anaheim-gazette 1911-06-15

FARMS' COLOSSAL VALUE California Leads the Country in Value of Agricultural Lands Acting Census Director Falkner has issued the first official statement from the Census Bureau relative to the agricultural statistics of the State of California collected at the Thirteenth Decennial United States Census, April 15, 1910. It is based on a preliminary comparative summary prepared under the supervision of Dr. Le Grand Powers, chief statistician of the division of agriculture in the Bureau of the Census. This summary shows, for both the census of 1910 and that of 1900, the reported total value of farm land, buildings, and implements and machinery; total acreage; improved age; average acres per farm; average value per acre of farm land and buildings; average value per acre of farm land alone; and the aggregate expenditures for labor and fertilizers. It also distributes the total number of farms according to color of farmer; specified character of tenure; whether held free or mortgaged by owners; and by certain acreage groups. Attention is called to the fact that the figures are subject to revision later, as a number of farms, whose returns are incomplete, will be included in the final tables. These additions will not, in all probability, modify any of the amounts or rates contained in the present statement. The census of agriculture was taken primarily for the purpose of obtaining an accurate inventory of all classes of farm property existing on April 15, 1910; a complete exhibit of farm operations during the year ended December 31, 1909; and a statement of the number and value of domestic animals in cities and villages on April 15, 1910. Statements relative to acreage and yield of crops and the domestic animals of California will be issued by the Census Bureau as soon as the tabulation of this data has been completed. It is pointed out in the statement 18,035, as against 16,760 in 1900, an increase of 1,275. The total number of farms operated by managers in 1910 was 3,370, as compared with 3,253 in 1900, an increase of 117. The total number of farms operated by the "all owners" class constituted 76 per cent of the whole number of farms in 1910 and 72 per cent in 1900; those operated by the "all tenants" class, 20 per cent in 1910 and 23 per cent in 1900; and those conducted by managers, 4 per cent in 1910 and 5 per cent in 1900. Of the total number, 66,265, of farms operated in 1910 by the "all owners" class, there were 39,595, or 60 per cent, reported as owned free of incumbrance, and 26,670, or 40 per cent, mortgaged. There were 443 farms for which no mortgage report was secured, and these are included in the farms "owned free from debt." In 1900 information was secured concerning the "owned farm homes." At that time 35,114, or 69 per cent, were reported free from debt, and 15,979, or 31 per cent, mortgaged. There were 1,494 in 1900 for which no mortgage report was secured, these being included in the farms free from debt. The Census Bureau has no information respecting the number of mortgaged farms leased to tenants. The statement relative to farms distributed according to certain acreage groups shows that those of 19 acres and under numbered 22,235 in 1910 and 15,082 in 1900. A gain of 7,153; of 20 to 49 acres, 20,533 in 1910 and 13,110 in 1900, a gain of 7,423; of 50 to 99 acres, 10,637 in 1910 and 8,067 in 1900, an increase of 2,570; of 100 to 174 acres, 11,945 in 1910 and 13,196 in 1900, a decrease of 1,251; of 175 to 499 acres, 12,520 in 1910 and 13,005 in 1900, a decrease of 485; of 500 to 999 acres, 5,112 in 1910 and 5,329 in 1900, a decrease of 217; and of 1,000 and over, 4,688 in 1910 and 4,753 in 1900, a decrease of 65. VIEWS ON HIGH SCHOOLS The census of agriculture was taken primarily for the purpose of obtaining an accurate inventory of all classes of farm property existing on April 15, 1910; a complete exhibit of farm operations during the year ended December 31, 1909; and a statement of the number and value of domestic animals in cities and villages on April 15, 1910. Statements relative to acreage and yield of crops and the domestic animals of California will be issued by the Census Bureau as soon as the tabulation of this data has been completed. It is pointed out in the statement today that the principal rates of increase in California in 1910 as against 1900, in the items for which percentages are given in the first section of the summary, are: In the expenditure for fertilizers, 128 per cent; in the average value per acre of farm land alone, 116 per cent; in the average value per acre of farm land and buildings, 112 per cent; in the value of farm land alone, 109 per cent; in the total value of farm land and buildings, 105 per cent; in expenditures for labor, 92 per cent; in the total value of farm buildings alone, 71 per cent; in the total value of all farm implements and machinery, 71 per cent; and in the whole number of farms, 21 per cent. The only decreases during the decade, among the items for which percentages are given, occurred in the average acres per farm, 20 per cent; in the total improved farm acreage, 5 per cent; and in the total farm acreage, 3 per cent. The statement shows in detail that the number of farms reported in 1910 was 87,670, as compared with 72,542 in 1900, an increase of 15,128. The total value of farm land and buildings was given in 1910 as $1,-448,560,000, as against $707,913,000 in 1900, an increase of $740,647,000. The total value of all farm land alone was reported in 1910 as $1,315,-718,000, as compared with $630,445,-000 in 1900, a gain of $685,273,000. The total value of farm buildings alone was given in 1910 as $132,842,-000, as against $77,468,000 in 1900, an increase of $55,374,000. In 1910 the value of the farm land alone constituted 91 per cent of the total value of land and buildings, as compared with 89 per cent in 1900. The reported value of farm implements and machinery was $36,393,000 in 1910, as against $21,312,000 in 1900, a gain of $15,081,000. The total acreage reported in 1910 was 27,883,000 acres, as compared with 28,829,000 in 1900, a decrease of 946,000 acres. A part of this decrease apparent in the amount of farm land reported is attributed by the Census Bureau to errors in the Twelfth Census tabulation for Merced, Orange, and Sacramento counties, involving 384,000 acres. This gives us the net actual decrease in reported acreage, a total of 562,000 acres, which, in part, represents land once in farms, but now in forest reserves. The land in such reserves increased during the decade from 9- VIEWS ON HIGH SCHOOLS State Superintendent Hyatt Offers Some Pertinent Suggestions A movement is on foot in many parts of California to make the high school graduation exercises this year much simpler and less expensive than they have been in the past. This is part of a general scheme to make the scale of dress and entertainment in high schools conform to more sensible standards, but it is the part which it is especially timely at this season to call to public attention. California is building rich and splendid high schools all the way up and down the land from Oregon to Mexico. This is right and proper, for it is at the public expense, and we, the public, may well give to our children the best schools that money can buy. But we must have a care lets the richness and splendor of the buildings and equipment be unconsciously reflected in the demands for personal expenditure upon the children and the parents. These personal demands of whatsoever nature need to be constantly watched by the school authorities, and kept down to a constant level of simplicity and economy. It is to the safety and to the perpetuity of the high school as an institution to do this. It is to the highest interest of the State to conduct the high school so that every youngster, rich or poor, shall have equal opportunity within its walls. One of the most insidious evils that has wormed its way, almost unnoticed, into the public school system, is the extravagance in expenditure which has been permitted to the children. This is especially conspicuous in the matter of clothes; boys clad in expensive tailor-made suits and girls in fashionable gowns sometimes make the entrance to the school buildings at noon remind the passerby of a mansion at which an afternoon reception is in progress. The evil of this custom, says State Superintendent Hyatt in a circular received at this office, lies not only in the formation of habits of extravagance in the children, but in the humiliation it brings to the poorer children, and in the extra burden it lays upon their parents. In one of the larger high schools in this State, in the bay region, cases have been brought to the principal's attention of girls being withdrawn from school by their mothers because they could not keep up with the competition of clothes. Such a condition is un-American The total acreage reported in 1910 was 27,883,000 acres, as compared with 28,829,000 in 1900, a decrease of 946,000 acres. A part of this decrease apparent in the amount of farm land reported is attributed by the Census Bureau to errors in the Twelfth Census tabulation for Merced, Orange, and Sacramento counties, involving 384,000 acres. This gives, as the net actual decrease in reported acreage, a total of 562,000 acres, which, in part, represents land once in farms, but now in forest reserves. The land in such reserves increased during the decade from 9,000,000 to 28,000,000 acres, although doubtless, a part represents range land, unenumerated in 1910, owing to the fact that because of the early date of the census enumeration no one was on the land to make a report of it. The improved acreage was returned in 1910 as 11,380,000 acres, as against 11,959,000 in 1900, a decrease of 579,000 acres. The whole of this decrease is only apparent, and grows out of the fact that many acres of pasture land were incorrectly reported in 1910 as called for by the census instructions. A small portion of the apparent falling off was doubtless owing to the errors in tabulation, in the three counties mentioned above, with reference to total farm acreage. The improved acreage formed 41 per cent of the total acreage both in 1910 and 1900. The average acres per farm reported in 1910 was 318, as against 397 in 1900, a decrease of 79. The average value per acre of farm land and buildings in 1910 is stated as $51:95, as against $24.56 in 1900, a rise of $27.39. The average value per acre of farm land alone in 1910 was reported as $47.19, while in 1900 it was $21.87, the amount of gain being $25.32. The total number of farms operated in 1910 by owners, part owners, and owners and tenants, comprising the "all owners"; class, was 66,265, as compared with 52,529 in 1900, an increase of 13,736. The total number of farms conducted in 1910 by cash tenants, share tenants, and cash-share tenants, comprising the "all tenants" class, was The evil of this custom, says State Superintendent Hyatt in a circular received at this office, lies not only in the formation of habits of extravagance in the children, but in the humiliation it brings to the poorer children, and in the extra burden it lays upon their parents. In one of the larger high schools in this State, in the bay region, cases have been brought to the principal's attention of girls being withdrawn from school by their mothers, because they could not keep up with the competition of clothes. Such a condition is un-American and unpatriotic. The schools are supported by general taxation for all the people, and nothing should be tolerated in them that makes them inappropriate to the poorest citizen's children. One practical step toward an improvement of this condition is the movement to limit expenditures for graduation. The absurd sight of a class of high school boys graduating in swallow-tail coats, which was seen in one school last year, should never be repeated. In several schools an agreement has been made that no suit or dress shall cost more than a certain moderate sum, thus bringing the expense of the graduation within the purse of all the pupils. In another school, the suggestion has been offered that the girls should be required to make their own dresses. This would give all the girls an even chance to be dressed becomingly and would probably make it certain that all would be dressed simply. The elimination of engraved invitations and of expensive presents and flowers is also desirable. Such devices as these are all commendable. The solution can often be worked out by the use of tactful and indirect methods, without publicity or hard feelings. In the large bay high school mentioned above, the principal removed the evil by talking the matter over privately with the more influential girls, and making them see the inconsiderate nature of such display. They readily agreed to set a simpler fashion in the school, so that in a short time most of the objectionable over-dressing was a thing of the past. Another reform in school expendi- ANAHEIM GAZÉTTE tures could well be made in connection with the public entertainments and banquets given by the graduating classes or by the debating or athletic or social clubs of the schools. Too often the management of these affairs falls into the hands of the students whose parents are of more than average means, and soon, quite unconsciously, these boys and girls have set a pace of expenditure that seems easy enough to them, but which is really a great burden to their less fortunate fellows. All this means heartaches, and, far too often, discouragements that cause children to drop out of high school without completing their courses—the very children of all whom the public school should hold, since they must get their training there or not at all. Another opportunity for democratizing the high school, by reducing its cost to the pupils, opens before high school trustees in some such plan as this: Have the text-books bought and owned by the district, and rent the use of them to the students. The life of a text-book, when carefully handled, should be fully four years. Hence it would be possible to charge each student only one-fourth the cost of the book as rental. In the four years of high school, this saving of three fourths of the present cost of text-books would be an item of great importance to many students. These ideas are only suggestions. The need is for a more democratic spirit in the student body of the high schools. The basis of that spirit is economic equality. As the schools are for all the people, the level of that economic equality should be placed low enough to permit the plainest kind of people to attend high school without fear of humiliation. NATIONAL EDUCATORS San Francisco Meeting Promises to Be Largely Attended Attendance at the Forty-Ninth Annual Convention of the National Education Association in San Francisco, July 8-14, promises to be even greater than 50,000. A Welcome Change Smoke curling up from the farmhouse chimney as the men are coming in from the fields, gives a pretty suggestion of a good supper and a comfortable home. But it also means a hot, tired woman, working hard over a blazing fire. Your wife can escape this with a New Perfection Oil Cook-stove. A New Perfection keeps a kitchen many degrees cooler than any other range, yet does all a coal or wood range can do. It saves time, labor and fuel! No wood to cut; no coal to carry; no ashes; no soot. With the New Perfection oven it is the best cooking device you can find anywhere. Made with 1,2 and 3 burners, with long turquoise blue enameled chimneys. Hand-somely finished throughout. The 2- and 3-burner stoves can be had with or without a cabinet top, which is fitted with drop shelves, towel racks, etc. Dealers everywhere; or write for descriptive circular to the nearest agency of the Standard Oil Company (Incorporated) The Best Cuts of MEAT J. JANSS, M. D. Physician & Surgeon NATIONAL EDUCATORS San Francisco Meeting Promises to Be Largely Attended Attendance at the Forty-Ninth Annual Convention of the National Education Association in San Francisco, July 8-14, promises to be even greater than 50,000, the figure fixed by Convention League officials. An auxiliary campaign having as its object the securing of at least one Pullman or tourist car party from every city, university and normal school in America, has been inaugurated by Prof. Jas. A. Barr, chairman of Publicity and Attendance of the N.E.A., and already 400 "car parties" have been formed. Indications point to as many more before the convention convenes. Advance reservations at hotels even at this early date have, according to hotel managers, been far greater than ever before in hotel history in San Francisco. The Fairmont, Palace and St. Francis, the three most palatial hotels, are practically reserved from the 1st to the 15th of July. N.E.A. National and State headquarters will fill two big hotels completely. Suites of rooms have been engaged by every State in the Union and Provinces in Canada, something heretofore unknown in the history of the association. Smaller hotels report a big demand for accommodations. A feature of the convention will be the great general reception to be accorded teacher delegates by the San Francisco hospitality committee. As a compliment to Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, president of the N.E.A., this committee is composed entirely of women. The most prominent women from all over the State are active in planning entertainment for the visitors. A banquet in honor of Mrs. Young, at which 1500 guests will participate, has been arranged and will be the climax to a series of elaborate functions. For the first time in the history of the association women educators will share equally with men positions of prominence on the program of the general sessions of the convention. President Young, the first woman president of the N.E.A., has allotted seven of the fourteen addresses of the five general sessions to women. The first general session will be held at 3:30 o'clock Monday, July 10th, in the Berkeley Greek Theatre. William B. Pringle, chairman of the California Executive Committee of the N.E.A., will preside and will introduce the Governor of the State, Mayor of San Francisco, and prominent educators who will deliver addresses of welcome to the pedagogues. 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