Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
ARMY TRAINING
FOR ALL ASKED |,
BY FARM BOARD
Agriculturists Request GoyA
ernment to Release All
Farmers From Service

The last day OF the great agrlcul-
tural show saw a general sale OF
products at the Emerson -Branting
fast and fairly high; an important
}, meeting of the beekeepers and u
4 final session of the horticultural AS
sociation.. 1t was the highest class
tand most productive annual ever
Eheld and brought in more farmers
Ethan ever before. All prize-g giving
jlhad' ben cleaned up except for veg
etables, which were as follows. first
prizes only:
[ = Class, No. best ten specimens
beets. A. E. Stoner, Penbrook.
C ass a No. best three roots
horseradish, w. G.. Wenker, Tacony.
Glass No. S-Best six bulbs yellow
onions, James Hamm, Weatherly.
Glass No. Best six bulbs white
onions, William Paul, Millersburg,
II. D. No. 2.
onions, Mrs. c. S. Mcdowell, Speak
leysvile.
! Class No. 13-Best three stalks
| celery. w. G.. Wenker, Tacony.
Class No. 15-Two heads cabbage,
George e, Anderson, Penbrook.
Class No. 17-Winter squash, H.
] c. CARRIER, Colonial Acres, Harris
burg.
Glass No. 1s-one dozen stalks
celery, w. G.. Wenker; Tacony.
Glass No. 24-Commercial pack
age carrots, S. II. Starkey, .Bustle-
ton.
If the plans of the bee growers
mature, as they were talked Over to-
day with DR.. H. A. Surface, chair
man, Pennsylvanians will have
plenty of the luscious nectar. He in
troduced c. n. Greene, chief apiary
adviser of tie Department of Agri-
culture, who told how honey had
come into new demand during the
war on account of sugar being
scarce. He predicted arcadia for
honey growers if they helped in state
cooperation swith the department.
BY his words it appears that the
northern, southern and southeastern
countries have the best grazing for
a honey bee and this means that the
stale is to go in, full tilt, for migra-
tory honey beeing.
The way to make money out of the
bee is to have big motor truck and
coaXx the bees into it for ride to
where the feeding is good. Choice
spots are along the Delaware, and
IN chester county, where, there is
buckwheat, golden rod and astor
f. e. Reeder, of Shamokin, gave q
talk on this subject also, declaring
that the migratory process is always
profitable. 1t developed that the
number of persons engaged in the
industry at persent is about $4,000
but comparatively few are identified
with the association and a campaign
is to be Immediately started to get
in fev thousand this year
Universal military training for
youths and the immediate release OF
farmers from Army service were
recommended yesterday at the clos
ing session of the state Board oil
Arricaiturists.
The Swiss method of universal
training is endorsed in resolutions
passed by the board, which recites
the necessity oe Americas feeding
the world until peace is firmly estab-
lished. in asking that farmers al
once~ee returned to private life. The
board would have military practice
impaired to youths while still in
schoei. the young nien to be held in
reserve after their graduation.
/ Prof Frederic Rasmussen, the new
Secretary of Agriculture, was the
principal speaker at yesterdays ses-
sion. He urged the farmers to or
ganize when the subject of the labor
shortages was hroached.
boycott against dealers in feed
who insist on high prices was urged
by Louis Piolett. of Wyoming county
who was elected vlce-pf esidrnt of the
board in We IL eslay's elect ons. lie
afo urged f'rmcrs to raise their
3wn feeds wherever possible.
The State p1trt1 Growers Asshcia
tion elected officers. aa follow 8:
President. John Park Horsham. vice.
president, d. g. Hopkins, Lehigh
county: secretary, Nicholas Schmitz
State College: executive committee
Chester X. Ssultz. Reading, and
Charles J. Preston. State College.
| c. Il. Bassett. of the United States
Depa rtment of Agriculture. advocated a
careful grading of potatoes in order
TO get the benefit o: the best market
prices. The afternoon session was
! given over to the discussion of spray
ing.
| The State horticultural Association
reelected all officers to serve FOR
one year. 1t was dairy day for tho
state BreeueTS ana DdlrynenS AS
sociation and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Rasmussen spoke on co-opera-
tion. A. A. Borland in lecture nr
the Garry feed situation urged the
use OF roughage feed for cattle and
less OF the highly Concentrated
feeds. ..
Tho judging of eggs. potatoes and
small grains was completed at the
state farm products show and the
awards announced. The Pemnsyl-
vanii Hoist ei1-Freisian Association
held g sale OF registere Holstein cat
i tie. which was attended by the larg-
-; crowd ever collected at sale in
shis section and shovel the interest
| In se.ected stock.
WON PRIZE FOR FOXTROT
Miss Edna, Lipsitz, <73 Myers
street, Steelton,, has returned from
q visit in Chambersburg and Hag-
erstown, Md. During her stay in
Hagerstowp Miss Lipsitz attended a
dance at Penn-Hall and with Rob-
ert Phile. of that place. won prize
for fox-trotting.
i EANCY Rio