Laws Wanted by the Pennsylvania Grangers
The Legislative Committee of the Pennsylvania State Grange convened at the Bolton Hotel Harrisburg to endorse a bill for systematizing agricultural interests and revising tax laws to ease farmer and homeowner burdens. It backs one mill on property for roads, budget aid for charities, higher minimum teacher salaries, and more vocational training. It calls for a stricter weights and measures law, tougher dog law to protect sheep, local option with county unit, anti treating laws, liquor regulation parallel to hotels, and banning peddling liquor, plus enforcement against brewers interests. it urges Congress to pass the Falconer Bill H R 18479 establishing an Industrial Alcohol Commission.
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Pennsylvania State Grange
John’.A. McSparran
Leonard Rhone
Center Hall
Allan D. Miller
Susquehanna
R. M. Day
Washington
E. J. Tuttle
Wellsboro
Catawissa
Bolton Hotel
Harrisburg
State Grange
Congress
New Game Law Proposals From Pennsylvania Conference
A general conference committee of the Wild Life League of Pennsylvania the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen Association and the United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania agreed to unite efforts behind measures aimed at funding and enforcement of game laws. They seek immediate use of resident hunters license funds. Uniform small game seasons from November 1 to November 30 with adjustments for bear and other species. Bear season from November 1 to December 10 with bag limits cut. Proposals include prohibiting sale of rabbits and aquirrels within the state increasing game protectors to fifty and creating a new bounty law to reduce fees for affidavits. The Game Commission would set propagating centers on leased land extend the Crow act for closed territory by petition and direct fines to game protection.
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Wild Life League of Pennsylvania
Pensylvania State Sportmen’s Association
United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania
Gama Commission
Countler
Hunters Race to Set Open Dates for Quail Pheasant Season
Two years of closed season on Hungarian quail and Mongolian pheasants shift to a one month later opening for raccoon season in both states.
Birds Attracting on One Acre in Evanston Suburb
A resident of Evanston explains how 42 bird houses and many shelters on one acre attract 200 to 500 native birds each summer. He notes purple martin and wrens thriving, with bands showing annual returns, and credits protection from cats and sparrows, baths, feed and shelter for birds.
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Evanston
Chicago
Sheridan Road
South Boulevard
Joseph H. Dodson
Health board blocks workers with communicable disease
The Advisory Board of the State Department of Health led by Commissioner Dr Samuel G Dixon adopted rules effective after official advertising. Cooks waitresses chambermaids and kitchen staff in hotels restaurants dining cars and similar public eating places who suffer from communicable disease must be excluded from service. Another rule bans exposing on sidewalks vegetables or foods eaten uncooked unless protected from flies and kept on stands two feet above the sidewalk.
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State Department of Health
Samuel G. Dixon
Commonwealth
The Sorrows of Boston Bean Prices Rise
Boston faces a bean price spike with native beans at 12 cents a pound and New York State beans at 8 dollars a bushel. Red kidney and yellow-eye beans now command top rates around 5 dollars a bushel, while California varieties are mentioned. A Boston merchant balks at paying telegraph tolls for New York beans, hinting at a boycott and possible Philadelphia sacrapple import.
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New York State
California
New York
Night and Fresh Air Night Says Health Chief Dix
Dr Dix, Commissioner of Health, urges fresh air and bathing the blood via clean air passing through the lungs. He says sleeping with windows open year round is a matter of habit and that old wives tales about night air have no foundation.
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Sdya
Dixon
Commissioner of Health
Farm Hands and Cooks Cited in Critique of Labor Skill
The Louayville Courier Journal notes that about 12 million farm hands exist in America with only one percent specially trained, and around 12 million cooks lack sufficient training to a hand hitched.
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America
Loulayilla Courier. Journal
Fifteen Thousand Farmers In This State Own Autos
Figures by L H Wible show 15000 Pennsylvanians, about 7 percent of farmers, own autos. Last year’s crops and stock were strong, though sheep numbers fell to 749,360, blamed partly on dogs. Corn yielded 101 percent of average. 89 percent of Pennsylvania corn remains on farms.
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L. H. Wible
State Department ‘of Agriculture
Pennnsylvania
Pennsylvania
Union
Wible
Corn huskage and yield across states noted
The report states that 11 percent left to sell and that average yield per acre is higher in Pennsylvania than in several Western and Southern states known for corn. About 6 percent of the corn remained unhusked as of January 1.
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Pennsylvania
Danger of Food Famine as Europe Buys US Staples
European demand for American foodstuffs rises sharply with December 1914 exports five times wheat and six times corn compared with 1913. Flour and beef show large gains while overall staples jump about 500 percent. Wheat climbs above 1.50 a bushel causing bread costs and loaf sizes to bite the unemployed as fears grow of a US food famine amid the war.
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Europe
Like Owner Like Stock at the Show
An old farmer lashed out after his cow finished fifth at a show. He charged the judges demanding why, and a judge replied that the cow’s faults mirrored the farmer's, noting she lacks good breeding.
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Abe
Fewer Dogs Urged to Save Sheep Industry in Pennsylvania
The 1910 census shows Pennsylvania sheep numbers fell 48 percent since 1900 with only 11.6 percent of farmers listing sheep. Experts blame a lack of profit perceived by younger farmers and the hindrance of dogs, arguing dog laws alone do not revive the industry without local support and practice.
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Pennsylvania
Community cooperation over laws to protect sheep from dogs
The piece argues that a community that tolerates a troublesome dog population harms its sheep. It says sheep prosper when dogs are controlled and that neighborly cooperation and practical measures, not state laws, effectively remove the dog threat to the sheep industry.
Agricultural College Enlists 20000 Youth in Contests
The Kansas Agricultural College launches a campaign to enroll 20,000 boys and girls in agricultural and home making contests. A state organizer has been appointed to oversee the program.
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Kansas’ Agricultural College
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