anaheim-gazette 1912-11-07

DOUBLING YIELD OF FARMERS' LANDS BETTER SEEDS AND PLANTS ARE BEING DEVELOPED BY SCIENTIFIC METHODS COUNTLESS MILLIONS ADDED TO WEALTH OF NATION BY IMPROVED METHODS A Fortunatus's purse is offered to the farmer if he will avail himself of the achievements and methods of the plant-breeders now at work in the government service and in the agricultural colleges. Science is showing the farmer ways to double the yield of his land, through the development of better seeds and plants. This story has just been narrated to the students of the University of California in three lectures by Dr. H. J. Webber, professor of plant breeding in Cornell University. He told, as one example, how countless millions have been added to the national wealth by the development of the long-staple cotton plants now grown in the south. This development, because of Dr. Webber's work, of an improved cotton not only increased the farmer's prosperity but helped everyone else. An addition of a sixteenth of an inch to the length to which cotton grows adds two cents to its value. This new cotton had a fiber half an inch longer than what had previously been grown. A longer fiber means a stronger thread, and a stronger thread means a more durable cloth, so Dr. Webber's work meant direct benefit to everyone in the land who sleeps between cotton sheets or wears of social service, the habit of trying to make the world better through their own personal efforts. Six weeks ago Blanpied came to San Francisco to organize a similar work there, in a great seaport city 72 per cent of whose inhabitants are either foreign-born or else the children of foreign parents. Interest in social service work is keen among many of the students of the University of California. Already a number of them have joined with Blanpied to aid in this great work of helping the immigrant to become a valuable member of an American community, a work particularly important for California now that the Panama Canal is soon to pour floods of immigrants upon the Pacific coast. The potency of the motion picture theater in helping make foreign immigrants into good Americans was forcibly brought out in a lecture at the University of California by Rev. Herbert Jump of the First Congregational church of Oakland. Here is drama, here representations of American home life, which requires no knowledge of English for comprehension. He declared it his opinion that the motion picture theater is a great positive force for happiness, education, and moral uplift. The censorship system which prevails he believes safeguards thoroughly the character of the films shown by the regularly established motion picture theaters. One twenty-third of all the people in the country visit a motion picture theater each day. The films put out by the large companies are seen by twenty to thirty million people before they are discarded. The antifly, pure milk, anti-drunkness, and social justice films issued are the most powerful preaching done in the country. In overwhelming majority the film dramas make goodness and kindness, virtue and courage, seem admirable, and instill optimism, good cheer, and right behavior. Holmes Howison, author of philosophy, on New and the True. These varied acts single week are regular organizations They are opportunistic into the vast activity the world's life of the University of students, and not students, but to any cross for an hour hold of the university course of any one merely but thousands men profit by the opportunities for rich lication and delight. MODERN FARMS Nile Agricultural Things to Egyptian farmers cultural class in thing or two in faccording to Abdul Kai Cairo, director of Agriculture of Egypt the United States specials of the Department and directors of with particular reef of drainage. He with many branches department, but half of the farming me. "Our people would moment to the way play land," said Aso much impressed cities offered in this money in farming termined to purchase Texas or Mississippi raising of cotton. conserve our lands take good care to foot of ground. "Our irrigation carefully so that th ment, because of Dr. Webber's work, of an improved cotton not only increased the farmer's prosperity but helped everyone else. An addition of a sixteenth of an inch to the length to which cotton grows adds two cents to its value. This new cotton had a fiber half an inch longer than what had previously been grown. A longer fiber means a stronger thread, and a stronger thread means a more durable cloth, so Dr. Webber's work meant direct benefit to everyone in the land who sleeps between cotton sheets or wears a garment of cotton. In an experimental cotton plot in South Carolina the discovery was made. Escorting a party of farmers one day, Dr. Webber bent down and pulled off a boll of cotton. He found the floss half as long again as in ordinary cotton. In the whole row, of 284 of supposedly the same plants, there was only this single individual with the invaluable variation. It took five years of breeding work to free the plant's descendants wholly from certain undesirable features intermixed, but finally an ample supply of seed was obtained that came true to the desired type. Now the larger part of the cotton acreage of the United States is planted with descendants of the single plant that Dr. Webber found and developed. He told also of the development at Cornell of an improved timothy that yielded twice as much to the acre as the seed usually planted in New York. He described the development of corn that matured two weeks earlier than the varieties ordinarily used, and of successful efforts, by contests and prizes, to get the farmers to improving their seed by themselves experimenting and selecting. He told of the frost-resisting Japanese orange, the trifoliata, which his plant-breeding experiments have developed into valuable new forms. The fruit of one of these new forms yields more juice than a lemon of the same weight, a juice differing much from lemon juice but highly esteemed for culinary uses. He told also of how, by grafting, portions of citrus trees which are poor producers as compared with other portions of the same tree can be replaced with buds which grow into heavily-fruiting limbs. An interesting story of the making of good Americans out of illiterate foreigners was told in a lecture at the University of California by C. W. Blanpied, immigration secretary of the San Francisco Y. M. C. A. While working in a factory Blanpied saw a foreman, angry at a foreign workman's inability to understand or people in the country visit a motion picture theater each day. The films put out by the large companies are seen by twenty to thirty million people before they are discarded. The antifly, pure milk, anti-drunkness, and social justice films issued are the most powerful preaching done in the country. In overwhelming majority the film dramas make goodness and kindliness, virtue and courage, seem admirable, and instill optimism, good cheer, and right behavior. Some twelve years ago, while traveling in China, Dr. John Fryer, Agassiz professor of Oriental languages in the University of California, happened upon a young Chinaman, named Chin-Tao Chen, with whose intellectual ability he was greatly impressed. Their acquaintance resulted in the coming to Berkeley not only of Chin-Tao but of seven other Chinese students, all of whom made excellent use of the opportunities of the University of California. Now, ten years after leaving Berkeley with his master's degree, Dr. Chin-Tao has returned on a visit to California as one of the most distinguished statesmen of China. He was minister of finance in the first cabinet of the new republic. One-third of the members of that Chinese cabinet were former students of the University of California. At Berkeley, on this present visit, Dr. Chin-Tao delivered an admirable address on the fitness of China for a republican form of government, because of essentially democratic traditions of Chinese civilization, and on the desirability of recognition of the new republic by the United States, on the model of which its new political institutions have been devised by Chinese trained in American universities for their great patriotic task. These pictures of great movements going on in the world are all from lectures delivered at the University of California during the past week. But they are only a small share of the public lectures, freely open to all who choose to listen, given at the university during the same week. For instance—that the California missions had to teach the Indians agriculture and the arts of civilized life, while in New Mexico and Arizona the Indians were semi-civilized, living in fixed towns and having a well-developed system of agriculture, was set forth one evening in a lecture at the Newman Club by Herbert E. Bolton, professor of American history, and a specialist in California and the Southwest; another evening Professor William Dalan Armes gave an illustrated lecture on the Anglo-Saxon period in English literature. Our people would moment to the way they ploy land," said A.A., so much impressed cities offered in this money in farming that terminated to purchase Texas or Mississippi raising of cotton. Conserve our lands take good care to foot of ground. "Our irrigation carefully so that they a bit more space soon as one crop is planted, and then all that it is capable utilization and cultivation of the wheat which contain silt, Egyptian farmers will tinually at work. That conditions in different Here is cost than $8 an acre to which the farmer $14. "In Egypt the acre is $50 to $70 tent with a profit Labor is of course with us. Thirty cents would be very high paid range from 100 On this some man The price of food up, as it has in even the world, but it is exorbitant prices in "We raise every and in our gardens here. But the average well fed, nor does it not the choice is eaten more frequent classes, while these people eat mutton learned to prefer Maybe it is because later The laboring great deal of meat til the last few yeat tent to have meat year, but now that the workingman once a week. Theists of bread and An interesting story of the making of good Americans out of illiterate foreigners was told in a lecture at the University of California by C. W. Blanpied, immigration secretary of the San Francisco Y. M. C. A. While working in a factory Blanpied saw a foreman, angry at a foreign workman's inability to understand orders, hit the workman in the jaw and knock him off a platform upon a pile of bricks, to his grievous injury. When Blanpied remonstrated, the foreman expressed great surprise at his interest in a mere "Wop." "If you want to help him out," said the foreman, "why don't you teach him to talk English?" Blanpied in that instant saw a lifework dawn before him. He set to work. He gathered together a group of Slavonians in a room a saloonkeeper put at his disposal (after a church had refused similar accommodations) and began to teach the men English. A friend, a college student, went with him one night to see what he was doing and was fired with enthusiasm. Blanpied turned over his Slavonians to the student, and got together a new group for himself. After two years' work in Tacoma, he had a thousand foreigners studying English, and for teachers, 64 college students. These foreigners were learning not only English but civics, hygiene, good citizenship, better skill for their occupations, and fit notions as to how to become good Americans. And the college students were getting just as much good as the foreigners, for they were learning about human nature, about how to deal with men, and acquiring the habit had to teach the Indians agriculture and the arts of civilized life, while in New Mexico and Arizona the Indians were semi-civilized, living in fixed towns and having a well-developed system of agriculture, was set forth one evening in a lecture at the Newman Club by Herbert E. Bolton, professor of American history, and a specialist in California and the Southwest; another evening Professor William Dallan Armes gave an illustrated lecture on the Anglo-Saxon period in English literature; Professor E. P. Lewis discussed the mysterious physical problems of fluorescence; Mrs. L. E. Hicks lectured for the Y. W. C. A. on the religious ideas of the Hindus; L. D. Johnson, deputy state forester, spoke on "Forest Management;" under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club, two Hindu students, Gobind Bihari Lal and Sarangadhar Das, spoke on "Treatment of Hindus in British Colonies" and "The Caste System in India," while Otto Koeb discussed student life in Switzerland; before the Deutschar Verein Professor Clarence Paschall spoke in German on life in Leipzig; Charles H. Delany, '96, the mechanical engineer, spoke on "Steam Auxiliaries to High Tension Transmission Systems;" Dr. T. C. McCleave spoke at the Affiliated College on "Milk Supply in Relation to Public Health;" John M. Eshleman, '02, president of the state railroad commission, spoke before the "Bull Moose" Club organized by students, and James K. Moffitt, '86, president of the College Men's Woodrow Wilson League of California, addressed the organization formed by Democratic students, both these meetings being held in Stiles hall, the Y. M. C. A. building. A notable address was that before the Philosophical Union by Geo. Butter thus shipped report, is wrapped paper and then packed box. As a rule, pounds are not made separately wrapping including ninety net. These pastes come with an upright and are folded together with metal clampished box. In knotted these boxes can be for $23.20 per thousand quality and $21.42 per city. The boxes can cover again. The cost per thousand. Eggs are shipped cardboard or wood of which contain board partitions for enough to receive each layer of carboard sheet of carboard in en boxes are rather ed and cost at rea They are provided neat cover, and can definite period. Part containing partition be had for $45.22 boxes to contain 20 thousand. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Holmes Howison, professor emeritus of philosophy, on "Nationalism—the New and the True." These varied addresses of this one single week are not included in the regular organization of instruction. They are opportunities for glimpses into the vast activities and interests of the world's life offered abundantly by the University of California to all its students, and not alone to the students, but to any listener who will cross for an hour the hospitable threshold of the university. During the course of any one week not hundreds merely but thousands of men and women profit by these freely-offered opportunities for rich intellectual stimulation and delight. MODERN FARMING IN EGYPT Nile Agriculturalists Can Teach Many Things to Americans Egyptian farmers can teach the agricultural class in the United States a thing or two in farming methods, according to Abdul Hamid Abaza Bey of Cairo, director of the Department of Agriculture of Egypt, who is visiting the United States to confer with officials of the Department of Agriculture and directors of experiment stations, with particular reference to the study of drainage. He is much impressed with many branches of the agricultural department, but has not a high opinion of the farming methods employed. "Our people would not submit for a moment to the way the Americans employ land," said Abaza. "I have been so much impressed with the opportunities offered in this country for making money in farming that I have about determined to purchase a farm in either Texas or Mississippi and get into the raising of cotton. In Egypt we have to conserve our lands so closely that we take good care to waste not a single foot of ground. "Our irrigation canals are measured carefully so that they will not take up" EXHIBITS FOR THE SAN DIEGO FAIR SIBERIA, AFRICA AND OTHER REMOTE POINTS BEING SEARCHED FOR RARE ARTICLES RED STAR LINERS TO TOUCH SOUTHERN PORT WHEN PANAMA CANAL IS DONE The Smithsonion Institution of Washington, D.C., has four expeditions in 1915. The searchers who have gone to Siberia, the Philippines, Africa and Asia, include some of the most daring and most experienced field workers connected with the institution. San Diego exports for the month of September aggregate $79,397. The greatest of these is to Mexico, amounting to $35,565. Germany follows as lose second at $23,530. Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Russia, Sweden and England are included in the list. Dr. A. Stutzer, special delegate from the Imperial Government of Germany to the International Congress of Chemists at Washington, D.C., during a recent visit to the San Diego exposition site declared that his country could do no better than place an elaborate exhibit at San Diego in 1915. Dr. Stutzer is especially interested in irrigation. The huge nurseries and plantations at the San Diego exposition grounds are attracting the attention of specialists in the Department of Agriculture. They are considering the idea of cooperating with the San Diego exposition officials to test the propagation of... Our people would not submit for a moment to the way the Americans employ land," said Abaza. "I have been so much impressed with the opportunities offered in this country for making money in farming that I have about determined to purchase a farm in either Texas or Mississippi and get into the raising of cotton. In Egypt we have to conserve our lands so closely that we take good care to waste not a single foot of ground. "Our irrigation canals are measured carefully so that they will not take up a bit more space than necessary. So soon as one crop is harvested another is planted, and the soil made to yield all that it is capable of. Continued fertilization and cultivation, with the assistance of the waters of the Nile, which contain silt, make it possible for Egyptian farmers to keep the soil continually at work. Of course, I know that conditions in this country are different. Here is costs not more, I judge, than $8 an acre to produce crops, for which the farmer gets an average of $14. "In Egypt the cost of production to the acre is $50 to $60, and we are content with a profit of 8 or 10 per cent. Labor is of course a great deal cheaper with us. Thirty cents a day for labor would be very high. The usual wages paid range from 10 cents to 25 cents. On this some manage to save a little. The price of food in Egypt has gone up, as it has in every other country of the world, but it can never reach the exorbitant prices in this country. "We raise everything on our farms and in our gardens that can be raised here. But the average laborer is not so well fed, nor does he care for it. Beef is not the choicest meat in Egypt. It is eaten more frequently by the poorer classes, while the better classes of people eat mutton. Over here I have learned to prefer beef to other meats. Maybe it is because the quality is better. The laboring classes do not eat a great deal of meat in any country. Until the last few years they were content to have meat four or five times a year, but now that labor is better paid the workingman eats meat perhaps once a week. The usual meal consists of bread and vegetables." BUTTER AND EGGS BY MAIL How German Farmers Get Produce to City Consumer The parcel-post service of Germany is used to a very large extent by farmers in their dealings with city customers, and especially for delivery of butter and eggs. Butter thus shipped, according to a report, is wrapped first in parchment at Washington, D.C., during a recent visit to the San Diego exposition site declared that his country could do no better than place an elaborate exhibit at San Diego in 1915. Dr. Stutzer is especially interested in irrigation. The huge nurseries and plantations at the San Diego exposition grounds are attracting the attention of specialists in the Department of Agriculture. They are considering the idea of cooperating with the San Diego exposition officials to test the propagation of rare specimens of plants and flowers which they believe will grow in the unique climate of Southern California. The Utah and South Dakota State societies recently organized in San Diego have memorialized the legislatures of the home states for appropriations for buildings and exhibits at the San Diego exposition in 1915. The Missouri society expects $100,000 from the state legislature for the same purpose. Practically every Chinese society along the Pacific coast favors the movement to place an exclusive exhibit from China, to cost $500,000 at the San Diego exposition in 1915. W. Jefferson Davis, commissioner-at-large for the San Diego exposition, was an honored guest at the recent Watsonville apple show. The counties to the north are preparing exhibits for the San Diego exposition. "San Diego is making better progress with her exposition by far than they are in San Francisco," said H. L. Cook, secretary of the Kansas State Fair Association during a recent visit to the southern city. "All in all, with climatic conditions and everything considered, I think you have much the better proposition." Kansas is expected to make a most elaborate exhibit at the San Diego fair. Officials of the Red Star line of steamers have announced the running of the Kroonland and Finland of their line between New York and the Pacific coast when the Panama Canal is completed, with San Diego as the first port of call. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Toyo Kaisen Kaisha Steamship Company of Japan are both engaged in active building for extending their service, and they with the Cosmos line will also call at San Diego going either north or south. An ocean-to-ocean motorcycle relay race started from New York October 20th. The riders will bear a message from New York to San Diego and will come via St. Louis, Phoenix, Yuma and the Imperial Valley. It is claimed that is the most direct route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The annual encampment of the Uni- all distinguished citizens of Brazil, who will visit San Diego the first week in November. The degree will be followed by a big dinner given in the good old western fashion, at the Hotel Coronado November 5th. Practically every county in the state has decided to participate in the San Diego exposition in 1915. Sites have been selected by most of them through their commissioners. DAMAGE DECISION REVERSED Sacramento, Nov. 4.—Reversing the decision of the San Francisco superior court, which awarded $6,000 damages to the widow and children of John Duffy, the foreman who was killed in the Hobbs Wall Company mill, after 30 years' service, the appellate court has rendered a decision declaring that "when a servant works with, or in the vicinity of machinery insufficient for the purposes for which it is employed, or unsafe, with knowledge, or means of knowledge of its condition, he takes his own risk." BUTTER AND EGGS BY MAIL How German Farmers Get Produce to City Consumer The parcel-post service of Germany is used to a very large extent by farmers in their dealings with city customers, and especially for delivery of butter and eggs. Butter thus shipped, according to a report, is wrapped first in parchment paper and then packed in a cardboard box. As a rule, shipments under 10 pounds are not made, each pound being separately wrapped, the total shipment including nine pounds of butter, net. These pasteboard butter boxes come with an upper and lower part and are folded together and fastened with metal clamps to make the finished box. In knocked-down condition these boxes can be had in this country for $23.20 per thousand for the best quality and $21.42 for the second quality. The boxes can be saved and used over again. The clamps cost 33 cents per thousand. Eggs are shipped either in strong cardboard or wooden boxes, the inside of which contains corrugated cardboard partitions forming squares large enough to receive an egg. Between each layer of cardboard partitions a sheet of carboard is placed. The wooden boxes are rather attractively finished and cost at retail 95 cents each. They are provided with a padlock and neat cover, and can be used for an indefinite period. Paste-board egg boxes containing partitions for 10 eggs can be had for $45.22 per thousand, and boxes to contain 24 eggs for $71.40 per thousand. An ocean-to-ocean motorcycle relay race started from New York October 20th. The riders will bear a message from New York to San Diego and will come via St. Louis, Phoenix, Yuma and the Imperial Valley. It is claimed that is the most direct route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The annual encampment of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias will be held in San Diego in conjunction with the annual convention of the Grand Lodge of the order beginning the third Monday in May, 1913. Brigadier General J. O. Royer of Los Angeles, commanding the California brigade selected the site which will be close to the exposition grounds, during a recent visit to San Diego. There will be over 2,000 men in the encampment. President D. C. 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