Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-18

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Butler, who says that it is a record.
Plans are being made to exceed
this distribution in 1918 and in spite
OF cold weather the Commissioner
says he believes the Department. 8
men will do it.
The 1917 distribution season,
which ended in November, was
marked by much support for the
distribution work from fishermen
says the Commissioner. There were
put out 100000 brook trout, one
and two years old; 100000 brown
trout and 100000 lake trout. Four
hundred thousand blue gills." many
two years old; 100000 yellow perch,
100000 small mouth bass, 10000
catfish, all a year or more old; L.
100000 minnows and half mill
lion frogs were other items of dis
tribution.
The fry distributed, notably in
Lake Erie where the state is CO.
operating with New York and Ohio
and the Canadian governments, was
large: The figures given are S00,-
100000 lake herring or ciscoes; 200,-
100000 white fish; 2O0,O0O,O 900 yell
low. perch; 100000 pike perch,
wall-eyed pike or Susquehanna SAL
mon, 100000 blue pike, 1000, 600
shad and 49S,000 muscallonge.
The state is being represented at
the conference on development of
fishery industries at Washington
this week by Commissioner Butler
and Chief Clerk II. r. Stackhouse.
10 Present Work-State vocation
al education officials will go to Phila-
delphia this week to attend a con-
ference on such training in the
schools of the country during the
war and afterwards. The develop
ment of special training for field
and industrial service in this state
Will be reported on and outlines
given of plans for spring and sum-
mer
Must Report Feathers-Warning
to the taxidermists of the state that
sale of plumage of not only protect
ed birds, but of wild birds is for
hidden by the game code has been
issued by the State Game Commits
sion, which has called upon taxi
dermists to file statements of what
birds they have on hand. DR.. Jo-
seph Kalbfus, Secretary of the Com
mission, in pointing out that the old
law forbade the sale of plumage of
changed last year, says THE new
law forbids the sale of feathers
taken from wild birds without quail
fication so that at this time you
would have no right to sell or offer
to sell or have IN possession for
sale a crow, or a hawk or a blue
jay or a kingfisher or any other bird
not given absolute protection in this
state without first securing permis-
sion to do so from the president of
the Board of Game Commissioners
of Pennsylvania and such permission
will not be granted except in in
stances where the Commonwealth
itself may be benefited, as, for in
stance, a sale to a public museum
or to a public school for educational
purposes" The provision does not
apply to unprotected birds on hand
prior to June last.
To Organize Company-The Ma
chine Gun Company of the First Reg
iment of the Reserve Militia will be
organized tonight at West Chester.
II. T. Lear, formerly in the National
Guard, will command it.
Bad Elk Killed-The Game Com
mission has received word that two
of the elk which broke away from
the state herd and damaged farms
have been shot by wardens.
Buchanan to Announce-Senator
G. ]. Buckman, of Bucks, president
pro tenn. of the State Senate. will
announce candidacy for reelection
this week.
After Mercersburg Boys - State
Health Department officials last
night announced fifteen cases of
scarlet fever at Mercersburg and
notified places where all boys had
gone to see that they are placed un-
der observation. The Academy au-
thorities have established a strict
quarantine on those remaining.
Ex-Governor Speaker-The Duty
of Good Americans in the Present
Crisis" was the subject of a speech
before the Mems Association of a
Philadelphia church by Ex-Governor
Stuart yesterday. Every good Amer
lean must stand back of the Presi-
dent and do all that he can to win
the war by conserving food and fuel
and by furthering the sale of the |
ssues of the Liberty Bonds" the ex-
Governor said. The lecture was Civ |
en- as part of the activities of the |
church in opening the food drive |
week asked for by the Federal Food |
Administration. Practically every |
nan of the three hundred hearers |
pledged himself to observe the food |