Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-12

tention devoted to pig cholera, milk
herd troubles, hog cholera ana
rabies. Special efforts will be made
to wipe out the parasitic diseases OF
hogs, sheep, poultry and cattle ana
to the prevention of the spread OF
transmissable diseases. The new
bureau will cooperate with the Fed
eral Bureau of Animal Industry in
testing for tuberculosis and the two
will bear jointly the indemnity TO De
paid for animals destroyed to pre-
vent the spread of this malady.
Secretary Rasmussen says that the
new Federal regulations, the inter-
state shipment of cattle, eHectlVe
August is, will greatly increase the
work of the Lancaster and Pitts
burgh offices and he will make
changes in his field forces TO con-
form. The opening of an once at
Allentown will greatly relieve the
over-crowded situation at Phlladel-
phia. which district has been re-
garded for a number of years as
cumbersomely large. Northampton.
Lehigh, Pike, Monroe and part OF
Bucks county will be handled
through the Allentown district.
Hucklcberries Plcntiful.-Huckle-
berries and blueberries worth more
than 100000 were taken from the
State forest preserves during the
present season, according to care
fully complied figures of the state
Foresters now on file with the state
Forestry Department. The crop was
exceptionally large this year. AS
an example of the value OF the per
ries by districts. the forester IN
charge of the Blackwell tract in
Ticga county reported that more
than $4,000 worth of berries were
picked in that locality alone and
that one man picked seventy quarts
in one day while another got forty
quarts in four hours, selling them at
90 cents a quart. The berries grow
to exceptional size in some districts.
The forester in the Bear MEADOW
district reports that the oushes
reach nearly the height OF trees
there and the berries approach
cherries in size. The SOIL Is Ne[!
acid and conditions ideal for the
nroduction of berries which grow
best where forest fires have swept
the woods of underbrush and lett
an acid condition of the soil. some
of tho foresters suspect that huckle-
berry pickers start fires to produce
berries and it is believed that py
trimming out underhrush 10 give
the berries Il chance many nres can
he prevented. The State is desirous
of having the berry crops enter even
more extensively into the solution
of the food question and charges
nothing for picking on State lands
where even with the large quanti-
ties harvested many berries go 70
waste. There has been some talk
of making a nominal charge IN or
der to increase the yield but this Is
40 hnrrV
so increase in numbers that more
berries are necessary to meet the
demand.
No State Police Change-Gov-
ernor Sproul denied in Philadelphia
last night that he has any intention
of replacing Colonel John =.
Groome as head of the State Police.
Colonel Groome has been in the
service of the United States dong
special police work as head of
part of the Army'S secret service
and is now in Europe. L had no
thought of picking a successor GO
Colonel Groome," said the Gov
ernor. He is doing a great work
over there and 1 hope he will re-
turn soon to run the State Police
from Harrisburg" The State Police,
in the absence of Colonel Groome,
has been in charge of Captain
George f. Lumb, who has done
fine piece of work in that capacity
during the difficult war period, even
relinquishing his own ambitions 10
re-enter the Army in order to keep
the State Police in the high state
of efficiency they were when Groome
went away. The Governor also en-
pressed the hope that John Price
Jackson, Commissioner of Labor
and Industry, also overseas, might
return soon.