Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-15

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should be plowed down. Suggestions
that some land in wheat which is not
promising be put into buckwheat
are made. 1t is declared that some
parts of Lancaster, Chester, Della
ware and Montgomery counties will
not have so per cent. of the average
yield for ten years.
The report is made by ]. AIdus
| Herr, farm counselor, who saws
Good fields are the exception in the
East. Quite an acreage in Chester
and Delaware certainly should not
be left stand. All persons who have
the time and help to do the work
should plow or dish wheat fields that
DO not show a prospect of a fair
yield. Where the rotation will suit
potatoes or corn might be planted
with advantage and yield a fair crop
on ground that otherwise would not
be worth harvesting. In soils where
buckwheat is adapted to the con-
ditions it would be we'll to sow these
unpGomlsing portions of the field
and produce a good crop of grain
which would be a valuable substi-
| tute for wheat flour Sweet corn
| is quite a valuable crop and could
| be planted in many of these bare
| places, and there generally is a ready
| market when the corn is in the roast
ing-ear stage; the crop could be har-
vested in time to seed the ground
to wheat in the fall. Another val
liable crop, now much neglected, is
broom corn. The writer can we'll
recall the time when every person
who had a small piece of land grew
| broom corn for his own use. This,
believe, to be good business, es-
! pecially since the price of brooms
! has increased three-fold. Some of
the ground could be planted to soup
! beans, very valuable asset in the
menu of all good househeepers, and
| few persons realize how nutritious
| they are. Since the war, the de-
| mand for beans for the army has
been very great, and every person
who has a piece of idle land should
plant sufficient for his home USE
| What is needed is more producers
| in proportion to present consump-
| ton, especially of all cereal cropst
and the best of these for substitutes
are corn, buckwheat and BEANS"
| Two Weeks Rcquircd-It will re-
quire fully two weeks to tabulate
| the bids received for the furnishing
of supplies to the various depart
mentS of the state government which
were opened yesterday. The con-
tracts will be let just before the
! first Monday in June. There were
fewer bids received yesterday than
in years, many firms declining to bid
owing to war conditions.
More Bonds Ordered-The State
Insurance Fund Board has ordered
purchase of $4,000 bonds of Allie
gheny county as an investment. The
board purchased $175,000 of the last
Liberty Loan.
Using Outlines-Arrests for catch
ing of salmon and bass, although
the season does not begin for sixty
days, have been reported to state
authorities by wardens A number
of instances of fishing with outlines
have also come to mind. 1t is un-
usually early for such violations of
| fish laws to be reported.
Bids Rejected-Highway Commits
sioner O'Neil has rejected all bids
for the construction of the road in
Camp Hill.
York Gets S37 ,5O7.o1-York conn
| tvs share of the second class town
ship cash road bonus distribution
VIII be SS7,5O791. 1t will be sent
: out by the State Treasurer soon.
New Lteutennnt.-Dr. Samuel Bris-
/ ter or Philadelphia, has been ap-
| pointed first lieutenant in the Med
ical Corps of the Reserve Militia.
Hearing Set.-June has been
hxed for hearing argument on the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit lease be-
fore the Public Service Commission.
| The Commission to-day arranged to
nave an engineering study made of
the Suburban Water Company prop-
critics in Allegheny county, against
which complaints had been made by
boroushs. The hearings in the Phil
| adelphia Suburban gas and electric
rates have been deferred until Nav
! 90.
Erie COmpiaints.-The CITY of Erie
! to-day filed complaint against the
service, cars, tracks and facilities of
| the Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction
| Company and a request for certifi-
! Gates OF excess fare pending deter
mination of litigation.
! Roger HOnored.-Dr. B. Franklin
Royer, Acting Commissioner of
Health, has been appointed a men,
Der OF the committee on sanitary
policy under war conditions, to re-
| port at the Conference of the State
| and Provincial Boards of Health of
North America at their meeting in
Washington June and 6. In the
same conference, in the SYMPOSIUM
on child conservation, he will make
report on what Pennsylvania is do
ing in child conservation.