Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-14
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authorities started its campaign to
scatter corn doctored with strych-
nine near the places frequented by
crows and so located that 1t would
not be found by domestic animals
there have been organized moves to
clean up the crows. One reason is
that the crows have multiplied in
numbers considerably in the last few
years and there have been some
great rooSts established by the
grandfathers of the flocks in South
Pennsylvania. The crow is a tre-
mendous flyer and can cover coun-
ties in a day. He is held to be
exceedingly destructive to animal,
bird and plant life and his sins
more than counterbalance his value
as a killer of vermin. Scientific
tests have demonstrated that by ex-
aminations of stomach contents. 1t
is also held that in severe weather
such as we have had this winter
that the crow does not hesitate to
attack chickens and that the insect
destroying birds, already hard hit to
keep life by the weather, are it's
prey. Probably half dozen great
crow roosts exist in southern coun-
ties. There is one in this county
somewhere near Linglestown and
another in the York hills. A fly of
thirty miles in q day is nothing for
the big crows which we have seen
on the outskirts of this city or wing
ing over the frozen Susquehanna.
Another big roost is in Perry coun-
ty and there are others in the South
mountain region of Cumberland and
Franklin counties and in York there
are several. Lancaster and Chester
county farmers have reported some
such gathering places and the vi
cinity of these isolated, dreary spots
Is to be sown with poisoned corn,
which will not kill pheasants, quail
or chickens, although it is doubtful
whether any such fowls would last
a quarter of an hour that close to
the home of the rapacious crows.
York County farmers have organ
lied crow shooting expeditions to
get rid of the pests, which is rather
conclusive evidence that the black
coated, cawing marauder is nuis-
ance to farmers. If the other farm
ers do the same thing there will be
fewer crows in the corn next spring.
"Have I missed any halls in Har-
risburg?" asked EX-President Taft
on Saturday night at the Capitol. "I
have spoken here several times and
think 1 have covered the whole list.
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the Capitol; once at a big ball which
seems to me to have been down
town; at the Board of Trade hall
and at Technical high school," The
big hall the former president refer
red to is Chestnut street where he
addressed a mass meeting held un-
der the auspices of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen some sum-
mers ago. He is a favorite with
II To-. -frlN,
sure of crowd of friends and be-
levers in him.
Mr.. Taft has lost none of his
humor with the passing of the
years. Saturday night when he fin
ished his stirring address at the
Capitol he had an intimation that he
would have to address an overflow
meeting and turning to the men
about him on the rostrum he said:
Where do we go from here, boys?"
When he came back into the Hall of
the Representatives there was a
scarcity of chairs and he took a rath-
er small one near the piano. Some
one fastened to hand him a more
capacious chair. "Oh, don't mind.
If this chair l have is not suited
We'll soon know it," remarked the
former president. During the adj
dress of Congressman Fess the Ohio
man who had been so bound up in
his address that he had not noticed
Mr.. Tafts change of position refer
red to THAT most distinguished
diplomat on my left" On his left
was State Librarian Thomas Lynch
Montgomery. Mr.. Taft waved his
hand at MIR. Montgomery and re-
marking that it fitted well' Joined
in the laughing.
One of the city's prominent
clergymen applied an old story
about the darky parson who re-
Trained from preaching about the
warmth of q certain place of future
punishment in cold weather to com
ment on prevailing conditions yes
terday. The minister was on his
way home. The church had not
been well heated, and he was walk
ing briskly. Walk up, here. I
want to get warmed up" said he to
a friend who joined him and was
disposed to tread cautiously in def
erencc to the pavements.
81 should think that you could
have kept warm by referring to the
lake of fire which you like to bring
into your sermons for us Sinners
was the barbed shot that he got
from the friend.
IF you had been around today
you would have heard me go one
better on the colored brother who
said he would not preach on hell
because the rheumatic sinners would
want to go there at the first frost"
retorted the clergyman. "In the
hereafter there will be a place
where there will be neither occa-
sion for fuel administrators or COM
missioners to lower the high cost of
living - for the earthly things will
have passed away It's worth while
getting in line for"