Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-07
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While there may be sections OF
Pennsylvania where the planting OF
| wheat in response to the appeals OF
the Federal government has not been
| up to expectations, view of the
| country that can be seen from the
| dome of the State Capitol shows
more patches of green than known
in this valley for a long time. The
high point of the State House is a
wonderful place to gain an idea of
| the beauties of the Lower Susque-
| hanna and its lateral valleys, some of
! the fairest farming regions in the
! land and abounding as well with
natural features which are much ad-
vertised where they occur in other
parts of the country, but taken as n
| matter of course here. The view
! covers wide range of Dauphin,
! Cumberland. Perry and York coun-
! ties, and while Lebanon and Lancas-
| ter are a biz too far away to be dis
| cerned there are ridges which mark
| the lines. Scattered over the four
counties, almost with checkerboard
| like regularity are wheat fields. The
weather has been fine for growing
and the green stands up in grateful
contrast to the brown of the adioin-
! ing fields and the sere and yellow
corniieds. If the number of rectau-
| giles of rich green to be seen are any
| thing to go by, this section is going
to produce largely of the great cereal
| next year. There are also fields plant
cd with rye, although this crop is
not so generally raised hereabouts.
There is probably more uncut corn
| in the fields within twenty miles of
Harrisburg than has been known for
a long time and many farmers are
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| sure that they Will be able to cut 1t.
Corn has been raised very extensive
! ly in this section and the scarcity of
| hands has prevented some of 1T from
being gathered. The result has been
that it has been frosted materially
and some of it will not be of any
value except for feed. Even at that
it is hard to get people to harvest 1T.
1t is probable that many stalks Will
be held in tie field all winter and
this hint was given yesterday by an
agricultural expert: Except where
it is needed for bedding or litter-a
purpose for which shredded corn fod-
der is Valuable-it might better be
left standing and be husked from the
stalk. The stalks would then be re-
turned to the soil and provide con-
siderable humus and some fertility.
Where this practice is followed, 1t is
customary to break the stalks down
by dragging some long, heavy imple-
ment such as railroad iron or plank
drag, or even by rolling, when the
stalks are frozen. Then by disking
thoroughly before plowing, they can
be turned under with little trouble.
We believe 1t would be economy to
manage the Still standing corn in this
way where the stalks can be spared
from the barn, rather than defer
husking too long, and because the
cost of cutting is a serious matter
this fall"
Combination of perfect day, from
a meteorological standpoint, and an
election day holiday was too much
for number of Harrisburg hunters
to withstand and the woods and
fields were filled with men chasing
Benjamin Bunny, Peter Rabbit and
the rest of his numerous tribe. There
were a few quail routed out, but ow-
ing to the care which farmers are
displaying in looking after the fam
lily of Bob White there was not much
doing in that line and as for the
ruffled grouse they appear to have
forsaken this part of the state. Album
dant traces of wild turkey have been
reported from the Blue Ridge above
the city and in the Perry county
valleys.
Governor Brumbaugh's visit to the
camps where Pennsylvania soldiers
are stationed will be the first state
visits which the Governor has paid
to the Pennsylvanians in military
service this year. Owing to the TACT
that he was in Maine he was not
at the Capitol when the men entered
Federal service and departed for the
cantonments. Accompanied by Adju-
tant General Beary, chief of staff,
and the members of the military
| family, the Governor and his party
will be accorded the honors of re-
views at some camps and be officially
welcomed by the commanders of the
PennSylVanianS at others. The tour
will occupy more than a week and
cover most of the big southern camps
where there are sons of the Key
stone State, Camp Meade being first
on the list.
Times have changed and war
brings changes, but 1t is doubtful
whether boys in Harrisburg and vi
cinity will get reconciled to the fact
that bonfres were placed under an
interdict There was hardly a bon-
fire worth while last night and those
which did flame were of leaves and
cid dead limbs. The old bonfire
when boxes and barrels were begged,
borrowed or stolen is thing of the
past. Time was not so many years
ago when barrels used to diappear
about the first OF November and bon
fires were measured by their height.
Long before that the old river shore.
which was coated with filth and filled
with weeds before we took the sew
age out of the Susquehanna and
made the river front a thing of
beauty, used to be in violent erup-
ton from end to end of the city with
election night bonfires. But there is
\ nothing doing like that now and
kwhen the oyster people are charged
a half q dollar for barrel that they
used to get free it may be realized
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