Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-16
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SO poor as regards terminating
power as the result of tests made by
the experts of the State Department
of Agriculture that an official warn
ing to the farmers to plant double
ana triple the amount and then thin
out may be issued. The condition Is
directly due to the weather last fall.
The early frosts caused much dam
age ana quite n considerable amount
or corn was placed in the cribs while
moist so that the loss from freezing
wrl be worse than for a long time
Ihe loss in Dauphin and Cumber-
land was heavy. Thorough tests
have been made of corn from many
of the central and southwestern
counties and low terminating power
is reported. In order to provide
GOOD seed corn the Department has
asked for offers for any corn that
VIII snow eighty per cent germinat-
ing power in the test. This corn will
De sold at cost to farmers. In north
ern counties there was no seed saved
for corn because of the frosts and
eHorts TO supply growers will be
made. Farmers buying corn are ad-
vised to thoroughly test and If II Is
found low to increase the planting
The price of corn will probably
cause a big extension in the area de-
voted to that grain on Pennsylvania
farmers this year If laborsand salts
FACTORY seed corn can be secured saw
experts at the Department.
The manner in which HARRISBURG
is handling problems attending in
dustrial education and the way it's
businessmen have taken up the
ideas behind the State laws on the
subject Will be reported on next
week at the big conference in Phila-
delphia on vocational education dur
ing the war and thereafter. The
conference will be national in scope
and the experience of PENNSYLVANIA
will be a big theme.
Winter weather has stopped work
on Senator T.. Il. Beidleman's sum
Eer home near Dauphin. A few
years ago Mr.. Beidleman purchased
the point of land at the foot of the
mountain, with a wonderfully fine
outlook on the river, for a compare
lively small sum. On it was located
very old building which it was
planned to pull down, but to the
senator's surprise he found it Won
derfully we'll constructed, with in
terror fire places of the good old
fashioned kind and capable of be-
ing remoGeled into a fine, modern.
residence. He was in the midst OF
transforming it when cold weather
put a temporary halt to the work.
When completed it will be one of
the landmarks of the upper end.
James H. Maurer, president of the
state Federation of Labor and his
colleagues are of the opinion that it
Will not be difficult to work out the
plan for workingmen to buy from
the farmers direct and they think
that by use of the carload lot sys-
tenn they can save good bit of
money for the workers. When the
State Grange meets a plan will be
taken up whereby credits and pay
ment systems will be worked out
and when people in a community are
ready to buy anything from a car of
potatoes to a car of apples they can
go together and give the order. En-
tension of the plan to coal is prob
able.
Suspension OF iron and steel op-
erations because of lack of fuel re-
calls the strenuous times of five
years ago when there were demands
for Dauphin county iron and steel
anu Tie Gar SHOTIdSe CAUSED neaNN
loss in business as we'll as pay for
men. The suspensions this year,
however, have been at more frequent
intervals than ever known before.
Cheer up, folks. the "meatless
days" may soon be frightened by
the appearance on table of fresh
fried fish from the Susquehanna, the
Juniata and their tributaries. Black
suckers, the choicest of the early
spring piscatorial dainties. are al
ready beginning to run" though
the streams are still covered with
ice. A. e. Strobe, of Camp Hill, re-
ceived n number of these fish as a
present from a friend the other day,
they having been caught through n
hole cut in the ice of a Cumberland
country creek. Not many fishermen
will care to go to that extreme but
in a very few weeks, unless uneX-
pccted cold weather sets in the suck
ers will be at their prime and the
fishing will be good. These fish lin
ger along the bottoms of eddies and
under the banks of large and small
streams. They bite freely in the
springtime but later in the spring
and summer few of them are
caught. This does not give the fish
eTmen n1uCH 10 WOTEy dBOul, HOW
ever, for while the black sucker is
no choice eating in the spring, the
flesh being firm and as white as
snow, later in the seaton the fish
becomes as thin as June shad and
just as honey.
Owners of California privet hedg-
es are inspecting them with some
concern these days. looking in vain
up to this time for signs of life. It
is feared that the hedges, especially
those in exposed places not pro-
tected by snowdrifts, may have suf-
fered severely from the intense cold
that prevailed during most of De-
cember and January. Six years ago
the mercury fell to 20 degrees below
zero for a short time in this vicinity
and all hedges had to be cut back to
the roots. The temperature did not
get down so far this year but the
cold continued for a longer period.
Two or three weeks more will be re-
duired to tell whether or not the
hedges have been seriously dam