PAGE TWO a
THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1952
Gin, Gur
end
eather
By William J. Robbins Jr.
Before continuation of the Legis-
lative article T would like to divert
briefly and discuss the outcome of
stocking with trout.
There are many angles which have
been overlooked by those in charge.
To me itt is a beginning of a stocking
program that can either be success-
ful or a complete failure: For my
basis of such contentions I have but
to recite that Dr. Gordon Trembley
who was in charge pf the survey
stated that the food elements of the
lake were very poor. If this be the
case why are fish being stocked that
will starve to death? Another angle
overlooked is the species of fish
being planted. Rainbow and brook
trout are not deep water fish and
many will migrate to the shores
of the lake to find the outlet and
eventually wind up in the Susque-
hanna river if not taken in the
outflowing waters of the lake.
If such a stocking program is ‘to
be success, continued plantings will
have to be carried out over a period
of many years, and this, I doubt, is
the Commission program. [Fish the
size of those Installed cannot be
produced year after year in view of
the high cost of experienced labor,
foods, and management.
Many sportsmen are delighted and
feel this is a beginning, that they
will take their cereel limit on open-
ing day,—but many will be dis--
‘appointed for the few thousand fish
placed in a lake 'the size of Harveys
can only be considered an ‘‘embryo
stocking.”
Bills that were opposed by the
Pennsylvania ‘Federated Sportsmens
Clubs are listed as follows.
H-18," twelve commissioners on
Fish and Game. Two {from Senate,
H-198, special trappers license
with money for research and pros
pagation.
H-306, registration of firearms.
H-598, State [Forest Commission.
- H-1495, postpone present pure
streams enforcement law.
H-1734, propagating license for
fur beavers to Department of Agri-
culture,
S-155, Joint [State Government
Commission investigation.
IS-192, permitting the legislature
to fix bag limits.
S-322, fingerprinting of individ-
uals owning firearms.
S-b59, rattlesnake bounty to be
‘paid out of game funds.
140% by the Department of Revenue.
.| abled veterans to hunt from car.
[S-516, pure streams delay.
S-919, regular hunting license or
a special regulated shooting ground
license of $1.35 daily.
S-920, adding the wild turkey to
the list of birds permitted to be
taken on regulated shooting grounds
up to February 28th.
Eight bills that centered on the
sale and use of Flobert, or air rifles
wire fought vigorously by the PFSC
and ‘were: H-279, H-384, H-503, H-
527, H-582, H-1038, and S-791.
Other measures were fought that
would provide free hunting and fish-
ing licenses to persons of various
classifications. Many other bills were
opposed by this same group. Some
for the good and some for the worse.
Bill H-565 provided a sum: of
$8500.00 for persons unable to pay
for vaccine when bitten by a rabid
animal, (should have passed). An-
other, H-570 was for compulsory in-
oculation of dogs, and H-571 placed
a ‘sum of $1.00 top veterinary fee
for inoculation. Both should have
been made law.
H-1352, was for increasing dog
license from $1.00 to $1.50; and S-
214 would prevent hunters in closed
counties from hunting in open coun-
ties,
May bills on motor boat righits at
Lake Pymatuning were knocked
down before they reached the Legis-
lative branch of the State iGovern-:
ment.
Bills that were enacted into law
and under which sportsmen will op-
erate this coming season are:
H-45, now act 173, providing pen-
alties for the killing of game in
cemetaries or burial grounds.
H-484, act 54 making semiauto-
matic shotgun: a legal weapon to
take small game, predators gind un-
protected birds.
H-535, act 151, extending ‘the time
for possession of game to July after
the season closes, without a permit.
H-739, act 249, removing the
county abrogation clause fin the tak-
ing of anterless deer and permitting
the sale of special licenses, number
to be determined by the Game Com-
mission, costing $1.19 each-—60%
sold by the County Treasurer and
H-931, act 230, extending dog
training season by opening July 31
H1173, act 423, permitting dis-
IS-273, act 24, more liberal inter-
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SAFETY VALVE
STREAMS STOCKED
Sweet Valley, Pa.
April 1, 1952
Dear Editor:
The following is a list of streams
in Luzerne (County ‘that have been
already stocked with trout, or will
be stocked with trout prior to ‘April
15th.
Arnolds Creek, tributary to Hunt-
ington Creek - brook trout - open
from Rt. 115 to mouth.
Main Branch Bowmans Creek,
tributary to North Branch [Susque-
hanna River - brook, brown, rain-
bow trout-open from Mountain
Springs to Luzerne-Wyoming County
line,
North Branch Bowmans Creek,
tributary to Bowmans (Creek - brook
trout - open from headwaters to
mouth.
Harveys Creek, tributary to North
Branch Susquehanna River - brook,
brown trout - open from West Nan-
ticoke to [Ceases Mills and from point
about 1% mile above Bryantts Dam
to Harveys Lake.
Main Branch Hunlocks Creek, wl
butary to North Branch Susque-
hanna River - brook ‘trout - open
from mouth of stream up to the
forks or about four miles.
‘West Branch Hunlocks (Creek, tri-
butary to Hunlocks Creek - brook
trout - open from mouth to Gre-
gory’s Corners.
Huntington Creek, tributary to
Fishing Creek - brook, brown, rain-
bow trout - open from near mouth
of Lick Branch upstream to bridge
(Rt. 40068 - Spriag Hollow) about %
mile closed above this bridge, bal-
ance of stream open toc Rt. 115.
Lehigh River, tributary to Dela-
ware River - brook, brown, rainbow
trout - open from mouth of Choke
Creek to [Lehigh Tannary.
Linesville Creek, tributary to Le-
high River - brook trout - open from
mouth to near headwaters.
Little Wapwallopen Creek, tri-
butary to North Branch (Susque-
hanna River - brook, brown, rain-
bow : trout - open from mouth up-
stream ‘to ‘where ‘township road
H-392 crosses stream.
Nescopeck Creek, tributary to
North Branch Susquehanna‘ River -
brook, brown, rainbow trout - open
from point about two ‘miles below
St. Johns to upper reaches of {State
Game Lands i187.
Oley Creek, tributary to Nesco-
peck Creek - brook trout - open from
mouth to upper reaches of [State
Game Lands 187,
Phillips Creek, tributary to Hunt-
ington Creek - brook ‘trout - open
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from Rt. 115 to mouth.
Pine (Creek, tributary to Hunting-
ton Creek - brook trout -open from
Register to point near Burgess
bridge.
Harveys Lake-brook, rainbow
trout.
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YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
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From the Issue of
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{Air Wardens mobilize for Victory
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|Special registration is held in Dal-
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Clark Wilson, former Harveys
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KEEPING POSTED
MOLASSES AND HONEY
EDWARD H. KENT
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During the late lamented and
talked of depression in the thirties,
I was having lunch with some fri-
ends and chanced to remark that I
would love to have some [black-strap
molasses to put on pancakes.
Jack Haddock, a generous friend,
said, “I know where to get it and
will send you some”. Three days
later a big truck rolled up to my
house at Huntsville and unloaded a
barrel containing fifty-four gallons
of black-strap molasses, the kind
one feeds to cows to keep them
from ‘thinking that they are cows.
That might when I returned home
and saw the barrel, T started to do
some figuring. Fifty-four gallons
equals two hundred and sixteen
quarts, which in ‘turn equals six
thousand mine hundred and twelve
ounces, and at half an ounce per
cake the barrel of molasses could
take care of almost fourteen thou-
sand pancakes.
The next day being Saturday, I
persuaded a husky friend to help
me roll the barrel up on to a couple
of logs. We then putin a spigot, just
as one would in @ cider barrel. ‘All
went well until we hit the spigot a
wallop “to drive it in, having for-
gotten to turn the thing off. There
was a magnificent squirt, perhaps
a rcupfull; some on me, some on
friend, some on ‘the garage floor.
We both jumped right into the mess
and while ‘we ‘were recovering, the
dark beautiful amber liquid was
slowly flowing on the floor.
We finally turned off the spigot
and ‘I took a cup of ‘molasses up-
stairs to show Mrs. Kent what a
wonderful present we had received.
She was in the living room and
did not seem so impressed. And my
eye—when she discerned that I
had trackd molasses plus dirt on the
floor, om ‘the rugs, on the steps—was
there an explosion! Finally she con-
sented to taste the stuff, and the
verdict was, “Awful, terrible, bitter,
and fit for nothing.”
I tried to explain that it was de-
licious, but mo soap. In no uncertain
terms I was told to run off a gallon
for my own consumption and give
the balance away, land ‘to start
pronto cleaning up ‘the living room
rug, floor, and garage. T thought,
“Tf T could only get hold of Haddock,
I would run molasses in his hair.”
Remember, ill ‘this happened
twenty years ago when kids were
glad to have black-strap molasses on
pancakes. Word got around that the
Kents ‘were giving it awaly. The line
formed on the right. It was a slow
process, being winter, and cold on
the garage floor. Jugs and bottles
and pails were left, the spigot was
never turned off, and in ‘two shakes
of a goat's tail the molasses had
disappeared. Peace reigned once
more in the home.
Today, in the roaring fifties, I am
up against another ‘proposition of
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§ Barnyard Notes bn
Steel industry paralyzed, telephones tied up across the nation,
McGrath fired and still folks call up asking how to keep the rabbits
from chewing off their crocus bulbs.
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It's a bedlam in this office mornings with customers tying up
both telephone lines to find out who has lost an English setter or
if we know anybody who has found a Doberman pincer.
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If I were a newcomer in this community, the first thing I'd do
is get on the Post’s mailing list. If you want to find a lost dog, a
strayed child or a missing person the best thing to do is call the
Post first. Usually Mrs. Hicks or Myra can locate the trouble in no
time. Don’t depend on the telephone directory or the postoffice to
find your dog or locate you.
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Somebody just called to ask how to start tuberous rooted be-
gonias. Don’t do like Hank Peterson did with his gladioli bulbs and
plant them wrong side up. First determine top from bottom. The
curved side of the bulb is the bottom side. The top carries the scar
of the old stem.
Place the bulbs about three inches apart on top of a layer of
peat moss that fills a standard hot house flat. Twelve bulbs, three-
inches in diameter, are sufficient for most flats. Smaller bulbs can
be started sixteen to the flat. Don’t cover the bulbs, just force them
down in the peat moss so that the sides are covered. Bulbs should °
have been started in flats a month or more ago for sarly season
bloom.
Keep the pant moss damp, but not wet. Set the flats i in a dark
warm place until the sprouts turn green and leaves appear. When
top growth is about three inches high, and good roots have de-
veloped, transfer the bulbs to pots. No harm is done if the bulbs
are allowed to stay in the flats until they become crowded.
TQ remove the bulbs from the flat, reach deep under them with
the fingers disturbing the roots as little as possible and remove them
with a ball of peat moss. I sometimes use a kitchen fork for this
job..
The first transfer can be made to small pots and later to larger
pots, but if the transfer from the flats is close to the time when the
young plants can be set out of doors, it will be simpler to transfer
them to six-inch or larger pots depending on the size of the bulbs.
The smaller pots take up less room if the plants are to stay inside for
a considerable period before they go out of doors.
Be sure the pots have sufficient drainage. Place pebbles or
broken pieces of pots in the bottom. Cover with a little peat moss
and fill the pot to within an inch of the top with a mixture of sand,
peatmoss and loam to which a half to full teaspoonful of bone meal
has been added. .
Just cover the bulb of the small plant. Soak the pot with water,
and allow the pots to stay ‘inside for a week or more until the root
systems are established in their new homes.
The bigger the bulb the larger and more prolific the top growth.
Just cover the rim of the pot with earth from the flower bed, with
a little extra around the stem to prevent the plant from leaning or
falling over.
Some of the heavier plants will have to be staked. Deo this
with care.
plant stake rather than tieing them which may harm stem growth.
Biggest enemy to my plants other than too much sun and dry-
ness, is the slug. This night feeder will destroy the foliage. It is
therefore necessary to keep all debris, old boards, dead vegetation
and flat stones away from the vicinity of the plants. Slugs harbor
under them and come out at night to feed on the plants.
I have found that -circling the ground underneath. the.plant
with a two-inch wide ring of lime helps to keep slugs away. A
weekly night visit to the plants with a flashlight, a stick and a tin
can containing a little kerosene oil, and the willingness to brush the
‘slugs off the leaves and into the can will effectively slow up the slug
population.
During the heat of summer, it is well to water the foliage with
a fine spray during the early evening.
That's all there is to it. Begonias are the easiest things to grow
imaginable and their lovely blooms will continue from early in the
year until frost. ; Si
But don’t let frost hit the plants or ‘the bulbs. Bring them in
the house and let them continue to bloom until time to dry them
off and store the bulbs in a box filled with peat moss for the winter.
It’s easy to do this if the bulbs have been sunk in the earth in
pots rather than planted directly in the earth.
Each year you will observe that your bulbs have grown larger
until some have reached four to five inches in diameter. Any bulb
can be divided so long as there are sprouts on each section of the
division.
Jane Sehooley called me the other day to ask if it could be
done, and before the conversation was over she told me she had al-
ready divided her largest and choicest bulb with a kitchen knife
while she was talking to me.
Thanks to Grace Lee for the inspiration for this week’s Notes.
If you aren't already a begonia grower, blow a few dollars on some
bulbs, buy the best, not the cheapest, and have a whale of a lot of
fun making your friends think these beautiful mocking birds of the
flower kingdom are hard to grow.
The young begonia root systems can stand a eordstatle
amount of rough handling, it’s the top growth that has to be watched.
They will snap off if you aren’t careful, and the new growth may not
come back in time to have much of a plant before the end of sum-
mer. The bulb, however, doesn’t appear to be harmed by the loss of
top growth.
Now that the young plants are established in their pots, find
a good location for their setting outside. The north side of a build-
ing or a place where the young plants will not be exposed to the
direct rays of the sun is best. A location where they get the slanting
rays of the eastern or western sun is by far the best. A location
near a building protects them from strong winds, which will snap
off the stems when they are heavily loaded with foliage and flowers.
Remember, despite their love of shade, begonias do best with half a
day of sunlight.
I have got best results by sinking the pots in the earth and
lousy results by planting the bulbs directly in the ground. Other
growers have good results either way. I like best sinking the pots up
to their rims in a prepared flower bed where the soil remains moist
and there are no weeds or other ground cover.
I sink the pots from five to six inches apart, again depending. on
the size of the bulb and the expected top growth.
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