anaheim-gazette 1914-01-08

UNPRODUCTIVE TREES MUST BE CUT DOWN EXPERIMENTS SHOW THAT NOT ALL TREES IN AN ORCHARD PROVE PROFITABLE NAVELS MAY BE IMPROVED BY SELECTION AND ELIMINATION, SAYS EXPERT The fact that no species of plant life is "fixed" is now attracting the general attention of the agricultural world. These variations enable plants to adjust themselves to external conditions and to perpetuate the species under adverse conditions. Cotton, corn, tobacco, potatoes, timothy hay and a host of others have all been improved by selection because of the unfixed habits of all plants. Cross pollination has been a factor in most of these improvements, but the navel orange having no pollen cannot be used to cross other varieties. If crossed by pollen from another, seeds will result, which characteristic is not desirable. Nevertheless, it is a generally accepted fact that, though seedless, the Washington navel orange has many wide variations not due to any known cause or influence. The Thompson Improved, bore for three consecutive seasons large crops of the finest quality of fruit and no off types at any time. The Eureka lemon study also showed wide variations. One, which we will call the standard type, is marvelously productive, every branch carries a full load of bloom and large and small fruits in all stages of development at all times of the year. Another type, very large and thrifty was nearly fruitless, and a third type with a very compact habit of growth and dense foliage, was found on close inspection to be almost barren. One co-operative grower gives the following data for two large lemon trees for three years: Tree No. 2, yearly average 768 lbs. at 2c, $15.36; tree No. 4, yearly average, 443 lbs. at 2c, $8.86. If seventy of the poor trees were equal to the best, the gain would be $455 to the acre (counting 72 trees per acre). The writer for some years has been propagating a number of variations in true nursery form—that is, the bud is inserted near the ground so that the whole trunk and branches will represent the parent type. The original parent trees in each case are known and marked, and it still remains to be seen whether the progeny will come true or not. There are many cases in California where the stock of certain orchards is known to have come from certain other orchards, but in no case that the writer knows can a particular strain or line of trees be shown as coming from a single tree or definitely known source. MAPLE THE VALUABLE WOOD AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT TELLS OF ITS QUALITY EXTENSIVE USE IN ADDITION TO YIELDING ITS WODD IS LARGER FOR FLOORING Though at one time in history of the country an average maple trees were destroying the ordinary New Yorksylvania farm, maple is taking to the Department of Agriculture one of the most widely usable native hardwoods. A bulletin on the uses of issued by the department the wood finds place in a number of articles in daily rolling pins to pianos and one of the best woods forms is always a favorite material floors of roller skating rinks alleys. It leads all other materials for shoe lasts for which in Massachusetts ceeds 13 million board feet. Sugar maple stands next to the list of furniture woven country. The so-called " host of others have all been improved by selection because of the unfixed habits of all plants. Cross pollination has been a factor in most of these improvements, but the navel orange having no pollen cannot be used to cross other varieties. If crossed by pollen from another, seeds will result, which characteristic is not desirable. Nevertheless, it is a generally accepted fact that, though seedless, the Washington navel orange has many wide variations not due to any known cause or influence. The Thompson Improved, as an example, is believed to be simply a variation. Almost every packing house contains records showing certain orchards superior to others year after year. If individual tree data were kept of these orchards, quite a number of trees would be found not paying for their care, and only "parasites" on the land. While another lot, perhaps, 10 per cent would be found contributing more than half the total yield of the orchard. In 1910, at the earnest solicitation of a few far-sighted orange growers (notably J. H. Reed of Riverside), the Department of Agriculture sent A. D. Shamel to take up this matter of bud variation and selection. He soon formulated a plan of work and organized a corps of able assistants and co-operators. He has now four years' data showing the individual performance, and the work will include other varieties as time permits. These records will go on for at least one or two years more and possibly longer before any conclusions will be drawn. Besides showing the yielding habits of individual trees under similar conditions, the records will also determine, second, the character and frequency of bud variation, and third, whether this character can be perpetuated in future generations, and the practical methods of improving the yield and quality of both new and old orchards. The orchards chosen for this study are uniform in character. The trees are of even size, and were so from the nursery. They are free from pest or disease and have received little or no fertilizer. Each individual tree is numbered with white paint on the trunk. The fruit from each is graded separately and weighed and counted and recorded. This involves a great amount of care and detailed work. With lemons there are several pickings in a year, but each picking is handled as stated. They have found a tremendous variation in both yield and quality of fruit. In 1910, one navel tree yielded fourteen fruits, weight sixteen pounds fifteen ounces. Another tree yielded 541 fruits, weight 233 pounds, nine ounces. The first discovery, made in 1908, was a single limb (perhaps one-sixth of the whole tree) bearing heavily of 150 sizes with never a cull, and the fruit of smooth oval shape with a small pin-head navel showing a minimum of waste pulp. Buds were taken at once and sixty trees from this known source are bearing. A careful watch in the meantime showed that the parent limb maintained its orollific habit and characteristics first noted. The freeze of January, 1913, demonstrated that 56 of these 60 trees were more tender than the average navel of same age in the same orchard, involving all told about 500 trees. The four remaining proved to be fully as hardy as the hardest navel of same age and propagation began this fall from these four trees. Over 1,000 trees, the progeny of the 60 trees, have been discarded as too tender to continue. In another orchard of 25 acres of 18-year-old trees, two trees were discovered and known to have a 9-year annual record of 12 to 16 field boxes. The orchard averaged eight field boxes per tree. It is to be regretted that this record could not have been kept along the scientific lines laid out by Mr. Shamel. But the producing power of these two trees was noted in field boxes by the foreman and found to exceed the average of the orchard by over 50 per cent. However, stock is being propagated from these parent trees. The first crop is still two years in the future. The frost of last January proved them to be quite as hardy as the average. On the O'Tool place in Crafton, a very prolific navel tree was discovered. The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolixity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are sent to the parent type. The original parent trees in each case are known and marked, and it still remains to be seen whether the progeny will come true or not. There are many cases in California where the stock of certain orchards is known to have come from certain other orchards, but in no case that the writer knows can a particular strain or line of trees be shown as coming from a single tree or definitely known source. The first discovery, made in 1908, was a single limb (perhaps one-sixth of the whole tree) bearing heavily of 150 sizes with never a cull, and the fruit of smooth oval shape with a small pin-head navel showing a minimum of waste pulp. Buds were taken at once and sixty trees from this known source are bearing. A careful watch in the meantime showed that the parent limb maintained its orollific habit and characteristics first noted. The freeze of January, 1913, demonstrated that 56 of these 60 trees were more tender than the average navel of same age in the same orchard, involving all told about 500 trees. The four remaining proved to be fully as hardy as the hardest navel of same age and propagation began this fall from these four trees. Over 1,000 trees, the progeny of the 60 trees, have been discarded as too tender to continue. In another orchard of 25 acres of 18-year-old trees, two trees were discovered and known to have a 9-year annual record of 12 to 16 field boxes. The orchard averaged eight field boxes per tree. It is to be regretted that this record could not have been kept along the scientific lines laid out by Mr. Shamel. But the producing power of these two trees was noted in field boxes by the foreman and found to exceed the average of the orchard by over 50 per cent. However, stock is being propagated from these parent trees. The first crop is still two years in the future. The frost of last January proved them to be quite as hardy as the average. On the O'Tool place in Crafton, a very prolific navel tree was discovered. The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolixity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are sent to the parent type. The original parent trees in each case are known and marked, and it still remains to be seen whether the progeny will come true or not. There are many cases in California where the stock of certain orchards is known to have come from certain other orchards, but in no case that the writer knows can a particular strain or line of trees be shown as coming from a single tree or definitely known source. The first discovery, made in 1908, was a single limb (perhaps one-sixth of the whole tree) bearing heavily of 150 sizes with never a cull, and the fruit of smooth oval shape with a small pin-head navel showing a minimum of waste pulp. Buds were taken at once and sixty trees from this known source are bearing. A careful watch in the meantime showed that the parent limb maintained its orollific habit and characteristics first noted. The freeze of January, 1913, demonstrated that 56 of these 60 trees were more tender than the average navel of same age in the same orchard, involving all told about 500 trees. The four remaining proved to be fully as hardy as the hardest navel of same age and propagation began this fall from these four trees. Over 1,000 trees, the progeny of the 60 trees, have been discarded as too tender to continue. In another orchard of 25 acres of 18-year-old trees, two trees were discovered and known to have a 9-year annual record of 12 to 16 field boxes. The orchard averaged eight field boxes per tree. It is to be regretted that this record could not have been kept along the scientific lines laid out by Mr. Shamel. But the producing power of these two trees was noted in field boxes by the foreman and found to exceed the average of the orchard by over 50 per cent. However, stock is being propagated from these parent trees. The first crop is still two years in the future. The frost of last January proved them to be quite as hardy as the average. On the O'Tool place in Crafton, a very prolific navel tree was discovered. The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolixity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are sent to the parent type. The original parent trees in each case are known and marked, and it still remains to be seen whether the progeny will come true or not. There are many cases in California where the stock of certain orchards is known to have come from certain other orchards, but in no case that the writer knows can a particular strain or line of trees be shown as coming from a single tree or definitely known source. The first discovery, made in 1908, was a single limb (perhaps one-sixth of the whole tree) bearing heavily of 150 sizes with never a cull, and the fruit of smooth oval shape with a small pin-head navel showing a minimum of waste pulp. Buds were taken at once and sixty trees from this known source are bearing. A careful watch in the meantime showed that the parent limb maintained its orollific habit and characteristics first noted. The freeze of January, 1913, demonstrated that 56 of these 60 trees were more tender than the average navel of same age in the same orchard, involving all told about 500 trees. The four remaining proved to be fully as hardy as the hardest navel of same age and propagation began this fall from these four trees. Over 1,000 trees, the progeny of the 60 trees, have been discarded as too tender to continue. In another orchard of 25 acres of 18-year-old trees, two trees were discovered and known to have a 9-year annual record of 12 to 16 field boxes. The orchard averaged eight field boxes per tree. It is to be regretted that this record could not have been kept along the scientific lines laid out by Mr. Shamel. But the producing power of these two trees was noted in field boxes by the foreman and found to exceed the average of the orchard by over 50 per cent. However, stock is being propagated from these parent trees. The first crop is still two years in the future. The frost of last January proved them to be quite as hardy as the average. On the O'Tool place in Crafton, a very prolific navel tree was discovered. The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolixity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are sent to the parent type. The original parent trees in each case are known and marked, and it still remains to be seen whether the progeny will come true or not. There are many cases in California where the stock of certain orchards is known to have come from certain other orchards, but in no case that the writer knows can a particular strain or line of trees be shown as coming from a single tree or definitely known source. The first discovery, made in 1908, was a single limb (perhaps one-sixth of the whole tree) bearing heavily of 150 sizes with never a cull, and the fruit of smooth oval shape with a small pin-head navel showing a minimum of waste pulp. Buds were taken at once and sixty trees from this known source are bearing. A careful watch in the meantime showed that the parent limb maintained its orollific habit and characteristics first noted. The freeze of January, 1913, demonstrated that 56 of these 60 trees were more tender than the average navel of same age in the same orchard, involving all told about 500 trees. The four remaining proved to be fully as hardy as the hardest navel of same age and propagation began this fall from these four trees. Over 1,000 trees, the progeny of the 60 trees, have been discarded as too tender to continue. In another orchard of 25 acres of 18-year-old trees, two trees were discovered and known to have a 9-year annual record of 12 to 16 field boxes. The orchard averaged eight field boxes per tree. It is to be regretted that this record could not have been kept along the scientific lines laid out by Mr. Shamel. But the producing power of these two trees was noted in field boxes by the foreman and found to exceed the average of the orchard by over 50 per cent. However, stock is being propagated from these parent trees. The first crop is still two years in the future. The frost of last January proved them to be quite as hardy as the average. On the O'Tool place in Crafton, a very prolific navel tree was discovered. The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolixity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are sent to the parent type. 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This involves a great amount of care and detailed work. With lemons there are several pickings in a year, but each picking is handled as stated. They have found a tremendous variation in both yield and quality of fruit. In 1910, one navel tree yielded fourteen fruits, weight sixteen pounds fifteen ounces. Another tree yielded 541 fruits, weight 233 pounds, nine ounces. Another tree yielded 816 fruits, weight 432 pounds. These three trees were extremes, but typical examples from a uniform plat. They were apparently of same size and condition of health and scattered in the grove. These records show also that the trees which yielded most fruit also yielded the largest percentage of fancy fruit. The best trees of 1910 were also best in 1911 and 1912. This important fact is contrary to the general belief, that a large yield one season would alternate with a smaller yield the next. If we divide the trees into three classes the record for the whole navel grove under study shows: Class 1, yielding about 432 pounds of fruit—10 per cent. Class 2, yielding about 236 pounds of fruit—75 per cent. Class 3, yielding about 50 pounds of fruit—15 per cent. The above classification based on 100 trees would yield: 19 trees at 432 pounds... 4,320 lbs. 75 trees at 236 pounds... 17,700 lbs. 15 trees at 50 pounds... 750 lbs. Total ... 22,770 lbs. Comp. with 100 trees at 432 lbs.. 43,200 lbs. Total ... 20,430 lbs. which means that if all the trees of the orchard averaged with the 10 per cent best the yield would be nearly doubled. In the Marsh seedless grapefruit plot a similar condition existed. Of 500 trees, 24 per cent were unproductive, some bearing fruits containing 96 seeds, while others produced coarse, thick-skinned, flavorless, juiceless fruits. Besides this off type, there was found a standard type producing good crops every alternate year. Again there were found in a plot of 25 Marsh seedless grapefruit trees three that The fruit was small sized—about 200s or smaller—but seemingly as many in number as the leaves of the tree. This stock is being tried on different roots to try and retain its prolifity and increase the size. In all these cases cited, the writer has found bud wood very scarce. The marvelous productive power of each was characteristic. Every eye or bud formed easily and quickly into a fruit spur, and only by careful watching were any buds obtainable. Mr. Shamel has found that unproductive types are characterized by much long wood and foliage. Buds are easily obtained from the so-called Australian type at any time of year, and its shy bearing habits are well known. So far as our records go we may conclude: I—That there is a much larger extent of bud variation in all citrus fruits than is apparent to the eye. Only by keeping the recorded performance of individual trees can the extent or importance of this variation be determined. II—That from 25 to 50 per cent of the trees in our orchards are off-type and undesirable, and that 10 per cent would include the best type free from undesirable variation. This 10 per cent alone is worthy of propagation. III—That the trees which produce the largest quantity of fruit also produce the best quality. The replacing of off-types by standard or best types means not only increased production, but also improved grades of fruit. Two recommendations naturally follow: (1) That all orchardists keep individual tree records and gradually work over the poorer types to the better. (2) That some system of inspection be established so that all nurserymen will be required to obtain buds only from trees of known bearing habits. As the differences in production between the standard trees and others noted are annual differences, their significance is of tremendous importance to the citrus industry. Can we afford to neglect it? MAPLE THE MOST VALUABLE WOOD AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT TELLS OF ITS QUALITIES AND EXTENSIVE USE IN ADDITION TO YIELDING SUGAR ITS WODD IS LARGELY USED FOR FLOORING Though at one time in the early history of the country an average of 6,000 maple trees were destroyed in clearing the ordinary New York or Pennsylvania farm, maple is today, according to the Department of Agriculture, one of the most widely used and valuable native hardwoods. A bulletin on the uses of maple, just issued by the department, states that the wood finds place in an enormous number of articles in daily use, from rolling pins to pianos and organs. It is one of the best woods for flooring, and is always a favorite material for the floors of roller skating rinks and bowling alleys. It leads all other woods as a material for shoe lasts, the demand for which in Massachusetts alone exceeds 13 million board feet annually. Sugar maple stands near the top of the list of furniture woods in this country. The so-called "birds-eye" ef- POTATO QUARANTINE DECISION The Secretary of Agriculture, on December 22, issued two orders relating to the admission of foreign potatoes into the United States. One of these orders provides for the admission of disease-free potatoes from uninfected foreign districts under proper regulation and inspection. The other order, to protect American protatoes from the powdery scab and other diseases, temporarily extends the quarantine effective since September 20, 1912, against the importation of potatoes from Newfoundland; the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon; Great Britain, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; Germany and Austria-Hungary, to include also the rest of Continental Europe, and the Dominion of Canada. This quarantine will become effective on December 24, 1913, except that shipments covered by consular invoices on or prior to December 24, 1913, will be admitted up to January 15, 1914. As soon as any country or district can be shown to be free from potato diseases, the quarantine will be lifted and potatoes will be admitted under proper regulation and inspection, as provided in the first order. It is possible that, in the case of certain Provinces in Canada and certain countries and districts in Europe, the absolute quarantine can be lifted in time to allow the later movement of the present year's crop under regulation and inspection. The order relating to the admission of potatoes under inspection extends to potatoes and the nursery stock regulations of the plant quarantine act. issued by the department, states that the wood finds place in an enormous number of articles in daily use, from rolling pins to planos and organs. It is one of the best woods for flooring, and its always a favorite material for the floors of roller skating rinks and bowling alleys. It leads all other woods as a material for shoe lasts, the demand for which in Massachusetts alone exceeds 13 million board feet annually. Sugar maple stands near the top of the list of furniture woods in this country. The so-called "birds-eye" effect, the department explains, is probably due to buds which for some reason can not force their way through the bark, but which remain just beneath it year after year. The young wood is disturbed each succeeding season by the presence of the bud and grows around it in fantastic forms which are exposed when the saw cuts through the abnormal growth. Maple, the department goes on to say, is one of the chief woods used for agricultural implements and farm machinery, being so employed because of its strength and hardness. All kinds of woodenware are made of maple, holds important rank also in the manufacture of shuttles, spools, and bobins. It competes with black gum for first place in the manufacture of rollers of many kinds, from those employed in house moving to the less massive ones used on lawn-mowers. Athletic goods, school supplies, brush backs, pulleys, type cases, and crutches are a few of the other articles for which maple is in demand. Seven species of maple grow in the United States, of which sugar maple, sometimes called hard maple, is the most important. The total cut of maple in the United States annually amounts to about 1,150,000,000 feet. Nearly one-half is produced by Michigan, with Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia following in the order named. Sugar maple says the department, is in little danger of disappearing from the American forests, for it is a strong, vigorous, aggressive tree, and though not a fast grower is able to hold its own. In Michigan it is not unusual for maple to take possession of land from which pine or hardwoods have been cut clean and from New England westward through the Lake States and southward to the Ohio and Potomac rivers few other species are oftener seen in woodlots. PASSING OF MOTOR COPS With the close of 1913, today, will come the passing of the motorcycle cop, so far as the city of Santa Ana is concerned, and Messrs. Davenport and Ballard will have to seek other positions. At a recent conference of the The order relating to the admission of potatoes under inspection extends to potatoes and the nursery stock regulations of the plant quarantine act. This means that in the future no potatoes can be imported until the importers have secured permits from the Federal Horticultural Board similar to those now issued to importers of nursery stock. Potatoes, to be admitted, must be certified by the Government of the country of origin to be free from dangerous diseases and insect pests new to or not widely prevalent in the United States, and must have been grown in a district free from wart disease and powder scab. Regulations governing these importations will soon be issued, and steps will at once be taken to complete arrangements with foreign Governments for the survey and designation of disease-free districts. The present potato excitement is apparently due to a misinterpretation of the yield of this year. The statistician of this department estimates that the yield of this year is 331,525,000 bushels, which is considerably above 10-year average and exceeds the annual food and planting consumption of the potato in the United States. The price of potatoes in centers of origin is still reasonable or low, and the problem seems to be one merely of distribution. The testimony from all parts of the country, as given at last Thursday's hearing, was that no shortage exists at present above usual market demands, but that the supply in farmers' hands is large. Farmers, as well as dealers, denied the charge that speculators had acquired control of the potato crop. Farm prices have been low for some weeks. The total importation from foreign countries during the six years prior to the quarantine were only 1.27 percent of the total consumption. Imports varied from 177,000 bushels in 1906 to 13,000,000 bushels in 1911, a year of short American production due to drought, when the crop was estimated at over 38,000,000 bushels less than the estimate for 1913. All experts, foreign as well as our own, agree that no inspection of potatoes from a district known to be infested will be of any real value whatever in excluding diseases. The necessary conditions governing and potatoes will be admitted under proper regulation and inspection, as provided in the first order. It is possible that, in the case of certain Provinces in Canada and certain countries and districts in Europe, the absolute quarantine can be lifted in time to allow the later movement of the present year's crop under regulation and inspection. The order relating to the admission of potatoes under inspection extends to potatoes and the nursery stock regulations of the plant quarantine act. This means that in the future no potatoes can be imported until the importers have secured permits from the Federal Horticultural Board similar to those now issued to importers of nursery stock. Potatoes, to be admitted, must be certified by the Government of the country of origin to be free from dangerous diseases and insect pests new to or not widely prevalent in the United States, and must have been grown in a district free from wart disease and powder scab. Regulations governing these importations will soon be issued, and steps will at once be taken to complete arrangements with foreign Governments for the survey and designation of disease-free districts. The present potato excitement is apparently due to a misinterpretation of the yield of this year. The statistician of this department estimates that the yield of this year is 331,525,000 bushels, which is considerably above 10-year average and exceeds the annual food and planting consumption of the potato in the United States. The price of potatoes in centers of origin is still reasonable or low, and the problem seems to be one merely of distribution. The testimony from all parts of the country, as given at last Thursday's hearing, was that no shortage exists at present above usual market demands, but that the supply in farmers' hands is large. Farmers, as well as dealers, denied the charge that speculators had acquired control of the potato crop. Farm prices have been low for some weeks. The total importation from foreign countries during the six years prior to the quarantine were only 1.27 percent of the total consumption. Imports varied from 177,000 bushels in 1906 to 13,000,000 bushels in 1911, a year of short American production due to drought, when the crop was estimated at over 38,000,000 bushels less than the estimate for 1913. Notice of Dissolution of Co-Partnership Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing by and between W. P. Quarton, A. E. Schumacher, and O. H. Renner, doing business under the firm name and style of "The S. Q. R. Store," at Anaheim, Orange County California, was at the date hereof, dissolved by mutual consent. Messrs. A. E. Schumacher and O. H. Renner have purchased the interest of the said W. P. Quarton, and all bills or other obligations due and owing by the said co-partnership, to-wit. The S. Q. R. Store, will be paid by the said A. E. Schumacher and the said O. H. Renner, and all bills and accounts due and owing to the said co-partnership. The S. Q. R. Store are due and payable to the said A. E. Schumacher and O. H. Renner who are hereby authorized to receipt in full PASSING OF MOTOR COPS With the close of 1913, today, will come the passing of the motorcycle cop, so far as the city of Santa Ana is concerned, and Messrs. Davenport and Ballard will have to seek other positions. At a recent conference of the members of the city council, the police committee was instructed to notify the officers that their services would be dispensed with after the first of the year. The committee was also authorized to recommend the men to the Board of Supervisors as very competent men. The passing of the motorcycle officers is one of the direct results of the new motor law which goes into effect on the first. The act provides that all fines collected from violators of the state speed law shall go to the county to be placed to the credit of the good road funds. Heretofore fines collected for violation of the law in cities have gone to the cities. Davenport and Ballard have more than paid their salaries in fines collected from speeders whom they have arrested. It is within the power of the city council to pass an ordinance governing the speed at which motor vehicles may be speeded within the city limits. The ordinance can provide for a speed less than the state law but it can not raise the limit. At the present time the councilmen take the position that the possibility of the various cities adopting different speed schedules would work a hardship on auto drivers and cause no end of trouble, and that it would not be wise for them at this time to adopt a local ordinance. THE OLIVE INDUSTRY Latest statistics at hand show an investment of about $7,000,000 in olive growing in Southern California, and the annual crop reaches a money value of $2,250,000. There are more than 20,000 persons who gain a livelihood in this industry. They packed last year 120,000 cases, and the current price for pickling olives is $75 a ton on the trees. The average income to the grower is put at $40 an acre. NATURAL GAS IN CALIFORNIA Last year was the greatest in the history of the natural gas industry in California, the quantity of gas produced being estimated at nearly one-half more than the output of 1911. This increase was not brought about by the discovery of new fields, but by an increased production from the districts already reported, particularly the Midway field, which came into prominence as a gas producer in 1910-1911. The total production of natural gas in California last year, as estimated by E. W. Parker of the United States Geological Survey, was 9,354,428,000 cubic feet, valued at $1,747,379, compared with 6,389,820,000 cubic feet, valued at $800,714 in 1911. The larger portion of the natural gas produced in California is consumed in the industries, the estimated quantity in 1912 being 8,379,632,000 cubic feet. Only 974,796,000 cubic feet was consumed for domestic purposes Co-Partnership Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing by and between W. P. Quarton, A. E. Schumacher, and O. H. Renner, doing business under the firm name and style of "The S. Q. R. Store," at Anaheim, Orange County, California, was, at the date hereof, dissolved by mutual consent. Messrs. A. E. Schumacher and O. H. Renner have purchased the interest of the said W. P. Quarton, and all bills or other obligations due and owing by the said co-partnership, to-wit. The S. Q. R. Store, will be paid by the said A. E. Schumacher and the said O. H. Renner, and all bills and accounts due and owing to the said co-partnership. The S. Q. R. Store, are due and payable to the said A. E. Schumacher and O. H. Renner, who are hereby authorized to receipt in full therefor. Witness our hands and seals this 31st day of December, 1913. A. E. SCHUMACHER (Seal) O. H. RENNER (Seal) W. P. QUARTON (Seal) Notice to Creditors In the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California. In the matter of the Estate of George M. Baker, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator with the will annexed of the estate of George M. Baker, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 11th day of December, 1913) to the said administrator at the office of Tipton & Callor, 118 West Center street in the City of Anaheim, California, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of the said estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 9th day of December, 1913. JOHN EVERT BAKER, Administrator with the Will Annexed. TIPTON & CAILOR, Attorneys for Administrator. In the Superior Court Of the State of California, in and for the County of Orange. In the matter of the Estate of Minnie M. Bentz, Deceased. Order to show cause why order of sale of real estate should not be made. It is ordered, by the Court, that all persons interested in the estate of said deceased, appear before the said Superior Court on the 23rd day of January, 1914. at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day, at a Court room of said Superior Court, Department 1 thereof, in the Court House, in said County of Orange, State of California, to show cause why an order should not be granted to the administrator of said estate to sell so much of the real estate of said deceased, as may be necessary. And that a copy of this order be published at least four successive weeks in Anaheim Gazette, a newspaper printed and published in said County of Orange. Z. B. WEST. Judge of the Superior Court. Dated December 22nd, 1913. 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