Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-18
Eirpsrt1rn Glrat:

Just by way of illustrating that
the people who are protesting
against the plan of feeding corn
dosed with strychnine to the crows
which flock about the state and es-
peclally in this section, are barking
up the wrong tree. Seth r. Gordon
assistant Secretary of the State
1ame commission, has made some
calculations and experiments. In
one line he fed a chicken half a
gram OF strychnine, straight, and
'ie chlcken thanked him for the
sumulant. The same amount of
'i'chhine 1t has been demonstrated
oV examination of stomachs of crows
anu oy mathematics would kill thir-
" crows. He found that n ohickan
ate 2Os grains of corn which had
oeen loaded with half a grain of
strychnine and did not mind II while
eAeiiihauon of contents of a lot of
crows showed an average of seven
no T1ctored grains in each stomach.
81 OoHaldInisslon's III men have been
baIfe to grains of strychnine to
| ,
II is estimated is about 20 400 Lar-
hels. II 1t takes seven dosed grains
~ NIL crow that half bushel
shoulu De good for 1000 or in other
words, that it takes a fifth of
nunuredth of grain of the poison
70 make the black-coated long dis
sance nyer cease from troubling the
arlers' at. The beauty of it is that the
Strychnlne does not appear to WORRY
quail, wild turkeys or pheasants any
more than 1T does a chicken. They
seem TO be merely tuned up bv n
dose of poison that would XIII 8, man
In short order.
Inc fuel administration is not
without its humorous sides. The
otner day a man from the soft coal
wide acquaintance, blew into the
Gapltol and after hearing the hard
luck stories of his friends in this
section who have half a ton in the
cellar asked:
Why don't you burn soft coal?"
beneve We'll try it." chimed in
a couple of men.
said the man.
There were smiles all around and
then he threw a bucket of cold
water With the remark, But. you'll
nave 10 arrange about the car SER
vice."
The State of New Jersey seems to
think well of the codes arranged
by the State of PENNSYLVANIA for the
safeguarding of people who work in
all kinds of industrial establish
ments Several of the codes have
! Deen taken to Trenton and applied
to conditions in New Jersey. Hear
ings will be held on them soon. The
Importance of the work is that sew
eral of the eastern states will then
nave ABOUT the same regulations.
James G.. Glessner, the York law
yer who was here the other day to
appear before the State Board of
| Pardons, is a great admirer of the
new course of the Country Club of
Harrisburg. When he was here
there was about two feet of snow
about the Capitol and he gravely
asked II golf could be played on the
new course with Snowshoes, skis and
sleds. THE hills are suitable" said
| he.
Some rather curious minglings of
| service are going to be noticed about
the railroads here in the next few
weeks" said railroad man in talk
lhb dpouI Ine Ieuefal control of
railroads. you see Reading cars
on Pennsylvania trains now and
! Cumberland Valley passenger
coaches going to Williamsport. We
see Fort Wayne cars on locals on
! the Northern Central and Southern
railroad cars on through trains. Wait
until they begin to run in the en-
gines from the west to help out in
the eastern congestion. There will
be a grand conglomeration of names
and then you will commence to see
locomotives bearing "U. S. A."
When the state takes over the
abandoned right of way of the
Lackawanna railroad in Lackawanna
and Susquehanna counties there will
be half a dozen main highways in
| Pennsylvania with names of historic
interest. There will be the William
Penn, which traverses the state and
| goes through Harrisburg; the Lin
coin, which is part of a national
highway; the National road; the
Susquehanna trail which follows the
Susquehanna and goes through this
city and Sunbury; the Perry high
way from Pittsburgh to Erie and the
| Sullivan Trail which goes over roads
! upon which Sullivan's men marched
to avenge Wyoming. The common
wealth will cooperate with the
| counties and municipalities in MAX
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