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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
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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
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YESTERDAY
From. The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
From The Issue Of
September 26, 1941
Evans drugstore is moving on
Sunday to its new location on the
new highway, one of the first con-
cerns to take this step.
Contractors on the new road to
Harveys Lake are using 17 car-
loads of material a day. 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
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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
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(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. <A reformer who ventured to
. offer himself as a candidate for school director was looked upon as
a common enemy by this class, who honestly believed that debt and
financial ruin were the natural and certain consequences of his elec-
tion, so that such candidates were almost invariably defeated, or,
if by chance elected, were left in such a minority as to be powerless
for good.
~The typical school director was often a man who could neither read
nor write. Teachers were oftener chosen because of the meagerness
of the salary which they could be induced or forced to accept than
for any other merit or qualification. A‘ lady school teacher was
one time discharged from one of the schools there. The real and
well known reason was because she had the temerity to flog a son
of one of the school directors. Not wishing to give the real cause
for dismissing her, this school director put it on a broader ground
of alleged unfitness. He defended his action as follows: “I don’t
profess to know much about school teaching myself,” he said, “but
I can sometimes spell a simple word like b-o-k book, which is a
more than she can do, if I do say it myself. Haint that so, Jim?”
Bad seemed to grow worse until this state of things became un-
bearable to the villagers in and about McLellonsville. All other
efforts having failed, separation began to be thought of and dis-
cussed. At first it was thought that a separate school district might
be cut off from the township. That plan did not seem to be best
just at that time, because of the long fight and delay that might
ensue if the matter were contested, as it most likely would be. They
wanted immediate relief in the matter of better school accommo-
dations and were determined to have it.
The result was the organization forthwith of the Dallas High School
Association, incorporated February 16, 1878. Within a few weeks
of its inception this association was fully organized and incorporated.
The purchase of grounds and the commencement of the building,
adjoining the site of the first log school in Dallas, where was still
standing the old “red school-house”, successor to the lqg sc¢hool-
house, soon followed, and the result was the handsome and commo-
dious school building now standing on the hill south of the village
(Editor's note: this is the present old frame grade school building
in Dallas Borough). This building was completed in the fall of 1878,
and in October of that year the first school was opened with John
Fuller, Esq., late of Wilkes-Barre, now deceased, as principal. Few
men could have satisfied the needs of the place at that time so well
as did that genial and ever kind hearted John Fuller. Fresh from
“college, where he had graduated with distinction, filled with the
ambition and zeal of youth, he accepted this position as a stepping-
stone to the many higher things which he had a just right to believe
were before him. The excellent school which he established, and the
many recollections of his genial companionship and splendid man-
hood will long live as a silent tribute to his esteemed memory.
The following are the names of the original stockholders and in-
corporators of the Dallas High School Association: Leonard Machell,
James Garrahan, Ira D. Shaver, William J. Honeywell, Theodore F.
Ryman, John J. Ryman, Chester White, Joseph Atherholt, William
Snyder, Joseph Shaver, Jacob Rice, James G. Laing, C. A. Spencer,
A. Raub, George W. Kirkendall, William P. Kirkendall.
From the first opening day this school was very successful. With
two or three exceptions all the children of school age in the district
attended the new school, and the taxpayers asked that the taxes
belonging to that digtrict be used to support the new school. This
was flatly refused, and for a long time the public money was prac-
tically thrown away in keeping open the public school within five
rods of the new school, where more than ninety per cent of the
pupils; of (the entire township) were paying tuition in addition to
the regular school tax, for the sake of getting the advantages of the
best school. This wasteful spite work on the part of the township
school directors could not long be tolerated, and steps were soon
taken to revive the old question of a separate ‘organization, either
of a school district or of a borough. The latter plan was finally
adopted. The petition map and other necessary papers were quietly
prepared on the fourth day of January, 1879. They were laid before
the grand inquest of the county. The application was vigorously
fought on the dog in the manger principle by the outside residents
of the township, especially by the school directors and supervisors,
but the opposition was too late. The movement had gone too far,
and had too much strength and had too good a cause to suffer de-
feat then. The application was approved, and the incorporation of
the borough was completed April 21, 1879. :
The ill feeling aroused by this struggle and final separation of the
borough was carried to extreme lengths, and by some will be carried
to their graves. With them it took the form of “boycotting.” Some
of the people who were left out in the township vowed never again
to patronize a store or business within the limits of the borough.
Cooperation stores were established in the township, in which a
company would form, build a storehouse and stack it with the fund
raised by contributions from each member. Each contributor then
had the right to buy his goods at cost from the stock. Others vowed
never to enter or pass through the borough limits again, and would
go miles around and suffer great inconveniences for the sake of
keeping good the pledge. Such was the bitterness of the animosity
that grew from so simple a course. As the years roll by, and we
get far enough away to see correctly ‘and with an accurate focus,
the conviction must generally come to all that it is best as it is.
There will be more high schools in a few years. “Let those who
have the laurels now take heed.” Those boys can not be held back
much longer.
From THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF DALLAS TOWNSHIP
By WiLrLiam PENN Ryman
PusBrisgep 1901 By—
Wyoming HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
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