Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-10

- sent to improper
zzR. places viii be con-
sidered by the In
iustrial Board of the Department OF
labor and Industry at public hear
ing in Room 1876, City Hall, Phila-
Helphia, Monday morning, January
3, at IL o'clock. The hearing will
pc attended by representatives of
#iNic organizations and by represent
Etives of telegraph companies.
Compensation Mecting-The Work
hens Compensation Board will meet
n its Offices at the Hartje Building,
Pittsburgh. on Tuesday, Wednesday
md Thursday. January IA, Is, 16.
Much Buckwhcat Grown-Penn-
ylvania farmers not only came back
o their own as the leading buck
wheat producers of the nation, but
clipsed all other production records
NTH the 1918 harvest. The 1918
production is estimated by the Penn
ylvania Department of Agriculture
t 6,191,600 bushels and New York
tate, which captured first honors in
917, is shown to have produced but
1925, 1000 bushels in 1918. This gives
Pennsylvania a lead of almost a mill
ion and half bushels over New
ork and the total production is one
bird of the entire amount of buck !
Wheat grown in the country. In 1917
Eew York, by a margin of about |
900 bushels, captured the honors
8 the leading buckwheat producing !
tate, but in addition to increasing
IL crops during the past year the
Pennsylvania farmers made special
rive in buckwheat. The total pro-
uction of the United States is esti-
hated at about 100000 bushels.
Money in Bristles-With the big
hcreuse in hog raising in Pennsyl- |
ania and the unusually large num- |
er of chickering's. comes the word |
rom prominent brush manufactur- |
fs of the country asking the farm !
rs to save ali the bristles, which |
ave a market value of from two to |
hree dollars a pound.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles !
}. Patton has taken up the matter |
selling hog bristles to the brush |
Manufacturers and he now urges all |
hrmers to make every effort to save |
he long back bristles at butchering |
ime. Farmers having any supply
n hand can get in touch with the |
Department of Agriculture at Har-
isburg and will be furnished with |
omes of firms that will purchase
he bristles. The bristles that are
host valuable are the back from the
eek all along the back and averag- |
hg from two and three-fourths to
our inches long. Nearly all coun |
Fies save the product of hog bristles
md the devastation of the war has
Practically killed the market in Rus |
la where most of the bristles were
ecured. White briStles are much
demand and Secretary Patton |
rges farmers to save all long bris- |
les, keeping the butts as much as
ossible one way. Farmers are urged |
combine in gathering in order to |
hake large quantities for delivery
nd sale. One brush manufacturer
tates that some years ago he pur-
hased in Pennsylvania what were
nown as Country bristles" and they
ere very satisfactory.
Many Auto LicenSeS-State licen-
es were issued last year by the
Highway Department for the opera
on in Pennsylvania of 363,961 mo-
or driven vehicles of the pneumatic
re type and 31,165 of the solid tire
k'pe. The total receipts for the year
mounted to $4.04S, 1850.
New Rates Filed-The Public Ser
ice Commission was to-day notified
{ q new schedule of rates to be put
hto effect in Port Allegheny. Nc
kean county, January 10, by the
commercial Union Telephone Com
any. The Edgeworth Water Com
any, operating in Edeworth and
eetsdale. and the township of Lett,
as filed notification of an increase
rates February l.