Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-16
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Thousands of dollars worth OF
fruit and vegetables are wasted in
pennsylvania orchards and on Penn
sylvania farms every summer and fall
because there are not enough people
TO gather the products and to take
care of them All of this can be saved
and should be secured this year." de-
clared State Dairy and Food Commits
sioner James Foust in a statement
issued here to-day on ways to con-
serve the food supply. THE trouble
Is that the farmers and growers can
not take care of it and it rots on the
ground. 1t strikes me that people I
owning automobiles, grocers or food
dealers ought to make it their busi-
ness to find out when the tomatoes,
potatoes, apples and other things are
ripe and when they are being har-
vested and go out and buy up what
they can. And then they should pre-
serve 1T. The Dairy and Food Com
missioner said that the State had lists
of the farms and orchards and that
people could learn where they were
located in their neighborhoods very
easily. He said that many farmers
were only too glad to get extra hands
when things were ripe and that the
amount of produce that was lost be-
cause it could not be gathered or
| cared for would go q long ways to-
ward increasing the food supply if
made available. There ought to be
a revival of the old canning and pre-
serving days" said the Commissioner.
| People ought to can everything they
are able to secure this summer, not
in pint or quart cans, but in gallon
vessels. Put up everything eatable
this summer apd go out and buy it in
the country when possible. You will
get right prices then and you will be
glad of it next winter"
Probably the last of the big cases
in which John G.. Johnson appeared
in court outside of Philadelphia and
| Wilmington was in the test of the full
crew law in the Dauphin county court.
1t was the first action to be brought
against the act of 1911 and the noted
lawyer made a terrific attack upon it,
his speech being one of those famous
constitutional arguments that have
made him famous. Pitted against him
were Attorney General John G. Bell,
| the chief legal officer of the Tener
administration which had approved
the bill, and James Scarlet, special
counsel of the railroad brotherhoods.
| 1t was a two-day battle, one of the
most notable ever waged in the Dau-
phin county court and the audience
was composed of lawyers from every
county in this section. In fact, out
side of the railroad officials and men
who were the interested parties and
newspaper correspondents, the audi
ence was made up almost entirely of
lawyers, some of whom had to sit
in spectators benches for the first
time in their lives. Judge Kunkel up
held the constitutionality of the act
and although Mr.. Johnson promptly
appealed, the higher courts sustained
the Dauphin jurist. During the trial
there was considerable jesting across
the counsel table and couple of times
Messrs. Johnson and Scarlet were so
busy with each other that the wit
ness was quite lost sight of.
These are the dandelion days and
the way men, women, boys and girls
are combing the fields and cutting out
the weed which forms such fine and
healthful "side dish" makes one Won
der whether there will be any of the
yellow flowers this summer. The last
few pleasant days have caused hun
dreds of people to take to the grass
patches and to the fields about the
city to dig up the young and tender
plants. Dandelion does make fine eat
ing at this time of the year and prob
ably couple of hours pending over
and cutting does give an appetite
for it. People were to be seen along
every road leading in or out of Har-
risburg and Steelton Saturday, and
even yesterday, cutting out dande-
lions.
The new home of the Country Club
of Harrisburg has been an attraction
for good many visitors these after
moons. The clubhouse is showing it's
proportions and when completed will
be one of the finest in this part of
the State. Work is being rushed on
the building and also on the grounds
and the opening will be one of the
events of the summer in Harrisburg
social life.
Production of iron in Dauphin
county will be on the greatest scale
in it's history within short time
when the Central Iron and Steel Com
pany starts its remodeled No. 2 fur
mace. The activity at Steelton where
the Bethlehem Steel Company has six
furnaces at work is unprecedented and
the tonnage being turned out is prob
ably double what it was ten years ago.
There is a great deal to the sug-
gestion of a Philadelphia man con-
nected with Governors public safety
committee that persons embarking in
gardening or truck patching should
learn all about seeds first of all. He
points out that there is a limited sup
ply of seeds and that many of them
will probably be lost because of lack
of care in handling them. It would
seem to be an excellent idea for the
people in charge of schools or of Or
ganiZations which are backing gar
dening projects to have some talks on
the characteristics of seeds and how
to make garden. Gardening looks easy,
but the percentage of losses is pretty
high in any event, to say nothing of
what it will be when persons who do
not know much about it take up the
job.