anaheim-gazette 1909-12-02

STATE LABORATORY WORK PROF. SMITH ON PLANT PATHOLOGY AT WHITTIER Scene of Principal Place for Work Undertaken by Agricultural Department of University—Field Investigations by Pathologist and Assistants Prof. Ralph E. Smith of the pathological laboratory at Whittier has told us of the work of that institution in developing the walnut industry and steps taken to stamp out the blight. Prof. Smith's annual report is one of the most interesting ever issued in this State, because it deals directly with subjects engaging the earnest attention of the growers. In the pages of his report quoted from this week, he shows the development work carried on at the state laboratory at Whittier, as well as the needs of that institution: While the headquarters of this division are naturally at the University in Berkeley, it has not yet been possible to develop the work there in a satisfactory degree. The funds available for this work have been so much more abundant in connection with the Southern California Laboratory than those for the remainder of the state that the former institution has come to be the principal fiel of the work of this division. The teaching of plant pathology at the university has never received the attention which the subject deserves. Courses have been given in a somewhat desultory manner since 1904 by the writer and Messrs. C. O. Smith connection with the library a good beginning has been made toward collecting as complete a set as possible of the publications of the various state experiment stations and the United States Department of Agriculture. The library receives regularly all the current publications of these institutions, and a fairly complete set of back numbers is being collected. These bulletins have all been catalogued and systematically arranged. During the last two seasons most of the available field space at the laboratory has been utilized in growing walnuts. Considerable plantings have been made of various species and selections for the purpose of forming grafting stock for trees of improved quality to be grown and distributed by the station for practical trial by walnut growers in various sections. Considerable space has also been devoted to tomatoes in connection with the work on this vegetable. A limited number of specimen trees have been planted in the space available, representing the most important varieties of citrus and other fruits. A grove of walnut and other nut trees planted on the nearby grounds of the Whittier state school is developing well and will soon afford an interesting and valuable feature. During the past year the development and equipment of the laboratory has been considerably advanced by the addition of Professor Quayle's work in entomology. Two rooms on the second floor of the building have been devoted to this purpose and equipped as an office and laboratory for the entomologist. A portion of the greenhouse has also been set aside for an insectary and used by point of natural esqueness of life Station may be the university's valuable collection lyptus trees or representing owell as many owl was not serious and this unique the most valuation. Pearl This work, written in co-operative States Department reported on at least one year in our last history and chap taking may be publication. Theience in the woody, 1906, to July spects similar year already re consisted in gee part of a field experts to tion of pear blight methods establish of the Federal culture. The v field consisted Scott of the U ment of Agricu assistants, six re division of th e tion and a num der various cou rture. The wor uting available permanent man pear-growing de men in each dis sible assistance that part of th e made on th e the teaching of plant pathology at the university has never received the attention which the subject deserves. Courses have been given in a somewhat desultory manner since 1904 by the writer and Messrs. C. O. Smith and Babcock. Commencing in 1908 the work received more systematic attention than before through the appointment of Mr. Babcock as assistant professor of plant pathology. The department, however, has never been sufficiently equipped or housed to give extended or specialized instruction in this subject. In the field of investigation the work has also suffered in a similar manner. Following the early work of the writer from 1903 to 1905, carried on with practically no equipment or assistance, the following two years were devoted, as mentioned elsewhere in this report, to certain special investigations on a considerable scale, but without the means for general development of the department at the university. Some progress was made, however, during this period in the development of laboratory equipment and other facilities. During the past two years there has been very little more accomplished in this direction. Investigations have been carried on by Miss Smith in the laboratory and Mr. Yeaw in the field, and some problems have also been taken up by Mr. Babcock, but the development and activity of the department outside of Southern California during this time has been very limited. Conditions for the future, both in regard to investigation, experimental work and teaching at the university are much more promising. Professor Horne has been called for the purpose of assisting in building up the teaching department, and the facilities and equipment for this purpose are rapidly improving. It seems safe to predict that the teaching of plant pathology at the university will from now on receive very satisfactory consideration. The situation in regard to investigation and experimentation, together with field work on plant diseases, in the northern part of the state is entirely changed and very much improved by the action of the legislature in soon afford an interesting and valuable feature. During the past year the development and equipment of the laboratory has been considerably advanced by the addition of Professor Quayle's work in entomology. Two rooms on the second floor of the building have been devoted to this purpose and equipped as an office and laboratory for the entomologist. A portion of the greenhouse has also been set aside for an insectary and used by Professor Quayle in his work. A considerable amount of apparatus has been added to the laboratory equipment for entomological purposes. In the same connection may be mentioned the equipment of a small but quite complete chemical laboratory in one of the larger rooms on the second floor of the building. This room has been fitted with benches, shelves, cupboards, hood, etc., and equipment is now being installed for chemical work. Development of the Riverside Station Work on the grounds at Riverside is proceeding well and the plantings thus far are developing very satisfactorily. The nature of the work under taken at this station precludes the possibility of the rapid development and progress made at the Whittler laboratory, but every effort is being put forth to develop this station. The plantings of young citrus trees made in the spring of 1907 for fertilizer and other experiments, as described in Circular 35 and elsewhere in this report, are making an excellent development. The citrus seed-bed stock started in 1907 has been planted out in nursery form and budded to various selected stock; a considerable planting of eucalyptus trees of various species has been made on the mountainside back of the station; improvements in the irrigation facilities have been made from time to time, and much other work of a general nature has been done in developing and beautifying these grounds. The lines of investigation centered at this station have been particularly those connected with field problems in citrus culture, matters having to do with studies of soil nature and treatment and pomological work. It is for such purposes that the orchard and nursery plantings on the place have been made. In connection with Professor Norton's work further development of field and cultural work is being laid out and a system of pot cultures is also being installed on a The situation in regard to investigation and experimentation, together with field work on plant diseases, in the northern part of the state is entirely changed and very much improved by the action of the legislature in passing the bill previously referred to. This work will be centered at the university and to some extent at the Davis Farm and can now be carried on upon a systematic and permanent basis. In general, therefore, it may be said that the division is at last finding itself in a position to make its headquarters at the university where they properly belong and administer its work in a logical manner all over the state. Development of the Whittier Laboratory The establishment of the Whittler and Riverside branches of the Station work has been described in Circular 35 of this station. Since this publication the work of development at Whittier has gone on satisfactory both in the laboratory building and the adjacent grounds. The laboratory is now well equipped for the work of investigation in plant pathology, entomology, and to some extent in chemistry. An appropriation of $1500 was made by the last legislature for the further equipment of this laboratory, and with this money we intend to supply several urgent needs. A considerable part of the appropriation will be expended in the purchase of books, with the idea of obtaining a working library composed of the most necessary works needed by those engaged in the laboratory investigations. The remainder of the appropriation will be used in the purchase of a few more microscopes, a high-class photographic lens, and other necessary equipment. In The lines of investigation centered at this station have been particularly those connected with field problems in citrus culture, matters having to do with studies of soil nature and treatment and pomological work. It is for such purposes that the orchard and nursery plantings on the place have been made. In connection with Professor Norton's work further development of field and cultural work is being laid out and a system of pot cultures is also being installed on a considerable scale. Much of the work of this station is necessarily carried on in the commercial groves of the vicinity and elsewhere rather than on the station grounds proper. An effort was made during the meeting of the last legislature to obtain an appropriation for erecting a laboratory and office building on the station grounds, but owing to the fact that this land is not owned by the state but held on a twenty years' lease, no appropriation for a building was granted. Some effort was also made to obtain an appropriation for the purchase of the land by the state, but this met with little support on account of the high value of the property, due to its favorable location. Condition of the Forestry Station At the time when the Santa Monica Station was turned over to this division all the buildings of the station had been lost by fire, and the new ones, for which plans had been prepared, had not yet been begun. The erection of these buildings was therefore the chief activity of the station during the first year covered by this report. Two dwelling houses, a stable, tank house, lath house, green house and office were erected, so that the station is now excellently equipped as to buildings. Much improvement in the grounds has been made by Mr. Ingham by cleaning up dead trees, underbrush and other relics of the disastrous fire which destroyed the former buildings, as well as by new plantings, road making, etc. In ANAHEIM GAZETTE CURRY'S BIENNIAL REPORT SECRETARY OF STATE SUBMITS DATA TO GOVERNOR List of Corporations Filing Certified Articles of Incorporation, and Architects Who Have Been Granted Licenses—Acts of the Governor — Moneys Expended on State Capitol We have been favored with a copy of the biennial report of Secretary of State Curry, which is replete with interesting information and valuable data for taxpayers. The report includes a list of all corporations both foreign and domestic, that have filed certified copies of articles of incorporation in his office since June 30, 1906; also, the names of all architects who have been granted licenses under an Act of the Legislature approved by the Governor March 23, 1901, known as the "Architect's Law;" also, a list of Licensed Public Accountants, list of County Clerks, and list of Notaries Public of San Francisco, with date of their commissions. Aside from the regular duties of the office, the Secretary of State is ex-officio custodian of the capitol building, a member of the state board of examiners the state commission of lunacy, the state forestry commission, the ballot machine commission, and of the state capitol commissioners, who have charge of the capitol grounds. Acts of the Executive The records of this office show that the Governor has granted 32 pardons for salaries of the office. This office filed eleven hundred more copies of articles of incorporation during the fiscal-year ending June 30, 1908, than were filed during the preceding fiscal year, but owing to the fact that the corporations were organized for smaller amounts of capital stock, the receipts were $110,-520.43 less than during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The total receipts of the office, exclusive of the corporation license tax and Motor Vehicle department, for the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth fiscal-year amounts to $516,213.07; the receipts for the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh fiscal years amounted to $384,365.10, showing an increase in the last two years of $131,847.97. The corporation license tax law was amended and approved June 13, 1906, making the license tax on all corporations $20. All corporations which became delinquent in the payment of said $20 tax became liable for a penalty of $10 in addition. Under this law as amended the following amounts were collected, to wit: For the period commencing July 1, 1906, and ending June 30, 1907, inclusive, $305,190 was collected. The total number of domestic corporations which forfeited their charters and of foreign corporations which forfeited their rights to transact business in this state for their failure to pay the license tax for the period referred to was 2444. The number of corporations that filed articles during this year and were exempted under section 7 of the license tax law was 469. On March 19, 1907, the corporation license tax law was amended by placing the license tax on a graduated scale, payable according to the am- Station riverside plantings satisfactory under the equipment Whittler being on. The was made easier and added in this re-development stock out to variably problems living to use and work. It is worthard the place on with other detail work of pot used on a development grounds. 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The general results of this two years' work on pear blight by station, cooperated in by the United States Department of Agriculture and the state and county boards of horticulture, have been by no means meagre or unsatisfactory. With the appropriation of $10,000 made by the legislature of 1905, a force of men varying from six to twelve, was kept in the field for two years in continual earest work; every pear grower in those sections of the state which are largely interested in this crop was visited many times and thoroughly instructed in best known methods of handling the disease; 750,000 pear trees were carefully inspected several times; numerous meetings and demonstrations were held to promote the objects of the work; and in general it can fairly be said that to the extent of practical possibility everything was done to suppress this destructive disease. Full credit should be given to the other agencies mentioned outside of the experiment station for their part in the undertaking. It is difficult to see what further could be done under present conditions and in the light of present knowledge, but the work has emphasized the necessity of changed methods and increased knowledge in certain respects. Along such lines appears to be the greatest hope for the future of the pear industry in California. After the amount of work done in the field by the agents of the experiment station and department of agriculture it does Aside from the regular duties of the office, the Secretary of State is ex-officio custodian of the capitol building, a member of the state board of examiners the state commission of lunacy, the state forestry commission, the ballot machine commission, and of the state capitol commissioners, who have charge of the capitol grounds. Acts of the Executive The records of this office show that the Governor has granted 32 pardons, 63 commutations of sentence, and 6 reprieves; has signed 675 restorations to citizenship; has issued 4 proclamations offering rewards, and 61 holiday and other proclamations; has granted 1482 orders of release of prisoners from various state prisons under the Goodwin Act; has signed 611 land patents; has commissioned 2952 notaries public and 40 commissioners of deeds; has made 551 executive appointments; has approved 55 official bonds; extradition refused 1; transfer of prisoners, 1. Office Work of the Corporation Department The following statement of the clerical work performed during the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1908, together with the financial statement, shows a very large increase over previous years particularly so in the filing, recording, and issuing of certificates of incorporation and the furnishing of certified copies thereof. During the two years ending June 30, 1908, there were 7487 articles of incorporation filed, recorded, and certificates issued, as against 6303 during the two years preceding. During the last two years I have certified to 9526 copies, as against 6370 for the previous two years. The office made 3037 certified copies of articles during the last two years, as against 1010 for the previous two years. The filing of claims to trademarks has considerably increased. In addition to the vast amount of work required to keep up the records of the office since the last session of the legislature, I have compiled the fourth edition of the Corporation Laws, the amendments to the Election Laws Pure Food Laws, a list of incorporated cities and towns and the Constitution of the United States and State of California, and other State papers. The last-named book was in great demand for use in the public schools in studying civil government, and the supply was soon exhausted. A Blue Book or State Archives The archives and records of the Secretary of State's office are valuable beyond estimation, and should be protected against any possible danger from fire, and, therefore, I recommend that the wooden boxes and cases in which they are kept be replaced with metal furniture and cases. Statement showing receipts of the office by fiscal years covering the period of my incumbency: July, 1898 to June, 1899...$27,518 30 July, 1899 to June, 1900...36,125 25 July 1900 to June, 1901...92,340 00 July 1901 to June, 1903...132,172 00 their part in the undertaking. It is difficult to see what further could be done under present conditions and in the light of present knowledge, but the work has emphasized the necessity of changed methods and increased knowledge in certain respects. Along such lines appears to be the greatest hope for the future of the pear industry in California. After the amount of work done in the field by the agents of the experiment station and department of agriculture it does not appear to the writer probable that further work of this sort on a large scale could be of much profit. Our pear growers have had every opportunity to become thoroughly informed as to methods of control advocated and to put them into practice. So far as these methods are applicable to existing conditions there should be no further necessity for their demonstration. Pear blight, however, has by no means been eradicated from California, nor is it likely to be. The future of the industry is therefore still problematical, although a considerable number of individual growers are handling blight successfully. One of the most valuable results obtained from the work done thus far has been the experience gained as to the behavior of the disease under California conditions. Of these peculiarities there are two which seem of particular importance, since they are the factors which have most largely prevented complete control of the pear blight in California; these are: first, the very large amount of infection of twigs and green shoots which occurs with no relation to the blossoms; second, the large number of trees which become infected in the body near the ground or in the butt underground. In the latter case the blight runs down into the roots and often girdles and kills trees which in the tops, appear perfectly healthy, or only, slightly affected with the disease. Fresh Oysters at City Market. ords of the office since the last session of the legislature, I have compiled the fourth edition of the Corporation Laws, the amendments to the Election Laws Pure Food Laws, a list of incorporated cities and towns and the Constitution of the United States and State of California, and other State papers. The last-named book was in great demand for use in the public schools in studying civil government, and the supply was soon exhausted. A Blue Book or State Roster was published during 1907, and 7500 volumes were issued and distributed throughout the State by the senators, assemblymen and the various state officials, and by the secretary of state's office. The few at my disposal were distributed to newspapers, etc., and in my judgment to the best advantage, after supplying the various United States, state,city and county officials high schools and libraries, as required by law. Upon an examination of the financial statement it will be seen that the increase of the receipts amounts to $131,847.97 over those of the previous two years, not including the receipts from the corporation license tax or the receipts from the issuing of motor vehicle seals and chauffeurs' licenses. A statement is hereto appended, showing the receipts of the Corporation Department from July 1, 1906, to June 30, 1907, inclusive, amounting to $313,366.75, while the salary list of the employees for said year amounted to $20,720.00, exclusive of my salary of $3000, showing that this office turned into the state treasury $292,646.65 in excess of salaries paid for conducting the office. For the fiscal year from July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1908, inclusive, the total receipts amounted to $202,846.32, while the salary list of the employees amounted to $23,200 exclusive of my salary, which shows that the office turned into the state treasury $179,-646.32 in excess of the amount paid Total ... $2,668,351 86 Respectfully submitted, C. F. Curry, Secretary of State. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT There are a few people who do not have the regret that they did not start to save money in childhood. Perhaps you were shown the value of it. 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