anaheim-gazette 1909-03-11

FERTILIZATION OF CITRUS GROVE From an Address by J. H. Nerton, who has charge of the Fertilizer Experiments at the Riverside Experiment Station. The subject of fertilizers is one that the wisest men feel timidity in discussing, because of the many conditions which surround the use of fertilizers having made the specific results and information gained rather limited. Our agricultural crops are so nearly alike that there is not a wide difference in the fertilizer requirements of the various crops. We mean by a fertilizer some specific substance that is beneficial to the crop production. Since all plants feed through the leaves and roots we must look to these two points for fertilizer effects. It is commonly recognized that a fertilizer is an element which the plant needs as a food. In other words, the plant's food supply is deficient in this particular element. But some recent investigations show that certain substances may have a neutralizing effect on an excessive food supply of a certain element and be a fertilizer by reason of its negative action. At any rate, under the subject of fertilizers may be considered nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Nitrogen exists in an endless number of combinations. As the element of free nitrogen it exists as four-fifths of the atmosphere. It exists as the nitrate in nitrate of soda, nitrate of potash, etc. It exists as the ammonium salt in household ammonia, sulphate of ammonia, sal ammoniac, etc. Nitrogen is one of the elements in protein compounds or organic nitrogen. Free nitrogen is used by the plants after certain bacteria convert it into nitric acid. These bacteria live best in combination, or as we say in symbiosis with leguminous plants, furnishing the legume nitric acid while the plant furnishes a home for the bacteria in the nodules on the roots of the plant. In bulletin 180 of the New Jersey two elements in forming but one class of compounds in commercial fertilizers, the potassium salts, all of which are soluble and available for plant growth. Potassium does not form volatile combinations and is fixed in the soil as phosphates are fixed. The transformation of nitrogen from its various forms into available plant food seems to be very well understood, but just what reactions to place with the other two elements not so well known. It is undoubted true that phosphorous and potassium in the soil are acted upon by the products of organic decomposition nitrification, including various organic acids, carbonic acids and nitric acid. Nitrogen as a fertilizer is found in the forms of nitrates, ammonium salts, blood, tankage, bone and natures. Other forms of nitrogen can be in use in other parts of the country, such as cotton seed meal indirectly alfalfa, etc. The value these different forms of nitrogen to the two standpoints, that of the producer and that of the consumer, an important question and will in near future receive quite different attention from what it has received the past. The availability of the different forms of nitrogen is about as follows: Nitrates 100, ammonium salts 90, seed and cotton seed meals 75, bone and tankage 60. The ability of manure seems to be that it is not as well worked out sources of phosphorus are that phosphate rock, Thomas slag, tankage and manure. SAN BERNARDINO WATER Decision in Case Involving Water in Upper Valley monium salt in household ammonia, sulphate of ammonia, sal ammoniac, etc. Nitrogen is one of the elements in protein compounds or organic nitrogen. Free nitrogen is used by the plants after certain bacteria convert it into nitric acid. These bacteria live best in combination, or as we say in symbiosis with leguminous plants, furnishing the legume nitric acid while the plant furnishes a home for the bacteria in the nodules on the roots of the plant. In bulletin 180 of the New Jersey station we find that a ton of dry cow peas has gathered from the air 109 pounds of nitrogen and deposited it in the soil crop. But two succeeding millet crops on this soil after the peas have been plowed under show that this 109 pounds of nitrogen is only equivalent to 14.5 pounds of nirogen from nitrate of soda applied as fertilizer, or 14.7 pounds of nirogen from dried blood, or 9.3 pounds of nitrogen from sulphate of ammonia, or 5.9 pounds of nitrogen from stable manure. That is to say, that the nitrogen accumulated by one ton of dry cow pea from the air into the soil is worth about $3 to follow the peas by millet, under New Jersey conditions. Nitrogen is the element in most explosives which gives them their explosive property. Nitrogen is very inert and hard to hold in a compound and for that reason there is great loss of nirogen in nitrogenous fertilizers. Any form of nitrogen is a fertilizer. Free or atmospheric nitrogen, as well as any form of organic nitrogen, is available to higher plants only after certain bacteria have converted the nitrogen into an available form. There are two available forms of nirogen for use of the higher plants; ammonia salts and the nitrates. Only a very small amount of ammonia salt is taken up by the plants as plant food. The bulk of nitrogen taken up as plant food is in the nitrate form. Therefore we must give our trees nitrates or some form of nitrogen that we know will become a nitrate at the time and rate the tree will need it. Phosphorus exists in almost an endless number of combinations. This element is quite different chemically from that of niogen and for that reason requires quite a different consideration as a fertilizer. The only form that phosphorus is important as a fertilizer is the form of a phosphate. As a phosphate it is always in combination with calcium or lime, there being four different combinations of the phosphate and lime. These four different forms differ in their solubility. The mono calcium phosphate, or superphosphate, is soluble in water, the dicalcium phosphate SAN BERNARDINO WATER Decision in Case Involving PurWater in Upper Valley The Yucalpa Land and Water pany and others have won their superior court at San Bernadino against the South Mountain W Company over the diversion, or to pumping away, of 225 inches of out of the Yucalpa watershed. Thecision rendered by Judge Hutton the South Mountain people 52.5 m³ of water, but it restrains them taking more than that amount. case is one of special important water litigation. The interests immense, as the value of 225 incr- water on Redlands Heights, where property of defendants is located, be all the way from $400,000 to $50,000 in brief, the court holds that orange growers on Redlands Heights shall have as much water as they present use for, because their ore have been started and the water without protest on the part of the calpa people. But the former man no more than they have use for from 225 inches they are cut down about one-fifth of that amount. The suit was filed by Attorney Waters, representing the plaintiff when trial was begun Walter B Los Angeles was associated with Waters in the court proceedings tis & Curtis and Hunsaker & Brie presented the defense. Numerous efforts to compromis suit before it went to the expei-trial were made, and the ple would have conceded some water defendants, although no offer q large as 52 inches was ever mad Not Out of Order The senate of the state of Cali stands practically as a unit resolution asking Congress to favorably Senator-elect Bristow commendation for a federal steline on the Pacific. In the House of Represenia Washington, Representative Mlan has introduced a bill approxi- ten million dollars for a federal ship line to ply between Pacifi points and Panama. This proj ineestimable importance to ther western slope. Ten times ten dollars would not measure ther it would effect as a rate-makin element is quite different chemically from that of nirogen and for that reason requires quite a different consideration as a fertilizer. The only form that phosphorus is important as a fertilizer is the form of a phosphate. As a phosphate it is always in combination with calcium or lime, there being four different combinations of the phosphate and lime. These four different forms differ in their solubility. The mono calcium phosphate, or superphosphate, is soluble in water, the dicalcium phosphate or reverted phosphoric acid is soluble in ammonium citrate solution and both of these phosphates are commercially known as available phospheric acid. The tricalcium phosphate, or apatite, is the insoluble or unavoidable phosphate and known commercially as unavailable or insoluble phosphoric acid. The tetracalcium phosphate is found in Thomas slag which is sold in this state as Thomas phosphate powder. This powder is more soluble than the tricalcium phosphate and less soluble than either of the other two. Then the order of their value would be as follows: Mono-calcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, tetracalcium phosphate, and tricalcium phosphate. The nitrates are not fixed in the soil and for that reason they are subject to loss by leaching as well as loss by the denitrifying bacteria which are continually setting the nitrogen free to get back to the air. The phosphates are not lost by reason of volatile products being formed, nor are they appreciably lost by leaching. The phosphates on being dissolved on or near the surface of the soil are carried down into the soil and fixed in what is known as an insoluble form. But this distribution of the phosphates, owing to their solubility, is far better done than we can do by mechanical means and for that reason the soluble phosphates are worth more as a fertilizer than the insoluble, even though they are converted into the insoluble form in the soil. Potassium differs from the other resolution asking Congress to favorably Senator-elect Bristow commendation for a federal step line on the Pacific. In the House of Representatives Washington, Representative Mlan has introduced a bill approving ten million dollars for a federal ship line to ply between Pacific points and Panama. This propestimable importance to the western slope. Ten times ten dollars would not measure that it would effect as a rate-making on transcontinental traffic. Somewhere, in some dark hides the so-called California Committee, that operates interest of the Southern Pacific road. It hides and weeps over dust that is streaming from its dolly. For when the California motion Committee met in Los Angeles district, it will be remembered, a renording the campign for steamship line was declared of order. Happily, the California Committee cannot declare out the Senate of California. For it cannot declare out of order representative in Congress from Angeles district. 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I've found a Rock of Ages, When desert wells were dry; And, after weary stages, I've found an Elim nigh. An Elim with its coolness, Its fountains and its shade! A blessing in its fullness. When buds of promise fade. O'er tears of soft contrition I've seen a rainbow light; A glory and fruition, So near!—yet out of sight. -Jane Crewdson. IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT If I should die tonight And you should come to my cold corpse and say, Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay— If I should die tonight And you should come in deepest grief and woe And say, "Here's that ten dollars that I owe". I might arise in my large white cravat And say, "What's that?" If I should die tonight And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel. Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel— I say, if I should die tonight And you should come to me, and there and then Just even hint 'bout paying me that ten, I might arise the while; But I'd drop dead again. —Ben King. Notice of Sale of Real Estate at Private Sale Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, made on the 5th day of March, 1809, in the matter of the estate of George L. Wagner, deceased, the undersigned, the administratrix of the said estate, will sell at private sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, in gold coin of the NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE Sale Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, made on the 5th day of March, 1909, in the matter of the estate of George L. Wagner, deceased, the undersigned, the administratrix of the said estate, will sell at private sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, in gold coin of the United States, and subject to confirmation by said Superior Court, on or after Friday, the 26th day of March, 1909, all of the right title, interest and estate of the said George L. Wagner, at the time of his death, and all the right title and interest that the said estate has by operation of law, or otherwise, acquired other than or in addition to that of the said George L. Wagner, at the time of his death in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the said County of Orange, State of California and bounded and described as follows: Being a portion of the Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana, and described as the south half of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section thirteen in Township four, South, Range ten, West, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, estimated to contain twenty and four-tenths acres of land; reserving therefrom for roads, railroads and ditches a strip of land thirty feet wide along, adjoining and each side of the Township and Section lines, and a strip of land twenty feet wide along, adjoining and each side of the quarter section lines; also reserving the use and control of cienegas and natural streams of water. If any, naturally upon flowing across, into or by said described tract, and reserving the right of way for and to construct irrigation or drainage ditches through said tract to irrigate or drain the adjacent land. Offers or bids for said property will be received at the office of Richard Melrose, attorney-at-law, in the City of Anaheim, or at the residence of the undersigned administratrix, near the said City of Anaheim. Said property will be sold for cash, gold coin of the United States, ten per centum of the purchase money to accompany the bid, and the remainder to be paid to the said administratrix on confirmation of the said sale by the said superior Court; the administratrix will furnish an unlimited certificate of title to said property. Bids or offers must be in writing and may be submitted at the places above designated or filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Orange County, State of California. Dated March 5th, 1909. RENA WAGNER. Administratrix, of estate of Georg: L. Wagner, deceased. "I have taken Scott's Emulsion for six weeks and have found it a wonderful remedy. Before I took the Emulsion I had no appetite; was weak; had lost nearly fifty pounds of flesh, and now I eat well and am gaining every day. I find Scott's Emulsion to be very easily digested and a good food for all weak people."—FLORENCE and have found it a wonderful remedy. Before I took the Emulsion I had no appetite; was weak; had lost nearly fifty pounds of flesh, and now I eat well and am gaining every day. I find Scott's Emulsion to be very easily digested and a good food for all weak people."—FLORENCE BLEEKER, No. 1 Myrtle Avenue, Bridgeton, N. J. This is only one of thousands of cases where Scott's Emulsion has given an appetite. It's so easily digested that it doesn't tax the digestive organs and they rest; yet the body is wonderfully nourished and built up. The digestion is improved—then ordinary food is sufficient. Growing boys and girls, who need so much food to keep them well and strong, and also growing, should be given a bottle of Scott's Emulsion every few weeks. It does wonders for them. It prevents their getting run down and spindly. Nothing does them so much good. ALL DRUGGISTS Let us send you some letters and literature on this subject. A Post Card, giving your address and the name of this paper, is sufficient. SCOTT & BOWNE 409 Pearl Street New York TRADE MARK ALABASTINE BASTINE Make Your Home Attractive by using Alabastine Sold at E. E. MILLER'S Hardware store Now is the time for Hoes, Rakes Shovels, Scythes, Fencing. 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Drug act says: "Any mixture of drugs is unlawful if it bears any or misleading statement." U.S. Dispensary says of Narcotics, they are NOT supposed to exercise ANY specific curative influence." Druggists of Highest Standard sell and endorse E-RU-SA namely: Sale by O.A. Mullinix, Ph.G., J.P. Hatzfeld, Ph.G.