Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-16

to freely give eggs and chicks to
persons who cannot afford to buy
them. The State Department OF
Agriculture pledged its word to back
the great cause, footing all bills
for giving the public precise in
formation. A book called Back
yard Poultry" will be issued shortly
giving minute instructions. The
Liberty Feeds" will be on the mar
ket presently and they simplify the
troubles of feeding. Besides these
the government authority empha-
sized the necessity of backyard
poultry person utilizing table scraps
and garden gleanings.
Must Produce to Eat
Chairman Delaney put the pepper
in the big audience with a sharp
resume of the situation, quoting
Lord Rhondda, British Food Com
missioner who said recently: "The
whole world will be threatened with
II famine at q much earlier date
than we realize" Complementing
this the chairman informed that
the United States would shortly is
sue this warning: UNLESS you per-
sonally produce you are likely to go
hungry" 1t is no longer a case of
each one doing his bit. Each must
do his utmost. The government has
started things by permitting live
chicks to be sent by parcel post and
it will do everything possible. to en-
courage a mighty production of
hen-feod, for every ounce of pork
and meat is needed abroad.
1t was pointed out that an aver
age flock of ten birds for every fam
~, yY,;t H.
200. 100000 hens which could be
largely fed and maintained from the
kitchen and garden waste and should
produce 1,500,00O,00O dozen (1S,OO0
900, 0,000) eggs a year.
Would Help Army
The keeping of a small home
flock of laying hens by every fam
lily living in suburb, town or viii
lage or having small backyard in
connection with q city home will do
more to help provide food necessary
to maintain our men in the Army
and feed the people at home than
can be accomplished by any other
means. At the same time it is q
pro 9ctical way of reducing home ex-
penses and regulating the cost of
living.
The size of the flock should be
regulated by the number of persons
in the family to be fed and the
of table scraps kitchen and
garden waste, that otherwise would
be thrown away, which could be
used for feed: From two to three
hens for each person in the house
hold should keep a family supplied
with all the fresh eggs they re-
quire. Every one that has twenty
square feet of yard space can keep
chickens to advantage.
The machinery for building a
poultry army in this vicinity is all
ready, now, cooperation being as
sured to-day among the Central
Pennsylvania Association, the Penn
sylvania War Poultry Commission
and the Poultry Raisers of Harris
burg. The executive committee of
the Association were all present to-
day: Chairman Ehrman B. Mitch
ell, s w. Brjghtbill, Isaac Stees and
p. Edgar Hess.
The County Farm Bureau agents,
whom the prospective poultry raisers
Camp Hin; S. w. Brightbill, PEN
brook; w. r. Douglas, Park Avenue.
Camp Hill; p. Edgar, Hess, 22S
Market street; George Hill, River
side; william Lautzbaugh. Pen
brook; William Rufus McCord,
Chestnut. between Twenty second
and Twenty-third street; Guy Myers,
Siddonsburg; e. 3. Mitchell, Beau
fort Farms or 109 North street; c.
w. Reeves, 1910 North street; DR..
A. l.. Shearer. North Sixth street;
Howard Speece, SpeeceviIle; Isaac
Stees, 724 North Nineteenth street:
Ed. c. Thompson, 1904 Derry street