8 . A "PAGE TWO Bs Ey © THE POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1951 a + - Ja ; — Bin, Bur SAFETY VALVE || THE DALLAS POST |= YoU KNOW ME | 8 '| “More n a newspaper, BY > Sends Some Verses . pt ttn Al, Himself a = and eather By William J. Robbins Jr. One of the most educational ex- periences of my life was the rear- ing of two pens of quail, five years ago. It all started the day Mrs. Rob- "bins and I left our home at Trucks- ville and drove to the Eastern State Game Farm a few miles south of Reading, near the small town of Swenksville. We assumed full responsibility for obtaining and rearing to 12 weeks of age, sixty day-old quail. Harveys Lake Camp No. 274 United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania was the sponsoring group, and at ‘that time was a young organiza- tion. We felt a loss by rail ship- ment could not be afforded on our first project so the trip was made by car. The vast facilities for quail rear- ing at this farm practically defies description and our visit which was much too short for a complete sur- vey is the reason our observation and notes were limited. Miles of wire, hundreds of brooder coops, incubation buildings and scores of other buildings necessary for the operation of this gigantic project, meets the eye upon arrival. The farm manager, Mr. Warfel, upon whose shoulders rests the full responsibility for the success’ of this work, has had many years ex- perience at artificial breeding: and rearing of game birds. Being one of the oldest employees of the Com- mission and I believe one of the first protectors to ‘rear pheasant with broody hens, it might be said of him that he started this work on the ground floor, an invaluable asset to a person in his position. We were indeed fortunate, for on this particular day we had the opportunity to observe ‘a quail hatch in the incubator house. A sight that I shall never forget. The best description I can give of the hatching of these birds, that are about the size of bumble bees, would be a corn popper full of corn that popped out from under the "lid. This event took place when an incubator drawer was pulled out in order to give us our allotted - birds. At our departure we were ad- vised that the mortality of day old quail would be high with an av- _erage loss of 40 to 50% not unusual. That statement from the farm superintendant was the only" dampener of our enthusiasm. Through-out the return trip our conversation hovered around the mortality of artificially reared birds. The factors involved were temperature, food, and cannibalism. We vowed before arrival at home that we would pay strict attention to these. My thoughts did, how- ever, revert to the farm and I won- dered how these three factors could be checked constantly on a project where birds were hatched by the thousands. After placing the birds in the brooder I started with pad and pen- cil to figure out the approximate cost of quail. Even if we lost only 10% the price of each bird was staggering, If we lost 40% it would be proportionately higher. Fortu- nately we lost but five out of sixty, though we had a power interrup- tion that caused the temperature to drop to the danger point. My thoughts at this date began to change and since our experience in the work was first hand and practical, I feel that I am justified in my present conclusions. Few hunters are shooting quail and it might not be a bad sug- gestion for the Commission to place quail on the song or protected bird list for a few years. This would af- ford them an opportunity to re- produce naturally as our grouse have done. It should not be assumed that I favor closing the Eastern Game Farm, but I do feel that dollars can be spent to better advantage if quail rearing were reduced to ten percent and the facilities conver- ted to turkey rearing. Thirty per- cent would be a good starting per- centage. This would permit at least sixty per cent to be diverted to food and cover work, a very im- portant program that should be ex- panded. 3 In areas where turkeys have been released there has been some natural reproduction but not on a scale that would permit the dis- continuance of artificial methods. The food problem, not predators, seems to be the “thorn in the flesh”, Plain facts and undisputable fi- Ambler, Pa. September 18, 1951 Dear Editor, Are you in cahoots with the mailman up your way? I wrote to you September 12, ‘you replied September 13, and I re- ceived your reply September 14. Never have we seen anything like that around here before. Must be the rooster crowing on the Dallas Post envelope. Jack and I both liked your letter. Jack lived with his folks on a farm at Huntsville near the Dorrances during World War I. His brother, Howard and his father planted some pines which are really tall, now. As you asked me about poetry, I'll admit that I do write a wee bit of it, the sing-song variety, How did you know? For instance, this summer I taught at a Vacation Bible School and wrote this poem of thanks: We thank you, God, our Father, For the birds and trees and flowers, For all the friends we love so well Who share our happy hours. And this spring a friend sent me a church bulletin from Trucksville for March 4th with a reprint of a poem which I wrote when we lived on Mt. Greenwood Road. The White Church On The Hill. I love our little church That rests upon the hill, For all the pleasant memories Which linger in it still. And when I hear the preacher Tell how to find true peace, It’s there before he mentions it In swift and sure release. With all the falling footsteps That echo in the hall, We feel Christ’s living presence And answer to. His call. “Come, follow Me”, and you will see That freedom waits within. No more will earthly cares beset The one who casts out sin. When we lived up at “Tamarack Lodge”, I made a hall curtain into a quilt, getting the idea from “Gone With The Wind”, where (Continued on Page Nine) certain beyond all doubt that the Commission members, aware of the cost of quail rearing, will make some change at this particular gures cannot be denied, and I'm Game Farm. 1 Main Office Market and Franklin Streets BUILD YOUR OWN DEFENSE! A home is a man’s castle and its most valued possessions are the family who live in it. | Protect your castle with financial security .. . save for bright, happy tomorrows and gain the confidence and assurance that sav- ings provide. START NOW BY OPENING A 2nd NATIONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT! 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One lane, from Castle Inn to Dallas, is com- pleted. Mrs. Nuell H, Kester was elected first president of Trucksville Fire Company Auxiliary on Wednesday. There are 56 members. Claude Cook has a 1912 Ford, in- herited from an aunt in Blairstown, N. J. He brought it home last week, in tow, because of lack of li- cense plates. He had dozens of offers for it en route. It’s in perfect condition, acetylene lamps and all. You start it with a crank. Mrs. George Sawyer has had re- turned to her two Christmas cards sent to occupied areas of Versailles and Orleans nine months ago. Postal service has been suspended. A community center for Dallas is being talked about. Other com- munities of small population have designed and erected such centers. Ruby K. Grabsky, Luzerne, will become the bride of Conrad Hislop tomorrow. : Elizabeth Piskorik, Fernbrook, and John Pitcavage, Swoyerville, were married in August. Burn, Buy and Boost anthracite. Anthracite week is September 29 to October 4. Esther Rae Warden, Shavertown, married Donald E. Hardenburgh, Scranton, on Saturday. Girl Scout Council To Meet October 1 GREEN WRAPPED TOMATOES Farmers in the Back Mountain district would be better off finan- cially if tomatoes would not ripen in the north. Mrs. Kistler pur- chased a basket of full ripe toma- toes for canning and on the same day we dropped into the packing plant at Devens’ Mill where green tomatoes were being washed, waxed, segregated into four dif- ferent sizes for shipment to south- ern states below North Carolina. Trucks were lined up along the Main highway, with thousands of baskets of the unripened - fruit, waiting their turn to unload. We asked a farmer how much he got for his load and he answered $1.80 a basket, adding that the top price that day was $2.50. That's a peach basket, folks, not a bushel. We asked why all farmers here did not pick their tomatoes green in- stead of letting them ripen, and he answered, ‘We can’t control the summer sun.” Farmers take their loads to the West Pittston auction and sell them to buyers from the South. They receive a number that in- forms them which refrigerated trailer to follow to the Dallas se- gregating station. Here the toma- toes are put through a machine that washes, dries, waxes and sizes the fruit. After they are dried someone picks out the pinks. Any tomato with even one spot of red will rot before it reaches the south- ern market. The greenies roll up an incline tumbling over and over be- fore the keen eyes of eight women, four on each side of the rolling fruit. They pick out and drop the rejects into a center channel. These are basketed and either sold back to farmers or reach the local mar- ket. The first bin along the incline has the smallest holes and so on up through three more bins so that tomatoes are spewed out of the machine in four different sizes faster than it takes to write about it. While this process is going on the refrigerator trailer is backed up to the building where its empty boxes are unloaded. Each box will hold the contents of two and a half baskets. All the time the trailer is being loaded, a motor runs con- tinually to keep the trailer ice-box cool. When the truck is fully loaded it starts immediately for the south- ern market where the fruit even- tually reaches the southern house- wife as fancy tomatoes. In the winter the whole proce- dure is reversed, the southern crop comes north. Sheffield Abood is a southern buyer. He rents the Devens’ build- ing and owns the tomato separa- ting machinery. One of his work- men told us that he married a Wilkes-Barre girl, but we didn’t press into his personal affairs. He charges other buyers fifty cents a box to have their load go through the separating machine. The buyer then pays $1.50 a box to ship his load south. Let’s add this cost up. Say a far- mer gets $2.00 a basket. That makes $5.00 a box, considering it (Continued on Page Seven) Subject to prior sale, we offer a limited amount of LUZERNE CO. GAS & ELECTRIC CO. 4%; % preferred stock at market Yielding over 4% BOOKER BROS., Inc. Miners Nat'l Bank Bldg. PHONE 2-3121 HN Ber LOOK For The Name REALTOR when buying or selling real estate. . The principal interest of a realtor is to see that the transaction, large or small, is com- Dallas District Girt Scout Council | will meet at Carverton Methodist Church Monday night at 8. Guest of honor will be Mrs. George Metz, former leader of Trucksville Brow- nies and active in Girl Scout work for twenty years. Mrs, Donald Coughlin, Commissioner, will at- tend. Helen Sellers, Executive Director, will speak. : : Mrs. Charles Nuss, Lehman, will report on her summer visit to Camp Edith Macy, where she represnted Wyoming Valley Council at the In- ternational workshop. Dolores Mor- ‘ris, headquarters, will teach new ‘songs and games in collaboration with Mrs. Charles Hensley, chair- | man of training. Refreshments , will be served by | Carverton Troop Committee. ia pleted in an intelligent, ethical manner. Your local realtor D. T. SCOTT JR. Dallas 224-R-13 D. T. SCOTT and Sons REALTORS 10 East Jackson Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Barnyard Notes welcomes a guest columnist this week— the late William Penn Ryman, Esq.) THE FORMATION OF DALLAS BOROUGH As the village of McLellonsville (early name for Dallas village) grew and the wealth of its inhabitants increased, new ideas began to creep in, and some of the parents began to grow dissatisfied with the idea that their children should live and grow up without some of the advantages of modern civilization. ‘’Tis wonderful” says, Emmerson, “how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it comes a Latin grammer.” A piano and one or two organs, a Latin grammar and one or two of the “ologies” had found their way out to Dallas early in the sixties, about the winter of 1862-'63, but there was no one then in the township who could teach such branches, and only by sending the children away to Kingston and elsewhere, and paying their tuition in addition to regular school tax, could such instruc- tion be had. A few were able to do this and did do it, while the common schools of the township. did not get much above the curri- culum of the famous “three R's.” Great efforts were made, mostly by a few who lived in and near McLellonsville, to improve this state of things and established a graded school, but a jealousy of the village folks grew up among those who lived in the remoter portions of the township, and with it a combined effort to oppose all such schemes. Schools which had been good enough for their fathers and grandfathers were good enough for them. This was an unanswerable argument to many of them, and swept away every opposition in the outside districts. Those willage folks thought they must not be indulged in any such extravagant and visionary notions. ap ome tn ion Tn A