Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-09
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While there Is good bit of joking
going on about the price of potatoes
and the scarcity of the very important
vegetable there are some serious sides
to the conditions surrounding the
crop and the man who looks for
lower prices next summer and fall had
better do some thinking and IL possi-
BILE secure Q plot of ground and plant.
In the first place the State supply of
potatoes has been pretty we'll bought -.
up and Lancaster and Lehigh coun-
ties, big potato raisers and among the
most provident OF the counties, are
generally reported to have sold the
bulk of their crops, including even
some or the potatoes ordinarily kept
for seeding purposes. The Pennsyl-
vania farmers are apparently relying
upon Maine potato farmers for their
seed potatoes with the chance that
the demand upon Maine may be as
great as in this State for the general
market. while the scarcity and condi-
! uons Following a short crop in many
states Will send the price skyward.
But here is another disturbing factor.
The price of labor. fertilizer and seed
may combine to send up the produc-
ton cost to a figure which would
paid for bushel a few years ago.
Some OF the men who study such
things declare that the cost of IL
bushel will run anywhere from forty
to fifty cents before single bushel
leaves the fields. Then add the cost
OF handling, shipping and SO on and
YOU have high price in the time of
plenty.
The signs on the trolley cars add
int inn ,0f t,,as
which car is coming next and at the
same time lend variety to the streets.
The Penbrook Square cars look met
ropolitan although the average man
would have to puzzle out what "P
So" means. The Twentieth street cars
are welcomed as a filler between
Nineteenth and Twenty-third and the
new b. car is easily identified as be-
longing to Berryhill street.
Very often some amusing stories
come to be told at hearings in extra
dition proceedings, but one of the fun
niest in long time was told Deputy
Attorney General largest yesterday.
In the case of w. +. Flowers. of this
city,, wanted at Frederick on the
charge of having participated in a
theft of 500 from a hotel in that
place during fair week, it was charged
that one of four had taken the money.
1t was supposed to be $500 when
SlOlSll anu the WOTu was Snppeu
along that the package contained that
sum. In the course of the hearing it
cropped out that the last man to get
the bale discovered that it amounted
to $500 and he is charged with having
double crossed" his pals, to have
split" only $500. According to the
story told the. man concerned in the
theft only discovered that $500 had
been taken when the owner of the
money preferred the charges.
! People interested in building opera
. tions are commencing to make nu-
: merous inquiries of folks connected
| with the Capitol Park extension work
about the chances of getting some of
I the materials in the buildings which
: will be sold on the last day of the
, month This sale is expected to clear
out everything but the churches prop
t critics in court and those used by the
State and thousands of bricks to say
nothing of other materials will be
: sold. The prospects are that thera
[ will be some very lively bidding foN
the properties. The contractors who
\ bought the last batch of buildings sold
: every scrap of material and are said
Y to have cleared nice profit in doing
i it.
r Yes, it surely must be here. On
one of the recent sunshiny days Cura-
tor Rothrock of the State Museum,
looking from an upper State Library
Building window in the direction of
the Auditor Generals department,
saw bird in swift flight stop suddenly
and alight and then hop along the
& ground where the snow had melted,
q and begin to scratch for food. Mr..
Rothrock hurried to the spot to see
e what manner of bird it was, and as he
= drew nigh there was a resonant
s whir-r-r and young but vigorous
e woodcock shot through the air
e towards Third street and was lost.
In backyard of a Front street resi-
dence just above Locust eight robins
= and two bluebirds were counted on
t Monday morning waiting for stray
t crumbs. Over in Camp Hill a resi-
: dent has been feeding half a dozen
/, bluebirds for several days, and the
S other day, during the fall of wet
r snow, she lifted a robin from a tree
and discovered that it was prevented
from flying because the wet snow
f had caked on its wings. Yes, it is
!, ''Spri-ing, spri-ing, bee-yewtiful
f spri-ing."
j, Quite a few Seats of members of
y the Legislature have been sat in by
6 admiring constituents this week. The
Legislature being in recess there have
been more visitors noticeable about
t the halls than usual with many inqui-
S ries for the lawmakers. AS a rule the
o people from up State are very eager
), to sit in the seat of their home men,
e ber.
: Return of pleasant weather yester-
e day gave the Capitol Park squirrels
Indigestion. There were many people
at the park yesterday afternoon, some
l of them regular friends of the squir-
| rels who had been unable to get
J around for a week because of the
weather and they made up for lost
time in the way of provender AS
result the squirrels and the pigeons,
too, were too well fed. They were
lazy to-day.