rranaries
are free from traces of the grain
moth, which last year cost the farm
ers or the state a loss of over a
quarter-million dollars. 1t is esti-
mated that the state wheat crop,
which was 25,000,00O bushels last
year, will fall short between 5000, 900
and 100000 bushels.
Recent army orders announce the
promotion of two regular army Of
ncers well known here. Robert C.
Williams, major, Twelfth Cavalry,
detailed as the division Inspector
instructor at the Adjutant Generals
office and the officer in charge of
the muster of the Eighth Regiment
uhllo lleutenant
| colonel and assigned to the Sixteenth
| Cavalry. Colonel Williams has been
here soma time and is we'll known
to many In Harrisburg. G. ". II.
| Mosely. major, artillery, who was
chief of staff of the Pennsylvanln
division at El Paso last winter, be-
comes a lieutenant colonel of ar
tillery.
| T1nirHY
James Fou5t, who was elected presi-
dent of the National Association of
American Dairy, Food and Drug
officials at the annual convention in
Atlantic City, has been a member of
that organization for number of
years and has served on the COM
mittees which have been striving for
uniformity in enforcement of food
laws. He is the first Pennsylvania
to be chosen to the office.
1t is an interesting thing to note
in view of General Pershing's sug-
q gestion that general officers sent to
France should not be over forty-five
years that all the generals and all
but four coionels of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania, now part of
the United States Army, are under
forty-five. And three of the four
are mighty close to it. They are
men who have been identified with
the Guard for twenty years in some
cases.
It's awful when the golf bug
catches anyone. The Reservoir Park
course has it's devotees and the coun-
try club courses have their regulars,
Zealots or fanatics. as the case may
be. But the prize story is told of
a man, like some others. who had no
time to play 'the fool game" until
he started to play it. Two Harris
burg journalists. golf yearings, in
duced a former Cambria county
scribe to accompany them to Reser-
voir Park the other afternoon They
had been badly bitten and the
eX-Cambrian says he went along so
that he could have some peace. It
took him fifteen shots to make the
first hole. When he finished the
eighteenth hole he was so thoroughly
inoculated that he bought nineteen
dollars worth of clubs and also took
out a membership in the clubhouse
A dollar and something per hole is
pretty fair for beginner.