anaheim-gazette 1909-12-09

EUCALYPTUS FENCE POSTS FOREST SOCIETY GIVES INFORMATION TO FARMERS Every Farmer Should Have His Individual Forest Reserve, Whether It Consist of a Few Trees or Not, By All Means the Trees Should Be There—Advice About the Tree. Every farmer in the State should be a forester. Every farmer should have his individual forest reserve. Whether it consists of acres, whether it is a corner woodlot, or whether it is just a few trees, by all means the trees should be there. Many a farmer gets his fuel supply from a woodland patch which he has planted and owns; some have planted for shade and beauty; but few have had the foresight to plant trees for other purposes. Every farmer who is willing to take a little time may easily raise his own fence posts, necessary yet expensive. In planting the tree should be chosen which will mature the soon est, and which will bring the greatest returns to him and his property. That tree, in California, is the eucalyptus. The present price demanded for fence posts is 20 to 23 cents each and the rancher has to pay the price or go fenceless—unless he has growing trees which will supply him with posts. The eucalyptus has been tested and proved to furnish a superior wood which because of its strength and hardiness, is durable both below and above ground. There is hardly a farmer or rancher in the Southwest but what has a corner of land here But for fence posts, for which he creates his own market, the farmer can use the more inferior soil and locations. Plant fruit trees, and sow grain, but farmers have your own wood lot for posts and fuel. Be a specialist and have a forestry station of your own. USES OF THE EUCALYPTS Advantages of the Tree Which Grows So Profusely In California For all purposes for which the use of hardwoods have been found practicable, eucalyptus may be entered as an invaluable substitute for, or an equal competitor with, any hardwood on the market. While the growing of eucalyptus is an infant industry, since their introduction into California from Australia, the recognition of their utility and value for investment purposes has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the agricultural and financial world, likewise the forestry departments, are feverishly alive to the almost inexhaustible results which directly or remotely are to be derived from extensive eucalyptus cultivation. The uses of the eucalypts are almost too multitudinous to admit of sane belief, yet one has only to experiment to corroborate, for his personal satisfaction, what may seem like far-fetched statements. With the idea of giving the public generous yet accurate knowledge of the uses of eucalyptus, this article is written, based on investigation made by the Forestry Society. The values of the eucalypts to the country in general will be given first. With the commercial demands of the nation eating into the forests, consuming the timber three times as rapidly as nature can reinforce the shortage, the National and State Forces. TESTS ON Government Welfare Miners' Explosives mines are now States Geological Testing the present two lists of "peaks with directions" tests were made at the Surrey in Pittsburg, where prevent mine action. A Primer The Survey Bulletin 423 "A for coal miners' state in simple what materials what dangers and use, and how be avoided or tin is issued pthe miner, in the ing of it will lead edge of what t do with explosive duce the number their use. Instruct The primer oment of the u combustion and mode of action nents of explosion of the expl used. The working station is of "permissible have successful given. Detailed sented for these explosives in c treats of squirrors another o of charges, an ods of firing b The present price demanded fence posts is 20 to 23 cents each and the rancher has to pay the price or go fenceless—unless he has growing trees which will supply him with posts. The eucalyptus has been tested and proved to furnish a superior wood which because of its strength and hardiness, is durable both below and above ground. There is hardly a farmer or rancher in the Southwest but what has a corner of land here and there standing idle, and which with a little painstaking could be planted to eucalyptus. In return for the soil which it appropriates, eucalyptus will supply, under systematic cutting, all the posts needed for the present and for the generations to come. The best cuts can be taken for posts, and the rest can be utilized for fuel. It has been estimated that 10 to 15 posts can be cut from a marketable eucalyptus tree (10 years old) which averages 11 inches in diameter and 92 feet in height. But it is not necessary to wait for the tree to grow to maturity. In 4 to 5 years, eucalyptus is ready to cut for posts, each tree averaging at that age, 2 posts. All species of the eucalyptus are not good for fenceposts. The best for the purpose are Tereticornis, Rostrata, and Corynocalyx. Globulus is not suitable for posts. If from the sprouts that the old trunk almost immediately sends forth one is allowed to grow, the new tree will yield two fence posts, in from 3 to 4 years' time; if two or three sprouts are allowed to grow, each will average 2 posts, in from 4 to 5 years' time. In ten years, the first, second, and third growth, will have produced 8 posts. It is advantageous to the farmer to utilize the young trees for posts as he can manage the cutting and preparing himself with a very slight expense compared to what it would cost to hire the cutters to prepare the larger trees for posts. He will not get the maximum returns from his trees that he would if he were planting for commercial timber, but to produce his own fenceposts, when timber is scarce and expensive, takes a large item off his expense list. The rancher who has a grazing-tract should plant eucalyptus along the edges. If he owns a barren hillside, he should clothe it with eucalyptus trees. If he has an agricultural spot lying idle there is no far-fetched statements. With the idea of giving the public generous yet accurate knowledge of the uses of eucalyptus, this article is written, based on investigation made by the Forestry Society. The values of the eucalypts to the country in general will be given first. With the commercial demands of the nation eating into the forests, consuming the timber three times as rapidly as nature can reinforce the shortage, the National and State Forestry departments are facing a proposition which requires desperate and immediate dealings—a timber famine. The situation besides being menacing would seem hopeless, practically,were it not for the fact that the eucalypts valiantly have come to the front in tree growing to solve the problem of reforestation. Through the government bulletins, forestry societies and the newspapers, the people have been brought into vivid touch with the shortage problem, likewise the means of salvation of the country, at hand, the propagation of the eucalypts. Barring the countless uses to which it is otherwise adapted, to reimburse the forest supply alone eucalyptus is invaluable to the country. Other than a re-supply to the timber depleted areas the eucalypts are valuable as windbreaks for orchards and dwellings and for other purposes. The beauty of the grain, the color and the texture of eucalyptus, rivaling many species of oak, has led to its popularity as a furniture product. Offices and residences have been furnished with the wood, and cabinet-makers and woodworkers throughout the country have been aroused through admiration and enterprise,to make a practical study of the eucalyptus wood as a finishing product. Mistakes in using varieties of the eucalyptus for purposes for which the woods were not specially adapted has caused unfortunate misunderstandings concerning the practicability and success of raising eucalyptus; but intelligent investigation has passed judgment in favor of an industry which promises to revolutionize commercial conditions directly on the Pacific Coast and indirectly throughout the United States. Much of the fuel consumed in California is eucalyptus wood, which retails at from $10 to $14 a California cord. For fuel, the fastest-growing varieties are planted. Of the kinds planned for other purposes, the weakling trees, limbs and waste are utilized as To supply information about California Press published these handbooks during pursuits, Dairy Service Farming try Raising Birds. The books among corrections in them are contemporary State with such industrial themselves we on all that they give. Referrals government by various phases so that those get authoritative to study. The booklet be treatises ed., but outlining these lets deal with California in touch on these have made fact every once in each book gestions for who wants knowledge of an expert in the larger trees for posts. He will not get the maximum returns from his trees that he would if he were planting for commercial timber, but to produce his own fenceposts, when timber is scarce and expensive, takes a large item off his expense list. The rancher who has a grazing-tract should plant eucalyptus along the edges. If he owns a barren hillside, he should clothe it with eucalyptus trees. If he has an agricultural spot lying idle, there is no better purpose to which the soil could be put than to plant it to eucalyptus. He should plant them by the wayside. If there is a patch of soil in which nothing else will grow, try eucalyptus for an experiment. Wherever they are planted, unless it is under conditions totally adverse to the life of any vegetation, trees have been started growing which will perpetuate themselves, and reproduce themselves indefinitely. • If the farmer utilizes waste land, with poor soil, and little or no water, there is a possibility that the eucalyptus will thrive, for eucalyptus has been known to grow under such conditions; but a patch of deep, loam soil, and a good supply of water such as will be needed for any other crop, is none too good to set aside for eucalyptus growing. For commercial plantations, the Forestry Society of California would say, most emphatically, that eucalyptus should not be planted on hillsides, nor in poor soil. Rather it wishes to emphasize the fact that no such planting will ever produce commercial timber that is in such demand at the present. Too much attention cannot be given to the ideal conditions under which commercial eucalyptus should be planted, especially where the fullest development is sought or expected. There is no land too valuable to place to eucalypt- Much of the fuel consumed in California is eucalyptus wood, which retails at from $10 to $14 a California cord. For fuel, the fastest-growing varieties are planted. Of the kinds planned for other purposes, the weakling trees, limbs and waste are utilized as firewood with gratifying profits. In house construction, mining timber, flooring and street paving, eucalyptus has assumed popular importance; and for miscellaneous uses, for posts, telegraph poles, railroad ties, piles, bridge timber, wagon tongues, spokes, handles for implements and tools, logs for corduroy roads and insulator pins, the popularity of eucalyptus is inversely proportional to the list given. Eucalyptus blossoms yield astonishing profit to the bee-keepers. An oil is distilled from the leaves and is used as a compound for many medicines. An extract from the leaves forms the foundation for some of the famous cough syrups. Least important, perhaps, are the beautiful and decorative uses to which the buds are put in making portieres and souvenirs. Efforts are being made to find a use for every portion of the eucalyptus tree, even for the bark, which, so far, is waste; and it is likely that in this age of wizard economy commercial use will be found to make even the bark a source of income. She—I don't see why you should hesitate to marry on $3000 a year. Papa says my gowns never cost more than that. He—But, my dear, we must have something to eat. She (petulantly)—Isn't that just like a man. Always thinking of his stomach. ANAHEIM GAZETTE TESTS OF EXPLOSIVES Government Working to Diminish Miners' Death Roll Explosives prepared for use in mines are now tested by the United States Geological Survey, which during the present year has published two lists of "permissible explosives," with directions for their use. These tests were made by Government experts at the Survey's testing station in Pittsburg, where work designed to prevent mine accidents is now carried on. A Primer on Explosives The Survey has now in press as Bulletin 423 "A primer on explosives for coal miners," whose purpose is to state in simple language how and of what materials explosives are made, what dangers attend their handling and use, and how such dangers may be avoided or lessened. This bulletin is issued primarily on behalf of the miner, in the hope that the reading of it will lead to a better knowledge of what to do and what not to do with explosives, and so tend to reduce the number of deaths caused by their use. Instructions to Miners The primer contains a simple statement of the underlying principles of combustion and explosion and of the mode of action of the ordinary components of explosives, with a description of the explosives most commonly used. The work of the Pittsburg testing station is explained, and the list of "permissible explosives," which have successfully met the tests, is given. Detailed instructions are presented for the care and use of such explosives in coal mines. One section treats of squibs, fuses, and detonators, another of the loading and firing of charges, and another of the methods of firing blasts by electricity. Other sections include information about government experiments conducted by the Survey's testing station in Pittsburg, where work designed to prevent mine accidents is now carried on. OUR GREAT CROPS Corn Leads Them All, With Cotton Second Secretary Wilson says in his annual report, "The most striking fact in the world's agriculture is the value of the corn crop of 1909 in this country. It is about $1,720,000,000". He further adds that this corn crop nearly equals the value of the clothing and personal adornments of 76,000,000 people according to the census of 1900, and exceeds the value of the gold and silver coin and bullion of the United States. It is the greatest corn crop on record and exceeds the average of the preceding five years by 36 per cent and the price per bushel is greater by 32 per cent. Cotton is the second crop of the country in value though it falls to practically one-half the aggregate value of corn, or $850,000,000. Wheat comes third with $720,000,000; hay fourth, $665,000,000; oats fifth, $400,.000,000. This latter crop exceeds the five year's average by 28 percent. The sixth in value is potatoes, $212,.000,000. Tobacco is seventh of about $100,000,000 valuation, and this is 50 per cent increase over the five year average and has brought to growers the highest prices since 1883. The value of the cane sugar of the country aggregates about $40,000,000, while beet sugar and pulp for feeding purposes aggregates about $47,000,000. Barley aggregates $88,000,000; flax-seed $36,000,000; rice $25,000,000; rye $23,000,000, and hops $8,000,000. The farm value of all cereals in 1909 has never been equalled in previous years. It is almost exactly $3,- 1999,999,999 or 35 per cent above the five year average. LIGHT COIN CIRCULATION San Francisco, Dec. 4.—Postmaster Arthur G. Fisk of the local postoffice, in his weekly orders, issued today. Attention Buggies Buggies Wagons END SPRING Runabout in red only, piano box, stick seat, neat up-to-date Banner Buggies in red, green and yellow, stick or panel seat, leather trimmed, 2 $55 years guarantee Same in Rubber Tire 1 1-8 inch Rubber Extra special, high arch-ed axle, 1000 mile, re-enforced fifth wheel, patented dash, re-enforced Banner Buggies Automobile seat, brewsster green, red, yellow colors, piano box, end spring, up-to-date turnout highly finished - $75 Same in Rubber Tire CALIFORNIA INDUSTRIES Agricultural Handbooks Giving Detailed Descriptive Information To supply the demand for information about California industries The California Promotion Committee has published the third edition of three handbooks devoted to agricultural pursuits, Dairying in California, Intensive Farming in California, and Poultry Raising in California. The books are in demand not only among correspondents of the Committee in the east and abroad who are contemplating moving to the State with the view of engaging in such industries, but by Californians themselves who wish to keep posted on all that pertains to the work to which they are devoting their energies. Reference lists are given of government bulletins which deal with various phases of these industries, so that those who are beginners may get authoritative and technical works to study. The booklets do not pretend to be treatises on the subjects covered, but outline California conditions affecting these industries. The booklets deal with the possibilities in California in these several lines, and touch on the experience of those who have made a success in them. In fact every one of the twelve pages in each booklet is brim full of suggestions for the intelligent farmer who wants to take advantage of the knowledge of those who have made an expert investigation in these lin- LIGHT COIN CIRCULATION San Francisco, Dec. 4.—Postmaster Arthur G. Flisk of the local postoffice, in his weekly orders, issued today, warned the clerks and other employees of the postal department that there were a number of "rimmed" $20 and $10 pieces in circulation. According to Flask these coins are from $1 to $2 light in weight, the gold being removed from the edge by filing or grinding, the rimming being restored in an imperfect manner. The clerks are warned that if they take in any of the "rimmed" coins they will have to stand the loss. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Anaheim Knights of Columbus elected officers as follows on Wednesday evening: John Dillon—Grand Knight. Dep. Grand Knight—L. B. Weber. Chancellor—P. W. Hallley. Recorder—Alfred Heying. Financial Secretary—L. 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The system was purchased several years ago by Tullock, when the ditches were bonded by the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and the company failed to make good the payment. A small fortune has been spent on the fixing of this system, which was started in 1863 by Judge A. Hewel and Henry Schell of this county. Fresh Oysters at City Market. urinary organ disappear under its mild but efficacious influence, relieving the system of the poison urea and uric acid, healing and allaying the inflammation in the tissues. The causes of lumbago, sciatica, kidney and bladder troubles are removed. The remedy can be found at your drug-gist. THROW OUT THE LINE Give the Kidneys Help and Many Anahelm People will Be Happier "Throw Out the Life Line"—The kidneys need help. They're overworked—can't get the poison filtered out of the blood. They're getting worse every minute. Will you help them? Doan's Kidney Pills have brought thousands of kidney sufferers back from the verge of despair. 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