anaheim-gazette 1913-06-26

HEN CULTURE HINTS FROM BERKELEY STATE UNIVERSITY ISSUES CIRCULAR DEALING WITH POULTRY EUGENICS VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS RELATIVE TO HATCHING AND RAISING OF CHICKS Eugenics for hens is the latest contribution of the University of California to scientific agriculture. Healthy chicks must have vigorous parents. So it is urged that only those hens be set which come from hens known to be of strong vitality. The yearling hen is better than the pullet. She should be of confident, proud bearing, and sleek, well-groomed appearance. "The length of a hen's toe-nails indicates her worth." So says Prof. J. E. Dougherty in his circular (No. 99) on "Hatching and Rearing of Chicks," just published by the University of California. This will be sent to any one who writes to the College of Agriculture at Berkeley and asks for it. The vigorous hen, who deserves to be a mother, has short, stubby toe-nails, from digging and scratching hard, while the weak or lazy hen has long curved toe-nails, which betray her lack of vigor and her consequent unfitness to supply the incubator with desirable eggs. That the hen carries her health certificate on her head is another of Prof. Dougherty's suggestions. He recommends the hen with blocky head, short, blunt beak, full eyes, well-developed wattles of good bright color, deep broad body and stocky legs. terest, when investors can secure 6 per cent and get ironclad security. This failure of the bond houses to purchase has resulted in keeping back the work and made it necessary for the commission acting with the State Treasurer and the State Board of Control, to make efforts to place the bonds in California with the banking houses. "It is true that more work is being done in the south and this has been brought about by reason of the southern bankers purchasing more of the bonds than the bankers of the north. "No work is being done, however, on any route that was not selected and laid out previous to this bond-selling scheme going into effect. The bankers in Southern California bought the bonds with the understanding that the money be used on highway routes within their territory and the commission has done so. "Work will be done as fast as the bonds are sold. But no discrimination is being shown. An effort was made to sell $1,000,000 worth of bonds in Southern California with the understanding that the money be used throughout the state, but the proposition fell flat." BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN REGULAR SESSION Official Statement of Proceedings as Reported by County Clerk Williams Bids were received by the Board of Supervisors at a recent meeting for an electric tower and wire franchise as follows: Pacific Light & Power Corporation bid $1.00. The bid was accepted and the bond accompanying the bid was approved and ordinance No. 99 was adopted granting said franchise. Bids were received for furnishing the County of Orange with one 30 h.p. engine and the bids were taken under advisement until July 2, 1913, at 10 A.M. The chairman was directed to sign a contract with the Southern Pacific Company for a spur track into the county gravel pit at McPherson. The application of the Serrano Wa- a mother, has short, stubby toe-nails, from digging and scratching hard, while the weak or lazy hen has long curved toe-nails, which betray her lack of vigor and her consequent unfitness to supply the incubator with desirable eggs. That the hen carries her health certificate on her head is another of Prof. Dougherty's suggestions. He recommends the hen with blocky head, short, blunt beak, full eyes, well-developed wattles of good bright color, deep, broad body and stocky legs. For fathers of the flock he recommends the vigorous, proud, combative male, that will call to his mates when he finds a choice morsel and stand proudly by while they eat it; the cock that will show fight when the keeper pokes his foot at him, for the best cocks are ready fighters. Comfortable and contented hens lay the eggs which produce the best chicks. Professor Dougherty urges houses of the open front type, so that fresh air may be abundant. But there must be no cracks and knotholes, for drafts are to be avoided. A dry, protected scratching pen is indispensable, and exercise highly desirable for breeding stock. The eggs for hatching should be carefully selected for uniformity of size, shape and color, and for shell texture. Brown eggs hatch 24 hours later than white ones, and so the two colors should not be mixed. Hatching eggs should not be over two weeks old when set and the less their age the better. After the eggs have been in the incubator 24 hours they should be turned every 12 hours until the nineteenth day. Beginning the seventh day the eggs should be cooled daily, to air the eggs and straighten the embryo. The time for cooling increases daily, until in May, 20 to 60 minutes is often required to cool eggs that have been 14 to 18 days in the incubator. On the seventh day the eggs should be tested. The eggs then found to be infertile will still be perfectly good for making cakes, and for cooking purposes will be quite as good as cold storage eggs. Anyone who desires more light on the hatching and rearing of chicks than he can derive from this university publication may have a correspondence course in poultry-growing, by writing to the correspondence instruction department at the university. Or anyone who wants a still more thorough-going poultry course may have an eight-weeks' course in the subject by going to the university farm at Davis from September 29 to November 22. Or if still more training Supervisors at a recent meeting for an electric tower and wire franchise as follows: Pacific Light & Power Corporation bid $1.00. The bid was accepted and the bond accompanying the bid was approved and ordinance No. 99 was adopted granting said franchise. Bids were received for furnishing the County of Orange with one 30 h.p. engine and the bids were taken under advisement until July 2, 1913, at 10 A.M. The chairman was directed to sign a contract with the Southern Pacific Company for a spur track into the county gravel pit at McPherson. The application of the Serrano Water Company for a permit to lay a 14-inch concrete pipe across a county road in Olive road district, was granted. The petition of L. J. Stovall to lay a 14-inch pipe line across the county road in Anaheim road district, was granted. The petition of the county officers to have numbers placed upon the doors of the different offices, was granted and Supervisor Smith was directed to have the offices numbered. The petition of the Pacific Electric Railway Company to excavate and fill in Tennessee avenue where the same crosses the Santa Ana-Huntington Beach line for the purpose of constructing a spur track adjoining the main line track, was granted. The map of Ontario Investment Co. Sub. No. 1 was accepted and a portion of Citrus drive was abandoned. The county recorder and county clerk were permitted to purchase new codes for their offices. Bids were received for furnishing the County of Orange with crushed rock screenings, gravel and sand as follows: Pacific Rock & Gravel Co. bid 60 cents per ton for 3,000 tons of crushed rock screenings, 35 cents per ton for 30,000 tons of gravel, and 10 cents per ton for 20,000 tons of sand. The bid was referred to the highway commission. The deeds from R. C. Howe and the Stearns Rancho Company to the County of Orange were ordered recorded. The application of a citizens' committee for an appropriation for the construction of a county road in La Habra was taken under advisement until June 24, 1913, at 10 A.M. Demands on the County of Orange on the hospital fund were allowed as read. The county surveyor was given permission to purchase a second-hand blue print machine. T. B. Talbert and D. W. McDannald were directed to prepare specifications for bidders for the printing of pamphlets advertising Orange county. Supervisor Schumacher was given permission to spend in excess of $300 for the purchase of a road grader. The county auditor was permitted to purchase a rug for his office. Supervisor Smith was appointed to prepare plans and specifications for department 2, superior court of Orange county. W. B. WILLIAMS, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. DOUBLY PROVEN Anaheim Readers Can No Longer from the center of the river ditch, the surface at its shoulder be at least 10 inches it is at the center where travel. The road them crown. The rain that properly crowned will run out of them into brooks or streams. If merely collect the water surface and it can not pool will be formed at side, which will graduate soil beneath the rooftop so soft that the wheels cut through the road suction destroy it. Some times says these roads of the department water runs from land into the road and stream down the wheel middle where the horse driveways into farm yards across the side ditches form channels for water yard to run into the river under driveways become leaves or rubbish and longer run away. If that stop the ditch waits so that no pipes were left ditch could be leaked trouble from surface stopped. Some times a road ground or through a swath road cannot be drained alone. If the road we like a railroad embankment such low land and made it would be dry and had a road passes through cut. This is a place we has been dug out so that go over a hill without water which always under the ground o known as ground water such water some times very muddy, and then what road builders call A good kind of untrench to go along under about three feet or a half wide. In this is laid near the bottle with loose stones no egg. When the trench filled with loose stones ter, instead of soaking way, will stop among flow down the hill thru Anyone who desires more light on the hatching and rearing of chicks than he can derive from this university publication may have a correspondence course in poultry-growing, by writing to the correspondence instruction department at the university. Or anyone who wants a still more thorough-going poultry course may have an eight-weeks' course in the subject by going to the university farm at Davis from September 29 to November 22. Or if still more training be sought, then this may be had by taking the 4-year agricultural course in the university, and making poultry the central work of that course. In this year's summer session at Berkeley, from June 23 to August 2, there will be 12 courses devoted to the training of teachers of agriculture, school gardening, school courses in dairying and animal industry, and the like. BANKERS ARE BUYING THE ROAD BONDS Southern California Leads the North in Purchases of Issue Concerning the statement that Southern California is securing more state highway construction under the $18,000,000 bond issue, Burton A. Towne, president of the commission, said in a recent interview: "The big bond-buying houses have not been buying these bonds because there is no market for bonds and also because they carry but 4 per cent in..." MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF EARTH ROAD EACH THOROUGHFARE SHOULD HAVE CROWN AND SHOULD BE PROPERLY DRAINED DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE TO LOCAL ROAD MEN If you look at the ordinary country road after a shower you will see small puddles along the wheel ruts and some times larger pools. This water stays on the road surface because it cannot drain away into the side ditches. If you look closely you will see side ditches which have grown up with bushes and weeds in many cases, and which are so far from the traveled part of the road that the rain water does not drain into them. That part of the roadway where the wagons travel is called the traveled way. To prevent water from standing on the traveled way the road should be raised in the center and should slope gently into broad shallow ditches. It is then said to have a crown. If it is 10 feet from the center of the road to the side ditch, the surface at the side ditch should be at least 10 inches lower than it is at the center where the horses travel. The road then has a 10-inch crown. The rain that falls on a road properly crowned will run quickly to the side and not soak into the surface or form pools. The side ditches for surface water should run parallel to the right of way, and should be open at every low point so that the water can run out of them into neighboring streams. in such a way that a small amount of earth will slide past the smooth face of the log toward the center of the road, thus forming the crown. The edges of the logs will smooth out the ruts. The best way to drag is to begin at the side ditches and go up one side of the road, and then down the other. In the next trip the drag should be started a little nearer the center and the last trip over the road the drag may work close to the center itself. Small ridges of earth will be thrown in the horse track and smeared by the round side of the log smoothly over the road. The smearing of the earth by the drag is called "puddling" and it tends to make the surface of the road smooth and water-tight after the sun comes out. The road is always dragged after it has rained and not when it is dry. A good, strong pair of horses with a well-built drag can drag about 3 or 4 miles of road in a day, and it is the best way to maintain good roads. In every county some farmer along each four miles of road should own a drag and drag the road when it rains, and he would always find the road in good condition when he goes to market. SITE SOUGHT FOR EXPERIMENT STATION Many Sections of Southern California Hot-Foot After It That the citrus experiment station and graduate school of semi-tropic agriculture of the University of California, the first of its kind in the United States and one that will bring to Southern California the greatest collection of citrus and agricultural experts ever assembled for the study of an industry, will be established by Dr. Herbert John Webber, head of the school, in the section of the southland best suited to its purpose is the announcement made by George F. Hunt, dean of the university. According to the announcement of BIG INCREASE IN CORPORATION TAX LEVY MORE THAN TWO MILLION DOLLARS ADDED TO THE ASSESSMENT OF LAST YEAR RAILROADS AND STREET RAILWAYS CONTRIBUTE THE BULK OF INCREASE California public service and other corporations which are taxed to raise the State's revenue will contribute $12,991,916 toward the support of the State government for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1914, according to the assessment roll made by the State board of equalization. The amount exceeds last year's assessment by $2,969,403. The assessment is the first made since the increase of rates made on public service companies by the Legislature. The figures, although complete in every detail, are not yet final. The corporations still have the right of appeal for equalization at any time before the first Monday in July. Included in the assessment are the franchise taxes which aggregate $1,-595,050, a decrease of nearly $40,000. In the case of the railroads and street railways, the percentage taxation rate was increased from 4 per cent on the gross earnings to 4.75 per cent; on electric and power companies from 4 per cent to 4.60 per cent; on telegraph and telephone companies from 3½ per cent to 4.2 per cent; on car companies from 3 per cent to 4 per cent; on insurance companies from 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent. The rates on express companies, National and State from the center of the road to the side ditch, the surface at the side ditch should be at least 10 inches lower than it is at the center where the horses travel. The road then has a 10-inch crown. The rain that falls on a road properly crowned will run quickly to the side and not soak into the surface or form pools. The side ditches for surface water should run parallel to the right of way, and should be open at every low point so that the water can run out of them into neighboring brooks or streams. If the ditches merely collect the water from the road surface and it can not run away, large pools will be formed along the roadside, which will gradually soak into the soil beneath the road and make it so soft that the wheels of wagons will cut through the road surface and soon destroy it. Some times, says the office of public roads of the department of agriculture, water runs from land along the road into the road and forms a little stream down the wheel tracks or in the middle where the horses travel. When driveways into farm yards are built across the side ditches they frequently form channels for water from the farm yard to run into the road. The pipes under driveways become filled with leaves or rubbish and the water can no longer run away. If the driveways that stop the ditch water were rebuilt so that no pipes were necessary and the ditch could be left open, much trouble from surface water would be stopped. Some times a road runs across low ground or through a swamp where the road can not be drained by side ditches alone. If the road were built higher like a railroad embankment across such low land and made with a crown, it would be dry and hard. Some times a road passes through what is called a cut. This is a place where the earth has been dug out so that the road can go over a hill without being too steep. The water which always flows quietly under the ground on hill sides is known as ground water. In road cuts such water some times makes the road very muddy, and the road then needs what road builders call underdrainage. A good kind of underdrainage is a trench to go along under the side drain and about three feet deep and a foot and a half wide. In this trench a pipe is laid near the bottom and covered with loose stones no bigger than an egg. When the trench is completely filled with loose stones the ground water, instead of soaking into the roadway, will stop among the stones and flow down the hill through the pipe. To keep a road smooth and crowned "AGENT WANTED" In the case of the railroads and street railways, the percentage taxation rate was increased from 4 per cent on the gross earnings to 4.75 per cent; on electric and power companies from 4 per cent to 4.60 per cent; on telegraph and telephone companies from 3½ per cent to 4.2 per cent; on car companies from 3 per cent to 4 per cent; on insurance companies from 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent. The rates on express companies, National and State banks were not changed. The rate for franchise also remained unchanged. Railroads and street railways will contribute the greater portion of the $2,000,000 revenue increase. The assessment on this class of corporation for 1913 aggregates $6,225,664, as compared with $4,941,224 for last year. Light and power companies are assessed for an increase of approximately $350,000; telegraph and telephone companies for about $175,000; insurance companies for $160,000; banks for $40,-000, and car companies and express companies for $20,000 each. Nine railroads and street railways have gross receipts which exceed $1,000,000 a year. The Southern Pacific leads with a gross revenue of $62,191,244 and is assessed for $2,954,-084 in taxes. The Santa Fe is second, with gross earnings of $19,746,792 and is taxed $937,687. Receipts of the Pacific Electric Company of Los Angeles and the United Railroads of San Francisco, electric railways, were $8,696,877 and $8,475,917, respectively, a year, and they are assessed $413,101 and $402,696, respectively. Others included in the class above the million mark and the taxes they must pay are: Los Angeles Railway, receipts $6,-540,760; taxes $310,686; San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railway, receipts $4,632,689; taxes $220,052; Salt Lake Railroad, receipts $3,795,767; taxes $189,298; Northwestern Pacific Railroad, receipts $3,555,825; taxes $168,-901; Western Pacific Railroad, receipts $2,735,932; taxes $129,956. Of the light, heat and power corporations, seven are placed in the class above the million mark with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company as the leader. This company's gross earnings for the year are fixed at $13,602,915 and it is assessed for $625,734. Other companies which will lead in the contribution to State expenses and the taxes they will pay are: Southern California Edison Company, receipts $4,226,941; taxes $194,-139; Los Angeles Gas & Electric Company, receipts $4,140,184; taxes $190,-448; Pacific Light & Power Company, receipts $2,357,700; taxes $108,-454. what road builders call underdrainage. A good kind of underdrainage is a trench to go along under the side drain and about three feet deep and a foot and a half wide. In this trench a pipe is laid near the bottom and covered with loose stones no bigger than an egg. When the trench is completely filled with loose stones the ground water, instead of soaking into the roadway, will stop among the stones and flow down the hill through the pipe. To keep a road smooth and crowned the best method is to drag it with a road drag. A road drag is made easily with two halves of a log which has been split. The log should be about 6 or 8 inches in thickness and about 6 or 8 feet long. The two halves of the log are set three feet apart with the smooth faces forward and upright. They are then fastened together with braces set in holes bored through the log. A pair of horses may be used to drag the road and are hitched to a chain fastened to the front half of the log. The road drag should move forward so that it slants across the road Notice to Creditors Estate of A. A. Lee, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, executor of the last will of A. A. Lee, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 5th day of June, 1913), to the said executor, of the last will of said A. A. Lee, deceased, at the office of Tipton & Callor, 118 West Center street, Anaheim, California, the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 3rd day of June, A. D. 1913. MARVIN RUFUS LEE, Deceased. TIPTON & CAILOR, Attorneys for Executor. "AGENT WANTED" An active man can earn $10 per day selling the new edition of "BUSINESS LAW FOR BUSINESS MEN," by A. J. Bledsoe. The book has been revised and enlarged, and is now a standard work in California. Agent wanted for Anaheim and vicinity with exclusive territory. For particulars write to Business Law Publishing Co., 502 Merchants National Bank building, San Francisco, California. No. 5336 In the Superior Court OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In the matter of the Estate of Charles Schindler, Deceased Order to show Cause why order of Sale of Real Estate should not be made. Herman Schindler, the administrator of the estate of Charles Schindler, deceased, having filed his petition herein, duly verified, praying for an order of sale of all of the real estate of said deceased for the purposes therein set forth, it is therefore ordered by the said Court, that all persons interested in the estate of the said deceased, appear before the said Superior Court on Friday, the 20th day of June, 1913, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the Court Room of said Superior Court in the City of Santa Ana, Orange County, California, to show cause why an order should not be granted to said administrator to sell all the real estate of the said deceased, at private sale, and that a copy of this order be published at least four successive weeks in the Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper printed and published in the City of Anaheim, Orange County. Dated May 20, 1913. J. N. 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