Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-23
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ing to plant as much corn as the
can take care of this year and ar
bending efforts to get the seed cor
of the highest terminating power
while they are looking up fertilizer
with an eagerness that has not bee
manifested for years, according I
men who have been attending tn
farmers institutes and other gather
lngs. The reports which have bee
coming to the State Department q
Agriculture tell of very large attend
ance at these institutes. York, Leba
hon' Berks, Bucks, Erie and othe
counties largely agricultural havin
nao thousands in attendance wit
farmers appearing not only
slelghs but automobiles. The buI
VI the farmers have bombarded th
state institute lecturers with oueg
tlons about the supply of farm labc
ana asked much about the ruIinq
IN regard to agricultural labor unde
the dratt act. The inquiries regard
ing SEED corn and soil treatmer
tiaNe neen very numerous. A ger
erdi ulsposltion to increase acrea
ueNoteu 10 grains and to take II
Sleep raising again has also bee
etiomn. en- me Institutes will close
;Iie neAt three weeks. They are no
IN Pios ress In Berks, Northumbe
iand, Crawford and Montgonoer
meetings in the north central sectio
nave ended. The speakers at the n
sttutes have been adding food cor
serVation to the agricultural talks
Game and Fishery COMMISSIONS,
oL HenhsylVania are all strongly OF
poseo 70 any suspension of the gan
ia"s or the State for the period
the war and have protested
Nashlilston TO any steps being ia
en- winch would let down the ba
on the score of making food mo
plentiful. DR.. Joseph Kalbfus 90
retary of the State Game Commit
sion, says he does not think tb
ahythlng like that will be done in r.
sara 10 game laws as it would unC
years OF conservation, while Natba
II. Butler, State Commissioners
flsherles, says he will protest to II
Gnu ana VIII not abate the laws
lHe state winch he contends are Ii
9fdi 1: enough TO supply plenty of fis
distribution, he contends. is mo
protest to Pennsylvania senate
and congressman and sent comics
sportsmen in which he declares III
the disappearance of the buffalo an
Wlld pigeons and prairie chicke
was the result of careless huntir
ana Iears that any suspension
game laws for the war would lead
eXtlnctlon of not only game. Ia
BIRDS which are of great value TO I
farmer. The suspension of gan
laws, he holds would DESTROY n val
able assets, which is destined
grow more valuable as the wears
by. 0'''9
Mrs. Charles NJ. Alexander. wi
OF the chorister of the State Y.
g. A. convention at Zion Church
the founder of the Pocket Testame
| League. Mr.. Alexander tells ma
| interesting tales'o the growth of
League. At present. he is touril
tne camps and cantonments. wi
ms party oil lnstrumentalists and
baritone soloist. In all of the camt
tHe soldiers are eager to join
leasue; AT yesterday mornings sc
SION ne gave demonstration
now his party conducts Y. M. C..
! meetings in the camps. Pocl1
gospels of st. John containing So
eral familiar gospel hymns and +
stories of DR.. Chapman's and Ale
ander's conversion are given to
sold1ers and the booklets were d
trlbuted among the delegates in
convention church. Mrs. Chapm
was an English girl, who, VIII
working in a factory. conceived
idea of inducing her friends in
mill, to read the Testament. n
idea spread and to-day, thousan
have signed the pledge card, agre
ing to carry New Testament.
to read chapter daily.
The chances of a flood when f,
Is hard to get have caused sor
rather amusing preparations to
made. The other day a man indu
ed anXlously about prospects of hi
water in South Harrisburg. "T
reason L want to know" said he
| because l have a little coal and
there is going to be high water | a
going to move it to the attic"
|
The appearance of the big loc
motives doing auxiliary duty on
| long trains moving into and abc
| Rutherford yards which bear
| letters u. S. A" on their tende
Lring the transportation side of
war pretty close to home. Harr
burg is great railroad town
we are accustomed to "P. r I
and "P. q r." just as we are TO /
signs on tho street cars. The On
berland Valley, Western MarvIa
and other railroads in this secti
send an engine along pretty oft,
but when Uncle Sam sends I'm
gines with his own initials on
tender the government cont
seems TO he n grim reality. Tho
gines with the national initials
some of those built for the Russi
Government, but taken over bv 7
country.
Few people know it. but the
cent mid winter show of farm nrf
ucts brought together some of
finest exhibits of corn ever known
the State. OF course, Pennsylva
could not get into the class with n
thirty inch ear reported from
safe distance of a thousand mi
but 1t has been able to make so
| displays that are worth while. d
| of the interesting things was an
with twenty-siX rows of corn. EIa
teen and twenty are an oddity.
| there was an ear here on show II
! broke the record. The general cd
exhibits were declared to be far a
away the best ever seen in Harr
burg, If not in this part of the Sta
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE