anaheim-gazette 1914-01-01

CULTIVATION OF AN ORANGE GROVE EXPERT AUTHORITY TELLS OF BEST METHOD OF CARING FOR THE TREES GREAT CARE IS NECESSARY IN IRRIGATION TO GET AN EVEN DEPTH OF WATER If one investigates the methods used in handling soil and water on the different orange groves in any district, he will find a great divergence in ideas, though there is enough leavage in method to permit two different methods both to be right, provided there is no conflict between underlying principles. The owner of one of the finest young citrus orchards in the Lindsay district is responsible for the following practices, which the condition of his trees makes to appear good. It is on red hog wallow land about a mile from the hills. This land was thoroughly levelled and hardpan and subsoil broken by heavy charges of dynamite to a depth of eight feet and large quantities of stable manure applied. The water sunk away down, carrying the plant food with it and the trees just hummed. In fact they made such a vigorous growth that they entered their dormant period much later than most trees and ran a good risk of frost injury, although the water was taken off them as soon as other groves. There is nothing like providing a good, deep soil for the roots to get into if one wants trees to thrive. The cultivation and irrigation is closely related in citrus groves. In this clean cultivation is practiced all the year, although natural vegetation is permitted with the winter rainfall. This means that there is no tangled cover crop to turn under and plowing. OFFICERS ARREST THE WRONG MAN Fullerton Deputies Think They Have Murderer But Are Mistaken To come to this country to bury his youngest child and while here to be arrested and charged with the murder of his sister was the experience of Peter Clasen of Orono, Minn. On the suspicion of Deputy Sheriff O. H. Schumacher that Clasen was George Kadelbach, the man who in 1907 at Orono murdered his sister and threw her body in a well, Under Sheriff George Law, together with Deputies Frank Heard and Schumacher went to the Christlieb ranch near Fullerton and placed the suspect under arrest. Officers had gone to the Orange-thorpe ranch and confronted the man, but he had apparently proved an alibi. The deputies grew suspicious, however, owing to the great resemblance of Clasen to Kadelbach and the arrest was made with an eye to completely satisfying every doubt. Clasen was found working with two other men and put up no resistance. This surprised the officers as Kadelbach, a few years ago, had a gun fight with Sheriff Ruddock when the sheriff attempted to take him into custody. Clasen, under examination, proved to be taller, younger appearing and not so heavy-set as the wanted man, but the deputies were still unsatisfied and he was taken to a number of men who had seen Kadelbach. None of them recognized him. Clasen was then taken to Santa Ana, where Sheriff Ruddock interviewed him and definitely determined that he was not the man the authorities are after. Clasen took his arrest calmly, saying that it would be only a matter of a few hours until everything is all right. He declares that he has been having much trouble lately, with the extended illness of his youngest child and its recent death. He came out here from Minnesota, arriving too late to see his baby alive and he had been hardly a week when he was placed under arrest, charged with murdering his own sister. Clasen's wife and two children have large gains were madeduction of the precious metals in New 1913, according to premates of Charles W. HenryUnited States Geological mine production of gold crease of $100,000 over $784,446 in 1912; that of crease of 100,000 ouncesduction of 1,536,701 ourlead, a decrease of 800,000the yield of 5,494,018 poopercopper, an increase of 20over the yield of 34,030,1912; and zinc (figuredzinc in zinc oxide), an8,000,000 pounds over13,566,637 pounds in 1912er average yearly priceand zinc, the total valuewas $11,620,000, an increafover $3,000,000. The Mogollon districtcounty, which in 1912 ycent of the state yield oper cent of the silver yieldincrease of $100,000 in goounes of silver, in ouptr bulion, concentratesgold and silver-bearingcopper ores of the Lordalso contributed heavilyof gold and silver. An iiof gold and silver was mWhite Oak district,LakeThe Elizabethtown districounty, continued as thantant placer-producing dishipped an increased tonhe greater part of t In fact they made such a vigorous growth that they entered their dormant period much later than most trees and ran a good risk of frost injury, although the water was taken off them as soon as other groves. There is nothing like providing a good, deep soil for the roots to get into if one wants trees to thrive. The cultivation and irrigation is closely related in citrus groves. In this clean cultivation is practiced all the year, although natural vegetation is permitted with the winter rainfall. This means that there is no tangled cover crop to turn under and plowing is unnecessary. Instead, a four-horse cultivator is put on, and since the ground is always kept loose, it can do all the stirring necessary. The lack of cover crop is made up by heavy applications of stable manure. No hardpan can form by this method, for the furrow is moved slightly to the side with each irrigation and in the course of the year every bit of ground has been broken up by the furrower an inch or so below plane of cultivation with cultivator. The mulch kept is six inches deep. Occasionally it happens that disc harrow is necessary. This is used when there is too much land to cultivate after an irrigation in proportion to the time to cultivate in. In such a case the disc harrow is put on to stir it up before it gets a chance to cake, and afterward the cultivator is put on to get deeper than the disc would. In this grove special attention is given to irrigation. One of the most common faults is for the furrows to break and make puddles over the orchard. This is bad. The top don't want water, but the subsoil where the roots work does. It is a waste of water through excessive evaporation. It also gives an uneven distribution of water. Furthermore such puddles keep the cultivator off for a long time and by the time these are dry enough to get on to, the rest of the land is too dry. From all respects, saving of water, even distribution of water, good cultivation, condition of soil, such irrigation is a bad thing. The proper idea is to have level land, straight furrows of even depth, to have all the water sink in evenly, and to permit cultivation to start soon and act uniformly. The intention in this grove is to give more frequent and less abundant irrigations, about an irrigation every 20 days instead of once a month or six weeks. It is believed that the trees will do better with this fairly uniform moisture content rather than being in wet soil the beginning of the six weeks period and being on the edge of real need at the close of it. Inasmuch as the common belief that the trees prosper if the soil will take sufficient moisture to make frequent irrigations to all appearances unnecessary, the experiment should prove instructive and interesting. Cultivation and gumming are closely related, for when the soil works over to cover the union between root and top, in other words, the point of budding, gumming is encouraged. In planting, the stub should be above the surface and facing southwest for if on the shady side of the tree moss and dampness might get in the stub and ruin the tree. The danger from sade, of course, BEET GROWERS OBJECT TO REDUCTION Cannot Afford to Raise Beets For $4.50 Per Ton The Southern California Beet Growers' Association has entered a vigorous protest against the proposed reduction in the price of beets. At a meeting of the directors of the association held Wednesday at Los Angeles, the matter was thoroughly discussed and it was the unanimous opinion of the directors present that the growers cannot afford to raise beets at $4.50 per ton for 15 per cent beets. The larger growers have all announced that they will not sign contracts at that figure, but will put their lands into other crops if the factories insist on the 75 cent reduction. If each grower will take time to figure the cost of production and interest on his investment, he will see the wisdom of arranging to grow other crops until a price can be secured that will pay a fair profit. It is possible that the former price of $5.25 may be maintained for the coming season. This association proposes to keep you thoroughly informed in the matter. OYHARZABAL WILL IS FILED Wealthy Sheep Man Leaves Estate to His Brother The will of Domingo Oyharzabal, pioneer sheep man and rancher of San Juan Capistrano, was filed for probate, and by it the entire estate, valued at $200,000, goes to Oyharzabal's brother, Etienne Oyharzabal, of San Juan Capistrano. Clasen took his arrest calmly, saying that it would be only a matter of a few hours until everything is all right. He declares that he has been having much trouble lately, with the extended illness of his youngest child and its recent death. He came out here from Minnesota, arriving too late to see his baby alive and he had been here hardly a week when he was placed under arrest, charged with murdering his own sister. Clasen's wife and two children have been living in Orangethorpe for some time. The girl and boy of Kadelbach have been stying at the same place. The greater part of of copper comes from of the Chino Copper Co., ing a low-grade deposit by steam shovels. This trated at Hurley, where mill was operated steam the gross production of concentrates and ore w pounds, while in 1913 th per was approximate pounds. The Lordsburg produced a considerable copper, and copper ore ped from the Burro Mo where in 1913 active work was done, including tion of a railroad front and where a mill is in copper mines and smel dro, Santa Fe county, ad to the copper yield. The lead output of comes chiefly from crud Central district, Grant lead ore and concentrate Magdalena district; So and from one from th trict, Luna county. A f mentions were made from th trict, Dona Ana county important producer of l Mines producing zinc Mexico were in the M trict, Socorro county; and Victorio districts; and in the Hanover ar districts, Grant county lena district is the me shipments of both trates from the mills ad bonate showing an inc concentration and magni Tri-Bullion Co. closed i new wet concentration mill of the Ozark C production in March an output from August t year, and the shipment bonate from the Amh Ozark, and Tri-Bullion ed. Zinc ore and cone keted from New Mexi from 21,988 tons of 35. in 1912 to 32,189 tons o in 1913. CALIFORNIA Logan W. Page, dire ureau of public roads o ment of Agriculture, im forethe Civil Service H at Boston, denounced th cal control of public "The practice of putting ians in control of a viti for the purpose of pay debt must be stopped," Wealthy Sheep Man Leaves Estate to His Brother The will of Domingo Oyharzabal, pioneer sheep man and rancher of San Juan Capistrano, was filed for probate, and by it the entire estate, valued at $200,000, goes to Oyharzabal's brother, Etienne Oyharzabal, of San Juan Capistrano. The petition is filed by Attorney J. R. Scott of Los Angeles, and it states that the estate consists of a half interest in the partnership of D. Oyharzabal & Company, the other half interest belonging to Etienne. The profits of the half interest are estimated at $30,000 yearly. The will was written May 14, 1905, and was witnessed by Scott and Frank James, both of Los Angeles. The document provides that Etienne shall receive everything belonging to Domingo and that he may sell any portion of the property without order of court. The following paragraph appears: "I declare that I have fully considered all of the claims on me of all my relations and connections, whoever they may be, and I do not desire to provide for any of my said relatives or connections, excepting my said brother, but on the contrary intentionally omit to make any such provisions." Domingo Oyharzabal was never married. The petition names as relatives two brothers, one living in France and one in Argentine, a sister in France, and the children of a deceased sister in France. The Oyharzabal partnership owns about 2,000 acres at San Juan Capistrano, and property in Los Angeles. Logan W. Page, director of public roads of Agriculture, informs the Civil Service Board at Boston, denounced the cal control of public debt for the purpose of paying it must be stopped," "Only when we arrive at development where we find the fullest degree the most application of the merit administration in every enrmment will we attain of excellence in our public would make them common roads of Europe." It realize that in the state formia we have reached necessary condition. "That the admonition was as to call for mention officer before a nation minds us how far we California on the way of the fact that the admin necessary, even in Cal applied to the county road every county, also remit the state government in advance of the county of California. The first county governments extending the feeders will be that they establish same standards of busine neering efficiency and orientation of politics and age which has been administration of the roads." HEAVY GAINS IN NEW MEXICO MINERALS DESPITE LOWER PRICES THE TOTAL YIELD WAS $3,000,000 OVER LAST YEAR GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER SHOW A SUBSTANTIAL GAIN IN ALL SECTIONS Large gains were made in the production of the precious and semi-precious metals in New Mexico in 1913, according to preliminary estimates of Charles W. Henderson, of the United States Geological Survey. The mine production of gold showed an increase of $100,000 over the output of $784,446 in 1912; that of silver, an increase of 100,000 ounces over the production of 1,536,701 ounces in 1912; lead, a decrease of 800,000 pounds from the yield of 5,494,018 pounds in 1912; copper, an increase of 20,000,000 pounds over the yield of 34,030,964 pounds in 1912; and zinc (figured as spelter or zinc in zinc oxide), an increase of 8,000,000 pounds over the output of 13,566,637 pounds in 1912. Despite lower average yearly prices for copper and zinc, the total value of the output was $11,620,000, an increase for 1913 of over $3,000,000. The Mogollon district, in Socorro county, which in 1912 yielded 67 per cent of the state yield of gold and 71 per cent of the silver yield, showed an increase of $100,000 in gold and 270,000 ounces of silver, in output of gold-silver bullion, concentrates, and ore. The gold and silver-bearing siliceous and copper ores of the Lordsburg district also contributed heavily to the output of gold and silver. An increased yield of gold and silver was made from the White Oaks district, Lincoln county. The Elizabethtown district, in Colfax county, continued as the most important placer-producing district and also shipped an increased tonnage of ore. The greater part of the production LOW DEATH RATE FROM ALCOHOLISM Very Small Per Cent of 753,308 Deaths Due to This Cause King alcohol does not cause such a heavy percentage of deaths in this country as might be gathered from the talk of temperance workers, according to government statistics. Out of 753,308 deaths during 1910 causes of which were ascertained by the Department of Commerce, less than three-eighths of one per cent of them were caused by alcoholism. One-ninth of these who succumbed to the demon rum were women. Natives of the United States are not so nearly addicted to excessive conviviality as those born in other countries. Only three-tenths of one per cent—one-eighth of these were women—died from excessive drinking during 1910. Scandinavians in the United States sacrificed more of their number to drink than any other nationality, four-fifths of the usual one per cent of deaths being due to hard and sincere application to it. It appears to be confined almost entirely to the men of this nation. Only one-twenty-second of the deaths in their ranks were of the gentler sex. Germans, supposed to be of a heavy drinking nation, were below the general-average in deaths from drinking, two-seventhsof one per cent of the deaths of Germans in America being due to this cause. One-twentieth of them were women. The Irish paid heavy toll, five-eighths of one per cent dying from the cause. One-fifth of them were women. Italian women may well be proud of the record set by women of their country in the United States. Not a single death among those recorded among Italian women was due to the assimilation of rum in great quantities, although Italian men died from this cause to the extent of one-third of one per cent of the total number of Italian deaths. MANY WALNUTS USED BY AMERICANS 60,000,000 Pounds Reported Sold by Dealers During Year The United States consumed 60,000,-000 pounds of English walnuts last year, or more than the entire world production for this season, declares Secretary Staley of the Fullerton-Placentia Walnut Association. He says: "It would not be an exaggeration to say that the United States will consume the entire walnut crop this season if our dealers can get hold of it. Our consumption last year was immense, and equals the entire output of all walnut producing lands for the present season. There has been a universal falling off in the crop, and in some places failure. "California is the only state in the Union where walnuts are grown for commercial purposes. Our crop is small. The same can be said for the groves of France, our nearest competitor, Manchuria, Chile and Italy. The production of English walnuts lies about equally between California and France. "There have been statements made to the effect that the Chinese are going to ruin the walnut industry of this country by producing immense quantities with cheap labor. I do not think these fears are justified. A Chinaman must produce too much on his little piece of ground to make walnut culture profitable. It is only in the hills and out of way places among the mountains that walnuts are raised at all. The crop is uncertain. Only occasionally does a consignment drift into the regular channels of trade." IN TREETOP BUILDS HOME The most ingenious fire lookout station on California forests during the current fire season is said to be the home which Forest Guard Howard Tyrrell built for himself in the top of a yellow pine on Bullion Mountain, Klamath national forest, 100 feet above the ground. Tyrrell was assigned to the Bullion Mountain lookout by the forest service in cooperation with the California EASY REPUTATION ACQUIRED BY AUTHOR San Juan Capistrano Man in Trouble For Plagiarism In his home town, R. L. Patterson's standing as an author and magazine writer has been shattered, and the secret of his success is bared. The stories that Patterson sold were those copied word for word out of old magazines. Patterson is a telegraph operator and assistant in the Santa Fe depot at San Juan Capistrano. For some months he has been showing his friends some of his stories, and on one occasion he displayed a $100 check that was received by him from a magazine. The mission valley residents were beginning to look upon Patterson as a genius. A few days ago District Attorney West began getting telegrams from a firm of New York attorneys representing the Munsey publications. Their inquiries were all for information concerning Patterson, an author, and it was not until the attorneys let the district attorney into the inside facts in the case that he made any inquiry. When a wire finally came saying that Patterson last August sold the Munsey company a story entitled "The Last Man of Boot Acre," and that now another man claims the authorship, Deputies Koepsel and Eden went from the district attorney's office to San Juan Capistrano. Patterson was very frank about his method, and was not at all impressed with the idea that he might be prosecuted criminally for getting money under false pretenses, violating the copyright laws or using the mails to defraud. The suspicion of a smart grin veiled his features while he told the deputies his story. "I copied a story that appeared in Everybody's Magazine in 1900, and sent it to Munsey's, and they sent me a check for $25," said he. "That is about all there is to it, I guess." "Did you take the idea, and re-write the story," asked a deputy. "No, I took it word for word." "Including the title?" "Yes, title and all, everything but the author's name. I have forgotten who did write it." No action has been taken in the matter. TIMOTHY IS WINNER In these days when anything transpires connected with the development of the cattle industry, women may well be proud of the record set by women of their country in the United States. Not a single death among those recorded among Italian women was due to the assimilation of rum in great quantities, although Italian men died from this cause to the extent of one-third of one per cent of the total number of Italian deaths. IN TREETOP BUILDS HOME The most ingenious fire lookout station on California forests during the current fire season is said to be the home which Forest Guard Howard Tyrrell built for himself in the top of a yellow pine on Bullion Mountain, Klamath national forest, 100 feet above the ground. Tyrrell was assigned to the Bullion Mountain lookout by the forest service in co-operation with the California Fruit Growers' Supply Association, the association furnishing him with supplies and subsistence and the forest service paying his salary. Tyrrell located his tree home soon after the opening of the fire season. He erected 60 feet of ladders up the trunk of a giant pine, from which point limbs afforded him an opportunity to climb 15 feet higher. Here in the forks 75 feet from the ground, Tyrrell built a platform about eight feet square upon which he spreads his bed and spends each night during the fire season. For a day lookout he climbed 25 feet further up and erected a smaller platform where he sits during the day. Five or six feet above this second platform the forks of the tree dwindle to a diameter of about five inches each. These tops Tyrrell sawed off, and on them he spiked a beam where he clambers when smoke appears and sights his fire with an absolutely uninterrupted view of the surrounding forest. A number of visitors have climbed to the first platform, and three or four have made the second. No one but Tyrrell, however, has ascended to the crosspiece in the treetop. Next year this enterprising fire guard expects to build a small house with glass sides on the lower platform, where the telephone is hung. With cooking apparatus installed, Tyrrell's trips to earth will be rare. "It gets a little lonesome up there once in awhile," said Tyrrell, "but there's plenty of squirrels and birds around. Maybe another year I'll learn how to eat pine cones and sing." BALANCE IN OUR FAVOR November's foreign trade brought the balance of trade in favor of the United States against foreign nations to $642,100,403 for the 11 months of the calendar year, while for the 12 months ending with November, the excess of exports over imports was $738,-320,766. The success that has marked the efforts of American manufacturers to establish markets for their exports in the union of South Africa, long considered to be exclusive provinces for foreign traders, completely refutes the CALIFORNIA MODEL Logan W. Page, director of the bureau of public roads of the Department of Agriculture, in an address before the Civil Service Reform meeting at Boston, denounced the usual political control of public road building. "The practice of putting petty politicians in control of a vital public utility for the purpose of paying a political debt must be stopped," said Mr. Page. "Only when we arrive at that state of development where we recognize in the fullest degree the necessity for the application of the merit system in road administration in every unit of government will we attain the standard of excellence in our public roads which would make them comparable to the roads of Europe." It is pleasant to realize that in the state roads of California we have reached exactly that necessary condition. The very fact that the admonition was so necessary as to call for mention by a national officer before a national meeting reminds us how far we have come in California on the way of progress, and the fact that the admonition is still necessary, even in California, as applied to the county roads of practically every county, also reminds us how far the state government of California is in advance of the county governments of California. The first demand on the county governments in their work of extending the feeders and local roads will be that they establish exactly the same standards of business and engineering efficiency and of the total elimination of politics and political patronage which has been attained in the administration of the California state roads. TIMOTHY IS WINNER In these days when anything transpires connected with the development of the cattle industry and thereby causing a lowering of the prices, it is watched with interest. The Department of Agriculture deserves much credit for its efforts on behalf of the nation as a whole. Its branches reach out and embrace everything that will lead to the betterment of the farmer's life in his continual struggle, not only for existence, but for the betterment of his surroundings. With this end in view the Department has taken up the question of the depleted western grazing lands with their greatly reduced areas, consequent to their being thrown open for settlement. To discover what is the best vegetation for grazing purposes, extensive experiments have been carried on in these states from Canada to the Mexican border. As the result of these experiments timothy is shown to be the best adapted as well as the cheapest of the 22 varieties tested under this great divergence of climatic conditions. Only 42 per cent of the alfalfa, and 15 per cent of the alsike clover, respectively, gave partly or wholly satisfactory returns. No species yet tried can be economically introduced in the hot dry foothills of California, Arizona, and New Mexico where the land is distinctly arid. BALANCE IN OUR FAVOR November's foreign trade brought the balance of trade in favor of the United States against foreign nations to $642,100,403 for the 11 months of the calendar year, while for the 12 months ending with November, the excess of exports over imports was $738,-320,766. The success that has marked the efforts of American manufacturers to establish markets for their exports in the union of South Africa, long considered to be exclusive provinces for foreign traders, completely refutes the assertion that foreign competition is driving Americans from the field of export trade, according to a statement made public today by the Department of Commerce. The rapid strides of American exporters into the field of foreign trade has caused a note of warning to be sounded throughout the United Kingdom against American aggressiveness in South Africa, the department asserts. Statistics are cited by the department showing that for the first time in more than five years the United States, in 1912, outranked all other foreign countries in imports into South Africa. Miss Lucy Ziegler entertained a number of friends at her home on Christmas day. Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars, at Roman Wisser's Favorite - Saloon Schlitz Beer on Draught Thursday, January 1 How Much Are Your Eyes Worth? Everything—as much as life itself. But are you taking care of them? Are you reading carelessly by “any old light”? Do you know that the best reading light in the world—recommended by scientists; used by men who can afford the best—is the soft mellow light of an oil lamp—such a light as that from the Rayo Lamp Ask your dealer to show you the famous Rayo Table Lamp. No glare; no flicker. Easy to light and care for. Dealers Everywhere Rayo Lamp Ask your dealer to show you the famous Rayo Table Lamp. No glare; no flicker. Easy to light and care for. 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