anaheim-gazette 1892-01-28

VOLUME XXII. LODGE MEETINGS. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M., hold regular meetings on the Monday of or preceding the full moon in each month. Sojourning brethren in good standing are cordially invited to attend. W. M. McFADDEN, W. M. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199, I. O. O. F. REGULAR meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting other always welcome. E. A. CHAMPLIN, N. G. W. R. HARKER, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 85, A. O. U. W. MEETINGS on the first and fourth Friday of every month. F. CRIST, M. W. T. S. GRIMSHAW, Secretary. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at Odd Fellows Hall. MRS. EMMA SEARLE, Councillor. A. L. LAWS, Secretary. EVERGREEN COUNCIL, AMERICAN LEGION of Honor. Meets first and last Wednesday of each month, at S.P.M. MRS. E. A. JAMES, Mrs. L. G. HATES, Secretary. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. H. BULLARD, A. B., M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence, corner Hermine and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. MISCELLANEOUS. Hello, What's the M GUS DA Informs his customers and the general public to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. He therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving him elit of low prices. No charge for showing goods tions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry T National Nur CLARK MINOR, Largest Stock of Prunes, Peaches, Apricots, AND SOFT SHELL WA In the county. Largest stock Orange, Lemon, Bl OFFICE HOURS: 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. A. MENDELSON. GEO. P. BURKE. Mendelson & Burke ATTORNEYS AND Counsellors-at-Law. First National Bank Building. Santa Ana, Cal. L. NEMITZ, THE PAINTER, Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. I am ready to do first-class Carriage Painting & Trimming GENERAL JOBBING C. C. HAMILTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1, 2 and 3. Savings Bank Building. SANTA ANA, CAL. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general Jobbing Business. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHAS. SCHINDLER, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center street, Anaheim. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. L. GUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles streets. FRANK FOX, City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! HOT AND COLD BATHS. H. A. McWILLIAMS. Prunes, Peaches, Apricots, AND SOFT SHELL WAKE In the county. Largest stock Orange, Lemon, Blu Etc., Etc., Etc. An invitation is extended to all to call and Yard next to Postoffice. F. CRIST, MERCHANT Just received a complete FALL AND WINTER Goods of and fabrics, to which the atten zens of Anaheim and vicinity is Suits to order from Pants to order from An invitation is cordially public to call and examine this Bentz & Stead Wholesale and Retail Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sa Of Our Own Mall Highest Market price Paid for Go To WM.BOY Groceries and Pre Confectionery, Cigars T Grain, Mill Feed, Etc. Highest Price Goods Delivered Free! BACKS' BLOCK, LOS ANGELES STREET Commercial E (Corner Center and Lemon Street) L. GUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles streets. FRANK FOX, City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! HOT AND COLD BATHS. H. A. McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Office and shop, first door south of Perdinand Hacks' Furniture Store. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. Business Chance. MY HOUSE and STORE, For Sale. CHARLES PAMPERL ...Dealer in.... HARDWARE, CROCKERY, and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS Los Angeles street, Anaheim. CHAS. YOST. GEO. A. WHIDDEN. Santa Ana Iron Works IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY ...AND... Machine Shops. Manufacturers of Mill, Mining and Pumping Machinery, Well Boring Tools, Shafting, Pullets and Hangers, Gang Plows, Scrapers, Land Rollers, Plow Shares and Extras, Golden Gate Windmills, Building Prisms, and Architectural Iron Work. Blacksmiths & Wagonmakers. All kinds of Machinery Repaired. Agents for Pacific Metal Works, Babbitt, Dearing Mowers and Reapers; also for the Anti-Rattler and Safety-Shaft Coupler. Corner Fifth and West Sts., - Santa Ana. Telephone No. 5. P. O. Box 408. Cast Iron bought in Large or Small Quantities. Groceries and Tea Confectionery, Cigars T Grain, Mill Feed, Etc. Highest Price Goods Delivered Free! BACKS' BLOCK, LOS ANGELES STREET Commercial H (Corner Center and Lemon Street) J. J. EVERHARTY, - PRO First-class Accommodations for Farm THE COMMERCIAL, FORMERLY KNOWN Heim Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, in first-class style. A share of the public patricled. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACHED The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HALF Fashion Livery Stables in connection with Hotels furnished with or without drivers. T. J. F. BOY Wholesale and Retail Dealers Wines, Liquors and A COMPLETE S Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and WINES AND I BY THE KEG, GALLON OR ORDS by Mail Promptly AGOODS DELIVERED FREE Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAH ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1892. What's the Matter? DAVIS and the general public that he is prepared at margin possible. He buys for cash and small profit, giving his customers the ben-arge for showing goods or answering ques- and Poultry Taken in Exchange Nursery! MINOR, PROP. Largest Stock of Apricots, Pears, Apples AND WELL WALNUTS County. Largest stock of emon, Blue Gums The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SHUSCRIPTION. $2 Per Year. Six months. 1 00 Three months. 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient Advertising. SPACE. 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 week One square..... $1 00 $1 25 $1 75 $2 00 Two squares..... 1 50 2 00 2 25 2 50 Three squares..... 2 00 2 50 3 00 3 50 Four squares..... 2 50 300 3 50 4 00 Customary Reductions on above rates will be made on advertisements running for longer periods. Usual discounts on large advertise-ments. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and sent to subscribers by the early malls. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. Brief, and write directly to the point. All communications must be signed by the author, not for publication, but for the information of the editor. New Chinese Exclusion Act. Representative Stump of Maryland, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill absolutely prohibiting the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States for a period of twenty years. Mr. Stump has considerable knowledge of the effects of Chinese immigration, having been a member of the House committee of the last Congress that visited the Pacific Coast and conducted an investigation into the subject. The principle provisions of the bill are as follows: It is made unlawful for a period of twenty years after the passage of the act for any Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or any other foreign government. of India may be a necessity, but meantime we go along with our little dams and ditches and pipe lines and produce results per acre which the English Government, with its vast expenditure in India, cannot approach. The Nadrai aqueduct in India, which has been but recently completed, is the largest irrigation work of its kind in the world. The lower Ganges canal, whose water this aqueduct carries over the Kali Naddi, was designed as an extension of the irrigation scheme of the Upper Ganges canal, conceived and constructed by Sir Proby Cantley about the time of the mutiny, and was opened in the year 1876. In the year 1888-89, the Lower Ganges canal had 564 miles of main line and 2,050 miles of minor distributaries, and irrigated 519,022 acres of crops. From this it will be seen how important a line of irrigation this canal constitutes, and how urgent the reconstruction of the aqueduct was. The new aqueduct replaces one of much smaller size, viz., five spans of 35 feet, which was damaged by a flood in October, 1884, and completely destroyed by another high flood in July, 1885. The Kali Naddi, for the greater part of the year, is a very insignificant stream some 50 feet in width only, but on the date mentioned, it was swollen into a river a mile wide and in places 25 feet deep. In addition to the destruction of the Nadrai aqueduct, all the railway and road bridges below it were also destroyed, and many villages swept away. The proportion of the foundation to the superstructure of the new Nadrai aqueduct can be gathered from the fact that the three-fourths of the expenditure of money and time was consumed by what is now hidden below ground. The foundations consist of 268 circular brick cylinders or wells, as they are called in India, all sukk 55 feet below the river bed. There are 15 bays of 60 feet, divided into three groups of five each by abutment piers. The abutment piers consist of a double row of 12 feet wells, spaced two feet apart, and the ordinary piers of a single row of 20-feet wells similarly spaced. The wells are all sunk through a stratum of still yellow clay, averaging 15 feet thick, into a substratum of pure sand. The wells Representative Stump of Maryland, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill absolutely prohibiting the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States for a period of twenty years. Mr. Stump has considerable knowledge of the effects of Chinese immigration, having been a member of the House committee of the last Congress that visited the Pacific Coast and conducted an investigation into the subject. The principle provisions of the bill are as follows: It is made unlawful for a period of twenty years after the passage of the act for any Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or any other foreign government, including those now here and who may hereafter leave the country and attempt to return thereto, and those who have never been here, or having been here have departed therefrom, to come within or cross the boundaries of the United States, or land or remain at any port or place within the United States. The provision applies to Chinese laborers who come to the United States for purposes of transit only, as well as to those who come for any other purpose. When a Chinaman is convicted of any crime by a United States court, or of violation of any provisions of the act and ordered deported to China, it may be lawful to order and direct that the convict pay a fine not exceeding $500 and the costs of conviction and deportation. In case of failure to do so he may be compelled to labor upon some Government work long enough to satisfy said fine and costs at the rate of $1 per day and rations. The penalty for the commission of crimes against the United States by Chinese persons (except those of a capital nature of the first degree) shall be deportation to China. Any Chinese person entering the United States by way of contiguous foreign territory shall be deemed as having come direct from China and be deported, unless he claims to be and produces reasonable proof that he is a citizen of such contiguous foreign territory. No State or United States court is hereafter to admit Chinese to citizenship. The Flight of Ducks. John Petty, probably one of the best shots on wild fowl in the West, is thus quoted in the Omaha Bee: "I have had a good deal of experience with wild fowl, but what I am going to tell you I have gathered in the main from others, and it can be relied upon. I can tell you within a fraction about how much space any one of them can go over in an hour. There is not a railroad train that can hold a candle to the slowest duck that flies." "But the canvas-back is the racer of them all if he lays himself out to his work. When this duck is taking things easy, enjoying a little trip around the block, as it were, he goes through the air at about the rate of eighty miles an hour. If he has business somewhere and has to get there he puts at least two miles behind him every minute and does it easily. If you don't believe this just fire square at the leader in a string of canvas-backs who are out on a business cruise some time. Shot travels pretty fast, and if you happen to hit one of the birds see if it is not the sixth or seventh one back of the drake or leader. A drake does not always lead, but generally does if there is one in the flock; if they are more then sediment take the lead, but a wise old hen will be found there. If you wish to bring her down you must aim at least eight feet ahead of her, and if she falls you will find her a long distance off—say several hundred yards." "The mallard is slower. It is all he can do to make a mile a minute, but he can do it if he wants to." His regular flight is about representative Stump of Maryland, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill absolutely prohibiting the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States for a period of twenty years. Mr. Stump has considerable knowledge of the effects of Chinese immigration, having been a member of the House committee of the last Congress that visited the Pacific Coast and conducted an investigation into the subject. The principle provisions of the bill are as follows: It is made unlawful for a period of twenty years after the passage of the act for any Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or any other foreign government, including those nowhere and who may hereafter leave the country and attempt to return thereto, and those who have never been here, or having been here have departed therefrom, to come within or cross the boundaries of the United States, or land or remain at any port or place within the United States. The provision applies to Chinese laborers who come to the United States for purposes of transit only, as well as to those who come for any other purpose. When a Chinaman is convicted of any crime by a United States court, or of violation of any provisions of the act and ordered deported to China, it may be lawful to order and direct that the convict pay a fine not exceeding $500 and the costs of conviction and deportation. In case of failure to do so he may be compelled to labor upon some Government work long enough to satisfy said fine and costs at the rate of $1 per day and rations. The penalty for the commission of crimes against the United States by Chinese persons (except those of a capital nature of the first degree) shall be deportation to China. Any Chinese person entering the United States by way of contiguous foreign territory shall be deemed as having come direct from China and be deported, unless he claims to be and produces reasonable proof that he is a citizen of such contiguous foreign territory. No State or United States court is hereafter to admit Chinese to citizenship. The Flight of Ducks. John Petty, probably one of the best shots on wild fowl in the West, is thus quoted in the Omaha Bee: "I have had a good deal of experience with wild fowl, but what I am going to tell you I have gathered in the main from others, and it can be relied upon. I can tell you within a fraction about how much space any one of them can go over in an hour. There is not a railroad train that can hold a candle to the slowest duck that flies." "But the canvas-back is the racer of them all if he lays himself out to his work. When this duck is taking things easy, enjoying a little trip around the block, as it were, he goes through the air at about the rate of eighty miles an hour. If he has business somewhere and has to get there he puts at least two miles behind him every minute and does it easily. If you don't believe this just fire square at the leader in a string of canvas-backs who are out on a business cruise some time. Shot travels pretty fast, and if you happen to hit one of the birds see if it is not the sixth or seventh one back of the drake or leader. A drake does not always lead, but generally does if there is one in the flock; if they are more then sediment take the lead, but a wise old hen will be found there. If you wish to bring her down you must aim at least eight feet ahead of her, and if she falls you will find her a long distance off—say several hundred yards." "The mallard is slower. It is all he can do to make a mile a minute, but he can do it if he wants to." His regular flight is about representative Stump of Maryland, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill absolutely prohibiting the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States for a period of twenty years after the passage of the act for any Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or any other foreign government, including those nowhere and who may hereafter leave the country and attempt to return thereto, and those who have never been here, or having been here have departed therefrom, to come within or cross the boundaries of the United States, or land or remain at any port or place within the United States. The provision applies to Chinese laborers who come to the United States for purposes of transit only, as well as to those who come for any other purpose. When a Chinaman is convicted of any crime by a United States court, or of violation of any provisions of the act and ordered deported to China, it may be lawful to order and direct that the convict pay a fine not exceeding $500 and the costs of conviction and deportation. In case of failure to do so he may be compelled to labor upon some Government work long enough to satisfy said fine and costs at the rate of $1 per day and rations. The penalty for the commission of crimes against the United States by Chinese persons (except those of a capital nature of the first degree) shall be deportation to China. Any Chinese person entering the United States by way of contiguous foreign territory shall be deemed as having come direct from China and be deported, unless he claims to be and produces reasonable proof that he is a citizen of such contiguous foreign territory. No State or United States court is hereafter to admit Chinese to citizenship. The Flight of Ducks. John Petty, probably one of the best shots on wild fowl in the West, is thus quoted in the Omaha Bee: "I have had a good deal of experience with wild fowl, but what I am going to tell you I have gathered in the main from others, and it can be relied upon. I can tell you within a fraction about how much space any one of them can go over in an hour. There is not a railroad train that can hold a candle to the slowest duck that flies." "But the canvas-back is the racer of them all if he lays himself out to his work. When this duck is taking things easy, enjoying a little trip around the block, as it were, he goes through the air at about the rate of eighty miles an hour. If he has business somewhere and has to get there he puts at least two miles behind him every minute and does it easily. If you don't believe this just fire square at the leader in a string of canvas-backs who are out on a business cruise some time. Shot travels pretty fast, and if you happen to hit one of the birds see if it is not the sixth or seventh one back of the drake or leader. A drake does not always lead, but generally does if there is one in the flock; if they are more than sediment take the lead, but a wise old hen will be found there. If you wish to bring her down you must aim at least eight feet ahead of her, and if she falls you will find her a long distance off—say several hundred yards." "The mallard is slower. It is all he can do to make a mile a minute, but he can do it if he wants to." His regular flight is about representative Stump of Maryland, Chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has prepared a bill absolutely prohibiting the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States for a period of twenty years after the passage of the act for any Chinese laborers, whether subjects of the Chinese empire or any other foreign government, including those nowhere and who may hereafter leave the country and attempt to return thereto, and those who have never been here, or having been here have departed therefrom, to come within or cross the boundaries of the United States, or land or remain at any port or place within the United States. The provision applies to Chinese laborers who come to the United States for purposes of transit only, as well as to those who come for any other purpose. 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"The black duck is a close relative of the mallard, is also slow compared with the canvas-backs, and the pin-tail, widgeon and woodduck are but little faster. The red-head can go easy and make ninety miles an hour as long as he likes—all day if necessary. The blue-wing teal and his beautiful cousin, the green-wing, can fly side by side and make 100 miles an hour without turning a feather. "And may he be you think a wild goose can't fly. But he can. If you see a flock of big Canadas moving along so high up that they seem to be scraping the sky with their backs you would hardly think that they were making 100 miles an hour, but they are. The wild goose is not much of a pedestrian, but on the wing he is a hummer." A Grant Aqueduct for Irrigation. We are doing many original things in irrigation engineering in California. Some of our reservoir dams are the greatest of their kind in the world and involve novel principles and methods of construction. Some of our flumes, which conduct water both for mining and irrigation, are peerless for ingenuity in location and ways of building and support. Still, for grand irrigation works California does her hat to India and the California-irrigating purse shrinks when compared with the British Government treasure-houses which have been freely opened to bring water upon the arid wastes of Southern Asia. It is fortunate that we have hitherto been able to make such commendable progress in irrigation with a comparatively small expenditure of money, and that the development of such respectable areas of our lands have not been forced to wait upon the Government for a large investment of public money. It is fortunate too, that a much greater expansion of our irrigated area is still within the reach of private capitalists and co-operative effort among private land owners. It may be in the years to come when the improvement of the greater arid regions of the interior shall be reclaimed by irrigation that public works rivaling those timates of the value of their labor vary so extremely; yet it is quite safe to say that the average profit on sugar beets this year was $30 per acre, and that this figure was considerably increased when the farmer did his own work. The following results of this year's crop are taken from the cultivator's own figures. In every instance the land belonged to the best raiseer, and his estimated value of rent of land is also given. Where the farmer did any of his work himself, the cost of such work is estimated at the amount it would take to have it performed by hired labor and teams. R. BUELAND—5 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $4 per acre—22 cents per ton—total, $20. Seed, $1 20 per acre—7 cents per ton—total, $6. Hosing, thinning, tipping and loading into wagon, $27 28 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $136 40. Plowing out and hauling, $9 09 per acre—50 cents per ton—total, $45 45. 94.742 tons yielded $473 71; profit per acre, $33 17; per ton, $2 71; estimated rent of land, $15 per acre—$2 8 cents per ton. L. E. PEARCE—15 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $5 per acre—31 cents per ton—total, $75. Seed, $1 02 per acre—6 cents per ton—total, $15 30. Housing, thinning, tipping and loading into wagon, $24 23 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $363 45. Plowing out and hauling, $8 08 per acre—50 cents per ton—total, $121 20. 241.247 tons yielded $1,205 73; profit per acre, $42 05; per ton, $2 63; estimated rent of land, $15 per acre—$33 cents per ton. O. TUTTLE—5 acres. Plowing and preparing land, $6 50 per acre—32 cents per ton—total, $32 50. Seed, 78 cents per acre—4 cents per ton—total, $3 90. Thinnning and hoeing, $8 per acre—40 cents per ton—total, $40. Topping, $14 07 per acre—70 cents per ton—total, $70 35. Plowing out, $13 per acre—15 cents per ton—total, $15. Hauling, $10 05 per acre—50 cents per ton—total, $50 25. 102.56 tons yielded $512 81; profit per acre, $60 16; per ton, $2 89; estimated rent of land, $20 per acre—$1 per ton. D. TUTTLE—11 acres. Plowing and preparing land, $3 per acre—14 cents per ton—total, $33. Seed, $1 50 per acre—7 cents per ton—total, $16 50. Housing, thinning, tipping and loading into wagon, $27 50 per acre—$1 25 per ton—total, $302 72. Plowing out and hauling, $11 01 per acre—50 cents per ton—total, $121 11. 242 135 tons yielded $1,210 67; profit per MARY 28, 1892. NUMBER 12 a necessity, but meantime with our little dams and ditches and produce results per acre in India, caunot approach. Aqueduct in India, which has completed, is the largest of its kind in the world. Ganges canal, whose water carries over the Kali Naddi, is an extension of the irrigation of the Upper Ganges canal, constructed by Sir Proby at the time of the mutiny, and the year 1876. In the year Power Ganges canal had 564 mules and 2,050 miles of minor irrigated 519,022 acres of this it will be seen how irrigation this canal consti-urgent the reconstruction of was. The new aqueduct re-raunch smaller size, viz., five which was damaged by a 1884, and completely deser- high flood in July, 1885. For the greater part of the significant stream some 50 mule, but on the date mention- en into a river a mile wide feet deep. to the destruction of the tilt, all the railway and road were also destroyed, and swept away. of the foundation to the construction of the new Nadrai aqueduct from the fact that the expenditure of money consumed by what is now hid- ind. consist of 268 circular or wells, as they are called bank 55 feet below the river in 15 bays of 60 feet, divided into five each by abutment treatment piers consist of a dou- feet wells, spaced two feet ordinary piers of a single row similarly spaced. all sank through a stratum day, averaging 15 feet thick, of pure sand. The wells acre, $6,703; per ton, $3 04; estimated rent of land, $20 per acre—91 cents per ton. J. W. GALLY—7 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $5 per acre—20 cents per ton—total, $35. Seed, 71 cents per acre—3 cents per ton—total, $4 97. Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $37 38 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $261 66. Plowing out, $4 29 per acre—17 cents per ton—total, $30 03. Hauling, $12 46 per acre—50 cents per ton—total $87 22. 171.21 tons yielded $856 06; profit per acre, $62 45; profit per ton, $2 60; estimated rent of land, $15 per acre—60 cents per ton. A. C. PECKHAM—6 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $5 per acre—26 cents per ton—total, $30. Seed, $1 17 per acre—7 cents per ton—total, $7 02. Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $26 22 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $157 32. Plowing out and hauling, $10 49 per acre—60 cents per ton—total, $62 94. 103.33 tons yielded $517 15; profit per acre, $43 31; profit per ton, $2 54; estimated rent of land, $15 per acre—86 cents per ton. J. PEDERSEN—15 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $7 per acre—30 cents per ton—total, $105. Seed, $1 09 per acre—5 cents per ton—total, $16 35. Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $28 43 per acre—$1 20 per ton—total, $126 45. Plowing out and hauling, $9 48 per acre—40 cents per ton—total, $142 20. 350.17 tons yielded $1,750 86; profit per acre, $70 72; per ton, $3 05; estimated rent of land, $20 per acre—84 cents per ton. J. ALBRIGHT—6 ACRES. Plowing and preparing land, $8 per acre—29 cents per ton—total, $48. Seed, $1 42 per acre—5 cents per ton—total, $8 52. Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $40 68 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $244 08. Plowing out and hauling, $21 70 per acre 1,400,000 tons in 1890, or an increase of 345,000 tons in eleven months. From these figures certain logical deductions are drawn which will not occur to the casual reader. The Dunn circular says that a quantity equal to more than all the crops of marketable sugars of Demerara, Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica and British India put together was absorbed by this addition to the requirements of eleven months, and it may mean in conjunction with similar if less important strides elsewhere, the beginning of a common danger to the European market by upsetting the equilibrium of values and perhaps turning the scale against production. The conclusion from this is easy to draw. It is that unless the United States wants to pay through the nose for her enormous consumption of sugar she must aid and encourage her home production, not only as a means for keeping prices down, but to avoid the danger of an actual shortage in sugar. The bounty of two cents per pound on American sugar we pay to ourselves. We produce an abundance of sugar and we keep a check on the prices charged by the foreign producer, all of which is extremely desirable in the economic aspect of the sugar question. More Scale Parasites. Professor Koebele has sent up another consignment of scale parasites from Australia. The bugs arrived in San Francisco last Sunday. One or two previous shipments of these same varieties of lady birds have been made, but owing to unforsseen contingencies occurring on shipboard, nearly all the insects were dead on arrival and the remainder were so feeble that they were of no use. The present shipment consists mostly of the orchus chalybeus, a beautiful metallic insect whose special province is the destruction of the aspidiotoc corcinella, or San Jose scale. There are upwards of 6,000 of the lady birds, and they are all in the liveliest possible condition. Secretary Lelong will at once distribute them in infected localities, and measures will be taken to propagate them for introduction wherever this variety of the scale exists. As horstulurists know, this is one of the worst and most Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $28 43 per acre—$1 20 per ton—total, $1426 45. Plowing out and hauling, $9 48 per acre—40 cents per ton—total, $142 20. 350.17 tons yielded $1,750 86; profit per acre, $70 72; per ton, $3 05; estimated rent of land, $20 per acre—84 cents per ton. Plowing and preparing land, $8 per acre—29 cents per ton—total, $48. Seed, $1 42 per acre—5 cents per ton—total, $8 52. Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $40 68 per acre—$1 50 per ton—total, $244 08. Plowing out and hauling, $21 70 per acre—80 cents per ton—total, $130 20. 165.54 tons yielded $827 70; profit per acre, $96 15; per ton, $2 36; estimated rent of land, $15 per acre—55 cents per ton. M. Tuttle—10 acres. Plowing and preparing land, $5 per acre—27 cents per ton—total, $50. Seed, $1 12 per acre—6 cents per ton—total, $11 20. Planting, 65 cents per acre—3 cents per ton—total, $6 50. Hoeing, thinning, topping and loading into wagon, $17 81 per acre—95 cents per ton—total, $178 10. Hauling and plowing out, $937 per acre—50 cents per ton—total, $93 70. 187.527 tons yielded $937 62; profit per acre, $59 81; per ton, $3 19; estimated rent of land, $20 per acre—$1 07 per ton. Californin Beet Sugar. The rise and progress of the beet sugar industry in California is attracting notice in various portions of the United States, as well as within this State itself. The New Orleans Picayune recently called attention to the fact that the three beet sugar factories located in California had finished the season and shut down with an output of something over 8,000,000 pounds of dry sugar. Says the Picayune: "The success of beet sugar culture in California is now an established fact, and there is every reason to believe that beets can be grown with equal profit in most of the Western and Middle States. To those sections which have hitherto been dependent solely upon grain for a money crop the advent of the beet sugar industry will prove a great blessing." California certainly has reason to be fairly well satisfied with her first year of actual work in making beet sugar. The output was more than half as great as the import of beet sugar from Germany in 1890, which means, of course, that one-half of the foreign import is replaced by domestic sugar, which is clearly to the advantage of the producer and consumer alike. It should need no argument to prove that American sugar, if it can be sold as cheaply as foreign sugar, must be better in an economic point of view, for its manufacture furnishes employment, to American workman and opens a new field to the American farmer. The Picayune takes a broader view of the question of beet sugar than many of the Eastern papers have been able to do. It says: "The spread of the beet sugar industry would be of great advantage to the Louisiana cane product, as it would make sugar a national instead of a local interest, as it has been heretofore. As the country now barely produces one-tenth of the sugar it consumes it will be seen that there is ample room for development before the domestic industry will supply all the sugar needed for home consumption." There is every reason why sugar should be of a national interest. It has passed, admittedly, out of the class of luxuries into the category of necessities, its consumption these same varieties of lady birds have been made but, owing to unforsaken contingencies occurring on shipboard, nearly all the insects were dead on arrival and the remainder were so feeble that they were of no use. The present shipment consists mostly of the orchus chalybeus, a beautiful metallic-colored insect, whose special province is the destruction of the aspidiotocorcinella, or San Jose scale. There are upwards of 6,000 of the lady birds, and they are all in the liveliest possible condition. Secretary Lelong will at once distribute them in infected localities, and measures will be taken to propagate them for introduction wherever this variety of the scale exists. As horticulturists know, this is one of the worst and most widespread pests in the State, and the successful introduction of an enemy to it will be gladly welcomed. Fully as important is the receipt for the first time in this country of living specimens and cocoons of the thalpochares coeciphage, a moth which is the deadly enemy of the black scale for which pest, until the present time no remedy has been found. The caterpillar of the thalpochares feed greedily upon this scale, and subsequently makes its cocoon upon the limbs of the infected tree. The process of reproduction goes on over and over again until the scale is entirely driven away when the moth migrates to other infested localities or dies out entirely. The introduction of this parasite means an annual saving of between $1 and $2 for each properly cared-for olive tree in the State, which is an immense amount in the aggregate, while for the orange growers located near the coast it means the salvation of their groves from complete destruction. Beside the insects already mentioned there were received a number of the verania freuata and the halyza galbula, lady birds which are destructive of other forms of pests than those referred to. Like the other parasites they all arrived in the best condition, and will be at once liberated to commence their good work. To correct any misunderstanding it should be explained that Mr. Koebele is working under the joint direction of the National Department of Agriculture and the California State Board of Horticulture. From the former he receives his salary and from the latter his expenses, and the State board receives the bulk of parasites sent hitherto and distributes them where they are most needed. This arrangement was entered into at the request of the California officials, as the United States laws did not permit of the expenditure of money for such purposes in foreign lands, and our Legislature appropriated $5,000 for the purpose of the investigation. The Winter's Rainfall. The present winter has been looked upon as indicative of a dry season. There is nothing yet to justify the prediction of a dry season, except that fact that for the three seasons last past the season's rainfall has been a little above the average, and hence a dry season is needed to restore the average. During the past twenty-two years, the rainfall in January has been as follows: - Thinnning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $28 43 per acre—$1 20 per ton—the total,$1426 45. - Plowing out and hauling, $9 48 per acre—40 cents per ton—the total,$8 52. - Thinning, hoeing, topping and loading into wagon, $40 68 per acre—$1 50 per ton—the total,$244 08. - Plowing out and hauling, $21 70 per acre—80 cents per ton—the total,$130 20. - 165.54 tons yielded $827 70; profit per acre,$96 15; per ton,$2 36; estimated rent of land,$15 per acre—55 cents per ton. - M. Tuttle—10 acres. - Plowing and preparing land,$5 per acre—27 cents per ton—the total,$50. - Seed,$1 12 per acre—6 cents per ton—the total,$11 20. - Planting，65 cents per acre—3 cents per ton—the total,$6 50. - Hoeing，thinning，topping和loadingintowagon,$17 81peracre—95centspersonoftotal—thetotal,$17810. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre—50centspersonoftotal—thetotal,$9370. - 187.527tons yielded$93762;profitperacre,$5981;perton,$319;estimatedrentofland,$20peracre—$107perton. Californin Beet Sugar. The rise and progress of the beet sugar industry in California is attracting notice in various portions of the United States, as well as within this State itself. The New Orleans Picayune recently called attention to the fact that the three beet sugar factories located in California had finished the season and shut down with an output of something over 8,000,000 pounds of dry sugar. Says the Picayune: "The success of beet sugar culture in California is now an established fact,andthereiseveryreasontobelievethatbeetscanbegrownwithequalprofitintostmoftheWesternandMiddleStates.Tothosesectionswhichhavehithertobedependentsoleupongrainforamoneycroptheadventofthebeetsugardustrywillproveagreatblessung." California certainly has reason to be fairly well satisfied with her first year of actual work in making beet sugar. The output was more than half as great as the import of beet sugar from Germany in 1890, which means,of course,theone-half-oftheforeignimportisreplacedbydomesticsugar,bisclearlytoadvantageoftheproducerandconsumeralike.它shouldneednoargumenttoprovethatAmericansugar.itifcanbesoldascheaplyasforeignsugar.mustbetbetainaneconomicpointofview.foritismaufracturesmounthispowerfurnishemployment.toAmericanworkmanandopensanewfieldtotheAmericanfarmer. The Picayune takes a broader view of the question of beet sugar than many of the Eastern papers have been able to do. It says: "The spread of the beet sugar industry would be of greatest advantage to the Louisiana cane product.asitwouldmake sugarenatinalsteadofalocalinterest.asithasbeenheretofore.Asthecountrynowbarelyproducesone-tenthofthesugarsitconsumesitwillbeseenthatthereisampleroomfordeliverybeforethedomesticindustrywillsupplyallthesugarsneededforhomeconsumption." There is every reason why sugar should be of a national interest. It has passed，admittedly，outoftheclassofluxuriesintothecategoryofnecessities Itsconsumption These same varieties of lady birds have been made，但owingtounforsceneng contingenciesoccurringonshipboard,nearlyalltheinsectsweredeadonarrivalandremainderweresofeeblethattheywereofnouse.Thepresentshipconstistsmostoftheorchuschallybeus,abeatifulmetalliccolored insect，whosespecialprovinceisthedestructionoftheaspidiotocorcinella，或SanJosescale。Thereareupwardsof6,000oftheladybirds，但areallintheliveliestpossiblecondition.SecretaryLelongwillatoncedistributethemininflectedlocalities,andmeasureswillbewakentopragmatehemiforeintroductionwherethisvarietyofthescaleexists.AsthorticuluristsknowthisisoneoftheworstandmostwidespreadpestsintheState,andthesuccessfulintroductionofanenemytoitwillbegladlywelcomed. Fully as important is the receipt for the first time in this country of living specimens and cocoons of the thalpochares coeciphage，a moth which isthedead enemyoftheblackscale-forwhichpest，untilthepresenttimenoremedyhasbeenfound.Thecatterpillarofthethalpocharesfeedgreedlyuponthisscale,andsubsequentlymakesitscocoonuponthelimbsoftheinfectivedtree.Theprocessofproductiongoesonoverandoveragainuntilthescalemigratestootherinfestedlocalitiesordiesoutentirely.Theintroductionofthisparasitemeansanannualsavingofbetween$1and$2foreachproperlycared-forolivetreeintheState，whichisanimmenseamountintheaggregate,而whilefortheorangegrowerslocatednearthecoast它meanssalivationofthegrovesfromcomplete destruction. Besidestheinsectsalreadymentionedtherewerereceivedanumberoftheveraniafreuataandthehalyzagalbula，ladybirdswhicharedestructiveofotherformsoftpeststhan those referred to.Likeotherparasitestheyallarrivedinthebestcondition,andwillbeatoncileliberatedtocommence theirgoodwork. TocorrectanymisunderstandingitshouldbeexplainedthatMr.Koebeleisworkingunderthejoint directionoftheNationalDepartmentOfAgricultureandtheCaliforniaStateBoardOfHorticulture.Fromtheformerhereceiveshis salaryandfromthe latterhisexpenses,andtheStateboardreceivesbulkofparasitessenthithertheyaremostneeded.ThearrangementwasenteredintoattherequestoftheCaliforniaofficials，astheUnitedStateslawdsnotpermitoftheexpenditureofmoneyforsuchpurposesinforeignlands,andourLegislatureappropriated$5,000forthepurposeoftheinvestigation. TheWinter'sRainfall. The present winter has been looked uponasindicativeofa dry season.Thereisnothingyettojustifythepredictionofa dry season.exceptthatfactthatforthethreeseasonslastpasttheseason'srainfallhasbeena littleabovetheaverage,andhencea dry seasonisneededtorestoretheaverage.Duringthepasttwenty-twoyearstherainfallinJanuaryhasbeenasfollows: - Thinnning，hoeing，toppingandloadingintowagon,$2843peracre-$120perton—thetotal,$42645. - Plowingoutandhaulingout,$948peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$852. - Thinning，hoeing，toppingandloadingintowagon,$4068peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Plowingoutandhaulingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Planting，65 centsperacre-$3 centsperton—thetotal,$652. - Hoeing，thinning，toppingandloadingintowagon,$1781peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Planting，65 centsperacre-$3 centsperton—thetotal,$652. - Hoeing，thinning，toppingandloadingintowagon,$1781peracre-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937perace-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937perace-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937perace-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937perace-$150perton—thetotal,$24408. - Haulingandplowingout,$937perace-$15 The value of their labor vary so much it is quite safe to say that the sugar beets this year was considered when the farmer did his following results of this taken from the cultivator's every instance the land beet raiser, and his estimated land is also given. Where any of his work himself, the work is estimated at the amount to have it performed by hired land—5 acres. Preparing land, $4 per acre—total, $20. Per acre—7 cents per ton—inning, topping and loading into per acre—$1 50 per ton—land hauling, $9 00 per acre—total, $45 45. Yielded $473 71; profit per ton, $2 71; estimated rent per acre—$28 cents per ton. Peak season—15 acres. Preparing land, $5 per acre—total, $75. Per acre—6 cents per ton—inning, topping and loading into per acre—$1 50 per ton—land hauling, $8 08 per acre—total, $121 20. Yielded $1,205 73; profit per ton, $2 63; estimated rent per acre—$33 cents per ton. Tuttle—5 acres. Preparing land, $6 50 per acre—total, $32 50. Per acre—4 cents per ton—inning, topping and loading into per acre—$1 25 per ton—land hauling, $8 08 per acre—total, $40. Yielded $1,205 73; profit per ton, $2 63; estimated rent per acre—$33 cents per ton. Tuttle—11 acres. Preparing land, $3 per acre—total, $83. Per acre—7 cents per ton—inning, topping and loading into per acre—$1 25 per ton—land hauling, $8 08 per acre—total, $40. Yielded $1,205 73; profit per ton, $2 63; estimated rent per acre—$33 cents per ton. Tuttle—11 acres. The Picarrae takes a broader view of the question of beef sugar than many of the Eastern papers have been able to do. It says: "The spread of the beet sugar industry would be of great advantage to the Louisiana cane product, as it would make sugar a national instead of a local interest, as it has been heretofore. As the country now barely produces one-tenth of the sugar it consumes it will be seen that there is ample room for development before the domestic industry will supply all the sugar needed for home consumption." There is every reason why sugar should be of a national interest. It has passed, admittedly, out of the class of luxuries into the category of necessities, its consumption being as general in this country as that of flour and meat. Its physiological value has long since been recognized, the modern tendency being, perhaps, to increase rather than diminish the use of sugar as a genuine article of food. It is certain that the universality of its use argues very strongly in favor of its food value, for a mere luxury is not eaten by the whole civilized world, and so constantly. California has made a beginning in the manufacture of beet sugar, but scarcely anything more. Instead of three factories the State should have twenty or more, and the annual product of dry sugar should be at least ten times as great as at present. Our soil and climate are admirably allapted for the cultivation of the sugar beet and our farmers should outgrow the notion that they must raise cereal crops everywhere and at all times. California ought to produce all the sugar needed for consumption in the United States, and a surplus for export in addition, and we believe she will do so before many years. The Consumption of Sugar. The review of the sugar trade of 1891, published by James Dunn-of-Glasgow, an acknowledged authority on the subject, contains some suggestions very pertinent to the topic of sugar making in the United States. The paper in question says, among other things, that the business of importing and refining sugar in the Atlantic States continues to show a rapid development and progress which throw all other countries into the shade. For the eleven months ending November 30th there passed through the four ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, 1,431,195 tons of sugar, which with the stock of 53,749 tons left over from last year gives 1,484,944 tons as the total for manipulation up to that date. Taking out the exports of refined and crude sugars, it appears that the American demand, as met through the Atlantic seaboard, was 1,403,383 tons for the period of eleven months, and that the total consumption of the United States was 1,745,000 tons against dry season is needed to restore the average. During the past twenty-two years, the rainfall in January has been as follows: The average rainfall to January lst, for the past twenty-two years, has been 5.85 inches or only .85 of an inch more than the rainfall to that date for the present season. The average rainfall for the entire season, for the past twenty-one years (the present season not yet being completed) has been 16.20 inches. During eight of the twenty-one years, in which we have a record, the rainfall prior to January lst has been less than that of this season, and in three of the years the rainfall prior to January lst has been less than an inch. If we take the entire rainfall of the eight seasons in which the precipitation up to January lst has been less than that of this season, we find that the average for the eight years has been 14.82 inches, or only ches less than the average for the twenty-one years. It we take the season of 1883-84, in which we had the largest season's rainfall for twenty-one years—37.57 inches, we find that the precipitation of that season, prior to January lst was only 4.20 inches, which is eighty hundredths of an inch less than the rainfall of the present season. In three of the seasons of the twenty-two years, the rainfall prior to January lst has been less than an inch. These seasons were dry and yet in one of them—1886-87—the rainfall before January lst was only seventy-two hundredths of an inch, the season's rainfall was 14.50 inches—only 1.76 inches less than the average. The drytest season in twenty-one years gave us 5.08 inches of rain. The amount of this season's rainfall is not yet determined by any human agency. It may be a dry season, or we may yet have floods. It is safe to assume, however, that we will have enough rain to mature barley and wheat, and so far as orchards and vineyards are concerned they will depend on irrigation systems, and for irrigation purposes, the streams and other sources of supply will furnish plenty of water to supply all demands made by the irrigators. —Ec. Poultry raisers complain of their chickens and turkeys dying of swelled head or rourp. Farmers' Healing Liniment is guaranteed to cure this. For sale by W. M. Higgins, druggist, Anaheim, Cal.