anaheim-gazette 1913-03-27

GROVE HEATING ONLY SOLUTION OF JACK FROST LOS ANGELES ORANGE GROWER TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCES DURING JANUARY FREEZE LOST HIS CROP THIS YEAR AND LAST—THINKS LITTLE OF SMUDGING Sufficient time has now passed since the extreme cold nights of January 5, 6, 7 and 8, to determine more accurately the damage from the freeze that has extended over the entire citrus belt of California. The loss in fruit alone to California growers has been enormous, not counting the setback to the trees in localities which cannot produce as heavy a crop as trees which escaped with only slight damage, writes C. B. Fuller in a Los Angeles paper. In some places the trees do not show any effect at all from the cold, while in other localities the trees are stripped of their entire foliage, which will retard their strength in growing to maturity the coming crop and the fruit will be undersized, but no doubt will be of good quality. The freeze of this and last year covered such a great amount of territory that some places that escaped last year were hit hard this year and those that were hit so hard last year are in the best condition at this time, so I think, continues Mr. Fuller, we can safely say that a frostless belt in California cannot be safely guaranteed. The one great question that is confronting the orange and lemon grower of California today is, "Can I protect the crop from frost and save the trees from the damaging effects?" I can answer this question in this way. Being orchards is a very vital question and as conditions are so different in groves one must make a study of his own place to accomplish the best results. The freeze having been so general in the last two years and the subject of frost protection so much talked of throughout the state, the result will be in the near future that people, looking over our great producing sections, seeing in the citrus groves the most dreaded of all things, appliances to prevent frost damage, will be glad to know that California has adopted a system of orchard heating so practical that the growing of the orange and lemon is safe in every place and that the matter of location will be only where one would rather live and he will be safe, knowing that whatever he wishes to raise can be matured and marketed without damage from cold. The California orange and lemon, grown under climatic conditions existing here, mature in such shape that they carry in shipping longer and reach far-off markets in better condition than fruit of their kind grown in any other part of the world. Expense Offset By practical and systematic heating of the orchards, all fruit can be shipped from California free from frost injury to all markets, sold to such good advantage that the returns to the grower will be so much more than under the present conditions, that the cost of heating and frost protection will be easily offset by the increased selling price. The California auction, which was to have been in operation here at this time, received its setback on account of the freeze, with many eastern representatives of large produce firms on the ground at the time. We are assured that the California auction will be here in another year, which will result in many eastern buyers paying cash for fruit in California, and with only slight frost the protected groves will receive the best prices for the fruit. Trees in places where the frost was so severe that most of the foliage was lost are at this time putting out new look sick." The set with all these ball match, with in attendance, and "Under the lobbit and Walter students gave several in fine manner very much in every gayly decorated respective school each side of the students. The orchestra was lit for the singing adding much to torium was crowded the largest crowd. The affair went and both sides by of the dead gale dated of the White visitors behaved tlemen, and their well rendered." Analogy is present that "the success was largely due ing of Miss Vee charge of the prize high school. Mituation of turning debating teams." The decision received with "p rooters for the lobe to hear the young. All this seems the classification mous statesman dent bodies of learning into males, with the inmere were lacking There should be class to put our teams. The apparatus plete in this de production of the "the gate." Needs will shortly be a portance of the time we shall find coddles advance and dignity on that some places that escaped last year were hit hard this year and those that were hit so hard last year are in the best condition at this time, so I think, continues Mr. Fuller, we can safely say that a frostless belt in California cannot be safely guaranteed. The one great question that is confronting the orange and lemon grower of California today is, "Can I protect the crop from frost and save the trees from the damaging effects?" I can answer this question in this way. Being a grower myself, and having lost last year a large crop of fruit, and not believing that such a thing would be repeated in the year following, I worked along without protection, and again lost my crop the night of January 5. I had estimated the crop at 25,000 boxes of fruit. I at once made careful investigation of methods used in heating orchards and worked hard during the four nights following, with good results. Explodes Theory The old method employed by the growers, who followed the advice of men of high standing in horticultural matters to get good results, was to produce from their fire pots a heavy smoke, or smudge, which would make a blanket of smoke over the groves, which would retain the heat and keep it inside the orchard. According to my tests, wherever I found great quantities of smoke, I found less heat and poor results. In some orchards I made tests with what is called the "smudge pot." I find frozen fruit throughout the grove and a bad effect on the trees and fruit from escaping smoke and soot. I found the best results from the burning of crude oil in a heater which seemed to turn the smoke to a gas and burn the gas through a chimney with a clear white smokeless flame, which raised the temperature from 18 degrees outside the orchard to 29½ degrees inside the orchard, with a heater burning to every other tree in the grove. I find that all the fruit in this grove next to the heaters is in excellent condition and the fruit in spaces where the heaters were not burning is slightly damaged. My conclusion is that had one heater been placed to each tree in this grove, every orange and lemon in it would at this time be absolutely free from frost and could be guaranteed as such. The groves all around this one I mention contain seriously damaged fruit and trees. These groves, however, were not protected from the frost. Cost and Saving The expense of protection on my the heaters were not burning is slightly damaged. My conclusion is that had one heater been placed to each tree in this grove, every orange and lemon in it would at this time be absolutely free from frost and could be guaranteed as such. The groves all around this one I mention contain seriously damaged fruit and trees. These groves, however, were not protected from the frost. Cost and Saving The expense of protection on my grove, properly equipped with one heater to a tree and the same amount of oil used to each heater as in the grove above mentioned, would have been $4,400, which would have resulted in the saving of 25,000 boxes of fruit, which, in the present circumstances, would be called very cheap insurance. The cost of insurance for the ensuing year, deducting the first cost of the heaters, will be $2,000, if we have to use the same amount of oil and fire in the heaters the same number of hours as was the case this year. On the other hand, if we do not have any freeze, the cost will be only the labor of placing the heaters in their places in the grove and their replacement in the storehouse, which will be practically nothing. After travelling over the entire citrus district, I have not heard a grower speak unfavorably of orchard heating, the only question being as to which is the best appliance to install in the orchards. The subject of the care of damaged sold at a reasonable price and if satisfactory results can be obtained will give the cheapest possible insurance against frost to the grower and replace the heaters that can only burn the higher grade oils, that more than double the cost of operation. There are heaters that do this and the orange grower must decide on the most economical heater as it will mean a great saving to him at the end of the year's work. WHITTIER KNOCKED INTO COCKED HAT A. U. H. S. Debaters Slip It Over Youths From Foothill City (From the San Francisco Call) A new and agreeable form of sporting event is found in the homeric conflicts of the high school debating teams now raging in our midst. I find, for instance, in the Anaheim Gazette an inspiring recital of the intellectual combat between the home team and that of the Whittier high school, in which the former gained a glorious victory calculated to set red blood coursing through your veins, if you have any. The fight is reported by rounds in the Gazette. We learn that Earl Spencer—not a British nobleman, but an Anaheim boy—"next took the floor and kicked his opponent's arguments silly," and again Howard Krause "made the argument of his opponents" Clerk of the ANAHEIM GAZETTE look sick." The stage was properly set with all the accessories of a football match, with rival teams of rooters in attendance, as we are told: "Under the leadership of Lila Abbott and Walter Spaeth, Anaheim students gave several new songs and yells in fine manner and school spirit was very much in evidence. The hall was gayly decorated in the colors of the respective schools, and a section on each side of the hall was reserved for the students. The Anaheim high school orchestra was in evidence and played for the singing of the local students, adding much to the effect. The auditorium was crowded and probably held the largest crowd since its opening." The affair went off with great eclat, and both sides behaved like true sports of the dead game sort, for it is related of the Whittier rooters that "the visitors behaved like ladies and gentlemen, and their songs and yells were well rendered." Further, the sporting analogy is preserved in the intimation that "the success of the local debaters was largely due to the efficient coaching of Miss Veda Walker, who has charge of the public speaking of the high school. Miss Walker has the reputation of turning out only winning debating teams." The decision of the referee was received with "pandemonium" by the rooters for the home team. One likes to hear the young eagles scream. All this seems to lead me back to the classification instituted by a famous statesman who divided the student bodies of our institutions of learning into mollycoddles and athletes, with the intimation that the former were lacking in good red blood. There should be little doubt in which class to put our high school debating teams. The apparatus of sport will be complete in this department with the introduction of the training table and "the gate." Need we doubt that these will shortly be supplied to fit the importance of the occasion, so that in time we shall find our aspiring mollycoddles advanced to a place of honor and dignity on the sporting page? MRS. ROBERT M'KEE SPREADS GLAD TIDINGS Told People in Iowa Bob's Nurseries Were Unharmed by Frost, Despite Lurid Newspaper Reports Mrs. Robert McKee returned on Thursday from Iowa, where she went to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents at the old home. Mrs. McKee was absent three months and a half, and expressed great delight at her return to the sunny skies of Southern California. On leaving for the train to take up her homeward trip, she traveled to the station in a blinding sleet and snow storm, the weather having been cold and stormy for several weeks before that time. While in the east she saw many newspaper accounts of the January freeze in California, and having read in a Des Moines paper that all citrus trees within a radius of one hundred miles of Los Angeles had been killed, she felt that her husband's nurseries southeast of town had been destroyed. A letter soon arrived from Bob telling her the trees were safe, not a single one having been nipped by frost. Mrs. McKee found the impression throughout the east was that Southern California had sustained irreparable injury, and when she showed her husband's letter to her neighbors, found few who were ready to believe anything but that which they had seen in the papers. This was perhaps a commendable spirit on their part, for newspapers never print anything which is not true, still she persisted in spreading the good news that her home was in the frostless belt where frost never comes. It is needless to say that Bob is overjoyed at Mrs. McKee's return, as he says he was getting heartily tired of a bachelor's diet. He lost tremendously in flesh during his wife's absence, but is rapidly rounding into form and will soon again be in his usual good health and spirits. For better work and service send your laundry to the Anaheim Laundry Company Under new management. Wagons call any place at any time. BOTH PHONES We are in the Fertilizer Business For the purpose of disposing of the enormous output of high-grade animal fertilizing materials from the packing houses of Armour & Company. We are of necessity in the business to stay. Our Reputation is Behind the Shield On every bag of the Armour Fertilizers, and we are taking no chances with it. The results which have followed the use of our goods in Southern California support our claim that they represent the highest agricultural value for the money. WRITE FOR THE NEW EDITION OF OUR BOOK, "FERTILIZER FACTS" Which will be mailed you free; also a copy of "Armour's Farmers' Almanac". ARMOUR FERTILIZER WORKS 803-804 Central Bldg. LOS ANGELES Or see our Local Agent, I. W. FREEMAN, Placentia PHONE 330 L Own a Farm in Tulare County OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS Business Transacted by Board of Supervisors at Their Last Session Santa Ana, Cal., March 18, 1913. The board met pursuant to adjournment. All members and the clerk present. The bid of Torrance, Marshall & Company of par, accrued interest and a premium of $50.00, was accepted, for the $70,000 issue of Fullerton school bonds. The resignation of F. M. Bradbury as director of division No. 3, Newport drainage district, was accepted. J. W. Walton was appointed director of division No. 3, of Newport drainage district to succeed F. M. Bradbury, resigned. The resignation of M. Babylon as director of division No. 3, Delhi drainage district, was accepted. H. F. Rodgers was appointed director of division No. 3, of Delhi drainage district to succeed M. Babylon, resigned. The contract awarded by the Panama Exposition commission to John Simpson Company for the erection of an exposition building, was approved. The contract for partitions, etc., in the highway commissioners' office was awarded to C. M. Jordan for $311.00. The petition of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Garden Grove to install a public drinking fountain and watering trough on the south side of the Bank of Garden Grove, was granted. The board appointed C. F. Manur, J. T. Smith and J. L. McBride as viewers to view the proposed road on the petition of Otis Jones, et al., of Laguna road district. The petition of L. E. VanWinkle, et al., of Westminster road district, for a county road 40 feet wide, was granted. The petition of Herman Randick, et al., of Orange road district, for a county road 40 feet wide, was granted. The matter of expending money from the current expense fund to build the coast road was continued to April 2, 1913, at 10 A.M. Demands on the hog-papers never print anything which is not true, still she persisted in spreading the good news that her home was in the frostless belt where frost never comes. It is needless to say that Bob is overjoyed at Mrs. McKee's return, as he says he was getting heartily tired of a bachelor's diet. He lost tremendously in flesh during his wife's absence, but is rapidly rounding into form and will soon again be in his usual good health and spirits. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR COUNTY CAMPAIGN Paul C. Brown, State Field Secretary, Will Visit Local Societies Next Week Howard E. Gates, president of the Orange County Christian Endeavor Union, has made arrangements with Paul C. Brown, state field secretary of the organization, for a week's campaign in this county, beginning next Tuesday, April 1. Mr. Gates will accompany Mr. Brown on his trips about the county and will attend all meetings with him. The following itinerary has been arranged for: Tuesday, April 1, 7 P.M., banquet and conference, Orange Presbyterian church. All county officers, pastors, society presidents, superintendents and escorts cordially invited. Wednesday, April 2, 2:30 P.M., Tustin Presbyterian church; 7:30 P.M., mass meeting of the Santa Ana societies in the First Presbyterian church. Thursday, April 3, 4:30 P.M., mass meeting in the Anaheim Presbyterian church; 7:30 P.M., Buena Park Congregational church. Friday, April 4, 7:30 P.M., mass meeting, Fullerton Christian church. Saturday, April 5, 2 P.M., Westminster Presbyterian church; 7:30 P.M., Huntington Beach Christian church. Sunday, April 6, 2:30 P.M., Yorba Linda Friends; 6:30 P.M., Placentia Presbyterian church. Monday, April 7, 7:30 P.M., mass meeting El Modeno and Villa Park societies at El Modeno Friends church. Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 P.M., mass meeting, Orange Christian church. CAST FOR SENIOR PLAY Participants in "No. 7" Selected at Try-Outs Held Recently The play selected by members of the senior class for presentation at the close of the school year is entitled CAST FOR SENIOR PLAY Participants in "No. 7" Selected at Try-Outs Held Recently The play selected by members of the senior class for presentation at the close of the school year is entitled "No. 7." The try-outs for finding who is to take part were held recently and the following cast has been selected: Miss Cecile Trindle, Helen Baldwin, leading lady; Miss Kathryn Hand, Amy Dixon, the college widow; Miss Evelyn Finney, Mrs. Brooks, mother of Henry; Miss Emily Spaeth, an orphan; Miss Helena Goodale, daughter of Mrs. Brooks; Walter Spaeth, Henry Baldwin, who wants to go to college; Ralph Maas, Weston; Raymond Elliott, Carter, the coach; Asleigh Chamberlain, the freshman; Hans Storm, another freshman; Will Webb, Mr. Brooks, who likes to hold onto his money; Clarence Chamberlain, Pete, the Irish valet; Howard Krause, Ned Andrews; Earl Spencer, the professor; Lawrence Waller, Lord Chillinsworth. As planned, the play will be given about three weeks before the close of school in June. It is also planned to open the school annuals on that evening also, and have them for sale to those present. It is the antiquated who follow in the path of custom. Blaze your own trail. Thursday, March 27 Hammocks It may be early. But we have again purchased the entire line of samples from Simmon's Hardware Co. at less than factory price, and give the public the benefit of our buy. Make your selection while the stock is complete. M. W. MARTENET Satisfaction Guaranteed OR Your Money Refunded Favorite Cafe 114½ West Center Pure, Clean Food Our Specialty..., Regular Meals 25c Short Orders New Management Kanzler & Bender SOMETHING TENDER AND SWEET for breakfast or dinner in choice meats you will always find at Wm. Schumacher's. We have all kinds of fancy poultry in broiling and roasting chickens, spring lamb and veal, prime roasts of beef and tender, juicy steaks, with the right flavor and quality, at The Palace Market Wm. Schumacher, Prop. E. Center St. Anaheim, Cal. Farm County Your Money Refunded Anaheim Bakery Peter Syre, prop. Fresh Bread Cakes and Pies Confectionery, Etc. Wedding Cakes a Specialty Los Angeles and Cypress Streets. Be a fighter, but be sure you are fighting for the right. Pianos! Pianos! T. Webber & Son AVE several bargains in used Pianos, taken in exchange for Player Pianos. have a few Pianos that we can sell for $125, $150; these pianos are fully guaranteed by us. Suitable terms can be engaged upon application. The public is specially invited to call and inspect these pianos in Pianos. T. WEBBER & SON W. Center street, ANAHEIM Test of Jansen's Bakery, Casson Building “Te memory of quality lasts long after the price has been forgotten.” “San Diego” beer is on sale in every cafe in the City of Los Angeles; in fact, it has taken the lead amongst high class beers. All wholesale dealers in Anaheim sell it in bottles and the Germania Hall saloon has it on draught. To dodge difficulties is to lose the power of decision. It is the things done well that make for commercial supremacy. Have three sworn enemies have three sworn enemies the drunkard, the heavy inker, and the man who aves rough, strong, highproof whiskey Noble Bottled at drinking strength