anaheim-gazette 1911-07-13

CHECK INSECT PESTS Shorebirds Shown to Devour Mosquitoes, Locusts, Flies and Grasshoppers NEW YORK, July 7.—That mosquitoes, flies or other insect pests are preyed upon by nearly one thousand varieties of American birds, of which the vanishing shorebirds occupy a prominent place, is shown in a special bulletin that is today being prepared to be sent throughout the country from the headquarters of the national association of Audubon societies in this city. Based upon recent investigations of the government biological survey, this circular of warning will present proof that for every shorebird of the thousands that are now allowed to be killed, nature's fight to keep down the spread of disease and crop plague is weakened by the loss of a very active agent. Unless the Killdeer, the Upland Plover, the Sandpiper and other shorebirds are speedily granted adequate protection, hygienic and agricultural conditions all over the continent will undoubtedly suffer, it is declared. Nine species of the shorebirds that are found in almost every region of this country are known to consume enormous quantities of mosquitoes, for whose extinction many millions of dollars have been spent by the people of several sections. Scientific examination of the stomachs of twenty-eight of the Northern Phalarope variety of these birds is reported by the government authorities to have just disclosed the fact that 53 per cent of their diet had consisted of relatives of Vinifera as scions and the principal resistant varieties of stocks. (5) An old Muscat vineyard which is used for demonstrating drying, packing, and cultural methods to students. (6) A grafting house and cutting shed, furnished with all necessary grafting apparatus, including the open-air and hot room, callusing-beds, and appliances for the disinfection of cuttings. (7) A laboratory and lecture room for the use of students in viticulture. This equipment, while far from complete at present, will afford the opportunity of giving a practical course which should be of value to students of viticulture who wish to put themselves abreast of the great progress which has been made in late years in the industry. The dairy barn consists of a main hay and feed portion and two wings at right angles thereto. There is a concrete floor throughout and concrete mangers and gutters. The east wing has stanchions for fifty-two cow while the west wing is fitted with small stanchions for calves, and with ten boxstalls for cows at calving and for bulls. The central part of the main barn is reserved for hay storage, while in the ends are driveways, feed rooms, a machinery room, and three sleeping rooms for attendants. The horse barn is 50x100 feet and is fitted on the ground floor with eight boxstalls, nine single stalls, attendant's room, harness room, wash floor for carriages and carriage space. The upper floor is given over entirely to hay storage. The sheep barn is 44x90 feet and likewise of two stories. Two thirds of the ground floor is arranged with portable partitions for sheep pens provided for access to curd tests, ferment tests, and tests for preservation of cattle. Ten acres of the set aside for the department. The space not only for buildings and yard also for the rails ties of green food. The buildings coor (1) The incubation with cement poured and now equipped of various makers is devoted to raising room for the (2) A brooder in the ordinary "hot" moment. It affords opportunity to study odoring of caring for so a "room-heat" has many advantages where chicks are numbers. These are to watch the two side, and compare (3) Laying and Two houses on different styles ed. It is the intention to construct different kinds of and to show the advantages of each house and movable be illustrated for plenty of space, and methods of carrying system of those miteed. Nine species of the shorebirds that are found in almost every region of this country are known to consume enormous quantities of mosquitoes, for whose extinction many millions of dollars have been spent by the people of several sections. Scientific examination of the stomachs of twenty-eight of the Northern Phalarope variety of these birds is reported by the government authorities to have just disclosed the fact that 53 per cent of their diet had consisted of such noxious mosquitoes as the salt marsh breed, which the authorities of this city are now attempting to suppress at great expense. These birds, which do so much to check the mosquito plague and its attendant spread of disease through the continent, are shown to be among the species whose extinction is at this time threatened on account of lax laws for their proper protections. Grasshoppers, locusts and crane-flies that destroy the farmers' crops as well as horseflies and mosquitoes that plague his livestock are the natural prey of the disappearing shorebirds, according to the warnings now being sounded by the workers of the Audubon association. The waning forces of the killdeer and upland plover are also able to destroy the North American fever tick that has an injurious effect upon cattle, it is shown, while some 25 species of shorebirds eat the grasshoppers that ruin acres of corn, cotton and other crops. "Few of our native birds need protection more than these shorebirds, some species of which are found on the farmers fields, the coast and almost every locality on this continent," said T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the national association of Audubon societies, 1974 Broadway. "In our constant campaign to protect the insect eating birds that check disease and crop plague all over the United States, we are at this time urging all Americans to help save these economically valuable shorebirds from the swift destruction that has already driven the Eskimo Curlew to extinction." FARMERS' SHORT COURSES Instruction to Be Given at State School at Davis Announcement of farmers' short courses at the state school at Davis are of peculiar interest. Information from Berkeley gives the following subjects to be treated upon, together with dates allotted thereto: Rural Education Conference, Saturday, October 14th. General Agriculture, two weeks Occupying age, while in the ends are driveways, feed rooms, a machinery room, and three sleeping rooms for attendants. The horse barn is 50x100 feet and is fitted on the ground floor with eight boxstalls, nine single stalls, attendant's room, harness room, wash floor for carriages and carriage space. The upper floor is given over entirely to hay storage. The sheep barn is 44x90 feet and likewise of two stories. Two thirds of the ground floor is arranged with portable partitions for sheep pens and the remainder contains store and feed rooms and sleeping room for attendant. The second floor is for hay storage. The cattle are all pure bred. The dairy breeds are represented by Jersey and Holstein and the beef breeds by Shorthorn and Hereford. Among the horses are found grade specimens illustrating Percheon, Shire, and the Roadster breeds. The farm also owns about two dozen mules of as good type as is found on California ranches. Of swine the Poland China and Berkshire are well represented, while Shropshire, Hampshires, and Southdown represent the sheep. The veterinary building is 40x80 ft. with a wing 20x40 containing single and boxstalls for animals under treatment. In the center of the building is a lecture room, wint raised seats facing an arena, where demonstrations upon animals can be readily observed by the class. An anatomy room, contains a modern veterinary operating table and other appliances for up-to-date surgery. The laboratory is equipped with compound microscopes, sterilizers, incubators and other apparatus necessary for bacteriological work. A large collection of Suzuki suzuki models required the common animal diseases, and of anatomical models, is available for instruction purposes. Clinical material representing the various diseases and alliments of farm animals is always at hand during the Short Courses. The creamery is completely equipped for instruction in all branches of dairy industry. Heat and power for the machinery are supplied by a forty-horse power boiler. On the first floor, besides the engine room, are rooms for separating, churning, for cheesemaking, and for bottling milk and cream. On the second floor are a large milk testing laboratory, the lecture rooms and offices of the dairy division, and the general administrative office of the farm. On receipt of cream, it is pasteurized with a Peerless pasteurizer and ripened in a Peerless cream ripper, where temperature is controlled by different styles adapted to it. It is intended to construct different kinds of houses and movable buildings for plenty of space, and thods of carrying system of those miteeed. IS KING OF Alfalfa Proved to Drought Resistant LAS VEGAS, N.C. fa is the king and queen among so many prince among drowsy says W. C. Palmmer to giving some than anything else will produce more hay of a high feed giving that value will at the same richer in nitrogen year that it occupies so supplies the v grain crops take leaves the soil in.of. Still the whoas weeds can not alfalfa gets after they should grow is cut before they can not go go deed and so oter than the subs advantage in grow it is a little diffie when a good star ought to be left f it is not a good rotten. This is read back though, as crop that is worth her crop that can. Alfalfa will grow that is well drain not do so well, an es with its root water is death to alfalfa it must be alfalfa has bacteria on its roots. These plant with nitrogen from the soil air a form that the supply the alfalfa that it needs and alfalfa plant has the power of tail the soil as the o can not make muin in turn furnished food of a different operative affair FARMERS' SHORT COURSES Instruction to Be Given at State School at Davis Announcement of farmers' short courses at the state school at Davis are of peculiar interest. Information from Berkeley gives the following subjects to be treated upon, together with dates allotted thereto: Rural Education Conference, Saturday, October 14th. General Agriculture, two weeks, October 2-15. Dairy Manufactures, seven weeks, October 2-November 18. Household Economics, one week, October 9-13. Poultry Husbandry—Incubating an care of chicks, six weeks, October 2-November 10; Lectures and Demonstrations, two weeks, October 16-28. Dairy Farming, two weeks, October 16-28. Animal Industry and Veterinary Science, two weeks, October 30-November 11. Horticulture, Viticulture, and Entomology, two weeks, October 30-November 11. The Viticultural equipment of the University Farm consists of: (1) Ten acres of vineyard planted in March, 1910, containing several plats of our principal wine, table, and raisin grapes, and a collection of about two hundred varieties of other useful or promising varieties. (2) Five acres of grafted vines planted March, 1911, in which the adaptation and affinity of our principal grapes are being tested in connection with the most promising and tried resistant stocks. (3) A collection of mother vines of phylloxera resistant varieties, planted in April, 1910, this collection is for the study of resistant stocks and for furnishing the grapegrowers with small lots of cuttings for experiment purposes. (4) A vine nursery containing about ten thousand grafted vines, including most of our best vathe machinery are supplied by a forty-horse power boiler. On the first floor, besides the engine room, are rooms for separating, churning, for cheesemaking, and for bottling milk and cream. On the second floor are a large milk testing laboratory, the lecture rooms and offices of the dairy division, and the general administrative office of the farm. On receipt of cream, it is pasteurized with a Peerless pasteurizer and ripened in a Peerless cream ripener, where temperature is controlled by revolving coils through which brine is circulated. A trunion starter can is in daily use for preparing starter culture to use in further controlling the reresults of ripening. Two large power churns of different pattern are in use, and the butter is packed into a large modern mold, where it is quickly cut into squares of one or two pounds. Power and hand separators of different design are in use. The equipment for market milk comprises a Farrington Jr. pasteurizer, and horizontal tubular cooler, to which the milk is delivered by a sanitary milk pump. A bottling machine receives the cooled milk and fills four bottles at a stroke. Besides necessary filling cases, there is a sterilizing oven for the sterilization of all utensils used. In the adjoining wash room are found a turbine bottle washer, a Babcock tester, and all facilities for washing. In the making of different kinds of cheese, there are provided numerous vats, two styles of presses, two curd mills, acidity tests, rennet tests, etc. There are three cold storage rooms for cheese and provisions for regulating temperature and humidity. For testing of dairy products, a spacious laboratory provides locker and desk room for eighty students. In addition to a liberal assortment of all necessary forms of testing the glassware, there are provided Babcock testers, a casein test, and numerous moisture tests. Facilities are ANAHEIM GAZETTE provided for acid tests, salt tests, curd tests, fermentation tests, dirt tests, and tests for adulteration and preservation of dairy products. Ten acres of the farm have been set aside for the use of the poultry department. This affords generous space not only for all necessary buildings and yard accommodations, but also for the raising of many varieties of green food for the chickens. The buildings consist of: (1) The incubator cellar, 20x36 ft. with cement foundations and walls, and now equipped with six incubators of various makes. The superstructure is devoted to a library and reading room for the use of the students. (2) A brooder house, 12x20 feet, of the ordinary "hover" style compartment. It affords the student full opportunity to study the hover method of caring for brooders hicks. Also a "room-heated" brooder, which has many advantages in its favor where chicks are raised in large numbers. These enable the student to watch the two methods, side by side, and compare results. (3) Laying and roosting houses. Two houses on the continuous plan of different styles are already completed. It is the intention of the department to construct models of as many different kinds of houses as possible, and to show the special uses and advantages of each kind. The colony house and movable house system will be illustrated for those who have plenty of space, and the different methods of carrying out the intensive system of those whose space is limited. The Best Cuts of MEAT Can be had here any time. We don't reserve them for a favored few and compel the others to take what is left. First come is first served in this market. We believe in giving everybody a square deal. Also in selling the very best meat we can get hold of at the prices possible. Try us with an order. CITY MARKET F. W. FLEISCHMANN, Prop. Odd Fellow's Bldg., Center street Phone: Pacific 201 Anaheim Bakery Peter Syre, prop. Fresh Bread Cakes and Pies Confectionery, Inc. Wedding Cakes a Specialty Los Angeles and Express Sts. Business College SANTA ANA - CALIFORNIA Open all summer. Enter any time. Special course in Grade work, beginning July 5. A year in public school may be saved by spending July and Aug. with us J. W. McCormac, Pres't, Take a Short Cut and find out for yourself whether H. Holland's Plumbing is not as good as he claims. You will never know until you try it, but wheu you do you will know it beyond a shadow of doubt. Our unconditional guarantee is back of it. H. HOLLAND ...Plumbing... 208 N. Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM Pacific Phone 716. Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Traveling Public A trial will convince. JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager J. JANSS, M. D. IS KING OF HAY CROPS Alfalfa Proved to Be One of Best Drought Resistant Plants LAS VEGAS, N. M., July 7.—Alfalfa is the king among hay crops, the queen among soil improvers, the prince among drought resistant plants, says W. C. Palmer. It comes nearer to giving something for nothing than anything else on the farm. It will produce more hay per acre, and hay of a high feeding value. While giving that valuable crop of hay it will at the same time leave the soil richer in nitrogen and humus every year that it occupies the land and also supplies the very things that the grain crops take out the fastest and leaves the soil in the greatest need of. Still the whole story is not told, as weeds can not grow readily after the alfalfa gets a good stand and if they should grow a little the alfalfa is cut before the weeds are ripe so they can not go to seed. The roots go deed and so open up the soil better than the subsolver. The one disadvantage in growing alfalfa is that it is a little difficult to start; so when a good stand is secured it ought to be left for several years. It is not a good rotation crop like clover. This is really no great drawback though, as it will produce a crop that is worth more than any other crop that can be grown. Alfalfa will grow on any good soil that is well drained; in sand it will not do so well, and hard pan interferes with its root growth. Standing water is death to it. When starting alfalfa it must be kept in mind that alfalfa has bacteria 'ving in nodules on its roots. These germs furnish the plant with nitrogen which they take from the soil air. They put it into a form that the plant can use and supply the alfalfa with the nitrogen that it needs and more, too. The alfalfa plant has in a measure lost the power of taking nitrogen from the soil as the other crops do, so it can not make much grown alone. It in turn furnishes the germs with food of a different kind so it is a cooperative affair each furnishing that J. W. McCormac, Pres't, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA Let Us Show You Work we have done in Anaheim and Orange county. You will then be ready to give us a contract to build for you, and be confident that you will get a first-class and entirely satisfactory building job. N. B. TEDFORD Contractor and Builder, Office 205 N. Los Angeles St. Office Phone, Pacific 2331; Residence Pacific 2203 found that where the plants were far apart the roots went down 7 to 8 feet, while in the case of the plants that were close together the roots did not go down more than 3 feet. KANSAS GRASSHOPPERS Threaten Crops, Vigorous Steps Taken to Destroy Them TOPEKA, Kans., July 11.—A war o grasshoppers has been started in Western Kansas. The ravages of the insects, especially in the alfalfa-fields, have caused the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad to inaugurate a campaign of extermination along its line. H. O. Marsh of the government bureau of entomology, is conducting the extermination work among the farmers and is helping the railroads. A poison composed of bran, white arsenic, salt and molasses is being spread all over the grass and other vegetation along the right of way. The grasshoppers are said to eat the preparation readily, and it causes death in a few minutes. Governor Stubbs has been asked to aid the people in several counties in obtaining the poison necessary for the preparation. One Scott county ranchman has bought 300 turkeys to wage war on the grasshoppers. DEATH IN DESERT WATER There is grave danger in drinking from the water holes of Death Valley. alfalfa has bacteria living in nodules on its roots. These germs furnish the plant with nitrogen which they take from the soil air. They put it into a form that the plant can use and supply the alfalfa with the nitrogen that it needs and more, too. The alfalfa plant has in a measure lost the power of taking nitrogen from the soil as the other crops do, so it cannot make much grown alone. It in turn furnishes the germs with food of a different kind so it is a cooperative affair, each furnishing that which it can secure the easiest. When the alfalfa is starting it does not have the germs on its roots, and so is very delicate and must be given good care. The best way to do that is to get some soil from a field that has been growing alfalfa successfully for a few years and sow it on the new field at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. The best way to prepare the soil is to manure for a crop of corn—clean cultivate the corn—then sow the alfalfa on the disked corn stubble, putting in 8 to 10 pounds per acre—and with the drill so as to get the seed buried 1 to 2 inches—do not sow any nurse crop with it. A bare fallow that has been kept free from weeds will also be a good preparation, as will also potato ground. But in any case it should be manured. When the alfalfa is up 8 to 10 inches it should be cut back. This will not hurt the alfalfa; in fact, will do it good—but will be hard on the weeds. The amount of seed corn to be sown should vary with the rainfall; under irrigation or where the rainfall is abundant more seed than specified above should be sown. It has been found by experiments that where the plants were 9 inches apart three cuttings were secured in 1910, and the yield was nearly two and one half tons, while where the plants were only 2 inches apart, only one cutting of about half a ton was secured. In digging out the roots it was The grasshoppers are said to eat the preparation readily, and it causes death in a few minutes. Governor Stubbs has been asked to aid the people in several counties in obtaining the poison necessary for the preparation. One Scott county ranchman has bought 300 turkeys to wage war on the grasshoppers. DEATH IN DESERT WATER There is grave danger in drinking from the water holes of Death Valley, according to H. C. Dunlap, who has just returned to San Bernardino from a trip into that hot country. The water is very scarce in that region this year. Dunlap says some of the springs that are alive provide tainted or poisonous water. The waters have been greatly lowered for no apparent reason, as there is plenty of snow in the mountains and there has been an average rainfall. SCHOOL BOARD SUED Papers have been served on City Attorney Heathman and members of the board of education of Santa Ana showing that suit has been brought in the Los Angeles superior court against the board of education and Jas. O'Brien, contractor, who erected the Jefferson school building. The plaintiff is the Machinery & Electrical Co. of Los Angeles, which had a sub-contract under O'Brien for installing a heating and ventilating system in the building. As the school authorities read the specifications, a full-housed Sturtevant blower was called for for the heating system. The Los Angeles concern installed a cone-shaped fan, which the school board refused to accept. The fan was removed, and the school board installed a full-housed Sturtevant blower. About $725 was held out on the payment to O'Brien, who also held out that amount on the Los Angeles concern. Lawn Mowers, Rubber Hose, and Garden Tools AT DICKEL'S SEE THE Clarinda Lawn Mower The Best on Earth. 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